There is no Mid-Autumn Festival in Northern Chu, so Li Shiyin didn’t quite understand Qin Ran’s sudden sadness on August 15th…
The master looked obviously sad today.
“Master…” She leaned against the door frame between the living room and the kitchen, looking at Qin Ran making noodles that she had never seen before in the kitchen, and asked, “What kind of festival is Mid-Autumn Festival?”
"It's a festival for family reunion." Qin Ran replied, "Eating moon cakes, appreciating the moon, the fragrance of osmanthus, and osmanthus wine, these are the memories that this festival brings to me."
"But why haven't I heard of the Mid-Autumn Festival?"
"Because there is no Mid-Autumn Festival in Northern Chu."
"Master, aren't you from Northern Chu?" Li Shiyin was puzzled.
"I am from Northern Chu, but I am not from Northern Chu either."
"Ah? Why?" Li Shiyin's little brain couldn't think of such a philosophical question.
Qin Ran smiled but said nothing. He did not tell Li Shiyin that her master actually came from another world.
The pavilion in the middle of the lake had been built. Qin Ran and Zhui Feng spent three days to build it using very precious wood.
These woods are the kind that can be engraved with array patterns, are not afraid of water erosion, and are extremely spiritual. They are quite amazing spiritual woods.
Even at ordinary times, when sitting in the pavilion, one can smell the rich, sweet spiritual energy, which makes one feel relaxed and happy. For ordinary people, it should also have the effect of prolonging life.
That night, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and a gentle breeze blew across the lake.
Qin Ran made mooncakes, sweet-scented osmanthus cakes, bought sweet-scented osmanthus wine, bought fruits, and made some other delicacies. He brought them all to the stone table in the center of the pavilion, filling the entire table.
They also pulled out the five-tailed fox from the fox cave, and called over Tian Wenjin and Huang Feiyu from Jianfeng. Together with the original group of four from Danfeng, there were seven people in total, all gathering at the pavilion in the middle of the lake.
Tushan Youyou really lived up to the fine tradition of fox demons and loved to study. Ever since Qin Ran gave her the complete set of formations, she had been hiding in her cave all day long, reading hundreds of thousands of novels and rarely went out. The people at Danfeng had rarely seen her.
"How much of "Basics of Formations" have you read?" The little Loli Long Qiqi threw a mooncake to the big sister Tu Shan Youyou and asked curiously.
"Almost halfway done." Tu Shan took the mooncake, looked at it, smelled it, and asked Long Qiqi, "What is this?"
"Qin Ran said it was mooncakes, a delicacy from his hometown. Every Mid-Autumn Festival, they eat mooncakes." Long Qiqi asked, "Then do you know how to set up a formation?"
Tu Shan shook her head slowly. She took a small bite of the mooncake and looked inside. It turned out to be egg yolk... What kind of dark dish is this?
"After reading "Basics of Formations", I finally understood what "vast" meant. There are three thousand basic formation patterns in formations alone. And each of these basic formation patterns can be combined with other formation patterns at will. Each combination is different from the others. And then the order, time, space, etc. of their combination, if there is a difference, will produce a new effect..."
She said, "My head is about to explode after reading it. Standing in front of the Dao of Formation is like an ant standing in the universe, facing the past and present, up and down, all directions alone!"
Qin Ran handed Tu Shan You You a cup of osmanthus wine. Hearing Tu Shan You You's words, he smiled and praised: "It seems that you have a certain understanding of the formation. Very good."
"It seems that..." Long Qiqi thought, "To learn the formation, you must be good at arithmetic!"
“Oh, by the way…” Qin Ran gave Long Qiqi a glass of juice, then thought of something and said to Tu Shan leisurely, “If I have time, I will teach you Probability Theory, Algebra, and Quantum Algorithms. With the help of these tools, it will be easier to learn the formation.”
"I want to drink!" Long Qiqi didn't want to drink juice.
"Children should not drink alcohol."
Long Qiqi expressed serious condemnation: "I am not a child..."
"Probability Theory? What is that?" Tu Shan took a sniff of the fragrant osmanthus wine and asked Qin Ran.
"Good stuff." Qin Ran smiled mysteriously, "The children all said it was good after learning it... maybe you will like it."
