Fantasy Farm Chapter 106

Published at 10th of May 2022 04:44:04 PM

As the days passed, life returned to its usual calm and uneventful state. This should be a good thing, but because of the candle dragon that has infiltrated the human world, this calm seems to be accompanied by turbulent waves, which makes people enjoy and worry at the same time.

The candle dragon has ceased to commit crimes and everything has returned to peace. The candle dragon who has curbed his desires and hidden himself in the human world is difficult to find even for the phoenix.

The summer is waning, the autumn breeze is rising and it's harvest time again.

This year the family has planted a lot of rice and the ground is brilliantly yellow, so it is finally time to harvest. The rice needs to be threshed and then hulled, and the new rice is as clean as new and has a faint fragrance. Unlike old rice that has been sitting for years, this fresh rice is delicious in any way, and they grow a more viscous variety of rice, which is perfect for making rice cakes. Lu Qingjiu powdered the rice, mixed it with water and then heated it. Lu Qingjiu took the rice cakes out to cool and decorated them with some green vegetable juice.

He gave a piece to Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu, saying that he wanted to make some rice noodles as well.

Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu were very supportive of Lu Qingjiu's proposal and said that Lu Qingjiu could do anything.

Last year Lu Qingjiu also made a lot of rice noodles, but in winter they were almost all eaten, and after that the family bought them from the town, and although they tasted good, they were a bit different from the ones they made themselves.

Rice noodles are a great ingredient for breakfast, with a chicken soup base, a sprinkling of spring onions and a few green vegetables. Lu Qingjiu loves this kind of food because it is not too greasy and is very filling.

Lu Qingjiu still has to prepare for the winter. Last year, he did not take into account some of the things he had to buy for the first time, so this year Lu Qingjiu is planning to buy a generator for his family and enough oil to ensure that the family will not lose electricity.

With the recent cooler weather and less animal activity, snakes and frogs are getting ready to hibernate and Bai Yuehu says he doesn't think we'll find any candle dragons this year.

Candle dragons actually like the heat of summer, in which they are much more active, and once autumn sets in they start to get lazy, not to mention the fact that this one has found shelter in the human realm, which makes it even more problematic.

"What then," Lu Qingjiu said, "should we let it stay in the human realm?"

"In the end, it's a candle dragon, and it will always show." Bai Yuehu said. "He can't hold back for long." The biggest difference between Candle Dragons and normal non-humans is that they have a hard time controlling their desires, whether they love or loathe them, and even if they can hold back for a while, such desires will eventually explode, and such outbursts are devastating, making it impossible for them to survive in the human realm as normal non-humans do.

Lu Qingjiu thought of the fire and was still a little worried, but he didn't say anything, he just changed his tone to reassure Bai Yuehu that he would catch Candle Dragon soon.

In September, it was time to eat fresh chestnuts again and they went to pick the wild chestnut tree in the forest as usual, this time Yin Xun wisely went to find a hat and gloves to avoid being stabbed 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 chestnut stew.

As the weather cools in autumn, more rain falls than in summer, and with the rain comes a mountain of mushrooms. These wild mushrooms are delicious, whether stewed with chicken, stir-fried, or stored in the sun. Eating wild mushrooms can be risky, but with a Yin Xun in the family, this is not a concern.

On a rainy afternoon, Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun went to the mountains to pick mushrooms with a small bamboo basket on their backs.

Bai Yuehu did not go with them, he was called by Zhu Rong to the city, and it seems that something important has happened there.

"The little girl who picks mushrooms, carrying a big bamboo basket on her back, walks barefoot through the woods and hills in the early morning" Yin Xun sings happily as she picks mushrooms.

Lu Qingjiu followed behind, saying how old you are, can 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 are quite childlike all over."

Yin Xun: "Are you complimenting me on my cuteness?"

Lu Qingjiu: "I'm scolding you for being short."

Yin Xun: "" Lu Qingjiu, you've gone bad.

Unlike the hot summer sun, the sun was warm and balmy, shining with a warm feeling on the body, and Lu Qingjiu focused on the path beneath him.

Yin Xun takes him on a path that is not usually travelled, and because it is not often travelled, the road is full of weeds and clumps of fallen leaves. On such a path, however, there are also the most mushrooms, and if you sweep the fallen leaves off the ground with a stick in your hand, you will see lovely mushrooms growing on the moist soil. If Lu Qingjiu had come on his own, he would not have dared to pick them and eat them, as there are many cases in the news of people dying from mushroom poisoning.

