Chapter 14 4. The Mystery of Praying for Rain

Entering people at the entrance of the hall is for the master to pass the purpose.Although Jiang Feiyan said yes, she understood that it was Qiao Wumei who had the final say on whether the child could stay in the hall.A few days later, Jiang Feiyan took Huang Farong back to Nanyue. This world is always like this. Some people, although they are far away from each other, can always hit it off; some people, although they are close at hand, pass by all day long. Huang Farong was the one who hit it off with Jiang Feiyan and Qiao Wumei. This girl was born weird, with big eyes piercing, and she didn't have much praise or criticism except for being thinner. As soon as she saw Qiao Wumei, she knew she would kneel down and kowtow to call her grandma. Qiao Wu was so happy My sister couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear.

In the days that followed, Qiao Wumei and Jiang Feiyan gradually realized that they had picked up a big treasure!This girl with big eyes is an out-and-out fortune teller!This is fate. If Huang Farong hadn't run away from marriage, he wouldn't have come to Fujian; if Jiang Feiyan hadn't passed by that alley, he wouldn't have rescued her. In the vast web woven by fate, the fate of people is always inevitable in chance. After Huang Farong joined Tangkou, Jiang Feiyan taught her the basic knowledge of Yin-Yang and Five Elements as usual. In fact, she didn't need to learn it at all. She knew more than anyone else in Tangkou. Even Fifth Sister Qiao couldn't beat her in the exam!

During that time, Qiao Wumei was invited to go to Liuzhou, Guangxi to pray for rain for the local people. After much deliberation, she brought Huang Farong with her. When Qiao Wumei prayed for rain, there was a lot of ostentation, setting up cloud platforms, doing Dafa, pouring clean water on the street, paving the road with loess, wrapping white silk around trees, and carrying yellow flags on bamboo. The cloud platform is three feet three, Qiao Wumei climbed up the platform from the ladder, holding the dust whisk in her hand, moving the golden lotus, two rows of Taoist priests played drums and chimes, and bells and cymbals rang together.On the cloud platform, there are incense table, wax table, incense burner, and yellow watch. Qiao Wumei first worships the Queen Mother, then Lei Gong, and then the Lightning Mother, and then recites prayers aloud. The county magistrate and master are devout Watching, all living beings pay their respects.

At the end of the ceremony, Fifth Sister Qiao will shout loudly: "Lei Gong assists, Lightning Mother blesses, within half a month, it will rain!" In fact, Qiao Wumei relied on observing the sky to pray for rain. As for setting up an altar, it was a deception.Just like Zhuge Liang's Seven Stars Altar borrowed the east wind, he compared pictures on it, and it was all for the people around him to see. In fact, Zhuge Liang is proficient in astronomy and geography. It was expected that it would be windy that day, so I was able to "borrow" the wind in the end. There was no weather forecast in ancient times. The working people summed up a lot of experience in the long-term struggle with nature, and some caring magicians explored the laws between the five elements and natural phenomena such as sun, astrology, moon, and weather, and concluded A set of ancient forecasting with unique oriental characteristics.

Qiao Wumei has mastered this set of techniques. There is such a wonderful record in "Notes on the Wind of Yue Haitang": Where is Lei Gong?Where is the electric mother? Jiang Xiang is in the same door, and Abao saves himself. The moon halos three winds, the sun halos three more rains; Morning glow does not go out, sunset glow travels thousands of miles. Clouds to the east, a strong wind; The clouds go south, and the heavy rain washes over the boat; The clouds go north, the sky and the earth are dark; The clouds go west, and the fish wear coir raincoats. The base is dry and the magpie crows, and the month is dry and dry;

Call the fortune in the morning, and call the funeral report in the evening. ... The first four sentences are the opening lines, which mean: "Where is the Lord of Thunder? Where is the Mother of Lightning? The disciples of Jiang Xiang's school, you can figure it out yourself." The ancients believed that lightning and thunder were caused by the Lord of Thunder and the Mother of Lightning in the sky, so there is this opening. What follows is the specific rules of action. "Moon halo three-day wind" means that if there is a moon halo around the moon, commonly known as "the moon warms the fire", then the wind will inevitably blow within three days; It was bound to rain in the third watch of the day.

