Lu Zilin was released from prison and returned to Bailu Village. When he walked through the village alley, he did not meet a single clansman, and when he walked straight to the door of his house, he was almost unrecognizable. The beautiful gatehouse that is unique in Bailu Village is gone, the gatehouse that was bought from Bai Xiaowen and demolished from the site of Bai Jiaxuan is also gone, the two bluestone carved lions that are the gatehouse piers have fallen crookedly under the gable of the Xiawu, and the Tsubaki saplings that emerged from the address of the demolished house have already crossed the wall. Lu Zilin stood on the ground of broken tiles and broken reeds, and thought of the demolition of the house from Bai Jiaxuan's house. The woman Lu He came out of the upper room, walked to the steps and saw the man standing on the ruins, almost fell down when he ran out of the second door with a pair of small feet, and after standing firm again, he said: "Dad, you are uncomfortable, the gatehouse was sold by me to save you." Lu Zilin said loudly: "You sold right, sold well!" This house is not just a trivial matter of buying and selling!"

"Don't you remember what Mr. Zhu said?" The house is the signature place is tired, and saving money is a ghost!" Now we don't have a signboard, we're not tired, and we're not urging ghosts, as long as you come back in a mess. Lu He poured tea and handed cigarettes while relieving the man. During the years that Lu Zilin was in charge of the family, she was not allowed to talk about the family's internal affairs and foreign affairs, and her function was only to raise her two sons. Zhaopeng and Zhaohai were sent by their husbands to study at the Bailu Academy, which was far away from the house, when she knelt down in front of the Buddha shrine in the silence, and had incense in the morning and evening. Later, her interest focused on the temple fair, and she remembered the day of the big temple and small temple within a radius of dozens of miles, no matter the wind or rain, she had to send a wax paper watch to all the gods. At first, she was just out of her own interest, not without the element of shopping for fun, but later it became an urgent psychological need and very religious. She silently knelt down in front of the Buddha, Guanyin, Bodhisattva, Medicine Wangye, Emperor Guan, and Ma Wangye, praying for the protection of all the gods and goddesses, and the two sons who were at the junction of life and death at all times...... Lu Zilin was imprisoned, and when she had to make her own decisions, Lu He showed a resolute and capable character that is rare for ordinary men, and she did not consult with any relatives and friends, so she dug out the yellow and white goods that the old grandfather and Lu Zilin hid in the cracks of the wall under the cow trough and under the roots of the toon tree, and gave the silver dollars that had been wiped off the green spots and the gold bars that were still yellow and shiny to those who pinched the life and death of her husband. Now it's in handy. She then sold her livestock and land, sold the gatehouse and gatehouse, dismissed Liu Mou'er, a long-term worker, and gave all the money to the court judges, the county magistrate of the county government, and the jailers again and again, either indirectly or directly, and only a gold brick given to Yue Weishan, the secretary of the county party department, rebounded. As long as Lu Zilin is still squatting in the dark room of the county jail for a day, she is ready to sell all this family property and kick it clean until there is not even a stick of artemisia grass left. "I just want people." Her mind is firm and simple, and she doesn't look forward to it at all, although this man has had the most jealous affair that women hate, but this family can't be without Lu Zilin. Her youngest son has been killed in battle, and her eldest son is nowhere to be found, if there is no Lu Zilin, what else will she do? Whether it is in Bailu Village or even in the entire Bailu Plain, she believes that Lu Zilin's half-pulled ass is more useful than her entire face. As in the past, she went around begging God and worshipping Buddha, and finally moved the gods of the Republic of China government and rescued the man Lu Zilin. The social activities of running around to rescue men broadened her horizons and changed her temperament, and she even surprised Lu Zilin and said: "In the entire Zishui County, all the gods and gods I have begged to worship, only Secretary Yue is a true god who eats vegetarian food and does not eat meat." ”

