This witch is a boy

"A man's self-esteem?"

Rei Hino said coldly, not knowing whether she understood or not.

Matsuhira didn't answer at all, and walked directly on the road, and Rei Hino followed behind him step by step.

"By the way, Sister Li, have you passed the main qualification exam?"

Matsuhira suddenly thought of something and asked, a few days ago, Reika Hono wanted to take the exam for the local shrine hall.

Miko is very common in Japan. Whenever the business of the shrine is busy, female high school students from nearby high schools are recruited to act as miko. The name is called Miko, but it is actually a working girl.

The really rare ones are priestesses with clergy. Before the Meiji Restoration, the priestesses were able to convey the will of the gods, and their status was higher than that of the priests. However, after the Meiji Restoration, the new government forbids random priestesses to issue oracles indiscriminately. against the new government.

Therefore, the status of witches has been directly reduced. Afterwards, the priests of shrines generally refer to men, and witches are the assistants.

However, the shrines are dominated by male priests. Like the previous priestesses, they were not allowed to have priesthood and serve as leaders of the shrine.However, with the serious problem of declining birth rate, many shrines have no one to inherit, and the rule that only male inheritance is allowed has been unknowingly erased, and priests can also be owned by women.

Like now, you can take any leadership position except the shrine priest (divine master), as long as you have the corresponding god rank and qualifications.

"Well, it's over, it's very simple."

Hino Rei said flatly, it seemed to be just a trivial matter.

"Sister Li, you don't really want to inherit the shrine, do you?"

The corners of Matsudaira's mouth twitched. It is not a trivial matter to obtain a high-ranking priesthood. If you are an adult and you are normal, you can always get it after working in the shrine for a few years.

But the problem is that Rei Hino is only 15 years old now. Under normal circumstances, she would enter a university with a major in Shinto. After graduation, she would automatically be able to obtain a full-level priesthood.

Of course, it is not impossible to take part in the clergy training class held by the big shrine, but the gold content is not a level. Everyone knows that the clergy training class is a back door opened by the shrine to the children of the clergy in order to solve the problem of the successor of the shrine.

The examination organized by the Shrine Hall is the most difficult, and it is more difficult than the major obtained after entering the university's Shinto department for four years.

"That's right, if you agree to join my family, go to the National Gakuin University in the future, and change your surname to Hono, then the issue of my family's succession will be resolved."

Rei Hino stopped her steps, said very seriously, and at the same time stroked her beautiful black hair and said, "If you want to confess, it will be on my 16th birthday, otherwise my grandpa will consider giving me that name." My cousin named Hino Eiji joined the Hino family."

Hikaru Matsuhira was so embarrassing, she just felt so cold, and the cold-tempered Rei Hino really wasn't suitable for joking.

"It's not a joke. You can get married at the age of 16 with the consent of your parents. This is a legal requirement in Japan. I don't exclude Xiaoguang from inheriting the Hino family with me."

Rei Hino seemed to see through his thoughts, and said seriously again.She is the only daughter in the Hono family, and she cannot become the shrine's legal representative, so she can only find a married husband to solve the shrine's succession issue.

"The weather is so nice!"

Matsuhira pretended to be okay and looked at the sky. The previous witch asked him to become a priest, but now the childhood sweetheart asked him to become a priest.

At the age of 16, the law stipulates that you can get married, but if you tell the news to the woman's parents, I am afraid that the parents of the other party will have the heart to stab someone with a knife.

Rei Hino glanced at him, but said nothing, her eyes showed disappointment.

Although it has been hinted so clearly, are you still unwilling?

"Actually, Cousin Yingsi is also very nice, very kind, and very responsible, but he just likes to travel around with only a pair of underwear on. If he can change his personality, he will be fine if he takes care of the family a little."

Feeling that he couldn't speak anymore, Matsuhira said awkwardly.

Hino Rei's cousin Eiji seems to be the son of a politician. Because he fell out with the family, he directly used his mother's surname and severed ties with the original family.

