Days passed, and life returned to its normal calm. This should have been a good thing, but because of the candle dragon that sneaked into the human world, there seemed to be turbulent waves hidden in this calm, which made people feel some worries while enjoying it.
The candle dragon no longer commits crimes, everything is calm, and the candle dragon, who has restrained his desire to hide himself in the human world, even the phoenix, can hardly find it from the human beings. In desperation, everyone can only pin their hopes on it. The Shaohao family is still on the Phoenix of Nirvana. After all, he found the candle dragon from more than ten years ago.
Summer is gradually receding, autumn wind is rising again, and it is the harvest season of the year.
This year, their family has planted a lot of rice, and the land is full of yellow, and it is finally time to harvest. Several processes are needed to collect the rice, first threshing, then husking, the new rice after hulling is as clean as new, exuding a faint rice fragrance. Different from the old rice that has been kept for several years, this fresh rice is delicious no matter how you cook it. Their family grows a variety of rice with high stickiness, which is just right for making rice cakes. Lu Qingjiu grinds the rice into powder, adds water, stirs evenly, and then heats it up. After heating, the rice flour will become soft and sticky. Add eggs and milk, and finally use a mold to set the shape. out. Soft and bouncy, the aroma of rice filled his mouth while chewing, Lu Qingjiu took out the rice cakes to cool, and decorated the rice cakes with green vegetable juices.
The colored rice cakes looked even more attractive, so he gave Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu a piece, saying that he wanted to make some rice noodles.
Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu fully agreed with Lu Qingjiu's proposal, saying that Lu Qingjiu can do anything.
Last year, Lu Qingjiu also made a lot of rice noodles, but in winter, he ate almost the same amount of rice noodles. After that, all the food he ate at home was bought in the town. Although it tasted good, it was a little different from what he made himself.
Rice noodles are the best ingredients for breakfast, and it is tempting enough to add chicken soup base, sprinkle a handful of chopped green onion, and put a few green vegetables. Lu Qingjiu likes this kind of food very much, because the taste is not greasy, and it is very hungry.
The difficult winter is coming again, and Lu Qingjiu has to prepare for the winter. Last year, when he bought the winter supplies for the first time, there were some things he didn't consider. This year, Lu Qingjiu planned to buy a generator for his own home, and then buy enough oil. , to ensure that at least there will be no power outage at home, so that the days after the snow cover the mountains will be much better.
The weather has been cool recently, and there have been fewer traces of animal activities. Snakes and frogs have begun to prepare for hibernation. Bai Yuehu said that it is estimated that the candle dragon will not be found this year.
In fact, the candle dragon also likes the hot summer. In summer, their actions will be more active. Once autumn begins, they start to become lazy, not to mention that the candle dragon has already found a place in the human world, which is even more troublesome. .
"Then what should we do?" Lu Qingjiu said, "Do you just let it stay in the human world?"
"In the end, it is the candle dragon, and it will always show its legs." Bai Yuehu said. "He can't bear it for long." The biggest difference between candle dragons and ordinary non-human beings is that it is difficult for them to control their desires, whether it is love or disgust, even if this desire can be held back for a while, it will eventually erupt, and this kind of eruption is destruction. Sex, so that they can't survive in the human world like normal non-human beings.
Thinking of the fire, Lu Qingjiu was still a little worried, but he didn't say it. He just comforted Bai Yuehu in a different tone, saying that he would definitely catch the candle dragon as soon as possible.
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 found a hat and gloves to avoid being pierced and screaming like last year. After taking out the fresh chestnuts, Lu Qingjiu asked Bai Yuehu to kill a chicken and used it to make the chestnut stew. The smell is mouthwatering.
In autumn, the weather becomes cooler, and the rain also increases compared with summer, and with the rain comes mushrooms all over the mountains. These wild mushrooms are delicious, whether stewed with chicken, stir-fried, or sun-dried and stored. Originally, eating wild mushrooms was risky, but since they had Yin Xun at home, there was no such concern.
In the afternoon after the rain, Lu Qingjiu went up the mountain with Yin Xun to pick mushrooms with a small bamboo basket on his back.
Bai Yuehu didn't go with them. He was called into the city by Zhu Rong, and it seemed that something important happened on their side.
"The little girl picking mushrooms, carrying a big bamboo basket, walked around the woods and hills with bare feet in the early morning~" Yin Xun sang happily while picking mushrooms.
Lu Qingjiu followed behind, asking how old you are, could you be more mature.
Yin Xun said, "Although I have grown up, I will always have the same heart as a child."
Lu Qingjiu: "I see that you look like a child all over."
Yin Xun: "Are you praising me for being cute?"
Lu Qingjiu: "I'm calling you short."
Yin Xun: "..." Lu Qingjiu, you've turned bad.
