Chapter 88: Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival can be regarded as a festival that still has strong characteristics in modern times. Eating zongzi, paddling a dragon boat, and repelling five poisons, there are quite a few things to do. Lu Qingjiu started to prepare early. He bought herbs and hung at his door. He also bought zongzi leaves and glutinous rice, wrapped in various flavors of zongzi.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, Zhu Miaomiao took advantage of the holiday to come to Shuifu Village. Since she tasted the most natural food in Shuifu Village, she could never forget this wonderful taste and ran here almost whenever she had time. A colleague who didn't know the truth in the unit joked about her and Lu Qingjiu and asked her if she was secretly in love with Lu Qingjiu, or why she was so reluctant to leave the poor country. Zhu Miaomiao showed great disdain for this statement, saying: "You guys will laugh at me now. Don't cry and beg me when I bring honey and hair tonic back."
Upon hearing honey and hair growth lotion, the people in the unit instantly changed their attitude towards Zhu Miaomiao, and pleaded with Master Zhu Miaomiao to have a lot of them, and don't care about them. Not to blame for their snobbery. Needless to say, the hair growth lotion can't be grabbed at all on the Internet. As for the honey, the taste is not only good, but the focus is also on the beauty effect. No matter how many acne you have on your face, apply a layer of honey to sleep, and the acne will disappear the next day. And if it is acne-free skin, after applying this honey, the skin will become smooth and soft, and even wrinkles will be lightened.
Because of the beauty effect of this honey, it has been enthusiastically loved by the company’s female compatriots. Originally, they had to work overtime during the Dragon Boat Festival, but the executives above Zhu Miaomiao made an exception to give her a holiday, just to ask for such a small pot of honey to be easy to get. Go home to please his wife.
Zhu Miaomiao also got a three-day holiday, and returned to Shuifu Village with large and small packages of snacks and fruits.
When I got into Lu Qingjiu’s minivan, Zhu Miaomiao and Lu Qingjiu were chatting. What the colleague said to her this time reminded her of one thing. Lu Qingjiu is already twenty-seven and eighty-eight, and he hasn’t had a girlfriend yet, Shuifu With so few people in the village, he doesn't know how to solve his lifelong affairs.
"It's solved." Lu Qingjiu looked at the road ahead without squinting.
"Ah?" Zhu Miaomiao was stunned for three seconds before realizing the meaning of Lu Qingjiu's words, and suddenly screamed, "It is solved, what does it mean to be solved? Who are you in love with, why don't you tell me?"
Lu Qingjiu was very calm: "You'll know when you go."
Zhu Miaomiao suspiciously observed Lu Qingjiu's expression: "I remember there are no young girls in Shuifu Village. They are all grandpas and aunts, don't you..."
Lu Qingjiu was a little helpless: "Not an aunt."
Zhu Miaomiao: "Fuck it, isn't it an aunt? Is it an uncle? Then you are too brutal."
Lu Qingjiu: "..."
Zhu Miaomiao: "Brother, don't keep talking, I'm a little scared."
Lu Qingjiu couldn't laugh or cry, but he didn't want to say more to Zhu Miaomiao, just let her see for himself. Zhu Miaomiao was very nervous all the way, afraid that Lu Qingjiu would do anything hungry and not choose food. After all, she can't accept that her friend has a twilight relationship with a fifty-something aunt...
When he got home, Yin Xun helped to lift the big and small bags of things Zhu Miaomiao had brought out of the car. Zhu Miaomiao took the opportunity to ask Yin Xun and said, "Hey, Yin Xun, I heard that sake is in love."
Yin Xun said, "Yes."
Zhu Miaomiao: "Then how old is his love partner?"
Yin Xun was bent over to carry something. He looked a little strange when he heard this. He said, "What do you ask this for?"
Zhu Miaomiao said: "I'm not worried about sake, I'm afraid that he will find someone too old...There seem to be few young people in this village. Apart from you and Lu Qingjiu, I really haven't seen other young girls."
Yin Xun thought for a while, to be honest, he really didn't know the age of Baiyue Fox, but since Baiyue Fox came to the human world in Lu Qingjiu's generation, it should be regarded as grandma's generation. Human, so he didn't think much, so he said what he thought.
Zhu Miaomiao: "..."
