On the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Lu San returned to his small courtyard, lit the monkey wax he bought, and plugged it into the windowsills of the front and back doors and the four corners of the yard at the entrance of the waterway. The house and yard were filled with light. The woman put the deep-fried glutinous rice cakes on fire.
After bringing it out, the family of four sat on the fire bed, chewing and chewing. Lu San seemed to be in a good mood, and started talking to his son Heiwa: "When you grow up to fifteen years old, your father's ambition will be yours. Heiwa, you are turning seventeen this year."
Now..." Heiwa interrupted his father: "I'm going out to work this year. I've been looking forward to it for a long time. I've already agreed with my mother." Lu San raised his head and glared at his son: "You speak too quickly, remember,
No matter where you go, no matter who you talk to, you have to say what you want and don't rush to say it, there are no rules."
Hei Wa has already dropped out of school. He was not a good student under Mr. Xu, but he can recognize a lot of words and can do a few calculations. After dropping out of school, he continued to cut grass for the Bai family, carrying a large basket of grass in the morning and afternoon.
Returning the horse number. A year ago, he told his father that he no longer wanted to carry the straw sickle, and wanted to go out to work as a long-term worker to earn money. Lu Sanyi came to want him to learn farming skills again, and secondly, he felt sorry for his son.
, I want him to grow stronger. Now that he is seventeen years old, he can definitely work as an individual. He himself went out to work as a full-time laborer for Cai Dong at the age of fifteen. Lu San said: "Hei Wa, dad said
Listen, you go to Uncle Jiaxuan's house to work; Dad comes back to our house and does our house's work when he is busy, and goes out to do odd jobs when he is free; even if he can't find odd jobs, Dad still has the ability to make adobe...
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"Dad, making adobe is exhausting. You can't do it anymore." Hei Wa said, "You can do your work at Bai's house, and I'll go out to work."
Lu San said: "Where can you go when you travel far?"
Hei Wa said: "Go to the north of the Weihe River. Uncle Jiadao is working there. Uncle Jiadao said that there are many rich people in the East Village over there, unlike here where there are all small wealthy people. Uncle Jiadao is happy to help me find it.
A master’s house.”
"Look, you... don't understand the rules. You made your own decisions without telling me in advance. That's wrong." Lu San reprimanded, "People in Weibei are not familiar with the place. We don't care about the level of the gatehouse or the
No matter how wealthy you are, the most important thing is to find a benevolent and righteous master."
Hei Wa said: "Uncle Jiadao is familiar with the people there, and I guarantee he can find a good home for me."
Lu San became impatient: "Jia Dao, Ji Dao, just listen to what Ji Dao says. I'm telling you, it's hard to find a family with a kind and righteous master like your Uncle Jiaxuan. I believe it when I see it. Your grandfather is in the Bai family."
After working for a lifetime, I haven't even lost my teeth and raised my mouth once. Just go to Bai's house so that I can take care of you before I am born again."
Hei Wa lowered his eyelids: "I don't want to... go to Bai's house."
"What are you saying?" Lu San also opened his eyes wide, "The Bai family didn't treat me badly, and they didn't treat you badly either. Why don't you cut the grass and give you wheat?"
Hei Wa said: "I'm not saying that I don't want to treat anyone badly..."
Lu San chased and asked: "Then why don't you go to Bai's house?"
Heiwa slurped his mouth and said nothing: "..."
Lu San patiently explained again: "The older generations of the Bai family are all benevolent and righteous people, and their long-term workers are not hired casually."
Hei Wa said: "I didn't say that Uncle Jiaxuan was bad or unkind. I still remember that Uncle Jiaxuan paid for me to study. I also remember that you didn't want me to study anymore. Uncle Jiaxuan took my hand and sent it to you.
School…”
"Yes, yes, that's right," Lu San said, "Since you remember Uncle Jiaxuan's righteous deeds, why don't you go?"
Heiwa murmured: "I don't think so..."
Lu San chased and asked: "What do you think is wrong?"
Hei Wa said: "I think...Uncle Jiaxuan's waist...is too hard and straight..."
Lu San laughed easily after hearing this: "Haha, my baby, I don't think it's a big deal. Let's work hard to earn our food. As long as they don't deduct money from me, I won't care about them.
What to do?”
Heiwa begged, "Dad, you've done a good job there, just work for two more years and don't do odd jobs. I'll work as a full-time worker when I go out. Let's save some money and buy some land..." He actually cried.
The mother spoke for Hei Wa: "He is older, so just obey him. If he doesn't like it, just leave it alone. He still understands what he said."
Lu San said: "Either you go out to work for two years, you will know a few wealthy people after seeing them. If you don't go up the mountains, you won't show the flat ground. Then you won't be able to talk nonsense... about being straight and hard."
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Hei Wa followed Uncle Jiadao down to Bailuyuan, stepped into the vast and magnificent Guanzhong Plain, and then took a wooden ferry across the turbid Wei River...
Less than a year later, Hei Wa led a rare and beautiful woman back to Bailu Village. Lu San was shocked. Lu San became suspicious from the first sight of his daughter-in-law, and called Hei Wa aside for severe interrogation.
"Where did you come from? I knew at a glance that she was not a girl from a poor family. Why did she get the three matchmaking and six certificate certificates with you? Tell me you are innocent." Heiwa said calmly: The owner of the house is nearly seven years old.
A very bad old man had two women, one older and one younger. When the old man died, the elder woman and the son who was in charge of the family saw the younger woman as a thorn in their side, and asked the foreman Li to act as a matchmaker to marry her to him.
Lu San was dubious and asked Bai Jiaxuan about the matter. At the same time, he proposed the etiquette of going to the ancestral hall to worship ancestors. It is a very solemn ceremony for a new daughter-in-law in Bailu Village to go to the ancestral hall to pay homage to her ancestors. Bai Jiaxuan did not comment on the marriage.
, just said: "You go away and ask Jiadao to clarify the matter. You can wait until you ask Jiadao about worshiping at the ancestral hall." Lu San kept sighing that he was confused by things, and put Jiadao into it.
The matter of luring Heiwa out was ignored. Early the next morning, Lu San left the original and went to Weibei to find Jiadao. When Lu San returned to Bailu Village, his face was already gray and his eyes were bloodshot. As soon as he entered the door
He slapped Hei Wa, and he fell to the ground unconscious at the same time. After Lu San was rescued, he said flatly: "Get this girl away quickly. If you can't let her go, you are not my son.
Get out of here immediately and never enter my door forever." Heiwa begged in vain, and Heiwa's mother also begged her husband, but they couldn't make Lu San change his mind. Heiwa led his daughter-in-law out of the house overnight and walked into a hole at the east end of the village.
He bought the dilapidated cave dwelling with five silver dollars and settled down there.