Chapter 2

There was a small incident in Xujia Village, Taizhou recently, there were several families of dogs were injured, either lame or lying on the nest can not move, and some plain disappeared without a trace, everyone estimates that it should be a good thing for the idler Hei Tianniu, this Hei Tianniu has always been idle, bullying men and women, stealing chickens and touching dogs is just a common hobby.

Everyone dares to be angry but dare not speak, just because Hei Tianniu has always been domineering, and his mother is a famous goddess in ten miles and eight towns, quite evil, if anyone accidentally offends their family, then Hei Tianniu will beat him, and the most damaged is the black woman, secretly making some demon ghost methods, most of them will be restless in the other party's house, so no one dares to offend this family.

Once the black cow stole a dog, is with the mother-in-law at home rectification, the dog owner to find out, angry scolding, but was beaten by the black cow to the ground, after returning home sick for many days, after all, a life, the family wanted to find the black cow to ask for an explanation, but the black cow family is a fine thief, go to the county government to complain, but they were almost bitten by them.

Since then, no one dares to provoke the black family, in this surrounding ten miles and eight towns, the black cow is walking sideways, but the night road to walk more encounter ghosts, this black cow once wandered around in the county, found a good fat golden retriever dog, he developed a greedy temperament, and gluttony, then caught the dog, the rope around the neck, made half dead, was about to bubble, but was found.

The black sky cow was not afraid, and he played sideways and beat the person who came. The man was invincible, and fled in the wilderness, Heitianniu was very proud in his heart, who knew that after a while, Hulala came to twenty or thirty people, surrounded Heitianniu, the water was impassable, Heitianniu was invincible with two fists and four hands, and was beaten to death, those people did not give up, and took Heitianniu and the dog to the county government together.

It turned out that the dog owner's family was the most powerful local Zhang Daguan, who was not only a local tyrant, but also had relatives in the capital who were officials, and no one dared to tease the tiger's whiskers.

Originally, killing a dog is nothing, but as the saying goes, "beating a dog also depends on the owner", in the past, the black sky cow killed the dogs of the common people, and now this, but it is considered to be "related" to the official family, naturally different from the usual, this dog is a dog that this big official loves very much, the plain is fed with fine chicken, duck and fish, it is simply more than life, and now it is killed by the black sky cow for no reason, naturally hateful, and make up his mind to make up his mind to pay for the dog.

The lawyer of the Zhang family is also very powerful, so he reopened the matter of Heitianniu beating people to death before, and invited many witnesses, all of them agreed, the evidence was conclusive, and finally sentenced him to be beheaded.

When the people in the county heard about this, they all secretly praised it, and everyone did not say that the Zhang family was powerful, nor did they say that the county officials seemed to be biased, and most of them only said that the black sky cow was a wicked person with its own wicked people, and now it finally got retribution, which shows that there are gods and Buddhas in the sky watching.

The people clapped their hands and applauded, but the mother of the black sky cow was not happy, first went to the county government to look for death and life several times, and was driven out by the yacha, she went to the street to cry grievances, those who knew the inside story where to pay attention to her, happy to see the excitement, thinking that this mother-in-law had done a lot of bad things before, now it can be seen that the sky has eyes, if she is wronged, where are the dogs who were killed by his family say wrongs, and where are the neighbors who have been cursed by his mother and son to say wrongs.

Here is the press for the time being, and it is said that although this Zhang family is powerful, it is also true that Hei Tianniu once beat people to death, but last time that family had already come to sue and lost the lawsuit, why did they sentence Hei Tianniu so smoothly this time? This has to start with this county official in Taizhou Prefecture.

The county official here, surnamed Lan Feng, is also a person with a very good background, but his background is the Ying Mansion in the capital.

Ying Lanfeng's father is considered to be the founding father of this dynasty, and he was named the Duke of Yingguo, and the relationship between the Ying family and many powerful people in the capital is excellent, and everyone knows about it.

Ying Lanfeng is the son of the new generation of the Ying family, but it is a pity that he is a concubine, and his temperament is a little unruly, he went to the house at the age of fifteen to be the master, and married a certain lady of the Hanlin family, the young lady's body has always been bad, and a year later gave birth to a son, and then died, and soon the concubine gave birth to a daughter.

