The origin of the shrine maiden can be traced back to ancient times, in those days when the heavens depended on food, the shrine maidens who were responsible for sacrifices and prayers for rain, as the spokesperson of the "gods", even once held state power.

Later, with the rise of a patriarchal society, the head of the shrine became a man, and the status of the shrine maiden declined, and it evolved into a position of auxiliary priesthood within the shrine.

However, from the beginning to the end, the function of shrine maidens revolves around "channeling", they dedicate themselves to the gods, serve the gods in a complete body, and in the eyes of the world, they are the women of the gods, and they can be possessed by the gods through dance, so they can have direct contact and communication with the gods.

The white clothes and scarlet hakama are the traditional costumes of the shrine maidens. The white kimono has a red hakama, a white underwear called a skin loop, and white socks on the feet, symbolizing freshness, holiness, and innocence.

Of course, not all shrine maidens at the shrine are dressed like this, and many of them are dressed in other colors, and some of them are even dressed particularly flamboyantly, which brings us to another duty of the shrine maiden.

In ancient times, the Japanese believed that shrine maidens were a bridge between the gods and humans, so how could believers talk to the gods? It's through the shrine maiden**.

However, at that time, although the believers had intercourse with the shrine maiden, they still believed that the shrine maiden was a virgin, because they thought that they were communicating directly with the gods, and the communion was just like the shrine maiden dancing the kagura dance, but it was just a ritual to invite the shrine maiden to use her own body as a carrier to send a message to the believers.

With the development of society and the decline of the status of shrine maidens, shrine maidens were gradually divided into folk shrine maidens and shrine shrine shrines.

The introduction of Buddhism has also had a great impact on the prayer, divination, channeling and other businesses of the witches, and in order to make a living, the ritual of "** inviting the gods" is not limited to believers, but also charges, so it slowly evolved into witch prostitution.

Some folk shrine maidens, if they have good looks and can sing and dance, can make their debut as artists, tour everywhere, accumulate popularity, and maybe in the future, they will be able to enter and leave the mansions of nobles, make friends with powerful people, and thus change their own destiny.

At the end of the Heian period, Taira Kiyomori's beloved concubine Buddha Gozen and Gen Yoshitsune's beloved concubine Jing Gozen were all from this kind of background.

Shrine shrine maidens are shrine maidens who are recruited by the palace and attached to various shrines, because the shrine is a place to worship the gods, and the image must be maintained, so the shrine maidens recruited are all virgins with good figures.

They are attached to the shrine, they don't have to worry about eating and drinking, and it seems that they don't have to sell their bodies anymore, but in fact, they are not.

Even in times of peace, the maintenance of the shrine required a lot of money, most of which were donated by the elite, and whenever the nobles went to the shrine to worship, the shrine maidens were responsible for receiving them, singing, dancing, music, drinking and sleeping, which was inevitable, this was the so-called "official reception", and the shrine shrine maidens who performed this duty were "prostitutes in front of the gods".

During the war years, the magnates were busy fighting and attacking, and the financial resources of the shrine were often cut off, and the shrine shrine maidens also had to run for a living, which was not much different from the folk shrine maidens.

Unmarried women in Japan mostly wear red hakama, and shrine maidens who do not perform the duty of "reception" in the shrine will wear white clothes and hakama to show their holy body, and those fancy-dressed shrine maidens have already done the work of "reception" and are no longer virgins.

Ah Guo, these witch maidens, belong to the shrine recruitment, and naturally they are all outstanding in appearance and in good shape.

At this moment, a group of girls followed Ah Guo and gathered around Long Tao, chattering and laughing, full of touching youthful atmosphere.

Long Tao's charm value has increased to 112 after his subordinate Geya, and the +12 effect of going out of the Matsushima Pot, that is, his own charm value has reached the full value of 100, and he himself faintly found that after the charm value increases, it seems that it is easier to attract all kinds of women.

The clear and moving eyes of this group of girls all faintly revealed a hazy love for the opposite sex, and they were obviously fascinated by Long Tao's charm.

Long Tao stood among them, looking at their white and tender skin, delicate smiles, and smelling the lingering fragrance in his nose, he couldn't help but be intoxicated.

Ah Guo just took them to practice the dance, the white forehead was slightly sweaty, the healthy flush that naturally gushed out on the cheeks was particularly attractive, and the wide white clothes and hakama could not hide the delicate posture, of course, what attracted Long Tao the most was the flawless delicate facial features, which made him reluctant to look elsewhere.

"Ah Guo, are you going to tour around Gyeonggi in the future?" Long Tao asked.

"Of course." Ah Guo nodded, "You can also see that the Taisha is in urgent need of repairs, but our money is not enough at all." ”

"How much does it cost to repair the Taisha? You can do your best to help you here, and maybe you won't have to go out and work anymore. ”

"Really!?" Ah Guo looked surprised, and the other eight girls also clapped their hands excitedly.

"Of course, I will never lie to the girl of Aguo."

"However, it should take a lot of money to repair the Taisha, does Ashikaga-sama-san have that much money?" Ah Guo's brows furrowed slightly.

