Fantasy Farm Chapter 88

Published at 1st of May 2022 05:08:59 PM

The Dragon Boat Festival is a festival that still has a strong presence in modern times. There are many things to do, including eating zongzi, rowing dragon boats and warding off the five poisons. Lu Qingjiu started preparing early, buying herbs to hang on the doorstep of his house, and buying zongzi leaves and glutinous rice to wrap zongzi in various flavours.

Zhu Miaomiao came to Shuifu Village during the Dragon Boat Festival, and ever since she tasted the most natural food in Shuifu Village, she has never forgotten the taste of it, and almost always goes there whenever she can. Some of her colleagues at work joked about her and Lu Qingjiu, asking if she was secretly in love with Lu Qingjiu, or why she was so attached to the village. Zhu Miaomiao expressed her disdain for such a statement, saying, "Laugh at me now, and don't beg me in tears when I bring back the honey and hairspray."

When they heard about honey and hair lotion, the people in the unit instantly changed their attitude towards Zhu Miaomiao and begged Zhu Miaomiao to be generous and not to bother with their cheap mouths. I don't blame them for being snobbish, the hair lotion is not even available on the internet, and the honey is not only great tasting, but also has a beauty effect. No matter how many pimples you have on your face, you can apply a layer of honey and sleep on it, and the next day the pimples will be gone. If you have acne-free skin, the honey will make your skin smooth and soft, and even your wrinkles will fade away.

The honey has been so well received by the women of the company for its beauty benefits that they had to work overtime on Dragon Boat Festival, but Zhu Miaomiao's bosses gave her the day off, just to ask for a small jar of honey to take home to her wife.

Zhu Miaomiao was also given three days off and returned to Shuifu Village with a large bag of snacks and fruit.

Zhu Miaomiao and Lu Qingjiu chatted as they got into Lu Qingjiu's minivan. What her colleague said to her this time reminded her of something: Lu Qingjiu is already 27 or 28 years old and still hasn't got a girlfriend.

"It's settled." Lu Qingjiu stared ahead at the road without looking away.

"Ah," Zhu Miaomiao froze for three seconds before she realized the meaning of Lu Qingjiu's words and immediately shouted, "solved, solved what do you mean you've fallen in love with someone, why didn't you tell me?"

Lu Qingjiu was calm: "You'll know when you go."

Zhu Miaomiao watched Lu Qingjiu's expression with suspicion: "I remember Shuifu Village doesn't have many young girls, it's all old men and women, do you"

Lu Qingjiu was a bit helpless: "It's not Big Mother."

Zhu Miaomiao: "Damn, if it's not a mum, is it a dad, then you're too much of a brute."

Lu Qingjiu :""

Zhu Miaomiao: "Brother, don't be silent, I'm a bit scared."

Lu Qingjiu was in tears, but he didn't want to say anything more to Zhu Miaomiao, he just let her see for herself when she arrived. Zhu Miaomiao was in an apprehensive mood all the way, afraid that Lu Qingjiu would do something horny. After all, she couldn't accept that her friend was having an affair with an older woman in her fifties.

When they arrived at home, Yin Xun helped carry Zhu Miaomiao's large bag of things off the bus. Zhu Miaomiao took the opportunity to ask Yin Xun, saying, "Hey, Yin Xun, I heard that Sake is in love."

Yin Xun said, "Yes."

Zhu Miaomiao: "So how old is his love interest?"

Yin Xun was bending over to carry something, but when he heard this he looked a bit strange and said, "Why are you asking this?"

Zhu Miaomiao said, "I'm just worried about Qingjiu, I'm afraid he'll find someone too old. There don't seem to be many young people in the village.

Yin Xun thought about it, and to be honest, he didn't really know Bai Yuehu's age, but since Bai Yuehu was in Lu Qingjiu's grandma's generation

When he came to the human world, then he should be considered to be from his grandmother's generation, so he didn't think much of it and said what he thought.

