CHAPTER XVIII. 3

Xiaowen got three acres of half-water land and five acres of dry land, which were resold to Lu Zilin's name three times before and after, and there were two acres of Tianzidi, one and a half acres of Tianzidi, three acres of Lizidi, and two acres of herringbone land. The silver dollars sold for eight and a half acres of land are at best worth the income of two acres of Tianzidi in a normal year, and when it comes to the final sale of those two acres of herringbone land, Xiaowen is so anxious that even the Chinese people have no time to invite, so he walked directly into the security center of Lu Zilin in Bailu Town, and said straight to the point: "Uncle Zilin, the two acres of herringbone land will also be given to you, and you will shirk it again!" If you give a few (silver dollars) with your conscience, I will not say a word. Lu Zilin said sincerely: "Xiaowen, look, it's really not good for my uncle to ask for your land anymore." Your father and I have been benevolent and righteous all my life, and you have repeatedly restrained me from selling my land, and I will really not be able to meet and talk to your father in the future!" Xiaowen couldn't wait to say: "My dad is my dad and I am me." If you don't want it, no one in our village can afford it, and people from other villages don't want it if it's inconvenient! Good uncle, I can't live anymore because I'm addicted, you lend me two silver dollars to go to the tobacco restaurant first......" Lu Zilin took out two silver dollars from his waist, watched Xiaowen turn around impatiently, walked out of the gate of the security center with stumbling under his feet, and said in a deep voice: "It's over!" This man is finished!"

Lu Zilin walked out of the gate of the security center and walked around the town, although the age was terrible, there was not a lot of food in the town, but the price was frighteningly high. He pretended to be concerned about the price drop in the grain market, talked patiently with the grain seller, and swept the crowded grain market with his eyes sunken in the long eyelashes, looking for Bai Jiaxuan. According to his judgment, Xiaowen will soon propose to him about selling the house, and before that, he must meet with Jiaxuan to clear the way for the next step in the future. Rich and poor alike are now concerned about falling food prices. Bai Jiaxuan's ugly hunchback entered his eyes, and he made a completely unintentional gesture that happened to bump into him and opened his mouth: "Uh, Brother Jiaxuan! It's just right to meet you, I have something I want to say to you-" Bai Jiaxuan raised his face: "Can you say it on the street?" Lu Zilin said: "Yes, yes." It's not a matter of right or wrong! I want to advise you, you can give Xiaowen some food! It's always gentlemen! Sensei asked him to pester me to sell the land again and again, I don't buy it, he won't lose his hand, I buy it and I feel sorry for you......" Bai Jiaxuan bit his cheeks, and said in a completely irrelevant tone: "This is nothing to hold on to me." Although you can buy land with confidence, it is your business with him that he wants to kick the land and you want to buy the land, and you have nothing to do with me. Lu Zilin persuaded more sincerely: "Brother Jiaxuan, you are stubborn, dear gentlemen, you can't leave it alone...... Bai Jiaxuan sneered and asked: "Tube?" Why don't you care about Zhaopeng?" Lu Zilin was so choked that he couldn't speak. Bai Jiaxuan turned his hunchback, put his hand into a grain pocket, grabbed the wheat, and looked good. Lu Zilin was thinking quietly, you are beautiful and I am beautiful! You don't care! That's what I want from you!

