Hanamaru Shrine under construction

Chapter 267

"You say you are still so naive at the age of being a grandfather. You know that junior sister is not good at this, but you still laugh at her. If you laugh again, I will let you replace her." Dragging the eldest and naughty second junior brother to the vegetable garden Inside, Baoxian pointed to the tunnel and said: "I leave it to you. When it's ready, go to eat. Don't ask for help. I'll just pull the carrots on the other side."

"I see." The smile on Seimei's face was stained with helplessness, but since Boya left Kyoto for a tour with Kagura, he hasn't felt so comfortable for a long time.Hearing the elder brother mention his age, he said with some sadness in his tone: "With Taiming's temperament, I don't even expect to be able to hold a grandson."

"Stop talking nonsense, it's just like you, that kid Taiming is young and hasn't enlightened yet." Baoxian was dissatisfied when he heard this, he straightened up suddenly and wanted to teach his junior, but hey He squatted down, rubbed his lower back and said, "Hey...this technique is to be able to see the skin, so it can't make the whole body become younger together."

"Senior brother." Qingming put away his smile, walked over quickly to help him up, frowned and said, "The technique won't last long."

Bao Xian didn't refute, but just put his hand in his palm and patted it: "Don't worry, let's go after the summer festival." He beat his waist, lowered his eyes and said: "I was thinking about the accident of my junior sister. When I wake up, I will soon fall asleep, after all, my seal has not been released yet, but now it seems that she has not fulfilled her wish, and she has to wake up for a while. Unfortunately, I can't spend too much time with her."

"The shrine has been vacant for 40 years, and all ritual festivals have also stopped. Although Ichimolian-sama is a gentle god, he is actually very stubborn. He is not willing to choose a new person to replace the god-lord, so it is useless to persuade anyone. Qingming looked into the distance and said, "She won't rest until the shrine's affairs are properly arranged."

"That's right." Baoxian sighed.

"I don't know how long it will take. There are some things I can't hide..." Qingming looked at Baoxian.

"I know, I'll tell her, don't make it difficult for you." Baoxian said with a smile, let's feel at ease.

"Brother, you know that's not what I meant." Qingming said hastily.

"I know, I just don't want you to suffer." Baoxian simply squatted in the field like this, rubbing his knees, and said: "Take care of your junior sister and younger brother, and you have to take care of yourself, Qingming .”

"Senior brother should say this to himself." Qingming sat beside him and said.

Baoxian smiled and patted his leg.

Xianyu himself knew for a long time that the elder brother always wanted to say something to him, but when the two of them got along, he would avoid mentioning sensitive topics.It was just pushing and pushing, and when she even started to run away, he walked up to her again and took the initiative to mention the changes in the capital.

Sealing Yamata no Orochi and Hiruko is a great achievement, not only Seimei, Boya and Kagura can be enshrined and become gods recognized by Gao Tianyuan.For this credit, Boya, who was supposed to be downgraded in this generation, inherited the title of prince, and Kagura was also promoted as inner prince because he chose to succeed Saio.The ambitious previous emperor died before his ambitions were fulfilled. The successor emperor still used Seimei and the constitutional protection, but in order to maintain a balance, he deliberately opposed the Abe and Kamo families. Perhaps the false grudges between the two families will become real enemies in the future, but the protection Xian and Seimei no longer cared.

Today's human world is no longer suitable for the former big monsters to live in. The purification power brought by the coming of the gods in the air makes them extremely uncomfortable. Jiu Tun and other big monsters have opened up a new space for the demon world to retreat, and the human world is also born. A group of monsters who can adapt to the new environment.

The slippery ghost who used to be the guest god was not affected, and continued to eat and drink freely.General Inu chooses to stay in the human world, and is moving towards the goal of being the monarch of the Western Kingdom. He has overcome his discomfort with the new environment, and it has always been difficult to find an opponent. Now the Western Kingdom is in his pocket.

"The situation with the little general hasn't stabilized yet, and you don't know when you will fall asleep, so I didn't notify him. If you want to see him, you can ask someone to bring a message." Baoxian explained.