Zhu Miaomiao :""

Yin Xun: " Zhu Miaomiao, why are you opening your mouth so wide."

Zhu Miaomiao reached out with difficulty, lifted her chin and said in a trembling voice, "How old did you say Lu Qingjiu's love interest was?"

Yin Xun: "Didn't I tell you, his grandma's generation."

Zhu Miaomiao: "How big"

Yin Xun: "It's bigger than Lu Qingjiu anyway."

Zhu Miaomiao's consciousness blurred and a guttering old face already appeared in her mind, she barely managed to steady her mind, gave a smile that looked like a cry and said, "OK, I'll support him no matter what decision Qingju makes."

Yin Xun looks at Zhu Miaomiao with a puzzled expression, thinking that Zhu Miaomiao already knew about Lu Qingjiu and Bai Yuehu's relationship, after all, Zhu Miaomiao is Lu Qingjiu's best friend and has always known about the unusual objects in their family.

Zhu Miaomiao carried a box of baby pineapples and slowly walked into the courtyard, her eyes slowly glancing around before she let out a breath. She did not see the old man she had imagined, sitting in the courtyard with a kind smile on his face, which made her feel much better.

"Sit down, I'll get you a glass of milk." Lu Qingjiu rolled up his sleeves and planned to cook, "I made braised pork and cassoulet for lunch, do you have anything else you want to eat?"

Zhu Miaomiao wants to say something but doesn't.

"Why," Lu Qingjiu questioned strangely, "are you still polite with me Bai Yuehu, go and get my apron, the one I washed and hung out in the backyard yesterday."

Bai Yuehu got up and went to the backyard.

"Qingjiu, tell me honestly, is the person you're in a relationship with particularly 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 it over, he realised that Bai Yuehu was quite old, so he froze for a few seconds, not knowing what to say.

"Qingjiu, you can't make do with what you have, even if you have to." Zhu Miaomiao took Lu Qingjiu's silence as a tacit acknowledgement, and said bitterly, "It's hard to find a three-legged toad, but there are two-legged people everywhere. How can you do that to an old lady?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "He's not a 50 or 60 year old woman."

Zhu Miaomiao said, "Oh yes, Yin Xun said, it's your grandma's generation, so it must be about seventy."

Lu Qingjiu: ""You should add a zero after the seventy

Bai Yuehu, who had picked up an apron from the backyard, happened to be walking behind Lu Qingjiu and was naturally intending to help him put it on.

"Zhu Miaomiao understood the meaning of Lu Qingjiu's expression and found it unacceptable, she thought that seventy was the limit of what she could accept, but now Lu Qingjiu hesitated to say anything. This was no longer a question of freedom of love, it was a breakthrough in human ethics.

Lu Qingjiu said, "Calm down for a moment and let me explain."

Zhu Miaomiao was in tears: "I won't listen, I won't listen, how can you find an old woman of 80 or 90 years old? If you really don't have a girl to love, a boy is not bad, look at Bai Yuehu, she is so beautiful, it's the same when the lights are off."

Lu Qingjiu: "Pfft"

Zhu Miaomiao: "The breasts are a little flatter and the bottom is a little bigger, but the skin still looks very smooth."

Bai Yuehu :""

"Really, you really think Bai Yuehu is good" Lu Qingjiu couldn't help himself and burst out laughing.

Zhu Miaomiao didn't understand what Lu Qingjiu was laughing at and thought he didn't take his words seriously: "Don't, I'm serious, look at Bai Yuehu, he can farm, he's not bad looking either, he's really better than old ladies, isn't he?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "And what is the oldest age you can accept?"

Zhu Miaomiao looked at Lu Qingjiu with suspicion and thought for a while before extending three fingers, and then, fearing that he was being too harsh, he weakly extended another one: "Just don't exceed forty."

Lu Qingjiu: "So strict"

Zhu Miaomiao: "Damn, fifty years old can be my mother and this is still strict, Lu Qingjiu, you wake up a little bit."