Lu Zilin was not surprised by his wife's explanation, and asked lightly: "Who did you sell the gatehouse and gatehouse to?" Lu He said: "Anyway, it's sold, and it's the same for whoever you sell to." Lu Zilin said: "That's right." I just want to know who bought my house. Lu He said, "Who else can afford it?" Bai Jiaxiaowen has done a good job in the security team, just ......" Lu Zilin was not only not annoyed when he heard this, but laughed sneeringly: "I said, this house was bought and sold, moved and demolished...... That's it!" He thought of the feat of demolishing the house from the foundation of the Bai family's house, and he felt ridiculous again, and he also felt ridiculous about the revenge that the Bai family had shown when they moved the house back again. "Isn't it just moving around!" Lu Zilin has been in prison for more than two years, and he has lost all his interest in state and family affairs. One of the two sons died, the other flew, and even one of the descendants was gone, so what good would it do to have thousands of family fortunes? If he suffocated himself in this trumpet that had not seen the light of day for many years, the Lu family would be completely upset immediately. He said to his wife, "Do you have two acres of land left?" Lu He said: "I left the land of the waterwheel well and didn't sell it, I can't bear to sell your waterwheel." Lu Zilin's heart jumped suddenly: "Oh, good, good!" Leaving these few acres of water and land is enough for you and me to eat a bowl of rice!"

When it got dark, the clan and village party of their own clan and village began to come to visit Lu Zilin. Most of them were some elderly people, who came to say hello in a scattered manner, and then they spoke sadly about the pain of catching Ding's donations, and loudly cursed the successor of the chief of the Bao, the director of the joint security of the Union, and even Chairman Jiang as all brutes who did not understand human nature; Compared with the years, Lu Zilin's years as a township covenant and later as a security chief are really good. Lu Zilin learned of the major changes since he left Bailu Village, and he also got some psychological comfort. This kind of visit to the villagers lasted for three days, including the new and old relatives of the Lu family in the original have also come to visit, and Lu Zilin has been impatient to repeat his grievances to them again and again. On the evening of the third day, Bai Jiaxuan came on crutches, and when he entered the door, he threw away his crutches and hugged his fists: "Brother Zilin, I apologize to you, you shouldn't take advantage of the danger of others to buy and tear down the house." Lu Zilin still smiled indifferently: "The house in the world is a trivial matter for me to move in and you move again!" Lu He said, "Brother, sit down." The matter of selling a house is that I am looking for you to sell, not that you are looking for me to buy! You bought a house, and I got the money to save people, I should thank you for your kindness!" Bai Jiaxuan sat down and said, "According to my law, why can't I buy your house." Xiaowen intervened to buy it, I can't stop others, and the son can't help his father! Besides-" Bai Jiaxuan said frankly: "Xiaowen sold the house to you that year, and now he wants to save face!" Even though he is my son, I will pierce this layer with you!" Lu Zilin was no longer very interested in this house: "Brother Jiaxuan, I sat in prison for a while, and I understood the world, and there is no longer the meaning of competitiveness." I bought Xiaowen's house to hurt the face of the Bai family, and Xiaowen bought it back to hurt the face of the Lu family, and we will report it back and it will be gone. Bai Jiaxuan sighed and said: "What are you doing with those rotten rice of Chen Guzi now!" Now the world is so blind that it can't be blind anymore......" Lu Zilin said: "Blind or not, I don't care about it, just plant two acres of land and have a bowl of grits to drink!" Bai Jiaxuan looked at Lu Zilin with a bland expression that had completely seen through the world, and sincerely sympathized in his heart, in a lonely family situation like Lu Zilin, no matter how strong a person was, he couldn't muster up his spirit. When he said goodbye and went out, he said, "You are bored in the house, and come to me to sit down when you are free." ”

Until the sixth day when he came home, Tian Fuxian still didn't see him come to see him, Lu Zilin laughed to himself: "There is no one in the world who can be relied on except for himself or himself." Tian Fuxian has been his best friend for many years, and it is too ruthless for him not to come to see him after he came back from prison for more than two years. However, he is not very angry, planting two acres of land to drink baogu grits, and Tian Fuxian's contact or not has little to do with it!

