Chapter 244: Three Years of Great Drought, Where Does the Rain Come From?
A few awkward words...... What do you say?
It's hard for the stone to be able to remember.
Yu Chen listened and was confused for a while.
It happened that the old man Wen Sheng, who happened to come out of the Netherworld, noticed this sentence, frowned, and asked the stone: "Is the person whose head was cut off a young man, with a thin body, and three black moles on his forehead?" ”
Shi thought about it and nodded violently, "You guessed it right!" ”
After hearing this, the old man Wen Sheng let out a long sigh.
Yu Chen was so curious, so he asked him.
The old man Wensheng didn't sell it, so he told him what happened a year ago.
It is said that there was a master of Shuntian in Youhe County a year ago, who claimed to have obtained the mandate of heaven and assassinated the emperor.
In the end, not only did the emperor not kill, but also put all of them in, more than a dozen died on the spot, and the rest were all executed by Ling Chi, and the most qualified executioners in the capital were executed, and each traitor cut a full 3,600 knives before he swallowed his breath.
And such a felony comparable to rebellion is naturally not so simple and over.
Not only those traitors were killed by the nine clans, but even the county magistrate Zheng Shuyan and a group of officials in Youhe County were dismissed and arrested in prison. It is said that when the year of the day of the rebellion comes, the head will be sacrificed to the sky.
The old man Wen Sheng counted the days, as if a year ago was when the horrific assassination occurred.
"That Zheng Shuyan is not an extraordinary person, he practiced one of the ways of literature, studied in Jixia Academy, stood out from the crowd, and the old man had a good impression of him - he is a good seedling who is loyal to the country, and he is also upright, but he didn't expect to suffer from this catastrophe, it's a pity, it's a pity!"
Although, everyone knows that Master Shuntian's assassination of the emperor has nothing to do with the Youzhou County Commander Zheng Shuyan.
But Master Shuntian is a native of Youhe County, and he originated in Youhe County.
As the commander of Youhe County, Zheng Shuyan is not strict in governing the people, so it is naturally difficult to escape the blame.
If it is an ordinary matter, then the entire dismissal and dismissal will be enough.
But what Master Shuntian committed was the most intolerable heinous crime in this feudal dynasty!
- Assassinate the Emperor!
This kind of great crime that even the eighteenth generation of ancestors can dig up and repeatedly whip the corpse, Youhe County Ling Zheng Shuyan has completely suffered a disaster.
Then, from the words of the old man Wen Sheng, Yu Chen also knew one thing.
It's Youhe County.
Because of the traitor who assassinated the emperor, the Dichenghuang of Youhe County received an order to not let a drop of rain fall for three years.
as a punishment.
And the so-called underground city god, Yu Chen also knows.
The capital occupies the heavenly division, and the scale is very large.
In addition to the countless humane alchemists, there were also some mountain spirits who were canonized.
- Most of these spirits are mountain gods and gods, or "gods" born from the long incense offerings in the land temple.
Although in a real sense, they also belong to the natural things of heaven and earth, and belong to monsters.
But most of these spirits don't have too much harm to others, but carry the luck and general trend of the water and soil.
Naturally, it is impossible for the imperial court to kill all of them with a knife, so there is such a thing as "canonization".
Let those mountain spirits survive under the management of the imperial court, known as the "Earth City God".
Among them, the most well-known, in addition to the land gods in various places, probably belong to the rumored "Feng Bo", "Rain Master", "Lei Gong", and "Electric Mother".
And the "rain master" does not refer to a single existence, but a general term for the spirits in charge of the weather and rain in a region.
Therefore, the imperial court ordered that the Youhe rain master did not dare to disobey.
In Youhe County for a year, there has been no rain.
Hearing this, Yu Chen put a question mark and frowned.
"Something is wrong, right?"
You said that in this feudal era where the Son of Heaven is respected, it is still understandable that people like assassinating the emperor are connected to the nine clans.
But isn't it too much to let tens of millions of people in a county suffer along with it?
- Three years without rain.
This is a fatal blow to the developed civilization in Yu Chen's previous life.
Not to mention the crops and people in Youhe County, who face the loess and turn their backs to the sky.
After these three years, there are still thirty percent of the people left in Youhe County, and they are all good.
It is true that Yu Chen can understand the idea of the imperial court, which is to make an example to the extreme, so that in the future, anyone who has the intention of rebellion will have to think about whether the consequences are something they can afford.
But he couldn't agree.
What are the sins of the people of Youhe County?
To put it bluntly, isn't it just that he was born in Youhe County.
Can anyone control this?
After a few words, the old man Wensheng shook his head again and again, not only to sigh at the death of Zheng Shuyan in Youhe County, but also to sigh at the suffering of the people in Youhe, sigh, and go back to the underworld.
Leave Yu Chen and stones.
The former thought for a while, as if he had made a decision, and suddenly spoke: "Stone, accompany me to the rain for the next two days." ”
The stone didn't think about it, grinned, and nodded: "Okay! The stone is with you! ”
It just so happened that at this moment, Yu Youyu, who didn't know where to run before, also came back, she only heard the second half of the sentence, and her eyes immediately lit up, "Where are you going?" The concubine is going too! ”
The stone immediately glared angrily.
Two guys, big eyes and small eyes, no one can get used to seeing anyone!
Yu Chen was helpless, waited for the two of them to stare dryly, and walked out of the mausoleum house by himself.
