Chapter 102 Xiaomao in the Rain
Zuo Chen parked the donkey cart outside and walked toward the small shed with Cai Yi.
Before entering, I found a small temple erected next to the thatched shed. There were three plates on it, filled with fruits and vegetables. Because of the rain, the incense was not burned.
After taking a look, I found that the person enshrined inside was not the land god, but a black-faced official, who should be the city god.
It is rare for the City God to be enshrined here, but Zuo Chen could only see a little bit of incense lingering above, but not the City God himself. I guess it was a random display by the shop owner, in order to bring some incense to his shop. Blessing.
After entering the shed, he found that there were many people inside. Now there were no empty tables, so Zuo Chen could only find the corner of the table with fewer people.
Sitting over there were two woodcutters. Seeing Zuo Chen and Caiyi coming over, they gave up a small space.
The two sat down, and the waiter in the shed immediately came over with an awkward smile on his face:
"Two guests, there are too many people in our shop today. The good tea has all been used up, and only some coarse tea is left. How about you two make do with it?”
“It’s okay, I’ll bother the shopkeeper.”
Zuo Chen said with a smile. Seeing that Zuo Chen was easy to talk to, the waiter in the shop also smiled and nodded, and went back to prepare tea.
After the waiter left, Zuo Chen put his hands on his ears, made a ring, closed his eyes and listened.
"Taoist Priest, what are you listening to?"
Cai Yi couldn't help but wonder when she saw Zuo Chen's appearance.
Ever since he entered Youzhou, Zuo Chen would be stunned from time to time, and now he was listening to distant places, no matter how he looked, he didn't seem to be okay.
"In the past two days, I can always hear some faint tunes with some murmurs mixed in, but it is really too far away, and I don't have enough control over the magical power of seeing through walls, so I can’t hear exactly what it is.”
Zuo Chen sighed.
Recently, he has been hearing this strange sound, which is a bit like mosquitoes buzzing around his ears. It's a little annoying, but it can't grasp the roots.
I only know that the sound came from the extreme north, but I don’t know which person with great supernatural powers is humming there.
Maybe this is why the red Taoist asked him to come here.
He tried again and found that he still couldn't hear clearly, so Zuo Chen simply gave up.
Going further north, you can always hear it clearly.
Caiyi also put her hands behind her ears and listened carefully, but she could only hear the whirring sound of the wind and the patter of rain falling on the muddy ground.
As for the strange voice Zuo Chen said, she couldn't hear it at all.
After giving up, he turned his gaze to the mist that filled the dirt road. After staring at it for a while, he lowered his voice and asked Zuo Chen:
"Taoist Master, is there something unclean in this fog?"
"...It's not an evil thing. And if it is an evil thing, even the small Town God's Temple will have some reaction."
< br>Zuo Chen also stared at the fog for a few times.
This surging mist blocks the way forward, forming a wonderful natural barrier. Anyone who has no ability to get close will lose his way when entering the fog. After spinning a few rotors in place, he will Return to the shed like a ghost beating a wall.
But there are no monsters in this fog. It's just that the wind has arrived, the rain has arrived, and various coincidences and coincidences have intertwined with this moment to form such a maze.
It's not difficult to get rid of the mist. All you need to do is take a big breath and blow it into the valley.
But the heavy fog formed by such a coincidence of heaven and earth is also a treasure. It would be a pity to blow it away directly.
Research further.
After sitting there for a while, the waiter served two bowls of hot tea and placed them in front of Zuo Chen and Caiyi.
The liquid is clear to the bottom, and there are not a few leaves visible in it. There are a few rods floating in the middle of the foot surface, which is a little light brown.
Think of it as tea.
Zuo Chen picked up the bowl and took a sip.
Well, it’s not much better than Taihe soup.
After drinking less than half of the bowl, my body warmed up. The woodcutter sitting in front of me suddenly asked Zuo Chen:
"Sir, are you two from Xuzhou?"< br>
"You have good eyesight." Zuo Chen was a little surprised, "How did you see this?"
The woodcutter who asked the question touched his nose with a little pride on his face: "You two The only direction we came from was through the gate, which is completely opposite to the Taoist temple closest to us. Since the locations are not right, I guessed that these two people might have come from Xuzhou."
After seeing Zuo Chen nodding in acknowledgement, Qiao Qiao said. The husband asked again:
"You two, I heard that there was an aunt in Xuzhou who helped the world and saved people, and saved the whole of Xuzhou! Have you met her when you came from Xuzhou?"
“Poof!”
Caiyi was drinking tea there. When she heard this, she choked the tea into her trachea. She coughed continuously and burst into tears.
“What’s wrong with this girl?” The woodcutter was shocked.
"It's okay, it's just a matter of anger." Zuo Chen waved his hand, as if suppressing a smile: "When we passed by Xuzhou, Xuzhou had already changed for the better, and we didn't hear much about these rumors. "
After a pause, he asked: "Do the rumors in Xuzhou spread widely in Youzhou?"
"How can the news spread so fast? I am the first. Hands-on news!” The woodcutter smiled, with a lot of bragging in his expression: “We are cutting down trees in the suburbs, so we can hear some news. The county magistrate probably doesn’t know about this news!”
"Would you like to talk about it? I'm very interested."
Zuo Chen completely ignored the red-faced Caiyi next to him, coughing and waving his hands. He even took out three pennies from his sleeves and handed them over. Gave it to the woodcutter.
