"Husband, you came out so soon?" Wang Lu had been guarding outside, and when she saw her husband coming out, she happily ran over and grabbed his arm: "I thought you would definitely beat them up at the meeting, at least if they knew what to do." ”

"Daughter-in-law, in the future, I should take care of the family's affairs." Wu Shan shook his head: "Because I don't want the big and small officials in Wu County to look at my father's face and open up to these people, they don't know what their surnames are." If you can help for a while, you can't help for a lifetime. Besides, these people have peasant cunning, and they tell you well to your face, and they go their own way as soon as they turn around. ”

"Won't it?" Wang Lu was a little surprised: "Aren't they afraid of Dad and you?" ”

"What's the use of being afraid?" Wu Shan smiled bitterly: "Do you still think it is in ancient times?" Grab and beat up? Why don't you kill chickens and show them to monkeys, grab a few and soak them in pig cages? ”

"What is a dipping pig cage?" Wang Lu asked with wide eyes and puzzled.

Uh, oops. Dipping in the pig cage is generally the ancient family's way of dealing with the cheating of the daughter-in-law, and Wushan can't wait to give himself a mouthful.

"Dipping the pig cage, well, is that in ancient times, in the family or village, people who thought they were guilty were put in a bamboo cage containing pigs." He touched his bare chin: "The misdemeanor has his head exposed to the surface of the water and soaked for a certain time; A felony can be drowned to death. ”

Wang Lu shuddered, not daring to ask any more. Because such a punishment is too cruel for both men and women.

Outside the walls of the district office is a shallow stream. The streams of Yangqiao Dam all flow into the Yangqiao River. From the cave of the mountain, I went out of the cave and went to the confluence of the Jitou Dam and other rivers in the first district, which is the Baiyang River. When the Baiyang River arrives at the county seat, it joins the river flowing out of the 258th district again and is called the Daning River, which flows into the Yangtze River through Wushan.

The creek flows down from the Caijiawan Coal Factory. It flows all year round. It's cold in the summer, but the water temperature is warm in the winter, which has raised generations of Yangqiaoba people.

The creek was not deep, and it was just below the calf.

I don't know who said it, but there are crabs in the stream. This group of gringos, stripped naked, was busy in the water.

remembered that when he was in the Indochina Peninsula, the grasshopper burrowed into Zhang Haogu's leg and stomach, and Wushan had palpitations. However, the grasshoppers are also in the dam where there are aquatic weeds. I don't think I've heard of it here.

Seeing this group of foreigners with fine skin and tender meat, cheering in the stream, the shore was full of people watching the excitement.

In another time and space, Xiao Wushan often looked for crabs in the river, and after finding them. So he broke off their two front legs, threw them in his mouth, and chewed them with a clatter. It is said to increase strength.

And the crab lost two large pincers. No one cares if it dies or not, and they don't know that the crab is relying on the two big pincers in front of it to bring food to its mouth.

Obviously, the foreigners didn't come to eat crabs, everyone moved away from the stones to see if there were crabs under the stones.

"You can eat the first two legs, you can increase your strength!" There are locals on the shore reminding.

They will also be familiar with Mandarin. Wuxian dialect is incomprehensible.

Al spread his hands: "I don't understand what you're talking about!" ”

The locals repeated it again in Mandarin, and it sounded inauthentic, similar to the restaurant owner over there in Kuimen.

Muhammad shrugged: "No, this is also a life. How can a man live if he breaks off his two hands? ”

"Isn't that the other six legs?" The people on the shore never thought about it. It looks very confusing.

Al threw the crab in his hand into the far water: "Each pair of their legs has its own use and cannot be broken. ”

Just when the foreigners were answering with the villagers, Wang Lu happily took her husband's hand: "Husband, I'm going too." ”

Wu Shan looked at the time, it was not yet three o'clock, and he agreed.

Wang Lu didn't look at the usual boldness, when Wushan moved a stone away, revealing a crab, she only touched it.

