The Dragon Boat Festival is a festival that still has strong characteristics in modern times. Eating zongzi, rowing dragon boats, and expelling the five poisons, there are quite a few things to do. Lu Qingjiu started preparations early, bought herbs to hang at the door of his house, bought zongzi leaves and glutinous rice, and wrapped zongzi of various flavors.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, Zhu Miaomiao took advantage of the holiday to come to Shuifu Village. Since she tasted the most natural food in Shuifu Village, she could never forget this wonderful taste, and ran here almost as soon as she had time. There were colleagues in the unit who didn't know the truth and joked about her and Lu Qingjiu, asking her if she was secretly dating Lu Qingjiu, or why she was so reluctant to part with that backcountry. For this statement, Zhu Miaomiao expressed great disdain and said, "You can laugh at me now, and don't cry and beg me when I bring the honey and hair tonic."
As soon as they heard the honey and hair growth water, the people in the unit instantly changed their attitude towards Zhu Miaomiao, and they all begged Lord Zhu Miaomiao to have a lot of it, so don't bother with them who are cheap. No wonder they are snobbish. Needless to say, the hair growth lotion can't be grabbed at all on the Internet. As for the honey, the taste is not only good, but also the beauty effect. No matter how many pimples there are on the face, apply a layer of honey to sleep, and the pimples will be gone the next day. And if it is acne-free skin, after applying this honey, the skin will become smooth and soft, and even the wrinkles will be reduced a lot.
Because of the beauty effect of this honey, it has been warmly loved by the majority of female compatriots in the company. Originally, she had to work overtime during the Dragon Boat Festival, but the executive above Zhu Miaomiao made an exception to give her a holiday, just for the sake of such a small pot of honey. Go home to please your wife.
Zhu Miaomiao also got a three-day vacation and returned to Shuifu Village with a large package of snacks and fruits.
After getting into Lu Qingjiu's minivan, Zhu Miaomiao and Lu Qingjiu chatted. What my colleague said to her this time reminded her of one thing. This Lu Qingjiu is twenty-seven and eighty-eight, and she hasn't made a girlfriend yet. Shuifu There are so few people in the village, and they don't know how to solve his life-long event.
"It's resolved." Lu Qingjiu looked at the road ahead without looking sideways.
"Ah?" Zhu Miaomiao was stunned for three seconds before realizing the meaning of Lu Qingjiu's words, and shouted, "It's settled, what does it mean? Who are you in love with, why didn't you tell me?"
Lu Qingjiu was very calm: "You will know when you go."
Zhu Miaomiao looked suspiciously at Lu Qingjiu's expression: "I remember that there aren't many young girls in Shuifu Village, they're all uncles and aunties, don't you..."
Lu Qingjiu was a little helpless: "It's not Auntie."
Zhu Miaomiao: "Fuck, isn't it aunt or uncle, then you are too beast."
Lu Qingjiu: "…"
Zhu Miaomiao: "Brother, don't stop talking, I'm a little scared."
Lu Qingjiu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he didn't want to say anything to Zhu Miaomiao, he just let her see it for himself. Zhu Miaomiao was in a very uneasy mood along the way, afraid that Lu Qingjiu would do something to eat and drink. After all, she can't stand her friend having a twilight romance with an aunt in her fifties...
When they got home, Yin Xun helped lift the large and small things that Zhu Miaomiao brought out of the car. Zhu Miaomiao took the opportunity to quickly ask Yin Xun, and said, "Hey, Yin Xun, I heard that Sake is in love."
Yin Xun said, "Yes."
Zhu Miaomiao: "Then how old is his love interest?"
Yin Xun originally bent over to pick up something, but his expression was a bit strange when he heard this. He said, "Why are you asking this?"
Zhu Miaomiao said, "I'm not worried about Sake, I'm afraid he will find someone too old... There seem to be not many young people in this village. Except for you and Lu Qingjiu, I really haven't seen any other young girls."
Yin Xun thought for a while. To be honest, he really didn't know Bai Yuehu's age, but since Bai Yuehu came to the human world when Lu Qingjiu's grandmother's generation was, it should be considered as her grandmother's generation. People, so he didn't think much, just said what he thought.
Zhu Miaomiao: "..."
Yin Xun: "...Zhu Miaomiao, why are you opening your mouth so wide?"
