After lunch, Xiaohai and Brother Qiang came to Yingying and brought a new mobile phone for Yingying.

"This is the latest, vodafoneX type, I specially picked out cherry blossom powder for you, do you like it?" Xiaohai enthusiastically introduced Yingying.

"This shows that Xiaohai is biased, just buy it for friends, and choose it carefully when you buy it......" Brother Qiang sneered with his eyebrows.

"Hey, Brother Qiang, don't talk nonsense, our two mobile phones are the same, where is the eccentricity?" Xiao Hai retorted.

Xiaohai and Brother Qiang were still arguing, but Yingying didn't have the heart to listen.

The three of them studied the use of mobile phones together, added each other's numbers, and this communication line was officially built.

"What are you thinking?" When Brother Qiang secretly went to the kitchen to look for delicious food, Xiao Hai saw that Yingying had been distracted today, and asked softly.

"Xiaohai, do you know what shrines there are here?" asked Ying Ying with her chin propped up.

Xiao Haidao: "Shrines, there are all the streets and alleys of Fusang, why do you suddenly ask about this?"

He saw that Yingying had been in a state of mind today, and he had already guessed in his heart that it was related to this problem.

"Oh, no, nothing. I heard Mrs. Ito mention it today, so I'm curious......"

Ying Ying knows that Xiaohai and Brother Qiang are friends who sacrifice their lives and forget death and can accompany her in weal and pain.

Especially by the lake, after Xiao Hai risked her own safety for her and blocked her, she regarded him as a lifelong friend in her heart.

However, Uncle Bi said that the matter of the jade pendant is very important, and many people are coveting it, which is a very dangerous thing.

She didn't want her friends to be innocently involved in this incident, and she didn't want to add another burden to them who were already nervous.

So, she decided now that she would not explain it to Xiao Hai, and wait until everything was over, and then tell the truth, hoping that at that time, Xiao Hai would be able to forgive her.

"If you want to go, I'll take you to see it one day, the shrine in Fuso is quite interesting and worth visiting. Xiao Hai said.

"Yes, yes. Ying Ying smiled and nodded.

Xiaohai and Brother Qiang sat for a while, and then left, saying that there were still some procedures to be done in the language school.

When Xiaohai was leaving, he also asked him to call or text him immediately if there was anything, and Ying Ying agreed one by one.

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After dinner, Mrs. Ito asked Ying Ying to go to the yard to help her finish the rest of the work.

She picked up the wooden box she had found in the morning, and pulled open the board on the top layer of the wooden box in front of Ying Ying, who saw that there were a lot of delicate, varnish, and shiny wood molds inside.

There are flower shapes, animal shapes, leaves, insects, and so on.

Mrs. Ito rummaged through the wooden box for a while, muttering, "Ahhhhhh ”

She took out a vermilion wood mold, and Ying Ying looked at it, it was a mold with five petals and a nine-stamen flower heart pattern.

"This is the mold for the cherry blossom cake, which my grandmother passed on to me. Mrs. Ito said with her eyes lit up.

Ying Ying looked at the mold and liked it.

Mrs. Ito opened the mold, took a pink ball of noodles and put it in it, placed the mold on the stone table, and pressed it slightly, and when it was opened, the pink ball turned into a blooming flower.

Ying Ying looked very fond of it, and Mrs. Ito handed her the mold when she saw this, and asked her to try it too.

"This weekend is the cherry blossom festival, and we are making cherry blossom cakes today to worship the cherry blossom god.

Sacrifices to the gods cannot be made of ordinary materials, they must be the purest and most natural.

The glutinous rice flour, sugar and red beans used are all irrigated with mountain spring water and handmade.

When these materials have spirituality, they become monsters, and today's glutinous rice balls are, what a trouble......" Mrs. Ito began to speak in Fuso again.

"My great-grandmother used to be a goddess who guarded the shrine, and according to her, every year when the cherry blossom festival arrives in Okutamagawa Town, people from all over Fuso come to see it, and the sight is spectacular.

Everyone worships the god of cherry blossoms, buys cherry blossom cakes, and ties ema to the cherry blossom tree, praying for happiness and family harmony for their offspring.

It is said that during the cherry blossom festival, when you look at us from Mt. Fuji, you can see a pink cloud covering the entire mountain, so we call this mountain Mt. Unsakura here. ”

Mrs. Ito pressed the cherry blossoms and said to herself:

"But it is said that at the end of the 30s, there was a year when the cherry blossoms suddenly stopped blooming, and not a single cherry blossom bloomed on the entire mountain, and it was as if they were dead.

At that time, my great-grandmother was so anxious that she searched for the best tree doctor in Fusang, wrote a lot of spiritual runes, and asked the monks to recite countless sutras, but it didn't work.

Gradually, the cherry blossoms all over the country are not blooming. Over time, people in many areas no longer celebrate cherry blossom festivals, but instead peach blossom festivals and apricot blossom festivals.

However, the cherry blossom festival here continues every year. I hope that one day, Sakurajin will forgive us for the mistakes we have committed and come back to us......"

Ying Ying knew that Mrs. Ito was nagging alone, so she didn't know when she could ask questions, so she hurriedly took out a piece of paper prepared in advance and handed it to Mrs. Ito.