Chapter 86
◎New Year's Eve in the Demon Realm (Part 2)◎
What do you mean a year later? What happened then?
Everyone seems to be looking at the man with the cane. What's wrong with him?
He cried.
Ye Gan did cry, crying not only for being useless but also for being cowardly. Even though he was useless, he still held so much hope for the world, not just one year, he hoped that he could live to be a hundred years old.
He was almost unable to support himself with his crutches, and it was Ye Kun who supported him well and prevented him from falling.
Kong Xinxin, who was originally going to compete, saw the adults gathered together and came over curiously. Seeing that her uncle seemed to be unsteady, she took the initiative to give up her sled and said, "Uncle, take this."
Bai Chuan whispered to Li Paopao, "Don't you have any stools at home?"
Li Paopao shook his head dejectedly: "My family is moving, and we're on the ground."
Now that everyone has moved into the community, of course there is nothing in the house in the water.
Then all the kids gathered around and pushed all the cars on the ice over to them: "Let's take a ride, uncle!"
There were nearly ten cars in total, and they were filled to the brim with empty piles of stuff inside and outside.
Ye Kun was worried about his brother's condition, so he helped him sit down.
The ignorant Li Paopao asked, "What's wrong with uncle's feet?"
The older children all knew what was going on because the teacher had talked about the meaning of old, weak, sick and disabled. Kong Xinxin thought about it and said, "Uncle's feet turned into a tail."
Li Paopao suddenly became excited. He struggled to take off his fish tail and handed it to Ye Gan: "Uncle, wear this. The tail is beautiful."
Looking at the small fake tail in front of him, Ye Gan's hands trembled a little as he gently stroked it.
My niece has always wanted to be a little mermaid. She will definitely like it and will be very beautiful.
"Me too, Yuyu." Li Paopao blew a bubble at him. "We are a family."
Ye Gan's nostrils twitched slightly, and he finally covered his face and lay on the car, crying inconsolably.
"You can take your brother for a spin." Lian Jiu said to Ye Kun, "Adults can play with this car too."
"Yes, yes!" Seeing the uncle crying so sadly, the other children felt bad too. In kindergarten, few people cry.
So the little monsters enthusiastically invited the uncle to play with them, because it would be very fun to play.
After saying that, they no longer cared about the competition and climbed onto their own sleds: "Uncle, let's play together!"
Kong Xinxin took the lead: "Then when we reach the finish line, let's all give uncle a snowman, okay?"
"good!"
Originally the two brothers had not agreed, but the little ones' eyes were shining.
"Brother, it's so hard to get here." Ye Kun also sat down, "Let's give it a try."
In fact, he felt relieved when he saw his brother crying, because he was afraid that he was holding everything in his heart.
But Ye Kun had no idea whether his brother was willing to continue playing.
Unexpectedly, this time my brother nodded: "Okay."
Seeing this, everyone around breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "Then you guys play first. We're waiting in line and want to play too!"
Kong Xinxin turned around and raised her tail: "I'll count to three, two, one!"
"Three! Two! One! The Yaoyao Brigade is setting off!"
There were dozens of small ice sleds, with little monsters leading the way in front and two adults following behind. Although the scene was a bit weird, it was very heartwarming, and everyone felt warm in their hearts.
Someone shouted from behind: "Come on!!!"
At this moment, the voices of adults, tourists and big monsters were heard one after another.
"Go for it!"
"Ye Gan! You can do it!"
"Living for a hundred or eighty years is not impossible!"
“What a wonderful world this is!”
As the cheers came, Ye Gan sat in the car, hugged the fishtail tightly in his arms, and turned around to look at everyone.
"Come on!" he shouted. "Ye Gan will do his best!"
"I will live to see my brother and sister-in-law, and watch my niece grow up." He cried, "I will live!"
Ye Kun wiped his eyes and tightly gripped the almost non-existent steering wheel: "Brother, don't be afraid, we are always by your side."
"Well, I'm not afraid." Ye Gan said, "I've never been afraid."
The little monsters didn't understand why, but they also shouted louder and louder: "Come on, uncle!"
After turning around a few times, Ye Gan's whole state changed.
He put the fish tail in his brother's hand, got off the car with his crutches, and when he stood in front of Lian Jiu, he suddenly threw away the crutches and was about to kneel down in front of her.
Lian Jiu had just stretched out her hand when Si Lan helped Ye Gan up before her.
"Director," Ye Gan said, "thank you so much! If it weren't for you, I would be a lonely ghost now. I can never repay you with this."
"You should thank yourself." Lian Jiu picked up his cane and handed it to him. "If you really have no intention of surviving, your decision will not change no matter what we do."
