Chapter Eighty-Six: Jack-o'-lantern

"Happy Halloween! HappyHallowee

! Young Master Jiang walked into the central hall with a large bag of candy, it seemed that he liked this strange festival very much.

Li Luoyi ate cereal with fresh milk, "Isn't Halloween yet here?" Why did you celebrate early? ”

Jiang Yixue said, "It's called Halloween Eve, and it's still celebrated." ”

"You're ...... Where did you get your Halloween costumes? Li Luoyi looked at him dressed very differently, the upper body was a black and white pinstriped tuxedo, the front body was shorter, the back body was longer, and the lower end was separated like a swallow's tail, but it was like a pair of claws. In the lower abdomen, he was tightly bound with a black rope in order to achieve more than 50% resemblance.

The lower half of the body is paired with a pair of black and white pinstripe trousers, and the low end of the pants is slightly loose. The suit is paired with a pure white dress, lapel collar with a small bat black and white striped tie, only the head has no limbs, and the wings are spread out to the sides.

He wears a white foundation with dark circles under his eyes, and he looks like a panda. He also wears a skull mask on his head and shiny leather shoes on the soles of his feet.

"This is my ...... I borrowed some money from Ah Yu, and finally bought clothes at a low price from Taotao. Jiang Yixue circled in place, "How is it?" Is it good-looking? ”

"Hmm......" Lin Jinyu nodded slightly, "Which character are you dressed up?" ”

Jiang Yixue told her, "Skeleton Jack! The characters in "Nightmare Before Christmas", although they are still a little bit hot, feel okay. ”

"I think it's too much of a difference." Li Luoyi didn't give face.

Jiang Yixue looked at her speechlessly, "What's wrong?" I can't just copy the characters from the cartoons...... I'm a real person. ”

He can only say that his ability is limited, after all, he is not a professional cosplay person.

Li Luoyi turned on the poisonous tongue mode, "You are not as thin, no one is tall, and no one is handsome, if you pass according to six points, I can only reluctantly give you two points." ”

Jiang Yixue was completely speechless, "Two points...... You're really face-saving, I thank you family. ”

"No thanks! I'm a helpful little angel! Li Luoyi smiled and gave a thumbs up.

"Anyway...... How do you dress up your face makeup? Lin Jinyu picked up the mug with a curious expression.

"Forehead......" Jiang Yixue was a little embarrassed to speak, "The foundation on the face was secretly taken from the little witch's room...... I'm borrowing it. ”

"What! My foundation?! Li Luoyi was immediately furious.

Jiang Yixue immediately quibbled, "I only used a little bit, you don't have to kill me in a hurry!" ”

"You're excessive!" Li Luo rolled up his sleeves and his eyes were full of anger.

"I said it all, you don't have to kill me in a hurry, it's a big deal that when I pay my salary next month, I'll compensate you with a bottle of foundation, what a big deal......" Jiang Yixue continued to quibble, and Lin Jinyu sat aside drinking white water and watching the play.

"How big is it?" Li Luoyi glared at him with a raging fire, "It's okay if you use my foundation, and you still enter my room?" Who gave you this guts? Jiang Yixue! Who gave you permission to enter my room? Didn't you know that the room was a secret space for girls? ”

"I don't know...... But now I know. Jiang Yixue was unrepentant.

"I really want to ......" Li Luoyi just wanted to punch over, Lin Jinyu immediately stood up and stopped her, the girl was impulsive like a cow.

"Hey, hey, don't be impulsive, don't be impulsive, everything is negotiable." Lin Jinyu held Li Luoyi's shoulders, and the role of the eldest sister was to resolve the entanglements between the members of the organization.

"I don't care, you'll have to pay me a bottle of foundation anyway, or you'll die." Li Luo regarded foundation as life, which made Jiang Yixue a little scared.

