MTL - Fantasy Farm-Chapter 106 The meaning of autumn
Day by day, life has returned to its former calm. This should have been a good thing, but because of the candle dragon that sneaked into the human world, this calm seemed to hide the turbulent waves, which made people enjoy some worries in their hearts.
The candle dragon no longer commits crimes, everything is calm, and the candle dragon that hides itself in the human world, even the phoenix, can hardly find it from human beings. In desperation, everyone can only place hope. In the Phoenix of Shaohao's family who was still in Nirvana, after all, he found the candle dragon ten years ago.
The summer mood fades, the autumn wind rises again, and it is the harvest season of the year.
This year their family has planted a lot of rice, and the ground is full of yellow and white, and finally it's time to harvest. The harvesting of the rice still requires several steps, firstly threshing, then husking, the new rice after husking is as smooth as new, exuding a light fragrance of rice. Unlike the aged rice that has been left for several years, this fresh rice is delicious no matter how you make it. They grow a more viscous variety of rice, which is just right for making rice cakes. Lu Qingjiu beats the rice into powder, stirs evenly with water, and then heats it. After heating, the rice noodles will become soft and sticky. Add egg and milk, and finally use a mold to shape the rice cakes with a rich milky fragrance. It's out. Soft and springy, chewing on the aroma of rice, Lu Qingjiu took out the rice cakes to cool, and decorated the rice cakes with green vegetable juice.
The colored rice cakes looked even more attractive. He divided Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu a piece and said that he still wanted to make some rice noodles.
Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu agreed with Lu Qingjiu's proposal, saying that Lu Qingjiu could do anything.
Last year, Lu Qingjiu also made a lot of rice noodles, but it was almost the same in winter. After that, the food at home was bought in the town. Although it tastes good, it is a little different from what I made.
Rice noodles are a great ingredient for breakfast. Adding a chicken soup base, sprinkling a handful of chopped green onions, and putting a few green vegetables on it is enough to be tempting. Lu sake likes this kind of food because it is not greasy and very hungry.
The tough winter is coming again. Lu Qingjiu still has to prepare for the winter. The first time he bought the winter supplies last year, something has not been considered. This year Lu Qingjiu plans to buy a generator for his own home and buy enough oil. , To ensure that at least there will be no power failure at home, so that life will be much better after the heavy snow.
Recently, the weather has been cool, and there have been a lot fewer animals. Snakes and frogs are preparing to hibernate. Baiyue Fox said that it is estimated that no candle dragon will be found this year.
In fact, candle dragons also like hot summers. In summer, their actions will be a lot more active. Once autumn comes, they start to become lazy. What's more, this candle dragon has found a residence in the human world, which is even more troublesome. .
"What should I do?" Lu Qingjiu said, "Could it be that it stays in the human world?"
"It's Candle Dragon, it will always show its feet." Bai Yuehu said. "He can't stand it for long." The biggest difference between candle dragons and ordinary non-humans is that they can hardly control their own sex. Whether it is love or dislike, this kind of **** will explode in the end even if it can be held back for a while, and this kind of explosion It is devastating, making them unable to survive in the human world like normal non-human beings.
Lu Qingjiu thought of the fire, but he was still a little worried, but he didn't say it. He just changed his tone to comfort Bai Yuehu and said that he would catch the candle dragon soon.
In September, when it was time to eat fresh chestnuts, they went to pick the wild chestnut tree in the mountain forest last year as usual. This time Yin Xun wisely went to find a hat and gloves to avoid screaming like last year. After taking out the fresh chestnuts, Lu Qingjiu asked Baiyuehu to kill a chicken and used it to make chestnut stewed chicken. The taste of the chicken and the chestnut are perfectly blended together. The chestnut is soft and sweet, and the chicken is tender and juicy. The smell makes people salivate.
In autumn, the atmosphere becomes cooler, and the rain increases more than in summer. With the rain, there are mushrooms in the mountains. The taste of these wild mushrooms is very delicious, whether it is stewed with chicken, stir-fried, or stored in the sun. Originally eating wild mushrooms is risky, but because they have Yin Xun in their family, they have no worries about this.
