After walking for a considerable distance from Zhiyuan, the team of Lingjue finally arrived at Sijouwan.
According to the order of the tour of the mountain worship of the garden last year, they will visit and keep the thirty-three "People Garden Sacrifice Preservation Meetings" from the long sword worship, Hangu Cheng to Jingmiao Mountain, and the big ship worship.
The preservation will be an organizational form of spontaneous protection and inheritance among the people. The members are basically composed of old residents of the local Honcho of Kyoto. The preservation will have absolute autonomy over the "mountain" or "corners" that have been passed down from generation to generation, and can even decide. Do not participate in the garden festival;
Even when facing the Lingjiu people who are familiar with ghosts and gods, the people at the Save Association are not very polite - especially these Lingjiu people are in a daze and look something is not right.
"These witches and priests are here again..."
"Why do you show this sleepwalking expression? It's really worrying. Are you doing your duty?"
"Forget it, it's like this every year..."
No matter how much I complain, the people at the preservation meeting still lead them to the place where the mountain guards are preserved in their respective towns.
The warehouse of the Long Sword and Wisdom Preservation Association is tall and open. In order to welcome the long team of Lingjuemen, the doors in front and behind the warehouse are open.
The spiritualists entered one after another, entered through the main entrance, passed the display stand with disassembled long swords and twists in the middle, and then went out from the back door. There was almost no pause, and no one went to see the long swords and twists in the middle. The whole process was Maintaining in a strange tranquility.
Until one of the figures walked out of the line and stopped in front of the booth.
“…”
The member of the preservation meeting who was guarding the booth was a gray-haired old man. This was the first time he encountered this situation and was stunned for a moment before speaking.
"What, it turns out you are a living person."
“…”
Looking away from the long knife placed horizontally in the middle of the booth, Sonoya smiled at him, "I'm disturbing."
Another figure who stopped beside him took his arm, then greeted the old man in front of him.
"Mr. Matsuda, long time no see."
“…”
Matsuda was stunned again, "Oh, Miss Jupiter...I really didn't expect to see you here."
"Forty years, no, fifty years have passed, and you are still as young as before."
Emperor Ju smiled slightly and hugged the arm in his arms.
"Hate... don't expose my age in front of a boy. I'm a little interested in him."
"Ah, sorry..."
Matsuda looked at Sonoya who was looking at the sky, and felt a little moved.
"When I first met Miss Ju, I was not qualified to join the Save Club. I was just an ordinary raid boy, probably at his age."
Emperor Jue nodded, "Time passed in the blink of an eye. Mr. Matsuda is now a director. Do you still want to retire from preservation?"
"I will keep working until I can't do it." The old man said with his chest raised and stared at his eyes.
"Okay." Emperor Ju smiled faintly, "Then I wish you a long life."
Zong Gu couldn't help but look at the old man in front of him, and didn't know whether the blessings of the Creator God could really prolong his life.
After leaving the booth here, the two returned to the team and continued to move towards the next place, which is said to be based on the records of the Grand Historian, Mengchangjun's dog robbery and rooster crowed out of Hangu Pass, intending to eliminate disasters.
After walking out of the warehouse, Emperor Ju still held Zong Gu's arm. He blew a breath and dissolved the heat caused by physical contact under the blazing sunlight.
Soya didn't intend to struggle either. In order to free Kyoko and several other familiar people from Sora's dream, this was a small price he should pay.
【“Let this child go? That won’t work.”】
Emperor Jue said that Kyoko, who is only seventeen years old this year, is a rare active torture element in Kinki. She has performed the monthly begging ceremony very seriously, and she cannot let her go easily.
["However, if Fang Ming promised to accompany me to visit the thirty-three mountain signs, I'll let her have an ordinary dream."]
Zong Gu had no choice but to agree, and he also offered to let go of several other witches. Emperor Ju also agreed readily.
"Kyoko..."
Following Kyoko who had already walked to the front, Soya grabbed her hand and received no response.
"Fangming can do anything to her now." Emperor Ju instigated next to him.
He shook his head, and now he had no other thoughts.
"Then let go." She held his arm, "Fangming is here to accompany me now. Holding other girls' hands doesn't count."
Zong Gu let go of his hand, walked to the front, and returned to his original position.
Following the team and walking along the street for a moment, the two of them arrived at the second warehouse where the mountain cord was kept.
The huge sacrificial float has not been assembled yet. All parts are displayed on the booth without rivets. They are spliced and fixed by mortise and tenon and hemp rope. After assembly and molding, the total weight of the float can reach dozens of tons, which is entirely driven by human traction and steering.
Zong Gu stopped in front of the booth and looked up for a while.
"Hanguchi's fault..."
