Chapter 17: Asking for Rain
My aunt is a docile and kind person, but her fate is not good, and she has been widowed for more than 20 years, and finally died of grief because of the murder of her cousin. I went to a relative's house, and my relatives died unhappily. It's been a year, and I'm always sad in my heart.
As for the consequences of the murderer Liu **zi, it will not be good, I heard Officer Liu tell me on the phone that Liu **zi was killed after staying in the cell for more than a month. It is said that before he died, he was still pulled in his pants. The wicked do not end well, this is the retribution of the wicked.
It's been a year, and it's the first anniversary of my aunt's death. Thinking about my aunt a year ago, she was still in good health, but since she learned that her cousin was killed and passed away in a hurry, my tears flowed down my eyes when I thought of this. Today is the year since my aunt's death, and I have come to her grave again. Her grave was covered with green grass, looking at the last photo of her spirit, my tears flowed down and I cried and said: "Auntie, I came to see you, no matter how happy or sad you left, but I want to tell you one thing, Cousin Rongrong's revenge has been avenged." I started crying.
Alas, now there is no living relatives here, and I have nothing to worry about here. After burning the paper for my aunt, I hurried to the highway and set foot on the way home.
"Please give me some water, my child is dying of thirst. An old woman cried and begged, "Great nephew, have pity on your nephew!" and the old woman fell to her knees crying. "No!" a strong man with a long beard said loudly: "If you don't have money, don't drink water, don't call me the eldest nephew, even if you call the eldest grandfather, it's useless." Get out of here!" I saw the strong man push the old woman down.
I saw the old woman holding the child and crying, and her tears fell on the child's face. The child's hand moved on the old woman's chest. "Stop!" I shouted, "What are you doing, the old man called you a big nephew, can't you give saliva to drink?" I saw the strong man shouting angrily: "Hey, I said the road, what does it matter to you if I give her water to drink." The strong man gave me a blank look and said, "Nosy, if you have money, you can take care of them." I walked up to the strong man and said angrily: "You are a water seller, I will buy all your water, make a price." The strong man smiled and said, "Shout, you are really rich, passing." I glanced at him and said, "Tell me, how much is your water?" I saw the strong man laugh loudly and said: "Others bought it, two thousand, if you buy it, it will rise to three thousand!" "You are robbing money!" I shouted loudly: "Do you sell gold water or silver water?" I saw the strong man smile and said: "Yo, you want to buy gold water, you don't have enough of it." The strong man smiled and said, "If you don't buy it, if you don't buy it, I'll have to leave, you just watch them die of thirst." "I saw the old woman crying, thinking that every relative loves his child, this is human nature. Looking at the proud appearance of the strong man, I thought that I would make you proud first, and then I would rectify you later. I looked at the man and shouted, "Bought it!" and took out 3,000 yuan and handed it to him. The strong man smiled and said, "You are a great good man, and said to a few people in the car: "Unload the water from the car." I saw a few people unloading the water from the car and walking away.
"Auntie, let your child drink it first. I whispered, "Don't make your child thirsty on this hot day, drink slowly." I saw that the child was in a hurry to drink the water in the bucket. "Folks, don't rob it, everyone has a share. I shouted anxiously, only to see the villagers on the road coming over to grab the water scoop and drink the bucket of water.
"Young man, you are our great benefactor, I saw the old woman crying and saying loudly: "We have deducted your head, the great benefactor of the living gods, please accept our worship!" Everyone shouted with the old woman: "Benefactor accept our worship!" "Don't be like this, folks, I can't stand it if you want to do this." I said as I walked over and helped the kneeling men.
"The mountains here are all red, and the trees on the mountains are dead. I was puzzled and asked the villagers, "Why have all the crops on the ground been dried, what is going on?" After speaking, I looked at the villagers beside me with a blank face.
"Ahem! I have to start talking about this from a year ago. "An old man, tanned by the sun, with beads of sweat on his head, wearing a pair of dark blue torn trousers. Shirtless, he bowed his head and said, "Ahem, a year ago, a group of people who developed the mountain came and occupied this mountain. said that a batch of money was given to the people, but we haven't seen the money so far. They demolished the mountain temple, angered the gods of the mountain temple, killed several people, and scared them away. No, it's like this after a year. Not a drop of rain fell, and in order to beg for rain, we spent all the money on our bodies, and the people who sold water just now were also the same people who begged for rain. After saying that, the old man sighed and sat on the ground.
"Folks, don't sigh. I said sympathetically, "This place is too hot, you should stand up to the sun, don't burn it." Let's find a place to talk about it. Take the rest of the water with you. "I saw the first few people lead me to a tree in the village.