Lu Qingjiu laughed so hard that tears came out of his eyes, patting Bai Yuehu on the shoulder as he laughed and said, "What should I do, Fox, you're so much older than me, you don't meet the criteria."

Bai Yuehu looks slyly at Zhu Miaomiao, not sure whether he should thank her for recommending him or hate her for being so demanding about the age range.

When Zhu Miaomiao heard Lu Qingjiu's words and saw the way they were looking at each other, he got a taste for it and wondered, "Hey, what's going on, are you two"

"Okay, no more jokes." Lu Qingjiu stood up straight and pointed at Bai Yuehu, "I'm in love with him."

Zhu Miaomiao :""

Lu Qingjiu said, "He is not human, he should be older than my grandma to be exact, as to how old he is, I don't know."

Zhu Miaomiao :""

Lu Qingjiu said, "Is there anything else you want to ask?"

Zhu Miaomiao looked Bai Yuehu up and down for a while, and finally, after holding his tongue for half a day, he came out with the sentence, "He's not a human being, so you have to tell me what he is, right?"

Lu Qingjiu thought for a moment and decided to help Bai Yuehu sew on his waistcoat that he was determined not to tear: "Vixen."

"Oh oh oh, it's the fox spirit from Liaozhai. Zhu Miaomiao had a flash of light, "Is Su Xi one of his kin? Bai Yuehu's prototype must be a furry one too."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Not really," but at least the ears are still furry.

Zhu Miaomiao smiled brightly, smiling like a mother watching her older son solve his personal problems: "That's great, that's great, it's great not to have any old ladies in their eighties."

Lu Qingjiu laughed, "Well, ask what flavour of milk you want and I'll go and get it for you."

Zhu Miaomiao waved her hand to indicate that she was free to do as she pleased. She was not interested in milk, but wanted to get to know Bai Yuehu.

Lu Qingjiu said goodbye helplessly and got up to get the milk for Zhu Miaomiao.

When Zhu Miaomiao came to the house, the family was much more lively and Lu Qingjiu cooked a big table with a lot of good food and a few bottles of wine. We all ate and chatted, and the atmosphere was very happy. After Zhu Miaomiao finished her meal, she went to see Qin Yuan, who produced her favourite honey in the backyard. When she found out about Qin Yuan's system of working five days off and no overtime on holidays, she expressed her envy of their life, saying that she was exploited by capitalism every day, and that she only got three days off in exchange for their honey.

So Lu Qingjiu watched as Zhu Miaomiao, a social animal being squeezed, and Qin Yuan, who hated his job, met and passionately exchanged contact details.

Yin Xun whispered next to me, "Why haven't I seen Zhu Miaomiao so enthusiastic about me?"

Lu Qingjiu says, "That's the wrong way to get rid of your acne."

Yin Xun: "Ha"

Lu Qingjiu said, "If eating your food could eliminate the pox without diarrhea, she would treat you the same way."

Yin Xun was left speechless, with the illusion that he had seen through the nasty business of the world.

Bai Yuehu, who is several hundred years old, washes the dishes and sits in the courtyard, as slowly as before, in the sun, ready for his lunch break. Lu Qingjiu leans over him and asks him for his evening menu.

Zhu Miaomiao wiped away a tear from the corner of her eye at the sight of the two getting along, saying that Lu Qingjiu had finally grown up and knew how to abuse dogs.

Yin Xun asked blankly, "What kind of dog abuse is dog abuse?"

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Zhu Miaomiao said compassionately, "Silly boy, of course it's a single dog like you."