One afternoon after the rain, Lu Qingjiu carried a small bamboo basket and Yin Xun went up the mountain to pick mushrooms.
Bai Yuehu didn't go with them. He was called to the city by Zhu Rong. It seemed that something important happened to them.
"The little girl picking mushrooms, carrying a big bamboo basket, walks across the woods and hills with bare feet in the morning~" Yin Xun sang happily while picking mushrooms.
Lu Qingjiu followed behind, asking how old you are and whether you can be more mature.
Yin Xun said, "Although I have grown up, I will always have the same heart as a child."
Lu Qingjiu: "I think you look like a child all over."
Yin Xun: "Are you complimenting me for being cute?"
Lu Qingjiu: "I'm calling you short."
Yin Xun: "..." Lu Qingjiu, you have gone bad.
In the sky after the rain, a small half of the sun was exposed in the clouds. It was different from the hot summer sun. The sun at this time was warm and welcoming. When it shines on people, there is only a warm feeling. Lu Qingjiu pays attention to it. On the path at the foot.
Yin Xun took him on a road that he didn't usually take. Because he didn't go often, the road was full of weeds and clumps of fallen leaves. On this road, there are the most mushrooms. As long as you use a stick in your hand to sweep away the fallen leaves on the ground, you can see the lovely mushrooms growing on the moist soil. The mushrooms are all weird and different in color. If Lu Qingjiu came by himself, he would definitely not dare to pick it back and eat it. There are many cases of poisoned death in the news in the news.
With Yin Xun, he can distinguish almost all mushrooms and determine whether they are edible. As for the few that can't be distinguished, they don't need to pick it up, and don't worry too much.
Lu Qingjiu put the confirmed mushrooms in his back basket and praised: "Yin Xun, you are really amazing."
Yin Xun said, "Mudden praise."
Lu Qingjiu said: "Did you know that there is another animal in the world that can look for precious mushrooms like you. The name of that mushroom is called matsutake..."
Yin Xun said, "What animal?"
Lu Qingjiu: "Pig."
Yin Xun glared at him. He found that Lu Qingjiu was really sluggish. He hadn't noticed it before, but occasionally it would show up when he became lively.
Lu Qingjiu pretended not to see Yin Xun's angry eyes, and continued to walk slowly behind him.
The autumn wind blew the green leaves into beautiful golden colors, and as the wind fell on the ground, a beautiful blanket was spread. Yin Xunhu, who was walking in the front, let out a surprise cry: "Wine, come here. There are so many mushrooms."
Lu Qingjiu snorted and hurried forward.
I saw that there were indeed a lot of mushrooms growing in a clearing, but the number of these mushrooms was a bit strange. Yin Xun didn't think much about it, he had already begun to bend down and pick it excitedly.
Lu Qingjiu said: "Why are there so many mushrooms here."
"Maybe there is dead wood underneath." Yin Xun turned to look at Lu Qingjiu, "What's wrong?"
"It's okay." Lu Qingjiu also felt that he was a little too sensitive. He also squatted down, but did not rush to pick it, but observed the surroundings.
Yin Xun said, "These mushrooms are really fat, and they are non-toxic. These mushrooms taste very good and they are used to stew chicken..." He said halfway, his expression froze for a moment, and his voice stopped.
"Yin Xun?" Lu Qingjiu asked suspiciously.
Yin Xun looked up stiffly at Lu Qingjiu, grabbed his wrist, and shook his head stiffly.
"What..." Lu Qingjiu wanted to ask what was wrong, but after seeing Yin Xun's horrified eyes, he seemed to lower his head, he swallowed his saliva and asked, "Is it the mushroom?"
Yin Xun nodded slowly.
