Agricultural proverb: Before and after the Qingming Festival, melons and beans are planted. It means that the agricultural season has reached the Qingming season, the weather is warmer, everything is recovering, and it is suitable for sowing crops. Another reason is also because there is abundant rain during the Qingming Festival, which is conducive to the germination and growth of crops. The common people naturally don't understand why there is abundant rain in the Qingming Festival, and they don't understand the scientific principles of atmospheric circulation, what high pressure and low pressure cold and warm converge, and they don't need to know these at all, they know the truth of rain in the Qingming Festival. It is the summary of ancient wisdom and experience, and it is the discovery of countless ordinary people from life.

In the early morning of March 12, the day before the Qingming Festival, a spring rain finally began to fall. Spring rain is as expensive as oil, which is the praise of the common people for spring rain. However, for the 80,000 soldiers of the Luoyan Army on the long post of Yu Shili, this spring rain is not only more expensive than oil, it is a life-saving rain. Because the entire army has been cut off for a day, people's hearts have already fluctuated a little.

Therefore, when the spring rain fell, the whole hill fell into a boil. Everyone ran out of the tent and stood in the falling rain, opening their mouths to greet the rain falling from the sky. And the generals in the army also let out a long sigh of relief. Although their Lin Dashuai said that it will definitely rain in the next few days, because of the so-called poem 'rain in the Qingming Festival', everyone does not dare to conclude that it will rain because of this poem that I don't know who wrote it. It wasn't until this rain really fell that they realized that the original verse was about the truth, and Lin Dashuai's calmness was by no means pretended.

Of course, Lin Jue is not completely unworried. Although there is a great probability of rain before and after Qingming, it is not 100% rainy. In case this year is abnormal, can I still find God to settle accounts? So, he's actually ready for both. If the water is cut off for two days and it doesn't rain again, he will have to take the risk of organizing people to go to the Bianhe River to draw water. There will be a big war, but it will have to be done. Fortunately, everything happened as he expected, and God finally did not push the Luoyan army into a desperate situation.

After the spring rain, Yang Xiu was the happiest. He had already led people to prepare, and he ordered people to pounce on the potholes on the slope of the hill with large pieces of rain cloth. Large sheets of tent cloth were cut and stretched out like umbrellas, just to catch and store all the rain that fell from the sky. He didn't want to waste any drop of rainwater, and he requisitioned a lot of pots and pans in the army, just to store the rainwater he received.

Yang Xiu felt that the spring rain at this time must not be too big, so the rain was extremely precious and could not be wasted. However, in the afternoon, he was dumbfounded. The rain began in the early morning and continued to rain more and more heavily in the afternoon, which was not a heavy downpour, but it was already more than expected. Not to mention the hundreds of water trucks, more than a dozen depressions and several large pits dug by hand were also filled with rainwater. There are quite a few streams formed in the hills and ravines. Everyone finally understood why some of the terrain on both sides of the hill was full of slopes and fissures, and the ditches formed by the rain washed and flowed.

In this way, the most worrying problem of water shortage is finally no longer a problem, but the rain is heavy, the hill is muddy, and the carriages and horses are inconvenient to walk, and they walk in the mud, which has become a headache. However, this kind of problem is better than the thirst of lack of water, and can only be regarded as a happy trouble at this time.

In the afternoon, in the octagonal room on the first floor of the Range Rover Tower, Lin Jue summoned everyone to come to the meeting, and Guo Kun also attended. The generals were all wet and mud under their feet, and after the rain they each checked in the camp for leaks in the tent and whether the camp was waterlogged, so they were wet and their legs were covered with mud. After entering, they all sat down around a red fire in the middle of the tower room. After a while, a white mist appeared on everyone's bodies, as if they were about to ascend to the immortals. Everyone's mood is very good, and after this spring rain, everyone's heart is much more relaxed and relaxed.

Lin Jue sat on a chair next to the fire, ordered someone to take a teacup and put it on it, and then took down a large copper kettle from the fire with his own hands and poured water into the teacup one by one. The sharp-eyed people immediately found that the tea was clear and green, and the aroma was tangy, and they were a little surprised.

"Oh, where did you get the tea, Dashuai, isn't it the tea brought out of the mountains? I didn't expect to have tea to eat at this time. What a blessing for us. Ma Qingshan exclaimed in surprise, he is a person who likes to drink tea, like Lin Jue, there are not many generals in the army who like to read and taste tea, Ma Qingshan is one.

"Hey, there's tea to drink, it's wonderful, it's wonderful." Liang Qi and the others also shouted. Tea is a luxury, and tea is also a luxury in the military. Even in the valley of the wild goose, tea is something that ordinary people can't afford. Handsome tea must be excellent tea, and that is even better.