Zhu Miaomiao stretched out her hand with difficulty, raised her chin, and said in a trembling voice, "How old do you think Lu Qingjiu is in love with?"
Yin Xun: "Didn't I say, from his grandma's generation."
Zhu Miaomiao: "How old is it?"
Yin Xun: "...It's bigger than Lu Qingjiu anyway."
Zhu Miaomiao was confused, and an old face with ravines appeared in her mind. She barely stabilized her mind and showed a smile that seemed to be crying, saying: "Okay, no matter what decision Sake makes, I will... support him."
Yin Xun looked at Zhu Miaomiao with an inexplicable look on his face. He thought that Zhu Miaomiao had already known about Lu Qingjiu's relationship with Bai Yuehu. After all, Zhu Miaomiao was Lu Qingjiu's friend, and he always knew that there were unusual things in their house.
Zhu Miaomiao carried a box of small pineapples and slowly walked into the yard, looking around slowly before letting out a sigh of relief. She didn't see the old man she imagined, sitting in the yard with a kind smile on her face, which made her feel much better.
"Sit down, I'll pour you a glass of milk." Lu Qingjiu rolled up his sleeves and planned to cook, "I made braised pork and braised fish at noon, do you have anything else you want to eat?"
Zhu Miaomiao stopped talking.
"What?" Lu Qingjiu asked a strange question, "Are you still being polite to me? Yuehu, help me get the apron. I washed the one that was hanging in the backyard yesterday."
Bai Yuehu got up and went to the backyard.
"Sake, tell me honestly, is the person with whom you fall in love very old?" Zhu Miaomiao decided to have a showdown with Lu Qingjiu, "That's why you don't want to tell me?"
Lu Qingjiu's first reaction was to deny it, but after thinking about it carefully, he realized... Bai Yuehu's age is really quite old, so he was stunned for a few seconds, not knowing what to say.
"Sake, no matter how much you make it, you can't make it this way." Zhu Miaomiao only took Lu Qingjiu's silence as a default, and suddenly said with a heartache, "This... these three-legged toads are hard to find, and there are no two-legged people everywhere. Is it all right? Look, our family doesn’t have much money, but it’s enough. We also have a house and land. It’s not difficult to get a daughter-in-law. How can you let it go?"
Lu Qingjiu hurriedly said, "He's not an aunt in her fifties or sixties!"
Zhu Miaomiao said, "Oh yes, Yin Xun said that it was from your grandma's generation, so there must be more than seventy."
Lu Qingjiu: "..." You add a zero after seventy, right
Bai Yuehu took the apron from the backyard, happened to walk behind Lu Qingjiu, and planned to help Lu Qingjiu tie it up naturally. After hearing Zhu Miaomiao's words, the movement of his hand paused slightly, and he didn't know what to think.
"Seventy? Bigger than seventy?" Zhu Miaomiao understood the meaning of Lu Qingjiu's expression, and immediately felt unacceptable. She felt that seventy was the limit she could accept, but now Lu Qingjiu hesitated and did not answer, could it be that His lover is an old lady in her eighties? Then she really had to faint on the spot. This is no longer a question of freedom or freedom in love. It completely breaks through the ethical limits of human beings...
Lu Qingjiu said, "...You calm down first and listen to my explanation."
Zhu Miaomiao cried: "I don't listen, I don't listen, how can you find an old lady in her 80s or 90s, if you really don't like a girl, isn't it a good boy? Look at Bai Yuehu, he looks so tall Shui Ling, isn't it the same when the lights are turned off?"
Lu Qingjiu: "Pfft..."
Zhu Miaomiao: "The chest is a little flatter and the bottom is a little bigger, but the skin still looks very smooth."
Bai Yuehu: "..."
"Really, do you really think Bai Yuehu is good?" Lu Qingjiu couldn't help it, and laughed outright.
Zhu Miaomiao still didn't understand what Lu Qingjiu was laughing at, thinking that he didn't take his own words seriously: "Don't, I'm serious, you can see that Bai Yuehu can still farm the land, and he's not bad. Having a kitchen... is much better than an old lady or something."
Lu Qingjiu said, "Then what's the oldest age you can accept?"
Hearing this, Zhu Miaomiao was very vigilant, looked at Lu Qingjiu suspiciously, thought for a while, then stretched out three fingers, after that, she was afraid that her requirements were too strict, and weakly stretched out another: "Just... No more than forty."