Hino Rei's aunt, that is, Hino Rei's father's sister, was married to Hino Eiji's father.

I always feel that this kind of relationship is very messy. In a place like China, it is probably impossible to get married.

But what is that lonely expression on Hino Li's face, did my words make her unhappy?

Matsudaira couldn't figure it out, not at all.

Chapter 3 Dongzhao's power now

"Sister Li, why do you keep following me, I can go back by myself."

Hikari Matsuhira felt a little uncomfortable when people around him looked at him, even though he felt embarrassed for Rei Hino by saying this.

"My sister asked me to protect you, so I must accompany you home."

Hino Rei explained that there wasn't even any extra emotion in her tone.

"You really listen to her!"

Matsuhira was a little helpless, the sister that Rei Hino said was not her own sister but Matsuhira's sister.

Hino Li blushed when she heard Matsuhira Hikaru's words, but she didn't say anything, and the two walked on the road in silence without speaking.

"Have you noticed that since you dreamed of an angel, more unfortunate things seem to happen to you. You see that you are more likely to be injured now, and fight with others every now and then."

After Hino Rei was silent for a while, she suddenly spoke.

"I'm not such a superstitious person, maybe it's just a coincidence."

Song Pingguang said that he didn't believe it, but he still stopped his steps.

"Probably not, Xiaoguang, you seemed to be able to see ghosts before."

Rei Hino seemed to remember something, and said.

"When I was a child, there was a period of time when I could see strange things, but since my sister asked Toshogu for a magic talisman, this kind of thing never happened again. Maybe it's just me as a child who was nervous and daydreaming. , thinking that there are monsters in this world, but they don’t exist at all.”

Although his dead mother was a witch, and his childhood sweetheart was also a witch, he lived under the scope of Shintoism since he was a child, but he didn't believe in ghosts and gods, or he didn't want to believe in them.

Hikari Matsuhira suddenly quickened his pace, not wanting to say a few more words to his childhood sweetheart who was a witch, but Rei Hono seemed to have discovered his purpose, and chased after him in small steps, "Hikari, don't run away, there are really monsters in this world There are ghosts."

"What about the evidence? What about the evidence? You are a witch, you are a clergyman, you can say whatever you want about this kind of thing, and there are Catholics preaching and evangelizing every day in front of my house. If you ask him to call down God or his angel, I can I believe it when I see it.”

Matsuhira yelled loudly, for some reason it seemed that only being loud could make him more confident.

"Do you believe me?" Hino Rei looked at him solemnly, her beautiful eyes seemed to be able to speak, reaching Matsuhira Hikaru's heart.

"Sister Li, of course I believe it." Song Pingguang didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in her gourd, and replied uneasy.

"That's right, I can see ghosts, their existence is not false, they are real. They live in this world, everywhere, so please believe me, your current situation is very bad, maybe one day sooner or later What's going to go wrong."

Rei Hino showed a smile. Although her face was serious, she seemed relieved.

"Too bad, I fell into Li's trap."

Matsuhira quickly realized that he had just said that he believed in Rei Hino. In other words, if Rei Hino said that there are ghosts in this world, he must believe it, otherwise he would not believe her.

This was a very serious matter, but he couldn't refute it. If he believed what Li said, he had no choice but to follow her words.

"It's two different things. I believe in Sister Li, and I believe that there are ghosts in this world. They are two different things."

Matsuhira was helpless, even though he was caught in a trap, he didn't want to just give in like this.

"In a few days, the Tokugawa Honke and the Tokugawa Gosanke will hold an exhibition. It is said that there will be a Nanban armor worn by Tokugawa Ieyasu in the Battle of Sekigahara, the seal cage of the Mito Yellow Gate, and various national treasures. , of course, the most interesting thing is that Ieyasu's relic "daily chanting Buddha" that is only kept in the Kuwana City Museum on weekdays, those days happen to be weekends, if you have no other activities, you may wish to accompany me."

