Lu Zilin was released from prison and returned to Bailu Village. When he walked through the village lanes, he didn't meet any clan members. When he walked straight to the door of his house, he could hardly recognize it. That beautiful house was unique in Bailu Village.
The gatehouse is gone, as is the gatehouse bought from Bai Xiaowen and moved from the demolished site of Bai Jiaxuan's house. The two bluestone lions that served as the gate pillars of the gatehouse are lying crookedly under the gables of the mansion. The address of the demolished house
The seedlings of the Chinese chrysanthemum tree that sprouted from the ground had already crossed the wall. Lu Zilin lowered his hands and stood on the ground of broken tiles and broken reed foil, thinking of the scene of demolishing the house from Bai Jiaxuan's house. The woman Lu He came from the upper room.
He came out of the back room, walked to the steps and saw the man standing on the ruins. He almost fell down when he ran out of the second door on his little feet. After regaining his feet, he said: "His father, don't feel bad. I am the gatekeeper who saved you."
You sold it." Lu Zilin said loudly: "You sold it right and sold it well. Isn't this house just a trivial matter of buying and selling?"
"Don't you remember what Mr. Zhu said, 'House is a sign and the place is tired, and saving money is a reminder.' Now we have no sign, no tiredness, and no reminder. As long as you come back in full." Lu.
Mrs. He poured tea and passed cigarettes while giving the man some comfort. During the years when Lu Zilin was in charge of the family, she was not allowed to have anything to say about the family's internal and external affairs. Her function was only to raise her two sons. Zhaopeng and Zhaohai
At a young age, her husband sent her to study at Bailu Academy, far away from home. She knelt down in front of the Buddhist shrine in panic and silence, and burned incense in the morning and evening. Later, her interest focused on attending temple fairs.
She remembered the gathering dates of the big temples and small temples accurately. No matter whether it was windy or rainy, she would send a wax paper table to each priest. At first, it was just out of her own interest, and it was not without the element of fun and fun.
Later, it became an urgent psychological need and she became very pious. She knelt down silently in front of Buddha, Guanyin, Bodhisattva, Medicine Prince, Guan Diye, and Ma Prince, and prayed to various gods to protect her two sons who were at the junction of life and death...
…When Lu Zilin was imprisoned and had to make her own decisions, Lu He showed decisiveness and ability that were rare among ordinary men. She hid her old grandpa and Lu Zilin in a cow trough without consulting any relatives or friends.
She dug out the yellow and white goods from between the cracks in the wall and under the roots of the toon tree, and gave the silver coins with green spots wiped off and the still yellow gold bars to those who were worried about her husband's life and death. Not only did she not sigh and feel sad, but she was alone.
Kaixin said: "Let me tell you, these things have always been hidden like bricks and tiles, but now they are put to use." She then sold livestock and fields, sold the gatehouse and concierge, fired Liu Mouer, the long-time worker, and put everything into use.
Money was given to court judges, county magistrates and jailers time and time again, indirectly or directly. Only a gold brick given to the county party secretary Yue Weishan bounced back. As long as Lu Zilin still squatted in the dark room of the county jail for a day,
She was ready to sell out all the property until there was not even a stick of wormwood left. "I just want people." Her idea was firm and simple, and she did not look forward or backward at all, even though this man had experienced
The romantic affair that makes women most jealous, but Lu Zilin cannot live without Lu Zilin in this family. Her youngest son has been killed in the battle, and her eldest son has disappeared. If Lu Zilin is no longer around, what kind of job will she have, no matter in Bailu Village?
Even in the whole Bailuyuan, she believed that Lu Zilin's half-pull ass was more useful than her whole face. Just like she had prayed to gods and worshiped Buddha everywhere in the past, she finally moved the gods of the Republic of China government and rescued the man Lu Zilin. Everywhere
The social activities of running to rescue men broadened her horizons and changed her temperament. She even surprised Lu Zilin and said: "Of all the gods I have prayed to in Zishui County, only Secretary Yue is a vegetarian."
