Overlord of the Demon Realm

After saying goodbye to the Li family's father and daughter, the two left the central area and continued to the festival street in the second half, enjoying the hustle and bustle of the spring festival.

"Brother, there will be a fireworks display tonight, and the best place to watch it is on the Wishing Mountain." Ye Bai pointed to a certain location on the mountain while eating the marshmallow in his hand: "It's almost evening, let's go early Let's go into the mountain and take a good position to watch the fireworks, what do you think?"

"Okay, I think that's a good idea."

Ye Kong had no reason to refuse, and naturally agreed with his sister's idea.

However, it was still early in the evening, and they could play on the long street for a while.

Today's long festival street is more lively than in previous years. Ye Kong even saw some tourists with big bones, who obviously belonged to the time zone of Seattle, and came to the spring festival to play.

In the federal era, the entire world was divided into regions by time zones. There were a total of 24 time zones, which were roughly divided into the West Asia time zone and the East Asia time zone.

Among them, the residents of the Seattle time zone have large bones, inheriting the characteristics of the last century, and their general height and physique are slightly higher than the average in the East Asian time zone. Similarly, their average life expectancy is not as good as that of the East Asian time zone. From a certain point of view, it can be regarded as mutual advantages and disadvantages.

Therefore, although people's eye color and hair are no longer uniform due to genetic improvement, they can still distinguish between 'outsiders' and 'natives' through their body shape and bone characteristics.

As the signboard of Shangshui City, the Spring Festival also attracted some tourists from other districts. They flocked thousands of miles to the festival long street and lined up happily, no different from the locals.

"Brother, let's go eat that." Ye Bai pointed to a stall on the side of the road, his face full of anticipation and memories, so Ye Kong heard the words and looked around, but saw a noodle stall and a very scary long queue .

"Okay, then we'll eat that."

Ye Kong covered his head, but said pamperingly: "You go to reserve a seat first, and I will help you line up to buy noodles."

Hearing this, Ye Bai said happily: "Well, brother is the best! I want a full set of Wufu noodles!"

In this regard, Ye Kong shook his head helplessly——

"Don't worry, I always remember that."

half an hour later

"Huh, I finally bought it back."

Ye Kong carried two large bowls of steaming hot noodle soup, hurried to Ye Bai, and hurriedly put them down.

"Wow, I almost burned to death." After putting down the big bowl, Ye Kong complained, "The queue is too long. I waited for nearly half an hour before it was our turn to put the noodles into the pot."

"The business is so good, the waiting time will naturally be longer." Ye Bai shrugged, and said in a helpless tone, "I can't help it, it's the only traditional noodle in Shangshui City, the others can be used as noodle All the master chefs have passed away, or they are too old to make noodles, only Mr. Liu is left, and he is still strong enough to stand up and set up a sacrificial noodle stall."

Jimen, like the spring festival, is also a folk custom in Shangshui City. It is mainly made of buckwheat noodles, mixed with chicken broth and toppings, and some meat and vegetable ingredients are added to make hot noodle soup.

The Five Blessing Noodles that Ye Bai wanted were the most expensive ones. Among them, the Five Blessings included deep-fried pork skin, black fungus, handmade meatballs, spring bamboo shoots and fresh shrimp, which respectively symbolized peace, health, happiness and happiness. ,longevity. At the same time, there are five kinds of vegetarian dishes as ingredients, which correspond to "benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith", which is the five constants in Confucian culture.

They can only eat this traditional sacrificial noodles during the spring festival.

"However, although queuing is hard work, I'm not idle." Ye Bai pointed at the table, and said in a teasing tone: "Brother, do you know how many accosters I rejected in order to occupy the table? At the time, at least two-digit boys came up, and they came up and said: 'Beauty, are you eating noodles alone? Why don't you eat with us.', my ears are almost callused."

As he said that, Ye Bai shrugged helplessly and made a grimace: "It's a good thing they can say such an old-fashioned way of striking up a conversation, and they don't know how to learn from others. If they use the correct way of striking up a conversation like someone else Way"

Ye Kong heard the voice of her words, he couldn't help but paused with his chopsticks, and obviously cared: "Someone? You said the correct way to strike up a conversation, what does that mean? If it's convenient, can you tell me to listen to it?"

As a brother who cares about the family, his younger sister was accosted by someone and even said the word 'correct', which naturally made him extremely concerned, and even had a faint urge to find out the other party and make him disappear .

"Oh~, you mean someone?"

Ye Bai smiled slyly, put his chin in his hands, and pretended to recall: "That person's strike-up was amazing, and he convinced me with one sentence: Sister, let's watch the fireworks together at night, if it's too late and we can't get a taxi If not, let's find a small hotel to spend the night - anyway, my parents are also traveling, and it doesn't matter whether we go home or not."

As he said that, Ye Bai added: "Which idiot came up with such a bad idea? In the end, neither he nor I are adults, and we don't even have an ID card. We can't open a hotel room at all, so we can only walk home on foot."

At that time, Ye Kong was still young, and the two of them were also ignorant, thinking that the hotel was just a place to sleep and had no other purpose, and anyone could run to open a room. Therefore, Ye Kong, who was a bear child, planned the plan to watch the fireworks alone, and cheated his sister by the way.

"Cough cough! Let's eat noodles, the batter won't taste good anymore."

Ye Kong picked up the chopsticks as if changing the subject, reached into the bowl and scooped up the light brown noodles. A strong aroma hit his face, making his index finger twitch, and he ate it while it was hot.

Ye Bai was one step ahead of him, having eaten the sacrificial noodles long ago, his exquisite red lips were agitated, and it was faintly visible that his white teeth were gnawing on the elastic noodles, making a "chuck chuck lick", which was melodious and unavoidably tempting. People daydream.

"Woo~, this taste is amazing, it really is an old craft!"

Ye Bai took a sip of the hot soup, his beautiful eyes narrowed in comfort, and he said without recalling, "When we were young, our favorite thing to eat was sacrificial noodles."

"Yes, I still remember that there is a local legend about Jimian." Ye Kong put down his chopsticks and recalled: "In ancient times, Shangshui City was a feudal land, and the clan that ruled here suffered a severe famine. The onmyoji in the family said: 'It's just the beginning of the disaster, if you want to avoid everything, you can only offer the purest bloodline'."

"Thus, they sacrificed their eldest son. Although the famine was quelled, in the following years, people often heard howling in the middle of the night. At this time, the onmyoji in the clan said again: 'I want to pacify the eldest son. resentment, then hold a Spring Festival once a year'—and thus, the Spring Festival was born."

After finishing speaking, Ye Kong couldn't help being stunned for a moment, because he thought of a strange thing.

The spring festival in Shangshui City, in essence, has similarities with the 'myth' of the world of demons, but the problem is that there are no 'myths' in the real world, only some strange stories

in other words,

In the folklore of the real world, there are no so-called gods.