Chapter 36 Xing Yuan (Part 1)
It was already early April when we took the boat to Xingyuan with Michizuna Fujiwara. After being left to Qingyunzi, the owner of Hongying Song Studio, Michizuna Fujiwara said he wanted to go somewhere else.
What's interesting is that although Hongying Singing Square is the place with the most singers in Xingyuan City, it also has a side business, which is betting. The money spent in the singing hall betting can fill Xingyuan City for three days, which is already better than Kyoto.
The prosperity is much stronger.
Needless to say, the fun of betting is that the nobles or businessmen in the city want to come to the singing studio to spend time. The first requirement for a singer to enter the singing studio is not her appearance or singing voice, but she must have a monster.
If there are no monsters, how can there be any guessing? This also leads to the complexity of the forces behind the singers in the singing studio. Not to mention the three prominent families of Fujiwara, Kamo, and Genji, all the onmyojis have their corresponding singers here.
; There are also some Onmyoji forces from Angohara Castle and other places gathered together.
At first, I didn’t understand why my brother asked Fujiwara Michizuna to see me off. It wasn’t until I met many onmyojis in the singing studio that I realized how attractive the big monster Shiranui was.
Qingyunzi, the owner of Hongying Song Shop, has been staying on the top floor of Hongying Song Shop. No one knows his true identity. Fujiwara Michizuna asked me to take a rest on the second floor of the song shop. After a while, he came from the top floor of the song shop to the third floor.
He came downstairs and smiled at me and said, "It's done." Then he told me to bring a monster over to me. Although my monster power was sealed, I was really unfamiliar with Onmyoji.
Hongying Song House is divided into four rooms: Flower, Bird, Wind and Moon. The four rooms are all on the second floor of the Song House. Rooms and food are prepared for guests who want to listen to elegant music. The first floor of the Song House is mainly for guessing and hot spring bathing.
, there are also food facilities on the first floor.
What's clever is that on the first floor of Hongyinggefang, the first entrance is called "Jingmen", and only hot spring services are provided. As for betting, you need to pay again and enter the "empty door" before you can go to the betting service area.
There are only two teams, red and blue, in the betting. Each side has five monsters belonging to the singers in the singing studio. Guests who come to the betting will see the team combinations for betting. The betting time is limited to half an hour. There will be big, medium and big.
, small three types of bets are made based on personal financial resources.
The most breathtaking thing is to enter the second floor named "Wumei". The four rooms are neatly divided and an izakaya is added. The four rooms of Flower, Bird, Wind and Moon are divided into seven rooms for calligraphy, tea ceremony, flower arrangement, music and dance, painting, Japanese singing and verandah.
department.
Calligraphy and singing are divided into the flower house; flower arrangement and tea ceremony are divided into the moon house; music, dance and painting are divided into the wind house; the verandah is in the bird house, which is the most remote place on the second floor.
Just remembering the distribution of the houses is a bit overwhelming for me. Of course, there is more than that. In order to distinguish the levels of singers, all the houses here are called four houses. If the singer in the house is famous, he will have his own name.
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After walking around the entire song studio, a singer from Hanaya led me into a room. I wanted to take a good rest, but the singer didn't stop to talk.
"Your flower card will be delivered to you shortly and will be hung at your door. Please be prepared to appear tonight." The singer's face is very beautiful, and her voice is also beautiful, but...
"...Didn't I say that only famous singers can have flower cards?" I asked while forcing a smile.
The singer also smiled softly: "This is Qingyunzi's order."
I was about to ask again when there was a small knock on the door.
"Is Miss Zi Ji here? Your flower cards have been sent."
The voice sounded like that of a little girl. The singer stood up and opened the door, holding the flower cards in front of me.
"It's actually Sakura. It seems that your strength cannot be underestimated."
I took it with both hands and saw the word "Zi Ji" written on the flower card. I put the flower card aside, grabbed a handful of small silver pens and put them in the singer's hand. I then looked at the girl who was peeking at me outside the door.
The singer understood, took the small silver medal and left.
My strength should not be underestimated. I was obviously used by Genji as a target. There are many women in Utabo. According to Tamamo-sama's experience in the palace, it can be said that a place with many women also has a lot of right and wrong.
This is not unreasonable. When I go out to do a commission with Xiao Yuan, I am afraid that multiple women will fall in love with the same man. In addition, I have not heard of the so-called secrets of maids in Genji...
Although I have lived in Fengmozhiyuan for two years and collected some monsters, it is still of no use. The song club competition will start at Xu o'clock in the evening and continue until Chou o'clock.
At 1 o'clock, it was time to start dressing up. I fell on the floor, thinking about how to deal with the quiz in the evening. I deal with monsters every day, why didn't I save a hand and make a contract...
contract?
Speaking of which, I seem to have such a shikigami. At that time, Ojiangshan retreated...
"You, you, you!" Star Bear Boy, who I forcibly summoned with a spell, was now with his hands on his hips, glanced at me, and sat aside with his arms folded.
"Now, let me tell you, I want to ask you a favor tonight." I sat down next to him with a smile.
"You have the ability to do it yourself. You summoned me here from Dajiangshan, but I didn't agree." Star Bear Boy turned around and said, "We were doing wood carvings in Dajiangshan, but we did a good job, and suddenly we were treated like this by you.
The little girl calls over."
