"Woo~ You really want to drink a cup of hot tea?" Hakurei Reimu wailed as he looked at the empty tea can, and then he could only quickly run back to his bed. [No pop-up novel website] But I have been lying in bed for two days, and the bed doesn’t seem to be that hot anymore.
And the key at this time is that the secret of "forgetting to be hungry while asleep" seems to be ineffective after waking up for the third time.
"When will someone come to offer incense and money?" She lay on the quilt, looking at the roof with an empty stomach. "It would be nice if I were taken care of/raised by that rich man in the human world... At least I can repair the shrine properly."
She always remembered that the shrine was a very happy place when she was young. It has a beautiful and spacious house with brightly colored torii gates. The room smells of new wood and it smells very comfortable. At that time, all I had to do was run around the shrine every day and look for interesting things. Then someone always comes back with an offering box filled with money and food... Who is it?
I can't remember, maybe it's purple.
But at that time, someone must be accompanying her... Her hand involuntarily stretched towards the ceiling. At that time, someone must be holding me like this...
"Ha, I actually cried?! How could I cry! I am Hakurei Reimu, I don't care about anything..." She quickly took back her hand and wiped away her tears. "As long as I make some more money and repair the shrine... then Zi will also come as a guest, and that person... will come back... everything will be the best and best it was when I was a child."
Lingmeng hid his little body under the quilt and whispered, "I am not alone. Really not..."
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In an inconspicuous corner of the room, there was a tiny gap. That end of the gap. Yakumo Murasaki sat alone on the tallest tree in Mount Hakurei, listening to Reimu Hakurei's sobs. She drank one glass after another, "My friend, it's snowing again..."
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"Creak~" There was a groan/moan from the house overhead, and the heavy snow piled on the roof obviously made this old shrine unbearable...
"Ah!" Reimu jumped out of the quilt, "The shrine! The shrine is going to collapse! What should I do? What should I do?"
After turning around twice, she suddenly clenched her fist, quickly put on the witch costume, picked up the cleaning tools and ran out...
"I haven't restored you to the way you were when you were a child. I will never allow you to collapse without permission! I remember that that person seemed to do that..."
No one expected that this first snowfall would last for more than ten days.
By the end of the month, the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the entire Mount Boli was shrouded in clouds of snowflakes. The mountains, river valleys, villages, and trees all turned into a pure white world. The stone steps leading to the Hakurei Shrine on the mountainside wind like a jade belt in the snow. Heavy snowfall is the beginning of a long vacation for a society dominated by agriculture and handicrafts.
There are no more people in sight on the crisscrossed roads. The water in the paddy fields condenses into a transparent glacial lake, which is then covered with thick snow. People no longer go towards the mountains, and even firewood is only cut down in the nearby woods. Such an early winter. It is also a beast that cannot find food. When it comes to hunting, it is most dangerous to go deep into the woods.
There are only roads between the world and a few small villages. There are also people clearing the snow. In such weather, flying monsters like to stay at home and not go out. Some simply begin hibernating. Enjoy the snow? Then we have to wait until the snow stops.
But it was on this snowy day, on the long stone steps leading to the shrine in the human world. But there was another person carrying a huge straw bag and another slightly smaller one in his hand, walking step by step towards the Hakurei Mountain. In the heavy snow in the sky, there is only his footprints, which are always hidden, and his figure.
This is a young man whose age is difficult to determine, because he has a thick beard and covers himself from head to toe with a bear hair cloak. He was tall, burly, and ordinary-looking. If it weren't for the expensive bearskin cloak, he would have looked like a grocery store owner.
He looked up and saw that he was less than halfway through the journey and shook his head. Maybe he shouldn't go out in such a snowy weather... He didn't know what he was thinking. I just felt that the poor witch, the biggest boss in my neighborhood, must not be having a good time in such weather, so I took the initiative to flirt with her... ahem, let's have some friendship.
The snow on the stone steps has been blown by the mountain wind and piled up on one side. You can still walk on the shallow parts, but it has reached the calf in the deep parts, making it increasingly difficult to climb. He looked around and saw that there was no one around him, so he directly used Qing Gong and walked up without leaving a trace on the snow. "The footprints will be covered up by the snow anyway, so what difference does it make if they are there or not?"
