Bai Minghe's tone softened a lot: "Isn't there any possibility of relief?" ”

"The old man said, no one is wrong. It's all about living, and some things are unsolvable. The death of your grandfather and father-in-law has something to do with the fighting between the villages. My family also has sons and nephews who died in the fight, the county lord has come, the prefect has come, and a passing Qincha has also done it, this is not hatred, this is an unsolvable death. ”

After the old man Yan finished speaking, he didn't say anything about sending off guests, and turned straight back to the back hall.

The white crane can sit here and not leave, but it must not be chased to someone's backyard. In desperation, I had no choice but to leave first.

When he went out, an old family member of the Yan family came over and said, "Master Juren, my master has a sentence." The old man can't borrow food, unless he walks fifty miles away. ”

Bai Minghe hugged his fists: "Passing the word on behalf of Bai Minghe, I will say that Bai Minghe has thanked him." ”

Fifty miles away, to the east is the capital city of Zhuozhou, to the south is the county seat of Laishui.

When they returned to Xiaquan Village in the evening, many of the clansmen in Xiaquan Village just watched from a distance, and when they saw that the old man was not looking good, no one dared to meet him, and they all ran away in all directions.

Back at home, Bai Minghe told Sun Yuanjun what he had encountered during the day, and Sun Yuanjun didn't dare to understand why this happened.

"Husband, according to what you said, these seven miles and twenty-eight villages are not allowed to go down to Quancun Village?" No matter how smart Sun Yuanjun is, no matter how many books she reads, she is just a little girl who is only sixteen years old, she doesn't know what has happened between villages in the past few decades, and she can't analyze the current troubles.

After thinking about it, Sun Yuanjun said: "Husband, why don't you go and ask the old uncle!" ”

"Don't ask!" The white crane refused directly.

Sun Yuanjun asked the reason, and Bai Minghe said: "There are only two days left before the New Year, I don't have time to ask too much about the old things of the New Year, in my Bai Minghe's eyes, I only have success, and I will not find any excuse to excuse my failure." Not to mention forty stone of grain, even four hundred taels of silver, it is not a problem in the eyes of my white-named crane. ”

The white-named crane is arrogant.

Sun Yuanjun couldn't believe it, and he didn't dare not believe it.

I only heard Bai Minghe say: "There are too many ways to make money, but I think that I am Guanzhong Bai Minghe, upright, and those small means will never be used." ”

Sun Yuanjun didn't believe it this time, and said: "Husband, if there is really no way, it is better to ask the elders of the clan to discuss together." ”

"Joke, what do you mean there is no way." Bai Minghe was aroused and said loudly: "There are many chicken farmers in the village, if I can make the eggs into a square, I don't know if I can sell them for ten times the price." ”

"Yes!" Whoever has heard of it, who has seen square eggs. If this is taken to Zhuozhou City, a square egg dares to ask for dozens of dollars.

Bai Minghe smiled coldly: "But I, Bai Minghe, don't use such small means." ”

The white-named crane in Sun Yuanjun's eyes immediately became extremely tall, this is his husband, a righteous gentleman, an upright man, a white-named crane.

"Help me gather some stuff and find a few reliable people." Bai Minghe's eyes changed, and he became very serious.

The things that the white crane wants are very strange, first they want green bamboo, and it is not easy to find green bamboo in winter.

The second is the tortoise, which is even more outrageous, and the tortoises hibernate in the winter.

Uncle Sun threw down the cruel words and searched for them overnight, and all the men in the village went out to look for them. If you can't find Xiaquan Village, you don't have to celebrate the New Year.

There are two more, one is mercury and the other is clean hair.

Mercury said that the old uncle went to a Taoist temple, and he could ask for some if he begged for it. Hair needs to be sacrificed, and the hair and skin of the body are subject to the parents, and it is definitely a sacrifice to let people cut some hair.

Naturally, it was the white crane who made the sacrifice, and he couldn't bear to turn his uncomfortable hair into a short one.

In the middle of the night, Shirana Crane took out Xueha in the room, along with the other three things, and began to make ingredients. The hair is rubbed in the dirt and then washed, just so that it is not greasy.

"If it weren't for this Xueha, my husband wouldn't have been able to think of this way." The four materials are mixed together, and there is only a small little bit.

The first one is Xueha. The second is the juice of green bamboo roasted over a charcoal fire. The third is tortoise urine. Fourth, gray hair.

The four items were combined into one, and Sun Yuanjun devoted all his learning to draw a picture of a Tang Dynasty lady on a bronze mirror that found the most primitive from the village. The Tang Dynasty was chosen because this bronze mirror itself was a product of the Tang Dynasty.

Next, in the courtyard, several elders took turns to come on the stage, first grinding the original painting with talc powder, and then using cork and mercury to polish the bronze mirror. This is a meticulous work, and if the polishing is not fine, the surface of the copper mirror will not be smooth enough.

One night, after most of the day passed, the closed courtyard door opened again, and the old uncle left with a few old men who were so tired that they couldn't even walk, leaving behind a bronze mirror that was extremely clean.

This bronze mirror looks ordinary. But after a closer look, there is a maid in Tang costume who comes to life. It's like dancing!