"If you don't know the situation over there, don't bother him..." Xian Yu shook his head.Thinking of what would happen in the future, she couldn't help worrying. There were still hundreds of years before the Warring States Period where Inuyasha was located, and she didn't know where the Dragon Bone Spirit who was seriously injured by General Inuyasha was.Although this kind of thinking is very selfish, she still wants to get rid of this hidden danger before then.

Although he couldn't read his mind like Ye Wang, Baoxian could guess what would make his junior sister frown. He stopped her by the shoulder and said, "Junior sister, senior brother has many hesitant moments in his life, but No matter what it is for, as long as I think of the possible consequences that I can't accept, no matter how much I hesitate, I will still do it."

Tilting his head against Baoxian, Xianyu lowered his head and put his hands on his knees and said, "Brother, will you become a god too?" It's not that she didn't notice that he mentioned Boya and Kagura, but missed him Own.

"I won't leave you guys." He leaned on her and said softly, "But Wang Ye himself is down here, so I don't feel at ease."

Xian Yu bit her lower lip and nodded. She tried her best to suppress the emotions that she didn't want to be seen, and said with a forced smile: "I know... Ye Laosan is the most troublesome thing. Senior brother, you have to tell him not to fight. If you have the ability to read minds, treat others as fools, don't use subordinates who have different intentions, don't leave opportunities for opponents to grow, don't make enemies everywhere... Also, you must pay attention to personal hygiene, and eat nutritiously..."

After listening, Bao Xian laughed. He took a deep breath and said, "I will bring it."

"And..." Xian Yu added in a low voice.

"what?"

"Brother...you have to accompany me to the summer festival."

"of course."

After that, no one mentioned it again, as if nothing had happened.Seimei and Baoxian stayed at the shrine until the summer festival began, even though Taiming and Guangrong from the capital had written several times to urge them.

Japan is a country that attaches great importance to qualifications, and this tradition has been maintained until modern times.Now Xianyu's status among the witches is just like that of Nanami back then, and the young Saio who succeeded Kagura is also quite polite to her.Commoners may not know what happened back then, but nobles are required to remember the past that was almost destroyed by evil gods. Their descendants must clearly understand that ordinary people cannot leave the protection of these people with spiritual power.

After notifying Queen Sai, the summer plan at the Iga Shrine was also conveyed to the hands of the nobles. These dignitaries who have no worries about food and clothing do not care about rice like ordinary people, but are interested in all kinds of charms Yes, and the samurai are even more excited, forging the weapons that the gods personally smelted. If they can get their hands on it, what an honor it will be!What's more, God of Forging won't take it lightly, and only holds such a competition every ten years. The difficulty of obtaining it increases, which also means that the value obtained is higher.

The competition to obtain the artifact is not complicated, it only needs to run around the mountain, and anyone in good health can participate.Hearing that it was just a running race, the samurai who thought their physical endurance far surpassed ordinary people were all determined to win, and everyone felt that the winner could only be born among them.The Genji and Heping families who were fighting secretly also sent each other's most outstanding descendants one after another. If the Minamoto family had not been in official positions and could not leave the territory without the emperor's permission, he would have led Genji out of the station as a representative.

When Xianyu and Yimulian discussed this plan, they thought that the participants were nothing more than civilians and samurai who knew nothing, but unexpectedly, the crowd participating in the competition was quite diverse, including not only farmers, businessmen, and samurai , and even monks, onmyojis, and... blacksmiths.Looking at those craftsmen whose arms were thicker than their thighs, the confident warriors also had some doubts, whether they underestimated the enemy too much...

Although the prizes provided by the shrine are quite attractive, it is impossible for people from the capital to come to join them. After all, in the eyes of those people, hell is outside of Kyoto, but nobles from the surrounding cities of Iga came to show their respect. Okay, and took his wife and children to the song party organized by Ge Xian.What Xianyu didn't expect was that after the name of the legendary [Gaxian] Kasen Kanesada came out, his fanboys and girls in Kyoto rioted. Those who had become grandparents led a group of [Song] Fans came to Iga from Kyoto to chase stars.

