Chapter 15: The Summer Festival Begins
"Yo, you put it on so quickly? Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Grandma's ridicule made my grandfather's old face flush slightly.
"Alright, let's eat. I should be hungry after waiting so long. Grandpa shifted the topic.
"Yo, Mom blushed when she saw Daddy. ”
"What are you talking about, don't you see your mom so busy? Go help in the kitchen. His eyes turned into anger.
In the evening, the table is very rich, with a large round black lacquerware placed in the center of the table, and the shape is shaped like a mountain. At the bottom layer is a layer of crushed ice to keep the food fresh, and the large leaves that are carefully washed on the ice are placed on top of the shredded radish, followed by the sashimi that exudes an attractive color. Japanese cuisine pays attention to "not eating from time to time", traditionally the most suitable and favorite white fish in summer, one is in season, the other is that the white fish has less oil, the taste is refreshing, and if it is paired with sour sauce, it is more appetizing, so the sashimi dishes on today's table are mostly white fish, such as octopus and sea bream, and the sashimi is very delicious. In addition, there is a thick yard of tuna with red meat on the top of the plate, chewy squid on the outside, and the outer layer of the bonito is smoked and charred in an open flame of straw, and after grilling, it has a greasy aroma, so that it can be a charcoal-grilled bonito sashimi with a more layered taste. The swordfish sashimi, which resembles fat in color, is a sea urchin that concentrates the aroma of the sea and has a rich shellfish flavor in a small wooden box. However, the highlight of the table is the puffer fish meat, which is cut into a chrysanthemum shape and is so transparent that you can see the pattern on the bottom of the plate, with salmon roe in the center decorated with amber-like red and transparent color, and a bit of fish skin stacked under the sashimi. Several shallow square plates are filled with soy sauce, mashed wasabi or wasabi paste (light green, similar to wasabi), vinegar, minced ginger, mashed radish, and sashimi seasonings.
The sashimi meal also featured two abrupt dishes, a bamboo basket topped with shiso leaves, topped with croquettes bought by Sato's grandfather and takoyaki bought by Natsume. Liven up this lavish feast.
After enjoying dinner, when I went to take a bath, Natsume realized that there was an open-air natural hot spring in the ancient house. !!! should I really say that it is really the Honmaru where the daimyo lived in the past? Natsume washed up in the bathroom next to him, took a towel and entered the hot spring, looking at the starry sky in the smoke, and from time to time he could feel the sea breeze blowing. Natsume squinted comfortably like a kitten, put a towel on his head, leaned on the edge of the hot spring pool, and kicked the water with his foot from time to time to keep himself from sinking. Taking advantage of his unbeknownst to him, Inari quietly went around Natsume's back and prankfully blew out a breath on Natsume's neck exposed to the water, which made Natsume, who was half-asleep and half-awake, scream out "Ah~~~" and fell into the hot spring pool at a loss, Inari fished Natsume out funny, "So careless?" Seeing that the culprit was still laughing, Natsume decisively ignored him. "Mama, it's me who is wrong, this is an apology. Inari pulled out a tray from somewhere, and on the tray was a large bowl and a few pairs of chopsticks with a few eggs in the bowl. "Dad, where did you come from?" "Of course it was stolen from the kitchen with divine power. Inari said very confidently. An eerie voice came from behind the two, "Stolen?huh?" The two of them turned around stiffly, and Amaterasu, wrapped in a bath towel, stood behind him at some point, looking at the tray in their hands. "Ah~~ Wife, I was wrong, let my ears go! I won't steal food again......" Amaterasu pulled the fluffy fox ears that Inari turned into the prototype "It's not because of stealing." "What's the reason for that?" Inari looked at Amaterasu with tears in pain. "Because, you don't even call me for stealing food?, and you plan to eat alone?" The image of Natsume's forehead god, who understood the reason, collapsed in an instant (there was no image for a long time). After the riot, the three of them were lying in the hot spring, boiling hot spring eggs, the black hot spring eggs came out of the oven, knocked in the bowl, holding chopsticks and about to eat, Amaterasu shouted to stop him, "Wait a minute." Quickly using his divine power, he brought soy sauce and green onion from the kitchen and sprinkled it on top of the hot spring egg, "Okay, ready to eat." ”
After soaking in the hot springs and eating hot spring eggs, wearing the Jinhei Natsume given to him by Sato's grandfather, he lay down between Amaterasu and Inari to sleep, and Natsume, who was not sleepy, gently pulled Inari's clothes, "Dad, are you sleeping?" Inari and Amaterasu both opened their eyes. "Not yet, why can't you sleep?" Amaterasu put his arm around Natsume "Why, can't you sleep?" "No" Natsume turned his head to Inari "Dad, I'm sorry I stole your snack this afternoon." Amaterasu smiled, "It's okay." Amaterasu hugged Natsume tighter again, "We're glad that you're like a child like this." We want to see you for who you are, not how cautious you are. Natsume was stunned when he heard this, he had to be careful and precocious at a relative's house so that he would not cause trouble to the foster family, do you want me to be like a child...... A sense of sleepiness hit, and I sighed in a haze: Life is so good now!
