The bearded man was tied up like a dumpling and thrown on the ground in the front row.

Sijiu took advantage of the chaos to kneel next to the crowd in the front row, shouting, "The ignorant people have collided with the Dragon King, Dragon King, stop your anger!" After speaking, he bowed in an exaggerated posture.

"Dragon King, Rest Your Wrath!" Say goodbye and say goodbye. The rhythm is clear.

Immediately, someone around him followed the mountain and shouted, "Dragon King, rest your anger!" Soon all the people in the prairie chanted and bowed down rhythmically.

The reckless man was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, and scolded loudly, and the old man immediately asked someone to block the reckless man's mouth. Only the reckless man lay on the ground, panting constantly.

"Look, the dragon king is in tears." Before it was Sijiu's turn to shout, someone took the first step to find that one of the dragon king's eyes really had tears left.

"It must be that the Dragon King woke up, and saw that the little ones such as me had a difficult livelihood, and had mercy on us, so quickly kowtow and beg the Dragon King for rain." Sijiu took the lead and kowtowed, and shouted in his mouth: "Please have mercy on the Dragon King!" Ask the Dragon King for mercy! ”

The gods are so clear that the people dare not look up and look at them.

An Ning hurriedly ran out from behind the Dragon King and helped the reckless man, "Shhhhhh Come on. "There is a mouth shape but no sound, in fact, even if there is a voice, no one may hear it, the people are very excited, and the cry for mercy from the dragon king is huge. I don't know where the people who have no food come from such a loud voice, maybe God is really very appealing.

After a while, the voice gradually became smaller, or maybe it was really impossible to shout, and someone secretly looked up, "That person is gone!" His voice trembled and frightened.

There was a buzz among the people, and panic raged, "The dragon king must have taken him away." Sijiu came out to speak again, "Maybe I'll take him to understand the situation, and wait and see, it's not necessarily a bad thing." ”

Look at me, people, I look at you, some continue to bow down, and some go home to take care of the old and the young. Wake up early tomorrow and come back to worship.

Seeing that things were almost over, Sijiu also followed the crowd and quietly left to meet An Ning.

A secluded place.

An Ning untied the reckless man's hands.

"Thank you, Miss, for helping." The reckless man sat dejectedly.

"Why are you so!" An Ning didn't understand that a reckless man would do such a child's play. If it weren't for Sijiu to be saved, he might really be used as a sacrifice.

"Don't blame him, big brother did the right thing." Sijiu ran over whirring, and his breath was not even even.

"You think I'm right, too?"

"Where is right, yes, the dragon king does not necessarily care about the rain, but it is faith, the faith of a group of people, which is to offend the public." An Ning said.

"Big brother is not in any difficulty." Forty-nine patted the eldest brother on the shoulder.

"My mother is dying of hunger, and if it doesn't rain anymore, our family will have no way to live." Saying that, the man squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, annoyed.

"Where is your mother, I still have a little food here, if you don't dislike it, let's go see your mother." Sijiu said and took out the few roasted locusts left, and nodded seriously, "That's what we ate and escaped from the south." "After the first roasted locust, every time they encountered locusts, they filled their stomachs and cloth bags, but there was not much left.

"Can you really eat it?" After the man received an affirmative answer, he was annoyed again, "No, if I go out now, I will be arrested and sacrificed to the Dragon King." Why don't you send me some to the house, brother, and I'll repay you as a cow and a horse. Saying that he was going to kneel, Sijiu hurriedly stopped.

"You can live well, and no one will arrest you." Saying that, An Ning told the man about the matter before and after, "After you go back, tell others that the Dragon King is indeed asleep, and you woke up with a slap, and the Dragon King will ask you to understand the situation, and you are rushing to the Heavenly Palace to ask for the Holy Decree of Rain." It doesn't matter to you if it doesn't rain like this, and I have to thank you for waking up the dragon king. ”

"Girl, thank you so much." Saying that, he took Sijiu and ran home, An Ning ran all the way behind, and said in his heart, who did I offend, I saved people, gave food, and ran along, tired Miss Ben to death.

