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At the end of the month, because the Bianhe River froze, the Su family took the dry road back to Jiangning, except for the family of the gatekeeper, Hulala's dozen horses and more than a dozen carriages meandered along the official road.

Lindsay Yu lifted the curtain, while listening to the whole brother's chatter showing off the golden eggs and other children's farewell gifts to him, but it was just a puppet with missing legs, dirty mud screaming, and even black dates like dung eggs, while looking at the outside that was divided into countless small fields, dormant winter wheat like jade dotted between black and yellow, a vast group, and the villages in the distance.

At this time, they are about to go out of Henan, and they will change to a big boat to go south after a while, because they pass through several disaster-stricken counties along the way, Lin Saiyu wants to see how the beans replanted after the disaster are growing, so they rarely go to the top in the towns, and they are looking for some rural wild shops, so that these maids and women who have never suffered so much with Mrs. Su will not be repeated.

"It is said that this trip back will drive away a lot of people." The maids and women who were holding a large bowl of tea with a missing mouth huddled together to keep warm, while talking in a low voice.

"That's better, I don't want to follow ...... anymore" someone whispered, and when he heard someone boo, he saw Lin Saiyu, who was wearing a red and gold jacket and a brown peach embroidered skirt with a covered head, walked out and called out to the whole brother.

"Madam, the little official pestered Brother Yuan to catch birds in the field," a mother-in-law was busy laughing, and when she saw this woman, she frowned, muttered that this is with me, and then raised her feet to look for it in the field, and before leaving, Brother Yuan, who was wearing a felt hat, came back with his whole brother in his arms.

"Brother Yuan is stupid, it's not as good as a golden egg, and he can't even catch a bird." Brother Quan pouted and complained, threw the inch-long wheat in his hand to the ground, and muttered, "It's raining, it's raining." ”

Brother Yuan ran away with a smile, Lin Saiyu took a few steps over, copied the soil on his body, and frowned: "Who asked you to wear this?" It's not good to grow, and you're still ruining it......" The line said and picked up the wheat to see, and saw that the wheat that had entered the wax moon was particularly yellow and weak, and couldn't help frowning and looking over and over, the whole brother had already thrown it in his hand and ran in to find his father.

"I haven't had snow this winter." Lindsay Yu muttered, looking down at the wheat, seeing that most of them had few and no secondary roots, or none at all, her brow wrinkled deeper and deeper, "Typical neck-shrinking seedlings." ”

"What's wrong?" Su Jinnan's voice sounded behind him, and he saw the woman squatting on the ground, fiddling with a handful of wheat fields, and her brows were deeply furrowed, "But there is a disease?" ”

"It's not a disease," Lin Saiyu stood up and clapped her hands, "Come with me to the fields, my lord." ”

Wanggang is a small village located in Zhenping County, southwest of Henan, which is located in the hilly area of Gangpo, itself has poor water conservancy conditions, nine years of drought in ten years, so asking for rain is a ceremony to be held every year, originally this summer rain is enough, only do not need to ask, it is a good year, who would have thought that since the winter, half of the snow has not fallen at night, and the ground is dry to crack.

"Please Dragon God!" The lieutenant struck the gong and walked from house to house, and four men behind him carried the dustpan, and when they heard the sound of the gong, every household came out and threw more or less money into the dustpan.

"Ask Lord Santan for your blessing! Precipitation! The sound of the gong slowly walked away from far and near, and the muffled sound hit everyone's eardrums.

Su Jinnan and Lin Saiyu, who were standing on the side of the road, had solemn faces and threw a few pieces of silver into it, attracting everyone's side eyes.

"Thank you for this big official lady passing by."

