Chapter Fifty-Eight: Faith Like a Floating Cloud
The next time, Li You sat idly in the office, and it was expected that Chen Zhixian would arrive in the official room, and he was about to ask Zhixian to go to the Chenghuang Temple to offer incense, and by the way, let the eldest master inadvertently see if the girl he found was unsatisfactory. It is estimated that people from the background of the reader like this bridge, wandering in the back garden or burning incense in the temple and meeting beautiful women.
A servant came to Li You and said, "Mr. Li! Just now, a group of people gathered outside the gate of the county yamen, all of them were from various temples, carrying four or five statues of gods, and two notices. ”
Li You felt funny when he heard it, what kind of crazy thing they smoked. With a few statues of gods, you really think of yourself as the leader? Don't you know that the gods officially compiled in your country are all sealed by the government, and you dare to come to blackmail the government with the gods?
The official said kindly: "They all seem to be coming for you, sir, so be careful." ”
Li You didn't care, and at this time, someone came to pass the word and said, "The eldest lord told Mr. Li to go out and deal with the affairs outside the county office." ”
After receiving the order, Li You gathered more than a dozen soap servants on duty, as well as a number of miscellaneous servants. When I got out of the gate of the county government, I saw five colorful statues of gods on the street outside the door, and there were several notices with black characters on a white background. There were more than 20 figures kneeling around the statue in Taoist robes, and they were not noisy, they just sat quietly, and they vaguely recognized a few temples that they had come to yesterday.
At this time, the surrounding people and spectators are blocked, and the recent five bans have come down, no meetings, no performances, no happy events, and the liveliness of the common people is much less, and it is rare to have such a sight today. What's more, it's a cloudy day, it's cool, and it's comfortable outside.
The notice is also interesting, it is written on the side of the county government: "Ask for the people's life to beg for rain, Li Dianshi is unfair and ask the sky to be the master", and on the back side of the audience is written two lines of words: "Three days in my temple incense five-fold divination and divination is free, and the magic power of the gods will not be discounted."
These temple wishes are really a little clever, first, they don't make a lot of noise; The second is that it is some distance away from the yamen, and it is almost across the street, so it cannot be regarded as gathering crowds to besiege the county ya, but there are no city appearance management regulations to manage this kind of thing these years; the third is only against the small official Li Dianshi, not against the big lord Chen Qingtian, the politics is absolutely correct, which does not anger the magistrate and makes everyone sympathize; Fourth, it attracted the people to watch strongly, and everyone was fearless.
Li You read the notice and became angry in his heart, he refuted your face once yesterday, so you dare to kick your nose in the face like this? Do I really look like a bully? How did he know that the misunderstanding in the middle was really deep, and the entanglement was comparable to those necessary episodes of youth idol dramas.
Li You walked up to Jia Miaozhu, who was kneeling in front of the statue of Emperor Guan, and scolded: "What do you gods want!" ”
Najia Miaozhu suddenly raised his head and scolded: "You thief caused a major event in this county to pray for rain, resulting in a long drought and no rain, I am asking for the people's life!" ”
Li You hated it. Originally, I thought about it, didn't you just want to raise your mind and tour the streets? Yes, you are, and it's not a matter of principle. But now where can he afford to lose this face, he ordered the officials: "Break me up!" "After becoming a canon, the one who is close to ink is black, and Li Dianshi's soul is becoming more and more degenerate, what if there are no city appearance management regulations?
The officials were about to do it with the standard water and fire sticks in their hands, only to hear some people around them shouting among the people: "Is there a royal law in broad daylight!" Someone else shouted, "Before the statue, are you not afraid of the wrath of the gods?" The crowd talked and pointed.
Cut, this is too old-fashioned, Li You said disdainfully, let the unorganized onlookers dare to cheer like the previous few days of worship, but how much resentment must it be to beat the officials and officials together? Just by beating a few magic sticks?
