Heiwa's return to her hometown to worship her ancestors caused a shock in the plain. At dawn, Heiwa and his wife Gao Yufeng got up from the county seat and took a detour to Bailu Academy on the original slope. The group of three walked along the path between the slopes, and the sky was getting brighter and brighter. Heiwa took off her military uniform, and there was no piece of silk and satin, but she specially bought a home-woven homespun cloth, stating that it was not allowed to be rolled by a machine, and it was cut and sewn by his wife Yufeng herself, only the top hat on her head was made of wool, and she completely became a restrained and humble cloth bachelor. He did not ride a horse and did not bring a retinue of guards, for which he had disputes with both Commander Zhang and Bai Xiaowen. Head Zhang said: "Bring an entourage to run errands for you." Xiaowen pointed out: "You had an opponent in the original before, just in case." Heiwa said: "Mr. Zhu leads the way and guides the men and horses that are stronger than a division." In the afternoon, Heiwa and his entourage walked to the entrance of Bailu Village, and saw Bai Xiaowu leading more than a dozen people to greet him, and hurriedly bowed. Entering the village from the entrance of the village, the streets are clean, and there are still marks of brooms scratching on the dirt road, and there are no adults in the village alleys except for children running around. When Heiwa walked into the village alley, he couldn't suppress the ups and downs of his heart, the dilapidated gatehouses and earthen walls, the thick and thin elm trees, the chun trees and the catalpa trees, all turned into living creatures, which made him feel excited. When I walked to the door of the ancestral hall, I saw Bai Jiaxuan's rickety body standing in the smoke of firecrackers, with a cane propped up in front of him. Heiwa walked a few steps and knelt down, Gao Yufeng also knelt down, only Mr. Zhu hugged his fists and saluted the villagers waiting at the door. This is the highest standard welcome ceremony in Bailu Village, Bai Jiaxuan has always handled the affairs of his clan in the ancestral hall, and there is almost no precedent for personally greeting someone at the door.

Bai Jiaxuan leaned his crutches against the door frame and lifted the black baby who was prostrate under his knees with both hands. Heiwa stood up with tears in her eyes: "Heiwa is guilty!" Bai Jiaxuan only had an open-minded and kind expression, and made a gesture with his hand to ask Jun to go first, letting Heiwa, Mr. Zhu and Gao Yufeng go ahead, and accompanied him on the right side with a cane, walking through the brick-paved road in the courtyard of the ancestral hall, and the clansmen standing on the sides and steps were crowded and stretched out their heads and tiptoes. The two wood waxes had been lit, and Xiaowu stood next to the incense table, giving each of them three purple incense. Bai Jiaxuan lit the incense branch and inserted it into the incense burner and bowed down: "Ancestors and ancestors, the deer surnamed Zhaoqian came to pay tribute and ask the ancestors for forgiveness." Heiwa's arms trembled when she lit incense on the wood wax, and when she knelt down, she cried and cried: "The unfilial man Zhaoqian kneels down to worship the knees of his ancestors, and he learns to be a good person, and begs his ancestors to be tolerant......" Mr. Zhu couldn't help but burst into tears, and stood beside Bai Jiaxuan after bowing to the incense. Gao Yufeng finally knelt down, Heiwa couldn't kneel, and she kept kneeling with her. Bai Jiaxuan said in a majestic voice: "The surname Lu Zhaoqian has repented and repented, and the ancestors are generous and virtuous, regardless of the past suspicions. Zhaoqian has a public opinion on the strict discipline of leading the army, and he also fights for the glory of his ancestors, and wears red for the sake of the people's wishes-" Bai Xiaowu handed a piece of red silk to his father, and Bai Jiaxuan personally draped the red silk on the shoulders of the black baby. Heiwa bowed repeatedly, and then turned around and bowed to all the clansmen. He took a gift envelope wrapped in red silk from his wife Yufeng, handed it to Bai Jiaxuan and said, "My little carelessness adds some fragrant wax to my ancestors." He handed the gift of silver dollars to Bai Jiaxuan, and couldn't help but tremble in the face of the dog-like body, and his wild voice many years ago floated in his ears: that person's waist was too straight......

