The smoke and waves on the river are vast, the Zhou army water village outside Guangling City in Jiangbei is shrouded in a continuous drizzle as elsewhere, and the warships and civilian ships are berthed in the water village, and the sails are moored down, waiting for the end of the rainy day. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The summer and autumn seasons in the south of the Yangtze River are rainy, a rain can rain for ten days and a half months, and there is a big storm, whistling from the south, blowing the trees to the east and west, the heavy rain is poured down on the head instantly, it only rains for a few hours, and everywhere it turns into an ocean.

The sky and water are on the first line, and it looks white and unclean, but the soldiers and boatmen in the water village have to survive in the rain again and again.

Even though the rain has stopped, the weather is damp, and there are few sunny days, and the clothes and bedding are starting to become moldy, and they want to make a fire to cook or bake clothes, but the firewood and grass that they have hoarded have been used up, and the firewood and dead branches that have been cut outside are wet, and it is not easy to burn at all.

"The weather in Jiangnan is really hell, when will this rain stop!"

In one of the boats, a boatman complained that he was in his twenties, his skin was tanned, his hair was sticky, and he looked like he hadn't washed it for a long time, and at this moment, he was catching lice on his body by the hatch.

The thin man on the side heard the words and mocked: "It's like when the rain stops, you can bask in the sun, look at it, even if it stops, it will still fall in a few days, look, look, my tattered clothes are starting to grow mold again." ”

"Oh, how can you talk nonsense, my brothers have been begging Maitreya Bodhisattva for the past few days, don't talk nonsense."

"Nonsense? Isn't the Bodhisattva now bless us? It's better to be moldy in Jiangbei than to be unlucky in Jiangnan! Let me tell you, Wu Laosan, who transported grain to the camp in Jingkou last time, was called a miserable..."

A few boatmen who were bored to catch fleas began to talk about the current situation, they and most of the young people in the water village are generally Qingzhou people, who fish on the beach on weekdays for a living, and some people are stove households, or simply ordinary people.

Regardless of whether it is bitter or not, life is like this anyway, but at the end of last year, he was requisitioned by the government and went south with the Qingzhou Navy to join the Yangtze River to support the official army.

When they set off, the officials slapped their chests and said that this time the official army went south, there were a million troops, and it was not a problem to level the island, so in the coming year, that is, at the beginning of this year, when the spring flowers bloomed, the officers and soldiers would be able to triumph, and everyone would be able to return to Qingzhou.

Before leaving, they burned incense and made a wish to Maitreya Bodhisattva, praying for the Bodhisattva to bless themselves with a safe return, and then went out with the package, said goodbye to their families with tears, boarded the dense warship, and went south with the Qingzhou naval army.

At first, it was quite smooth, although the official army crossed the river and headed south later than expected, but it is said that as soon as they came ashore, they quickly approached the capital of Chen, and just when everyone thought that victory was coming, the official army suffered a defeat.

The specific situation, the ordinary strong men who are boatmen and coolies do not know, but knowing that the war is unfavorable, I am afraid that they will have to stay in Jiangnan for a while longer.

The so-called victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and everyone pondered that the officers and troops would definitely win back next time, but they didn't know what was going on, as if the war had not been smooth, and what was even worse was that the weather was getting more and more rainy, and the rain was ten days and a half months.

The officers and soldiers controlled the river, so there were fewer and fewer water battles, and what the boatmen had to do was to row and sail, sail back and forth to the north and south of the river to transport grain and baggage, and stay in the water village when they were idle, and many people lived on the boats.

The days gradually passed, and the officers and troops confronted each other on the Jiangnan side and Daoyi on rainy days, and fought back and forth on sunny days, but there has been no great victory in the battle until now, but there are more and more unlucky people in the army.

There are people who are not accustomed to water and soil, there are people who have bad stomachs, and there are people who have high fevers after being drenched in the rain and blowing the wind, and more and more people are sick, but fortunately, the officers and soldiers are not bad to people, and they all transport the sick to Guangling City for resettlement.

There are also doctors who see patients and use medicines, although there are still many people who die of illness, and the medicine used is not a good medicine, but there is a greater hope of surviving.

People who are not sick may also be unlucky, with the stalemate of the war, originally shrunk outside Jiankang City on the south bank of the stone city water village to avoid the war, Daoyi, from time to time sent boats out to sneak attack, the target is the official army to and from the north and south of the river to transport grain ships.

The boats that came out of the island were all clippers, and they were often taken by surprise, rushing to the vicinity of the grain convoy and firing rockets, and then taking a handful of them away, and some unlucky soldiers and boatmen were killed in this attack.

