Mr. Zhu chanted at this point, tears welled up, and he turned around and walked away.

At dusk, Mr. Zhu walked to a small river, across the water, and there were already soldiers wearing Qing family clothes. He walked across the wooden drawbridge and was stopped by the soldiers, who kept asking. Mr. Zhu put down the blanket on his shoulders, took out a piece of paper and presented it to the leader of the soldiers, which was a banner given to him by Fang Sheng when he was the governor: Learn to be a good person. In the year when Mr. Zhu won the first place in the examination, he thanked Governor Fang for his promotion three times in a row. Fang Sheng was not only not annoyed, but valued his character even more, so he chose a sentence in Mr. Zhu's reply to the letter, "The son is willing to learn to be a good person" inscription in return. The banner was now a pass, and it worked wonders in the tense confrontation between the two armies, and the soldiers, who were neither at ease nor daring to offend him, forced him into the car. Mr. Zhu really couldn't smell the gasoline of the car, and vomited all the way.

Governor Fang met Mr. Zhu in his camp and prepared a sumptuous dinner, but Mr. Zhu sat far away from the table. Governor Fang said modestly, "Sir, succumb to a light meal. After I have pacified the rebels and recovered Xi'an, I will ask for a gentleman. Mr. Zhu shook his head, but still did not move. Governor Fang asked tightly, and Mr. Zhu said, "I'm afraid." Governor Fang asked, "You and I are here, what are you afraid of?" Mr. Zhu snorted, "I haven't seen you dressed like this." When I see yours in your uniform, it's like seeing a white knife go in and a red knife come out. I'm scared. I can't eat when I'm scared. Governor, take off your clothes and put on civilian clothes!" Governor Fang laughed when he heard this: "Oops, sir! To tell you the truth, I burned all the plainclothes when I got up from Longxi. Good! I'm going to make an exception today. With that, he took off his uniform. Mr. Zhu then sat down at the table and said, "This is like a person." ”

During the banquet, Mr. Zhu only picked up vegetarian dishes with a pair of chopsticks, and did not move the meat dishes and did not use the wine, and as soon as he saw that Governor Fang had just put down the chopsticks, he took out a clay pot from the blanket and poured the remaining meat and vegetable vegetables into the crockpot. Fang Sheng frowned and asked, "Sir, ...... you" Mr. Zhu said humbly: "I'll take these good things home and let the children taste them." Governor Fang was shocked and asked, "Why is this so?" Mr. Zhu said: "The world is in turmoil, everyone is busy fighting for power and profit, who cares for the common people? I made a special trip to ask my teacher for a way to survive today. Governor Fang suddenly became indignant: "Mr. is a great Confucian in Guanzhong, and since he is already in such a difficult situation, the people are even more miserable. I am putting on a military uniform for this, quelling the rebellion and fighting the thieves, and reviving the dynasty, and the people are looking forward to it. Mr. Zhu asked ambiguously: "I am convinced that you can calm Guanzhong." What about Wuchang? What about the provinces of Huguang? Who's going to put down the rebellion?" Fang Sheng said: "I am a Qing minister, and I swear to be loyal to the court. I will take back the country that I have lost. As for Wuchang Huguang, it is not my jurisdiction, and the whip is beyond the reach of the whip. Mr. Zhu smiled and said: "A tree is old and decayed, the roots are withered, the branches are empty, the branches are dead, only one branch and one tip are flourishing, how long can this branch and one tip last?" Governor Fang listened and looked at Mr. Zhu vigilantly: "Mr. is ...... Came as a lobbyist for the traitor?" Mr. Zhu said calmly: "I just said that I came to you to ask for a way to survive. With all due respect, the Qing court is like a rotten wood that is difficult to grow, and like a well rope that is difficult to support. Even if you calm Guanzhong, you can't calm Wuchang Huguang. How long can you stand on your own? If you ...... again, IMHO...... was kicked out of the customs again, I am afraid that it is difficult to gain a foothold. When Fang Sheng heard this, his face changed suddenly, and he stood up: "Sir, don't say anything!" I thought you were noble and elegant, but I didn't expect you to switch to the court and act as a lobbyist for traitors!" Mr. Zhu sat still and raised his voice slightly: "The teacher listens to my confession." Governor Zhang issued 28 articles anyway, and I only received three of them, one for cutting braids, one for putting off feet, and one for non-smoking. I still guard the White Deer Academy, and I have never gone down the mountain in the forty months, reciting in the morning and studying in the afternoon, preaching and teaching to solve doubts; Still adhere to the tenet of 'learning to be a good person'. As he spoke, he took out the banner given by Fang Sheng. Fang Sheng was furious: "As long as I personally behead that unrighteous person, I would rather be bent on the ground than take care of it." Mr. Zhu smiled disapprovingly when he heard this: "The unrighteous man has his own disaster pool waiting for him, why do you want to mobilize the people?"

