Chapter 145: The Great Drought in May
The sound of the flute curled and gradually cut off, and finally glanced at the high wall, and then Yu Qi went away.
In the courtyard, Miss Zhou sat on the swing, looking out of the high wall with a pair of eyes, her black eyes seemed to be able to speak, and she could see through the high wall that blocked everything.
When I got home, Mrs. Tao was standing in the courtyard, and Shi Niang and Lan Caihe were nowhere to be found.
"Yu Qi!" Lady Tao shouted.
Yu Qi came to Mrs. Tao, looked at Mrs. Tao with red and swollen eyes, and gently stretched out his hand to caress her cheek: "If you persuade me, you don't have to speak, since I have made up my mind, I will never change." ”
"I won't persuade you, I just want to say, even if it's an ordinary friend, Shi Niang can do it, right? Even if you don't want to recognize your mother, it's not too much to be an ordinary friend, right?" Mrs. Tao looked at him quietly.
"Even if it's an ordinary friend, you shouldn't treat him like this!" Mrs. Tao looked at Yu Qi quietly.
Yu Qi was silent when he heard this, and was silent for a long time before he said, "Then let's be an ordinary friend." ”
The days go by, you are annoyed or not, Shi Niang is there, smiling all day long, and walking around you heartlessly.
However, the relationship between Yu Qi and Shi Niang has eased a lot.
Shi Niang didn't mention the matter of recognizing her mother, and the two sides were just ordinary friends.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it has been five months, and the relationship between Yu Qi and Shi Niang has eased a lot.
Even if you don't recognize your relatives, it's still okay to be an ordinary friend. Five months, let go of all prejudices, and be an ordinary friend, it's not bad.
In the sky
The sun is scorching
The big banyan tree in the courtyard is also wilting and drooping at this time, and the leaves are yellow and standing in the courtyard.
"It's been five months! It hasn't rained for five months!" Mrs. Tao said, holding a fan in her hand, sitting under the big banyan tree and eating watermelon.
The entire territory of Yizhou has become a big furnace, which is much hotter than the southern part of the world in July and August in later generations.
The most important thing is that not a drop of rain has fallen for five months, and the entire Yizhou territory has a clear sky, only the big sun is quietly suspended.
"Impossible, Yizhou is in the south, the air is hot, and there are eight major rivers in it, how can there be no manna for five months?" Lan Caihe's eyes showed a solemnity, constantly wiping the sweat on his sideburns, holding a watermelon and standing under the banyan tree to water.
Yu Qi carried a bucket of water, unhurriedly watering the flowers and plants on the ground, the air was scorching but his body was cold.
The cold and heat do not invade, and the power of the ancestral dragon is of some use after all.
"If it doesn't rain again, I'm afraid that Yizhou will be finished!" Shi Niang wiped the sweat on her forehead and threw the watermelon peel on the ground.
"Could it be that someone is doing it and wants to harm Yizhou?" Lan Cai and his eyebrows trembled.
"The epidemic is so serious that even the water level of Lishui has dropped by three percent, and it will continue for a few months, but I am afraid that Lishui will be cut off!" Pipa broke in from outside the door, holding a parasol: "Madam, the yamen of the state government posted a notice to hire five thousand taels of gold, and wanted to ask the masters of Buddhism and Taoism to ask for rain." Summoning the people of the people, as long as they can ask for heavy rain, they can get 5,000 taels of gold. ”
"What, there is such a good thing?" Lan Caihe's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this: "Is this true?"
"Naturally, it really can't be true," Pipa said in a series of words: "The notice is posted on the city wall, and this matter has been spread throughout Yizhou." ”
"Five thousand taels of gold is a bit less, and now there has been a five-month drought in Yizhou, and the people have no harvest. If there is no rain this year, I am afraid that Yizhou will be starving, and the people will be reduced by at least fifty percent! At least five adults will starve to death! The Marquis of Yizhou is the home of the prince, with fine clothes and food, and the expenses on weekdays, but not seven or eight hundred taels of silver on that day, and still care about this five thousand taels of gold?" Yu Qi sneered when he heard this.
"You can't say that, now there is a big drought in Yizhou, and there has been no rain for five months, if you can ask for heavy rain, it will also be a great merit, and you will live tens of millions of people!" Shi Niang refuted, and then raised her head to look at the scorching sun: "Lan Caihe, if you ask for rain, how sure are you?"
"Difficult! difficult!" Lan Caihe raised his head and looked at the sky: "Now that the sky is cloudless, I want to ask for rain, but it is rootless duckweed, and heavy rain falls out of thin air, I don't know how much human effort it takes." Even if it takes effort, it may not be able to get the rain down. This is a natural disaster, how can manpower resist the sky?"
"People in my generation of cultivators, when we save all sentient beings and save the people of the world, if we are in the current disaster today, how can we stand idly by?" Shi Niang looked at Lan Caihe: "If you can ask for rain, save all living beings in Yizhou immeasurably, and have countless merits, Your Excellency has stepped into the realm of Hedao, maybe you have increased your hope by thirty percent out of thin air." ”
"It's difficult! Asking for rain is a thankless task! If there are clouds, it is not difficult for me to ask for rain, but now it is ......" Lan Caihe looked at the thousands of miles of white clouds, then squatted down and grabbed a handful of dirt on the ground: "You look at the soil, the underground river water is already falling, and if you want to ask for rain, it is even more rootless." ”
"No matter what, you have to give it a try!" Shi Niang looked at Lan Caihe.
