In the Sand Village, the clones are everywhere, and the Arkham game begins

Chapter 175 Blue Blossom

"Forget it, let's go. We've been chasing this ghost all night and have unexpectedly reached the territory under the jurisdiction of Giyuu and Kyojuro. Let's go to the nearby Fujiya to rest first. Today is the summer solstice, and the county should be holding a summer festival to worship Amaterasu in the afternoon. It's a good time to relax."

Shinobu Kocho stretched, revealing her petite but exquisite figure covered by a butterfly haori.

"The territory under the jurisdiction of Giyuu and Kyojuro... I was wondering why this place feels familiar."

And today is the day...

Summer Solstice…

This is the time of year when the sun is strongest.

For some reason, an inexplicable feeling arose in Qingshui's heart.

If the blue spider lily is to bloom, it is during this time of the year when the yang energy is at its peak.

Qingshui looked around and then chose a direction to walk in.

Seeing this, Shinobu Kocho hurriedly followed.

The two of them walked hurriedly, and soon they crossed an open space and came to a shabby little house.

"That should be Tanjiro's home, right?"

Shinobu Kocho said as she looked at the dilapidated hut.

Shimizu was muttering the route he had learned from Tanjiro.

"We should go east from here and then we will come across a stream. To the north of the stream, there is a hillside. To the south of the mountain..."

"What are you mumbling about?"

“The location of the flowers.”

"flower?"

Kocho Shinobu asked curiously.

Shimizu knew that Shinobu Kocho would definitely follow, so she explained, "Tanjiro told me that there is a hillside near his home that occasionally blooms with beautiful flowers. I want to pick some."

Shinobu Kocho tilted her head, looked at Shimizu walking forward, and suddenly blushed.

There are many people who like flowers, even many men.

Shinobu Kocho's sister, Kanae Kocho, the former head of the Demon Slayer Corps, is a flower lover and has planted many flowers in the Butterfly House.

Shinobu Kocho also often takes care of those flowers to commemorate her deceased sister.

But Qingshui is obviously not among them.

During the one year in the Demon Slayer Corps, Shimizu never grew any flowers.

That is to say...

"This flower, could it be for me..."

Shinobu Kocho felt her heart beating faster. She looked at Qingshui's receding figure and hurriedly followed him.

Shimizu was moving so fast that Shinobu Kocho almost lost him.

And when she found the clear water, the golden sun had just completely emerged from the mountains in the distance.

The bright sunshine shone on the boy's angular face, and he was holding a slender blue petal in his mouth, looking at the sparsely blooming blue flowers.

The blue red spider lily was finally found by myself.

Feeling the sweetness brought by the fragrance of flowers and plants in his mouth, a smile appeared on Qingshui's face.

Before this, he had hired a lot of herbalists to dig up all the edible plants near the hillside, which made the ground look bumpy.

However, the green red spider lilies before they bloomed were probably not considered edible wild vegetables in the eyes of those herbalists and were not dug up by them.

Because according to normal belief, the entire plant of Red Spider Lily is poisonous. Even if those herbalists see the green leaves of Red Spider Lily before they develop, they probably won't pick them as food.

Only Tanjiro's mother, Mrs. Aoi, who has lived nearby for a long time, really knows what is edible. (Some people said in the comments before that the original Kamado family had never come into contact with the blue spider lily. I took the second setting as the original setting. Here is the content of the setting collection written by Mr. Crocodile to avoid further arguments. This paragraph is not counted in the paid word count.)
It tastes pretty good.

Qingshui carefully dug out a green red spider lily along with its roots and soil.

Shinobu Kocho walked up to Shimizu with a strange expression on her face.

"Um...Qi Shui, have you never given flowers to a girl?"

"Ah? How do you know?"

Qingshui recalled it and found that it was true.

No matter which world I am in, I don’t think I have ever given flowers to a girl.

When I have time later, should I find a mission to go to the River Country and buy a bouquet of flowers to bring back to Ye Cang?

Shinobu Kocho didn't know that Shimizu was thinking about another woman at the moment, so she said:

"Of course. I've never heard of anyone giving a girl flowers with the roots and soil exposed."

When did I say I would give you flowers?

Before Shimizu could react, Shinobu Kocho naturally took the blue red spider lily from Shimizu's hand and took a deep breath of the light floral fragrance.

"Oh my, this is a species I've never seen before. It must be a very rare flower, right?"

"It's very rare. Some people have been looking for this flower their whole lives and still haven't found it. I heard from Tanjiro before that this flower bloomed near his home, so I came here to try it out, and I actually found it."

Shinobu Kocho held a blue flower in her hands and stood among the flowers. Against the backdrop of the sunlight and her butterfly haori, she looked like a real colorful butterfly wandering among the flowers.

"It's just as well that the rhizome is left. Let me take care of this flower from now on. When my sister was alive, she also loved growing flowers. I learned how to take care of all kinds of flowers from her."

"Looking at its shape, this flower should be the same as the red spider lily. They are herbs from the same family and should be grown in slightly acidic soil. Oh, yes, it's cyan. The red spider lily is poisonous. This flower..."

Qingshui waved his hand.

"It's okay. I asked Tanjiro, and this flower is non-toxic and smells good."

Shimizu looked at Shinobu Kocho and thought about it.

I don't really know how to grow flowers, but since Shinobu Kocho knows how to grow flowers, let her do it.

However, he remembered that it was very difficult to cultivate the blue spider lily.

In the original time and space, decades later in the 21st century, Inosuke Hinata's descendant Aoba Hinata made the newspapers for discovering this flower, but because Crystal accidentally forgot to change the power supply of the fluorescent lamp, all the flowers withered.

fluorescent lamp……

Qing Shui looked at the backpack on his back and said to Kocho Shinobu:

"Let's pick all the flowers here and bring back the soil so that we can grow them."

Kocho Shinobu blinked and agreed.

Qingshui took off the backpack, first took out the puppet armor inside, then took out some tools for repairing puppets, and started digging.

Butterfly Shinobu covered her forehead helplessly.

This is not the way you give flowers to a girl, right?
The two of them were busy until noon before they went down the mountain. In the meantime, Qingshui even made an extra trip to the town at the foot of the mountain, bought a carriage and a bunch of vases, pulled them up the mountain, placed the flowers in the vases, and delivered the things to the rattan house in the town.

At this time in Fujiya, Tanjiro, who had just passed the final selection of Fujisakiyama, also arrived here.

In the original time and space, Tanjiro trained with the former Water Pillar, Urokodaki Sakonji.

Because all the previous disciples except Tomioka Giyu died in the selection, Urokodaki Sakonji was worried about Tanjiro and asked Tanjiro to split the boulder before letting him go.

It took Tanjiro two years.

But it's different now.

(End of this chapter)