Jia Miaozhu felt that his premeditated plan had succeeded, and couldn't help but be complacent, and continued to scold: "Li You, if you don't respect the gods and mess with the shrine, you will be punished by heaven!" He didn't know that the four words "Chaos Shrine" in this sentence were really the biggest failure today.
As soon as the surrounding people heard these four words, they immediately threw a little grievance out of the nine heavens, recalling that Li Dianshi seemed to be a real romantic figure, is there a new joke about the chaos shrine? I haven't heard of it, so all of my faces are full of thirst for knowledge, and the tense atmosphere that a few people with a heart have finally stirred up has been swept away.
The officials are not afraid of the gods and the people or anything, but these big temples and temples are also a bit of a small force, and they are not too rude, so they took advantage of this to stop, and they almost wrote the three words of seeking the truth on their faces.
In the face of ** naked splashing dirty water, it is still the kind he doesn't want to hear the most, Li You is furious, and when he gets up, he will kick his legs, even if Emperor Guan and Jiang Taigong are forgotten, Zhao Gongming and the Dragon King of Xuhe are easy to bully.
Kicking down two soft persimmon statues in a row, Li You gritted his teeth and said to the temple wishes: "Do you dare to claim to represent the gods!" What kind of heaven is not cursed, dare to slander the history of this classic, I will teach you to know the power of the king's law! ”
As soon as Li You's words fell, everyone suddenly heard a rolling murmur from above the Nine Heavens, and this familiar and unfamiliar voice was obviously a thunder that they hadn't heard for months. I don't know when the sky is more gloomy.
Jia Miaozhu laughed proudly: "Heaven's curse is really here!" You dare to blaspheme, at this moment, the heavens have sensed it, and they are going to send down thunder to punish you! This is heavenly punishment! Heavenly punishment! You still don't plead guilty! ”
Accompanied by Jia Miaozhu's laughter, there was a click in the air. Everyone couldn't help but shake their hearts together, and then went to see Li You, but he was safe and sound, and stretched out his palm to pick up something, and it turned out that there were raindrops the size of beans crackling and falling.
It's raining at this time! The breath of ecstasy spread throughout the city in an instant, and at this moment, the people of the entire Xujiang County collectively looked up at the starry sky and cheered together, and some excited farmers knelt directly in the fields and thanked the heavens.
The camera returned to the outside of the county yamen, and the audience witnessed a coincidental and magical scene, and they were all stunned after the ecstasy, according to their simple celestial induction logic analysis as follows, because Li You smashed the statue of the gods, so it rained from the sky, how to explain this?
This coincidence, Li You himself couldn't cry or laugh, and he didn't know what to say. Things have come to this point, it is useless to stay at the scene for a long time, and there is nothing to do in the rain outside, Li You hurriedly led the officials back to the county office.
The onlookers couldn't help whispering as they watched Li You's tall back go away.
"These immortals are useless, and even Li Dianshi can't be subdued, and he has to send rain to beg for mercy."
"I have the same intention, and it seems that I don't need to pay attention to them in the future. Could it be that Li Dianshi has a backstage in the sky? ”
"I used to read the story of the gods, and it was strange that a seven-year-old child could fight the Dragon King, but now it doesn't seem to be a fabrication."
"It's to think seriously about which god to worship in the future."
"I heard that the Yawei Buddha and the Coconut Silk Bodhisattva from the West are very effective, and they can count life and death by the stars and the moon, why don't you offer these two, burn a few pillars of incense to see if it works?"
"Let's give it a try, if it doesn't work, where will the portrait be sold?"
Jia Miaozhu, who was abandoned by faith, sat in the pile of idols in a daze, wanting to cry without tears. In this ancient country that is accustomed to the rise and fall of prosperity and decline, and in the extremely commercial county town of Xujiang County, faith is as ethereal as the floating clouds in the sky.
Dai Miao Zhu in the City God Temple also wants to cry without tears, and the matters of praying for rain in the streets are all prepared, and there will be an exclusive limelight tomorrow, but at this time, it rains from the sky, and the careful preparations are all soaked with the rain.
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I'm done writing a good chapter, and I'm speechless, and I feel thankless