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"What? praying for rain?"

In the Hubo Temple, Ao Yan looked at Wu Liujiu, the village leader, in surprise, beside him, there were a group of villagers who came together, there were almost a dozen, and behind Ao Yan, there was a boy in Tsing Yi Changming standing quietly.

"Yes, Xiao Ao, you can go to our field to take a look, there has been no rain for two months, the soil is dry and cracked, and the well in the center of the village has been dry for more than ten days. ”

Wu Liujiu pulled Ao Yan to sit on the futon, licked his lips and continued.

"Originally, it was almost the rainy season, but I don't know why this time, God was stunned not to give us a little rain in the east, but in the west, the rain became a disaster, we discussed it, and felt that the land temple and the temple of wealth were unreliable, or the Hubo temple was the most real. Didn't you say last time that Lord Hu Bo passed on your skills? If it really doesn't work, you are close to the old man Hu Bo, and you can beg him?"

At this time, Changming also wrote on his back: "I originally wanted to tell you that there has been no rain in the village for many days, and the fathers and villagers are really miserable. This is an opportunity, now that the people in the village believe in you, but the average person doesn't, why don't you take this opportunity to make the rest of the people believe in you?"

Ao Yan smiled bitterly, he also knew this.

It's not that he doesn't know how to rain, as a Hubo, this rainfall technique is the spell he has himself, but just in a place as big as Xiangliu Village, if there is a light rain, he has to spend at least fifty incense, one hundred incense for a moderate rain, one hundred and fifty incense for heavy rain, and two hundred incense for heavy rain.

Not to mention that the heavy rain completely solves the current crisis of the villagers, even if the small rain solves the urgent need, he can't do it.

Fu Zhao only has ten incense sticks, what can he do?

After thinking about it, Ao Yan suddenly thought of a question and said, "By the way, old man, isn't there enough water in Xiangliu Lake?"

"This ......" A group of old men, you look at me, I look at you, and their faces are embarrassed.

"What? But what's the difficulty? You might as well say it, if you can do your part for everyone, the boy will not be lazy. Ao Yan smiled slightly and said with relief.

"Alas......," one of the old men sighed.

I only heard Wu Liujiu say: "Sixty or seventy years ago, there were water ghosts in Xiangliu Lake, that is, three years ago, every year there were people drowning unknown, and even the corpses could not be found, who would dare to go." ”

Ao Yan was stunned, water ghost, water ghost again?

Today's Xiangliu Lake is not familiar with an inch of itself, and the fish in the whole lake listen to themselves, how can there be any water ghosts, they have never seen it, isn't it Qingyu?

Shaking his head, he immediately said no.

Qingyu only has aura on her body, and there is no karmic qi, it can't be, it seems that the mystery of this matter has not been resolved.

At this time, I only felt a cold on my back, it turned out to be Changming and writing, only to feel that he wrote: "There is indeed something strange in the lake, yesterday when I passed by Xiangliu Lake, I found that there was an unknown thing haunting, just a flash and disappeared, before I could see clearly, I think it was a water ghost." I don't know how to find this thing, I can't find it again anyway, it's still in the lake. ”

Ao Yan nodded.

This matter has to be put aside first, Xiangliuhu listens to him, it is not difficult to find this goods, the top priority is rainfall.

He has now become a lake uncle, blessed by Fu Zhao, not avoiding the cold and heat, and naturally has little feeling of the heat and drought in the outside world, but the villagers are mortals.

After thinking about it for a while, Ao Yan finally made up his mind that he could only try like this.

This rain has to fall no matter what, if it doesn't fall or it doesn't fall, the villagers will definitely doubt their own ability, doubt Hubo, and the source of incense that has been established with great difficulty will definitely collapse.

Seeing Ao Yan nodding and shaking his head and nodding again, the villagers were confused, so they were anxious to get an answer.

When I was about to ask, I heard Ao Yan suddenly pinch his fingers, raised his head and said to everyone: "Before the day after tomorrow, please help me prepare the incense case, the incense case needs to be painted with vermilion lacquer, paved with yellow cloth, a brand new incense burner is placed in the middle, and the candles are placed on the left and right, and I also need a wooden sword......"

Ao Yan said, his eyes were looking at it, he swept a series of objects in the temple to see which ones were old to be replaced, and which ones were not to be added.

Everyone listened carefully and found that there seemed to be a lot of exquisiteness in it, so they thought it was the key, and they didn't dare to miss it a little, so they listened attentively.

"The most important thing is—" Ao Yan paused.

He turned his gaze back and swept over the crowd, all of whom looked nervously at him, waiting for the next step.

"In the next three moments, I will open the altar to cast a spell to rain, if it fails, I will know Hu Bo, and Lord Hu Bo will definitely be able to do it. But!"

Ao Yan paused, and everyone's hearts were hanging.

"However, the old man has a personality, that is, he loves face very much, and he likes to be a pious person the most, and then the whole village of men, women and children will come, and kowtow to incense must be sincere, otherwise, if there is one wrong-"

Ao Yan didn't continue, but his eyes swept over everyone, and the meaning was self-evident.

"Don't worry, I'll take care of this matter, as a village leader, the old man still has this ability!" Wu Liujiu's chest pounded.

Ao Yan looked at this old man, his goatee trembled badly, and when he saw that the rest of the people were also like this, he was quite satisfied, and immediately dispersed everyone and went to prepare.

Although it is said that it is for the rain, so that everyone in the village obeys the arrangement and goes, but those young people who don't believe in Hu Bo in the first place are still stiff and don't go, but it doesn't matter, Wu Liujiu's village is famous for his bull temper in the village, and his methods were very tough in the early years, but now that he is older, his temper has not disappeared, but has risen a lot.

This time he is old and has a lot of weight in his words, and secondly, everyone knows the temper of the village chief.

Those young people who refused to go, under the various strengths of this village leader, had to reluctantly and obediently agree.

Wu Liujiu also understood their thoughts, and there were some things that should not be forced, but he said: "You all have parents, children, and wives in your family, and you don't want to die, can you bear to watch them die of drought? ”

Hearing this, those who had been extremely reluctant to come fell silent.

Naturally, there was one person who Wu Liujiu didn't call, and that was Xin Shixin old man, but this guy came uninvited.

In order to prepare for these, Wu Liujiu personally paid for the anti-big head operation, and the rest of the people came out of the small head, and asked the carpenter Xu who retired from the town in the village to sawn a big peach tree in the south of the village to make an auspicious cloud tiger head carved table case, and asked the lacquer maker to paint the high-grade vermilion lacquer that only high-ranking officials and nobles can use.

Once it has been dried, spread a roll of brand new turmeric figby silk cloth.

In the center, a rui beast is used to make a big incense burner of red copper, and three high-quality green sandalwood incense sticks of the same length are burned.

The reason why it is not five is because the three incense sticks represent the three talents of heaven, earth and man.

The lower middle layer of the furnace is loess, the middle layer is white sand, and the upper layer is glutinous rice, which is naturally exquisite.

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