After hearing the story about the wooden box, Lu San suddenly realized the origin of carrying food into the mountains.
In the years when crops in the fertile Guanzhong Plain failed to harvest due to drought, the mountainous areas of the Loess Plateau in the north achieved a rare bumper harvest. This resulted in an abnormal landscape of people from the plains asking for food from people in the mountains. Cotton was not grown in the mountains, and the Bailuyuan people
Carrying bundles and rolls of home-woven homespun cloth, groups came out of various villages and converged on several north-south official roads leading to the entrance of the mountain valley.
People from the mountains criss-crossed on the official road, and half a foot of powdery loess was trampled on the road. Many people took the opportunity to become out-and-out grain brokers. They carried grain back from the mountains and exchanged it for cloth or cloth in Bailu Town.
They then carried the cloth and clothes into the mountains to exchange for grain and millet from the mountain people, and used the earned food to feed their wives and children. Bailu Town became an important food distribution town in the entire plain, and its prosperity was unprecedented.
Lu San asked his woman to bundle and roll up the remaining few feet of pure white earthen cloth and more than ten feet of blue plaid cloth in the wooden cabinet. Then he sorted through the new and old clothes of adults and children, and folded and bundled everything that could not be worn at the moment.
Get up. The woman was picking and choosing, sighing. Lu San was much more decisive: "It's more important to save your life. It doesn't matter if you're a little bit cold if you're wearing some clothes. There's nothing in your stomach." When he estimated that the cloth and clothes could be replaced,
When he had to carry all the food he could carry alone, he asked Bai Jiaxuan for leave: "I will go into the mountains tomorrow to carry food. It will take three to five days." Bai Jiaxuan said without thinking, "You go, you go, it will take a few days."
Don't rush too fast on the road, be careful of something happening, and no one can afford to be weak these days." When Lu San turned to leave, Bai Jiaxuan said again: "Third brother, let Xiaowu Xiaoyi go with you." Lu San turned around
He asked with a smile: "Aren't you afraid of making people laugh when you ask the baby to carry food?" Bai Jiaxuan said: "Whoever likes to laugh, let him laugh." Lu San said seriously: "Xiaowu goes to practice filial piety and righteousness, but I'm afraid it won't work. The baby is too young, so don't worry.
He said that he would not be able to run even if he was carrying grain, and it would be hundreds of miles back and forth." Bai Jiaxuan said coldly: "If he moves the grain bag from the field to the house, I won't let him go, it's just a plan.
It's good for him to come with you this far away, so that the two brothers will know what food is. I mean... you should also lure that second child of yours." Lu San was moved and admired, and returned
The woman in the room kept chanting: "Hey, look, how does Jiaxuan, a rich man, discipline his descendants? We are still precious rabbits and don't dare to ask for food..."
Lu San led the adult Xiaowu, the underage Xiaoyi and Tuwa, and the four of them ganged up and set out on the road at the time of the rooster's crow, and entered the valley when the sun set in the west. The people entering and leaving the mountain met at the valley's entrance.
Someone set up a hut and opened an inn here, selling rice porridge and rice flour pancakes. The four of them rested for a while, ate some dry food they brought with them, and then set off on the road... The journey was delayed because they had two children with them, and the journey took five days.
They walked for seven days before returning to Bailu Village. In the evening, Xiaowu and Xiaoyi walked into the street after breaking up with Lu Santuwa at the entrance of the village. Xiaoyi sat down on the ground and couldn't get up. Grandma Bai Zhao first saw the two returning people.
The grandson held Xiaoyi's face and sighed incessantly. A layer of black dry skin formed on the grandson's lips. There was dried blood on the corners of his mouth. His eyes were sunken deeply.
The pain in his feet was unbearable. Bai Jiaxuan followed the grass jelly to the yard and happily teased his son: "Sanwazi, do you know what food is now?" Xiaoyi smiled bitterly: "Dad, I will pick up every bun and flower that I drop in the future.
Eat..." Xiaowu's daughter-in-law brought a basin of water to the courtyard and asked her husband and brother Xiaoyi to wash their faces. Bai Jiaxuan stopped him and said, "Don't wash your faces yet. Carry the food you just carried back on your back -" Bai Zhao
Shi couldn't help but said angrily: "Carry it to the mountains again." Bai Jiaxuan said kindly: "Let his third uncle carry it."
Bai Jiaxuan, hunched over, led Xiaowu and Xiaoyi into the courtyard of Lu San's family and said loudly: "The third brother and the boys have brought you food." Lu San was lying on the kang to rest his legs, and he and the woman walked out of the mansion one after another.
At the threshold, I saw Xiaowu Xiaoyi carrying the grain bag brought back from the mountains on his shoulders, and asked in confusion: "Why did you ask the children to carry it here again? Is it for you to carry it?" Bai Jiaxuan said: "This time I carried it back from the mountain.
I'll give it all to you. I'll get it when I carry it back next time." Xiaowu Xiaoyi put down the food bag and limped out of the yard. Bai Jiaxuan, however, smiled and said with a gloating smile: "This time, I'm so lucky.
You will understand what food is when you return to Suizaiwazi."
Lu San rested all night, and the next day he ground half a bucket of grain grits on the grinding plate, settled down the life of the woman and the rabbit baby, and returned to the Bai family. The next day, he went to the trench to pull out the loess for the washer.
When he met Xiaowen; when he ordered the car to emerge from the trench, the spear blade flashed in his mind...
