Xiaowen's three and a half acres of watered land and five acres of dry land were resold three times to Lu Zilin's name. Among the eight and a half acres of watered and dry land, there were two acres of land, one and a half acres of land, three acres of land, and two acres of land.
The silver dollars sold for the eight and a half acres of herringbone land were at best equivalent to the income from the two acres of herringbone land in normal times. When it came time to finally sell the two acres of herringbone land, Xiaowen was so panicked that even the middleman
He didn't have time to invite me, so he walked directly into Lu Zilin's shelter in Bailu Town and said straight to the point: "Uncle Zilin, I'll give you the two acres of herringbone land. You can't shirk anymore. You can just give me a few silver dollars according to your conscience."
I won't say a word to you." Lu Zilin said sincerely: "Xiaowen, you see, it's really hard for me to ask for your land anymore. Your father and I have been benevolent and righteous throughout our lives, and you have trapped me again and again.
If you want to sell the land, it will be hard for me to meet and talk to your dad in the future." Xiaowen said impatiently: "My dad is my dad and I am me. If you don't want it, no one in our village can afford it.
If it's inconvenient, don't do it. My dear uncle, I've become addicted and I can't live anymore. Please lend me two silver coins to let me go to the opium restaurant..." Lu Zilin took out two silver coins from his waist and looked at Xiaowen anxiously.
He turned around and walked out of the security center door stumbling with his feet. He muttered: "It's over. This man is over."
Lu Zilin walked out of the security center and walked around the town. Despite the terrible recession, there was not much food in the town, but the price was frighteningly high. He pretended to be concerned about the price fluctuations in the food market, and talked patiently with the food sellers.
The host was chatting, scanning the crowded grain market with eyes sunk in long eyelashes, looking for Bai Jiaxuan. According to his judgment, Xiaowen would soon ask him to sell the house, and before that, he had to talk to Jiaxuan.
Bai Jiaxuan met him to clear the way for the next step in the future. Both the poor and the rich were now concerned about the rise and fall of food prices. Bai Jiaxuan's ugly hunchback came into his eyes, and he spoke as if he had just happened to meet him unintentionally.
: "Uh, Brother Jiaxuan, I just happened to meet you. I have something to say to you -" Bai Jiaxuan raised his face: "You can say it on the street, but you can't." Lu Zilin said: "Yes, yes, yes. It's not a matter of right or wrong."
Well, I want to advise you, you should give Xiaowen some food to support him. He is always a man. Don't let him pester me over and over again to sell the land. If I don't buy it, he won't let me go. If I buy it, I feel sorry for it.
You..." Bai Jiaxuan bit his cheek and said in a tone that had nothing to do with him: "There is nothing wrong with me. You can buy the land with confidence. If he wants to kick the land and you want to buy the land, it belongs to you and him.
You have nothing to negotiate with me." Lu Zilin advised more sincerely: "Brother Jiaxuan, don't be stubborn, dear gentlemen, you can't just let go..." Bai Jiaxuan sneered and asked: "Why don't you ignore Zhaopeng?" Lu Zi
Lin was so choked that he couldn't say anything. Bai Jiaxuan turned around and put his hand into a grain bag to grasp the wheat and see that it was in good condition. Lu Zilin was thinking quietly, you are good at me and you are good at you.
No matter what, I want you to say this
Xiaowen sold his land for the first time and spent a good year in a cave with Xiao'e. Before leaving, he put a pile of silver coins on the kang mat and said, "Sister, take it for us." He kept a small half of it and returned home.
His wife asked him for the silver coins from selling the land: "It's not safe for you to keep it on your body. I'll lock it in the cupboard for us. We won't be able to buy some food for a while. The days will be long." Xiaowen said: "Don't worry, just put the 120 coins."
I'll pretend that you don't care. You can't ask anything about anything in the future." The two children were led by Ms. Bai Zhao to have dinner. Xiaowen wandered around the house all day long and couldn't find her whereabouts. She was the only one in the house.
