In the summer season, the weather is unbearably hot, when the first rays of sunlight in the morning shine into the world.

"Di'er, get up, my grandmother promised the village chief to set up an altar in Xiyan Mountain to pray for rain, pray for the people of the territory, pray for heaven and earth, and pray for rain and dew to bless the earth. "You still go with me, your grandfather still has a ritual in the next village, and he can't come back today, so it's also a problem to let you eat at home alone.

As the voice came, an old woman in a coarse linen shirt walked in. I saw the old woman holding a bamboo big pu fan in her hand, except for the deep folds on her face that were slightly hideous, her feet kept moving, crossed the threshold, and pushed open a thatched hut made of straw.

"Emperor, my little emperor, my little ancestor. The old woman showed a gentle smile on her face, but it was piled up with the folds on her face, and the picture was not very warm. The old woman picked up the pu fan, and while driving away mosquitoes and flies for the child called Di'er in her mouth, she reached out to pull the arm of the thin hemp pole.

Di'er finally sat up, rubbing her sleepy eyes, Mother: Where are you going?

Recently, our Luoyang territory is drought, red land for thousands of miles, and the people are struggling to make a living.

The state government ordered all the territories to find their own ways to divert water into Luo and moisten the earth.

When I was young, I practiced the art of Huang Lao with the Taoist people on the mountain for a few years, and after hearing about it, the village chief asked me to set up an altar in Xiyan Mountain to pray for rain for the sake of the local people.

I have promised the village chief that you should get up quickly and make it to the top of the mountain at noon.

The old woman hurriedly explained.

"Di'er, as soon as I heard the excitement, my legs were stretched, my arms were propped up, and a carp rolled and got up. ”

"Di'er, real name: Emperor Han Qing. I grew up with my grandmother and grandfather since I was a child, and lived in a small village in a county under the capital of Luoyang Prefecture. ”

The village is only a few ten households, scattered and loosely located at the foot of Xiyan Mountain.

This year is the 10,000th year of the Emperor's calendar, and Emperor Han Qing is exactly eight years old.

After washing, Emperor Han Qing put on a set of cyan thin shirts made for him by his grandmother, stood in the courtyard of the bamboo fence, and waited for his grandmother to pack up her package and set off together.

Looking at Emperor Han Qing, he is slightly taller than his peers, with fair skin, melon seed face, thin body, except for a long straight nose, the whole person has no other characteristics, and he is an ordinary young man.

"Di'er, I've packed it up. Let's go, let's go. ”

As she spoke, the old woman pulled up Emperor Han Qing, who was still in a daze, and walked out of the courtyard.

Po: What are you holding, it looks so heavy.

Emperor Han Qing looked curious, full of suspicion.

I thought to myself, just stand on the top of the mountain, shout a few times, and beg God to hurry up and make it rain, as for the whole thing is so grand.

The old woman didn't say a word, her expression was solemn.

Let's go, an altar must be set up at three o'clock in the afternoon to pray for rain. The only auspicious day of the zodiac this year should not be missed.

Looking at his grandmother's serious appearance, Emperor Han Qing also realized the seriousness of the matter, and it was not the time to joke. Following the footsteps of the old woman, she slowly walked towards Xiyan Mountain.

Xiyan Mountain is located in Songyang County, the capital of Luoyang Prefecture. The village where Emperor Han Qing is located belongs to Tianhu Town under Songyang County.

The village is at the foot of Xiyan Mountain, which is 8,000 meters high, and the whole is as follows: the top, the foot of the mountain is wide, and the radius is 5 kilometers. From a distance, the entire pyramid is visible. The mountain is lined with bluestones, and occasionally sparse and sparse pine bamboos are dotted in between.

The mountain is to the top, and it is hidden between the clouds and mist all the year round, and it is not seen all year round.

The bird was startled, and a pair of old women and teenagers appeared on the sheep intestine path up the mountain, it was Emperor Han Qing and his grandmother.

The old woman walked the mountain with one hand, and wiped the sweat from her forehead because of the fatigue of climbing the mountain with the other. Emperor Han Qing was empty-handed, but all the way up, as a teenager, he inevitably showed fatigue.

"Di'er, let's take a rest when we're tired. "It depends on the situation that there is still an hour and a half to go from the top of the mountain, and we still have a long way to go to conserve our strength.

The old woman put down the package, hid on the mountain, and found a piece of bluestone to sit down. But before he could sit down, he immediately stood up again. It's only morning, and the rocks are already so hot, and it looks like the drought is beyond my imagination.

"Di'er, don't sit down, the bluestone is very hot. ”

I thought it was just a drought, and it was normal for the grass to die on the way up the mountain, but I didn't expect the surface temperature to be so high. We in Luoyang need a heavy rain too much.

