Hearing the story of the wooden box, Lu San had an epiphany about the origin of carrying grain into the mountains.

In the fertile Guanzhong Plain, when the crops were not harvested due to drought, the mountainous areas of the Loess Plateau in the north obtained a rare harvest, so an abnormal landscape of plain people asking for food from mountain people was formed. There is no cotton in the mountains, the people of Bailuyuan carry bundles and rolls of home-woven homespun cloth on their backs, come out of various villages in groups, gather on several official roads leading to the north-south direction of the mountain pass, the people who carry their bags out of the mountain and the people who carry the cloth into the mountains are interspersed on the official road, and the road surface is trampled out of the powdery loess half a foot thick. Many people took the opportunity to become authentic grain brokers, they carried grain back from the mountains, went to Bailu Town to exchange it for cloth or ready-to-wear clothes, and then carried the cloth and clothes into the mountains to exchange for the mountain people's grain and grain, and used the grain they earned to feed the mother-in-law and dolls. Bailu Town has become an important grain distribution town in the entire plain, and the scene of prosperity has never been seen in ancient times.

Lu San asked his woman to bundle up the few remaining pure white homespun cloths and the blue checkered strip cloth in the wooden cabinet, and then fold up the new and old clothes of the adults and dolls, and stacked and bundled everything that could not be worn at the moment. The woman picks and chooses, and sighs. Lu San was much more decisive: "It's important to save your life." It doesn't matter if it's bad and cold, it's not enough to fill your stomach!" When he estimated that the cloth and clothes could be exchanged for the food he carried alone, he gave Bai Jiaxuan leave: "I will go into the mountains tomorrow to carry food, and I have to go for three or five days." Bai Jiaxuan said without thinking: "You go, you have to walk for a few days, the road is too fast, beware of accidents, and now people can't eat and be weak." When Lu San turned around to leave, Bai Jiaxuan said again: "Third brother, let Xiaowu Xiaoyi go with you." Lu San turned around and asked with a smile: "Are you not afraid of making jokes when you ask the baby to carry food?" Bai Jiaxuan said: "Whoever loves to laugh will laugh." Lu San said seriously: "Xiaowu is afraid to do filial piety, the baby is too small, and he can't run down even if he is afraid to run away with food, and he will go back and forth for hundreds of miles!" Bai Jiaxuan said coldly: "If you move the grain bag from the field to the house, I won't let him go, it's going to be this far!" It's good for him to run with you, and the brothers will know what food is. I mean...... You should also lead your second baby. Lu San was moved and admired, and returned to the house to chant to the woman: "Hey! Do you see how Jiaxuan, the Caidong person, disciplines his descendants? We are still delicate, and the rabbit baby dare not call the back food to ......"

Lu San led the adult Xiaowu and the minor Xiaoyi and the rabbit baby, and the four of them ganged up to help them go on the road when the rooster crowed, and entered the valley when the sun was setting in the west. People entering and leaving the mountain meet at Yukou, and some people set up a hut here to open an inn, selling porridge and bread cakes. The four of them rested for a while, ate some dry food they had brought, and went on their way again...... The trip was delayed because he was carrying two children, and he walked for seven days before returning to Bailu Village. In the evening, Xiaowu Xiaoyi walked into the street after breaking up with Lu Santuwa at the entrance of the village, and Xiaoyi sat on the ground and couldn't get up. Grandma Bai Zhao first saw the two grandsons who had returned, holding Xiaoyi's face and sighing, the grandson's lips were dry with a layer of black dry skin, the corners of his mouth were covered with dried blood, his eyes were deeply sunken, and he was stroking the blood blisters and the blood blisters were in pain. Bai Jiaxuan followed the fairy grass to the yard and happily teased his son, "Sanwazi, do you know what food is now?" Xiaoyi smiled bitterly: "Dad, I will pick up a steamed flower and ......eat it in the future" Xiaowu's daughter-in-law brought a basin of water to the courtyard and let her man and younger brother Xiaoyi wash their faces. Bai Jiaxuan stopped and said, "Wash your face first." Carry the grain you carried back just now—" Bai Zhao couldn't help but say angrily: "Carry it to the mountains again?" Bai Jiaxuan said with a pleasant face: "Give him the third uncle to carry it." ”