Yin Xun: "...Zhu Miaomiao, what are you doing with your mouth open."
Zhu Miaomiao reached out with difficulty, raised his chin, and said tremblingly: "How old do you think Lu Qingjiu is in love?"
Yin Xun: "Didn't I say, his grandma's generation."
Zhu Miaomiao: "How old?"
Yin Xun: "...Anyway, it's bigger than Lu Sake."
Zhu Miaomiao was confused, and a gully old face appeared in her mind. She barely held her mind, showing a crying smile, and said, "Okay, no matter what decision sake makes, I will... …support him."
Yin Xun looked at Zhu Miaomiao inexplicably. He thought Zhu Miaomiao had known about Lu Qingjiu's relationship with Bai Yuehu. After all, Zhu Miaomiao was a good friend of Lu Qingjiu, and he always knew that there were unusual objects in their house.
Zhu Miaomiao carried a box of small pineapples and walked slowly into the yard, looking around slowly before exhaling. She did not see the old man who was sitting in the yard with a kind smile as she imagined, which made her feel much better.
"Sit down, I'll pour you a glass of milk." Lu Qingjiu rolled up his sleeves and planned to cook. "I stewed braised pork at noon and cooked yellow fish. Do you have any dishes you want to eat?"
Zhu Miaomiao wanted to speak but stopped.
"What?" Lu Qingjiu asked strangely, "Are you still polite with me? Yuehu, you help me get my apron. You washed the one that was hanging in the backyard yesterday."
Bai Yuehu got up and went to the backyard.
"Sake, tell me honestly, is the person you are in love with is very old." Zhu Miaomiao decided to have a showdown with Lu Sake, "So you don't want to tell me?"
Lu Qingjiu's first reaction was to deny it, but after thinking about it carefully, he found that... the age of the white moon fox is really quite old, so he froze for a few seconds, not knowing what to say.
"Sake, no matter how you make it, you can't make it so." Zhu Miaomiao only took Lu Qingjiu's silence as a acquiescence, and said suddenly, "This... these three-legged toads are not easy to find. Two-legged people don't. Is it everywhere? Look. Although we don’t have a lot of money at home, it’s enough. There is also a house and land. It’s not difficult to ask for a daughter-in-law. Why bother, my mother, fifty or sixty years old Mother, how can you do it."
Lu Qingjiu hurriedly said, "He is not a 50 or 60-year-old aunt!"
Zhu Miaomiao said, "Oh, yes, Yin Xun said, it's your grandma's generation, so it must be in the seventies."
Lu Qingjiu: "..." You add a zero after seventy, right?
Bai Yuehu took his apron from the backyard, and happened to walk behind Lu Qingjiu. His action naturally planned to help Lu Qingjiu tie it up. After hearing Zhu Miaomiao's words, his hand paused slightly, and he didn't know what he thought of.
"Seventy? Is it bigger than seventy?" Zhu Miaomiao understood the meaning of Lu Qingjiu's expression, and immediately felt unacceptable. She felt that seventy was already the limit she could accept, but now Lu Qingjiu hesitated and did not respond. His lover is an old lady in her eighties? Then she really had to faint on the spot. This is no longer a question of freedom or freedom of love, and it has completely broken the ethical limit of human beings...
Lu Qingjiu said: "...you calm down and listen to my explanation."
Zhu Miaomiao cried: "I don’t listen, I don’t listen, how can you find a ten-year-old lady? If you really don’t like girls, wouldn’t boys be fine? Look at the white moon fox, who looks so long. Shui Ling, isn't it the same after turning off the lights?"
Lu Qingjiu: "Puff..."
Zhu Miaomiao: "The chest is slightly flat, and the bottom is slightly larger, but the skin still looks smooth."
White Moon Fox: "..."
"Really, do you really think Baiyue Fox is good?" Lu Qingjiu couldn't help it, and he laughed directly.
Zhu Miaomiao didn't understand what Lu Qingjiu was laughing at, thinking he didn't take his words seriously: "Don't, I'm serious, you think the white moon fox can still farm, and it looks good. Got the kitchen...much better than the old lady."
Lu Qingjiu said: "Then how old is the oldest age you can accept?"
Zhu Miaomiao was very alert when he heard the words. He looked at Lu Qingjiu suspiciously. After thinking for a long time, he stretched out three fingers. After he stretched out, he was afraid that his requirements were too strict. The weak one stretched out another one: "Just... …It can’t be more than forty."
