You have mastered the art of thunder and you tell me that it is in a strange world?

Chapter 102 Little Thatch in the Rain
Zuo Chen parked the donkey cart outside and walked towards the shed with Caiyi.

Before going in, I found a small temple next to the thatched hut. There were three plates on it, filled with fruits and vegetables. Because of the rain, the incense was not burning.

After taking a look, I found that the person enshrined inside was not the God of Land, but a black-faced official, who should be the City God.

It is rare to see the City God worshipped here, but Zuo Chen could only see the scent of incense lingering above him but not the City God himself. He guessed that the shop owner put it there randomly to bring some blessings to his shop.

After entering the shed, he found that there were quite a lot of people inside. There were not even any empty tables. Zuo Chen could only find a table in the corner where there were few people.

There were two woodcutters sitting over there. When they saw Zuo Chen and Cai Yi coming over, they made way for a small space for them.

The two of them sat down, and the waiter in the shed came over immediately with an awkward smile on his face:
"My dear guests, there are so many people coming to our shop today that we have run out of good tea. We only have some coarse tea left. Would you mind making do with this?"

"That's fine. Thanks for troubling the store owner."

Zuo Chen smiled. Seeing that Zuo Chen was easy to talk to, the waiter also smiled and nodded, then went back to prepare tea.

After the waiter left, Zuo Chen put his hands on his ears, made a circle, closed his eyes and listened.

"Master, what are you listening to?"

Caiyi couldn't help but wonder when she saw Zuo Chen's expression.

Ever since entering Youzhou, Zuo Chen would become dazed from time to time. Now he was even listening to the distance with his ears bent. It didn't seem like he was okay.

"In the past two days, I have been able to hear some faint tunes mixed with some random words, but it is too far away, and I don't have the ability to see through walls, so I can't hear clearly what it is."

Zuo Chen sighed.

Lately he had been hearing this strange sound, a bit like a mosquito buzzing around his ear, a little annoying, but he couldn't pinpoint the root cause.

All I know is that the sound came from the far north, but I don't know which great master was humming the song.

Maybe this is the reason why the Red Taoist asked me to come here.

After trying again, he found that he still couldn't hear clearly, so Zuo Chen simply gave up.

If we go further north, we will eventually be able to hear it clearly.

Caiyi also put her hands behind her ears and listened carefully, but she could only hear the whistling of the wind and the crackling of rain falling on the mud.

As for the mysterious sound that Zuo Chen mentioned, she couldn't hear it at all.

After that, he cast his eyes towards the fog that filled the dirt road, stared at it for a while, then lowered his voice and asked Zuo Chen:

"Master, is there something unclean in this fog?"

"…It's not an evil thing. And if it were an evil thing, even a small city god temple would have some reaction."

Zuo Chen also stared at the fog for a few seconds.

The surging fog blocked the road ahead and formed a wonderful natural barrier. Anyone without any skills would get lost if they entered the fog. After turning around a few times on the spot, they would return to the shed as if they were trapped in a maze.

But there were no monsters in the fog. It was simply the wind and the rain, and all kinds of coincidences intertwined with this moment to form such a maze.

It is not difficult to get rid of the fog. You just need to gather some energy and blow it into the valley.

But this thick fog formed by the coincidence of nature is also a treasure, and it would be a pity to blow it away directly.

Study again.

After sitting for a while, the waiter brought two bowls of hot tea and placed them in front of Zuo Chen and Cai Yi.

The liquid was so clear that you could see the bottom, and there were hardly any leaves visible inside. There were a few stems floating in the middle of the sole, which were a light brown in color.

This is tea.

Zuo Chen picked up the bowl and took a sip.

Well, not much better than Taihe soup.

After drinking half a bowl, his body warmed up. The woodcutter sitting in front of him suddenly asked Zuo Chen:

"Young sir, are you two from Xuzhou?"

"You have a good eye." Zuo Chen was slightly surprised, "How did you figure that out?"

The woodcutter who asked the question touched his nose, with a little pride on his face: "The only direction you two came from is the pass. The direction of the nearest Taoist temple is completely opposite. Since the locations don't match, I guess you two may have come from Xuzhou."

After seeing Zuo Chen nod in agreement, the woodcutter asked again:
"You two, I heard that there was a great lady in Xuzhou who saved the world and saved the entire Xuzhou! Did you meet her when you came from Xuzhou?"

"puff!"

Caiyi was drinking tea. After hearing this, she choked on the tea in her trachea. She kept coughing for a while and tears came out.

"What's wrong with this girl?" the woodcutter was shocked.

"It's okay, I just got a stitch in the side." Zuo Chen waved his hand, as if he was trying to hold back a smile: "When we passed by Xuzhou, Xuzhou had already become better, and we didn't hear much about these rumors."

After a pause, he asked, "Are the rumors in Xuzhou widely spread in Youzhou?"

"How can news spread so quickly? I have first-hand information!" The woodcutter smiled and boasted: "We are cutting trees in the suburbs, so we can hear some news. The county magistrate should not know this news!"

"Would you like to tell me about it? I'm very interested."

Zuo Chen completely ignored Cai Yi who was making a scene, coughing and waving her hands, and even took out three cents from his sleeve and handed them to the woodcutter.

"You've asked the right person. Everyone in this area knows that I, Wang Laoer, am very good at getting information!" The woodcutter put the money in his pocket with a smile, and immediately began to talk eloquently, "Wasn't there a famine in Xuzhou some time ago? The people of Xuzhou were living in poverty, and many refugees flowed from the south to Youzhou.

