It ends at Gezhou in the north and Yangchun Kingdom in the south.
Yangchun Kingdom is a small country in the south, with only a dozen or so cities. Its capital, Yangchun City, has a population of only half a million.
It is a vassal state of a big country in the west with a lot of money. The land is small and the people are poor. They mainly live on a mountain range that produces secret gold.
At the foot of the Mijin Mountains, there is a Yellow Leaf Village.
At dawn, in a dilapidated courtyard at the east end of the village, a thin man carried an old woman out of the main room.
A little girl of five or six years old followed behind, struggling to pull a bamboo chair.
When the little girl dragged the bamboo chair across the threshold and placed it in the yard, the thin man carefully put down the old mother on his back.
Looking at his sleeping mother sitting on the bamboo chair, a trace of worry flashed in the thin man's eyes.
Then he said to the little girl next to him: "Xiaohua, take good care of grandma. Daddy will be back when it gets dark. There are porridge, steamed buns, and some dried meat in the kitchen. Don't forget to eat it at noon."
The little girl held the bamboo chair and raised her little face and said, "Don't worry, dad, I will definitely take good care of grandma. When Mrs. Liu's house next door cooks at noon, I will make hot porridge and feed it to grandma."
A pleased smile appeared on the face of the thin man, and he rubbed her hair with some distress, and warned: "Don't forget to eat it yourself. Those dried meats are prepared for you. Grandma's teeth are not good, so she can't eat them. "
The little girl nodded: "I know, dad, don't worry. Dad, when can I take grandma to the county hospital for medical treatment?"
"I heard from Erniu that her brother had suffered from an illness before. Later, her father took him to the county town to find a doctor, and he was taken care of."
The thin man glanced at the mine not far away, and finally looked at the old mother on the chair, and replied: "Soon, in half a year, when dad has saved enough money, he will take grandma to the county town for medical treatment."
"When the time comes, I will also take Xiaohua and buy her favorite candied haws."
The little girl almost drooled as she thought about the sweet candied haws she had eaten a few years ago.
But she held it back and said with a smile: "Yeah, let's treat grandma first. After the disease is cured, grandma and I will go to the mountains to pick honeysuckle and sell it for money, and then buy candied haws to eat."
"When the time comes, buy three skewers, one for me, one for grandma, and one for dad!"
The thin man suppressed the sourness in his heart, smiled lovingly, and said: "Buy four bunches, two bunches of florets, one bunch for me and my grandma. Children can grow taller if they eat more."
The little girl nodded happily: "Yeah."
Then he told someone to take care of his grandma at home and some things he needed to pay attention to. The thin man took two dry and hard croquettes out of the house and went to the mine behind the village.
The morning fog gradually disperses and the sun rises. It is a day full of hope.
Xiaohua stood at the entrance of the courtyard, watching her father disappear at the end of the village. Then she returned to the courtyard, where she first found the leftover wild vegetable soup from last night and the earthworms she had dug up early to feed the chickens and ducks in the cage.
Then I brought a small wooden stool and sat beside the bamboo chair. I squeezed my grandma’s legs with my little hands and sang the little songs my mother had taught her before.
"One plow ox covers half of a field. The harvest depends on the sky, and the shortage depends on the sky."
"After the rain, the sky is clear and you can drive in a small boat, with fish on one side and sprinkles on the other..."
The wind blew from the village fields, passing through the mulberry and jujube trees in the village, and blew into the yard. The leaves rustled, as if singing in harmony with her.
I don’t know how long it took, but Xiao Hua, who was humming a song, heard the commotion outside the yard.
She couldn't hold it any longer, and when she walked to the door of the courtyard, she saw Mrs. Liu leading Hu'er next door. Erniu was also walking out of the village with her mother-in-law and other aunties and mothers-in-law.
"Aunt Liu, where are you going?" Xiaohua asked curiously.
Aunt Liu replied: "Xiaohua, the team leader from the county just came and said that today is the centenary meeting of the Goddess of Donghua Mountain. The Goddess will travel across the continent and may pass by our country of Yangchun."
"The village chief asked us all to gather under the big camphor tree at the head of the village and pray together. Pray that the Goddess will send down divine rain so that everyone in our village will be free from illness and disaster."
Erniu's mother also expressed concern: "Xiaohua, is your father at home? Ask your father to carry your grandma on his back and go to the village to pray for blessings. Maybe the Goddess and Lady will hear it and your grandma's illness will be cured."
Xiaohua replied: "Daddy went to the mine."
Erniu's mother was surprised: "Didn't he just come back yesterday? I heard his foot was smashed. Why did he go to the mine again today?"
Xiaohua shook her head.
Aunt Liu and Erniu's mother felt sorry for each other. Xiaohua's grandmother had been ill for many years and was delirious. All the men in their family had gone to the mines. They women couldn't carry her back and couldn't carry Xiaohua's grandmother to the village.