Since then, Ying Lanfeng has changed his personality a little, no longer like the previous prodigal, began to study hard, but he is also a little smart, plus a little luck, three years later he was a blockbuster, emerging in the scientific examination, although the ranking is not high, but the saint read that he is the son of the prince, and the royal front saw that he was born with a beautiful jade face and excellent demeanor, so he was very commended, the emperor's grace was vast, and he was released to the county, which is the meaning of experience for later use.

Ying Lanfeng was originally a gentleman, although he was a little smart, but the material was not outstanding, and he was very unmotivated before, so he had no light in the new life, and he was quite neglected, but since he was favored by the emperor, he was suddenly famous all over the world, and there was an endless stream of people who came to say goodbye.

This time, the people of Ying Mansion wanted to choose the right person, who came up with surprise, Ying Lanfeng actually made his own decision and picked a woman from an innocent small family, the woman's surname was Li, her appearance was not amazing, and her background was low, but for some reason she fell into Ying Lanfeng's eyes.

Finally, before leaving, his grandmother said that the two children were still young and inconvenient to travel far, and that the Li family was pregnant again, and she was afraid that she would be tired, so she left the pair of children to take care of them, and her grandmother specially sent two personal maids to accompany her.

This local Zhang Daguan also knows the origin of Ying Lanfeng, since Ying Lanfeng came, he was a group of harmony, and he was very thoughtful, Ying Lanfeng was born in a big family, although he was a gentleman, but he was no stranger to official communication, all kinds of means, so the two got along very well.

In this case of the black cow beating the Zhang family dog to death, the Zhang family only used the previous case of beating the dead person to sue the lawsuit, and the bitter owner of this case had also sued before, but there was no witness - everyone was afraid of the black family's domineering, so they did not dare to come forward, so Ying Lanfeng only sentenced the two families to settle at that time. However, feng shui takes turns, but this time it is different, the Zhang family is invincible, and the people have been suffering from the black family for a long time.

Since coming to the remote place of Taizhou, the corresponding Lan Feng in the house has always been ignored, except for the parents have a few letters, never hit him with some silver taels, and the salary of the county order is low, there are always a few maids and servants around him, Ying Lanfeng is unwilling to exploit the people, when he first arrived, he was almost stretched, thanks to the Zhang family often has contacts, and the second is also thanks to the ability of the Li family, inside and out, so although the two are not generous, life is also peaceful.

And said that soon after Ying Lanfeng came to Taizhou, Li gave birth to a daughter, named Huaizhen, four years old this year, born with pink makeup and jade, ice and snow smart, Ying Lanfeng loved very much, he was pampered and used to it, at first it also revealed a bit of arrogance of the children of the nobility, picky clothes and picky food, since the fight should be Huaizhen, he spontaneously cut down on food and clothing, but whenever there is a little money, it will be put on the little daughter, more than the Li family hurts the daughter three points.

A few years ago, this couple stumbled, but it was smooth, and in the fourth year, there was a sudden drought in Taizhou.

First, the sun was shining and the sun was shining, and then the rivers dried up, the wells dried up, and the seedlings in the fields gradually died...... Not to mention the fact that people died of thirst among the people, there were also many cases of armed fights among the people of the villages in order to compete for wells with water, and many people were killed and injured.

Although Ying Lanfeng is not a full Qingtian lord, since he came to this remote small county, he has always been peaceful under his rule, and seeing that the people's livelihood has gradually improved, how could he have thought that such a thing would happen.

Although the situation of the government is not good, but the counties and towns are the most severe in the drought in Taizhou, so the government has sent people to apply for the government several times, and the order should be more thoughtful.

Ying Lanfeng boasted that he was not a monkey, and he couldn't be the Dragon King of the Four Seas, stumbling and beating his chest every day, looking at the sky and sighing, worrying but to no avail.

Earlier, Ying Lanfeng also invited a few water explorers to look for water sources everywhere and dig new wells for emergency relief, but it was only an expedient measure, and the new wells soon bottomed out, and when they went to explore the water source, the water that could be produced was extremely rare, which was rare.

At this time, Ying Huaizhen was sick, and all the famous doctors were helpless, and the medicine stone was ineffective, and in recent days, he has seen a coma.

The disaster outside is getting stricter and stricter, and the illness of his beloved daughter is not improving, urging inside and outside, Ying Lanfeng has never experienced such a dangerous and embarrassing situation since he was a child, sighing all day long, restless sleep, depressed and dying, fortunately Li is a strong person, enduring grief, and comforting her husband from time to time, Ying Lanfeng can barely hold on.

