People in Xumi: I am really not the Dragon King

Chapter 450 Lin Feng: In front of the true God of Pure Love, the difference in species is not worth mentioning

"——Hey, stop hesitating, guys!"

"——Holy water is limited in quantity, don't miss this opportunity. Just now, a little girl in red bought two bottles and said she would give them to her brothers and sisters as gifts!"

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"Uh, the little girl in red? Is she carrying a small backpack with cute accessories hanging on it?"

Hearing that Klee might be nearby, Paimon, who was originally very excited, felt a little nervous.
Looking at this peaceful and quiet little village with a windmill on the central tower, I suddenly felt worried about the safety of Qingquan Town.

"Hmm? You know the guest? That's such a coincidence!"

"It's rare to meet such discerning customers in a row. I, the great adventurer Hopkins, have decided to help you increase your purchase limit a little bit as a token of friendship!"

Hopkins, who had a golden mustache, had his eyes brightened up, and he felt that these people were just like the little girl just now, fat sheep with a lot of money and stupid people.

".Huh? An adventurer who has been to many places? But if you often go to Mondstadt or Wolf Ridge, you should have seen Klee. Why don't you recognize her?"

"Ahem, only others come to know me, Lord Hopkins. How can Lord Hopkins take the initiative to remember others? Customers, are you going to buy or not? If you don't buy, the spring water spirit will be angry!"

"Well, I was just thinking that Klee's brothers and sisters should be Albedo and Jean. They should be very happy after receiving this gift."

"Humph, even if that Albedo and Captain Qin are in front of me..."

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".Wait? Who is it for?! Why didn't you tell me earlier?!"

His expression changed, and Hopkins, who had been at ease just now, was suddenly horrified:

——Because the locals almost never fall for it, he only planned to take advantage of this Wind Flower Festival to use ordinary spring water to fill glass bottles as "holy water" to cheat those stupid and wealthy foreign tourists. Even if he cheated children out of their pocket money, it would be impossible for these tourists to come back for him after they left.

But it's okay for ordinary stingy parents, but if they accidentally cheat the Knights.
"No! After I finish this job, I have to go over and take a look! What if what they said is true?"

Hopkins was reluctant to part with the ordinary spring water that had already been filled, so he looked at the guest in front of him again:
"——Ahem! Customer, I mean why didn't you tell me earlier that he was such a sensible child? Hopkins was moved. Your purchase amount..."

"Ouch!"

"Puff-"

Before he could finish his words, he suddenly felt his feet slip, and he slid along the moss beside the spring into the small pond he used to irrigate.

After taking two gulps of the "holy water", Hopkins hadn't yet recovered from the sudden incident when a few words from a fellow hunter reached his ears:

"——Hopkins, something bad has happened! It seems that slimes have entered your granary! The clothes you hung out to dry have also been eaten by those guys!"

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"Ah? I bought it with great difficulty, and I used it to cheat..."

Halfway through his words, he realized that the stupid white floating object in front of him had begun to look at him with suspicion, and the blonde girl next to him was even planning to contact the Knights.
Hopkins looked bitter, totally unaware of why he was so unlucky today.

".There was a strange aura about that person just now, as if someone had played a little prank on him and he would become unlucky in a short period of time."

"That's probably because he cheated Kelly out of her pocket money."

"Even the constellation is a four-leaf clover, which represents luck. Klee's mother has never been someone who likes her children to suffer."

Lin Feng didn't know what to say to the guy who had accurately cheated a kid out of his pocket money from the crowd.

"Huh, let's not talk about this anymore, everyone has temporarily dispersed to experience the activities,

You two have been stuck here for five hundred years. You finally get to come to the Wind Flower Festival. Let's go and experience the stalls like normal tourists."

After a quick look around, I saw a few wind-blown mushrooms on the roof, and also found a lot of activities like balloon popping, dessert tasting, lucky draws, hoop throwing, and garland making.

I let out a long sigh. In my memory, I haven't experienced this kind of activity like the exhibition in my previous life for a long time.
Now that he has two cute little ones around him, Lin Feng decided to rest assured and accompany them for a walk.

"——Congratulations to the three of you! You all achieved exactly the same results! This is truly rare."