Yin Xun :""

For the evening meal, Lu Qingjiu made zongzi (rice dumplings), the most appropriate food for the Dragon Boat Festival. After dinner, Lu Qingjiu washed the stone mortar, which had not been used for a long time, and took it out into the courtyard, then put the steamed glutinous rice into the stone mortar to make some mochi. At the Duanwu Festival, not only do they eat zongzi, but they also eat mochi, which is made by hammering glutinous rice into a sticky liquid in the stone mortar and then kneading it into small balls. The dough can be steamed and eaten with soybean noodles, or it can be covered with a layer of egg wash and then fried over a low heat and sprinkled with thick brown sugar. The soft texture of the patties and the long, thin strands that come out when you bite into them make them a favourite sweet treat for children.

However, when Lu Qingjiu was a child, glutinous rice was expensive and her grandmother was not too well, so she could only eat it once during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Yin Xun wanted to be the one to turn the glutinous rice, but Lu Qingjiu refused, saying what if he accidentally hit his hand.

Yin Xun was touched and said it was okay, she basically had no pain, Lu Qingjiu said mercilessly, "That's not what I meant, what I meant was if your hand got mixed in with the mochi, we would have diarrhoea after eating it."

Yin Xun: "" Lu Qingjiu, you have changed.

Zhu Miaomiao was a girl, and a family of men couldn't let her do it, so in the end it fell to Bai Yuehu, who reached out to turn the glutinous rice, and Lu Qingjiu to hammer it. Lu Qingjiu was careful at first, but he hadn't used the tool for so long that he accidentally smashed the tsubaki into Bai Yuehu's hand, and when his heart tightened, he saw Bai Yuehu frown and whisper, "Not good."

Lu Qingjiu said nervously, "Is everything okay? Is your hand okay? I should lighten it up." Before he could finish his sentence, he realised that the tsubaki in his hand was missing a piece, while Bai Yuehu's slender hands were fine, not even a red mark.

"It's broken." Bai Yuehu looked up innocently, his tone a little cautious, "It's okay, right?"

Lu Qingjiu: "It's okay, let's continue."

Then Lu Qingjiu and Bai Yuehu both became more careful as they feared that if they hammered Bai Yuehu's hand a few more times, the patties would be broken before they came out.

By the time the patties were ready, it was completely dark and Yin Xun yawned and said goodbye to them. Lu Qingjiu also went to wash up and went to bed with Bai Yuehu.

The next morning, Lu Qingjiu woke up early and fried the patties he had prepared last night with an egg wash until they were golden on both sides, and prepared soy bean noodles and brown sugar. Lu Qingjiu also asked Yin Xun to make soya bean milk, and after all the food was ready, everyone sat down to eat.

Zhu Miaomiao was very impressed with the patties, which were made by hand, unlike the machine-made ones, and the rice was also made from good rice, which was full of rice flavour.

Lu Qingjiu had a meat dumpling, this year's meat dumpling was purposefully large, with strips of meat as thick as the head of a finger, and the most wonderful thing was that the fatty meat was heated and turned into a hot liquid, soaking into the glutinous rice.

But glutinous rice is always the most filling thing, and Lu Qingjiu was full after eating two fist-sized dumplings, but Zhu Miaomiao had eaten a lot of patties, and was so full that she had to eat another dumpling, and finally collapsed in her chair, shaking her head and grunting that she couldn't eat any more, and that she would have to die.

Lu Qingjiu laughed, "Take it easy, don't spoil your stomach."

Yin Xun was eating zongzi, but he also teased Bai Yuehu, saying that the custom of Dragon Boat is to eat zongzi and row dragon boats, but there are no dragon boats, so can we use dragons to make up for it?

Bai Yuehu slowly put down his chopsticks and said gently, "Do you want to try it?"

Yin Xun: "Brother, I'm just kidding."

Lu Qingjiu is laughing beside him.

After dinner, everyone went off to do their own thing, but Lu Qingjiu wanted to clean up the house and do a big sweep. In folklore, the month of May is the time when the five poisons breed and it is necessary to clean all the corners of the house to prevent poisonous insects from breeding in the house. From a scientific point of view, June is a time of good rainfall, the climate is also relatively humid, there are indeed suitable conditions for mosquitoes to breed.

