Chapter 340: Flood in Ningshui Township
When he was on his way back, he heard that there was a flood in his home. He didn't believe it, but he didn't expect it to be true.
When his wife saw him, she complained and asked him, "Why did you come back just now? Our home has been washed away. How are we going to live in the future?"
As he spoke, tears welled up in his eyes like a flood and his shoulders shook violently.
That was all their family's belongings, the wealth they had accumulated over the years and the house they had built with great effort, but now all was wiped out in this flood.
Pei Zhanpeng also collapsed and shouted: "The Ningshui Village next door didn't flood, why did our village get flooded?!"
His wife's face was covered with tears and her eyes were full of doubt. She loudly refuted: "Impossible, Ningshui Village is closer to the river, how can it be okay? Are you confused!"
The villagers around also whispered: Could it be that he was stimulated and talking nonsense? ”
Pei Zhanpeng argued loudly: "I just came back from there, I saw it with my own eyes! If you have relatives in Ningshui Village, you can watch it online for yourself..."
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At the same time, people from the neighboring Ningshui Village were also in disbelief when they heard that Punan Village had encountered a flood.
Pei Zhanpeng's uncle said it was impossible. They were so close to the Ningshui River and there was no flood. How could there be a flood in Pu'nan Village?
Besides, his nephew just left today...
However, he still felt uneasy, so Uncle Pei Zhanpeng went to the Ningshui River to take a look. As expected, he found that the water in the river was abnormal, extremely turbid and very fast.
The river water seemed to be stirred by a crazy force, and the turbid waves collided with each other, making a dull roar.
All kinds of debris were floating on the surface of the river, including broken wood, dead branches, and even carcasses of livestock that had been washed in from nowhere. They rose and fell with the flow of the water, creating a tragic scene.
Uncle Pei Zhanpeng's expression instantly turned serious, with worried wrinkles all over his forehead.
At this moment, someone suddenly shouted and asked them to look at the other side.
Uncle Pei Zhanpeng looked up and found that the river water seemed uneven, and the other side was actually higher? !
"Oh my God!"
Everyone was shocked by the strange scene before them.
I saw that the river water on the other side seemed to be held up high by an invisible giant hand, forming a terrifying wall of water, rushing towards this side.
The water wall was more than two people tall and carried enormous energy. Wherever it went, the mud on the shore was swept into the water and the trees were uprooted.
Uncle Pei Zhanpeng's heart suddenly shrank, and fear instantly tightened his throat.
Then I saw another wave of flood rushing in from the other side at an extremely fast speed, and it was right in front of me in the blink of an eye.
When Pei Zhanpeng's uncle heard the scream and looked up, his legs seemed to be nailed down. It was too late to run. He thought in despair in his heart: My life is over!
However, just when the torrent was about to reach him, it seemed to hit an invisible wall, and with a loud "bang", it was knocked back into the river.
The originally turbulent river water splashed in all directions after the collision, forming a large amount of water mist that spread over the surface of the river.
The river on the other side was still turbulent and the water was still rushing wildly, but on this side it was miraculously calm.
Pei Zhanpeng's uncle and everyone else stood there, staring at it all in amazement, unable to come back to their senses for a long time.
After a long while, Uncle Pei Zhanpeng said in a trembling voice: "This...what's going on? Is there really a god protecting us?"
"Of course there are. Have you forgotten? Didn't the mountain god say that he had sent four great beasts to guard the four directions? On our side, it seems to be in the east..."
"Many families in our village have put up door gods and invited the God of Land. When your nephew came, did you ask him to invite them?"
When his nephew asked him whether he had invited him, Pei Zhanpeng's uncle suddenly remembered that he had mentioned it to his nephew before, and his nephew just pretended to tell him that he knew about it.
Needless to say, his nephew was definitely not invited!
"My nephew and his friends are further east than us..."
"You are confused. Your nephew is further east than us, but many people in our village believe in the mountain god. Many families have already invited the land temple and are still discussing whether to build a mountain god temple. When we made an appointment with Punan Village, they did not agree."
"My dear ones didn't believe it either. When I invited them to go to the mountain temple next door to burn incense, they said we were wasting our money."
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Not all villages have built mountain temples. Some villages have no money, and some village chiefs have no say in the matter.
Even if some people have no money, they will try to find a nearby mountain temple to burn incense, and then bring back the door god or invite the land god.
And some people are not even willing to do this.
Of course not everyone in Ningshui Village believes in it, but coincidentally there are people in their village who do, and some even go to the nearby mountain temple to burn incense.
Not to mention that every household has a land temple, but the village chief decided to build a larger land temple at the entrance of the village - it was built with earth bricks, and there was not even a statue of the god, only a place to burn incense.
On weekdays, believers will come here to burn a few sticks of incense devoutly, praying to the God of Land to bless them with good weather and safety for their families.
Now that’s good, even those who didn’t believe it before will believe it after this experience.
An old man with gray hair walked tremblingly to the land temple, took out a handful of incense from his arms, lit it, and respectfully inserted it into the incense burner, muttering: "Lord Land, thanks to your blessing, our village escaped this disaster. I was skeptical before, but I will definitely come here often to burn incense in the future."
After saying that, he bowed deeply.
Seeing this, the surrounding villagers followed suit. For a while, incense smoke was curling up in front of the land temple, and the villagers' prayers could be heard one after another.
After the land god who received the incense found out what was going on, he hurried to Qinglong to express his gratitude in person. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have suddenly had so many new worshippers.
Qinglong: “…”
I'm a big loser, right?
They thank the Lord of Land for the work I do!
The land master was born a little longer ago. As soon as he saw Qinglong's expression, he knew that she was unhappy, so he quickly said, "This is the credit of Lord Qinglong. I wanted to tell the villagers the truth in their dreams, but suddenly I thought that the villagers didn't know, maybe Lord Qinglong didn't want to show his power in front of people..."
Then they began to persuade him that even if Lord Qinglong was afraid of trouble, he should let the villagers know who had the credit to avoid misattribution and to set a good example for other gods in the future.
After all, the Mother Goddess has boundless magical powers, and in the future there will definitely be more than just these few gods, there will definitely be other subordinate gods.
After hearing this, Qinglong felt much better. The land master's words made it seem as if it was not her "omission" but that she did not care about false fame.
She also took the ladder from the land lord: "You are right, it is indeed my negligence, so I will trouble you with this matter!"
"No trouble! No trouble! Since we are colleagues, we should naturally help each other."
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That night, the head of Ningshui Village received a dream from the Lord of Land, and learned that the reason their village escaped the flood was due to the credit of Lord Qinglong. The God of Land also reminded him to remember to "thank" Lord Qinglong for his protection!
The next morning, the village chief woke up from his dream with a start. Recalling the scene in his dream, his heart was filled with shock and gratitude.
Without even having time to wash up, he hurried out and knocked on the doors of several elderly and prestigious people in the village, telling them everything about what the land master had told him in his dream last night.
After hearing this, everyone was surprised and happy, and they all expressed their gratitude for the blessing of the gods.
The news quickly spread in the village, and the villagers gathered in front of the land temple again.
This time, in addition to awe, their eyes were filled with gratitude towards Lord Qinglong.
The village chief stood in front of everyone and said loudly: "Fellow villagers, we were able to escape this disaster thanks to the protection of Lord Qinglong. We must not be ungrateful and must thank Lord Qinglong."
The villagers nodded and responded in unison.
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