Chapter 316: Unintentional Willow Insertion
A group of middle-aged men soon came to their village chief's house.
Seeing a group of them suddenly break into the house, the village chief was also shocked, not knowing what they wanted to do, and hurriedly asked, "What are you guys doing here with me?" ”
"Village Chief, we've found a way to make it rain!"
"Yes, village chief, this drought can finally be solved."
Hearing everyone's gossip and seeing the smiles on their faces, the village chief knew that it should be a good thing for a group of them to come over, so he was relieved.
"Tell me what you've found!"
No matter who you are, no one is immune to this drought, and when he heard that they had found a solution to the drought, the village chief was also impatient to know.
"Village chief, have you seen the heavy rain in Qinghong County?"
"I saw it, but it was raining in another county, and it had nothing to do with us, even if we went to Qinghong County to pull water, we couldn't solve the problem!" The village chief shook his head, apparently he had thought about this problem when he saw the rain in Qinghong County just now.
"Who said we were going to Qinghong County to pull water? Village Chief, do you know why it rains in Qinghong County? It was because they went to the City God Temple to ask for rain, and then the City God sent the dragon to give them rain to solve the drought. The middle-aged man said excitedly.
"What? Go to the City God Temple to ask for rain and it will rain, what you said is true, you didn't lie to me? Hearing the words of the middle-aged man, the village chief couldn't sit still.
Qinghong County has a City God Temple, they also have it here, if you only need to go to the City God Temple to ask for rain, you can solve the problem of drought, then this is simply too easy to do!
"Village Chief, how could I lie to you! I just called my brother-in-law to make sure, and he told me that Luo Guangkun, the patriarch of Qinghong County, went to Xianghui Square to ask for rain in person today, and he had just finished reciting the prayer. It started to rain in the sky. ”
"Okay, okay, I'll contact the party secretaries of several other villages, go to the town together to reflect the situation, and strive to settle the matter of our Rongde County begging for rain, there is no way to continue such a dry day."
The village chief showed excitement on his face, and hurriedly took out the phone and informed several other surrounding villages of the incident, after the agreement. I rode an electric car and rushed to the town.
The news that the drought could be solved by asking for rain in front of the Chenghuang Temple spread from Qinghong County to the surrounding counties in just a few days.
When the villagers in the surrounding counties learned of the news, they immediately asked their village chiefs to report to the above, and their demands soon came to the heads of the first families in each county and district.
Seeing these requirements, the patriarchs of the first families in these counties all felt a headache.
If they go to the temple to ask for rain, they will take a great risk if their opponents find out. This is a big trick, if they don't go, the people below will make a lot of noise, and the hearts of the people who are restless because of the drought will be stirred. Maybe something will happen.
Just when the patriarch of the first family in these counties was entangled, finally a village couldn't hold it back, and after applying to the temple blessing of the City God Temple, the whole village went to the City God Temple to ask for rain.
The prayer for rain has just been recited. Over there, it began to rain over their villages and fields.
The immediate effect made the eyes of the surrounding arid villages almost red. They all applied to the temple blessing of the City God Temple, wanting to hold a rain prayer ceremony here, but all of them were rejected by the temple blessing.
"There are too many villages, and it is too time-consuming, so let the patriarch of the first family in the county come to ask for rain and solve the problem at one time!"
In the face of the response of the Chenghuang Temple and Miao Zhu, those villagers had no choice but to hold back their anger and go to their village committee and let them react to their superiors.
Seeing that the villagers in various places have a faint tendency to erupt, the patriarchs of the first families in the counties and districts are finally no longer entangled, and now asking for rain is just a handle, if they don't ask for rain, it looks like something is going to happen.
As the surrounding counties of Qinghong County beg for rain, torrential rains poured down, filling up dry lakes and rivers, watering arid lands and washing away the heat and restlessness in the air.
Everyone lost the anger of the previous two days, and there was a slight gentle smile on their faces.
With the success of the rain prayer in the surrounding counties of Qinghong County, the rain prayer ceremony also began to spread to the surrounding area, but at this time problems began to appear.
Those areas in Lin Feng's Divine Domain were okay, there were Lin Feng's City God Temples towering, they only needed to go to the City God Temple to ask for rain, but there were still half of the areas in the entire province that did not belong to Lin Feng.
There are no temples in these areas, and even if they wanted to pray for rain, there was no place to pray for rain.
As the counties and districts begged for rain in the Chenghuang Temple, huge dark clouds began to appear in the sky, raining down one after another, wetting the arid land.
In the end, half of the entire Qilu province was experiencing heavy rainfall, and the downpour alleviated the drought in these places.
However, those areas that were not Lin Feng's Divine Domain did not have this treatment.
Seeing those counties and districts in Lin Feng's Divine Domain that began to rain after begging for rain, the first patriarchs of those non-Divine Domain counties couldn't sit still, they couldn't care about anything else, and began to prepare for the rain ritual one after another.
However, their efforts are doomed to be in vain, because there is no Chenghuang Temple in their county, and even if they go to the remaining Chenghuang Temples to ask for rain, it will not have the slightest effect.
There are also the first patriarchs of several counties and districts, who take the people to the big river in the county to pray for rain, but it is useless.
He took the risk to ask for rain, but it didn't have any effect, which made the first patriarch of these counties full of anger.
However, they did not give up there, and immediately contacted the first patriarch of those rainfall counties, and after asking them about it, they finally had a rough guess in their hearts.
There are no believers in their county at all, and people don't care about you at all, not to mention it's a rain ceremony, even if you wear out your mouth and talk all day long, it probably won't have any effect.
Seeing this situation, these first patriarchs of non-divine counties began to have a pain, this can't let them publicize and promote the Chenghuang faith, right? But if there are no Chenghuang believers here, people don't care about you!
But these people are all old foxes, although they can't be promoted in the official face, can't they be circulated in private?
So, overnight, a message began to circulate in these counties that the reason why they did not succeed in asking for rain here was because the people here did not believe in Chenghuang, and people did not care about them at all.
As soon as they heard this, the ordinary people suddenly became anxious, who said that they didn't believe in Chenghuang, we believe it! Isn't it just believing in the City God? As long as you can make it rain and solve the problem of drought, let's believe what we believe, what we believe! (To be continued......)