Chapter Eighty-Seven: Giving Cakes in the Alleys
Among the six realms, if you want to say which realm is the most lively, it is definitely the human world. At the end of the year, except for those traditional festivals, you can hold a feast and frolic and have fun. In order to relax their minds and cultivate their sentiments, they can always come up with a lot of fun to help them have fun, and they can make festivals for them even if there are no festivals, and they create happy things by themselves when there are no happy things.
On the contrary, the Divine Realm is much more deserted, especially in the Upper Divine Realm, which is at the top of the Divine Realm. In addition to the Lord of the Six Realms, there are those old immortals who live like stones and can't count the years with a few hands. And these old immortals don't like to go out on weekdays, they only do their own work in their own palaces. After the work is done, I don't like to go out, which fully expresses the meaning that life lies in stillness.
No, they still find something to do to pass the time once in a while. The most common is: today I go to your house and play chess with a chessboard, one for you, one for me, then one for you, and one for me. Tomorrow, you come to my house again and take out yesterday's chessboard, one for you and one ......for me.
And some immortals don't like to play chess, so what do they do? It is to make an appointment with a few like-minded friends, find a place that is pleasing to the eye, and hold a stringed instrument in each hand. Guqin, Guzheng, Se, Pipa, Konghou, Zhongruan, five-string, seven-string, variety.
And then what? Douqu.
At the beginning of the game, you, me, and him will listen to the vocal music in the hall, one moment in this key, one moment in that tune. Sometimes, if one of the immortals plays the piano so heavily and loudly that it overshadows the sound of the other people, then one of the notes will be plucked out over the previous note.
After this, the next better tune will jump out without being outdone, and so on. As a result, the fighting music no longer looked like a fighting song, but more like a fight, and those instruments were plucked so fiercely by them that the strings were overwhelmed and inevitably snapped.
At this time, the competition will come to an end for the time being, and they will go home to repair the piano and fight again another day. Before leaving, I didn't forget to praise each other, "This brother plays well", "That brother has a bright future", "You are also good, quite good", "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, or a benevolent brother is more powerful".
In fact, in this divine realm, not all of them are old immortals, there are also those who are younger than them, those who are one generation younger, and those who are younger than them. In short, if you live too long, you can't count, and there are a lot of people anyway.
The old immortals are boring, but these little ones must not want to be like them, standing motionless like a rockery, they always have to find something to be happy like an ordinary teenager. But because of the teachings of the elders and the solemn and majestic reputation of the divine realm, they dare not make mistakes, that is, they have a thief's heart but not a thief's courage.
After a long time like this, they finally realized that they should learn the attitude of life in the world, and they should not blindly work and practice, but also combine work and rest.
As a result, the junior gods and goddesses learned a lot of fun tricks in the world, and when they had time, they gathered those idle and moldy little gods and goddesses to spend time together. And those great immortals with a longer age imitated many human festivals, and after improvement, they became the customs of the god world, and arranged for people to operate and operate, but they had a decent sense of ceremony.
However, except for worshipping gods or worshipping the heavens, because aren't they the gods that mortals worship. They can't be bored, in order to pass the time, they also get a golden body of a god to talk to themselves, light a few sticks of incense, and worship a few times.
With these, the atmosphere of the Upper God Realm became a little more relaxed and comfortable. No, there are two days left before the Wan'an Festival in the divine realm, and Bei Dye is busy making all kinds of pastries and snacks, planning to send them to everyone before the festival.
When the pastries were ready, she took out the brocade boxes that had been prepared and divided them one by one, and they were actually filled with more than a dozen boxes. After counting the number and planning the route, she took those gift boxes and delivered cakes door to door.
To be precise, it was she who walked forward with a box, and Litou followed her with the tip of her sword hooking the brocade rope that left the gift boxes. Because there are too many gift boxes, if she is the only one to take them, I am afraid that those boxes will be piled up as high as several of her, and she will not be able to see the road when she walks on the road.
As a result, there were many little immortal envoys who came and went, and they saw a rather funny scene in the Upper God Realm.
On that central street, a person and a sword walked on the road, this person was nothing special, but the strange thing was the sword next to her. I saw that the tip of the sword was facing forward, and the hilt was behind, moving forward parallel to the road. And its sword, from the tip to the end of the handle, is densely hung with hand-held strings, and under each rope is tied a brocade box, with different colors.
