Chapter 60: Spring Day

There is a bird in Kunlun that looks like a bee and is as big as a mandarin duck, called Qin Yuan, which stings birds and animals to death and stings trees to death.

The Qin Yuan, as recorded in the Shanhaijing, are powerful demons. They look like bees, but they are much bigger than bees. When they touch birds and animals, they die, and when they touch trees, the trees wither. Usually, people would go around them, and few people would mess with them, and they lived a happy life. This was a happy life until one day it came to an abrupt end.

It was a beautiful day, and they were flying freely in the sky, discussing what to eat, when they felt a terrifying aura. Before they had time to react, they were enveloped in a black mist, followed by a huge pair of beastly claws that pressed against their bodies.

One of them, Qin Yuan, tried to fight back with his spikes, but on touching the beast found that the spikes of his tail could not penetrate the skin of the beast's claws, and they were held in the thing's hand like a tiny toy.

To die, to die, to die All the Qin Yuan thought they would not escape and would be swallowed in one gulp, yet just as they were ready to die, a majestic voice rang out overhead.

"Do you produce honey," asked the beast.

The oldest of the nectar producers, Qin Yuan, named Man Chen, was the oldest and although he had already seen a lot of the world, he was still stunned for a moment by the beast's question.

The fierce beast did not receive an answer, but became somewhat impatient: "Do you produce honey"

"Hmm." The fierce beast responded with satisfaction, "Then you are the bees."

Man Chen :""

Other Qin Yuan :""They didn't expect their status to fall so far, from touching beast beast dead, touching wood wood withered demon beast directly demoted to a cute little bee.

"Why do you have an opinion," said the fierce god, sensing their silence.

"No, no, no, no." Man Chen didn't dare hesitate, "We are the bees, we are the bees"

Fierce Beast: "Well, don't show your face when the time comes."

Qin Yuan: ""

So Qin Yuan, who decided to live and give up his demon beast status to be a good little bee, acted out the previous scene.

Lu Qingjiu did not know this, but having read the Shanhaijing, he soon understood the identity of these 'little bees'.

He lifted out the beehive he had made and looked at a few large heads with a bit of difficulty, "This hive is too small, it doesn't seem like you can live in it."

"It's all right." The biggest one hurriedly said, "We can get smaller, don't worry about it," and waved his wings, turning into the size of a thumb.

Lu Qingjiu was amused by them and said, "You can really produce honey."

"Yes." Man Chen said, "What flavour of honey would you like?"

Lu Qingjiu: "Honey can also be flavoured"

"There are so many flavours, such as cinnamon honey, acacia honey, wolfberry honey, and so on." Man Chen lies on top of the beehive and looks at Lu Qingjiu with bewilderment.

Lu Qingjiu smiled, "Both are fine, let's see how convenient it is for you to collect honey." This Qin Yuan was actually quite beautiful, with colourful feathers on its wings and beautiful sapphire eyes, exquisite as a model. Lu Qingjiu looked at them and said, "Can I touch you?"

Man Chen: "Touch it, feel free to touch it, just don't touch the spikes on our tail." Although they didn't know what Lu Qingjiu's identity was, and they could only sense the aura of an ordinary human from him, from the way the fierce beast treated Lu Qingjiu, he knew that the man in front of him was definitely not to be messed with

Lu Qingjiu then reached out and touched Qin Yuan's feathers, which felt very soft and smooth like satin, and he couldn't help but smile: "If you really can't do it, you don't have to force it."

"No reluctance." Man Chen had never been touched by a human before and was a little nervous, but to his surprise Lu Qingjiu's warm fingers didn't feel too bad as they brushed against his body, even a little comfortable, so he couldn't help but relax his body and enjoy it for a little longer. But the next moment, a cold gaze pierced over. Qin Yuan's body tightened and he looked towards where the gaze came from, and found that the fierce beast was staring at him with an unpleasant look in its eyes.

Man Chen: "Brother, stop touching." If you touch him again, his skin will be gone.

Lu Qingjiu: "Oh, sorry, too good to touch, couldn't hold back."

Man Chen was in tears, he was happy to be touched, but his life was more important than his comfort.

So, thanks to Bai Yuehu's kindness, this hive of bees was successfully settled into Lu Qingjiu's house. Unlike the bees, however, Qin Yuan's hive of four or five bees was small and empty inside the beehive. Lu Qingjiu asked if they needed to be put up in the mountains where there were many wild flowers, but they said there was no need to do so, as they could travel thousands of miles a day.

