4. Clear stream in the bamboo

.........

Time is like water, and life cannot be separated from time until it is relatively independent.

However, time is meaningless for this youkai banquet.

Xiao Rin had forgotten how much alcohol he had drunk, and how long it had been since this time, maybe it was only a few hours, maybe it had been days. In this feast, such assumptions do not need to exist...... After the tiger left, she and Lan Xin came with a few more drinking monsters. Lan Xin didn't like this overly bold way of drinking, and refused the other party's invitation to fight wine. Xiao Rin didn't hesitate at all, and responded one by one, and drank them down one by one.

"Whew...... Finally lie down, just say you can't do it, don't accept it!" Xiao Rin put down the wine jar and pushed away the sturdy giant man with worried eyes beside him. This guy is a xenomorph giant elephant, and after seeing her drink all the male creatures around her, he went to her to fight for wine, saying that he wanted to redeem the pride of the male!

Hmph, aren't you very confident!

Hmph, male pride!

Haha, hahahahaha...... It's really, it's fun!

Xiao Rin staggered to Lan Xin's side, and her head was already dizzy, and she fell into Lan Xin's arms: "...... Blue, blue, I'm taking a nap... It's just a moment......"

Lan Xin caught her, let her head rest on her lap, she poked Xiao Rin's cheek a little annoyed and said, "You, you, these guys are obviously bullies, you still take it!"

"Hey, I won, oh, I won...", in a daze, she seemed to reply.

"Don't bother it, clear the wine. ”

“...... Don't, don't... I want to try the feeling of being drunk, just ...... for a while."

Under the golden brown light, in this verdant valley, the banquet continued.

On the edge of this sapphire-like wine lake, the monsters are enjoying themselves. In this banquet, there is no hierarchy of guests, no difference between upper and lower. There are no seniors, no juniors, all every guest needs is a hearty drink and enjoy this rare banquet...... All-you-can-drink!

Some of the prescient youkai even brought enough appetizers with them, and these guys often gathered around a large group of people who were eating and they were not annoyed, and pulled the diners to drink to their heart's content. Some drunken yokai sleep on the ground, and when they wake up, the drunken yokai are dragged by other yokai to drink.

......

"If you calculate the time, this evening self-study time has passed, and I have to be taught by the teacher again......" On the other side of the wine lake, Aoba sat under a golden apple tree, looking at the sky. This world is no longer the earth, there is no sun and moon in the sky, and the dark blue canopy is arranged from east to west, with sixteen huge stars, different colors, bright like pearls. They are all moving through the air at a speed visible to the naked eye, some near and some far, the near ones like the sky, and the far ones like the eyes of cats.

Perhaps considering that there are still many weak little monsters among the guests participating in the banquet, in Aoba's perception, there is not much difference between being in this world and being on the earth, and it seems that the environment of the earth is superimposed on this world by a certain senior.

"Forget it, it's not a big deal. ’

Aoba hugged the hangover who was lying on her shoulder, sleeping deeply.

It's a little thing the size of her fist holding a small wine bottle, no, it's a senior!

Aoba took her up and down a few times in front of her, then carefully placed her under a tree with tender grass.

As soon as she entered the banquet, this senior appeared beside her, saying that he wanted to drink with her...... But she didn't drink much! she drank for a while, and she became what she is now.

By the way, this uninvited youkai predecessor once called himself Aoki God.

Aoba once saw a record of the god Aoki in the notebook that her sister gave her:

A hundred years of wood, the sun and the moon, can give birth to elves. Ten years, an inch of inspiration, white, pregnant and vigorous. A hundred years, a thousand years of inspiration, color and green, the main vitality. For thousands of years, the spirit is shining, like a green star. Ten thousand years, the tree is not a tree, it can be described as a green wood god.

Aoba tilted his head, this one in front of him was only the size of his fist, was it really that great?

'How so...... Not to mention the amount of alcohol, it's still a low-quality guy!' Aoba felt the wet piece of her shoulder, rubbed the bruise on her chin that had been knocked on her chin by the small wine bottle, and silently defined her as follows.

"Lovely Miss Sycamore, are you curious about this inferior senior?"

"Ah......h It shouldn't embarrass itself...... Under the influence of Ba Shetian's predecessors, the atmosphere of fighting wine in the banquet was high, and she was afraid that someone would fight with her.

