Chapter 63: Grain from the sky
Anle County, Lingzhou.
Early in the morning, the county governor Liu Yuanfeng summoned the officers to clean up the county government's official warehouse, and the action was done with great fanfare, which attracted the attention of many people in the county city.
Along with it, the other two largest warehouses in the city were also sorted out and tidied up, as if they were going to be put to great use.
In front of each warehouse, an offering table and altar were set up.
The burning incense emits smoke, and a quiet and peaceful atmosphere spreads along with the fragrance, and goes away along the long street.
Not to mention the officers and guards guarding the area, people from the streets and not far from the city also gathered. Many old and weak people helped each other. Most of them were sallow and thin, and they looked weak when walking.
But more importantly, everyone's face is gloomy and there is no light in sight.
"What are you doing, Governor Liu?" People looked at this situation and whispered to each other. In the Zhou Dynasty, people called officials by name and position, and most of the officials called themselves "official" or "someone."
"Could it be that you want to pray to the gods and ask God to let this disaster pass quickly?" Some people speculated after seeing the altar and altar.
A middle-aged businessman who lived near the Yamen and got a lot of news from the guards looked around, and then whispered: "Have you heard? Our Lingzhou governor and supervisor are dead."
"What? How did he die? When?" This shocking news immediately attracted everyone to look over.
The middle-aged businessman put his hands in his sleeves and said excitedly: "On the fiftieth birthday of that dog official Qian Wen, all of us were starving to death. This dog official was still feasting on guests, drinking and having fun. They are They are drinking our blood and eating our flesh."
"But they didn't expect that retribution would come. Their evil deeds would anger the gods in heaven."
The middle-aged businessman recounted the scene in detail: "In the end, the supervisor Xu Xuanming fell to pieces and died without a complete body. Officer Qian Gou was frightened to death."
Everyone around them couldn't help but clapped their hands and said, "Okay! Great!"
“It’s really a delight!”
"This bitch deserves to die!"
"Why don't the immortals kill all these corrupt officials?"
A scholar said: "You can't say that. We still have good officials like Governor Liu, and if we kill all the officials, Lingzhou will be completely in chaos."
People once again looked at the county governor who was kneeling and praying in front of the altar: "Is there really a deity coming down to earth? No wonder Sheriff Liu wants to worship the gods. Let's go and pay homage too!"
"Yes, yes, everyone, go and pay your respects. When will this drought and locust plague end?"
People came closer one after another, and more and more people gathered.
At this time, Liu Yuanfeng, the governor of Anle County, finally finished offering the incense one by one. He knelt down and kowtowed three times to express his wish before he stood up.
Seeing the people in the city and the nervous guards and guards approaching all around, he waved his sleeves: "Don't panic, let the people come over."
Liu Yuanfeng knew that at this time, the people of Anle County not only needed food, but also needed hope.
At this time, there is no hope, which is more inspiring than the immortal coming down to earth to save the common people and drive away disasters.
Even the imperial court.
As crowds of people poured in, before arriving at Guancang, Liu Yuanfeng's surroundings and the entire street were already full of people.
Sheriff Liu stood in front of the official warehouse, with wisps of smoke still burning on the altar table behind him. His eyes swept over the people under his rule, and for some reason he remembered the scene in the Wangchuan River he saw last night.
He took a deep breath before continuing: "Since last autumn, there has been no rain in Anle County. This spring, there has been another locust plague. Every household has no food left. I also know that everyone is waiting for me.
Waiting for the disaster relief food from the court."
"But I am incompetent and cannot bring food back to everyone."
Just when everyone was silent, Liu Yuanfeng changed his voice and said, "Fortunately, an immortal enlightened me yesterday, and the immortal told me."
"At noon today, the warehouse will be full of rice and grain." Liu Yuanfeng yelled this sentence at the top of his lungs with all his strength, and his voice was directly transmitted from this end to the end of the alley.
The atmosphere was stagnant at first, and then various sounds erupted.
"What?"
"Did I hear it wrong?"
"What does Governor Liu mean by this? The immortal is going to send us food?"
"is this real?"
"Can what the gods say be false? Can what the county governor say be false? It must be true." The man danced for joy, as happy as a child.
"I have to go over quickly and tell my mother the news and ask her to come over and see the gods."
