The incident of "handing over the peasants" has been tirelessly discussed by people hundreds of times and thousands of times, but it has finally become indifferent. The rumors of the white wolf stopped, but the tengu's cry was heard again. Legend has it that wherever the white wolf first appeared, the tengu's howl sounded. Those who heard the tengu bark also pursed their mouths and imitated: "Yoyo-yo." The thin, shrill barking is very different from the howling of the Shiba dog raised by the farmer, and even if the average person hears the barking of "yo-yo", it will not be associated with the barking of the dog. And the dogs can understand, whenever they hear the bark of "yo-yo", as if they heard the horn and got the order, they bite up like crazy, the whole village, and even the dogs of several neighboring villages bite together, and the white wolf does not dare to enter the house and jump in circles.

Bailuyuan has returned to its usual order of life. Oxen crunched through the rutted dirt roads with large wooden wheels and a ring of pig iron, and walked leisurely from field to village with unhurried steps, carrying heavy manure from the field to the field in winter and spring, and carrying the harvested sheaves or ears of grain from the field back to the field in summer and autumn. Bai Jiaxuan also quickly shifted his energy to the rectification of family and clan affairs.

In the more than a year before and after the "Jiaonong" incident, the provisions of the "Township Covenant" were relaxed, and a gambling den appeared in the village, and the owner of the nest was Bai Xing'er of the village. There were also more opium smokers, two of whom had gone bankrupt, and women led their children around begging. He sounded the big gong, and all the men gathered in the ancestral hall, and Bai Xing'er, who had never been qualified to enter the ancestral hall, and the group of gamblers were also specially called. The ugliness of the two smokers could no longer be concealed, and they stood behind the people with their mouths open and drooling. Bai Jiaxuan lit a candle, inserted purple incense, and asked Mr. Xu to read some articles and precepts of the "Township Covenant". Bai Jiaxuan said: "People who gamble and roll dice are sick in their hands, and people who smoke big cigarettes are sick in their mouths; If there is something wrong with his hands, we will treat his hands, and if there is something wrong with his mouth, we will treat his mouth. Bai Jiaxuan called Bai Xing'er's name first. Bai Xing'er knelt down in front of the ancestral hall offering table with a "plop": "I don't gamble anymore, I don't gamble anymore!" I'll gamble and roll the dice and I'll cut off my wrist!" Bai Jiaxuan said: "Get up! Follow me-" Bai Jiaxuan called Bai Xing'er to the locust tree in the courtyard of the ancestral hall, "Turn your back and raise your hand!" Bai Xing'er raised his hands with his back against the locust tree, and people clearly saw the duck-webbed-like skin between Bai Xing'er's fingers, Bai Xing'er usually hid his hands under the placket to be ashamed to show his ugliness. Bai Jiaxuan named out the names of seven people in a row, some with the surname Bai and those with the surname Lu, some young and some middle-aged and elderly, all of whom raised their hands with their backs to the locust tree. Bai Jiaxuan tied the eight hands to the locust tree with a hemp rope, and then beat them with a dried jujube thorn brush, and the thick and thin voices of the eight people cried together. Bai Jiaxuan asked, "Say!" Everyone said how much they won and how much they lost. Bai Xing'er and the seven people all cried and reported truthfully. Bai Jiaxuan silently calculated, and the number of wins and losses roughly coincided, which could prove that they had not lied, so he said: "Those who lose money stay, and those who win money go back to get money." Bai Xing'er and the other two winners were relieved, and then ran home to get the money and ran again, taking out the silver dollar and putting it on the table according to the patriarch's eyes. Bai Jiaxuan said: "Whoever loses as much as he takes." The five losers were relieved, and they never dreamed that there would be a loss of money, so they counted the silver dollars from the table tremblingly, and didn't care about the bloody pain of being beaten by the thorn brush, so they lay on the ground and kowtowed: "Jiaxuan Ye (uncle) I will never ...... again" Bai Jiaxuan scolded with a cold face: "Get up!" Do you eight remember this? Remember? Who would dare to believe it! Bring the pot over—" A few men brought in a large iron pot with boiling water that had just been boiled with hard wood. Bai Jiaxuan said: "Whoever said that he had written it down and stuffed his hand into it, I believed it." Several losers gritted their teeth and plunged their hands into the boiling water, and immediately got so hot that they jumped on their feet and shook their hands around the yard. Bai Xing'er and the two winners also put their hands into the pot of boiling water, and they were so hot that they called their father, grandfather, and mother. Bai Jiaxuan said: "Let me say, if you can't remember and gamble again, next time it will not be boiling water but frying oil!"