"Don't go out in the morning glow" means that if you wake up early, there will be clouds flooding the sky as soon as the sun comes out, so don't go out, because the heavy rain will come soon; Well, there will be no rain in the near future, so there is a saying "the sunset travels a thousand miles". The next four sentences are the unique skill of observing cloud phenomenon. This method is not only recorded in "Yue Hai Tang Feng Xiang Notes", but also widely circulated among ordinary people. There are slightly different versions in different places.Some people say that this method is inaccurate, but they have not grasped the essence of this method. The clouds in these four sentences do not refer to ordinary floating clouds, but to dark clouds and thick clouds that overwhelm mountains and seas.

China as a whole is located in the north of the equator, the terrain is high in the west and low in the east, and the temperature is hot in the south and cold in the north. "Notes" has a cloud: Clouds are rain, and the ground water rises and meets cold; clouds rise from west to the east, follow the trend, and the cold and heat convect, and then become a strong wind, saying "clouds go east, there is a strong wind", and then , is it raining after the wind?This cloud phenomenon also belongs to it; when Yunnan travels southward, the cold cloud prevails, the heat wave descends, and the cold and heat meet, and the cloud thickens, thick but not loaded, and the heavy rain pours, saying "the cloud goes south, and the heavy rain hits the boat"; Traveling north, the heat wave rises, the air-conditioning descends, the hurdles and the kun close, the sky is dark and the earth is dark, saying "clouds go north, the sky and the earth are dark"; clouds rise from east to west, follow the trend upward, the wind does not disperse, and the thunder does not move, With thick accumulation and thick hair, there was finally a thunderbolt shock, and the fish poured down. The fish couldn't stand it, and wanted to find shelter, saying, "The clouds go west, and the fish wear coir raincoats."

This is the scientific explanation given by the ancestor of "Yue Haitang" to these few formulas.But in the final analysis, all methods lie in flexibility, and there are many types of clouds, such as dark clouds, thick clouds, dense clouds, thin clouds, broken clouds, light clouds, bald clouds, Fort clouds, fish scale clouds, hooked cirrus clouds, etc., there are no three or five Years of hard work, watching the clouds and pushing the rain is really a joke. The last two sentences, "The magpie crows when the base is dry, and the dryness is dry within the month". "Foundation" refers to the foundation, and "basic dryness" means that the foundation is dry, which is a sign of sunny weather.There is an inevitable relationship between magpies and the weather. The clearer the sky, the happier the magpies will be, and the happier the magpies will be, and the longer the fine weather will last.

Regarding things like magpies, they are always compared with crows. As the saying goes: Magpies announce good news, crows announce mourning.In fact, magpies don't always announce good news, sometimes they also send bad news, which is called "good news in the morning and mourning in the evening".If the magpies are chirping on the branches of your house in the early morning, then good things will come soon. If they stand on the branches and call around at night, it will be a big deal. That's why there are "early calls for wealth, and late calls" Funeral News" assertion.