She was starving in the house. From time to time, her mother-in-law would pass her father-in-law's back and give her a bowl and a half of a spoonful of fairy grass. She was so hungry but so sad that she couldn't eat it. One night, she mustered up the courage to fight against Xiaowen: "No matter how many silver dollars the land is sold for,
, I don’t see you buying a liter and a bucket, what have you done with the money?" Bai Xiaowen rolled his eyes: "You are being mean, and you are taking care of me." The wife said, "Why am I being mean? I don't care what you do, I can see it with my eyes.
I'm starving to death, but I can't ask you whether to buy food." Bai Xiaowen said with a cold face: "No. If you want to die, die quickly. If you don't know the way to death, I will show you: jump into the well and go to the horse yard.
, If you want to jump from the river or cliff, leave the village and go north, if you want to hang yourself with the rope, you know where to hang it..." The daughter-in-law was anxious: "I know you want me to die, force me to die, and starve me to death. I don't want to die.
I won't give you a kang, so you go to the tile kiln and roll wheat straw into the nest. Anyway, you don't want to enter my door and get into my kang." Bai Xiaowen drooled and said, "You can't control it. I won't open my eyes until you die.
You." After saying that, he left and went out. Then one night, Xiaowen and Xiao'e were smoking a big cigarette on the kang in the kiln. His wife found her outside the kiln door, jumping and cursing. Xiaowen opened the kiln door and
A slap in the face made the daughter-in-law fall down on the threshold. The daughter-in-law threw herself into the kiln, grabbed Xiao'e's crotch, and grabbed a handful of fur. Xiaowen grabbed the daughter-in-law's hair and slapped her mouth until she stopped screaming.
After scolding him, he was immediately dragged home like a pig to death.
Xiaowen's daughter-in-law was called eldest sister in the Bai family. The eldest sister was lying alone on the kang of the house in front of the gate of the courtyard. The house had only four walls, and the porcelain jars and board cabinets containing the grain had been moved to the town by Xiaowen and sold at a low price long before they kicked the floor.
, there were only two quilts on the kang and a bench on the floor under the kang. Her whole body was yellow, swollen and shiny, and she could faintly see the clear water under her skin. She could use her fingers to touch her legs and arms.
It made a dent when she pressed it, and she couldn't move it up for a long time. There were black and blue scars on her face, which were the result of Xiaowen's fist. She no longer felt hungry, so Grandma asked Xiaowu to
The rice brought by the second daughter-in-law condensed in the bowl. She wanted to say a word to her grandpa, but she concluded that he would definitely not enter her house, so she made up her mind to go find him. She had an accurate premonition that she was about to end her life.
The setting sun illuminated the back window as brightly as a candle. The eldest sister heard her grandfather's familiar footsteps walking past the concierge and into the courtyard before disappearing. A surge of strength aroused in her heart, and she slipped off the kang and stood in front of the mirror.
After combing her messy hair, she walked into the living room without any help and stood in front of my grandpa: "Dad, I have been in our house for many years. You can see how hardworking, lazy, and lazy you are. I have thought about it.
After thinking about this and that, Dudu'er never thought that I would starve to death..." Bai Jiaxuan seemed to tremble, raised his head from the chair, took out the hookah in his mouth, and said: "I told your mother, you and the baby
They all came to the backyard to eat." The eldest sister said, "That doesn't matter, and I don't need it anymore." After that, she turned around and exited the door. When she was crossing the threshold, she tripped on the wooden threshold with her back foot and fell. From then on,
He didn't get up again. Bai Jiaxuan hunched over, lifted his daughter-in-law's shoulders, and held her in his arms. The eldest sister's eyes turned for a while and then froze, and the corner of her mouth twitched to show a trace of shyness. Bai Zhao
Shi Xiancao and Erjieer all heard the sound and ran over. Xiaowu ran around but couldn't find Xiaowen.
Xiaowen had just completed the procedures for selling the house and sold all three concierges to Lu Zilin. He piled the silver coins on Xiao'e's bed on the way until he came back in the middle of the night and saw his wife's zombie standing in the candlelight. He suddenly stopped and couldn't move his legs.
He didn't even think that she would really die. She was strong and strong and had never been seriously ill. The muscles in her arms were as strong as a man's, and her thighs and calves were solid and hard. He suddenly remembered that she had taught him how to do it.
