The two sides of Zhanguang that the empress of the Yue clan referred to refer to the southern and northern regions of Zhan.

Although the Yueshi country is located in the north, there is a Xiangjiang River flowing through it in the middle, and the four seasons are distinct, the precipitation is abundant, and the Xiangjiang River is more than 850 miles longitudinal and horizontal, with five rivers and three rivers, and the river basin is rich in products. It has always been the "land of fish and rice", and it is also praised as "Zhan Guang is ripe, and the world is full".

Jinghua didn't make a sound in front of the empress, but thought in her heart, I don't know that this Xiangjiang River is known as the soul of the three rivers, and it has always had a developed water system and many tributaries, how could it be to the point of drought?

And it was only a matter of a few days for him to leave the Heavenly Court, so how could there be no one to pass through?

Jinghua thought that he was not at ease, and felt that it was better to come and have a look in person, so he took Ah Mo and went straight to him.

After all, it is within the territory of the Yue Clan, and even Tengyun seems unnecessary. Jinghua recited a stealth trick, took Ah Mo a few leaps, and arrived.

"Jinghua, this Xiangjiang River is still my Sister Axiang's fiefdom, how can you say that the drought is drought?" Jinghua crossed too fast, and the wind on the road blew so that she couldn't open her eyes, so she simply buried her head in Jinghua's arms and didn't look outside.

"Ah Xiang's fief is the Xiangjiang River, Qinglan's fief is the Lancang River, what about Momo's fiefdom, is it full of foam?" Jinghua deliberately quipped.

"I hate, I hate! I wasn't an adult at the time, and my father hadn't given me a fief yet! Later, when I became an adult, my father asked me to pick one myself!"

According to the rules of your Canglong family, isn't it necessary to change the name of the fief?

If the Yangtze River is sealed, my Momo will have to be renamed Ah Chang; if the Pearl River is sealed, it will be called Ah Zhu; by the way, you don't want Heilongjiang, if a girl's family is called Ah Hei, it will be indecent!"

"Jinghua hates it! hates it! When did you learn to be so flamboyant with your eldest brother!" Ah Mo reached out and squeaked him again.

Ever since he knew that Jinghua was afraid of itching, Ah Mo never tired of it, and loved to bully him like this at every turn. Jinghua seemed to be really afraid of itching, and before her little hand approached, she was already laughing.

The two of them quarreled for a while, but they all stopped and gasped.

They looked at the scene in front of them and were shocked.

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It was desolate all around.

There were thousands of acres of fertile land in the past, and now there is only a piece of panic left in the granary of the world!

Dry cracked!

The cracked earth, like the deep wrinkles on the old man's face, recorded an indelible sadness. The once abundant, turquoise ribbon of the river has sunk deep, and the black mud on both sides is exposed, like festering ugly scars.

The sun hung numbly in the sky like a fireball of oil, steaming and scorching the earth. There was not even a trace of obscured clouds around, and even if they drifted by occasionally, they couldn't stand the scorching temperature, and immediately fled far away.

Large swaths of fish and shrimp carcasses piled up in the river, emitting a rotting fishy smell. The dogs were still wallowing in the mud pond without worry. The old people hid under the eaves, closed their eyes, and stayed up for time.

Only those children who are still nursing are sucking their mother's milk without worry. And their mother's lips were pale in color.

Ah Mo was greatly surprised, "How could it be like this? Could it be that the entire Xiangjiang River has already dried up!"

Jinghua frowned.

Ah Xiang is the lord of the Xiangjiang River, and it is impossible for her not to know that the Xiangjiang River has dried up. But at the wedding, she didn't mention it at all, and no one reported the drought to herself.

Ah Mo said: "Sister Ah Xiang has always been the most serious, the hour of the rain, no matter how much, it will not be bad, how can there be such a big mistake!"

Jinghua frowned, Ah Xiang didn't have much contact, but he kept hearing Momo mention it, and knew that this sister was the most honest and meticulous, if her negligence caused a drought when it rained, it was very unlikely.

In other words, the great drought here is not caused by a long period of rainfall, but something else?

The two children surrounded Ah Mo and said in a milky voice: "Sister, do you have anything to eat?"

Ah Mo couldn't stand the children's offense the most, and Jinghua was just about to stop it, she had already taken out two pieces of baked cakes packed in Taihua Building from her body, gave them to the two children, and said, "Be good, eat slowly." There's no water here, don't choke. ”

The two children took the cake and ran away.

"Jinghua, do you still have anything to eat?" asked Ah Mo.

Jinghua sighed and said, "Momo, I wanted you not to give it." ”

"Why?" Mo wondered, "Adults can still stay up, children are so pitiful." ”

Jinghua smiled bitterly: "Why, you can see it!"

