Chapter 24 second quarter

Round grass mats were laid on the wooden floor of the main hall, Qingming, Boya, and Rushui sat facing each other. There is a Bodhisattva statue on the scripture altar inside, looking down at the three of them with a friendly face. "Did she come again last night?" Qingming asked. "Yes." Ru Shui nodded. Ru Shui said, as usual, the female and male voices were still intertwined, and when Ru Shui started to chant sutras, they disappeared again at some point. "What do you do with the husks and twigs that the woman brought..." "Usually gather a few and then burn them all. I still have a few that haven't been burned..."

"Can I see it?" "yes." Rushui got up and walked out of the main hall, and returned to the original place holding the branch after a while.Like water resting branches on the floor. "So it's..." Qingming picked up a branch and whispered, "This is a persimmon." Then he muttered to himself: "This is the seed of the rice tree." Seimei picked up the things on the floor one by one. Chestnut, citrus branches. "This citrus branch was originally a flowering branch..." Ru Shui said. "Really?" Qingming tilted her head, as if she was thinking about something, "This is quite a difficult riddle..."

"riddle?" "Hmm. It seems that you can guess it, but you can't. If you give more hints, you should be able to guess it." "Seimei, isn't that the same as when I received a Waka from someone and couldn't figure out the meaning." After Boya finished speaking, Qingming's eyes lit up. "Bo Ya, what did you say?" "I mean, I can't figure out the same meaning as the song." "Waka?" "That's right, Waka, so what's the matter?" "It's amazing! Boya!" Qingming called out loudly, "So it's Waka..."

Seimei had an expression as if he had finally swallowed something stuck in his throat. "what?" "So this is Waka. I see..." Seimei nodded to himself. "Qingming, I don't understand what you're talking about at all, can you make it clearer?" "Don't worry, wait a minute..." Qingming stopped Boya, and then said to Rushui: "Master Rushui, may I trouble you to prepare pens, inks, papers and inkstones?" "yes." Rushui, like Boya, is like falling into a fog.Although there was a look of surprise on his face, he still prepared the things Qingming ordered in front of Qingming.

Seimei rubbed the ink happily. "Bo Ya, you really have a wonderful talent. Maybe you were born with something that even I can't match." Qingming said to Boya while rubbing ink. "Wonderful talent..." "That's right. The talent named 'Boya'—or the mantra named 'Boya'—is likely to be the other half of the mantra named 'Qingming'. If there is no mantra named 'Boya', then Maybe Qingming's spell doesn't exist anymore." Qingming said happily. "Qingming, I'm glad you said that, but I still can't figure it out."

"Don't worry, wait a minute..." After Qingming finished speaking, she put down the ink, and then stretched out her right hand to pick up the writing brush beside her. Hold the paper in your left hand, and rustle the pen on the paper with your right hand. Rushui and Boya watched with interest. "It's finished." Qingming put down the brush and put the paper on the floor. After laying it out, turn the paper upside down so that Boya and Rushui can read the words on the paper clearly. The ink on the paper was still wet, and it was written darkly: "That's roughly what it means." Seimei said.

"Hey, I don't understand at all, Seimei, what does this mean?" "Can not read it?" "I don't understand either." Ru Shui continued. "I don't understand all the meaning, but as long as I understand this sentence, it should be used as a clue to solve other puzzles." "Oh, Seimei, I can't figure it out at all. Your shortcoming is that you don't want to speak clearly every time. Stop pretending, just say it..." "Bo Ya, so I don't know everything, just wait a little longer..." "Waiting for what?"

"Just wait for tonight." "What's going on tonight?" "The woman will probably come again. At that time, just ask her directly?" "Hey, Seimei..." "Don't worry, wait until tonight..." Seimei shifted his gaze to Rushui. "Master Rushui, do you have any wine hidden here? Before that woman comes, I want to have a drink with Boya..." "Yes, yes..." "Great, tonight we'll enjoy the flowers and drink, let's talk about the world..." "Hey, Seimei..." "That's it, Boya."

"Hey!" "Have a drink." "But……" "Have a drink." "Well, um." "Drink it." "Ok." And so it was decided.