Jiang Yixue had no choice but to agree, "Okay, okay, when I have money, I'll give you another bottle of foundation." ”

"Do you know how expensive my bottle of foundation is? It's a limited-edition Estee Lauder foundation that I don't usually use. Li Luoyi looked up at him, she wanted to try to kick Jiang Yixue with her foot, but her legs were short, and she couldn't kick at all.

"Estee Lauder? What a familiar name. Jiang Yixue picked out the earwax with his little thumb, and he told Li Luoyi, "The limited edition foundation is the same in my eyes, and the reason why the limited edition is expensive is because it has commemorative value, or it can be sold in stock for a hundred bottles in a short period of time, after all, rare things are expensive." But foundation has to be used up at the end, so why bother collecting it, you think it's red wine. ”

"That'...... That's for me, not for you. Li Luoyi is still holding on to the foundation.

"Okay, good, my fault, my fault, please eat a candy." Jiang Yixue really couldn't stand her temper, so he took out a toffee from the bag and threw it to Li Luoyi.

Jiang Yixue continued, "The owner of the candy store told me that if I eat candy, I will be happy. If you are not happy, you have to eat sugar, and if you are happy, you have to eat sugar. ”

"No wonder candy sales are so high this year!" Lin Jinyu seemed to understand something.

Li Luoyi peeled off the candy paper and chewed it, but she looked pained, "What kind of sugar?" So hard! ”

Jiang Yixue smiled and told her, "This is toffee, don't eat it if you have bad teeth." ”

"You have to take care of it." Li Luo glanced at him.

Li Luoyi rolled around in circles with double ponytails, "According to what you say...... Do I have to wear a gothic-style outfit, put on smoky makeup, and go out and about? ”

Jiang Yixue chewed the durian candy with a perfunctory expression, "Hmm...... Very good idea, I wish you a speedy realization. ”

"Then will you go out with me? Come out with me and ask for candy, go door to door and ask for candy. Li Luoyi took the initiative to speak, is this an invitation? Is it as simple as going out on Halloween with a nervous lady just to ask for candy? Anyway, Jiang Yixue didn't believe the little witch's words, and always felt that this was a long-planned murder.

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Jiang Yixue shook his head and refused, "I'm not going, I'm going to hang out with my friends at night, and I'm not interested in your invitation at all." ”

"You ......" Li Luoyi was angry and speechless.

Jiang Yixue continued to add, "What am I? I just don't want to go out with you. ”

"Stupid, there's a sparkling jack-o-lantern behind you." Li Luo has been saying that behind Jiang Yixue, there is indeed a pumpkin lantern dangling blindly, someone is wearing a pumpkin hood, wearing a pure white shirt, and the chest is obviously protruding, the preliminary estimate should be a C cup, could it be that the pumpkin has been reincarnated as a woman?

Jiang Yixue didn't believe Li Luoyi's big truth, "Who are you lying to!" I won't believe your nonsense, please find a legitimate lie to lie to me next time, this kind of old-fashioned lie is too pediatric for me. ”

Yi Xue ...... You really have a jack-o-lantern behind you, and it's staring at you all the time. Lin Jinyu covered her lips and snickered, she couldn't hold back her inner emotions.

"Isn't it! Sister Jinyu, you have also learned to deceive people! Your image of a goddess in my mind is gone. Jiang Yixue couldn't bear to speak, and Li Luoyi stood aside with a puzzled face.

"Oh, I can see that Sister Jinyu is a goddess in your mind, and I am a little witch in your mind, right?" Li Luo looked at Jiang Yixue speechlessly.

Jiang Yixue spread her hands innocently, "I didn't mean that." ”

"That's what you mean......" Li Luoyi completely saw through Jiang Yixue.

"Yixue, I really didn't lie to you, you can look back and see." Lin Jinyu tried to save her image, but Jiang Yixue still didn't believe it.

"Come on, I know it's a lie that you've complied with to deceive me. I won't believe your nonsense, children will lose their big teeth when they lie. Jiang Yixue stretched his waist and turned to leave, and as soon as he turned around, he saw a jack-o-lantern flickering in front of his eyes, and he said a word of British English to him.