"Husband, this ......" Sun Yuanjun really couldn't believe his eyes. He glanced back at the remaining materials on the table, and immediately prepared to put them away. But who would have thought, Bai Minghe threw all those materials in the toilet, not only that, but also slapped Sun Yuanjun's small PP.

"Husband!" Sun Yuanjun's face was aggrieved. I don't understand why I was beaten.

"This is not the right way, and if it weren't for the life and death of two villages, I would never use it. I want to be a white crane in Guanzhong, full of poetry and books, loyal to the liver and courage, and pay the most attention to the word 'letter' in dealing with people, this kind of method will never be used again. The white crane looked righteous and awe-inspiring, but it made Sun Yuanjun's eyes full of little stars fly.

Worship, great, this person is his husband, and he is really a dignified gentleman.

Bai Minghe looked at the bronze mirror and smiled, thinking about the story of the two famous stamps in later generations, the out-of-print stamps, there are only two in the world. Each one is worth five million, but if one of them is burned, then only one is worth being out of print.

There should be only one such bronze mirror in the world.

Fortunately, Sun Yuanjun's painting skills are definitely at the level of a little grandmaster, and this thing is definitely a treasure.

The white crane was tired, and the kimono lay on the bed and fell asleep, Sun Yuanjun held the bronze mirror, looked at the mirror for a while, the more he looked at it, the more amazing it became, and then looked at the white crane, the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, his face was full of smiles, he just fell asleep next to the white crane, all of them were smiling, and they were laughing in their dreams.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, every village and household is preparing for the New Year, and many large households are already putting up lights.

The white crane came to visit the Lu family and was still courteous.

In Lu's courtyard, the fireworks have been piled up into a mountain, and listening to the family talking about these fireworks is worth hundreds of taels of silver. The Lu family is the largest family in Fangyuan Baili here, and it is not too much for the main family to spend hundreds of taels of silver to set off fireworks during the New Year.

Lu, today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and many people have returned home.

Just a dozen of the old and young have more than one education, and several of them are still Beijing officials in scarlet robes. There are dozens of Xiucai who greet the white-named crane, the main family, the partial house, the branch line, and the Xiucai who have to study in the Lu Family School.

The white crane is a lifter, and it can be regarded as some identity. Today is another good day, Yili visited the contemporary patriarch of the Lu family, and went to give gifts to the old lady of the Lu family to celebrate the New Year.

Mrs. Lu is from the Taiyuan royal family, and she is also the daughter of a big family, and she has the status of an edict.

It's a three-pin lady!

After seeing the white crane, Mrs. Lu said: "Your grandfather-in-law also had some relationship with the Lu family in his early years, and he once lectured on scriptures and righteousness in the Lu school, and many of the children of the Lu family were also educated by your father-in-law. The old man also heard about you borrowing grain everywhere, and it is said that he should help you once, but the Lu family does not want to make enemies with Qili Twenty-eight Village. ”

Bai Minghe hurriedly got up and bowed: "Please tell me the old lady, why?" ”

"The old body asked you, what were your original plans for coming to the Lu family?" Mrs. Lu asked.

Bai Minghe took out a cloth bag from his arms: "Back to the old lady's words, it was originally the junior who planned to take out a treasure pledge!" ”

"Pledge?" Mrs. Lu was interested, and she didn't look at the treasure, but just asked about the pledge.

"Don't hide it from the old lady, I don't know what happened in Xiaquan Village. But since my wife is from Xiaquan Village, I am obliged to solve this matter for Xiaquan Village, no matter what, I will do my best! After the white crane finished speaking, he couldn't bow down.

A middle-aged man in his regular clothes got up and came to Bai Minghe's side: "Do you know that this matter has been going on for at least twenty years, and the successive governments and counties have not solved it. There are still forty-five days to go to the day of the examination, this official advises you, go back to study with peace of mind, prepare for the examination, my Lu family will give you ten stones of food, in order to solve the current urgent need for coal! ”

"If you don't decide this, you won't try!" The white-named crane stubbornly saluted again.

The Lu family here are all people with meritorious fame, and anyone knows what fame means for scholars? If you dare to say such cruel words, you are either crazy, or you are a truly loyal person.

"That's it, San'er, tell him what happened!" Old Taijun Lu spoke, and the middle-aged man standing next to Bai Minghe first saluted Old Taijun: "Your Excellency, Mother, commands." Then he said to Bai Minghe: "This matter is a dead knot, these eight miles and thirty-two villages, every qiē problem is on the water." ”

Listening to the detailed lecture of this five-grade official in the capital, Bai Minghe understood.

In these villages, there are only two water sources, one is the spring, which is the spring in the west mountain of Xiaquan Village. There is also a small tributary of the Juma River, this tributary does not have much water, and in the spring it is still the dry season, and this water is not enough for all the land of the 32 villages in Bali.

Because of this, in the thirty-two villages of Bali, Xiatian accounts for as much as seventy percent. All of the Ueda are only 100 acres, and all of them are in Xiaquan Village. Just because, this tributary passes through Xiaquan Village.

For more than 20 years, there have been fights for water weapons and water deaths, every year.

It was in response to Old Man Yan's words.

No one is wrong, it's all about survival.

Xiaquan Village did not monopolize these water sources, and distributed them to the nearest three villages, because their four villages were one mile. But if this water is not intercepted here, how can the four villages be enough to water the land, and how can the crops grow well.