"Yikes! It's moving, husband. She shouted, "Quick, quick, hold on to it, or you'll run away." ”

Wu Shan smiled and used his other hand to pick up the shell on the back of the fleeing crab.

Wang Lu was just about to pick it up, but he smiled and said, "Otherwise, you think its pliers are ornaments?" It will pinch people. ”

"Oh." She withdrew her hand and looked curiously.

"Daughter-in-law, it's enough to grab one, what do you say?" Wushan asked.

"Yes." Nizi responded obediently and walked back to the shore.

The two wiped the water with their hands and wore mountain socks and shoes.

Wushan asked Wang Lu to spread out his palms and put the crab on top of it.

"Husband, are its eyes decorated?" Wang Lu asked curiously, "You don't even move your eyes." ”

"Probably not." Wu Shan replied absentmindedly, seeing that the foreigners were still playing inside.

"Alas, it's quite pitiful, let's let it go, you see it always wants to turn it over." Wang Lu watched intently.

Al themselves are waiting for Wushan to go to the river to spend time.

Seeing the two of them packing up and going ashore, they came up one after another.

Along the creek, less than five hundred meters, is a reservoir. On the edge of the reservoir, the place against the root of the mountain is the ancestral hall of the Wu family.

In front of the ancestral hall, there is a verdant bamboo forest. In another time and space, Wushan also found a bamboo-leaf green snake in this bamboo forest. It was only about half a meter long, like an arrow from a string, swept past in front of him, and then disappeared into the depths of the bamboo forest.

In the bamboo forest, there are neat stone steps. I had never paid attention to it before, but this time Wushan silently counted it in his heart, and it was just level ninety-nine.

Compared with the Li family ancestral hall seen during the mountain brigade, the Wu family ancestral hall is much smaller.

At the end of the stone steps, there is a small flat courtyard, which has been poured with cement, which should have been built in the past few years.

Outside the ancestral hall, carved beams and painted columns, it looks like the charm of ancient architecture inside.

"Al, I'll ask the clan elders and see if you can get in." Wu Shan commanded in the courtyard.

He and Muhammad felt that it didn't matter, anyway, there were many rules in the magical China, which these two foreigners from Europe and the Arab world could not understand.

In front of the ancestral hall are two round pillars, and one person can't hold them.

On the pillar, there is a couplet that is not neat: up and down for 5,000 years, the Wu family will be passed down forever. Above is the Wu ancestral hall from right to left four large characters.

The person who guards the ancestral hall, when he was a child, the owner of this body once came with his grandfather, and vaguely remembered that it was called Wuyuan Mountain.

The mountain character generation is inverted, that is, the ranking is put behind the most ugly name.

Entering from the mountain gate, there is a small courtyard. An old man with a long beard was sweeping the floor with a broom.

"Ancestor is good, I am Wushan of Wu Tianming's family!" He shouted respectfully, and sure enough, it was still him.

The old man was a private school teacher before liberation, and after liberation, he seems to have worked in some department. He didn't remember.

"It's a little mountain girl." The old man stopped his broom, raised his head and looked at it carefully: "Taller than your father and grandfather." Heavenly Court is full of square circles, well, yes, he is a good material for being an official. What did you say Wu Shou thought at the time? I actually named you Wushan. Wouldn't that be the same generation as us? ”

Speaking of names, it seems that my grandmother said it when I was a child. It was originally named Wu Shan. Later, I felt that the good word was too gentle. I changed it.

It seems that her mother gave her a household registration to the Public Security Bureau, and she didn't understand it, but the person who went to the household registration was familiar with her, muttered, and made a temporary move. Since this is the word on the household registration, it will be called like this in the future.

Wu Shan smirked. didn't say anything, stepped forward and silently took the broom: "I'll sweep a few times." ”

The old man stroked his white beard and watched with satisfaction from the side.

