Pray for rain

Zhongshan has not been peaceful these few days, Xie Wei has been worrying all day long to prevent Pei Yu from going up the mountain.However, after Xie Wei stopped him a few times, Pei Zhen seemed to realize that Xie Wei didn't want him to go up the mountain, so he took advantage of the opportunity to stay in the temple to dry the herbs he had picked before.

While Xie Wei was helping him turn over the medicinal herbs, a woman suddenly broke into the temple.The woman scrambled and rolled in front of the land statue, most of the woman's bun was scattered, and she kept sobbing in front of the land statue.Xie Wei was about to go forward to help her up, but she heard the woman choked up and asked: "Everyone says that this earth temple is efficacious and protects one side. Why don't you protect my husband and go home safely?"

Xie Wei's expression froze, and he asked the woman, "Ma'am, what's wrong?"

The woman turned around, her face was full of pain and unwillingness, she said with hatred: "Who are you?"

"I'm the sweeper of this temple." Xie Wei said calmly, and he handed the woman a clean white handkerchief, "Madam, wipe the sweat off your face."

"I thought you were..." the woman murmured, her expression was a little dazed, and she looked at the statue of land again, "Forget it, forget it, who else can help me?"

Xie Wei poured a cup of tea and handed it to her, said: "Madam, why don't you tell me what's going on?"

The woman did not take the teacup, but sneered, "What's the use of telling you? Even the government doesn't care about our life or death."

She looked at the statue viciously again: "How much incense did those dog officials give you? Why do you protect these dog officials so that they will prosper in official career and be like fish and meat for the common people?"

Xie Wei drank the poured tea in one gulp, turned around and went to help Pei Xuan continue to dry the medicinal herbs.Pei Yu looked at him and asked, "What's wrong?"

He smiled at Pei Yu: "It's nothing, that lady just came to pray."

Pei Yu was a little worried, he had a faint feeling that Xie Wei was a little unhappy.

Indeed, a tinge of anger rose in Xie Wei's heart. The magistrate of Zhong County was indeed not a clean official, but he was by no means a fish-me-not, bad person who didn't distinguish between good and evil. Otherwise, how could Xie Wei tolerate him?What's more, with a little bit of incense, can he be bribed to cover up a county magistrate who extorts money?

Xie Wei gently rubbed Pei Yu's head, and asked, "Are there any herbs left undried?"

Pei Yu said: "That's all, there are still some herbs that need to be processed, I will do it later, brother Xie, take a rest."

Sweeping away from the corner of the eye, Xie Wei saw that the woman was still sitting on the ground in front of the statue, speaking eloquently. He didn't want to care about it, but suddenly heard the woman cry: "I beg you, please help my husband, please help me!" Save him..."

Xie Wei sighed inwardly, turned around and walked towards the woman, but Pei Xuan grabbed her wrist: "Brother Xie."

Xie Wei took his hand back and said in a warm voice, "Let's go and listen to her prayer together."

Walking in front of the woman, Xie Wei asked: "Madam, why don't you tell us what happened to your husband-in-law? Maybe I can do my best."

The woman stopped crying, her eyes slowly slid across his face, and then she choked up and said, "Don't you know? I thought the rumors of ogre monsters on Zhongshan Mountain had spread all over the city."

He and Pei Yu had always lived in seclusion, so they really hadn't paid attention to the rumors in the market.But hearing her say that there are monsters in Zhongshan, Xie Wei couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

Pei Yu asked, "Monster?"

The woman was startled and frightened, and cried: "A brain-eating monster. Three days ago, my husband and a few friends went hunting in the mountains, and there has been no news until today. A woodcutter found one of his friends in the mountains yesterday. His body, the body is intact, but the head is empty."

Xie Wei was a little shocked when he heard this description.There are very few monsters that like to eat human brains. If it is really the monster he thought... So he said to the woman: "Madam, please go home and rest. If there are really monsters, someone will go to subdue them."

The woman's eyes suddenly lit up with a gleam of light: "Really?"

"It's true." Xie Wei didn't dare to promise her too much. If a monster hurts someone, Heavenly Court will definitely send a general to subdue it. However, since three days have passed, her husband may have already been killed.

The woman stood up and murmured: "Yes, I have to go back and make that unfinished gown for my husband..." Then she staggered away.

In the evening, Xie Wei took the token of his report and said to Pei Zhen, "I'm going out for a while, so you don't need to save me a meal."

Pei Yu responded to him in a low voice: "En."

After leaving the gate of the Earth Temple, he went straight to the heaven.When he arrived at the Heavenly Court, Xie Wei came to the palace of Lingguan You Yi, and said to the military officer guarding in front of the door: "The little god is the land of Zhong County in the mortal world. If you need to see the Lingguan, please let me know." The evil Martial God reported the matter to him, and Xie Wei could feel relieved.

The military officer said: "You wait here for a while, I will report."

From time to time the military officer came back and said to Xie Wei: "Please follow me."

Xie Wei followed the military officer into the hall, and saw a muscular divine monarch writing a dossier at his desk.He suddenly thought of Yuan Zhen, and found it a little funny, these high-ranking gods, whether civil or military, have to write dossiers and report their duties every day, and they are not as free and easy as he is in this land.

Seeing him coming in, Shenjun asked, "What do you have to report?"