Unfortunately, the old man was really dying, and he couldn't eat what he was given, so he persisted for half a night and died.

The bearded man cried like a child.

There is no mother, there is no home, and I didn't run away from the famine early because my mother didn't want to travel far, and I didn't have the physical strength to travel far, and now I can only flee the famine.

Sijiu helped bury the reckless man's mother, and the sacrifice was four roasted locusts, three at the bottom and one at the top, arranged in the shape of a tribute.

This reckless man is called "Hanzi", he lost his father at an early age, and he doesn't know anything about his surname.

The people are suffering, that's it, Sijiu was called Sijiu before he had a father, and he didn't have a surname.

The trio made their way north. With Hanzi, this small team of three people has never been bullied again.

In front of it is a county, called Luanshui, although it is also dry, but because there is a water source, there are still many people who have not left.

The plants in the ground are dwarf, the tips of the leaves are yellow, and there are still people guarding them, expecting a rain.

From a distance, I saw the city gate lining up to enter the city, and the officers and soldiers at the gate checked one by one, I don't know why. The three of them did not break the law and were not afraid of investigation, so they lined up and waited to enter the city.

There were more than 20 people in front of the procession, and a group of officers and soldiers came out of the city, holding notices to be posted in their hands, some pasting them, some reading them aloud, and all men who were over 16 years old and six feet tall were ...... in every household

An Ning hurriedly pulled Sijiu out of the queue.

"What are you pulling me for? I'm not 16 years old either. Forty-nine was puzzled.

"You're six feet tall, what's going on, six feet tall and going to be a soldier, the conscription is so urgent, how can I let you go." An Ning looked at Sijiu like a fool, "Besides, what do you use to prove that you are not under the age of 16, this is a disguised relaxation of conscription conditions." If you see the table at the door, it's called appearance, that is, to determine the age by looking at the appearance, so as not to deceive the old and the young. In order to complete the conscription task, there is no one like us who does not have a local household registration, and he says that you are as old as you are. ”

"Then I'm a girl."

"You're a girl?" Hanzi was so shocked that his already big eyes became even bigger, as if they were about to fall out of their sockets.

"So pull you out and comb you a girl's hair." There was no comb, no hair band, and the branches were cut to make hairpins on the spot, and An Ning's fingers flew on Sijiu's head.

"You two don't go, I want to be a soldier, and they all say that it is because Xirong used despicable means that the disaster relief food could not be delivered, and my mother is equivalent to being indirectly killed by them. I'm going to get revenge. "The son was sullen, and he thought of his mother again.

"Brother Hanzi, I support you. I have a sister, otherwise I would have gone to be a soldier. Sijiu patted Hanzi's shoulder comfortingly.

"Are you a boy or a girl?" Hanzi is confused again, and he has gone all the way, why is this gender still unstable.

"Everything." Sijiu said that Hanzi is not entangled, men and women are not important, the important thing is that he is the only one to be a soldier.

"So be it. It looks like a girl. If you walk a little smaller, speak a little slower, and have a thinner voice, it's almost the same, and you don't want this gourd, and if you go further north, there should be water. An Ning was busy with all the work, and he also demonstrated walking.

Sijiu got up, touched his hair, and walked awkwardly with his hands and feet. "That's it, anyway, a real girl, what are you afraid of."

Soon the queue arrived at the root of the city gate.

"Go over there." An Ning was behind Sijiu, and watched the officers and soldiers at the door pull Sijiu to the men's pile to register.

"I'm a girl, not a man." Forty-nine was busy arguing.

Hanzi really didn't know whether Sijiu was a boy or a girl, so he could only help pull it, so as not to hurt Sijiu and An Ning.

"Look at you, in addition to the hair is like a girl, how can you still look like a girl, wearing pants, no ear piercing, speaking coarsely, walking like a gentleman, deliberately walking slowly like a girl?" The soldier's cannons are the same, and he can't get used to Sijiu's appearance, "I can do everything to evade military service, and my hair is just hidden and combed, when I can't see it." ”