Chapter 1 Yinuo, Huiyang Festival
A stammering Chinese came from the other end of the phone: "You, are you Mr. Lu Zuo?" Having dealt with the Japanese, I could immediately hear this awkward accent, and when I answered, the man became very excited, and shouted loudly on the other end of the phone: "Mr. Lu Zuo, I am Jiro, Ashikaga Jiro!" Please, save Miss Yaya......"
This phone call from across the ocean began with a conversation like this, and I closed my eyes and thought about it for a long time before I remembered the thin boy from Ise Jingu.
Ashikaga Jiro and I have had a few encounters, but as a believer in Shinto in Japan, he doesn't like me like his old stubborn master Oda Shingen, who escaped death, and it stands to reason that we will basically never deal with each other again in this life, but the object of their protection Kato Yaya has a deep friendship with me, and when he was on the run, he also selflessly extended a helping hand.
When I think of Ayaya Kato, I can't help but think of that beautiful face that is as gentle as water.
Miss Kotoe is a woman as soft as a spring breeze, and when people think of her, they can't help but smile knowingly. Speaking of which, I still have a more or less loving emotion in my heart for Kato Haraji's sister, after all, a woman like her who is beautiful and gentle in temperament, full of spirituality, and has a superior family background, has always been a goddess only in idol dramas, a guy like me, to say that I am not tempted, it can only mean that I am not a man.
It's just that everyone's background, experience and situation are too different, and she ...... Hey, wait! It's March, huh?
"Lu Sang, you said that you owe me a favor, so if you are free in March next year, go to Japan and accompany me to enjoy the cherry blossoms."
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Ashikaga Jiro called this time, and naturally he was not entrusted by Yaya to invite me to Japan to see the cherry blossoms, but told me the news that Miss Kato, as the first goddess of Ise Jingu, will become the ultimate prize of the Huiyang Festival, and will be rewarded to the man who is the "strongest lucky general" of the year.
What is Hoi Duong Festival? In the third week of February every year, strong men (usually samurai) from different places come to Saidai-ji Kannon-in Temple wearing only a traditional Japanese crotch cloth to snatch two sacred trees made by the Correction Society.
Held every year, the festival is ostensibly to pray for a good harvest and announce the arrival of spring, but in reality, it is to select practitioners with strong individual strength to become the temple warriors of Ise Jingu, the most powerful in local Shintoism, that is, the most mysterious group of "Onimu Shrines".
This is the secret inside, I naturally have no way of knowing, but Ashikaga Jiro is tirelessly explaining to me, but I still can't understand why Kato Ya will also become the head of this Huiyang Festival, after all, although the status of the Kato family is not as good as Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda, the four top chaebols, but through marriage and share domination and other means, it is not weaker than Ayukawa, Asano, Furukawa, Okura, Nakajima, Nomura and other families, it is really not to the point of being forced to become a "sacrifice".
Kato Haraji died, and in Kazuo Kato's faith, Ya was the natural heir, not the other side branches.
How could that old fox let his beloved daughter be bullied?
Ashikaga Jiro told me that when it came to this matter, the old president Kato was also a knowledgeable minister, but there was no way, because the decision was made by His Excellency Hirono Zhube, the great priest of Ise Jingu-In Japanese Shintoism, the status of the great priest is no one other than Emperor Heisei and the Shinto priest, and no one can stop his will, Kazuo Kato is also a Shintoist, and it is impossible to go against the decision of the great priest, and the Kato family seems to have some handle in the hands of Ise Jingu......
I asked if the festival of the sun was over, and that Yaye had now been sacrificed as a gift from the gods.
Ashikaga Jiro said no, this time the Huiyang Festival is a 60-year Lent, the first ceremony to rob the sacred tree, and the brave who has touched the sacred tree can become the strongest lucky general in the second robbery of the final selection, and obtain the blessing of the goddess who prayed in the quiet pavilion for fifteen days, that is, Miss Kato Aya.
I heard that this time the selection of the strongest king was to meet the thousand-year tribulation recorded in the divine scriptures, so it was particularly grand.
The final election of the festival will be held at twelve o'clock in the evening a week later, Kazuo Kato has already succumbed, and Miss Aya has been sealed in the quiet pavilion of the Kannon-in Temple of Saidaiji Temple, under the supervision of the two major forces of Shinto and Eastern Buddhism, Ashikaga Jiro still contacted me behind his back this time with his master Oda Shingen, and asked me to save her if I still remember Miss Yaya.
