Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Legend of the Colorful River (Part II)

An old man with a childish beard in his hand appeared in front of them with a smile on his face, and asked with a pleasant face: "May I ask these little girls, where did you come from, how long have you been here, and why did you come to our remote place in the countryside, we have nothing to do with it here." It's just that we are all natives of this place, and our ancestors can't tell how many years we have lived here, and if you are willing to tell us where you come from, we will treat each other with the courtesy of landlords. ”

The seven sisters didn't know where to start for a while, but they couldn't help but ignore the old man's question, knowing that it would definitely be rude.

The old man saw that they were all like peach blossoms, with graceful postures, splendid clothes and belts, delicate skin, and light gait, and he was silent in the face of the old man's questioning. He smiled and said: "I am also an elderly person in the local area, I am a hundred years old, but it is rare to live to this extent, and we have never had so many flower-like girls like you here, so neat and unheard of!" Isn't it that the seven girls are the seven daughters of the legendary Queen Mother in our mortal world, and the seven fairies are not successful? Your noble temperament, peerless appearance, and extraordinary manners combine these qualities to be very similar to those of the Seven Fairies. ”

The sisters have no master, but the eldest sister reacts quickly. Since the people here have no malicious intentions, then it is not impossible to make their identities clear. I saw her reply generously: "The old man is really fiery and golden, and even we are the Seven Fairies have been seen by you." Yes, our seven sisters are the seven daughters of the Queen Mother, and I am the eldest of them. ”

As soon as her words fell, the old man led everyone to kneel down for a large part, and kept kowtowing to them: "The fairy is coming, forgive us mortals for missing the distance, and hope forgive our sins!" Forgiveness. ”

The eldest sister was very happy, but she didn't expect that the people in this world respected them to the extent of bowing and worshiping, and hurriedly returned the salute: "Uncle, please hurry up, what are your crimes, our seven sisters disturb your life, it is really our first rudeness." ”

Everyone sang and danced around the seven sisters, and they didn't care about going home to eat.

Besides, after thinking about it, the door gods always feel a heavy responsibility, and if they don't report it, they are afraid that the queen mother will blame and punish them, and they rush to report it, and they are afraid of offending these sisters, and the future will not be easy. They sighed undecidedly, and just as a patrol officer had arrived here, they asked the doorman why he sighed. The door god had no choice but to tell everything about the incident, and the patrol officer was so frightened that he was also left without a master, and finally decided to report the matter to the Heavenly Court Emperor Mother immediately.

The patrol officer and the door god had been waiting outside the heavenly court for a long time, and the guards guarding the palace just refused to let them in, saying that today was the birthday of the queen mother, and any major event was not as important as the queen mother's birthday, and if they wanted to report it, they must wait until the birthday banquet was over. But no one knows when the birthday feast will end.

The people on the embankment gathered more and more, and the news that the seven fairies in the sky had been brought up by the river spread as quickly as if they had given wings. The villagers beat gongs and drums, sang cheerful peasant songs, lit bonfires, and gathered around the seven fairies to sing and dance. The Seven Fairies were moved by the enthusiastic mortals, this scene, this scene, has never appeared in the Heavenly Palace, even if it has never been imagined.

Besides, the elixir and jade liquid made the queen mother drunk to death, and the queen mother was worshipped, preached, happy, and dreamy by these gods. How did she know that on the other side of the world, her seven daughters were also loved, valued, surrounded, dreamed of, and cherished.

By the time the patrol officer reported to the Queen Mother, the sky had already darkened, and the Queen Mother was furious when she received the report, and immediately asked the officer on duty to call up the heavenly soldiers and generals to go to the mortal world to arrest her seven daughters, and severely scolded the door god who guarded the South Heavenly Gate and threw them into the heavenly prison.

The Seven Fairies were singing and dancing with the peasants, when they suddenly found that the dark clouds covered the top, and thunder and lightning flashed. They knew that their mother had sent a large number of heavenly soldiers and generals to capture them, and it seemed that this time their mother had become angry.

The Seven Fairies knew that they were lucky and unlucky this time, and people were already trembling with fear when they saw the black and oppressive Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals standing in the sky, and they all fled to their homes one after another.

The eldest sister said to her sisters, "Don't be afraid, sisters, even if our mother is angry, she will not do anything to us." It's just that I'm afraid that from now on, we will never be able to step into the mortal world again, which is the saddest part of us. ”

The seven sisters began to sob, and the eldest sister said, "What's the use of sobbing, so let's keep one of our favorite things and give them to these kind and hospitable people as a souvenir?" ”

The seven sisters all said it was a good idea. So they threw their intimate handkerchiefs into the river in front of them, because each of the seven sisters had a different color of handkerchiefs, just different seven colors, and when these handkerchiefs fell into the river, the river immediately turned into seven colors, which is the origin of the seven-colored river.

As a result, the river is known and proud of everyone.

The two of them had been sitting next to the colorful river for a long time, and the water had almost been drunk, so they didn't feel too hungry at this time. In order to accumulate a little strength, the two decided to sit a little longer.

The two of them found a large willow tree and sat down, and the knife-shaped leaves on the willow tree were falling from the tree one after another. The willow leaves have mostly changed color, turning from green to golden yellow, and some of the trees have lost all their leaves, but most of the twigs still have more or less leaves.

The sun is already shining on the embankment, and the water on the river surface is quiet, gentle and changeable. Those oblique sunlight from the east bank of the river embankment refracted back to form a reflection, the sky countless fine floating clouds are leisurely floating over the river, these floating clouds fall into the river surface, bright colors, there are no seven colors Bao Minggang is not sure, but at the moment the river surface is colorful changeable, the bamboo shadow on the distant mountain also moved over, making the river more colorful.

Li Donghai pointed to the river and said to Bao Minggang: "Old Bao, do you see its mystery?" These colors are naturally formed, no one has deliberately rendered them with pen and ink, and its colorful patterns are formed through photosynthesis, and the surrounding environment is wonderful, and it becomes a pure natural landscape painting. ”

Bao Minggang said with a wry smile: "Maybe we were lucky enough to meet today, so we were full of eyes, which is nothing special." It's a pity that our stomachs have been singing empty city plans, so what about the mood to theorize these things? ”

Li Donghai heard Bao Mingyang say this, so he had to put aside the 'legend' that was on the rise and said: "If you don't say it, I really want to sit for a while, this said, the gluttonous worm immediately crawled to his mouth and refused to come out, go, hurry home, you have to eat three bowls of it." ”

The two carefully climbed the embankment and climbed over several ridges before walking onto the bridge. After walking another mile, Li Donghai will be home.