In the summer of 992, a continuous heavy rain swept across the entire Kyushu continent. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoAfter nightfall, the rain is like a black curtain, enveloping the whole world, and as far as the eye can see, there is darkness.

On the seventh night, the darkness was almost solid. Even in a room lit with oil lamps or candles, the candlelight can only illuminate a small area around it. People put down all their work early, burrowed into the wet and cold bed, and prepared for bed. Maybe tomorrow, the rain will stop, many people are thinking so.

However, before the mouth of the candle is opened, the candle in the hand is extinguished by itself. Is it my own hands shaking? Why do my bodies start shaking with it? What kind of illusion is this? With the clanging sound of various things falling to the ground or even shattering, people suddenly react and there is an earthquake!

The whole world was in a panic. The clothes are not yet covered and the eyes cannot see, but it doesn't matter, people either hide in the nest and shiver to ask for the blessings of the gods and Buddhas, or run around like flies, and of course, there are also people who calmly walk to the door or even crawl from memory. At this time, there are shouts and cries, the sound of things falling, and even the sound of houses collapsing...... The whole world was in a tumult, and the thick night seemed to be stirred up!

At this moment, a bolt of lightning from south to north crossed the entire night sky, and the whole world was briefly illuminated. When the light in people's eyes has not faded, a deafening roar ensues. The thunder was so loud that the crying babies were momentarily quiet. The thunder subsided for a long time before people slowly came back to their senses. At this time, the sharp-eyed people suddenly noticed that the rain seemed to start to gradually decrease, and the sky was noticeably brighter. God, is this heavy rain finally going to stop?

Can anyone give an answer?

On a small island in the mainland's OOCL region, an old man dressed in a simple green sermon robe stands alone in an octagonal pavilion near the water. The wind and rain continued to blow his robes and gray hair. Looking at the monstrous waves in the distance, the old man frowned, and his left hand kept pinching something......

In a temple on the western plateau of the mainland, an old monk in a yellow robe who was meditating with his eyes closed while knocking on a wooden fish suddenly stopped what he was doing and opened his eyes. His deep gaze seemed to penetrate the endless wasteland in front of him, looking at the churning thunder abyss. After a few breaths, the old monk closed his eyes again with some tiredness, put his hands together and said, "My Buddha is compassionate." ”

In front of the mountains in the south of the continent, an old man with red hair and red robes who was not angry and arrogant was waiting for something, looking at the volcanoes in the distance that had been silent for nearly a hundred years, but at this moment they suddenly erupted collectively, as if they wanted to light up the entire night sky. Soon after, a white figure suddenly appeared beside the old man. Although her face is covered with tulle, she is obviously a fair woman. The two seemed to be old acquaintances, and after exchanging a few words, they turned their backs and left, and the direction the woman drifted in was in the fire-breathing mountains.

In front of the misty dark forest in the north of the continent, the stagnant water floats and leaves fall, swirling in the forest. A thin old man in a black robe seemed to be completely at one with the tree at his feet and with the dark night. Looking at the endless dark night where the north had resumed after the lightning, the old man was thoughtful. After a long time, I heard him mutter, "Are you going to start?"

Volume 1 Yongzhou

The first section of the worker

In 992 of the Yu Dynasty, Yongzhou, Bodhi County, Yaowang Town.

"I heard about this earthquake, and Zhongzhou was the hardest hit. ”

"I heard from the people who just fled from there to ask for food in our village, compared to Zhongzhou, our Yongzhou is not like it has just been earthquaked. It is said that the houses on the Zhongzhou side have collapsed one after another, especially the big river under the heavy rain has burst, and those who were lucky enough not to be stoned to death were washed away by the flood. ”

"The government said that this flood is a once-in-a-millennium event. I heard that a large number of villages on both sides of the river have been washed away by the river. I don't know how much farmland has been flooded, and it is estimated that many people will starve to death this year!"

Under the overpass where people came and went, a group of big men in short sweatshirts sat on the ground, foaming stars flying all over the sky, as if they had personally experienced the bursting of the embankment of the river not long ago, and a few young boys squatting next to them were also startled.

"Hmph, the sky has fallen, the ground has sunken, and there is a high top, and it is not your turn to worry about it. A strong man in a straw hat in the center spat out a long smoke ring and said in an urn sound.

The thin young man who had just sighed for the starving man just smiled after hearing the strong man's ridicule, and then approached the strong man in the straw hat and asked in a low voice: "Old Uncle Wang, I heard that the Buddhas of Yonghe Temple personally came down the mountain to rescue the disaster this time?"