Xie Wei lowered his eyes and said, "I've seen Officer You Yiling. The reason why the little god met this time is because there is a Zhongshan mountain under the jurisdiction of the little god, and a monster that likes to eat human brains appeared in it, and the mountain god of that mountain has also disappeared. .”

You Yi Lingguan put down the pen in his hand: "Like eating human brains?"

Xie Wei nodded and said: "Yes, the little god has seen a honeysuckle demon in that Zhongshan Mountain, it seems to have something to do with this matter."

Lingguan You Yi pondered for a while, then got up and said, "You wait here for a while."

Not long after, Officer You Yiling came back and said to Xie Wei: "The Emperor of Heaven has already handed over this matter to Yisheng Zhenjun and General Zhenwu. You don't have to worry anymore, go back."

Xie Wei quickly said, "Little God, leave."

Xie Wei walked out of You Yi Lingguan's temple and breathed a sigh of relief.Although You Yi Lingguan is a god of war, unlike those gods of culture who are not easy to speak, he is still not used to dealing with the priests in the sky, so he immediately went back to his earth temple.

Xie Wei returned to the temple and found that the temple was very quiet and filled with a strange smell.He walked to the stove and saw that there were some dishes in the pot, which were already burnt.Dizzy from the pungent burnt smell, Xie Wei raised his hand to cover his mouth and nose with his sleeve, and asked in a muffled voice, "Pei Yu?"

He looked around, but he didn't see Pei Xuan, Xie Wei saw Pei Zhen's bamboo basket fell on the ground, and immediately felt anxious.

Could it be that the monster on Zhongshan came to the door?But his temple is protected by divine light, and monsters cannot enter.Xie Wei transformed into a gray sparrow in the palm of his hand: "Go to Pei Xuan, hurry up!"

The sparrow flapped its wings and flew out. Xie Wei supported the wooden table in the courtyard, and fell into a chair as if he had lost all strength.

At the same time, in the Pei family's mansion.Pei Yu knelt in front of Mrs. Pei's coffin, with his hands tied behind his back, he said coldly, "What's the meaning of Second Uncle? I have voluntarily given up the property of the Pei family. Does Second Uncle want to kill them all?"

Second Master Pei slowly turned the bead string in his hand, and replied: "It's not that Second Uncle doesn't want to let you go, it's just that he has made an appointment with someone and wants to hand you over to him. Second Uncle can't break his promise, right?"

Pei Xuan sneered and stopped talking.

The sparrow flew back quickly and perched on Xie Wei's finger.Xie Wei was expressionless, but anger was burning in his heart.Fortunately, it was late at night, and while Xie Wei rushed to Pei's mansion, he entrusted a dream to the magistrate of Zhong County.

So that night, the county magistrate dreamed that he was standing in the clouds and mist, and there was a faint figure of an old man in front of him.He stepped forward and was shocked when he saw the appearance of the old man. It was exactly the same as the statue in the Earth Temple in Zhongxian County, but the old man looked very majestic and not as kind as the statue.The magistrate didn't know where he had offended the land father-in-law, so he knelt down in a panic, and immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

The old man said in a deep voice: "Do you know why this deity wants to entrust you with dreams."

The county magistrate couldn't help wiping the sweat from his cheeks, and said, "The villain doesn't know, so please ask the land master to show me."

The old man sighed: "I heard that the Pei family in this county has a lot of harm to their relatives. I just feel sorry for the old Mrs. Pei who has done good deeds all her life, but she left a family in trouble after her death. As the county magistrate, do you know that someone has done such a thing?" What is not allowed by the law of heaven is also treated as nothing happened?"

The magistrate said: "No, no, no, the villain must strictly manage it, please rest assured." Then the old man let out a "hum" and walked away.

Inside Pei's house, Pei Yu heard Xie Wei's voice: "Close your eyes."

He closed his eyes without hesitation, and then heard the heavy sound of his body falling to the ground.Then he felt his body being embraced by Xie Wei, and he rose into the air.

Xie Wei whispered in his ear, "Alright, open it."

Pei Xuan opened his eyes, and found that he and Xie Wei were already standing on the courtyard wall of Pei's house, and Xie Wei was smiling at him with his eyes bent.He turned around and hugged Xie Wei tightly, burying his head on his shoulder.Feeling the temperature of Xie Wei's body, the tense body relaxed a little.

Xie Wei patted his head, jumped off the courtyard wall, and said, "Let's go, let's go home."

Pei Yu grabbed him, Xie Wei took his hand, and couldn't help but sigh softly: "You found out that I have great martial arts skills."

Then he babbled and said: "I actually came to Zhong County to avoid my enemies. You see, my martial arts are so good, so there are many enemies in the world... I can also transmit voices into secrets. Many people want to learn from my family." but I don't want to teach them..."

"Thank you brother." Pei Yu interrupted him.

"I still won't go back with Brother Xie." Pei Yu's delicate face showed a gloomy look, "I always hurt Brother Xie. Brother Xie has to take care of me and save my life. I really can't be hurt anymore. Thank you bro..."

This was a heaven-sent opportunity, he never forgot what Yuanzhen told Xie Wei, but he never found a suitable way, and now Pei Zhen wanted to leave on his own initiative.Xie Wei should let it go, but at this moment, he suddenly felt a strong reluctance to give up, so he held Pei Yu's hand tightly, looked directly into Pei Yu's red eyes and said, "What nonsense?"

He led Pei Yu to the direction of the Earth Temple, and said softly, "Go home."