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December 12st is the day of great darkness.

After eating New Year's soba, the shrine gradually became lively.

Because they had to guard against Orugu's trouble in previous years, Tidom and the Fang Rangers rarely had the opportunity to participate in festival celebrations.

Therefore, Shen Yun took advantage of the first day of the new year to open the door for various small vendors in nearby towns and held the New Year celebrations directly in the shrine.

At nine o'clock in the evening, many vendors who had finished eating soba noodles at home had come to the shrine and set up their stalls.

In addition, some tourists who came to visit the shrine early made the entire shrine extremely lively.

"By the way, is it really okay for us to be lazy like this?" Tidom was wearing a white thick kimono with a circle of white fluff on the collar. The clothes were painted with a lavender peony pattern, which looked colorful and beautiful.

She wore a wide purple belt around her waist and her shoulder-length blonde hair was combed into a bun, which was fixed with a peacock-shaped hairpin, making her look intellectual and elegant.

"What does it matter? Just think of it as a tour in the shrine." Shen Yun said with a smile.

Although it is okay to follow local customs during festivals, wearing kimono is not necessary.

"Also, I have arranged for people to replace their jobs at any time."

It must be said that the Shumagia are really very useful beasts of burden, and can do almost any job that humans can do.

"Okay~" Tidom looked at the lively New Year celebrations, decisively put other things behind him, and happily lingered in front of these stalls.

"Wow~ It's sweet wine!" When Tidom saw the stall selling sweet wine, he pulled Shen Yun to the stall with a look of surprise.

Amazake is a traditional Japanese drink. It is very suitable for drinking in both summer and winter and can be said to be a drink suitable for people of all ages.

There are two types of amazake. One is the traditional rice koji amazake which is completely non-alcoholic.

The other type is sake lees amazake, which contains only a very small amount of alcohol, even less than 1%.

Especially in autumn and winter, you can often see stalls selling amazake at festivals and shrine festivals.

"Isn't this Lord Gongsi? I'd like to invite you to have a drink. Please feel free to do so." The owner of the stall was a middle-aged man. When he saw Tidom pulling Shen Yun to his stall, he smiled warmly.

The chief priest is the highest person in charge of the shrine, responsible for the operation, management and coordination of the shrine's rituals.

"No, you still have to pay." Shen Yun shook his head and placed a thousand-yuan bill on the stall.

"Please wait a moment. I'll heat it up for you." The boss took the banknotes and quickly poured two glasses of milky white sweet wine from the barrel. After heating it up a little, he handed the two glasses of sweet wine to the two men.

"It smells so good~" Tidom took the paper cup, sniffed it gently, and said.

After heating, the aroma of amazake becomes more intense.

Drinking a sip of hot amazake on a cold winter day will warm your whole body.

Shen Yun found it a little funny to see Tidom's craving for wine, but he didn't stop him.

It's just an alcoholic drink anyway, it doesn't matter how much you drink.

"Hmm, so sweet!" Tidom took a sip of the hot sweet wine at just the right temperature, looking very enjoyable.

The two stopped for a while in front of the amazake stand, letting Tidom drink a few cups of hot amazake to warm himself up, and then continued to wander around the shrine.

After a while, the two of them arrived at the fortune-telling area of ​​the shrine.

The divine fortune stick is a common item in shrines and temples.

There are already many tourists asking for fortune at the place where they draw lots.

The price of drawing the fortune sticks is not expensive, only 100-200 yen, but if there are many people visiting, it can be a considerable income for the shrine or temple.

"Mr. Shen, what is the probability of drawing an unlucky lot in our shrine's divine fortune?" Tidom asked curiously as he took a bite of an apple candy.

"I have prepared ten kinds of fortune sticks, including great luck, good luck, moderate luck, slight luck, half luck, not good luck, not slightly good luck, bad luck, slight bad luck, and great bad luck. The probability of drawing an unlucky fortune stick is three in ten. If you really draw an unlucky fortune stick, you can only blame yourself for being unlucky." Shen Yun said.

