Smack!

Ashiya slapped the man in a circle, and shouted and scolded: "Stupid! Is the identity of this adult you can ask? Hurry up and prepare the feast, and then call everyone to the hall, I have something to tell you." ”

After being slapped in the face, the man said "yes" in a panic and ran into the house.

After entering the ancestral house of the Ashiya family, Dylan looked around, the ancestral house of the Ashiya family is not small, is it because there are few people in the island country in this era? A small onmyoji can occupy a piece of land of thousands of square meters.

After entering the hall, Dylan was not used to sitting upright, so he simply stood on the main seat and waited for everyone in the Ashiya family to arrive. A quarter of an hour later, there was a rush of footsteps in the courtyard, and the man who had just opened the door walked to the edge of the pool in front of the hall with a large group of men, women, and children.

The hall is the equivalent of the hall of the house, and the outside of the hall is paved with a layer of stones. Looking out the door, Dylan was standing in the innermost part of the hall with his back to everyone, while the head of the Ashiya family was standing behind Dylan with his body bowed.

After the first few women saw that Ashiya was full, they first wanted to open their mouths to speak when they entered the hall, but when they saw that the man who was the head of the family maintained such a respectful demeanor, several women also closed their mouths wisely.

In the island nation, there is a word called "reading the air" (空気を読む). Reading the air is considered to be the basic morality and ethics of society in the daily life of the people of the island nation. So, people who can't read the air will have a hard time surviving anywhere in the island country.

The male and female hostesses of the Ashiya family did not speak, and the other clan relatives and subordinates naturally did not dare to speak out. Inside and outside the hall, dozens of people were all hunched, and Dylan was the only one standing with his back to them.

After a while, Dylan turned to look at the gathered crowd, and then slowly spoke, "Eat something first, right?"

Hail!

After Luya Dao responded, he reprimanded the man who had just opened the door: "Santael, why isn't the banquet ready yet?"

Sanliang kept nodding his head and apologized: "Yes! I'm really sorry, the little one will go to the kitchen immediately." After saying that, he ran out of the hall and headed for the kitchen.

Dylan narrowed his eyes and said lightly, "It's okay, I'm not too hungry anyway." Tell me about it with my family, and I'll be living here for a while. ”

"Yes!" Ashiya Michiman replied and wanted to introduce himself to his family, but suddenly remembered that he didn't know the honorific name of the god was coming. So he turned around and looked at Dylan embarrassedly, speechless.

Dylan only remembered when he saw it, he didn't tell him his name at all, and before Dylan's name was about to be exported, he suddenly blurted out in a flash of inspiration: "Kukulkan! ”

After Ashiya Michiman knew the name, he knelt on the ground again and kowtowed, then turned around and said solemnly to dozens of people inside and outside: "This is Lord Quetzalcoatl, the god who just came to the world from the divine realm yesterday. The gods possess infinite divine power and are charitable and benevolent to the world, and our family will continue to worship them for generations to come. Do you understand?"

Since the people of the island have worshipped all kinds of objects as gods since ancient times, there are countless gods. Natural beings such as mountains and rivers, animals such as monkeys, artificial objects such as swords and mirrors, and even toilets and kitchens are inhabited by gods. Everyone was only honored to have a god come home, and there was no rudeness.

After seeing everyone kneeling and bowing to him, Dylan nodded with satisfaction. At this time, Sanliang also brought the food to the kitchen. When he thought about eating, he couldn't eat standing up, so Dylan sat cross-legged on the cushion.

However, Dylan looked down at the dish and immediately lost his appetite.

Look at what's on the table? A small jar is supposed to be filled with wine, and all you can eat is nori gnocchi, grilled fish, pickled radish, miso and a roasted bird. Not only is the quantity of the thing small, but the appearance is far inferior to that of later generations. In comparison, it's not as good as what you eat in Britain.

In fact, Dylan also knows that due to the scarcity of land resources in the island country, it is difficult to ensure the annual production of fields in various places to ensure the consumption of the whole country. As far as the average commoner is concerned, it is extremely luxurious to be able to eat rice balls in one meal, most people can afford to eat one meal a day, and the samurai nobles only eat two meals. A meal like this, even if it is the status of the Ashiya family as an aristocratic class in the island country, it will not be able to eat for a long time.

However, since they had made the greatest sincerity, Dylan also ate it with great mercy. The only sound in the hall could be heard of Dylan chewing, and everyone waited quietly for Dylan to finish his meal.

After draining the jar of wine in one gulp, Dylan wiped his mouth and said, "Sleep first, and I'll talk about the rest when I wake up." ”

After sleeping well into the afternoon, Dylan stretched and walked out of the room. As soon as I went out, I saw two girls in kimonos, kneeling on both sides of the door and waiting.

When the two girls saw Dylan coming out, they hurriedly bowed on the ground, and then a girl on the left said in a crisp voice, "Did Lord God sleep well just now?"

The girl on the right answered, "Does the god need anything?"

Dylan glanced down at the two girls, one in a white kimono with cherry blossoms on it, and the other in a blue kimono with waves on it. From the appearance of the two girls, Dylan could tell that the two should be related by blood. Perhaps, to sisters.

"Where is Ashiya Michiman?" Dylan asked calmly.

The girl on the left spoke first, "The head of the family is still in the hall. ”

The girl on the right borrowed the next sentence: "Lord Daoman has instructed, you will notify him as soon as you wake up, and let him come over immediately." ”

"No, I'll just go over. With that, Dylan walked in the direction of the hall.

When he walked to the hall, he saw Ashiya Michiman talking to several members of the family. Seeing Dylan's arrival, Ashiya Michiman welcomed Dylan to the main seat, and after a moment of deliberation, he spoke: "Quetzalcoatl, I was discussing with my family about building a shrine for adults just now, and I don't know what your lordship thinks about the shrine. ”

"Shrine?"

Dylan was a little surprised, he originally thought that he would live in the Ashiya house for a while, and wait until he knew a little bit about the world before deciding what to do next. But how could an Onmyoji family like the Ashiya family allow the gods they worship to live with mortals.

The gods of the island nation are placed in shrines to be worshipped, just as the West puts statues of gods in churches and China puts statues of Buddha in temples. Letting the gods live in the shrine is what the believers take for granted.