When Lu Zilin returned home, he heard the child's cry. The cry was a cry of angry resistance and despair, shaking the whole house. It gave him a trace of sadness and a sense of life.
; The desolate and decadent atmosphere in this house with the gatehouse removed was suddenly diluted by childish cries full of life. He could not maintain the slow and leisurely pace he had been doing since returning home from prison.
He hurriedly ran into the back room of the upper room, took the grandson who was thrashing about from Luhe's arms, and used an instinctive tenderness to get close and coddle his grandson. The grandson refused all gentle words of intimacy, and he refused both grandma and grandpa.
Wisps of tenderness came closer, but they just mustered up the strength to cry and howl "Oh my god...". The old couple had no choice but to move their grandson back and forth. The father died and the mother's grandson was gone. From today on, he will have no choice.
The miserable life journey of a fatherless and motherless person. Lu Zilin looked at his grandson's eyes that were so full of tears that he suddenly hugged his grandson and Mr. Lu He and cried: "My poor grandson..." Mr. Lu He had already
Tears streamed down his face, and now he couldn't help but burst into tears. The grandson gradually slowed down his cries amidst the cries of the two old people, and finally stopped helplessly, just choking.
Then the relationship between the old man and the child began to get closer and closer, from shallow to deep, from stiff to natural. When Lu Zilin stood, he put his grandson on his neck and rocked him, and when he lay down, he pulled his grandson to ride on his.
On my belly, I would recollect the nursery rhymes that I had deep in my mind and teach them to my grandson sentence by sentence, often making me laugh out loud because of the sentences my children read out of tune. Sometimes my grandson would be having fun and suddenly ask: "Where's mom?"
Lin said seriously and nonchalantly: "You are a sea monster and you jumped into the sea." The grandson gradually showed his solid attachment and trust to his grandfather and grandmother. Lu Zilin said to Lu He: "Look at the eyes of this broken bear.
It’s really the Lu family’s bloodline, not even a trace of fake.” Mr. Lu He took a dig at Lu Zilin, then kissed his grandson’s deep and sunken eyes with long eyelashes with his mouth, and muttered: “I won’t listen to your father’s death.”
What nonsense you are talking about." Lu Zilin turned around and was about to go out. His grandson rushed over and asked his grandfather to lead him to play. Lu Zilin coaxed the child and said, "I am not going for a stroll, so I can't lead you. I am doing serious business, so let my baby go.
——I want steamed buns to eat.”
Lu Zilin walked into the Bailu Joint Insurance Office. Because he was so familiar here in the past, it seemed strange now. He walked straight to the door of Tian Fuxian's office, pushed open the door panel reservedly, stopped, and saw Tian Fuxian bowing his head on the table.
What was written? Tian Fuxian raised his bright head, a flash of surprise flashed across his big eyes, and then he smiled: "Brother Zilin, I know you are back." Lu Zilin responded angrily:
"I'm lucky enough to still come to see you." Tian Fuxian apologized quickly: "I want to see you every day, but I haven't gone every day. This batch of strong men is not in good hands, it's really embarrassing." Lu Zilin said angrily
Said: "Of course, I'm busy with work." Tian Fuxian smiled without any concern, and pulled Lu Zilin, who was standing at the door, into the inner room: "If you have something to say, let's talk about it. What are you going to do when you come back?" Lu Zilin said in a sly tone
He said: "Now that my family is ruined, people are dead, and all my property has been sold, how can I still have a bowl of glutinous rice flour to drink morning and night?" Tian Fuxian said, "I'll give it to you before you come back."
I've dug a nest for you to stand on. I want to use you, but you can be cool with me." Lu Zilin's heart moved, and he immediately replied: "What can I do with my current posture?"
Tian Fuxian said: "Just come to the joint security office and help me." Lu Zilin did not say a word...
It can be said that Lu Zilin came from a bad person when he walked into the UN Security Office today. From the first day he was pushed into the cell, he first thought that the only person who could save him was Tian Fuxian. As long as Tian Fuxian came to defend him to death in front of Yue Weishan, he would definitely not be able to save him.
