Chapter 33: The City
One more
Strictly speaking, nothing in this world is deserved. The love of parents is still like this, let alone the care from others. For example, when it comes to shoveling snow, others help because they have a good heart, not because they should do it.
Ruan Wan, who is already not a small mental age, naturally does not have any reasonable thoughts, after she welcomed a few people in, she turned around and walked towards the kitchen: "I boiled ginger soup when I got up in the morning, you can drink a bowl first and then shovel." β
"No need. β
"yes, you're welcome. β
"Shoveling snow doesn't get cold. β
"Yes. Ruan Wan insisted on this, "It's cold, windy and wet, and it's not easy to catch a cold after taking a sip." Because of the experience of opening the door just now, she waded through the snow very lightly this time. When she walked to the kitchen, she quickly filled three bowls of ginger candy and placed them in a tray that had been prepared in advance. She deliberately added brown sugar to it, coughing, although it is usually "women in special periods" who drink this thing, but the effect of repelling the cold is really good. In one bite, not to mention the warmth from the throat to the stomach, this heat will quickly spread from the inside out, and it is very comfortable.
"Mine?!" shouted someone who had followed her into the kitchen as he counted the bowls and was a little dissatisfied
Ruan Wan rolled her eyes: "Sheng by yourself." "The well-behaved appearance in front of the adults just now is really gone. Qi teased that this guy didn't come back from the winter and summer vacations of his second year of junior high school, so this should be the first time they met after they separated. This guy's appearance has changed a little, and he has become more courageous and fat, and he actually yelled at her.
"I'm here to help you shovel ......" Qi Xuan shoutedβyes, he finally dared to yell at Ruan Wan. He shouted while cheering himself up in his heart, thinking that he Qi Xiaoxuan was also a person who had been to a big city and seen the world, how could he still be frightened by this girl? When he came back this time, an important purpose was to "reorganize the rivers and mountains" and let her see this earth-shattering change in herself!
He was thinking about it with confidence, and suddenly met Ruan Wan's disdainful eyes, only to feel that a basin of snow water fell from the sky, and the whole person was wilted, and he couldn't get up anymore. Well, he did go from lv1 to lv20, but the problem is, the boss is still the boss, and all the attributes have not been weakened at all, and they have increased.
If there's a game tone at the moment, then eighty percent is-
Player "Qi Xuan" is attacked by Ruan, Boss Wan's "Death Gaze", and all attributes are reduced by 99%. γ
Aggrieved, really aggrieved!
But he couldn't muster up the courage to resist in front of the Great Demon King. tat
So he could only look at Ruan Wan, who was leaving with a tray, smashed it, picked up a bowl from the pot table on the side, and filled himself with a bowl of ginger soup. After taking a sip, he suddenly noticed that there was a pot of tea eggs boiling on the stove next to him - there is a local custom of boiling tea eggs during the Chinese New Year, not to mention that the city is still a famous tea producing area, so the tea eggs boiled at home are even more mellow.
Qi Xuan's saliva flowed down instantly, he couldn't come back for the Chinese New Year last year, although he also boiled tea eggs at home, but the taste of his hometown can't be compared at all!
He then secretly pinched open the lid and grabbed an egg, the fire of the stove was not extinguished all night, and the egg was naturally still hot. After Qi Xuan made a "hiss" sound, he kept passing the egg in his left and right hands. And the eggshell, just in the process of a little bit of falling, well, at first glance is a veteran of eating tea eggs! After peeling the shell, he threw it into the brown sugar ginger soup, the ginger soup is reddish-brown, and the egg whites that should be white have a lot of brown lines because of boiling, and the two complement each other, which is actually very artistic.
That's the point......
Gee!
He casually took out a bamboo chopstick from the chopstick basket, picked up the egg and bit it, and sighed with satisfaction - happiness!
So when Ruan Wan came back with an empty bowl, she saw Qi Xuan, this guy squatting by the stove without any image, pulling tea eggs, and there was a small pile of eggshells on the pot next to him. She said angrily: "Brown sugar eggs, when did you get pregnant?"