β€œHelloboy,doyoueatpumpki

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"Cut ......" Jiang Yixue pretended to be calm, he turned his head to look at Lin Jinyu and Li Luoyi, "The jack-o-lantern has spoken, compared to the pumpkin lantern that will flutter in your mouth, this talking jack-o'-lantern ...... It is enough to prove that a talking jack-o'-lantern is a good jack-o-lantern. ”

"You're not afraid?" Li Luoyi looked surprised, she wanted to praise Jiang Yixue.

Jiang Yixue shook his head, "What's there to be afraid of?" ”

He turned his head to look at the jack-o'-lantern in front of him, and he continued, "The big winter melon didn't even speak, and it's your turn to be the jack-o'-lantern?" It's really nonsense, it's really scary......"

Suddenly, his legs went limp, and he fell to the ground with a "flutter".

Li Luoyi stood in place with a stunned face, "It turns out ...... This guy is unresponsive, I thought he wasn't really scared. ”

The jack-o'-lantern took off her hood, shook her long hair, and smiled, it turned out to be Sister Qin Fei! Sure enough, there is an old saying that it is better to hurt a friend than a biological sister, and it is better to harm a brother than to harm others. After drying this cup of hot cocoa, I will be sisters and brothers in the next life.

What the hell is this?! I've never heard this old saying, it must be a nonsense that some incompetent writer came up with on the spot.

"Sister Qin Fei?!" The two of them were like melon eaters, with two surprised faces.

Jiang Qinfei smiled slightly, "Happy Halloween, hello little babies." ”

Li Luoyi seemed to think of something, she told Lin Jinyu, "I think Jiang Yixue was most likely frightened, not only because of forcible intimidation, but also because of the suppression of bloodline." ”

"Hmm...... That's true. Lin Jinyu nodded silently.

Jiang Qinfei looked at Jiang Yixue, who had fainted on the ground, and she sighed, "It seems that his guts are still not good, he will be frightened by the jack-o'-lantern like this." I wanted to scare Shrek with his hood, but it seems that I overestimated his guts. My dear brother, when will you inherit the revolutionary ideas of your family? ”

"Forehead......" Li Luoyi stood in place in embarrassment, "I think even if he has the guts, he may not be able to inherit revolutionary ideas." ”

Jiang Qinfei sighed, her face was gloomy, but she was smiling in her heart.

After a while, Jiang Yixue woke up groggily with her head covered, feeling as if she had been poured several bottles of Erguotou. He didn't faint because he was frightened, but when he fell, his head hit the floor, which was as hard as granite.

"Do I need to take you to the children's hospital?" Jiang Qinfei said while chewing on durian candy.

"If there is...... That's not bad either. Jiang Yixue pressed the Qingming acupoint, and he ate a nougat to comfort himself.

"Alas......" Li Luoyi sighed, "It's so pitiful, you were scared by the jack-o-lantern the day before Halloween, if your group of friends of the opposite sex knew about it, how would they laugh at you?" ”

Jiang Yixue didn't want to pay attention to the little witch, anyway, that guy had a bad stomach.

"Do you know the origin of the jack-o'-lantern?" Lin Jinyu suddenly brought up a new topic.

"I know!" Jiang Yixue was the first to raise his hand, and he continued to chew nougat in his mouth.

"Wow, I didn't expect my brother to know, my brother is too powerful!" Jiang Qinfei applauded, and the scene was embarrassing for a while.

Jiang Yixue chewed nougat and said, "Pumpkin lanterns are a symbol to celebrate Halloween. Legend has it that there was a man named Jack who was so stingy that he could not enter heaven after death, and because he made fun of the devil, he could not go to hell. Therefore, he could only wander around carrying a lantern until Judgment Day. Later, in order to scare away these spirits on Halloween Eve, people carved terrifying faces out of turnips, beets or potatoes to represent Jack with lanterns, which is how the jack-o'-lantern came from. ”

"That's right, I didn't expect Young Master Jiang to be full of money. Come! Reward you with a candy to celebrate. Li Luoyi took a toffee and handed it to Jiang Yixue.

