Chapter 55: Shaoshi Village

"Ask for rain!".

The county lord calmly spit out two words!

There is a place under Shangqin County called Shaoshi Village, and from this name, you can know that this Shaoshi Village is a very barren place.

Legend has it that during the Great War, the drought was hiding here for a while, so to this day, drought is like a common occurrence, and it has not been a drop of water for half a year since the last rain.

The younger generation in the township can't stand the life of this people, they can walk and run, but there are those old, weak, sick and disabled, who can't pick their shoulders and can't resist their backs, so they can only see if God can open their eyes and enjoy food here.

"If the Heavenly Master can ask for rain, it will prove that what you said is false, and it is understandable for me to take this demon girl away!" The county magistrate paused and continued.

"What if the teacher asks for it that day?"

Su Yu took two steps forward and asked the county master.

"Heavenly Master...... If you can't ask for it, there is no time when the Heavenly Master can't ask for it!".

The county master laughed, looked at Su Yu and shook his head.

This man is still too young, how can he fight a battle that he is not sure of?

He pulled the corners of his mouth mockingly, and he was already thinking about how to persuade his wife to let him accept this little lady when he turned around!

In fact, it's not that the county master is conceited, mainly because this Heavenly Master is too cunning.

This Heavenly Master used to be in Chongshanmen, and Hu Zhenren first taught him to observe the sky at night, although he was not good at learning, but he still learned seven, seven, eight, eight.

Whenever he observed that it was likely to rain in the near future, he would recommend himself to go to Shaoshi Village to ask for rain, and there was almost no time when he was unsuccessful.

If there was no sign of a thunderstorm and the villagers ran to him, he would ask his disciples to say that he was in retreat and turn them away. Because of his opportunistic methods, he is hard in the hearts of everyone, just like a fairy.

So when Zhang Tianshi heard that he was going to Shaoshi Village, he was stunned for a moment, and his heart beat a drum.

In recent times, it has been impossible to have rain!

After he was carried into the sedan chair by several people, he kept thinking in his heart how to fool this matter over.

The sedan chair may be a novice, swaying is not very stable, he is not careful, his head accidentally knocked down the wall of the sedan chair, with a sharp pain in his chest, he exhaled softly!

I wanted to open my mouth to curse a few words, but suddenly my mind turned, and there were!

He looked at his left hand, gritted his teeth, and with a forceful squeeze, a few fingers "clicked"!

He endured the pain and didn't scream, and the sweat of the bean was dripping onto his placket.

In the past, when he did it, he had to pretend to seal with his hands, but now his left hand can no longer make the seal, so it is reasonable that he can't ask for rain.

Although the rain can't come, it must not smash its own signboard.

In about half an hour, I arrived at Shaoshi Village.

As they say, the endless land is really barren, and the dry soil is clumped together to form ravines, but there is not a drop of water in the ravines, and even if there is, it is the tears of the village name.

Far away at the entrance of the village, Qingluan saw a ragged woman, prostrate on the ground, her hands folded, and her mouth kept chattering.

The child sitting next to him was dying with his head on his back, his chapped lips turned white, and a trace of blood seeped out of the crack.

He raised his eyes weakly to look at the approaching people, and a leap of joy flashed in his eyes, and he tugged at the corner of the woman's clothes.

The woman straightened up suspiciously, and looked at the people in the distance.

He staggered up from the ground and shouted in a hoarse voice.

"Heavenly Master! Heavenly Master has come to ask for rain! Heavenly Master!".

The joy and hope in his eyes were unobstructed.

The Heavenly Master has been to Shaoshi Village several times, and each time the pomp is not small, and it is basically led by the county master, so the woman recognized at a glance that this is the county master who came with the heavenly master.

She stumbled to the county lord and knelt down heavily, as if she was about to fall down because of her physical exhaustion.

She braced herself and gasped.

"Heavenly Master, you're finally here!", as if remembering something again, he began to cry.

Qingluan always thought that the beggar on the street was the misery of the world, but the scene in front of her made her eyes red.

She blinked her sore eyes, not sure what to say.

Su Yu held her all the time, and from her slightly trembling hands, she felt her emotional fluctuations.

"The so-called human suffering is like this!"

Although it was the first time he had seen it, he had imagined such a picture literally many times from those ancient books and gods.

His heart was slightly astringent, and he suddenly felt that God was so unfair!

The people who were originally in the village ran out one by one after listening to the shouts of the village women.

Male, female, old, young, the only thing that is the same is that expectation!

"Don't worry, the Heavenly Master is here!, everything will be fine!".

