Chaoyuan Road

The heavy rain in the second year of Zhongping passed without any disturbance.The rain lasted for ten consecutive days, flooding the houses and livestock, and the flood even broke down a city wall. However, the people of Yangzhou miraculously escaped the catastrophe.

It is rumored that not long before the flood, there was a dwarf with a white beard who came from nowhere, wandering the streets and alleys of Yangzhou, begging from house to house.Occasionally, some well-meaning people helped him, so he put down the wrought iron crutch in his hand, knocked on a broken bowl and sang a li song. The strange tune was interesting.After a long time, the children playing around have learned it. Some children came home and taught it, and the song sang: "...the ants seal the cave, and the heavy rain will gather. The magpie crows, the rooster sighs..." vaguely , No one knows what it means.Later, he was heard by a fortune teller in the Town God's Temple. After pondering for a long time, he suddenly said in shock: "It's a disaster, it's a disaster! There will be a big disaster in Yangzhou soon!" Everyone accused him of lying, but he pointed to the ant hole in the corner and said, "You guys Look, the entrance of the cave is open on weekdays, why is it all sealed by mud recently? Isn’t this the “ants seal the cave”? Think again, have there been hens at home lately, and black magpies screaming outside the house? Don’t want to drop the branches?” Seeing the people whispering, the gentleman twirled his beard and said: “This is a warning from the heavens, there are many visions, and Yangzhou is about to have a catastrophe—if it is sung according to the old man’s nursery rhyme, I’m afraid it’s the water. Eh!" After saying that, he didn't set up a stall, and hurriedly collected all the guys.

People didn't believe it at first. This is the south of the Yangtze River. It doesn't rain dozens of times in a year. Do you have to move when it rains?Unexpectedly, on the thirteenth day of June, there will be a Dafa meeting in the Dragon God Temple to celebrate the Christmas of the Dragon King of the Four Seas. As usual, the temple will be invited to congratulate the Fushi, and incense and paper horses will be burned. After half a day of winding on the sand table, there is only one word "洛" .Miao Zhu was amazed, and asked for another three pillars of high incense, but it was still the word "waterlogged".Now all the people in the city believed the old beggar's prophecy, packed up the boxes and cages in a hurry, and moved their families to higher places, only the remaining heavy ones were too late to move, so they had to hide their faces and abandon them.Another three days later, in the evening, black clouds swept across the sky, and there was a faint tumbling of wind and thunder, coming from the southeast corner of the sky, covering Yangzhou city tightly.In an instant, a flash of light pierced through the dome, as if thousands of soldiers and chariots were coming from the ground, and the heavy rain with hail poured down, and was blown up by the strong wind, and the beating water droplets and ice balls hit the eaves like crazy. , lifted the tiles, and poured them into the broken roof.

This is not the melancholy and lingering rain in the rainy season. From the lightning writhing among the clouds, to the heavy rain hitting the ground, to the flood flooding in the mud, they all show people the long-suppressed wrath of heaven. The roaring noise destroyed all the living things in Yangzhou City that had no time to escape.

The Supreme Being of the Three Realms, who is at the ninth level, is very satisfied.Any life that disrespects God is not worthy of living under His sovereignty.And he, and he alone, is the sole ruler of the ten directions, six paths, four births, and nine provinces. Life and death are all in his mind.Behind him, all the immortals were terrified. They looked at the proud Jade Emperor, the indifferent Queen Mother beside the throne, and the judiciary god sinking like water under the sweet-scented osmanthus. No one dared to say a word.

Yang Jian raised his eyes, seemingly inadvertently glanced at Cun Xin beside the Queen Mother.The dragon girl held a towel in her hand, standing in front of the red sandalwood screen like a clay sculpture and wood carving, only a pair of black and white apricot eyes glanced down the steps from time to time, and unexpectedly met Yang Jian's gaze, and hurriedly lowered her eyes to avoid it, teaching Xiansheng Zhenjun to laugh inexplicably .Since that day in Yangzhou, the two of them have long been avoiding appearances when getting along in private, but now that they are in full view, they have no choice but to still pretend to be in the same boat.

The three princesses turned a deaf ear to it on the surface, but in their hearts they were in a different situation.Ao Cong, Lord Qiantang, is a shrewd person, and his affairs are handled seamlessly. It has been raining heavily in Yangzhou for more than half a month, but there is not a single word about the ditches in the secret report by Cun Xin, so the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother have no doubts.It's just that Liu Changrong mentioned that Tian Nu had privately summoned the envoys of the Five Plagues, but Changrong didn't know what they were talking about.Longnu felt uneasy in her heart—since Tiannu knew that she was in charge of the news, she bypassed herself and asked the God of Plague directly.If it's not that there is no evidence, it is to wait for an appropriate time to come out all at once, and teach myself that there is no reason to turn around forever.Cun Xin intends to discuss with Yang Jian, and went several times, but Yang Jian is not in the temple.Hearing from the Taiweis, the second master found Liu Yanchang and his son near Liujia Village in Huashan, he was overjoyed, and often went down to visit Sanshengmu's son Chen Xiang, the golden lock on the desk was waiting for Chen Xiang's birthday, Congratulations to him.

Hearing this, Cun Xin was also happy for Yang Jian. Since Liu's father and son are still alive, Yang Chan will have one less reason to hate her brother. There is hope for their siblings to get back together.It's just that I haven't got through with Yang Jian right now, if Tian Nu suddenly gets into trouble, how can I deal with it so as not to show my feet?She was thinking wildly here, but when the court meeting was over, the sound of golden bells and jade chimes was loud, so she hurriedly followed the queen mother's phoenix chariot back to Yaochi.Unexpectedly, as soon as the tea was served, a small yellow gate of Yuqing Palace came. His Majesty Dao asked the Luantai Supervisor to come over, and there was something important to say.

Longnu knew it was not good, but she didn't dare to shirk, and hurriedly followed the little yellow gate.As soon as I entered the gate of the palace, I felt that the atmosphere was not right. The whole Yuqing Palace did not hear half a murmur of phlegm and cough, and was so quiet that even a needle dropped on the ground could be heard. There was no one in the palace, only a black-clothed civil servant stood there, bowing. It was Shi Wenye, the God of Plague!

Cun Xin picked up the heart that had been put down, and endured the shock of seeing Li. From the corner of her eyes, she saw Tian Nu Chao Shi Wenye pouted, and the plague god cupped his hands upward.The Jade Emperor took a sip of tea and said slowly, "What's going on in Yangzhou?"

"Yangzhou?" Cun Xin's heart was about to jump out of his chest, and he forced a forced smile: "The recent secret reports of Yangzhou have been submitted to the second sage. If there are any mistakes in the transcription, the servants will go and get the originals. Your Majesty, please review them in person."

"Third Princess," Tian Nu interjected in a male voice, "You know what your majesty is asking is not about a secret report." Cun Xin didn't look at him, only looked at the Jade Emperor on the throne, seeing him put down the tea bowl, A pair of long eyebrows are raised slightly, and the long and narrow phoenix eyes are shining brightly, staring directly at the dragon girl under the Danxi: "Just now Shi Wenye made a knee-to-eye report, saying that the heavy rain in Yangzhou flooded the whole city, but the number of people who died due to the flood , but there are only more than twenty mouths, do you know about this?"