Lu Qingjiu lowered his eyes and looked at the place where Yin Xun picked mushrooms. There were dense mushrooms in that area. Yin Xun picked a lot of mushrooms at this time, exposing a sparse foundation. On top of the foundation, one was closed. His eyes are looming in the mushroom bushes-under this mushroom... there are people buried.
Yin Xun was obviously frightened, his face turned pale, and his lips trembled: "Drink, let's go back."
Lu Qingjiu said, "You calm down and come here."
The two stood aside, and Lu Qingjiu used the stick in his hand to sweep away the mushroom bush in front of him little by little. After the mushroom bush was swept away, something underneath was exposed. It was really a person, and his whole body was covered. The densely packed mushrooms almost completely covered his body, and only the areas that Yin Xun had picked just now were slightly sparse.
Lu Qingjiu slowly swept away the mushrooms on the man's face, and after seeing the man's face clearly, his heart sank like this.
Noticing the unusual appearance on Lu Qingjiu's face, Yin Xun asked Lu Qingjiu if he knew the victim.
"Yeah." Lu Qingjiu said, "I know..." This person is the Qiu Shenshou they saw at the market in the summer, but at this time he has lost his breath and turned into a cold corpse. I bred other plants with my own flesh and blood, just like a generous autumn.
Lu Qingjiu's head was a little dizzy. He didn't want to understand why Xiaoshou appeared here. He took out his mobile phone and was about to open the phone for Bai Yuehu, but Yin Xun by his side made a panic cry, pulling Lu Qingjiu back again and again.
"What's the matter?" Lu Qingjiu was taken aback by Yin Xun.
"He, he, his eyes opened!" Yin Xun was not so courageous, he almost didn't pass away when he was so scared, "Is he going to get up from the ground!"
Lu Qingjiu said: "Calm down, I'll go take a look."
Yin Xun said, "But..."
Before Yin Xun finished speaking, Lu Qingjiu cautiously walked to the side of Liao Shou and saw his eyes opened. It’s just that the originally beautiful black eyes have lost their brilliance and cast a white haze. Then, Lu Qingjiu noticed the mushrooms on his body, causing some subtle changes. They began to grow larger and larger in color. It became more and more colorful, and in the end it quickly spread to Qishou's whole body, covering all the parts except his eyes.
There seemed to be something moving in those eyes. The next moment, Lu Qingjiu saw a few ice-blue insects and crawled out of his eyes. After these ice-blue insects crawled out, they chewed. The surrounding mushrooms then began to spin and cocoon, wrapping themselves up.
Upon seeing this, Lu Qingjiu quickly backed away, making Yin Xun not to come near anymore.
Yin Xun quivered and asked Lu Qingjiu what he saw, and Lu Qingjiu said, "Butterfly..."
As soon as his words fell, ice-blue butterflies fluttered from the body, waving their beautiful wings and flying towards the sky. They quickly turned into blue light spots and disappeared in Lu Qingjiu’s In view.
Lu Qingjiu didn't wait any longer, took out his cell phone and called Baiyuehu.
The phone rang more than a dozen times before being picked up, and Bai Yuehu's voice came from the other end of the phone, which calmed Lu Qingjiu's heart unexpectedly. His words hit the key point, and the first sentence was: "Ji received death. Up."
"Where are you?" Bai Yuehu's tone was tense for an instant.
"I and Yin Xun are on the mountain." Lu Qingjiu said, "After you left, we went up the mountain to pick mushrooms, and then...we found the corpse." He quickly described what happened on the corpse. , And those few ice blue butterflies.
After Bai Yuehu listened, he asked Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun to go home immediately, and he hurried back.
Lu Qingjiu hummed, hung up, and wanted to leave with the basket. Yin Xun trembled: "Then, just put him here?"
Lu Qingjiu said: "This corpse doesn't know what's going on, we still don't touch it." Although he has a quarter of the dragon blood, his ability is the same as the human type, and Yin Xun is just a weak mountain god. What the two of them really encountered, I am afraid that there is nothing to fight back.
Yin Xun said, "It's also...Do you still take my mushrooms back?"