Lu Qingjiu: "So strict?"
Zhu Miaomiao: "Fuck, I can be my mother at the age of fifty! This is still strict, Lu Qingjiu, you should be more sober."
Lu Qingjiu laughed, tears came out, and while laughing, he patted Bai Yuehu on the shoulder and said, "What do you do, Fox, you are so much older than me, you are not up to the standard."
Bai Yuehu looked at Zhu Miaomiao faintly, and didn't know if she should thank her for recommending herself, or should she hate her for having such a demanding age range.
Zhu Miaomiao heard Lu Qingjiu's words, and then looked at the two people's eyebrows, and tasted them, and said in doubt, "Hey, what's going on, you two...Could it be..."
"Okay, no kidding." Lu Qingjiu stood up straight and pointed at Bai Yuehu, "I am in love with him."
Zhu Miaomiao: "..."
Lu Qingjiu said: "He is not a human being. To be precise, he should be older than my grandma. As for how old he is, I don't know."
Zhu Miaomiao: "..."
Lu Qingjiu said, "Do you have anything else you want to ask?"
Zhu Miaomiao looked at Baiyue Fox up and down, and finally held back for a long time, before squeezing out: "He is not a human, then you must tell me what he is."
Lu Qingjiu thought for a moment, and decided to help Baiyue Fox sew his resolute vest: "Fox."
"Oh oh oh, it's the kind of vixen in the Liao Zhai, no wonder it's so good-looking." Zhu Miaomiao had an inspiration, "Is that Su Xi's kin? Ah... the prototype of the white moon fox must be furry too."
Lu Qingjiu said: "Hmm...forget it? Right?" At least the ears are still fluffy.
Zhu Miaomiao smiled brilliantly, smiling like a mother watching her elder son solve his personal problems: "That's great, great. There is nothing like an 80-year-old lady who is really great."
Lu Qingjiu smiled and said, "Okay, ask what kind of milk you want, I'll get it for you."
Zhu Miaomiao waved her hand to express her randomness. She has no interest in milk. Now she wants to know more about the White Moon Fox. After all, the White Moon Foxes I have visited before seemed very cold, and she didn't do much chat. Now I know that Lu Qingjiu is in When I fall in love with him, I naturally want to know more about it.
Lu Qingjiu said helplessly, got up and helped Zhu Miaomiao get the milk.
After Zhu Miaomiao came to the house, there was a lot of excitement in the house. Lu Qingjiu cooked a large table of good dishes and served a few bottles of wine. Everyone was eating and chatting, and the atmosphere was pleasant. After Zhu Miaomiao had eaten, he went to see Qin Yuan, who produces her favorite honey in the backyard. When he learned that Qin Yuan did not work overtime on May and 2 holidays, he envied their lives and said that he was being capitalist every day. Exploitation, these three days of vacation are still in exchange for their honey.
So Lu Qingjiu watched the squeezed social animal Zhu Miaomiao and the few Qin Yuan who hated work at first sight, and exchanged contact information passionately.
Yin Xun whispered beside him, "Why didn't I see Zhu Miaomiao being so enthusiastic to me."
Lu Qingjiu said, "That's because your acne treatment method is wrong."
Yin Xun: "Huh?"
Lu Qingjiu said: "If you eat the food you cooked, you can eliminate acne without diarrhea, she will treat you like this."
Yin Xun was speechless at once, and he had the illusion that he had seen through this world's dirty work.
The hundreds-year-old Baiyue Fox washed the dishes, and sat in the yard basking in the sun as before, preparing for a lunch break. Lu Qingjiu leaned against him and asked him for the recipe for the evening.
Zhu Miaomiao saw the warm scene of the two getting along, wiped a tear from the corner of his eyes, and said that Lu Qingjiu had finally grown up and knew that he had abused dogs.
Yin Xun asked blankly: "Dog abuse? What kind of dog abuse?"
Zhu Miaomiao said with pity: "Silly boy, of course it's a single dog like you."
Yin Xun: "..."
