Chapter 22: The Pits
How many eyes does the horse have grown? This is the question posed by the new Lingma.
When this spirit horse heard that he was allowed to accept the deployment of the Toad Palace Fairy, he was very disdainful, and he was about to make trouble on the spot, and paced in front of the Toad Palace Fairy, wanting the Toad Palace Fairy to know "how many eyes the Lord Ma has".
Then Zhao Ran witnessed a tragedy begin to unfold......
So Ma Wang Ye recognized how many eyes he had, he knelt down in front of the fairy of the Toad Palace with four hooves, and whispered: "There are no three, only two......"
The little paw of the fairy of the Toad Palace pointed at his eyebrows and asked, "What is this?"
Ma Wang Ye explained: "It's not an eye, it's a ...... It's a scar......"
The fairy of the Toad Palace threw out a piece of white silk: "Since it is a scar, it is bandaged." ”
So Ma Wangye quickly wrapped a white silk around his forehead, wrapped the "scar", and easily did not dare to remove it.
Ma Wangye confessed to it, and the spirit demons from southern and western Sichuan under his command were dismantled to pieces, and each of them honestly accepted the command of the spirit demons of Junshan.
Qingjun didn't pay attention to the fight here at all, for her, whether it was the fairy of the Toad Palace or the prince of Ma, they were all her children, and a fight between children was no longer normal.
The only thing she was interested in was the changes in the cultivation of the fairy of the Toad Palace, so she said to Zhao Ran: "When you are done with this busy work, send the little rabbit to Daqing Mountain." ”
Zhao Ran was a little reluctant, and fought for Qingjun: "Actually, she is also very good in Dajun Mountain, after the transformation, our Sect Holy Pavilion will protect her, Qingxian, you can rest assured." ”
Qingjun thought for a while and said, "That's right, no one in the Daomen Authentic Pavilion has hurt her...... Then ask her what she wants. ”
Qingjun went to Yunxian Platform to visit the Longyang Patriarch, and then left Dajun Mountain, so Zhao Ran continued to be busy without touching the ground.
In mid-March, everything was not yet complete, and Zhao Ran couldn't wait to start construction.
The spirits were divided into three large construction teams to excavate the artificial lake according to the layout of one house and one by one.
The Song Domain's side has the heaviest task, and it needs to dig six, led by the Toad Palace Fairy himself, Long'an needs to dig three, led by the five-color master, and the capital needs to dig four, led by the Flying Dragon.
The first artificial impoundment lake on this side of the Song Fan is located in Xintangguan in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River, which belongs to Yongzhen County, and is seven miles northeast of Xintangguan.
At the same time, it is also a model project for excavating artificial lakes, and all the personnel of the drought control headquarters have come here to learn and explore the experience of large-scale projects carried out by spirits and demons combined with monks in the whole construction, and formulate standards based on this construction.
After the completion of this "model lake", the personnel of all parties will be dispersed and officially large-scale construction.
This is a mud pond, which is a depression around Xintang Pass, and the deepest part is nearly two zhang lower than the river surface about nine miles away, with a radius of about 800 acres. Because it is adjacent to the Minjiang River, the river water often seeps over, sometimes it is swampy, sometimes it is a pond, and it is impossible to plant the land. But around this depression is the relatively rich land of Yongzhen, where 50,000 or 60,000 acres of good paddy fields are located.
This is the easiest and ideal site for excavating an artificial lake.
The little paws of the fairy of the Toad Palace waved forward, and the five-color master, Qingtian layman, Huangjiao Daxian, Marshal Gao, including Ma Wangye, who had just been accepted as the younger brother, and other spirit demons rushed into the group of demons and desperately abandoned the pit.
Thousands of demon beasts are working here, and the surrounding area is blocked by the Taoist priests and officials of Yongzhen County, and many brave people want to come and watch, but they are blocked from the periphery.
Huang Shanjun and Shen Jiangzi each roared with tigers and leopards, guarding Zhao Ran majestically, looking left and right, their eyes were shining, staring at the demon beasts, monks and Taoist officials who kept shuttling back and forth, always vigilant, in case there were small people who intended to harm Zhao Daochang, in order to show their loyalty.
Coldly, he was knocked on the top of each of these two by Zhao Ran: "Hurry up and go down to work, why are you doing here?"
