Genshin Impact: Great, you guys still remember

Narukami Island is very large, and Inazuma Castle, which has a population of one million, only occupies a part of its southern part.

The northern part of Narukami Island, the triangular area consisting of the desolate sea, the white fox field, and the guarding forest, belongs to the monsters.

The demon tribe was in its heyday at this time, and they naturally had their own activities in the summer.

But the Yokai event is not a summer festival.

"It's really interesting, isn't it?"

Today, the Zhenshou Forest has lost its former tranquility. Instead, lanterns are hung everywhere, bonfires are lit everywhere, and countless monsters of various shapes gather here. The flames rise up along the dark sky, and laughter fills the entire dark forest.

As he and Raiden Shin walked along, they received various greetings such as "Lord Leilong" and "Lord Mingshen" - he was quite well-known among the monsters.

"yes,"

Lei Dianzhen pursed his lips and chuckled, then looked up:

"Was there also a test of courage last summer?"

"No, Narukami-sama."

There was an umbrella hanging above their heads. After hearing Lei Dianzhen's words, the umbrella spun slightly, as if thinking.

It trembled slightly and made a slightly sharp and childish sound:

"Last year...last year's festival was called...called the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons."

He Li asked:

"What about the year before last?"

"The year before last was called... the Shikigami Festival,"

"And the year before last?"

"It's called Ghost Carnival,"

"And further ahead?"

"Well..."

This time, the umbrella demon thought for a long time before letting out a weak whine:

"I'm sorry...I forgot."

"Okay, Thunder Dragon-kun,"

Seeing the Umbrella Demon almost crying, Lei Dian couldn't help but pat He Li:

"He has only been transformed for fifty years. He is still a child."

For a monster, fifty years old is indeed a child, let alone a monster like the umbrella monster who lacks intelligence?

"Ahem, don't you think it's funny?"

He Li touched the umbrella handle to comfort him.

And Raidenjin walked through the crowd, picked up the mask hanging on the tree branch, and gently stroked it.

The mask was very rough, and was completely different from the carefully crafted masks in the human world, but it somehow matched the rough appearance of the monsters.

"Yes, the summer in Inazuma Castle has only one name, the Summer Festival, from beginning to end, but the summer in the Guardian Forest has countless names."

The human life is too short for monsters, so they should pursue variables, but why are they the ones who remain unchanged in the end?

This is absurd humor.

...

"Stop, shopkeeper. This is the best tea I have ever tasted from monsters outside of the Sai Palace."

Lei Dianzhen put down the teacup and looked across the tea table with a slightly surprised look.

There was a very beautiful fox woman, washing the tea set with her delicate hands in the hot steam.

It was surprising enough that a teahouse was opened at the foot of Yingxiang Mountain, but I didn't expect that its owner was actually a hidden master of the tea ceremony.

You know, the monsters who still have some wildness in them are unlikely to be interested in tea.

"Mr. Narukami, thank you for your praise. How can I compare with you, Lord Miyagi?"

The fox woman named Ting had a gentle smile and her voice was like pearls falling on a jade plate.

He Li took a sip of tea, looked at the fox woman's actions, and suddenly said:

"Shopkeeper Ting is from Liyue?"

"Eh?"

Shopkeeper Ting paused for a moment and looked at He Li with a slightly surprised look:

"How did Lord Lei Long know this?"

She did not come to Inazuma from Liyue for trade in the past ten years, but came to Inazuma much longer ago, even before the Demon God War ended.

“Because this tea…”

He Li looked at the tea in the cup:

"It is quite precious in Liyue, not to mention the skilled tea ceremony of Shopkeeper Ting. The Liyue tea ceremony has not yet been fully passed on to Inazuma."

Coincidentally, this tea comes from Aozang Mountain and is basically only circulated among immortals. After the unification of Liyue, many immortals and beasts have scattered and wandered around.

The shopkeeper in front of us should be one of them.

But even if they are immortals or immortal beasts, they are probably very precious to her.

After that, he performed an ancient Liyue ritual:

"Thank you for the hospitality, Manager Ting."

"You don't have to do this, sir. Good tea is used to entertain distinguished guests. If it is left in my hands, it will just be covered in dust."

Shopkeeper Ting gently waved his folding fan, his ears swayed slightly, and his beautiful eyes looked straight at He Li:

"Besides...you look a lot like an old friend of mine."

She was referring to the God of the Earth, although He Li had never seen her, or if he had seen her it was only a fleeting glance and he had no impression of her.

That was all in the past. Seeing that He Li had no intention of reminiscing about the past,

Shopkeeper Ting turned his gaze to Lei Dianzhen and said with a gentle smile:

"Murakami-sama, just by listening to Lord Leilong's words, you can tell that I am far inferior to you in tea ceremony. If we take turns, I should be ranked third."

"But Thunder Dragon is not a monster."

Raiden shook his finger.

If it’s not a monster, then what is it?

Shopkeeper Ting did not ask any more questions. She was smart and saw something from Lei Dianzhen's eyes and actions. She felt that if she continued to ask, she would get the answer -

'He is the one I love~' 'He is my person~' and other words that are just like a fox food.

Just at this moment, a bold call came from next door, accompanied by a few knocks on the table.

"Boss, please change the wine. This tea tastes so bland. I don't know what's good to drink——"

This is how monsters normally get along with each other, or rather, the way Saigū, Chiyo, and Tingyun at this time get along with them is abnormal.

