The wine jar stored in the private warehouse of Ercao is brewed by the Ercao people themselves when the Ercao series was established. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

They made a pact with each other, saying that on the day of their resignation, they would uncover the mud of the wine jar, and everyone would drink a jar of wine together, and then sell the rest of the wine, divide the money from the sale of wine equally, and find a favorite place to spend the rest of their lives.

However, less than 20 years have passed since the day of the altar was sealed, and only two grass one and two grass seventeen are left in the two grass and one series. At first, she still remembered the agreement, no one was allowed to touch the wine, and when the base was moved, she brought the wine to the new base and built a warehouse to store it.

Later, Ercaiichi was intoxicated with power and ambition and couldn't extricate himself, completely forgetting what he had agreed on. But Ercao Seventeen still remembers that she asked these wine jars to be moved into Ercaoyi's private warehouse for storage, and she hoped that Ercaoyi would be able to wake up when she saw these wines when she went to the private warehouse one day.

But until the Black Shrine was breached, Nikusaichi never went to her private warehouse. These ira's sake had been in the dust for more than a hundred years, and Maier had previously priced them three times for a jar, but in reality it was not too much to multiply that number by ten.

On the evening of August 19, Kiki drank up the jar of Ira, which Maier had given her. When Maier knew the actual value of the wine, he wanted to go back and hang Kiki upside down to see if he could recover a few drops.

Of course, he was just thinking about it, and he wouldn't really do it. If you say it, the water that spills out, and the loss of a jar of hundred-year-old wine is certainly a big loss, but in Meier's opinion, it is very worthwhile to reward this jar of wine to Kiki, who takes care of herself meticulously.

On the evening of August 20, Maier went to Ercaoyi's private warehouse, retired from the sentry guarding the warehouse, and sat alone in the warehouse in a daze.

"What are you thinking?"

The sound of laughter suddenly sounded at the door of the warehouse, and Mel looked up to see Xiaoxiao standing in front of the wide open warehouse door. The moonlight shrouded her body like a veil, setting off the smile on her face with extra sweetness.

"Hmm...... I don't know. ”

Mel stood up, walked over to Xiaoxiao, took her hands gently, and rubbed them gently with her thumb.

"I just feel a little uncomfortable in my heart."

"Still thinking about the day?"

Maier nodded, smiling helplessly.

After listening to Nikusaichi talk about the origin of Riya Shrine and Black Shrine, Maier's heart has been very uncomfortable, but he doesn't know why.

"Perhaps...... I think they're pitiful. ”

"You mean Scarface and Seventeen?"

"No, it's not just them." Maier shook his head slightly, "All the people who were involved in the plan of the former Great Witch are pitiful. If it weren't for that robbery plan, so many people wouldn't have died. ”

"Not necessarily." Xiaoxiao pouted disappreciatively, "First of all, I want to correct you one thing, that is, the plan made by the former Great Witch of Rimi Shrine is not a robbery plan, I think she planned it from the beginning, and wants to usurp the position of the Great Witch." ”

"Well, when you say that, it seems like that's true."

"What's more, even if there is no such plan, there will be other outlaw forces that will take the place of the Black Shrine. It's just that their scale will definitely not be larger than the Black Shrine, and their strength will not be able to become so strong. But what they did was no different from the witch, if not more so. So I think even if there wasn't a Black Shrine, people would still die, and not necessarily less than they do now - oh, by the way, we seem to have forgotten to ask Scarface why she named this place 'Black Shrine'. ”

"I think I can answer that question for her."

"Oh? How? ”

"Black represents the unknown and death in Ira's culture, and Nikusaichi, who is a shrine maiden, must know this. After she was betrayed by the Great Witch, she would definitely feel very lost, and she would have a lot of negative emotions in her heart. She didn't know what the road ahead of her would be like, but she was sure it was a path that would bring death, which is why she named it 'Black Shrine'. ”

"Well, that makes sense!"

Xiaoxiao took a few small steps forward, stood on tiptoe and kissed Mel's lips.

"It's a bonus."

"Rewards? I think you're taking the opportunity to reward yourself, right? ”

Smile prefers to kiss between the two, and Smile, who was poked out by Meier, stuck out her tongue, then turned her face up, closed her eyes, and her pink lips curled slightly. Maier did not refuse her kiss, and after a passionate kiss, the two snuggled up to each other and sat at the warehouse gate looking up at the night sky.

"Where do you think Scarface and Seventeen Nicho will go?"

"Hmm...... I don't know. Maybe you will live in seclusion, or you may leave the land and start a new life far away from Riya Shrine...... I think they're probably going to make wine, and we're giving them enough money to open a small brewery. ”

When they went to find Ercao 1 and Ercao 17 during the day, the two were not empty-handed. They asked for two sets of maids' civilian clothes from Yan Xinye, and Maier took out 10 of the ginseng gold he had with him, and took some Ira's money from the storehouse, and put it in his money bag with the ginseng. In addition to this, the two also brought a package of food.

However, they didn't bring these things directly, but hid them halfway through, waiting for Ercaoyi to finish telling the story before taking them and giving them to them. Ercao Seventeen immediately thanked the two, although Ercao did not say it on the surface, but after Maier and Xiaoxiao left, she bowed deeply to the backs of the two.

