Chapter 179 Abe with a Problem
Looking at Abe Yahi sitting cross-legged in front of him, Ping Jinyuan's expression was full of caution.
At this time, the Kingdom of Japan learned all the lessons from the Northern Song Dynasty, so the meanings of their names are exactly the same as in Chinese.
Ya Ri means second only to the sun.
The name sounds arrogant, but in essence it is a compromise.
Living under the sun...and according to legend, the emperor is a descendant of the sun.
This is the Abe family's way of expressing their loyalty to the emperor in a roundabout way. Although their family is very powerful, they have no intention of rebelling.
Thanks to this name, the originally awkward relationship between the royal family and the Abe family has been eased to a certain extent.
"The Emperor gave me one-tenth of the immortal fruit, and it was very effective." Abe tapped the palm of his other hand with the origami fan in his hand. "My weakness immediately improved a lot, which is why I can come here ."
Pingjinyuan cleared his throat and asked, "Abe Shaocheng, are you planning to trade with Master Lu in person?"
As a descendant of a noble family, Abe Yahi also holds a nominal position. Whether he has real power is another matter, but he can always bear a very intimidating title.
Their true identity and power come from the families behind them.
The Abe family is now a very powerful force in Heian-kyo, almost able to compete with the imperial family.
Abe Yari nodded and said, "Indeed, I would like to trouble the Grand Minister to introduce him to you."
"When does Junior Prime Minister Abe want to meet Master Lu?"
"The sooner the better. You know that I'm in a very good condition right now."
It was in this situation that Ping Jinyuan appeared in Lu Sen's yard with Abe Yari the next morning.
Lu Sen looked at the man in front of him who looked feminine and handsome.
He is a rare handsome man.
In fact, Abe Yari was known as the "most handsome man in the capital" in Heian-kyo.
But Lu Sen was not surprised.
Lu Sen had seen many such feminine and handsome men in Bianliang, and the most outstanding one among them was Bai Yuting.
In comparison, Abe's character is too feminine and seems a bit sinister.
He is not like Bai Yuting, who, even though he looks as gentle as a woman, still has the necessary sense of boldness.
It can only be said that Abe Yari is a "castrated version" of Bai Yutang.
"Master Lu, do you want the Izumo Kingdom?" Abe Yari tried his best to pretend that nothing had happened.
But his eyelids twitched slightly from time to time, which showed that he was extremely uneasy inside.
There's no way, for people who come here for the first time, everything is new.
Unique.
If you pay attention, you can discover all kinds of magical things.
"Yes." Lu Sen replied in a light tone.
His attitude was very natural, and the look he gave Abe Yari was neither friendly nor condescending.
Abe Yari took a deep breath and said, "Izumo is an important place in Japan and cannot be distributed to outsiders casually. If Master Lu is willing to join the Japanese court, things will be easy to talk about."
Hearing this, Lu Sen laughed: "Even if I dare to vote, do you dare to give me an official position?"
"Why not..."
But before he could finish his words, Ping Jinyuan, who was sitting next to Abe Yari, reached under the table and gently pulled Abe Yari's sleeve.
Abe Yari immediately swallowed his words back into his stomach. He thought for a while, then smiled awkwardly and said, "I was just joking just now. Master Lu, please don't mind it."
Lu Sen just raised his eyebrows, smiled and said nothing.
There seemed to be some malice in that look.
At least that's what Abe thinks.
"If you have any other conditions, please tell me."
Abe Yari leaned forward slightly and said, "It is also possible to give the Izumo Kingdom to Master Lu. Our Abe family can talk to the Izumo family, so it should not be difficult to make this happen. But everyone in my family has hidden diseases and is plagued by various illnesses. I hope Master Lu will give us a fairy fruit tree that can cure all diseases, so that our family can be free from hard work from now on."
"Impossible." Lu Sen shook his head.
The greedy nature of the Japanese is indeed passed down from generation to generation.
Lu Sen sighed in his heart at this moment.
"Is this fairy fruit tree very precious?"
"They are very precious." Lu Sen explained, "But the reason is not this, but that you have no way to grow them. They must grow in the environment created by the cave technique."
Abe Yari asked, "Then Master Lu can use the cave mansion technique to set up a courtyard for our Abe family and plant a fairy fruit tree?"
Lu Sen looked at the young man as if he were an idiot.
Ping Jinyuan looked embarrassed standing beside him.
After a while, Lu Sen turned his head to look at Ping Jinyuan and said, "Is this the result of Ping Dainagon asking me to wait a few more days?"