Not so with Yin Xun, who 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 don't worry too much.

Lu Qingjiu put the confirmed mushrooms into his back basket and said, "Yin Xun, you are amazing."

Yin Xun said, "You're a great compliment."

Lu Qingjiu says: "Did you know that there is another animal in the world that can search for precious mushrooms like you, and that the name of that mushroom is Matsutake"

Yin Xun said, "What animal?"

Lu Qingjiu: "Pig."

Yin Xun glared at Lu Qingjiu, who he found to be a really wicked and wicked person.

Lu Qingjiu pretended not to see Yin Xun's angry gaze and continued to walk slowly behind him.

The autumn breeze blows the green leaves into a beautiful golden colour, and with the wind they fall to form a beautiful blanket on the ground, and Yin Xun, who is walking ahead of us, suddenly opens his mouth and cries out in surprise: "Wine, come over here, there are so many mushrooms over here."

Lu Qingjiu said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Yin Xun didn't think much of it and started to bend down and pick them excitedly.

Lu Qingjiu said, "Why are there so many mushrooms here?"

"It could be that there is dead wood underneath." Yin Xun turned his head to Lu Qingjiu, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay." Lu Qingjiu, who also felt a little too sensitive, squatted down too, but didn't rush to pick it, instead observing the situation around him.

Yin Xun says, "These mushrooms are so fatty and non-toxic, and they taste so good in chicken stew", and in the middle of his sentence, his expression suddenly freezes and his voice stops.

" Yin Xun " Lu Qingjiu asked in doubt.

Yin Xun looked up stiffly at Lu Qingjiu, grabbed his wrist and shook his head stiffly.

"What" Lu Qingjiu was about to ask what was wrong, but after seeing Yin Xun's unbelievably frightened eyes, he seemed to lower his head as he swallowed and asked, "is there something wrong with the mushrooms"

Yin Xun nods slowly.

Lu Qingjiu lowered his eyes and looked at the place where Yin Xun had picked the mushrooms, which had been growing densely, but now a lot of them had been picked by Yin Xun, revealing a sparse foundation, and on top of the foundation, a closed eye, hidden in the mushroom bush, was actually buried underneath the mushrooms.

Yin Xun was clearly shocked, his face was white and his lips twitched, "Wine, let's go back."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Calm down and come here."

Lu Qingjiu used the stick in his hand to sweep away the mushroom bush in front of him, and when it was swept away, it revealed what was underneath.

Lu Qingjiu slowly swept the mushrooms away from the man's face, and after getting a good look at the man's face, a heart just sank.

Noticing the unusual look on Lu Qingjiu's face, Yin Xun asked Lu Qingjiu if he knew the victim.

"Well." Lu Qingjiu said, "knowing" this man, Ru Shou, the god of autumn, whom they had seen at the fair in the summer, only now he was gone, a cold corpse, nurturing other plants from his own flesh and blood, just like the generous autumn.

Lu Qingjiu's head was a little dizzy and he couldn't understand why Ru Shou was here. He took out his mobile phone and was about to call Bai Yuehu when Yin Xun let out a frightened cry and pulled Lu Qingjiu back.

"What's wrong?" Lu Qingjiu was taken aback by Yin Xun.

"His, his, his eyes are open" Yin Xun, who was already not very brave, almost fainted at the shock, "Is he going to get up from the ground?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "Calm down, I'll go and have a look."

Yin Xun said: "But"

Before Yin Xun could finish, Lu Qingjiu had carefully gone to Ru Shou's side and saw that his eyes were indeed open. Then Lu Qingjiu noticed that the mushrooms on Ru Shou's body had changed slightly, they were getting bigger and bigger, their colours were getting brighter and brighter, and finally they were spreading all over Ru Shou's body, covering all the parts except his eyes.

The next moment, Lu Qingjiu saw several ice-blue worms crawling out of his eyes. After crawling out, these ice-blue worms nibbled on the surrounding mushrooms and then began to spit out silk and transform into cocoons, wrapping themselves up.

Lu Qingjiu saw this and hurriedly stepped back, telling Yin Xun not to come any closer either.

Yin Xun asked Lu Qingjiu in a trembling voice what he had seen, and Lu Qingjiu said, "Butterflies.

