After dinner, Chu Qianli and Tan Muxing returned to Grandpa’s room. She lay under the table and rummaged around. She pulled out a hand warmer from somewhere, and also found talismans, banners and other things, spreading them in a mess on the floor.

Chu Qianli jumped up suddenly, patted her clothes, and thought: "It seems like there is something missing?"

Tan Muxing stared at the countless Taoist items in a daze: "What are you going to do?"

"It's a ritual to pray for rain." Chu Qianli was scratching his head and walking around the room when he suddenly realized, "Oh, I don't have a costume for the performance yet!"

Tan Muxing was surprised: "Can you still pray for rain?"

“Not yet.”

"Then you are..."

"Don't be anxious, don't panic, just let me cram for now and make a final effort before the exam." Chu Qianli's eyes wandered over the bookshelf, and hesitantly said, "I clearly remember there was a copy of 'Shenxiao Tiantan Jade Book', where has it been put... Forget it, I'll just check it online."

After Chu Qianli finished speaking, he reached for his phone and started searching for rain-praying formulas on the Internet, and then learned the rain-praying process on the spot.

Tan Muxing came over, looked at the classical Chinese text on the screen, and asked in confusion, "What is this?"

"Five Thunder Method, a spell used to pray for rain."

"Can this kind of thing be found everywhere and checked on the Internet?" Tan Muxing asked in surprise, "Doesn't that mean that everyone can come into contact with spells? Isn't it dangerous?"

"Aren't there a lot of knowledge in the textbooks? And I don't see anyone who has studied at Tsinghua or Peking University."

“…”

Tan Muxing was now skeptical. He was not sure whether she could really pray for rain. He always felt that his previous cognition was broken. However, Chu Qianli's next move broke his hesitation and made his three views stand firmly.

"Yuqing Shiqing, Zhenfu announces the alliance, pushes the second..." Chu Qianli asked in a low voice, "How do you read this word? I forgot how to pronounce it."

Tan Muxing was facing a classmate who couldn't even read spells smoothly. He was already sure that she was a shaman. He said helplessly: "...I suddenly remembered that we didn't do our homework after returning to the village."

“This is not the main contradiction at the moment!”

"But there seems to be this word in the Chinese homework..."

The two of them took out their summer homework and used the classical Chinese reading questions in it to fill in the missing knowledge points.

The next day, Wang Ping drove a car with Chu Qianli and Tan Muxing to the mining site and stood not far away to watch the excitement. Beside the chaotic pile of stones, two groups of people were confronting each other, one side was Hu Yongjin, and the other side was the village chief Lao Li.

Wang Ping got off the car first and told them, "Don't run around. I'll go check out the situation first."

Chu Qianli looked down at the time and nodded obediently: "Okay, it's still early, I haven't even changed my clothes yet."

Tan Muxing looked at Chu Qianli who was wearing casual clothes and asked: "You brought clothes with you?"

"Yes, performance costumes." Chu Qianli shook the bag in his hand, "The one you are holding is a hand warmer."

At the mining site, the village chief Lao Li asked Hu Yongjin and others to stop working in the morning, but they rejected the request outright and have been dragging their feet until now.

Hu Yongjin relied on his own village's home turf and said arrogantly: "This is our village's mountain, and we have a mining license. You just need to take care of your side, why are you meddling in so many other things?"

The village chief, Lao Li, said earnestly: "This mountain has indeed been allocated to your village, but mining is not a big deal for the entire mountain. If you dig it out here, we will also be affected..."

"What influence do you have? It has nothing to do with you!"

"Yongjin, I heard from Lao He and the others that you guys had mined all the minerals in other mountains, so you thought of Yinlong Mountain. I remember that it has only been less than two years since the mining started. Your mining volume is not right?"

Hu Yongjin was stunned and quickly said, "What do you mean the mining volume is wrong? There are so many of us on site, isn't it better than what you can see with your naked eyes? Don't make trouble!"

Hu Yongjin wanted to push and chase away the village chief, Lao Li, but he didn't expect that the village chief had already learned a lesson.

The village chief was not alone today. He brought people from Yinlong Village with him. He said angrily, "Hu Yongjin, don't be shameless. I am the director and I have to take the lead, but don't treat me as a cadre!"

"At worst, we can just give up advanced civilization. I've never heard of anyone daring to dig the mountain in our village!" The village chief, Lao Li, frowned and waved his skinny arms, and the people behind him followed, looking very imposing.