Tu Shan took a sip of the osmanthus wine and commented: "Your osmanthus wine is not good. It only has fragrance, but no sweetness of osmanthus."
"We bought the wine. Once we plant our own osmanthus tree, we can make our own wine later." Qin Ran said, "How about the mooncakes?"
“The mooncakes are OK.”
“I made the mooncakes…”
Tian Wenjin and Huang Feiyu did not look very good. From the moment they arrived at Danfeng, to when they sat down in the pavilion in the center of the lake, to now when they were appreciating the moon, they did not look happy with each other.
They even sat separately, on both sides of the pavilion...
"Has Wenjin received any missions from the sect in the past few days?" Li Shiyin gave Tian Wenjin a few plums and asked with a smile.
Tian Wenjin shook her head and replied: "I haven't been out recently..."
"Remember to call me next time you go on a mission. I have never done a sect mission!" Li Shiyin said.
"The sect's missions are actually very hard, but they are just an opportunity for ordinary disciples to practice." Tian Wenjin said, "For someone like you, there is no need to do missions. They are hard, dangerous, and not worth the effort."
"Not entirely..." Qin Ran came over and said to Tian Wenjin, "The sect missions are actually a training for you. Every year, which of the top sect missions does not have both opportunities and dangers? Shiyin should really try the sect missions."
He handed Tian Wenjin juice and mooncakes and said, "You have already done the mission and have experience. Next time, you can take Shiyin to do a simple mission. Then with your strength, you can challenge a more difficult mission."
Tian Wenjin took the juice and mooncakes, hesitated for a moment, and nodded in response: "Well, if there is a chance later."
"I'm very powerful!" Li Shiyin stuffed a plum in her mouth and pouted as she spoke to Tian Wenjin, "If we sisters join forces, we will surely win every battle! The enemy will be defeated!"
"Hehe..." Tian Wenjin was in a very bad mood and just forced a smile.
Huang Feiyu already had considerable control over his body. When he first turned into flames, his entire body was a blazing flame. If he was not controlled, it would affect the temperature within a radius of 100 meters. Now that he was floating in the pavilion in the middle of the lake, his influence on other people was not that great.
Compared to Tian Wenjin's bad mood, this guy felt guilty. He couldn't join in the conversations of other people in the pavilion and had to stay with this stupid tiger who only cared about working hard to eat.
Zhuifeng's food bowl was full of barbecued meat. He lay on the ground and ate leisurely, his tail wagging happily, and soon finished the whole bowl of meat.
He held the rice bowl in his mouth, put it on the stone table, raised a paw to signal Huang Feiyu, and said with a big tongue: "I want that, that, that..."
Huang Feiyu looked at Zhuifeng, then stretched out his hands to show him, meaning, do you think I can hold chopsticks with these hands?
As soon as he saw Huang Feiyu's flaming hand, Zhuifeng realized that Huang Feiyu couldn't eat. He couldn't help but look at Huang Feiyu with contempt. You can't even hold chopsticks. Your transformation is so lame!
Huang Feiyu was in tears. He never thought that he would be despised by a tiger just because he had trouble eating.
Zhuifeng didn't want to pay attention to the guy who couldn't eat. He opened his bloody mouth and shouted, "Dad!"
Qin Ran looked over and saw a big white tiger standing up, with its front paws on the dining table and its mouth wide open, with the meat scraps in its mouth about to fall onto the table.
He quickly ran over, slapped the cat on the head, and cursed: "Your saliva fell into the food!"
Zhuifeng fell to the ground, feeling very aggrieved. He felt that he was discriminated against.
But he turned around on the ground, stood up again, and pointed at Qin Ran with his paw: "Dad, I want that, that, that..."
Even though I feel wronged, I still have to eat.
Qin Ran picked up some food for him and taught him:
"Don't you know how big you are? If you waste everything, what will we eat? I always tell you to think about others, why are you always so selfish?"
Zhuifeng fluttered his cute round ears, shutting out Qin Ran's muttering... He didn't hear a word and just stared at his food bowl.
Huang Feiyu looked at Qin Ran and Zhuifeng's relationship in a strange way, and then he realized that Qin Ran was raising Zhuifeng not as a spirit beast or a battle pet, but as a child and a son.
The landlord’s silly son…Chasing the wind.
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