As soon as he spoke, ice-blue butterflies fluttered up from Ru Shou's body. They waved their beautiful wings and flew off towards the sky, soon turning into blue dots of light and disappearing from Lu Qingjiu's view.

Lu Qingjiu didn't wait any longer and took out his mobile phone to call Bai Yuehu.

The phone rang a dozen times before it was picked up, and Bai Yuehu's voice came out of the other end of the line, calming Lu Qingjiu's heart in an unexpected way.

"Where are you?" Bai Yuehu's tone is instantly tense.

"Yin Xun and I were in the mountains." Lu Qingjiu said. Lu Qingjiu said, "After you left, we came up the mountain to pick mushrooms, and then we found Ru Shou's body." He quickly described what had happened to Ru Shou's body, and the ice-blue butterflies.

After hearing this, Bai Yuehu told Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun to go home immediately, and he returned immediately.

Lu Qingjiu hung up the phone and tried to leave with the basket, but Yin Xun said in a shaky voice, "So, should we leave him here?

"

Lu Qingjiu said, "I don't know what's going on with this corpse, let's not touch it." Although he was a quarter dragon, his powers were no different from those of a human, while Yin Xun was only a weak mountain god, so if the two of them did come across something, they would be powerless.

Yin Xun said, "Are they my mushrooms too?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "Forget it, let's leave your frame here." It wasn't that he didn't want to take it with him, but the mushrooms Yin Xun had just picked from the corpse were all mixed up with the previous ones, and they wouldn't dare to eat them even if they brought them back.

Yin Xun nodded in dismay and the two started walking home.

Along the way, Yin Xun whispered that he had not seen such a scene at all before with his Mountain God vision, nor had he sensed any unusual aura. It seemed that the non-human who had killed Ru Shou possessed a great power that had directly blocked Yin Xun's vision.

Lu Qingjiu reassured Yin Xun for a while before he managed to ease up, and it was no wonder that Yin Xun was so depressed. Someone had placed a body silently in front of them, and he had not even caught a glimpse of that person.

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Bai Yuehu returned quickly, and when he learned that Ru Shou's body was on the mountain, he hurried to the forest.

Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun waited in the courtyard, a tedious wait, and Lu Qingjiu simply found something for them to do, saying that they should wash the mushrooms they had picked today.

But when they both took out the mushrooms, they both stopped moving involuntarily and looked at each other to see the same bitter smile in their eyes. That's right, when they saw the mushrooms, they both remembered the corpses they had found in the mountains today and could say that they had no appetite at all.

Lu Qingjiu expected him to bring the body back with him, but he came back empty-handed with nothing.

"Where is the body?" Lu Qingjiu asked cautiously.

"Put it where it belongs." Bai Yuehu's face was as heavy as water, "Why did you suddenly remember to go to the mountains to pick mushrooms?"

Yin Xun said, "Yes, I suggested it."

Bai Yuehu looked at Yin Xun for a moment and pursed his lips slightly.

"We were talking about it a few days ago, but then it rained today and Yin Xun said he wanted to go pick mushrooms." Lu Qingjiu said, "I saw that you weren't there either, so I agreed." This year there has been little rain and if we don't go today, we don't know when we will have to wait until next time.

Bai Yuehu nodded his head in understanding.

"Ru Shou will also come back to life, right?" Yin Xun asked Bai Yuehu with great anticipation, remembering the killing of the God of Spring earlier.

This time, however, Bai Yuehu did not give a definitive answer.

Lu Qingjiu said, "This is not good, but Bai Yuehu sighed softly, "He will come back to life as long as the autumn is still here."

Yin Xun relaxed at this and smiled, "That would be great."

Bai Yuehu looked at Yin Xun: "But only if there is an autumn."

Lu Qingjiu doesn't understand. The four seasons are a natural part of the human world, spring, summer, autumn and winter, and as time goes on, the seasons will continue to flow. But what Bai Yuehu means is that the seasons will also disappear.

Bai Yuehu continued, "There are four seasons and the gods are born, Ju Mang for spring, Zhu Rong for summer, Ru Shou for seeking and Xuan Hei for the east, these are the rules only in the human realm." There was a touch of helplessness in his tone, "But in the Otherworld, there are no four seasons." Each of the 365 days of the year is the same, and there are no seasons.

Without the seasons, the gods who control them are no longer needed, and the dead ones, of course, do not come back to life.

Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun both understood the meaning of Bai Yuehu's words, and their eyes widened slightly, their eyes filled with disbelief.