The chief arched his hand, and heard the woman suddenly say, "Uncle, I see that there is a pool of water, why don't you bring water to water the fields?" ”

These words made everyone's faces change, and the chief hurriedly said: "Don't blame those who don't know, the eldest lady doesn't recognize Jiaxian Hou, don't blame it." "On the one hand, Lin Saiyu and Yan preached that this pond was sealed by the imperial court because of the rain, and the three pools of the three pools were the "sweeping marquis" of the imperial court, how could the water in the pool be moved?

Lin Saiyu sighed, the many disasters and difficulties of ancient Chinese agriculture, and every activity that was ridiculed as ignorant and superstitious by later generations, must contain how many humble prayers of people.

"Uncle, why don't you beg Lord Santan, can you borrow some water?" Lin Saiyu looked up at the sunny sky, the sun shook her dizzy, thinking back to the wheat she saw, and muttered, "I'm afraid I can't wait......"

This drew displeasure from the crowd, and one of them took the money they had given him and threw it back, saying, "Where did you come from, you have already suffered, and you are coming to attack the gods and harm us!" Hurry up, hurry away. ”

Su Jinnan's face stiffened, and he was about to leave when he grabbed Lin Saiyu, but was held down by Lin Saiyu, seeing that she seemed to have a lot of courage, and said to the chief who had a bad face: "The little woman has become an Cao clan, if there is any offense, I hope the old man will forgive me." ”

The crowd was not interested in her reporting to her home, and some said: "That's fine, Lord Santan is to blame, and he can find you, don't hurt us." ”

Lin Saiyu didn't say anything, looked at the chief again, and said firmly: "Old man, Lord Santan has a spirit, and he will not want to see the misery of all sentient beings, there are many tributes, and there is a lot of sincerity, so I only ask for water to water the ground and temporarily relieve the drought." ”

Before she finished her words, the chief suddenly looked at the woman in a daze, and suddenly said in a trance: "Oh, oh, you, you ......", and couldn't say her name in a hurry, Lin Saiyu smiled and said, "Cheng'an Cao's." ”

"Saturnalia! Lord Santan has appeared! The lieutenant suddenly knelt down, frightened Lin Saiyu to help, and the people behind him were also stunned.

"Big lady, big lady, I have one hundred and eighty households in this village, but I can live on this thin field, the big lady is merciful, quickly think of a way, the old man will give you the immortal tablet to ......" The old man who was close to the sixtieth birthday was almost in tears, and Lin Saiyu couldn't help him, so he could only let him write quickly, and at this time, everyone reacted, and suddenly fell to his knees.

"It's not a big deal, it's easy to say." Lin Saiyu looked at Su Jinnan in embarrassment, saw that he was just looking at it with a smile, and said in a low voice: "Quickly persuade them to get up." ”

Su Jinnan laughed in a low voice: "The eldest lady and the god of agriculture have come to the world, how dare the little one lose his honor in front of him?" Seeing that the woman's face was blushing at being teased, she coughed hurriedly and said, "Folks, get up quickly, please listen to the eldest lady." ”

Because of the hurry to go, I refused to invite everyone to enter the village to rest, and seeing that the chief was about to cry again, Lin Saiyu hurriedly said: "It's really not a big deal, as long as you go to ask for the three pools, after asking, you can bring some water to water the ground." ”

"Big lady, people say that they froze to death in the first year, and they don't dare to wash it." The lieutenant touched his face and said, he didn't care about raising money, and led everyone to let Lin Saiyu and Su Jinnan sit under the big tree at the edge of the village.

"Now the sky is good," Lin Saiyu pointed to the sky and said with a smile: "From the time to the future, when I came, I saw the land in the south of your village, which is with sand, so the drought is severe, and the water can seep down, and then it will crack, and I am not afraid, it is good." ”

Hearing her say this, some of the people were overjoyed, while others were even more sad, and said, "The land on the edge of the village is even better, and the wheat in the north of our village is yellow and dead." ”

Lin Saiyu frowned, looked at the people who were full of anticipation standing in a circle, and felt in a trance that this scene was like going down to the grassroots level with the mentor in the previous life, the cold wind blew, shivered and hurriedly retracted his mind, and saw that the organic spirit ran to his own field earlier, and at this time he pulled the wheat over, ran out of breath, and couldn't help nodding approvingly, praising the man in his forties.

