Chapter 138: Desperate

Yang Kaiguang shrank into a ball in the prison car, and his originally fat body had already lost a lot of weight.

At this moment, he really regretted it.

He studied hard in the cold window for more than 40 years and worked hard to get admitted to the university at the age of 50.

He is already a certain age, and he doesn’t know how many years he can live. It is impossible to climb up again, so his original plan was to be a small magistrate with peace of mind. Even if he can’t be famous through the ages, he can at least be worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth.

I don’t know what’s going on, he has come to this situation step by step.

Now he has no reputation, no official position, and soon even his life will be gone.

……

After Yang Kaiguang was beheaded and shown in public, the people cheered, and some even set off artillery battles in the streets to celebrate.

There was a crackling sound, which was really more lively than the Chinese New Year.

Since all the officials in the local county government were killed, in order to maintain the normal operation of the county government, the Prince Shaofu and the Prince Shaobao had to go to the top temporarily.

Luo Qinghan wrote to the prince Taishi, asking him to go to the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Personnel, and send a few reliable officials to Gangu County to take over as soon as possible.

The palace has been empty since it was built. Luo Qinghan felt that it was a waste to leave the place empty, so he asked people to open the city gate, put in the victims outside the city, and let them live in the palace.

The palace became a temporary refugee settlement.

There is a porridge room outside the palace, and rice porridge is distributed regularly every day.

There are mountains of grain in the county government warehouse. All of these grains were deducted from the taxes by Yang Kaguang. He guards so much grain that he doesn’t have to worry about being hungry at all. Naturally, he won’t understand what it feels like for those victims outside to be so hungry that they are not as good as death.

So much food is enough for the people in the city to eat for more than a month.

After settling the victims, the prince began to prepare for the rain.

Xiao Xixi knocked the boiled egg lightly, and said while peeling off the eggshell.

“You asked me what I need to prepare for the rain-seeking ceremony? In fact, there are just a few things, chicken, duck, fish, fruits and snacks, incense sticks and paper money.”

Luo Qinghan frowned: “Do you only need something like this?”

Xiao Xixi took a bite of the egg and said vaguely: “The rain-seeking ceremony mainly depends on the mind. As long as the mind is there, it’s easy to say anything else.”

Luo Qinghan doubted: “If it’s as simple as you said, wouldn’t everyone be able to ask for rain?”

“That’s naturally not possible. You are different from ordinary people. You are the future Son of Heaven. What is the Son of Heaven? It’s the son of God, and his own son has come to the door with gifts. Can the father not agree?”

“…why do you always have so many perversions?”

“It doesn’t matter if you are crooked or not, as long as things can be done.”

Luo Qinghan looked at her steadily for a moment, then said solemnly:

“Gu is desperate to believe in you this time. If you can’t ask for rain, you and Gu will have bad luck.”

Xiao Xi swallowed the egg in her mouth and comforted: “Don’t worry, if I really can’t mix anymore, I can still go back to Xuanmen to grow old. Then I will take you back too, and let’s grow old together.”

Luo Qinghan: “……”

Not only do you have to grow old by yourself, you also have to grow old with your man.

Do your master know that you are so promising?

Xiao Xixi: “By the way, you will have to recite a sacrifice at that time.”

She found pen and paper and wrote a sacrifice full of paper.

Luo Qinghan took the look at the sacrificial text and found that what she wrote was all in vernacular, and the content was very simple. It was to express the serious consequences of the drought. At the end, she begged God’s father to rain and save the poor child!