"Hey, Wu Laosan was shot in the face by a stray arrow, and he couldn't do it at the time, and before he had time to explain the aftermath, he was gone... Take pity on the two babies in his family, and wait for Aya to go back. ”

"This is unlucky, if the official army had taken Jiankang before, Wu Laosan would not have to die..."

"Don't die? Who knows what will happen in this world! One of them scolded angrily, he had a mustache, and his voice was a little high, and others hurriedly signaled him to pay attention to the tone.

"For more than ten years, the war has not stopped!" Bazi Hu continued to mumble, "Back then, the official government was still surnamed Gao, but as a result, the Zhou army called, and many people died, and the official government was surnamed Yu..."

"It's Yuwen, Yuwen!"

"Yes, yes, yes, it's Yuwen, and then someone wants to change the official surname to Yang, this is good, it's been tossing for seven or eight years, and it's finally stopped, and now I'm going to toss Daoyi, isn't it possible to calm down at the beginning of the year? As a result, I can't beat it now..."

"Fighting, fighting, fighting, every year, I don't know how many people die! Do you think that if you kill Daoyi, the world will be peaceful? Hum! ”

"I said Lao Hu, why are you talking so much today? The official army killed Daoyi, and the world is unified, but won't it be too peaceful? ”

The eight-character nonsense sneered: "Taiping? The emperor and the prime minister, can they be peaceful? ”

"Ouch, hey, old Hu! You can't just say this kind of thing, if you let people hear it, you have to pull out your tongue! ”

"Okay, I won't say it, we'll see, believe in the official mansion, it's better to believe in Maitreya Bodhisattva."

Maitreya Bodhisattva is the future Buddha, so now it is still a Bodhisattva, folk believers generally call it Maitreya Bodhisattva, a small number of people call it Maitreya Buddha, of course, sometimes it will not be deliberately too clear, the eight-character Hu turns the topic to Maitreya Bodhisattva, others feel a little inexplicable.

"Lao Hu, we have been worshipping Maitreya Bodhisattva, why do we say that it is better to believe in the Bodhisattva?"

"What you believe may not have a bright light..."

Bazihu glanced outside, and made sure that there were no officials and soldiers, so he lowered his voice and said: "I, I went to Dayi Yi to make incense before, hey, the Yi master of Dayi Yi has some mana..."

Seeing that everyone was interested, he continued: "For example, in a clay bowl, pour water into it, and then the master recited a spell, and after a while, a green lotus plant grew in the clay bowl, which is called a miracle. ”

"It's really fake, you don't have to play tricks on me."

"Really, I saw it with my own eyes, the villagers, how could my old Hu lie to the villagers?"

Speaking of this, Bazihu took out a statue of Maitreya from his package in the corner of the cabin and placed it in front of everyone: "Na, this is the statue of Maitreya that has been blessed by the master, as long as you worship it sincerely..."

Everyone looked at this Maitreya statue, which looked not much different from the Maitreya statue that everyone had seen, it was all in the style of Qingzhou statues, but the descending dragon beside Maitreya Bodhisattva was five claws.

"I'm telling you, it's been too chaotic these years, what Gao's, Yu's... Yuwen's, Yang's, Yuchi's, and Chen's are all talking nonsense, the world has to sit with a golden knife! ”

"The Golden Knife? What kind of knife is that? ”

Several people are illiterate and can't even write their own names, where do you know what the golden knife means, Bazihu smiled slightly, and dipped his fingers in the water and wrote the word "Liu" on the deck.

"Na, Mao Golden Knife, it's a Liu character, have you ever heard of the 'Golden Knife'?"

"What is the City of the Golden Sword? Is there a city under heaven made of golden swords? ”

Bazi Hu smiled, glanced outside the cabin again, lowered his voice and continued: "Maitreya Bodhisattva, in the future, he will be born to save the people and establish a pure land in the world, and Maitreya Bodhisattva will have a common name when he comes to the world, surnamed Liu..."

His eyes burned with a flame of bewitchment: "Think about it, what was the surname of the Son of Heaven in the two Han Dynasty back then?" The surname is Liu! In the Song Kingdom in the south, what was the surname of the Son of Heaven back then? The surname is Liu! ”

"The prophecy of the golden knife is the meaning of 'Liu's revival' and 'Liu's king', in this world, it is the incarnation of Maitreya Bodhisattva surnamed Liu who is qualified to sit, and following him is the right person!"