" Bai Yuehu, you mean that if the otherworldly and human worlds merge, then the seasons will dissipate and the dead gods of the seasons will not come back to life" Lu Qingjiu said, "Is that so"

Bai Yuehu nods.

Now that the gods of spring and autumn had died, only Zhu Rong, the god of summer, and Xuan Hei, the god of winter, remained. Lu Qingjiu had met Zhu Rong but had not heard anything about Xuan Hei, so he asked about it, wanting to know about it.

In a world where spiritual power is thin and faith is fading, the Four Seasons Gods can be said to be the more abundant gods, and they are also responsible for maintaining the rules for the non-humans living in the human world. Xuan Hei should also have been a dominant deity, but he has disappeared for a long time, and no one has received any news about him, nor does anyone know whether he lives or dies.

" Zhu Rong will be all right?" Lu Qingjiu couldn't help but be worried.

"Not for now." Bai Yuehu said, " Zhu Rong is the Executioner, strong and powerful, the one least likely to die." He said, "If he too is gone, then the world is considered finished."

The gods of the four seasons can regulate the wind and rain according to the prayers and rituals of their followers, making the human world a smooth and stormy place, but they have no such power when they are dead, and the frost, wind, rain and snow are all randomly changed according to the will of heaven, and floods and droughts are all a matter of fate.

Fortunately, with the development of technology, the weather is not as demanding as it was in ancient times, but abnormal weather can still be fatal for farmers, so imagine a sudden hailstorm or snowfall in the middle of summer and the original crop will be lost.

In the face of nature, the humility of mankind is evident.

The death of Ru Shou cast a melancholy shadow over the whole family and Lu Qingjiu was depressed for a few days, but soon forced himself to pick up his spirits. He first dried the mushrooms he had brought down from the mountains and then made a chicken stew with them, the rich aroma and flavour of which washed away everyone's shadows about such food as mushrooms.

At the end of September, it was time for the annual Mid-Autumn Festival. Lu Qingjiu felt that the family had not been in a good mood lately, so he greeted the family by saying that we should all cook a big meal for the Mid-Autumn Festival and make some moon cakes and crabs to enjoy the moon.

The crabs were sent from Zhu Miaomiao and were all round and plump, with large pincers and rich crab paste. Lu Qingjiu had made the mooncakes a few days in advance, and had quietly wrapped them with copper coins to make them a lucky prize.

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, a large table of various dishes was set up, the most striking being the spicy crab in the middle, which was made of meat crab, not too much cream, but fatty crab meat, stir-fried and smothered in a spicy sauce, with soft sweet potato fries and onions smothered inside. In the evening, when Lu Qingjiu saw that the weather was good, he made tea and brought the mooncakes to the courtyard, where everyone enjoyed the moon and ate them together.

Yin Xun asked Lu Qingjiu what was wrong.

"No, you didn't eat anything hard?" Lu Qingjiu was full of confusion, "I wrapped five copper coins in the mooncake, how come I didn't eat any of them."

Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu's expressions both changed.

Lu Qingjiu had a horrified guess and looked incredulously at the two people around him who were contentedly eating the mooncakes, "Hey, you two wouldn't have eaten it, would you?"

Yin Xun said, "I didn't."

Bai Yuehu: "Neither did I."

Lu Qingjiu was suspicious, trying to see something in their expressions, but Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu both looked so innocent that Lu Qingjiu wondered if he had misunderstood them.

"You really didn't eat it," Lu Qingjiu confirmed again.

"No." Yin Xun said, "I can't bite it."

Bai Yuehu also shakes his head.

Lu Qingjiu had to give up and did not dwell on the matter.

But when Lu Qingjiu came into the room to get some hot water for the tea, Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu looked at each other and both saw weakness in each other's eyes.

Bai Yuehu stretched out three fingers, he was much more brutal than Yin Xun, not noticing the coins at all, just finding the filling slightly hard, then crunching and chewing it all down.

Lu Qingjiu returned just as the two finished speaking and their expressions once again changed back to their previous calm and unruffled appearance, pretending that nothing had happened.

It seems that Lu Qingjiu's luck is really not good, actually did not eat a single coin, and as for the one that did eat swallowed stomach is considered to have eaten

The author has something to say: Yin Xun: This piece is a bit big, swallow it and you'll be fine.

Bai Yuehu: This piece is a bit hard, but it's fine if you chew it.

Lu Qingjiu: Meow Meow Meow

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