Legend has it that in the ancient times countless years ago, the world was not in the current situation where the three ancient countries were divided into one side. Instead, there were many small countries, conquering each other and causing constant wars. Tianlai Xiao "said ww" w. 』⒉ At that time, there was a small country on the bank of the Kun River with only more than a thousand inhabitants - called "Blue Lotus Country".
People in this country don't like war and are content with a peaceful life. In addition to farming and fishing, the Blue Lotus Kingdom's livelihood is to plant lotus flowers.
Every year when all kinds of lotus flowers bloom, it is the time when the whole country of Blue Lotus celebrates the festival. At that time, water monsters who like all kinds of lotus pods and lotus seeds will come quietly at night. At first, the water monsters like to feed. The lotus seeds and lotus pods are all very careful, not daring to damage the rhizome of any lotus.
Later, some attentive residents discovered this. Everyone knew that the monsters in the river were extremely ferocious and unwilling to be kind to people. However, when they arrived in the Blue Lotus Kingdom, they were all honest. This incident touched everyone's minds. .
So when the Blue Lotus people celebrate the harvest of lotus flowers every year, they reserve a large amount of lotus seeds and actively feed them to the monster beasts who come to ask for food. Sure enough, the monster beasts become more and more dependent on human feeding, and gradually become Blue Lotus. Lotus national pet.
In order to repay the gifts given by the people of Lanlian, the monsters often drove large numbers of fish to the territory of the Li River, allowing people to reap a bumper harvest. In less than a hundred years, Lanlian became a well-known and prosperous country in the world.
But the good times don't last long. The fat sheep will eventually attract the covetousness of evil wolves. The neighboring countries go to war, and the entire country's soldiers come crazy. They not only burn, kill, loot, and kill the people of Lanlian, but the king of the other side even Forcing the leader of the Lanlian Kingdom to give up his most beautiful little daughter.
It just so happened that the princess was also called "Lan Lian". She was kind-hearted and often used royal wealth to help people in need. She was deeply loved by the people. When they heard that the enemy wanted to force the princess away, the whole country cried out for help. Fight to the death with the other party.
However, Princess Lanlian was unwilling to cause misery for her own affairs, and was unwilling to be humiliated by her enemies, so this strong-tempered princess decided to fight her fate with her own life.
That day, the princess sat on a bamboo raft covered with lotus flowers, lit a furnace of incense made by herself using lotus seeds, and floated towards the end of the Kun River.
At the same time, the unfaithful invaders led their troops into the Blue Lotus Kingdom, and the people... were mercilessly slaughtered, leaving no one alive.
In an instant, a violent wind blew up on the river, and the bamboo raft overturned. Princess Lanlian died and sank to the bottom of the water. At that moment, the sky and the earth wailed and changed color. Thunder, lightning, hail and showers frightened the enemies of neighboring invaders. All the monsters in the water within a hundred miles are angry!
These demonic beasts rushed onto the river bank with terrifying roars, biting the invaders from neighboring countries wildly until corpses were everywhere and no one was left alive.
After several days of killing, the monsters in the water dived back into the Kun River and never appeared again.
Since then, the Blue Lotus Kingdom and its neighboring countries have perished, but the remaining Blue Lotus citizens have thrived and lived by the river and survived with difficulty. They are the ancestors of the residents of Huiyang Town.
And the most important thing is that the "lotus seed incense" made by Princess Lanlian has also been passed down. Relying on the sale of this incense, Huiyang Town has prospered for many years before it achieved its current scene.
"Sir..." The shop owner said this, glanced at Guan Heng, who was dozing off with his eyes slightly closed, and continued helplessly: "I told the story of lotus seeds incense with ups and downs, and now it's all over. I'm so tired that my mouth is dry, so why don't you give me a few compliments and give me some face?"
"Huh?! Have you finished telling it?" Guan Heng yawned at this time and said: "Sorry, boss, I have heard too many stories like this before, so I am used to ignoring them now, hehe, but you told it really well."
"By the way." Guan Heng asked again: "You blow the incense so much, what are the benefits of it? Where can you get it?"
"Just smell the real lotus seed incense. It can calm the mind, eliminate fatigue, and prolong life..." When the boss said this, he couldn't help but shook his head: "But now, there is no blue lotus as raw material in the town. The lotus seeds are incense."
Hearing this, Guan Heng frowned slightly and asked, "Why is this?" "That's because a huge accident happened more than ten years ago."
The boss explained at this moment: "For some reason, the blue water lilies raised in everyone's homes in the town, as well as the wild blue water lilies in the river, all withered and died, and not a single one was left. It was like a human-infected disease." There was a plague, so everyone called it the 'Lotus Plague."
The boss paused for a moment before continuing: "Since the blue water lotus is gone, the best lotus seed incense cannot be made. Almost all incense making workshops are closed. Although there are many jobs that can make a living in the town, everyone has changed careers, and there is only..."
Just as the shop owner said this, an old man in ragged clothes suddenly came to the door. He was hunched over, and followed by a little boy carrying a bamboo basket. Although this child had no disability, he had a hare lip, which made people look stunned. Compassion.
"Boss Zhu, do you want some incense today?"
The hunchbacked old man said with a bit of pleading in his tone: "I, I have already visited seven or eight shops, and everyone said they don't want it, but my family has been without cooking for a few days, so I can only shamelessly ask you to bring in some more incense. As long as you can give us some rice to survive, please, the old people won't eat, but the children can't bear the hunger, cough cough cough..."
"Alas... Lao Gu, didn't I tell you that you refused to change your career back then?"
Boss Zhu looked at the embarrassment of the old man and the young man and couldn't help but sigh: "Although your Gu family has the oldest incense workshop in Huiyang Town, after the extinction of the blue water lotus, we only use ordinary lotus seeds. No one wants the incense produced.”
"If you don't have blue lotus seeds as raw materials, no matter how good your craftsmanship is, it will be useless. Look, all the incense piled up in my shop are sent by you, and you can't sell it at all."
Seeing the embarrassment and distress on the other side, Boss Zhu continued: "No matter how kind-hearted I am, Old Zhu, I can't always help you. As you said, the old ones won't eat, and the young ones won't be able to bear it." Hungry, in my opinion, you two should quickly change your career and find another way to make a living, otherwise, sooner or later, you will starve to death on the streets."
Guan Heng couldn't bear to listen at this time. He whispered to Boss Zhu: "Hey, please stop saying a few words. This person is so pitiful, can't you help me?"
"I've been helping for several years, and it's hard to take care of me when I'm poor..." Before Boss Zhu could finish speaking, Guan Heng took out a gold shell and pushed it in front of him: "Go and tell him that all the incense has been accepted." , I’ll take whatever I can sell for it in your store, and I won’t ask you for it, so that’s alright, right? Also, don’t say it was my intention.”
Boss Zhu was jealous when he saw the money, and he also had some kind-heartedness, so he picked up the goods and muttered: "Hey, kind-hearted people like you are really rare, so I'll go tell you about it right now."