Aoba politely brought a glass of wine to the messenger, and then looked at the sleeping elf with some hesitation: "No, I'm just a little curious about this world...... Okay okay, I'll admit, I'm a little curious about this senpai. You say, is she really Aoki God? I read in a sister's notebook that Aoki God is a great being that can be called a god. She ......, "The hangover guy hiccuped very cooperatively, and wiped the saliva oozing from the corner of his mouth very indecently...

The messenger, who also saw this scene, raised her forehead, sat down next to Aoba, hesitated for a while, and waited for the wine glass to dry before she spoke: "...... Although I don't want to admit it, this senior is really a great youkai, Aoki God...... If she wants to call herself that, she can't do it. She, a god is not a title, but a great god who is indeed a great god with a huge faith. ”

"Is she really a god?"

"Yes. The messenger nodded and continued:

"The god of 10,000 years of Aoki, this is just a very broad name, a name for a youkai who has mastered the source of Otogi and achieved infinite strength. And she, in the very distant past, has gone far beyond that, and the drunkard you see now is only a very small part of this predecessor. At this point, the messenger paused and looked at the hangover, and seeing that she did not refute, he continued: "She also has a name among the youkai, and her name is [Hermuslian]. The only will of the Moose world, the mother goddess of the primitive race, and the growing multi-space-time world tree. ”

"[Hermuslian] World Tree, Mother Goddess ......"

"Yes, as she grows, the world she lives in is no longer big enough for her existence. Her roots had passed through the earth's shell, her branches had crossed the sky, and her body was no longer the world's heaven and earth fetal membrane that could bear it. In the end, that world became a part of her body, and the ecological cycle of the whole world was also developed based on her, so she was regarded as a mother goddess by the primitive race conceived by her body. ”

"It's amazing. Aoba muttered to himself, according to the messenger, the form of existence of this predecessor has evolved from a microcosm to a macrocosm. A single person is a complete world, and it is a world tree that transcends the limits of the world and can grow and evolve infinitely into the endless time and space of the pluralistic world.

"Very strong, very strong, in the banquet, there will be a seat for her in the top ten. ”

“...... than that senior. Aoba pointed to the small black snake that had burrowed itself into the vat.

"This, this one is not comparable......" rare, the sender's tone was reverent: "The form of existence of this predecessor has exceeded your imagination, I have heard people say that its body traverses endless time and space, all the heavens and worlds have its existence, every cell that makes up its body is a source of chaos, and every scale on its body is a complete world...... It is moving towards the realm of heaven that is unknowable, unreachable, invisible and unsearchable. Speaking of this senior, the messenger also sighed, although he could speak, he could not understand such a form of existence.

"Is it big, big?" asked Aoba, without much emotion. For this kind of realm that is too lofty, she really can't rise to the feeling of amazement and admiration. Forget it, she just needs to know that it's powerful, it's powerful.

Seeing her like this, the sender didn't force it.

She looked up and pointed to the distant canopy, and whispered with some emotion: "Do you think this world is big?"

"Hmm. ”

"In my eyes, this world is not vast, the sky is only 13,000 zhang, the earth is only 230,000 zhang, and the radius is 50,000 li. In the endless heavens and stars of the Yang world, endless time and space, it is really an inconspicuous existence. Otherwise, if that senior chose this place as his orchard, we wouldn't care if this world exists or not. ”

"Fifty thousand miles, the earth is not much bigger than this world, right?" Aoba retorted in a low voice. The total area of the earth is 510000000 square kilometers, and the land area is 149000000 square kilometers, accounting for 29.2% of the earth's surface area. It's really not much bigger than this world.

"Think of it like this, if the whole world is a cell for you...... How huge your body will be. After thinking for a moment, the messenger sat down with a metaphor that was not very appropriate: "This is just a similar but inappropriate metaphor, the form of existence of this predecessor and the beyond the scope of your and my knowledge." ”

"That'...... It's probably the best of the banquets. ”

“...... Perhaps, maybe there is another predecessor who has also stepped towards the [Heavenly Realm]...... Forget it, you're not wrong to think that the senior of the snake is the strongest...... If you don't talk about that, can you have a drink with me? ”

"Hmm. Taking the wine handed over by the messenger, Aoba drank it all.

She's not a good drinker, and she's not an alcoholic. It's just that every time she takes a sip of [Four Seasons], the [Spirit] rooted in her body will tremble slightly, expressing her joy.

If it likes it, I'll drink more...... Wine, not intoxicating.

......

Speaking of which, these monsters are also good drinkers, and the small lake that looks like a sapphire is simply a little smaller by them.

At this time, the little snake that abducted the bird to drink finally got out of the wine tank, and looked proudly at the group of monsters who drank and lay down beside him, its eyes were blurred, and it pretended to be 'going to die, and it was about to be drunk by you~'.

