A year after the wedding, a baby's high-pitched cry came from the earthen kang of this small house. Xiancao enjoyed the meticulous service of her mother-in-law Bai Zhao with peace of mind. After sitting in the confinement and jumping off the kang, she was radiant, holding two plump **, and she was completely a moving young woman.

The ceremony to celebrate the full moon of the firstborn son was solemn and enthusiastic. All important relatives and friends were notified, and relatives who had been cut off for many years also rushed to hear the news. Jiaxuan killed a pig and treated his relatives and friends with joy. He did not take much effort to give the child the name of the foal, just as his father had given him the name of the leashed dog, and the more precious and valuable the child, the more auspicious it was to take that ugly name; As soon as the child has passed through the calamity of early childhood and entered the stage of private schooling, it is only then that he should take some trouble to choose an elegant and vulgar official name for his use in all public places. Jiaxuan listened to the clichés that everyone kept repeating to compliment the newborn son—there was nothing more lively than these clichés, he just smiled and handed over cigarettes and tea more earnestly and sincerely, and treated all relatives and friends equally, regardless of relatives and relatives, regardless of distance or distance.

Although the days of celebration are warm, they are short after all, and what is intoxicating is the more fulfilling sun and moon in the future. Although his wife Xiancao is from the mountains, she has been strictly educated by the upper-class families in the mountains since she was a child, and she treats people very decently, and is not like the average woman from a poor family in the mountains who lacks rules and little education. It's just that cotton is not planted in the mountains, only hemp, and after cutting the hemp stalks and soaking them, they take off the hemp silk and pick it up outside the mountain, and then pick it up and go back to the mountains after changing the grain and coarse cloth woven by the people outside the mountain. Fairy grass began to be unable to spin and weave, which is a major defect, and it is difficult for a woman who cannot spin and weave cloth to take on the responsibilities of a housewife in the family. When Jiaxuan was engaged to marry the women in the first few rooms, the matchmaker first praised him for how strict the woman's family education was, how neat and exquisite the tea and rice craftsmanship was, and would also bring the spun thread tassels and woven flower checkered cloth for people to admire. When it came time to marry Xiancao, he couldn't take care of it so much, he just thought about being able to pass on the lineage. Mother Bai Zhao understands this and behaves very well and generously. While teaching her, he showed her how to roll the elastic cotton into twists, how to connect the twists to the tip of the spindle and spin them into threads, and how to spin the spinning wheels so that the threads are uniform in thickness and solid. How to pulp the spun thread, wash it and then draw it into warp, how to pass the comprehensive machine; How to cooperate with the hands and feet after getting on the machine, the shuttle should be fast and accurate; The next step is the more complex technique, how to stagger the weft and warp threads of various colors, and then create a variety of striped and colored plaid cloth. She taught her to be very patient, more patiently than she taught her own daughter. Immortal grass was born with ingenuity, and he learned it as soon as he learned it, and the work he did was not at all as rough as that of the beginners, which made Bai Zhao's family very important, and Jiaxuan was naturally very happy.

When the child was full moon, the father-in-law used a mule from the mountains to bring two baskets full of gifts, food, clothing, and play. A pair of delicate small silver bracelets are tied to a pair of small mallets made of hicknut. After 100 days, the foal took the little mallet in his mouth and squeaked like a sucking **. Jiaxuan and Xiancao smiled heartily when they looked at it, naturally thinking of the six mahogany mallets that were tied to her trouser belt on the first night of their wedding. The child was weaned just after the age of age, and the foal held the ** of the fairy grass in both hands, but he couldn't suck the milk, crying day and night. Xiancao has no experience as a mother, so she is so anxious that she asks her mother-in-law what is going on. Bai Zhao not only did not panic, but said with some schadenfreude: "I'm afraid that the milk will be secretly taken away by another and eaten up." Xian Cao's face suddenly turned red, and she remembered the scene when her husband and her ** sucked ** at night. Later, I realized that Grandma didn't mean to make fun of her, and secretly snatched up the milk to mean that she had another one in her stomach.

After the birth of the second child, the name Mule Foal was taken, and the relationship in the family changed radically. The sudden prosperity of the financial resources brought about by the successful introduction of opium poppy cultivation and the prosperity of the people brought about by the birth of two sons one after another completely swept away the shadow and bad luck in the hearts of the Bai family's mother and son. Bai Zhao no longer cares about his son's family affairs and foreign affairs, and fully believes that Jiaxuan has the ability and means to deal with all this; She also didn't bother too much about Xiancao's housework, because Xiancao had also been trained to handle all the housework that should be done by a woman in an orderly manner. She consciously and quietly began to retire from the dominant position after Bingdeok's death. She now holds one grandson and another grandson, coaxes the foal at her feet and shakes the mule foal she holds in her arms, and walks proudly around the village alleys, looking for the yang woman in the winter and the shade in the summer. When she met those vendors who came to the village alleys to sell canned flower buns, rock candy towers, and peanuts, she did not hesitate to take out copper dollars from under the placket. After a long time, those hawkers became familiar with this, so they parked the steamed baskets and sugar burdens they were carrying under the locust tree outside the Bai family's door, screaming loudly or shaking the tambourine in their hands vigorously, until they called Bai Zhao out to buy them, and then picked up the burden and moved a stall.