“You’ve got to ask the right person. Who from all over the country doesn’t know that I, Wang Laoer, am very capable of getting information!” The woodcutter smiled and put the money into his pocket, and immediately started talking eloquently. Get up: "Isn't there a famine in Xuzhou some time ago? The people in Xuzhou are in dire straits, and many refugees from the south came to Youzhou.
"I thought Xuzhou would continue to be desolate, and it would take a long time for it to grow. But just two days ago, the old man next to me and I were collecting firewood at the border, and suddenly we saw grass growing all over the Xuzhou side, and it was no longer wild!
“I was curious at the time, so I followed the mountain into Xuzhou, and after walking for a while I met several households of woodcutter.
"I heard they said that a fairy came to Xuzhou, named Great Auntie, with a kind heart and boundless power. Seeing that Xuzhou was deserted and the people couldn't afford to eat, they took a big pot and distributed the porridge to the people one by one with a big spoon. . He also used his magical powers to treat illnesses and save people, and he was able to save them even after they were dead!
"But my aunt knew that if Xuzhou continued to be desolate, there would only be endless refugees, so she decided to give them away. The big pot of porridge was raised to the sky, and the pot of porridge was thrown into the clouds, causing a rice rain in Xuzhou. "The rain falls on the ground, causing the vegetation to regenerate, and everything comes into spring, and Xuzhou comes alive."
Caiyi next to him finally coughed up the tea that had choked in his trachea. She was holding on to the edge of the table, blushing horribly, and smoke was almost coming out of her ears.
“This aunt is so amazing.” Zuo Chen said with emotion.
"Yes, yes, my aunt is amazing! I want to go home and carve a memorial tablet for you!" The woodcutter also nodded in agreement.
“It’s absolutely impossible!” Cai Yi had a clever idea and stopped him immediately.
However, this made the woodcutter look at Caiyi with some confusion.
"What's wrong? Girl?"
Caiyi couldn't fix it all of a sudden, her face was full of embarrassment, and she looked around and said to him:
"This aunt's name sounds so tacky. Do you want me to give you the True Lord of Ten Thousand Methods of Thunder Tribulation? This name sounds domineering!"
"Thousand Methods of Thunder Tribulation?" The woodcutter didn't know why: " I haven't heard of it. And what does that thing do? It sounds more murderous than my aunt. "
"It makes sense. This thing is not as powerful as my aunt." Zuo. Chen nodded.
Cai Yi had nothing to say, so she simply spread her arms and buried her head on the table, her ears turning red.
The top of my head is smoking.
After chatting with the woodcutter for a while, the other party obviously said he was tired. He took a sip of coarse tea, looked at the rain and thick fog outside, and cursed: "Damn weather, grandpas have been trapped here for half a day. , Why hasn’t it dispersed yet!”
Zuo Chen looked at the fog again. In his eyes, the entire fog seemed to have turned into little drops of water, floating in the sky.
Pick up the empty tea bowl and wave it towards Yu Kong.
The fragrance of flowers blows with the wind, blowing away the dark clouds in the sky and the thick fog.
Half of the drizzle has gone away, half of the dark clouds have dispersed, the setting sun shines down, and the mountain road is revealed, indicating the way forward.
"Hey! The rain has stopped!" The woodcutter was overjoyed and quickly picked up his companion, planning to say goodbye to Zuo Chen and leave.
As soon as his eyes fell in front of Zuo Chen, he found that the tea bowl in his hand was filled again at some point.
It was a bowl of very clean water, crystal clear to the bottom. If it hadn't been for a little tea stem floating on top, the woodcutter would have thought it was an empty bowl.
He didn't know what it was, he just felt a strange fragrance in the air.
“Little sir, let’s go first.”
Without thinking much, they said goodbye to Zuo Chen and the two woodcutters left.
When the rain and fog dissipated, the other customers also left. Not long after, only Zuo Chen, Caiyi, and a few people from the shop were left in the thatched shop.
Zuo Chen put the bowl in his hand and shook it, the tea stem moving with the liquid.
This is the mist just now. It is also the essence of heaven and earth. It is a good thing.
After taking a sip and swallowing it, I felt it was sweet and delicious. A coolness came from my abdomen and my whole body felt refreshed.
Seeing that there was still a quarter left in the bowl, he stretched out his hand and knocked Cai Yi on the head. The blushing Cai Yi raised his head.
He turned his head a little awkwardly.
“It’s a good thing for you, let’s drink it.”
I was a little embarrassed and annoyed at first, but after seeing the delicious food, I put aside the depression I just felt in my heart. All the anger was forgotten.
I raised the bowl, sniffed it first, and then drank it all in one gulp, with a face full of satisfaction and happiness.
"Let's go."
Get up, go to the donkey cart again, get on the donkey, and wait for Caiyi to come.
The weather is nice and suitable for traveling.
......
When the donkey cart arrived at the nearest county town, Zuo Chen found that it was not as lively as he had imagined.
This place is not small, and the streets are in order. Unlike Qingzhou, there is no water in the city, and there is no difference in height on the road. It is smooth and gentle.
Although there are many people on the street, they all seem to be worried and anxious.
What puzzled Zuo Chen the most was that none of the people on the road had their hair tied up.
Everyone has disheveled hair and looks a bit like a lunatic.
What's going on?
While Zuo Chen was thinking, he suddenly saw an old man passing by. The old man also saw Zuo Chen on the donkey's back.
He stared at the high crown Zuo Chen was wearing with his eyes wide open.
Zuo Chen was a little confused.
Push the crown high.
It’s not crooked this time.
Just as he was thinking this, the old man suddenly stretched out his hand to grab Zuo Chen's hat.
Zuo Chen: "?"
What does this mean?
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