The disciple of Yue Lao

Chapter 68 The annual "Peach Festival"!
【Lingxiao Palace】

The Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother sit on the top, and the immortal guests who come to celebrate the birthday sit on the bottom.

The powerful old gods, the seven princesses, their immortal sons-in-law and their immortal grandchildren sat closer to the front, while the younger gods who came from all directions sat closer to the back.

Guanyin Bodhisattva arrives as promised every year. This year, she said that there was some trouble in Zizhulin, so she left in a hurry after leaving the gift she prepared for Queen Mother.

Long, long ago, only the "immortals" were invited to participate in the "Peach Banquet". After the seven princesses got married, the Queen Mother granted permission: no matter in heaven or on earth, anyone above the "little fairy" level could participate in the "Peach Banquet", and peaches would be distributed according to their performance and merits.

As in previous years, the seven princesses performed a dance for the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother, and this time their fairy grandchildren also joined in.

When the dance was over, there was thunderous applause from the audience, and all the fairies clapped their hands in admiration!
Next, the fairies presented the gifts prepared for the Queen Mother.

The seven princesses and their husbands each presented a precious gift to the Queen Mother.

The Princess and the God of Cookery couple served several newly developed dishes that they cooked together.

The Second Princess and the Black Hawk couple presented a glass mirror (transformed into a camera), which recorded their family's daily life and the beautiful scenery of the four seasons in various parts of the mortal world.

The Third Princess and the Jin Zha couple presented the Queen Mother with a Nine-Sky Phoenix Hairpin that they had made for her. Wearing this hairpin has the effect of "calming the mind and relieving fatigue."

The Fourth Princess and the Yu Ri couple were given a "tablet computer" (with a router) and a newly invented "Billion Flower Tube".

The Fifth Princess and Ma Tianlong presented the scrolls of memories of the Jade Emperor, the Queen Mother, and their seven sisters. They opened the scrolls and randomly selected any memory, and the scenes would reappear before their eyes.

The Sixth Princess and Liu Yixuan presented a book written by them, full of touching stories in the mortal world, and several paintings made by Liu Yixuan. Some of the paintings depicted "family happiness" and some depicted the mountains, rivers and people of the mortal world.

The Seventh Princess and Dong Yong, in addition to presenting the peach blossom wine they brewed themselves, also presented specialties from all over the world. The most classic ones were the sweet potatoes and potatoes baked by the Seventh Princess herself.

The fairies were discussing the "gifts" from the mortal world, believing that such worldly things were not worthy of the Queen Mother. However, they were silenced by a few words from the Second and Fourth Princesses.

The fairy has already been married to a mortal, so why bother about "mundane things"?
"My princes are so thoughtful." The Queen Mother smiled kindly and waved her hand to signal the fairies beside her to take down the gifts.

Next, it was the turn of the gods from all over the world to present their gifts.

The gifts from the immortals were all extremely precious, but what the Queen Mother was most satisfied with was the "beauty" elixir from Laozi.

Next, it was the Queen Mother’s turn to return the gift to the seven princesses.

Because rewards were given to seven princesses and seven fairy sons-in-law in previous years, they no longer needed anything, so this time the "return gift" went back to the few little fairy grandchildren.

Taishang Laojun: "I will give each of my little immortal grandchildren an elixir to help you become immune to all poisons, live forever, and cultivate immortality to a thousand levels, so that you will not be deceived by evil spirits."

Yue Lao: "I will give each of my little grandchildren a red string of marriage. If you meet your ideal partner in the future, just tie the red string around your wrist and his or her wrist, and you will have a 'divine marriage'."

"I have specially customized self-defense weapons for several of my little immortal grandchildren. Normally, you can turn the weapons into ornaments and wear them on your body to keep demons and monsters away from you." As soon as Tota-Bearing Heavenly King Li finished saying this, all the immortals began to laugh faintly.

Perhaps there had been a mistake in his pagoda in the past, and the immortals began to doubt whether there was a problem with the magic weapon he had refined.