Rei Hino took out two beautifully bound tickets from her pocket, on which was written the Daitokugawa Exhibition.

"What's your purpose?"

Matsudaira was puzzled and became vigilant, and suddenly invited himself to see the cultural relics exhibition, what is the purpose.

The Tokugawa family was founded by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the military general who ended the troubled times of the Warring States Period in Japan and unified the world. It is the family of generals who ruled the country of Japan and were at the apex of the samurai society.

Since Minamoto Yoritomo served as the general who conquered Yi and founded the Kamakura shogunate, the public power of the imperial court was obtained by the samurai in a down-to-earth way. With the general who conquered Yi as the head of the samurai, the shogunate politics of the samurai regime formed was called Japan. special national conditions.

To explain samurai politics, let's just use an analogy.

If Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin did not take the opportunity to become emperor during the mutiny of Chen Qiao, but said to the young emperor of Hou Zhou at that time, "Your Majesty, although I only understand military strategy, I have a patriotic heart. The other generals will help you manage it."

Ever since, Song Taizu did not establish the Song Dynasty, but chose another place, established his own shogunate, and ruled the country in the form of a military government. Officials in various places were also warriors, and finally formed a tradition.

Emperor Napoleon once said that truth is only within the range of the cannon.

The Taizu of this dynasty also said that power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

As a result, the emperor and the imperial court completely rushed to the street, and the scholars could not explain why they encountered soldiers. The Japanese samurai class is very powerful, and no matter how bad it is, they can kill a few people with a knife.

The general is the substantive king of Japan, as can be seen from the fact that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty canonized the Muromachi shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu as king.

After the attack of the black ships, the various embassies in Japan still foolishly couldn't tell the difference between the emperor and the general, and they didn't even find the existence of the emperor and his court.

In Japan before the Meiji Restoration, ordinary Japanese only knew the generals rather than the emperor, and knew that Tosho was in power instead of Amaterasu.

The emperor can't control the generals, on the contrary, the generals can control the emperor through promulgated laws,

The emperor is the national symbol and ruler of the country of Japan, and is proudly called "the line of ten thousand generations" by the Japanese people.

The national symbol is meaningless, but the word "honor" must be added before the word "ruler".

Fame is just reputation, and there is nothing left but reputation, and the emperor has never been rich.Asuka, in the Nara period, the Soga clan and other powerful families controlled the power, and the government orders of the whole country could not come out of the capital. The Guan family regained power, but it was the emperor's biological father, the Supreme Emperor, who usurped the emperor's power.

Therefore, in the later period of the Heian period, there was a more comical scene. The emperor was not in power, and his status was only equivalent to that of the crown prince. The dream of every emperor was to abdicate as soon as possible and become the emperor.

Ministers and ministers who usurp power are more or less decent. After all, they are cultural people. They are not as straight-forward as Wufu. With the help of the imperial court system to issue orders, the emperor is a puppet, and he is doing well.

After the samurai regime came to power, Minamoto Yoritomo set up a new shogunate, and the emperor and his court were completely defeated.

For example, during the Sengoku period when the Japanese samurai were the most powerful, life for the emperor was very difficult. In the past, the generals of the Muromachi shogunate gave the emperor some food. .

Therefore, it is said that during the Chinese New Year, the royal family could not even eat rice cakes, and they had no money to be buried when they died. It has been delayed for 43 days without any money, and finally they can only be buried hastily.

Therefore, the emperor and his ministers sold the calligraphy and paintings collected in the palace to make a living, and the court ladies were forced to be wandering warblers, er, that is, to be young ladies, in order to solve the problem of livelihood. This is as miserable as it is.

I really don't know how to rate this.

The emperor's price is really low when it comes to this. In China, he is the emperor who speaks one word and one word.

To say that it is unfortunate, it is indeed unfortunate that Japan is so poor as an emperor, and it is so unfortunate.

