Hei Wa's return to his hometown to worship his ancestors caused a shock in the original area. At dawn, Hei Wa and his wife Gao Yufeng got up from the county town and took a detour to the White Deer Academy on the original slope. Mr. Zhu had already packed up and waited for a long time. The three of them were in a group.
Walking along the path between the slopes and ditches, the sky was getting brighter and brighter. Heiwa took off his military uniform and did not have a piece of silk and satin. Instead, he specially bought a home-woven homespun cloth and declared that it was not allowed to be rolled by a machine. Heiwa made it by his wife Yufeng.
He cut it with his own hands, and only the top hat on his head was made of woolen material. He became a formal and humble bachelor. He did not ride a horse or bring any guards with him. For this reason, he had disputes with Captain Zhang and Bai Xiaowen.
Captain Zhang said: "Take a follower to run errands for you." Xiaowen pointed out: "You had an opponent on the original ground before, just in case something unexpected happened." Heiwa said: "Mr. Zhu will lead the way and guide the troops who are stronger than a division."
In the afternoon, Heiwa and his party walked to the entrance of Bailu Village and saw Bai Xiaowu leading a dozen people waiting there to greet them. They quickly bowed and bowed. Entering the village from the entrance, the streets were cleanly swept, and there were still traces of brooms on the dirt road.
There were no adults except for children running around in the village alleys. Hei Wa couldn't help but feel excited when he walked into the village alleys. There were dilapidated gatehouses and earthen walls, thick elm trees, Chinese catalpa trees and so on.
The trees turned into living creatures, which made him excited. When he walked to the door of the ancestral hall, he saw Bai Jiaxuan's rickety body standing in the smoke of firecrackers, with a cane propped in front of him. Hei Wa took a few steps and knelt down with a plop.
, Gao Yufeng also knelt down, and only Mr. Zhu clasped his fists and bowed to the villagers waiting at the door. This was the highest standard welcome ceremony in Bailu Village. Bai Jiaxuan had always handled the affairs of his clan in the ancestral hall, and personally at the door
There is almost no precedent for greeting anyone.
Bai Jiaxuan leaned his crutch against the door frame, and raised Heiwa with both hands, who was lying on his knees. Heiwa was full of tears when he stood up: "Heiwa has confessed his sin." Bai Jiaxuan only had a cheerful and kind expression, and made a plea with his hands.
With Jun Xianxian's gesture, Hei Wa, Mr. Zhu and Gao Yufeng were moved to the front, and he accompanied him on the right side with a cane. He walked through the brick-paved corridor in the courtyard of the ancestral hall, and the clansmen standing on both sides and on the steps crowded around and stretched out their heads and tiptoed.
The two pieces of wood wax had been lit. Xiaowu stood beside the incense table and gave three sticks of purple incense to each person. Bai Jiaxuan lit the incense sticks, inserted them into the incense burner and bowed down: "Ancestors, surnamed Lu Zhaoqian came to pay homage to our ancestors."
Forgiveness." Heiwa's arms trembled when he lit incense on the wood wax. When he knelt down, he cried and burst into tears: "The unfilial man Zhaoqian knelt down at the knees of his ancestors, changed his mind and learned to be a good person, and begged his ancestors for forgiveness..." Mr. Zhu couldn't help crying either.
With eyes filled with tears, she stood next to Bai Jiaxuan after offering incense and bowing. Gao Yufeng finally knelt down, but Heiwa couldn't kneel down, so she kept kneeling with him. Bai Jiaxuan said in a majestic voice: "Zhaoqian, surnamed Lu, has repented and repented. Our ancestors
To be generous and virtuous, regardless of past grievances. Zhaoqian leads the army with strict discipline, which is public opinion, and he also strives for glory for his ancestors, and to show his people's feelings, he wears red——" Bai Xiaowu handed a piece of red silk to his father's hand, and Bai Jiaxuan personally draped the red silk to his father's hand.
Hei Wa's shoulder. Hei Wa kowtowed again and again, then turned around and kowtowed to all the clan members. He took a gift envelope wrapped in red silk from his wife Yufeng's hand, handed it to Bai Jiaxuan and said: "My little kindness will bring more blessings to my ancestors."
Light the scented wax." He handed the gifted silver dollar to Bai Jiaxuan's hand. Facing that stooped dog-like body, he couldn't help but tremble, and his wild voice from many years ago came to his ears again: That man's waist is so straight
Too straight...
