Chapter XXXI.4
Bai Zhao led his granddaughter-in-law to beg the gods of various temples in the original to beg for a child, but to no avail. The Bai Zhao clan never rushed to the temple fair. The Bai family has always only sacrificed to their ancestors, and women are not allowed to ask God everywhere, burn incense and kowtow. At first, Bai Zhao led his daughter-in-law to the fairy cave in the west of the Yuan to pray for the mother of the house, burned a pair of red lacquer wax and inserted a pinch of purple incense, and then knelt down and kowtowed. After the granddaughter-in-law had done all these worship rituals, she timidly reached out to the mud mound under the buttocks of the housekeeper and touched it, and the girl with the mud and braided pigtails or the boy with horsehair hair touched it, and every night when she went to bed, she caught **. The mud doll rubbed her hard to sleep, and she had a good time on the kang every night, but after all, she didn't see any signs of Huaiwa. Xiong Xiaoyi ran out of patience and scolded: "You are a colander**." The daughter-in-law was so ashamed that she didn't even dare to cry. Bai Zhao led his daughter-in-law to ask Mr. Leng again. Mr. Leng first looked at the complexion, and then called the pulse, asked about the phenomenon of eating and sleeping menstrual blood cramps, first used the ancestral secret recipe, and then changed the home remedies, and the medicine primer was full of red roosters that had just crowed and pig eggs and cow eggs that had just been castrated. Bai Jiaxuan said to Mr. Leng in despair: "It looks like she can't do it." He absolutely can't tolerate the third son Xiaoyi, who ends here. Mr. Leng smiled and asked, "What if the problem is with our baby?" You divorced this, and you still can't stay after marrying again......" Bai Jiaxuan asked in surprise: "How can the problem be in a man?" Mr. Leng evolved this mysterious and insoluble mystery of fertility into an easy-to-understand analogy: "Look at the gourd vines, some flowers sit on the melon, and some flowers do not sit on the melon. The flower man who only blooms and does not sit on the melon is called a wild flower. Some men are crazy flowers who only bloom and don't sit on melons. First of all, we have to find out who is the crazy flower of the two, and she will be able to talk about it if she can't stop at that time. Bai Jiaxuan asked: "How can you find out who sits on the melon and who doesn't?" Mr. Leng said: "Last time, there was a mallet meeting. ”
There is a lone peak in the Qinling Mountains in the southeast of Bailuyuan, the round peak body is well-proportioned, and the shape resembles a woman's mallet beating clothes. On the beam of the base of the lonely peak is a small lonely temple, in which sits a strange god. Half of the god's head was a woman's bun, and the other half was a man's mantle; One eye is like an almond looking for affection, and the other eye is a leopard's eye of rage; One delicate ear hangs from the earring, and the other hangs straight down to the shoulder; Half of the lips, chin and half of the cheeks are delicate and smooth, while the other half of the lips, chin and cheeks are hairy like grass; There is a solid upturned ** on half of the chest, and there is a black ** like a soaphorn nucleus on the other half of the muscular ribbed chest**; One foot wears pink embroidered shoes, which are no more than three inches small, and the other foot is naked and tied with bast shoes; Wrap only a cloth towel around your hips to hide the most secret parts; A smooth, plump arm holds a slightly open mussel, and the other tendon-ridden arm holds an iron mallet. This is the god of the mallet of men and women (the homonym of the stick mussel). Every year from June 3rd to 6th is the day of the club, the time of the meeting is not during the day but at night, and the peak reaches in the middle of the night. People in the vicinity usually drink soup at home to go to the meeting, and those in the distance leave early to enter the mountains when it gets dark. Generally, the mother-in-law leads the infertile daughter-in-law to pretend to be a relative, and the bamboo cage contains offerings and dry food for self-consumption, which is tightly covered with a cloth towel. First by the grandmother to offer the offerings, and then the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in front of the mallet god to light wax incense and bow to the end, and then squeeze out of the temple gate, the mother-in-law to the daughter-in-law from the top of the head under a gauze covering the face, the two made an appointment to meet the place, the mother-in-law hurriedly walked away. At this time, the man hiding behind the trunk of the tree and the stone pulled the woman with the covered face to her, and led her into a secluded place, and without asking anyone a word, she began to flirt with her. Most of these men are young people from nearby villages who like to take advantage. After the accident, the daughter-in-law found her mother-in-law and immediately went home. Some mothers-in-law were still not at ease, so they led their daughter-in-law to burn incense again and bow again, pushing their daughter-in-law into the darkness again, and said, "It's not easy for us to come from afar, and it's more stable to go again." The next year, the daughter-in-law who had a child was still led by her mother-in-law to thank God. At that time, the mother-in-law held her daughter-in-law's hand and never let go, and the god of thanking the mallet returned early. Bailuyuan is popular with a lot of scolding words on this topic, and when the two have a dispute and say to the heavens, they say: Whoever ignores his conscience will be picked up at the mallet meeting......
