In Jishui County, the dragon raised its head in February

Liu Tong said in "The Scenery of the Imperial Palace": "On the 2nd of February, the dragon raised its head, fried the remaining cakes of the New Year's Day sacrifice, smoked the bed kang, and said, smoked the insects. ”

The dragon does not raise its head and the sky does not rain, the dragon is an auspicious thing, and the master of weathered rain.

Spring rain is as precious as oil, and people pray that the dragon will raise its head and make clouds rain to moisten all things.

At the same time, the second day of February is before and after the sting, the insects are stupid, the epidemic is easy to arise, and people also pray that the dragon will raise its head and come out to suppress the poisonous insects and reduce the disaster.

Although the fields have not yet been officially divided, after more than half a year, the thousands of households in the county, except for the bandits who have just been escorted, have all obeyed, and after half a year of sufficient food, they have also been relieved of their hunger.

The dragon raised its head to worship the dragon god, but in front of the dragon girl temple, a large group of people lined up to wait, just to give the dragon girl incense, and use jujube cake to sacrifice.

"Ask the dragon girl to appear, let the rain fall here!"

"Dragonmaiden, please manifest yourself! Please send a rain and bless our crops to survive!"

"Dragon Girl, my child and I have been separated for more than half a year, and his father and I miss him very much, please ask the Dragon Goddess to bless him alive!"

In the Dragon Lady Temple, the incense is swirling, and the people are kneeling on the ground, kowtowing to the dragon girl statue, crying, silently reciting their wishes, begging for rain, venting their dissatisfaction and pain, the scene is really lively.

Xue Yuan took a few scribes, and even a medical officer, standing on a high place, watching, he used to dress simply, but now he is dressed very exquisitely, although it is not luxurious, but the official clothes are cleanly washed, ironed neatly, and his demeanor is quiet, his eyes swept below, and after a long time, he breathed a sigh of relief.

For most of the past half a year in Jishui County, everything has begun to prosper, and Xue Yuan has presided over it single-handedly, and now he is basically healthy, and he has paid countless efforts and grown a lot of talents.

"The major affairs of the country are only sacrifices and wars!" Xue Yuan looked at the scene in front of him and said with emotion.

"There are so many people here, is this dragon girl really so respected?" In the back, the bench also came out today, he used his preliminary medical skills, and mixed with the casual doctor, which is equivalent to the status of a priest, seeing this scene, he couldn't help but show shock.

"This is just a kind of spiritual sustenance for people, if they are really respected, they will not stop the incense for so long. A scribe who approached chuckled and told the truth.

"Yes, but is it really useful to ask for this?" asked Bench, who was too young to know about this.

"Don't talk nonsense, don't blaspheme the gods, don't worship, don't talk nonsense. His parents, patted it, and said.

Bench father, once the snow covered the mountain almost frozen and starved to death, and then ran to a mountain temple to hide all night, at that time, looking at the old statue of the god, he wept bitterly, kowtowed to the mountain god, and cried, and then he survived the heavy snow, so he had a fear of the gods.

"May this dragon girl really bless us!" said the bench, the smell of incense wafting in the air was very strong, and after standing here for a long time, several people couldn't stand it anymore.

Whether you believe in the existence of the dragon god or not, at least you have to admit that with this dragon girl, the people seem to have spiritual sustenance, and as if they have a little hope for the future, as if they are in the sea, and suddenly grasp a life-saving straw.

Regardless of whether this straw can really hold people up, but it can be considered useful if it inspires people's hope.

Xue Yuan listened to the discussion behind him, did not speak, and showed a smile.

At this moment, all of a sudden, dark clouds shrouded in, and after only a few moments, the drizzle "crackled" down, and suddenly, the people were in an uproar.

"The dragon girl has appeared!"

"The dragon girl has appeared!"

Xue Yuan and the others, looking at the people who were worshipping God more and more sincerely, couldn't help but look at each other.

"It's really raining!" muttered the bench.

Everyone laughed when they said this, Xue Yuan looked at it for a moment, and then couldn't help but smile and said: "The spring rain is as expensive as oil, this is a good thing, but the spring rain is very cold, let's still eat and drink!"

Lai Tongyu also said with a smile: "Yes, the spring rain is very cold, today the yamen is on holiday, we invite everyone to eat and drink together." ”

The leaders of the two county governments said so, and everyone said yes again and again.

After walking for half an hour, I arrived at a hotel, this hotel is undoubtedly new, the restaurant is very small, look carefully, there is a table below, and the east side is a kitchen.

Everyone sat down, and a middle-aged man came up and said with a smile: "Everyone is here, what do you order?"

"What do you have here?"

"Hey, the newly opened ones only have some pork liver, carp, and fresh meat, so I'll make do with a table for everyone and get some wine. "There are many scribes, but there are only a dozen people, and everyone is seated at the moment and sits at three tables.