What broke Lu Zilin's insipid state of mind was an absolutely unexpected person, a young woman wearing a cheongsam led a male baby, walked into the courtyard and asked, "Is this Lu Zhaohai's home?" Lu Zilin stood on the steps and replied, "That's right." The woman asked, "You are from Zhaohai—" Lu Zilin said, "I am his father." The woman threw herself down on the wet bricks of the courtyard: "Dad, my daughter-in-law will kowtow to you." Lu Zilin asked in surprise: "Whose daughter-in-law are you?" The woman raised her tear-soaked face and said, "I am Zhaohai's daughter-in-law." This is your grandson. Lu Zilin exclaimed, put aside the hookah in his hand, and kicked off a cloth shoe with his heel when he jumped down the steps, and hurriedly hugged the dodging child into his arms, and cried with a wow: "Lord's kiss balls, kiss grandchildren......"

When Lu He came back from outside the door, Lu Zilin said to his daughter-in-law, "This is your mother." Zhaohai's daughter-in-law knelt down and kowtowed again. Lu Zilin cried and said with a smile: "This is our Zhaohai's daughter-in-law...... This is your dear egg grandson......" Lu He was stunned for a moment, threw away the firewood cage on his arm, rushed forward and hugged his daughter-in-law in his arms, and cried bitterly.

The daughter-in-law spoke with a mixed accent from Henan and Shaanxi to tell her grandfather and grandmother about her experience. Her family lives in Jinguancheng in the north, and her father is a coal digger. She met the team on the way home from buying vegetables at the vegetable market, and Lu Zhaohai saw her at that time. She walked home, Lu Zhaohai sent a guard to follow her, followed to the door and turned to leave. Later, Lu Zhaohai followed the guards to the entrance of her cave and proposed to her parents. When her father saw that it was an officer, he didn't dare to ask for a penny at all, but just proposed: "Sir, I don't want money, as long as you kick my baby halfway." Lu Zhaohai bought a private house in Jinguancheng, and she married him. She asked him why he didn't marry a daughter who was the right lady in front of the regiment leader, but a woman from a poor kiln household? Lu Zhaohai said: "I saw at a glance that you and my original daughter-in-law are like gods. ”

Lu Zilin listened to this story that was too bizarre, but suspected that she was a **. In order to encircle and suppress Yan'an, the government continued to send additional troops to the north, and the prostitution industry in Jinguancheng also developed rapidly. Lu Zilin asked in an indifferent tone: "Zhaohai...... I wasn't engaged!" After that, he pretended to look at his wife with a stunned expression. Lu Heshi immediately confirmed her husband's words: "Zhaohai has been studying since he was a child, and people don't want his family to marry him. The daughter-in-law also stared at her and said confusedly: "But he said that he was married, and the woman's name was ...... Lingling?" Lu Zilin was stunned for a moment, then turned his head and glanced at Lu He's family, and continued to pretend to be stunned and said, "No." Then he changed to a thoughtful tone: "Maybe that's him...... Privately ordered for life outside...... "The daughter-in-law did not speak again. Lu Zilin paid attention to his daughter-in-law's eyebrows and eyes, and was surprised to find that she and Bai Jiaxuan's woman named Lingling were indeed similar, so he believed that the marriage with Zhaohai she just told was not a arranged lie.