The tribesmen dispersed one after another. Heiwa, accompanied by Bai Jiaxuan, walked slowly in the yard. When he turned around and saw the remains of the rural covenant stele inlaid on the wall, he suddenly remembered everything that had happened in the ancestral hall as the headquarters of the Agricultural Association, and felt guilty.
It was so difficult to raise his head. He wanted to ask Bai Jiaxuan to re-carve a complete set of rural covenant stone tablets at his own expense, but finally did not say it out loud. Let's talk about it later. The broken and pieced-together inscriptions made him ashamed.
Heiwa asked: "Why didn't you see my elder?" Bai Jiaxuan smiled and said: "Your elder is waiting for you in the house, in my room." When Lu San learned that his son Heiwa was going back to the original land to worship his ancestors, he expressed his order
Bai Jiaxuan's surprised attitude: "It's too late, it's too late, it's too late." He murmured indifferently. Bai Jiaxuan told Lu San to go home and clean up the house. Hei Wa must go home to take a look after his wife came back. Since his wife
After his death, Lu San took his second son Tuwa to live in the horse house. Hei Ming did not go home. Lu San shook his head: "If he wants to go home, he will go. I don't care. I don't see him either. I only have Tuwa."
Heiwa alone." Bai Jiaxuan even got angry when he couldn't persuade him: "It's unreasonable for you to refuse to accept your debt after learning from others. If you don't recognize Heiwa, I won't recognize you..." Lu San still didn't accept it.
Bai Jiaxuan said in a lively voice: "Okay, fine, I'll give you the honor." Bai Jiaxuan arranged the meeting between Lu San and Hei Wa at his own home, because Lu San firmly refused to meet Hei Wa in front of the clan members in the ancestral hall.
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Hei Wa walked into the alley of Bai Jiaxuan's house. He did not enter the gatehouse but turned into the horse stable opposite, leaving the accompanying group behind him. After walking through the doorway of the horse stable and entering the horse riding field, Hei Wa saw an old man and a young man at a glance.
While cutting grass there, the old man knelt on the ground with one leg and stuffed the grass into the mouth of the guillotine. The half-grown young man spread his legs vigorously and pressed and lifted the wide-edged guillotine. The setting sun cast a wisp of blood red over him.
The air was filled with the fragrance of green grass. Hei Wa walked to the pier and knelt down, shouting "big", tears welling up in his eyes. Lu San stopped blowing the grass and stared at his son stupidly: "Oh, you are back.
...I'm back..." Hei Wa helped his father sit on the guillotine, turned around and put his arms around his younger brother Tu Wa's shoulders: "Do you still recognize me?" Tu Wa turned his head and smiled shyly. Bai Jiaxuan instructed.
His son Xiaowu accompanied Mr. Zhu to sit in the house first. He led his black baby daughter-in-law Gao Yufeng into the horse stable and shouted loudly: "Third brother, look, my wife has come to see you too." Gao Yufeng called out.
"Big", he knelt down in front of the haystack. Lu San stared blankly at his daughter-in-law Yufeng's elegant kowtow movements, and a flash of horror suddenly flashed in his eyes. Xiao'e was stabbed in the back by him and turned around to call "big"
The voice reappeared again... Bai Jiaxuan forced Lu San and his son to leave their work and go back to the house for dinner. Lu San did not refuse or be enthusiastic, but just followed Bai Jiaxuan numbly. Hei Wa couldn't help asking: "Uncle Jiaxuan, my eldest brother
You look shaky." Bai Jiaxuan said nonchalantly: "You're old, you're very old." Lu San has become like this since the torture of ghost possession. Bai Jiaxuan didn't want to mention Xiao'e, so he further confirmed:
"People are like this when they get older. Look at me, I've become clumsy."
An unforgettable dinner was held in the bright room of Bai Jiaxuan Hall. The atmosphere gradually became more lively from the reserved one. Only Lu San's expression remained blank. Xiaoyi was impatient with the greetings and social clichés that came and went, so he came up with a fresh idea.
Son: "Brother Heiwa, you have done great things in the county and have a lot of experience. But now the people are collecting grain and recruiting men. How are you doing these days?" Before Heiwa could say anything, Bai Jiaxuan glared at Xiaoyi.
"Today we are only talking to your uncle and Heiwa brother about common things, and we don't care about other things." Mr. Zhu caught the conversation and said: "Recruiting grain and recruiting men involves every household, and it is a common thing." Bai Jiaxuan nodded, sighing.
