Chapter III 3
The wheat on the original slope began to glow, and one night it rained. When it was close to dawn, Bai Jiaxuan woke up and cried loudly. The cry alarmed the mother. He said he had a dream about his father. I couldn't figure out how my father was covered in muddy water, and his clothes were wet and dripping water on the ground, and he couldn't stop shivering. I couldn't figure out how there was a deep pool of muddy water under my feet, and my father seemed to have climbed up from the pool, and his legs and feet shook and fell into the pool, and he couldn't pull it up, and he saw that his father was sinking, and only exposed his two big hands to shake on the water. He shouted for help, but the more anxious he was, the more he couldn't scream, he was so anxious that he cried, and suddenly woke up. When the mother heard this, she was not surprised, but only said one sentence and went back to her house: "Go to your father's grave and have a look." ”
When it was dawn, Bai Jiaxuan called the long-term worker Lu San to carry the shovel and walk towards the cemetery in the mud. He looked around his father's grave and found a cave where water might have entered, and water had entered the grave during the heavy rain at night. He told Lu San about the nightmare, and Lu San was amazed again and again. They pierced the cave with their shovels, blocked the waterways, and raised the mound. Jiaxuan said: "There was water in the tomb, and my father's fairy bones were soaked, so the grave had to be moved. ”
After the wheat was harvested and milled, Bai Jiaxuan invited Mr. Yin and Yang to visit the seven or eight dry lands distributed by the Bai family on the original to choose a new base. Amazingly, he didn't give any hint to Mr. Yin and Yang, but Mr. Yin and Yang's compass was surprisingly fixed on the slow slope of the deer family, which was exchanged for two acres of water, and the specific location of the tomb coincided with the place where he found the white deer elf. Mr. Yin Yang said: "The head rests on the South Mountain, and the foot climbs the North Ridge; Surrounded by slopes on all sides, all of them are gentle slopes and slow paths, showing a soft and stretching atmosphere; As far as the slope is going, the Jin veins will be here!" When Bai Jiaxuan heard this, his heart became more down-to-earth, and he fried eight dishes at noon to reward Mr. Yin and Yang. He sank Mr. Yin and Yang's words word for word in his heart, and when someone asked, he put on a helpless look and said, "Huh! I ran through seven or eight plots of land, and none of them had pulses, but this slow slope was closer to the village, and the terrain was gentle, so I could make do with the grave!"
The new tomb was not luxurious, but the burial chamber and the dark courtyard were built with blue bricks. During this period, Lu Zilin has completed the feat of digging wells. The newly cut wooden bucket waterwheel has also been installed and commissioned, the brand-new white light wooden frame is particularly dazzling in the bright sun, and the mule pulls the wooden wheel waterwheel with cheerful steps, and the sound of the rushing water is very pleasant. Lu Zilin dug up four willow trees and buried them in the four corners of the well, so that when the trees were large, they could shield themselves from the sunlight shining from three directions, and people and livestock would not suffer from the sun.
On the day when Bai Jiaxuan started to dig the old grave, he invited the parents of every household in Bailu Village to participate in this grand grave relocation ceremony. The drummer sings from the old grave to the new grave. The monks of Sanguan Temple were invited to make a dojo. Lu Zilin and his father were invited to participate in the blind toss that their father and son saw as blind. When he got home in the evening, Lu Zilin couldn't help but ask his father: "Is it a blind toss?" And expressed his suspicions: when excavating the old tomb, he has been paying attention to observing, and there is no trace of water entering the tomb and the tomb road, Bai Jiaxuan said that his father asked him to move the grave in a dream, which is likely to be a fabricated disguise, which cannot but make people wonder if Bai Jiaxuan's real motive for exchanging good land for bad land is not playing a trap after reaching a tacit understanding with Mr. Yin and Yang? Lu Taiheng appreciated his son's analysis in his heart, but he still insisted on his own opinion: "It's a blind toss." He then told his son Lu Zilin and said: "When your father died, I invited Mr. Yin and Yang, who saw the slow slope and said that it was from the slope on all sides, which was like a waterlogged pond, and it was rare to stretch. Now this Mr. Yin and Yang is only enough for a 'second eye' at best compared to his father's old Yin and Yang......"