The daughter-in-law offered to go to Zhaohai's grave. Lu Zilin was entangled by an endless stream of relatives and township parties, and he couldn't take time out to pay tribute to the ancestral grave when he went home for several days, so he led his daughter-in-law to the cemetery with his grandson. I haven't been to the ancestral grave for more than two years, and a few evergreen cypress trees in winter and summer seem to have changed little, and the poignant citrus trees and oak trees form a dense fortress. In the grass on the outskirts of the bushes, fresh, dry and smelly stool made it impossible to plug one's feet. Obviously, this dense pile of trees provides convenience for passers-by and men and women working in the fields, wiping off their pants and pooping, both to hide their ugliness and to cool off. Lu Zilin's nose had already been filled with a smell of feces and urine, and his face turned yellow with anger. "! When I was in the village, the dogs didn't dare to come here to poop; I, Lu Zilin, am unlucky and imprisoned, and the ancestral tomb has become an official thatched house of the original master!" Thinking of his daughter-in-law who had just returned home beside him, Lu Zilin suppressed the anger and anger that surged up from the bottom of his heart, and tried to make a generous attitude of an elder to introduce to his daughter-in-law and grandchildren, that is your grandfather's grave, this is your grandfather's grave. He led her from the east side of the cemetery to the west side, and stopped in front of a lone grave at the head of an old grave of the old ancestor, which was Zhaohai's tomb. There is a bubble of thin on the half-human-high bluestone stele in front of the tomb, and the dried flows down from the top of the stele, pasting half of the stele, and it can be seen that the mischievoger did not hesitate to climb to the top of the stele to and pee. Lu Zilin couldn't suppress his anger anymore, and threw his grandson in his arms to the ground and ran to the official road and jumped and scolded: "Let the Japanese enter Tongguan, drive to Bailuyuan, rape all the women on the plain, and kill all the men!" The men and women on the White Deer Plain are all shameless, and they have no hearts and livers, so they should be killed and exterminated! My son, you sacrificed your life and forgot to die to go out of Tongguan to fight Japan, and what you defended was a group of hooligans and scoundrels who shit and pee on your face...... "The daughter-in-law dragged the crazy grandfather back to the cemetery from the official road. Lu Zilin was so angry that he sat in front of the grave and gasped. The daughter-in-law squatted in front of Zhaohai's stele, scraped off the dried on the stele with a branch, and then took out a bottle of soju from the cage to wash the stains, and the handwriting was re-revealed. She cleared a clean field in front of the grave, took out the candle and purple incense from the cage and lit it, and then inserted it in the ground, and then burned the paper, and then she knelt on the ground, and sprinkled the remaining soju in the bottle in front of the grave, and tore her throat and began to weep. Lu Zilin watched his daughter-in-law's pious actions and pressed his grandson to the ground: "My baby, kowtow to your father." The grandson cried. Lu Zilin hugged his grandson tightly in his arms, and said loudly with tears in his eyes: "People still can't pretend to be turtles!" If you pretend to be a turtle, the dog will dare to on your head......"

The daughter-in-law lived at home for three days, helping her mother-in-law cook three meals a day, and the first bowl of rice scooped out of the pot was presented to her grandfather. She would go to the cemetery every evening to burn a pile of paper for Zhaohai and cry. It wasn't until the evening of the third day that she told her grandfather and grandmother what she was thinking, she had decided to remarry, and the man was a businessman; Before she decided to marry this businessman, she had rejected no less than a dozen relatives and friends who had mentioned the media; She abides by the only responsibility she can do for her dead husband: raise the children, and not let Zhaohai's children accept any bad or good impression of their stepfather. She took out a stack of silver dollars and a large pile of paper tickets and handed them to Ah Gong and said: "The pension left by Zhaohai before his death and the pension given to me by the team after his death, my mother and son have spent a lot in recent years, and there are only these ...... left" Lu Zilin refused to accept it, and Lu He's hands were forced back into his daughter-in-law's pocket. The daughter-in-law said, "Zhaohai's money is all spent on his Dumiao'er...... and the daughter-in-law left the next morning, and the child was still asleep when she left. Lu Zilin told his wife to take care of his sleeping grandson, and he sent his daughter-in-law to the main road at the entrance of the village, but he was a little reluctant to let go of this good daughter-in-law.