In China, even if there is an unfortunate change of dynasty, such as the abdication of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and the abdication of the emperor of the Later Zhou Dynasty, the new emperor in power will eat, drink and entertain.

Not to mention far away, let’s talk about Puyi, the last emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, who also jumped up and down as emperor three times. In the end, Zhao An had to hold his nose and recognized him as a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.

But on the other hand, living in such a poor life, and still being able to continue to be the emperor, and also known as the line of eternal life, is really lucky.

Because this is the emperor!My ancestors could still eat rice cakes during the Warring States Period in Japan. Is my family more emperor than the emperor?

Why do you say the emperor, why do you say the shogun? The clan of the Tokugawa shogun’s family is the Matsudaira family. In the Tokugawa Ieyasu era, only the shogun’s family and the head of the Tokugawa Gosan family could be named Tokugawa, and the rest could only be named Matsudaira.

For example, if you are the son of a general, your surname is Tokugawa, there is no problem, but if you did not become a general, or your son did not become a general, even if your son is the grandson of the general, his surname can only be Matsudaira, or from the Yusan family. Only when you become the head of the Yusan family can you be named Tokugawa. Even if you are the future heir, as long as you don't become the patriarch for a day, you cannot be named Tokugawa.

Matsuhira Hikaru is a descendant of a pro-vassal daimyo from the Tokugawa shogunate, and the production in the territory is not much, only [-] shi, just reaching the daimyo level.

Because at the end of the Tokugawa period, the last general Tokugawa Yoshiki chose to abdicate voluntarily and "return the great government", so the treatment was very good.

The Tokugawa family was not completely overthrown, not only retained, but also became the head of the nobility, very rich and powerful. Two of the four grandsons of Emperor Meiji married the daughters of the Tokugawa family.

During the Taisho period, the emperor even intended to let a member of the Tokugawa family be the prime minister. Although he was rejected in the end, it has to be said that the Tokugawa family, which has ruled Japan for 300 years, has accumulated a large amount of wealth, and it is still prominent even today.

"Tokugawa Ieyasu became a god after his death, and was revered as Tosho Daquangen. He is a very powerful god. If the spells of Toshogu Palace were useful, then we must not give up. Maybe we can find a solution in the exhibition."

Hino Li said lightly, Matsuhira was silent, a little moved in her heart, this childhood sweetheart really tried her best for his affairs.

Chapter 4 The Yuzawa Family

"Li, don't you come into the house with me."

Song Pingguang stopped, looked at his childhood sweetheart, the small house in front of him was his home.

"No, just go back by yourself. It's enough for me to take you home. If I go back late, I will be scolded by grandpa."

Rei Hino shook her head and refused, and Hikari Matsuhira didn't regret it, but just waved to her, since she could see her every day anyway.

Seeing Hikari Matsuhira walk into her home and close the door, Rei's eyes danced with flames, and a spell hit a nearby street tree.

"Evil Spirits Retreat"

The talisman fell on the tree and burned, a bright samurai sword slashed at the talisman, and finally the flame extinguished and the talisman fell to the ground.

"Is the fire god talisman of the Huochuan Shrine only so powerful?"

The talisman fell to the ground, and a girl in high school sailor uniform appeared from behind the street tree, she said in a cool tone.

A bright samurai sword in her hand is so dazzling, bursting with dazzling light, as long as she looks at it, her mind is involuntarily affected. The person is the ghost Julan who once told Matsuhira Hikaru her name.

"The shrine maiden doesn't look like much."

Hino Li took out a handful of talismans again, although she didn't pay much attention to the other party, but she pulled out a dozen of talismans, as if she was facing a big enemy, but she still attached great importance to the other party.

"It's useless for you to stop me. It is Saio's order that he will be entered into the shrine. Rei Hino, you are provoking the majesty of the shrine."

Gui Julan withdrew her sword and looked at the witch in front of her. If she hadn't stopped her just now, she would have taken Matsuhira away long ago.

"This is not acceptable, Xiaoguang will inherit the Huochuan Shrine in the future."