Lu Qingjiu: "So strict?"
Zhu Miaomiao: "Damn, you can be my mother at the age of fifty! It's still strict, Lu Qingjiu, sober up."
Lu Qingjiu burst out laughing, tears came out of his laughter, he patted Bai Yuehu on the shoulder while laughing, and said, "What should I do, Hu'er, you are so much older than me, you don't meet the standard."
Bai Yuehu looked at Zhu Miaomiao with a faint gaze, not knowing whether he should thank her for recommending him, or hate her for having such strict requirements on the age range.
Zhu Miaomiao heard Lu Qingjiu's words, and then looked at the two people's eyebrows and tasted it, and said doubtfully, "Hey, what's going on, the two of you... Could it be..."
"Okay, stop joking." Lu Qingjiu straightened his body and pointed at Bai Yuehu, "I'm in love with him."
Zhu Miaomiao: "..."
Lu Qingjiu said, "He is not a human being. To be precise, he should be older than my grandma. As for how old he is, I don't know."
Zhu Miaomiao: "..."
Lu Qingjiu said, "Is there anything else you want to ask?"
Zhu Miaomiao looked at Bai Yuehu up and down, and finally held back for a long time before saying, "He's not a human being, so you have to tell me what he is."
Lu Qingjiu pondered for a moment, and decided to help Bai Yuehu sew his resolute waistcoat: "Fox spirit."
"Oh oh oh, it's the kind of fox spirit in Liao Zhai, no wonder it looks so good." Zhu Miaomiao had a flash of inspiration, "Is Su Xi his kin? Ah... The prototype of Bai Yuehu must also be furry."
Lu Qingjiu said, "Hmm... Forget it? Right?" At least the ears are still fluffy.
Zhu Miaomiao smiled brightly, like a mother watching her older son solve his personal problems: "That's great, great, it's great that there are no old ladies in their 80s."
Lu Qingjiu smiled and said, "Okay, let me ask you what kind of milk you want to drink, and I'll get it for you."
Zhu Miaomiao waved her hand to express her casualness. She has no interest in milk, and now she wants to know more about Bai Yuehu. After all, Bai Yuehu seemed very cold when she came here a few times before, and she didn't do much chat. Now she knew that Lu Qingjiu was there. When I fall in love with him, I naturally want to know more.
Lu Qingjiu said hello helplessly, and got up to help Zhu Miaomiao get the milk.
After Zhu Miaomiao came to the house, the house was very lively. Lu Qingjiu cooked a large table of good dishes and served a few bottles of wine. Everyone ate and chatted in a happy atmosphere. After eating, Zhu Miaomiao went to see Qinyuan, where her favorite honey was produced in the backyard. When she learned about Qinyuan's work system of five days off and two holidays without overtime, she expressed her envy for their lives, saying that she was being abused by capitalism every day. Exploitation, the three-day vacation is still exchanged for their honey.
So Lu Qingjiu just watched the squeezed social animal Zhu Miaomiao and the few Qin Yuan who hated work hit it off, and exchanged contact information passionately.
Yin Xun whispered beside him, "Why haven't I seen Zhu Miaomiao being so enthusiastic about me?"
Lu Qingjiu said, "That's because your acne treatment is wrong."
Yin Xun: "Huh?"
Lu Qingjiu said, "If you can get rid of pimples without having diarrhea after eating the food you made, she would also treat you like this."
Yin Xun was speechless for a moment. He had the illusion that he had seen through the filth in this world.
The hundreds-year-old Bai Yuehu washed the dishes and sat in the yard as leisurely as before, basking in the sun and preparing for a lunch break. Lu Qingjiu leaned beside him and asked him for the recipe for the evening.
Seeing the warm picture of the two getting along, Zhu Miaomiao wiped a tear from the corner of his eyes, saying that Lu Qingjiu had finally grown up and knew that he was abusing dogs.
Yin Xun asked blankly, "Abusing a dog? What kind of dog?"
Zhu Miaomiao said with pity: "Silly child, of course a single dog like you."