Emperor Ju stood beside him and looked at the same joint as him.
"Mengchangjun can escape from Hangu Pass with the help of his disciples, dogs and chickens crowing, and eliminate disasters. Unlike me, I can't escape no matter how I do it."
“…”
"But I still have Fang Ming."
Her eyes turned and she smiled at him.
"The only person who can help me escape from the 'Hangu Pass' is Fang Ming."
......
Thirty-three mountain horns are stored in the warehouses of the Gion Festival in each town, and the distances are close and far away from each other.
Because the team of Lingjue people needs to take into account the emotions of each preservation meeting, they can only visit them in order of the mountain tour last year. Even if there are two mountain preservation warehouses adjacent to each other, they can only look far away, otherwise it will cause dissatisfaction with the preservation meeting.
Following the team, he walked all the thirty-three mountain warehouses. Zong Gu no longer remembered how many repetitive roads he had taken, and it was already three or four o'clock in the afternoon.
Walking out of the warehouse where the big ship was struck, he turned around and looked more even though he was hungry and exhausted.
The exquisite and gorgeous large ship shackles were rebuilt a few years ago, and the Gion Festival was restored to its original form of front and back sacrifices due to the rebuilt of the large ship shackles.
"teacher."
Looking at the witch with a dazed look, Zong Gu looked at the Orange Emperor beside him again, "The thirty-three mountain signs have been visited. Can they wake up from their dreams now?"
She looked over, "Fangming thought this was over?"
"what else?"
"They also have to go back to Yasaka Shrine to report to the gods: all the ghosts and monsters are wiped out, and the Gion Festival will be carried out as scheduled."
Zong Gu breathed a little relieved. If he just returned the same way, it would not take too long.
"All right."
Leaving Sijo Kasumaru, the team of witches and priests did not stop for a moment and walked along Sijo to the Gion area.
Pulling Zong Gu, Emperor Ju didn't say anything else along the way until he walked to Sijo Bridge again.
"Fangming."
After crossing the bridge, she stopped at the bridge, raised her hand to point at the river bank below, and smiled at him again.
"I'm here to fulfill the agreement."
“…”
Soya looked at her, then looked at Kyoko again.
Emperor Jue didn't care, "Does Yoshiaki want to take a walk with Kyoko more? Then let her follow you too."
Before Zonggu could refuse, she turned around.
After leaving the team, Kyoko, who was in a daze, also followed.
Walking up the river bank, even though Kyoko walks freely, Soya still cannot feel completely relieved. After all, if you leave the team, the people on the river bank may not take the initiative to avoid it.
Emperor Jue didn't make things difficult for him, so he let go of his hand and walked in front, letting him take care of Kyoko.
"I'm a little hungry after walking for a day."
"There is a cooking house over there, the teacher can..."
"I'm tired of eating." She turned around, "I want to eat the rice ball that Fangming brought more now."
Zong Gu was stunned and nodded immediately.
"But the rice balls were left in the bag and left in the car..."
Before he could finish his words, Emperor Ju suddenly raised his arm and opened his hand to the sky.
The next moment, the rice ball that almost appeared out of thin air fell into her hands.
"Is this the one?" Emperor Ju turned around the rice ball in his hand.
“…”
After looking for a while, Zong Gu nodded slowly.
Removing the plastic wrap, she took a bite on the rice ball.
“Um…”
Emperor Ju nodded while eating, "It was done very carefully, which suits my appetite. Did Fangming expect to meet me here at the beginning?"
"No……"
“I would be happier to say ‘yes’ at this time.”
"yes."
She smiled slightly, but then stopped eating.
When she walked to Kyoko, she divided the rice ball into two halves, giving her one half and giving her the other half to Sonoya.
"You're probably hungry, too."
Pick up the rice ball and Kyoko slowly started eating.
After looking at her for a while, Zong Gu, who had been hungry for a day, was no longer polite.
Emperor Orange turned around and continued to move forward.
Walking on the river bank of Yachuan, the wind blew, the setting sun shone, and the river was filled with shining gold.
The people who came and went around seemed to be unable to see the Orange Emperor, and their eyes were on the witches and priests who were walking and eating rice balls, curious about their identities in their hearts.
Going along Hebei, half a rice ball couldn't be eaten for long, and the Orange Emperor walked to the bridge connecting Sanzhaotong before stopping.
"I walked a lot of roads and I was tired."
Looking at the setting sun that was about to go down the mountain, she turned to look at Zong Gu, "Let's do it today."
He nodded, "Okay."
"Just that's it?"
Soya opened his mouth and said, "I have a great time wandering around Kyoto with my teacher."
Emperor Ju smiled a few times, turned around and walked down the river bank, and got into the taxi that had been waiting for a long time.