The next day, before dawn, the old mansion woke up, and Amaterasu dug Natsume out of bed, and Natsume washed up sleepwalking with his eyes closed. I didn't wake up until breakfast was eaten, and today's breakfast revealed that today was different. The Japanese-style miso soup is made with miso and shrimp as the main ingredients, half a piece of soft tofu, 1 small handful of dried wakame, 1 small handful of enoki mushrooms, and half a spoon of dried scallops. Then there's the miso pan-fried salmon, the invigorating kabayaki eel, and then the main dish turned out to be gyudon, topped with a thick layer of high-quality beef slices and onion shreds, steamed and served with pickled shredded artichoke and finished with a Japanese bonito flower tofu. Grandma looked at Natsume, who was sitting at the table, "Good morning, Natsume, good morning", "Good morning, Grandma", "Natsume, you need to eat more breakfast, but there is a fierce battle today?" "Grandma, is it because of the sacrifice that Grandpa said yesterday?" "Yes! Hurry up and eat, it's about time." (The Tenjin Festival is one of the three traditional festivals in Japan and is held on July 24th and 25th every year.) There is a very lively colorful boat race, and the highlight of the event is the "Rikuto-go" where 3,000 people dressed in court attire from the Heian period of Nara (8th to 12th centuries) walk slowly along with the portable shrine. Note: The Tenjin Festival in Osaka Tenmangu Shrine does not match this article, and the content of the sacrifice has changed a lot due to needs. )
After eating quickly, my grandfather changed into the hunting clothes he brought back yesterday, the pure black hunting clothes with the texture of Aya weaving were embroidered with the dark patterns of the family crest, and the hunting clothes were wearing red single clothes, and the lower body was wearing a light yellow chakama in the shape of a bag, with a belt on it, and it was firmly tied at the foot and neck. Wearing a foot bag, a shallow pedal, wearing a black hat, holding a post paper, and a wooden wat. Grandpa Sato, who was lined with this suit, became more and more majestic. Grandma also changed into twelve single clothes, and put on the "five clothes", "beating clothes", "table wearing", and "hakama" one by one on top of the single, and finally put on the red Tang clothes (the twelve single clothes are composed of Tang clothes, clothes, tops, beats, jackets (five clothes) and single clothes, of course, small sleeves are also worn inside the single clothes. At the end of the Heian period, the customs of the Nara period were preserved with the addition of biri, nepotism, hair knots, and crowns, and the Kara robe was worn on the outermost short coat. The hands are made of cedar wood, covered with tissue paper, painted, and foiled with gold and silver, and it is a very beautiful fan, and the outfit on the feet is the same as that of my grandfather's. Later, Natsume was also changed by Amaterasu into the same hunting clothes as Sato's grandfather, but the same red single clothes as Inari's, and the hunting clothes were pure white. The only difference is the deep purple color of Hakama Natsume, while Inari is a bright golden color.
When the Natsume family arrived at the meeting point near the street, a middle-aged man wearing a short blue kimono with a turban tied with a hemp rope turban on his head hurriedly ran to Grandpa Sato and said, "Miyaji Sato, something is wrong" "Don't be in a hurry to say it slowly," Grandpa Sato said solemnly. "In the early hours of the morning, the little boy who was sitting in the middle with a long knife suddenly had a high fever and was taken to the hospital, and there was no replacement for him for a while. What should I do?" Miyaji Sato looked at Natsume contemplatively and discussed with Natsume solemnly, "Natsume, can you do your grandfather a favor and replace the child sitting on the long sword" Natsume couldn't make up his mind for a while, and looked at Inari Amaterasu and the two, and they said that it was up to him to decide. Natsume made up her mind, "Okay, grandpa, I'll go." "()"Natsume Homo Summer as a Demon" only represents the author's intermittent and leisurely point of view.,If you find that its content violates the content of the national law.,Please delete it.,The position is only committed to providing a healthy and green reading platform.。
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