"Hahaha, of course, I just checked the information." Jiang Yi and Xue Han smiled and scratched their hair.

"Do you know why you use pumpkins as lights on Halloween?" Lin Jinyu continued to ask.

"I don't know." Jiang Qinfei shook his head deliberately.

"Why?" Li Luo didn't know anything.

"Maybe the pumpkin is getting weaker." Jiang Yixue said.

Lin Jinyu turned into a decent scholar, and the words that came out of his mouth were like squid spitting ink, "A long time ago, there was such a place, before it was excavated by the outside world, it was able to 'know itself and take care of itself', and this place was the 'American Continent'!" ”

She continued, "Once upon a time, the American continent was like a virgin, it had its own order, and more than 60 kinds of ingredients were cultivated by the hands of the indigenous people, including the 'pumpkin' that saved people from fire and water. ”

They quietly listened to Lin Jinyu spreading knowledge, "Native Americans have an inseparable affection for pumpkins, and in the period when cocoa beans were used as currency, pumpkins had extraordinary value. One pumpkin equals four cocoa beans, and twenty-five pumpkins equals one adult slave. They also like to plant pumpkin root with beans and corn. Not for how nice it looks, but because the triangle has stability. ”

Lin Jinyu laughed, "Just kidding, it's to keep them alive." Corn equals natural trellises, and Phaseolus vulgaris equals natural fertilizer, attracting beneficial insects and preying on pests. Pumpkins protect soil moisture and prevent weeds from growing over. ”

Suddenly, Lin Jinyu said with a serious face, "One day in 1948, when the Indians were enjoying pumpkins, the situation suddenly changed. A navigator came coldly, breaking the original quiet years, and that person was Columbus. Hungry explorers, when they saw the golden pumpkins, grabbed them without saying a word and nibbled on them. Gentlemen who are accustomed to eating macarons with black tea eat pumpkin cold, just like foreigners eating spicy strips. ”

In fact, Columbus went to the Americas to see it, who would have thought that the navigators behind him would follow suit. Bring something delicious to eat and drink from home as a souvenir. Enthusiastic Indians also sent their own produce out, and in doing so, they led to the most famous 'Columbus Exchange' in history. ”

Later, the Europeans were not satisfied with exchanging food, and simply exchanged themselves. There is such a wave of Irish people, they like to hollow out turnips on Halloween, put a small candle in it, pretend to be ghosts, and play tricks around. When the Irish came to the Americas, they found pumpkins everywhere. It's delicious and easy to carve, and if you don't agree with each other, you will change the customs, and the jack-o'-lantern will be officially on the throne. ”

"Since the advent of the pumpkin lantern, from the ninety-nine to the ganghui, the pumpkin has been regarded as a treasure. Such an excellent pumpkin, as soon as it came to Halloween, the sales showed a rate of cell division. But don't see the pumpkin, just take it home right away. Because not all pumpkins can be made into lights, there are many types of pumpkins, but there are only a few that can make jack-o'-lanterns. The three largest pumpkin pies are the Chinese Gang, the Indian Gang, and the American Gang. ”

Lin Jinyu consciously poured a glass of water for herself to drink, and after saying so many words, it was no wonder that she was not thirsty.

"Isn't it? It's so particular about making a jack-o'-lantern, so ...... You've been saying a lot of nonsense just to let us know that pumpkins are from America? Wouldn't it be enough for you to start with the goblins, so why waste your saliva? Jiang Yixue shook his head helplessly.

"It's Columbus!" Li Luoyi corrected Jiang Yixue's slip of the tongue, Jiang Yixue saw that the cup in Lin Jinyu's hand was out of water, so he picked up the kettle and poured a glass of boiled water for her.