On this day, a man suddenly came to the door, claiming that he could cure Ying Huaizhen's illness.

Ying Lanfeng was the time when the six gods had no master, so he hurriedly asked someone to invite him in, and at first glance he felt a little familiar: it was a long-faced and thin mother-in-law, with cloudy eyes and slightly red cheeks.

At this moment, Ying Lanfeng was already a little ill and speculative, and he didn't have time to think that he had seen this woman there, so he only asked her if she could save Ying Huaizhen, and the mother-in-law responded slowly with a voice, saying that she wanted to see Miss first.

Li Shi looked at it inappropriately, and was about to stop it, but he was reluctant to give up this glimmer of hope, so he had to watch carefully from the side, secretly guarding. When the mother-in-law entered to see Ying Huaizhen, Ying Lanfeng suddenly remembered: This mother-in-law is not another person, it is the mother of the black cow who was arrested and imprisoned before, and the black woman who had come to the county government to make trouble many times that day......

Ying Lanfeng was taken aback, for fear that this black woman was coming to retaliate, so he hurriedly entered, but saw the black woman and said: "Girl, this disease is not a good disease, it is not a good disease that can be cured by just taking medicine, if you want to save people, the old body has a condition here, I hope the adult agrees first." ”

Ying Lanfeng saw that she didn't have good intentions, and she was about to have a seizure, but when she suddenly saw her say that she could save Ying Huaizhen, she suddenly felt that her eyes lit up, and she hurriedly asked how it was, and the black woman said slowly: "Please also ask the adults to release the black sky cow." ”

If it was ordinary, Ying Lanfeng naturally refused to agree, but if he could save Ying Huaizhen at this moment, even if he wanted his own life, he would not frown, although he didn't know whether what this black woman said was true or false, but she was the only one who dared to say that she could save Ying Huaizhen these days, and Ying Lanfeng immediately agreed: "If Zhen'er is safe and sound, he will let Hei Tianniu go." ”

The black woman smiled and said, "It's better for adults to talk and be counted, otherwise, I'm afraid that Miss's illness will not be good for the rest of her life." ”

Ying Lanfeng only felt that these words were harsh, but he didn't care: "You save people quickly, as long as Zhen'er wakes up, I will immediately release Hei Tianniu from prison." ”

Li Shi watched from the side, half happy and half worried, hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and secretly asked the maid Ruyi and Jixiang to each take a burning stick and wait behind him.

After two days, I don't know what method this black woman used, but after two days, Ying Huaizhen really woke up, Ying Lanfeng was ecstatic, and immediately ordered someone to release Hei Tianniu.

As soon as Ying Huaizhen woke up, Ying Lanfeng was half relieved, hugged and kissed again, and was reluctant to let go, Li smiled and bent over, and persuaded him in every possible way.

The beloved daughter finally turned the corner, Ying Lanfeng was a happy event, cheered up, and discussed with the county government master and the township elders how to relieve the disaster, so busy and busy, and after a few days, there was a noise outside the county government, and someone was sent to see, it turned out to be more than a dozen people, escorting a person to come, that person is really an old acquaintance, who is not Heitianniu?

Ying Lanfeng was stunned, and asked in the hall, it turned out that after Heitianniu was released from prison, he quickly became old, not only intensified his oppression of the people, but also in the Qinglou today, for some reason, he actually killed a female trick alive, although this trick is a cheap person, but it is also a human life, plus Heitianniu has already committed public anger, and the big guy shouted and escorted him to the yamen.

Ying Lanfeng was busy with a fire above his head because of the disaster relief, and saw that Hei Tianniu was doing so evil, and the human and material evidence was there, he was furious, and ordered someone to hit fifty boards first, and then hit thirty, Hei Tianniu had already opened his skin and flesh, and seeing that he was dying, the black woman broke into the court, blocked the execution, and begged Ying Lanfeng to see that she was saving Ying Huaizhen, and opened the net.

Released Hei Tianniu before, it was originally Ying Lanfeng's private move, there have been many people stealing and criticizing, Hei Tianniu is just a matter of not committing a crime, but now he has made a human life, Ying Lanfeng is determined to refuse favoritism, not to mention that at this moment, everyone is watching, there are hundreds of people around, one by one, their eyes are wide open, and their anger is blazing.