In the sky after the rain, a small half of the sun was exposed in the clouds. It was different from the hot sunshine in summer. At this time, the sunshine was warm and warm, and it only had a warm feeling on people. Lu Qingjiu focused his attention. on the path underfoot.
The road Yin Xun took him was a road that he didn't walk very often. Because he didn't walk often, the road was full of weeds and overgrown leaves. On such a road, there are also the most mushrooms. As long as you use the stick in your hand to sweep away the fallen leaves on the ground, you can see the lovely mushrooms growing on the moist soil. Mushrooms are all kinds of strange and different colors. If Lu Qingjiu came by himself, he would definitely not dare to pick them up and eat them. There are many cases of death from mushroom poisoning in the news.
With Yin Xun, it's different. He can distinguish almost all mushrooms and determine whether they are edible. As for the few that can't be distinguished, they just don't pick them, and they don't need to worry too much.
Lu Qingjiu put the confirmed mushrooms in his backpack and praised, "Yin Xun, you are really amazing."
Yin Xun said, "Miao Zan Miao Zan."
Lu Qingjiu said, "Did you know that there is another animal in the world that can look for precious mushrooms just like you, and the name of that mushroom is matsutake..."
Yin Xun asked, "What animal?"
Lu Qingjiu: "Pig."
Yin Xun glared angrily. He found that Lu Qingjiu was really rotten.
Lu Qingjiu pretended not to see Yin Xun's angry gaze, and continued to walk slowly behind him.
The autumn wind blew the green leaves into a beautiful golden color, and as the wind fell on the ground, a beautiful blanket was spread. Yin Xun, who was walking in front of him, let out a surprised cry, "Ji'er, come here quickly. There are so many mushrooms."
Lu Qingjiu hummed and hurried forward.
I saw that there were indeed many mushrooms growing in the open space, but the number of these mushrooms was a bit strange. Yin Xun didn't think much about it, he had already started to bend down and pick it up 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 alright." Lu Qingjiu also felt that he was a little too sensitive, so he squatted down, but did not rush to pick it, but observed the surrounding situation.
Yin Xun said, "These mushrooms are really fat, and they are all non-toxic. These mushrooms taste very good, and they are used for stewing chicken..." Halfway through his words, his expression froze for a moment, and his voice stopped.
"Yin Xun?" Lu Qingjiu asked in confusion.
Yin Xun stiffly looked up 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 terrified eyes, he seemed to lower his head. He swallowed and asked, "Is there something wrong with the mushrooms?"
Yin Xun nodded slowly.
Lu Qingjiu lowered his eyes and looked at the place where Yin Xun picked mushrooms. There used to be lush mushrooms growing in that place, but now Yin Xun has picked a lot of them, revealing a sparse foundation. On the foundation, one closed His eyes were looming in the mushroom bushes—under these mushrooms… there was actually a person buried.
Yin Xun was obviously frightened, his face turned pale, and his lips trembled: "Ji'er, let's go back."
Lu Qingjiu said, "Calm down, come here."
The two stood next to each other, Lu Qingjiu swept away the mushroom bushes in front of him with the stick in his hand little by little. After the mushroom bushes were swept away, something underneath was revealed. It was actually a person, covered all over his body. The mushrooms were densely packed. These mushrooms almost completely covered his body. Only the places where Yin Xun picked a lot just now were slightly sparse.
Lu Qingjiu slowly swept away the mushrooms on the man's face. After seeing the man's face clearly, his heart sank.
Aware of the unusual expression on Lu Qingjiu's face, Yin Xun hurriedly asked Lu Qingjiu if he knew the victim.
"Yeah." Lu Qingjiu said, "I know..." This person is the Qiushen Zheshou they met in the market in the summer, but at this time he had lost his breath and turned into a cold corpse. His own flesh gave birth to other plants, just like the generous autumn.
Lu Qingjiu's head was a little dizzy. He didn't understand why Ding Shou appeared here. He took out his mobile phone and was about to call Bai Yuehu, but Yin Xun, who was beside him, let out a terrified cry, pulling Lu Qingjiu back again and again.
"What's wrong?" Lu Qingjiu was taken aback by Yin Xun.
"He, he, he opened his eyes!" Yin Xun was not very courageous at first, but he was so frightened that he almost succumbed to it, "Is he going to get up from the ground!"
Lu Qingjiu said, "Calm down, I'll take a look."
Yin Xun said, "But..."
Before Yin Xun could finish speaking, Lu Qingjiu had carefully walked over to Ping Shou, and saw that his eyes had really opened. It's just that those originally beautiful black eyes lost their lustre, and they were covered with a white shadow. Then, Lu Qingjiu noticed the mushrooms on Leishu's body, and there were some subtle changes. They started to get bigger and bigger. It became more and more vivid, and finally it quickly spread to the whole body, covering all parts except his eyes.