If others had said it, everyone would still be suspicious.
But for a dignified county governor to say something like this in the name of a god, he still has great credibility.
Since ancient times, there have been various myths and legends in the Central Plains. Among them, it is not uncommon for immortals to entrust their dreams or descend to earth to enlighten scholars and officials.
Not to mention, some people just knew that gods descended to earth yesterday and punished the two most notorious corrupt officials in Lingzhou, which made the words of County Sheriff Liu Yuanfeng a little more credible.
As noon got closer, more and more people came out of their homes and gathered near the county government office.
The scorching sun was shining in the sky, and some people stood for two full hours without feeling tired. They still looked up at the sky from time to time, hoping to be the first to see the appearance of the gods.
No matter men, women, old or young, dignitaries or ordinary people, they are all eager for everything to come true at this moment.
As soon as noon arrived, the sun was shining brightly in the sky, and it was shining directly through the open skylight on the top of the warehouse.
However, along with the sunshine falling from the clouds, there is also an endless stream of food.
It fell from a high place, penetrated the top of the official warehouse, and poured continuously into the official warehouse. The sound was like a rushing river.
A mountain of rice quickly piled up inside the official warehouse.
"This? It's rice, it's grain." An old man knelt on the ground, tears filling his eyes.
"A lot of food." I don't know how many people cheered.
"There is really food delivered." The food seemed to be conjured out of thin air and fell from the sky. The immortal's vast magical power and the way the food appeared completely stunned many people who had been hesitant before.
"It was sent from the sky by the immortals. It was the food that the immortals conjured up to give us."
Seeing this scene that was like a miracle, all the people knelt down and knelt down to worship the grain and official warehouses that were pouring down from the sky, and even more so to the invisible gods in the sky.
"Thank you to the gods for their mercy!"
"The gods bless us in Anle County and the people of Lingzhou."
"He is really a god who saves people in distress. This is the first time my old woman has seen such a scene in her whole life." An old woman was supported by her son and stood outside, wiping her tears constantly.
Food poured down from the sky like a waterfall, and shouts shook the mountains and rivers. People shouted for the immortal's blessing and thanked the immortal.
The white grains of food exuded dazzling light under the refraction of the sun, and turned into the color of hope in the eyes of the people of Anle County.
Not only in the official warehouse, but also in the other two warehouses, bags of rice and noodles were piled up.
The cheers in the city also spread outside the city.
This caused the victims in the shanties built outside the city to raise their heads and look into the city.
Not long after, the city gate opened, and carts of grain were transported out of the city.
The porridge shed rekindled the stove fire and the aroma of porridge.
"This is the food given by the immortal. The immortal came down to earth to help us people in Lingzhou get rid of the drought."
The porridge officers and the people in the city had to say it every time they scooped up a bowl of porridge.
Deliver hope to everyone.
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In the corner of the city wall, the immortal that people call him is sitting on a high place, looking at the porridge shed where porridge is being served.
The entire dead city began to move again.
It was as if a fire had been rekindled from the ashes.
The order that was originally lost due to the disaster has returned to the earth.
The county soldiers began to clear out the bandits, each county received disaster relief food funds and began to appease the people, caravans from the state capital also began to arrive, and the closed shops on the streets were opened.
Anle County is the most severely affected place. It can be said that as long as Anle County is stabilized, the disaster will be half stabilized.
General Donkey looked at the grains, his eyes wide open, his heart ached, and his breathing was so rapid that white air kept coming out of his nose.
It originally planned to go back later and move all the treasures back home. It had already regarded the treasures hidden in Jiangzhou's underground treasure house as its own.
"Ah! My bed with gold and white jade."
"Ah! My golden chamber pot."
"And my thousands of gold and luxurious life are gone..."
General Donkey couldn't bear to look any longer. The donkey had slumped limply in the corner, and his eyes had lost the color of dream.
The Green Dragon Sword shuttled out, and the boy sat cross-legged on the sword and stood behind Kong Chenzi.
"Sir! What should we do next?"
"The urgent need has been solved."
"It means eliminating the root cause of the disease."
Kong Chenzi grabbed a locust, and the ordinary locust flapped its wings in its long fingers and made a buzzing sound.
The immortal's eyes seemed to penetrate the locust's appearance and see the inside.
"There are some locusts here."
Chapter completed!