She handed the pink pearl over again: "But I'm glad that you can face yourself bravely."
"I can't have that."
"Take it," Lian Jiu said, "If I let you live another year, you will be responsible for what you said."
When he lost the bet, Ye Gan was still thinking about what to do with the money he had spent on surviving for a whole year. He didn't expect that the pearl given by Director Lian Jiu would have this function.
Ye Gan once again understood her good intentions.
"I don't need it." Ye Gan said solemnly, "Although my legs and feet are not good, I can still use my hands."
He looked at the fish tail in his brother's arms and said, "I left all my money at Kun'er's house when I came out this time. If possible, I want this fish tail. I want to give it to my niece. I'll transfer the money to you when I return, okay?"
[You don't want such a big pearl, but only want a peripheral? ]
"Have you forgotten the question the merman couple asked back in Nanyu Mountain? Do you want this gold box, this silver box, or the last wooden box?"
[It's good. I'm not a greedy person.]
"I think I understand. This person didn't seem to have any intention of surviving before. So, was the director trying to make him understand himself from the very beginning?"
[I think that no one would want to commit suicide after seeing such a scene.]
He has difficulty walking and seems very thin. He must have been under a lot of pressure.
Lian Jiu saw that he was so determined, so he didn't force him. He put the pink pearl away and said with a smile: "Take it back. Think of it as a gift from Nan Yushan to your niece. I hope she can grow up healthy."
This is the blessing of the monster, the real thing.
But ordinary people don’t understand, they just think that these words are very comforting to hear.
Since Ye Gan was not able to do so, Ye Kun bowed on his behalf: "Thank you, Director! Whether you are my brother or my daughter, thank you."
Lian Jiu nodded gently: "I hope you can have a good time in Fuyu Mountain."
"I'm a Chinese medicine doctor." Mr. Duan came out at this time. "If you don't mind, I can give you a temporary checkup to see how you are doing."
"Dad!" Duan Zi'an said hurriedly, "I have all kinds of equipment in my dormitory!"
Because she came to the mountains to work as a doctor, she, like Wu Shanshan, brought her belongings with her.
Ye Gan looked at the father and son nervously, feeling that their conversation and temperament were beyond the reach of a farmer like himself. He said nervously, "Can I write down your address first and come back later?"
He doesn't have much money now.
As if he knew what he was thinking, Mr. Duan said, "Don't worry, I won't charge you."
He smiled and said, "Not only will I not charge you any money, I will also prescribe a prescription based on your condition and stamp it with my own private seal. You can take this prescription to any of our Duan family's traditional Chinese medicine clinics to get the medicine without paying."
Ye Gan couldn't accept it anymore. How could he be so lucky to meet so many kind-hearted people today?
All the luck in this life has been used up!
"No, no, you're doing business. How can you treat illnesses without charging?"
"Meeting here is also a kind of fate." Father Duan took out the Chinese medicine book that Bai Ze had given him. "I don't know when the next time will be, and I don't know if there will be such an opportunity again. This was given to me by Senior Jiang An. It is a priceless treasure for us Chinese medicine practitioners. She gave it to me without asking for anything in return. She hoped that I would keep my original intention and continue to save the world and help others. It just so happened that I met you at this time. Isn't this destined?"
He said with sincere respect, "It can also be considered as accumulating blessings for the director and everyone in the mountain."
Ye Kun looked at the small notebook that seemed to be very old: "This is..."
"This is a detailed record of all Chinese herbal medicines, including their properties and uses."
In fact, there are also some pills and other elixir refining methods added by the two gods themselves.
Although he did not have divine power, and the medicinal herbs in the human world were not as nourishing as the spiritual energy here, they would still be effective.
Mr. Duan emphasized the word "all".
A layman may not understand it very well, and he doesn't bother to be too picky about the words.
But the viewers of the barrage saw that when Mr. Duan got the little notebook, he immediately knelt down to a junior.
Considering the Duan family’s status in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, something that would make Mr. Duan kneel down when he got it must be extremely important!
Jiang An actually has something like this?! Where did she get it from?
Why could he make a nationally renowned traditional Chinese medicine doctor kneel down for him?
Not only that, she even gave it away so casually! Isn't this priceless?
[In your mountain village, one person gives away pink pearls worth hundreds of thousands of dollars as marbles, and the other casually gives away records that resemble heirlooms?]
【Jiujiu: We are very poor.】
[Schrödinger's poverty, right?]
[Do you remember that whether it's Fuyu Mountain or Nanyu Mountain, all the properties belong to the Monster Group? And the legal representative of the Monster Group is Si Lan.]