There seemed to be something moving in those eyes. The next moment, Lu Qingjiu saw a few ice-blue bugs and crawled out of his eyes. After these ice-blue bugs climbed out, they started to eat. The surrounding mushrooms then started spinning into cocoons and wrapped themselves up.
Seeing this, Lu Qingjiu quickly backed away, telling Yin Xun to stop approaching.
Yin Xun asked Lu Qingjiu what he saw in a trembling voice, and Lu Qingjiu said, "Butterfly..."
As soon as he finished speaking, icy blue butterflies fluttered up from Ting Shou. They fluttered their beautiful wings and flew towards the sky. They soon turned into blue dots of light and disappeared in Lu Qingjiu's place. in sight.
Lu Qingjiu didn't wait any longer, he took out his mobile phone and called Bai Yuehu.
The phone rang a dozen times before being picked up. Bai Yuehu's voice came from the other end of the phone, which made Lu Qingjiu's heart unexpectedly calm. already."
"Where are you?" Bai Yuehu's tone was instantly tense.
"Yin Xun and I are on the mountain." Lu Qingjiu said, "After you left, we went up the mountain to pick mushrooms, and then... found Pei Shou's body." He quickly described what happened to Pei Shou's body. And those icy blue butterflies.
After Bai Yuehu heard it, he asked Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun to go home immediately, and he rushed back immediately.
Lu Qingjiu hummed, hung up the phone, and wanted to leave with a basket in his hand, Yin Xun said in a trembling voice, "Then, should you put him here?"
Lu Qingjiu said, "I don't know what's going on with this corpse, so let's not touch it." Although he has a quarter of dragon blood, his abilities are the same as those of a human, and Yin Xun is only a weak mountain god. What the two of them really encountered, I am afraid they are powerless to fight back.
Yin Xun said: "Also... Do you still bring my mushrooms back?"
Lu Qingjiu said, "Forget it, just leave it here." It wasn't that he didn't want to bring it, but the mushrooms Yin Xun picked from the corpse were all mixed with the previous mushrooms, and even if they brought them back, they wouldn't dare to eat them. .
Yin Xun nodded in despair, and the two began to walk home.
Along the way, Yin Xun said in a low voice that he had never seen such a scene, nor felt any strange aura. It seemed that the non-human being who killed Lei Shou possessed a powerful power to directly shield him. Yin Xun's line of sight.
Lu Qingjiu comforted Yin Xun for a while before he managed to recover. It was no wonder that Yin Xun was so low. He was supposed to be a mountain god who could see everything in the water house, and in his knowledge at least he was able to give Lu Xun something here. Sake warned in advance that it was dangerous, but now it seems that he can't even do that. Someone quietly placed the body in front of them, but he never even captured the shadow of that person.
Bai Yuehu came back very quickly, and when he learned that the body of Ding Shou was on the mountain, he hurried to the forest.
Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun were waiting in the courtyard. This kind of waiting was very tiring. Lu Qingjiu simply found something for them to do, saying that they should clean the mushrooms they picked today.
But after the two took out the mushrooms, they stopped their movements involuntarily, 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 they found in the forest today. It can be said that they lost their appetite at all.
Luckily, 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's the corpse?" Lu Qingjiu asked cautiously.
"It's where you should go." Bai Yuehu's face was sinking, "Why did you suddenly remember going to the mountain to pick mushrooms?"
Yin Xun said, "Yes... I... proposed."
Bai Yuehu glanced at Yin Xun and pursed his lips slightly.
"Didn't you talk about it a few days ago, but it rained today, Yin Xun said if you want to go mushroom picking." Lu Qingjiu said, "I see you are not here, so I agree." This year's rain is less, not today Go, I don't know when the next time will be.
Bai Yuehu nodded and understood.
"Will Zingshou also be resurrected?" Yin Xun asked Bai Yuehu with anticipation, recalling the previous incident of Chunshen being killed.
Who knew that this time, Bai Yuehu did not give a definite answer.
Lu Qingjiu had a bad heart, but as expected, Bai Yuehu sighed softly, "As long as autumn is here, he will be resurrected."
Yin Xun relaxed after hearing this, and said with a smile, "That's great."
Bai Yuehu glanced at Yin Xun: "But the premise is that there will be autumn."
Lu Qingjiu didn't understand a little, the four seasons in the human world are inherently what they should be. Listening to Bai Yuehu's meaning, could the four seasons also disappear
Bai Yuehu continued: "There are four seasons and gods are born. Jumang is spring, Zhu Rong is summer, harvest is seeking, and Xuanming is east. This is a rule that only exists in the human world." There was some helplessness in his tone. "But in another world, there are no four seasons." There are three hundred and sixty-five days in a year, each day is the same, and there are no four seasons.
Without the four seasons, the gods who control the four seasons will no longer be needed. Of course, they will not be resurrected if they die.
