"It's raining again... Why?"

Fang Qing wiped her sleepy eyes, came to the meeting place after washing, and stretched her waist as she looked at the goose feather drizzle outside the window.

Wang Weigong, who also got up after getting up, also looked at the goose feather drizzle outside the window and smiled sincerely.

"The villagers must be overjoyed, it's raining again. ”

Sure enough, as the students watched, they saw the villagers hurrying out of their containers to continue the poor goose feather drizzle, which was a little bit heavier than yesterday anyway—at least one and a half cups, half a cup more than yesterday.

"Dao Chief, you got up so early. Niu Zhiwei waved his hand at Li Yun over there, and the toothpaste saliva on the corner of his mouth hadn't been spit out yet.

"You're pretty early, too. ”

Li Yun smiled indifferently and walked over, feeling the goose feather drizzle at the same time, but his heart was not as relaxed as his face, but a little dignified.

Calling the wind and rain, one of the strongest Dao methods you can use, plus the platinum star... The blessings of the Dharma phase are so strong that in other places they can even call for torrential rain.

However, now not to mention the torrential rain, not even a light rain, this goose feather drizzle is simply pitiful, almost the same as yesterday's.

Li Yun squinted.

"It seems that yesterday's rain should have been heavy rain, but it turned into light rain under some unknown external force... Today, my spell has also turned into a light rain..."

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After everyone had washed up, they went to the village for breakfast, and found that the villagers were kneeling down to worship heaven and earth and thanking the gods for the rain.

"It's so lucky, it's raining for two days in a row, it must be your students who have brought us good luck... Come on, breakfast has already been prepared for you, fragrant white flour steamed buns. The old village chief warmly received the students in front of him and organized and mobilized the students to eat breakfast.

Today's breakfast is not so monotonous, not like yesterday's big cake with mud and sand, but there are white flour steamed buns, which are the supreme delicacy for dry villages that lack water.

Students also like to eat this fluffy and fluffy white flour steamed bun, and the biggest difference between it and the baked flatbread is that this white flour steamed bun does not have sand in its mouth.

The villagers were not idle, and when the students were eating breakfast, they gathered, preparing incense and paper money, as well as some messy utensils, bronze utensils, wooden fish and Buddhist beads.

"Teacher, what are they doing?" Xie Yan asked curiously.

Niu Zhiwei couldn't say why, he could only stumble, and he always felt a little embarrassed that he couldn't answer: "It should... Is it burning incense or how to drip?"

At this time, Li Yun on the side said with a smile: "This is a tool for worshiping God, I'm afraid it is also supported by faith here, judging from the utensils, it shouldn't be our Taoism." ”

The students realized that there was nothing surprising about the dry village having its own collective beliefs, after all, this land does not give face, and if you don't have any spiritual sustenance, you may have to go crazy the next day, which is reasonable.

"I've never encountered this kind of thing before..."Niu Zhiwei nodded as if he suddenly realized.

"That's because I haven't encountered two consecutive rains before, this time two consecutive rains they think it's a gift from God, to make a vow, there are many places, we Guangdong here is not to worship the ancestors to bless, this is also a traditional belief and custom. Bai Shen said lazily, they must not know that this second rain was not caused by the one they believed.

The students next to them all felt that their posture had risen, and as soon as they heard the belief in ancestor worship, they knew what was going on.

Without further ado, Niu Zhiwei watched the students gather after breakfast, and said, "This is a good opportunity for us to understand the local belief structure and analyze the state of people's livelihood... Note that this question does not need to be tested, it is considered extracurricular knowledge. ”

Because of these two rains, the people in the village began to worship the gods, and they were lively and lively to prepare the tools for the sacrifice, and the speed of Zhang Luo was very fast, almost in less than twenty minutes, a whole set of procedures were prepared, and almost the whole village gathered here.

People of all sizes, including young and middle-aged children, were only a few dozen people in total, and their clothes were very old, looking extremely simple, and the flatbread that had been taken out to entertain the students before was placed on the altar.

The students were very curious, and they had not seen the sacrificial scenes of other sects except for burning incense at home.

