The red-eyed monster, the rain king, and the unknown thing that fell from the sky are all near this small county town, and this county is really "outstanding people".

Zhang Tude secretly complained in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face, but asked Li Peng about the red-eyed stranger, after all, he was about to leave Juxian later, what if he ran into it on the road?

"How did I meet a red-eyed weirdo? It's a long story, and that night I went to visit the temple of the Rainy King......"

Zhang Tude didn't expect that this matter could be related to the Rainy Heavenly King, but he didn't interrupt Li Peng, and by the way, he heard what this Rainy Heavenly King was.

Li Peng first talked about the origin of the Rainy Heavenly King, and several decades ago, in addition to the existing Longwang Temple in Juxian County, the villagers around Juxian County also spontaneously sent money and efforts to build temples to worship the Buddha.

After the temple was completed, not only the people in the county and the surrounding villagers, but also many people from other places came to worship the Buddha, and the incense of the temple continued to be very vigorous.

And that temple is the ruined temple where Zhang Tude and Li Peng hid from the rain, as for why it was abandoned? This is all because in recent years, the villagers have begun to worship the Rainy King, and no one has come to worship the Buddha, and there are fewer people from the Dragon King Temple in the county.

As a local, Li Peng did not know where this rainy king came from, but he only knew that a few years ago there was a great drought around Juxian, the river was cut off, and the crops in the fields were all dead, and whether the villagers worshiped the dragon king or the Buddha, God did not let a drop of rain fall.

Soon after the drought struck, people from the county said that they would distribute relief food, but the villagers waited for many days for the food to arrive, and they were about to starve to death, so the villagers had to send someone to the county to ask.

As a result, when the people who went to the county came back, they said that the relief food was gone, and the county order hanged himself, and the county order at that time was the predecessor of the current Qian County Commander.

The hanged county magistrate's surname was Lu, so rumors began to circulate near the county that Lu County ordered the embezzlement of relief grain to be resold, and he committed suicide after being discovered.

The villagers could not wait for relief food, some people starved to death, the disaster did not go alone, in addition to the drought and banditry disaster, originally this Lu County Commander took office and vigorously suppressed the bandits, and the bandits near the county were gone.

But at this time, a group of people appeared out of nowhere, burning and looting everywhere, much more brutal than the previous bandits, they not only robbed large households, but also those hungry villagers.

The villagers had nothing to give them, so they snatched the women, and the men were directly killed and made into jerky, and several people in the village were killed by them, and the villagers called them ghost bandits.

In such a situation, only by going out to flee can there be a chance to live, and just when the surrounding villagers were about to do so, a blind old man came.

No one knew where the old man came from, but he first came to a village called Xiangshui Village, and he didn't want food or water to drink, as if he knew that the villagers didn't have any of these things.

Although the old man couldn't see things, he knew the way, and when there was no one to lead the way, he went directly to the village chief's house, and then asked the village chief to build a temple in the village, and the god enshrined in the temple was called the Rain King.

The old man said that when the temple was built, the king of the rainy days would rain heavily and give food to the villagers, and those ghost bandits who robbed the villagers would be punished, but the village chief only thought that the old man was talking nonsense and drove him out.

Unexpectedly, that night, the gang of ghost bandits who ate human flesh targeted Xiangshui Village, they attacked the village at night, and the villagers wanted to flee for their lives, but the ghost bandits had already surrounded the village.

Ignoring the villagers' pleas for mercy, the ghost bandits killed people when they saw them, and the village instantly became a hell on earth, with the screams of the villagers and the burning houses everywhere.

Just as they were killing vigorously, a light rain suddenly fell in the sky, and then a black mist floated in, and countless sharp arrows shot out of those black fogs and killed many ghost bandits, and the remaining ghost bandits rode away when they saw that the situation was wrong.

The villagers escaped, and the first rain after the drought began, and the burning houses were also extinguished.

The next day, the blind old man came to Xiangshui Village again, and now the village chief completely believed the old man's words, and he gathered the whole village to build a temple for the rainy king.

On the day when the temple was built, the blind old man said that the king of rain came and fell to the ground and died, and then the sky fell down, and the villagers knelt down to worship, and afterwards the villagers buried the old man, and when they returned home, they found that there was some extra food out of thin air.

More amazing things are still to come, after a few days the heavy rain stopped, some villagers went out to find a large number of dead people at the entrance of the village, and quickly called other people, some villagers found that these dead people were escaped ghost bandits.

The death of those ghost bandits was very terrifying, the whole body was covered with pus, and none of the villagers dared to go up and touch their corpses, and in the end the old village chief said that it was the rain king who had punished these ghost bandits, so that the villagers should not be afraid, and then personally led people to burn these corpses.

All the words of the blind old man came true, and this matter also spread to other villages, although it rained, but the people in other villages had no food, and they were persecuted by ghosts and bandits, so they simply worshiped the rain king.

The villages that worshiped the Rain King also had food like Xiangshui Village, and the ghost bandits who came to attack them were all killed, and soon all the villages around Juxian County worshipped the Rain King.

In this way, the villagers survived for a while by relying on those grains, and when the relief food from the imperial court came, those ghost bandits were also exterminated by the officials and soldiers who came, and after the drought passed, those villages only worshipped the king of rain.

Hearing this, Zhang Tude had a doubt in his heart, the Rainy King didn't sound like some evil weirdo, but what he did was really like a disaster relief god, and the Rainy King had the ability to call for wind and rain, how could he be killed by a few mortals of his own, was it really the Rain King he met that day?

Zhang Tude expressed this doubt, and Li Peng nodded after hearing it and said:

"Brother Tude, it is true that the one we met that day was not the real Rain King, I woke up and went to see the head that was cut off by my brother, and found that the head was not at all different from the statue of the Rain King in the temple, at most it was a green strange head, and I still recognized the strange man.

The strange man's name is Chen Jiu, a villager in Xiangshui Village, this person usually has no hobbies, just likes to drink, but after drinking, he always gets drunk, and there are a few times when he drinks too much in the county to make trouble, making a lot of jokes, I recognize him.

I don't know why he became this weird, but it should have something to do with the Rainy King, the last time I saw him was in front of the Temple of the Rainy King, he drank too much that night, and when he saw me, he said that he wanted to go into the Temple of the Rainy King to eat tribute. ”

"Then why did you go to the Rainy Heavenly King Temple at night?"

Zhang Tude's question brought the topic back to Li Peng's night visit to the Temple of the Heavenly King, Li Peng drank a few sips of water, and continued to talk after seeing that the food had not yet been delivered:

"Mine is also related to alcohol, one night I drank too much with a few brothers, and when I was confused, I made a bet with them to spend the night in the Temple of the Rainy Heavenly King."

Li Peng regretted it after waking up that day, this rainy Tianwang Temple is not the same as a Buddhist temple, and it is disrespectful to spend the night in it.

Although he was bold, he was still a little in awe of ghosts and gods, but in order not to lose face in front of his brothers, he finally decided to go to the Temple of the Rainy Heavenly King that night.

Li Peng took advantage of the darkness to bypass the villagers guarding the night and successfully entered the temple of the Rainy Heavenly King, but after he entered, he found a frightening thing.