Chapter 32: Praying for Rain in the Town
A middle-aged man smiled and said, "Xiaofan, you don't know yet."
Then several villagers said something.
After finishing his words, Song Xiaofan realized that it suddenly rained heavily in Taohua Village two days ago. Village chief Li Daniu said it was because he asked the mountain god to rain.
So after hearing this, a leader in the town asked Li Dagang to go to help the town pray for rain this afternoon, and the town also had a lot of drought.
After listening, Song Xiaofan couldn't smile bitterly. He knew that Li Daniu was going to be embarrassing.
He was too lazy to take care of it, so he drove a tractor to deliver the watermelon to the county town. It happened to be past one pm when he came back.
After dinner, the villagers wanted to go to the town to see how Li Dagang prayed for the rain.
"Xiaofan, if you are fine in the afternoon, let's go to the town to watch the village chief pray for rain, right?" Lin Chunxing said with a smile.
Song Xiaofan shook his head, "Sister-in-law, don't go, just that guy from the village chief is not good."
Others don’t know, but he knows very well that if it weren’t for the Jiao Python, the rain in Taohua Village would not have fallen at all.
Lin Chunxing shook her head, "That's not necessarily the case. They all said that it was the village chief who prayed for rain, and even the village chief admitted it. Let's go and have a look."
He could not compete with Lin Chunxing, so he had to nod and rested at home for an hour. Then Song Xiaofan drove a tricycle to carry Lin Chunxing and his children to the town.
Shortly after leaving the village entrance, Song Xiaofan saw Chen Yan'er riding a bicycle.
The roads in the village are difficult to walk, and Chen Yan'er is even more troublesome to carry her mother.
"Chen Yan, Aunt, where are you going?" Song Xiaofan said with a smile.
Chen Yan glanced at Lin Chunxing first called her sister-in-law, and then she smiled and said, "Xiaofan, let's go to the town."
"We'll go to the town too, why don't you put your bicycles on and I'll take you." Song Xiaofan said with a smile.
Lin Chunxing also nodded and smiled, "Yes, I'm too tired to ride a bicycle, come up quickly."
Chen Yan'er said yes, the tricycle was a little crowded when put on the bicycle, but fortunately I could sit down. After more than 20 minutes, I arrived in the town.
There are not many people in the town usually.
But today is different. I heard that the head of Taohua Village came to pray for rain, so people from several nearby villages came to the town to watch the rain.
Song Xiaofan paid five yuan and put the tricycle in the place where the bicycle was kept. He took Lin Chunxing and others to stroll on the street first.
Praying for rain is not that simple. It requires a Feng Shui master to calculate the day, and it needs to be accurate to a few minutes.
Li Dagang prayed for rain at 4:30 pm.
The town is not big, it will be finished in less than ten minutes, and the weather is also hot. Lin Chunxing and Chen Yan'er are wearing very thin clothes, which can be seen clearly inside.
When she walked to the door of a store, Song Xiaofan smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, Chen Yan'er, you guys wait a moment, I'll go buy some water."
I went into the store and bought a few bottles of mineral water and a few ice cream.
As soon as he walked out, a Volkswagen suddenly stopped, the window rolled down, and Li Kang's head poked out.
"Oh, isn't this Song Xiaofan?" Li Kang smiled, his eyes full of disdain.
Although he apologized to Song Xiaofan for the last time about fish and shrimp, he actually hated Song Xiaofan very much in his bones.
Immediately, Li Kang's eyes turned and looked at Lin Chunxing greedily, "Chunxing, you are here too, we're meeting again."
After saying that, he looked at Chen Yan'er and his eyes lit up, "I didn't expect that Chen Yan'er would actually take off so beautifully."
Song Xiaofan was speechless, Li Kang was more lustful than always greedy for money.
Before he could speak, Lin Chunxing looked disgusted, "Li Kang, who wants to meet you? Go away quickly, I don't want to see you."
Li Kang's eyes turned ruthless and looked at Lin Chunxing a few times.
He sneered, "Chunxing, don't do this. Why are you shopping with Song Xiaofan? It's hot. Come on, you and Chen Yan'er hurry up and take the bus. There is air conditioning inside, which is so comfortable. This car is specially picked up by my dad in the town."
"Whoever wants to take your car, stay alone." Lin Chunxing retorted.
Li Kang's face became so angry that he was numb. He was actually angry. He was in a small car, and neither Lin Chunxing nor Chen Yan'er was sitting, but was willing to go shopping with Song Xiaofan on a hot day.
Immediately, he stared at Song Xiaofan and sneered: "Song Xiaofan, you are quite awesome. You are taking two beauties around the town. I guess you are here to come to see my dad pray for rain."
Then he hummed and said disdainfully: "Song Xiaofan, you didn't believe that my dad could pray for rain a few days ago. You have to open your eyes and take a look later. How did my dad pray for rain? I'll scare you to death.
In addition, I advise you to buy two umbrellas in advance. When it rains, it will be inconvenient to return to the village."
As he said that, he laughed, closed the window, and the Volkswagen drove away.
Lin Chunxing trembled in anger, "Li Kang is really sick, why are you pretending!"
"Okay, sister-in-law, don't be angry if you're okay." Song Xiaofan shook his head and smiled, "You can watch it later. There is a time when this guy is crying."
"Xiaofan, how do you know?" Chen Yan'er said curiously.
Song Xiaofan shook his head and smiled. Naturally, he could not talk about the rain, "I'm talking nonsense."
Then a few people kept walking around. When it was almost time to get some, Song Xiaofan and the others walked to the town square. There were many people coming to watch at this moment.
At 4:30 pm, the rain prayer event officially began.
I saw that there was an incense table in the center of the platform. In addition to the offerings, there was also a portrait of a mountain god.
Four or five people stood on both sides of the incense case, all of whom were leaders of the town.
Li Dagang stood in front of the incense table calmly with a proud expression. Everyone spoke one after another, begging Li Dagang to pray for rain.
It has been raining for months now, and the crops are almost unrecovered, and they are about to lose food.
"College Li, what else do you need? Even if you have anything in our town, you will spare no effort to provide you with everything." A woman in her thirties came over.
This woman is very beautiful, her name is Sun Chun, and she is the mayor.
Li Dagang shook his head and smiled, "No need for Mayor Sun. Now there is everything. I will pray to the mountain god later. I promise it will rain later."
"Yes, mayor, don't worry, my father's rain prayers are very effective, and that was like this in our village that afternoon." Li Kang smiled flatteringly.
As soon as these words came out, everyone applauded.
Sun Chun nodded and smiled.
"That's great, so I'll trouble Village Chief Li. If it really rains this time, you will be the hero of our town. At that time, I will report to the superiors truthfully, which will be helpful to Village Chief Li's future. As well as you, Li Kang, I will also consider letting you come to the town hospital."
She actually had a headache now. Now that the drought in the town is so good, if she doesn't think of some solutions, the whole town's farmers will have no food.
Li Dagang's eyes lit up, "Don't worry, mayor, I will complete the task."
The rain prayer officially begins.
Chapter completed!