"——Here, these are the prizes specially provided by our booth. Three bunches of windflowers that can be given as gifts! Windflowers are the most versatile wind flower. They can perfectly express respect, love, and blessings!"

In front of the balloon-shooting stall, the owner of the stall scratched his head in confusion when he saw three people with exactly the same scores, all just on the second prize line, wondering why such a coincidence happened.

Although he was surprised that the two young-looking girls could have such accuracy, after all, windmill chrysanthemums were not very valuable, so the boss readily paid the challenge fee.

A moment later, the two little ones left, one holding a bunch of windmill chrysanthemums, and walked on the street. They looked at each other and fell into silence for a while.

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"Oh, you haven't made up your mind yet? Then I'll go first."

"——Here, this half goes to you, Nashida. You have persisted alone for five hundred years. You are the most perfect "me now." "

"——Then, this half is for our Mr. Savior. Although it is only half the size of a bouquet of flowers, if you want some other compensation..."

In theory, the person who receives the flowers should also give a gift in return, but there will be problems no matter how these three bouquets are exchanged.

The Tree King glanced at Nashida who was still hesitating, smiled slightly, and divided the windmill chrysanthemums in his hand into two bunches.

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"Eh? Half? Is this possible?"

As the breeze blew, the orange-red five-petal flowers in everyone's hands slowly spun like real windmills.
Nashida, who had never thought of such a solution, blinked her eyes, and several small question marks seemed to appear above her head.

"Then I'll give half to my 'Knight' and the other half to you as a return gift."

When the words came to my mouth, I suddenly didn't know how to address the tree king.

Even though the other person and herself are essentially like different flowers blooming on the same tree, the connection between them, who should not have coexisted, is much deeper than it appears on the surface.

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"Sending it this way? It's not impossible."

"Then let's exchange gifts. Here, each of you has half."

You share one and I share one. The three bunches of windmill chrysanthemums were divided into six parts.
Although the number of flowers in my hand has not changed, the meaning has become completely different.
Lin Feng looked at the two rotating windmills handed to him. For some reason, he felt a festive atmosphere.

"Hmm? That looks like Miss Barbara over there?"

"She seems to be talking to someone by the spring. Could it be that the person just now is here to cheat again?"

Walking on the small road paved with dirt and stones, I inadvertently passed by the clear spring I saw at the beginning. Holding the windmill chrysanthemum in my hand, the corners of my mouth slightly raised,
Although the Tree King said he would prepare some surprises for them and left alone, Nashida, who was still in a good mood, also discovered this friend they met in Mondstadt.

".That old man? Well, he probably isn't cheating, but if you're interested in love stories, we can go over and take a look."

".love?"

Nashida blinked in confusion. She had read a lot of related books in the void, but she had no idea why such a lonely old man would be involved in love.

"It is indeed love, and it is the purest love that has nothing to do with species or appearance. The specific situation is a bit complicated."

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"Forget it. It's not good for me to tell other people's stories. Since Barbara has seen us, let's go over and listen to this beautiful but somewhat regrettable fairy tale together."

Responding to Barbara's wave from afar, Lin Feng looked at Nashida who was becoming more and more confused beside him, smiled, and approached the old man beside the spring together.

"Hmm? How many more have come?"

"Haha, you are so young. If I were still as young as I was back then, maybe I could travel all over Teyvat."

"Grandpa Finch, they are my friends. Can you continue with your previous story?"

"A story? Oh, of course. After all, there are not many young people who are willing to listen to this old story now."

His hair was still black, but his forehead was covered with wrinkles.

Old Finch, who is no longer young, shook his head and smiled, looking at the two new young listeners, with a hint of nostalgia in his words.

".A long time ago, when I was a child, there was a beautiful elf in the spring water of Qingquan Town."

"She is like the heart of this spring, making ordinary water clear and sweet."

"It is a gentle spirit. If a child encounters something sad and comes to the waterside to cry,

Under the moonlight, she would quietly stir up the water and let the flowing water wash up a few beautiful stones as comfort. "

"I was a crybaby when I was younger, so I came here to bother her a lot."

"Perhaps the tears that dripped into the spring water were too bitter. In order to comfort me, she finally agreed to chat with me under every clear starry sky."

