After the last conversation, Chen Zhixian took the urgent official document in the official room, opened it on the spot, and handed it to Master Huang. Li You stood behind Master Huang, and condescendingly took a peek.

It turned out to be an urgent dispatch from Suzhou Prefecture to the express delivery shop, the road is two months without rain, there will be a major drought, in order to seek rain, the prefect strictly ordered the counties as follows, one is to prohibit slaughter, cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens and ducks are in this case; the second is to suspend the questioning of criminal names; the third is that the Qinglou opera troupe and other dusty industries must be closed down; Fourth, weddings and birthdays and other happy events are not allowed; Fifth, the officials of each county should pray for rain with devout devotion and must not make mistakes.

Chen Zhixian's family education since childhood is an authentic Confucianism, and he has always stayed away from ghosts and gods. He said to Master Huang: "Thunder, rain and dew all have days, for the official self-cultivation and morality, diligence and love for the people, more benevolent government, God has its own virtue of good life." If there is a heavenly punishment imposed on the people, they will be exempted from money and grain in the court, and they will only open a warehouse for relief. How can you ask ghosts and gods without asking the common people, waste money, food, manpower, and disturb customs to do that vain thing? ”

Master Huang replied: "The country has droughts and floods, and the Son of Heaven must also bathe himself and pray, and if the stars fall and the earth moves, he must issue an edict to sin himself." How can local parents be exempt from vulgarity? People are doing it, people are watching, bosses are watching, and people are watching. "Master Huang means that if you don't do this, the foolish people will think that you are disrespectful to the gods and invite trouble, and the boss will think that you are not serious about farming and out of place, and you are the unlucky one, and your attitude determines everything.

"There are 100,000 families in this county, and there are many miscellaneous affairs, and the officials in each room are not allowed to have a moment to spare, how can there be..."Chen Zhixian said, raising his eyes and seeing Li You standing behind Master Huang, "There is!" The matter was handed over to Li You. "He's idle anyway.

Hearing this, Li You complained bitterly. This errand... His main soul comes from the era of the emptiest faith, an absolute unbeliever, and has no interest in feudal superstition. What's more, these errands are tiring and oil-free. If it is begging to come and go, God will not give the face and it will not rain, then whose responsibility is it?

"The subordinate river engineering office is here..."Li You excused.

Chen Zhixian waved his hand and said: "The left and right will not start work, and it is okay to suspend it for half a month." You go to pray for rain first, so as to appease the people and calm the county. ”

Then Chen Zhixian issued a notice board, saying: "Praying for rain and related prohibition matters are dispatched by Li You, and all classes are dispatched." ”

In fact, this is also because Chen Zhixian didn't take the matter of praying for rain and the ban too seriously, so he handed these over to Li You to deal with them indiscriminately and deal with the people who should be dealt with.

Li You didn't dare to disobey the order, so he had to take over the errand, lamenting in his heart when the water conservancy project that could make a fortune would be officially launched, Xue Juren's five hundred taels of silver for white flowers couldn't be obtained, and his heart was itching to death.

When he returned to his public house, and saw the two scribes in the same room writing hard, Li You sat down and knocked on the table and said, "Stop for the time being and discuss some things." ”

The two scribes, one named Wang Zhong and the other Yuan Ming, raised their heads when they heard this.

Li You asked: "Since the previous month, there has been no rain, and I see that there is going to be a big drought." The Lord has asked us to prepare for the rain, do you know the past practice? We follow the rules and do things according to the rules. ”

Wang Zhong and Yuan Ming first glanced at each other, could it be that Li Xianren fell out of favor? was actually assigned such a strenuous and difficult drudgery.

Then Wang Zhong said: "This matter of praying for rain, according to the practice of our county, Jian Erhua is only two urgent things, one is to build a platform to sacrifice, and the county personally prays to heaven; The second is to invite monks and Taoists to set up a practice of chanting scriptures. ”

Yuan Ming added: "The cost of silver and silver needs can range from hundreds to thousands, and we must raise them first. ”

"It's God again, it's a monk, it's a Taoist priest, which fairy is it in the past? Is it useless to worship only one? Li You asked disrespectfully.