The two looked aggrievedly at the huge pit below, and reluctantly slipped out.
Linglu Yuyang dug at the bottom of the pit for a while, then rushed to the edge of the pit and asked Zhao Ran: "Daoist Zhao, when will I be assigned to the little demon for my own job?"
Zhao Ran said: "At this moment, regardless of whether you are your own job or not, you are all under the command to accept the dispatch, you should work hard first." If you don't do a good job, you will take back your commissioner's letter of appointment!"
Linglu Yuyang was puzzled and asked, "What kind of appointment?"
"Haven't you given it yet?"
"No, I don't. ”
Zhao Ran then said: "Then you will work hard, if you don't do well, I won't issue you a letter of appointment!"
Linglu Yuyang had to sigh, returned to the bottom of the pit and continued to kick like flying.
Dongfang Jing looked at the busy construction site in front of him, looked up at the cloudless blue sky again, and said to Zhao Ran: "I went to understand the situation in each county, and sure enough, since the end of last autumn, there has not been a single snow or rain in the southeast of Songfan, Long'an Province, the central and northern parts of the capital, and the western part of Boryeong Province......
Zhao Ran pointed down: "The water level of the Minjiang River has dropped by about four feet compared with previous years, and it should have been a mud pond here, but now it has become a dirt pit, and the situation is not optimistic." ”
Dongfang Jing sighed with emotion: "I just heard that you can command demon beasts to do things, but today I can see it with my own eyes, it is really worth the trip." There are thousands of demon beasts gathered here, and they are rushing to work for my Daomen, who will believe it?"
Zhao Ran explained: "Actually, it's simple, it's just to make friends with them. These spirit demons are still very righteous, they don't spend so much effort, if you are sincere to them, they will be good to you regardless of gains and losses, if you give them a little benefit, they will give you feedback thousands of times. As long as you make friends with the spirit demons, it will not be a problem to command these demon beasts to work. ”
Dongfang Jing shook his head: "It's easier said than done...... With this posture, the original half month may be completed ahead of schedule. ”
Zhao Ran smiled and said, "Thanks to the help of the Lord of the Green Mountain, the number of demon beasts has doubled, and the manpower has ...... The demon power is sufficient, I was originally worried that the new group of southern Sichuan demon beasts had no experience and didn't listen to the command, but today I looked at it, but it was too worried, it turned out that as long as someone passed on the help, they learned very quickly, you see, this hasn't been long, it's already a bit more than learning to catch up with the gang, and it is estimated that it will take up to ten days to lead water into the lake. ”
Dongfang Jing smiled when he heard this: "Although these demon beasts are not open-minded, as long as there are knowledgeable people in command, they are actually more efficient. It's okay to command thousands of demon beasts to do this kind of hard work of digging the earth, but if you want to command thousands of monks to do this kind of thing, I don't know when you can see it. ”
After handing over the project to Lei Shan, Zhao Ran left the scene. He can't always stay here, and he also has an important job, which is to dig wells in various villages.
In the nearest village, Zhao Ran walked in with a hug in front of him, Li Zheng led the elders and big households in the village in front, and hundreds of villagers behind him, all bowing down to Zhao Ran.
In the midst of the cry of "Zhao Dao Chang Immortal Blessing Forever", Zhao Ran'er couldn't help but tremble with his liver, frowned and asked, "What does this mean?"
There is a smile and stepped forward, and said: "I heard that the immortal chief lost three years of life in order for everyone to survive this year's drought safely, and the old and young people in the village were moved to tears. ”
Zhao Ran said with a smile: "Don't make these false things in the future." ”
There is an old fritter, full of promises, but what to do next, still do what, the old man stepped forward to toast, on behalf of the villagers said a word of thanks, and then a few young children in the village jumped around the side and sang two nursery rhymes, to the effect that it was nothing more than the words of blessing Zhao Daochang.
Then the two big families in the village set up a pot stove, cooked a big pot of rice, fried a big pot of vegetables, and the Taoist priests invited from the Taoist temple set up a Jiao ritual and started the foreplay for digging the well.
Although he knew that the Jiao in front of him was useless, Zhao Ran still patiently waited for all the agenda to be completed, and then under the guidance of Li Zheng, he came to the southeast corner of the village, and began to look at the spots, ready to continue digging the pit.