Bai Jiaxuan listened to Mr. Leng's idea and was silent. Anyone who said such vicious and insulting words would have already reached the bridge of his nose with Bai Jiaxuan's jujube wooden cane. Bai Jiaxuan said: "Brother Leng, the more you say, the colder it gets. Mr. Leng shook his head disappreciatively: "The words are ugly and reasonable." Let her go once, and if she is pregnant, she can conclude that there is something wrong with the third baby; If she is empty, you will divorce her. Besides, if it is the fault of the third baby, she will have a queen when she is pregnant, which is better than being a kiss under the hug. Who knows what the hell is going on?" Bai Jiaxuan only cared about smoking one bag after another, and only after a long time did he say angrily: "That road will be put aside first." You treat the three babies first, and the problem is on the three babies, in case it can't be cured, then talk about it......" At this time, he conceived and completed a more thorough plan than Mr. Leng said in his heart, and then handed it over to his mother Bai Zhao to implement.
That night, Bai Zhao cut the steamed bun into thin slices and fried it in the oil pan, laid five poached eggs, and personally went to the horse to call the rabbit baby for dinner. The rabbit baby looked at Huang Liang's crispy fried buns and white crystal-like eggs, and was stunned and didn't dare to move, and asked, "Uncle Me?" Bai Zhao said: "Your uncle has eaten, and Mr. Xun Leng has gone to play chess." Eat it, bunny. You can eat and do your mother-in-law a favor. The rabbit baby laughed: "What does my mother tell me to do, just tell me, what are you doing with all this delicious food and drink?" Bai Zhao said: "If you do heavy work, you have to be full, rabbit baby." The rabbit baby ate and drank like a whirlwind, until she was sweating and burping: "Mother, what do you say to do heavy work, I'll do it." Bai Zhao said: "Your third sister-in-law is sick, and God said that you want a virgin boy to sleep with you as a companion to ward off evil spirits, so you will give your third sister-in-law a companion for two nights." The rabbit baby has been strictly controlled by Lu San since she was a child, and she has no understanding of the secrets between men and women, and laughs innocently: "What's this!" How can this be considered heavy work!" Bai Zhao said: "Mother-in-law is joking with you! Are the animals fed?" The rabbit said, "Mix another trough of hay, and I'll go when the animals have finished eating." Bai Zhao said lightly: "It's also anxious." God said that he would wait for Xingquan to be a companion. The rabbit baby said, "When the animals finish eating a trough of grass, the stars will be complete!" Bai Zhao lowered his voice and admonished the rabbit baby: "Accompany your third sister-in-law to sleep and be a companion, don't dare to say a word to anyone, and God will pull out your tongue!"
Everything is designed to be seamless. The choice of time is the most critical thing, Bai Zhao has already explored the regular time of filial piety's daughter-in-law's "horseback riding" and "saddle removal", and waited until the time when the second daughter-in-law was going to her mother's house to attend the wedding of her little brother. Xiaoyi was sent by Bai Jiaxuan to the mountains to find his brother Xiaowu, and asked him to follow the pack mule to send the medicinal materials back to Xi'an, and the family needed money. Xiaoyi took the pills and noodles that Mr. Leng baked for him into the mountain. Bai Jiaxuan hid in the Chinese medicine hall early to play chess, Mr. Leng went back to his hometown to marry his youngest son, he played against the husband who grabbed the medicine, and playing chess was his only regular entertainment. In the entire courtyard, there are only three daughters-in-law and Bai Zhao's left. After Bai Zhao went out after the rabbit baby was full, he suddenly felt unbearable in his heart, and picked up the white copper hookah on the table and smoked it. In the unbearable dreary waiting, I finally heard the footsteps of the rabbit baby in the courtyard. The door of the third daughter-in-law's house squeaked, and Bai Zhao's heart jumped suddenly. She walked out of the house, coughed in the yard and closed the street door, and when she came back and passed outside the door of the house, she said, "It's not early, go to bed quickly, and you have to get up early tomorrow morning to work!" After that, he pretended to go back to the upper room to sleep, and then leaned on the windowsill like a cat and listened with bated breath. She can't go to sleep in peace, what if the stupid rabbit baby doesn't scream? She was prepared to take emergency measures to prevent things from going wrong.
