When Bai Jiaxuan heard that Lu Zilin's family had a sutra that was more difficult to recite, Xiaowen's greed was no longer a big deal.
Lu Zilin couldn't keep up his energy for more than a year. After his marriage, his son Zhaopeng barely stayed at home for three or four days before going to the city. He didn't come back to Bailuyuan for a whole year, and he didn't come back during the summer and winter vacations either. Lu Zilin
Lin refused to send him money or gifts, and also prevented women from bringing things to his son, in an attempt to force Zhaopeng to return home in despair without food or clothing. However, when another New Year's Eve came, Zhaopeng was still hiding in the house.
In the city, Lu Zilin's sullenness had nothing to say and nowhere to vent, and his temper became violent, which seriously affected his willingness to go to the security office to handle official duties.
Everything was left to Sang Shu. The family members consciously kept this hidden danger from being revealed to outsiders, for fear that Mr. Leng would know the truth. Lu Zilin once took a step back and thought, if Zhaopeng married
It is not Mr. Leng’s first-born daughter but someone else’s daughter. If Zhaopeng really doesn’t want to, he can just divorce her, but he can’t do this to Mr. Leng’s daughter anyway. Mr. Leng is the common denominator between the poor and the rich.
He was the savior, and his noble medical ethics won him a high prestige. A good marriage turned into an enemy. As a result, it was Lu Zilin himself who was ridiculed and reviled by everyone. In the past year, Lu Zilin had suffered from serious heart problems, but he seemed to be more kind on the outside.
He became more tolerant, talking to others in a very humble and polite manner, and sometimes joked and joked with his peers freely and easily, but he concealed the crisis lurking in his heart. He went to Mr. Leng's traditional Chinese medicine clinic every now and then.
Go and tell some rumors or jokes he heard while performing official duties in various villages, which made the stern face of his in-laws burst into laughter. He told Mr. Leng the true story of a dirty woman in Shenhe Village:
"Dog baby mother, the baby was born, and she couldn't find the paddle and scraped it with a spoon. She couldn't scrape it clean, so she wiped it with a towel. She put the paddle down wherever she looked, but couldn't find it. When she opened the lid of the pot and scooped out the rice, she scooped up a piece of rice.
The skewers are rotten. You say they are dirty or not, but that family all looks like black porcelain towers. People say they are not clean and they will not make you sick after eating them..." Mr. Leng laughed at first, then got wet and vomited.
He couldn't help but laugh. Lu Zilin also laughed with him, and after laughing he said happily: "Brother, what do you think your precious son-in-law is doing now? He goes to school and works for a newspaper at the same time. How can he use the money he earns?"
Ended. The day before yesterday, I went to the city for a visit on the matter of the office. I gave people money but they still didn’t take it, and they gave me money. I was too busy to bear it.” In this way, all possible speculations about Zhaopeng not returning to his hometown are all possible.
They covered it up reasonably. When my daughter occasionally came to the traditional Chinese medicine hall, Mr. Leng admonished her with a cold face: "The man has his ambitions in all directions. You should serve your parents-in-law well at home and get up early and go to bed early." The daughter looked melancholy but said nothing.
, after greeting his father and accepting his instructions, he returned to the Lu family yard.
Zhaopeng's wife was completely unaware of Zhaopeng and her parents-in-law's hidden pain. She was wrapped up tightly. She didn't know that Lu Zhaopeng's marriage to her was the result of three slaps and slaps from her grandfather. The first slap was slapped in the city.
Of course she didn't know that she hadn't met Liu Mou'er at that time; the second slap was slapped by her grandfather in Liu Mou'er's cattle pen. On Zhaopeng's wedding night, he hid there and wanted to sleep on the same quilt with Liu Mou'er, the long-term worker. Lu Zilin slapped him without saying a word.
At that time, she was in the shyness and panic of her wedding night, and had no doubts about Zhaopeng's face when he later walked into the wedding room; only the third slap she saw was slapped by her grandfather in front of the ancestral tablet, Zhaopeng.
