A Lucky Little Girl Crawls Out of the Rain-Calling Cauldron at the Wu Zhou Sacrifice

[Alternate-History Zhou Dynasty + Everyone's Beloved + Adorable Baby + Daughter of Fortune + Everyday Infrastructure-Building + Healing + No Romance + Not a Saint]

In the first year of the Wuzhou Chang'an era, the land has suffered three years of drought. A thousand miles lie barren, and the dead are strewn across the countryside.

Empress Wu Zetian personally leads her officials to the Fengshan Altar, burns incense, and offers sacrifices to Heaven in the Nine Tripod Cauldrons, begging the heavens for rain.

But then

Thunder roars, and the oldest of the nine cauldrons, the Shennong Cauldron, suddenly explodes!

When the dust clears, a chubby little baby with soft, fair skin and plump lotus-root limbs is sitting in the shattered cauldron, looking baffled as she chews on her toes.

“...Goo?”

The entire court is stunned into silence.

The Empress: “...”

Is this the auspicious sign Heaven has bestowed upon me?

From that day on, Wuzhou has a beloved little baby.

Wherever the baby points, rain falls. The crops in every field she crosses shoot up three feet. The day after she touches a barren mountain, a spring bursts forth.

Di Renjie strokes his beard. “She is a daughter of fortune sent by Heaven, a blessing to the Wuzhou realm.”

Shangguan Wan'er refuses to put the baby down. “Your Majesty, I think Her Highness looks even fairer today.”