Chapter 69: The Festival

Exhibitions are being held, gongs and drums are noisy, and a grand festival is being held in Ise Castle to welcome the gods.

About 1,600 people dressed in black kimonos set off from the castle tower around the 32-person portable shrine and circled the entire city through the Red Gate Workshop, the Kowawa Gate, and the Golden Gate. The procession includes floats with phoenixes on the eaves, drum-bearers, horseback riders, orchestras in brightly colored kimonos, dancers, and more, as well as people dressed as the legendary red-faced, long-nosed monster Tengu.

At noon, the procession returns to the castle tower. More than 3,000 people in the city, led by the two heads of the Saida clan and the Ashiya clan, visited Isejo Castle's patron saint, Quetzalcoatl.

Under the flickering of Ashiya Michimitsu, the castle tower, which was originally a town center, has been transformed into a shrine with a strange style. The temple on the portable shrine has been placed at the top of the castle tower, and except for a few members of the Saida family and the Ashiya family, friends and people can only worship on the lower two floors.

Ding! Ding!

The Sansheng bell rings, and the worship officially begins. More than 3,000 people in the city lined up in an orderly manner according to their social status, towards the castle tower... No, it should be called "Ise Jingu" by now for kneeling.

After three prostrations, everyone takes turns to enter the shrine and wash their hands and mouth at the water house to remove impurities and purify the body and mind.

Dylan stood in the temple on the top floor of the castle tower, calmly watching the movements of the people below.

Hold the ladle in your right hand, take water, and pour it over your left hand.

Holding the ladle in your left hand, you take water and pour it over your right hand.

Then, people finally put the clean water from the hand water house into their mouths.

Ashiya Michiman, who was standing on the side, watched excitedly as the magnates in the city drank the water that had been released from the spell one after another.

A··· Two··· Three... Four ····· It wasn't until the Qi Tian family, the branch family, and all the retainers had drunk the clean water that Dylan and Ashiya Michiman couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in their hearts. Both of them thought at the same time:

"The whole of Ise Castle will belong from now on. ”

"The entire Ise Castle will belong to the Quetzalcoatl Temple from now on. ”

I've been doing the drama for so long, and it's all for today. As long as it waits until after tonight, the entire city will not be able to escape Dylan's control. As early as ten days ago, Dylan had used the original blood of his own blood baron, combined with the improved version of the Enchanting Potion, to make enough spell water for more than 200 people to drink.

The quota of more than 200 people includes talents in the military, finance and other aspects of the city. As long as these people are taken, Ise City will all be in Dylan's hands.

After the ceremony was completed, it was already evening, and Saida Tadashi leaned on the guardrail on the second floor of Ise Jingu and smiled happily as he looked at Ise Castle, which was lively because of the festival. Although Saida is timid, lazy, cowardly, and naïve····· And so on, but the feelings for Ise Castle are not fake at all.

At this time, he was looking for Qi Tian Zhonggang's shirt and goodness everywhere, and he also came to the second layer, he walked quickly to Qi Tian Zhonggang, coughed and said: "Lord Zhonggang! We have been looking for you for a long time, and the celebration banquet has been prepared, just waiting for you to take the table." ”

Qi Tianzhong just turned his head and saw the shirt and the aftermath, and his originally hearty mood immediately turned cloudy and sunny.

In fact, Qi Tian Zhonggang didn't really hate these old ministers in his heart, and he also knew that these old family members were all treasures left to him by his grandfather and father. It's just that these treasures of the town family have been a little too much control over him since he was a child, so that he feels a little out of breath.

has lived for so many years, and he is not a completely unreasonable person. He watched Qi Tian Zhonggang from birth to adulthood, although he was nominally a master and servant, but in fact he regarded Qi Tian Zhonggang as his grandson.

The treatment of Qi Tian Zhonggang so harshly over the years is just that the elders hope that the younger generations will become talents. He looked down the second floor of the shrine and saw the scene of the people all over the city reveling together, and his heart was also a little moved.

When the words came to his mouth, his originally hard tone softened a little: "Lord Zhonggang, you have handled the matter of the evil ghost's nocturnal walk very well this time. The people of Ise will remember what they have done. For those who are in high power, they should put people's hearts first. Judging from the way you handled this incident, you have already received the true inheritance of Tenzen-sama (Grandpa Saida Tadatsu) and Kasuke-sama (Saida Tadatsu's father). It's great that you've grown so fast. ”

Hearing Kanezen praise himself in such a tone, Qi Tian Zhonggang was a little incredulous at this time. Since I was a child, I have received less than 30 words of praise in front of him, is it the sun rising at night today? Qi Tian Zhonggang hurriedly looked at the sky, it was the moon, and the direction in which the moon rose was also right.

cough cough cough · Seeing Qi Tian Zhonggang's slightly naïve performance, his tone hardened again: "Lord Zhonggang, please don't make everyone wait, let's go." ”

As soon as Qi Tian Zhong heard the familiar tone, he finally came to his senses, agreed, and walked towards his home.

Since the castle tower itself was very close to Qi Tian's house, the two of them walked no more than three feet to the manor with the word Qi Tian hanging on the door.

As soon as the two of them walked into the door, they saw everyone gathered in the hall facing the entrance, and since the master had not yet arrived, there was no food and drinks in the hall, so everyone chatted with each other.

On such an occasion, Qi Tian Zhonggang could not be rude, he walked to the main seat and waved his big hand: "Serve the wine!"

A carnival, everyone drank and got drunk in the early hours of the morning.

At the same time, the original castle tower was now inside the Ise Jingu Shrine. A magical thick fog slowly drifted out, and the thick fog drifted straight towards the Qi Tian family as if it was being manipulated, entering the gate, passing through the dry landscape (Japanese garden decoration) to the hall where the Qi Tian family was drinking.

At this time, the hall was in a mess, the Qitian family and the branch family were scattered everywhere, and many of the originally serious retainers were also greatly disfigured.

Seeing that no one in the hall was awake, Dylan changed back into human form from the fog, then closed his eyes and chanted the incantation. This time, the incantation was recited very quietly. Since it didn't need to be heard by anyone outside the hall, the sound of the spell could only be heard in the hall.

Dylan spread with his mental power along with the spell, and where the spiritual power passed, the sleeping personnel present woke up. They looked around, saw the figure standing in the center of the hall, and gathered around the figure.

The incantation stopped suddenly. Dylan opened his eyes, stood in place and spun around, and said in a seductive tone, "Who are you·········?"