"What is it?"
"People are praying for rain in the streets. The scene is quite chaotic. It's best not to go out. Extremists will inevitably start riots."
Xiao Yunze waved his hand, "No problem."
"Master." Qinglong was still trying to dissuade him, "There's Zhuque everywhere outside. Your safety is the most important thing."
"No problem."
Xiao Yunze walked behind the yamen gate and through the gap found that the situation was even worse than Qinglong described.
There were crowds of people kneeling on the ground outside the yamen.
Adults and children, men and women, old and young, all prostrated themselves on the ground, their lips chapped and they cried inconsolably, with a basin at their side.
Meanwhile, Suzaku was earnestly trying to persuade them to disperse. "Fellow villagers, this severe drought is truly a natural disaster. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has reported this to the court, and has sent people to dig wells. Everyone, please disperse. Everything will be fine! Staying out here in this scorching heat is really bad for your health!"
"Goddess! We want the goddess to save us!" Someone in the crowd started talking.
"That's right, the goddess will definitely be able to save us!"
"Please, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Goddess, save me!"
After an hour of earnest persuasion, Zhuque was furious. "No, this is a natural disaster. Can the goddess make it rain? Folks! Go home quickly. If you keep kneeling in the sun, your health will suffer again! Let's slowly find a way to fight the drought together!"
"If it doesn't rain, and there's no water to drink, we'll all be dead!"
"Not a drop of rain has fallen, and the riverbed has dried up! My wife even fed her child with her own blood!"
"That's right, what's the point of having so much food now? Without water, we'll die anyway!"
"Isn't she a goddess? The people of Feng County have been short of water for several days. If they don't have water, the city will be destroyed! Is this Daqing, this world, this goddess, this way to treat her people!"
As soon as these words were spoken, some people were unhappy. "Those people in front, what are you talking about? Who allowed you to say that about the goddess?"
"That's right, without the goddess we would have died long ago, and you still have the chance to yell at us!"
An old man also said earnestly: "We should be grateful as human beings. It is not the goddess's obligation to save us. Moreover, this is a natural disaster. How can you expect the goddess to help us? Are you going to force your benefactor to do something that she cannot do? Absolutely not!"
"That's right! The goddess is my benefactor! You are not allowed to call her a benefactor in that way!"
"You are so treasonous for making up stories about your benefactor! You have lost your conscience!"
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