For dinner in the evening, the rice dumplings in Lu Qingjiu Bao, Dragon Boat Festival, of course, we still have to eat the most suitable food for the festival. After eating, Lu Qingjiu washed the stone mortar that hadn't been used at home for a long time and took it to the yard. Then he put the previously steamed glutinous rice in the stone mortar, planning to make some glutinous rice cakes. During the Dragon Boat Festival here, they not only eat zongzi, but also have the custom of eating zongba. The glutinous rice is hammered in a stone mortar with a pine into a viscous liquid and then kneaded into small balls. The kneaded glutinous rice cakes can be steamed and eaten with soy noodles, or they can be wrapped in a layer of egg liquid, then fried in a low fire and sprinkled with thick brown sugar. The taste of glutinous rice cake is soft and waxy, and the slender silk can be pulled out when bitten. It is a kind of sweet food that children especially like when they are young.
However, when Lu Qingjiu was a child, the price of glutinous rice was more expensive, and my grandma was not very healthy, so I could only eat it once during the Dragon Boat Festival.
Lu Qingjiu hammered the glutinous rice into a ball. Yin Xun originally wanted to be the person who turned the glutinous rice, but was rejected by Lu Qingjiu, saying what to do if he accidentally hammered his hand.
Yin Xun was moved and said that it was okay. He basically didn't feel any pain. Lu Qingjiu said mercilessly, "I didn't mean that, I mean if your hand gets mixed into the glutinous rice cake, we will have diarrhea after eating the glutinous rice cake."
Yin Xun: "..." Lu Qingjiu, you have changed.
Zhu Miaomiao is a girl's house, and the big man in the family can't let her come, so in the end things fell on the white moon fox. He reached out and turned over the glutinous rice and Lu Qingjiu came to hammer. Lu Qingjiu was very careful at first, but it was too long since he had not used this tool. He accidentally smashed the Tsubaki on Baiyue Fox’s hand. His heart was tight at the time, and he saw Baiyue Fox frowning. Channel: "Not good."
Lu Qingjiu nervously said: "It's okay, your hands are okay! I should be light..." Before he could finish his words, he found that there was a missing piece in his hand, and Bai Yuehu's slender hands did nothing. No, not even a red mark exists.
"Broken." Bai Yuehu raised his eyes innocently, with a cautious tone, "It doesn't matter, right?"
Lu Qingjiu: "...It's okay, let's continue."
Then, Lu Qingjiu and Baiyuehu were more careful—they were afraid that they would hammer Baiyuehu's hands a few more times, and Chiba would be broken before the rice cake came out.
The sky was completely dark when the Zaba hit almost, and Yin Xun yawned and said goodbye to them. Lu Qingjiu also went to wash up and lay down on a bed with Bai Yuehu and went to sleep.
The next morning, Lu Qingjiu woke up early and fried the glutinous rice cakes prepared last night with egg liquid until golden on both sides, and then prepared soybean noodles and brown sugar. The rice dumplings were also steamed a lot, sweet and salty. Lu Qing also asked Yin Xun to make soy milk. After all the food was prepared, everyone sat on the table and started eating.
Zhu Miaomiao is full of praise for this glutinous rice cake. It is different from the machine made. It is more flexible by hand. The rice is also made of good rice. It is full of rice fragrant when chewed in the mouth. It is served with thick brown sugar and fragrant soybean noodles. Zhu Miaomiao eats it. Can't stop it.
Lu Qingjiu ate a meat dumpling. This year's meat dumplings were specially made big. The meat strips inside were as thick as fingers. The most wonderful thing is that they are fat and thin. After heating, the fat meat has completely turned into a hot liquid. , Soaked in the glutinous rice, take a bite, you can feel the meat juice filling the whole mouth.
But glutinous rice has always been the most filling, fist-sized zongzi, Lu Qingjiu eats two even if he is full, Zhu Miaomiao ate a lot of zongba, abruptly supported another zongzi, and finally collapsed completely on the chair, shaking his head. Hem said that she couldn't eat anymore, she would have to support herself to death.
Lu Qingjiu smiled and said, "You can relax a little bit, don't ruin your stomach."
Yin Xun was eating rice dumplings, but he did not forget to tease Baiyue Fox, saying that the custom of this Dragon Boat Festival is to eat rice dumplings and rowing a dragon boat. The dragon boat is gone. Can you use dragons to make do with...
The white moon fox slowly put down his chopsticks and said gently, "Do you want to try it?"