After waiting for a while, seeing that no one came to challenge again, it put away its confused expression.

"Ahem!" coughed a few times in a low voice, and said, "Hehe, you guys can really drink, Lao Ba, my wine lake is about to be drunk by you." Now that you're all having fun, please leave some seeds for my wine lake, and we'll go to the next stop at the feast. ”

"The first stop of the banquet is over~"

Xiao Rin sat up from Lan Xin's lap, she shook her head, and asked Lan Xin in a low voice, "Lan Er, isn't the banquet over yet?"

"Of course, Rin knows that the demon feast was initiated by the three big youkai, right?"

Lan Xin replied as a matter of course, seeing Rin's puzzled expression, she explained, "Each of the three initiators of the Demon Banquet will prepare a good wine for the guests. Each of the wines they prepared was distinctive, and in addition to the wonderful taste of the wine itself, the huge aura attached to the wine was enough to benefit the youkai under the infinite power of the Transfiguration Mastery, reducing their penance for a hundred years. ”

"This is the first banquet, and it's not too early to end. Rin, don't get drunk so soon~"

patting his cheek, Xiao Rin simply emptied the wine qi accumulated in his body and became energetic again: "Ha, as long as it's not the kind of super-spec existence of the predecessor of the snake, no one will want to drink me." ”

"Rin...... Cheating is not a win~"

&

The second banquet was held in a crisp bamboo forest.

Passing through the gate to return to the yoyo, the youkai who were attending the banquet came to a small island. This is an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean, with an area of about 50 square kilometers, and the island is full of tropical plants. And in the center of this island is a stone disk, and on the blue-white disk is an equally stone gate, and the door is full of intricate incantations.

"Please come with me, after this door is the venue for the next banquet. ”

Maybe the other youkai organizer is already drunk, and at this time, it is the youkai who is the messenger to guide everyone.

This is not the earth, nor the Yang World, nor even one of the infinite worlds that surrounds the Yang World.

The boundless bamboo forest is bigger than the entire Eurasian continent!

It's bigger than the entire Earth World, and you can't see the end even with Xiao Rin's vision. No matter what kind of vision she shifted, everything she saw was the emerald color of the bamboo forest. The macro and the micro, whatever it may be, are meaningless to this infinity.

"Huh, this is not a yang world, nor is it a small world. ”

"Well, I don't feel the edge...... Infinite. ”

Many youkai who have walked into this wonderful world talk loudly.

"It's like, it's weird here. ”

"No, how do I feel a little familiar here?"

After raising his head and looking at the Sky City slowly flying in the sky, Xiao Rin was finally convinced.

This is the underworld!

It was only then that a drunken youkai slowly stood up from the crowd.

It shook its head and walked over to the guests: "Ahem, I'm Bai Ze." ”

"Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy my Takenaka Bar. ”

Its appearance is peculiar even among the strangely shaped monsters, with the body of a lion, two horns on its head, and a goatee. Perhaps because it felt that this shape was not very suitable, it shook its body and turned into a white-bearded old man: "This sake forest has three treasures, bamboo wine, bamboo shoots, and bamboo rats." ”

He took out a set of delicate porcelain cups and poked a hole in the top of a thick bamboo knuckle, and suddenly a clear, slightly emerald liquid remained. As this clear emerald liquid flowed out, a clear aroma of wine that was very different from the wine of the four seasons, but not inferior at all, spread: "This is bamboo wine, and every bamboo node of Jiuzhu has bamboo wine." By the way, you can just cut it, don't break the bamboo, this small hole will be repaired soon after the bamboo wine runs dry, and a new bamboo wine will be brewed. ”

As he spoke, he glared at some violent guys!

"Below are bamboo shoots," said the old man with a goatee, digging through the soil, and there was a very tender bamboo shoot next to the bamboo. Tender, as if made of white jade, with a faint fragrance: "Bamboo shoots can be cooked, or they can be eaten immediately, everyone is free, each by their own craftsmanship." ”

"And there's the bamboo rat!" the white-bearded old man's tone was a little heavier, and it seemed to carry a sense of covetousness.

He tore aside a pile of fallen leaves and grabbed a stout creature that resembled a mole rat. It is cylindrical in shape, with a blunt and rounded head, a large snout, small eyes, and ears hidden in the coat. The tail is evenly covered with long, fine, soft and thin hairs, and the skin is visible through the eyes. A creature with small forelegs and short claws: "Heh, this little thing doesn't taste good when eaten raw, but if it is roasted a little, it will definitely taste a hundred times better than the meat of a dragon and snake." ”

After a brief introduction, it walked into the bamboo forest and sat down on a delicious and flawless wine bamboo.