Although the county magistrate usually thinks about how to run an official, but in this situation, he is also a little uncomfortable in his heart, for an official, doing a thing, watching the people in his jurisdiction live so miserably, how should he do something for them.

"Help the Heavenly Master down!".

He commanded.

Seeing that the Celestial Master was helped down from the sedan chair, the village name knelt on the ground one by one, not daring to look directly, as if even if he looked at it more, it would be a blasphemy against him.

The surrounding officers and soldiers saw the Heavenly Master coming down, lined up in unison, and stood neatly on both sides of the Heavenly Master. The villagers, on the other hand, slowly retreated to the distance on their knees.

"Heavenly Master, please!".

The county magistrate put his hands behind him, took two steps back, and stood in a row with the soldiers, then raised his eyes to look at Qingluan and the others, and motioned for them to stand farther away.

Su Yu took Qingluan and leaned to the side.

Everyone looked at Zhang Tianshi in unison.

I saw that Zhang Tianshi instructed his disciples to take out a three-foot-square gray linen cloth, spread it on the ground, and put a palm-sized stove on it, in which were three unlit standing incense.

He stepped forward and sat down on the ground, his right hand raised in front of his chest, his fingers pointing to the sky, and the words in his mouth.

After a while, he raised his left hand slightly, ready to follow the mantra and make the Dharma seal, but when he heard his "hiss", his left hand spasmed.

"Heavenly Master?".

Seeing the Heavenly Master's painful expression, the county magistrate's heart trembled.

He strode forward and took Zhang Tianshi's left hand.

I saw that the knuckle of my left knuckle was already swollen, and when I stroked it carefully, one of the bones was out of place.

"What is this?".

The county master looked at the Heavenly Master with a shocked expression.

Zhang Tianshi took a deep breath and endured the pain before he spoke leisurely.

"It should have been when I was doing it just now, I was accidentally injured by this woman, and I thought I could persevere, but I ......."

As he spoke, he shook his head, his eyes uncertain whether he was disappointed or sorry.

The county magistrate forcibly held back the anger in his heart, let go of Zhang Tianshi's hand, and shouted.

"Come on, tie up this demon girl for me!".

Qingluan and Su Yu were already standing far away, only to see that the Heavenly Master didn't know why his face suddenly changed, and he stopped doing it, and then the county master stepped forward to ask.

Listening to this unknown order, Qingluan was stunned.

The surrounding officers and soldiers all surrounded him and Su Yu, only the villagers in the distance, like them, looked at a loss.

Seeing that the officers and soldiers were about to make a move, Su Yu stood in front of Qingluan.

"My lord, why is that?".

He asked the county magistrate across the officers and soldiers.

"Oh! why?".

The county magistrate chuckled lightly and continued.

"The demon girl did evil, and hurt the Heavenly Master so that he couldn't do it and beg for rain!

When Su Yu heard this, her heart suddenly felt like a mirror.

After a few breaths, he spoke.

"This rain, I come to beg!"

These words sounded like they landed on the ground, causing an uproar in everyone's hearts.

Everyone looked at him in shock.

After a while, a series of laughter rang out.

"You come to beg?", the county magistrate trembled with laughter.

Su Yu looked at the villagers who were still kneeling on the ground in the distance and didn't know what to do, and nodded calmly.

The county lord looked at him mockingly, he didn't know if this young man had a brain problem, and he dared to say that he was not ashamed to ask for rain!

"Okay!", he snorted softly, raising his hand and twisting his beard, "If you can't ask for it, young man, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

He has been haunted by the account book matter just now, and he can't find any charges on Su Yu, but now, he has sent it to the door, and he has no reason not to accept it! If he can't ask for rain, he can just give him a crime of swaggering and cheating, so see how he still jumps!

While thinking, the county magistrate waved his hand and signaled the officers and soldiers surrounding Qingluan and Su Yu to disperse.

"Let's begin, young man!".

The county magistrate picked his eyes and continued: "This path was chosen by yourself, no wonder others!".

After that, he looked like he was bound to win and stood aside.

Qingluan listened to Su Yu say that he asked for rain, and his heart tightened.

Although she had never been to the Heavenly Realm, she knew that it was against the rules of heaven to ask for rain privately.

The human world has always been the belonging of the heavenly realm, and when it is windy and rainy, the seasons change, it is naturally arranged by the heavenly realm, and the immortals are resolutely not allowed to change the state of the human world without permission.

She tugged at Su Yu's sleeve and shook her head worriedly at him.

Su Yu looked at Qingluan's hand, sighed, and patted it gently twice comfortingly.

"Don't worry!".

With that, he stepped out of the crowd and walked towards an open space.