Then the two smokers were called in front of everyone, and they were already trembling with fright. Bai Jiaxuan asked in a very tactful tone, "What about the people and dolls in your house?" The two of them were silent for a long time, drooping their heads and whispering, "Go back to your mother's house!" Want...... I'm going to eat!" Bai Jiaxuan frowned, and said bitterly: "One led the doll back to his parents' house, and the other led the doll to beg along the street." Think about it, what does it taste like for a married woman to lead her doll back to her parents' house to eat rice? What does it smell like a young woman leading a doll to rub against someone's door frame during the day and sleep on the temple platform at night?" Bai Jiaxuan was already moved and sad when he said this, the corners of his eyes were moist, and his voice was choked. The crowd was silent, and the soft-hearted people began to sob and wipe away their tears. Bai Jiaxuan said: "I have already found your two women and dolls back." Come—" The crowd was amazed to see two women of similar age dragging their children out of Mr. Xu's room, standing in shame before them. The begging woman's clothes were tattered and her face was haggard, and many people could not resist this stimulation and shouted: "Beat these two smokers to death!" Bai Jiaxuan said: "Women and dolls have endless sins when they meet this man and this old man. I think these two women have lost not only their own face, but also the face of the people of Bailu Village! I proposed to give the grain stored in the ancestral hall and the official land to the two of them for a few buckets...... Are you pleasing or not?" The pleasing person first expressed his pleasure, and then counted the immorality of the smoker; The displeased first reprimanded the smoker for his ruined behavior, and then said that he should not be sympathetic at all, but there were not many of them. The two smokers were ashamed and embarrassed, and knelt down in front of everyone without raising their heads, shouting: "Patriarch, you use a jujube brush to whip my shameless thing!" If I smoke again, you'll put me in the pan!" The innumerable rumors of the smokers of disgrace made him not believe in these vows at all, and he had not heard of a single smoker who had not been forced but consciously quit the vice. He immediately changed his face: "As I just said, the two of you have a problem in your mouth, and you have to treat your mouth." I'll buy you two a good medicine for your big cigarette addiction. "Before any good medicine has been brought into the door, a suffocating stench has spread into the courtyard of the ancestral hall, and everyone is in an uproar, it's!" Later, the two smokers really quit smoking, and they also left a long-standing laughing stock in Bailu Village.

After a rainy day, the rain stopped and the sky opened, and a shy sunshine leaked from the cracks in the clouds, sprinkled on the wet roof tiles, which made people feel more comfortable. Bai Jiaxuan tied the wooden mud clogs to his feet and went out of the street. The mud in the alley buried the wooden legs of the mud clogs, and he walked cautiously, with his hands behind his back, and took off the mud clogs when he walked to the door of the town's Chinese medicine hall. As soon as Mr. Leng met, he sighed: "Alas! I just saw the sun today! People are getting moldy!" Bai Jiaxuan said: "This year's cotton is white. After sitting down, Mr. Leng said, "I was just going to find you!" The rain made it impossible for people to get out. There's one thing I want from you!" Bai Jiaxuan said: "As long as I can do it, then what else can I say." Mr. Leng pondered for a while, and then said bluntly: "Zilin wants to engage Zhaopeng, ask someone to find out our real background, and want to order our eldest woman." Do you think this can be done?" Bai Jiaxuan said unequivocally: "What do you have to say? As long as the eight characters are combined. Mr. Leng said: "I pinched the eight characters secretly, but it was together." If you think it can be done, I have to ask you to come out, and you have to make the match. Bai Jiaxuan politely said: "There is a matchmaker in the village who specializes in matchmaking marriage, but I haven't done this." Mr. Leng insisted: "I'm annoyed by the matchmaker's slippery mouth." I'm just right for you. Bai Jiaxuan excused himself and said: "Talking about matchmaking for your brother, brotherhood is a rare opportunity!" But this is a two-sided matter, is it easy to say it on Zilin's side?" Mr. Leng said: "I'll tell you the truth, let you be a matchmaker, I haven't dared to think about you, it's Zilin's meaning!" Bai Jiaxuan was no longer embarrassed to excuse himself, so he played the role of a matchmaker. In the leisure days before the arrival of the busy season of autumn harvest and autumn sowing, the marriage was finalized according to the common wedding customs.