Compared with the previous in the Four Seasons Wine Lake, in the Qingzhu Wine Forest, everyone's drinking method is much more elegant.

After all, there is no chance to drink in a jar now, and there are only a few bowls of emerald clear streams in each wine bamboo.

Even though the bamboo forest is vast and there are countless green bamboos, it is indeed a lot of trouble to take wine.

Xiao Rin and the others found a vacant lot in the bamboo forest, and after laying out a carpet, Rin and Lan Xin both lay down. But Qi Meng and Bai Huan couldn't be idle, and they were noisy around the two.

"Lan'er, I'll take Bai Huan to catch bamboo rats, don't be idle two of you. Hurry up and make a stove, this time we will make our own food, hum, it's hard to come and play, if you don't do it yourself, it will be too boring. With that, Qi Meng pulled Bai Huan to dig bamboo shoots and find bamboo rats.

Bai Huan also cheered, looking for him more actively than Qi Meng. Although this rabbit likes to eat radishes, but there is no taboo about meat, as long as it is not rabbit meat, she likes to eat any meat, and the plate of barbecue sent by the centaur just now is the most eaten by her and Qi Meng.

"Lan'er, you go get the wine, and I'll solve it on the stove. Xiao Rin rolled over.

She found a few stones to stack, sat on a simple stove, and then borrowed a set of kitchen utensils from the centaur. There was no dry wood here, so Rin simply drew a stream from the nearby spiritual veins and lit it, raising a crimson flame.

Before she made the stove, Lan Xin also filled several gourds of bamboo wine.

Not far away, Qi Meng and Bai Huan also shook the trophies in their hands, six bamboo rats and three bamboo shoots, enough to eat a meal.

"Rin, this rat has to do this to make it tasty?"

"Barbecue. Xiao Rin looked at the ingredients very stylishly, and her confidence as a chef came naturally.

"Didn't you eat barbecue just now... ”

"I'm a chef and listen to me~!"

"Rin......" Lan Xin smiled lightly.

"Mm-hmm, Rin is super powerful!" Bai Huan was obviously looking forward to Rin's cooking skills.

“...... Okay, I'll listen to you. Qi Meng covered his face, unable to bear to look at Xiao Rin's smug expression. She didn't want to admit that when the two didn't know each other, she was scared enough by 'that person'!

Except for Xiao Rin, these three guys are not very good at cooking.

Lan Er and Bai Huan's craftsmanship are all on the sweet food of Western pastries, if you are absolutely good at making cakes and snacks, you have no experience in barbecue. As for Qi Meng...... This guy is a foodie, a simple, foodie who can only eat!

Kill the bamboo rats, clean the internal organs, shave off the bones, and cut the cartilage into small pieces. Wash the bamboo shoots again, remove the head and tail, and cut them into small pieces. Put the prepared ingredients into a bowl, pour a glass of bamboo wine, add the spices prepared by Xiao Rin, and so on, and let them sit for another half an hour.

Put the freshly shaved bones into a clay pot with some leftovers and bamboo shoots, add ginseng, angelica, and wolfberry ingredients, and slowly boil over low heat for two hours. Then the marinated bamboo rat meat and bamboo shoots are threaded into skewers, placed on a charcoal stove, and grilled over a charcoal fire, with spices added.

"Delicious, super tasty. Bai Huan secretly grabbed a piece of meat and stuffed it into his mouth, and praised with his eyes shining.

She pointed to the centaur surrounded by a large number of youkai and said, "Rin, your cooking skills are no worse than that guy." ”

"Hmph, you have a little eyesight~" Rin raised her head confidently, looking proud.

Seeing Rin's appearance, Bai Huan's hand stretched out again......

"Rabbit, you're fooling!!, I'm going to eat it too!!" The meat she had just acquired was swallowed by Qi Meng.

"Didn't you stinky fox!! just got a bunch for you?"

"Why!"

"You still don't admit it...... Hey, you're still robbing me!"

"It's just robbing you of what you can do. ”

“......”＝o＝＃

"Hmph, you know me...... Oops, how do you bite!! are you a rabbit or a dog!?"

......

After two hours of patience.

Xiao Rin boiled the soup well, and prepared a lot of barbecue. After eating the barbecue prepared by Xiao Rin, Bai Huan, the little rabbit, went to catch a lot of bamboo rats, and insisted that Xiao Rin make all of them into barbecue, and Qi Meng and Lan Xin also raised their hands in approval...... Rin did so with tears in her eyes.