These methods are all the experience that "Yue Haitang" has summed up for a long time for hundreds of years. Now some of them can be explained scientifically, but some still can't be explained. Among all the techniques of predicting the weather in ancient times, the most unique trick is "smell the time to get the weather", which is to accurately predict the time of wind and rain based on the humidity and smell of the foundation.The person who invented this method was Yuan Tiangang, a feng shui master in the Tang Dynasty. Yuan Tiangang was good at distinguishing the smell and humidity of the soil. Of course, this is an essential element for a feng shui master, but Yuan Tiangang can react the conditions of the earth to the weather. Ordinary people can achieve it. In the fertile field, by twisting a pinch of soil and sniffing it, one can predict the future weather. Huang Farong unintentionally mastered the ability of "getting the right time by hearing the truth".When she was a child at home, her parents didn’t hug her, and her neighbors ignored her. When she was bored, she would squat at the base of the wall and fight cockroaches. She inadvertently discovered the relationship between the degree of moisture emitted by the foundation and the amount of rain, and she developed a set of rules over time. After watching the astrology and cloud phenomena in Guangxi that day, Qiao Wumei knew that there must be rain within fifteen days, and then she pretended to do so, and finally told the local county magistrate: "It will rain within half a month!" After the ceremony was over, Huang Farong quietly pulled Qiao Wumei by the corner of her clothes and said, "Grandma, I don't think it will take half a month. It will definitely rain within ten days." Qiao Wumei was startled: Could it be that this child is more powerful than herself? Sure enough, at noon on the tenth day, dark clouds covered the sky like ink, and then heavy rain poured down.Qiao Wumei hugged Huang Farong happily. "My granddaughter is not simple." This old woman over fifty years old finally found the long-lost family happiness in Huang Farong, and also made up for the emptiness she had lacked in motherhood for a long time. Jiang Feiyan once said sadly to Qiao Wumei: "This child, Farong, even if she doesn't become a treasure, she will be a well-fed person in the future. With her real ability, she can go on the right path and do research on Yi studies in a safe and secure way. A generation of masters." Qiao Wumei said: "It's true that she went astray when she was in Abao's team, but it's her fate. If she comes in, she can't wash her hands until she dies. This is our rule." Qiao Wumei was afraid that Jiang Feiyan would pity her in the future Zhixin let Huang Farong go and had to vaccinate Jiang Feiyan in advance. The grandfather came to propose a marriage, Jiang Feiyan decided to part with the pain, and this is also to repay the favor of the grandfather when Qiao Wumei was buried last year.Jiang Feiyan cared very much for her goddaughter, if her grandfather hadn't come to propose marriage, she would not have let her go. Huang Farong is 18 years old and has reached the age of marriage.Jiang Feiyan trusted her grandfather, so she asked Huang Farong to meet Zhang Zizhan. In matters of marriage and love between men and women, the "Jiang Xiangpai" is still very open-minded. They never arrange marriages. Only when the two parties look at each other pleasingly can they negotiate. The love between men and women in ancient times was not like it is now. They dared to eat and drink when they first met, and even held hands and kissed. In ancient times, they paid attention to side view and right view. Side view is the first step, that is, a new couple, one outside the window and one inside the window, glance at each other first to see if there is a call or not.If you don't look like your type at first glance, then there's no need to talk. After Zhang Zizhan and Huang Farong met each other, they felt good about each other. So grandfather and Jiang Feiyan arranged for them to meet. During the right meeting, other people cannot be present, because newcomers are shy, and if others are present, it will be awkward and difficult to communicate with. Jiang Feiyan gathered the two of them in the house and went out with her grandfather. These two people really fell in love at first sight, as if they knew each other in the previous life, and they came to meet in this life.The two chattered in the room for two hours. Seeing that it was getting dark, Jiang Feiyan and Grandpa looked at each other and smiled, knowing that the marriage was done. In the evening, Jiang Feiyan hosted a banquet in honor of her grandfather. During the meeting, Jiang Feiyan half-jokingly said, "Grandfather has passed his age, so he never thought about making a marriage for himself?" The grandfather shook his head with a wry smile, and sighed: "The great cause has not been achieved, the achievements will not be achieved, the fame will not be achieved, and thirty years of desolation will not be discussed." After Jiang Feiyan listened, a trace of disappointment flashed in her eyes. One month later, Huang Farong married "Mu Zilian" from "Yue Hai Tang".Although she was not her biological daughter, after four years of getting along, Jiang Feiyan hid in the house and cried secretly on the day Huang Farong got married. The East School and the South School tied the knot, and people from the West School and the North School also came to congratulate each other. This incident has also become a good story in the "Jiang Xiang School".