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The fourth Geng Day after the summer solstice has arrived, and the hottest Sanhulu of the year has also ushered in the hottest Sanhulu. The Sanhulu day is the hottest, the temperature is the most popular in the year, and the yang energy is the stage of the year. Especially this year, it has not rained for more than a month. The rains that have been before have been drizzled, with heavy thunder and small raindrops, and the ground has stopped before it has been wet.

"This continued drought is getting worse and worse. The crops have long died of drought. Now even people's draw is going to be a problem. Another well in the south of the city has been killed!" Guo Chengan said to Li Jing while holding a fan.

Li Jing also held a folding fan, and his hands didn't stop for a moment. Even so, he still couldn't stop the heat. Sweat continued to flow down, and his clothes were dry and wet. The drought continued and the disaster continued. He just pulled out the grain and used labor for relief. He finally solved the problem of eating among the victims, but in a blink of an eye, the drinking water problem came.

"The situation in Dengzhou is better. Now the slashes of the counties below are flying like snowflakes. So far, more than 100 wells in the four counties of Dengzhou have left and lost water. There are many other villages in the situation. Many wells are not good. Many wells are not out of water." Perhaps it was because of what Li Jing said to Li Huier that day. Finally, Li Huier told King Zhao Li Si. Now Li Si is active again, not only is he energetic, but also takes the initiative to deal with some state affairs.

"What should we do if we use water?" Li Jing asked. People may be able to hold on for seven or eight days without eating, but people may not be able to hold on for three days without drinking water.

"Some villages with no water went to the mountains to get springs, while some villages were temporarily moved to other villages. However, if it didn't rain, there would be more villages without water at that time." Chief Han Anmin also said.

"Organize craftsmen, civilians, dig wells!" Li Jing said helplessly. The drought was too severe. Many small rivers and streams had long been cut off, and now many wells have dried up. Under such circumstances, migrating the people is not a perfect solution. "Please ask the best well digger to dig deep wells!"

Several people nodded and went back to arrange the drilling of the well.

However, the results of digging wells in the following few days were not ideal. In many places, the wells were dug seven or eight feet deep before they could see water. In some places, even ten feet deep, they could not see water. Water has now become something more expensive than food. Li Jing had to let the troops stationed in various counties use carriages to deliver water to some lacking villages.

"Justice, this won't work." Zhang Hong came to Li Jing directly. He used a lot of manpower and material resources to dig wells these days, but the result was very poor. Only 20% of the wells dug out came out, and half of them were limited in water every day. However, the manpower and material resources spent on digging wells were not discounted. Looking at the money spent like running water every day, Zhang Hong felt extremely distressed.

"Set an altar to pray for rain!" Zhang Hong said directly.

"Praying for rain?" Li Jing followed and said, praying for rain is a very traditional activity. The northern region has drought and rain all year round. In order to survive and live, people burn incense and pray, praying for the angels to bring power to clouds and rain to save the people.

The rest of Dengzhou have already started praying for rain, and during the severe drought, the people spontaneously pray for rain. Especially in the Dragon King Temple in Dengzhou, countless people go to burn incense and pray for rain every day.

However, these have always been private activities by the people. For Li Jing, it is not raining, which is the natural weather condition, and it has nothing to do with burning incense and worshiping Buddha. Li Zhen, Li Liang, and Guo Cheng'an, who are handling official documents, all raised their heads and looked at Li Jing. After so long with Li Jing, they have also figured out some of Li Jing's ideas. For example, this lord doesn't seem to believe in the sayings of ghosts and gods, and is a bit of a silly and chaotic manner.

Li Zhen changed his mind and said, "Zhang Lushi's proposal is good. Now it's a long time to drought and rain, and the people are worried. There have even been many rumors below, saying that this is a punishment from God. Lord, now it is urgent to set up an altar to worship the sky and ask for rain."

"You also believe that you can ask for rain by praying to the sky?" Li Jing asked.

Guo Chengan shook his head and said, "It's one thing to ask for rain, but it's another thing to ask for it or not."

Li Jing thought about it, and Guo Cheng'an and others naturally would not believe that rain could be requested, but their words revealed an important information. That is, based on the current situation, Li Jing's appearance on behalf of the government for rain was actually important to stabilize people's hearts. In the years of severe drought, such practices may even be more recognized by the people and more stable than digging wells to deliver water.