He could go home after half a month. He spent two years and eight months squatting before all his expectations for Tian Fuxian were gone. After he came back, he learned that half of the entire property was given to the bribe recipient by the Luhe family through Tian Fuxian.
... This became a conscience account that could not be guessed and verified. He smiled bitterly and said to Mr. Lu He: "You give the yellow goods and the white goods to this and that, but it is not as good as giving them all to Tian Fuxian. Tian Fuxian went to Yue Weishan and said something
Maybe the ten sentences spoken by the provincial chairman are better than what the provincial chairman said." Lu Zilin came to see Tian Fuxian today and it depends on how he talks. If he talks well, he will be easy to talk to; if he talks badly, he will be ready to act like a rogue, and would rather act like a rogue.
Don't pretend to be pitiful and beg Tian Fuxian; Tian Fuxian is a good brother, and Lu Zilin is also a brother; if Tian Fuxian is not loyal, Lu Zilin will play like a scoundrel and piss on Tian Fuxian to show him. Looking at Tian Fuxian's sincere words
With this move, Lu Zilin gave up the idea of playing rogue and pretending to be a dead dog, and began to pay attention to his words: "Ah, I don't want to be an official anymore, I don't want to jump in front of people anymore..." Tian Fuxian took out a red silk bag from the drawer and solemnly said
Put it in front of Lu Zilin: "You left, my sister-in-law was so anxious that she asked me to stuff black food for others, so she also stuffed it for me. If I didn't accept it, she didn't believe it. Okay, I will return the jade to Zhao intact today." Lu Zilin grabbed it with his hands.
He felt that there were both white goods and yellow goods in the red silk bag, and slammed it onto the table in front of Tian Fuxian: "Brother, aren't you looking down on me?" Tian Fuxian said calmly and plainly: "If I want you,
Do I still have the nerve to see you? Take it back quickly, I saved some family property for you." Lu Zilin began to regret the villainous view he had when he entered the door just now, and was glad that he did not act like a rogue and pretend to be dead.
The dog is coming. Tian Fuxian said: "You can come and get in touch tomorrow. I'm so busy that I can't handle it anymore. I urgently need a capable person to help." Lu Zilin nodded and agreed, and naturally thought of the little grandson. I gave it to Sun Wa.
I got some white steamed buns and ate them.
Lu Zilin came to work at the Joint Security Office with great momentum. However, he did not come the next day as Tian Fuxian said, but postponed it for two days. During these two days, Lu Zilin went to Xi'an, the provincial capital, to buy
He bought an authentic Ningxia nine-curved leather jacket, a real foxtail collar, a pair of gold-plated hard-legged stone glasses, and a black woolen top hat. His original outfit was given away by Lu He.
The pawn shop. Lu Zilin's attire suddenly changed the unlucky look of being slovenly and slovenly after two years of prison life, and he became energetic. When Lu Zilin went to the joint security office, he passed by Bailu Town and happened to bump into Bai Jiaxuan. Bai Jiaxuan's
Wearing a cane and walking out of Mr. Leng's traditional Chinese medicine hall, he raised his face and asked: "Zilin, what are you doing wearing such a fancy dress?" Lu Zilin became reserved: "Director Tian forced me to work for him at the joint, and I can't refuse.
"Bai Jiaxuan looked at Lu Zilin's back and said: "I eat Xiangka when I am an official."
Bai Jiaxuan ran the family more cautiously than ever before. In the first year of the big campaign for donations, he asked Xiaowu to hide in the mountains to run a traditional Chinese medicine purchase store, not to avoid being drafted himself, but to avoid being drafted by the general manager.
and the Bao Zhang. The subsequent evolution of things completely confirmed his prediction. The Chief A and the Chief Chief became the two frustrated rats in the bellows. The neighbors of the same village cursed them face to face for causing harm to people and not being able to recruit enough strong men to harvest them.