Both Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun understood the meaning of Bai Yuehu's words, their eyes widened slightly, their eyes filled with disbelief.
"Yuehu, you mean that if the otherworld and the human world merge, then the four seasons will dissipate, and the dead god of the four seasons will not be resurrected again?" Lu Qingjiu said, "Is that so?"
Bai Yuehu nodded.
Now that the Spring God and Qiu God are dead, only the Xia Xia God Zhu Rong and the Winter God Xuan Ming are left. Lu Qingjiu had seen Zhu Rong, but he had never heard about Xuan Ming, so he asked about it, wanting to know About Xuanming.
Unexpectedly, Bai Yuehu shook his head and said that they had not heard the news about Xuanming for a long time. In this world where spiritual power is weak and belief is gradually fading away, the Four Seasons God can be said to be a god with relatively abundant power. The non-human rules responsible for maintaining life in the human world. Xuan Ming was supposed to be the overlord of the party, but he has disappeared for a long time, no one has got news about him, and no one knows his life and death.
"Is Zhu Rong all right?" Lu Qingjiu couldn't help but worry.
"Not for the time being." Bai Yuehu said, "Zhu Rong is the executioner, powerful, and the one who is least likely to die." He said, "If he is gone, then the world will be over."
The Four Seasons God can control the wind and rain according to the prayers and sacrifices of the believers, so that the world will be in good order, but they will not have this ability when they die. .
Fortunately, with the continuous development of human technology, the requirements for weather are not as harsh as those in ancient times, but abnormal weather is still fatal to farmers. It is conceivable that a hail or snowfall suddenly fell in the middle of summer. Crops will be fruitless.
In front of nature, human beings are humbled.
The death of Ting Shou cast a shadow of melancholy on the whole family. Lu Qingjiu was also depressed for a few days, but he quickly forced himself to cheer up. He first dried the mushrooms brought down from the mountain, and then stewed the chicken with the mushrooms. The rich aroma and taste diluted everyone's shadows about mushrooms.
At the end of September, it was the annual Mid-Autumn Festival. Lu Qingjiu felt that the atmosphere at home was not very good recently, so he greeted everyone to make a big meal together during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and then get some moon cakes and crabs to enjoy the moon.
The crabs were sent by Zhu Miaomiao. They were all round and plump. The huge crab claws and plump crab paste were all very attractive. Lu Qingjiu made moon cakes of various flavors a few days in advance, and quietly put copper coins in the moon cakes to ask for a lot of luck.
On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a large table of various dishes. The most striking is the spicy crab in the middle. This is made of meat crab. The cream is not too much, but the crab meat is plump and spicy sauce. Stir-fried together and cooked, there are still soft sweet potato fries and onions. Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu both ate a lot. In the evening, when Lu Qingjiu saw that the weather was good, he made tea and brought the moon cakes to the yard. Everyone enjoyed the moon and ate the moon cakes together. After eating the moon cake, Lu Qingjiu didn't eat the copper coins. He was a little confused, and he mumbled that he forgot his bag? Or lost the mooncakes...
Yin Xun asked Lu Qingjiu what happened.
"No, didn't you eat anything hard?" Lu Qingjiu was confused, "I put five copper coins in the moon cake... Why didn't I eat any of them."
Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu both changed their expressions.
Lu Qingjiu had a terrified guess, and looked at the two satisfied people eating moon cakes beside him in disbelief: "Hey, you two won't eat it, right?"
Yin Xun said, "I don't have it."
Bai Yuehu: "Me neither."
Lu Qingjiu was very suspicious and wanted to see something from their expressions, but Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu both looked innocent, making Lu Qingjiu wonder if he had misunderstood them.
"You really didn't eat?" Lu Qingjiu confirmed again.
"No." Yin Xun said, "I can't bite."
Bai Yuehu also shook his head.
Lu Qingjiu had no choice but to give up, and no longer struggled with this matter.
Just waiting for Lu Qingjiu to enter the room to get hot water and prepare tea, Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu looked at each other, and both saw their guilty conscience in each other's eyes. Yin Xun whispered, "I ate two..." He Thinking it was rock candy, I swallowed it whole.
Bai Yuehu stretched out three fingers. He was much more brutal than Yin Xun. He didn't notice the copper coins at all. He just felt that the filling was a little hard, and then he crunched and swallowed it all.
After the two of them finished speaking, Lu Qingjiu just came back, and their expressions changed back to the calmness they had before, pretending that nothing happened.
It seems that Lu Qingjiu's luck is not very good. He didn't eat a single copper coin. As for what he has eaten... Does he eat it if he swallows it
The author has something to say: Yin Xun: This piece is a bit big, so if you swallow it, it will be fine.
Bai Yuehu: This one is a bit hard, it will be fine if you chew it.
Lu Qingjiu: Meow meow? ?
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