"Let's talk about the weather, the water quality, the fish in the spring, and the people in the town who are arguing again."

"I stopped crying and we gradually became friends. Looking back, she was really a very gentle and beautiful elf."

"and after?"

Having read the book The Heart of the Spring, Barbara was very curious about the differences between the legends and stories of Qingquan Town. Her eyes, as clear as spring water, also showed a hint of curiosity.

"later."

"Then I don't know when, the spring's heart disappeared, she suddenly ignored me, and the spring water here no longer had the sweetness it once had."

"I waited and waited here, thinking that maybe she had just left temporarily, and that one day she would come back and let me, a crying child, hear her beautiful voice like the gurgling spring water again."

"Ten years, twenty years, forty years. The sunset fruit tree outside the village ripened and fell forty times. Half of my life passed by unknowingly."

"Later, when I heard people start calling me 'Grandpa Finch', I suddenly realized that I was too old. I could hardly walk anymore and I had lost the strength to walk all over Teyvat to find her."

"Looking back, I think I went to pick some flowers for her on the day she left. Is it because I did something wrong that a friend shouldn't do that Kalilu left here?"

"Is this the end? The kiss in the story."

The beautiful fairy tale came to an abrupt end. Barbara was a little depressed when she found that the reality was sadder than the story. She reluctantly asked the question that she had always been curious about.

"kiss?"

".No, never."

".I am just a child who is no longer a child, and she is an immortal spirit. Perhaps from the beginning, it was only me who made the unilateral vow to stay by the spring forever."

I can't forget the blue figure I saw at the first sight, who seemed to have walked out of a fairy tale and was far more beautiful than a human.
The untimely admiration made the friendship of the past no longer have a response on that day.

Old Finch, whose forehead was already covered with wrinkles, smiled and did not respond to the girl's dissatisfaction with the ending:
——Ever since he discovered that his lifelong waiting might only bring a moment of warmth to the elves, he realized that the story of humans and elves might have had only this one ending from the very beginning.

".Thank you for listening to this old story. You can take these gifts. These are beautiful stones I found when I was a child. I polished them into ornaments."

"Although it's not worth much, you are all still young.

If you can still remember this story when you see it after I go to my grave, then maybe one day in the future it will help Kalilu remember that there is a child waiting for her here."

"It's too short, and too long. My life is short and it passes quickly, but if an elf has no one to accompany her throughout her life, how lonely she would be."

He handed over several ornaments that showed signs of hand-polishing, and it seemed that they had once been gifts for someone.
The old man, who had told his story countless times, stared at the spring in a daze, immersed in his memories once again.

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".Is this the love you are talking about? The love between humans and elves, such pure love."

Being able to feel the love in the story that transcends appearance and race, time and life and death, Nashida never thought that there would be such special individuals among humans.

".That's why I believe that there will be no problems with the fusion of elemental dragons and Teyvatian people in the future, because the Teyvatian people's aesthetics and love that transcend species never disappoint me."

"Why? Want to help him?"

I already knew that this was not a one-sided love, and the other party was also a pure love warrior who transcended species and aesthetics.

Although cases of pure water elves combining with humans are not uncommon in Fontaine, Lin Feng feels that people like Old Finch, who are able to fall in love with their original form, are definitely high-quality genes in his future plans.

"Well, after waiting for forty years without any response, this ending is too cruel."

"Yes, he actually has the mark left by the pure water spirit on him. With the evidence and the individual's aura, it is not difficult to find the pure water spirit he has always wanted to see.

Even based on the current number of pure water elves in the entire Teyvat, I can capture all of them and screen them one by one."

".But human life is too short for elves. I will find that 'Kalilu', but let them decide for themselves what to do."

After a leisurely day of strolling, we will head to the snowy mountains to repair the sky nails, and then start preparing for the major project of changing the climate of the entire Mondstadt. After that, we will continue to Inazuma.

Lin Feng felt the dissatisfaction of Nashida who listened to the story happily but ended up with a tragic ending.
He looked at the ornament sent by old Finch and shook his head, thinking that it was appropriate to help bring together a couple during the Wind Flower Festival.

(End of this chapter)