Sure enough, you shouldn't be cooking for these guys, it's addictive.

"Bamboo wine is not inferior to the sake of the four seasons. ”

Lan Xin shook the clear emerald wine in the glass and tasted it in small sips: "There is no wonder of the change of seasons, but there is a quiet and light fragrance that belongs to nature." I still prefer this light, but enduring, lingering taste of March. ”

"The wine of the four seasons is suitable for booze, but bamboo wine has to be savored. Rin is also a slow drink.

Different from the pride of the wine of the four seasons, she drank very slowly this time, took a small sip, savored it in her mouth, the tip of her tongue seemed to have a clear and transparent clear flow, Juan stretched thinly, there was a clear spring in the wine, there seemed to be a delicate jade bead falling lightly, and there was a layer of silent waves.

The taste of this wine is not strong, and the first sip will not leave a too deep impression. But...... Hold it in your mouth and savor it, and every moment there will be a deep sweetness spreading in your mouth. When you close your eyes, you can feel the wind flowing slowly in the bamboo forest, and you can feel the water veins flowing slowly under the bamboo forest......

"Rabbit, we eat meat! Qi Meng and Bai Huan are not very interested in wine, but the barbecue is very suitable for the appetite of the two, and the two of them have already eaten several skewers of barbecue in this work.

"Haha, look at those guys, they're eating raw mice. Qi Meng pointed to a big silver wolf in the distance and laughed. The silver-white wolf was about five meters tall, and the small bamboo rat was not enough to stuff it between its teeth. After swallowing a few, it decisively shrunk and became like a pet dog. Maybe the bamboo rat's raw food tastes really not good.,After a while, it got into the pile of people with chefs.。。。

Unlike the many yokai who drank booze just now, this banquet is more loved by female yokai.

They gathered together in twos and threes, holding wine glasses, savoring the clear stream in the bamboo.

......

Xiaowu, who was alone, walked slowly among the many monsters, and she squatted in front of a wine bamboo that grew happily and looked at it for a long time...... Then, naturally, she dug up the bamboo. Not only this wine bamboo, but just now in the valley where the wine lake is located, she collected all the fruits, some saplings and seeds, and some simply packed the whole tree and took it away.

During this period, the snake looked at her helplessly and tried hard several times, but could not stop it.

"Xiaowu, come over here. Let me tell you, there is a bamboo plant where the wine is delicious, perfect, perfect!!" At this moment, seeing Xiaowu digging this bamboo forest again, the little snake suddenly became active, and successively found a lot of wine bamboo with the best growth and the most beautiful taste of wine and pointed it to her.

"Hey, you ...... guy"

"Don't be stingy, isn't it just a few bamboos, she dug up all the exotic fruits in my place. The little snake shook its tail and chattered at the old man with a sheepbeard: "Besides, aren't you looking forward to the wine banquet held by Xiaowu? The treasures in her acre of cloud fields are definitely the most in the whole world, regardless of yin and yang. If it's made into wine, hehe~"

“...... You've drawn me a big pie. The old man with the goatee glared at the two people who were digging into his corner: "How many times has she participated in the banquet, and I have never seen her mention being the host." If we hadn't invited her, I'm sure she wouldn't have come. ”

"This is not certain~" The little snake looked mysterious, looked up and down on Xiaowu's body, and then said in a seductive tone: "You know, as the organizer of the big monster, as long as the consent of the two outsiders is obtained, people other than the monster will be brought to the banquet...... Well, of course you can wait, wait until a hundred years later, wait until the coffin on that little imp is fully opened, breaking the boundary between humans and youkai. ”

"She must be disappointed that she can't bring her to such an interesting banquet. ”

"Besides, that person likes Xiaowu very much, right, he doesn't want to leave Xiaowu, right? It's really sad not to play with her. ”

Xiaowu put the wine and bamboo in hand into an acre of cloud field, turned around, thought about it seriously, and gave a promise that made the two happy: "Next time, next time I will be the host of the banquet, and the location will be in that acre of cloud field, endless sea of clouds." Ten years later, I will prepare elixir mead, my favorite wine, for the guests attending the banquet. ”

"Xiaobai, I said how!!"

"Okay, you're good this time. The old man with the sheep's beard was also delighted, and he squinted his eyes and said again and again: "The banquet held by Xiaowu, thousands of years, no, I was looking forward to it thousands of years ago......

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