The tree was dead, but there were still branches that could still block some sunlight. I sat down on the ground with my fellow villagers, took out a tooth of watermelon from my bag, handed it to the child in the old woman's arms, and whispered, "Child, eat quickly, don't get heat stroke." The old woman deliberately stopped her, and I said politely: "Auntie, this watermelon doesn't have much money." The old woman cried and said, "Young man, you are our nobleman, and we must thank you very much." They also said, "Yes." I waved my hand and smiled.
"Is it true that the mage you just said can pray for rain?" As soon as my words fell, I saw a man in a yellow vest, who was about forty years old, and shouted: "What a fart, I think he is a liar, if it rains, we will pay double the money, and if it doesn't rain, we are not sincere in asking for rain." He said all the good and bad things. I saw that the man was very angry after speaking.
"Ask Yu to repair the mountain temple, if you don't repair it, of course the immortals inside will be angry. I smiled and said, "You think, if someone demolishes your house, you won't be angry." When everyone heard this, they laughed and said loudly: "Young man, you are right, we listen to you, let's go and build a temple for the mountain god." I saw a group of people walking towards the mountain with shovels and shovels, I followed behind with a smile, and said to the previous life with a smile in my heart: "Brother in the previous life, you are one step closer to cultivating the positive fruit." I saw the previous life smile and said, "I will also renew your life for another year." I smiled and followed these people to the place of the mountain temple, only to see that everyone had lifted stones and broken tiles to build the mountain temple.
"Hey, brother of the future, let them put the statue of our teacher here. In this way, you and I can see the teacher, and you can also ask the teacher to help the villagers walk in the rain. I laughed out loud and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you all my former brother." I saw an old man whispering, "Young man, who are you talking to?" His question made all the villagers on the mountain look at me in surprise.
"No, I'm joking with myself. I smiled and said, "Folks, quickly build the temple and put the idol in it, I believe it will rain soon." The old man looked at me and said, "You are not an ordinary person, there must be a man of God next to you that we can't see." I smiled and said to the old man, "No, uncle, hurry up." With that, I went to the pine forest, plucked off a dead branch of the pine tree, picked up the knife in my bag, and carved the statue of my teacher according to the portrait of Wang Chang Laozu in my memory.
To say that this statue is neither big nor small, and it is very similar to the teacher Wang Chang Laozu, I used the paint powder in the bag to paint the teacher, it looks alive, and my art makes me envious.
"Huh, what kind of god is this?" an old man who had never seen Wang Chang asked me curiously, "I have lived for more than seventy years, why haven't I seen this immortal?" I smiled at him and said, "Uncle, you don't know, he is the god in charge of the thunder department in the sky." "What God, Thor? I've only heard that God only thunders. After speaking, he looked at me blankly, and I said with a smile: "Do you know the old lady Wen Zhong in the god list?" The old man nodded, and I said with a smile: "After the death of the god Wen Taishi, he was sealed as a god, let him in, he will thunder, as long as the thunderstorm is coming." The old man looked at me suspiciously, hesitantly. Move the statue of the god of the teacher Wang Chang Lao Zu into the mountain temple.
"What about the god of the mountain, the god of water, the lord of the dragon, and the new god of thunder?" the old man turned around and asked me, "The god of thunder, the god of Puhua, the ancestor of Wang Chang." I saw the old man say again, "And the new Tianzun Ancestor, I won't say, I'll call you Thunder God Ancestor, all kinds of immortals, we villagers have built temples for you, there is nothing delicious, you can make do with it, bless us to give us some rain." As he spoke, the old man ordered someone to bring his steamed steamed buns and the pig's head meat that these people had bought, and offered them to the newly built mountain temple.
I looked in the direction where my teacher was, picked up three pillars of incense and lit it, knelt down and said softly: "Teacher, the disciple is at the foot of the southeast mountain, and I have met poor refugees, they have no water to drink, please ask the teacher to give them some water to drink." After speaking, I opened the bag, took out the Taoist robe given to me by my teacher Wang Chang Laozu, I put it on, quite a Taoist style, picked up the peach wood sword in the bag, and bowed to the southeast in the direction of the teacher.
When the teacher heard my cry for help, I closed my eyes and saw the teacher Wang Chang Laozu smiling at me in the air, and in an instant a dark cloud floated in the sky, blocking the scorching sun in the sky and blowing a cool wind. For a while, thunder and lightning roared, and the heavy rain was coming, and the villagers cheered loudly in the rain: "Thank you to the mountain god, the dragon king, and the thunder god ancestor, the teacher smiled in the sky, turned into a rainbow and disappeared."
"Young man, you are the living god who saved us, come to my house for dinner. "Come to my house for dinner" "Come to my house for dinner!" the villagers quarreled over for me to come to his house for dinner. "You still have the heart to eat! Your death is coming, don't you know?" As soon as this person's voice fell, I looked at this person, only to see this person wearing a blue gossip robe and a phoenix-tailed official hat standing behind me.