Xiaoqing's smile froze on her face.

She only felt that all her words were blocked in her stomach by the other party, and she couldn't say anything anymore.

Qiao Heng ignored the glare from the woman in Cui Yi behind him, and he shouted towards the door, "Dao Tong come in." ”

The night watchman standing outside the door heard his call, pushed open the door and entered the room.

Qiao Heng didn't wait for him to salute him, so he directly ordered: "Take this girl to prepare a set of Dao Gu clothes." ”

At this time, Dao Tong noticed that there was another person in the room. Before he could wonder when the girl had entered the room, he had turned pale when he saw the face of the girl in the green robe.

This girl's appearance can indeed be called beautiful, with the innocence and coquettishness unique to a girl, and a bit of charm in her bones. Such a beautiful face makes people forget even if they have only seen one time, it is enough to remember it for more than ten years.

And this is indeed the case, as soon as the Taoist Tong saw this woman, he recognized her as the female snake demon sitting on the treetops outside the broken Taoist temple.

He cast a pleading look at Qiao Heng.

Qiao Heng soothed: "Don't be afraid, if she hurts you, I will kill her to sacrifice to the sky, she doesn't dare to do this." ”

Xiao Qing saw that this Taoist priest first took the idea on his behalf, and he didn't allow himself to refute half a point, and now he killed himself in the left sentence and sacrificed himself to the sky in the right sentence, he obviously didn't put himself in his eyes for half a point!

What's even more hateful is that she has no way to deal with him, she can't beat him, so she can only be at his mercy. And the most hateful thing is herself, when the other party opened her mouth to drive her away, what did she stay for stupidly.

Comparing the soft expression of this Taoist priest when he comforted Dao Tong, and the usual sharp detachment when facing himself, Xiaoqing gritted his teeth and said, "You wait for me." ”

Qiao Heng waved his hand and asked Dao Tong and the snake demon to leave quickly.

Dao Tong bowed and made a gesture of invitation to Xiaoqing.

The next day, under Gu Zhong's order, the criminal guards who were in charge of Gu Zhendao's living safety naturally knew that there was a woman who was not wearing shoes and socks who came out of Qiao Heng's room in the middle of the night.

When has he not forgotten to do something unruly, shouldn't he fast?

He was so angry by this incident that he let this kind of guy with bad conduct pray to the sky for rain on behalf of the common people, if he really succeeds, it will be a big joke in the world!

The guards were ready, and if they didn't succeed in asking for rain, he would immediately put them in prison.

He looked up at the cloudless sky, and as always, there was still no sign of rain. He sighed deeply, now Jiangsu and Zhejiang are starving all over the wilderness, the people are not clothed, and even more easy to eat, in this difficult moment, but there are villains in charge, hateful, really hateful.

In the past few days, several wine shops and restaurants in the city have been closed one after another, but there is no way, now that the price of food is growing day by day, and the business is becoming sluggish, it is better to close down temporarily.

Grain merchants have raised the price of rice one after another, and the local government has used iron-blooded means to behead several people in a row, so that the price of grain has not continued to rise wildly, but it has not dropped in the slightest.

In a village outside the city-

The village chief is guarding the well, and the family is responsible for maintaining order. Villagers lined up one by one with buckets of water to carry water.

The village chief himself shook the bucket down, again and again, until the well rope was lowered to the end, and he was ready to bring the bucket up again. He had lived in this village for decades, and he had carried water in this well countless times, and he only had to shake the well rope a little upwards to find out, without having to lift the bucket up completely.

So, when he tried it, he realized that there was no water in the bucket at all.

He subconsciously wanted to continue to put the well rope down, but the length of the well rope was not enough.

He stiffly lifted the bucket up little by little, looking at the empty bucket, not knowing what to say.

There was a commotion among the villagers, and at this moment, one of the villagers in the team suddenly collapsed, and the village chief hurriedly walked over to take a look, and the village chief said weakly: "How many times have I said it, don't eat Guanyin soil, you will eat the dead." ”

I don't know which village name couldn't help but say, "Then what else can we eat?"

The village chief's face was bitter.

......

The butcher was carrying a chicken in his hand, and he went down and made a cut in the chicken's neck, but the chicken was still alive, and the chicken's blood flowed into a porcelain bowl, and when a small half bowl of blood flowed, the chicken completely died.

The butcher poured blood on the head of a bound sheep and stabbed it, and the sheep was successfully slaughtered by him.

The guards watched boredly at the steps before the rain prayer ceremony, wondering when the false Taoist priest would come on the field.

What he didn't know was that Qiao Heng actually hated these formalisms more than him.

Immediately afterwards, Gu Zhong, who was the left minister, stepped forward again, took the draft that had already been written on the scroll, and read a prayer for rain with flowers in a frustrated manner.

