In the early morning of Mangchong's day, the weather was fine, but I stood on the streets of the city, stunned by the scene in front of me. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Originally, I just came to buy lotus flowers.

Mangzhong was originally a less noticeable solar term, and there was nothing particularly commendable. However, because it is the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the mango is planted before the Dragon Boat Festival, and the front and back are added up, but it is very "fulfilling".

Right now, I'm taking a bus through most of the city to the flower market at the other end of the city to buy lotus flowers.

As for why I bought lotus flowers, I don't know much about this reason. This task was given to me by Liqing before the bar opened yesterday. So, the bar closed at six o'clock this morning, and I didn't even sleep, so I took a run to the public market.

At this time, the lotus flower has just bloomed, and even if you go to the market, you can only buy the bud that has just bloomed. However, the buds of lotus flowers are also beautiful when tied into a bouquet, and if you put them in a vase or bucket for a few days, they will bloom slowly, and the sense of anticipation is also quite pleasant.

The best time to do this is in the morning, and a little later, the freshest cut flowers are gone. Especially the lotus flowers in this season, I can't buy them if I go one step later, so I didn't dare to slack off at all, changed out of my uniform, put on a short-sleeved T-shirt, and hurried out the door.

It's already starting to get hot, sometimes reaching about 35 degrees Celsius at noon, and it's so hot that you sweat like rain when you walk two steps outside. However, it is not yet the time when summer is really hot, so you can still feel the cool breeze in the morning, bringing a little refreshment.

This year's mango season is destined to be more extraordinary than any solar term, because the day of mango planting happens to fall on the thirteenth day of May of the lunar calendar.

May 13 is the legendary dragon's birthday and the festival of rain. I don't know how this date is set, some people say that the dragon is the ninety-five, so it is May 13, I think about it, I think about it, I think that except for bringing a "five", the ninety-five has nothing to do with May 13 at all.

Looking up at the sky, at six o'clock, the sun was already showing a smiling face, softly coating the earth with its light. This kind of fine weather is even more irrelevant to the "Rainy Festival".

However, Liqing's mood has been really good these days, and she has decided to celebrate again today. Even if she pays attention to the usual solar terms, she won't seem so excited, so I began to feel that this "Dragon Birthday" should indeed have a story. Perhaps it was a story that happened a long, long time ago, and was known to mankind at the time, but because it was so old that word of mouth passed on, it was already fragmented and completely distorted. As of today, there is only one "title" left called "Dragon's Birthday".

If there is some unspeakable relationship between Liqing and Bailong, then it is not surprising that a day like "Dragon's Birthday" can make her happy.

What I'm curious about is, is May 13 really the "Dragon's Birthday"? Which ryujin is it's birthday? Does it have anything to do with the god of war with a dusty temperament? Also, their lives are so long, and if they are Protoss, they will be even longer, so can they really tell what their birthday will be?

After all, these methods of chronology have all been developed with the reproduction and change of human society. I believe that timekeeping is something unique to human beings, and it is precisely because life is short and there is so little time that we need to keep time and think about how to make the most of it. For other races whose lives are so long that they are endless, the concept of time must be completely different from ours. What does timekeeping mean to them?

I have to buy lotus flowers on this day, I guess, it must be related to a little obsession in Liqing's heart. Since this is her wish, I must do it for her.

But now, just as I was about to reach the flower market, the road in front of me was blocked.

That's why I'm standing on the street at the moment, dumbfounded.

After getting off the bus, it only took me about a 10-minute walk to reach the flower market, but after walking for less than three minutes, I walked around a street corner and found that the street in front of me had become a mess.

It's a wide main road, but now it's the scene of a car accident, and I don't know how many cars have been rear-ended, and the scene is very chaotic.

It stands to reason that the traffic in the city will not be particularly fast, so the situation of serial rear-end collision rarely occurs, especially the situation of this kind of serial rear-end collision of seventeen or eighteen vehicles, which is even more unheard of. But fortunately, the speed of the car is not too fast, and there are some injured people, but for the time being, the situation has not been found to be too tragic.

In fact, this rare series of rear-end collisions was not the main reason that frightened me.

To my astonishment, in the middle of the main road, there was a huge object, the size of a small building. The huge thing was nothing else, it was a big praying mantis standing with its head held high!

The huge praying mantis stands in the middle of the road with its shiny "twin knives" held high, quite a bit of Godzilla's horror feeling of appearing in a bustling city. However, the dense crowd on the road did not panic at all because of this terrifying state, and all their panic was caused by a series of rear-end collisions, so the scene looked really weird.

Since this is the case, it means that these people who are in the chaos can't see the existence of giant praying mantises at all, which may be a good thing for them. If you know that there is such a huge monster holding a "guillotine" in front of you, I am afraid that the scene of the vehicle rear-end collision will develop into the scene of a stampede.

When I saw the giant praying mantis, I had already judged that this was a demon, and it was a demon with a strong power that had revealed its original form.

The time of mango planting is the time when the number of praying mantis is the highest, which I have known for a long time. Before I went out this morning, I even saw a grass mantis in the backyard of the bar, green and slender, with a triangular head that rotated flexibly. The praying mantis is a very agile insect, also known as the "Pegasus", which can even catch cicadas larger than its own size. Some varieties of praying mantis will grow to a relatively large size, and if it is hit by its knife foot pincers, it will be very painful, and even injured and bleeding. However, no matter how long the praying mantis is, it is only an insect, like the one in front of me, there is a building the size, which is really too exaggerated!

If it is slashed by its blade and foot, it is a murder weapon more terrifying than any guillotine knife and axe, and the head will definitely fall to the ground!

The praying mantis standing in the middle of the road hadn't started to hurt people yet, but I knew in my heart that it must have been responsible for this series of rear-end collisions, even though people couldn't see it at all.

Looking at the terrifying scene in front of me, my heart was pounding, and I had a very bad premonition. (To be continued.) )