Xiaowen sold the land for the first time, and spent a good year in the cave with Xiao'e, and when he left, he put a stack of silver dollars on the kang mat: "Sister, you give it to us." "Leave a small half on you and go home. The daughter-in-law asked him for the silver dollar for the sale of the land: "You don't have insurance on your body, I will lock us in the cabinet, and I can't buy some food for a meal, and the days will be long!" Xiaowen said: "Rest assured, rest assured to put one hundred and twenty hearts!" I'll keep you in charge of the silver dollar. You don't care about anything in the future. The two children were led to eat by Bai Zhao's family, Xiaowen was not touching the family all day long, and she was the only one in the house who was starving, and her mother-in-law Xiancao carried her father-in-law from time to time to give her a bowl and a half spoonful, but she was hungry but sad and couldn't eat. One night, she mustered up the courage to protest to Xiaowen: "No matter how many silver dollars are sold, I don't see you buy a liter and a bucket, what did you get for the money?" Bai Xiaowen's eyes rolled: "Are you murderous?" You're going to take care of me?" The daughter-in-law said, "What am I fierce, what do I care about you?" I'm starving to death, so I can't ask you if you want to buy food?" Bai Xiaowen said with a cold face: "Don't buy it." If you want to die, die quickly. You don't know the way to die, I will show you: you want to jump into the well to go to the yard of the horse, you want to jump into the river and jump off the cliff to go north from the village, you want to hang the rope, you know where it hangs......" The daughter-in-law was anxious: "I know that you want me to die, force me to die, and starve me to death." I don't want to die and I won't give you a kang, you and that ** drill tile kiln and roll wheat straw, anyway, you want to enter my door and get on my kang!" Bai Xiaowen salivated and said, "You don't care." If you don't die, I won't keep my eyes open and staring at you. With that, he walked out of the house. Then one night, Xiaowen and Xiao'e were smoking a big cigarette on the kang in the kiln, and his daughter-in-law found the outside of the kiln door, jumping and scolding. Xiaowen opened the door of the kiln, and a slap made his daughter-in-law fall on the threshold. The daughter-in-law desperately threw herself into the kiln, grabbed Xiao'e's crotch, and grabbed a handful of fur. Xiaowen pulled her daughter-in-law's hair in a bun, and her two mouths were so twitched that she stopped yelling and scolding, and quickly dragged her home like a dead pig.

Xiaowen's daughter-in-law is called the eldest sister in the Bai family. The eldest sister was lying alone on the kang of the landlord's house at the gate of the courtyard, with four walls, porcelain jars and cabinets for grain, which were moved to the town by Xiaowen and sold cheaply before kicking the ground, and there were only two quilts on the kang and a bench on the ground under the kang in the house. Her whole body was already yellow and swollen, and she could faintly see the clear water overflowing under her skin, and she had fallen into a pit on her legs and arms with a press of her fingers, and she couldn't bounce up for a long time. She had a black bruise on her face, the result of Hyowen's fist smashing. She no longer felt hungry, and Grandma let the rice brought by Xiaowu's daughter-in-law and second sister condense in the bowl. She wanted to say a word to Ah Gong, but she guessed that Ah Gong would definitely not enter her house, so she made up her mind to go to him, and she accurately felt that she was about to finish. The sun was setting in the west, illuminating the back window as bright as a candle. The eldest sister heard Ah Gong's familiar footsteps and walked through the gatehouse and disappeared when she walked to the courtyard, her heart stirred up a force, slipped off the kang and combed her loose hair in front of the mirror, and walked into the hall without climbing, standing in front of Ah Gong: "Dad, I have been in our house for many years, and you can see it all when I am diligent and lazy." I've thought about this and that, but Dudu'er didn't think I'd starve to death......" Bai Jiaxuan seemed to tremble, raised his head from the chair, pulled out the hookah in his mouth, and said, "I told your mother, you and the doll will come to the backyard to eat." The eldest sister said, "What's the matter?" Besides, I don't need it. Then he turned and exited the door, and as he stilted over the threshold, he stumbled on the wooden threshold and fell, never to get up again. Bai Jiaxuan hunched his back upside down, lifted his daughter-in-law's shoulders, and hugged her in the crook of her arm. The eldest sister's eyes froze for half a round, and the corners of her mouth twitched to reveal a trace of shyness. Bai Zhao's Xiancao and the second sister all rushed over when they heard the sound. Xiaowu ran around and couldn't find Xiaowen.

Xiaowen had just finished the formalities of selling the house, and all the three concierges were sold to Lu Zilin, and the silver dollars he got were stacked on Xiao'e's kang head along the way, until he came back in the middle of the night, and saw the zombie of his daughter-in-law parked in the candlelight, and suddenly stood on his feet and couldn't step his legs. He had no idea that she would actually die. She was strong and had never been seriously ill, the muscles in her arms were clumped like those of a man, and her thighs and calves were hard. He suddenly thought of the scene when she had taught him to do things on the bed, and his heart softened, this person he no longer liked was now dead. The younger brother Xiaowu walked up to him and said, "Brother! You have done iniquity!" Hyo-moon didn't move. The younger brother said, "If her mother's family comes to make trouble tomorrow when she is buried, you will come forward to talk back to them." Hyowen still didn't move. Xiaowu couldn't help but say hatefully: "I can't bleed even if I prick you!"