The clansmen dispersed one after another, and Heiwa, accompanied by Bai Jiaxuan, walked in the courtyard, and when she turned around and saw the remnants of the township covenant stele embedded on the wall, she suddenly remembered everything that had happened in this ancestral hall as the headquarters of the agricultural cooperative, and she was so guilty that she couldn't look up. He wanted to ask Bai Jiaxuan to re-carve a complete set of township covenant stone tablets at his own expense, but he finally didn't say it, let's talk about it later, the broken and patched together inscriptions cast his shame.

Heiwa asked, "Why didn't you see me?" Bai Jiaxuan smiled and said, "You are waiting for you in the house, in my house." When Lu San learned the news that his son Heiwa was going back to the original to worship his ancestors, he expressed an attitude that surprised Bai Jiaxuan: "It's late, it's late, it's too late!" He grunted indifferently. Bai Jiaxuan told Lu San that he should go home to clean up the house, and Heiwa would definitely go home to see when she brought her daughter-in-law back. Since the death of his wife, Lu San led his second son Tuwa to live in the horse number, and Hei Ming did not go home. Lu San shook his head: "If he wants to go home, he will go." I don't care. I don't see him. I'm only a bunny. Bai Jiaxuan even got angry when he couldn't persuade him: "You still don't admit it if you learn well?" You don't make sense like that! If you don't recognize Heiwa, I won't recognize you......" Lu San remained silent: "That's good, that's okay, I have the right to give you face." Bai Jiaxuan arranged the meeting between Lu San and Heiwa in his own home, because Lu San resolutely refused to meet Heiwa in front of the clansmen in the ancestral hall.

Heiwa walked into the alley of Bai Jiaxuan's house, did not enter the gatehouse and turned into the horse number opposite, leaving the accompanying group behind. Walking through the doorway of the horse number and entering the horse field, Heiwa saw at a glance that an old man and a young man were there to cut grass, the old man knelt on the ground with one leg and stuffed the straw bundle into the mouth, and the half-sized young man spread his legs and pressed a broad-bladed guillotine. The setting sun in the west smeared a wisp of blood red. The air was filled with the smell of grass. Heiwa walked to the dun and knelt down, screaming "big", tears welling up. Lu San stopped pushing the grass and stared at his son with dementia: "Oh! You're back...... It's good to be back......" Heiwa helped her father to sit on the pier, turned around and hugged her younger brother Rabbit's shoulder: "Do you still recognize my brother?" The rabbit baby twisted her head and smiled shyly. Bai Jiaxuan instructed his son Xiaowu to accompany Mr. Zhu to sit in the house first, and he led Gao Yufeng, the daughter-in-law of the black baby, into the horse, and shouted loudly: "Third brother, you see that your daughter-in-law has also come to see you." Gao Yufeng shouted "big" and knelt down in front of the haystack. Lu Sanmu looked at his daughter-in-law Yufeng's elegant kowtowing action, and a ray of horror suddenly flashed in his eyes, and Xiao'e was stabbed in the back by him and turned around and called "big" The voice reappeared...... Bai Jiaxuan forced Lu San's father and son to leave their work and go back to the house for dinner, Lu San did not refuse or be enthusiastic, but just followed Bai Jiaxuan indifferently. Heiwa couldn't help but ask: "Uncle Jiaxuan, I look like it's dangling?" Bai Jiaxuan said indifferently: "Old, you are old!" Ever since the toss of the ghost possession, Lusan has become like this. Bai Jiaxuan didn't want to mention that Xiao'e, so he further confirmed: "People are like this when they get old. Look at me, I'm getting clumsy and not stunned!"

An unforgettable dinner was held in the bright room of the Pak Ka Xuan Hall. The atmosphere gradually became more active from restraint, and only Lu San's expression was still stunned. Xiaoyi was impatient by the greetings and entertainment clichés of the past, and put forward a fresh word: "Brother Heiwa, you are doing great things in the county, and you have seen a lot of things, and now the people of the dynasty are collecting grain and levying ding, how can you live these days?" Before Heiwa could speak, Bai Jiaxuan glared at Xiaoyi: "Let's only talk to your uncle and brother Heiwa today, and we don't care about other things." Mr. Zhu picked up the conversation: "Grain requisition involves every household, and it is also a common thing!" Bai Jiaxuan nodded, and said angrily: "I'm afraid that these annoying things will rush Zhao Qian's head when they talk about it. I haven't seen so much grain and Ding, and the emperor of the Qing family has not been so ruthless to the people......" Mr. Zhu has always spoken with a near metaphor: "There is a saying among businessmen: "The heart is ruthless. ”