Hearing the Lama Temple, a group of people around him also hurriedly surrounded him.

The big man known as Old Uncle Wang glanced at the thin young man and snorted: "You kid is quite well-informed." After that, you put down the cigarette pouch pot in your hand, knocked lightly on the bluestone slab ground and said: "This time the earth is shocking, although our Yongzhou is not like Zhongzhou, which is the first to bear the brunt, but it has also suffered a lot. Yonghe Temple is the first temple in the world, and it is also the head of all sects and factions in our Yongzhou territory. The Buddhas of Yonghe Temple have always been compassionate, and I heard that this time they not only personally used the supreme Buddhist magic to move mountains and open the way, but also summoned the immortals of other temples and Taoist temples in the state to help the people. ”

The people who came around, especially the young boys, heard the Lama Temple, and their eyes showed a sense of awe. Lao Wang squinted and glanced around, very satisfied with this effect, took a deep breath of the cigarette pouch pot, spit out a long smoke ring, and then took the cigarette pouch pot and lit it to a few young boys and drank: "You stinky boys have been clever recently." If the Buddha and the gods of any family use you, it is your immortal fate. ”

"Will you teach us spells?" asked one of the boys, who looked very generous, excitedly, immediately eliciting a burst of laughter.

"Tulong, don't dream, the fortune teller said, those Buddha and fairy aunts who can spell spells are all immortals reincarnated in the mortal world, and they have immortal roots and Buddha bones. You are the life of a farmer. An old man next to him laughed loudly: "But if the immortals are in a good mood, reward you with a elixir, maybe you will be literate after eating it." Immediately, everyone laughed, and the thick boy called Tulong also smiled and scratched the back of his head.

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On the overpass, two women dressed in goose yellow clothes stood side by side, attracting sideways glances from passers-by from time to time. I saw the one on the left with a double hanging bun, thick eyebrows and apricot eyes, and a delicate face, and the one on the right with a moth eyebrows, gentle and silent, amiable to watch.

Looking at the group of chatting nonsense workers under the bridge, the girl on the left who was slightly lower asked the demure woman beside her with a curious expression: "Senior sister, is our medicine collection task also assigned by the holy monks of Lama Temple?" I heard that the master was invited by the holy monks of Lama Temple yesterday. ”

The woman known as Senior Sister touched the little girl's bun dotingly, and said softly, "That's right. Since the establishment of our Hundred Medicine Gate, we have sought the Tao with medicine, and this time the catastrophe fell from heaven, the master was merciful and took the initiative to take the responsibility of refining and rescuing the most urgent medicines for the people. However, because the several medicinal products required for refining this time are not very commonly used, we don't have too many in our daily life, so we can only collect them temporarily. ”

Speaking of this, she thought of something, and a faint sadness suddenly appeared in her eyes, and she said softly: "Heaven is ruthless, and all things are used as dogs. After the great calamity, there will be a plague, and I hope that we can save more people, so that there will be less suffering in this world, and it will not live up to our spiritual requests. ”

Seeing that the senior sister's mood turned low, the little girl secretly scolded herself in her heart. I saw her suddenly stomp her foot and change the topic: "Why hasn't this kid come yet, isn't he snoozing and hasn't gotten up yet." ”

Senior Sister was about to say something, when she suddenly heard someone shouting in the distance behind her: "Senior Sister, Senior Sister!" As soon as the two of them turned their heads, they saw a fat young man in a blue shirt holding a stack of bamboo baskets, panting and running up the bridge quite comically.

Putting down the bamboo basket in his hand, the young man immediately picked up his sleeve and fanned it, panting and saying, "Worthy of the mission, senior sister, I bought all the bamboo baskets that just arrived at the market this morning." ”

The senior sister was about to comfort him, but when she saw the little girl look up a few times, she frowned and asked, "Zhang Li, where is the herb picker you greeted?"

Zhang Zhang pointed under the bridge, raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh, far away in the sky, close at your feet." Let's go, I'll take you to pick someone!" After speaking, he picked up the stack of medicine baskets and walked slowly under the bridge.

The two girls hurriedly followed, and their hearts were full of doubts: it was not that they had never seen laborers working before, but most of them were manual tasks such as building houses and houses, such as identifying medicinal herbs and collecting medicinal materials, and this group of rough men could also do it?

Zhang Zhang went around to the bridge, and seemed to be familiar with this area, so he shouted from afar: "Lao Wang, come to work!"