The old woman sighed and said.

Raising your hand to block out the sunlight shining through the pine trees just didn't help.

The soaked clothes, the chapped lips, the moisture rising from the ground, and the gasping of Emperor Han Qing all showed that the land was dry and abnormal.

"Mother, can I not go. It's so hot, you see I'm getting wet. Emperor Han Qing pulled the corner of his clothes to show the old woman. ”

The old woman glanced at Emperor Han Qing and said, "Can't hold on?"

Emperor Han Qing was just silent.

Let's go, keep going. The old woman said and continued to walk upward.

The higher you go, the steeper the mountain road is, the mountains rise and fall, and when you look back, the small village is no longer visible, shrouded in mist.

The clouds and mist moved with the wind, and a trace of coolness hit them, finally bringing a touch of coolness to the heat.

Emperor Han Qing and his grandmother rested while walking, and walked halfway up the mountain without much turmoil.

Along the way, the old woman made allusions, pointing to a white stone.

This stone is as big as ten grinding stones, and it is said to be the stone of the Taoist ancestor who attained enlightenment and ascended to meditation. By the Taoist ancestors, they are full of vitality and secondary growth, turning from bluestone to white stone, and there are clouds in later generations: Xiyan Saixue. That's why it is so abrupt in Xiyan Mountain, which is dominated by bluestone.

There is no way to verify the origin of the name of Xiyan Saixue, and it is impossible to say whether it is the stone of Dao Ancestor's enlightenment.

Legend has it that when the ancestor ascended, he traveled all over the world, and when he encountered Xiyan Mountain, he could no longer suppress the realm, so he decided to land and ascend here.

Emperor Han Qing's youthful temperament, he has heard it only as a story that sounds fun, bouncing on the white stone, so happy.

Joy and sorrow, one stepped on the air, Emperor Han Qing fell and climbed on a bulge of the white stone, and his forehead immediately flowed like a pillar.

The rise of the old woman's talk, I heard it

"Wow"

Turning his head, Emperor Han Qing was already crying, and the bright red blood had already wet the white rocks.

Maybe it's because of the pity for the grandson, the old woman who was originally rickety in the waist took an arrow step, and she was as fast as thunder.

Emperor Han Qing kept shaking and trembling, and his eyes rolled and he passed out. This made the old woman anxious, helped Emperor Han Qing up, and while checking the injury, she called out, "Di'er, Di'er, Di'er." ”

The old woman, who was busy taking care of her grandson, did not notice the flash of blood.

After three quarters of an hour, Emperor Han Qing woke up slowly, only to feel weak and his mouth dry.

The upper and lower eyelids trembled and opened, and what caught my eye was my grandmother's concerned eyes, as well as dodging eyes, probably because I was angry that I didn't take care of my grandson, who had been dependent on each other since childhood.

"Water, Emperor Han Qing has the strength to stretch out his hand. The old woman hurriedly went to the distance to get a water bag, and hurriedly fed the water. ”

Suddenly, I found that the flesh and blood were blurred just now, and the forehead with a bruise was actually healed.

The old woman was puzzled, and after pondering for a long time, she could only warn Emperor Han Qing not to run around, follow closely behind her, and follow her up the mountain.

After resting for a while, after making sure that Emperor Han Qing was really fine, the old woman went forward again to climb the mountain.

As you climb higher and higher, you get closer and closer to the top of the mountain.

"Fu, Fu, ......" suddenly wore a sound similar to that of a scalper. The sound is from far to near, the sound is getting closer and closer, and the bamboo leaves on both sides of the vibrating road rustle.

I thought that there was a sudden accident again, the old woman held a hiking battle, and her left hand pinched an unknown technique to wait, but after waiting for a long time from far to near the sound, it suddenly stopped abruptly and slowly went away.

The old woman was full of suspicion, what happened to this Xiyan Mountain recently? Recently, I have been listening to the villagers say that they went up the mountain to cut firewood and encountered some unusual things.

I waited for a long time to make sure nothing happened.

The old woman once again warned Emperor Han Qing not to run around when he reached the top of the mountain, and to obey the command in all actions. Unlike the old woman's nervous treatment, Han Qingdi was not affected by the fall.

For example, when I heard the sound of "screaming", I was eager to try to see what was coming from, how it was so similar to the sound of the scalper of Zhang Yinliang's house next door. ”

It is said that at this height near the top of the mountain, ordinary farm cattle will not run so high to graze, and the tall and steep Xiyan Mountain is not a joke.

The poultry and livestock in the village usually eat weeds at the foot of the mountain, near the West Rock Mountain. It's impossible to run up from such a high position.

