Black Myth: Tang Dynasty

Chapter 48
After leaving Tsing Yi Temple, Li Daoxuan saw the farmer before him again not far away.

He didn't leave, but placed some pears and kowtowed to the Tsing Yi Temple.

Li Daoxuan asked curiously: "This uncle, why did you put the tribute here?"

This is also what he was curious about. The people in Yuzhang City respected the Tsing Yi Empress very much, but there was no tribute on the mahogany table.

The uncle glanced at Li Daoxuan and said: "This is the rule of Qingyi Temple. During the Wude period, there were endless wars and everyone couldn't eat enough. Some people sneaked into the temple and stole the tribute from the empress."

"At that time, the adults in the imperial court were furious and wanted to punish those people. Fortunately, Empress Tsing Yi showed her spirit and not only forgave them, but also distributed all the tributes, and ordered them to burn incense in the future. There is no need to offer tributes, as long as they 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 only a pear grower, I know how to repay my kindness, so I can only offer a tribute here."

Li Daoxuan's eyes lit up, and he asked, "Uncle, where do you grow pears?"

"The orchard in the south of the city, the Taoist priest is from out of town, otherwise everyone in the city would know that the pears I planted by 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 this year is not necessarily the case. There has been no rain in the past few months, and the land has dried up. If this continues, this year's pears will die!"

"However, I worshiped the Tsing Yi Temple today and begged my mother, I believe it will rain soon!"

Xu Youfu kowtowed to Tsing Yi Temple several times, got 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, "Does the priest want to buy pears? But it's not ripe yet?"

"Not buying pears, just trying to catch some bugs."

……

Chengnan Orchard.

There are many fruits planted here, including cherries, grapes, pears, etc., but due to the severe lack of water, the land is dry and cracked, and the fruits that were growing gratifyingly have now shrunk and hang there listlessly.

The same goes for Xu Youfu's Liyuan.

Li Daoxuan finally understood why the owner of the restaurant sold the pomegranate wine so expensive. It turned out that it was because of the drought that both water and pomegranates were in short supply.

Xu Youfu was a very warm-hearted person, when he heard that Li Daoxuan wanted worms, he dug for him himself. After working for half an hour, he caught dozens of white, tender and fat worms, put them in a jar and handed them to Li Daoxuan.

He wiped off his sweat and said with a smile: "It's a pity that the pears are not yet ripe, otherwise I would pick some and give the priest to quench his thirst."

Li Daoxuan took the jar, took out a tael of silver and handed it over.

Unexpectedly, Xu Youfu shook his head again and again, and said: "Master Daoist, they are just some worthless bugs, they will bite the pears if they stay here, how can you spend money?"

He was determined not to accept it.

Li Daoxuan was moved by his simplicity and kindness. After thinking for a while, he looked at the dry orchard and said with a smile: "The poor way will not take your bugs for nothing. How about this? If you don't want money, the poor way will give it to you." It's going to rain."

send rain?

Xu Youfu raised his head, very surprised, can this rain be given away?

The next moment, he saw the young Taoist pat lightly on the gourd at his waist, and immediately the gourd swelled in the wind, floating in the air, as high as two feet!
After Li Daoxuan broke through the early stage of bigu, his mana increased greatly, and he had already made the gourd of the three realms grow to a height of nearly ten meters.

He smiled brightly: "Water!"

boom!
One after another water jets sprayed out from the mouth of the gourd, like water dragons soaring into the sky, and finally fell high in the sky, like rain from the sky, like torrential rain.

This is the pond water that Li Daoxuan collected in Longshou Mountain, and now it is all poured out, turning into rain to nourish the orchard.

Xu Youfu was dumbfounded, and only woke up when his body was wet by the rain, ecstatic in his heart.

"It's raining, it's raining!"

He ran barefoot in the ground, cheering and jumping for joy. After an unknown period of time, he calmed down a little.

"Thank you—"

However, when he turned his head, the young Taoist priest just now disappeared, and the gourd that could spray water disappeared without a trace.

The rain has also stopped, coming and going quickly.

……

Li Daoxuan quietly left the orchard and came to a river.

The river connects to the Ganjiang River, one of the main tributaries of the Yangtze River, so it hasn't completely dried up yet.

But it is too far away from the orchard, and it is very inconvenient to fetch water for irrigation.

Li Daoxuan was wondering if he could use the gourd of the three realms to absorb the water here, and then make it rain?

The water just now is just a drop in the bucket. Before long, the orchard will still be unable to escape the fate of drought.

Just as he was hesitating, a voice sounded.

"Master Xiaodao, I am very thirsty, can you fetch me a bowl of Ganjiang water?"

Li Daoxuan turned his head, and saw a white-haired old woman, wearing common clothes, with chapped lips, leaning against a willow tree, and was reaching out to pass 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 downstream water. It's too dirty. I'm not in good health. Can you scoop up a bowl of upstream water for me?"

Li Daoxuan did not speak, looked at the sediment in the water, and then at the old woman, ran upstream without saying a word to scoop up 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 wind and cold, so I can't drink cold water, Master Xiaodao, can you boil this bowl of water for me?"

Li Daoxuan glanced at her, thinking that this mother-in-law has so many things to do.

He wanted to turn his head and leave, but when he saw her chapped lips, trembling palms, and kind eyes, he somehow remembered his long-dead grandma.

Li Daoxuan sighed softly, forget it, just take care of the elderly.

He built a simple hearth with stones, and then found some branches as firewood, and shot the gourd of the three realms.

boom!
A flame flew out, landed on those branches, and burned quickly.

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 still have something to do, so I will go first."

He made up his mind that if the old lady had any more requests, he would absolutely ignore them.

But what he didn't expect was that the old woman suddenly smiled and said: "Your trick of turning fire is very interesting, I also have a trick, do you want to see it?"

trick?

An ordinary person is not only not afraid when he sees himself driving the flames, but just says a trick?
Li Daoxuan immediately realized that this old woman was by no means an ordinary person!

He operated his Dharma Eye and stared at the old woman closely, but found that she was ordinary and nothing unusual.

"Don't be nervous, thanks to your fire, look, the water is boiling."

Li Daoxuan looked at the bowl of water, only to see that the surface of the water began to bubbling, and wisps of white mist rose up.

Gudu Gudu!

The sound of boiling water became louder and louder, Li Daoxuan suddenly realized something was wrong, why was it so loud?

He turned his head and finally found the reason.

I saw that the originally calm river was bubbling and white water vapor was constantly rising.

The river water was boiled?
(End of this chapter)