"Uh...... Perhaps. Lin Jinyu nodded, "Actually, I don't know where I should start, after all, I saw it on Chinese Wikipedia when I just got up in the morning, and when I was bored, I memorized it by the way." ”

"It's really worthy of being a top student...... Say back to it. Jiang Yixue felt that his skills were inferior.

"It's alright." Lin Jinyu smiled.

"It would be nice if my brother could be as smart as you, alas......" Jiang Qinfei sighed, he was ecstatic and praised his brother before, but now he immediately turned into a fan.

Old.

The light rain outside the window gradually stopped, but the lights inside the house were still dark. She was still leaning against the wall, counting in her heart the number of times Achu had refused to join the organization during this time. Every time he refused, there was a kind of indifference on his face.

She sat alone, the classroom was empty, and she played with her "lonely" heart.

Chen Yunhan picked up the phone and tried to dial Achu's mobile number, but before that, she hesitated for a while, not knowing what to say. That guy was dragged by Huang Tian to a nearby dental clinic to have his teeth extracted, and before leaving, he begged Chen Yunhan to call him. In the end, she still didn't dial the number, and she gave up on the idea.

In the past few days, because I was worried that he would refuse to join the organization again, I always woke up in the middle of the night, and stayed up all night with a cold wind to count the sheep, and the sheep ran away.

Passers-by crossed the street and walked past the river. The good times seem to be only for this moment, and the camera can't catch it. Even the leaves in the forest are falling like flowers, and there is nothing to regret now.

The wind blows away the clouds, and all you leave me with is vague answers. The years have dried up my attachment to you during this time, and I can only hold it as a memory. There are too many memories scattered, and scattered ones make people so sad.

Chen Yunhan walked on the bank of the river, and it was the first time she walked alone near the school, but she didn't expect that there was a small river outside the school. The river flows down the south side of the school, and as you look at the meandering of the river, you can't see the top edge.

Melancholy has nowhere to be consumed, and boredom accompanies life. If you refuse to come over again, the whole person will become an empty self, and my heart will be inexplicably anxious. I've been with that guy for a long time and I feel like he's just like him. The world isolates me, and allows the world to ridicule and sneer. I can only keep my silence and understand what is good and bad. Hua Xuning's words may not make you feel a lifetime, after all, he is not a people's teacher.

It's all scattered, it doesn't matter if it's too scattered. If I wake up after the break, will that guy say yes?

Chen Yunhan walked with his head down, listening to Chen Li's "Walking Horse" with headphones, and a phone call came over and interrupted the progress of the music. She pulled off her headphones and looked at the caller ID on her phone, which was a call from Achu

"Hello? What's wrong? She connected to the number.

"Look up, I'm on the other side of yours." Achu said.

"What the hell is going on, why don't you just say it here? Why...... Still looking up to look at you? Chen Yunhan didn't want to face that guy.

"Look up, there's something good." Achu's tone seemed to have become much more joyful, as if his teeth had healed.

"Good...... All right. Chen Yunhan nodded in agreement

After a long time, she was finally willing to look up and see the guy walking slowly on the other side. I feel like I'm in a dilemma between fake sleep and reality, and I seem to want to take a nap.

"Come here! There are a lot of fish in this river, and if we catch these fish, we can have a whole fish feast tonight! Achu shouted at Chen Yunhan.

"Fool...... "You are waiting for my bravery on the other side, it seems that for a moment. If you say yes, we're not just teammates, we're good friends.

"Are your teeth healed?! A sucker! Chen Yunhan also shouted at Achu.

"Huh?! What did you say? Are my teeth good? It's already been good! I can eat candy now! Not to mention durian candy, I can eat all the toffee! ”

Chen Yunhan looked at him so happily, and he slowly smiled.

"Happy Halloween! A sucker! ”

"You too! I mean, you're stupid too! ”