"I guess it should be the worship of the Buddha...", in which Wang Zejing said: "Buddhism is easier to take root in such poor and backward areas, on the contrary, the Taoist system of seeking this life is not conducive to germinating in this environment..."

"Oh, little girl, you quite understand. Bai Shen said unexpectedly, without refuting, as far as the general situation is concerned, Buddhism is more conducive to spreading in this situation, not that Taoism is inferior to Buddhism, but in this case, only Buddhism can sustenance the soul.

Wang Zejing was a little scared of Bai Shen, until now she still remembers the scene of being exploded by a big cake, that feeling... That feeling... Wang Zejing felt that something in his heart was about to awaken.

"Compared to monks, I still prefer Taoist priests, what do you want in the next life, I don't know if there is an afterlife, as the saying goes, don't ask for the next life, just ask for this life, even if there is an afterlife, after you pray for happiness in the next life, is the person who gets happiness still you? I want Xie Yan's happiness, not Xie Yan's happiness in the next life, it's all someone else. ”

Xie Yan said as a matter of course, even Bai Shen was surprised by this speech, he could comprehend these things at a young age...

"This is a scholar, maybe it's not because of how high the IQ is, the ability to think, or the thinking angle is always a little advanced. Li Yun smiled and said to Bai Shen with his heart.

Bai Shen just wants to say that the ideological enlightenment of this world is much higher than imagined, and only a few people can be qualified to think about the truth, but an ordinary teenager here can figure it out.

In this regard, Li Yun can only say that he is full of warm thoughts [beep] desires, everyone is full of food and drink, and he will always think more than others, deeper than others...

In between small talks, the people of this dry village have been fully assembled to worship the idol of the god located in the ancestral hall.

"Let's go, let's take a look..."Niu Zhiwei took the students to the ancestral hall, but after coming to the ancestral hall, the whole person was confused, and the Taoist system and the Buddhist system that he originally guessed were not.

I don't know this idol in front of me...

"Teacher, what is this?" asked the most curious of them, the glasses boy.

"This... This one... This is..."Niu Zhiwei hesitated.

Li Yun stared at the stone statue of Indra in front of him and said.

"Indrati, also known as Emperor Shakti, one of the protector gods of Buddhism, originated from the legend of Brahman, and was later absorbed by the fusion of Buddhism, one of the thirty-three days, the protector of Shakya..."

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"I only know the Emperor Shakti who dominates the world..."Xie Yan complained: "I used to think that Buddhism only had bald human men, but it turned out that there were such hair... So wild. ”

The stone statue of the emperor is very worn, the copper skin on the top is about to fall off, the expression is solemn, riding a bronze ox, holding the vajra demon pestle, from the action it seems to be stabbing the demon pestle to the earth, but before the piercing is finished, the body has turned into a stone statue.

"Buddhism still has angry eyes, children, you still don't know much. Bai Shen said.

Li Yun was also quite surprised, there is actually a worship of the emperor here, which can be said to be the unpopular in the local area, compared to the orthodox Buddhist gods, the legend of the emperor is too secular...

"Before Indra was the protector of Buddhism, in the original Brahmanism, he was the god in charge of thunder and lightning, and he used the demon pestle in his hand to bring thunder and lightning and heavenly punishment to the body of the evil spirit, and he was one of the ultimate Buddhist protector gods of anger. ”

As they spoke, the villagers began to worship the idol and chanted words in their local dialects.

During the sacrifice, someone finally couldn't help but ask a young man next to him and said, "Brother... When did you start the custom of worshipping Shakti? ”

"Ahh It turns out that this is called Shakti. The young man was stunned.

I am most afraid that the air will suddenly be quiet, the corners of Niu Zhiwei's mouth twitched, and you don't even know who you are worshipping, is this really good...

"We really don't know what kind of gods we worship, this is the belief handed down by the ancestors in the past, legend has it that when I was in the village when I prayed for rain and water, this stone statue suddenly appeared here, gave us a storm here, the whole village was happy, and the stone statue was enshrined... It's just that it doesn't rain when we worship the stone statue later, and now we will only beg this god when it rains continuously. ”

After saying that, it was the young man's turn to offer incense, and he put the incense into the incense burner, and put his palms together, his face full of piety.

