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Qiwei's physical condition is not good. Xianyu thought that after the fasting ceremony, she would have to rest for a day before performing sacrifices. Unexpectedly, she saw her in the shrine the next day.The old man is hale and hearty, and she doesn't look tired. She is wearing a clean but old rough clothes, and she is cleaning the fallen leaves in front of the main hall with a broom like an ordinary handyman.She sweeps very seriously, swinging the broom slowly and carefully, not like cleaning, but like an artist who is addicted to the creation of calligraphy and painting.

The witches and priests who came and went saluted Nani very calmly, as if she had been used to this for a long time, Xianyu walked over and wanted to go up to help, but Qiwei avoided her, she was holding a broom, and she had no status The lofty Taisha Miko was proud, blinked and mischievously said: "Don't compete with me, this is my favorite job."

"Tomorrow will be the Duodu Festival, and you won't have free time for the next few days. You should take a good rest." Xianyu still remembered her weak appearance yesterday.

"At my age, less than a day is a day. I don't want to waste it in bed." Qiwei said this in a calm and relaxed tone. Although she is already Renrui's age, her eyes still have nostalgia Reluctant, mixed with inexplicable regret, said: "How does time pass so fast? I feel like I'm old before I do anything. I'm not afraid of your jokes. In fact, I often have dreams. In my dream, I was still a little girl, running around the hills every day, digging some wild vegetables, I was as happy as a fool."

Different from the little nobles in the capital who were trying their best to conceal their backgrounds, Qiwei did not hide her identity as a commoner. After sweeping the last piece of land, she put her hand on the broom and recalled with a chuckle: "I don't know Tianjin What did Hikone Ming think, that he chose a little girl like me to be his priestess."

This kind of talk is not easy to answer, worried that it will be cold, Xianyu blurted out: "Eh, this... is a priceless treasure, and it's rare to have a lover?" After she finished speaking, she wanted to slap herself, what kind of words did she answer.Fortunately, Qiwei on the opposite side didn't mind, but was amused by her reaction.

Just when Xianyu was at a loss for what to do with Nanami's smile, the priest guarding the periphery of the shrine came up and said, "Master Yuji, Lord Guoshou sent someone to visit."

"I see, it's over." Xianyu got a savior, and couldn't wait to agree to get out of the current embarrassing situation.

Looking at the lively and clever look of the young maiden, Nanami who watched her go away with a gentle smile said softly: "What a pity, I have never really met Mikogami-sama, if he has the same temper as you, then It must be very interesting to get along with such a maiden." Said, Nanami turned her head and looked at the handsome young man beside her who was only seen by her.

[Tianmuyi is different from me. ] Dadu God, who appeared in front of his witch, replied, his tone was calm without any emotional fluctuations.

"I've heard that it is a god who is very gentle to human beings, very similar to you." Qiwei said with emotion.

[Not like. ] Dodushen is expressionless.

"I think so." Qiwei insisted deliberately.

Duoduo looked back at his miko, even Nanami, who was familiar with him, couldn't find any fluctuations in those light green pupils, he looked at her, and said: "It's up to you. ]

Tianjin Hikone Ming rarely has mood swings, it can be said that he is an indifferent god.He has no determination to win or lose, and he will not argue with others. He always has an attitude of indifference.But such a god, for the sake of his son not returning to Gaotianyuan for hundreds of years, changed his usual low-key style and searched the three worlds to find enemies.

Moreover, such a desolate and indifferent god saved an ordinary human girl and made her his own witch.Thinking of the past, Nanami feels lonely and emotional, until now she still doesn't know her god, the only thing she knows is his concern for the God of Miko, but this is the only thing she can't help him.

[Miko, I'm going back to Takamahara. ] Duo Dushen said suddenly.

Qiwei, who was melancholy, suddenly raised her head, and couldn't hide her surprise and said: "Tomorrow is the Tadu Festival, don't you want to stay?"

[Mother's call, I cannot refuse. ] He looked down at her and confessed: [The shrine will be handed over to you. ]

"Yes." Qiwei nodded respectfully, and when she got up again, the god standing beside her had disappeared.She hesitated to speak and took a step forward, but in the end she withdrew her steps, and her face became serious. The timing was too coincidental for Amaterasu to summon her.But at the main shrine of Hikone Ming in Tianjin, nothing should happen.

The miko of the Miko God is in the shrine, so there must be no accidents.

...

Lai Xin sent someone to send news that her family's swordsmen had defeated the contestants who were going to participate in the horse-mounting ceremony, and they could enter the shrine to participate in the sacrifice tomorrow.The horse-mounting ceremony will be held for two consecutive days. The selected samurai will wear their array hats and stand in a posture. They set off from different locations in Kuwana County, and rush to the shrine surrounded by crowds. They ride horses up the three-meter-high slope.On the first day of the sacrifice, there will be two horse-mounting rituals, and each rider has two chances to hit the slope, but on the fifth day, there is only one chance.

For people in this era, the success of the horse-mounting shrine is related to a year's grain harvest. Only the nobles can get in touch with the precious horses and can ride them, so the previous samurai were all from the Ise noble family.These noble young masters don't care about your meaning of whether the grain harvest is good or not, what they value is the honor brought by being a rider.But that is obviously a thing of the past. When Yuan Laixin became the new national guard, the warriors who were originally selected were no longer enough.