Bai Jiaxuan placed the bones of his deceased father in a feng shui treasure for the white deer spirit to moisturize, and then carried the blanket into the mountain. Wu Changgui, the shopkeeper of the Chinese herbal medicine purchase store in Panlong Town, received him with courtesy and thoughtfulness like serving the emperor. The two of them sat cross-legged on the hot kang that does not go out all year round, the kang is covered with authentic Yulin handmade blankets, and the small kang table is full of hot dishes, all of which are mountain specialties and treasures. A plate of smoked wild boar, a plate of steamed brocade chicken, a plate of braised baby fish, a plate of bear's paws bought with great difficulty, and a plate of monkey's head, white fungus, black fungus, lily, yellow flower and other common mountain dishes are naturally a lot. Jiaxuan was in a good mood, deliberately indulged himself in a few more glasses, drunk slightly, and recounted the murderous misfortunes he had suffered in recent years, and then directly stated the purpose of this trip. Now it is very difficult to find a woman in Bailuyuan, and it is impossible to accept the asking price that is ten times more than ten times higher. He said, "Uncle Wu, please leave this matter to you." Shopkeeper Wu agreed without thinking: "It's not difficult." When you go back, you lead people up. ”
Many years ago, when Jiaxuan's grandfather led Jiaxuan's father to run this Chinese herbal medicine purchasing shop in Panlong Town, Wu Changgui was just an ordinary mountain man who often came to sell medicinal materials. The chance that caused his fate to begin to take a turn was actually an inadvertent mistake. After he sold a large bundle of precious astragalus, he found that he had overpaid him, so he walked back to the store with a basket on his back and said to Bai Jiaxuan's father: "Shopkeeper Bai, you have miscalculated the account, this is the money that was overpaid to me!" After saying that, he put a stack of copper dollars on the counter and left. Unexpectedly, the old shopkeeper stopped him from behind and called him into the Chinese medicine shop. Since then, he has been the shopkeeper. He knew all the medicinal herbs that grew in the Qinling Mountains, and he quickly learned the art of rough processing all kinds of scattered medicinal herbs, and then learned to plan and write and keep accounts. His intelligent talent and honest and gentle character proved that the Bai family father and son had the ability to discern people, so he won the trust of the Bai family father and son. The chance that contributed to a major turning point in his fate was the continuous natural and man-made disasters suffered by the Bai family. Bai Bingyi, the second child who presided over the housework, was lit in the riots in Bailuyuan, and the white shopkeeper was robbed on the way home, and died soon after, the boss Bai Bingde had to go back to Bailuyuan to preside over the housekeeping, and the Chinese herbal medicine purchase store in Panlong Town was handed over to Wu Changgui to cook, and said how much silver to pay every year, and the rest of the profits belonged to Wu Changgui. From then on, Wu Changgui was no longer the dirty mountain man who came to sell medicinal materials with a basket on his back, but he soon became one of the four wealthy families in Panlong Town. The old man Bingde unfortunately died violently, he rushed from the mountains to attend the funeral, lying on the coffin and crying more than his own son Jiaxuan. He hung a ten-zhang long white silk python paper for the old man of Bingde, fluttering like a live python falling from the sky, which shocked the poor and rich in Bailu Plain. People are accustomed to seeing python paper cut with white paper and reed stalks, and have not yet seen anyone willing to break the cost of white silk to make python paper to mourn the dead, Wu Changgui is really a righteous gentleman who knows the reward.
Wu Changgui was already drunk and sweating, he was holding the wine cup with one hand and a towel with the other. With this towel, he drank it from house to house in Panlong Town, from east to west, and he never made a fool of himself. He said to Bai Jiaxuan: "You lead the five girls away!" Jiaxuan is also a unique indulgence. Although he is far from being Wu Changgui's opponent, the actual amount of infusion is also staggering. His language has long been wild, and he is like a person who is ashamed, timid, and pitiful when he and Lu Zilin are exchanging places in Mr. Leng's Chinese medicine hall. He said loudly: "Uncle Wu can't do it!" I can't bear to have a wife with my five daughters, and I can't bear to have three long and two short. You can buy me a random one in the mountains, as long as you can give me the Bai family to inherit the lineage......" Wu Changgui said: "Let's just drink now, and the marriage will be talked about tomorrow." ”
It wasn't until noon the next day that Bai Jiaxuan woke up, and he had no memory of last night's events. Only then did Wu Changgui solemnly propose to give him the five girls. Bai Jiaxuan shook his head, repeating over and over again the same reasons for opposition as when he was drunk last night. Wu Changgui said more sincerely, he originally wanted to give him his third daughter, but he thought that the etiquette of people outside the mountains was strict, and generally everyone did not marry women in the mountains, so it was always difficult to speak. Since Jiaxuan made a special trip to the mountains to get married this time, his original concerns were eliminated. Wu Changgui said: "As long as you don't think the people in the mountains are shallow, ......" Bai Jiaxuan was no longer powerless to refuse. Wu Changgui has two sons and five daughters, all of whom have thin skin and tender meat, beautiful eyebrows and heavy eyes, and have nothing to blame. At that moment, Bai Jiaxuan stood up and bowed, and the relationship between the two underwent the most important change in an instant.
