Chapter 23 Festival
Ren Lian Lingyi did not get an answer from Kanno Anzi, and finally let it go and just thought that it was her female period during those few days.
Time flies.
"Time flies! It's harvest season again." Ren Lian Lingyi stuck his butt out and took out a few lotus seeds from the lotus pod beside the wooden bridge. He happily ate the lotus seeds while watching a few lower-level priestesses feeding the fish.
Currently, the Renlian Shrine has abundant resources. Not only do some villagers come back here to draw divinations and pray to the gods, but funeral services are also being run.
The land planted in the shrine was not removed because they found that what they grew was indeed more fragrant than what they bought.
However, the harvest from Renlian Shrine is too much for a few people, so they will give back to the surrounding villagers from time to time.
Of course, it will occasionally benefit the small creatures inside the shrine, such as fish and slimes.
The daily work for this month has been completed. The remaining work is either to deceive those ignorant country men with the lower-level priestesses, or to be a charlatan and bless the believers. It is really boring, and it is the same whether he is there or not. In addition, both theoretical research and actual practice have reached a bottleneck period recently, so Ren Lian Lingyi has been relaxing recently.
While maintaining your own practice from time to time, you can also relax from time to time.
Now is naturally the time to relax.
The wind blows through the lotus flowers, bringing with it a burst of fragrance.
Ren Lian Lingyi closed his eyes and enjoyed it.
Suddenly, he sensed a restless aura entering his perception range.
When he opened his eyes, he saw it was none other than Kano Anko. Ever since that sparring match, Kano Anko's breathing has been disordered every ten days or half a month. She has become very irritable and even her progress in martial arts has slowed down recently.
Of course, this does not mean that the other party has not made any progress, but that the other party's progress is not as good as expected.
"Yours!" An invitation was thrown over very angrily.
Anzi Kano left in a hurry again, and it seemed that she was filled with some kind of evil spirit again.
Ren Lian Lingyi opened the invitation with his backhand.
It was an invitation from Narukami Taisha, and the specific content was to invite the chief priest Renlian Lingyi to go to Narukami Taisha to participate in the Narukami Grand Festival held every ten years, and then introduced the origin of the Narukami Grand Festival.
The Narukami Grand Festival is actually the birthday of Narukami, so this day is a day of celebration for the whole country, but the national conditions of Inazuma are different from those of other countries, so the annual festival has become a festival once every ten years.
The main purpose of doing this was to save the shogunate's expenses and reduce the period of military vacancy.
Ren Lian Lingyi also remembered the origin of the Naruto Festival. It is said that the Naruto Festival was originally an annual festival like Liyue's Lantern Festival and Mondstadt's Wind Flower Festival.
However, during the Narukami Festival, the Dark Sea Demon attacked. It was said that it had been anticipated and arranged, but it still caused great losses.
Since then, the Narukami Festival has been held every ten years.
Moreover, only monsters and ordinary people can participate in the Narukami Festival. The shogunate's army cannot participate. The Narukami Festival is jointly held by the Narukami Taisha Shrine and the shrine magistrate.
The festival will be held on two large islands, the Outlying Islands and the main island of Narukamijima, and Lord Narukami will also come down to enjoy the festival with the people.
At the same time, after the completion of the festival, Kitsusai-gū and Narukami-sama will jointly perform the Divine Sakura Purification to expel the filth accumulated by the entire Inazuma.
That’s right, Kamizakura Daibutsu and Narukami Taisai are basically held one after the other.
However, the Narukami Grand Festival is open to the entire island, and although the Kamizakura Grand Purification is more important, the only people who actually know about it are the top officials of the Three Bugyo and the Narukami Taisha Shrine, which is responsible for the specific operations.
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Renren Lingyi and Kanno Anzi each got off the boat with a few lower-level priestesses. This was different from Renren Island, where there was basically no festive atmosphere of the Narukami Festival .
The outlying island is filled with the atmosphere of festivals at this moment. Although the Naruto Festival has not yet begun, things that only appear in various festivals have begun to appear one after another.
Many snack stall owners set up their stalls, and the pier on the outlying island was bustling.
Not long after they started walking, they saw a group of witches.
It was visibly that Anko Kano's face had darkened, and she looked as if she was tense and ready to run away.
In contrast, the eyes of the priestesses on the opposite side were shining.
"Apricot, don't run."
"I'll make you meet that guy no matter what."
"It's just a marriage, there's nothing to be afraid of."
Anko Kano's grim expression turned into a stream of light and disappeared in Ren Lian Lingyi's eyes, but those priestesses were not easy to mess with. One of them, who was obviously a high-level priestess, waved the imperial coin magic weapon twice and commanded a group of lower-level priestesses to disappear.
"Well, every family has its own problems." Ren Lian Lingyi finally understood why Kanno Anzi's mood had been so complicated and fluctuating this year.
It turns out that he was being urged to get married. That’s right, people who are being urged to get married all have this irritable feeling.
If he remembered correctly, Kano Anko was 27 years old this year. In this era and world where ordinary people got married and had children at the age of 16, she was indeed an old maid.
Even shrine maidens would generally get married around the age of 20. Of course, due to different national conditions, the shrine maidens of Inazuma did not have to be like the shrine maidens in countries where people lived a good life in their previous lives. They could not be shrine maidens once they got married.
In Inazuma, even if one is married, one can still be a shrine maiden.
"Who are these priestesses?" asked Ren Lian Lingyi.
The few lower-level shrine maidens who came to Narukami Island this time are all locals of Narukami Island. They want to go home and visit while participating in the Narukami Festival.
"Those should be the shrine maidens from the Shikano family." said a lower-level shrine maiden.
"I remember that senior priestess. She seems to be one of the priestesses guarding the Nine-Jo Jinya. Her magic is very powerful."
The other priestesses chattered and recognized most of the other lower-level priestesses.
Most of them are classmates, seniors, juniors, teachers, etc.
Lower-level shrine maidens are also divided into levels. For example, those who clean the temple are lower-level shrine maidens, those who guide tourists to the temple are also lower-level shrine maidens, and most of the shrine maidens who are responsible for teaching reserve shrine maidens and little monsters are also lower-level shrine maidens.
Therefore, among the shrine maidens, as long as they come from the same shrine, most of them know each other.
Ren Lian Lingyi gave the priestesses a holiday and asked them to go back and have a good rest. Speaking of which, these lower-level priestesses are still young, the oldest is only seventeen or eighteen years old, and there are two younger ones who are only about fourteen or fifteen years old.
After the priestesses left in groups, chattering, Ren Lian Lingyi began to wander around the outlying island.
The scenery on the island is still very good, especially now it is autumn, the red maple leaves fall in the wind, there is a kind of artistic beauty.