After the meal, the twilight is blank. The rabbit baby carried the yin paper in the cage, and led his brother Heiwa and sister-in-law Yufeng to go to the grave of his mother, and he whispered: "Brother, I want to go with you to the security group?" Heiwa pondered for a long time and categorically refused, saying, "Brother, you don't have to go." You don't understand yet. Besides, who will open the door for our family when you leave?" The rabbit baby no longer insisted. A pile of grass and leaves covered her mother's grave at the root of the slow slope, and the black baby cried out in pain and almost passed out. He knelt in front of the grave for a long time and was silent.

Heiwa returned to the village, and it was already dark. He led his wife Yufeng from east to west to visit the villagers from house to house, and only walked through half of the houses until late at night, and almost every man and woman did not care much about his apology, but told the great disaster of the grain levy and the levy of the Ding, and tested whether the head of the deer battalion could help intercede so that the doll would be exempted from the levy. Heiwa knew that he had neither the art of universalizing sentient beings nor the power to return to heaven, so he had to accept it on the surface, but it destroyed his pious mood of returning to the original and worshipping his ancestors.

Back at Bai's house, Heiwa refused the kang shop prepared for him by Bai Jiaxuan, led his wife into the dilapidated open courtyard of his house, and opened the cover on the kang of the house full of dust and mouse droppings, which was a pile of rags and a quilt with cotton wool, and said to Gao Yufeng affectionately: "Let's sleep on my mother's kang all night!" The wife nodded happily. Heiwa said sourly: "I was born on this kang...... I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep on this kang a few more times......" Yufeng gently helped him unbutton and undress, and then lay down in the torn cotton wool. Heiwa smelled a smell of smoke and sweat, a faint smell of breast milk, and said shyly in a trembling voice: "I really want to call 'Mom' at this time......" Yufeng trembled and hugged Heiwa tightly. Heiwa quietly pillowed Yufeng's arm against her chest and calmed down......

After dawn, Heiwa led Yufeng to continue to visit all the remaining families in Bailu Village, and finally returned to Bai Jiaxuan's horse number and said to his father: "Build another house, it's time to marry the rabbit baby." Lu San said: "The rabbit baby is still young. After a long pause, he continued, "The house...... When the rabbit grows up, he will cover it. Heiwa said: "You and the rabbit baby hand in hand to buy wood and bricks, first build a house and then Zhang Luo's daughter-in-law, the house is about to collapse!" Who dares to ...... a woman" Lu San said: "I don't have the energy, I don't want to talk about these things." Heiwa handed a stack of silver dollars to Lu San's hand, took a step back and said, "You take this money for daily use first, and it's good to build a house slowly." Lu San poured the silver dollar into Heiwa's hand again, and said indifferently: "If you want to give money, you will give it to the rabbit baby." I don't need money. Heiwa hesitated and handed over the money to Rabbit. Later, he and Yufeng set off to return to the county seat, and Mr. Zhu left first. Some people waited with great interest to see if Heiwa would go to the cave where Xiao'e had lived on the slow road in the east of the village. After all, they got an unsatisfactory ending, and Heiwa didn't go. But some people still whispered that when Heiwa visited the villagers in the east of the village, she would definitely be able to see the hexagonal pagoda on the cliff that suppressed Xiao'e.

On the night when Heiwa left Bailu Village, Bai Jiaxuan said to Xiaowu in the upper room: "Anyone who is born on the kang foot in Bailu Village, as long as he is a human, sooner or later he will kneel down in the ancestral hall." Bai Xiaowu listened respectfully. After Bai Jiaxuan smoked a pot of hookah, he suddenly changed the topic and said, "I think you still have to go into the mountain." Bai Xiaowu couldn't react for a while, and looked at his father suspiciously. Bai Jiaxuan said: "Didn't you say a few days ago that people asked you to be a security chief?" Bai Xiaowu nodded again and again and said, "These days, I have been busy welcoming my uncle and Brother Zhaoqian back to their hometown. Later today, Director Tian bumped into me in the town and asked me! What is going to be done about this? Push is not pushed, when it can't be done. Now as a security chief, he has just kept up with the urging of grain and asked for money to levy Ding, and he hates the township party and clansmen, and it is the vacancy of Uncle Zilin, which is ......even worse" Bai Jiaxuan nodded in approval of Xiaowu and said: "Oh! You'll be thinking about everything, too. As I said, let's go back into the mountains. Bai Xiaowu said: "Hide? Hide well!" Bai Jiaxuan said: "Sensei said that the chief of the body, we won't even give him the chief armor!" Whoever loves should go. He can call whoever he wants, and we should not be. Get out of the way! Tian Fuxian came to ask you again, and I said that the pharmacy in the mountains was rotten, you go and close the stall......" Bai Xiaowu replied again and again: "Yes, yes, that's good." Then I will withdraw early tomorrow morning, so as not to cause any extraneous branches. Bai Jiaxuan stood up and said, "You go and clean up, rest early and get up early." I still want to talk to your third uncle. ”