Lu Qingjiu then placed these little bees in his backyard and built them a canopy with wooden boards, saying that this would be your home from now on and that you could talk to him directly if you needed anything.

A few little bees nodded their heads pitifully and said to Lu Qingjiu, "You are a good person."

Lu Qingjiu: ""He didn't have the heart to tell the bees that he was the one who offered to eat the honey in the first place.

But Lu Qingjiu doesn't expect to eat honey either. This Qin Yuan can produce honey, and according to the records, they die if they touch anything.

With this in mind, Lu Qingjiu soon left the bees behind, until half a month later, when Yin Xun, who was cleaning the backyard, suddenly started shouting, "Sake, Sake, come here!"

Lu Qingjiu was still frying puffed meat for Yin Xun when he heard him shout and put down his spatula, saying, "What's wrong?"

Yin Xun says: "Our beehives are full"

Lu Qingjiu was stunned and then went to the backyard and saw the beehive that Yin Xun had spoken of. The beehives were covered with golden, attractive-looking honey, which was so abundant that it was even spilling out of the cracks of the hives and dripping onto the ground.

"It's all full." Yin Xun drew out a piece and said in surprise, "So soon."

Lu Qingjiu was surprised when a little Qin Yuan flew out of the beehive and spoke in a small voice: "What flavour of honey do you want?"

Lu Qingjiu: "And the smell"

Yin Xun, who's in on the action: "I want chocolate."

The little Qin Yuan gave Yin Xun a blank look, "I asked what kind of flowers I wanted."

Spring is the time of year when most plants reveal their beautiful flowers and the honey produced by collecting different pollen tastes different and even contains the fragrant scent of flowers.

Lu Qingjiu said, "What flowers do you have?"

"Peach blossoms, pear blossoms, roses and all that." This little Qin Yuan seemed to be young and not as scared as the big Qin Yuan before him, "You can have them all, but I have a small condition."

Lu Qingjiu: "What are the conditions?"

"You have to touch me." Little Qin Yuan said, "Like touching Man Chen."

Lu Qingjiu reacted for a moment before realising that Man Chen was the same Qin Yuan he had petted before, and that the little one in front of him was quite cute, and that they felt good in his hands, Lu Qingjiu readily agreed, reaching out and carefully stroking Qin Yuan's soft feathers.

Little Qin Yuan was so comfortable from the touch that her eyes even narrowed and her mouth grunted.

Yin Xun is also itching to touch it: "Can I touch it too?"

"Don't touch me." The little Qin Yuan relentlessly refused Yin Xun's request, "Don't defile my innocent body."

Yin Xun's eyes rounded, "But why does he get to touch it?"

Xiao Qin Yuan: "He is a human being, are you?"

Yin Xun :""

Little Qin: "Humans can't be with us, but you're not human, what if you take a fancy to me"

Yin Xun: "I won't look at you"

Little Qin: "Heh, you mountain gods can't be sure of what they say."

Yin Xun: ""Friend, what has happened to you.

Lu Qingjiu couldn't help but have a good laugh. After a few minutes of horse-slaying for Qin Yuan, Lu Qingjiu managed to get a few slices of honey, but it was a problem to get it off the board, and Lu Qingjiu was studying it when he saw Yin Xun pull a barrel over and say he could do the job. Lu Qingjiu then saw him shaking the honey off the board in the barrel.

This is spring honey, Lu Qingjiu. I tried a little bit of it and it tasted very good. The honey is not particularly sweet, it is the aroma that makes it perfect for making water or pastries.

Lu Qingjiu went to get some glass bottles and filled them with honey, then called Zhu Miaomiao and asked her if she wanted some bottles.

Zhu Miaomiao was enthused when she heard it was natural honey, she is now a goji berry health party, so how could this natural stuff

It is impossible to let go: "Yes, yes, yes, give me a few bottles"

Lu Qingjiu says: "Is it still the same address as before?"

"Well, just send it to the office for me." Zhu Miaomiao said, "I've been so busy this time, I haven't had time to talk to you. By the way, is that variety show you were talking about last time still going on? I'm going to come over here after I'm done with it."

"No, it didn't go on, there was an accident over here and they all left." Lu Qingjiu replied.

"Gone," Zhu Miaomiao said, "where to?"

"I don't know." Lu Qingjiu said, "Maybe he's done a show somewhere else."

Zhu Miaomiao regrets, "That's a shame, but I'd still like to come and stay for a couple of days, everything is so good there, I'm craving it."

Lu Qingjiu smiled, "Welcome, welcome."