"I thought Xuzhou would remain barren and would take a long time to grow back, but two days ago, my old friend and I were collecting firewood at the border, and suddenly we saw that the ground on the Xuzhou side was full of grass. It was no longer barren!
"I was curious at the time, so I walked along the mountain into Xuzhou. After walking for a while, I met a few firewood cutters.

"I heard that a deity came to Xuzhou. Her name was Dagu Niangniang. She was kind-hearted and had boundless magical powers. Seeing that Xuzhou was in a state of famine and the people could not afford to eat, she took a big pot and used a big spoon to distribute porridge to the people one bowl at a time. She also used her magical powers to cure diseases and save lives. She could even bring the recently dead back to life! She could be said to have brought the dead back to life.

"But the eldest aunt knew that if Xuzhou continued to be desolate, there would be endless refugees, so she simply lifted the porridge pot into the sky and threw the porridge into the clouds, causing Xuzhou to rain rice. "The rain fell to the ground, causing the grass and trees to revive, and all things came to life in spring, and Xuzhou came back to life."

Caiyi, who was standing next to her, finally coughed out the tea that had choked her trachea. She held onto the corner of the table, her face flushed terribly, and smoke was almost coming out of her ears.

"This aunt is so amazing." Zuo Chen said with emotion.

"Yes, yes, my aunt is so amazing! I want to go home and carve a tablet to worship her!" The woodcutter also nodded in agreement.

“You can’t do that!” Caiyi suddenly realized what was going on and stopped it immediately.

However, this made the woodcutter look at Caiyi with some confusion.

"What's wrong, girl?"

Caiyi was at a loss for words. She looked embarrassed and tried to avoid the question:
"This eldest aunt, the name sounds so vulgar. Why don't you worship the Master of Thunder Tribulation? This name sounds domineering!"

"Myriad Laws of Thunder Tribulation?" The woodcutter was confused: "I've never heard of it. And what's the point of offering that thing? It sounds murderous, not as good as the eldest aunt."

"That makes sense. This so-and-so thing doesn't seem as powerful as my aunt." Zuo Chen nodded.

Caiyi had nothing to say, so she simply spread out her arms and buried her head on the table, her ears turning red.

There's smoke coming out of my head.

After chatting with the woodcutter for a while, he was obviously tired. He drank a cup of tea, looked at the rain and thick fog outside, and cursed: "Damn weather, we have been trapped here for half a day, why haven't we dispersed yet!"

Zuo Chen looked at the fog again. In his eyes, the entire fog seemed to have turned into water droplets floating in the air.

He picked up the empty tea bowl and waved it towards the rainy sky.

The fragrance of flowers blew in the wind, dispersing the dark clouds in the sky and the thick fog.

The drizzle was half gone, half of the dark clouds dispersed, the setting sun shone down, and the mountain road was revealed, pointing the way forward.

"Hey! The rain has stopped!" The woodcutter was delighted. He quickly pulled his companion up and planned to say goodbye to Zuo Chen and leave.

As soon as his eyes fell in front of Zuo Chen, he discovered that the tea bowl in his hand was full again.

It was a bowl of very clean water, so clear that you could see the bottom. If there hadn't been a little tea stalk floating on the top, the woodcutter would even have thought it was an empty bowl.

He didn't know what it was, but he smelled a strange fragrance in the air.

"Young sir, we're leaving first."

Without thinking too much, the two woodcutters said goodbye to Zuo Chen and left.

When the other guests saw the rain and fog dissipate, they also left. Not long after, Zuo Chen, Cai Yi, and a few other shop owners were the only ones left in the thatched shop.

Zuo Chen held the bowl in his hand and shook it, and the tea stem moved with the liquid.

This is the mist from before, it is also the essence of heaven and earth, and a good thing.

I took a sip and swallowed it. I felt it was sweet and delicious. A cool feeling came from my abdomen and my whole body felt refreshed.

Seeing that there was only a quarter of the bowl left, he reached out and tapped Caiyi's head, and Caiyi raised her head with a blushing face.

He turned his head to the side in a bit of annoyance.

"I left this for you. It's a good thing. Drink it."

I was feeling a little embarrassed and annoyed at first, but after seeing the delicious food and drinks, I forgot all the depression in my heart.

He raised the bowl, sniffed it first, then drank it all in one gulp, his face full of satisfaction and happiness.

"Let's go."

He stood up, went back to the donkey cart, climbed onto the donkey, and waited for Caiyi to come.

The weather is great, perfect for traveling.

……

When the donkey cart arrived at the nearest county town, Zuo Chen found that it was not as lively as he had imagined.

This place is not small, and the streets are well-organized. Unlike Qingzhou, there is no water in the city, and the roads are flat and gentle with no height differences.

Although there were quite a few people on the street, they all looked worried and panic-stricken.

What puzzled Zuo Chen the most was that none of the people on the street had their hair tied up.

Everyone had disheveled hair and looked a bit like crazy.

what happened?

Just as Zuo Chen was thinking, he suddenly saw an old man passing by, and the old man also saw Zuo Chen on the donkey's back.

He stared with wide eyes at the tall crown worn by Zuo Chen.

Zuo Chen was a little confused.

Pushed the crown high.

It’s not crooked this time.

Just as he was thinking this, the old man suddenly stretched out his hand and tried to snatch Zuo Chen's hat.

Zuo Chen: “?”

what does this mean?
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