Needless to say, this person is Bei Dye, and the sword is naturally Litou.
In fact, Litou can completely transform into a human form, and walk with North Dye with things in his hand. Although there are a lot of things, it is not a big problem for the two of them to take it down together. And if you use people to walk, you won't be surprised by everyone. But she didn't want to, so she was willing to turn into a sword and carry things on her shoulders like a woodcutter carrying firewood.
In fact, except for the North Dye, Litou rarely took on a human form in front of outsiders. In her words: I am the Heaven and Earth Spirit Sword that was baked in ancient times, and when I count my age and generation, most of those little gods have to call me Grandma. My face is also something they can look at casually?
Every time she arrives at a destination, Bei Ran takes a box from her and goes in the door to deliver it, while Litou is waiting for her at the door with a "burden". After entering, Bei Dye didn't stay long, only sent things, came out with two greetings, and then the two went to the next place together.
I sent a few, seeing that there were not many things, Bei Ran thought to himself, in the Cangwu Palace before, Litou and Yujing fought, and destroyed a lot of flowers and plants in Ji Changkong's courtyard, and now it is the festival, so I have to send something to Ji Changkong to apologize. After giving it to him, there is more left to see who it will be given to.
made up his mind, and Bei Ran took Litou to Cangwu Palace.
When she arrived at the palace gate, she pushed the door in a familiar way, and trotted all the way to the front hall, but found that the hall was empty. She grabbed her hair and thought about it, Ji Changkong didn't like to go out on weekdays, so she must have gone to the backyard, so she turned a corner and ran to the backyard.
Sure enough, Ji Changkong was turning the soil in the garden with a shovel, which was the piece of land that was stripped of the Bizhi grass planted last time. At the moment he was planting some new plants in the soil, which were almost planted and would be finished in a few moments.
After seeing him, Bei Ran walked over lightly, for fear of disturbing him, but this little movement was still discovered by the alert Ji Changkong. Sensing that someone was coming, Ji Changkong raised his head and looked at her, saw that it was her, and asked, "Why are you here?" ”
Bei Ran smiled brightly: "Tomorrow is Wan'an Day, I prepared a lot of pastries to distribute to the immortals in the sky, and I also brought one for Liuchuan-kun." ”
Ji Changkong continued to move and said, "No need, I have never loved these, you can take them back." ”
Bei Ran was anxious: "These are made by me, and each ingredient is carefully selected, and it took a long time to send it to you." My dim sum will not be like those made in the dining room in the heavenly palace, the sweet tooth loss and the taste are the same as chewing wax, and the gods who have eaten it say that I am a thousand times better than theirs. ”
couldn't resist her, Ji Changkong had to say: "Okay, you go to the front hall and wait for me first, I'll come over after I'm done with this, it won't take long." ”
Beiran rejoiced: "Okay." Just as he was about to go back, Ji Changkong told again: "Be careful when you go, pay attention to your feet, and don't step on the fairy grass I just planted." ”
Bei Ran said again: "Okay." ”
Unexpectedly, as soon as she raised her leg and took a step, she kicked a protruding sharp stone, tripped and threw herself to the ground, just pressing the grass in front of her.
Bei Ran was shocked, hurriedly got up from the ground, and straightened the seedlings that were overwhelmed by her one by one with his back to Ji Changkong.
Ji Changkong: "......"
Out of the backyard, Bei Ran remembered that she was in a hurry to find Ji Changkong and left Litou here alone. But now Litou is gone, and only a few brocade boxes are left on the ground. It is estimated that it depends on her delay in coming, where the strike runs.
She sighed helplessly, picked up the box herself, went into the house, and found a place to sit down.
When Ji Changkong came in, Bei Ran had already placed a delicate and beautiful plate on the table, and the plate contained equally delicate pastries.
Ji Changkong sat down opposite Bei Ran and saw what was placed on the table at a glance.
The plate is filled with a number of boxy pieces of pastry, evenly sized and fragrant, and each piece is different.
The cake is mainly milky white, and the ingredients are colorful like agate. Some are blue raisins and almonds, some are bright red cranberries and pistachios, and some are mixed with red and white petals, and the smell is bursting with floral aromas. It's done for different flavors.