Hu Yongjin said in panic: "Lao Li, what do you mean..."

"As the director, I'm talking to you but you don't listen. You insist that I act like the village chief, right?"

The people from Yinlong Village and the people on site stood on different sides, and the two groups were about to fight. Even the excavator drivers did not dare to work.

There was a sunshade for rest at the construction site. Someone was standing under the awning to watch the excitement, intending to let Hu Yongjin resolve the dispute independently. He then realized that things had gotten out of hand, and hurried over to try to mediate: "Hey, hey, what are you doing? Don't fight, don't make trouble, or I'll call the police."

The village elder looked the well-dressed young man up and down. He looked strange: "Who are you?"

The young man, who had been sitting under the awning drinking tea and playing with his mobile phone, had no intention of interacting with the local villagers, but now had to take out his ID to prove his identity.

He was wearing a short-sleeved shirt and suit pants, and a pair of black leather shoes. He straightened his collar and said in a friendly manner, "My name is Kong Shuohua. I was sent here to supervise the scene. Here is my ID."

Village chief Lao Li was stunned after reading the ID. Kong Shuohua was actually a minor official, unlike Hu Yongjin and others. Although his status was nothing in the imperial capital, he was considered a big shot in a small place.

Kong Shuohua: "What is going on? We cannot cause trouble at the mining site."

Old Li was only the director elected by the village, and was one level lower than Kong Shuohua. He explained: "Yinlong Mountain cannot be mined casually. It was originally designated as our village..."

Kong Shuohua said confidently: "We didn't mine randomly. We followed the formal procedures. I remember that this area in the plan was not your village, right?"

"But it's impossible to cut the Yinlong Mountain in half. Development cannot be done without consultation between the two villages. What should we do if they dig it up?"

"That's not easy to discuss. This is not a matter between two villages, it's probably a matter between two provinces..." Kong Shuohua said with a smile, "How about this, they can dig first, and you go find the leaders of your province. We can talk about it after the two provinces have come up with a result. Can't we just sit there and wait?"

"Your province's affairs should be handled by your province's department, and our province's affairs should be handled by our province. No one will delay anyone else."

The village elder, Lao Li, was shocked and asked, "Aren't you just passing the buck?"

Kong Shuohua: "Then I can't take care of this matter. We have to follow the process."

The village chief angrily said: "Several of your villages are over-exploiting..."

Kong Shuohua scratched his ears and said calmly, "Is there? If you have evidence, go ahead and sue. We'll follow the procedures and see what you can get out of it."

Kong Shuohua was sure that this group of villagers could not do it. They had to collect evidence first and report it to the province. It would take an unknown amount of time for the truth to reach their province. Not to mention that the villagers had a low level of education and probably did not even know how to go through the process.

The village chief, Lao Li, was very angry. Hu Yongjin was a bad guy without brains, while Kong Shuohua was a bad guy with brains. The latter was even more disgusting.

Kong Shuohua asked the village chief and others to bring the information over, and ordered the people on the scene to start working again. He also sternly warned the gathered villagers that if they did not want to be detained by the police station, they should stop making trouble.

After Wang Ping heard the news, she told the two of them about it and said unhappily, "That's why I hate officials the most. There are not many good people among them!"

Chu Qianli looked down at her phone and said, "Hey, that's a bit extreme. Let me find out how to report it. It makes me look like someone doesn't know how to use the Internet."

"The director has reported this to the provincial government, and they will send someone over in a couple of days, but we can't just let them dig like this for now, right?"

"That's easy. We'll scare them into stopping work for a few days. Then we can wait for the provincial investigation team to arrive and return to Beijing."

Chu Qianli glanced at the time, she hurriedly pulled out a raincoat, stuffed it into Wang Ping's hands, and got busy again: "It's time, it's time, let's go to perform, Pingping, don't get wet!"

Wang Ping was wearing a cool short-sleeved shirt. Seeing the clear sky, she frowned and said, "Why did you bring a raincoat? The weather forecast said there would be no rain today."

"If you want to trust the weather forecast, you might as well trust me. They're all full of bullshit anyway."

“…”

Tan Muxing held an umbrella in one hand and a hand warmer in the other. He looked at Chu Qianli, who was wearing a Taoist robe, and asked weakly, "Are you just going to go there directly?"

Chu Qianli said excitedly: "Go, go, go!"

