Chapter Seventy-Nine: Hibiscus (1)

It's rare to close the shop and come out to play, if someone sees Lin'er now, they will definitely say that she is like a happy butterfly, flying among the wild flowers in the mountains.

"Oops!"

The so-called "happiness and sorrow" is probably what it means, no, she is holding a basket in her hand, even running all the way forward, no matter how I call her, she refuses to obey, as a result, one accidentally tripped over something under her feet, and the whole person fell forward.

Quickly stepping on a small whirlwind, I flashed right in front of her, perhaps so fast that the air around me didn't even have time to circulate. Reached out and held the basket, grasped it firmly in her hand, gently supported her chest with her other hand, and pushed it back, Lin'er changed from a forward posture to a backward posture, and then, she sat firmly in a heavy "ass squat".

"Princess, you bully!"

Sitting on the ground, rubbing her poor little buttocks, Lin'er's little mouth was so pouting that she could hang an oil bottle, staring at me with a small face aggrievedly, grunting dissatisfiedly.

With a shallow smile, I covered my mouth, waved my hand and brushed my breezy hair, and then raised the basket in my hand.

"You're running around here like crazy, you've been entangled in your feet, and you've fallen to your head, and if you break my basket of good wine and snacks, it's a big deal!"

Flip open the lid of the basket and check the flask and glass inside to see if there is any spillage, and rummage through the box containing the snacks to see if the lid is not tight, or if the snacks inside have been broken.

Who cares if she falls painfully or not, after all, these little ones will not stay in the city for long, but it will not be like before, when this time of year, they are all afraid and have to flee to the wilderness in a hurry.

Walking up to the little cyan snake that had just stumbled over Lin'er and was so frightened that I stiffened there, squatted down, I reached out and held it into my right hand, and with my left hand, I pinched a resurrection trick at random, wrapping spiritual power all the way around its entire slender long body from its small head.

Lin'er is a snake spirit in the form of a human being, and her steps are light and agile compared to mortals, if she is usually diligent in practice, let alone stepping on this little snake like this, even if she jumps on the fluttering dandelion, there will never be a trace of trembling. However, this girl was born with a lazy bone!

It's not that she is not diligent enough, but her character is honest and pure, without a trace of dirt, just like an innocent child, as long as she is given a free and happy life, a relaxed and stress-free atmosphere, she is willing to grow up happily.

She never cared about cultivating any immortal body, in a sentence that often hung on her roadside, it was called "What's the use of becoming an immortal, you can't eat or drink, I'm happy to be a little goblin, at least I don't have to suffer from those rules and regulations, how good it is to end up happy!"

The bones of the little green snake had been healed, and it immediately spat out at me vigilantly, and then quickly fell to the ground, burrowed into the dense grass, and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Princess, why are you saying that this Dragon Boat Festival is so boring now!"

After walking up the slope for another ten minutes, the two of us came to a huge hibiscus tree and sat down, leaning on the trunk of the tree that was so thick that ten people hugged each other, and they could not necessarily wrap around.

Looking up at the canopy, all of them are green stalks and calyxes, and the tips of the pink and white filigree stamens are crowned with golden anthers, fluttering up and down with the breeze, just like a little elf wearing a pink and white gauze skirt that only wants to fly to the sky with the wind.

"Lin'er, do you remember that Fleur?"

Pinching and turning a ball of spiritual power, I flipped up and down in my hand with a falling acacia flower, I turned my head and looked at Lin'er who was thinking about something with a puzzled face.

"Fleur, Fleur?"

Obviously, it's been a long time, and she, a heartless girl, should have forgotten it!

"Can't remember at all?"

I raised my hand in front of her, and sent the floating little flower to her, trying to make its fragrance spread more powerfully, didn't the former king Song Shijie say that for Wujue, the sense of smell is the most unforgettable.

Bringing her small nose closer, she lifted her breath vigorously and sniffed it, and her pupils, which were still a little confused just now, were clear, and they became clear in an instant.

"I remember, princess, is the Fleur you said the same as the fool?"

This sentence earned me a good slap on the head, and I must remember that she was like this back then, crying and jumping to her feet and scolding Fleur for being a fool.

"What a stupid, she's stupid!"

"Bah, bah!" Lin'er shook her hair unconvinced, fished out a large oval meat dumpling that she had made exclusively from the basket, and continued to mutter, while peeling off the reed leaves that were boiled to a very fragrant fragrance, "The princess will feel sorry for these stupid women, and then she will become more and more stupid, and she can't let go of that idea!"

