Chapter 392 "New Tenants"
"What is the Flower Goddess Festival? It sounds familiar..."
Hearing Nashida's words, Liu Bai asked subconsciously.
"It's my birthday... Yeah, but now the Great Compassion Tree King and I are celebrating it together."
Nashida explained to Liu Bai.
According to the Great Tree King, Nashida is now the grass god sitting on the throne, so the flower god's birthday festival should continue to celebrate Nashida's birthday.
Moreover, the time of her rebirth was close to Nashida's birthday. If the day of her rebirth was also considered a "birthday", then it would be reasonable to celebrate the Flower Goddess' Birthday together.
"Oh... So you are the God of Flowers? Do you have an additional deity like the God of Cooking?"
Liu Bai continued to ask curiously.
"No, the Flower God Birthday Festival means the birthday of the Flower God. It originated from the Flower God celebrating the birthday of the Great Kind Tree King. Later it developed into a traditional festival of Xumi."
Nashida explained to Liu Bai.
Due to the previous influence of the Ministry of Education, most of the festive festivals in Xumi were not particularly large in scale, but now the birthday of the flower god has become a festival celebrated by the whole nation, similar to Liyue's Lantern Festival.
"Oh, now I remember...are you going to drive at this time?"
After listening to Nashida's description, Liu Bai had some impression that he seemed to have seen it in Xumi a year ago.
"Yes, on the day of the Flower Goddess' birthday, the Grass God will ride on a float and parade along a planned route. Flower Knights and attendants will form the parade team, and there will also be dancers performing the Flower Goddess Dance."
Nashida continued to nod and explained the circumstances of previous Flower Goddess Birthday Festivals.
The parade of floats has always been a traditional event of the Flora Festival, but except for the one last year, the scale of the Flora Festival in the past was very small, so small that it could only be held in the Grand Bazaar. At that time, the parade of floats was just a few people escorting a wooden float around the Grand Bazaar.
Moreover, the consent of the Ministry of Education was not obtained, so the little auspicious grass king could not be invited to participate.
But if we go back five hundred years, the people of Xumi who had regained the lost Grass God were very fond of the new Grass God at first. Although the float parade at that time also failed to invite the Grass God to ride on the float, at least for many years the scale of the float parade was large and was not even limited to Xumi City.
"Oh... I have some impression. Were there a lot of people watching together?"
After listening to Nashida's description, Liu Bai seemed to remember something.
"Yeah, it's very lively."
Nashida still remembered last year's Flower Goddess Birthday Festival clearly and nodded happily.
"I remember that we were watching the show in a very exciting way when suddenly a dragon fell from the sky, and then someone shouted that the God of Grass had been assassinated and the whole place was blocked!"
Then Liu Bai's eyes lit up and he continued speaking.
"You are talking about the ceremony of inviting the immortals..."
I was a little helpless to hear that Liu Bai had confused Nashida, but the last flower goddess birthday ceremony was a year ago after all, so it was not surprising that Liu Bai couldn't remember her.
"Hiss? But I remember that you were also a Rock God. When did this happen..."
Liu Bai scratched his head and spoke with some confusion.
"..."
Nashida decided not to joke with him like that next time, after all, he seemed to take it seriously.
While Liu Bai was puzzled, Nashida returned to the kitchen and made a simple breakfast.
However, Ying and Paimon went out to do something unknown and did not return all night, so Nashida did not prepare breakfast for them.
At the same time, Ying and Paimeng on the other side followed Zhongli to Guyun Pavilion.
The body of the vortex demon Osel is too huge, and the Lonely Cloud Pavilion has been blocked for some time. Even so, non-Liyue official ships can often be seen active around it.
Due to the system reward, the edgeless sword used by Liu Bai at the time absorbed the soul of the Vortex Demon and almost all the elemental power. Therefore, although he was a demon, there was no impact after his death.
After sampling and testing by the Liyue Seven Stars, it was found that the elemental power remaining in Osel's body was probably only at the level of powerful monsters such as the Explosive Tree.
But even so, such a large monster corpse still has a certain value, but it is too large to be handled.
"I mentioned to you before that many old demon gods were suppressed under Guyun Pavilion."
"Now the immortals have handed Liyue over to mortals, and Heulia's era is even more distant in the past. The salt cup and salt ruler she left behind should not be returned to Liyue Harbor."
"Letting them stay here is both a way of sleeping and a way of returning home."
On the top of Guyun Pavilion, Zhongli explained this to Ying and Paimeng who followed him.
At this time, they had just come out of the Salt of the Earth and had two relics with the power of the demon god in their hands.
"So what did Zhongli ask me to come over for?"
Ying couldn't help but ask.
"I ended an era with my own hands, and I have been thinking about how to record the history that I ended."
"History can be recorded, but it is not reliable. This incident also proves this. Time has a strong power and history will be distorted over the years."
“I need to find better records to record the true history.”
"So traveler, I thought of you."
"You are a person who has traveled across the heavens and across the sea of stars. If history is engraved in your memory, it will be able to travel to another world with you one day in the future."
Zhongli explained to Ying the reason why he asked her to come here.
"Osel is dead, but the seal remains. Heulia's relics shall be placed here."
Afterwards, Zhongli threw the salt cup and salt ruler in his hands into the sea.
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Two days later, Liu Bai and Nashida explained to Ying and the others that they were going back to Xumi and left them a key to their home.
Although they have the Chen Ge Pot, Ying and Paimeng still live with Liu Bai for the time being.
After saying goodbye to the acquaintances they saw more often, Liu Bai and Nashida packed up their things and bought some Liyue specialties, then left Liyue Harbor and returned to Xumi.
"Wow, this house is even bigger than the one we built in the Chen Ge Hu. We lived together before Liu Shazi and the others came back~"
After Liu Bai and the others left, Paimeng looked at the house next to the Wangsheng Hall and spoke happily.
"Ahem, may I ask you two, is the young man who lives here not at home?"
Just at this moment, an old man came over and asked Ying and Paimeng.
"He's not here. We live here now."
Paimon didn't know who the old man was, but he turned around to explain anyway.
"Is that so? Then you are the new tenants."
The old man then nodded in understanding.
"The young man paid a year's rent for this house plus one month last year. Now the time is almost up. Since you are the new tenant, you can decide the rent for next year..."
Then the old man explained to Ying and Paimon.
"Eh?!"
Paimon and Ying looked at each other.
Suddenly I felt cheated!
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