At the mining site, the excavator started slowly, making the people of Yinlong Village angry.

The village chief rushed over and shouted anxiously: "Don't dig! Don't dig!"

Kong Shuohua stepped forward, held out his hand to the village chief, Lao Li, and advised: "Old man, don't run around at the mining site. I can't afford if something goes wrong."

"Are we the ones causing this trouble? I think you are trying to kill us!"

"That's not reasonable. I'm just following the procedures..."

Kong Shuohua grabbed the village chief Lao Li with one hand, fearing that the other party would seek death in front of the excavator. Dealing with the villagers requires both kindness and strictness, but it is troublesome to deal with such a stubborn old man.

"Young man, this mountain cannot be dug. Do you think you will repent until you destroy the dragon vein of Yinlong Mountain?"

At this moment, a clear female voice came from the crowd, startling Kong Shuohua, who was entangled with the village chief.

The next second, the people of Yinlong Village silently separated and made way for the two people coming over.

The young girl with a childish face was wearing a Taoist cassock and holding colorful banners. She walked past the people around her calmly, looking quite like an immortal.

The people in Yinlong Village seemed to know her. They greeted her in low voices, but no one dared to speak too loudly.

Behind the girl was a tall boy, who awkwardly held an umbrella and a hand warmer and shyly passed by others. The boy seemed to be not used to this environment, and from time to time he was worried about bumping into others, and apologized repeatedly in shame.

The village chief Lao Li's eyes lit up, as if he had seen a savior, and shouted: "The master is here! The master is here!"

Kong Shuohua had never seen such a scene before, and was confused for a moment. He did not understand the girl's prestige in the village, and pointed at himself in surprise, asking doubtfully, "You call me a young man?"

Kong Shuohua just felt that the person who came was quite arrogant. She looked young, but he actually called her like that.

However, the village chief seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, which made Kong Shuohua feel uneasy.

Kong Shuohua shouted in displeasure: "Stop playing tricks. What dragon veins are there in the mountains? You are not allowed to become spirits after the founding of the country!"

Chu Qianli counted with his fingers and said with a smile: "Kong Shuohua, your parents died early and you have no relatives to rely on. Fortunately, you have achieved what you have today because of the recognition of the noble. The stars in your life palace are prosperous, but there are many evil stars in the three directions. If you keep to yourself, you may have a small success in your career. But if you insist on going your own way, you may end up in jail..."

"How do you know my parents..." Kong Shuohua was shocked, but he was not stupid either. He flew into a rage and said, "Well, you actually dared to ask someone to check me. This is an invasion of citizen privacy. I can sue you!"

"I don't need to check you to know that there is a cause and effect in the dark. Those who destroy the dragon veins will be punished by heaven. You are the one in charge of this place. Your family will be destroyed and you will be displaced. Others will not be able to escape either..."

Everyone else at the scene was stunned when they heard this. Even Hu Yongjin hesitated and could not hide his anxiety.

The villagers were more particular. Hu Yongjin knew that there was a Master Chu in the next village, but he didn't take Chu Qianli seriously last time, and was driven out of the village by Tan Muxing. Now that he thought about it, it seemed reasonable for the Master to have bodyguards around him.

"I'm warning you! You have to be responsible for what you say. I can record it right now. Don't fool people with feudal superstition!" Kong Shuohua was skeptical. He immediately took out his cell phone and tried to threaten the Taoist girl who spoke classical Chinese.

Chu Qianli remained unmoved by the angry shouting and said calmly, "Light some incense."

Tan Muxing placed the hand warmer in the open space among the crowd. He carefully arranged the long incense sticks, but when he touched his pocket, he found that he had no light. None of the three smoked, and they didn't even have a lighter.

Fortunately, the people in Yinlong Village were quite knowledgeable and familiar with the process. Someone immediately took out a lighter to light the fire, and helped Muxing adjust the position of the hand warmer and placed the remaining props in order.

Tan Muxing was the eldest son of the city, and he really didn't expect that people around him would hold ceremonies. He whispered, "Thank you..."

The villagers were extremely polite to Mu Xing and quickly bowed in return, "Master, you're welcome."

When Tan Muxing was labeled as a "master", his mood instantly became more complicated: "..."

Kong Shuohua looked at the simple altar and the burning incense. He immediately stretched out his hand to call for help, frowning and saying, "What are you doing? Who allowed you to be superstitious here? Hurry up and take all of this away. You are not allowed to have this kind of thing at the mining site!"