First on the red clay stove, everyone first poured three pots and put them on the fire to warm, after a while, the cooing and tumbling endlessly, the faint aroma of wine, permeated the room.

With the wine, the crowd immediately rejoiced, someone first served wine to Xue Yuan and Lai Tongyu, and then poured a bowl for everyone, and then the store put three catties of cooked meat slices, made three plates, and put them on three tables.

And in the kitchen, the smell of meat and fish spread, making everyone's mouth water, and after a while, carp and pork liver, as well as some fried goods, were served, and everyone was overjoyed, but they all respected Xue Yuan first, and then relied on Tongyu.

"Everyone, come and have a toast!" Looking around, everyone embraced it, and Xue Yuan sighed, raised his glass and drank it all, and said: "Thanks to the grace of the adults, everyone has this day, let's make a toast to the adults!"

Lai Tongyu raised his glass with a smile and said: "What I said is that it is all the grace of adults, adults are not people from Jiuliu County, we must work hard for adults and keep this foundation!"

As soon as he said this, Lai Tongyu smiled to himself again, and said: "Look at my mouth, come, don't ask more." ”

After saying that, I couldn't help but smile.

At that moment, everyone gave orders, drank wine, listened to the drizzle outside, and drank until two o'clock in the afternoon, and then gradually dispersed.

In the blink of an eye, it was twilight, and it seemed extremely silent.

Except for the soldiers on patrol, people were already asleep, and everywhere it was pitch black.

The Dragon Maiden Temple in the east of the city has just held a large-scale public sacrifice during the day, and at this time, the smell of incense is extremely strong in the air.

In the main hall, the incense inserted in the incense burner is about to burn out, and the heads of the three incense sticks are flashing a little light, one by one, in the dark, it looks a little demonic.

This temple, which has been silent for many years, has finally been revitalized again because of this rare opportunity.

The beautiful dragon girl on the high platform looked into the distance, as if waiting for something.

It's just that even though it is vividly portrayed by people, but in the end it is a mud tire, the smile on his face is somewhat stiff, and his eyes are even more empty, but when the people sacrifice it, they don't care about it, after all, what they want is just spiritual comfort.

On this night, unlike the calm Dragon Maiden Temple, the Jishui River, which is located in the middle of the county seat and the prefecture city, has something unusual.

The Jishui River used to have many names, after thousands of years of changes, the original name has long been forgotten by the people on both sides of the river, and now, its name is Jishui River.

From the beginning to the present, the Jishui River has always been flowing like this in people's impressions, because of the rapidity of the river, even if there are people who are familiar with the nature of the water, no one dares to dive into the bottom of the river to find out.

At this moment, in the dead of night and when everything is lonely, in the center of the Jishui River, on the surface of the river, waves began to roll.

From the small splash at the beginning, to the big waves more than one meter high later, there is no wind and waves, which happens on the river under the cover of night, showing some weirdness.

At this moment, the moon was suddenly obscured by a dark cloud, and then, between heaven and earth, fell into a brief darkness.

However, at this time, the water of the Jishui River slowly calmed down.

When the bright moon poked its head out of the dark clouds again, a moonlight suddenly shot straight into the river from the sky, and the landing point was the center of the river.

It was as if it was a channel of light, and this light, from the surface of the river, was inserted into the bottom of the water, and the other end of the light was blocked by a large shadow at the bottom of the river.

When the moonlight touched the shadow for a few seconds, the shadow suddenly burst into a dazzling light, revealing its true appearance.

If any human being could reach the bottom of the river and watch, he would be amazed.

It's a space, if it's real, it's not like it, the water passes through it, it's not blocked, if it's a shadow, it's like a crystal, it's glowing slightly, and at this time, thousands of fish line up to worship.

The building is not large, and if you look closely, you will find that it is actually very dilapidated.

The whole building, too, has only one room, a very large room.

In the room, the layout is very simple, except for the extremely smooth material floor, tables, chairs, benches, etc., there is nothing.

If it is just like this, it is not bad, but I don't know if it is because it has not been cleaned for too long, or if there is a hard object that has hit the building, and in the place near the door, there are several large holes, which destroy the overall beauty of the palace.

The many dirts in the corners make people feel like they are covered with dust.

Although this dilapidated hall is huge, the room does not seem empty because of the presence of an object, on the contrary, the entire body of this thing almost fills half of the hall, and this is still under the premise that it is coiled up and not stretched.

A huge head, at this time, is placed in the middle of the curled up body, it can be seen, it is covered in scale armor, the head has whiskers, because the body is curled up, so I can't see how many claws, but, this is obviously a dragon.

Like the main hall, it itself always felt that it was not an entity, looming, only to see it curled up on the ground, its body also had a slight undulation of rhythm, and its scales were shiny, a little faint, and it was very weak.

At this time, a fragrance that doesn't know where it came from, but it permeated it, even if you fell asleep, this Jiao also breathed, and the dragon's nose moved, rolling all the aromas in, showing that you enjoyed it very much!