Chapter 63 Ruthless 2
Yu Xuanzi said in surprise: "Your Highness, have you agreed? Wow, you didn't think about it? This matter is extraordinary!"
Feng Chen glanced at him and said, "Then I'll take it back."
Yu Xuanzi waved his hand quickly: "No, no, don't take it back, don't take it back, I was just too surprised. Yesterday I thought hard, and finally thought that as long as you, King Jin, practiced the Huntian calendar with me, I will save half of my life! I just didn't expect that your highness, you agreed so quickly, which made me think about how to speak to you for a long time."
Feng Chen sighed impatiently and said, "You can say it!"
"Hmm?" Yu Xuanzi was stunned.
Feng Chen looked at him with great cultivation. Yu Xuanzi then slapped his head and suddenly remembered. He hurriedly sat down, leaned forward, and said to him: "It's the same reason."
Feng Chen's eyes were extinguished, and after a while, he murmured softly: "Relaxless?"
Yu Xuanzi's eyebrows jumped and said, "Your Highness still remembers it?"
How can I not remember?
Four years ago, there was a severe drought in Chang'an and there was no rain in more than four months. It was rumored that the reforms implemented by the emperor were violated by heaven's wrath.
The emperor was frightened and went to Fengshan to see the Taoist priests in person to open an altar in the palace to pray for rain.
All three thousand palace people, civil and military officials were fasting for one month. The Taoist people performed three days and nights outside the palace gate, but the rain still did not fall.
As a result, all kinds of rumors spread, and the argument that Emperor Feng Hua's improper position rekindled again. The city was full of storms and rain. Under heavy pressure, Feng Hua was in a panic and could not help.
At this time, a wizard who claimed to be able to listen to the heavens submitted a report to the court, claiming that there was a way to call the wind and rain. Fenghua summoned him with the idea of being a living horse.
Unexpectedly, the method of praying for rain proposed by the wizard was: human sacrifice.
The so-called human sacrifice means finding a beautiful woman with noble origin and good looks in the scorching sun to expose herself to the sun, and to lose her body and to death. In this way, she hopes to get the mercy of God and bring sweet rain to her.
The length of time required for this person to worship is completely resigned to fate. If you are lucky, it may rain before you die. If you are unlucky, you may die after a decade.
To put it nicely, this method is a kind of evil technique. To put it nicely, it is a kind of evil technique. It is useless or not. It is another way to pursue visual tragedy.
However, the situation was pressing, and there was no better way at that time. Feng Hua was ill and rushed to seek medical treatment. He opposed the opinions of the people and decided to try it out. He then made the position of kings and princes, and encouraged the palace maids and civil and military officials in the palace to recommend themselves or donate their children.
It is not worth it to exchange life for another clan glory. But this human sacrifice is not as pleasant as beheading. It is exposed for many days to besiege, and it is a long battle, and it is made public. Therefore, although the emperor's reward is attractive, no candidate has been recruited after three days.
The palace maids are timid and do not have the courage, and all civil and military officials pay more attention to fame. Whoever exposes their children to death for their glory and wealth is probably going to live in the world's spits for the rest of their lives.
Fenghua was anxious and annoyed, so the court began to spread rumors again, saying that the emperor wanted to issue an order and directly named XX. For a moment, the official was in danger and the relationship between the monarch and the minister was extremely tense.
A great disaster is prone to great rebellion. At this joint, Feng Chen resolutely stepped forward and walked in front of the people. He spontaneously entered the palace to meet the saint, and took the initiative to propose that he be a sacrifice for human beings.
His reason is very simple: forcing people and children is not a benevolent or righteous person. Nowadays, the country and the country are in the phoenix room, and it is more convincing to introduce one person from the royal family and can calm the public's anger.
Since the requirement of human sacrifice is to be born with noble character and good looks. Then, if you are in terms of outstanding appearance, the most beautiful figure in the Three Qins swept Chang'an; if you are in terms of noble birth, the royal family is unparalleled; if you are in terms of noble character, the King of Jin can be said to be the most virtuous person.
If you want to get God's mercy by abuse, what else can achieve better results than abusers like him?
Unable to resist Feng Chen's repeated recommendations, Feng Hua finally agreed to the day when the wizard opened the altar, and Feng Chen exposed the scorching sun.
On the day when the wizard opened, the whole of Chang'an was empty, and the people who read books no longer read books, and the laborers who did the work were no longer done. Both the east and west cities closed down. People rushed to the palace gate like a tide to watch this special rain prayer ceremony.
Feng Chen, the prince's younger brother, the most noble royal relative of the Great Champions League, was dressed in plain clothes and long and stood tall. In the hot summer of July, the water dripping in the sun was not in full swing, and it lasted for three or four hours.
At the beginning, people were watching with curiosity and sympathy, but as they looked, the tone began to change, and the crowd began to admire His Royal Highness King Jin's extraordinary style.
It turned out that under the cool sun, everyone was so hot that they were sweating profusely and covered their noses with a stinky smell, but Feng Chen had not even shed a drop of sweat. What's even more strange is that his skin became whiter and whiter as he was against the spotless white robe.
When people's eyes touched his body, they could not feel sad or miserable at all. Instead, they felt a hint of coolness under the scorching sun. People at that time said, "When seeing the King of Jin is like seeing Yushan, this man is not like a man in the world."