The true God who doesn’t eat meat.”
Lu Zilin was not surprised by his wife's explanation and asked calmly: "To whom did you sell the concierge and gatehouse?" Lu He said: "It's a sale anyway, it doesn't matter who you sell it to." Lu Zilin said: "That's true.
.I just want to know who bought my house." Lu He said: "Who else can afford it?
Instead, he snorted and laughed: "Let me tell you, this house was bought, sold, moved, and demolished...it was just like that." He thought of the feat of demolishing the house from the Bai family homestead, and felt that
It's ridiculous, and the Bai family's retaliation for moving this house back is also ridiculous. "Isn't it just a matter of moving around?" Lu Zilin has been in prison for more than two years, and he has no control over all state affairs.
All the excitement in family affairs has been lost. One of the two sons has died, the other has flown away, and there is no descendant left. What is the use of having a huge family fortune if he suffocates to death in this house that has not seen the light of day for many years?
In the house, the Lu family was completely ruined immediately. He said to his wife: "Do you still have two acres of land left?" Mr. Lu He said: "Just the land of the waterwheel well is left unsold. I can't bear to sell it to you."
"The waterwheel." Lu Zilin's heart jumped sharply: "Oh, please leave these acres of water land enough for you and me to eat a bowl of rice."
When it got dark, people from the same village began to come to visit Lu Zilin. Most of them were elderly people. They came sporadically to say hello, and then told sadly about the donations donated by the arresting faction.
In agony, he loudly cursed the successor of the security guard, the joint security director of the alliance and even Chairman Chiang, they were all inhuman beasts; in comparison, the years when Lu Zilin was the township leader and later when he was the security chief were really terrible.
Okay. Lu Zilin learned about the major changes he had made since leaving Bailu Village, and also received some psychological comfort. This kind of visit with fellow villagers lasted for three days, including old and new relatives of the Lu family in Yuanshang also came to visit one after another.
After that, Lu Zilin was impatient to repeat his grievances to them again and again. On the third night, Bai Jiaxuan came with a cane. When he entered the door, he threw away the cane and raised his fists: "Brother Zilin, I want to express my gratitude to you."
I apologize, I shouldn't have taken advantage of others' danger to buy and demolish a house." Lu Zilin still smiled indifferently: "The house in the world is just a matter of me moving here and you moving again." Lu He said: "Brother, sit down quickly.
Next. I am looking for you to sell the house, not you looking for me to buy it. You bought the house and I got the money to save the house. I should be grateful for your kindness." Bai Jiaxuan sat down and said, "According to my law.
"Cheng, I can't buy your house. Xiaowen intervened to buy it, and I can't stop him. I can't help him when he's older." Bai Jiaxuan said frankly: "Xiaowen sold you the house that year, and now he wants to get it back."
Even though he is my son, I still want to expose this layer to you." Lu Zilin was no longer interested in this house: "Brother Jiaxuan, I sat in prison for a while and then I understood the world.
I don’t want to be competitive anymore. I bought Xiaowen’s house and hurt the Bai family’s face. Xiaowen bought it back and hurt the Lu family’s face. If we retaliate, we will lose everything.” Bai Jiaxuan sighed:
"Why are you talking about old millet and rotten rice now? Things in this world are so blind that they can no longer be blind..." Lu Zilin said: "It doesn't matter if it's blind or not, I don't care about it. If you plant two acres of land, you will have a bowl of glutinous rice."
Just drink it." Bai Jiaxuan looked at Lu Zilin's completely indifferent expression and felt sincere sympathy in his heart. In Lu Zilin's lonely family situation, no matter how strong-minded a person is, he can't muster the energy.
.When he said goodbye and went out, he said: "Don't just stay in the house. Come and sit at my place when you have free time."
Until the sixth day after he returned home, Tian Fuxian still didn't come to see him. Lu Zilin laughed to himself and said: "Except for myself, there is no one I can rely on in the world." Tian Fuxian was many of him.