Lu San said: "It would be great if Xiaowen had this box in his heart." Xiaowu took the box and said solemnly and excitedly: "Dad, I will build the concierge in the spring next year." Bai Jiaxuan said: "You build the concierge.
, just engrave your name on the wall. Also engrave the year and month when Xiaowen sold the house. I won't say this twice. There is one more thing, your father told me before leaving, 'Treat the third child well.'
.In the past few years, I can’t count on my biological son, nor can I count on some of my friends. The only one I can rely on is your third uncle, Xiaowu, Xiaoyi. Listen, your third uncle is not friends with me because of our family’s great power and wealth.
My friendship with your third uncle does not mean that I rely on him to deceive others. I have a true friendship and I will say it today. If your third uncle walks in front of me, it goes without saying that I will take care of you; if I walk in front of you,
I'm counting on you two brothers to take good care of your third uncle..." As he spoke, he became emotional and sad.
Before Xiaowu Xiaoyi could speak, Lu San stood up with a loud sound and said with a blush on his face: "Jiaxuan, you have come to this point, I also have something to say to the children: friendship is friendship, everyone
Or everyone, your dad is the master's family and I am the long-term worker. Your dad is gone, your brothers are the master's family, and I am still the long-term worker. How was I when your dad was alive, how am I doing when your dad is gone? It's my job to do the work.
I'll do it, and I won't be polite if you pay me my wages on time. Any other words are superfluous. My temper..." Xiaowu poured wine for Lu Sanhe's father and said respectfully and sincerely.
: "I don't treat Third Uncle as an outsider, and it would be nice if Third Uncle didn't treat me like an outsider."
Seeing Xiaoyi also bowing to Lu San, Bai Jiaxuan said to his two sons: "Okay, you two, don't forget what you said." Then he turned around, put down his chopsticks and stretched out his right hand to grab Lu San's left hand: "
Third brother, you shouldn't kill Heiwa's wife..." Lu San also turned his head and stared at Bai Jiaxuan: "I'm not afraid. I don't regret it either." Bai Jiaxuan said, "But why did you kill her quietly?
If you're not afraid, then kill him openly and in the daytime." Lu San couldn't say anything for a moment. Bai Jiaxuan released his hold on his hand and said, "It shows that you are still afraid." Lu San was not convinced by this statement, and again
In front of the two juniors, he slammed the wine cup on the table, rubbed his neck and said: "Jiaxuan, you are so weird, but killing people is not what you said." Bai Jiaxuan still said calmly: "Third brother,
If you think about it, we have been together for many years, and there is not a single thing I have done that I have done secretly. I dare you not to find even one thing. What happened to the 'handing farmers' thing?
The people in the original area started shouting and got into a position to start a fight with the corrupt official. It was still the same thing in the clan. Heiwa's daughter-in-law was doing random things. We tied her to the ancestral hall and punished her. We also punished her openly in front of everyone; Xiaowen was
My own son is no exception..." Lu San listened, and it seemed that he really couldn't find anything that Bai Jiaxuan did quietly. Bai Jiaxuan said calmly: "I have never done anything shameful in my life.
You should not do anything you are afraid of people knowing, and you should not be afraid of people knowing anything you should do. In fact, the more people know about it, the more it seems like it should be done... You two remember this propriety." Bai Jiaxuan looked at his two sons as he said this.
Lu San said: "If that harmful spirit is not eliminated, she might harm others. She died in the kiln and stinked in the kiln. Not a single word was heard in Bailu Village saying that she died pitifully. They all said that she deserved to die..."
Bai Jiaxuan interrupted and said: "Whoever she harms or not depends on how he is. To forge iron, you need to be tough; everyone who is harmed by her is a person who is not tough." When he said this, he said solemnly to his two sons.
Nodding, he turned back to look at Lu San, "If someone listens to you, she is your daughter-in-law. If someone doesn't listen to you and obeys your discipline, she is not your daughter-in-law. You are no longer their grandfather. So
People are messing around with other people's affairs. Why are you killing people? Are you angry? Are you afraid of people poking your back? I don't think so. Xiaowen lives his people and I live mine, and everyone lives their own people." Lu San realized that he was feeling in his heart
A little discouraged, he still insisted on saying: "You think things through, but I didn't expect it to be so perfect. Anyway, after killing her, I also confessed my innocence to Hei Wa. I don't regret it." Bai Jiaxuan said: "I regret it.
You must not regret it. It's not worth regretting if one of these people dies or ten of them die, but it's just not your fault. It's good if you don't regret it. If you do, it will be a big trouble..."
There was a swishing sound, and the sound of rain suddenly sounded on the yard and roof tiles. Lu San jumped away from the bench, ran to the yard, and cried: "Oh my God." Bai Jiaxuan fell down from the bench in a hurry,
The two sons had already rushed to the courtyard, screaming and jumping. He climbed to the door and fell down the steps. He knelt in the courtyard, raised his face, and let the cold raindrops fall down. The rain became more and more fierce.
, a din of rain. The whole Bailu Village resounded with joy, shouts, cries, and curses all thrown into the sky. God of help, God of shame, God of deceitful God, how do you remember that there are still people in the world who have not starved to death?
Lu Sanyi, a citizen on the first floor, was soaked all over. He pulled Bai Jiaxuan, who was kneeling in the mud, up the steps. The rain poured down like a dump, creating a muddy smell. The noise in the village gradually subsided, and the noise of the heavy rain covered the sky and