Can't You Skip Dating? / Can't You Just Like the Body?

Ogihara Ming slowly exhaled, and it didn't feel as bad as he imagined. After all, everyone who came here today came to worship in a serious manner. There was no noise at all, and the road to the shrine was wide enough. Overall, it was quite comfortable. .

In such an atmosphere, the two walked for a while, passed three torii gates, entered Nanshen Gate, and arrived at the main hall of the shrine.

The main hall used for worship at Meiji Shrine is not as grand as it is generally imagined, and when many visitors are received, the shrines in front of the gate are even more impossible to use. Therefore, on this special day, which is obviously overloaded, Meiji The method of the shrine is to lay a white cloth on the half square in front of the hall, enclose a half-person-height parapet, and omit all unnecessary steps.

The pilgrims only need to walk to the front of the parapet, throw the coins into the white cloth, make two bows, two beats and one bow, and after praying with their hands together, they can turn right out of the East God Gate and complete the entire pilgrimage process.

It’s hard to say whether it’s a fool’s errand or not. In short, from a height, the dense crowds and efficient pilgrimages along the fixed route are like a long surging snake that bends and passes through this piece of white cloth. At the same time, I kept rubbing off some scattered things.

Ogihara did not gather in the piles of people in front of the parapet, but under the huge circular tree in front of the hall, he found the priest who maintained the order, and said directly, "Take me inside."

As soon as the priest heard it, he understood that this was a big customer, and as a priest of a large shrine, of course, basic professional quality must be required, at least it is impossible to talk about the price here in a worldly manner, and respectfully raised his hand and said: "this way please."

Nanami followed the priest and Ogihara Ming, bypassing the turbulent crowd in front of the hall, and entered the hall enshrining the urn from the side, enjoying the special treatment of the rich for the first time.

There are also people visiting or waiting here. Just looking at the clothes and temperament, she knows that they are not ordinary people, and the solemnity inside the hall is completely different from the outside, which makes her involuntarily hold down her breath.

She washed her hands at the dedicated hand-water house in the hall, but when she turned around, she saw Ogihara Akira still standing there, and asked unexpectedly, "Mr. Ogihara isn't coming?"

Ogihara nodded: "Well, I don't pay homage, you just go."

This made the priest and Nanami look different together.

The priest couldn't figure out what Ogihara Ming was doing. Although there were indeed some people who entered the main hall but did not pay homage, they were all the entourage of some dignitaries, and it was impossible to worship there side by side with their own adults, and it was impossible. Let your grown-ups wait for your worship to finish.

But this man and one woman are obviously dominated by men, which makes them more intriguing.

Having said that, the priest didn't ask any more questions. Even if he felt that he came in but refused to pay homage, he was somewhat disrespectful to the gods, but he wouldn't be in trouble with money, and he wouldn't be disrespectful in front of nobles.

The priest does have a very special status, but it is not that he will not be cleaned up. At least he, an ordinary priest, still needs to be honest and look at the noble people.

As for Qi Hai, he vaguely thought of something and didn't say anything.

After she washed her hands, the priest led her to the urn, and then left temporarily, leaving time for Nanami to visit and get some necessary things.

In front of the urn, there is a cash box and a rattle for normal worship. Nanami put in the prepared coins and rang the bell to inform the god of his arrival. After that, he prayed twice, clapped his hands, and folded his hands silently, making a promise of the New Year in his heart. wishes.

It's just that her wish is not to pass the next seiyuu audition in two months, but to negotiate with her parents about the maid job when she returns home a few days later.

After a period of pious silence, Nanami opened his eyes and took a step back to look at Akira Ogihara, indicating that he had completed his pilgrimage.

The priest also came back with a card-swiping POS machine. After all, no one usually carries a lot of cash. When the consumption is high, they usually pay by card.

Seeing this scene, Ogihara Akira and Nanami took out the card together.

This made the priest a little stunned, looked at the two, and asked tentatively, "Which one wants to pay the salary?"

The card at Nanami managed the daily expenses, and Ogihara Ming was not idle enough to earn a man's face in such a place, so he took back the card and gestured to Nanami.

This made the priest look at him strangely, feeling that he understood something.

This is the man who, relying on his skin and experience, hooked up with an ignorant and rich female high school student, maybe he was a professional cowherd.

It's disgusting, so disgusting that it makes me jealous.

The priest spat in his heart, went to Nanami to take the card, and wanted to ask how much he was going to pay—although there was a bottom line for visiting the temple, he should not reject the more devout heart of the patron.