The hand that was about to be beaten was hanging in the air, and this girl's words really made my heart hurt for a while, am I stupid? When it comes to this love word, it is nothing more than gods, people, fairies and ghosts, isn't every one of them impossible to avoid?

If there is no such word "love" in this world, then what is the interest at all?

"Then, princess, don't be angry, I'm also quick to talk!" handed me the zongzi in her hand, she licked the glutinous rice stuck to her fingers, "I know you don't like meat, Changjing Xianjun specially asked me to prepare a hundred flowers for you!"

It turned out that she was dismantling and peeling it for me just now, and the mention of Changjing Xianjun made me a little puzzled, biting the soft and glutinous sweet zongzi, feeling the quartet of glutinous rice, reed leaves, flowers and maple sugar in my mouth, and a little touch rose in my heart.

"He told you to do it?"

Lin'er nodded her head with a whimper, a small mouth stuffed with meaty dumplings, I thought she didn't have the heart to take care of me, but I didn't want her to smack her mouth a few times, and raised her head again.

"Princess, later, did that stupid sister come back?"

Shaking my head, I took another bite of the white zongzi and said, "I don't know, maybe it's back, it doesn't matter if it's not back, that little doll always grows up happily!"

As soon as he finished saying this, a gust of wind struck, blowing the crown of the hibiscus tree with a "rattle". The wind swept the pink and white delicate flowers that fell, and I vaguely appeared in front of my eyes under the towering giant tree, a person dressed in pink clothes and playing the piano, dancing like a willow in the wind.

"That's right, princess!" Lin'er pushed me and pulled me out of my own illusion, "Was that song called "Sigh of Joy" back then?"

Nodding, I took out a pot of acacia wine from the basket, I tasted it carefully, the aroma of this wine is still the same, but the people are not as good as before.

"Then, isn't this tree called the Hibiscus Tree, why isn't it called "Hibiscus Sigh"?"

Looking at me with a pair of watery eyes, she wiped her hands and sniffed my flask with her little nose.

I took out another cup and filled it to her, and I reluctantly reached out and stroked her hair.

"Do you know that this hibiscus tree is also called an acacia tree, but this acacia flower cannot be called a hibiscus flower!"

Nodding her head as if she didn't understand, she looked at me as if she was drinking, but her eyes seemed to be settled.

I knew in my heart that she must be reminiscing about the events of the year, because of that sentence, she had asked, and some people had answered like this, but the person who answered her was not me.

pinched her trick and carefully pinched her wrist, I followed her memory back to that day of that year, which was also the same Dragon Boat Festival as today......

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"The Dragon Boat Festival is in the middle of summer, and the Qing Dynasty is getting longer and longer. ”

This is what the Tang Dynasty emperor Li Longji said in the poem called "Dragon Boat Festival".

Whenever there is a big festival or a small celebration, this street is always lively. Especially in lucrative festivals like the Dragon Boat Festival, there are more people.

The streets and alleys are full of small stalls selling mugwort leaves, calamus, and zongzi toys. As a result, the air is full of the aroma of steamed herbs, mixed with the rich and not elegant aroma of zongzi, which is intoxicating and invisible.

Where are the small traders willing to miss this annual festival, they also carry burdens, which are nothing more than some small objects that should be festive, such as the five poisonous puppets that the children of the family have to sew on their bodies, and the red belly pockets embroidered with the five poisons that the children wear specially in this season, and the silver horn combs that the girls like to pin to their heads, one by one, one by one, one by one, hanging on the shoulders one by one, walking and shaking, adding a lot of joy to this dark street.

However, at this time, the happiest people are not those of them who make a small amount of money. It's the children who are running around the streets with firecrackers and fireworks in their hands.

Because the firecrackers of the Dragon Boat Festival are not the same as those used in the New Year in Pingsuli, there will be an extra flavor of realgar in it, and if it is lit and thrown away, it will not make a crisp sound of "popping", but will spray a puff of yellow smoke from the tail, saying that it can be used to drive away the five poisons.

And what are the "five poisons"?

In fact, it is the five kinds of pests that are spread among the people, and it is said that Lin'er still hates this Dragon Boat Festival the most, because among these five species, in addition to scorpions, centipedes, toads and geckos, snakes are also among them.

And Bai Suzhen, the famous "White Lady" in history, drank realgar wine by mistake during this Dragon Boat Festival, and showed her true body and scared her father-in-law Xu Xian to death, so she provoked the drama of "stealing fairy grass".

Despite this, this girl was still interested at this time, lit the yellow cannon one by one, and threw it in all corners of the store, watching the yellow smoke come out, and her eyes were shining with excitement.