Chapter 41: The Lake of Fog
The spring breeze is warm, the daylight is gentle, and on the first day of April, Bai Mingqiu embarked on a journey alone.
At the end of March, Bai Mingqiu arranged Fengyue's funeral, cleaned up his mood, and began to prepare for the trip.
Something like that happened, Huiyin immediately changed her mind to go out with Bai Mingqiu, Bai Mingqiu persuaded her for a long time before she gave up, after all, there is still Meihong to take care of here in the world, and she has to teach the children, these things are inevitable for Huiyin to do, and Huiyin stayed after all.
But thinking that it might be more than a month without seeing Bai Mingqiu, Huiyin was very reluctant, the night before leaving, Huiyin specially called Bai Mingqiu to the temple house, and called Ah Qiu, the three of them had a candied meal, and then told Bai Mingqiu to pay attention to various matters in Gensokyo, and finally became a little Bai Ze slept in Bai Mingqiu's arms for one night, quite a bit of a daughter's dependence on her father. Early this morning, the reluctant Huiyin sent him to the entrance of the village again, and watched him leave for a long time.
Bai Mingqiu unconsciously evoked a warm smile.
Carrying a small suitcase, Bai Mingqiu paced on the trail.
I remembered that I just came to Gensokyo a year ago, and it was like this, with a suitcase, and I walked into the Hakurei Shrine in the mountains in a daze, but at that time I was alone, and I didn't care, but now I have a lot of feelings, so that a year down, there is laughter and bitterness, there is warmth and sadness, think about it carefully, a year of hard work, but it has been experienced too much.
Took out the wine gourd pinned to his waist, and lightly buckled it, there was not much wine left in the gourd, it was estimated that he was too happy last night, and he forgot to pour it this morning. He frowned, casually opened the spout, and drank it all.
Looking around, there was a clear stream on the side, Bai Mingqiu walked to the stream and squatted down, poured slowly water into the gourd, tasted it, it was cold and cold, and there was a taste of grass, not bad.
He stood up and looked up at the direction of the river, and there was no end in sight.
"That's interesting."
Bai Mingqiu smiled and walked down the direction of the river.
Bai Mingqiu's first stop is the Lake of Mist, which can be called the largest lake in Gensokyo, it is said that most of the rivers in Gensokyo will flow into this place, so find a river somewhere in Gensokyo and walk along the flow direction, and there is a chance that you will find the Lake of Mist.
Bai Mingqiu has been famous for the Lake of Fog for a long time, and very early on, Huiyin mentioned such a big lake to him, at that time, Huiyin said that this lake is very wonderful, and there are many goblins living around the lake, but he didn't talk about it in detail. Aqiu's Quest for Stories also mentions that "at the foot of the Yokai Mountain, there is a large lake that no one usually approaches, and when daylight comes, this lake will be shrouded in a thick and deep weapon mist, and the vision will become narrow and harsh, and this lake is called the Lake of Mist." There is no reasonable explanation why the Lake of Fog generates a large amount of fog during the day. βγ He remembered that when he read "Yuanye Kanyu" earlier, there were several places where water gathered mentioned in the "water" item in the book, and one of them was called "Spirit Nest", which was located under the "mountain", with abundant water vapor and full of spiritual charm, so the author Jue gave it a name, and concluded that there would be a heaven and earth spirit here after hundreds of years. Now that I think about it, this nest is most likely the Lake of Mist.
There is another point, and the most critical point - Bai Mingqiu wants to eat fish. Bai Mingqiu has not eaten fish for various reasons this year when he came to Gensokyo, and now it is just right, the Lake of Fog must have thawed a long time ago, such a big lake, there must be some fish in it, catch a few grilled to eat, and then match the clear lake water or simply have some good wine, it is a great enjoyment in the world!
Thinking of this, Bai Mingqiu couldn't help but shake the suitcase in his hand, haha, the seasonings inside couldn't wait.
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Bai Mingqiu left the world at about seven o'clock in the morning, all the way to the scenery or thinking about things, slowly walked to the lakeside, it was already ten o'clock, but this distance is actually not very far, Bai Mingqiu estimated the distance, if you drive, it will take about two hours, if you go all out, it will be less than an hour.
From afar, Bai Mingqiu saw a large area of smoke, and the mist lingered in the air with the gentle spring breeze, like a fairyland.
"It's finally here." Bai Mingqiu ran away with a smile and stood on the shore of the Lake of Fog.
The lake is surrounded by dense woods that surround this large lake and grow exceptionally luxuriantly. There is not only the road that Bai Mingqiu walked on by the lake, but also a few paths extending from other parts of the woods, take a closer look, there are some shallow footprints on the road, Aqiu said in the book that "the lake is a place where goblins and monsters are easy to gather", this is probably the footprints of those small things.
Bai Mingqiu is very curious about goblins, he has seen goblins, goblins are rare, except for the little girl Lily Bai, he has never seen any other goblins, this time he came to the Lake of Fog with the purpose of seeing goblins.
Bai Mingqiu looked at the lake, the lake was covered with clouds and fog, and it was not very clear, but this lake was very large, and there was an island in the center of the lake, which could be seen clearly.
Bai Mingqiu drank some stream water, scattered along the lakeside, and while walking, he looked into the lake, there were indeed fish in the lake, even through the heavy fog, he could see that there were fish swimming a little below the water surface, Bai Mingqiu was happy.
"Because of the poor view around the lake, the whole lake looks unimaginably big, but in fact the whole lake is not as big as people think, and it takes you half an hour to walk around the lake along the shore." It is written above in the historical records, and after Bai Mingqiu went around the lake to conduct field research, he found that it was indeed true. It seems that Ah Qiu's body is gone, looking at her thin body, it must be a little difficult to walk around the lake, and Ah Qiu really spent a lot of money for this book.
Sighing at Aqiu's hard work, Bai Mingqiu walked to the place where the tributaries of all roads converged into the Lake of Mist, this place was facing the confluence, watching the gurgling stream trickle down, there was quite a sense of comfort, and the whole person relaxed.
Bai Mingqiu was lying on the grass, glancing at the flowing water, drinking the stream without a sip, and he was comfortable.
Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of something flowing down the highest stream, and when he looked at it, his heart was overjoyed, and a thought flashed through his mind, and he immediately opened his suitcase, took something, walked a few steps to the lake, and shouted towards the confluence:
"Heyββ! Kappa ββ! Do you want to eat cucumbers! β
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The plot of this volume is in the middle of the paragraph, Gensokyo Travelogue. This volume is on the long side, probably nearly ninety chapters, please note.
In the future, if nothing else, the time for each update is around nine o'clock in the morning.
This Thursday and Friday exams, there will be no updates, let me know in advance.
Everyone is welcome to follow in the footsteps of Bai Mingqiu and have fun in my fantasy village.