If Zhu Miaomiao hadn't taken the trouble to help them set up the Tao Bao shop, they would still be worried about how to sell more vegetables to buy meat. After all, as Bai Yuehu's back-up food, it seems that being fat is not far from death.

But it's a good thing Lu Qingjiu is around, as he won't make it easy for Bai Yuehu to eat his pet, oh no, his son.

Zhu Miaomiao and Lu Qingjiu said they would come over at the end of the month for Lu Qingjiu's birthday, and Lu Qingjiu agreed.

It's March and Lu Qingjiu's birthday is at the end of the month. Although it's not a habit to celebrate birthdays, I still have to buy a cake to improve the lives of the two gluttons in the family.

With the honey, Lu Qingjiu made a huge honey cake in the oven within a few days, putting everything into the home-made cake, beating honey, eggs and milk into it like it was nothing. The cake was so delicious that even Lu Qingjiu ate a few more pieces.

Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu praised the honey cake and Yin Xun begged Lu Qingjiu to make another one tomorrow.

Of course, he didn't forget to give a piece of cake to the biggest contributor, the bees, who were very happy to receive it, saying that they had never tasted anything so delicious and that it was the first time they knew that honey could be used in such a way.

Lu Qingjiu: ""Yeah, he's the only human in the room, isn't that amazing?

The weather is getting warmer, the treetops and branches, the grass and shrubs are all beginning to blossom with lovely Xiao Hua and the world is full of life.

Lu Qingjiu called Zhu Miaomiao and sent her a big red envelope, asking her to send some strawberries before she came here.

Strawberries are expensive and difficult to transport, so they are hardly ever grown in Shuifu Village. They are not particularly sweet, but at least they have a fruity flavour.

Neither Yin Xun nor Bai Yuehu seemed to have ever eaten this fruit before, and both were completely limited by poverty.

Lu Qingjiu intends to let Yin Xun and Bai Yuehu eat the strawberries openly and use them to make strawberry jam when they are not finished.

"Are these strawberries?" Yin Xun, who had seen strawberries but hardly ever eaten them, blinked at the red fruits in the foam box, "So pretty."

Lu Qingjiu said, "I'll go and wash up first, and then I'll give it to you when I'm done."

Zhu Miaomiao The strawberries arrived only the day after, and today they are here. The strawberries have been carefully selected and are almost half the size of your hand, with a deep red colour and the unique aroma of strawberries.

Bai Yuehu seemed to have never eaten this kind of fruit either, and stood with Yin Xun watching Lu Qingjiu intently as he washed them.

After washing it, he smiled and gave one to Bai Yuehu and Yin Xun in their mouths.

The large fruit filled Yin Xun's mouth and he took two bites, his eyes seemingly lit up: "It's delicious!"

Bai Yuehu also nodded as he bit through the strawberry, the red juice staining his thin lips, adding a bit of sultry flavour to his already flamboyant features, only this sultry flavour was not feminine, but rather had a coldness to it that dared not be forced upon him, and he too said, "Delicious."

"Mumble, you two eat first, I'll wash the rest." Lu Qingjiu said, "Eat as much as you can, I'll make jam if you can't eat it."

The two nodded and sat down next to each other and began to eat strawberries with great glee, one for each person, stuffing them all into their mouths, which were red afterwards.

Lu Qingjiu himself washed and ate them at the same time. Zhu Miaomiao sent them a lot of them this time, about a dozen catties, which should be enough to eat.

Lu Qingjiu thought it was Li Xiaoyu from next door, so he opened the door without asking, but when the door opened, there was someone outside who shouldn't be here.

"Excuse me." Jiang Buhuan, who should have left Shuifu Village long ago, was standing in the doorway, his arm seemingly injured and his face very pale, "I'm bothering you again."

"Ah," Lu Qingjiu said, "how did you get back?" There was no one else behind Jiang Buhuan, as if he had come alone.

"Can we go in and talk?" Jiang Buhuan smiles bitterly.

Lu Qingjiu thought about it, but moved aside and let him in.

When Jiang Buhuan entered the courtyard, he saw Bai Yuehu, who was sharing strawberries with Yin Xun, and when he saw Bai Yuehu's face, his eyes showed a look of amazement, obviously amazed by Bai Yuehu's unbelievable face.

"Just say what you have to say." Lu Qingjiu casually found a stool for him and gestured for him to sit down.

Jiang Buhuan sat down and got a little chill from Bai Yuehu's stare, he coughed dryly and whispered: "That, why is your friend staring at me, do you want me to give him an autograph?" The stare was too scary, they had never met each other, was he a fan of his own?