Before the Duodu Festival, Lai Xin suddenly wanted to test the strength of the school's local young talents, but he didn't expect that all the guys who came out were hot-eyed guys. He was frightened when he was stared at by the vicious combat soldiers from Bandong. points of momentum.So Lai Xin waved his hand and decided to re-elect the contestants for the horse-mounting ceremony. Fu Sangshen signed up enthusiastically and successfully suppressed the Bando Army to win the spot.

After listening to Qingguang through the torii gate, Xianyu was speechless, you group of gods competed with ordinary people for places.

Qing Guang looked away under Xian Yu's comment, but in fact he was also panicking with embarrassment.

But things have come to this, there is nothing to talk about, and Xianyu is also very happy to see everyone, she clapped her hands and said: "Qing Guang is also tomorrow's rider, then I wish you success on the horse, I will cheer you on. Also, I made some of the red bean rice cakes that will be sprinkled at the ceremony tomorrow, everyone remember to eat them and not waste them!"

"The guy who snatched the rice cake you made is really..."

"What is it?" Xianyu narrowed his eyes.

"...Lucky." Normally, seeing her look like this, Qing Guang would definitely pat her on the head.But now it’s hard to get close in front of others because of the torii gate, so he can only wave his hands in the air and say, “I hope I’ll be that lucky one.” do it.

wrong.

It's easy to tell the difference.

The next day, Qing Guang, who was wearing a bamboo hat, was divided into festive rice cakes by the priest from Duodu. Looking at the strangely shaped red and white overlapping things in his hand, Qing Guang did not speak for a long time. Instead, Dabao asked bluntly: "Is it a custom to make food into the shape of horse manure?" It probably has some auspicious meaning.

The priest from Duodu kept his smile and said, "No, this is the koi rice cake that Ms. Yu Ji personally made for the warriors. It's just that the filling flowed out during the cooking process, and the shape changed slightly." He said Without changing his smile, he forced red and white things covered with red bean paste to several samurai adults.

Hearing what the priest said, those who wanted to complain like Da Baoping shut their mouths.On the other hand, Tochikiri held the ball of food, ate it without hesitation and said: "Well, it tastes very good." Kagemaru also took a bite, and defended the child he had grown up with: "Ji Jun is the first time Do it, the degree of completion is already very good.”

"You guys are really brave if you can eat this kind of thing that needs to be mosaic to be photogenic." Tsurumaru thinks that making rice cakes into such fish sauce is really a culinary genius.

"Is there any more?" Sanriyue asked holding an empty plate.

"Snacks for tea are also good." The plate beside Uimaru was also empty.

"What a shock." Tsurumaru gave the leaders a thumbs up.

Although everyone disliked the weirdly shaped rice cakes, no one gave out the rice cakes in their hands. At this moment, the priest outside greeted: "My lords, the time has come, please prepare for the ceremony." Received Notification, several people attending the ceremony on the first day stuffed the rice cake into their mouths decisively, and said as if they were dead: "Let's go."

"Brother, let's go!" Tsurumaru waved his hand.

At the same time, next to the high slope used for the horse-mounting ceremony, in the palace where the Dodo Festival received distinguished guests, a plate of [Red Bean Rice Cake] was also placed in front of Minamoto Yoshinobu, who was the guardian of the country. Seeing the strange red and white Just kidding, the nobles present shrank their heads back in horror, even Lai Xin was surprised and said: "Duodu still retains the tradition of eating monkey brains?!"

Monkeys were also common meat animals in ancient times, until Emperor Tenmu issued a ban.

The priest who was in charge of serving Lai Xin's snacks suffocated with a smile, and said, "This is the red bean rice cake made by Mrs. Yu Ji."

"Hahaha, it turned out to be Yu Ji! Don't say, this look is really the style of our martial arts!" Lai Xin ate it with admiration, which directly made the nobles present gasp.He tasted the stuffing, and felt that eating it like this was very interesting, he slapped his knee and said: "Order, I will do this for rice cakes in the future."

The back kitchen who received the order was full of melancholy, this concubine couldn't do it.

At the moment, Xianyu doesn't know anything about the follow-up events caused by the rice cakes she made. She only remembers that she put all the fillings and shaped them into the shape of a koi carp. Out of shape.

The author has something to say: the shrine enshrining Tianmuyi (not Tado Taisha) has sumo wrestling and rice cake throwing ceremonies during the Nai Festival on November [-]th (in China, it is translated into Fukiko Grand Festival) ~ the Nai Festival has forging It is said that it is because the forging god Tenmaro forged a thousand knives and axes for Emperor Jinmu, so there is this sacrifice.

There is no related legend about Tianjin Hikone's wife, so Yimulian should have only a father and no mother, but asexual reproduction is normal in Japanese mythology. (The Migozenshosha enshrined by Tado Taisha Shrine, the goddess in it is not his wife, but the younger sister Munakata, one of the three goddesses, Ichikishima Himemei, who is the god of the imperial sister, married to the great country master)

Fighting is so difficult to write about. In fact, Xianyu really has no chance of winning against Shangba Leishen.The eight gods of thunder are all children of Izanami.

I don't know Chinese gods, after all, the style of painting is different...