Bai Jiaxuan attributed the situation of prosperity to the relocation of graves. But now he has no regrets. The time when the tomb was moved was his most embarrassing time, but the dark courtyard and tomb chamber where the coffin was placed were built, but the Ming court could not be built with blue bricks. Now it's not good to renovate again, and the spirit bones are constantly moving, in case the collision disturbs the feng shui aura, the result may be counterproductive. He was determined to take a remedy by building the whole area around the grave with bricks, and by adding a symbolic house to the grave, which would not only shelter the tomb from the wind and rain, but also allow the spirit of the white deer to settle down and prevent the people who cut the grass and dug up the wood from disturbing the grave. In the first few years, the cypress trees planted were already vigorous, but later, a few more citrus trees were transplanted, and the cemetery became a most decent tomb.

Bai Jiaxuan then fell into a dispute. When building a grave for his father, a young man surnamed Lu who came to help carry bricks and mud confided in him that he wanted to sell half an acre of water land, saying that his father had lost all his belongings in the trench and had not entered the house again, and now he did not know whether he was alive or dead. Bai Jiaxuan said briskly: "You just go and find someone." I'll give you as much as you want, you can ask for grain, you can ask for cotton. If you open your mouth to the Chinese, I won't even say anything back. This young man surnamed Lu naturally found Mr. Leng to be the middleman. Mr. Leng passed the seller's asking price to Bai Jiaxuan, and after listening to it, he immediately said, "Add three more buckets." This rare open-mindedness was celebrated among the villagers as an act of kindness. A widow from the Li family in Bailu Village also found Mr. Leng's Chinese medicine hall and begged him to sell six points of water land to the Bai family. Bai Jiaxuan said more generously: "Orphans and widows, if you say that you sell land, it is also appropriate to give three buckets and five buckets. Plus five buckets!"

The morning after signing the contract, Bai Jiaxuan went to inspect the six-point water field of the newly bought widow's house, and saw from afar that someone was ploughing the field with a high mule and a double set of livestock. It was early summer, the sun had just risen above the top, and the fields were soft. The mules and horses raised their necks, and the plowmen supported the plough handles. There was a man in a black robe standing on the ground, tall, with his hands on his waist, it was Lu Zilin. Bai Jiaxuan's heart couldn't help but sink, and he hurried to the ground with a quick pace. Lu Zilin pretended not to be ignorant, his hands were copied behind his waist, clutching the big black and thick braid that dragged from his head to his hips, and looked proudly at the mules and horses galloping with plows. Bai Jiaxuan became angry when he saw it: "Zilin, why are you running a horse in my field?" Lu Zilin pretended to be surprised and said, "This is my land!" Bai Jiaxuan said: "This has to be said by contract, whoever says it is whoever it is!" Lu Zilin said: "I don't care about the contract. It was the widow of the Li family who came to my house and wanted to sell the land to me. Bai Jiaxuan said: "That's white talk." Yesterday, the widow of the Li family in the dark room had already signed and detained. Lu Zilin said in a long voice: "Who cares what you do in the dark!" The widow of the Li family borrowed me five buckets of wheat and eight silver dollars, and agreed to use this land as collateral, and if I don't pay it back within the time limit, of course I will have to plow and enclose the land!" Liu Mou'er, a long-term worker, was rushing to the ground with a mule and a horse, and Lu Zilin snatched the whip from the long-term worker, took the plow, and pulled back the livestock to plough the land as if demonstrating. Bai Jiaxuan jumped forward and grabbed the reins of the mule and horse. Two men of the same age then fought. Liu Mou'er, a long-term worker, is a person from another village who does not dare to interfere, and only cares about catching the frightened livestock. Mules and horses stumbled and stumbled through the fields of wheat that had been planted with flowers, dragging their plough sticks. The two men wrestled from the widow's field to the dry canal, and at the same time fell into the grass nest of the channel, then got up and continued to fight, and then dragged them into the ground that had just been turned over. At this time, there were many men and women in the village, first several of Lu Zilin's nephews intervened in the battle, and then Bai Jiaxuan's men from close relatives also got into the fight, and soon swept into a brawl between the two surnames of Bailu, with torn pieces of cloth and discarded cloth shoes all over the ground. When Bai Zhao and Bai Wu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law came running with a pair of small feet, the fight had just ended.

Mr. Leng arrived at the accident site before the Bai family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and shouted: "Stop!" It was like thunder on a sunny day, and the earthquake made both sides hang their hands and stop. Mr. Leng stepped forward with a robe in one hand, Bai Jiaxuan in one hand, and Lu Zilin in the other. When the people surnamed Lu or Bai saw that the main family was dragged away, they scattered one after another. The two of them were dragged into his Chinese medicine hall by Mr. Leng. Mr. Leng first closed the door to avoid onlookers, then fetched two basins of water, asked them to wash the blood on their faces and hands, and then applied white medicine to their scratched wounds to stop the bleeding. Mr. Leng said, "If you stop here, you both go back to breakfast now; If you can't stop, you can go to the county to fight a lawsuit. With that, he pulled the latch and made a gesture with one hand to invite him out.

