Chapter 22: The Dragon Rises His Head (I)

Chai Jia followed Wang Shoutian back to Jishui County. Seeing Wang Shoutian enter the yamen, he didn't want to go to the military camp immediately.

The team leader, from the ninth rank, has 50 people in the five fires. Now there are only two team leaders in the military camp, and I am the third one. I am very kind to me.

After standing for a while, Chai Jia touched his sleeves, and there were five taels of silver and some broken silver inside. This was what Mrs. Wang gave him to see him busy.

At this moment, I suddenly felt hungry and entered a newly opened hotel.

A shopkeeper was busy. When he saw him, he said, "Oh, what do you want?"

“What’s there?”

"The new store has no inventory, or the newly shipped rice wine, or some braised meat."

"Come up!" Chai Jia said.

The shop agreed loudly: "Finish!"

In a moment, he brought some steamed buns, scooped out half a scoop of wine from the bucket, poured it on a large bowl, and then cut another piece of braised meat and brought it up.

Chai Jia sat alone on the pier, but thought to himself: "It's time to take my brother's family by. My brother is a clerk. He can always be a clerk in the county, and maybe he can also be a clerk. Hey, my Chai family will flourish."

"I became a team leader, and several brothers also need to find opportunities to promote themselves as fire chiefs. There are also a few relatives from the village, who can be good at martial arts, you can invite them."

Thinking of this, Chai Jia ate in big mouthfuls and decided to go to the military camp after the meal, so that the old guy could know that he had become an official.

County government office

"The number of people sacrificing in the Dragon Girl Temple has increased significantly?" When I received this news, Wang Shoutian was reviewing his household registration in the study.

The previous household registration yellow books were destroyed in the war. Besides, even if they exist, it was useless. Lai Tongyu was responsible for this project. Almost all household registration yellow books need to be rebuilt and sorted. This is an extremely huge project. It is really difficult for Lai Tongyu to be busy with it alone.

The county's staffing has not yet been fully established. The master's lord has been determined to be Xue Yuan, the official and Cao is determined to be Lai Tongyu, and the warehouse and Cao is determined to be Lao Xu and the famous Xu Liulang.

Xu Liulang is He Gui's husband and worked in the Wang family all his life. Although the Wang family declined for a while, he did not leave. He knew some words, was able to arithmetic, and was honest. Although it was unlikely to be promoted in the future due to his fate and talent, there was no problem in rewarding the warehouse.

There are also households, law and military officials. Except households, there were no other ones, but in order to establish a complete team, Wang Shoutian was preparing to build them.

This candidate should be cautious. As for the candidates behind the yamen, prisons, prisons, regular warehouses, horse numbers, officials, etc., there is no need to pay too much attention to the candidates.

Just as he was thinking, Lai Tongyu replied: "Yes, sir, hasn't it just rained? In the past few days, people in the city have spread all over the city, saying that the Dragon Girl heard their begging. The rain that fell happened to be something that someone asked for worked. The people could go there, and they all rushed to the Dragon Girl Temple."

Lai Tongyu described the scene to the two of them. Wang Shoutian heard it very seriously, laughed, and said, "I really didn't expect that this Dragon Girl Temple has really become a climate."

"Well, there have been more people who have been safely opening up the land recently. It seems that the power of this god should not be underestimated." Lai Tongyu said with a sigh.

"Yes, people's hearts are much more stable than before. This dragon girl is indeed amazing." Wang Shoutian said with a smile: "What do you think if you hold a river festival by the river in a few days?"

Lai Tongyu's face changed slightly, and he looked up at Wang Shoutian: "What kind of sacrifice method?"

"It's very simple. Use grains, yellow wine and fresh fruits as sacrifices. Each offering is small, and only the best. The grains are selected from the hands of the most diligent and capable people among the farmers. We set up incense tables. We will worship first, bringing the people to beg for a bumper harvest in the next year, and then bringing things to the river..." Speaking of this, Wang Shoutian chuckled and said, "If you want to say that the reclamation of wasteland can be carried out so smoothly, you should thank this dragon girl. Since she has done things by her name, she should do her job to express her respect for her!"

"And, this will also make farmers feel at ease. After all, the Shangguan can sacrifice to the Dragon God, which means encouraging the farm and the Sectarian Sect!" Lai Tongyu tapped the table with his fingers, and agreed with Wang Shoutian's proposal.

"Then choose seven days later. At that time, I was no longer so busy. The first batch of sacrifices were provided by the county government. A few of the most outstanding farmers in the Kaiken wasteland were selected, and they would give the sacrifices to the dragon girl in person." Seeing that Lai Tongyu also agreed, Wang Shoutian directly decided to hold the first river sacrifice seven days later.

Seven days later, Jishuihe.

The large group of people came here spontaneously without urging them. Looking at the endless river in front of them, they all had awe and hope in their eyes.

It was Wang Shoutian who presided over this sacrificial activity.

Today he was wearing a formal dress, wearing a fit eighth-rank official uniform, which set off his long body. Next to him, the standing people were ranks of military generals led by He Wulang, Zhang Yi and Chai Jia.

The civil servants led by Xue Yuan and Lai Tongyu were all dressed solemnly, attracting the attention of the people.