He didn't believe it very much, but there was no less devotion on his face, and he prayed for the village, hoping to bring a heavy rain as before.

From the point of view of the Heavenly Eye, the wishes of these villagers surrounded the stone statue of Shakti, of course, it was only around, and there was not a trace of luck entering the stone statue.

"No matter what kind of stone statue it is, as long as it has its form, it can gather its will, and whether it is connected with the deity or not, the idol is equivalent to their incarnation, and now there is no desire to condense and entangle... This is problematic. The system said.

Li Yun said that he understood, whether it was the stone statue he left behind, or the self-made statue of the villagers of Elephant Head Mountain, he could feel and listen, and the power of the would be entangled, and the stone statue of the emperor had been enshrined for so long, it was impossible not to have the power of the will.

Even the plane tree that had been cut down was entangled with vigorous willpower, and it was impossible that Shakti, one of the main gods of the thirty-three days, had no connection with the idol as deep as a big tree.

The expression of this idol was solemn, and there was a faint sense of great compassion, and he regretted that he did not insert this demon pestle into the earth.

Li Yun looked at the idol and said silently.

"Fusheng Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable..."

Using his own spiritual sea law as a medium, he communicates with this stone statue of Shakti.

At the same time as Li Yun communicated with the idol, the village chief, who was presiding over the prayer, suddenly reacted violently and wiped his eyes.

"Strange... I just saw His eyes move... Maybe it's a lack of water and a hallucination..."

The stone statue of Shakti still maintained the movement of holding his hands high and piercing the earth with a demon-descending pestle, with a solemn expression without the slightest change.

At least in the eyes of those around it, nothing has changed in this stone statue...

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The final ritual ends with a cup of precious pure water, and the prayer ritual unique to the dry village ends with the most precious water.

The adults didn't react much, that is, the children were a little distressed, and some of the Pippi children wanted to lick the sprinkled water, but in the end they were stopped by their parents, and it was one thing to give the precious water to the children to drink, and it was another thing to lick the sacrificial water.

Now everyone discussed going to get some water and come back.

"What kind of transport do they use to fetch water from outside?" said one of the students, "Is it an ox cart?"

As soon as these words came out, the students present all made up their minds, in the mountains, an ox cart dragged the hope of the whole village, pulled buckets of water back from outside, pulled back the hope of the village from the outside, and in the eyes of everyone full of expectation, a person, leading the ox cart back, like a hero.

However....

Doodoooooo –

Bursts of sound came, and when I turned to look, it was the sound of standard diesel engines, and walk-behind tractors of various colors and mud drove out of the doors.

"What do you think, modern technology is so developed and you still use ox carts to pull water, this walk-behind tractor doesn't know how much more stable than the ox cart..."Niu Zhiwei looked at the students with a strange face.

The students are called embarrassed.,Obviously, in film and television works, this situation should be an ox cart and a person is in line with the style of painting.,The sudden appearance of a walk-behind tractor is simply unguardable.。

"The sudden commotion flashed my waist. Xie Yan said from the bottom of his heart, he never imagined that such a poor and backward village would have such high-precision and cutting-edge technology, and he could only sigh that technology has changed the world...

"But even if there is a walk-behind tractor, it is not a simple matter to get water back, either go to a town 20 kilometers away to buy water, or go to the rugged mountains to fetch water, generally speaking, to fetch water, if you go to buy water, the villagers simply can't afford it," Niu Zhiwei said.

Under the roar of diesel engines, walk-behind tractors drove out of the village to bring back the village's lifeline.

Fang Qing on the side hesitated for a moment, raised his hand and said.

"I want to... I want to go together..."

"I'll go too...," Xie Yan said suddenly.

"I'm going with you, too. Wang Zejing also raised his hand and said.

Niu Zhiwei looked at these three students with some surprise, aren't these three students very unkind to see this village? Why did they suddenly become enthusiastic.

Li Yun looked at the three students in front of him, his eyes began to flicker, and he turned around and said a few words into Wang Weigong's ear.

Soon, Wang Weigong also raised his hand and said.

"Teacher, I'm also... Let's go!"