Lin Jue smiled and said, "Everyone drink first to see if it suits the taste." ”

When everyone heard this, they thanked each other and took the teacup to drink, some of them took a sip and tasted it slowly, and some of them opened their mouths and drank dry like a cow chewing peonies, and they didn't know the taste.

"Hey, the taste is so fresh, could it be spring tea? But...... It's strange, where did we get spring tea in our army? Where did the handsome get the spring tea? Ma Qingshan touched the taste of tea in his mouth and exclaimed in surprise.

Lin Jue smiled and said: "Brother Ma still knows the goods, but you can taste the products carefully." ”

Ma Qingshan took another sip, smashed his mouth to taste it, and frowned: "Strange, strange, the taste is indeed fragrant, but it is bitter." It's like new tea, but it's not like it. But overall, it tasted good. ”

Lin Jue laughed and said, "Yes, Brother Ma has some ways." Ladies and gentlemen, you are not drinking tea, this is the willow sprouts that I boiled with the spring rain rain today. How is it? Is it comparable to new tea? The taste is passable. ”

Everyone was stunned and angry, and immediately burst into laughter. After doing it for a long time, it turned out that it was not tea that I drank, but willow buds, which I really didn't expect. It tastes really good.

"My hometown is in the south, and we have the custom of drinking willow leaf tea in spring. The particular thing is to use the first rain of the new year to cook the first sprouts on the willow tree. Drinking this new rain willow bud tea indicates that there is a new beginning for this year. When the spring rain fell today, I remembered this incident and told the emperor. Although the emperor's ancestral home is Bianliang, he also grew up in Hangzhou, so he naturally knows about this custom. At the emperor's suggestion, we picked some willow buds in the rain and used the New Year rain to make tea for you to drink. You can drink this willow leaf tea, and you have to thank the emperor. Lin Jue laughed.

When everyone heard this, they all got up and saluted Guo Kun, who was sitting on a wooden chair on the north side, "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”

Guo Kun smiled and waved his hand: "What is this?" What is there to be thankful for. ”

Lin Jue said with a smile: "Everyone, this willow leaf tea has some effects, it is clear to the eyes, clear the fire, diuretic and remove heat. It can be promoted in the military. I know that the soldiers in the army eat compressed dry food and eat some fire, which can be promoted. There are a lot of willow trees around the hill, while the willow buds are delicate and can be eaten, if the leaves are old, the tea will be bitter to drink. ”

Everyone nodded and said, "Thank you for your care, I will tell the soldiers to make willow leaf tea when I turn around." ”

Lin Jue nodded and beckoned everyone to sit down again. He said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I summoned you here today, of course, not for this willow leaf tea. Today's rain can be described as a joyful rain, which has greatly alleviated the danger of our army running off water. Lord Yang, you shouldn't have to worry about the lack of water now. ”

Yang Xiu got up with a smile and arched his hand: "Dashuai, where is there still a shortage of water?" The water is overwhelmed. The waterwheels were filled with water, the soldiers' water bladders were filled with water, and a dozen puddles and dug storage pits were also full. This water is enough for our army for a month. No more, no more. Now what we have to worry about is the matter of military rations, which are still enough for six or seven days, and I am about to ask the commander to show me whether to implement food rationing and reduce one meal. Now that there is no war, three meals a day is really not necessary, and it is okay to change to two meals. ”

Lin Jue waved his hand and said, "What kind of food is saved?" There is no need for this. Eating is a happy thing, and one less meal is one less joy. There's no need for that. Six or seven days of consumption is enough, and these six or seven days will be known. ”

Yang Xiu hurriedly said: "Okay, just listen to the commander's orders." ”

Lin Jue nodded, and Yang Xiu sat down. Lin Jue looked around at the generals and said in a deep voice: "Calling you here today is naturally to discuss the matter of battle. The day before yesterday, you all saw that the Jurchen army sent about 60,000 Ma Dong, you all know what they are doing, right? ”

"Do you need to ask? Naturally, I went to our Funiu Mountain. As the big man calculated, Wanyan Agu Da instead believed the news that the big man deliberately revealed to them, this is to copy our old nest. Liang Qilang said.

Lin Jue smiled and nodded, "Yes, they have been tricked." Next, it's up to Master Ma and them. If everything goes well, Master Ma has already persuaded the Northwest Army, and the Northwest Army must have moved to its position at this moment. The soldiers and horses in the mountains are probably in place under the leadership of Gao Muqing. From now on, they are the main force, and everything depends on the outcome of this ambush interception. If they prevail, our siege will be lifted, and everything will be known in five or six days. That's why I don't worry about food. If there is no result on the day when we run out of food, then it must be a failure of the strategy, so what is there to say? ”

Everyone nodded one after another, it turned out that the marshal was not worried about the problem of food, not because there was a way to get food, but because the war situation was out of control by then, and there was not much difference between having food and not having food.