The surface of the pastry is also covered with a fine layer of white powder, which is sprinkled with light, crystal like jade, just like the snow in winter when the sun is shining. Looking at this little thing that looked very delicate and delicious, Ji Changkong became interested for the first time and asked, "What is this?" ”
"Snowflake Crisp."
"Snowflake?"
Bei Ran said: "Yes, you can try it." As he spoke, he took a piece and handed it to Ji Changkong's mouth, to feed him.
Ji Changkong was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly took the piece of crisp that touched the corner of his mouth from her hand, and said, "I'll do it myself." Then he put it in his mouth and took a bite of it, savoring it carefully.
When this crisp first enters the mouth, it is fluffy and soft, and it is crispy and crispy when you bite into the middle, and then when you eat all kinds of dried nuts, it is sweet and sour, fragrant but not greasy. Ji Changkong said before that he had never loved these, this was true, if someone gave him something to eat in the past, he always shirked it. If it is really difficult to resist the hospitality, he will eat a little bit and make a show. But at this time, after eating this piece, he involuntarily took another piece and ate it.
Seeing that he had eaten two pieces in a row, Beiran was so happy that he asked, "Is it delicious?" …… Brother Sky. ”
Ji Changkong approvingly: "It's not bad." ”
You know, Ji Changkong doesn't like to evaluate food, everything tastes similar to him, if he says it's good, it's really good.
Fang Cai only cared about eating crisp, and didn't pay much attention to what Bei Ran said, but now that he finished eating, he realized that Bei Ran called him as if it was ...... Not quite right.
He hesitated and spoke, "You...... Call me what? ”
Bei Ran's voice was clear and clear, and he said, "Brother Changkong." ”
Ji Changkong was silent, and Bei Ran said again: "I didn't know who my brother was before, and I mistook you for the immortal envoy in the palace, but I was wrong." Later, when I learned your identity, I should have called you a god, but this seemed distant. And then there's the title of Rukawa-kun, although it's elegant and matches your bearing, but I always feel weird when I call it. That's why I thought of calling you Brother Changkong, which is both catchy and kind. ”
Ji Changkong couldn't find a reason to refuse, so he had to say: "It's up to you." ”
Shicai got his praise, called him "brother" at this time, and he didn't reject it, and Bei Ran was proud of the decision he made. took a few boxes of snowflake crisps placed aside, pushed them all in front of him, and said happily: "In this case, then all these snowflakes are for you." ”
Suddenly, a small voice came from Bei Ran's ears, and there seemed to be a little cool breeze between the words, and said, "Fairy, do you remember Xiao Shui Yao in the Frost Immersion Palace?" ”
It turned out that Litou didn't know when he came back from playing outside enough, and turned into a hairpin, and while Bei Dye didn't pay attention, the hairpin was on her head. She came back just in time to hear that Bei Dye was going to send the rest of the crisp to Ji Changkong.
Bei Ran suddenly remembered that a few days ago, Shui Yao refused the invitation to drink and chat with her because of the busy affairs in the palace. She said that next time Wan'an Day, she made snacks and took them to see her.
Looking at the large pile of snowflake cakes she pushed over, Ji Changkong's cold face finally stretched. He just stretched out his hand and folded the boxes in his arms, intending to carry them somewhere else so that they could be kept alive. At this time, Bei Ran snatched a box from his arms with lightning speed.
Ji Changkong looked at her suspiciously, she smiled awkwardly, and then said slowly: "Uh, that, I'm sorry, I just forgot, this box is for someone else." But if you like it, I'll make it for you next time, definitely more than that. In order to convince him of her sincerity, she also deliberately patted her chest like a man and looked at him with great determination.
Ji Changkong glanced around her with his gaze, and seemed to despise her insulting behavior, and said, "No need, these are enough." With that, he turned and put the things aside. I don't know if I'm afraid of being taken away again, he walks extremely fast, and he doesn't have his usual steady appearance at all.
Seeing him get up, Beiran suddenly remembered about tomorrow's banquet, and said behind him: "Tomorrow's Wan'an Festival, will Brother Changkong go?" ”
"No, no."
Hearing the answer, Kitazan lowered his head in frustration and said, "Oh." I'd like to go with you. ”
However, his answer was not surprising at all. Ji Changkong definitely didn't like to join in the excitement, if he had participated in this annual banquet, she would not have never seen him, let alone regarded him as a little fairy child when she first met.