[…My Si Lan suddenly became a millionaire? ]
Even though I'm rich, I still cling to those two bowls of rice and a bag of chips every day... How simple.
Mr. Duan patted his shoulder and said, "So you don't have to feel any burden."
"Thank you." Ye Gan was not well educated and didn't know what to say. He could only keep saying thank you.
"Alright." Seeing that everything was settled, Lian Jiu said, "Don't you all want to try this car? Keep playing and come back to Banshantang for dinner when it's time. We'll go back and get ready first."
Everyone said, "Thank you for your hard work, Principal!"
Back at Banshantang, Yuan Qing and Jiang An had already asked everyone to start preparing the ingredients.
These ingredients are all self-sufficient in Fuyushan and are all very fresh.
The scene today is even more grand than that on the Mid-Autumn Festival, because Yuan Qing and Jiang An, who had not experienced that day, vowed to do better so as to make up for the imbalance in their hearts.
Now everyone no longer needs step-by-step guidance like before. After going around in circles for a long time, I don’t even know what I can do.
She sighed softly, "It seems that no one needs me anymore. I think I can retire early."
Si Lan froze. "What?"
"Isn't everyone doing pretty well now?" Lian Jiu said, "Fuyu Mountain as well. Nanyu Mountain can be let go too. Gu Huai seems to have been arranging Kunlun Mountain very well. The only thing left is Shaoxian Mountain, but that can be arranged before the New Year. This way, I can retire early, right?"
She has already thought about her retirement life.
Just build your own house in the mountains, and you can go home after get off work every day to fish, hike, and chat with the neighbors.
You can also receive three salaries at the same time.
Anyone would wake up laughing on a day like this.
But Si Lan didn't think so. He almost couldn't help but think of the previous times when Lian Jiu suddenly disappeared after finishing his work and could not find any trace at all.
His voice sank slightly: "There is still a lot to do, and many people need you."
"Um?"
"Me." Si Lan said, "Aren't you going to teach me?"
"Yeah." Lian Jiu nodded, "But my retirement won't affect my ability to help you learn."
After she finished speaking, she found that Si Lan's mood was a little off, and his face looked very bad: "What's wrong with you?"
Is he so angry because he feels that he didn't help him study?
Si Lan tried to hold it in: "It's okay."
"Nothing again." Lian Jiu smiled helplessly, "Do you remember what we did on the ice twenty minutes ago? Do you want me to take you to the wheelbarrow so you can face yourself for a while?"
Si Lan looked at her: "If you were to retire, where would you be?"
"Of course, in the mountains," Lian Jiu said without hesitation. "I used to want to buy an apartment in the human world, but now I think living in the mountains is pretty good too. After all, I can probably visit other mountains, so I can save a lot of money. It seems like I've become rich now."
Si Lan's eyebrows twitched: "Still in the mountains?"
"Where else can I go?" Lian Jiu joked, "Are you chasing me away?"
"No." Si Lan lowered his eyes, "I will never chase you away."
Lian Jiu smiled in response: "As long as you don't chase me away, I'll stay here and live out my days. I'll have food, drink, and fun. Isn't that great?"
Si Lan's expression finally improved, and he curled his lips: "I think it's good too."
Not long after, the group of people playing at the foot of the mountain all came back.
When choosing tables, nearly a hundred people sat in pairs.
There was no other way. Since all these people wanted to eat at the same table with the monster, they had to split the table into two.
Although it gets dark early, the woods are full of lights, and every table has a hot pot cooked over an open fire, with white smoke curling up, which looks particularly warm.
[This is the first time I didn't watch the New Year's Eve concert and just watched these people eat hot pot here.]
[I suddenly feel like eating hot pot, so I immediately call my family over! Let's eat right away!]
This time, Long Ying also taught the monsters how to brew some fruit wine, which was placed on every table.
Yuan Qing was still in child form, so he secretly found a juice bottle and filled it up.
Jiang An thought the wine was quite sweet, so he also filled a large bottle with his own kettle. The two of them drank a lot and started playing drinking games with their feet on the stools.
"How do you play it?" Yuan Qing squinted his eyes and asked, "Like the literary people, composing poems and couplets?"
Jiang An shook his head like a rattle: "No, I'm not Si Lan, I can't play this game."
"What are we going to play?"
Jiang An casually picked up a nearby branch, shook off the snow on it, and took out a small vase from his down jacket: "Let's play pot tossing."
[Why do you put the vase in your clothes and carry it around casually? ]
[Did he really pull it out of his clothes? No way, it's so big, it might be a blind spot.]