The climate of protracted hunger has downplayed such important things, including the dead. The dead people have long ceased to cause special surprise and excessive grief of their families, and Bai Jiaxuan's family has also starved to death, which still causes a big uproar in the village. Fortunately, the people in the eldest sister's mother's family seem to be indifferent to the girl who has been out for many years, and only send the youngest brother of the eldest sister to come to mourn filial piety. After the younger brother who was swaying with hunger howled a few times, he grabbed the big bowl and went to the pot to pour noodles and poured noodles, squatted on the steps, and squatted on the steps. In order to take care of the influence, Bai Jiaxuan asked Xiaowu to come forward to help Xiaowen complete the funeral, focusing on the voices of the villagers and clansmen instead of Xiaowen at all. After burying the eldest sister, Xiaowen really became a nomad who did not collect the sky and the earth, and soaked in Xiao'e's cave in the morning and evening, and the two of them were full of smoke and had fun on the kang when they were full, making this hole lonely kiln a happy land on the White Deer Plain oppressed by hunger.

"Do me a favor." Lu Zilin invited more than ten young students surnamed Lu to the Benmen, and instructed them to go to the Bai family to demolish the house, treat them with soft steamed buns and boiled noodles, and then admonished: "You go and just demolish the house and say a few words." If no one in the Bai family comes out to stop you, just demolish it, if someone comes forward to stop it, Mancang nephew, you come back and call me. "More than a dozen young men dreamed that they would have the opportunity to fill their stomachs with real food today, and their spirits were suddenly refreshed. Mancang led them out. Lu Zilin finally advised: "Don't make trouble." ”

Lu Zilin sat on the chair next to the sacrificial table and smoked a hookah, proudly nervous, looking forward to Mancang rushing back to ask him to come forward. But after smoking three bags of hookah in a row, he still didn't come back from Mancang, could it be that Bai Jiaxuan's father and son were indifferent to the unmasking thing of demolishing the house? Until there was a sound of wood hitting the ground at the door of the street, he couldn't help but hurriedly walked to the door of the street, called the two nephews who were carrying a piece of wood into the door and asked, "There is no noise in the Bai family?" One of the nephews said, "No, no, no." Xiaowu jumped out to block the general, Brother Mancang just got off the ladder and was about to come back to call you, and his father came out to pull Xiaowu back. Brother Mancang went up the ladder again...... "Another nephew addendum said: "Xiaowu is very fierce, his father came out and said with a smile, 'Quickly dismantle and dismantle, if you demolish this house, you will do nothing, our family should thank you for your Uncle Lin'......' and then dragged Xiaowu into the backyard. Lu Zilin paced back to the sacrificial table in the hall from the street gate, reloaded a bag of hookah, and when he blew the fire paper, his tense heart was a little deflated, didn't I urinate on his face and urinate into the ditch?

Bai Jiaxuan's reaction is actually difficult to figure out. Bai Jiaxuan's hall and upper room gathered Bai Zhao's family, Bai Wu's family, Xiaowu and his daughter-in-law's second sister, and more brothers and nephews from their own clan, they were full of righteous indignation and hatred, and the words repeatedly emphasized the same meaning: Lu Zilin is not buying a house, but revealing the face of the patriarch! Lu Zilin peeled off not only the patriarch's face, but also the face of the person surnamed Bai! Bai Jiaxuan only smacked his hookah. Bai Zhao said: "Xiaowen asked him how much money we can repay, and the house can't be demolished." Xiancao said angrily: "Why do I want to get off this ruined son who kicks the ground and sells the house!" Xiaowu said: "Dad, I really can't bear this breath!" The nephews of the clan coaxed along with Xiaowu: What do you want to stop him from looking at him? Ask Luxiang to come out and talk to see what he says? Smash his leg and talk about it! Bai Jiaxuan drank everyone: "Which way did you give birth to which anger fanned the fire?" Zilin bought a house, paid for it, and made a contract, which was reasonable and legal; Besides, it's filial piety that people want to sell their houses, what's wrong with you blaming people Zilin? Go back, go back, go back quickly. He rebuked them mercilessly, leaving only his own family around, and said, "Can't I even weigh the gravity of this matter?" I don't know if it hurts, don't I feel ashamed?" Everyone was silent. Bai Jiaxuan asked Xiaowu: "In addition to blocking and fighting, what other ways do you think there is?" Xiaowu was silent for a long time, guessed his father's intentions, and said, "Dad! He demolished the house today, and I will build the house tomorrow with a hand, and build the gatehouse again, and build it more decently. Bai Jiaxuan slapped on the table: "That's right!" As soon as the lid is removed, people will be able to distinguish who is filial piety and who is filial piety, and the ancestral gods will also see who is the son of the Bai family and who is the pillar!" Bai Jiaxuan glanced at the second sister of Bai Zhao's Xiancao, and finally stared at Xiaowu and said, "People say that the prime minister can sail in his belly. I mean...... If you want to live on our plain, you have to be able to stick a knife in your heart!"