It would be heartless not to come and see him after he had been a close friend for many years after he returned from prison for more than two years. However, he was not angry at all. The situation of growing two acres of land and drinking corn grits, and Tian Fuxian
There is little relationship between contact and non-contact.
What broke Lu Zilin's dull mood was an absolutely unexpected person. A young woman wearing a cheongsam led a boy into the yard and asked: "Is this Lu Zhaohai's home?" Lu Zilin stood there
He replied on the steps: "Yes." The woman asked: "Are you from Zhaohai -" Lu Zilin said: "I am his father." The woman then knelt down on the wet square tiles in the courtyard with a plop: "
Dad, my daughter-in-law kowtows to you." Lu Zilin asked in surprise: "Whose daughter-in-law are you?" The woman raised her face soaked with tears and said, "I am Zhaohai's daughter-in-law. This is your grandson." Lu Zilin "
"Oh!" With a exclamation, he put aside the hookah in his hand. When he jumped down the steps, he kicked away a cloth shoe that was holding the heel. He quickly picked up the evasive child in his arms and cried out:
"My dear balls, my dear grandchildren..."
When Mr. Lu He came back from the door, Lu Zilin said to his daughter-in-law: "This is your mother." Zhaohai's daughter-in-law knelt down and kowtowed again. Lu Zilin cried and smiled and said: "This is our Zhaohai's daughter-in-law..."
This is your biological grandson..." Mr. Luhe dropped the firewood basket on his arm in a daze, rushed forward, held his daughter-in-law in his arms and cried bitterly.
The daughter-in-law spoke with an accent that was mixed between Henan and Shaanxi and told her grandparents about her experience. She lives in Jinguan City in the north, and her father is a coal digger. She met the team on the way home from shopping for vegetables at the vegetable market, and that’s when Lu Zhaohai saw him
She walked home, and Lu Zhaohai sent a guard to follow her. He followed her to the door and then turned away. After a while, Lu Zhaohai followed the guard to the entrance of her cave dwelling and proposed to her parents.
They can give whatever they want as a betrothal gift. When her father saw that he was an officer, he didn't dare to ask for a penny. He just said: "Sir, I don't want money, as long as you don't kick my baby off in the middle of the road."
Zhaohai bought a private house in Jinguan City, and she got married to him. She asked him why he didn't marry a well-matched rich girl when he was an official as the head of a regiment, but he chose to marry Lu, a girl from a poor village.
Zhaohai said: "I saw at a glance that you looked like a god to the wife I had originally arranged for."
When Lu Zilin heard this story that was too bizarre, he suspected that she was probably a spy. In order to encircle and suppress the Communist Party in Yan'an, the government continued to send more troops to the north, and the prostitution industry in Jinguan City also developed rapidly. Lu Zilin said he didn't care about it.
He asked in a probing tone: "Zhaohai... I have never been engaged before." After saying this, he pretended to look at his wife with a dazed expression. Luhe immediately confirmed what her husband said: "Zhaohai went out to study since he was a child, and people don't want to give him anything at home.
Engagement." The daughter-in-law also stared in confusion and said: "But he said he had been engaged, and the woman's name was... Lingling." Lu Zilin was stunned for a moment, then turned his head and glanced at Mr. Lu He, and continued to pretend to be dumbfounded.
He said: "No." Then he changed to a thoughtful tone: "That may be him...making a private contract for life outside..." The daughter-in-law did not speak again. Lu Zilin carefully observed his daughter-in-law's eyebrows again, and then he was surprised.
I found that she did resemble Bai Jiaxuan's woman named Lingling, so I believed that what she just told about her marriage to Zhaohai was not a lie.
The daughter-in-law proposed to visit Zhaohai's grave. Lu Zilin was entangled by the endless stream of relatives and villagers, and could not spare the time to pay homage to his ancestor's grave for several days after returning home, so he led his daughter-in-law to carry his grandson to the cemetery.
I haven't visited my ancestor's grave for more than two years. A few evergreen cypress trees in winter and summer seem to have changed little. The overflowing tangerine trees and oak trees have formed a dense fortress. In the grass outside the trees, there are dry and smelly trees.