Seeing what happened on the bed, his heart softened. The person he no longer liked was now dead. His younger brother Xiaowu walked up to him and said, "Brother, you have committed a sin." Xiaowen did not move. His younger brother added, "When I am buried tomorrow,
If her parents come to make trouble, you come forward and tell them something." Xiaowen still didn't move. Xiaowu couldn't help but said bitterly: "If I prick you with an awl, it won't bleed."
The climate of long-lasting hunger has suppressed and downplayed such important matters as the death of a person. The death of a person no longer causes special surprise and excessive grief in the family. However, people in Bai Jiaxuan's family also starved to death, which still caused great uproar in the village.
Fortunately, the eldest sister's parents seemed indifferent to the girl who had been away for many years, so they only sent the eldest sister's youngest brother to pay homage to her. After the hungry brother howled a few times, he grabbed the big sister's brother.
He put the bowl into the pot, poured the noodles into the pot, and squatted on the steps to have a good time. In order to save the influence, Bai Jiaxuan asked Xiaowu to come forward to help Xiaowen complete the funeral, focusing on the reputation of the villagers and not Xiaowen at all. After burying the eldest sister and son.
, Xiaowen really became a wanderer who was unwilling to accept anything. He spent time in Xiao'e's cave in the morning and evening. When they were full and smoked, they would have fun on the kang, making this Kongguyao a place of hunger and oppression.
A paradise on the white deer plain.
"Give me a favor." Lu Zilin invited more than a dozen young people from his sect named Lu, and told them to go to Bai's house to demolish the house, and entertained them with soft steamed buns and noodles cooked into paste. After a good meal, he warned: "You go and demolish the house without saying a word. If no one in the Bai family comes to stop you, just demolish it. If anyone comes to stop it, my nephew Mancang, please come back and call me." More than a dozen young men could not have dreamed of it. Today I had the opportunity to fill my stomach with real food, and my spirit suddenly became brighter. Not to mention demolishing the house, it was okay to ask them to go and kill people. Mancang led them out. Lu Zilin gave one final warning: "No making trouble." "
Lu Zilin sat on a chair next to the sacrificial table and smoked a hookah. He was proud and nervous, expecting Mancang to come back and ask him to come forward. But after smoking three bags of hookah, Mancang still didn't come back. Could it be that Bai Jiaxuan and his son were worried about demolishing the house? He was indifferent to the incident until the sound of lumber hitting the ground at the street door. He couldn't help but hurried to the street door, called two nephews who were carrying a piece of lumber in and asked: "There is no noise in the Bai family." "A nephew said: "No, no, no. Xiaowu jumped out to block the general. Mancang brother just got off the ladder and was about to come back to call you. His father came out and pulled Xiaowu back. Mancang brother went up the ladder again..." Another nephew The son added: "Xiaowu was very fussy. His father came out and said with a smile, 'Demolish it quickly, demolish it quickly. Once you demolish this house, you will have nothing to do. It's our family's turn to thank you, Uncle Zilin..." ...' Then he took Xiaowu into the backyard." Lu Zilin walked back from the street door to the sacrificial table in the living room, put a bag of hookah again, and blew out the fire paper, feeling a little discouraged in his tense heart. Didn't I pee? He peed on his face and into the ditch.
It is difficult to fathom the reaction of Bai Jiaxuan's family. In the upper room of Bai Jiaxuan's hall were gathered the Bai Zhao family, the Bai Wu family, Xiao Wu, his second daughter-in-law, and even more close brothers and nephews of the same clan. They were filled with indignation. Angry and resentful, everyone reiterated the same meaning over and over again: Lu Zilin didn't buy a house, but exposed the patriarch's face. Lu Zilin not only exposed the patriarch's face, but also peed on the face of Bai Jiaxuan. Bai Jiaxuan just sucked on the hookah. Bai Zhao Shi said: "We will pay back how much money Xiaowen paid him. The house cannot be demolished." Xiancao said angrily: "Why should I marry this prodigal who sells his house?" Xiaowu said: "Dad, I really can't bear this tone. The nephews and nephews of the tribe started to coax along with Xiao Wu: they stopped him to see what he was going to do and asked Lu Xiang to come out to talk and see what he said and broke his leg crutches. Then Bai Jiaxuan stopped everyone and said, "How angry are you? What kind of fire are you fanning? Zilin paid for the house and signed the contract, which is reasonable and legal; besides, it was Xiaowen who forced me to sell the house, so why are you blaming Zilin for his fault? Go back, go back, go back soon." He rebuked everyone mercilessly. , only when his family was around, he said: "Am I not even able to weigh the seriousness of this matter? I don't know whether it hurts or not to feel ashamed when you expose my face." Everyone was speechless. Bai Jiaxuan asked Xiaowu: " Apart from blocking and fighting, do you think there is any other good way?" Xiaowu kept silent for a while, guessing his father's thoughts, and said: "Dad, he demolished the house today, and I will help build a house tomorrow, and build the concierge again. It needs to be built more decently." Bai Jiaxuan clapped his hands on the table: "That's right. Once you remove the cover, people can tell who is Xiaowen and who is Xiaowu, and the ancestors and gods can also see who is from the Bai family. Who is the backbone of the evil son?" Bai Jiaxuan glanced at the second sister Bai Zhao's Xiancao and finally stared at Xiaowu and said: "People say that the prime minister can sail the boat with his heart. Let me tell you... If you want to live in our land, you must have it in your heart. You have to be able to insert the knife."
