Extra: Midyear Festival
College City.
This is a huge academy that occupies two-thirds of the territory of Moon Studios, and here, there are all kinds of strange abilities, as well as magicians.
The three districts of the college city.
It was July, and the morning sun dragged its blazing body high in the sky, and the birds seemed to be awakened by the sun's dazzling rays, singing happily on the branches.
In a small two-story villa in the third district of the college city, the boy was reclining on the bed and falling asleep, still talking in his dream: "Mom, I want to eat beef noodles."
"Yichen, are you up?"
Just when the boy dreamed that he was about to eat beef noodles, an angry voice woke him up.
Yi Chen sat up violently, looked at the alarm clock in front of the bedtable, and exclaimed, "It's over."
Immediately afterwards, a carp stood up, and hurriedly ran into the bathroom to respond while washing: "I've gotten up, wait for me a while."
He promised Karin to go to the cemetery in District 15 to pay homage to his ancestors today, and now Karin has bought the items back. If Karin had found out that he had just gotten up, she would have scolded him.
After a simple wash, Yichen changed into a gray-black robe, hurriedly ran down from the second floor and said to Karin, "Mom, let's go."
Karin hummed softly and led Yichen to the tram stop in the center of District 3.
"Mom, why are we going to worship our ancestors?" 8-year-old Yichen shook his little head and asked suspiciously.
Because before today, Karin had never spoken to him about his grandfather in front of him, let alone to worship his ancestors.
Karin smiled slightly and said, "Today is the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and it is the day to pay tribute to the ancestors."
Yichen was a little puzzled, "You haven't told me about it before?" ”
"Uh... This is a custom on the Blue Star side, and few people in Shadow Moon City know about it. ”
"Mom, I want to listen to the story, tell me quickly!" Yichen shook Karin's right hand and said coquettishly.
Karin didn't really want to tell Dusty, because the story in the midyear festival was a bit out of place with the city.
But because Yichen is so annoying, Karin has to tell him the story. Otherwise, if you lose your temper and blow him up again, it will be really difficult.
"Then you have to promise me not to talk nonsense after knowing this story, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble, but if you have the opportunity to go to Blue Star in the future, you can learn more about it."
Seeing that Karin finally relented, Yichen nodded excitedly, patted his chest and swore to the sky: "If I say it, I will let my mother have no beef noodles to eat in the future!"
"............" Karin was speechless for a moment, but after thinking about it, she gave up the idea of beating him up when she was going to tell him something very cruel later.
"Zhongyuan Festival, that is, the seventh half of the ancestor festival, also known as the ghost festival, the official festival, the date is the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the summer calendar, the festival customs mainly include ancestor worship, river lanterns, worship of the dead, burning paper ingots, etc."
"Mom, why do we only have to worship our ancestors? What about the others? Yichen couldn't help but ask.
Karin didn't seem to know very well, but for the sake of face, she knocked on Yichen's little brain and said, "If you want to hear the story, don't interrupt me."
Yichen covered his little head and nodded with tears in his eyes. Continue to listen to Karin's sermon: "The Midyear Festival evolved from the "July and a half" agricultural harvest and autumn tasting ancestors in ancient times. ”
"July and a half is the folk early autumn celebration of the harvest, reward the earth of the festival, there are a number of crops mature, the folk according to the routine to worship the ancestors, with new rice and other sacrifices, to the ancestors to report the autumn into the autumn, is a kind of cultural traditional festival to remember the ancestors, its cultural core is to respect the ancestors and filial piety."
"Oh, I see." Yichen nodded as if he didn't understand, and pretended to be a little adult and teased: "Mom, you are over 100 years old this year and haven't found a boyfriend yet, if grandpa can come back, can't he scold you?"
"Mmmm, then before grandpa scolds me, I'll screw your head off for you, do you believe it or not?"
Karin smiled and clenched her fists, holding Yichen's head to the left and right and turning fiercely.
"It hurts, it hurts, Mom, I was wrong." Yichen pleaded with a slight cry, even if he had to be twisted like Karin more than a dozen times a day, he just couldn't get used to the pain.
"Hmph, it's a big ghost, see if you dare to tease me." As she spoke, Karin looked at the watch on her wrist and dragged him towards the station by the back of the collar.
"It's all your fault, I almost couldn't catch the car."
On the train, Karin said breathlessly as she put her hands on her thighs.
After a while, seeing that Yichen still didn't respond to him, Karin turned around, looked at the robe on the ground and shouted, "Yichen, where are you?"
"Mom, wait for me, I haven't gotten in the car yet!"
Looking at the figure chasing the tram behind her, Karin was speechless for a moment, and thought: "Next time, I won't drag it, it's better to carry it."
………………
After worshipping her ancestors, Karin takes Dusty to a cafeteria, ready to soothe Dusty's wounded heart.
"Still angry?" Karin held a grilled sausage in her hand and placed it in Yichen's mouth, trying to tempt him with her food.
Since Yi Chen got in the car, he hasn't said a word to her until now, and only barely said a few words when worshipping his ancestors.
However, what Karin didn't know was that Yichen quietly sat down in front of Karin's father's grave and said a lot of bad things about her while she was setting off fireworks.
When he finished speaking, he remembered that Karin had said that the dead can be dreamed, and Yichen was scared, if grandpa told Karin everything he said, then his ass would definitely bloom.
Therefore, in order to make the butt bloom, Yichen deliberately pretended to be a good baby, because Karin said that she likes quiet children.
"Don't be angry, okay, next time I'll do it lightly and not blow up the tram directly, okay?"
Seeing that Yichen was still reluctant to speak, Karin hurriedly said, "I promise you, can I take you to eat delicious food every day?"
"That's what you said, huh?"
"Oops," Yichen hurriedly covered his mouth, and said silently in his heart: "Yichen, for the sake of the ass, you can't bow to the food power!"
However, before he could hold on for a few seconds, he was fascinated by the ever-increasing number of delicacies on the table.
After a full meal, Karin felt that the time was ripe, so she spoke to Yichen, "Mom came up with a plan last night that can quickly increase your ability development."
"How?" Yichen rubbed his bulging belly and asked.
"I've already discussed with the major forces, as soon as you get out of the third district, you will be hunted down endlessly, how about it?"
Yi Chen's facial expression kept twitching, and he refused without hesitation, thinking: "You can't let me die early just because you're single."
"This matter has been discussed, you can't refuse, by the way, I'm going to go to the forbidden area in a few days, and I won't be able to come back in a short time, you have to take good care of yourself."
"Going? Can you keep your chrysanthemum? Strange thoughts appeared in Yi Chen's mind, and he seemed to have forgotten what Karin had said about cultivation first, and quickly nodded in agreement.