ββ¦β¦ cough cough cough !!" Qi Xuan choked, and then there was an earth-shattering cough, and the whole person almost hung up.
"Hey, be careful. Ruan Wan hurriedly poured a bowl of white water for him.
Qi Xuan took the bowl, raised his neck and drank it in one gulp, finally swallowing the egg stuck in his throat. He clutched his throat, which was still a little painful, and complained: "Why don't you eat a few eggs from you, don't be so scary, I'm not pregnant!"
Ruan Wan was also speechless: "You are a man, what are you afraid of getting pregnant?"
Qi Xuan: "......" Isn't this her own aura of "staring at anyone who is pregnant" left a psychological shadow on him! During the Chinese New Year, he was said to be pregnant after eating an egg, and how will he see people in the future! Ahem, although feudal superstition is unacceptable, this girl is too evil, well, he would rather believe it than not! But he will definitely not say this, what if she is annoyed and angry? So he resolutely changed the topic and asked, "Why didn't you see your grandmother?"
"Whenever it rains or snows, my grandmother feels a little uncomfortable. Ruan Wan said with some concern, "So I'm still sleeping." "But I guess I've been woken up by now.
"Is it joint pain?" Qi Xuan said with a concerned expression, "My uncle mailed us some herbal snake oil ointment before, saying that it is particularly effective for joint pain. I'll get you some later. β
"No need. β
This was not said by Ruan Wan, but by her grandmother.
As Ruan Wan thought, she had already woken up, and after a few words with the people who were helping outside, she just happened to hear what Qi Xuan had just said when she walked to the kitchen.
"Grandma. β
"Grandma Su!" Qi Xuan blinked and jumped in front of his grandmother, "You don't have to be polite to me. Not to mention that his grandmother and Grandma Su are friends, he and Ruan Wan are also friends...... It should be, right?
Grandma looked at Qi Xuan with a smile, raised her hand and gestured: "Xiao Xuan, you have grown a lot taller in a year." As he spoke, he patted him on the shoulder again, "It's also a lot stronger." Yes, that's how young people should be. β
Qi Xuan grabbed his hair and smiled.
When he's not a bear, he's still very likable to the old man.
Ruan Wan looked at her grandmother's smiling face, and secretly scolded herself, "The second goods are always pleasing to the elderly", well, she is definitely not jealous!
After that, Qi Xuan said a few words with his grandmother, and was called away by his father - he was asked to help shovel snow, but he ran to talk to other people's old women and girls, what is the matter!
Ruan Wan looked at Qi Teabi, who was pulled by her father's ears and slipped away, that was called a schadenfreude, and then ...... was slapped on the head by his grandmother.
"Look at you, you are so sè, the teeth are laughing, ugly!"
Ruan Wan closed her mouth, looked at her grandmother with "grievances", and said pitifully: "Grandma, you don't like me anymore." β
"yes, I don't like it for a long time. β
ββ¦β¦ Then you can take me and exchange it with Grandma Qi Xuan!"
"That's not going to work. Grandma resolutely refused.
Just when Ruan Wan secretly opened the forest, she heard her grandmother say again-
"How many more things do I have to build before people want you?"
ββ¦β¦ Grandma!"She's likable, okay!
Soon after the three uncles who helped shovel the snow and Qi Xuan left, Ruan Wan was also ready to go out under the call of her friends. Her padded jacket and skirt this year were new - handmade, and the inside was thickly stuffed with cotton, no worse than a down jacket. The cotton jacket and cotton skirt are all plum blossoms on a white background, and most of these plum blossoms are grandmother's handiwork, but there are also a few flowers that she completes herself.
The cotton was pressed tightly and thickly, and it didn't look bloated at all, and she wore thick cotton pants on her legs that were covered by the skirt, which was much warmer than any leggings.
The black leather boots worn on the feet are also made by the local workshop, and the fur inside is soft and dense, so that the feet will not be cold for a day.
