Legend has it that in the ancient years that countless years ago, the world was not the current situation where the three ancient countries dominated one side, but small countries were full of battles and conquering each other and wars continued. At that time, there was a small country with only a thousand residents on the bank of the Tin River - called "Blue Lotus Kingdom".

People in this country do not like war and are content with a peaceful and peaceful life. The livelihood of the Blue Lotus Kingdom is maintained, and in addition to farming and fishing, they are planting lotus flowers.

Every year when all kinds of lotus flowers bloom, it is the time when the country of Blue Lotus celebrates the festival. At that time, the monsters in the water that like all kinds of lotus pods will come quietly at night. At first, the water beasts like to eat lotus pods, but they are all careful and dare not damage the rhizomes of any lotus.

Later, careful residents discovered this. Everyone knew that the monsters in the river were extremely fierce and refused to be kind to others, but they were all honest in Lan Lian Country. This incident touched everyone's mind.

So while the Blue Lotus people celebrate the lotus harvesting event every year, they store a large amount of lotus seeds and take the initiative to feed them to the monsters who come to ask for food. Sure enough, the monsters have become increasingly dependent on human feeding and gradually become pets of the people of Blue Lotus people.

In order to repay the gifts of the people of Blue Lotus, monsters often drove large groups of fish to the turf river, allowing people to get a good harvest. In less than a hundred years, Blue Lotus became a famous and prosperous country in the world.

But the good times did not last long. The fat flock of sheep would eventually attract the covetousness of evil wolves. Neighbors were armed with military force and the whole country was invading crazily. They not only burned, killed, plundered, robbed, and killed the people of Lan Lian, but the other king even forced the Lord of Lan Lian to sacrifice his most beautiful little daughter.

Coincidentally, the princess, also called "Blue Lian", is kind-hearted and often uses royal wealth to help people in difficulties. She is deeply loved by the people. When she hears that the enemy wants to force the princess to leave, the whole country is full of voices and wants to fight with the other party to die.

But Princess Lan Lian refused to suffer from her own affairs, and was unwilling to be humiliated by the enemy, so the strong-willed princess decided to fight for her fate by death.

That day, the princess sat on a bamboo raft covered with lotus flowers, lit a furnace of incense made by herself with lotus seeds, and floated towards the end of the turf river.

At the same time, the invaders who were untrustworthy led their people into the country of Blue Lotus Kingdom, and the people... were ruthlessly slaughtered, and one out of ten remained.

In an instant, a strong wind suddenly rose on the river surface, the bamboo raft overturned, and the blue lotus princess disappeared and sank to the bottom of the water. At that moment, the heaven and earth whined and changed color. Thunder and lightning, hail and rain shocked the enemy's enemies of the neighboring invaders, and the monsters in the water within a hundred miles of the turf river were all angry!

These monsters roared out of shocking sky and rushed up the river bank, crazily ate the invaders of neighboring countries until the corpses were everywhere and there was no one standing alive.

After several days of killing, the monsters in the water sneaked back to the turf river and never appeared again.

Since then, the Blue Lotus Kingdom and its neighbors have perished, but the remaining Blue Lotus people have reproduced and survived by the riverside and struggled to survive. They are the ancestors of the residents of Huiyang Town.

And most importantly, the "lotus seed incense" made by Princess Blue Lotus has also been passed down. By selling this incense, Huiyang Town has really flourished for many years before it has the current scene.

"Customer..." The shop owner said this, and glanced at Guan Heng, who was dozing off with his eyes, and then continued to speak helplessly: "I told the story of lotus seed incense ups and downs. Now I am so tired that my mouth is dry. At least you can praise me, would you please give me some face?"

"Uh?! Have you finished telling it?" Guan Heng said yawning at this time: "Sorry, boss, I heard too many stories like this before, so now I am used to ignoring it. Hehe, but what you said is indeed good."

"By the way." Guan Heng asked again: "You blow the incense so hard, what are the benefits of it? Where can I get it?"

"A real lotus seed incense can be calm and concentrated, eliminate fatigue, and prolong life..." The boss said this, and couldn't help but shake his head: "But now, there is no lotus seed incense made from blue lotus as raw materials in the town."

Hearing this, Guan Heng frowned slightly and asked, "Why is this?" "That's because a huge change happened more than ten years ago."

The boss explained at this moment: "I don't know what happened. Everyone in the town raised the blue water lotus and the wild blue water lotus in the river all withered and died, and nothing left. It was like humans were infected with a plague, so everyone called this "lotus plague."

The boss paused a little while and then continued to speak: "Since the blue water lotus is gone, the most excellent lotus seed incense can naturally be made. Almost all incense making workshops are closed, but there are some jobs that can make a living in the town. Everyone has changed their careers, and only..."

The shop owner just said this, when a ragged old man suddenly came to the door. He bent his waist and hunched his back, and a little boy carrying a bamboo basket was next to him. Although this child was not disabled, he had a ragged lips, which made people feel pity when they looked at him.

"Boss Zhu, do you want to incense today?"

The hunchbacked old man begged a little in his tone, "I have left seven or eight shops. Everyone said they don't want it, but my family has been out of stock for a few days. I can only come and ask you for some incense. As long as we can give us some rice and grain for life, please, the old one doesn't eat it, but the child can't stand the hunger, cough cough cough..."

"Oh... Lao Gu, didn't I tell you, you refused to change your career back then?"

Boss Zhu looked at the embarrassing appearance of the old and the young, and couldn't help but sigh: "You Gu family, although there is the oldest incense workshop in Huiyang Town, after the extinction of the Blue Water Lotus, no one wants the incense made of only ordinary lotus seeds."

"If you don't have blue lotus seeds as materials, it will be useless even if you have the best skills. Look, you have sent all the incense piled up in my store and can't be sold at all."

Seeing that the other party was embarrassed and worried, Boss Zhu continued to say, "Even if I, Lao Zhu, are kind-hearted, I can't always help you. Just like you said, the old man doesn't eat, the young man can't bear the hunger. In my opinion, you two should change your career and make another way to make a living, otherwise, you will starve to death on the street sooner or later."

Guan Heng couldn't hear it at this time, and he whispered to Boss Zhu: "Hey, say less, I'm so pitiful, can't you help me?"

"I have been helping for several years, and it's hard to deal with poverty..." Before Boss Zhu finished speaking, Guan Heng took out a gold shell and pushed it to the other party: "Go, tell him that he has accepted the incense and sold it in your store. I won't ask you for it. This is OK, right? Also, don't say it's what I mean."
Chapter completed!