Chapter 52: Sacrifice to the heavens and pray for rain
There is no shortage of water in the daughter country of Xiliang, a mother and son river contains a lot of sunflower water essence, but this river can irrigate the entire daughter country of Xiliang, how can the daughter country lack water?
The problem lies here, this anemone water essence is too strong, even Marshal Tianpeng can't refine it, and he has to conceive a child if he drinks it, how can such water be used for irrigation?
More than half of the rivers in the daughter country are affected by the Zimu River, which cannot be irrigated or drunk, and only the water from 81 deep wells and 18 reservoirs can be used for irrigation and drinking.
In this way, half of the water in the daughter country depends on the sky and half on the ground.
Ren Ying'er should not have inherited the throne, but it was her later good deeds, tolerance to others, and punishment of evil and promotion of good, that made her mother change her mind and entrust her daughter country to her. Although this temporary change caused some shocks, the daughter of the country was simple and survived peacefully. Thinking that the king of the daughter country in the original book was willing to take the position of the lord of a country as a dowry and marry Tang Sanzang, and his subordinates were not much dissatisfied, they knew that their folk customs were simple.
Ren Ying'er's position, the first ten years or so was still very stable, she was tolerant of others, rewarded and punished, and everyone was convinced. It was only later that she and her subordinates gradually disagreed.
When the girls reach their twenties and their bodies are mature, they can drink a sip of river water, so that they can conceive children. Ren Ying'er's mother had a total of four sons, all of whom were obtained from drinking the water of the river. However, when she arrived at Ren Ying'er, she thought about the 'white carp fairy' Ao Xin in her heart, and just wanted to have children for Ao Xin, so how could she drink the water of the Zimu River? As the king of a country, she actually failed to leave a successor, which made many ministers very dissatisfied. Even if Ren Ying'er accepted a few righteous daughters, it was still not satisfactory. After a few more years, now Ren Ying'er is thirty or eight, and at most five years later, she will be extinct, and it is difficult to have offspring after drinking the water of the Zimu River, and the contradiction between the ministers and her will become more and more intense.
"Your Majesty, please go up to the Temple of Heaven to pray for blessings!" the female national teacher stood beside Ren Ying'er and arched her hand.
"Your Majesty, please ascend the altar!" General Yousheng, the mighty general, the Zhendian general, and the civil and military officials all knelt down at the foot of Xie Yang Mountain, and tens of thousands of people from all over the world also knelt down together.
This Xie Yangshan is thirty miles outside the capital of the daughter country, which was originally the territory of Ruyi True Immortal, and later Ruyi True Immortal was driven away by Ao Xin and Pipa Immortal, and this place was empty. This was originally a blessed land, a hundred years ago someone built the Temple of Heaven to pray for the 600-year-old small country of the daughter country. As soon as the Ruyi True Immortal left, the altar was activated again.
Ren Ying'er was wearing a purple and red robe and a beaded chain hat, and at this time, the people thought that as long as she worshiped the emperor and the queen of heaven, it would naturally rain. However, she herself knows that everyone in this world believes in God and recites God, when has God helped people? Every year, every day, is not everywhere in disaster? Even the Buddha said that the Buddha has a fate, which means that he will not cross if he is not fate. In fact, all the gods and Buddhas in the sky exist, but there is a fixed number of drinks and pecks, and if you don't worship him, he will bless you.
Ren Yinger attaches great importance to water conservancy, but water conservancy is not a one-time achievement. Worshipping this god and Buddha now actually has no effect, there should be no rain or no, but it gives those people an excuse to attack themselves.
Ren Ying'er also knows that people's hearts are like this, when facing uncontrollable things, they always rely on gods and external objects, and sometimes they will believe it even if they know that there is a falsehood. For example, there is a foreign seller of 'male medicine', pregnant women can give birth to a boy after eating it, and the person who sells the medicine said that not everyone who eats it works, so they don't charge money that doesn't work, and each dose of medicine is very expensive, and it is still in short supply.
But how can praying for rain be useful? Ren Ying'er doesn't know Taoism, she doesn't know magic, and she doesn't know the bottom herself.
"Your Majesty, please ascend to the altar!" the hundred officials shouted again.
Ren Ying'er had to move and walked to the Temple of Heaven.
The Temple of Heaven is fifty zhang high, with a total of 1,080 steps, and it is obvious that the people who built this Temple of Heaven also have some doorways.
