Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 37 Senior sister is angry

The backyard of the mountain temple.

The senior sister applied medicine to Ren Yuan with a distressed look on her face. The civet cat on the side widened his eyes and asked, "So you want to bring that old fox back to guard the house?"

"Yeah." Ren Yuan nodded and said, "But I still have to ask my senior sister. After all, I'm just a part-time worker."

"I have no objection. We are out all day long, so someone has to stay at the temple to look after it." Naturally, the senior sister would not object to him.

"I didn't realize you were such a kind person." The civet cat poked its head out, examined Ren Yuan and said, "You're not coveting someone's granddaughter, are you?"

"Don't talk nonsense, women will only affect the speed of my practice." Ren Yuan shook his head decisively.

"But she is a vixen," the civet cat corrected.

"That will have an even greater impact!" Ren Yuan said sternly.

"Then settling their family in Xiejiazhuang, isn't it for the purpose of hiding a beautiful woman?" The civet cat asked suspiciously.

"Don't think I'm such a dirty person. I just feel sorry for them being homeless, and they can help me keep an eye on the farm." Ren Yuan said speechlessly: "Wenli, not everyone is like you, with sexy little female cats in your mind..."

"I'm talking to you, don't pull it onto me!" The civet cat stretched out its claws like lightning and covered his mouth.

"A Yuan, you are not trying to train a successor so that you can run away?" The senior sister, who was particularly quiet today, suddenly asked.

"You know what, this is a great idea." Ren Yuan slapped his thigh.

"You're not going anywhere!" The civet cat jumped onto his head and bit him.

"Are you born in the year of the dog?" Ren Yuan grimaced in pain and stretched out a hand to fight with the civet cat.

"Stop messing around," Senior Sister said seriously after applying medicine to Ren Yuan, "Let's talk about something serious."

"You say." Ren Yuan and the civet cat said in unison.

"The more I think about it, the angrier I get. Hebo Temple has bullied A Yuan twice!" Senior Sister said with puffy cheeks, "We can't let them off this time no matter what!"

"Yes, tooth for tooth! No, tenfold return!" The civet cat immediately raised both paws in agreement.

The red leopard, which had been gnawing on the corn bones with its head down, also bared its teeth murderously, revealing its sharp fangs!
"We really have to use some ruthless tactics on them, otherwise there will definitely be a next time!" Ren Yuan, the 'victim', was of course filled with rage.

Seeing the atmosphere getting to this point, the civet cat suggested, "How about we go destroy the Hebo Temple and throw that old woman into the river to feed the turtles?"

The red leopard's eyes lit up and it stuck out its tongue excitedly. It could still vividly remember Ren Yuan's heroic appearance when he smashed the community temple last time.

"That's not the case." Senior Sister waved her hand and said, "He Bo Tian Liang Zi is an old senior after all, so don't let him embarrass himself in public."

"So what does Senior Sister plan to do?" Ren Yuan asked.

"It's the beginning of autumn soon. There's a saying that goes 'if there's no rain in the beginning of autumn, it's a wasted autumn, and only half of the rice can be harvested', so according to tradition, the Hebo Temple will organize a worship ceremony to pray for rain." The sister said, "That's it. During the fifteen days of the beginning of autumn, it will rain every five days."

"Is it so magical?" Ren Yuan asked in surprise, "Could it be that He Bo can call the wind and rain?"

“That is a great supernatural power that reaches all corners of the world…” said the senior sister helplessly.

"I see." Ren Yuan nodded, knowing that He Bo was still a long way off. "So what's the trick here?"

"Snakes have their own ways, mice have their own ways, and Tianliangzi has his own ways." The senior sister kept it a secret and said, "You will know when the time comes."

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There is a saying among the people in the south of the Yangtze River that "three rains after the beginning of autumn will turn barren rice into rice." From the perspective of farming, timely and sufficient rainfall after the beginning of autumn will be of great benefit to a good harvest.

Moreover, Fangxian Township is mainly hilly and mountainous, with a large number of terraced fields that are difficult to irrigate, so the people are particularly looking forward to these 'three rains in the beginning of autumn'.