On the eve of the summer festival, facing the nobles who came graciously, Xianyu, as the god master, thanked the guests behind closed doors in the name of fasting and purifying, and left the task of entertaining to the second senior brother.

Hmph, hold grudges.

It wasn't until a few days before the start of the summer festival that Xianyu learned through Seimei that it was the mission of the shrine maiden to dance the Kagura dance, and the shrine masters of the Meishin Taisha only needed to guide the ceremony and recite the congratulatory speech.Hearing this, Xianyu breathed a sigh of relief, but soon she realized another important thing. She had never memorized the book-like congratulations that day...

"What [God asked Pozhier asked Cibi God Sabier Sacibidi] who the hell knows what this means?! Why are all the words like this messed up, and he still has so many words!" Xian Yu slammed his head on the stone table in pain, and her hair was scratched into the lion king Xie Xun.

Complaining is nothing but complaints, Xianyu still bites the bullet and memorizes these gibberish codes by rote, just in case, in the end, she is cowardly again and said to Yimu: "Master Lian, take this congratulations well, if I forget It’s time for the words, remember to mention the words for me.”

Yimulian put away the reminder book with a good temper, even though he just listened to her repeat it over and over these days and then memorized it.

While Xianyu waited anxiously, it finally came to the pre-sacrifice of the summer festival. As the shrine master, she changed her clothes and walked out of the shrine, accepted the offering coins, and led the priests, maidens, and Iga nobles to worship in front of the main hall.As soon as he stood still in front of the door, the priests handed over the scroll, Xianyu was at a loss in his heart, but calmly took it and opened it, and there was a message of congratulations on it...

It turned out that this was read correctly and not memorized! !

I was deceived again, so angry, but be patient.

The younger sister Baoxian in the back felt that there was a storm in the calm smile. He looked at the younger brother who was smiling beside him, frowned, and reached out to knock him.Qingming, who was suddenly taught a lesson, shook his head and laughed. The senior brother himself had forgotten it. He said that it is better to be busy and not care about it than to think about it. Isn't the junior sister who thinks about Kagura dance and congratulatory speeches every day more energetic?

The matter that had been tense for more than half a month was successfully resolved in this way, and Xianyu felt at ease. After worshiping the main hall and the other palaces, the first day's feast of feasts officially began near lunch time.After the worship, the nobles still wanted to get close to this 40-year-old god, but they learned that she had personally gone outside the shrine to preside over the feast.

"Isn't that one...the Lord Yuji from back then?"

"How is this possible, she hasn't aged at all..."

"It must have been favored by the gods!"

Many villagers at the bottom of the mountain still remembered Xianyu's appearance. When she walked out of the shrine, it caused quite a commotion. She didn't care about the gaze cast on her, and signaled to the priest to start the first round of competition.A few strong guards helped to bring steamed rice from the divine office, and they couldn't help swallowing when they smelled the rich rice fragrance.The witches gave each contestant two bowls of rice with pickled vegetables. Seeing that they had finished preparing, the priest said, "The one who finishes eating first will take away twenty catties of white rice."

The five skinny men only had eyes for the rice in the bowl. After getting the priest's approval, they threw away the chopsticks and pulled them into their mouths with their hands.This crazy appearance shocked the priests present, no wonder Master Yu Ji set a quota, otherwise these hungry and frightened people would not stop even if they were exhausted.

The winner of the first round was the father of a family of three. After getting the rice, he hugged his family and burst into tears. With this bag of rice, they could exchange for more full-fledged millet.

The winner of the second round was a homeless man from the outer city. He exchanged rice for fields and seeds, and settled in the mountains.

The winner of the third round was the villager at the foot of the mountain. He gave the twenty catties of rice he got to the lonely old man in the village. He said that he had nothing to ask for, but just wanted to taste the rice he had planted for most of his life. What was it? smell……

The summer festival will last for several days, and the feast of food will continue. Xianyu has not spoken, and people seem to have forgotten her existence. They cheered heartily, venting their joy, and many people shouted Akira Iga said, and knelt down to thank him for his gift.