It was like this until the sunset was about to set in the afternoon. Suddenly, a middle-aged Taoist priest with a moderate figure jumped into the altar, angrily overturned the wizard's incense and banner to the ground, kicked it far away, and scolded the wizard with his hands and mouth and whispered to the public.
The wizard was so angry that he wanted to come up to fight hard. Fortunately, Xie Yao stepped forward and was separated by his eyes and hands quickly, so he avoided a fierce battle.
The wizard refused to accept the insults of the Taoist priests, and the Taoist priest said that he wanted him to know the power of Grandpa Dao. So he bet that as long as Feng Chen copied the "Tao Te Ching" a hundred times, he would naturally bring rain from the sky.
So Feng Chen copied the "Tao Te Ching" as he said. Who knew that after copying it 69 times, the Taoist priest rushed out of the Jin Palace and hurriedly rushed to the palace gate to open an altar.
"Don't you have to copy it a hundred times?" Feng Chen asked.
The Taoist priest waved his hands repeatedly and said, "It's okay, it's almost done. Anyway, I'll burn it later. Who knows how many times I copied it?!"
Feng Chen said: "Since it doesn't matter, why did the Taoist priest set this condition at the beginning?"
"Oh, that's a lie to delay time. Who can make a good fortune by copying scriptures and copying the weather in ancient times?" said the Taoist priest: "But I watched the astrological signs last night, and it was going to rain soon today. Let's go and do a way to show off!"
It turned out that the Taoist priest was Master Si Tian from the perspective of the world, specializing in the astronomical star map. His wind and rain were not from prayers, but from calculations.
However, despite this, he pretended to burn incense and danced swords in front of the underground palace gate, and sacrificed the sixty-nine times of the "Tao Te Ching" copied by Feng Chen into the incense blast furnace.
It was strange that as soon as the flames in the furnace rose, the blue sky immediately covered the dark clouds, and then the wind blew. In just a moment, lightning and thunder came heavy rain.
That Taoist priest was no one else, but the last disciple of the abbot of the Leaving Landscape View, Yu Xuanzi.
He has always traveled around the world, but this time he heard that the wizard's wits illegally rushed back to Chang'an to stop him.
After a long drought, the people of Chang'an came out of their homes one after another. They did not bring any rain gear, raised their hands with their faces, and let the raindrops fall on their bodies.
Chang'an regained its vitality, and the imperial power of the Fengshi once again stabilized in the crisis.
In the rain curtain, Yu Xuanzi led several little Taoist priests to withdraw from the altar. One of the little Taoist priests looked at Feng Chen and muttered to Yu Xuanzi in a low voice: "The rain prayer has been successful, why don't you see His Highness King Jin half-lost?"
While putting the incense burner magic weapon into his arms, Yu Xuanzi said carelessly: "Oh, of course he is unhappy if he loses his wife!"
The little Taoist priest quickly made a silence for Yu Xuanzi and reminded him: "Things are not true, His Highness King Jin is right there."
Yu Xuanzi took the sword from the altar in one hand and put it in the cloth dunk and said, "Oh, I pretend I didn't say it!" As he said that, he picked up the guy who was leaving the country to eat and wanted to leave.
"Master, please stay!" In the storm, Feng Chen ran behind him and called Yu Xuanzi. His voice was mixed with the sound of wind and rain, and he seemed excited and rapid.
Yu Xuanzi stayed, and the little Taoist priest beside him quickly whispered and nervously: "It's over, Taoist priest, you're in trouble."
Yu Xuanzi said "tsk" and pushed away the little Taoist priest who was talking nonsense, wiped the rain from his face and asked Feng Chen, "What's wrong with Your Highness?"
The heavy rain in the sky was like a chain of beads that were cut, wet Feng Chen from top to bottom, and his white robe was soaked in gray by the rain, pressing against him tightly, and even the wind could not blow. Feng Chen ran forward regardless of the rain falling, saying, "What did the Taoist priest just said?!"
Yu Xuanzi threw the bag behind him and said, "What? You want to hit me. Did I say you are gone and your wife is wrong?"
Feng Chen said: "My wife and concubines are here, where does the Taoist priest say this?"
Yu Xuanzi said: "Where do you say it? You can see it from your face. Look at your face, there are four big words written on it, "It's like losing your parents"!"
Several young Taoists were shocked when they heard Yu Xuanzi's words, and they couldn't help but take three steps back from Yu Xuanzi.
But Feng Chen was not angry after hearing this. Instead, he rushed forward and grabbed Yu Xuanzi with both hands, and asked loudly: "Is she dead?"
Yu Xuanzi was grabbed by him and couldn't run away. She stroked the rainwater all over her face and said, "Who? How do I know! Oh, Your Highness, do you like to speak on this rainy day? I don't have this hobby. I felt that the wind and cold are in danger, so I left!" As she said that, she broke free from Feng Chen.
"You are not allowed to leave!" Feng Chen stepped forward and grabbed Yu Xuanzi again: "Tell me clearly! Where is the lady I lost in your mouth?!" After saying that, he felt overexcited, so he calmed down and said hurriedly: "Please tell me..." Another heavy rain poured down, and the rain almost made him unable to open his eyes.
Yu Xuanzi was both surprised and annoyed: "Oh, you are a prince. It's raining so hard. How can you be so tugging on the street like this?!"
Feng Chen thought for a moment, and immediately said resolutely: "Okay, I will follow you back to the view of leaving the country!!"
Chapter completed!