Governor Zhang and Mr. Zhu were selected in the same year by Governor Fang's personal invigilation, which was the first year of Governor Fang's appointment in Shaanxi. The following year, Governor Fang strongly recommended Zhang Juren to study in Japan at the official expense, he participated in Mr. Sun Yat-sen's alliance in Japan, and after returning to Shaanxi, he became Governor Fang's number one political enemy, until he succeeded anyway, Governor Fang fled from Guanzhong in a hurry. Mr. Zhu said: "My teacher often said that 'the times are good for the world', and he has been in Qin for many years and has won the hearts of the people. Now that he has led hundreds of thousands of soldiers into Guanzhong, is it not just Zhang who has been cut in half? At present, there is a panic inside and outside the city, and it is rumored that the teacher is going to wash the city. When the war is together, it is the people who are hurt, and you will be infamous for eternity. Speaking of which, Mr. Zhu took his coat and took his leave. Fang Sheng retained and said, "I'll do it again tomorrow." Mr. Zhu smiled and said: "I am dressed in coarse cloth, the bandits can't look down on it, I don't have a penny in my pocket, whoever kills me can't make money or make anything, I can't draw it!" Let's go on my own.

Mr. Zhu stayed overnight at his teacher's house. The teacher's surname is Yang, his name is flutter, and his name is Yiqu, and he is the last descendant of the Guan Middle School School. Mr. Zhu stayed for two days and returned to the provincial capital to restore the governor of Zhang. As soon as Governor Zhang saw him, he knelt down: "I bow to Mr. on behalf of the three Qin fathers who were saved from the slaughter of the city." Only then did Mr. Zhu get the conclusive news that Governor Fang had dismissed his troops and led 200,000 troops to evacuate his aunt's grave and return to Ningxia, Gansu.

Governor Zhang immediately ordered a banquet to be prepared to celebrate Mr. Zhu's success. Mr. Zhu took out the clay pot from his coat, held the jar and chewed it heavily. Governor Zhang said embarrassedly: "Sir, don't you shudder me?" Mr. Zhu smiled disapprenously: "Friends should be cut and simplified." After eating, he drank a cup of hot tea, and took his belt to leave. Governor Zhang held on: "I also want to ask Mr. to leave Mobao." Mr. Zhu put down his coat again, held the pen and wrist, and wrote two lines of childish and clumsy doll body calligraphy on rice paper:

The feet are enlarged and the hair hinges are short

Nails should be cut often and the pockets should be shallow

Governor Zhang frowned, not knowing what to say. Mr. Zhu smiled and said, "When I went to my aunt's grave this time, I heard children chanting songs and songs along the way, and transcribed two sentences for you to enjoy." Then he took his coat and left. Governor Zhang first had to use a car to send it, then he had to use a sedan chair, and he had to lead a horse to send it. Mr. Zhu said: "It is not advisable to make noise about cars and horses. ”

Bai Jiaxuan couldn't help but sigh loudly, his brother-in-law's aunt's trip was too risky. Speaking of the white wolf, Bai Jiaxuan raised many questions, how to live without the emperor? Can you still pay the imperial grain? Is it still according to the six levels of "time, place, and people" determined by the Qing family? What does a man with braids look like? A woman with two big fat feet is not disgusting? Mr. Zhu listened to his wife and brother's complaints noncommittally, took out a neatly copied article from the drawer, and handed it to Jiaxuan: "Hair is something outside the body, and cutting it saves you time and trouble to sort it out every day." A woman's feet were born to walk, and letting go is more conducive to action, which is considered a good thing. Only how to live the future is the biggest and most difficult thing. I've been drafting a chapter for living a few days now, do you think it's feasible?" Bai Jiaxuan took it and took a look, it was his brother-in-law's meticulous "Township Covenant":

1. Virtue and industry persuade each other, virtue means that when you see good, you must do it, you must change it, you can govern your body, you can cultivate your family, you can do things, your father and brother can teach your children, you can respect your children, you can respect your elders, you can be friendly and neighborly, you can choose to travel, you can keep your integrity, you can give favors, you can be trusted, you can help people, you can make mistakes, you can do things for the people, you can solve the struggle, you can decide right and wrong, you can promote the benefits and eliminate the harm, you can live in the official position, and if you have a good thing for the public, you can write it and think it is a good deed. The karma is at home, the father and brother teach the children, treat the wife and concubine outside, make friends and teach the offspring, the royal servant, as for studying, governing the field, camping the family, good manners, good manners, and shooting the number of royal books, etc., all of which are useless.