Ruan Wan wore this outfit, and narcissistically felt that it was really beautiful, thinking that building a snowman was nothing, she dared to climb the mountain!
So she went out in high spirits, and agreed with her friends that the meeting place was the school playground - it was useless after the holidays anyway, and it was completely enjoyable for the students.
In this regard, Snow University is a good thing for students.
When Ruan Wan arrived, Song Ting and Yu Qiaoqiao had already arrived. In addition to this, there are many other students who are already having fun on the playground.
"Wanwan, the new hat you brought!" Song Ting discovered the "New World" at first sight.
"The scarf is also new and of the same style. Yu Qiaoqiao added.
Ruan Wan raised her hands "sè" and let them see that they were wearing the same gloves as herself.
"My grandmother knitted it. β
"It's pretty, but let's take off the gloves first. Song Ting pointed to the stone bench full of scarves and hats next to her and said, "The scarf is the same, it will be hot later." β
As soon as Ruan Wan heard that it made sense, she took off the three-piece set and put it next to the things of the two friends. And thenβ
I only felt two chills coming from my neck.
She twitched the corners of her mouth and turned her head, and sure enough, she saw that Song Ting and Yu Qiaoqiao were smiling evilly at herself, and both of them had snow balls in their hands. Especially Song Ting, while rubbing back, let out a burst of "three-stage treacherous laughter".
So, a "big war" began!
The three of them couldn't tell the winner in the end, because ...... Well, the three-person battle inexplicably turned into a full-playground battle...... Or rather, they were drawn into the playground war. In short, when Ruan Wan went back, her hair was covered with snow, and it was okay to say that it was good to pat it, but a lot of snow on her hair had melted, so that after she went back, she was beaten by her grandmother, which was also sad.
The next day, she was punished for building a snowman in the yard of her home.
Ruan Wan squatted on the ground and rubbed snowballs, while peeking at her grandmother who was sitting by the window with a cup of hot tea and looking at her through the glass, thinking that the old man was a tsundere, obviously he just wanted to see the snowman, and he refused to say it directly.
Hmph, thanks to her big heart.
Two more
Holiday time flies by forever.
In the blink of an eye, the wax moon becomes the first month.
The town is different from the city, and everyone will have a good rest and reunion on the day when it is time to rest and reunite, so until the seventh day of the new year, the shop is not open. Therefore, every family will buy good things in advance, anyway, it is cold in winter, and they are not afraid of anything going bad. Of course, if you really need it urgently, you can also knock on the door of the store, and if you run into the latter eating, you will be dragged directly to the table.
Well, it was just to go shopping, but it turned out that I had a meal, a drink, and mahjong. Every year, a husband is "beaten" by his wife after returning home because of this - what if he says he will buy something? What if he says he will go home immediately? Liar!
For underage children, the most vivid memory of the New Year is the "New Year's money". Ahem, although this money has never been kept, I was still very happy when I got it!
Unlike others, Ruan Wan doesn't have so many relatives who will give her New Year's money, and her grandmother won't rub her hands and flick her tail afterwards and laugh, "Come on, come on, hand over the money, grandma will keep it for you." Every year, the New Year's money that her mother gave her would be directly transferred to the card, and her grandmother would take it out directly to her - it is said that her mother came back many times more frequently in the first few years of her birth, and after repeatedly receiving cold treatment from her grandmother, her mother came back less and less, Ruan Wan had not seen her since she was reborn, but her mother had been mailing things a lot.
Although Ruan Wan was a bear in the past, she didn't have the habit of spending money indiscriminately, or in other words, there was nothing special about spending money in this kind of small rural place. After Ruan Wan got the New Year's money this year, she counted her savings and was surprised to find that it was actually thousands, which was definitely a lot of money at this age.
And at this moment-
"Let's hang out together!"
It was Qi Xuan, who "saw the world", who proposed this proposal.
Compared with last year's winter vacation when he could only stay at home, this year's holiday he has spent more open! This open, just think of something to make himself more open! So, he began to encourage Ruan Wan and the other three little girls.