Ying Lanfeng was about to order someone to fight again, but the goddess suddenly said, "My lord, the women can ask for rain." ”

This sentence was like an earth-shattering shock, not only Ying Lanfeng, but even the people were stunned on the spot.

Before this black woman saved Ying Huaizhen, although Ying Lanfeng felt magical, but it is not inexplicable to think about it, the folk are thousands of treasures, there are many strange methods, there are said that "home remedies can cure all diseases", this black woman town pretends to be a ghost, and I don't know that there are some unknown secret recipes or strange means, so Ying Lanfeng is convinced.

But at the moment she said she could ask for rain...... This is not something that can be explained by ordinary secret recipes or strange methods.

Although Ying Lanfeng wished that there was someone who could really ask for rain at the moment, after all, his reason was still there, and as an official of the imperial court, how could he listen to these nonsense.

Therefore, Ying Lanfeng was slightly stunned, and wanted to reprimand the black woman, but the surrounding people were discussing, and when the black woman saw this, she shouted more and more: "If the adults don't believe it, why don't you let the women give it a try!"

Ying Lanfeng shouted: "Nonsense, how do you try this?"

Hei Po said: "The old body has practiced Maoshan Taoism, with the five thunder method, you can borrow rain from the sky, as long as the adult releases the black sky cow, the old body will do it immediately, and you will see the spirit and the spirit in two days." ”

Although Ying Lanfeng was still skeptical, most of the people present had already moved their minds, first, this black woman used to pretend to be a ghost, and there were indeed some miracles, and secondly, at this moment it was already called the heavens and the earth, so whenever there was hope, it would inevitably make people's hearts move, and for a while, someone had already whispered to each other, and a squire saw this, so he came out to intercede for the black woman, and said: "After all, this matter is about thousands of lives, the adult might as well respond to her temporarily, if the left and right are not effective, you can still deal with the black cow." ”

Ying Lanfeng hesitated, and when the other people saw this, they knelt down and begged together, Ying Lanfeng saw that the public opinion was like this, frowned, and said: "In this case, let go of the black sky cow first, and if there is no rain in two days, then stop blaming the official law like a furnace." ”

At that time, the black cow was released, but the yamen were sent to follow the guards to prevent the black woman from escaping with the black cow, and the people also spontaneously gathered, and according to the black woman's requirements, they built a high platform to pray for rain, as well as various books and papers to be used.

In the evening, the black woman went on the stage, played drums and burned paper, danced with her hands, and did a show, everyone saw this, and there was a little awe in their hearts, and they returned home one by one, stretched their necks to look at the sky, only to see that the evening sky was full of stars, and when the child passed, suddenly the wind blew, and the dark clouds blew, blocking the sky full of stars.

In the morning, the people were very happy, but this was the first cloudy day in the past few months in the drought, and the black woman's house was even more crowded, and many people knelt at the door, shouting "God Lingxuan Niangniang".

Ying Lanfeng felt that this situation was very strange, but the fact that it was the case had to convince him that it was small at this moment, and he just hoped that it would really rain.

So thousands of people stretched out their necks and looked at the sky, but after the afternoon, the clouds gradually dispersed, and the sky was sunny again.

Ying Lanfeng was disappointed, and appointed someone to recapture the Black Sky Cow, but the Black Woman was like a god and demon possessed, acting as a monster, and muttered that the Black Sky Cow was her deputy and could communicate with the Heavenly Realm, but because he was injured before and lost his vitality, he could not go to the Heavenly Realm and could not pass the information.

When the people heard this nonsense, some of them did not believe it, but more than half of them believed it, and they begged to let the black cow go.

Ying Lanfeng saw the cloudy sky before, and pinned a glimmer of hope on this black woman, but after hearing these words, he knew that this black woman had bad intentions, played tricks and cunning, and wanted to get away with it.

He wanted to severely punish the mother and son, but the public was angry, and if he detained someone, the people would inevitably feel that the county official was unkind, and in the end, I am afraid that he would be charged with not being able to ask for rain...... However, he opened this head by himself, and he has to taste the bitter fruit at this moment.

Ying Lanfeng thought about it, but after all, she didn't move the black cow, but ordered the black woman to beg for rain quickly to see what other tricks she had to show.

So I didn't realize that two days had passed, and the sky was still clear, and there was no raindrops, Ying Lanfeng laughed angrily, and brought someone to the high platform to ask for rain, and ordered someone to take the black sky cow away.