[The pattern on this vase looks a bit rustic.]
Yuan Qing thought the vase looked familiar. After looking at it for a while, he suddenly realized what was happening and asked Su Caifeng, "Isn't this the one you used before?"
When I was in the human world at that time, I would also buy some small gadgets from the human world.
But Jiang An basically stays with the saint, so he spends less time living with everyone and has no fixed residence.
But at that time she was curious about everything. When she was not around the saints, she would come to play with them and take some things away.
Because of this, I fought with Pixiu many times.
"I knew it!" Su Caifeng also recognized the vase, "This is the one I used to hold the onions!"
Jiang An had no intention of admitting his mistake and said confidently, "Who told you to use this to insert onions? I just happened to need one for... arranging flowers, so I took it."
"You didn't even ask me!"
"I asked!" Jiang An felt wronged. "You were fighting with Qilin for peaches! I said I wanted the green onion basin, and you said yes! You said yes three times in a row!"
Su Caifeng thought about it.
Then he said angrily: "I said 'good, good, good, good you Qilin'!"
"How would I know?" Jiang An snorted coldly, "Anyway, it's mine now. I've kept it for so long."
Lian Jiu listened for a while and figured it out. So, what he was holding was an antique?!
"What about you?" She turned to Si Lan and asked, "Did you leave these things behind?"
Si Lan shook his head. He didn't value these things, so he wouldn't carry them with him.
"I guess only Brother Su took it." Yuan Qing said, "We can't take care of it."
Only Pixiu will take all his belongings with him every time he goes on a long journey.
"Ah, I do have some." Su Caifeng dug into his pocket and pulled out a few more arrows. "These are what I used to play pot-throwing."
As he said this, he was still planning to continue digging.
"Wait, wait." He was still broadcasting live. If he took out something big at this moment, wouldn't the audience in the live broadcast room be shocked?
She had mixed emotions: "Just, play with arrows first."
Jiang An threw away the branch he had picked and snatched the arrows from Su Caifeng's hand: "Come, come, come."
"mine!"
"I'll give it back to you when I've had enough fun!"
Lian Jiu was amazed: "I finally discovered that each of you is a hidden rich person."
Si Lan frowned slightly: "Are these things valuable?"
"Of course, it's an antique."
【??? What Dong?】
[I said the pattern looked antique!]
[Can anyone tell me why there are antiques in this remote place? ]
[I don't think Brother Su is a local, right? He seems to have come with Jiujiu to help with poverty alleviation and also works at the Municipal Bureau. Could this be a family collection?]
[However, if someone uses this bottle to stick onions, smile.jpg, it can be taken away directly by Jiang An.]
[So those arrows...?]
[That's wrong!!! Why the hell are you using antiques to play pot tossing?!!! Put it down right now!]
The tourist group from the human world also felt heartbroken.
"No, no, no!" Father Wu walked forward trembling, as if those arrows were piercing his heart, whistling with pain. "Antiques are meant to be collected and preserved. How can you be so careless!"
Long Ying waved his hand: "What collection? They are just daily necessities. Let them do as they please."
Daily necessities...
I was hurt again.
And Principal, haven't you always been advocating for making money? Why don't you stop it?
Lian Jiu felt a little sad, but those were not his things. Pi Xiu and the others didn't care about them, so he naturally didn't want to interfere.
And what Director Long said was right. To the demon gods, these were just daily necessities and were not worth much money in their eyes.
Now the demon world has other ways to make money, so let them keep these things for themselves.
There is no end to making money.
Anyway, in the demon world, all you have to do is be free.
Long Ying saw that everyone seemed to be looking forward to it, so he thought for a moment and said, "I have a few here, do you want to play?"
“!!!”
"No, no, no!" Everyone took a few steps back at the same time and returned to their seats to watch the game. They didn't dare to play, they couldn't afford to play, because if they were not careful, they would lose everything in an instant.
Lian Jiu hadn't joined in the fun, so he chatted with Long Ying and Si Lan beside him: "Director Long also likes to play touhu?"
"Not bad," Long Ying said. "They used to like to drink a little wine. They like to have fun, usually playing pot-throwing, occasionally guessing numbers or passing the flower."
Lian Jiu was curious: "I heard there are also people who write poetry."
"Those are..." Long Ying paused, "the ways of playing outside."
Outside? The human world?
Long Ying glanced at Si Lan and said, "Si Lan is the most well-read among us. He knows all kinds of poetry and songs. We can't do that, so we can only choose some games that don't require much thinking."
Although we wanted to get closer to humans at that time, we actually wouldn't have to learn as much as they did, because studying was too tiring.