After the autumn harvest and autumn sowing are completed, in the warm and thawing of October before the ground freezes and dung, the wheat sown early by stubble is suddenly jumping upward, and the croppers use cattle and green mules to put on the small stones of the light field to crush them. Wheat is prosperous, winter is prosperous and spring is not prosperous. Up and down the river, in the green wheat fields, the cattle are leisurely, the green mules are hurrying, and there is a melodious "random play" cavity of the croppers. Bai Jiaxuan was alone and shouted green mules in circles in the wheat field on the south side of the road, and the "squeak" sound of wheat seedlings being crushed under the stone was constantly emitted. Lu Zilin turned around from the road and stepped on the wheat seedlings and walked over, and he didn't ask for directions in October, and the wheat was trampled by people and livestock. Lu Zilin stood on the ground. Bai Jiaxuan turned around, drank the livestock, and squatted down on the ground with Lu Zilin. Lu Zilin spoke briskly: "Brother Jiaxuan! I've returned the favor to you. Bai Jiaxuan said solemnly: "How can I be polite and gracious!" Lu Zilin said enthusiastically: "You tell us Zhaopeng that the next door is good." The grace of a drop of water should be reciprocated with a gushing spring. Besides, it's a lifelong event!" Bai Jiaxuan still smiled absently. Lu Zilin continued: "Brother Leng also has a second daughter, and he intends to give it to Xiaowen. I recommended myself to Brother Leng and wanted to match it, but I pinched all the eight characters, and there was no Mada. It depends on what your brother means......" Bai Jiaxuan squatted there and was dumbfounded. It came too suddenly. He said, "This is the first time I have told the old man about this today...... In three or five days, I'll give you a reply. ”

With Lu Zilin as the matchmaker, the matter of connecting Mr. Leng and Bai Jiaxuan into in-laws was also done smoothly. When a ferocious northwest wind brings a thick and heavy snowfall, it immediately ends the small spring weather that gives the winter wheat the illusion of spring rejuvenation, the ground is frozen and the weather is cold, and in the cold morning, the cows pull dung carts or oxen carry freeze-dried dung bags, spraying white mist between the yard and the wheat field. Mr. Leng's second daughter is engaged to the Bai family, but it is not the eldest son Xiaowen, but the second son Xiaowu. Mr. Leng's eldest daughter was ordered to Lu Zilin's eldest son Lu Zhaopeng, and Bai Jiaxuan felt that his eldest son was a bit of that for Mr. Leng's second daughter, so he proposed the second son Xiaowu. His original words back to Lu Zilin were: "I want to marry a bigger girl for Xiaowen." We are in a hurry to employ people in the house (the first floor of the inconvenient exit means to hug the grandson early). Brother Leng's second daughter is a little younger. If it is a combination of eight characters, it will be ordered to Xiaowu. Lu Zilin was anxious to get involved in this family business, and didn't think too much about Bai Jiaxuan's other meaning, so he told Mr. Leng. Mr. Leng agreed.

Mr. Leng is very satisfied with the settlement of his two daughters. He is not the property of the two Bailu families, and in terms of belongings in Bailu Plain, neither the Bai family nor the Lu family is considered to be rich and wealthy; He loved their sons, and revered their family morals, and were decent farmers; More importantly, because of his long-term practice of medicine in Bailu Town, no matter the Lu family, no matter the Bai family, if he offends any family, it is difficult for him to gain a foothold in this town; He may not only be able to see it with his cold eyes, but with his cold nerves, he can feel the rift between the two Bailu families that is not easy to heal after the "Jiaonong" incident. Like a prescription, he coldly designed and implemented his own reconciliation plan, no matter whether Bai Jiaxuan or Lu Zilin really hated or pretended to love in their hearts, even if it was good to maintain a superficial harmony and intimacy. When the two family affairs were completed, Mr. Leng ordered food and warm wine on a winter night, invited two in-laws, and said with rare enthusiasm and emotion: "If you don't get married, you are two families, and if you get married, you are one family." In the future, no matter who we have any preconceptions with whom, we will make it clear to face, and we are not allowed to nest in the stomach. We are all of us, how old am I, and I have the right to be a big (pronunciation and chopping) goods, and say a few old words: I think Bailu Village can't lack Jiaxuan brother, and Zilin brother can't do without it. The two of you are a good one. I admire the character of your two families, but I don't want to have many houses, wide cows, and tall horses. There is only one 'benevolent' village in Bailu Plain, and I forgot that it was a stele written by the county commander himself...... so the mustard between Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin caused by the "Jiaonong" incident was not to be resolved, in short, it was consciously and voluntarily deeply hidden by them. In fact, both of them need to maintain this situation.