His movements are naturally incomparable to the old man of Wuyuan Mountain, who is old and frail. In a few clicks, all the fallen leaves in the yard were swept together.

"Little mountain boy, you are an adult now." The old man slapped the ashes on his body: "To do things, use this more." ”

He pointed to his head: "For example, when we sweep the floor, why don't we use a large broom made of bamboo branches, but a small broom made of sorghum?" Because when the broom sweeps the floor, the subtle things can't be swept away, and they flutter everywhere with dust. ”

This is to blame himself for sweeping the floor too hard in disguise, Wu Shan nodded apologetically: "Xiaoshan has been taught." ”

On the left-hand side of the courtyard, there are several small chambers, which are intended for the guards of the ancestral hall.

The old man staggered to the wing, and asked as he went, "When did you come back?" ”

"Zuzu, I'm married, take my daughter-in-law and children back to the ancestral hall to worship my ancestors." He followed the old man.

"Got married? Wow! Where is the daughter-in-law? The old man walked slowly: "Take her in." There are not so many rules now, and people from the Wu family should enter the ancestral hall. ”

"It's good, Zuzu, she is from the capital, the youngest daughter of Wang Tiecheng's family." Wushan has a trace of respect for the elderly, and I heard my grandmother say that my father's enlightenment was taught by the old man.

Not only Wu Lixing, but most of the Wu family members in their forties and upwards were enlightened by him.

"The royal family in the capital, it's very good." The old man casually pushed open the door: "Why don't you call your daughter-in-law in?" ”

"No, Zuzu," Wu Shan sneered, "I still have a few foreign friends, and they will also accompany me back to my hometown to have a look, you see?" ”

"Foreigners?" Wu Yuanshan's eyes flashed with a cold light, he thought for a moment, and waved his hand: "It's okay." Go and let the barbarian states see my Chinese heritage, it's not comparable to their places. ”

In the middle of the main house of the ancestral hall, there is a portrait of Wu Hongtugong, the ancestor of the Wu family.

There is a record of traditional Chinese characters in small block letters below: In the thirty-fourth year of Kangxi, my Wu family's close ancestor Hongtu Gong and his brothers Hongyuan Gong and Hongde Gong entered Sichuan, and the three brothers were divided into homes in Sichuan. Hongtu Gongxing three, get a bronze Bodhisattva. At that time, the close ancestor brought seven family members and eleven servants to establish a foothold here.

It is said that the Yangqiao Dam at that time was not suitable for living with people at all.

In summer, the water rises and there is no place to discharge floodwater, and it flows into a small lake under the root of the mountain, which is called Longtuo by the locals.

Long Tuo, I don't know how deep the road is.

Wu Hongtu is a lawyer who often helps people sue or something. At that time, there were two places in the complaint, one was where today's county seat was located, and the other was Kuifu City, where Kuimen County was located.

There are no roads, only winding paths. Not to mention horse-drawn carriages and the like, even people who carry sliding poles are reluctant to go to these places.

Over time, Wu Hongtu became well-known in the local area.

Not far away, there is a rich man surnamed Zhang.

Zhang Caizhu is getting old, but he doesn't want to leave the family property to his eldest son, he wants to give it to his younger son.

At this time, the eldest son quit and beat his father and knocked out his front teeth.

This was in ancient times. It is a crime of disobedience, and if it is to be sentenced to death, go to the grand plan.

It was summer, and when the eldest young master of the Zhang family came, Wu Hongtu was roasting coal in front of him. I saw that he was wearing a cotton jacket, a felt hat, and shorts with a bullnose, and his bare feet seemed to be watching the fire intently.

Young Master Zhang shouted two or three times in a row, but he didn't answer, and threw the copper coin in his sleeve on the chair. Bend down to see what's so weird in the fire.

said that it was too late, Wu Hongtu pressed the head of Young Master Zhang down, bit his ear with all his strength, and actually bit off a piece of meat.

Young Master Zhang's temper itself is not good, how can he hold it?