After that, there was a silent silence.

After a while, a little guy who had been watching the sundial suddenly said loudly, "The time has come—"

Xiaoqing used a trick, and in the eyes of others, she was no different from the other Dao boys around Qiao Heng at this time. A few Taoist children were motionless, and those who knew the gossip of the five elements looked at it and knew that the position they were standing in at this time was very particular.

There was a low exclamation from the crowd.

It was a gust of wind mixed with a little dampness from afar, and the wind blew the soap flags hunting, and the talisman that had been attached to it was blown up by the wind, fluttered in the air, and then fluttered down again.

There was no ornate tirade, and there were no pretended profound scriptures, Qiao Heng just said two words unhurriedly, "The rain is coming." ”

The volume of his speech is not high, but everyone can hear these two words, like spring thunder on his tongue.

Only Xiao Qing knew that when these two words came out of his mouth, she only felt that the demonic power all over her body was flowing towards the bright yellow talisman seal that was folded into a triangle in her hand, this talisman was just given to her by the Taoist priest of Dao Gu Zhen, for a moment, she wanted to throw this talisman seal, but she thought about it, but she still didn't do it.

Either way, this is what he gave to himself.

He shouldn't hurt himself...... Right?

One didn't hold it tightly, and this talisman suddenly jumped out of her hand, and Xiaoqing was startled.

This talisman seal full of demonic power was suspended in mid-air, and many talisman seals that had been blown up by the wind and slowly fell in the air were now surrounded by stars and moons.

Gu Zhong, who was still watching quietly, stood up suddenly, and the chair was knocked to the ground by him, and he didn't pay attention to it.

I saw that the sky darkened, and the clear sky, which was originally cloudless, was now covered with dark clouds.

A bolt of thunder pierced through the dark clouds, slashing all the runes centered on the demonic runes, and all the runes were immediately blown to pieces. The shattering of the talisman seemed to have caused some chain reaction, and the dark clouds in the sky rolled up, and small lightning bolts visible to the naked eye passed through the dark clouds, and then slowly converged, condensing into several huge mountain tops, and slashed down in the air.

With the roar of thunder and lightning, in a trance, it seemed that something crystal clear fell from the sky.

Gu Zhong raised his hand and touched it on his forehead, only to feel a piece of wetness. There was a click, and something fell on his cheek, and this time, he felt a little bit of water.

The guard touched the tip of his nose, then looked down at the water trail on his index finger, looking a little sluggish.

This drop of water was dripping gracefully, Gu Zhong only felt a sour eye circle, and he muttered, "Bigger, bigger!"

However, the rain was still pouring down like this, and it was never connected.

Gu Zhong was so anxious that at this time, the local governor suddenly pulled Gu Zhong's sleeve regardless of his superiority and humility, and said in shock: "Prime Minister, look there." ”

I saw that where the raindrops fell, the leaves on the trees that had been dry and yellow because they had not rained for a long time fell one after another, and then quickly sprouted and grew. Between the cracks in the rocks on the ground, a few green grasses suddenly appeared, and the buds slowly bloomed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Gu Zhong: "This is the real rain from heaven......"

Xiaoqing stretched out her hand and took a drop of rain, with a little disbelief in her expression.

The raindrops became dense, and the rain, which was originally sparse, was now finally connected into a string.

The little guy hurriedly ran over and handed Gu Zhong an umbrella, Gu Zhong waved his hand and pushed the little guy away, bathing himself in this heavy rain, almost crying with joy.

When he came back to his senses, Gu Zhong looked at the weeds on the ground and a few trees around him, and regrettably found that only the grass and trees that were stained with the first bit of rain showed the appearance of rejuvenation like a fairy miracle. The rain has not fallen, it is still the same, after this heavy rain, it seems that it will wait until next spring to regain vitality.

Thunder rang out one after another, and after each thunderclap, the rain would increase sharply by a quarter until the rain poured like the sky.

Gu Zhong finally couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Qiao Heng Shi Ran walked to the incense stand and inserted three incense sticks in the incense burner, and the strange thing was that this huge rain could not extinguish these three incense sticks no matter what. And when these three incense sticks are no longer burning, it will also be the moment when this heavy rain ends.

Xiaoqing looked at Qiao Heng. At this time, he had successfully prayed for rain, and there was no need for Qiao Heng to do anything more, he just stood quietly and watched the heavy rain in silence.

Those dark eyes seemed to be dyed with a hint of green rain, clear and sober, like an immortal.

She opened her mouth and called, "Gu Zhen!"

Qiao Heng looked at her.

She said, "What's your last name?"

Qiao Heng didn't answer immediately, he seemed to think for a while, and then said, "My common surname is Qiao ......."

As soon as the words fell, he said slowly with some unclear meaning: "You can treat me as Qiao." ”