Chapter 496: Heavy Rain
"God has eyes!!!"
"It's raining, it's finally raining."
"There is no way out~"
"We're saved now."
"The heaven is above, the gods are above~"
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Yunguan and Ze Fenglin rode on horseback while holding umbrellas. The drizzle made the people on the road smile happily.
Some people open their mouths and lean up to the sky just to taste the smell of rain, greedily sucking the nectar like the earth that has been thirsty for a season.
Some people were moved to tears, mixed with rain and watered their dry skin, which seemed to wash away the dark and white jade fat.
Some people knelt down on the ground and kowtowed, fearing that the gods or the Dragon King would think they were not sincere and drove away the rainy clouds.
No one wants to see the cracks and scorching sun again, and the flowers, plants and trees are trapped in the fate of withering and withering and unable to extricate themselves.
As soon as we left Qingzhou City, it started to shower. Yunguan and his group were rushing to the road as if they were facing the rainy clouds. Although it was a drizzle, it still affected the speed of the convoy.
"What's wrong?" Concubine Zhuang heard the wailing of the people, not knowing what happened.
"Report to my wife, the northwest has been drought for a long time, especially after the summer has entered, and it has not even rained." Ze Fenglin reported truthfully.
"Good, good, I'm so sweet, I've been drought for a long time. I just hope that all the people in the world can be safe and smooth and far away from disasters." Concubine Zhuang held the Buddhist beads while leaving tears of sympathy. Although she couldn't see the hunger and thirst of the people, her desire for rain was extremely clear for them.
"Madam, Mr. Zhao once told me before leaving that I would not let you cry anymore." Before leaving, Ze Fenglin went to Renyitang to catch some tonics for his grandmother, and asked about Concubine Zhuang's eye disease.
"Anyway, I... can't see clearly anything, it's okay~" Concubine Zhuang almost blurted out the word "I". She didn't want to expose her identity on the way and cause trouble.
"Just rest more and more conditioning, madam, don't worry." Ze Fenglin comforted.
"Well, I hope so, hurry up, hey~" Concubine Zhuang sighed meaningfully.
Ze Fenglin got a carriage this morning, but Yunguan refused to take it, so he sent it back. In fact, he was very willing to ride side by side with his master, and cooperated with the continuous drizzle as if he was traveling around the mountains and scenery.
"Master, what's wrong with you? Are you unhappy?" Ze Fenglin didn't hear Yunwan speak for a long time.
"Well, I'm a little tired." Yunguan felt dizzy when she woke up in the morning. The inn where she was resting last night was very good, but she recognized her child and turned around and didn't close her eyes all night.
"I asked you to take the bus and you wouldn't listen. Why don't you take it with your wife for a while and take a rest." Ze Fenglin leaned out and wanted to touch Yunguan's forehead. He was afraid that the person in front of him would suffer from a cold wind and not knowing himself.
"What are you doing?" Yunguan avoided Ze Fenglin's hand in horror.
"Ah? I'm afraid you will suffer from cold." Ze Fenglin explained embarrassedly.
"It's hot weather, how could I get cold?" Yunwan glanced at Ze Fenglin.
"Master, why do you have red spots on your neck?" Ze Fenglin looked at it for a long time before asking.
"What red dot?" Yunguan stroked her neck and felt nothing.
"It's like a trace of mosquito bites, isn't itchy?" Ze Fenglin turned over and got off the horse, pulled Yunguan's reins and looked closer.
"Don't do this. It's so bad that being seen by the lady is. There are so many people behind you." Yunguan's cheeks immediately turned red.
"Please observe carefully. How come so many red dots appear without pain or itching?" Ze Fenglin looked at Yunguan's fair neck with more than ten small red dots appearing on his white neck and felt a little worried.
"Well, it's okay, Linzi has to worry." Yunguan quickly stood up and walked forward with the horse. Although she knew that Concubine Zhuang could not see it, the dozens of people serving him around were very clear-headed. It was impossible for all the servants who knew them, who were the master and disciple to tell Concubine Zhuang that they would cause unnecessary misunderstandings.
"Official, please pity me~" An old man lay beside the grass and said dying.
"Old man, what's wrong?" Ze Fenglin walked forward kindly and worriedly.
"Give me some food. Although it rains heavily, I'm already hungry for several times." The old man trembled and pulled Ze Fenglin and refused to let go.
"Old man, wait a moment." Ze Fenglin easily broke free from the old man's hands. For those who were so hungry that they had no strength to beg for the sake of begging, seeing a person in gorgeous clothes seemed to have seen a god.
"Official, don't leave, please." The old man stood up and wanted to chase Ze Fenglin, but because he was unable to stand firm, he fell to his knees by the roadside.
After Ze Fenglin took the food, he hurriedly ran up and helped the old man up, stuffed him a roast chicken and a pot of wine, "Hey~"
"Thank you, thank you~" the old man grabbed the roast chicken and started to chew, and said vaguely as he ate and drank.
"Young Master, what's wrong?" When Concubine Zhuang heard Ze Fenglin's voice outside the car window, she stopped the palace servants.
"This old man fainted from hunger on the side of the road. Fortunately, we passed by, so we could eat something, so there was no need to worry about my wife." Ze Fenglin suddenly felt sad, and I don't know how many people suffered from drought.
"Then give him more food, it's not easy." Even when Concubine Zhuang didn't believe in Buddhism when she was young, she was kind-hearted.
"Mrs. Thank you for your kindness, please take in the younger one." The old man immediately knelt down and kowtowed.
"Don't do this, old man. We are in a hurry to go to a very far place." Ze Fenglin hurriedly helped the old man up.
"That's right, we are going to the Western Regions and we can't take you in." Concubine Zhuang politely refused.
"Madam, okay, my wife, okay, I'm the only brother, I'm free of worries, and I can go anywhere for food." The old man said, crying, "The young man originally had a young grandson who depended on each other, but we came to Qingzhou to escape the famine but got separated. I searched for him for several months and didn't even have a shadow. I'm afraid it's not..."
"This..." Concubine Zhuang hesitated.
"Since you have grandsons alive, you have to live well. Life will only get better and better in the future. You grandparents and grandchildren will meet sooner or later." Ze Fenglin could not do anything except persuading him. He didn't know where the old man came from, so he took him on the road rashly, for fear of being unsafe.
"Didn't the old man go to the city to post a notice and ask? The child is so young, he must not be far away." Concubine Zhuang understood the pain of missing her grandson, just like her nens who always miss her.
"I ask in the city every day, and there is no news, so I can only come outside the city to wait. Unexpectedly, the drought and famine are getting worse and worse, and I am penniless and can't even make a living..." The old man said more and more.
"Then you want to follow us? Wouldn't you give up looking for your grandson completely?" Ze Fenglin asked back.
"I have to live first to have the chance to see that child, otherwise I..." The old man cried with a sad face, with infinite despair in his eyes.
Chapter completed!