He pointed into the distance, and sure enough, the two children who had come to beg for food had quickly returned to the crowd, and handed the two baked cakes to the adults respectfully, without eating a single bite himself.

The child pleaded pitifully, and the adults broke a small piece and threw it into the ground. The two children were so busy picking it up that they didn't even have time to clean the dust, so they swallowed it in their stomachs in a hurry.

Ah Mo was indignant and said angrily: "How can they do this! Let the children deceive! Those two children are the same, they don't learn well at a young age!"

Jinghua said: "Don't blame them, the world is like this." Poor rats, rodents, and birds are sleepy. These people are forced into a desperate situation by life, and as long as they can live, they can abandon their beliefs in good and evil, and it is difficult to criticize them harshly. ”

Ah Mo pouted and said: "Excuses! Can you do whatever you want when life is compelled to do whatever you want? You are also the son of your father, why are you completely different from Chenhua? Big brother is also different! If you want me to say, wicked people always have reasons to do evil, and they just put gold on their faces." ”

Jinghua was silent.

The mention of his father and Chenhua always made him feel a pain in his heart.

"What's wrong with Jinghua? Did I mention them and make you sad?"

"No, it's all in the past. He raised his eyes and smiled, "Chenhua took a detour, but fortunately, in the end, he also got good results with Xuan Yao." ”

He pulled her and walked forward slowly, "Let's see what the drought is going on, solve it as soon as possible, and let the people live in peace." ”

Ah Mo looked around and said, "Jinghua, do you want to fly up to rain now?" I memorized that rainfall trick, and I don't know if it's right, why don't I recite it for you first?"

Jinghua shook his head and said, "Wait a minute, let's find someone to ask first." The severe drought here is not necessarily the reason for the lack of rain. ”

"What could that be?"

Jinghua was just about to answer, but he heard a commotion in front of him, and several peasants stood on a high slope, beating gongs and shouting, attracting the other sleepy people in the village.

Jinghua and Ah Mo glanced at each other, and then walked towards that place as well.

This high slope was originally a barn, and when the grain was rushed, it was rudely torn down along with the canopy and walls, leaving bare pillars and beams, which looked like a natural prison cell.

A boy in his early teens was tied to a protruding pillar with thick hemp rope, his hair was messy, and his face was dirty, but he could faintly see a delicate appearance in this silhouette.

Although his face was yellow and thin, he was not unconscious from hunger, and his beautiful eyes looked at the more and more villagers rushing below, bowing his head and trembling in despair.

Ah Mo was just about to step forward, but was restrained by Jinghua's color, so let's listen to the decision of those villagers first.

Sure enough, when the people were almost there, the two women who were beating the gong stopped and said loudly to the villagers: "Folks, our Fulin Village has always been smooth and rainy, and there are good harvests every year, but in recent years, I don't know how to do it.

The woman was in her forties, stout and powerful, and she was still full of vigor even when she couldn't eat.

"If you want me to say, there must be some filthy and lowly embryo in the village that has angered the dragon king! That's why it rains on us that dries up as soon as it hits! He and his father are the kind of lowly embryos! For their sake, the whole village suffers! This kind of person, do you think you should find out?"

"Yes!" the villagers chimed in.

"Get it out and burn him!" said one in the crowd.

Immediately, two or three people chimed in, "Burn him, burn him, kill him, everyone has a way to live!"

The woman was satisfied. Her name is Big Girl. Grandma is the village chief of this Fulin Village, and it was passed on to her. After succeeding as the village head, she used the money she prepared as a dowry to buy seeds of good varieties in neighboring villages, leading the whole village to make a fortune, and was more respected than when her grandmother and mother were in power.

But his marriage was delayed like this. It wasn't until the thirty-fifth or sixth that he hoarded some more silver and married a man in the village who was twenty years younger than himself.

As soon as the eldest girl waved her hand, the villagers immediately fell silent again. The eldest girl pointed to the boy who was tied to the pillar and said: "The eyes of the villagers are bright, our whole village is a person who knows the roots, only this little slut, who came to our village with his father seven years ago, if it weren't for the two of them who did something unseemly and angered the Dragon King, who else could there be!"

The boy still lowered his head, pouted his chapped lips, and trembled, "No, I didn't do anything bad!

The eldest girl didn't care about him, and she suppressed the weak voice with one mouth. The other woman, who had just struck the gong, lit the torch and handed it to the eldest girl, and the scorching black smoke pierced the boy's eyes and turned his head away.

It was this slight turn of his head that surprised Jinghua and Ah Mo.

From that side, the boy and Jinghua look a little similar!