The smelly fresh shit makes it impossible for people to insert their feet. Obviously, this dense and airtight bush provides convenience to pedestrians passing by and men and women working in the fields. When taking off their pants to defecate, they can not only hide their ugly face, but also enjoy the shade.
Lu Zilin's nose had already entered the smell of feces and urine, and his face turned yellow with anger. "Damn it, when I was in the village, dogs didn't dare to come here to poop; I, Lu Zilin, am unlucky.
He was imprisoned, and his ancestral tomb became an official hut for the original master." Thinking of his daughter-in-law who had just returned home next to him, Lu Zilin suppressed the bursts of anger and anger that surged up from the bottom of his heart, and tried to act as a generous elder to express his gratitude.
The daughter-in-law and grandson introduced that that was your grandfather's grave and this was your grandfather's grave. He led her from the east side of the cemetery to the west side, and there was a solitary one under the old tombs of her ancestors.
He stood in front of Zhaohai's grave. This was Zhaohai's grave. There was a pool of excrement on the half-man-high bluestone in front of the tomb. The dried excrement flowed down from the top of the monument and covered half of the surface.
It can be seen that the prankster did not hesitate to climb to the top of the monument to pee and urinate. Lu Zilin could no longer suppress his anger, dropped his grandson in his arms to the ground, ran to the official road, jumped and cursed: "Let Japan
People broke into Tongguan, drove to Bailuyuan, raped all the women there, and killed all the men. All the men and women in Bailuyuan were shameless and had no heart. They should kill all my sons.
You risked your life and went out to Tongguan to fight against Japan, but what you defended was a group of scoundrels who pissed on your face..." The daughter-in-law dragged the crazy grandpa back to the cemetery from the official road. Lu Zilin
He was so angry that he sat in front of the grave and breathed heavily. His daughter-in-law squatted in front of Zhaohai's stone monument and used a branch to scrape off the dried feces on the surface of the monument. Then she took out a bottle of shochu from the cage to wash away the stains and the handwriting became brighter again.
Get up. She cleared a clean space in front of the grave, took out candles and purple incense from the cage and lit them, then inserted them into the ground. Then she burned the Yin paper, then she knelt on the ground and poured out the rest of the soju in the bottle.
After laying the libation in front of the tomb, he opened his throat and burst into tears. Lu Zilin looked at his daughter-in-law's pious behavior and pushed his grandson to the ground: "My son, kowtow to your father." The grandson burst into tears. Lu Zilin held his hand tightly.
The grandson held him in his arms and said loudly with tears in his eyes: "You still can't pretend to be a turtle. If you pretend to be a turtle, a dog would dare to poop on your head..."
My daughter-in-law stayed at home for three days and helped her mother-in-law cook three meals a day. The first bowl of rice she scooped out of the pot was dedicated to her grandfather. Every evening she would go to the cemetery to burn a pile of paper for Zhaohai and cry for a while.
It was not until the third night that she told her grandpa and grandma what she was thinking. She had decided to remarry, and the man was a businessman. Before she decided to marry this businessman, she had already rejected no less than a dozen matchmaking offers.
Relatives and friends; she abided by the only responsibility she could fulfill for her dead husband: raising the children, and not letting Zhaohai's children accept any bad or even good impression of their stepfather. She took out a pile of silver dollars and a lot of paper bills.
He came out and handed it to his grandfather and said: "My mother and I have spent a lot on the pension that Zhaohai left during his lifetime and was given to me by the team after his death. This is all that is left..." Lu Zilin refused to accept it, and Lu He
Lu Zilin forced it back into his daughter-in-law's carrier bag. The daughter-in-law said: "Zhaohai spent all his money on his only child..." The daughter-in-law left the next morning, and the child was still sleeping soundly when she left. Lu Zilin told his wife to take care of him.
The grandson, who was sleeping soundly, walked his daughter-in-law to the main road at the entrance of the village. He was a little reluctant to let go of this good wife.