After paying homage to his ancestors, he refused to go to the ancestral hall to accept the ceremony presided over by the patriarch Bai Jiaxuan. Grandpa unceremoniously opened his arms. That was because Zhaopeng said that the ceremony of paying homage to the ancestral hall was purely a "feudal etiquette" and did not have any
There were signs that he had any quarrel with her. After a year of marriage, she never saw him again. At first she didn't think it was anything, but now she is very eager for him to return to the wing. He and her were newly married.
The only thing that happened in the night left neither joy nor pain. As soon as he entered her body, he began to tremble like malaria, which startled her, thinking that he had epilepsy, and even
She found it very funny. Now she had gone from ignorance to knowledge, from hazy to clear, thinking about his trembling, longing to tremble with him too. It was a dream. In the dream, she and he were cuddling together.
After the trembling, wonderful trembling taste disappeared from the dream, it was difficult to fall asleep again, until it was dark, first to her grandfather and then to her grandparents to empty the urinal. She usually walked into the back room and saw her grandfather and grandmother tying a quilt.
Sleeping on both ends, she didn't respond. She took a basin of yellow urine that they excreted during the night and turned away. This morning, when she went to pick up the urine basin as usual, she saw her grandpa and grandma with their eyes closed, and suddenly thought of that kind of thing.
Trembling, grandpa and grandma must have just trembled last night. She started to have insomnia and couldn't sleep all night long. The trembling no longer felt funny and turned into an anxious desire.
She went to the wheat straw pile in the yard to pull firewood, and saw Heiwa's wild girl Xiao'e coming back from the market carrying a bamboo cage. The bamboo cage contained a bundle of green onions and a bundle of leeks. Xiao'e's delicate little feet were nimble.
She landed on the ground, twisting her slim waist and twisting her arms to swing her chubby buttocks. She felt disgusted when she saw it at first, but now she is jealous of it. She and Heiwa probably spent every night in that shabby kiln.
She was shaking like an epileptic. When she returned to the clean and refreshing courtyard of her home with a big basket filled with wheat straw, she regretted the evil thoughts she had just had. Whose wife was she and what kind of bad woman was Xiao'e?
How could she be jealous of her? She believed that her husband was a man who did great things, and she believed that he was too busy to spare time to return to his hometown. It would be more glorious to return to his hometown in fine clothes in the future. However, Zhaopeng did not return during the New Year, which aroused her disappointment and suspicion.
No matter how busy she was, she would not even go home during the New Year. She spent the New Year in extreme disappointment and frightening speculation, pretending to smile to receive relatives.
Lu Zilin saw that his daughter-in-law's smile was fake. After a trip to Xi'an and returning home, he proudly announced to everyone: "Hey, Zhaopeng has gone to Shanghai." The whole family immediately became filled with joy.
Lu Zilin deliberately asked his second son Zhaohai loudly when he came home: "How to get to Shanghai? I heard you have to take a train." Zhaohai told his father in detail that he would first ride out of Tongguan, then cross the Yellow River by boat, and then...
Her disappointment and suspicion were swept away, and her mood suddenly brightened. That night she dreamed of Zhaopeng and she trembled like an epileptic fit. After the trembling, she was surprised to find that the face that lifted up from her body was not Zhaopeng's.
It was Zhaohai. The next day when she saw Zhaohai taking the rice bowl from her hand, she couldn't help but blush and her heart beat. Then she dreamed of trembling with Heiwa again. That was when she was cleaning the courtyard and dumping the dirt outside the door, she saw
Hei Wa walked through the village alley carrying wooden molds and bluestone rams in the twilight... What was even worse was that last night he dreamed of being trembling with his grandpa Lu Zilin. When grandpa raised his face to her, he was suddenly ashamed and panicked.
She ran away. All kinds of strange dreams made her feel weak and she didn't dare to raise her face to look into the eyes of any adult man, but those messy dreams appeared more and more frequently.