Wu Hongtu shouted: "I'll save your life." Still not thanks? ”

said, just like this, he handed over the rhetoric to Zhang Dashao.

On the day of the opening. Zhang Dashao refused to admit his guilt. He said that the old father bit his ear. Because of the pain, his head was pushed up, and as a result, his father's front teeth fell out.

As he spoke, he plucked the herbs that had been applied to his ears.

When the county magistrate saw it, his ears had fallen off, couldn't his son move? In the hall, Zhang Yuanwai was beaten with 20 boards.

Hatred between father and son. Break the bones and connect the tendons, and it will dissolve after a short time.

As soon as the two of them put together, they had to sue Wu Hongtu, saying that he was sowing discord.

When the official summoned Hongtu Gong over. The family members wept bitterly, like life and death.

Wu Hongtu Ha Lu Ha Da smiled: "Yu will go back to the hall, why be so sad?" ”

Unexpectedly, this is the last thing he and his family have ever seen.

When the magistrate was promoted to the court, the father and son of the Zhang family sued Wu Hongtu for misconduct by playing between father and son.

asked the county magistrate to deprive Hongtu of his status as a public showman and compensate the Zhang family for fifty taels of silver.

Wu Hongtu was not in a hurry, and laughed loudly in the hall: "What is the trouble of wanting to add crimes? I think that since I entered Sichuan, I often feel the grace of God. Saying that, he arched his hand towards the north: "I've always thought about the township test for high school, how can I have the leisure time to pay attention to some small things about your Zhang family?" I hope you will see it! ”

Zhang Dashao stated in court how he went to find Wu Hongtu and how he bit off his ear.

Wu Hongtu was puzzled: "May I ask Zhang Gongzi, what month was it at that time?" ”

"Just after the Dragon Boat Festival, the fifth month of the lunar calendar."

"What did you just say to look down?"

"Look at the fire!" also painted a detailed description of Wu Hongtu's attire at that time.

"I think I'm in good health, why do you want to make a fire in May and June? Unless it's a pendulum. You might as well pass on the local doctor, Mr. Xu, to know when he comes to the church. Wu Hongtu argued.

Dr. Xu came and told him that there was no record of Wu Hongtu's pendulum, but he brought a big news.

The Wu family had just caught a large eel, and then the whole house was destroyed, and no one was dead or dead, leaving only hair and a little cloth.

The magistrate was furious and pronounced the verdict in the court: "The father and son of the Zhang family have done a lot of evil. The false accusation failed, and he had evil thoughts in his heart, and destroyed the Wu family. ”

After the autumn, the Zhang family went up to the old man who was 60 years old and went down to the newborn baby, and they were full of questions.

Wu Hongtu took possession of the wealth of the Zhang family, moved away from the ancestral hall, and married the daughter of Dr. Xu's family.

And the Wu family mysteriously disappeared back then, becoming a headless public case.

As the Qing government dug through the mountains and dumped the water of the Yangqiao Dam into the creek river, the Wu family gradually moved to live in the Yangqiao Dam.

When the last dragon was about to die, the descendants of the Wu family inadvertently killed an eel with a thick bowl. Some people say that such a large eel must be sperm and cannot be eaten.

Unexpectedly, the dog at home was greedy, and he tore and ate a few bites while smelling blood. After a while, the dog howled a few times, and its body turned into blood and disappeared, leaving only dog hair all over the ground.

The mystery of the disappearance of the Wu family has only been completely revealed.

However, the more than 30 members of the Zhang family could not be resurrected, and the Wu family never thought of killing others, and more than 100 years have passed.

The grand picture on the portrait, how Wushan looks like the portrait of Tang Taizong, seems to be smiling at himself.

He shuddered and began to kowtow on the futon.

As the daughter-in-law of the Wu family, Wang Lu naturally follows her husband.

A group of foreigners don't know why, and they also kowtow on the ground. (To be continued......)