In just a few minutes this time, he suddenly climbed over thousands of stone steps and arrived under the vermilion torii gate.
Lu Yuan patted the pillars of the torii gate with some emotion. Every time the clouds cleared, he could see the majestic torii, changing colors in every light. But upon getting closer, I found that the torii gate had been in disrepair for many years. The cross-sections of the wood began to become soft, and green moss grew on them. The wood wedges have become loose, the vermilion color has begun to fade, and large areas of the patent leather have even peeled off in some places.
No wonder everyone says that Hakurei Shrine is completely in decline.
Lu Yuan put aside his sadness for spring and autumn, and once again walked down to earth, holding two large bags of things, and walked through the vermilion torii gate. When he walked around a small forest again, he finally saw the Hakurei Shrine built deep in the mountains for the first time.
Hakurei Miko doesn't seem to be as greedy and lazy as the rumors say, and she doesn't seem to be as unscrupulous as what is written in the little book. In fact, perhaps Reimu Hakurei never expected that anyone would go up the mountain to pay homage on such a snowy day. Lu Yuan didn't expect that he was just suddenly tempted and wanted to tease Hakurei Reimu with something.
It was because of an accident that Lu Yuan, who was standing under the corner tree, saw a completely different Hakurei Miko.
In Lu Yuan's eyes, he only saw a very thin girl wearing a strange witch costume that was too fat. She doesn't even look eleven or twelve years old! And in appearance, he has typical characteristics of malnutrition. In the heavy snow. The girl was only wearing a thin witch costume and was working hard to clear the snow from the porch. She pushed the snow to the side of the house. Clear a piece of ground.
Hakurei Reimu took a broom that was taller than herself and swept away the snow in the garden, while looking anxiously at the roof of the shrine.
Her witch costume might be useful when asking people to donate money, but the thin clothes with exposed shoulders really didn't seem to keep much warmth. She was always stamping her feet and flapping her arms to keep herself warm. Whenever Hakurei Reimu couldn't bear the cold, she would hide in the old shrine and keep herself warm with a teacup filled with hot water. While anxiously watching the snow getting heavier and heavier.
Lu Yuan could see that she was worried about the roof of the shrine...but she was hurriedly cleaning the corridor first. Lu Yuan didn't know what the connection was between the two. But after looking at it for a long time, he suddenly felt that his eyes were a little moist, and he understood - Reimu Hakurei didn't know what to do. No one taught this teenage child how to deal with snow in winter. She... ...just following a certain figure to do this. That person may be the previous generation of witches, or her mother. Lu Yuan doesn't know these things.
But obviously. That person left before he could teach Reimu anything more... So Reimu could only imitate that person's back, doing the same thing bit by bit.
Lu Yuan seemed to see a grown-up Hakurei Reimu wearing such a witch costume and cleaning the snow in the courtyard. And a young figure was playing behind...
He wiped his eyes and quietly cast a spell on the shrine. Make those wooden groans stop. Although there is more snow, Lu Yuan is convinced. Within a month, even if the siege engines come, they will not be able to defeat this place.
All the way to the courtyard was cleared. Reimu Hakurei finally breathed a sigh of relief. She flew up to the roof of the shrine, carefully stepped on the beams, and used wooden boards to push the large tracts of snow down from the roof. A large pile of snow fell from the roof onto the newly cleared open space, and it was piled up again in the blink of an eye...
During the whole process, the girl bit her lips from time to time. Her expression was cold and stubborn. It was not at all like the rumored heartless Reimu Hakurei or the silly and joyful Reimu Hakurei. .
Is this the real Reimu Hakurei?
Lu Yuan didn't step forward to help. Strong people don't need sympathy. He just waited until the snow had lightened up a bit and Reimu Hakurei had finished most of his work, then he quietly stepped back a hundred meters, and then walked up again with heavy steps.
"Is there anyone there?! What kind of broken shrine is it? The road leading to the mountain is not cleaned, and no one greets people who come to worship. No wonder it is in such a dilapidated state!" Lu Yuan deliberately yelled these annoying words in a random manner. ! His voice spread far away.
"Are the guests going to visit a shrine?!"