In the spring, the first new school in Bailu Town was completed. Tian Fuxian, the main township of Bailucang, took charge of the preparations for its construction. The county government funded it, and Tian Fuxian assigned migrant workers to dozens of villages under the jurisdiction of Bencang, which saved expenses and reduced the original plan to only
The money that could be used to build ten school buildings was fully utilized, and the number was increased to thirteen, and workers were sent for free to build high walls with loess. Tian Fuxian published the large and small accounts of the money and labor used in building the school on yellow paper at Bailu Town No. 1
On the wall outside the door of the first security station, it has gained great trust from local gentry and ordinary villagers, and is regarded as an important charity. In order to avoid harassment from the city and nearby villagers, the school was chosen to be located among several villages south of Bailu Town.
The space zone in between.
When the highland barley and barley are ripe, all the school buildings are completely completed. A principal leads three or four gentlemen to move into the humid house eagerly and begin preparations for enrolling students and starting school. The principal is Lu Zilin's son Lu Zhaopeng. Everything is honorable.
Notable figures and ordinary people all expressed their most sincere congratulations and compliments to Lu Zilin. "The Lu family has the next principal." Lu Zilin was so excited when he heard the conclusive news at first that he happily met his in-law, Mr. Leng.
After a drink. In addition to the expected great honor of being the principal of the new school, his heartache has finally been relieved. Since Zhaopeng is willing to return to Bailuyuan to be the principal, there is no excuse anymore.
I don’t want to go home anymore. The school is only three miles away from home. However, as soon as Zhaopeng came back, his father’s joyful feeling was shattered.
He came back the day before. When he got home, he greeted his grandparents, mother, daughter-in-law, and long-term worker Liu Mouer. He looked very polite and affectionate. He was wearing a new uniform, with new hair on his head, high eyebrows, deep eyes, and black eyelashes.
The whole family was so excited that they lost control and watched Zhaopeng's actions a little nervously. He greeted Zhaopeng politely like a family member and entered.
The daughter-in-law was completely at a loss as she sat on the edge of the kang, timidly looking at her husband who was shaking in his dreams, but could not speak or raise his head. Zhaopeng sat there for a while and then went out to greet Liu Mouer in the horse stall.
, but stayed there for a long time. The whole family was waiting nervously for dark. At sunset, Zhaopeng said the same thing to his grandfather, father and mother: "I have to go back to school, there will be a meeting in the evening." Grandpa, father and mother.
They all repeated the same sentence: "You will come back after the meeting." The result was that he did not come back. For one month in a row, Zhaopeng lived in a damp house and never came back to spend a night.
This hidden danger in the family could no longer be contained, and the village had turned from a quiet rumor into a public discussion. Lu Zilin felt ashamed to walk through the door of the traditional Chinese medicine hall again. He went to the school to look for his son no less than ten times, and he pressed hard to tear the piece of paper into pieces.
The principal looked like he was persuading angrily, and he begged when he couldn't persuade him. He cried when he couldn't beg. He repeated one sentence: "Even if you are just trying to show off, you should go back and stay for two days to cover up what everyone is saying..." Facing the principal, Lu Zilin again
I couldn't raise my hand to slap him for the fourth time.
On this day, the clerk at the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hall stopped Lu Zilin who was walking around and said, "Uncle, my uncle asked you to go and talk to me." Lu Zilin's scalp went numb immediately. Mr. Leng still had that cold face, but his voice was cold.
He was very plain and did not mince words when he spoke: "Brother, don't bother. Just tell Zhaopeng and ask him to write a letter of divorce, forget it. That's nothing." Lu Zilin couldn't hold it back: "Brother, what do you mean?
I won't hide the cold words that have come to this point. Don't talk about the divorce a second time. If you talk about it once, it will be enough for the rest of your life. Don't worry, Zhaopeng will not say that he is the principal, he is the principal.