Yin Xun: "...Brother, I'm just kidding."
Lu Qingjiu laughed beside him.
After eating, everyone went to do their own things. Lu Qingjiu planned to clean up the house and do a general cleaning. The Dragon Boat Festival has the habit of removing the five poisons. According to folklore, the fifth month of the lunar calendar is the season when the five poisons breed. At this time, it is necessary to clean all corners of the house to prevent poisonous insects from breeding at home. From a scientific point of view, June is a time when there is plenty of rain and the climate is relatively humid. There are indeed conditions suitable for mosquito breeding.
Lu Qingjiu is in charge of the front yard, and Yin Xun is in charge of the home. As for Baiyuehu, he took Zhu Miaomiao to the fields to grow the land.
Lu Qingjiu was holding a broom, sweeping the dust and cobwebs in the corner. He was working with his head down, but he heard a knock on the door.
"Who?" Lu Qingjiu asked.
"Is the Baiyue Fox here?" Zhu Rong's voice came from outside.
"Come in, he is not here, he went to the field just now." Lu Qingjiu said, "What's the matter?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Zhu Rong push the door and enter. Zhu Rong was holding something in his hand. The expression on his face was very solemn, and his body exuded a strong smell of blood. Because he was wearing red clothes, it was also There was no bleeding, but Lu Qingjiu still noticed that there were some wet marks on his clothes.
"I have something to tell Bai Yuehu." Zhu Rong said, "Is he in the ground?"
"Yes." Lu Qingjiu saw what Zhu Rong was holding. At first he thought it was a piece of wood, but after a closer look, his expression solidified... It was actually a shrunken dragon claw. Zhu Rong held it in his hand like a cargo, and red blood slowly slipped down on it, dripping into the black ground.
"This...what is this?" Lu Qingjiu had a bad feeling in his heart.
Zhu Rong glanced at Lu Qingjiu: "Do you know the real body of Baiyue Fox?"
Lu Qingjiu nodded.
"Of course you should recognize what this is." Zhu Rong replied coldly.
Lu Qingjiu said: "Is it Dragon Claw?! Is it the prisoner dragon?"
Zhu Rong did not speak, but sometimes silence was also an answer. Lu Qingjiu thought about the last time he saw his grandfather boiled for leap. It was a few months ago. At that time, he seemed to have something to remind himself, but was interrupted by the white moon fox who rushed over. But he did not expect that when he saw his grandfather again, he would be here at Zhu Rong, and Zhu Rong actually broke his claw.
Zhu Rong knew the truth from Lu Qingjiu’s expression and knew Lu Qingjiu. He said indifferently: "Although he is your grandfather, he also abandoned your grandma and ate your parents, so why should you give him up? feeling?"
Lu Qingjiu frowned and said nothing.
"He can refute it, but he doesn't." Zhu Rong said, "So I will admit it only if I did it." He sighed slightly, "No matter, it doesn't make sense for me to tell you this." He turned around and left.
Lu Qingjiu stood behind him, but he could not look away from the double dragon claws for a moment. He had seen the dragon claws of the white moon fox. They were beautiful, clean, sharp claws that looked like sharp blades, with a deep chill. But the one Zhu Rong held in his hand was covered with large and small scars, and even had two claws split in the middle, which was obviously severely injured. Inside the fingers, dust and rocks were mixed, which reminded Lu Qingjiu of scales that Baiyue Fox had not cleaned for a long time.
"He... was he caught?" Lu Qingjiu couldn't help asking this question before Zhu Rong left.
Zhu Rong paused before turning around and said, "Do you want him to be caught?"
"I don't know." Lu Qingjiu replied.
"No." In Zhu Rong's red eyes, it looked like a flame was burning, but his voice was cold, like a roaring cold wind, and the person's heart was chilling, "But I would rather he be caught earlier."
Lu Qingjiu frowned.
"He will die if he continues to escape." Zhu Rong said, "He refuses to come back, and he refuses to hurt others. He can only get hurt again and again." He glanced at the paws in his hands and laughed at himself. Smiled, "This time it's a claw, next time, maybe it's a dragon head."
Lu Qingjiu was silent. For some reason, the words of the people in front of him were so vicious, but Lu Qingjiu felt that his cold expression revealed an indescribable grief—as if watching the miracle fall.