The people around him hesitated for a long time and walked forward with courage. Before they touched the hand warmer, they heard the people in Yinlong Village talking.

"How dare you touch this? You villagers really have no scruples!"

"Let them touch it, let them touch it. Why are you holding back? It's not us who are in trouble..."

"I just don't believe it, who cares!"

The man hesitated when he heard this. He finally found an excuse to leave, saying that he had a stomachache and needed to go to the toilet.

"Hu Yongjin, you come and move it." Kong Shuohua looked back and found that no one was there. He had to do it himself in a rage and wanted to kick over the hand warmer on the ground.

Chu Qianli stepped aside and stood in front of Kong Shuohua. She said lightly, "Kong Shuohua, it's not too late to stop the work now. When the incense is burned out, there will be heavy rain. Within three days, huge rocks will roll down. In the future, there will be landslides near Yinlong Mountain, and many casualties..."

"Nonsense!" Kong Shuohua kicked the hand warmer over angrily, "Then I'll just kick out this incense!"

The round hand warmer flew to the side, and even the ashes in the warmer scattered miserably on the ground, but the lit incense sticks did not go out and were still burning slowly.

The people of Yinlong Village were all angry when they saw this scene, and they cursed Kong Shuohua loudly.

Seeing this, Kong Shuohua jumped a few steps on the spot and stomped it to death. It seemed that this finally made him feel better. He turned around and looked at the girl in Taoist robe with a smug look.

Chu Qianli was not in a hurry. She sighed and said, "This mountain was originally called Yinlong Mountain. They were afraid of calling out its real name, so they changed it to Yinlong Mountain. If you do this, you might anger Long Wei."

Kong Shuohua sneered: "Keep pretending, I will send you to the police station for a lecture today..."

The next second, Chu Qianli suddenly raised the banner, swung it in the air, and said loudly: "Yuqing Shiqing, the true talisman announced the alliance, and pushed the two bulls to mix into one and it will come true!"

"Five thunders, five thunders, quickly meet Huang Ning, dense and changing, roaring like lightning, coming as soon as you hear the call, quickly make a yang sound!"①

Kong Shuohua wanted to catch Chu Qianli and cursed: "What the hell..."

At this moment, a loud noise came from the clear sky, instantly shocking everyone present.

Before long, a strange rain mist gathered in the clear sky, like a giant dragon hovering above the trees, pressing down with mighty force.

There were lightning, thunder, and howling winds. This thunderstorm came so fast that it seemed to be a response to Chu Qianli's spell!

The hurricane nearly blew the awning off, and the strong wind chilled the people in their summer clothes. Then came the torrential rain, which flowed down like a broken dam.

"It's raining! It's raining!"

"It was sunny just now. It didn't say it would rain today..."

"It hurts! Is this not rain?!"

"Why is there still hail? The hidden dragon is angry, the hidden dragon is angry. I remember there was such an incident many years ago..."

People at the mining site fled for shelter from the rain. They did not dare to gather under the awnings, nor could they stand still next to the simple buildings for fear that the heavy rain and strong winds would destroy everything.

Kong Shuohua and others were caught off guard and became drowned, and for a moment they ignored Chu Qianli who was in a powerful position.

They frantically looked for a place to hide in the open space, but there was nowhere to stay. In the face of the huge thunderstorm, humans were so small and insignificant.

Tan Muxing had already opened the umbrella. He protected Chu Qianli and walked out, intending to meet up with Wang Ping.

Chu Qianli waved the sleeves of her Taoist robe. She was shivering with cold and sobbed, "It's so cold, so cold, so cold. Is it dangerous to fly an umbrella in a lightning storm?"

"But there's hail, and it's dangerous to wear a raincoat..." Tan Muxing said helplessly, "You're making too much noise."

"How can this be attributed to me? I only knew it would rain, God didn't discuss the details with me!"

This thunderstorm and hail was like a giant dragon passing through. The strange phenomenon in the sky came and went quickly. After a while, the rain stopped and the sky cleared up, leaving only a muddy and messy scene.

The scorching sun once again hung high in the sky, and soon the ground returned to high temperature, as if the rainstorm was just a dream.

The village chief and others were relatively experienced. When they saw what Chu Qianli did, they prepared to run away, unlike Kong Shuohua who was dizzy and turned away after being hit by the hail.