Lu Qingjiu thought to himself, "How dare you sign it? I'm afraid he'll tear it up and eat it as soon as he takes out the pen, but of course he couldn't say that, he just said politely, "No, he doesn't follow stars."

"Then what is he staring at me for." Jiang Buhuan realized for the first time that a human's eyes could be so terrifying.

Lu Qingjiu held back a laugh: "You stole the tomatoes he planted."

Jiang Buhuan :""

"Twelve of them." Lu Qingjiu covered her mouth gently with her hand, her shoulders shaking slightly.

Jiang Buhuan: ""He didn't even know what to say. He was already in a cold sweat from Bai Yuehu's stare, and even his body began to tremble slightly.

After Lu Qingjiu finished laughing, he still went to appease his own fox spirit who was emitting black resentment all over his body, " Bai Yuehu, you save some strawberries, I will make you a strawberry flavoured honey cake tonight, also, go get some strawberries for Cow to eat, strawberry flavoured milk is especially good."

When he heard that there was a honey cake that he really liked, Bai Yuehu withdrew his eyes and let Jiang Buhuan off the hook, otherwise, he would have fainted.

After leaving Bai Yuehu, Lu Qingjiu returned his attention to Jiang Buhuan, who was in a very bad state compared to before, his left arm looked like it had been broken, there were thick black circles under his eyes, and his whole body looked haggard. "On your side, what's happened?"

Jiang Buhuan smiles bitterly, "Yes."

"Do you remember the accident we had on the mountain road when we left?" Jiang Buhuan said.

"Remember." Lu Qingjiu said, "It was the accident where your driver suddenly fell asleep."

"Yes." Jiang Buhuan says. Jiang Buhuan says, "I thought I had left here and it was over, but then I realised it was just the beginning" his voice trembles with fear, "and then a lot more happened."

Lu Qingjiu listened quietly as he continued.

"Like the sudden gas leak at the B&B where the crew was staying, and if I hadn't woken up in the middle of the night, I'm afraid everyone would have been dead, and the brakes failing... in short, it was like someone wanted us all dead." Jiang Buhuan says, "Did you know that there was a car accident here the other day?"

"Car accident" Lu Qingjiu was bewildered, "I don't know, you mean Shuifu Village?"

"Right." Jiang Buhuan said, "I actually arrived in town a few days ago."

Lu Qingjiu frowned: "What do you mean?"

Jiang Buhuan said, "In the town, we drove two cars to get ready to go into the village, me in front and the others in the back."

He shuddered, "But halfway up the road we got lost in the mountains, there was only one road, and we couldn't see the head."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Have you encountered a ghostly wall?" He remembered the time when he and Yin Xun Zhu Miaomiao couldn't get down from the mountain, when Bai Yuehu came to pick them up.

"I don't know." Jiang Buhuan laughed bitterly, "And then it kept driving and driving and driving, and something just happened."

In his account, Lu Qingjiu learned that the car behind him suddenly accelerated and crashed into him. He escaped with a death grip on the steering wheel, but the car behind him, with a car full of people, all went off the cliff and was just lost.

Jiang Buhuan's right arm was fractured in the accident, but that was not the most frightening part of the accident, what scared him the most was that when he drove back to town and reported the accident, the answer was that there was no second car. There were only traces of one car on the rainy mountain road and there was no second car as Jiang Buhuan described. A terrified Jiang Buhuan contacted his friends in the car, only to learn that they were all alive and well and had no knowledge of the trip to Shuifu Village, and even wondered if Jiang Buhuan was mentally ill.

"I don't understand." Jiang Buhuan said and then grabbed his hair in pain, "I saw those people, there were even marks on the back of my car from the impact, but why do they have to say that the car doesn't exist"

Lu Qingjiu was silent for a moment after listening: "Are you sure that it was your friend's car that hit you and not something else?"

Jiang Buhuan's expression froze.

Lu Qingjiu continued, "Have you had any bad feelings during this time?"

Jiang Buhuan smiles bitterly, "Yes."

Lu Qingjiu says: "What does it feel like?"

Jiang Buhuan said dully, "I feel like I'm going to die."

And the feeling grew stronger and stronger, so strong that even a breeze blowing by seemed like the sharp edge of the severed head, stabbing him in the back of the neck.

Author's Comment: Lu Qingjiu: Want to eat strawberries

Bai Yuehu: I'll plant it for you.

Lu Qingjiu: Hey you well

Bai Yuehu: More?

Lu Qingjiu.