"This wheat seedling grows well, but the ground is noisy, there is no ploughing after rotary ploughing, and the moisture is more serious," Lin Saiyu turned over the wheat in his hand and looked at it, while twisting it in his hand, "The yellow is terrible, and it is frozen again, if you don't water it before the year, even if it snows again after the year, you will lose seventy percent." ”

As soon as everyone lamented, someone began to urge the chief to beg Lord Santan, but the chief couldn't sit still, and stood up on crutches and smiled at Lin Saiyu: "Please also ask the eldest lady to talk to Lord Santan, cough...... Cough...... You are also the gods of heaven...... It's not convenient to say......"

Lin Saiyu almost laughed, and secretly said Where do I know what Santan Ye! But these folk customs are absolutely not disrespectful, and if she doesn't respond to this scene, she is afraid that the villagers will not dare to draw more water, so she has a solemn face, stands up and nods: "That's nature." ”

Li Chang was overjoyed, and he was busy preparing sacrificial supplies, and he personally took them to Santan Temple.

"Big lady, please first." Su Jinnan held back a smile and said respectfully to Lin Saiyu, who also couldn't help laughing, nodded and said, "Follow this seat, serve well, and have your benefits." Seeing that the long walk there was a little farther away, the two of them couldn't help it anymore and laughed hand in hand.

Lin Saiyu, who personally experienced the ritual of praying for rain, exchanged with his "colleague" Santan Ye with a straight look, walked through the back door, and got the promise that he could lead water to water the ground, and the villagers couldn't hide their joyful looks, and bowed down in unison, Lin Saiyu was only afraid of losing his life, so he hurriedly dodged.

"Remember, when watering, spray small water, so as to avoid frostbite, if you really can't water, cover it with thatch straw and so on, but also protect moisture and cold." repeatedly instructed the villagers who did not return, Lin Saiyu saw that the chief was about to kneel down again, and hurriedly supported and persuaded him, sighed, and said, "The personnel are all here, and the rest depends on the destiny of heaven." ”

Until he got into the car, he could still see the villagers standing far away, Lindsay Yu's eyes were a little red, he sniffed and said to himself: "Actually, this is really not a big deal, but they are afraid that if they don't water it, they will die of drought, and if they do, they may freeze to death, and there is no machine well everywhere......"

"What is a well?" Hearing this, the whole brother asked curiously, "Is it different from the well at home?" ”

Lindsay Yu coughed and said, "The same, the same." The whole brother lost interest and went to play by himself, and the convoy sparkled south, and the sound of firecrackers was intermittently heard in the scattered villages around him, and the new year was about to start again.

In order to get rid of the bad luck of the Great Song Dynasty, the emperor issued an edict to change the Yuan Yuanfeng next year, and it was very common for the emperor to change the Yuan, but in the Shenzong Dynasty, where the old and new laws collided with each other, it caused a series of turmoil, because in the eyes of everyone, this was inevitably the emperor's sign of wanting to get rid of Wang Anshi, and for a time there was a dark tide in the capital and even in the locality.

But no one dared to show half a point in the court, because Wu Chong, the prime minister who was in the limelight, fell into the hands of Cai Qu because of an old case. At this time, everyone in the court was in danger, especially another prime minister, Wang Qi, who simply said that he was sick and went to rest.

But the emperor didn't want to listen to the progress of Cai Qu's trial at this time, his eyes stopped at Liu Xiaohu standing in the audience, and his eyes no longer had the appreciation and softness of the past, but the coldness of the real emperor's family. Guanjiang Chinese Network provides you with free full text reading without pop-up ads for crossing to do landlords, or you can download the full works of txt to read locally.