An Ning was only responsible for helping to hold on to the pockets, and Sijiu ran around to catch them, and soon there was a big bag.

"Now there is water, there is food, and there will be no starvation." Sijiu happily and satisfactorily tinkered with his deliciousness, and never wanted big buns or anything like that.

There are two fires in the yard, about forty-nine bows, roasted with black smoke and miasma, but inexplicably wafting with fragrance, like the smell of fried fruit, and the smell of meat. Watch Sijiu humming a song while roasting and eating, and the finished locusts are neatly placed on the wooden board next to him.

An Ning's stomach finally couldn't hold on, "You bake me a good one, don't want those wings." ”

Sijiu was ordered, carefully selected one of his locust army, removed his wings, and presented the treasure to An Ning, with a small look in his eyes, as if to say, 'Believe me, it's really delicious.' ’

An Ning picked up the letter suspiciously, and turned it aside, she thought that she was in the belly of Sijiu, afraid that she was not ready, and Sijiu also brought her a raw rice to cook rice.

Smell it carefully, it's really fragrant, pinch it with your hand, it's crispy, close your eyes and put it in your mouth, "En~En~ Not bad, not bad." Fragrant but not greasy, slightly salty and crispy. "How can you get tired, I've been hungry for many days, and I won't get tired of giving a spoonful of meat oil.

Sijiu stared at An Ning intently, An Ning got up gracefully, Shi Shiran floated to the side of the locusts waiting to be eaten, and feasted in large pieces.

"You save some food, these are the rations I have saved." Sijiu only said but didn't stop it, looking satisfied.

It was getting late, and the two of them were full of food and drink, and there were not many locusts left.

At night, there is a fire in the yard, and the locusts are all pounced, and this coke is broken, so there is no need to run to catch it, but it is delivered to the door yourself, and you are as happy as you are to pick up silver, and you gather the spoils around the fire. An Ning also picked it up, until late at night, there were fewer locusts, and the two of them were tired, so they went into the house and cleaned up the bed.

"Tomorrow we will bake these dried shrimps, bring some water, prepare the rations and go on the road." An Ning still can't accept locusts, and its name is shrimp.

"Okay, let me sleep until I wake up naturally, so peaceful." The two of them fell asleep in a daze.

Sijiu really slept until three o'clock in the morning, An Ning took care of himself and picked up some water, and sat on yesterday's chair to close his eyes and recuperate. There was a rare silence, with the occasional breeze blowing, and there was no sound at all, no voice, no buzzing of locusts.

I didn't rush to make food and put things away. Came out of the courtyard with An Ning, went straight to the wine shop, sure enough, there were gourds, "borrowed" two gourds, came back to fill the water, roasted the dried shrimp, still packed in the previous rice bag, ready to go.

There was not a single figure on the road, nor were there locusts.

Find the right direction and go straight to the north, the two of them don't have much food, so they speed up their feet, pick the big road official road, and hurry day and night, so as not to starve to death and die of thirst on the road.

Ten days after seeing people again, the two of them looked less skeletal than the people who arrived here first. The strength is better, too.

Further north are the large and small villages and towns, there are still not many people, sparse and sparse, those who can walk are gone, and there are some people who are unwilling to walk or can't walk, looking forward to the next heavy rain.

As for why the drought is caused, there are mixed opinions.

"There must be grievances in the world, and God doesn't rain."

"It is said that only the southwest area is dry and rainless, so it is not that the parents and officials here have done something hurtful."

"It's a drought, there is a woman in the front village, she was forced to marry a dying old man Chongxi, she hanged herself in a fiery red wedding dress on the night of marriage, she had a locust plague on the night of the first seven days, she was forced to die, and her resentment was too heavy, so she turned into a drought to retaliate."

"It is said that the founding emperor of the dynasty founded the country by killing, the emperor was not right, and God did not bless him, which led to either war or disaster from the founding of the country to the present."

"If you are rebellious, be careful of your head, it is said that the Son of Heaven allocated grain, but Xirong sent a fine work to make trouble, so the grain was not transported." Someone has prevented this kind of talk, but it can't be avoided from being passed on privately.

"The world is the world of the Son of Heaven, if the Son of Heaven is not the chosen one, God is naturally dissatisfied."

I don't know if the latter two statements were made up by the enemy country to make trouble.

In the final analysis, it is either a public grievance or a violation of the will of God.

When the court paper is expensive, books are more expensive, there are not many people who can afford to read books, in the southwest of the emperor far away, the village knows a few words, and the people who can read the emperor's list are educated. Not to mention the historical record of natural disasters. There is no historical data to examine, it is all based on the oral tradition of the experience of the predecessors, and the key is that the predecessors do not know how to read.

Because the causes of drought vary, there are different requests for rain.

It is not known whether parents and officials have inspected the case files over the years, those who have repaired the grave of a little woman in red, burned paper, and disturbed the people's hearts by talking nonsense in private, and whether they have privately organized a peasant uprising.

The most bizarre ones belong to the following two.

First, I wrote a crepe article to the dragon king, and read and reasoned in front of the dragon king every day, anyway, the people don't understand, it is said that this was originally an official of the imperial capital, and he offended people and degraded the official so far, it should be very cultured, translated over, it probably means: Dragon King, you see, it doesn't rain, the people suffer, they can't eat, and thieves are everywhere, this is the dereliction of duty of my local officials, and you are also derelict as a god who guards one side? When the Son of Heaven is so good to you, isn't it just a gesture for you to give a little rain to his people?

It is said that after the article was recited, there was really thunder, and the official said that this was the dragon king making a request, as for what the request was, he couldn't understand, he had to write a song to ask the emperor, only the Son of Heaven could communicate with the gods, so he really wrote a letter and sent it to Fancheng.

An Ning said that this would not be to increase the sense of existence, and he wanted to return to the imperial capital to serve again.

Kindness...... It's not impossible.

The second is the one below.

The one in charge of the rain is the Dragon King, and the people gather in front of the Dragon King Temple to bow down.

A strong man with a full beard pushed aside the crowd and walked to the incense case, "Dragon King!" Please, you've been begging for so many days, why doesn't it work at all, didn't you enjoy these incense in vain, it's so comfortable, fall asleep? ”

As he spoke, he plucked the incense, poured the incense burner, knocked down the incense case, jumped up and gave the dragon king a mouthful of the dragon king's base, "Alas, wake up, it's time for rain." ”

Sijiu likes this reckless man, interesting tight.

slapped three mouths in a row, and the people who knelt down couldn't even shout, kowtowing like pounding garlic, for fear of offending the dragon king, "Hanzi, don't you dare~"

A well-dressed old man kneeling in the front row immediately became angry, shook his hands, pointed at the reckless man and scolded the animal, "Pull me down quickly!" ”

Only then did everyone react, and a few strong young men came up and suppressed the man.

"Tie it up for me! O livestock! The old man was so angry that he couldn't kneel steadily, grinning with his teeth, and pointed at the reckless man and said, "Use him to sacrifice the dragon king to me." ”

Sijiu saw that the man's life might be in danger, and he wanted to come forward to rescue, An Ning knew Sijiu's temperament, and hurriedly grabbed Sijiu, "Wait for me to find a way, there must be a ceremony to sacrifice the Dragon King, not to die now." You listen to my ......" whispered a few words.