Said: "I'm afraid that talking about these annoying things will offend Zhaoqian. I have never seen so many grains and grains being collected, and the emperor of the Qing family is not so cruel to the people..." Zhu
Mr. Xiang always talks about what is close and what is far away: "Businessmen have a saying: a ruthless heart will lead to loss."
After dinner, the twilight was dim. The rabbit baby carried the vaginal paper in a cage and led his brother Heiwa and sister-in-law Yufeng to visit their mother's grave. He whispered: "Brother, I want to go to the security group with you." Heiwa pondered for a long time.
He flatly refused and said: "Brother, don't go. You still don't understand. Besides, who will support our family when you leave?" The rabbit boy didn't insist anymore. A pile of green grass leaves and vines covered the mother's grave on the slow slope. Hei baby cried bitterly.
He almost fainted. He knelt in front of the grave for a long time and remained silent.
It was already dark when Hei Wa returned to the village. He led his wife Yufeng from east to west to visit the villagers house by house. They only passed half of the houses until late at night. In almost every house, men and women did not pay much attention to his apology, but unanimously agreed with him.
He recounted the huge disaster of the grain and levy conscription, and tested whether Camp Commander Lu could help intercede to save the baby from the levy. Hei Wa knew that he had neither the ability to save all sentient beings nor the power to recover, so he could only accept it on the surface, but sabotaged it.
It inspired him to return to his original place to worship his ancestors.
Back at Bai's house, Hei Wa declined the kang bed that Bai Jiaxuan had prepared for him. He led his wife into the dilapidated open courtyard of his house, and pulled out the bed on the kang bed in the mansion house filled with dust and rat droppings.
The quilt was piled with rags and cotton wool, and he said to Gao Yufeng affectionately: "Let's sleep on mom's kang for the night." His wife nodded happily. Heiwa said with a sour nose: "I was born on this kang...
I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep on this kang for many more times..." Yufeng kindly helped him unbutton and take off his clothes, and then lay down in the torn cotton wool. Heiwa smelled a smell of smoke and sweat, a faint
With the smell of breast milk, she said timidly with a trembling voice: "I really want to call 'Mom' right now..." Yufeng trembled all over and hugged Heiwa tightly. Heiwa lay quietly on Yufeng's pillow
His arms pressed against her chest and he calmed down...
After dawn, Hei Wa and Yu Feng continued to visit all the remaining families in Bailu Village, and finally returned to Bai Jiaxuan's horse stable and said to his father: "Build another house, and it's time to arrange a marriage for the rabbit baby."
San said: "Rabbit boy is still young." After a long pause, he continued, "As for the house... when Rabbit boy grows up, he will build it." Heiwa said: "You and Rabbit boy work together to buy wood and bricks.
, first build the house and then take care of the wife, the house is about to collapse, who dares to take the woman..." Lu San said: "I have no energy, I don't want to take care of these things." Hei Wa handed a stack of silver coins to Lu San's hand
, took a step back and said: "You can use this money for daily use first, and it's better to slow down the construction of the house." Lu San poured a handful of silver dollars into Hei Wa's hand, and said indifferently: "If you want to give money, you give it to Tu Wa. I
No need for money." Heiwa hesitated and handed the money to Tuwa. Later in the afternoon, he and Yufeng set off back to the county. Mr. Zhu left early in the morning. Some people waited with great interest to see if Heiwa would go to the east of the village.
They finally got an unsatisfactory ending, and Heiwa did not go. But some people still whispered that when Heiwa visited the folks at the east end of the village, he would definitely be able to see the cliff top.
The six-sided pagoda suppressing Xiao'e.
On the night when Hei Wa left Bailu Village, Bai Jiaxuan said to Xiaowu in the upper room: "Anyone who is born on the Kang foot in Bailu Village, as long as he is a human being, will kneel down in the ancestral hall sooner or later." Bai Xiaowu
Gong Li listened. After Bai Jiaxuan smoked a pot of hookah, he suddenly changed the subject and said, "I think you still have to go into the mountains." Bai Xiaowu couldn't react for a moment and looked at his father doubtfully. Bai Jiaxuan said, "Weren't you a few days ago?"
Did they ask you to be the security chief?" Bai Xiaowu nodded repeatedly and said, "I have been busy these days welcoming my uncle and brother Zhaoqian back home. This afternoon, Director Tian bumped into me in the town and asked me about it.