"Okay, you can arrange to build a rain prayer altar and prepare for rain prayer."

On the same day, the Dengzhou government began to post a notice saying that the governor Li Jing wanted to build an altar for praying for rain and was preparing to pray for rain to the sky. As soon as the notice was released, many people rushed to help build the altar. In three days, a nine-meter-high altar of earth trough was successfully built.

Li Zhen also specially calculated a zodiac day, and specially found Yuan Hong, an authoritative person in observing astronomical phenomena. Yuan Hong is now the leading Onmyoji in the Zhendong Army. Li Jing specially pulled a group of people for him and asked him to set up a weather forecast team to be responsible for weather observation. After hearing Li Zhen's inquiry, Yuan Hong pondered for a while, pinched his fingers and made a random calculation there, like a charlatan.

"It's hard to rain in the past month, but there's something strange the day after tomorrow. According to my speculation, there may be a thunderstorm at noon the day after tomorrow, but it may not be."

"How sure are you?" Li Liang asked excitedly. If it could really be detected that there would be rain the day after tomorrow, then Li Jing would be praying for rain at that time. It would be a very incredible thing for many people. And this is exactly what Li Liang and the others are happy to see.

"This is a vision. It is difficult to grasp. I speculate that there is only one hundred possible!"

One percent is also possible. Li Liang excitedly squeezed into Li Jing and whispered his plan. Li Jing frowned at first, and finally nodded.

On that day, Li Liang sent someone to the streets, posting notices and ringing gongs, saying that Li Jing would personally go to the altar to pray for rain in three days. And a rumor was circulating in many streets, alleys, restaurants and tea shops in Dengzhou City.

"Do you know? I heard that Li Envoy went to the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea last night and asked the Dragon King of the East China Sea to borrow rain. The Dragon King said that a severe drought was originally a punishment for heaven, but because of Li Envoy's sincere dedication to the people, he borrowed a rain in Dengzhou. It was the afternoon after tomorrow, rain would be caused to Dengzhou."

"It will really rain after tomorrow?"

"The Dragon King said it was borrowing rain, but I heard that there was a condition. Although he was willing to borrow a rain due to his face, he had to see whether the people of Dengzhou were sincere. If he was sincere, he would not fall." The man said with a nose and face, as if he was sleeping in the Dragon Palace with Li Jing.

Such conversations were held everywhere in Dengzhou, and even reached the villages of the four counties and counties on that day.

The altar has been erected, and now there is the fact that Li Jing borrows rain from the Dragon King again. Most people believe this statement that Li Jing seems to be extremely absurd. Sometimes it is like this. No matter how absurd the words are, the people are only willing to believe what they want to believe. They are all determined to rain all the time, but there is one possibility that they are willing to believe it.

On June 23, Li Jing officially came to the altar to pray for rain. Today, Li Jing changed into a dress, wore a gossip Taoist robe, and held a seven-star sword in his hand, with his hair disheveled, and barefoot. This image of a charlatan was completely packaged by Li Zhen and Li Liang brothers.

Li Jing climbed to the nine-foot-high altar, and there were thirty-six boys and seventy-two virgins standing around the altar, holding a clean bottle in it, and the bottle contained willow branches.

Under the altar, tens of thousands of people in Dengzhou knelt down and prayed. For today's ceremony, all the workshops on the construction site were on a day off.

Li Jing disheveled his hair, holding a sword in his hand, dancing with his feet, dancing the rain prayer dance he had learned seriously over the past three days, and chanting the words of rain prayer.

"The government is not upright and the people are sick?

Why doesn’t the rain reach the extreme?

The official's wife's visit to the prosperous family?

Why doesn’t the rain reach the extreme?

The slander and the rise of the slander?

Why doesn’t the rain reach this extreme?”

After doing this set, Li Jing sat cross-legged on the altar, closed his eyes, and began to communicate with the Dragon King. Of course, this was the idea of ​​outsiders. In fact, Li Jing had just danced for a long time and was a little tired, so he sat there to rest.