"Please rest assured that Miss Aguo will do it all the time!" Long Tao roughly estimated that it would take tens of thousands of kan at most to repair the entire Izumo Taisha Shrine, and it was estimated that he would be able to transfer it from the Hagiya branch in Matsue no Matsu.

Ah Kuni asked, "Mr. Ashikaga does such a great good deed, I don't know what to ask for?" ”

Long Tao smiled slightly, "I only want you to dance for me in the future, how about it?" ”

Ah Guo blinked slyly, as if he had seen through his thoughts, and said with a smile: "Is it really that simple?" ”

Long Tao coughed dryly, "If you can make a promise, it will be even better!" ”

"We are witches, women of God, how can we marry?" Ah Guo looked at Long Tao, whose face was embarrassed, and covered his mouth and smiled, "However, we can have a good reception for Mr. Ashikaga, and let you be our first guest, it doesn't look bad!" ”

The other eight girls also giggled, their faces were shy, but their eyes were very bold to look at Long Tao, they knew their own family affairs, as they got older, sooner or later they had to do some "reception" work, if they could dedicate their first time to the handsome and extraordinary man in front of them, it would be a very happy thing for them.

Long Tao was overjoyed and said: "Okay, let's go to the palace secretary and ask how much it will cost to restore the Great Shrine." ”

……

In the evening, Long Tao rushed back from Matsue no Town with 50,000 kan.

In the majestic main hall of the Izumo Taisha Shrine, the elderly Miyaji gathered all the members of the shrine to come and pay homage to the largest gift ever received by the Izumo Taisha Shrine.

Long Tao sat on the top seat, looked at the various personnel of the entire Taisha, and found that the witches in white clothes and hakama had become fifteen, in addition to the nine of them, there were six women who were slightly older and in their early twenties, all of whom were all with clear eyebrows and beautiful figures. There were also six shrine maidens dressed in kimonos of other colors, and they were older, between twenty-five and sixty-thirty years old, and there was more of a mature woman's charm between their eyebrows and eyes.

"Ahem, Mr. Ashikaga, you have a great kindness to our Izumo Taisha Shrine, please stay here tonight, and let us receive you well!" Miyaji said respectfully.

"It's fine." Long Tao nodded and said, "I am feeling confused about my future, and I want to listen to the oracle and listen to the teachings of the gods." ”

Gong Si smiled and pointed to the six older witches, "Several of them are experienced spirit mediums, I believe they will definitely satisfy Mr." ”

The six witches were overjoyed, and some even secretly sent autumn waves to Long Tao, after they saw Long Tao, they had long been fascinated by his image and bearing, and they were naturally ecstatic when they heard that they could entertain him tonight.

"Nope." Long Tao pointed at the group of people in Ah Guo, shook his head and said with a smile: "I still want to communicate with the gods through a few witches over there. ”

"Huh?" Miyaji was stunned, wondering if he was old, and didn't hear clearly, "Mr. Ashikaga, you...... What do you mean? ”

"Hah! That's it. Long Tao laughed, "How about I want all the witches present to come and receive me tonight?" Miyaji-sama, you said you would take a good look at you! ”

"Huh? Do you want to? Belch...... Yes, of course! Mr. Ashikaga, please feel free. ”

The old palace secretary finally came back to his senses, thinking that this Ashikaga Mr. may be too young to know what "reception" means, otherwise how could he say that he wants more than twenty shrine maidens to receive him, hey! It seems that I don't know whose family doesn't understand the world has come out to mess around, well, his surname is Ashikaga, and he is the same clan as today's shogun, no wonder he is so rich......

That night, Long Tao and the witches had a night of carnival in a side hall, and the sound of joy and laughter rang all night, making it difficult for the other miscellaneous servants in the society to sleep.

The next day, Long Tao took more than 20 witches and floated away.

According to the memories of a servant woman who pushed open the door of the temple and was about to go in to clean it in the early morning of that day, she will never forget the scene in the side hall that day, more than 20 unclothed women were in the hall, intertwined with each other, all of them looked infatuated and drunk, as if they had just withdrawn from some kind of crazy state, and the whole side hall was filled with a strange atmosphere.

The scene of dissolute decadence is like both the carefree Elysium and the abyss of hell of depravity and fornication, and the man named Ashikaga Yoshiji is standing quietly in front of the window, his majestic body half bathed in the morning sun, half staring in the shadows, looking from the side, even his handsome face is in half light and half dark, as if constantly switching between gods and demons.

"It's really Amaterasu**!" The servant woman involuntarily popped out of her mouth a new word of her own coin.

Because it was during the festival period in those days, there were still some tourists in the Taisha, and since then, the name of "**Ashikaga Yoshiji" has begun to spread among the people.

Of course, the reason why it is called a demon is determined by the old palace secretary of the Izumo Taisha Shrine.

Overnight, Long Tao went from being a great benefactor of Izumo Taisha to becoming their great enemy.

Because he took away their shrine maidens, he snatched the goddesses, which was the greatest insult to the great gods of the great kingdom who worshipped the "first spirit god in the country".

Since then, the Ashikaga Yoshishi has also become an "enemy of the gods".