Landed Xumi: There is no problem with my numbers!

"Humph, even if that Albedo and Captain Jean 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 instantly shocked:

——Because locals almost never fall for scams, 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 could cheat children out of their pocket money, it would be impossible for these tourists to come back to him after they left.

But it's not so bad 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. He looked back at the guest in front of him:

"——Ahem! Customer, I was wondering why you didn't tell me earlier that it was such a sensible child. Hopkins was touched. Your purchase amount..."

"Ouch!"

"Puff-"

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

After taking two gulps of the "holy water," Hopkins hadn't 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 noticed that the stupid white floating creature 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' face turned bitter, and he had no idea 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 would become unlucky in a short period of time."

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

"Even her constellation is a four-leaf clover, representing luck. Klee's mother has never been one to let her children 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. Finally you get to come to the Wind Flower Festival. Let's just go and experience the stalls like any other tourists."

Glancing around, besides seeing a few wind-blown mushrooms on the roof, I also found a bunch of activities like balloon popping, dessert tasting, lucky draws, hoop tossing, and garland making.

I let out a long sigh. Even I haven't experienced this kind of activity similar to the exhibition in my previous life for a long time.

Now that he has two cute little ones around him, Lin Feng decided to relax and accompany them for a few rounds.

"—Congratulations to the three of you! You achieved the exact same score! That's truly rare."

"—Here, these are our special prizes from our booth: three bouquets of windflowers you can give away! As the most versatile windflower, windflowers are the perfect way to express respect, love, and even blessings!"

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

Although he was surprised that the two seemingly young girls had such accuracy, after all, the windmill chrysanthemum was not a very valuable thing, so the boss readily paid the reward for the challenge.

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, haven't you thought about it yet? Then I'll go first."

"—Here, this half goes to you, Nashida. You have persevered 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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"Huh? Half? So this is actually possible?"

A breeze blew by, and the orange-red five-petal flowers in everyone's hands slowly rotated like real windmills.

Nashida, who had never thought of such a solution, blinked her eyes, and a few small question marks seemed to appear on her head.

"This half is for my 'Knight', and this half is your 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 gets 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 inexplicably 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 dirt and stone path, I inadvertently passed by the clear spring that I saw at the beginning.

Holding the windmill chrysanthemum in her hands, the corners of her 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's probably not trying to scam people. But if you're interested in love stories, we could go over and watch."

".love?"

Nashida blinked in confusion. She had read a lot of related books in the void, but she didn't understand 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 nice for me to tell other people's stories. Since Barbara has seen us, let's go over and listen to this beautiful yet somewhat regretful fairy tale together."

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

"Hmm? How many more people are here?"

"Haha, you're 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, few young people are willing to listen to such old stories these days."

His hair is still black, but his forehead is 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 the ordinary water clear and sweet."

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

Under the moonlight, she would quietly stir up the water, letting it wash up a few beautiful stones as a 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 were too bitter. To comfort me, she finally agreed to chat with me under every clear starry sky."

"We talked about the weather, the water quality, the fish in the spring, and that family in town that's arguing again."

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

"and after?"

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

"later."

"Then one day, 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 crybaby, 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 has passed without me noticing."

"Later, when I heard everyone start calling me 'Grandpa Finch,' I suddenly realized I was too old. I could barely walk anymore and had lost the strength to travel all over Teyvat looking for her."

"Looking back, I think I picked some flowers for her the day she left. Maybe I did something wrong as a friend, so that's why Kalilu left."

"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 no longer, and she is an ageless spirit. Perhaps from the very beginning, it was only me who made the vow to stay by the spring forever."

I can't forget the blue figure I first saw, who seemed to have walked out of a fairy tale, far more beautiful than a human.

The untimely admiration made the friendship of the past no longer have any response on that day.

Old Finch, his forehead 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 something valuable, 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 passes quickly, but if an elf lives her life without anyone to accompany her, how lonely she would be."

He handed over several ornaments that showed signs of being hand-polished. 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 again.

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".Is this what you call love? 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 a special individual among humans.

"That's why I believe there won't be any problems with the future fusion of elemental dragons and Teyvatians. Because the Teyvatians' 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 that 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, I've waited for forty years but there's been no response. This ending is too cruel."

"Yes, he actually has the mark left by the pure water spirit on his body. 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 considering 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 'Kalil', but I'll let them decide for themselves what to do."

After a leisurely day of strolling, we will immediately go to the snow mountain to repair the sky nail, and then start preparing for the major project of changing the climate of the entire Mondstadt. After that, we will go to Inazuma without stopping.

Lin Feng felt the dissatisfaction of Nashida who happily listened to the story but ended up with a tragic ending.

He looked at the ornament given to him by Old Finch and shook his head. He felt that it was appropriate to help bring together a couple during the Wind Flower Festival.

Chapter 451 Tree King: Our time is long, so there is enough time to love

"The love story between humans and elves is a wonderful fairy tale, but it would be a pity if the story ended here."

"Fairy tale. Do you think so too? Well, okay, okay."

As if he had heard similar statements many times, Finch sighed slightly and was not surprised by such a reaction.

"No, Mr. Finch, please don't misunderstand me."