I really have no ability...Who made my demon power be sealed by my brother again? He had already kept a back-up plan. How could he let me use my demon power indiscriminately when he sent me to Xingyuan?
I poured a cup of tea, placed it next to Star Bear Boy and said, "You have a lot, don't argue with me, a little girl."
"..."
"Besides, we didn't mean it back then. Minamoto norimitsu threatened my brother. If I didn't follow suit, I probably wouldn't survive." I softened my tone, "What's more, you are our shikigami now.
I won't do anything to you, you see, right?
"..." Star Bear Boy still squinted his eyes with a look of disbelief, but he picked up the tea next to him and drank it all in one gulp.
"Then... tonight, can you help us find a way to deal with a group of monsters?" I winked at him, "How about we have good wine and good food during the period?"
Star Bear Boy still didn't express his position, but his fingers were dancing on the tea cup: "First tell us, where is this place."
"Xingyuan, Hongying Songfang."
"Pfft!" Star Bear Boy spat out a sip of tea, "Aren't you Genji's lady? How did you get sold here?"
"Oh, I didn't expect you'd heard of this place." I handed over the handkerchief, "It seems you know what you're going to do in the evening."
Star Bear Boy took the veil and said, "Seeing how pitiful you are, I will help you."
"We knew you were the best." I was not stingy with my flattery.
"Both each other." Hoshikuma Doji said with a smile, "Sir, please don't be so polite to me in the future. Since I am your shikigami, I will naturally do my best for you."
Try your best? Not necessarily...
"Let's go out and take a look first, and we'll definitely come back in the evening." Star Bear Boy opened the door and jumped off the railing.
The location of Hongying Songfang is beautifully built, facing the sea on a high platform, with a gentle breeze blowing.
I lay on the bed and slept until dusk. I was woken up by a knock on the door. After I opened the door, the singer from the flower house from before called people in.
"Miss Ziji, when any singer in the song shop shows up for the first time, someone will come to help dress up, but from now on, you need to dress up yourself." The singer said, and someone brought a small amount of food first, "Please
You eat first."
I took two simple bites and then put down my chopsticks. The singer asked someone to leave again, and two girls about my age came and started combing my hair.
The complicated and trivial things in it were even more troublesome than the etiquette of the Origin Family. After I was dressed, I was helped downstairs and came to a room with red curtains.
My arrival caused other singers who were already present to look sideways. After careful inspection, I found that the singers were all women in their teens to twenties, with heavy makeup and expressions on their faces.
The only thing that made me feel weird about the whole room was that there was a monster sitting in front or behind the singers. There were four singers in total, and the monsters next to the three singers all had ferocious faces. Only one of them had a calm face.
, the singer dressed simply, with a red lily on her head, stood next to a figure I was familiar with.
"Oh, it seems we're not too late." Xingxiong Boyzi opened the curtain and came in, sitting next to me.
The singer must have noticed my gaze, and she bowed politely to me. The monster standing next to her also looked over at me, and a smile appeared on his lovely face.
The singer whispered something and then walked towards me.
"Do you know him?" Star Bear Boy asked.
More than knowing each other... I suspect that he was the one who instigated my brother to kill the people in the izakaya. He amplified his hatred and finally allowed his hatred to be vented.
"Long time no see, Miss Azi." Prajna smiled and sat in front of me and said, "I haven't seen you for so many years, and you have become so beautiful."
I looked at his delicate face and bowed slightly to him.
"Human age is really a strange thing. I think it would be more appropriate to call you sister." Prajna showed an innocent and bright smile, "I didn't expect to see my sister here. I am really surprised."
"Exactly." I said with a smile, "I don't know where you and my brother went afterwards."
Just as Prajna was about to answer, the singer from the flower house hurriedly came to me and told me to sort it out now and bring the monster out.
"It seems that we can only talk about it next time." Prajna said understandingly.
I bowed to him again and helped the singer from the Flower House out of the room.
Hoshikuma Doji was obviously very interested, but he didn't ask any questions and just followed me honestly. The singer took me through a corridor and asked me to go up to a low platform and sit next to another singer. Hoshikuma Doji
He was taken to the other side of the stage by the Flower House Diva and stood there.
"Ms. Murasaki, I am the Fengya Diva. Next, you need to play the taiko drum to entertain the guests within half an hour." The Fengwu Diva said in a clear voice, "Please practice with me now."
I followed her example, picked up the drumsticks, and banged the drums one after another. It was okay at first, but...
The Fengya singer suddenly slapped the drum head, and the melody suddenly became urgent. I hurriedly followed the rhythm, but because I was not familiar with taiko drums, I missed many beats.
The singer's hands moved faster and faster, and the drumbeats became chaotic in my ears.
The singer's hand finally slowed down, and I breathed a sigh of relief. The song was finally over, and suddenly there was thunderous applause from the audience. Before I even looked up, red flowers fell into my arms one after another.
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I looked at the audience with some surprise. Everyone in the audience was shouting, and they were all unfamiliar faces. I was a little dizzy for a moment, and glanced at the Fengwu singer who was leaving the stage, so I followed her.
I left the venue amidst the cheers of everyone and returned to the door of the previous room. The Fengwu singer bowed slightly to me and walked into the opposite room.
"that……"
I looked at the source of the sound. It was the girl who sent the flower cards before. She took a step forward.
Chapter completed!