Lu Qingjiu is in charge of the front yard, Yin Xun is in charge of the house, and Bai Yuehu has taken Zhu Miaomiao to the fields to plant.

Lu Qingjiu is sweeping the dust and cobwebs from the corners with a broom and is working with his head down when he hears a knock at the door.

"Who is it?" Lu Qingjiu asked.

"Bai Yuehu is here" came Zhu Rong's voice from outside.

"Come in, he's not here, he's just gone to the field." Lu Qingjiu said, "What can I do for you?"

He had just finished speaking when he saw Zhu Rong pushing his way through the door. Zhu Rong was carrying something in his hands, his face was very grave, and his body smelt strongly of blood, which was not visible because of the red clothes he was wearing, but Lu Qingjiu noticed that there were some more wet marks on the hem of his shirt.

"I have something to say to Bai Yuehu." Zhu Rong said, "He's in the ground."

"Yes." Lu Qingjiu saw what Zhu Rong was carrying in his hand, at first he thought it was a piece of wood, but after a closer look his expression froze it was actually a shrunken dragon's claw. It was being carried by Zhu Rong like cargo, with red blood slowly sliding off it and dripping into the black earth.

"What is this?" Lu Qingjiu had a bad feeling in his heart.

Zhu Rong looked at Lu Qingjiu for a moment: "You know Bai Yuehu's true form."

Lu Qingjiu nods his head.

"Then of course I should recognise what it is." Zhu Rong replied coldly.

Lu Qingjiu said, "It's the dragon's claw. It's the prisoner dragon."

Zhu Rong does not speak, but sometimes silence is an answer. Lu Qingjiu thinks of the last time he saw his grandfather Ao Run, a few months ago, when he seemed to want to remind himself of something, but was interrupted by Bai Yuehu, who had arrived. But he did not expect to see his grandfather again in Zhu Rong, who had broken one of his claws.

Zhu Rong knew from Lu Qingjiu's expression that Lu Qingjiu must also know the truth, and he said lightly, "Although he is your grandfather, he is also the one who abandoned your grandma and ate your parents, so why do you need to have feelings for him"

Lu Qingjiu frowned and did not say anything.

"He could have refuted it, but didn't." Zhu Rong said, "So it must have been done before he would admit it." He sighed slightly, "It's just that there's no point in me talking to you about this." He turned around and was about to leave.

Lu Qingjiu

Standing behind him, he could not take his eyes off those dragon claws for a moment. He had seen Bai Yuehu's claws before, beautiful and clean, with sharp claws that looked like sharp knives, penetrating with a cold aura. But the one Zhu Rong carried in his hand was covered in scars, large and small, and two claws had even split down the middle, clearly having been badly wounded. Inside the fingers, there were dust and stones, which reminded Lu Qingjiu of Bai Yuehu's scales, which had not been cleaned for a long time.

"Has he been caught?" Lu Qingjiu couldn't resist asking this question before Zhu Rong left.

Zhu Rong turned back on his heels and said, "Do you want him to be caught?"

"I don't know." Lu Qingjiu replied.

"No." Zhu Rong's red eyes seemed to burn with fire, but his voice was cold, like a whistling wind that chilled the heart, "But I would have preferred that he had been caught sooner."

Lu Qingjiu frowned.

"He is going to die if he continues to run away." Zhu Rong said, "He refuses to come back and hurt people, so he can only get hurt again and again." He looked at the claw still dripping blood in his hand and actually laughed to himself, "This time it's a claw, next time, maybe it's the dragon's head."

Lu Qingjiu was silent, for some reason, the man's words were so vicious, but Lu Qingjiu felt an indescribable sadness in his cold, hard expression, as if he was watching a miracle fall.

The author has something to say: Lu Qingjiu: It's not the old lady I like.

Zhu Miaomiao: That's great.

Lu Qingjiu: It's the old man

Zhu Miaomiao Bai Yuehu: The

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