After listening to Ashikaga Jiro's account, I fell silent.
Because the land is in an island chain with frequent earthquakes and volcanoes, Japan is a more extreme country, from the perspective of practice, it belongs to a more indifferent attitude towards life, seppuku suicide or something, it has almost become a common practice, they are prone to fanaticism, for nature, it is not shy to say, women's social status is low, there is a strong genital worship psychology, this festival is actually a very strong male root totem worship, so Kato Ya, who was once the goddess of Ise Jingu, is also regarded as a victory of Narauszi, I can also understand.
Merely...... I closed my eyes and listened to the anxious request of Ashikaga Jiro on the other end of the phone, and my mind began to hover over the magical woman who was as pure as snow, smiling, saying a word, serious and clumsy, and the table of Chinese New Year's Eve meals in advance, and ......
With a long sigh of relief, I calmly asked the last question: "Miss Kotoe, is she willing to make that prize herself?" ”
Ashikaga Jiro's answer was, of course, no, and I finally made up my mind and told Ashikaga Jiro that I would reach Japan as soon as possible, and that I would meet with Ayaya Kato when she could, and that I would bless her if she wanted to, and if she didn't, I would take her away.
I exchanged contact information with Ashikaga Jiro, and after hanging up the phone, I calmed down my emotions for a few minutes, thinking carefully about whether my decision was correct or not - to be honest, I am not a wooden person, and Kato Yaya naturally knows my affection, that day in Lijiang, although I was confused and had many doubts, but from my subjective impression, Yaya and I should indeed have something to do, otherwise I would not have been completely disabled overnight and reborn.
It was also on that day that I really stepped into the turning point of a first-class master and defeated Mao Tongzhen head-on.
I was desperate to take care of myself, and now it's time for me to figure out what happened. I owe Yaya, so I can't let her go, so I have to go on this trip to Japan.
After deciding on this matter, I immediately informed the miscellaneous hairy trail, I thought he would laugh at me, but this time he rarely expressed his most thorough support for me: "Little poison, in this life, people must always live arbitrarily and recklessly, so as to leave fewer regrets." If you don't want to be tormented by regret in the future, then go ahead and pursue your happiness now! ”
He said in an extremely deep broadcast tone, and then said firmly: "Don't worry, even if there are many difficulties ahead, I will be with you!" ”
I was so moved by the words of the miscellaneous gossip that I almost burst into tears, but the tiger cat who happened to be next to me told the truth: "Do you want to experience for yourself how developed the industry is in the country that produces ninety percent of the world's hair films?" ”
I found Gao Sheng's tattered shopkeeper on the same day, and asked him to help me with a series of related procedures for passports, visas and air tickets, especially the tiger cat, because it was an international flight, and the aerobic cabin also needed an epidemic prevention certificate. When the elder brother got the news, he heard that we were going to Japan, and he took time out of his busy schedule to call and ask about the situation.
When he learned of my intentions, he hesitated for a while, but in the end he chose to support us, and not only did the comrades in charge of East Asian affairs of the General Liaison Bureau pick us up in Japan, but also told me the contact methods of the two secret lines, saying that no matter what the situation was, as long as we contacted them, they would be able to sneak us back to China.
Regarding the pattern of the distribution of Japan's potential, he also specially asked the tattered shopkeeper to bring us the relevant information.
Due to the lack of our care, the situation has begun to decline, but the return of Zhang Aini and Xiaojun and others can barely support the scene, but it has not become an obstacle to the trip to Japan. The only thing that is not satisfied is probably the little demon, when she learned that we went to Japan this time to save the Japanese beauty of Kato Yaya, she was immediately unhappy, scolded me a few words, and didn't talk to me all night.
After this period of getting along, the little green dragon is the most sticky little demon blossoms, as if it is nature, the little dragon girl saw that the little demon was unhappy, scratching the east and west, and after a while, the tight fox melon seed face can be regarded as a relaxation, but I am not angry.
Because of the special channel, the passport was delivered in the afternoon of the next day, and in the early morning of the third day, we took an international flight and flew directly to Tokyo, the capital of Japan. When the plane left the ground and took off, I looked back at the smaller and smaller buildings of Baiyun Airport, secretly clenched my fists, and said softly in my heart: "Koto-e, wait for me, I'm here to enjoy the cherry blossoms with you." ”