Lu Qingjiu said: "Forget it, just put it here." It's not that he doesn't want to take it, but that the mushrooms Yin Xun picked from the corpse just now are all mixed with the previous mushrooms. Even if they take it back, they dare not eat it. .
Yin Xun nodded in despair, and the two began to walk home.
On the way, Yin Xun whispered that he had never seen such a scene with the vision of the mountain god, nor did he feel any strange breath. It seems that the non-humans who killed Xiaoshou possessed powerful power and directly shielded them. Yin Xun's sight was lost.
Lu Qingjiu comforted Yin Xun for a while before he managed to get over. It's no wonder that Yin Xun was so low. He should have been a mountain **** who could see everything in the Shui Mansion. In his knowledge, at least here, he could give Lu Sake is dangerous in advance, but now it seems that he can't even do this. Someone put the corpse in front of them silently, but he didn't even capture that person's shadow.
Baiyue Fox came back very quickly, and when he learned that the corpse collected by Xiaoyi was on the mountain, he hurried to the forest.
Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun waited in the courtyard. This kind of waiting was very tiring. Lu Qingjiu simply found something to do for them, saying that they should clean the mushrooms they picked today.
But after the two took out the mushrooms, they couldn't help stopping their movements. They looked at each other and saw the same wry smile in each other's eyes. That's right, when they saw the mushrooms, they all remembered the corpse found in the forest today. It can be said that they have no appetite at all.
Fortunately, Bai Yuehu came back fairly quickly. Lu Qingjiu originally thought he would bring the body back, but he was empty-handed and didn't bring anything.
"Where is the body?" Lu Qingjiu asked carefully.
"It's where you should go." Baiyue Fox's face was sinking, "Why did you suddenly remember that you went to the mountain to pick mushrooms?"
Yin Xun said, "It's...I...proposed."
Bai Yuehu glanced at Yin Xun and pursed his lips slightly.
"Isn’t it talking a few days ago, but it rained today, Yin Xun said whether he should pick mushrooms." Lu Qingjiu said, "I think you are not there, so I agree." Go, don't know when to wait until next time.
Bai Yuehu nodded and understood.
"Likeshou will also be resurrected?" Yin Xun asked Bai Yuehu expectantly, remembering the killing of Spring God before.
Who knows this time, Bai Yuehu did not give a definite answer.
Lu Qingjiu's heart was not good, and as expected, Bai Yuehu sighed softly: "As long as autumn is still there, he will be resurrected."
Yin Xun relaxed after hearing this, and said with a smile: "That would be great."
Bai Yuehu glanced at Yin Xun: "But the premise is that there must be autumn."
Lu Qingjiu didn't understand that the four seasons are what they should be in the human world. Spring, summer, autumn and winter, the time does not stop, the four seasons will continue to flow. Hearing the meaning of the white moon fox, can the four seasons disappear?
Baiyuehu continued: "There are four seasons to give birth to gods, sentence light for spring, wishing for summer, harvesting for hope, Xuanming for east, this is the rule only in the human world." His tone was helpless. "But in another world, there are no four seasons." Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, every day is the same, and there are no four seasons.
Without the four seasons, the gods who control the four seasons are no longer needed, and of course they will not be resurrected when they die.
Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun both understood the meaning of Bai Yuehu's words, their eyes widened slightly, their eyes were full of disbelief.
"Yuehu, you mean that if the other world merges with the human world, then the four seasons will dissipate, and the dead Four Seasons God will not be resurrected?" Lu Qingjiu said, "Is that right?"
White Moon Fox nodded.
Now that the Spring God and Qiu God are dead, only the next Xia God Zhu Rong and Dong Shen Xuan Ming are left. Lu Qingjiu had met Zhu Rong, but had not heard about Xuan Ming, so he asked and wanted to know. About Xuanming.
But Baiyue Fox shook his head and said that they hadn’t heard about Xuanming for a long time. In this world where spiritual power is weak and faith is gradually fading, the God of Four Seasons can be said to be a **** with abundant power, and they too Responsible for maintaining the non-human rules of life in the human world. Xuan Ming was supposed to be the overlord, but he has disappeared for a long time. No one has heard about him, and no one knows his life or death.