But God does not always rain at the right time; it is common for not a drop of rain to fall.

Therefore, people who visit the fairyland will hold a rain sacrifice at the Hebo Temple on the day of the Beginning of Autumn, praying for the Hebo to show up and bring them rain.

On this day, every village, regardless of where they live, will offer sacrifices, so people from all over the village can participate in the sacrifice.

Ren Yuan and his senior sister also came to watch the fun. They arrived a little late and were blocked by the crowds of people outside, unable to see the scene on the altar. Of course, this was not a problem for them, so they used the Five Ghosts Moving Talisman to move each other under the altar...

This is the 'mutual moving technique' that Ren Yuan and his senior sister figured out when they were bored. It's a lower-level substitute for teleportation.

They had practiced this many times before, and it was quite successful. But they didn't expect that the crowds under the altar were so crowded that there was no room for two people.

As a result, when the two of them appeared, they were squeezed tightly together by the crowd, face to face, body to body, almost squeezed into one...

With great difficulty, the two idiots turned their heads towards the altar.

"Wow, so many people?" To ease the embarrassment, Ren Yuan said with emotion: "This is much more lively than the one held by Wangxiang."

"The Yu Festival is a grand ceremony attended by the whole village, so it's definitely incomparable." Senior Sister said with envy, "I wish they could hold one for us someday."

"He Bo also wants to eat children?" Ren Yuan didn't respond at all and changed the subject.

"No, not all demons...er, gods, need blood for food." Senior Sister paused and said, "But He Bo has a disease of being widowed, so he has to marry women every year, and he has to marry several women at a time."

"That's no different from a monster." Ren Yuan thought to himself. He Bo's hobby has never changed for thousands of years.

As they were talking, the Yu Festival began.

The teacher led a group of boys and girls, holding colorful feather fans in their hands and wearing cloaks made of bird feathers, dancing to the music and using feathers as dance props to simulate the effect of rain.

In addition, they have another mission, which is to lead the people in calling out to the gods.

The so-called "Hu Yu" means that everyone follows the teacher and makes sounds like "Yu, Xu" to the sky.

“Yu! Yu! Yu!!”

Tens of thousands of people calling out at the same time was a very shocking scene. No wonder my senior sister was so envious...

After that, the teacher asked the gods to possess her body and announced on behalf of He Bo that it agreed to rain three times during the Beginning of Autumn!

Then the people cheered, carried the statue of He Bo, and began to parade through the streets with music and drums. These were similar to the previous locust-driving sacrifices, so there is no need to elaborate.

However, Ren Yuan now has superb eyesight and can still see something unusual.

"Hey, Senior Sister, why don't the dragons on those flags have limbs? They look like snakes?" He looked at the eighteen dragon flags leading the way and asked curiously, "Are they afraid of usurping the right path?"

"Of course not, you will know tonight." Senior Sister said with a smile.

"Senior Sister, can you get addicted to keeping people in suspense?" Ren Yuan said helplessly.

"No, I'm just addicted to keeping you in suspense." The senior sister reached out and flicked his head.

~~
That night, A Yao took Ren Yuan to the Nine-Turn Bridge to wait.

Watching the moonlight reflected on the river surface, turned into jade chips by the flowing water, A Yao felt it was beautiful. She wanted to share her feelings with Ren Yuan, but she saw him sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, practicing the Taiyin Jue...

"Ah..." A Yao sighed helplessly. This naughty little brother really never wastes a moment of time.

After an unknown amount of time, Ren Yuan heard his senior sister whisper, "Here it comes."

So he stopped practicing and opened his eyes, and saw a huge whirlpool appearing on the quietly flowing river!

A huge snake head as big as a house slowly emerged from the whirlpool.

It has a mouth as wide as a boat, but its eyes are only the size of lanterns. It is more than ten feet long, golden in color, with dense black spots, but no scales on its body.

Rather than a giant snake, it looks more like a giant eel.

What does it mean to be like? It is exactly like that.

(End of this chapter)