In the blue sky, there are a few leisurely white clouds, the heat of dawn has not yet dissipated, and the morning glow has slowly covered the sky, as if waiting for an earth-shattering feat.

The next morning, the sky was bright, and the county commander Liu Kun took the officials to bring memorial objects such as paper money and paper horses, and the people spontaneously lined up in a long line and walked towards Mangdang Mountain.

After more than a dozen big turns, the team of worshipping the sky finally reached the peak, the dilapidated Blue Sky King Temple, still standing quietly in the wind, the wind chimes hanging high in the four corners of the temple, swaying under the blowing of the wind, making a tinkling sound, long and slender.

There is a huge stone on the top of Mangdang Mountain, and people call him the Sacrifice Stone.

When the society was stable and the economy was prosperous in the previous dynasty, the common people would go to the top of the mountain on the third day of March every year to worship the heavens, pray for the blessing of God, and the wind and rain would be smooth, and disasters would be eliminated.

It is also strange to say, the next day after the ritual of sacrificing to the sky, it will rain in the spring, the seedlings in the field drink enough water, the growth is very good, it is really a good rain to know the season, when the spring happens, sneak into the night with the wind, moisturize things silently.

Since the death of the first emperor and the accession of the new emperor, the dynasty has been corrupted, the national strength is weak, foreign invasions have made the people miserable, and the villagers have no harvest for many years.

The villagers still insist on sacrificing to the sky every year, but there is no effect, the heavens in the spring ploughing season, there will not be a little rain at all, most of the seedlings are withered because of no rain, to the autumn harvest season, it is continuous rain, this rain is several days, resulting in a flash flood, the water is all over the sky, the crops are all washed away, and the people have countless particles.

The villagers are living in poverty, with no clothes to cover their bodies and no food, so they are all improvised by the east and the west to fill their stomachs, and even the wild vegetables in the field are all pulled down and boiled into porridge and eaten.

The villagers' lives have become a problem, and they can't afford to go to Mangdang Mountain to worship the heavens, and there has been no ceremony to worship the heavens for several years.

The officials and catchers immediately put the paper money, paper horses and other items used for the memorial service on the incense table, and everything was ready.

I only heard the county order Liu Kun shouting: "The ceremony of sacrificing to the sky begins."

The officials and the villagers knelt down one after another, looking up at the incense case in a daze, looking at the bright sky in front of the incense case, their eyes were full of anger and helpless expressions.

The two officials quickly ran to the incense case, lit the three incense sticks inserted on the incense case, and quietly returned to Liu Kun's back after burning the paper money, paper horses and other memorial items, and immediately knelt down.

Liu Kun took out the chapter that he wrote overnight, and the name of the chapter was "The Book of the Jade Emperor".

I saw that the county order Liu Kunyi read it solemnly:

Heaven is benevolent and righteous, the earth is moist and prosperous, humanity is generous and can survive, now the traitor is in charge, the heavenly court is disgraced, the fairy world is unkind and misery, the fairy world is unrighteous and the famine is continuous, thieves are everywhere, wars are frequent, hunger is everywhere, the people are not living, every family hears the sound of crying, and every household sends a son.

If the sky does not bless the suffering of all the people, how miserable it is to mourn all over the wilderness, the cry shakes the sky and does not care, shouting deep into the earth and does not wake up, who knows the suffering of the Li people, who knows the suffering of the Li people, the fairy world is in full bloom, and the miserable blood and tears in the world are dry.

Now the king of the south is under the command of the eight kings, slaughtering thousands of my villagers, the state of the terrible world and crying ghosts and gods, thousands of villagers, corpses in the wilderness, blood flowing into a river, the soul of injustice drifting, Kyushu with sorrow, crying to the sky, mourning everywhere, dawn, the people are in dire straits, life hangs by a thread.

Anping County ordered Liu Kun to dare to tell the Jade Emperor to respect the gods, begging to punish the traitor and eliminate the evil, severely punish the Southern Heavenly King and his eight King Kongs, and also thousands of unjust souls to save the people of Li from hanging upside down, so that all the people in the world will surrender to God, be grateful to Dade, and thank the heavens for their good life.

If there is a spirit in the sky, please rain nectar, if there is a spirit in the sky, severely punish the evil immortals, rectify the heavenly court, and save the world, so fortunate and grateful.

Anping County ordered Liu Kun and the villagers to bow sincerely.

August 13, Renxu year

After the sacrifice was completed, the villagers left Mangdang Mountain one after another.