The black woman still threatened fiercely, Ying Lanfeng was not in a hurry, ordered someone to set up a pyre with dry firewood, tied the black sky cow to the top, personally held the torch, and said: "Since the black sky cow is a messenger to heaven, and it has not been successful in the past two days, it is better to burn him today, let him go to the sky on the ground, so it will inevitably rain." ”

When the black woman and the black cow heard this, they were so frightened that their souls flew away, and Ying Lanfeng acted resolutely, raised his hand and threw the torch, and suddenly the flames were fierce, burning the black sky cow screaming endlessly, but it was silent after a while.

Seeing this horrific sight with her own eyes, the black woman fainted, and woke up in an instant, salivating at the corners of her mouth, and already crazy.

Seeing this, the people around them were all frightened, and they didn't know what would happen to Ying Lanfeng, Ying Lanfeng put aside everyone, walked on the high platform, looked at the thousands of people under the stage, and said: "I am the official of Taizhou's parents, there is no rain in Taizhou, and the people are suffering, but I have nothing to do. With that, he untied his official uniform, took off his official robe and put it on his side, wearing only a snow-white middle coat, and crossed his knees on the high platform.

The scorching sun was in the sky, not long after, Ying Lanfeng's sweat had soaked his clothes, and his originally upright body was also a little crumbling, the people saw this, they were very moved, some people cried, and with kneeling on the ground, some people asked Ying Lanfeng to come down, Ying Lanfeng just turned a deaf ear and did not move.

Two hours passed like this, and it was almost dusk, and there was not even a trace of wind at this moment, and the heavens and the earth were extremely depressed, as if the gods had forgotten this corner.

And Ying Lanfeng's whole person was so sunburned that he was dying, he was already half fainting, and he only held on to it in one breath, at this moment of life and death, Ying Lanfeng's sleeves suddenly floated slightly, and there was a humane underneath: "What is the sound?"

Everyone listened attentively, faintly heard a slight muffled sound in the sky, and some people couldn't believe it: "Isn't this thunder?" Without saying a word, they saw a bright lightning flash pass in front of them, and then Karala, an earth-shattering thunderclap rolled from the sky, like the god of thunder driving a chariot to come quickly, and in an instant, the clouds were dense, gathered in the sky, like a huge black umbrella, and then, a long lightning bolt tore through the gloomy sky, and suddenly, the heavy rain poured.

Ying Lanfeng opened his eyes from half a stupor, looked up at the sky, the heavy rain blinded his eyes, but he didn't feel uncomfortable at all, the rain flowed into the corner of the mouth, as sweet as rain.

Ying Lanfeng raised his head and smiled, his little servant Jinbao got up from the ground, stepped forward to support him, and cried and laughed: "My lord, my lord moved the sky with sincerity, so that it rained from the sky, my lord, you see how happy the people are." ”

Ying Lanfeng looked around, the people were singing and dancing in the rain, some people raised their heads, opened their mouths and stretched out their hands, to catch the rain that fell from the sky, some people knelt on the ground, put their foreheads against the muddy ground, and some people ran to him, kneeling down and shouting.

The ecstasy from the bottom of his heart was moving, Ying Lanfeng laughed, and took a step forward, but what he thought of in his heart was what the girl said on his chest when he went out before, when he said goodbye to the little girl Ying Huaizhen.

"Dad, don't be afraid, tomorrow at the latest, there will be heavy rain, as long as you are patient......" She was still recovering, her voice was incoherent, her voice was weak, she said a few words, she coughed non-stop, and her little hands grabbed his shoulders tightly: "Dad, don't believe in bad people, Dad, is not a traitor...... This time I'll ...... Protect my father's ......" seems to be afraid that if he leaves in one step, he will make a wrong step and never recover.

Ying Lanfeng didn't know if Ying Huaizhen's words were to comfort him or ...... It's just one thing for sure, he burned the black sky cow in one breath, gambled his life and walked on the high platform, and the moment he was exposed to the scorching sun, what he thought about the most was the sentence that the girl said: Dad, don't be afraid, there will be heavy rain......

Tears filled his eyes, tears rolled down with the rain, and what Ying Lanfeng wanted to do most at the moment was to return to the county office and hug the girl he had lost and recovered.

As everyone knows, between Ying Lanfeng and Ying Huaizhen, they really experienced life and death parting, and now, they are lost and regained, and they are reunited.