He married the county magistrate and the governor, and wanted to divorce the people in the house without even having a door. If what I said today is not effective, I will use his divorce letter as a cover up." Mr. Leng remained calm: "Brother, there is no need.
.Others think that being divorced makes me so embarrassed that I can’t live without it. I don’t think it’s a big deal. How we were like this in the past will be like this in the future.” Lu Zilin could no longer control his emotions: “Stop talking about it, Brother Leng, don’t talk about it.
I have a way, but it's not impossible. Don't worry."
After Lu Zilin returned home, he walked into his father Lu Taiheng's separate house: "Dad, this matter can't be dealt with now and it can't be delayed any longer. I'll go to school to look for Zhaopeng again. If he doesn't show his face to us,
I'm just going to..." He didn't say what he was going to do. Lu Taiheng could guess what he was going to do. It was probably a razor and a threat to his neck. There is probably nothing more powerful than this.
There's a way. Lu Taiheng said: "The method you prepared will be put aside for the next step. I'll call him tonight to see if Principal Lu will show his favor or not." Lu Zilin tried to persuade him again and again, but he couldn't get his old father to come forward.
Tai Heng said: "You have to show up when you have to. Our Zuyin is no longer the principal."
Lu Taiheng was leaning on a crutch, and he only used the polished purple-black crutch when traveling far away. The old man walked into the school yard and shouted loudly: "Principal Lu--Principal Lu." Zhaopeng heard the sound and walked to the yard.
He smiled and said: "Sir, what are you shouting nonsense about? Why are you called the principal?" Lu Taiheng deliberately raised his voice and said: "Haha, my God, you are the principal, I am a common man and a farmer, and you are an official."
You are worthy." Lu Zhaopeng blushed in embarrassment and helped his grandfather to walk to his house. Lu Taiheng continued: "Do you dare to enter your Yamen mansion, a commoner like me?" Several teachers stood on the steps and laughed.
Zhaopeng blushed and dragged his grandfather into the house: "Master, if you have something to say, just say it..." Lu Taiheng said: "If you can think of it, your dad has already told you, so I can't bear to say it."
Well, since you don’t fart, I won’t fart. I can’t talk to you...I just beg you—" With that, Lu Taiheng slipped out of the straight-backed chair and fell to his knees on the brick floor with a plop.
Zhaopeng was shocked and hurriedly pulled his grandfather: "Sir, get up quickly. If you have anything to say, just say it. I dare not disobey you." Lu Taiheng said: "I beg you to come back with me and never say anything again."
Zhaopeng said, "Get up and sit down and speak slowly." Old man Lu Taiheng knelt still and said, "I'll get up if you want to go back with me. If you don't promise not to spit out the core, I'll kneel down in the middle of the yard."
"Lu Zhaopeng sighed sadly: "Sir, get up. I'll go back with you."
Lu Taiheng walked out of the school on crutches. Lu Zhaopeng followed. Entering Bailu Town, Lu Taiheng suddenly shouted: "Pedestrians avoid silence, Principal Lu, Mr. Lu, Mr. Lu Zhaopeng has arrived -" Lu Zhaopeng was at a loss.
He took two steps forward and grabbed his grandfather's cane: "Master, how do you want me to see people tomorrow?" Lu Taiheng said: "You have become an official, grandpa will blow the gong to clear the way for you. Principal Lu is here, Principal Lu is here." Lu Zhaopeng
For some reason, he followed his grandfather through Bailu Town and then into the alleys of Bailu Village. When he entered the gatehouse of his house, Lu Taiheng still shouted loudly: "Our principal is back, Zilin, I will treat you as the son of an official."
I'm back, welcome." Lu Zilin and the woman walked into the yard, and the new daughter-in-law also walked out of the wing. Zhaopeng stood in front of everyone in embarrassment. Lu Taiheng stood in the middle of the courtyard, suddenly turned around and picked up his crutch.
With just one strike, Lu Zhaopeng was knocked to the ground and couldn't get up for a long time. Lu Taiheng then said in his typical cold tone: "It's really up to you."