2. Negligence and violation: 1. Drunkenness and lawsuits, 2. Excessive behavior, 3. Disrespectful behavior, 4. Unfaithfulness, 5. Rumors and slander, 6. Excessive selfishness. There are four transgressions of violating the covenant: one is that morality and industry do not persuade each other, the second is that the fault is not in accordance with the rules, the third is that the etiquette and customs are not compatible, and the fourth is that the adversity is not sympathetic. Five mistakes that do not be cultivated: First, it is said that it is not limited to the people who are not handed over, but the vicious and lazy people are invisible, and those who are disdainful are not others, if they have to travel with them day and night, they are not their people, if they have to return it temporarily, they are not the second game, lazy travel, they are in and out for no reason, and they are lazy and intimate, and they are lazy and intend to insult or gallop and bow, and they are lazy, they are not cultivated in their careers and family affairs, and they are not clean, and those who are disrespectful are not allowed to speak, and those who are too well-dressed and completely incomplete are not dressed in the market, and those who are not in charge of things are not in charge of the abolition period, and those who are lazy after the meeting, and those who are lazy in the use of money are not frugal, and those who do not care about the family's faults are not able to be poor, and those who do not cultivate the above are punished。

3. The intersection of rituals and customs............

Bai Jiaxuan returned to Bailu Village that night and handed the text of the "Township Covenant" to Mr. Xu in the school along with a letter written by Mr. Zhu to Mr. Xu. Mr. Xu looked at it and high-fived him and exclaimed: "This is the way to cure the root cause." I won't tell you the truth, I've been thinking about quitting farming these days, and Xu is disheartened; Mr. I'm seeing a personal letter, showing me to help you practice the "Township Covenant" in Bailu Village, teaching the people to be courteous and righteous, and to be the style of the world. ”

Bai Jiaxuan also invited Lu Zilin to the ancestral hall for discussion. Lu Zilin read the full text of the "Township Covenant" and sighed with emotion: "If we Bailu Village villagers behave according to the "Township Covenant", we will really become a state of etiquette. The three of them immediately discussed and came up with a plan to practice the "Township Covenant" in Bailu Village, and the patriarch Bai Jiaxuan was responsible for implementing it. That night, Mr. Xu copied the full text of the "Township Covenant" on yellow paper and posted it on the wall outside the ancestral hall early the next morning; In the evening, two men over the age of 16 with the surname Bailu gathered in the school, and Mr. Xu explained the "Township Covenant" one by one, sentence by word. It is stipulated that they must arrive every night, and those who are sick or have something to do must ask Bai Jiaxuan for leave; Each man was required to re-teach his wife and children the provisions of the Township Covenant that he had memorized in school; Students should also learn to memorize the "Township Covenant" in the school, just like the local textbook. Bai Jiaxuan solemnly announced to the villagers: "Learning is for use. If you learn it, you have to use it. When talking, walking, and behaving in the world, we must do what the "Township Covenant" says. Any violation of the provisions of the Township Covenant shall be recorded by Mr. Xu; Those who have committed three crimes shall be punished according to the severity of the circumstances. ”

Penalties include kneeling, fines, fines, and whipping. In the ancestral hall of Bailu Village, every night, the sound of the croppers reciting the "Township Covenant" can be heard. Since then, things like stealing chickens and dogs, picking peaches and pinching melons have suddenly disappeared, touching pai gow, rubbing mahjong, wiping flowers, throwing dice and other gambling businesses have all kicked the stalls, fights and brawls, and the fighting incidents of scolding the streets and alleys have never happened again, and the people of Bailu Village have become kind and polite, and even their voices are soft and slender.

Bai Jiaxuan walked through the alley and caught a glimpse of Bai Mancang's wife sitting on the beating stone outside the street gate to feed the baby, pulling her breasts, and the two pigs were as fat as the urine bubbles. Bai Mancang blushed with shame, and slapped the embarrassing woman twice when he went back that night. From then on, all the women who breastfed their children were consciously imprisoned in the house.

Bai Jiaxuan invited two stonemasons to chisel down two bluestone slabs, engrave the full text of the "Township Covenant", and inlay them on both sides of the main entrance of the ancestral hall, reflecting each other with the stele of "Renyi Bailu Village" planted in the courtyard. The engraving project continued for many days, two stonemasons chiseled the stone inscriptions, Bai Jiaxuan no matter how intense and tired the field work was, he had to come to the ancestral hall at least once a day to watch.

Later this day, he was sitting on a small stool watching the stonemasons carving, Lu Zilin walked into the ancestral hall and told him with a smile: "Brother Jiaxuan, the county government has appointed my brother to make an appointment with the Bailu Town Security Office." Bai Jiaxuan asked: "How did the township covenant become an official name?" Lu Zilin said: "That's what people call it. ”