Your Majesty, she doesn't want to flip the brand

Zhong Qingyi's voice was very soft, except for Zhou Xingzhi and Ye Ningxuan who could hear clearly, the others could only vaguely hear a few words and didn't know what she said.

Zhou Xingzhi glanced at the few people who were digging the well, and did not point it out at this time, but avoided the topic, "The magistrate has worked hard, let's go to the fields to have a look."

"Yes, Your Majesty, please." The magistrate let out a breath slowly, and continued to work hard so as not to show any flaws.

The condition of the land cannot be disguised. Looking at the past, there are only a few sporadic greenery on the large area of ​​land, and most of them are land that has been dried up to the point of cracking.The small river originally used for irrigation is only less than half a meter wide, and only in places very close to the river can the crops barely survive.

Zhou Xingzhi probably looked at some of them, and most of these crops are seedlings.This shows that the villagers still have a little hope in their hearts. As long as there is a heavy rain, these seedlings can be planted, and then they will become full grains in autumn.

"How are the preparations for the place for worshiping heaven?" Zhou Xingzhi asked.Hangzhou Prefecture is not the worst-hit place. It is already like this now, let alone the situation in other state capitals. We are all starting to get nervous.

"The Minister of Jitiantai has already started to build it when he received the news, and he is doing the final inspection in the past few days." The prefect replied.

"Then advance the time of offering sacrifices to heaven by one day. Tomorrow, Wei Zhong, you can help me see the place. At noon the day after tomorrow, I will go on stage to pray for rain." Praying for rain in the morning or in the evening is the same for Zhou Xingzhi, but in these In the eyes of the people who need spring plowing, if it rains one day earlier, they can start planting crops one day earlier, and the harvest in autumn will be more.

"According to the order, the servant will personally inspect the altar tomorrow." Wei Zhong replied.

After discovering that everything he could see had been carefully prepared, Zhou Xingzhi didn't feel in the mood to explore carefully. He just rode his horse around the nearest farmland, inspected it, and then rode back directly with the team.

The magistrate was a little uncertain about Zhou Xingzhi's attitude, but after careful recollection, he did not reveal any major flaws, so he could only maintain a good magistrate's personality and continue to serve behind Zhou Xingzhi.

In order to express his sincerity in offering sacrifices to heaven, Zhou Xingzhi began to bathe and change clothes after returning home, and started fasting from tonight.

"Xiaoguang, how are you doing with the preparations?" Zhou Xingzhi doesn't have the power to communicate with ghosts and gods, what she has is just a multifunctional brain.

[The surrounding conditions have almost been entered. It is estimated that after the program is started, the humidity in the clouds can be increased within 5 minutes, and rainfall can be achieved within 15 to [-] minutes. 】The functions of the intellectual brain are basically not used by Zhou Xingzhi, so the energy has been accumulating and increasing.

"What about the scope and size of the rainfall?" Zhou Xingzhi continued to ask.

[The range of rainfall is within a perfect circle with the owner as the center and a radius of 25 kilometers. The daily rainfall is about [-] to [-] milligrams. 】After a rigorous analysis, Zhinao quickly gave the answer.

"Okay, I'll be on the stage at noon tomorrow, and when I start the ritual of offering sacrifices to the sky, you will start to release energy." Zhou Xingzhi closed his eyes and silently calculated in his heart whether such rainfall would alleviate the drought.

According to the memorial and the report from the prefect of Hangzhou, there are at least four state capitals that are short of water. According to the current rainfall range, she must rush to each of the four places, and then ask for rain in order to completely solve the drought.

During fasting, it is not allowed to have sex with others, so Zhou Xingzhi slept alone tonight.

Generally speaking, 21 days is enough for a person to form a habit, but Zhou Xingzhi and Ye Ningxuan have been sharing the same bed for more than 21 days.After getting used to someone hugging me every night, it is difficult to accept sleeping alone.

Zhou Xingzhi was fine, she found that she was not used to sleeping alone, so she directly asked Zhinao to do a little hypnosis for herself, and fell asleep with the help of external force.

But at the same time, Ye Ningxuan could only lie on the bed tossing and turning. One was because she was not used to sleeping alone, and the other was that she couldn't help worrying about what happened to Zhou Xingzhi when he was offering sacrifices to heaven.Ye Ningxuan was originally a person with a clear mind, and she could also see what Zhou Xingzhi could see. There was something wrong with the magistrate.

After extinguishing the candle, Ye Ningxuan opened her eyes and could only see some moonlight shining in through the window.After closing his eyes, Qin Ran's exhortations before his departure always popped up uncontrollably in his mind.

The relationship between the official circles in the south of the Yangtze River is complicated. Since the first emperor succeeded to the throne, the local officials have established a relatively stable relationship with the local gentry family.Moreover, the south of the Yangtze River is rich, and there are many scholars among them, and there are also many people with fame and fame. These people are all connected by an invisible network.

If you want to investigate individual small officials, there may be no problem, but if you want to thoroughly investigate the officialdom, then most people in this network will be involved, and things will become extremely difficult to deal with.

After thinking wildly for a while, Ye Ningxuan couldn't help but shook her head, cleared all her thoughts, and began to comfort herself.