"Where are you going?" Song Ting, who loves to move, is very interested in this mention.
"Let's go to the Dragon Lady Cave!" Qi Xuanti yì.
Zeshui Town belongs to S Province in terms of regional division, but the geographical location is quite strange - it happens to be located at the junction of three provinces. Although the county seat where Qi Xuan's Longnv Cave is located is located in Province J, it is only more than an hour away from Zeshui Town, which is closer than Zeshui Town to the city. This Dragon Lady Cave, like Lotus Lake, is a more famous tourist attraction. Comparatively, Lianhu Lake is more famous, but the Dragon Lady Cave is very suitable for winter because of its warm winter and cool summer characteristics.
"Dragon Girl Cave?" As soon as Song Ting heard this, her eyes instantly lit up.
Don't look at it, it's only a little more than an hour's road from here, but she hasn't been there either! She asked Ruan Wan and Yu Qiaoqiao, "Have you ever been there?"
Yu Qiaoqiao shook her head.
Ruan Wan also shook her head, she had never been to that place in her previous life.
"I haven't been there either. Qi Xuan, who mentioned yì, also shook his head.
ββ¦β¦ Then you want us to go?" Song Ting was speechless, she thought that this guy had been there and could lead the way.
"I just have to go before I have been!" Qi Xuanzhen said eloquently, "Besides, there are buses in the town that go directly to the station over there every day, and we can take a taxi to go to the Dragon Girl Cave after getting out of the car." What about the four of them, are you still afraid of losing them!"
When Song Ting and Yu Qiaoqiao heard it, this was indeed the truth, so they were moved.
Ahem, this little trip is very close, and it is nothing for adults. Even for some working dogs located in big cities, the daily commute to work is this time and distance, however, for junior high school students who rarely go out, it is really a "thrilling" and "exciting" adventure. Especially the point of "secretly going without telling your family" is really moving!
Seeing that the other three had this will, Ruan Wan naturally had no opinion.
Several people made an appointment to be together on the ninth day of the first lunar month, and what they said to their families was "go to a friend's house to play, and don't come back for dinner at noon". Ruan Wan didn't want to "betray" her little friend, but what kind of person is her grandmother, for her, a thousand-year-old fox, these little rabbits turn around a little, and she knows what bad things they want to do! Fortunately, she didn't think about stopping Ruan Wan, but just told her to bring more money with her, and be careful not to be separated from her friends on the road.
After Ruan Wan got off one by one, she boarded the bus to the Dragon Girl Cave with the other three at nine o'clock in the morning.
The four of them sat in two rows, Song Ting and Yu Qiaoqiao sat together, and Ruan Wan and Qi Xuan sat behind the two of them. Yu Qiaoqiao was excited, but as soon as she got in the car, she immediately hit the street, leaned on Song Ting's neck and began to sleep. Because of this, Song Ting, who has always been talkative, didn't have a chance to turn around and talk to her partners, so she sat honestly all the way.
Qi Xuan and Ruan Wan in the back row were not too motion sick, and occasionally chatted a few words while looking at the scenery on the roadside on the road - most of the time Qi Xuan complained about the school and classmates he was studying now, and time flew by.
Just after ten o'clock in the morning, a few people set foot on the strange land in the next province.
After walking out of the station along the flow of people, the three people except Ruan Wan stood at the gate of the station, looking at the pedestrians coming and going and the dense vehicles, and the whole person was in a state of "bewilderment". The people who came to solicit customers liked such unlucky children the most, and they came up very enthusiastically to surround several people, saying "Do you want to go to xx!", "Are you going to xx?", "There are just four positions left, get in the car and leave!", which makes people even more confused.
Seeing that her little friends were almost dragged away in a daze, Ruan Wan hurriedly pulled them, and while saying "No, don't go there", she pushed these people away and walked to a relatively less crowded place.
Song Ting wiped her sweat.
Yu Qiaoqiao patted her chest.