"Third sister-in-law, where can I sleep?"
"You just sleep on the side of the kang."
"Third sister-in-law, why do you want someone to be your companion?"
"Don't ask, ask God to pull out his tongue!"
There was a sound of rustling and undressing, and then there was silence. The rabbit suddenly screamed angrily: "Haya, I don't eat milk!" When I'm grown up, you still nurse me......" The third daughter-in-law reprimanded: "Melon bear, shout God again to pull out your tongue!" The rabbit couldn't help but suppress her voice and said: "Ah, the third sister-in-law, you don't pinch my Niu Niu......" The third daughter-in-law covered the rabbit's mouth, and the rabbit was still saying: "Third sister-in-law, why are you like this...... Ouch! Third sister-in-law...... It's a lot like this......"
Bai Zhao left the window of the mansion with a sigh of relief, walked away with a spicy face, and accidentally knocked down a broom. The rabbit baby was surprised and asked, "What's the noise?" The third daughter-in-law said, "Cat." Bai Zhao walked back to the upper room and couldn't help but scold: "Your mother is a cat!"
Three months later, the third daughter-in-law vomited. Bai Jiaxuan gave Mr. Leng a fine leather jacket: "Your medical skills are good!" He wanted to make Mr. Leng accept flattery and thanks, and at the same time accept a false fact, so as to seal Mr. Leng's mouth as well. The mallet meeting on June 3 is still far away, and the fact that the third daughter-in-law is pregnant can only be attributed to Mr. Leng's prescription, and it doesn't matter who the problem is. The second thing Bai Jiaxuan dealt with was the marriage of the rabbit baby. He said to the rabbit baby very affectionately at the dinner table: "Rabbit baby, you are not young, it's time to marry a daughter-in-law." Will the house be demolished and repaired, or will it be rebuilt?" Rabbit said: "My father told me that I am not allowed to ask for a penny from Brother Heiwa, and he doesn't want to give it, and I am not allowed to build a house in the old house." Bai Jiaxuan said, "Oh! I see, you don't have enough money. You said how much money you have, let Uncle calculate it for you. "Bunny said the amount of money his dad left him when he died. Bai Jiaxuan smiled and said: "This idea is money, I can only arrest a daughter-in-law." The rabbit smiled sheepishly. Bai Jiaxuan said: "Book a daughter-in-law first, then pick up the house, and marry the daughter-in-law back during the New Year." Money, Uncle gave you a bag, which can be regarded as making up for your father's love. ”
When the third daughter-in-law's belly was bulging day by day, Bai Zhao's disgust for her also grew day by day, and she hardly had to look at the belly, let alone her face, and even developed to the point that she was disgusted when she saw the food brought by the third daughter-in-law, but she couldn't say anything and scolded. Bai Zhao was getting thinner and thinner, and finally swallowed his breath in the sweltering heat of the dog heat after the wheat harvest. Bai Jiaxuan wanted to bury his hard-working mother ceremoniously, but the increasingly terrible war and chaos did not allow him to fulfill his filial piety, and the young people in the village ran away, and they couldn't even find a few effective helpers. Bai Jiaxuan prayed in front of his mother's spirit and said, "In three years, the world will be peaceful, and my son will sing to you again......"
In the spring of the following year, Xiaoyi's daughter-in-law gave birth to a baby. At that time, the rabbit baby had already spent the sun and moon with her newly married daughter-in-law in her own house, and she no longer went to the Bai family to live. Bai Jiaxuan allocated two acres of "Li" sloping land to the rabbit baby, so that he and his daughter-in-law went to their own sun and moon, and it was passed on as a righteous act in the original. Bai Jiaxuan no longer hired long-term workers, and only called a few wheat customers to work as part-time workers during the wheat harvest.
At the funeral for his mother, Mr. Zhu came to mourn his filial piety, and when he left, he nodded: "quit your long-term job and feed yourself." He couldn't figure it out: "What can I do if I can't grow it?" Mr. Zhu smiled and said, "Easy to do! Give it to the poor and it's over. Bai Jiaxuan only listened to half of his brother-in-law's words, dismissed the rabbit baby, and gave the rabbit baby two acres of land, and the rest of the land was reluctant to be given to others......
It wasn't until after the liberation, when the land reform was carried out to check the fields and determine the production and demarcation of the ingredients, that he suddenly woke up to the words of his brother-in-law Mr. Zhu, and couldn't help but admire Wanduan: "A saint and a saint, a real saint!" Because he did not hire long-term laborers for three years before the liberation, he was spared from being classified as a landlord according to the land reform policy.