It's really not honest.

Behind Ercao, Ercao Seventeen didn't say anything, just looked at her with a relieved face.

"You...... Why are you looking at me like that? Even if I'm always on top, I'll bow! ”

"Yes, yes, a sister knows how to be the most polite."

"Hmph, what a mess, I don't understand what you're saying."

Ercao Yi blushed slightly, and directly stepped forward to untie Ercao Seventeen's clothes, and put on clean new clothes for her who was unable to move. After this, she also changed into new clothes, and after that, the two of them went north along the creek, in the direction of Kamijin County.

As Meier guessed, Ercao 1 and 2 Cao 17 wanted to make a living by making wine. But instead of immediately opening a brewery, they settled on an uninhabited hill in the northern part of Kamijin Prefecture, cultivated a small field, and raised some poultry and livestock, after which they began to make wine from the grain they bought.

Ira's shrine maidens may not know how to farm, but they all know how to make sake. Sake is a very important sacrifice at Irajin Shrine, and it is called a "sake festival" when the shrine maidens are offered sake brewed at the shrine. The sake festival is held every evening, so sake is a high consumable item at Irajin Shrine, and every Iraa shrine maiden learns to make sake.

The sake at Irajinja Shrine is not for sale, and it is rare for non-clergy to even see it, let alone drink it. Even if they tried their best to get some, if it was the Ira people who got the wine, they wouldn't necessarily dare to drink it. Because of this, few people in the outside world know the taste of "shrine sake".

Shrine sake is a sacrificial sake, and in the opinion of the Ira shrine maidens, it is meant to be enjoyed by the god of Apose, and although the taste of the shrine sake is different for each shrine, the quality is definitely first-class. Therefore, when the first batch of wine from Ercao 1 and 2 Cao 17 was brewed and sent to the nearest town to be sold, it was quickly snapped up by wine lovers.

The two named the wine "Ercao Brewing", and later the two made a fortune selling wine and became famous Irato wine merchants in the Republic of Bukin, but that's another story.

Besides, Mel and Xiaoxiao, who were tired of being together in the Blackguard warehouse, snuggled up together and watched the moon for a while, and then they became intimate again. After another intimacy, the two opened up the conversation again.

"Speaking of which, there is still a mystery to be solved about the dyed pottery." Xiaoxiao pursed her lips, "What do those 167 and 30 mean?" It's no coincidence that you've dropped this number several times in a row. ”

"I really don't know about that." Maier shook his head with a wry smile, "Actually, in addition to numbers, there is another mystery that has not been solved, and that is why Rimi Shrine collects dyed pottery. I have done market research before, and the cost of dyeing pottery will increase a lot because of the additional process, but its actual utility is no different from ordinary pottery. In contrast, people prefer to buy high-quality and inexpensive ordinary pottery, and few people will buy dyed pottery. ”

"Maybe they just took it and let people smash it. Didn't you say that after you smashed the numbers 167 and 30, the attitude of the long witch towards you changed? After you smash these two numbers in front of the Great Shrine Maiden, she will take you to see the Apprentice Shrine Maiden. Do you think this is a filter? For example, people who can drop these two numbers will be taken to see Xi Wunu and the like. ”

"It's impossible, throwing these two numbers out several times in a row...... Uh, wait. ”

The smile flashed through Maier's mind, and he suddenly remembered what Gray had told him about Ira's shrine maiden.

"Ira's shrine maiden seems to have the power to ask oracles, and my father didn't tell me the specifics, but he told me that oracles are usually things that seem particularly outrageous. As soon as you said this, I noticed that the purchase of dyed pottery, the smashing of pottery by pottery sellers, and the two numbers that seem to be used to screen targets seem to be very outrageous, could it be that these are the contents of the oracle? ”

"Oracle?"

Xiaoxiao, who was not a real shrine maiden and knew nothing about theology, blinked in confusion and thought for a while before she understood what Mel meant.

"Oh! Do you mean that it was the great god of the world who asked the great witch to choose people under such conditions, and finally chose you? ”

"I can't think of anything else."

Mel pouted, frowned and continued.

"But Daddy also said that oracles are usually omens, and generally everything that appears in oracles is of a certain prophetic nature. He didn't tell me any specific examples...... Damn it! I would have taken the initiative to ask him if I had known! ”

"It's okay, I don't know, I can guess."

Smile raised her face and winked playfully at Myer, then reached out and pinched his nose.

"That's all there is to the oracle. Dyeing pottery, you, wrestling pottery, two numbers, let's start with dyed pottery, what do you think dyed pottery represents? ”

"Hmm...... Maybe it's the Witch? ”

"What does the witch have to do with dyed pottery?"

"Well, there shouldn't be...... But the dyed pottery was shattered, and now the evil witch has also been exterminated, isn't it just right? ”

What about 167 and 30? These two numbers do not match the survivors, nor the buildings, nor the dead. ”

Laughing's questioning made Mel hiss, and Laughing saw that Mel seemed to have fallen into a dead loop of thinking, so he stopped continuing the topic. The two made out in the warehouse for a while, and then went back to the barracks to rest.