The racial divide between humans and demons gave birth to two worlds.

...

Shopkeeper Ting returned and sat opposite the two of them again. He picked up the tea set with his bare hands and continued the tea ceremony that was halfway through, as if explaining or apologizing:

"Today is a holiday, all the shop assistants have left, and I am the only one here now."

"Don't worry, why don't you go to the Guardian Forest? It's very lively there."

Lei Dian was really curious, but at the same time he thought of something and seemed a little embarrassed:

"Could it be that they left it here specially to entertain us?"

"Of course not, Narukami-sama, please don't misunderstand me,"

The shopkeeper raised her delicate head slightly, her eyebrows slightly curved,

If it wasn't an illusion, He Li suddenly saw a trace of... embarrassment on her face?

"It was my own decision. I am ashamed to say it..."

As she spoke, she put down the tea set, took down a red bag hanging from her waist, and shook it gently beside her ear, which immediately made a sound of metal collision.

Mora's voice reached his ears, and the shopkeeper's eyebrows visibly bent down, and a smile quietly appeared.

In that bright smile, there is a sense of satisfaction that can hardly be concealed by embarrassment:

"I am a vulgar person."

...

"After I settled here, I opened many shops, from small ones like butcher shops to large ones like restaurants. I even participated in the construction of the Mingjin Taisha Shrine."

Fox people are good at business. When they come to this world of Inazuma demons where the intelligence is not yet fully developed, they naturally feel like fish in water and are reluctant to go back.

The shopkeeper Ting, who looks like an immortal, is actually a "vulgar man" who loves money.

"From Liyue to Inazuma, it has been about five hundred years. It can be said that I have not achieved much. This is my only hobby."

The shopkeeper tied the bag back around his waist and put that gentle smile on his face again.

"Hobby?"

Raiden really noticed this word.

"Yes, hobby,"

Shopkeeper Ting nodded slightly:

"Most of my Mora will be used to build new industries."

New industries create new Moras, and new Moras create new industries.

Making money is a hobby, not a goal.

"It's a good thing to have a lifelong hobby. I envy that. I can't describe it as 'vulgar'."

He Li nodded and said softly.

Shopkeeper Ting's pupils moved slightly, but he didn't say anything, just smiled at He Li.

"Yes, in a thousand years of life, there are countless changes. It is rare to have a hobby that you can keep for a lifetime."

Lei Dianzhen said with emotion, looking out the window. The fire in the distant Guardian Forest became more and more red as night fell.

He Li noticed her gaze:

"The world changes so much, even the summer festival in the woods changes every year."

Although the thunder and lightning really made him forget the time, how could he forget?

The countdown of more than a thousand years was almost engraved in his heart, and the world had changed so much, what would happen after more than a thousand years?

...

"Festival changes?"

Shopkeeper Ting noticed the topic they were talking about and immediately understood what they were talking about:

"That name?"

"Does Shopkeeper Ting find it interesting too?"

Raiden really looked at her, quite exploring the tunnel.

"Interesting... indeed, it is interesting,"

Shopkeeper Ting thought for a moment, then smiled while pinching his chin:

"After all, there are tens of thousands of names that represent the same festival."

Same kind?

He Li and Lei Dianzhen looked at each other, both showing interest.

"Appreciate further details."

...

The answer is actually quite simple, it is still the fundamental difference between monsters and humans.

After all, compared to humans, they are simpler in intelligence and define festivals as simply a time for gathering, having fun and expressing happiness.

And in this way, the so-called festival seems to be the same as usual.

So some clever monsters would think of some special activities and give the festivals some special names.

But despite this, at the end of the festival, people still eat a lot of meat, hang out with friends, fight with weapons and fists, and finally lie on the ground drunk until the sun rises the next day...

Different names, but the same core.

For thousands of years, monsters have never tired of this.

...

"In comparison, I feel that the summer festivals in the human world are always changing."

Shopkeeper Ting pointed out the window. In the dim moonlight, he could see Inazuma Castle in the distance. The lights were dazzling during the summer festival.

"In just a hundred years, I have seen thousands of kinds of fireworks through this window."

There are thousands of different kinds of fireworks every century, and the other contents of the summer festival have changed so much that even the shopkeeper could not imagine it.

But looking at the fire in the Guardian Forest not far away, I saw the same scene fifty years ago.

Even she herself, her hobbies have not changed much from a hundred years ago to a hundred years later.

The summer festivals of humans that seem to be the same are actually changing all the time. The summer programs of monsters that seem to be always changing, on the contrary, never change.

The time of the two worlds is staggered.

Time in the human world has become extremely slow, so slow that it seems like a world has changed in just a hundred years.

The time in the monster world changes extremely quickly, so fast that a thousand years seems like just one day.

So the monster's five hundred years became the human's eighteen years, and the monster's one thousand years became the human's thirty years.

In terms of time concept, they reach a balance.

Two races, two worlds, two times.

...

"In fact, it is the little girl who should be envious."

Tingyun said that she looked at the two people sitting in front of her and suddenly felt that there seemed to be a special magnetic field between them, which was a barrier that no one could interfere with.

There was envy in her tone that she herself had not even noticed:

"You two have extremely long lifespans, even longer than those of monsters, but time is in the human world."

The extremely long life span becomes even longer, which is a very lonely thing.

But the good thing is... they have each other.

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I wrote it yesterday but didn’t post it, so I’ll post it today, two in one.

Happy New Year's Day and Happy New Year (ˉ﹃ˉ)