It is true that the officialdom in the south of the Yangtze River is difficult to deal with, but this time Xingzhi did not come to investigate corrupt officials. He just came to worship the heavens to pray for rain. Form a new army...

However, if a new army cannot be formed at the border, Xingzhi's prestige at the border will decline, making the border problem even more difficult to deal with.

Damn it, all of this is Prince Jia's fault, if he honestly doesn't do anything, Xingzhi and himself won't have to worry about these things!

In this way, Ye Ningxuan let out the depression in her heart after scolding Prince Jia bloody in her heart, closed her eyes reluctantly and fell asleep.

After Zhou Xingzhi started fasting as the emperor, officials and wealthy households who were flexible in the news also followed suit.Everyone lives in the Hangzhou mansion, and most of them hope that Zhou Xingzhi can get rain smoothly to solve the imminent drought.

In a blink of an eye, it was time to hold a sacrifice to heaven.

Zhou Xingzhi put on a sacrificial gown. In order to ensure that there would be no problems in offering sacrifices to the heavens, the guards stationed outside the city also rode into the city on horseback. .

This time the sacrifice to heaven is open to the outside world. Ye Ningxuan, Zhong Qingyi and others are in the inner three circles, and outside the inner three circles are officials of all sizes led by the prefect of Hangzhou. As for the outer three floors, there are crowds of common people , one by one stood on tiptoe and stretched their necks, trying to look inside.

"It's noon, beat the drums." Wei Zhong's sharp voice rang out, and accompanied by the rhythmic drumming, Zhou Xingzhi also got up from his seat and walked up to the stage of worshiping heaven step by step.

After arriving at the place, Zhou Xingzhi raised his head and glanced at the sky, his eyes were squinted by the dazzling gaze.

"Sister, do you think His Majesty can successfully pray for rain?" Zhong Qingyi couldn't help asking, the sun is so bright now, it doesn't look like it will rain.

Ye Ningxuan shook her head, "I don't know for sure." Whether it will rain or not is up to God. To be honest, she really doesn't have much confidence that Zhou Xingzhi can pray to the sky for rain and succeed.

It can be said that at the scene, except for some personal guards and common people who trusted the emperor, most people were skeptical. On the one hand, they felt that praying for rain would not succeed, and on the other hand, they pinned their hopes on Zhou Xingzhi.

"Xiao Guang, have you finished releasing the energy?" Zhou Xingzhi raised the saber that symbolized the emperor, and with the tip of the sword, picked up the sacrificial rites that had been written in advance. While reciting the rites, he lit the rites with a candle.

【Master, don't worry, the humidity in the clouds is already increasing. ] Zhinao gave an affirmative answer.

After Zhou Xingzhi burned almost all the sacrificial texts, the wind began to increase, and the clouds in the sky began to increase and thicken, quickly covering the sunlight released by the sun.

"Dark clouds are coming, and it's getting dark!" The people below couldn't help shouting loudly, their voices full of joy, "It's going to rain! It's going to rain soon!"

Accompanied by the cheers of the people, the magistrate had a shocked expression on his face, and looked at the sky in disbelief.After finding that there were more and more dark clouds, he couldn't help rubbing his eyes, and began to doubt the authenticity of this matter.

"Is it really going to rain?" Zhong Qingyi's face was also full of surprise. After she asked this sentence, there was a flash of light in the sky, and then the rumbling thunder came come over.

Zhou Xingzhi's way of asking for rain was not conventional. When the time was almost up, she raised her sword directly to the sky, "According to my will, the rain is coming!"

The voice of this sentence was not loud, but for some reason, it passed into everyone's ears very clearly.Zhou Xingzhi had just finished saying this sentence, and several thunderbolts fell one after another. Along with the thunderbolts, fine raindrops fell directly from the sky, hitting the faces of the people, and also fell into the dry land middle.

"It's raining, it's really raining!"

"Your Majesty succeeded in praying for rain, it really rained, and there is water! I have water!"

"Your Majesty is the reincarnation of a real dragon, sent by heaven to save us!"

"Your Majesty is a god! Long live Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty!"

I don't know who started it. Accompanied by the sound of pattering rain, the people in the outermost periphery knelt on the ground one by one, chanted long live to the position of the sacrificial platform, and knelt and worshiped non-stop.

Seeing this, the prefect of Hangzhou quickly restrained the expression on his face, knelt on the ground like the common people, and shouted long live.

Zhou Xingzhi stood on the platform, raised his head and let the raindrops fall on him.After hearing the voice of the people, Zhou Xingzhi put down the sword in his hand, looked around, saw the people's heartfelt joy and admiration, and the corners of his mouth curled into a beautiful arc.

"Everyone, get up, Yuzhen has begged, and you can go collect rainwater and irrigate the fields." Zhou Xingzhi's voice was calm but full of majesty, making it easy to follow her instructions.

After appeasing the people, Zhou Xingzhi turned his body sideways and looked straight at Ye Ningxuan who was in the audience.

The eyes of the two met in the air. Although she knew that Ye Ningxuan couldn't see the expression on her face clearly at such a distance, she still smiled brightly at her.

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