In fact, the same thing applies. Lu Sen came to the "negotiation" this time mainly to maintain his own image. He is not a person who would take advantage of others casually.
Otherwise, it would be too easy for him to occupy Izumo Province.
At that time, Japan was very weak, mainly because it had the sea as a barrier and ordinary countries could not attack it.
However, the Northern Song Dynasty, which had the most advanced navigation technology at the time, was unwilling to attack this tiny country.
The treasure ship built by Lu Sen easily transported thousands of soldiers over.
It can be said that Lu Sen could just recruit thousands of refugees from the Northern Song Dynasty, train them for two or three months, spend some money to equip them with weapons, and then he could run rampant throughout Japan.
Seeing Lu Sen’s unhappy expression, Ping Jinyuan could only bow deeply.
Abe Yari tapped his palm heavily with the fan in his hand a few times, and then he laughed dryly: "Master Lu, I was just joking just now, please don't be offended."
Lu Sen shook his head: "To be so playful and nonsense in such a serious and formal occasion, it seems that Junior Prime Minister Abe has not read enough Chinese books."
That means he is uneducated.
Abe Yari understood and his face turned pale.
But then he looked serious, bent down and said, "Master Lu, what I just said was all my own opinion. In fact, before I came here, my father told me to meet Master Lu's request at all costs."
Lu Sen didn't say anything.
Abe Yari suddenly took out a short knife from his bosom, held it upside down with one hand, and pointed it at his abdomen. He smiled bitterly and said, "If Master Lu doesn't forgive me, I can only die to apologize for my sin."
Pingjin Yuan, who was standing next to him, reached out and pinched Abe Yari's wrist, saying, "Abe Shaocheng, don't lose your composure."
He sighed, not expecting that he still couldn't make it in time.
Abe Yari didn't say anything, but just looked at Lu Sen stubbornly.
Lu Sen looked up at the young man and felt a little strange.
This person's emotions are too extreme. He wants to commit suicide if he disagrees with something. His emotions fluctuate greatly. He doesn't seem like a normal person.
He looked at it for a while and asked Pingjin Yuan: "Does this Abe Shaocheng have some mental problems?"
Abe Yari's face suddenly became even uglier.
There was an angry look on his face, but soon his eyes were half closed, as if he was enduring something.
Pingjin Yuan was silent for a long time before he said, "Almost all members of the Abe family are like this. They have been like this for more than a hundred years."
oh?
This time period is quite interesting. Lu Sen remembered that the people of Tianjimen said that the spiritual energy of this world seemed to have gradually disappeared since more than a hundred years ago.
Could it be that the Abe family has been affected?
Moreover, it seems that there have been some extraordinary people with the surname An Bao.
The Abe family is very powerful, but their direct descendants now have some problems with their brains.
"It turns out it's a family genetic disease or something like that." Lu Sen waved his hand: "Then I won't bother with you. I don't want the Izumo Kingdom anymore."
It is actually not that difficult to take something away secretly even if you don't want it openly.
"We've been waiting for a few days in vain. Mei'er, please show the guest out." Lu Sen stood up.
But at this moment, Abe Yari suddenly stood up, his expression excited. He shook off Ping Jinyuan's hand and said angrily, "Master Lu, our Abe family has already given up the conditions, but you are not willing to accept it. Aren't you humiliating us?"
Ping Jinyuan's face changed drastically, looking extremely ugly, and even a little frightened.
Pang Meir put her hand on her shoulder and pressed the little jade snail. There were also a few black-clad guards nearby, approaching unnoticed.
If the other party dares to take action, they will go crazy.
But at this moment, Lu Sen suddenly exclaimed, the anger on his face disappeared, and he looked behind Abe Yari strangely.
Because in his sight, behind Abe Yari, there was a woman whose face he could not see clearly floating in the air.
It appeared suddenly, just like the legendary ghost.
Moreover, there were several gray, translucent air bands on the woman's body, extending into Abe Yari's head.
"The Abe family, is that the Shikigami family?"
Ping Jinyuan was a little surprised. He saw that Lu Sen was clearly showing signs of being angry, but unexpectedly, he suddenly stopped.
He breathed a sigh of relief at the moment. He didn't know how nervous he was just now. He was really afraid that Abe Yari had offended Lu Sen.
"Yes, the most famous person in the Abe family is Abe Haruaki, the most powerful Onmyoji in Japan, with countless Shikigami under his command."
"Then the thing behind him is a shikigami?"