Bai Jiaxuan walked into the horse with a bottle of wine: "Third brother, let's take a sip." As he spoke, he kicked the wine bottle to the kang, and said to the rabbit, "Rabbit, you go and mix the grass and replace your father." Lu San walked to the kang indifferently and took a sip at the mouth of the bottle. Bai Jiaxuan said bluntly: "Third brother, you are too light on the black baby this time!" Lu San didn't say anything. Bai Jiaxuan said: "Many years ago, Heiwa didn't do the right thing, you can't see him and I agree, Heiwa has learned well now, you shouldn't be reluctant anymore." You should get up now, build a house first, then put a few acres of good land, and come down to give the rabbit baby Zhang Luo's daughter-in-law, and next year you should go home and be a good crop owner. The deer did not lift his head, and took another sip of wine. After three glasses of wine, he finally opened his mouth: "Jiaxuan, your words are right, I can also think of it." I want to cheer up, but I just can't get my spirits up!" Bai Jiaxuan said: "I know that Heiwa has lost your heart and lost your face, but now Heiwa has made up for your heart and also made up your face!" Lu San sighed when he heard it: "What I told you is just a reverse!" The time when the inferior breed bit my tendons, my heart was full of strength, this cub baby changed his mind, but I felt that my heart was lost, and my anger was also scattered...... "Bai Jiaxuan said very strangely: "Third brother, you will probably only think things smoothly...... If you look back and think about it, maybe you will be able to cheer up your spirits......" Lu San said: "I'm afraid it's difficult!"

After more than ten days, Lu San not only couldn't raise his heart and spirits, but felt more and more gray. Bai Jiaxuan also found that Lu San continued to retreat, and his movements became more hesitant and abrupt, often turning around in place looking for the mixing stick or water scoop in his hand. He thought of Xiao'e's ghost possession. People say that the soul was hooked away by the ghost, which is about this kind of dull appearance, because since that catastrophe, Lu San has been judged to be like two people. Heiwa's return not only did not lift Lusan's spirits, but instead shrunk and sluggish, which was a strange thing he didn't expect or think through. Two days later, Bai Jiaxuan was smoking in the house alone, and the rabbit baby came in and said, "Uncle, I told you to drink, he has good wine." Bai Jiaxuan immediately got up and followed the rabbit to the horse. Lu San invited him to drink, it was the first time in the world, and the third brother's heart was overflowing. Lu San pulled out a bottle of wine from a small box on the kang head and shook it: "Jiaxuan, you take a sip of this good wine-Xifeng." The voice and movements are completely restored to the original Lusan. Bai Jiaxuan's interest was high: "Okay, third brother, I said you would cheer up, look what!" Lu San really reversed the demented expression of Mu Ne for a long time, full of strong and confident spirit, and his eyes re-revealed the brilliance of focus and sincerity. Bai Jiaxuan was suddenly encouraged: "Third brother, wow, I'm alone and you're alone, I'll sleep with you tonight." Lu San laughed: "Don't you think I'm dirty on this kang?" I'm enough with your words! Let's take a sip!" The two of them drank and talked, and they were drunk until late at night, and they dragged the quilt and lay on Lusan's kang and fell asleep.

In the twilight of the sky, Bai Jiaxuan woke up and saw that Lu San had fallen on the ground under the kang, his body had stiffened, and he had already held his breath when he touched the root of his nose. Bai Jiaxuan's knees weakened, and he threw himself on Lu San, crying:

"The best long-term worker in Bailu Plains has passed away!"