"Is Zhu Rong okay?" Lu Qingjiu couldn't help but worry.
"Not for the time being." Bai Yuehu said, "Zhu Rong is a torturer, powerful, and the one who is most unlikely to die." He said, "If he is gone, then this world will be over."
The Gods of Four Seasons can regulate the wind and rain according to the prayers and sacrifices of the believers, so that the world will be smooth, but they don’t have this ability when they die. Frost, wind, rain and snow all change randomly according to the will of heaven, floods and droughts are all predestined. .
Fortunately, with the continuous development of human science and technology, the requirements for the weather are not as harsh as in ancient times, but the abnormal weather is still fatal to the farmers. It can be imagined that a hail or snow suddenly fell in the middle of summer. There will be no crops.
In front of nature, the humbleness of mankind is fully manifested.
The death of Liao Shou cast a melancholy shadow over the whole family. Lu Qingjiu was also depressed for a few days, but he soon forced himself to cheer up. He first dried the mushrooms brought down from the mountain, and then stewed chicken with mushrooms. The rich aroma and flavor dilutes everyone's shadow of mushrooms.
At the end of September, it was the annual Mid-Autumn Festival. Lu Qingjiu felt that the atmosphere at home was not so good recently, so he greeted everyone to make a big meal during the Mid-Autumn Festival and make some mooncakes and crabs to watch the moon.
The crabs were sent by Zhu Miaomiao. They were all round and plump. The large crab claws and plump crab paste were all very attractive. Lu Qingjiu made mooncakes of various flavors a few days in advance, and quietly put copper coins in the mooncakes in order to win the prize.
On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, a large table of various dishes was set up. The most eye-catching one is the spicy crab in the middle. This is made of meat crabs. The cream is not a lot, but the crab meat is plump and spicy. Stir-fried together and cooked, there are stuffy soft sweet potato chips and onions inside. Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu both ate a lot. In the evening, Lu Qingjiu saw that the weather was good, so he made tea and brought moon cakes to the yard. Everyone enjoyed the moon and ate moon cakes. The atmosphere was much better, but Lu Qingjiu didn't eat the copper coins after eating the mooncakes. He was a little confused, mumbling that he forgot to pack it? Still lost a few months of bread...
Yin Xun asked what happened to Lu Qingjiu.
"No, haven't you eaten anything hard?" Lu Qingjiu was confused, "I breaded the mooncakes for five copper coins... Why didn't you eat any of them."
Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu both changed their expressions.
Lu Qingjiu had a horrified conjecture, and looked at the two satisfied people around him who were eating mooncakes incredibly: "Hey, you two won't have it, right?"
Yin Xun said, "I don't have one."
Bai Yuehu: "Neither do I."
Lu Qingjiu was very suspicious, and wanted to see something from the expressions of the two, but Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu both looked innocent, and Lu Qingjiu suspected that he had misunderstood them.
"You really didn't eat it?" Lu Qingjiu confirmed again.
"No." Yin Xun said, "I can't bite."
The White Moon Fox also shook his head.
Lu Qingjiu can only give up and stop struggling with this matter.
Just waiting for Lu Qingjiu to enter the room to get hot water to prepare for tea, Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu looked at each other, and both saw the guilty conscience in each other's eyes. Yin Xun whispered, "I ate two..." He thought it was rock candy, so he swallowed it roundly.
Bai Yuehu stretched out three fingers. He was much more cruel than Yin Xun. He didn't notice the copper coin at all, but felt that the filling was a little harder, and then he swallowed it all crunchy.
After the two said this, Lu Qingjiu just came back, their expressions changed back to the calm and waveless look before, pretending that nothing happened.
It seems that Lu Qingjiu's luck is really bad. He didn't even eat a single coin. As for what he ate...Is it eaten by swallowing his stomach?
