Chapter 165: Sagamihara Tanabata Festival

However, according to the tradition of the island country, the Chinese Valentine's Day is to wear a kimono, so compared with Keiichi Kato, Qin Heqing, who is still dressed in modern and fashionable casual clothes, is so bad that he doesn't follow the rules.

"What, is there something wrong with what I'm wearing?" Seeing Qin Heqing looking at him in a daze, the corners of Kato Megumi's mouth turned slightly, stretched out his arms, and asked softly while showing his clothes to Qin Heqing.

looks like I'm afraid that my outfit isn't good enough.,It's very cute to look at.。

"No, very decent, very good! Your whole soul will be snatched away from me. Qin Heqing shook his head and praised Keibi Kato with a thumbs up.

"Is it really as good as you say?" Megumi Kato was a little shy and confirmed in a low voice.

"Of course, there is a feeling that Yamato Nadeshiko is alive, which is really heartwarming. If it weren't even for the wrong time and place, I would have felt the urge to stay at home and live with you. Qin Heqing smiled.

"Really? Then I'm relieved. ”

Then the two of them didn't stay at the exit of the station for long, turned around and walked into the platform, took the subway to the nearest train stop, and then transferred to the train to move to Sagamiwara City in Kanagawa Prefecture.

The road is quiet - after all, it's a weekend, and most of the employees are resting, except for some service industries and large companies, so not only are there few people on the train and subway, but even the number of cars on the streets has become very scarce, and the whole city exudes a quiet and peaceful atmosphere, which makes people feel that Tokyo is not Tokyo, but some kind of Tohoku countryside, which is very strange.

Naturally, the chances of an incident becoming extremely low, so the two of them left Tokyo without incident, and arrived in Sagamihara City, which borders Setagaya and Ota Ward.

Then I got off the bus and walked towards the Hashimoto shopping street, where the Tanabata Festival parade was held.

Along the way, all kinds of bamboo trees provided by the county, district, and city departments can be seen everywhere, and they are covered with paper sticks and colored stripes like whiskers, and it is not known how many of them are real wishes, and how many are scribbled in order to make up the number of beautiful contents.

But no matter what, the atmosphere of the Qixi Festival is set off in an instant against the backdrop of these bamboo trees that fill the streets.

Qin Kazuqing and Megumi Kato's mentality began to change, and they began to wander around Sagamihara City like real tourists.

After all, it is still early before the start of the festival, so there is really no need to rush to the venue, and you can still walk around.

……

In this way, the time passed in a blink of an eye, and it was just after one o'clock in the afternoon.

With the arrival of the festival time, the number of vehicles on the entire street began to decrease, until it was rare to see an active and unlicensed vehicle except for the vehicles used by the families and did not affect the event.

The out-of-store stalls of each shop began to branch, and various activity stalls that can often be seen during the festival of some island countries gradually appeared one by one next to the designated commercial streets, gathering with each other to build an exclusive place for the festival.

The number of tourists began to increase, and the marchers began to appear gradually, converging into a large crowd to fill the streets vacated by the lack of motor vehicles, like a sea of people.

"It's hilarious." Qin Heqing, who took this scene into his eyes, sighed and whispered.

This is the benefit of a well-known festival when it is supported by an official or wealthy business group – it can make the whole scene grand and lively! Swap it for the shrine of the Qin and Qing families and those support groups of his shrine?

Not to mention the fact that the Hashimoto shopping street directly seals the two streets to carry out a big festival, it would be nice to be able to do a good job of the regular festival in October.

So whenever this happens, Qin Heqing is very envious of those well-known shrines that can make sacrifices very big at every turn.

If possible, he'd love to get it, too!

Even if it's just once.

"I believe that with the ability of Heqingjun, sooner or later he will be able to lead people to hold similar sacrifices." As if he understood what Qin Heqing was thinking, Megumi Kato reached out and grabbed Qin Heqing's palm, and encouraged softly with a smile.

"Yes, it will." Qin Heqing nodded in agreement, then turned his head and smiled at Megumi Kato, who was also watching.

"Let's go, let's get closer."

"Okay."

……

Soon, the various groups and the executives of the rituals, who had been preparing and preparing for several days or even a month earlier, had prepared the things to be used in the future, and then shouted the slogan, and a large palanquin that looked like it was two and a half meters wide and three and a half meters long, with two long mahogany bars sticking out from the front and back of the box, came into the eyes of all the spectators.

Wearing sleeveless shirts and dark shorts, with white ropes tied around their heads, and exposing the strong muscles of their arms and chests, the anti-sedan chair personnel walked along the street with neat slogans shouting neat slogans.

"Yo! Hey! Yo! Hey! ”

And this is only the first wave, in other places that Qin and Qing can't see, there are a few floats that are not many, but also have their own characteristics, and the women in front of them wearing uniform styles, colors, and cloth kimonos, and women in the same dress are opening the way in front, waving their arms, and dancing a simple dance that even ordinary people who have never participated in can follow in an instant, attracting audiences on both sides to join their ranks and experience the fun of the sacrifice together.

The traditional island-style music sounded faintly, officially kicking off the Tanabata Festival in Sagamihara City.

"I asked just now, the final venue of this Tanabata Festival is at the Shinmei Daijin Shrine in Hashimoto, so I think it will be more lively over there, so let's go over there." After looking at the tour car again, Qin Heqing, who had followed the team a little, came to Megumi Kato's side and proposed to her.

"Okay." In this regard, Megumi Kato did not refuse, and agreed very casually.

Then the two broke away from the crowd and walked along the street.

- According to the information I just discovered, the location of the Shinmei Grand Shrine is exactly the intersection of the two streets where the parade is held, so you don't need to ask for directions at all, just walk over the parade car until you see the location of a group of traditional vendors.

So the two of them didn't worry about getting lost, and walked slowly—at a pace that was only slightly faster than the tour car.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for a small traditional stall to appear in the eyes of the two.

In an instant, Qin Heqing and Kato Megumi both had their eyes lit up, and walked quickly towards the stall.

"Let's go, there's a water balloon seller there, let's buy two." Following, Qin Heqing paused, and said while pulling Megumi Kato towards a certain target stall.