Yin Xun: "…"
Dinner in the evening, dumplings made by Lu Qingjiu, and the Dragon Boat Festival, of course, we still have to eat the food that is most suitable for the festival. After eating, Lu Qingjiu washed the stone mortar that had not been used in the house for a long time, took it to the yard, and put the steamed glutinous rice into the stone mortar, intending to make some glutinous rice cakes. On the Dragon Boat Festival here, they not only eat zongzi, but also have the custom of eating glutinous rice cakes. They use Chun to hammer the glutinous rice into a viscous liquid in a stone mortar, and then knead it into small balls. The glutinous rice cakes that have been kneaded into balls can be steamed and eaten with soy noodles, or they can be wrapped in a layer of egg liquid, then fried in a small fire and sprinkled with thick brown sugar. Ciba has a soft and glutinous taste, and when you bite it, you can pull out slender threads. It is a kind of sweet that children like when they are young.
However, when Lu Qingjiu was a child, the price of glutinous rice was relatively high, and my grandmother was not very healthy, so I could only eat it once during the Dragon Boat Festival.
Lu Qingjiu hammered the glutinous rice into a ball. Yin Xun wanted to be the one who turned the glutinous rice, but Lu Qingjiu refused, saying what to do if he accidentally hit his hand.
Yin Xun was moved and said it was okay, he basically felt no pain, Lu Qingjiu said ruthlessly, "I didn't mean that, I meant that if your hand got into the glutinous rice cake, we will have diarrhea after eating the glutinous rice cake."
Yin Xun: "..." Lu Qingjiu, you've changed.
Zhu Miaomiao lived in a girl's family, and a big man in a family couldn't let her come, so in the end it fell on Bai Yuehu, he reached out and turned the glutinous rice, and Lu Qingjiu came to hammer it. Lu Qingjiu was quite careful at first, but after all, he hadn't used this tool for too long. Once, he accidentally smashed Chun into Bai Yuehu's hand. When he was nervous, he saw Bai Yuehu frown. Voice: "Not good."
Lu Qingjiu nervously said, "Is it alright, my hands are alright! I should be light..." Before he could finish speaking, he realized that a piece of Chun was missing in his hand, while Bai Yuehu's slender hands had nothing to do with it. , not even a red mark exists.
"Broken." Bai Yuehu raised his eyes innocently, with a cautious tone, "It's okay?"
Lu Qingjiu: "...It's alright, let's continue."
Then, Lu Qingjiu and Bai Yuehu were even more careful—they were afraid that they would hit Bai Yuehu's hands a few more times, and before the glutinous rice cake came out, the Chun was already broken.
By the time the glutinous rice cakes were almost finished, the sky was completely dark, Yin Xun yawned and said goodbye to them. Lu Qingjiu also went to wash up and lay down on the same bed with Bai Yuehu to sleep.
The next morning, Lu Qingjiu woke up early, fried the glutinous rice cake prepared last night until golden on both sides, and prepared soybean noodles and brown sugar. The dumplings were also steamed a lot, both sweet and salty. Lu Qingjiu also asked Yin Xun to make soy milk. After all the food was ready, everyone sat at the table and started eating.
Zhu Miaomiao is full of praise for this glutinous rice cake. It is different from the machine made, and it is more elastic when it is made by hand. The rice is also made of good rice. It is full of rice fragrance when chewing in the mouth. It is served with thick brown sugar and fragrant soybean noodles. Zhu Miaomiao eats it. of can't stop.
Lu Qingjiu ate a meat zongzi. This year's meat zongzi was specially made to be very large. The meat inside was as thick as a finger. The most wonderful thing was that the fat and thin were alternated. After heating, the fat completely turned into a scalding liquid. , soaked in the glutinous rice, take a bite, you can feel the gravy filling the whole mouth.
But glutinous rice has always been the most filling, fist-sized zongzi, Lu Qingjiu is full after eating two, Zhu Miaomiao ate a lot of glutinous rice cake, and forced another zongzi down, and finally completely collapsed on the chair, shaking his head. Humph said that she couldn't eat it, and she would have to kill herself if she ate it again.
Lu Qingjiu smiled and said, "Just take it easy, don't spoil your stomach."
Yin Xun was eating zongzi, and he still didn't forget to tease Bai Yuehu, saying that the custom of this Dragon Boat Festival is to eat zongzi and row a dragon boat. There is no dragon boat, can you make do with a dragon...
Bai Yuehu slowly put down his chopsticks and said gently, "Do you want to try it?"
Yin Xun: "...Brother, I'm just joking."
Lu Qingjiu smiled beside him.
