The Shocking and Extraordinary Romance of the Great Sage

(10) Green Pearl Appears to Rain.

Chapter 69: Three Years of Drought. The worst drought has not happened in thousands of years. The seedlings are withered and no harvests are harvested. Farmers are miserable. There is a poem"In Memory of Disaster Farmers" that laments:

Disaster farmers shed many tears. Tears rippled in the stream.

Hearing the cry, he raised his eyes and gasped, breathless.

There was a poor woman who shared the same porridge pot.

They are originally from the same root, and they are simmering together like water and fire.

The mother-in-law scolded her several times in anger, while the daughter-in-law cried and hid in the corner.

The child jumped forward, heartbroken and heartbroken.

The daughter-in-law is grieving because of her mother's illness, so they live together and eat and drink separately.

If the husband dies and the children are young, where will the money and food go?

There has been a drought for three consecutive years, and many people are selling their children.

Forced to often separate families, it is difficult to separate flesh and blood.

Seeing the soul falling, I couldn't stop talking.

I bow my head and sigh about the future, and spend the years in misery.

In the year of great calamity, beggars are everywhere. Although the beauty of the West Lake is indescribable, groups of sluts are like a tide, jumping up and down the lake shore. The paths and avenues around the lake are crowded with stalls and fortune tellers.

There is a piece of cloth with the words"Look at the birth date and horoscopes" written on it. The old man with a white beard who presided over the fortune telling muttered:"The year, month, day and hour of a person's birth are all related to the eight words"cooperation".It's the birth date. In the horoscope, the first two characters are the year stem branches; the third and fourth characters in the horoscope are the month stem branches; the fifth and sixth characters in the horoscope are the day stem branches; and the seventh and eighth characters are the hour stem branches. The purpose of fortune telling is to tell your fortune based on the year, month, day, time of your birth, and the eight characters of your stem and branch! God's predictions of good, bad, and bad luck in your life are accurate. He sang again:"Fortune-telling and fortune-telling. No money for wrong calculations."……"

At a dream interpretation stall, an old fortune teller shouted:"The Duke of Zhou interpreted the dream, and the family will be prosperous. The Taiyin Queen appears, the South Star Lord appears. The Big Dipper Lord appears, and the Sun Star Lord appears. It brings wealth and treasures, and the heavenly official blesses you. There is evil in the dream. There is good luck in dreaming about wearing white clothes; dreaming about hemp shoes and teachings; dreaming about strong winds and heavy rains, and dreaming about secrets; dreaming about washing hands and feet, and dreaming about strange things; dreaming about broken mirrors and looking at people, and dreaming about cracks in the ground, and dreaming about disasters; dreaming about wives and husbands. You have strange clothes; what are you dreaming about? The Taiyin Empress will tell you. Come on, come on, come on, come on... No money will be collected if you make a mistake! Blessings turn into misfortunes, misfortunes turn into blessings, refund the money That's right."

Along the way with Xu Shilin, Hong'er saw the scorching sun burning like fire, getting stronger and stronger, so she stood on the shore with a sullen face and was worried. Hong'er came to a fortune teller and said,"Sir, please calculate the luck of the snake this year." The fortune teller stroked his beard with his fingers, took a few puffs from the long cigarette pot, and put down the two-foot-long cigarette pole. , mysterious and polite, said:"Miss Tingting, I'm sorry. The twelve zodiac signs are snakes, so you will have bad luck this year! You will have to work hard and run around, and everything will be bad. Therefore, it is better to defend than to attack. Don't act rashly. You are afraid of losing money and hurting officials, and bad things will happen under the hood. There will be sudden changes in the potential, and the ups and downs will be uncertain. If the official is injured in the first month and the money is robbed again, it is better to be patient. In the ninth month, the God of Cookery will enter the order, and the book will be written in the blue sky. The auspicious energy will be harmonious, Fortunes may change. In the tenth month, there will be three evil forces killed in the month, which may cause physical illness or mental disaster. This month is the love month of peach blossoms, and love is as deep as the sea. I am happy to congratulate this charming girl."

Hong'er snorted and smiled, and Xu Shilin was also happy. He took out three copper coins, put them respectfully into the old man's open palm, and walked forward with Hong'er.

At the gate of the county government office, soldiers were lined up densely. The county magistrate, Jia Li, stepped out arrogantly and saw a group of people kneeling in large groups and shouting:"Please, sir, please, magistrate. If it doesn't rain, there will be no harvest. We poor people will starve to death, please." Sir, I have mercy on you. I don’t collect rent and taxes. Sir, I have mercy on you.……"The poor trembled, and some burst into mourning.

Magistrate Jia Li bowed his head high, shook his official uniform, and said sternly:"Hahahahahaha, look at the people who are so thin and skinny from hunger. The magistrate is a parent, and I feel sorry for him. I feel sorry for him."

Magistrate Jia said again:"The scorching sun The fields are burning, the land is dry and cracked, and the disaster is catastrophic. However, the rent and taxes cannot be paid. Can I drink the northwest wind?! There are also my servants, what should I do? The rent and taxes cannot be exempted! They must be paid! Anyone who evades the rent and taxes , put in jail, don't worry! You can pray for rain, you can pray to gods and Buddhas, wasn't it very effective in the past few years!?" After saying this, he turned his back and walked into the Yamen with a flutter of sleeves. A row of soldiers was sent up, armed with knives, to scare the refugees who were coming. Hong'er and Xu Shilin, who were standing behind, were also helpless.