Those who did not donate enough were reprimanded and even beaten with willow sticks by the security guards of the joint security office. As soon as a group of strong men and a group of tax collectors came down, the first to flee were often the chiefs and chiefs of each village... In the end, it was generally implemented in all villages in the original area.
It was a phenomenon that people took turns to serve as chiefs and chiefs from house to house. At that time, Bai Jiaxuan was interested in making a joke: "Of all the officials in China, only the chief is the gentleman who pushes back and forth."
Bai Jiaxuan paid taxes and produced another son. His third son, Xiaoyi, was the first batch of young men to join the army. He followed the troops to Henan and fought in a battle. He survived without losing a single hair and only lost a hair.
His fear and curiosity about war suddenly gave rise to a deep-rooted aversion to war. He saw so many dead people, his own and the enemy's corpses staggered and stacked on top of each other, which reminded him of the wheat sheaves in the fields during the wheat harvest.
Son. The stubbornness he was born with surged up from the bottom of his heart: This is all for a reason. He has just grown into a young man and has not exerted any strength. He fell down with a "bang" and took the food.
After the account is settled, I don’t want to settle other people’s food bills, and I don’t want others to settle mine. I don’t want to become a wheat sheaf, and I don’t want others to become wheat sheaves. I’d better go back to plant crops, feed livestock, and bully cattle.
It was better to ride on the cotton gin. He took advantage of a dark night to escape, and fled for nearly two months before returning to his hometown. Instead of returning to where he came from, he found Xiaowen, the eldest brother of the county security group. Xiaowen asked his entourage to bring him a set of group uniforms.
He changed it. Xiaoyi said: "I can't stand the job of playing with guns. Brother, please find another job for me." Xiaowen said: "Then you go and feed the horses." Xiaoyi said: "The job of feeding the horses is
My son is good. My uncle and I have learned this since we were young." Xiaoyi spent more than half a month feeding horses in the security team, and was called home by his father who came after hearing the news: "Everyone in our family has become a security team.
La." A few days later, when the young men were sent down, both the commander and the security chief walked around Bai Jiaxuan's gate. Bai Jiaxuan was puzzled. He deliberately stopped the security chief in the village lane and asked: "How many will you send to me this time?" The security chief unexpectedly asked.
He opened his eyes wide and said flatteringly: "Mr. Bai, why are you confused? You are an exempt household." Bai Jiaxuan was really confused: "Exempt household" the security guard said: "Yes, yes, you specifically said it to me in the letter,
You are exempted from the tax. Brother Xiaowen told Director Lian Shangtian that he is very qualified to serve in the security team. And Tuwa... His brother Heiwa is exempted from the tax in the same situation as brother Xiaowen, so you can call him
Don't run or hide, rabbit, no one dares to hit you two..."
Bai Jiaxuan was a little embarrassed at first. The exempted households undoubtedly relied on the special protection obtained by Xiaowen's power, which would put him in a special position in front of his tribe and even the original. He told Mr. Leng about this unexpected good thing:
"It's good to be an official. If you want to be an official, I will be exempted from the household tax." Mr. Leng said: "Why don't you do this? Whether you pay or not, it's all bullshit.
No matter how much you paid, Dingka, you still threw your money into the pit and turned this bear country into a bear..." These cold words calmed Bai Jiaxuan's mood. The next day, he summoned the clan members who had not escaped at home to the ancestral hall:
"Fathers and brothers, from today onwards, apart from honoring your ancestors on the first day of the new year, you will not seek Xiaowu or me for anything. There is no need to explain the reason. I can't change the current situation in the world, so you can take care of yourself...
"
Xiaowen then bought the concierge and gatehouse of the Lu Zilin family. Bai Jiaxuan was firmly opposed to this matter. Bai Xiaowen went to Mr. Leng and said, "Mr. Uncle, I sold this house to the Lu family through you as the middleman, and now it is still there."