Except for his witch, no one knew that Yimulian was standing here looking at them at this moment, with a contented smile in his emerald green eyes, he said: [Thank you, witch. ] For this god, the significance of this moment is far greater than that given by the royal family, the glory of being promoted to the Jingu Taisha, and even more satisfying than restoring the godhead of the forging god.

Xianyu didn't reply, just curled up the corners of his mouth, and waited until the crowd had dispersed, before saying, "The next thing is the marathon, Master Blacksmith, get ready first."

Looking back at her, he smiled and nodded.

For most of the guests going to participate in the summer festival, the real highlight is the artifact competition in the middle of the year. Early in the morning, a large number of horses and horses gathered in front of the torii gate at the foot of the mountain. In addition to the contestants, they are also curious about who the winner will be nobleman.After the morning sacrifice, the priests of the shrine led the warriors to the track, while Xianyu took the nobles to the palace in the mountains, where the nobles could see most of the track from top to bottom, clearly determining who It will be the ultimate winner, and it is also convenient for gamblers to bet.

People of different classes stand together. This kind of thing is a bit novel. The nobles are arrogant, but they also go back to answer the wandering monk's question.

"I was born in Genji, of course I came here for the artifact!"

"If the artifact falls into the hands of a martial artist, I'm afraid it will cause a bloodbath again. It's better to give it to a poor monk to forge a Buddhist bell. The so-called sound of the bell will relieve troubles, increase wisdom, and increase Bodhi."

"The god of forging is Gao Tianyuan Zhengshen. How could he make a bell for Buddhism? I think it's better to be a Kagura bell."

"I don't care what kind of artifact it is! Our family has been craftsmen for generations, and I just want to touch the work of the forging god!"

After the priest arrived, the more sexual arguments subsided. After the conversation just now, everyone was furious. Seeing this, the priest did not hesitate and directly confirmed the opening of the divine event.Thousands of people rushed onto the track with the sound of drums beating by the priests. It was a black mass at first, and then gradually separated.As everyone expected, the warriors were far ahead, and they quickly distanced themselves from ordinary people, and only a few practicing monks could barely catch up.

"All in on the samurai!"

"No! Bet on the master!!"

The nobles competed for financial resources, and baskets of valuables were sent to Bodo, who laughed so hard that his mouth was crooked.At this moment, Tsurumaru, who got in as a trustee, gave a little [tip] to the food delivery maiden, which made the princes start to show their style (prodigal) in front of women.

"How is this possible? Look at the warriors being caught up!"

The sudden exclamation caught the attention of the nobles, and they hurriedly stretched their heads to look down. Sure enough, they saw a few monks catching up with the warriors. The warriors who hit too hard at the beginning gradually slowed down due to lack of stamina. down.But this is not the end. After the track changed from flat land to a slightly sloped mountain road, the monk's footsteps also began to slow down, replaced by civilians who had been advancing at an even speed, even though it was already in the second half, Although his face was flushed, his breath was very steady, and he gradually moved away from the crowd and headed towards the finish line.

"Stop joking, how can you lose to civilians!"

The warriors sprinted again, and the monks didn't want to give up the victory. The people on both sides worked hard together, but instead they collided, causing the farmer in front to pull the distance even further.

In the end, the thin and weak villager, whom no one was optimistic about, won, and he himself shrank his neck in disbelief and was brought in front of Xianyu. He was so nervous that he didn't say a word for a long time.

"Have you decided what you want? The artifact will belong to you completely. If someone has evil intentions, they will be rejected by the gods, and everything will go wrong." Noticing the eyes of the people around him, Xianyu said again: "But if you voluntarily change hands, then No one will be cursed."

"This... I don't quite understand," the villager smiled shyly, grabbed his clothes and said, "Actually... I just broke my hoe a few days ago, and I want to get a new one. So... can it be done?"

"What are you kidding—" The unbelievable roars around stopped abruptly when Xianyu looked over, and the roaring person even lowered his head and retreated back.Xianyu looked at the worried farmer again, nodded and smiled, "Of course."

The author has something to say: This farmer...is the ancestor of Tanjiro's ancestor's ancestor.

Yimulian: Let’s use Tianjinshan iron (the raw material of Yata mirror frame) to make it, it is stronger.