After leaving Qingyi Temple, not far away, Li Daoxuan saw the farmer again.
He did not leave, but placed some pears and bowed to the Tsing Yi Temple from a distance.
Li Daoxuan asked curiously: "Uncle, why do you put the tribute here?"
This was also what he was curious about. The people in Yuzhang City respected the Empress in Tsing Yi very much, but there were no tributes on the mahogany table.
The uncle glanced at Li Daoxuan and said: "This is the rule of Qingyi Temple. During the Wude years, there were endless wars and no one had enough to eat, so some people sneaked into the temple quietly and stole the empress's tribute."
"At that time, the adults in the court were furious and wanted to punish those people. Fortunately, the Queen in Tsing Yi appeared and not only forgave them, but also distributed all the tributes and ordered that incense be burned in the future. There is no need to offer tributes anymore, as long as you are sincere."
The uncle looked at the Tsing Yi Temple with sincere eyes and said, "Your Majesty, take pity on us. Although I, Xu Youfu, am just a pear farmer, I know how to repay my kindness, so I can only offer tribute here."
Li Daoxuan's eyes lit up and asked: "Uncle, where do you grow pears?"
"The orchard in the south of the city, the Taoist priest must be from out of town, otherwise everyone in the city would know that the pears grown by me, Xu Youfu, are the biggest and sweetest!"
After a pause, the pride in Xu Youfu's eyes dissipated and turned into a trace of sadness.
"But that's not necessarily the case this year. It hasn't rained in the past few months and the land is dry. If this continues, this year's pears will die!"
"But I paid my respects to Qingyi Temple today and begged the empress. I believe it will rain soon!"
Xu Youfu kowtowed to Qingyi Temple a few more times, stood up and prepared to leave.
Li Daoxuan followed him and said with a smile: "Brother Xu, can I go to the orchard in the south of the city with you?"
Xu Youfu was a little surprised and asked, "Taoist Master, you want to buy pears? But it's not ripe yet?"
"I'm not buying pears, I just want to catch some bugs."
…
Orchard south of the city.
There are many fruits grown here, including cherries, grapes, pears, etc., but due to severe lack of water, the land is dry and cracked, and the fruits that used to grow happily have become shriveled and hang there listlessly.
The same goes for Xu Youfu’s Liyuan.
Li Daoxuan finally understood why the owner of the wine shop sold pomegranate wine so expensively. It turned out that it was because of the drought that both water and pomegranates had become in short supply.
Xu Youfu was a very warm-hearted person. When he heard that Li Daoxuan wanted worms, he dug them for him himself. After working for half an hour, he caught dozens of white, tender and plump worms and put them in a jar and handed them to Li Daoxuan.
He wiped his sweat and said with a smile: "It's a pity that the pears are not ripe yet, otherwise I would pick some for the Taoist priest to quench his thirst."
Li Daoxuan accepted the jar, took out a tael of silver and handed it over.
Unexpectedly, Xu Youfu shook his head repeatedly and said, "Taoist Priest, they are just worthless bugs. If you stay here, they will chew up pears. How can you spend money?"
He refused to accept it.
Li Dao A rain will help."
Send rain?
Xu Youfu raised his head and was very surprised. Can this rainwater be given away to others?
The next moment, he saw the young Taoist tap the gourd on his waist. Suddenly the gourd swelled up in the wind and floated in the air, reaching more than two feet high!
After Li Daoxuan broke through the early stage of Bigu, his magic power increased greatly, and he could make the Three Realm Gourd grow to nearly ten meters high.
He smiled brightly and said: "Here comes the water!"
boom!
Water jets spurt out from the mouth of the gourd, like water dragons rising into the sky, and finally fall in the sky, like rain falling from the sky, like heavy rain.
This is the pond water collected by Li Daoxuan in Longshou Mountain. Now it is poured out and turned into sweet rain to nourish the orchard.
Xu Youfu was stunned when he saw it. When his body was wet by the rain, he woke up and felt ecstatic in his heart.
"It's raining, it's raining!"
He ran wildly in the ground with bare feet, cheering for joy. After an unknown amount of time, he calmed down a little.
"Thank you——"
However, when he turned his head, the young Taoist priest had disappeared, and the gourd that could spray water was also gone.
The rain has stopped. It came and went as quickly as it came.
…
Li Daoxuan quietly left the orchard and came to a river.
This river connects to the Ganjiang River, which is one of the main tributaries of the Yangtze River, so it has not completely dried up yet.
But it is too far from the orchard, making it very inconvenient to get water for irrigation.
Li Daoxuan was wondering if he could use the Three Realms Gourd to absorb the water here and then make it rain?
The water just now is just a drop in the bucket. Soon, the orchard will still be unable to escape the fate of drought.
Just when he hesitated, a voice sounded.
"Little Taoist Priest, I am very thirsty. Can you help me get a bowl of Ganjiang water?"
Li Daoxuan turned his head and saw an old woman with gray hair. She was wearing commoner clothes and had chapped lips. She was leaning under a willow tree and was reaching out to hand a broken bowl to Li Daoxuan.
Li Daoxuan saw that she looked very pitiful, so he didn't think much, took the bowl, and scooped a bowl of water for her from the river.
Unexpectedly, the old woman shook her head and said: "This is the water from the lower reaches. It is too dirty. I am not in good health. Can you help me scoop a bowl of the water from the upper reaches?"
Li Daoxuan said nothing, looked at the sediment in the water, then looked at the old woman, and ran upstream without saying a word to scoop a bowl of water.
This time the water was much clearer.
But the old woman still shook her head and said, "I'm infected with the cold and can't drink cold water. Chief Taoist, can you help me boil this bowl of water?"
Li Daoxuan glanced at her and thought that this mother-in-law had so many things going on.
He wanted to turn away and leave, but when he saw her chapped lips, trembling palms, and her kind eyes, he inexplicably thought of his long-dead grandmother.
Li Daoxuan sighed lightly, forget it, just take care of the old man.
He built a simple stove with stones, then found some branches as firewood, and beat the Three Realms Gourd.
boom!
A flame flew out, landed on those branches, and soon burned.
Li Daoxuan put the bowl of water on the stone and said to the old woman: "Old man, the water will boil in a while. I have something else to do, so I will leave first."
He made up his mind that if the old woman made any further requests, he would definitely ignore them.
But what he didn't expect was that the old woman suddenly laughed and said, "Your trick of turning into fire is very interesting. I also have a trick. Do you want to see it?"
trick?
An ordinary person not only is not afraid when he sees himself controlling flames, but he just says a trick?
Li Daoxuan immediately realized that this old woman was no ordinary person!
He used his Dharma Eyes and stared closely at the old woman, but found that she was ordinary and had nothing unusual about her.
"Don't be nervous, thanks to your fire, look, the water is boiling."
Li Daoxuan looked at the bowl of water and saw that the water surface began to bubble and wisps of white mist rose.
Gurgling!
The sound of boiling water became louder and louder, and Li Daoxuan suddenly realized something was wrong. Why was it so loud?
He turned his head and finally discovered the reason.
I saw that the originally peaceful river was bubbling and white water vapor was rising.
The river water was boiled?