Kong Shuohua was now soaking wet, his shirt stuck to his body awkwardly, and his shiny black leather shoes were covered in mud. He asked in panic, "Where is that person? Where is the girl?"

In the chaos, Chu Qianli had long disappeared, so the people of Yinlong Village naturally would not answer.

Young girls and boys are like the wind and rain of Yinlong Mountain; they come in a hurry and leave quietly in an instant, leaving behind only a string of warning words.

Kong Shuohua was a firm believer in materialism, but he was also a little confused at the moment. He had been supervising the mining site for a long time and had only seen light wind and drizzle, but never lightning and thunder, and the scene was so scary!

He knew the weather near Yinlong Mountain best, and had never seen such strange phenomena before!

Hu Yongjin was already frightened out of his wits, and trembled as he asked, "...are you still going to dig?"

"Damn, it's just a coincidence..." Kong Shuohua gritted his teeth. He was terrified, but unwilling to show weakness. "Wait until the ground becomes dry and then continue..."

The next second, someone came running over in a hurry, reporting loudly: "Rocks have rolled down from the north! Several trees have been broken!"

"We need to find someone to deal with this, right? Otherwise, it might hit someone."

"Oh my, this isn't just a huge rock falling. It hasn't even been three days yet, and it's falling down now. The master was being conservative..."

"…Isn't that because the incense burner was kicked?"

People around were whispering to each other, looking quite nervous.

After heavy rain and falling boulders, there will be landslides and heavy casualties. No one wants to be unlucky enough to be hit on the spot.

Kong Shuohua felt a chill on his back and said in fear, "Shut up! That's all feudal superstition!"

Hu Yongjin said timidly: "I don't think the ground can be cleaned, why don't we wait a day and see..."

Kong Shuohua angrily scolded Hu Yongjin for being cowardly, but he did not insist on his own opinion. He was still nervous and was just trying to hold on, and suddenly he didn't dare to take any risks.

The next day, the water vapor at the mining site completely evaporated, and Kong Shuohua and others were still unable to start work.

On the third day, it was a sunny day at the scene. The provincial investigation team and relevant media reporters rushed to the scene after hearing the news. The mining site was immediately surrounded by outsiders and there was no chance to start work.

Normally, it would take time for people from outside the village to get here, but there were rumors that the Dragon King of Yinlong Mountain had shown his power, and he told the story of what happened in vivid detail. The young Taoist priest could call the wind and rain, which immediately attracted a large number of interested reporters.

Yinlong Village immediately attracted public attention and attracted a lot of outside attention, which indirectly promoted the mining investigation in Yinlong Village.

Media friends also interviewed two unnamed students in the village. They promised not to reveal their faces and just asked some simple questions.

The female reporter asked curiously, "My dear classmate, do you know about the recent heavy rain in Yinlong Mountain? I heard that the Feng Shui master in your village held an altar to pray for rain. Is this true?"

Tan Muxing was shocked when he heard this. He looked away in panic and was unable to give a direct answer.

Chu Qianli waved his hands calmly: "No, no, of course not, our village is an advanced civilized village, and we never engage in feudal superstitions!"

The female reporter asked doubtfully, "But I heard from people in the next village that there was rain. They also said they saw the master. I have never seen that kind of rain before..."

"That's because you're uneducated. You have to believe in science. How could it rain unless a rain bomb was released?" Chu Qianli sighed. "The media must have credibility and can't just listen to rumors."

Female reporter: "But they said that after the altar was opened, it rained at the scene. This is not fake, and many people can testify to it?"

Chu Qianli calmed down and said, "This is a mountainous area. It's normal to have rainfall. It's not a big deal. It's just that the people in the city are not very experienced."

The female reporter argued: "But it is said that Yinlong Mountain used to only have rain but no thunder. The village next door has never seen hail. It is unscientific to encounter such a thing in the summer..."

"Science! How can it not be scientific?" Chu Qianli said seriously, "That's because it was only orographic rain before, so the precipitation was naturally not that large. But not long ago, orographic rain and convective rain acted at the same time. Convective rain is heavy precipitation in a small area, accompanied by lightning and thunder, and the speed of change is extremely fast, so it is naturally different."

Female reporter: “?”

Chu Qianli insisted: "Learn geography, believe in science, don't believe the nonsense from the neighboring village, believe what we say when we enter the civilized village first!"

Tan Muxing was speechless for a moment when he heard his deskmate refuse to admit his mistake after performing a trick: "..."