Chapter XXIII, The Rites
Blade Lian Lingyi didn't get an answer from Kyoko Shikano, and in the end, it was only her woman who came in the past few days.
Time flies.
"Time flies, it's another harvest season." Blade Lian Ling Yi pouted his ass and took out a few lotus seeds from the lotus canopy on the side of the wooden bridge, and happily ate the lotus seeds while watching a few low-level witches feeding the fish.
At present, the shrine is abundant in resources, and not only some villagers come here to ask for signs and pray to the gods, but also the funeral business has been started.
The land planted in the shrine was not removed, because they found that what they had grown was indeed more fragrant than the one they bought.
However, the harvest of the Blade Shrine is too much for a few people, so it will give back to the surrounding villagers from time to time.
Of course, occasionally it will also bless the small creatures inside the shrine, such as fish and slimes.
This month's daily work has been done, and the rest of the work is either to deceive those rural fools with the lower-level witches, or to be a god stick to bless the believers, which is really boring, and it is the same with or without him, plus both theoretical research and practical practice have entered a bottleneck period recently, so Blade Lian Ling Yi has been leisurely recently.
While maintaining one's own practice from time to time, I will also relax from time to time.
Now is naturally the time to relax.
The wind blows through the lotus flowers, bringing a burst of fragrance.
Blade Lian Ling Yi closed his eyes and enjoyed.
Suddenly, he sensed an aura of irritability enter his senses.
When I opened my eyes, I saw that it was Shikano Apricot, this Deer Wild Apricot has been in a disorder of breath every ten days and half a month recently, and has become very irritable, and even the progress of martial arts has slowed down recently.
Of course, it does not mean that the other party has not improved, but that the other party's progress is not as expected.
"Yours!" Very irritable threw over an invitation.
Luye Apricot left in a hurry, and it seems that he didn't know which one of the evil spirits he had gone.
Blade Ling Yi opened the invitation with his backhand.
It's an invitation from the Narukami Shrine.,The specific content is to invite the god of Blade Ren Lingyi to go to the Narukami Shrine to participate in the Narukami Festival once every ten years.,And then I introduced the origin of the Narukami Festival.。
The Narukami Festival is actually the birthday of Narukami, so this day is celebrated by the whole world, but the conditions of Inazuma and other countries are different, so the annual festival becomes a festival once every ten years.
The main purpose of this was to save the shogunate's expenses and reduce the gap in armaments.
Even Ling Yi remembered the origin of the Narukami Festival, which was said to have been held once a year in the beginning, along with the Lantern Festival in Liyue and the Wind Flower Festival in Mondstadt.
However, there was a time when the sea demon god attacked in the dark during the Narujin Festival, and it is said that it had been expected and arranged at the beginning, but it still caused a lot of losses.
Since then, the Narukami festival has been held once every ten years.
In addition, only yokai and ordinary people can participate in the Narukami Festival, and the military of the shogunate cannot participate, and the Narukami Festival is jointly organized by the Narukami Taisha Shrine and the Shrine Commissioner.
The festival will be held on the two large islands of the remote island and the main island of Narukami Island, and Narukami-sama will also come out and enjoy with the people.
At the same time, after the completion of the festival, Kitsunayaiya and Narukami-sama will jointly complete the sacred cherry blossom purification to expel the filth accumulated throughout Inazuma.
That's right, the Divine Sakura Daiba and the Narukami Festival were basically held one after the other.
However, the Narukami Festival is open to the whole island, and although the Divine Sakura Daisui is more important, the people who actually know about it are only known to the top officials of the Three Priests and the Narukami Taisha Shrine, which is in charge of specific actions.
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Blade Ren Lingyi and Kano Kyoko each got off the ship with a few lower-level witches, which is different from Blade Island, which basically does not have the festive atmosphere of the Narukami Festival.
The islands are full of festivals and festivals at the moment, and although the Narukami Festival has not yet begun, the things that can only appear at various festivals have begun to appear one after another.
Many food stall owners have set up their stalls, and there is a bustling scene on the pier on the outlying island.
Not long after the two of them left, they saw a group of shrine maidens.
Kyoko Kano's face darkened, and it felt like she was running away when she was tense all over.
On the other side, the shrine maidens' eyes lit up.
"Apricots, don't run."
"Say whatever you want to do, let you meet that guy."
"It's just getting married, what's there to be afraid of."
Kano Apricot's face turned into a streamer and disappeared in the eyes of Jian Lian Lingyi, but those witches were not easy to mess with, and a guy who was obviously also a high-level witch took the imperial coin magic weapon and waved it twice before directing a group of lower-level witches to disappear.
"Well, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read." Blade Lian Lingyi finally knew why Kyoko Kano had such a complicated mood this year.
It turned out that he was urged to get married, and it was also Ha, and the people who were urged to marry had this feeling of irritability.
If he remembers correctly, Kyoko Kano is twenty-seven years old this year, and in this era and world where ordinary people marry and have children at the age of sixteen, she is indeed an old girl.
Even if it's a shrine maiden, they usually marry around the age of twenty, but of course, because of the different national conditions, the shrine maidens of Inazuma don't have to be like the shrine maidens of the country who had a good life in their previous lives, and they can't be witches when they get married.
In Inazuma, even if you get married, you can still be a shrine maiden.
"Who are these shrine maidens?" Blade Ling Yi asked.
Several of the lower-level shrine maidens who came to Narukami Island this time are all natives of Narukami Island, and while participating in the Narukami Festival, they also have the meaning of going home to see.
"Those should be the shrine maidens of the Kano family." A low-ranking shrine maiden said.
"I have the impression that the high-ranking shrine maiden seems to be one of the town guards of the Kujo Jinya, and her spells are very powerful."
The other shrine maidens were chattering and recognizing the other subordinate shrine maidens.
Most of them are classmates, seniors, juniors, teachers and the like.
Lower-level shrine maidens are also hierarchical.,For example, it's the lower-level shrine maidens who clean up.,It's also the lower-level shrine maidens who guide visitors to worship.,Most of the witches who are responsible for teaching reserve shrine maidens and little monsters are also lower-level shrine maidens.。
Therefore, as long as one of the shrine maidens comes out, basically many of them know each other.
Blade Lian Ling Yi gave the witches a holiday, so that they could all go back and take a rest, speaking of which, this group of lower-level witches are still young, the eldest is only seventeen or eighteen years old, and there are two younger ones, and now they are only about fourteen or fifteen years old.
After the witches chattered and left together, Blade Lian Lingyi began to wander around the island.
The scenery on the island is still very good, especially now that it is autumn, the red maple leaves are falling with the wind, and there is a kind of artistic conception of beauty.