According to the guidance of the map, I got on the train to Fushimi Inari Shrine, and Natsume was able to watch the fleeting scenery outside the window with great interest at first, but soon became groggy and leaned on the seat and began to nap, and soon after being awakened by a phone ringing, Natsume hurriedly found his mobile phone and pressed the answer button.

"Moxi Moxi, I'm Natsume. Grandpa's familiar voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Natsume, I heard your father say you're back?

"It's Grandpa Nakamura! I'm on the train now, and when I came back, there was a slight error, and I was sent to Akihabara, and I'm on the way back. He looked at the time on his wrist and said, "It's about an hour away." ”

"Oh, okay, okay, stay safe on the road, and when you arrive, grandpa is waiting for you at the station. ”

"Okay grandpa. Hanging up the phone, Natsume only then realized that when he was dozing off, there was also a pair of kind old people sitting in the seats where there were no passengers around him, and Natsume showed a shy smile at the disturbance of them when he called. "Sorry to interrupt. ”

The older woman smiled and shook her hand and said, "It's okay," and then asked, "Kid, are you going to get off at Fushimi Station?"

Natsume politely replied, "I'm going to get off at Fushimi Station, but I'm not going to travel but to go back to my grandfather's house, and I think I haven't been back for a long time for some reason." ”

The old man became interested and asked, "Then where does your grandfather live?"

Hearing this, Natsume replied, "My grandfather's name is Akira Nakamura, and he is the palace secretary of Fushimi Inari Shrine. ”

The old man suddenly realized, "You are Yao's son, called... I heard the old man in Nakamura mention you two days ago, saying that Yao called and said that you were coming back, and he came to my store to show off. ”

Natsume was full of black lines by his grandfather's behavior.,An hour passed quickly in the chat.,Soon I heard the sound of the train arriving at the station.,Get off the train with the two old people and get out of the station and see the Nakamura Miyaji who has been waiting there for a long time.。

Nakamura Miyaji saw Natsume waving at him sharply, "Natsume, this way, over here." Natsume hurriedly stepped forward with his luggage.

Then Nakamura Miyaji saw the two old men who came with Natsume, glared at him and asked, "Didn't you two go to your son? Didn't you say you wanted to stay there?

"Isn't that missing you old friends? Besides, I can't get used to living there with the old man, and we'll be back with our grandchildren. The old woman returned with the same glare.

Miyaji Nakamura pulled Natsume to his side and introduced them, "This is my grandson Natsume Takashi, who was abroad with his parents before, but now he is back." ”

At the same time, he also introduced the two old men to Natsume, "The owner of the restaurant in the town, I have been good friends with your grandfather for many years, we often play chess and drink tea together, before they said they were going to live at their son's house, but now that they are back, I will take you to their restaurant to try it when I have time, and it tastes good." ”

"Natsume, sometimes you have to go to my mother-in-law's shop and try it!" Natsume hurriedly agreed, "Okay, okay." ”

After separating from the two, the grandparents and grandchildren went back to their own homes, and after entering the door, they handed the luggage to their grandfather's Shikami, and the Shishen went to send the room to tidy up, and took the tea handed by the tea bowl demon, and the two went to the study after a two-hour conversation before the two came out of the study.

Taking out the gift that Amaterasu had prepared for Grandpa Nakamura from his luggage, he opened the scroll and appeared, a room full of miscellaneous things, fine tea, calligraphy and paintings of celebrities, mellow drinks, and Grandpa Nakamura stroked his beard with satisfaction.

Seeing that it was getting late, the two of them hurriedly ate dinner, washed and slept. I had a good night's sleep, and the next morning, before dawn and before the sun had risen, Natsume was slipped up by Nakamura Miyaji to test his kendo level.

Natsume reluctantly strengthened his control over the output power to prevent himself from slashing Grandpa Nakamura out with one blow, but after a few moves, Grandpa Nakamura withdrew his hand, because he saw that Natsume didn't do his best to keep his hand at all.

Turning around, he put the bamboo knife in his hand on the shelf, picked up the towel on the side and wiped his sweat, looking at Natsume, who was still practicing seriously in the courtyard, Grandpa Nakamura muttered, "Old, old, this is the world of young people from now on." ”

After the morning exercise, the grandfather and grandson had a simple breakfast, and after eating, Natsume finally got free, holding a teacup and asking about the current situation of Nakamura's grandfather Sakurabai.

"Grandpa, why didn't you see Sakurabai. ”

"Sakuraba, he left shortly after you left, saying that it was too boring to accompany me, an old man, and that he was going back to his place to have some fun. ”

"That's right. Natsume thought for a moment, and it seemed that he still needed to find time to go back to the neighborhood of his former home to see his first childhood friend.

The thought that was being interrupted by Grandpa Nakamura, "Okay, Natsume, from today onwards, you will go with me to the shrine for internship, I hope you will study hard and take over the burden of your grandfather and me as soon as possible." ”

"Okay, grandpa" Natsume obediently agreed, for fear that one of them would accidentally be caught by his grandfather and chatter for hours.

After changing into Amaterasu's white priest's uniform brought by Natsume from Takamagahara, there are faint golden dark lines on the white hunting clothes, revealing the extraordinaryness of the clothes.

Put on a unique black hat, tidy up the clothes and decorations of the whole body, turn around in place so that Nakamura Miyaji, who has been waiting on the side, to see what is wrong.

Nakamura Miyaji nodded with satisfaction and said, "This looks decent, let's go!"

Walking on the path mixed with trees on both sides, the leaves of Kazkaz sounded, the sun only showed its head in the sky, and the only sound of two people's footsteps on the quiet and far-reaching path was the sound of two people.

At the end of the five-minute journey, the two of them had already taken a shortcut to the front of the Senbon Torii gate, and not far away was the main hall of the majestic Inari Shrine.

Natsume feels that the Senbon Torii gate that I see now has a different feeling than the time I saw it when I was a child, and the years have settled on it, bearing the boundary between gods and people, and there is an indescribable sense of mystery.

"Let's go, I'll let you see it sometimes" Grandpa Nakamura interrupted Natsume's distraction and dragged him into the main hall quickly.

And then he taught Natsume non-stop, all kinds of different rituals and ritual processes, so in the next three months, Natsume was pressed by Grandpa Nakamura and struggled in various rituals.