Chapter 22: The Maiden's Prayer
Zhu Qi finally thanked him for taking the ingot of silver and a hanging copper coin and leaving.
When I got the money, I was so moved that I couldn't cry.
Where did you think there would be such a good thing before?
He thought about committing suicide, and he solved it so easily.
On the way back, I wondered if I was still dreaming.
He also pinched his thigh hard, and the pain was too real, which made him believe that he was not dreaming, it was true.
Someone really helped him with this.
The origin turned out to be a dream, in which the god of the land showed him the way.
Although I worshipped the god of the land before that, the purpose was just to get a bite of free food, and I didn't believe it in my heart.
They would come to his aid and show him the way.
It's just too good for him.
"Take the initiative to help others solve difficulties, this is the real god!" Zhu Qi thought, "I have also worshiped so many gods, where is there such a good one as this land lord?" ”
People who haven't read a book can't figure out how much truth there is, but who is good to him and who has helped him, this can still be figured out.
As he passed by the Land Temple, he hesitated.
He wanted to go over and kowtow again.
But thinking that the family was still tormented by this matter, I thought that I would go back as soon as possible to report the good news, so as not to continue to torture the family.
After a while, he finally walked into the Land Temple, kowtowed to the Land God Statue a few times, and said gratefully:
"Lord Land, you are my reborn parents!"
The temple keeper looked behind him and felt very strange.
Looking at Zhu Qi's appearance, he should have gotten some benefits from the land god.
And that's not a small benefit.
But is it possible?
The land god here is an old man Liu who died more than a month ago, just a mortal who just died, although a temple was built, but it was only because the Liu family was rich, where would there be any magical powers?
He is a servant of the Liu family, and he is no stranger to seeing the old man often.
It is precisely because of the familiarity and the lack of that layer of mystery that I will not believe that such a person will become a god after death.
But looking at Zhu Qi's appearance, it is not a fake.
It's going to confuse him.
Zhu Qi didn't put on the incense this time, because the incense he put on last time hadn't been burned yet, and the temple keeper didn't let him go on it again.
- This is the rule set by the Liu family.
After Zhu Qi left, half an hour later, he came to the temple again.
This time he wasn't alone, he brought his whole family over.
Even his youngest son, who was only a few years old, brought it with him.
The temple keeper was startled, and hurriedly stated:
"Now I am offering incense in the temple, and there is nothing to eat."
Of course, what he was worried about didn't happen, and Zhu Qi brought the family over to thank the land god for his help.
When he came home with the ingot and the penny, he startled his wife and asked him where he had gotten so much money and if he had sold his daughter.
Zhu Qi didn't hide it, starting from the dream last night, and until he saw the second master of the Liu family solve his problem under the big camphor tree.
His wife didn't believe it so much, and was still worried about whether he had secretly sold his daughter.
I have never heard of a place where the land god would take the initiative to give dreams to the poor people to help them solve their problems.
As for the landlords' associations, they exempted tenants from paying rent for one year and gave them money to spend, which is even more unheard of.
- Is that kind of character still made a big landlord?
The peasants were stricken by a famine and were so worried that they were dying.
But the big landlords are probably even happier in a famine year, because they can buy the land of the affected people at a low price.
It doesn't matter if you don't have land, you can sell yourself as a slave.
The landlord's money is never easy to get, either in exchange for land or in exchange for body.
No wonder she was skeptical.
But Zhu Qi swore that this was the case, and she couldn't ask anything else, so she could only be suspicious, and made up her mind that she would keep an eye on her daughter during this time, and she couldn't let others take her daughter away.
Zhu Qi was excited to pull her and her eldest son over to incense the land god, and by the way, let the land god bless the eldest son with a smooth exam, and she simply brought her daughter over.
- She was worried that worshipping the gods and offering incense was an excuse for Zhu Qi, but in fact it was to lure her out so that the buyer could take her daughter away.
Speaking of which, I still don't believe that there is such a good thing in the world.
Zhu Qi didn't expect her to have such a thought, so she didn't object to this proposal, and brought her youngest son over by the way.
- The youngest son is only a few years old, and there is no one to supervise him, and he is a little worried.
Not only his wife didn't believe it, but even his eldest son didn't believe it either, and he always felt that things were not so simple.
His daughter believed it, and her face was full of joy, happy that she had finally escaped the catastrophe and did not have to marry a butcher in his forties who still liked to beat people.
In addition to being young and not knowing much about the sinister way of the world, it is probably because she has no other choice but to believe.
The whole family entered the temple, and in front of the statue, Zhu Qi's whole family lit incense, including his youngest son, who was only a few years old.
After the twelve or thirteen-year-old girl lit the incense, Liu Qing received another prompt from the system that there was one more believer.
This is his fourth believer.
After this girl lit the incense, she also provided a hundredfold divine power.
When kneeling on the futon, it provides 10,000 times the divine power of ordinary incense.
Liu Qing was very interested and used a little spiritism to open up a channel of communication with her.
Then I heard her heart:
"Lord Land, thank you for saving my life and not letting my father marry me to the butcher in the town."
"Lord of the land, please bless me in the future, don't let my father send me to someone else's house."
"Lord Land, please bless my mother with good health, she broke her heart for this family, she didn't have a good day after she got married, she cried every day during this time, and people have become a lot older."
"Lord of the land, please also bless my father's good health, although he often scolds me, but I know that he also loves me in his heart. He worked very hard every day, and he was reluctant to eat anything, and I was afraid that he would not be able to hold on. If he is gone, our family will be gone. ”
"Lord Land, please bless my brother to be admitted to Xiucai, he works very hard, he is the hope of the whole family. If he is admitted to Xiucai, no one will bully us. ”
"Lord Land, please bless my brother to be healthy and able to study like my brother. I've lost two younger brothers in the past few years, and I'm afraid that one day he will be as gone as those two younger brothers. He is so thin, he screams that he is hungry every day, and I am so heartbroken. ”
"Lord Land, I am willing to give you incense and kowtow every day in this life, I only hope that you can bless everyone in my family with good health and happiness."