Ren Ying'er stepped forward alone, no one could follow, now it is the lord of a country praying for blessings, who is qualified to follow her?
Ren Ying'er walked to the top of the Temple of Heaven, and someone had already placed sacrifices such as cattle and sheep. She twisted the cigarette ash and sprinkled it, took three sticks of incense from the side and lit it, inserted it into the incense burner, and said: "The emperor is above, and the earth is below...... I also hope that rain will fall from heaven and earth to ensure a good harvest for my country......"
The center of the Temple of Heaven was slightly concave, like an amplified trumpet, and Ren Ying'er's voice was amplified by the terrain, vibrating between the heavens and the earth, and clearly reaching everyone's ears.
Ao Xin turned into a small butterfly and landed on the shoulders of the national teacher, and also came to join in the fun.
Taoism is quiet and inactive, good as water, whether you give money for incense or not, he will keep you the same. Buddhism has 42 sutras, bhikshu vows, and bhikshuni vows, and even the Buddha's son does not hold money, so how can the Buddha Amitabha Buddha receive gold and silver?
Ren Ying'er worships the emperor and the queen of heaven, and she is not a god who will come to the world, of course, there is no induction between heaven and earth. For this kind of sacrifice to be effective, it is best to worship the evil gods of all sides, and almost everything is requested. But the evil god sucks luck and essence blood to cast spells, and it is easy to ask the gods to send the gods, and worshipping the evil gods is just drinking to quench their thirst, and sooner or later they will be retributed.
The heavens and the earth were empty, there was no response, there were no clouds, and it was scorching.
"I also hope that the rain will fall from heaven and earth to ensure a bumper harvest for my country!" Ren Ying'er knelt on the ground and bowed three times and nine times.
From the fact that the Jade Emperor in charge of the rain order killed the Jinghe Dragon King who had rained a little more, he knew that the world was unkind. Ren Ying'er bowed three times and knocked nine times this time, and it was also for nothing, without any movement.
Unless she bows three times and bows nine times one thousand and eighty times, forming the power of a great wish and being able to alarm the four great bodhisattvas, it will be in vain. alarmed the Bodhisattva, and the Bodhisattva's spirit is not effective.
"Why didn't it have any effect?" Ao Xin heard a female official next to him whisper.
Your Majesty has eight Chinese New Year's Eve today, and still has no heirs, and the lack of water this year is a warning from the Emperor of Heaven, indicating that the Son of Heaven has no virtue. Later, we will join forces with His Majesty and let her issue an edict to calm the anger of the sky. The other whispered.
The national teacher clenched his fists and looked at a few people, and scolded in a low voice: "These officials who don't know the grains but talk about state affairs in vain! Whether there is rain or not, this is a matter of time, what does it have to do with my king? My king has been waiting for 24 years, and it is already bitter enough, and these people still want to sarcastically mock her, she is really a vain minister! Will she die if she doesn't say a word!"
Ao Xin flew around, eavesdropping everywhere, and the hundreds of officials below said that Ren Ying'er was afraid of the pain of childbirth, and had not drunk the water of the Zimu River, and now the drought was the gods' condemnation, so Ren Ying'er prayed for rain, and God did not respond.
Ao Xin felt that it was wrong, Ren Ying'er was bold before, willing to sacrifice herself for her sister's life, how could such a person be afraid of the pain of childbirth?
"I also hope that the rain will fall from heaven and earth to ensure a bumper harvest for my country!" Ren Ying'er asked three times, but she couldn't afford to kowtow.
Everyone has been exposed to the sun for an hour or two, and some people can't stand the heat and have retreated, but the officials can't retreat.
Ren Ying'er was covered in hot sweat, her lips were slightly pale, and she seemed to have heat stroke. Ao Xin couldn't bear to see it, and sighed secretly: "I look at the rain situation around here, it will rain in about ten days." Even if you kneel to death now, there can be no rain without the help of the dragon god. Well, for your sake, I will appear once and rain for you, and give you a share of the cause and effect. With that, his wings shook, and the little butterfly was gone.
"Please also ask the heavens and the earth to rain and bless the health of our people!"
The hundred officials couldn't hold on anymore, and there were many discussions, and a few people went to call the national teacher and asked the national teacher to persuade Ren Ying'er to end it quickly.
Suddenly, the wind rose, the clouds moved in all directions, and the dark clouds in the sky quickly gathered!
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