At this moment, a middle-aged priest passed by.

The middle-aged priest didn't look here at first, but he seemed to sense something when he passed by. He turned his head if he felt it, and when he saw Ogihara Akira who was waiting there, his whole body was struck by lightning. , called out in disbelief, "Mr. Ogihara?"

Although he looked frightened, in the quiet and solemn atmosphere of the hall, his voice was not high, but also because the hall was very quiet, there were still two well-dressed dignitaries with their entourage looking over, revealing that A slightly surprised expression.

Ogihara Ming glanced at him, and said "um" without being salty or indifferent.

The middle-aged priest continued to look like he had seen a ghost, and asked in an unbelievable tone: "Are you coming... to worship?"

Ogihara pointed to Nanami: "Bring my maid to visit, anyway, it's New Year's Eve, let's go through the process."

The middle-aged priest was clearly relieved, then his face became solemn, looking at the priest holding the pos machine and Nanami, who was in a daze because Ogihara Ming's identity did not seem to match his imagination, and scolded in a low voice: "Retreat. !"

Obviously, there is at least the difference between the two of them as ordinary priests and high-level priests. After being trained on this sentence, the priest shuddered, and without a word, handed the card back to Qihai, and bowed back. .

Nanami also realized that it was not his leisure time now, but met outsiders with Ogihara Akira as a maid, took back the card and took two steps, stood straight behind Ogihara Akira, and waited quietly.

Ogihara Ming frowned and said, "There's no need for this. Since you're here to visit the temple, you should be paid."

The middle-aged priest quickly shook his head: "Then you can't take everyone's salary, anyway, you can't take it, ah, by the way, if you have time now, would you like to come to the apse for some tea?"

"I woke up too early today, I don't have the energy, let's go another day." As Ogi Yuanming said, he took out the two talismans he carried with him, "Since you don't charge me, I don't want to come for nothing. Use it."

The middle-aged priest was not polite this time, and immediately took it with both hands with joy: "Then it's better to be respectful than to obey, thank you Mr. Ogihara."

"Well, then you are busy, I'll go first."

"Okay, I'll take you off."

The middle-aged priest sent Di Yuanming to the outside of the hall, stood at the door and said goodbye. When the two of them turned around the corner of the hall and could no longer see him, he was relieved again.

The previous priests came together, on the one hand, to find out what he did today, and on the other hand, they were also curious. After all, even if the emperor or government officials and famous families came, there was no reason not to pay homage, let alone The reason why you can't accept the other party's salary.

He asked cautiously, "Who is that gentleman just now, and why can't he be paid if he doesn't pay homage?"

Thinking that this ordinary priest didn't have time to make mistakes, the middle-aged priest's face was not too cold, so he said nicely: "I ask you, which god is worshipped in our shrine?"

Ordinary priests were stunned for a moment, wondering how the other party would ask about the basics, and answered, "Of course it's Emperor Meiji, the god of the present."

"Then do you know that the one just now was also a god?"

"……what?"

In the stunned silence of ordinary priests, the middle-aged priest touched the talisman in his sleeve, and muttered strangely: "There are gods on both sides, who worships who, calculate this matter carefully today, it should be called between gods and gods. During the New Year’s Eve, how could we, who are priests, dare to accept other people’s stipends?”

The shock of ordinary priests was too great, and a sentence could only be blurted out of his mind: "Then you didn't accept someone's talisman..."

The middle-aged priest immediately became angry, slapped his priest's hat crookedly, and scolded him sharply.

"You can't take the salaried money, but what is this? This is the New Year's visit between the gods! How can we priests refuse to accept it for Emperor Meiji? Ah, even if someone from your own family visits, How can you do such a rude thing to let people take the door-to-door ceremony back? Ah, why don't you understand politeness at all!"

This rose to the scolding involving the gods' dereliction of duty and rudeness, which frightened ordinary priests to be stupid, holding their hats and saying, "I was wrong! I was wrong!"

"Just know it's wrong! If you see that gentleman in the future, don't say anything, stop him from paying his salaries first, and then quickly call the high priest to pick him up, or the palace minister, you know?"

"Yes! Yes! I know!"

Seeing that the ordinary priest was frightened enough, the middle-aged priest was considered to have extinguished the fire. He hugged his sleeve and muttered: "Besides, don't think that the two talismans were taken out by Mr. Ogihara, they can be used to calm down. If I don’t accept the real things from the company, I will have to scolded the palace minister to death…”

The ordinary priest said stupidly again: "Oh, that's not what you collected yourself..."