Until Mancang led the people to remove all the wood, bricks and tiles and send them away, and dug out the wooden lattice windows and door panels, Bai Jiaxuan walked to the front yard at this time, took a look at the ruins of the walls and the scattered adobe broken bricks on the ground, and put them behind the hall.
Mancang, who was inspecting the inspection, stopped and asked politely: "Mancang, have you finished dismantling it?" Mancang smiled sheepishly and replied: "It's over, it's over... Uncle." Bai Jiaxuan said: "Look and see if there is anything left that has not been taken out."
" Mancang still smiled and replied: "Nothing, nothing, nothing... Uncle." But Bai Jiaxuan said seriously: "Yes, take a closer look." Mancang laughed dryly: "Uncle, you are not kidding my nephew.
Take a closer look..." Bai Jiaxuan increased his voice and stopped Mancang, who was turning around to leave: "Don't leave. You can't leave until you've finished taking the things. Squat down and think about it carefully. When you remember, you can leave again." He said, holding his hands on his hands.
With the crutch, Mancang stared closely at Mancang. Mancang was so timid that his uncle, the patriarch, really squatted down and did not dare to leave. After a while, a group of people gathered in the street to see something strange. Bai Jiaxuan said in his heart: I don't think you, Lu Zilin, are still hiding.
Face
Lu Zilin came. Hearing the news that Mancang was being detained by Bai Jiaxuan, he rushed over. He bowed with both hands and said apologetically: "Brother Jiaxuan, I should have come to tell you earlier. I can't get away from the people above when the security center is here."
Body...Mancang, why did you say something to offend your uncle and why don't you apologize quickly..." Bai Jiaxuan leaned his crutch on his shoulder, freed his hand to clasp his fist in return: "Zilin, I really should thank you for these three concierges.
Standing in the yard and holding my eyes open, I have long wanted to kick them down. Now you can dig out the lasts in my eyes for me and drive that prodigal son out, which means you have taken away the love in my heart.
"Geta" Lu Zilin originally thought that Bai Jiaxuan was seizing some excuse to cause trouble in Mancang, but he completely did not expect Bai Jiaxuan's words. He smiled bitterly and said: "Xiaowen really doesn't bother me..." Bai Jiaxuan interrupted him:
"I know Xiaowen is trying to trick you into selling your house... I told Mancang not to leave. He was the one who finished the work for you." Lu Zilin said, "If you have anything else to do, tell me, brother, I will take care of it." Bai Jiaxuan
Said: "You have taken away all the wood, bricks and tiles. These four walls have not been demolished yet. When you buy a house, you also buy the walls. You have to dismantle your walls and transport them away. I don't want a piece of adobe." Lu Zilin's heart sank.
, demolishing and moving four walls is not as good as removing rafters and tiles. It will take at least three days for these ten people to work. How much food will these hungry nephews eat in three days? He glanced at the people watching the excitement in the street,
He held up his face and said: "Of course, of course..." Bai Jiaxuan still said cheerfully: "Don't stop tomorrow, and then demolish the wall. The sooner and as soon as possible, the better. The door is not tight, let's talk about it...