It is precisely because of this that it makes people feel suspicious. Just like Emperor Han Qing, if it weren't for the fact that he spent a lot of time and followed his grandmother, who often went up the mountain to collect herbs and was familiar with the road, he would never have been able to find a mountaineering path, and it would have been impossible to climb to the top of the mountain.

There was still a quarter of an hour before noon, and the grandfather and grandson finally staggered to the top of the mountain.

The diameter of the top of the mountain is not large, and the appearance of two acres of fields, it is no wonder that the top of the mountain looks sharp at the foot of the mountain. The clouds are still there, but not too dense. The surrounding scenery is clear at a glance, although it is noon, I don't feel a little hot here, the mountain breeze is blowing, and Emperor Han Qing unconsciously tightens his clothes. The sun does not shine through, and a trace of gold falls through the clouds, covering the top of the mountain with a golden coat. Standing in it, the golden light shines, as if entering the golden and brilliant heavenly court.

Emperor Han Qing couldn't help but chant a famous Confucian mountaineering poem "The breeze blows the hills, I enter the heavens"

The old woman bowed slightly, expressing her admiration.

"Di'er, that's good. He is worthy of being a Confucian student, and he knows how to apply what he has learned. ”

Look over there.

Following the direction of the old woman's finger, there is a Taoist temple with half of the gate down, which is covered with cobwebs, glazed tiles are scattered everywhere, and the statue of the god is dumped on one side, which is already a dilapidated small temple that has no abbot for many years.

The door plaque hangs crookedly on the door frame, and the book "Qingyun View" is written. A bronze bell made of dark iron was poured at the door, and most of its body was buried deep in the earth. It's rusty, but it doesn't affect how it looked when it was brilliant. The inscription engraved on the bell is the "Tao Law of Nature".

The old woman was not surprised, apparently she had known what this place was like before.

Swiftly stepped over the threshold and pulled out a long table that was mostly rotten. When I opened the package, I took out an incense burner, yellow paper, incense, a brush, cinnabar, a peach wood sword, a plate of glutinous rice, a handful of loess and a piece of paperwork, and a glass bottle of lake water.

"Di'er, retreat. ”

Grandma, I'm going to set up an altar to pray for rain.

Emperor Han Qing stared intently at the movements in his grandmother's hands, after climbing the mountain for so long, the fun things were finally about to start. It seems that the fatigue and injury along the way have been swept away.

The old woman fiddled with the objects in her hand, picked up the brush in her hand, swayed with her big sleeves, wrote a "edict" in the air, picked up the bowl, drank a sip of cinnabar, opened her mouth and sprayed forward, only to see that the word "edict" seemed to have become a living thing, shining, and a red restless "edict" word appeared in the air.

Go, the trick in his hand continued, and in a flash, there was immediately a red "edict" on the yellow paper on the table. The action was repeated several times, concocted in the same way, and finally the yellow paper appeared "The rain god has mercy, blessed the earth".

Then burn three incense sticks, hold the incense to worship the world three times, and then insert the incense into the incense burner, sprinkle a handful of glutinous rice around the incense case, put the incense burner on the loess, and burn the documents into ashes.

The footwork under his feet continues, and he circles the incense case three times. He stomped on the ground three times with his left foot, stretched out the middle finger of his left hand, bit his finger, and shook a little blood to the yellow paper, which made a loud noise.

Come, the peachwood sword flew into his hand, picked up the yellow paper and threw it into the sky, kicked the ground with strength, his body soared three or five meters into the air, and he recited words in his mouth, and when he landed, the yellow paper burned out, and the ashes floated into the air with the wind, splashing the lake.

Pointing to the sky, he said "Urgent as a law"

The calm sky, like boiling water poured into a pot of oil, fluctuated sharply, and the clouds and mist slowly dispersed, revealing the obscured sky.

The sun pours down and hits the incense case. A cloud on the left and right in the air quickly collided with each other, and suddenly there was a rumbling sound.

Emperor Han Qing was startled, he was fascinated by what he was watching, because his mouth opened wide in surprise, because of this sudden sound, he quickly bounced away, covered his ears with both hands, and looked at the old woman's movements with straight eyes.

Revealing the meaning of inquiry.

The old woman raised her hand and gestured that it was okay.

As the impact became more frequent, the sound grew louder and louder, and then lightning thundered, and lightning pierced the quiet hilltop. A bolt of lightning slashed straight down the incense case, and then one after another, until nine bolts of lightning converged.

At this time, the sky gradually darkened, the wind was raging, and it seemed that there were celestial beings sitting in the sky and saying a "quasi".

The old woman bowed down again and slowly finished her work.