It wasn't until Mancang led people to dismantle all the wood, bricks, and tiles and send them away, and dug up the wooden lattice windows and door panels, Bai Jiaxuan walked to the front yard at this time, glanced at the ruined walls and the messy adobe bricks on the ground, and stopped Mancang, who was patrolling behind the hall, and asked politely: "Mancang, have you finished dismantling?" Man Cang smiled embarrassedly and replied, "It's over, it's over...... Uncle. Bai Jiaxuan said, "Let's see what else you haven't finished?" Man Cang still replied with a smile: "No, no, no, nothing...... Uncle. Bai Jiaxuan said seriously: "Yes! Take a closer look. Man Cang laughed dryly: "Uncle, you are making fun of your nephew!" Don't look closely......" Bai Jiaxuan aggravated his voice and drank Mancang, who turned around and wanted to leave: "You don't have to go." You can't leave until you've finished your stuff. You crouch down and think about it, when you will remember to get up and leave. As he spoke, he held his cane in both hands and stared at Mancang. Man Cang was timid, and the patriarch's uncle really squatted down and didn't dare to leave. In the streets and alleys, a group of people gathered in a short time to see what was going on. Bai Jiaxuan said in his heart: I don't think you Lu Zilin has flashed his face?

Lu Zilin is here. Hearing the news that Mancang was detained by Bai Jiaxuan, he rushed over, bowed with his hands and said apologetically: "Brother Jiaxuan, I should have come to tell you earlier, I can't get rid of the people who came from the security center...... What did you do with a full warehouse? What did you say to your uncle? Don't hurry up and apologize......" Bai Jiaxuan leaned his crutches on his shoulders, and gave his free hand to return the salute with his fists: "Zilin, I should really thank you!" The three gatehouses were propped up in the courtyard and stared at me, and I wanted to kick them down. Now you dug up the last in my eyes for me, and kicked out that loser, which can be regarded as taking out the tower in my heart!" Lu Zilin thought that Bai Jiaxuan was grabbing some handle in Mancang to find a gap to make trouble, but he didn't expect Bai Jiaxuan's words at all, and said with a stupid smile: "Xiaowen really tied me ......up" Bai Jiaxuan interrupted him: "Xiaowen hoops you to kick the ground and sell the house, I know...... I told Mankura-sensei to leave, he didn't finish the work for you!" Lu Zilin said: "If there is anything else you tell me, brother, I will do it." Bai Jiaxuan said: "You have taken away all the wood and bricks, and these four walls have not been demolished!" If you buy a house, you buy a wall! You have to tear down your wall and take it away, I don't want a piece of adobe. Lu Zilin's heart sank, demolishing and removing the four walls is not as good as removing the rafters, these ten or so people have to work for three days, how much food do these hungry bedbug-like nephews have to eat for three days? He glanced at the lively people in the streets and alleys, and said with a strong face: "Of course, of course, then of course......" Bai Jiaxuan still said open-mindedly: "You stop tomorrow, and then tear down the wall, the sooner and sooner you finish it, the better!" What's up? The portal is not tight! Again...... I also want to rebuild the house!"