Xiaohua watched her aunts and uncles go to the village as if attending a New Year's fair.
After listening to what Aunt Liu and Erniu's mother said, she also wanted to take her grandma to the village to pray for blessings, but she was too young and couldn't move her grandma.
I tried several times but couldn't get the chair to move even an inch.
She sat down on the ground, looked at the unconscious grandma on the chair, and then looked in the direction of the big camphor tree at the head of the village. Her little face was wrinkled, not knowing what to do.
After sitting for a while, she remembered the way her father used to offer incense and worship God in the morning during the Dragon Boat Festival. She immediately got up from the ground quickly and went to the water tank to wash her hands first.
Then he put three wowotou in a bowl to serve as rice, went to the main room to find three sticks of incense, went to the kitchen to light it, and took it to the yard together.
She ran outside the courtyard gate and looked at the big camphor tree at the head of the village. When the aunts and grandmothers began to bow down and pray for blessings, she quickly ran back to the courtyard, facing the east, put three sticks of incense on the ground, and then held the wowotou in both hands. Shenmi, kneel down and worship seriously.
While worshiping, he muttered in a low voice: "Merciful and merciful Goddess, I am Zhao Xiaohua from Huangye Village. My grandma is sick. Dad works hard in the mines every day and has to feed me. He can't save money. Please send down the rain to heal grandma." As long as grandma's illness can be cured, I am willing to kowtow to you every day!"
After saying that, she put the Wowotou Shenmi on the ground and kowtowed three times in a row.
…
The Lord of the Gods of Donghua Mountain was in the dusk, and he and Li Qianyi stepped into the sky, heading westward.
Wherever it goes, the divine rain turns into sweet rain and falls, spreading from the east to the central, northern and southern territories.
She is very tall, half a head taller than the slender Li Changye.
She is dressed in a divine robe, and her whole body exudes a solemn, luxurious, and sacred temperament. She is really the presence of the gods of heaven and earth. Wherever she goes, the evil dissipates and everything grows.
It's just that no one on the ground, whether they are immortal monks or ordinary people, can see her.
Li Xiangye followed her and watched silently.
When he passed by the monasteries of mountain and river gods and imperial righteous gods, faint gleams of divine power would fly up and sink into his body.
Since Donghua Mountain, the two of them have not spoken, as if the Goddess Empress invited him to accompany her, really just to invite him to witness, and at the same time, let the gods from all walks of life feed him, the benefactor of the Shinto, and help him refine his Taoist body.
However, along the way, perhaps because he was too close to the Goddess, Li Chaoyi was able to listen to many prayers coming from the ground.
There was a time when the king led hundreds of officials to worship, and there were also simple prayers from ordinary people.
When he came to the Central Territory and the divine power rained down over the eastern part of the Central Territory, the southeastern part of the Northern Territory, and the northeastern part of the Southern Territory, Li Chaoyi suddenly heard the immature and pious prayer of a little girl.
"Merciful and merciful Goddess, I am Zhao Xiaohua from Huangye Village. My grandma is sick. My father works hard in the mines every day and has to feed me. He can't save money. Please send down the rain to heal grandma. As long as grandma's illness can be cured, , I am willing to kowtow to you every day..."
Li Xiangye glanced at the Goddess Empress, but Yun Muxi didn't react at all and continued to walk forward.
However, a large piece of the Shinto rain falling all over the sky naturally fell towards the country where the childish prayers came from.
Li Chaoyi took a bird's eye view, and based on some unique mountains and rivers on the ground, combined with the "Beizhou Thousand Kingdoms Map" he had read, he recognized that it was a small country named Yangchun in the south.
The goddess did not stay, and it was not easy for Li Qianyi to check. After the rain of rain fell, the grandmother of the little girl praying would not be well.
Looking at the tall and solemn Goddess in front of him, he understood somewhat.
…
Huangye Village, in a dilapidated courtyard.
After Xiaohua finished her prostrations, she kept kneeling because she didn't know if the Goddess and Empress heard her prayers, and she didn't know if the Goddess and Empresses would pay attention to her if they heard her.
She thought that if she knelt a little longer, she might be able to let the Goddess know her thoughts.
She really hopes that her grandma's illness will be cured, so that her grandma can take her to the market, wash clothes by the river, and pick fruits and herbs in the mountains like she did when she was a child, and her father won't have to work so hard.
She didn't know how long she had been kneeling, but her knees started to hurt. At that moment, a piece of ash fell from one of the incense sticks in front of her.
She couldn't help but want to rub her knees before continuing to kneel. At this moment, she saw that under the courtyard wall, several vegetable plots planted by her father were growing rapidly. Cucumbers, loofahs, peppers, and eggplants that were originally seedlings were growing rapidly. It is rapidly bearing fruit.
This surprised her, and she stared blankly with her eyes wide open, thinking that she was dazzled.
When I was thinking about what was going on, I suddenly heard a "beep" sound coming from behind me.