Bai Jiaxuan then found out that the widow of the Li family had indeed sold the land to Lu Zilin first, and first poured five buckets of wheat in the form of a loan and took eight silver dollars, and then settled the accounts once she signed and drew the pledge. At this time, seeing that the land price that Bai Jiaxuan gave to the gambler's son was much higher than the land price that Lu Zilin gave her, she changed her mind and wanted to sell the land to Bai Jiaxuan, and used the land money Bai Jiaxuan gave her to repay Lu Zilin's loan. Bai Jiaxuan figured out this process and scolded the widow of the Li family: "The real mother-in-law has insight!" But the matter has come to this point, and he can't tolerate Lu Zilin. At home, he said to those who persuaded him: "The widow of the Li family is a woman's knowledge. Tell me that I'm never going to ask for her land again! If you don't say anything, you will enclose the land by pulling the horse and plowing, this is obviously peeing on my face!" He became more and more determined in his mind, and no matter how much the widow of the Li family was a woman, it had nothing to do with him; He is now holding the land sale contract in his hand, and it is a reasonable lawsuit to go to the state and county. He has filed a complaint with the county government. Lu Zilin also complained to the county government.

After the widow of the Li family signed and drew with Bai Jiaxuan, Lu Zilin knew about it that night. When the two sides and Mr. Leng, the middleman, pressed their index fingers dipped in red ink, Lu Zilin had already made a relative measure of using mules and horses to enclose the land tomorrow morning. Lu Zilin explained the entire process of selling land to his father Lu Taiheng. Lu Taiheng asked, "What do you think?" Lu Zilin said his method, and commented on this method: "I don't care about the widow of the Li family. This is Bai Jiaxuan giving me a pee!" Lu Taiheng said: "It's right to see this. He acquiesced to the move his son had already decided. In his opinion, after Bai Bingde died, Bai Jiaxuan's bad luck had passed, and his wings were stiff, which was a potential opponent of his son Lu Zilin. In the days when he is still alive, he should see that his son can at least become an opponent of Bai Jiaxuan, and he can't let the other party pee on his head with stilted legs! The lawsuit must be fought to the end! Bankrupt family also has to win this lawsuit.

Bai Jiaxuan came back from complaining from Zishui County and walked to Bailu Academy by the way, and told his brother-in-law Mr. Zhu about the Lu family's excessive deception, intending to ask his brother-in-law to give the county a hint so that he could be more sure of winning the lawsuit. According to Jiaxuan, every time a new county order arrives, all of them go to Bailu Academy to pay homage to his brother-in-law Mr. Zhu. Mr. Zhu said: "I have heard yesterday that you are fighting with the Lu family, and I have written a complaint for you, and you can just hand it to the yamen when you go back to the court." Remember, take it open when you get home. ”

Bai Jiaxuan hurriedly returned home, opened the envelope under the vegetable oil lamp, and wrote a few lines of doll body calligraphy on a small piece of rice paper: To Jiaxuan's brother to rely on the situation to force the other party,

two defeats in the fight lawsuit;

For the rich and benevolent,

Humility is one step wider.

Bai Jiaxuan had already vented most of his hatred after reading it, pinched this note and found Mr. Leng in the Chinese Medicine Hall, and sighed again and again, "Ashamed and ashamed". Mr. Leng looked at the paper and clapped his hands: "What a wonderful show!" Jiaxuan, look—" He said as he pulled open the drawer and handed Jiaxuan a piece of paper. Jiaxuan was more and more surprised when he saw it, the content of the page he handed to Mr. Leng was the same, the handwriting was the same, but the title changed to "To Brother Zilin".

One night three days later, Mr. Leng invited Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin to the Chinese Medicine Hall, set up a banquet, and exchanged the same content of paper they handed over to him to each other. Neither of them was embarrassed to ask for the widow of the Li family to divide the land anymore, and they both offered to return the land to the original owner, and the Bai family and the Lu family each gave the widow of the Li family some food and silver dollars to help the widow tide over the difficulties. Mr. Leng immediately assigned the pharmacy guy to call the widow of the Li family and broke the contract in person. The widow of the Li family knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin, so moved that she couldn't speak but shed tears.

This matter spread faster and more widely than the fight between the two Bailu families. Zishui County made Gu Demao greatly moved, approved as "Renyi Bailu Village", chiseled a stone tablet, wrapped in red silk, selected an auspicious day, and the musicians played the music of the leveling weather, and personally sent it to Bailu Village. Mr. Zhu, who has always lived in seclusion, also participated in the event. The stele was planted in the courtyard of the ancestral hall of Bailu Village, and since then Bailu Village has also been called Renyi Village.