Please, he has tried his best to let tourists draw lucky lots, he can't just not give out any unlucky lots, right? That would be too fake.

"It's about a one-third chance, which is not a small probability," said Tidom.

"What should I do if I draw a bad lot?"

There was no such custom in the Heian period a thousand years ago. At most, the nobles would ask Grandma Murasaki to predict their fortunes.

"Here. That's it." Shen Yun pointed to a straw rope tied with many fortune sticks not far away and said, "No matter whether the fortune sticks you draw are good or bad, you can actually choose to take them home or tie them up in a designated place. But people usually take the good fortune sticks home and leave the bad fortune sticks in temples or shrines."

"That's it~"

The two of them stayed briefly at the place where they drew fortunes, then turned around and strolled to the social affairs office.

In the social office, Ohkawa Sae was wearing the classic red and white shrine maiden costume, with her smooth black hair tied up with a red ribbon. She had the elegance of a shrine maiden and the vitality of a young girl.

"Thank you for your patronage!" Ohkawa Sae smiled and bowed to thank the tourists who bought the amulets.

Amulets are unique to Japan. Basically every shrine and temple has its own unique amulets for sale, and tourists who come to worship will not be stingy and buy an amulet for themselves, their family, and their friends.

There are many types of amulets, and there are eleven common types of amulets alone.

Among these, the most people purchased items such as study, career, love, peace, luck, etc.

The most important thing is that the amulet is only valid for one year and will be useless after one year.

If it is a talisman for study, career, safe childbirth, love, luck, etc., it will be invalid once the result comes out.

Expired amulets must be returned to the shrine or temple as a fulfillment of a vow.

The amulets that Shen Yun made were basically made according to the color, appearance, and abilities of Vibran.

For example, the barking deer is grass green, and the barking deer pattern will be sewn on the amulet, representing the health prayer amulet and the recovery prayer amulet.

The Yawei White Tiger is mainly white with some pink tiger stripes and a Yawei White Tiger pattern sewn on it, representing a love and marriage amulet.

As for the others, Shen Yun will not give examples one by one, anyway, they cover all types on the market.

"White, leave the work to Xumagia, and let's call on the others to go to the New Year celebrations." Shen Yun invited.

"Okay~" After the novelty wore off, Ohkawa Sae felt a little bored, and Shen Yun's invitation was just what she wanted.

"I'm going to change clothes."

"There's no need for that. This witch costume suits White very well." Shen Yun praised.

"Okay." Ohkawa Sae smiled brightly.

The three of them left the community office, called others, and started to play around in the shrine happily.

As time approaches midnight, the shrine becomes more and more lively.

"10, 9, 8..."

When the time reached 23:59, the tourists in the shrine suddenly started counting down in unison.

"3, 2, 1!"

"call out--"

As the countdown ended, a colorful light rose rapidly into the air with a sound of breaking through the air.

"Oh!"

The colorful fluorescent light emitted a loud roar in the air, and a colorful 'flower' bloomed in the air.

This firework is like a signal.

Next, one after another brilliant fireworks bloomed in the night sky of Sanguo Mountain.

The colorful fireworks bloomed in the night sky like flowers scattered by fairies, interweaving and overlapping each other.

The brilliant colors illuminate the shrine like day.

"Happy New Year!" Shen Yun looked at the people around him and congratulated them.

"Next year, how about we get together like this to celebrate the New Year?" Ohkawa Sae looked back at everyone and said with a smile.

"Of course."

"Mr. Shen, Happy New Year!" Tidom smiled and extended his hand to Shen Yun.

"Red envelopes, right? Everything, everything." Shen Yun was well prepared. He took out a stack of red envelopes and gave one to everyone present.

"Me too?" The great god Yue Mo scratched his head. He was already a thousand years old, but he didn't expect to still receive a red envelope.

"We can't ask Silver to give us red envelopes." Shen Yun joked.

"This year is the same as every year. There is a check for 5 million yen inside. You can spend it as you like."

"Doctor on board!" (End of this chapter)