"Sir, will you start?" Looking at the sky, the sun had risen, He Wu came over and asked.

"Let's start." Wang Shoutian nodded.

"Come here!" He Wuchao waved his hand not far away, and several mountain people carried grains, fresh fruits, a pig and a sheep, and had already walked over.

On the incense table, the rice wine and incense burner were already set up, and the grains and fresh fruits were displayed. The crowd began to have a little commotion, and knew that the river festival was about to begin.

"Please come here." Seeing that everything was ready, Wang Shoutian gave Gan Hou a wink.

Gan Hou immediately understood and walked aside and brought the selected farmers who worked hard. These people seemed to be restrained. It was exciting enough that it was their turn to participate in the sacrificial priests.

Seeing these people being restrained, Wang Shoutian smiled slightly, turned around, took the three incenses handed over by Gan Hou, lit them, worshiped a few times in the rushing river, and inserted the incense into the large incense burner.

These farmers came up to worship and burn incense in turn.

In the crowd next to them, many people laughed in a low voice when they saw their trembling appearance.

Wang Shoutian was on the side, watching them rushing forward in a restrained manner, kneeling to the ground, praying in a low voice, and after they retreated, they ordered people to pour the sacrifice into the river.

At this moment, the water draw that had been rolling in small waves suddenly started to storm. The onlookers saw that the sacrifices were swept in by several large vortexes as soon as they entered the river. They disappeared in an instant and were stunned.

Even Wang Shoutian noticed something strange. When he went to see the strange thing on the river, he also wondered, could there be a dragon girl in the river?

After a moment, there were bursts of shouts sounding from the river bank.

"The Dragon God has appeared!"

"The dragon girl has appeared!"

Ganhou looked at the sudden storm, his mouth wide open, and some people were already skeptical, but were scared by this scene. Many people fell to the ground and begged the Dragon Girl to forgive her.

It seemed that when I heard the prayers of the believers, the wind and waves on the river gradually subsided.

Wang Shoutian looked at it intently, but saw a red and gold-like aura hovering on the river surface. The smoke was floating, but the clouds were not rising, and the color was a little dim.

Wang Shoutian was surprised, but he didn't think it was too strange, and then announced the end of the sacrifice.

After watching this scene today, the people who went back couldn't help but talk to others about what they saw, which brought up a new wave of worshiping the Dragon Girl.

This county town's river worship activity also attracted the attention of many people in the city.

This is a manifestation of persuading agriculture and sericulture, and it also confirms the name of Wang Shoutian as an capable official.

However, in other aspects, many people gathered on the other side of the river, so the saying that the dragon girl appeared was spread. Many people in the Fucheng City also heard about the dragon girl appeared in Jishui County. Various rumors began to spread in the streets and alleys of Fucheng.

Other counties also began to build Dragon Girl Temple, and folk sacrificial activities began to occur frequently.

A few days later, a bright moon was scattering bright light in the sky, hanging high there.

A breath of red and gold hovered on the river surface, gradually turning into a hazy dragon shadow as it flowed. The dragon floated on the water surface, locking in Jishui County on the shore.

At this time, it was early spring, and the night wind was cold, but it did not affect her at all. She seemed to be summoned by something and swam to the shore.

Looking at the city in the distance, it clearly had a different appearance, with brand new walls and the farmlands that opened in the distance. Close your eyes and feel the breath that is coming to your face. She seemed to see the farmers' faces full of hope... and the incense smell that has not dissipated for a long time at the core of the Dragon Girl Temple.

This dragon, just like this, looked outside the city, looking at the city that gradually became popular and the county town, which had already rushed out of the white clouds hundreds of meters away. After looking at it for a moment, it lowered its face, as if it had thought of something, and slowly sank into the river.

After a moment, the surface of Jishui River returned to peace again.

A few days later, Tian Ji took a boat to Jishui County, and the one who accompanied him was a Taoist priest.

The Taoist priest was wearing a feathered dress, with a pair of soap boots under his feet, his eyes were dark and blue, his eyes were shining brightly, and his every move was filled with clear air, making people forget the world at first sight.

On the deck, there were some fruits and melons with wide windows in the tents. Someone was cooking tea at the bow of the boat, and everyone was tasting tea.

The Taoist priest looked at the two sides and saw the people busy reclamation. He saw the water trucks constantly pouring water into the canal. He saw tens of millions of fertile land, people coming and going. The Taoist priest looked at it and suddenly said to Tian Ji: "This boy attaches importance to agriculture, sericulture, irrigates water conservancy, and quells the thieves and chaos, kills the generals, and has some civil and military achievements."

"Senior brother, although the real person's instructions back then, this son has three years of great prosperity, I always feel uneasy. This time, the early movement of the water-drawing dragon energy also shocked me. Senior brother, what do you think?"

"It's because the water-drawing dragon energy is moving early, but it's not surprising that the water-drawing dragon energy is just the last branch." The Taoist priest said, and then he saw a fast ship passing by, three oars swinging fast, unable to avoid it. The two ships touched the tail tip, and the hull covered two guises. With a "block", the tea set on the two's table suddenly fell to the ground and smashed.

Tian Ji staggered even more and almost flipped into the water.

The two of them suddenly changed their color.

This is an ominous sign.
Chapter completed!