To be honest, it was the first time that Lu Sen had seen this kind of thing. Before, when he was in China, he had only seen some black gas at most.
But think about it, since something like the World Tree has appeared, it’s not too strange if a few shikigami or ghosts appear.
Everyone followed Lu Sen's finger and looked at Abe Yari's back, but saw nothing.
Everyone looked puzzled.
But Pang Meir did not doubt Lu Sen. She knew that her husband would not lie or scare people casually.
Lu Sen thought about it, took two steps forward, and reached out to grab the woman in the transparent Wu costume.
He grabbed her and she felt cold to the touch.
And as he was grabbing her, a faint heat from his body flowed along his hand and into the woman.
Then when he pulled this thing to the ground, the opponent's figure seemed to become more solid.
Even the face became clearer; originally only the eyes and eyebrows could be vaguely seen.
Now I can barely see what it looks like.
At this moment, the people nearby seemed to be startled and stepped back, especially Abe Yari. He was startled at first and took three steps back, but then rushed forward two steps and screamed, "Wait, you are the Snow Girl?"
In fact, in the eyes of bystanders, Lu Sen stretched out his hand into the air and seemed to be pinching something.
Then, as it was being pulled down, something appeared in the air, and finally a faint, translucent figure was revealed.
It was not clear, but everyone could see clearly that there was a woman standing there.
Snow girl?
Lu Sen looked at the transparent thing he was pulling and found that her clothes were really white.
Abe Yari took a closer look, took two steps forward, and reached out to pull the woman in the white Wu dress, but he had no way to touch her. His hands grabbed in the air twice but got nothing.
He grabbed at the air unwillingly a few more times, and finally looked at Lu Sen, performed the Han etiquette, clasped his fists and said, "Master Lu, please release my shikigami."
"Your shikigami?" Lu Sen smiled and looked him up and down: "From your actions just now, it seems that you don't even know that there is a shikigami behind you."
Abe Yari was stunned for a long time, his face full of embarrassment and uneasiness. After a long while, he said: "It is all because of my poor skills. I am ashamed of my ancestors."
Ping Jinyuan breathed a sigh of relief.
Lu Sen looked him up and down again: "You seem to be more normal now. This thing attached to your back just now seems to be able to affect your mind?"
Lu Sen remembered that this thing only barely appeared when Abe Yari was furious .
After a long silence, Abe Yari nodded and said, "This has something to do with the secret method of my clan, but the details are not clear."
Pingjin Yuan said curiously, "But your Abe family is based on Shikigami, don't you know that ? Didn't you say that you can use Shikigami to hurt people at night?"
Abe looked at Pingjinyuan and said nothing.
Ping Jinyuan saw this and said, "I understand. I have something to go back to Shancheng first. Master Lu, I will take my leave first."
Lu Sen bowed.
I have to say that Ping Jinyuan is quite tactful.
After everyone left the yard, Abe Yari slowly said, "I can tell Master Lu in detail about the matter of the Shikigami. My loss of composure just now was also related to these Shikigami."
"Please take a seat. I'm quite interested."
Then, Abe Yahi sat down and told the story.
It turns out that the Abe family had a very powerful ancestor who figured out how to control demons and ghosts and called them Shikigami.
After that, the Abe family prospered for a long time and was respected by everyone in Japan.
But later, for some unknown reason, their people gradually could not see the Shikigami anymore, but they could still communicate with and command the Shikigami to do some things. After a few decades, they found that they could no longer communicate with the Shikigami.
However, the ceremony of signing a master-servant contract with the Shikigami has been passed down from generation to generation.
Moreover, the personality of each Abe tribe member who performs the contract with the god ritual will gradually become strange, sometimes good and sometimes bad.
Most end up being crazy.
Hearing this, Lu Sen had a vague guess in his mind.
The Abe family made a contract with the demons and the shikigami, and then the shikigami absorbed the spiritual energy from them as "energy". More than a hundred years ago, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth was still sufficient, so there was no problem in doing so.
But now... there is no spiritual energy, but the Abe family is still contracting the Shikigami, so without the spiritual energy supply, the Shikigami begins to absorb the souls of the Abe clan members?
Of course, this is just his personal guess.
"So this thing is your shikigami, Yuki-onna?"
"Yes." Abe Yari looked at the transparent woman with a distressed expression.
Lu Sen felt that he had really broadened his horizons this time.
I have never encountered a "ghost" in the territory of Song Dynasty, but I didn't expect to encounter one on the island of Japan.
If I transfer more "spiritual energy" to this ghost, will she change more significantly?