If the monster wants to be freer, it just needs to be literate and polite.
But Si Lan was different. One day, he suddenly started to study hard from being illiterate. He learned everything and eventually became the one closest to humans among the demon gods.
Even his paintings were sought after by people at that time.
It’s a pity that he later destroyed those paintings himself.
"I heard the director bought you the Four Treasures of the Study." Long Ying asked with interest, "Are you still painting now?"
Si Lan paused: "Occasionally."
"You've started painting!" Lian Jiu was quite interested in Si Lan's paintings. He heard that he was very good at it. "Can I take a look?"
This time Si Lan was silent for a longer time before he slowly took a sip of wine: "If there is a chance."
"The director must come and see it." Long Ying praised him generously. "Although I don't understand much about it, even an outsider can tell that he's a good painter. At that time, he even had a treasure box full of paintings, but he never let us open it."
box?
Lian Jiu suddenly remembered the box that made him particularly nervous when he was tidying Si Lan's room.
She asked doubtfully, "Aren't all your paintings ruined?"
Si Lan nodded: "Everything outside is destroyed."
"But the last time you showed me it seemed like all the paper was blank."
Speaking of this, Si Lan hesitated for a rare moment.
When Lian Jiu saw it, the paper was indeed blank, because he could no longer remember his previous paintings, and it was destroyed in a moment's thought.
After all, the demon god not only relies on a pen to paint, but also has his own divine power, otherwise there would be no painted horses.
Later, she appeared again and mentioned this matter. Only then did Si Lan remember the things he had drawn.
In just a moment, those disappeared strokes reappeared.
Later he put it back into the box again, along with the ones he had recently drawn.
But she couldn't see this yet.
Si Lan thought for a moment and said, "I can make it disappear, but I can also make it come back."
Lian Jiu suddenly realized that the things in that box were actually his old paintings?
She didn't mention looking at the paintings again, but nodded, expressing her praise: "It seems that you are better at protecting things than An An and the others."
After all, those can be considered antiques.
Originally, Si Lan hadn't intended to let her see it, but now she didn't seem to have any interest at all, which made him feel a little disappointed, so he said, "If you want to see it..."
Lian Jiu was quite interested: "Will you show it to me?"
Si Lan was silent for a moment: "I can draw it for you again."
Lian Jiu was surprised to receive such an answer. He was stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud with joy: "Okay, you can draw it for me when you have a chance. But I'm really curious about what you drew in the past."
Si Lan said casually: "I draw whatever comes to mind."
Lian Jiu understood: "Okay."
As soon as he finished speaking, the New Year countdown reminder came on the big screen of the new open-air cinema.
All the people and monsters turned their heads and fell silent at the same time.
【Aaaaaaah, I didn’t see the live broadcast last Mid-Autumn Festival, but I saw it this time! 】
[I’m in time! I’m going to celebrate New Year’s Eve with my kids and Jiujiu! ]
[The live broadcast shocked me far more than the screen recording during the Mid-Autumn Festival.]
I'm so nervous!
"The new year is almost here." Lian Jiu stood up, walked to the center of the small stage, picked up the microphone that had been placed there since morning, and said to all the people and monsters, as well as the netizens watching the live broadcast, "New Year's Day marks the beginning of a new year in the Gregorian calendar. All the difficulties and obstacles of the past year have been overcome. May everyone always be healthy, happy, kind, successful, and full of hope. May our future be like this day every year."
There was a ten-second countdown on the big screen behind him.
The humans in the mountains had all experienced the New Year's Eve, so they began to count down loudly.
The monsters were also motivated and shouted along with the numbers.
"Three! Two! One!"
At the moment the New Year arrived, many bang sounds began to be heard all around, and countless fireworks exploded outside the forest, surrounding the entire Banshantang.
All the people and monsters looked up in amazement and started cheering.
The camera was also turned to the sky, where the fireworks were dazzling and the cheers were deafening.
Lian Jiu also raised his head and looked up at the sky. The voice from the speakers spread to every corner of Fuyu Mountain: "Happy New Year."
Si Lan stood beside her without her knowing when. He turned his head to look at her profile, his eyes gradually softening: "Happy New Year."
At this moment, Lian Jiu also put down the microphone and turned his head to meet his gaze.
Si Lan was stunned.
Lian Jiu didn't know whether the light of the fireworks or Si Lan's figure was reflected in her eyes. She curled her eyes and smiled softly: "You too, Happy New Year."
She asked, "Si Lan, do you have any New Year's wishes?"
"have."
"What?"
"Just like you said."
Si Lan looked at the person in front of him and said softly and slowly: "May our future be like this day every year."
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