After dinner, everyone went to do their own things. Lu Qingjiu planned to clean up the house and do a big cleaning. The Dragon Boat Festival has the habit of going to the five poisons. In folklore, the fifth month of the lunar calendar is the season for the breeding of the five poisons. At this time, it is necessary to clean the corners of the house to prevent the breeding of poisonous insects at home. From a scientific point of view, June is a time when the rain is relatively abundant and the climate is relatively humid, so there are indeed suitable conditions for mosquito breeding.
Lu Qingjiu was in charge of the front yard, Yin Xun was in charge of the house, and Bai Yuehu took Zhu Miaomiao to farm.
Lu Qingjiu held a broom, swept away the dust and cobwebs in the corner, and was working with his head down, when he heard a knock on the door.
"Who?" Lu Qingjiu asked.
"Is Bai Yuehu here?" Zhu Rong's voice came from outside.
"Come in, he's not here, he went to the field just now." Lu Qingjiu said, "Is something wrong?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Zhu Rong pushing the door and entering. Zhu Rong was holding something in his hand. The expression on his face was very solemn, and there was a strong smell of blood on his body. He couldn't see the blood, but Lu Qingjiu still noticed that there were some wet marks on the hem of his clothes.
"I have something to tell Bai Yuehu." Zhu Rong said, "Is he in the ground?"
"Yes." Lu Qingjiu saw what Zhu Rong was holding in his hand. At first he thought it was a piece of wood, but after a closer look, his expression froze... It turned out to be a shrunken dragon claw. Zhu Rong held it in his hand like a cargo, and the red blood on it slowly slipped and dripped onto the black ground.
"This... what is this?" Lu Qingjiu had a bad premonition in his heart.
Zhu Rong glanced at Lu Qingjiu: "Do you know Bai Yuehu's real body?"
Lu Qingjiu nodded.
"Of course you should recognize what this is." Zhu Rong replied coldly.
Lu Qingjiu said, "Is it the dragon claw?! Is that the prisoner dragon?"
Zhu Rong does not speak, but sometimes silence is also an answer. Lu Qingjiu remembered that the last time he saw his grandfather, Ao Run, was a few months ago. At that time, he seemed to have something to remind himself, but was interrupted by Bai Yuehu who came over. It's just that he didn't expect that when he saw his grandfather again, it was in Zhu Rong's place, and Zhu Rong actually broke his grandfather's paw.
From Lu Qingjiu's expression, Zhu Rong knew that Lu Qingjiu must also know the truth, he said lightly: "Although he is your grandfather, he is also the one who abandoned your grandmother and ate your parents, why should you have any trouble with him? emotion?"
Lu Qingjiu frowned and said nothing.
"He can refute it, but he doesn't." Zhu Rong said, "So it must be done before admitting it." He sighed slightly, "Forget it, it doesn't make sense for me to tell you this." He turned around and was about to leave.
Lu Qingjiu stood behind him, but he couldn't take his eyes off the pair of dragon claws for a moment. He had seen Bai Yuehu's dragon claws. They were beautiful, clean, and their sharp claws were like sharp knives. But the one in Zhu Rong's hand was covered with large and small scars, and even two claws were split from the middle, which was obviously severely injured. Dust and stones were mixed in between his fingers, which reminded Lu Qingjiu of the scales that Bai Yuehu hadn't cleaned for a long time.
"Has he... been caught?" Lu Qingjiu couldn't help but ask this question before Zhu Rong left.
Zhu Rong paused and turned around, "Do you want him to be caught?"
"I don't know." Lu Qingjiu replied.
"No." In Zhu Rong's red eyes, flames seemed to be burning, but his voice was cold, like a howling cold wind, and the person who blew chills, "But I would rather he be caught earlier."
Lu Qingjiu frowned.
"If he continues to escape, he will die." Zhu Rong said, "He refuses to come back, and he refuses to hurt people. He can only get hurt again and again." He smiled, "This time it's a paw, next time, maybe it's a dragon head."
Lu Qingjiu was silent. For some reason, the words of the person in front of him were obviously so vicious, but Lu Qingjiu felt an indescribable grief in his cold expression - as if he was watching a miracle fall.
The author has something to say: Lu Qingjiu: I don't like the old lady.
Zhu Miaomiao: That's great.
Lu Qingjiu: It's the old man...
Zhu Miaomiao & Bai Yuehu:…
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