By the time Lu Yuan passed through the torii gate again, Hakurei Reimu was standing by the front yard to greet him with a bright face and a bright face. When she saw him coming over, her eyes briefly glanced at Lu Yuan, and then fixed her eyes firmly on the big bag he was carrying. Lu Yuan couldn't bear to turn his head when he saw a child slapping his cheek lightly or hard to greet him.
But he was still as rude and indiscriminate as a nouveau riche man.
"Besides, Hakurei Miko is indeed as greedy for money as the legend says! She is so excited when she hears someone visiting the shrine. She doesn't care about the shrine at all." Lu Yuan kicked the snow under his feet with an impatient look. , seemed completely unaware that he was making the clean courtyard dirty again.
After complaining for a long time, he learned the rituals he had seen in the past, high-fived himself a few times after purifying his hands in the spring water, and prayed with his hands clasped together at the shrine.
"Please, ask the guests to donate some incense money." Hakurei Miko, who had been doing nothing during the whole visit to the shrine, finally found an opportunity and ran over with the money box in her arms.
"How can there be a witch like you who doesn't take care of the guests at all and only holds the boxes?" Lu Yuan said critically while pulling up the two large bags on the side.
A whole stone of rice (60kg, packed in a straw bag, enough for Reimu to eat for a whole winter. In addition, there is a large bag of charcoal, some tea leaves, vegetables such as radish and green cattail, and large pieces of bacon. Finally, Lu Yuan A box of snacks made by himself. Because Youxiang and Meihong both like to eat them, his snack varieties are also constantly expanding.
"Don't have any money for incense?". After rummaging around for a while, Reimu finally found no coins and said disappointedly.
"Why do you need money so much? Can these things help the shrine survive the winter?" Lu Yuan had heard that Reimu Hakurei often spent money carelessly, causing him to almost starve to death. So he deliberately brought a lot of food this time instead of just throwing gold coins as he did in the past.
"Because I hope to repair the shrine after the snow stops. Well, if you donate money for incense, your guests will definitely see a brand new shrine next time they come to visit!" The little girl looked at him eagerly.
"That's it." Lu Yuan touched his chin, "Then donate some." If it weren't for what he saw just now, Lu Yuan would rather just give her some food. But the scene just now made him see that little girl's attachment to the past, the shrine, and her relatives. That feeling even made his heart hurt slightly.
After speaking, he stretched out his hand, and a dozen Spanish gold coins fell from his outstretched fingers, clattering into the money box held by Reimu. He thought for a while, then took out a large pirate gold coin with Alona's face on it, and placed it specially on Reimu Hakurei's little hand. She was still holding the money box with both hands, but the newly minted gold coin was too big. She had to close her arms as hard as she could and hold the big gold coin with both hands!
"Lord... Rich!" Reimu, who was shocked by the color of gold, quickly put down the money box. Regardless of the cold metal, he directly stuffed the big gold coin into his collar, and then grabbed the collar tightly with both hands. "Even if this is... so much money! I... I won't give in!"
Lu Yuan wanted to say, your chest is so flat, don't you worry about the gold coins falling out from under the witch uniform? But he decided not to joke about it.
"Haha", Lu Yuan smiled, stretched out his hand to press the big bow on her head (and rubbed it on her body), then put the cloak on her body, "Use the money to buy something you like, don't use it to repair the shrine. ! Here..." He looked at Hakurei Shrine again, "Next spring, I will hire people to completely renovate it, and you will see... what you want to see."
After he finished speaking, he stopped staying. Lu Yuan waved his hand, turned around and walked down the mountain.
The wide and soft cloak fit Lu Yuan just right, but when it came to Ling Meng, it was dragged on the snow like a robe. Wearing a warm cloak and smelling the comfortable scent, Hakurei Miko stood there quietly looking at Lu Yuan's back, wondering what she was thinking.
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ps: There was a guy named 7starsseeker in the group who mentioned "Eastern Dream" and said not to watch it...
Then I went to read it, and you know, it seriously ruined the outline of the Gensokyo part of this volume.
Do you still remember what Youxiang said, "Let your children grow up as quickly as possible, even humans expect this."?
ps2: Please vote! Please vote! (To be continued...)