I need you to be the middleman and then redeem it. I will demolish the house demolished by the Lu family and bring it back... You can understand what I mean." Mr. Leng said cheerfully: "You will save your face. You have the guts, young man.
"
Xiaowen returned to the original homestead from the security team and lived for half a month. He first negotiated the purchase of a house, and then persuaded his father to allow him to build a house on the original homestead. Bai Jiaxuan still insisted on his original idea: "If you want to buy a house, I can't stop you. You want to
When it comes to building a house... I still say the same old saying, if you set up a separate village and build a new house, it will not work if the three brothers squeeze into the same gatehouse." Bai Xiaowen completely revealed his thoughts: "Dad, what you said is that the three brothers squeeze into the same courtyard.
No one can stretch out their hands and feet. I have to wait two years to build another house. I am too busy at the moment. When the world is peaceful, I plan to build a courtyard with all my heart, so that I can have a nest when I retire and return to my hometown. This time I insist on it.
Buying back the house I sold and rebuilding it will be considered as atonement for my ancestors. The house is for you and Xiaowu Xiaoyi, and I don’t want it..."
Until Lu Zilin's three gatehouses and the beautiful gatehouse were moved to the Bai family's homestead and the old layout was re-erected, the Sanheyuan became an airtight and complete quadrangle again. Xiaowen took over the two children born to his ex-wife.
The younger son continues to go to school in the county town, and the eldest son joins the security corps as a corps member. He and his young stepmother developed an irreversible hatred at the first meeting. In the security corps, he became a more naughty coaxer than a company platoon leader.
He coaxed members of the special gang to gamble with women and smoke cigarettes in the county. He stole flour and guns from the security team in exchange for "pao'er" pleasure, and then stole the private treasures of his father and stepmother. Bai Xiaowen only found out about his son after his belongings were stolen.
After the son was born, Xiao Wen was in a close relationship with Xiao'e and almost never hugged him. After the woman starved to death, the son was raised by his grandmother.
, and Xiaowen were strangers to each other. After his son escaped, Xiaowen didn't even look for him. He said to his colleagues lightly: "Maybe he will be a teacher when we meet again."
Bai Jiaxuan was no longer able to care about his grandson's affairs. The courtyard maintained a peaceful place in the war-torn Bailuyuan. Not only were young men exempted, but all kinds of taxes were also exempted. Many villages in the original area had one or several such exempted households.
Household tax exemption. Rich and powerful families obtained tax-exempt households through various channels and means, which not only avoided the loss of human and financial resources, but also became a special honor. Bai Jiaxuan was very clear-headed and treated Xiaoyi and Lu San’s son Tu
The child said: "Exemption from taxation is a good thing but also a blind thing. Do you understand? Don't be arrogant in front of others. This world can save your own life." He began to develop a habit of reminiscing about the past, and he always taught and disciplined the children.
Recalling the past: "How many people died of starvation, whether it was severe or not, but it passed in just over a year. How many people died when the plague was blooming at both ends, but it passed in less than half a year.
. Pushing forward, are the Crow Soldiers powerful? They ran away without stopping for a year. These disasters are not serious compared to the current world. You see, from that year to the present
, How many young people in our village have gone out and never come back. The number of people who have sold land, houses, collapsed and closed their homes is still increasing. The terrible thing is that there is no end to this kind of life." Xiaoyi consciously takes responsibility at home. First, his brothers do not
It's his turn at home, and secondly, he has already married a wife and become an adult. The combination of his stubborn nature and upright temper not only reflects the traditional family style of the Bai family, but he also often goes to extremes and puts many things into perspective.
It was a stalemate. In this regard, he was neither as good as Xiaowu nor as good as Xiaowen, but he was absolutely shrewd in managing crops and livestock affairs. He often had disputes with his father over what to plant and what to plant, and the results often proved that his calculations were reasonable.
.He has a fatal flaw that he has not noticed yet, that is, his wife has not given birth to a baby after many years of marriage. Bai Jiaxuan has long been worried about this.