At this time, a team of twelve people below began to wear hideous ghost masks, holding a spear in one hand and a shield in the other, shouting while "Nuo, Nuo..." and running towards every corner, jumping and dancing.

After the Nuo dance begins, it is the Dragon Raising King!

Eighteen strong men invited the Dragon King gold coins out of the Dragon King Temple, carried them to the streets, and finally carried them to the altar and were kneeling down by the crowd. Then the next step was to fight the drought. People believed that the drought was the god of drought, and that if the drought was not raining, it was the drought. Therefore, when it did not rain that day, the drought had to fight the drought.

Drought-fighting is actually a very brutal and cruel behavior. Many people think that drought-fighting is the child that pregnant women will give birth to ten months of pregnancy during a severe drought, which is drought-fighting. Some of the more brutal ones will directly use medicine to abort and whip it. Some of the slightly better ones will take the pregnant woman out and water it with water. This is called watering the drought-fighting mother. While watering, the drought-fighting mother also has to make the drought-fighting mother promise when it will rain.

Generally, pregnant women who are constantly watered will often die suddenly. Since Li Jing accepted the governor of Dengzhou, he has been disgusted with such bad habits. He has issued several strict orders to prohibit watering the mother of drought and to prohibit such bad habits such as drought.

The current drought is no longer allowed to be used to fight the drought, but to use straw to make it look like a pregnant woman, and then someone will take water to water. After 9,999 ripples of water are poured, the ceremony will be over.

Next is the rain ceremony. In this ceremony, a group of widows, girls, etc. must be found to sweep the soil along the street, use willow branches to shake clear water, and then everyone raises small flags and beats drums. From morning until almost noon, all the rituals are completed, and all the rest is waiting for the Dragon King to rain.

However, God seems to not give face. The sky is clear and there is no cloud. The sun hangs in the sky like a fireball, and many people kneeling and praying for rain are fainted. Especially the sun at noon, which is extremely ugly. Some people who are weak have begun to faint.

Li Jing was also very difficult to live on the stage. There was no slip of the nine-meter-high platform. He was wearing a wide Taoist robe with his hair loose. There was no wind in the sun. Li Jing was almost in heatstroke. He couldn't help but regret that he was really coming up after being fooled by Li Liang's brothers, especially those rumors, such as borrowing rain from the Dragon King in his dream. But judging from the current situation, the probability that Yuan Hong said was 1% unreliable. It really won't rain later. How did this end?

As the noon approached little by little, the shadow of the flagpole inserted on the ground became shorter and shorter, and Li Jing couldn't sit still. Among the people kneeling below, more and more women and children fell down with heatstroke.

Just when Li Jing was about to give up and let the people go home to escape the heat, his hair suddenly moved slightly. A breeze blew, and he felt much more relaxed. Li Jing looked up and saw that a cloud was blowing rapidly in the sky that was still cloudless just now.

The sun, which was radiating thousands of golden light just now, was suddenly swept by dark clouds, and the breeze was blown by it, making it extremely cool.

An old man in his eighties cried in excitement, shouting: "God has appeared, the Dragon King is coming to rain!"

There were bursts of cheers after bursts of cheers. Everyone was already desperate, but they didn't expect that it would really rain in the sky at this time. It was still clear just now, but now it was suddenly dark clouds. When I looked at that time, it was almost noon.

At this time, Li Jing on the stage was also excited. He did not expect that this one-percent probability would really come true. He stood up excitedly, couldn't help but slam his fists and clapped his palms, screaming to vent his anxiety and excitement just now.

Under the nine-zhang high platform, the people were not really looking at it. They just saw Li Jing waving and screaming at the sky on the stage. They all thought it was the Dragon King who was here, and Li Jing was greeting the Dragon King.

Li Liang hurriedly asked someone to shout in the crowd: "The Dragon King of the East China Sea is coming with rain and is talking to Liu Envoy!"

This shout suddenly spread from ten, ten to hundreds, and hundreds to thousands of people. Everyone determined that the governor Li Jing was talking to the Dragon King.

"Boom!" There was a thunder sound in the sky. Li Jing was startled and quickly inserted the seven-star sword in his hand to the ground. On the nine-foot platform, holding a sword towards the sky, was so stupid, it was just a thunder thunder.
Chapter completed!