After finishing the meditation, Qin Liuxi looked at the statue in front of her. The depression in her heart dissipated and was replaced by a kind of joy, which radiated from her heart and made her face glow, as if there was light shining on her.
It looks like the one above, so bright that people can't take their eyes away.
The women who had been worshiping all looked at her with shock on their faces. In this short moment, this man had changed a lot.
Qin Liuxi noticed her gaze, turned around and asked, "What are you asking the City God for?"
The woman was stunned for a moment and then said: "I pray for good weather and safe travel in the coming year. The current world is not as good as before."
Qin Liuxi narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Nothing else? The City God here will be very smart."
If it didn't work, she would help him appear.
The woman was stunned again. After thinking for a while, she shook her head: "It's nothing. The peace of the family is better than anything else."
"You will get what you wish for. The City God said that there is happiness in your family, and I think you are going to have a baby." Qin Liuxi said with a smile.
The woman was shocked.
"If it's true, I'll remember to come back to pay you back." Qin Liuxi smiled and said, "The City God likes to eat chicken, and it would be even better if he has some strong wine and candles."
Woman: "..."
Why does it feel like you are speaking for the City God?
She left the Chenghuang Temple with doubts. An hour later, she returned home. As soon as she took the ladle and prepared to ladle some water to drink, her son came back supporting his wife and saw her face full of joy.
"Mom, she has the little flower, and you are going to be a grandma."
Suddenly, the water ladle fell to the ground. The woman looked at her daughter-in-law with a smile on her face and caressed her belly in shock. After a long while, she slapped her leg and said, "Ouch, the City God has appeared!"
Qin Liuxi walked around the Chenghuang Temple at this time and found that there were no temple blessings in the temple. Where were the original Song temple blessings?
"Who are you? Why are you here?"
Qin Liuxi turned around and saw a petty official in government uniform, looking at her with a suspicious face. When he saw her face, he was stunned and said, "Are you the master from Qingpingguan?"
"You recognize me?"
The clerk rubbed his hands and said, "When the City God's Temple re-invited the gods, I was also there. I have seen the master's magical powers, but why are you here?"
Qin Liuxi asked: "Why is the incense in the City God's Temple so dim? Also, where is this temple blessing?"
The clerk sighed and said: "Master, don't you know that there have been a lot more exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes in recent years? The life of the common people is not better than before. They can't even eat enough. Where can they find the energy and money to worship the gods? Didn't you look at the altar table?
There are no offerings. Firstly, there are few people coming to worship the gods. Secondly, after offering the offerings and worshiping, some people will take them back to their families to eat. Even if they don’t take them, there will be beggars waiting outside.
Everyone will come in and take away the offerings."
Qin Liuxi's brows furrowed. No wonder the City God looked like that in the void.
"In just three years, the City God's Temple has already fallen into such a state of decline?"
The clerk smiled bitterly: "Nanxian County was already poor. When I first asked the gods to come back, life became better. It was fine for two years. I finally looked forward to getting ahead. In the past year, it has failed again. I don't know if it's because of God.
It’s not good for our Nan County.”
Qin Liuxi is a little indifferent. If so, it is a sign of decay in the court.
"But in fact, our southern county is pretty good. It's not that we can't survive at all, but it's worse than the previous two years. There are some really poor villages and towns that really can't survive, and there are many people selling their sons and daughters.
"The clerk said: "As for the temple blessing you asked about, I suffered from a serious illness in April this year. The county magistrate was busy with government affairs and did not find a suitable temple blessing. In addition, there are fewer and fewer people coming to worship the city god.
We can only send small government guards like us to come and inspect the temple to prevent beggars and refugees from disturbing the City God's Temple."
After Qin Liuxi heard this, his originally bright mood dropped a bit and became a little gloomy.
It seems that during the three years since she was absent from the human world, Dafeng has also changed, not for the better, but for the worse.
Si Luo, was it you who did something good again?
A sharp light flashed across Qin Liuxi's eyes.
The clerk suddenly felt cold, so he took two steps back and glanced at Qin Liuxi warily, feeling that she was in danger.
"Is the magistrate of Nanxian County still there?"
"Yes."
"Take me to see him." Qin Liuxi touched her waist and paused again. She had just come up from the bottom and she didn't have a few copper coins on her body.
Forget it, I'll meet Nian Youwei first to see what's going on in the past few years.
County government.
Nian Youwei rubbed his sore forehead with a tired face. He had just discussed official matters with the county magistrate and others. Although this year's harvest is not bad, the people have paid taxes and the remaining food may not be enough to eat.
New grain will be harvested next year. This is one thing. In addition, there will be people fleeing and concealing their rights, which is really a big problem.
When he heard that Qin Liuxi had come to the county government office, he was stunned for a moment and asked the government officer who sent the message: "Who did you say is here?"
"It's the young temple master from Qingping Temple...ah, now I have to call him the temple master, right? The one whose Taoist name I don't ask for."
Mom, isn’t that Qin Liuxi?
Nian Youwei was so excited that he almost jumped up and stopped drinking tea. He hurriedly went to meet people and came to the flower hall where guests were received. As expected, he saw Qin Liuxi with his back turned to him and looking at a picture hanging in the center of the main hall. His eyes turned red.
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Naturally, he knew the news of Chi Yuan's passing. He also knew that Qin Liuxi had disappeared as the young master of Qingping Temple after her master was buried.
As soon as she disappeared, there was no news. Many people were looking for her, but no one could find her. Unexpectedly, she appeared again now.
"Guanzhu." Nian Youwei's voice was choked with sobs.
Qin Liuxi turned around, saw him, frowned, and said, "We haven't seen you for three years. Are you worried about Mr. Nian's appearance?"
Youwei was less than thirty when he was a scholar. He became a county magistrate in the same year. He was a high-spirited person, just like his name, he was young and promising.
But now, I have grown a beard, I have Sichuan lines on my forehead, and there is still a little bit of gray hair on the temples under the official hat. I will look ten years older in three years, but that’s not it!
Nian Youwei's excited mood was suddenly depressed by these heart-wrenching words.
However, he has indeed been extremely worried in the past year. He has worked hard for political achievements. How can he not become anxious?
He touched his face and smiled bitterly: "It's all for worry." He then asked her: "Where have you been? I heard that you disappeared after the death of the Immortal Master Chi Yuan."
When he said this, he was still a little cautious, fearing to offend Qin Liuxi's sadness.
Qin Liuxi: "Well, I lived in the underworld for a few years, and I just climbed up from below!"
Nian Youwei: "???"
Why can't he understand this? Is the underworld the one he thinks of? Climb up?
So is she a human or a ghost?
"Don't think blindly, I'm just a human being." Qin Liuxi saw through his doubts at a glance and said, "Tell me, what happened in the past few years, has Nan County returned to the difficult days before?"