Lao Wang pinned the cigarette pouch pot to his waist after knocking it on the bluestone slab, took off his straw hat, patted his ass and stood up, hurriedly greeted him, took the bamboo basket in Zhang Li's hand, glanced at the two fairy-like women behind Zhang Li, pointed to the bamboo basket and asked with some confusion: "Zhang Xianshi, who are you?"

The little girl who followed Zhang Li laughed out loud, and said to her senior sister in a hidden voice: "Zhang Fatzi has become an immortal master!"

Zhang Zhang coughed a little embarrassedly, took the straw hat in Lao Wang's hand and slapped it twice, and said loudly: "Lao Wang, I have to bother you again this time." First of all, this is the Qingluo Fairy of our Hundred Medicine Gate, and many of the magic medicines in our town, including the county medicine village, are all from the hands of my senior sister. ”

Lao Wang hurriedly hugged his fists and saluted: "I've seen a fairy." ”

Zhang Zhang then pointed to the delicate little girl on the side, and the little girl was just about to straighten up her little chest, so she heard Zhang Zhang quickly say: "This is my senior sister's little girl with a fart Qinghuan, let's leave it alone." ”

Qinghuan suddenly stomped his feet: "You ......"

Before Qinghuan could say anything, Zhang Zhang turned around and introduced to Qingluo: "Senior sister, this is Lao Wang, the most reliable foreman in our town, a lot of work in our Baiyaomen and the town's medicine house, all the people introduced by Lao Wang have been used, and the praise rate is extremely high." The herb picker you need this time, let's recruit from him. ”

Although he was still wondering about the type of work of the "medicine picker", Lao Wang's face was silent, and he said again: "I don't know what your specific needs are, fairy? ”

Qingluo smiled slightly, and suddenly gave people a feeling of spring breeze, and saw that the young boys behind him were stunned. I only heard her say softly: "Then there is Master Lao Wang." I need a few good people with good memories and quick skills to help us collect some herbs on the Hundred Medicine Mountain, and I will be grateful when the work is done. ”

The fairy laughed, and didn't dare to take it seriously. Several of our young descendants were born in peasant families, and grew up rolling in mountain nests. As long as you tell them what the herb looks like, it doesn't matter how much you pick. I saw Lao Wang turn around and beckon: "Thin monkeys, mountain dogs, earth dragons, and a few of you, hurry up." ”

Hearing the names of the thin monkeys, Qingluo was stunned for a moment, but Qinghuan couldn't hold back his laughter: "The name given by this father and mother is really funny." ”

Lao Wang laughed and said, "Let the fairy see and laugh." This name was not given by my father, but it was just a nickname given by our old fellow to this group of cubs. But they are all in name. Let's say that this mountain dog should take him to the mountains to hunt, and it is better to find prey than a hunting dog. ”

But when they saw a few people coming over, the three Qingluo sisters and brothers were stunned. The thin and tall one who took the lead is the so-called skinny monkey by visual inspection, and it looks like a Qinghuan is about the same size. And the few juniors who followed, none of them seemed to be older than him. Especially there is a kid who has been smiling, and he looks like he is fifteen or sixteen years old.

"Lao Wang, what are you..."Seeing that Lao Wang, who had just touted the reliability, had called a few half-sized children, Zhang Zhang was suddenly a little dissatisfied.

As if he saw the doubts in the hearts of the three of them, Lao Wang explained with a smile: "Don't think these little guys are young, in terms of memory and skills, we old guys are really inferior to them." Then he patted his chest to Zhang Zhang and said: "Immortal Master Zhang, my old king will assure you with my reputation that the people I pick out will be as reliable as ever." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Li rubbed his hands, leaned over to his senior sister and explained, "Senior sister, Lao Wang has said so, then it must be no problem." Lao Wang's credibility in the town is definitely the best. ”

Looking at everyone's expectant eyes, Qingluo was a little helpless: "Then try it first." Time is relatively tight, let's talk while walking on the road, and also introduce a few little brothers to the several herbs to be collected today. ”

"Gotcha!" the thin monkey quickly picked up the medicine basket beside Lao Wang, and then threw it to the boys behind him, one by one, with his back behind his back, making a "please" gesture.

Qingluo smiled slightly and turned to leave, Qinghuan hurriedly followed, grabbed Qingluo's arm, and whispered a laugh. After Zhang Zhang signaled goodbye to Lao Wang, he beckoned the thin monkey and other boys to follow, and went straight to Yaowang Mountain.