Ride the nine ghosts, go to the bank of the Cangjiang River, take out the water hyacinth, and shoot it!
The vast Cangjiang water, like a hundred rivers converging the sea, is included in this water hyacinth.
After filling enough, Yu Chen returned.
At this time, it was already afternoon.
If you don't return to the mausoleum, Yu Juvenile doesn't know where she went, but the stone is preparing food in the stove room.
Yu Chen was just about to enter the house when he heard footsteps from the bottom of the mountain.
After a while, several officials came up with the corpse that morning.
Yu Chen noticed that the look of one of the thin officials was particularly unnatural—looking at the corpse on the cart, his eyes were sad.
When they saw Yu Chen, the officials also immediately greeted and shouted to watch the grave, and then they unloaded the body and dug a pit to prepare for burial.
There were more than a dozen corpses in total, all of which were stitched around the neck.
The wound didn't need to be looked at closely, Yu Chen knew that it was cut off his head.
And the corpse in the head made him look at it twice-because there was a soul standing on him.
Looking at that appearance, the figure is thin, the face is handsome, the age looks like he is only twenty or thirty years old, and the three black moles on his eyebrows are not only not abrupt, but also highlight a different kind of scholarly anger.
This appearance, this injury, Yu Chen directly guessed that it was Zheng Shuyan, the commander of Youhe County.
The bald official saw that Yu Chen had been looking at the corpse, and explained: "Hey, that's the Youhe County Order, because of the assassination a year ago, he suffered an unwarranted disaster and was cut off his head, it's a pity." ”
After that, the bald official glanced at the thin monkey behind him, and said in a low voice: "That thin monkey is from Youhe County, I heard that I respect the Youhe County Commander quite much, and I didn't want him to send the Youhe County Commander up the mountain, but his family is still there, and he has to work hard to earn money to move at this time......"
Speaking of this, the bald official couldn't help but scold: "Damn, what kind of world is this!" ”
Yu Chen was speechless.
After a long time, the corpses of these officials of the Youhe Yamen were buried.
Several officials went down the mountain, but only the thin monkey knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Youhe County Ling Zheng Shuyi.
Yu Chen took a bowl of tea and handed it to him.
After the thin monkey thanked him again and again, he drank it in one gulp.
"Although I am here to see the grave, I have learned some celestial phenomena, and in the direction of the Youhe, it has been raining recently."
The thin monkey turned his head in horror and saw Yu Chen pointing in the direction of Youhe County.
He smiled miserably, obviously not taking it seriously, but still bowed down and said, "Borrow your auspicious words." ”
With that, I went down the mountain.
He still has to continue to earn money to move his family out of Youhe County.
After everyone was done, Yu Chen looked at the ghost of Zheng Shuyan.
The other party also looked at him calmly.
Clearly, the man's ghost was sane.
"For some reason, when someone Zheng saw Mr. for the first time, he felt that Mr. ...... Extraordinary mortal. Zheng Shuyan's ghost gently arched his hand and looked at Yu Chen.
Yu Chen didn't speak, but just entered the room, and Zheng Shuyan's soul also followed.
The people are present, and the golden light is shining.
Zheng Shuyan's life flashed one by one.
There's not much to say.
As Wen Sheng said, Zheng Shuyan is a native of Youhe County, but he grew up in the capital since he was a child, and Yu Wen is very talented, so he went to Jixia Academy to study.
On the day of his studies, he rejected the olive branch thrown by Song Xiang, who was above 10,000 people, in the capital court, and returned to poor Youhe County to serve as the county commander.
During his three-year tenure, he worked diligently, straightened out the officialdom, personally drove and suppressed bandits, reduced or exempted taxes, established schools, and supported industrial and commercial ...... Only three years have passed, and the entire Youhe County has taken on a new look.
At this time, when the Song Dynasty in the capital heard about it, he once again threw an olive branch and invited him to enter Beijing as an official and pave the Qingyun Avenue; Even the seventh prince Zhou Xiu invited him three times and invited him to be a guest.
refused, stay in the river.
Zheng Shuyan once said that he was born in Youhe and should be prosperous in Youhe.
made an oath that there was hunger in the river and that he would not enter Beijing.
That is to say, as long as there are people in Youhe who can't eat enough, he will not enter Beijing as an official in this life.
But just when Youhe County was thriving under his leadership, the "Shuntian Assassination" case broke out.
Those sinners were all punished by the nine clans, and his Youhe County order was also put in prison, and the entire Youhe County was also forbidden from rain, and the people had no harvest, hungry and cold.
Zheng Shuyan saw it in his eyes and felt pain in his heart.
But he is in prison and helpless.
Until today, when he was beheaded, the depression accumulated in his heart turned into the words of praying for rain for the people echoed in the heavens and the earth.
The marquee ran out.
Yu Chen opened his eyes and looked at the clear-eyed former Youhe County Commander in front of him.
The latter was also looking at him, and asked: "Just now Zheng listened to Mr. said, watching the sky at night, and seeing rain in the hidden river?" ”
Yu Chen nodded.
"But Your Majesty's decree, the ban on the sky, the rain master's check, the three years of drought in the Youhe River, the absence of a day, a night, a minute and a moment, is not three years."
Zheng Shuyan asked, but his voice gradually became excited, "-Where does the rain come from?" ”
Let's have some monthly pass brothers( ̇▽ ̇)
(End of chapter)