Qi Xuan also breathed a sigh of relief: "It's so enthusiastic!"
As soon as he said this, he immediately attracted Song Ting's cannon: "What about leading the way?"
ββ¦β¦ Ahem!"
Yu Qiaoqiao also said that she was no longer willing to trust someone, and asked Ruan Wan instead: "What should I do next?"
"Let's go across the street and take the bus. β
"Do you know which trip to take?" Qi Xuan interjected.
"Don't worry, I've checked it all before I came. Ruan Wan said that it is a pity that there is no mobile phone and all kinds of software have not appeared yet, otherwise it would be convenient to map the mobile phone directly.
"You're still reliable!"
"That's right. β
Listening to Song Ting and Yu Qiaoqiao's words, Qi Xuan's classmates wilted, and the whole person became a disgusted little pitiful, and it was also sad.
It only took an hour to get here from home, and it took an hour to take the bus to the Dragon Lady Cave. In the end, it is a tourist attraction, even during the Chinese New Year, there are a lot of people, so a few people were naturally squeezed in the car, and the only place to wait for the remaining three people gave up to the motion sickness party Yu Qiaoqiao to sit. Fortunately, the bus can open the window, so although Yu Qiaoqiao's face is ugly, she does not vomit.
When you get off the bus, there is a long queue at the ticket gate of the Dragon Girl Cave!
The four of them looked at the long dragon, and the whole person was stunned. Qi Xuan, as the initiator, said without hesitation that he would go to the queue and let a few of them go shopping nearby, buy some snacks and drink some hot drinks.
This rather humane mention yì has won the unanimous approval of the other three!
After agreeing on the meeting and place to be held, Song Ting and Yu Qiaoqiao happily held hands and left, Ruan Wan turned her head and looked at the poor Qi Xiaoxuan. The latter's eyes lit up instantly, and before she could say anything, "Ruan Wan wants to stay with me?" or do you have a conscience!" Before she could speak, she heard her say ruthlessly, "Line up well, I'm optimistic about you."
Qi Xuan's whole person was messy in the wind, and then he saw Ruan Wan running forward in two steps and happily shopping with his friends.
She......
That's it......
Abandoned him......
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Qi Xuan's name is a grudge, but the words have come out, can he still regret it? So he could only take the student ID cards of a few people and continue to line up.
The Dragon Lady Cave, like the Lotus Lake, has corresponding legends. Of course, this is also a very normal thing, and how many of the tourist attractions in these days have no legends? This is also one of the attractive gimmicks! And 70 or 80 percent of these legends are related to love.
Dragon Lady Cave is no exception.
This is a story somewhat similar to "The Legend of Liu Yi", the general plot is that a scholar was invited by the Dragon King to the Dragon Palace as a guest because of his talent, and successfully hooked up with the Dragon Girl Nine Princesses who were embarrassed by the moon - regardless of race and body shape, these two people are true love anyway! This love was undoubtedly not recognized by the Dragon King, so the two made an appointment to elope.
Chased by the shrimp soldiers and crab generals, the dragon girl and the scholar were forced to hide in a hole, but unfortunately they were still found. Seeing that the ninth princess was about to be brought back, and a good marriage was about to come to naught, the dragon girl's heart directly used a magic weapon that her mother had given her, and the lake was reversed in an instant, and the hole originally located on the flat ground was raised to the mountain, and the shrimp soldiers and crabs were washed away.
As a price, the dragon girl and the scholar turned into two statues in the cave, year after year, never separated.
Not to mention where the logic is, anyway, the story of this ending is still very popular, and a few years ago, the province also deliberately allocated funds to renovate the Dragon Girl Cave, which showed the intention of supporting.
All in all, there are more people visiting the Dragon Lady Cave, and the nearby streets are more lively.
When there are more people, there will naturally be more bad people mixed in with them.
Therefore, Ruan Wan had repeatedly reminded several people to "be optimistic about their wallets" before, but what she didn't expect was that the bad guys who haunted here today were far stronger than she thought. And what became their target was not money, but-
She.