The county ordered Liu Kun to arrange for the officials and the arresters, and immediately moved the statues of the Southern Heavenly King and the Four Great King Kongs to the execution platform in front of the yamen, and the execution began at three o'clock in the afternoon.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the crowd of onlookers surrounded the county ya, and the black pressure was overwhelming, and the yamen caught quickly, and successively moved the statues of the Nantianwang and the Eight King Kongs in the temple of the Nantianwang on Mangdang Mountain to the execution ground at the entrance of the county ya.

Three o'clock in the afternoon arrived, the officials on the execution ground stood on both sides, the county commander Liu Kun sat in front of the execution table, the lower left sat the former general Gao Yong, the six executioners on the execution ground held hammers, waiting quietly, the scene was very magnificent, murderous, majestic.

The Southern Heavenly King made a decision.

Liu Kun gave an order, the execution pipe wheel took up the sledgehammer and smashed it towards the statue of the Southern Heavenly King, only to hear a few banging sounds, the head of the statue of the Southern Heavenly King had been shattered, leaving only half of the body still lying quietly on the execution ground, and the crowd cheered.

The Eight King Kongs were immediately decided, with the punishment of crushing the corpse.

The six executioners respectively wheeled up their hammers and smashed them vigorously at the statues of the Eight Great King Kongs, and in an instant, the statues of Sky Eagle Blue Sky, Sky Tiger Blue Jade, Heavenly Demon Blue Field, Heavenly Dog Blue Wind, Sky Monkey Blue Cloud, Sky Fox Blue Rain, Heavenly Horse Blue Snow, and Heavenly Bull Blue Frost smashed with a hammer, and the corpses were all gone, turning into a pile of golden powder.

The crowd of onlookers cheered again and again, applauding, crowding passionately, and clapping their hands.

Liu Kun ordered the officials and the shutter catcher, dug a big pit three feet in front of the yamen, buried the statue of the Southern Heavenly King, and the powder of the Eight King Kongs into the ground, filled it with soil, and returned to the original state, and everything ended like this.

The peaceful days passed day by day, and Gao Yong's family slowly came out of their fear, and laughter filled the courtyard.

Cui Ping is still lively and lovely and reciting poems and painting with the maids, several family members are still working hard in the morning and returning late, the days are sweet and warm, and people seem to be slowly liberated from the shadows of that night.

Ordinary and sweet days will always be good, and the disasters that follow will be devastating to this happy family.

Fate played them one joke after another, which should not be played like this.

It was another full moon night, and the same family was admiring the moon in the yard, and Cui Ping ran out as usual, clamoring to accompany her father to enjoy the full moon.

Father Gao Yong told her, you have grown up, you can no longer be so delicate and foolish, the maid and the subordinates work hard every day, very tired, it is rare to be idle today, and have a good rest in the yard.

You are a girl, you should go to the house to do your needlework, before you get married, take out a decent embroidery, otherwise people will laugh, the maid will not accompany you today, you go to the house alone to meditate for a while, think about how to embroider this embroidery.

Cui Ping pouted, reluctantly turned around and left the yard, the maid saw that the young lady was unhappy and hurriedly trotted over to make the young lady happy.

Gao Yong said: "You don't have to go, let her give birth when she is angry."

Alas, I have to discipline and discipline this child, and I can't marry if I continue like this."

The maid saw that the old man didn't let herself make the young lady happy, and in desperation, she had to sit in the yard.

I said silently in my heart: "Miss, Miss forgive me, it's not that I don't accompany you, and the master won't let me go."

Gao Yong took the maids and the family to enjoy the moon in the yard, chatting and laughing, talking about all the changes that have taken place in the fields, hoping for a good harvest this year.

Cui Ping was lying in the house, feeling very aggrieved, why didn't my father let me admire the moon, find such a ridiculous reason, and lock me in the house, my father is very bad, he is not a good father, I think of my mother, thinking about it, two lines of tears flowed down my cheeks, I cried for a while and felt tired, closed my eyes and recuperated, and fell asleep unconsciously.

Suddenly, the Eight King Kongs came to the courtyard again, drew their swords together, and surrounded everyone in the courtyard.

I saw that these eight King Kongs were angry one by one, with murderous intent in their eyes.

The head of the Eight King Kongs, Sky Eagle Blue Sky, grabbed Gao Yong's collar and said loudly: "You damn old man, why did you go to the yamen to redress your grievances, and the temple of the Southern Heavenly King was destroyed."