As soon as the words came out, he regretted that he wanted to find a time machine, holding the hat on his head and said repeatedly: "Oh, I was wrong! I didn't mean that, I was... I was speechless, speechless!"

What surprised him was that the middle-aged priest didn't give himself another shot. Instead, he murmured with a strange expression: "I think so, but there are so many people in the hall watching, how dare I..."

"……what?"

"Don't talk about it, I'll go and hand in the talisman first. You barely have a share in this matter today. Come with me and see if the palace minister can give you some merit."

"Oh!"

The ordinary priest followed up very refreshed, but he never imagined that he would be able to encounter such good things in the days when he was like a social animal.

……

On the other side, Ogihara Akira and Nanami followed the original road and returned to the crowded front of the hall.

After arriving here, Qi Hai relaxed a little and asked curiously, "You know the priest here?"

Ogihara Akira shrugged: "To be honest, I don't remember him."

Nanami was even more surprised: "Huh? But he looks familiar to you..."

"Well, in order to know my level, I went to these big shrines and temples to discuss Taoism one by one. It's the kind of... a bit rough."

Ogihara Ming turned back and glanced at the main hall, and continued with a little embarrassment: "He has spiritual power, and he is a serious priest in this shrine. He should have been drawn by me with his colleagues back then, so naturally I remember it for comparison. clear."

"But I smoked so much, how can I remember to come here...

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This is the strangest New Year's visit that Nanami has ever experienced.

After all, in normal terms, priests are the spokespersons of God, and they are people who need to be respected.As a result, in this very famous Meiji Shrine, all the high-ranking true priests were beaten by their own masters, and they were beaten together.

And this kind of strange feeling is probably something that needs to be turned into a habit. After all, Ogihara Ming has beaten more than one family. No matter where he goes to worship in the future, the priest and monk in front of him may be beaten by his own master.

If you haven't been beaten, it may be fake, or unpopular.

Therefore, after losing the reverence for the powerful due to the teaching of "just look at character", Nanami on this day lost his reverence for the clergy because "everyone was beaten".

Although it was suspected of being bullying, the maid and the master were in the same position, so when Ogihara Akira was about to beat someone, what the maid should do... is to shout cheers from the side.

To describe it, it is like a cheerleader cheering for the athletes of the school.

So after the athletes of this school hanged and beat another school, as a member of the cheerleading team, how could it be possible to talk to the athletes of other schools with awe-not to mention that this kind of behavior seems very childish, just in the heart of the other school, it will be I thought you were here to be yin and yang.

So all she can do is maintain basic respect and smile politely.

"Mr. Ogihara, let's not visit the shrine next year..."

"What's the matter, want to go to the temple?"

"No, I mean, um... There are so many people in the New Year, and you have to get up early and have to queue up again, and there may be traffic jams on the way back. Do you feel better than cooking at home, or going somewhere else?"

"Well, in fact, I think so too, it's okay, let's talk about it next year."

After receiving such a response, Nanami sighed secretly and looked at the main hall of the shrine and the crowd with a nostalgic look-after all, she would not regard the shrine as a tourist attraction, so after the reason for visiting the shrine, this may be life. The last time I came to the shrine.

But speaking of it, what the shrine can do is not only worship, but also ask for fortunes, and put this year's prayers on the ema.

Asking for a sign, Nanami didn't consider it. After all, she knew that one of Ogihara Ming's business was divination. If she ran to ask for a sign, she would feel as if she didn't trust Ogihara Ming enough, and she definitely couldn't do it.

So at this moment full of goodbye, Nanami looked at the ema, which was already full of wishes, and asked, "Mr. Ogihara, do you want to write something?"

Akira Ogihara didn't agree for a while, and walked over to the huge Ema first to take a look.

It's still early, but the huge painted horses have already been hung up and down, and some places with suitable heights are stacked with an unknown number of listings, and the wishes on them are also messed up - from wishing for good health of the family to wishing for the younger generation in the family Don't stay at home, and hope your boss will fall into the toilet is generally a more relaxed and casual state.

Looking at it like this, Ogihara Ming also came to the interest: "Well, write something, come here."

Originally, I wanted to go through a set of procedures and find a sense of ritual for the New Year. It’s okay to come to the shrine and not pay homage. If I really want to do nothing, I always feel that there is something wrong.

What's more, for Ogihara Akira, this is quite a novelty.

Seeing that Ogihara was interested, Nanami quickly went to the window of the shrine to buy two listings, and took out a pen from his bag.