Bai Jiaxuan returned to Bailu Village and immediately prepared for the wedding. Wu Changgui used a mule to carry his daughter and dowry into Bailu Town the night before, and temporarily lived in Mr. Leng's Chinese medicine hall. Mr. Leng was hired as a matchmaker. On the day of the wedding, Bai Jiaxuan followed the sedan chair to Mr. Leng's Chinese medicine hall to marry the bride, and everything went well.
It was the seventh wedding night. Jiaxuan felt a wave of embarrassment and embarrassment as he looked at the five women, the only one of the seven women he had married who had met before marriage. Not only have they met, but they are like sisters. He goes to the mountains once or twice a year in his spare time, mostly in the scorching heat, he comes to take care of the business of purchasing Chinese medicinal materials, and secondly, he goes to the mountains to escape the heat; Eat and live in Uncle Wu's house, and have the same brothers and sisters as five daughters, four daughters, three daughters, two eldest daughters and two younger brothers, and never quit anything. Now suddenly faced with a pair of shiny red candles, I am restrained and embarrassed. Xiancao, the name of the five women, could no longer endure the scorching heat of the sky outside the mountain, and calmly took off her long-sleeved shirt and trousers, her smooth and delicate arms and legs were exposed in front of him, and three small mallets were tied to her delicate back waist, which shook her head. Jiaxuan pretended to be curious and touched the small mallet to relieve his embarrassment. Xian Cao turned around, and three mallets of the same size were tied to the waistband of his lower abdomen. He asked, "Fairy grass, what are you doing with this little mallet?" Xiancao did not shy away from saying: "Fight ghosts!"
Bai Jiaxuan trembled suddenly, and he was stunned. The mallet must have been unscrewed in mahogany. The peach wood wards off evil spirits, and the ghosts are afraid of the peach wood peg. Six peachwood mallets dealt with six unwilling ghosts who were carried out from this kang, which showed that the fairy grass had made full preparations in advance. The ** that had just risen in his heart suddenly extinguished again. Xiancao ignored him, and lay down with a small mallet that was shaking, and put a checkered sheet on his body. He also lay down disheartened. The warm breath was as refreshing as the fragrance of roses, and the gray and cold in my heart was gradually expelled, and an irrepressible thirst arose. He plucked up the courage to reach out and take her into his arms, caressing her neck, plump shoulders, and most seductive breasts. She accepted it silently, without panicking or resisting. She trembled slightly in his arms, and her breath became rapid. Encouraged by this, he stretched his hand to his abdomen, but he touched an unlucky little mallet, and a cold breath filled his heart. She took him by the hand and told him that before the wedding, his mother had prepared a banquet and invited a judge to exorcise evil spirits, and the judge had left the six small mahogany mallets and left. She said: "The judge said that after wearing it for 100 days, he would untie his trousers. Bai Jiaxuan couldn't help but get angry when he heard it: "It's another 100-day taboo!" Xiancao said: "A hundred days is not a hundred years. You have the right to marry me in a hundred days. You just bear with it, and a hundred days will pass quickly. I should think about it for you, don't you really want to marry a woman with eight rooms and ten rooms......" He listened to her friendly and calm words, and then pulled out the hand she was holding and hugged her tightly, but his heart was extremely clear. He sat up and put his clothes back on. Xiancao asked, "What are you doing?" Jiaxuan said: "I will sleep with the third brother of the deer, so as not to sleep together and suffer a sin." Xiancao said, "That's fine." I don't feel good if you sleep here. It's just that...... You go to the Horse tomorrow night. Today is ...... The first night. Jiaxuan said categorically: "Forget it, I'll go tonight." ”
Jiaxuan pulled a sheet under his armpit, pulled the latch of the door, and walked out the door. Xian Cao hesitated for a while, and suddenly jumped off the kang: "Wait." She called out to him, dragged him in the door again, turned around and inserted the latch, and pulled the sheet from under his armpit. Jiaxuan was stunned, afraid that she would be angry, but said with a pleasant face: "I listen to you, for my good and for your good......" Xian Cao climbed onto the kang again and interrupted him: "Forget it!" As he spoke, he tore off the six small mallets on his belt one by one, took off his tight vest with a "bang", and the two ** pounced out of the nest like two white pigeons, wiped off their shorts, and lay naked on the kang and said: "Even if I die when I get up tomorrow morning, I am willing!"