"If you can ask for rain and condense the legal domain, it's just a matter of course! In the midst of the rain, borrowing the will of all the people to sense the magnetic field of heaven and earth is a rare creation!" Lan Caihe looked at Shi Niang.
"My skills are shallow, but I still have more profound skills" Shi Niang shook her head and lifted the ball to Lan Caihe.
Lan Cai and smiled bitterly, Yizhou's situation was a thankless task, and it was almost impossible to ask for rain.
"Why don't you go together?" Lan Caihe said.
"It's okay, so I went to the yamen of the state capital together and unveiled the list text" Shi Niang pondered for a while and said.
As soon as they said and did, the two turned around and walked out of the Tao Mansion, leaving Yu Qi standing in the courtyard, watering the flowers calmly.
"The concubine is so big, it's the first time I've heard of such a drought in Yizhou City. In previous years, it was not a good weather, only a year of floods, but I had never heard of such a great drought!" Mrs. Tao looked at Yu Qi.
Yu Qi held a gourd in his hand, and a scoop of water was splashed out, evaporating at a speed visible to the naked eye, spreading between heaven and earth.
Smoke rolled up on the ground, and it seemed that it could be ignited at any moment.
"It may not be a natural disaster, maybe it is a man-made disaster!" Yu Qi collected the wooden barrel, slowly walked under the big banyan tree, and ate a mouthful of watermelon.
He had a hunch that he was afraid that the real dragon's resentment that Old Dragon Jun had said last time would start to flare up.
It's cause and effect!
The cause and effect of Yizhou Houfu, Xiqi, and Daomen.
"Man-made disaster, even if you are a saint, you can't call a continent a great drought for three months!" Madame Tao shook her head.
Yu Qi didn't answer Mrs. Tao's words, just quietly ate watermelon, silently running the skills, and tempering the soul.
With the continuous cultivation of the divine soul, the pain was gradually reducing.
Yu Qi's eyes flickered, and a pair of eyes looked into the distance: "Yizhou Hou, it's a big trouble!"
Yizhou Hou is indeed in big trouble
Yizhou Hou Mansion
Yizhou Hou walked back and forth in the hall with an anxious face, and a hot air flowed around him. In the hall, Zhou Ji, Zhou Kun, and Zhou Pengju all sat quietly, but the anxiety in their eyes revealed the mood in their hearts.
"Father, the list has been posted, this matter is in a hurry!" Zhou Xi's voice was as usual, and he opened his mouth to comfort Yizhou Hou.
"It's been dry for five months, how can my father not be anxious? Now is the time for the green seedlings to grow, and when they dry up, how can the green seedlings grow when the rain is insufficient? Even if the wheat grows, all of them are deflated, and there will be no fruit at all! My Yizhou plan has reached a critical moment, and now suddenly such a mess has come, and all the plans have been overthrown cleanly!" Yizhou Hou hurriedly walked back and forth.
"What do you say about the three major offerings?" Zhou Peng asked.
"The three major worshippers said that their cultivation is insufficient, and they can't borrow rain from outside Kyushu, so they can't rain at all!"
Trouble!
Everyone knows that Yizhou Hou is in big trouble.
The people have no harvest, and they will not be able to survive when the time comes, and Yizhou will inevitably be in chaos.
Even if there is grain in Yizhou, how long can it be eaten, and how many people can it be relieved?
If the source of the great drought is not lifted, Yizhou will not want to live in peace.
Eat and store grain this year, but what about next year?
The idea of a good harvest is still for some people to starve to death, let alone a year of famine?
If too many people in Yizhou starved to death, why did the Marquis of Yizhou compete for that position?
Why?
Even if you really get a real dragon, what's the use?
The Wing Island was already empty, and it had become an empty shell.
"What about the masters behind the three major offerings?" asked Zhou Ji.
"It's difficult!" Yizhou Hou just said, his voice was full of vicissitudes, and his eyes looked into the distance, without saying the reason.
"Your Majesty, there is a monk outside the door, saying that he can try it, unveiling the list, and wants to ask for rain!" Suddenly, Tie Chuanjia hurried from outside the door and saluted the Marquis of Yizhou.
"Someone has unveiled the list? Yes, please, please!" Yizhou Hou was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly said.
After a while, he saw a thin monk, with bare soles and sackcloth robes, as thin as dry bones, slowly coming to the house.
"Meet Master Hou!" Although the monk was thin, his voice was loud, like a flood bell and a big Lu, which made people's eardrums ring.
"The mage has unveiled the list?" Yizhou Hou looked at the monk with a happy face.
"Not bad"
"Dare to ask the name of the mage?" Yizhou Hou said again.
"Little monk Moda!" the monk saluted to the Marquis of Yizhou.
"Mage, please take a seat" Yizhou Hou glanced at the other party, and saw that the other party's eyes were shining with golden light, and he was an extraordinary person, he must have magical powers.
The two sides sat down, and Yizhou Hou said, "Can the mage ask for rain?"
"In the May drought of Yizhou, the underground water veins dried up and became a rootless source, but it was difficult to ask for rain. The little monk can only try!" the monk said with a smile.
"Try it, but I don't know when the mage will do it?" said Yizhou Hou with an earnest face.
"There is no hurry, before asking for rain, there is something that needs to be explained clearly to the Hou Ye" The monk twisted the rosary in his hand, and looked at the Hou of Yizhou with a pair of eyes.
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