Looking back, I saw grandma on the bamboo chair, slowly opening her eyes.
"grandmother?!!!"
Xiaohua was overjoyed, but she couldn't believe it.
"Little flower..."
"Grandma, you, you are really awake, that's great!"
Hearing the familiar call, I finally no longer had any doubts and jumped up from the ground. I got up too hard and knelt for too long, almost falling.
But she didn't care, and quickly came to the bamboo chair with her little feet.
"Grandma, how do you feel now? Does it still hurt? Is it uncomfortable? How about Hua'er rub it for you?"
Grandma had been in a coma for almost three years. When she woke up, it seemed like she was in a dream. Looking at the happy granddaughter in front of her, she smiled and shook her head.
"It doesn't hurt. You feel comfortable everywhere. Grandma seems to be fine. Hua'er, come here quickly and let grandma take a good look at you. You've grown so big in a blink of an eye, my good granddaughter!"
The old lady took her granddaughter's little hand, pulled her into her arms, kissed her on the forehead, and hugged her tightly, reluctant to let go.
The little girl was being kissed and rubbed by her grandma, feeling the long-lost warmth, but a thought came to her mind:
"It turns out that praying to the Goddess Empress really works, so I will keep my promise and kowtow to the Goddess Empress every day from now on!"
A thin man appeared at the gate of the courtyard.
Looking at his grandfather and grandson hugging each other, his eyes couldn't help but become moist.
The little girl felt something in her heart. She came out of grandma's arms and looked at the courtyard door.
"Dad, why are you back?"
"I don't know, I just suddenly wanted to come back, so I came back."
"I know it must be the Goddess who asked daddy to come back. Daddy, grandma is awake and has recovered from her illness!"
The thin man nodded, his eyes getting moister.
Then he turned around and left.
Xiaohua was surprised: "Daddy, where are you going?"
"Go buy candied haws, buy four skewers!"
Xiaohua was slightly stunned, then laughed happily.
…
Donghua Mountain Divine Lord Yun Mushi and Li went to continue their journey westward.
Passing by the Zhongye Kingdom, Dashun Kingdom, Qian Kingdom and other large and small kingdoms, we reached the sky above the Great Wei Kingdom.
Emperor Cao Chong of the Wei Dynasty also brought his first assistant Tang Shouzhang, second assistant Xu Qingzheng, chief governor Xiao Zhanzhi, the ninth prince Cao Zukong, the eleventh princess Cao Jianing and other civil and military officials and royal family members to worship at the Temple of Heaven early , to welcome the divine Lord of Donghua Mountain.
Yun Duixi glanced at the Wei capital from a distance, but did not enter the city, but turned back and headed north.
Li Chaoyi followed her, looking at the place she was about to pass, with a look of surprise on his face.
Because the next destination of the Divine Master’s trip seems to be Hanshan Academy?
this?
He finally arrived at Donghua Mountain. Is he going home now?
Yun Duixing, who was dressed in a divine robe, did pass through Hanshan Mountain, but he still didn't stop and continued northward beyond the academy.
Li Chaoyi followed Yufeng, and when he walked over the academy, he faintly saw a few familiar figures in the Aiwan Pavilion.
But since the Goddess Empress didn't stop, he couldn't do anything, so he could only pass through the mountain gate without entering.
When he looked at Aiwan Pavilion, several people in Aiwan Pavilion naturally saw him and Yun Mushe.
Zhou Lengxi and the two deputy mountain chiefs Dong and Liu who came from behind were very calm.
Wu Ying, the master's wife, was very surprised and asked: "Old man, why do I think the person who is following the Goddess is Xiao?"
"The Goddess is traveling in a fugue, how could he follow her?"
Zhou Lengxi didn't answer, just watched the two people in the air go away.
Wu Ying had no choice but to look at the two deputy mountain chiefs, Dong Xieyang and Liu Buming, but Dong and Liu shook their heads together. They were far behind Lao Zhoutou in terms of deducing plans.
Besides, only Lao Zhoutou in the Academy has friendship with the Divine Master of Donghua Mountain. In addition to sending gifts and congratulations to the Divine Master, Li Gengxin’s trip eastward has other secrets. Only Lao Zhoutou knows.
When Wu Ying, the master's wife, saw that the three old masters ignored her, she was a little angry and wanted to take out a big gun and put a hole in her old man.
But thinking about the good things she had in mind when her eldest apprentice first came down the mountain, she couldn't help but laugh.
The Goddess and the Empress have asked Xiao Yu to go with them, so the marriage between Xiao Yu and her apprentice, Fairy Jiang Jinwan, should not be a problem, right?
Zhou Lengxi glanced at his wife strangely.
While the master's wife was making calculations here, Yun Mushe and Li Changyi had already left the Central Territory and arrived at the Northern Territory.
As soon as they entered the northern border, a figure came across the sky and blocked the front.
(End of chapter)