"This... The subordinates don't know. ”

You have to ask for money first to handle anything, Li You went to see Chen Zhixian again, and his saliva was full of statements, and only one hundred taels were allowed. Master Chen has a heroic spirit in his heart, what he can see only respects heaven and earth, and what he can't see only respects his ancestors, and he doesn't want to see these strange things, and he can approve a hundred taels and consciously take care of Li You. What's more, the autumn harvest has not yet arrived, and the surplus money from this year's tax revenue has not yet come up, and the two or three months before the autumn harvest are the time when the county government is nervous.

Li You smiled bitterly: "Master! These 100 taels are enough to build an earthen platform and put some sacrificial instruments. The eldest man loves the people, and he doesn't need money to appear. But there are also monks and Taoists who pay for the Dharma, which requires at least dozens of them, and the practice often lasts for ten days and a half months, which is not low. ”

Desk fee? About Jiangnan called incense money like this, Chen Zhixian said while thinking: "My county is the hometown of Jiangnan poetry, calligraphy, etiquette and religion, can there be a few compassionate mages who have mercy on the world!" Go and find some truly virtuous mages. ”

Wu Dianshi, who Li You retired and looked for a workshop, arranged the construction of the altar, and decided to recruit 20 craftsmen and levy a number of civilian servants, and the construction period was five days. Li You sent Wang Zhong and Yuan Ming to take turns to supervise the work with whips to ensure that the work was completed on time.

The next thing is to organize monks and Taoists to do the Dharma, and the large and small temples and palaces in Xujiang County add up to double digits, and of course Li You will not think about visiting them all. He listed a few famous temples, thinking that if the negotiation was completed, they would organize their own companions, saving worry and effort.

According to custom, such a troublesome thing is, of course, to arrange for Wang and Yuan to go, but the two of them refuse. Li You scolded: "Do you dare to hide and be lazy!" Wang Zhong hurriedly said: "The two of us are humble, and I am afraid that I will be considered disrespectful when I go to invite a senior monk." Even if it's not a county official, at least you have to invite the historian. So we couldn't take on this errand. ”

It also makes sense, Li You ordered the official ship and decided to run away from the matter himself.

Let's talk about the other thing, Zhu Zhili, a household of the Zhu family, sued the Yan Mansion, which can be regarded as a news item that is not big or small in Xujiang County. The father and son of the Yan family felt that something was wrong, and asked Zhuang Ding, who went to Zhujiaji with Steward Sun at that time, to inquire, but the matter was still unclear and foggy, and the key person Steward Sun was also missing, and he didn't know where to go.

But the trial of this case was interrupted by providence. It turned out that because of the heavy drought without rain in the past two months, one of the five prohibitions issued by the prefect in order to pray for rain was to suspend the sentence and break the prison, so Zhu Zhili's case against the Yan government was postponed.

When Li You's father heard this, he couldn't help but close his eyes and sighed: "It's up to people to plan things, and it's up to heaven to make things happen!" "I still hold a volume of popular romance of the Three Kingdoms in my hand.

Ben came to the trial and said, as long as he gave the body of Steward Sun to the Yan Mansion a good stolen goods according to his very professional and experienced experience, and identified the Yan Mansion as killing people and killing people, it would be difficult to tell if the Yan family father and son had a hundred mouths. It just so happened that the magistrate was also tired of the Yan family, and the father and son had to shed their skin if they couldn't die.

But now in the middle of summer, when the rain is over, the corpses are rotten into slag, and the daylilies are cold.

――――――――――――――――――――――――

The water is finally finished, not to mention how uncomfortable these chapters are.

In the future, you can boldly ask for all kinds of good-looking numeric codes!