"I will give each of my little fairy grandchildren a 'pass token', allowing you to enter and leave the heaven at will." The Queen Mother smiled amiably.

Several little fairy grandchildren stood in a row and knelt down to express their gratitude to the Queen Mother: "Grandchildren thank you, grandma. Happy birthday!"

"Grandma, we want to sing a birthday song for you, is that okay?" Dong Aizi looked at the Queen Mother expectantly and explained, "Every time I came back to celebrate grandma's birthday, I wanted to sing for her, but mother was worried that grandma wouldn't like it, so she wouldn't let me sing..."

The Queen Mother was stunned for a moment, looked at her extremely cute little fairy grandchildren, and said with a smile: "Sing! Grandma likes to listen."

"Grandma." Dong Bowen looked at the Queen Mother mysteriously and asked carefully, "Can you close your eyes first?" "Bowen..." Dong Yong guessed what his son wanted to do and was about to pull him back, but was stopped by the Seventh Princess: "Husband, it doesn't matter, they are grown up, let them do it!"

Close your eyes?

Do you need to close your eyes to sing?
The Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother both looked bewildered. Among the fairies, except those who came from the mortal world, the others were all confused and had no idea what tricks their little fairies were playing.

Although she didn't know why, the Queen Mother still obediently closed her eyes.

At this time, several little fairy grandchildren gathered in a circle and conjured up a rolling table with a ninety-nine-layer cake on the table.

"Happy birthday to you……"

"Happy birthday to you……"

"Happy birthday to you……"

"Happy birthday to you!"

"Grandma, you can open your eyes now!" Dong Bowen said with a smile.

The Queen Mother opened her eyes and saw a ninety-nine-layer birthday cake being placed in front of her. The seven princesses and the fairies all stood up and applauded, shouting “Happy Birthday, Queen Mother!”
"What...is this?" Queen Mother asked Dong Bowen who was standing in the front.

"Grandma, when we were little, our parents would buy us birthday cakes for our birthdays. Last year, I wanted to give you a big cake, but my parents said it was a mortal way of celebrating birthdays, and they were afraid that you wouldn't like it, so we never did."

The Seventh Princess and Dong Yong smiled awkwardly. They did not allow birthday cakes to be given. How could it be because it was a mortal way of celebrating birthdays? Obviously, every year they gave mortal things.

Children are not allowed to be given birthday cakes because they are afraid that they will be disobedient and use the cream on the cake to smear the Queen Mother's face...

The children were too naughty, and the seven princesses had wanted to give them a "birthday cake" for a long time, but they never dared to do so even once.

"Then...how dare you send it this time?" The Queen Mother asked curiously.

Before Dong Bowen could answer, his other brothers and sisters responded first: "We have discussed this time and secretly brought the birthday cake to heaven without telling our parents. We all agreed that if grandma doesn't like it, it doesn't matter if we are scolded or punished."

The Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother were deeply moved after hearing what the children said.

"You are really filial..." The Jade Emperor suddenly praised the little immortal grandchildren and said, "When grandpa's birthday comes, you will also give him a birthday cake, right?"

"Of course!"

"As long as Grandpa likes it, we will give him one of the same size."

"No, no, no, give Grandpa a hundred-story one!"

The Queen Mother looked at the burning candles on the birthday cake and asked with a smile, "What are these candles?"

"Normally, you should light as many candles as you are old. But grandma is 590,000 years old, and no matter how big the birthday cake is, it can't hold so many candles. My grandson lives in the mortal world, and mortals regard 'living a hundred years' as a good omen. Grandma is the Queen Mother of Heaven, so the grandsons lit 200 candles by hand, wishing her a happy birthday!"

"Grandma, you can close your eyes, silently make three wishes in your heart, and then blow out all the candles in one breath." Yu Xiaoyun reminded happily.

The Queen Mother did not lack those three wishes, but seeing how loving the children were, she disregarded her status and did as they asked.

(End of this chapter)