What should I do? I can't push it away, and I can't take it. Now I am the security chief, and I have just kept up with the food collection and recruitment, and I hate the people of the Xiangdang clan. Besides, I have the vacancy of Uncle Zilin.
Worse..." Bai Jiaxuan nodded and praised Xiaowu and said, "Oh, you can think about everything. I just said, go into the mountain again." Bai Xiaowu said, "It's better to hide." Bai Jiaxuan said, "Don't talk about the security chief.
, we won’t even give him the chance to be the chief of staff. Whoever he wants to take the job can take the job. We won’t take the responsibility. Hurry up and stay away from Tian Fuxian and ask you again. I’ll tell you that the pharmacy in the mountain is bad.
You go and close the stall..." Bai Xiaowu agreed repeatedly: "Yes, yes, that's good. Then I will withdraw early tomorrow morning to avoid causing trouble." Bai Jiaxuan stood up and said, "Go and clean up, go to bed early and get up early. I
I still want to talk to your third uncle."
Bai Jiaxuan walked into the horse house with a bottle of wine: "Third brother, let's take a sip together." After saying that, he pushed the bottle on the bed and said to the rabbit boy, "Rabbit boy, you go mix the grass and change your father's
Come down." Lu San walked to the kang indifferently and took a sip from the bottle. Bai Jiaxuan said bluntly: "Third brother, you are too indifferent to Heiwa this time." Lu San did not say a word. Bai Jiaxuan said: "Many years ago
Hei Wa is not doing the right thing, and I agree with you that you can't see him. Now that Hei Wa has learned his lesson, you should stop holding on. You should cheer up and live your life, build a house first, and then buy a few acres of good land, and then come down and spread it for Tu Wa.
Wife, next year you should go home and be a good farmer." Lu San didn't raise his head and took another sip of wine. After three glasses of wine, he finally said: "Jiaxuan, what you said is right.
Yes, I can think of it too. I want to cheer up, but the energy just can't come out." Bai Jiaxuan said: "I know Hei Wa has lost your heart and lost your face, but now Hei Wa has made up for your heart.
, I’m trying to show off to you.” After hearing this, Lu San sighed: “What I’m telling you is exactly the time when that bastard, a rebel, was fighting with me. I was so motivated that this kid changed his mind.
On the contrary, I feel that I have lost all my energy and energy..." Bai Jiaxuan said very strangely: "Third brother, you probably only think about things smoothly... If you think about it again, maybe it will rise.
Keep your spirits up..." Lu San said, "I'm afraid it will be difficult."
After more than ten days, Lu San not only couldn't get up and down, but also felt more and more gray and cold. Bai Jiaxuan also found that Lu San continued to retreat, his movements became more hesitant and weary, and he often walked around in circles looking for his hand.
He was holding a stirring stick or a water ladle. He thought of the ghost of Xiao'e. People said that the soul was taken away by a ghost. It was probably like this dull and dull look, because after that disaster, Lu San
They were completely different. Not only did Heiwa's return not cheer up Lu San, but he became even more atrophied and dull. This was a strange thing that he didn't expect or think through. Two days later, Bai Jiaxuan was smoking alone in the room.
The baby came in and said: "Uncle, I asked you to go drink, he has good wine." Bai Jiaxuan immediately got up and followed the rabbit to the horse. Lu San invited him to drink, which was an unprecedented first time. About the third brother's
The energy in his heart was overflowing. Lu San pulled out a bottle of wine from a small box at the end of the kang and shook it: "Jiaxuan, take a sip of this good wine - Xifeng." His voice and movements completely returned to their original state.
That Lu San. Bai Jiaxuan was in high spirits: "Okay, Third Brother, I said you will cheer up. See how it goes." Lu San really changed his dull and dull expression for a long time, and was filled with a strong and confident look, his eyes
The brilliance of concentration and sincerity reappeared in it. Bai Jiaxuan was suddenly inspired: "Third brother, I am alone and you are alone. I am sleeping with you tonight." Lu San laughed: "You don't
If you think I'm getting dirty on the kang, your words are enough for me. Let's have a drink." The two of them drank and talked until late at night. They were drunk, and they randomly pulled the quilt and lay down on Lu San's kang to fall asleep.
When the sky was dim, Bai Jiaxuan woke up and saw that Lu San had fallen on the floor under the kang. His body was already stiff. He touched the root of his nose and found that he had already held his breath. Bai Jiaxuan's knees softened and he threw himself on Lu San, with tears streaming down his face:
"One of the best long-term workers in Bailuyuan has passed away."