Bai Jiaxuan bent his waist and led Xiaowu and Xiaoyi into the courtyard of Lu San's house and said loudly: "Third brother! The babies have brought you food. Lu San was lying on the kang to rest his legs, and the woman stilted out of the threshold of the mansion one after another, and saw Xiaowu Xiaoyi carrying the grain bag back from the mountain on his shoulder, and asked in confusion: "Why did you ask the babies to carry it again?" That's a drop on your back!" Bai Jiaxuan said: "This time, I will give you everything I carried back from the mountains." I'll get it when I come back next time. Xiaowu Xiaoyi put down the grain bag and limped out of the yard. Bai Jiaxuan gloated and said with a smile: "This time the broken cub baby is beautiful!" This time, the broken cub will understand what it means to be a piece of food!"

Lu San rested overnight, and the next day he rolled half a bucket of rice grits on the grinding plate, settled the life of a woman and a rabbit baby, and returned to the Bai family again. The next day, he met Xiaowen when he went to the moat to pull the washer loess; As he unearthed the trench, the steel blade of the pike dart flashed in his mind......

Lu San said: "It would be nice if Xiaowen had this box in his heart!" Xiaowu took the box and became solemn and excited: "Dad, I will build the gatehouse in the spring next year." Bai Jiaxuan said, "If you cover the gatehouse, you will engrave your name on the wall." The year of Xiaowen's sale is also engraved. I won't say that again. There is another thing, when your father was leaving, he told me, 'Look at the third child'. Over the years, my biological son can't count on it, and some friends can't count on it, but the one who can be relied on is your third uncle! Xiaowu Xiaoyi, you two listen, your third uncle's friendship with me is not because our family is powerful and wealthy, and my friendship with your third uncle does not mean that he deceives people and deceives the world, and the truth is righteous! I'll say it today, if your third uncle walks ahead of me, needless to say, I will take care of it; If I walk in front of your third uncle, I will expect you two brothers to take care of your third uncle......" said with emotion and sadness.

Before Xiaowu Xiaoyi could speak, Lu Sanyi stood up with a bang, blushing and said: "Jiaxuan, you have come to this point, I also have something to say to the babies: friendship is friendship, everyone is still everyone!" Your father is the master's family, and I am a long-term worker. Your father is gone, your brothers are the master's family, and I am still a long-term worker. What happened to me when your dad was alive, and what happened to me when my dad was gone. I will do the work that should be done, and I will not be polite to give me the salary that should be given to me on time, and anything else will be superfluous. I have a ...... temper" Xiaowu poured wine for Lu San and his father, and said respectfully and sincerely: "I don't treat the third uncle as an outsider, and the third uncle doesn't treat me as an outsider." ”

Seeing that Xiaoyi also gave a salute to Lu San, Bai Jiaxuan said to his two sons: "Okay! You two have forgotten what you said. Then he turned around, put down his chopsticks and stretched out his right hand to grab Lu San's left hand: "Third brother, you shouldn't kill Heiwa's daughter-in-law......" Lu San also turned his head and stared at Bai Jiaxuan tightly: "I'm not afraid." I don't regret it either. Bai Jiaxuan said: "But why did you kill her quietly?" Since you're not afraid, then kill in the daytime?" Lu San couldn't speak for a while. Bai Jiaxuan let go of the hand holding him and said, "It can be seen that you are still afraid." Lu San was not convinced by this statement, and in front of the two juniors, he slammed the wine cup on the table, stiffened his neck and said, "Jiaxuan, you have done your best, how can you kill people like you say?" Bai Jiaxuan still said quietly: "Third brother! Think about it, we have been working together for many years, and what I have done, which one has been quietly touched? I'm afraid you can't find even one. What's the trouble with 'Jiaonong'? Let's shout at the people in the original place, and set up a position to make trouble with that corrupt official! The things in the clan are still like this, the black baby's daughter-in-law Hu Lai, let's tie her up to the ancestral hall for treatment, and also govern openly and honestly in front of everyone; Xiaowen is my own son...... no exception" Lu San listened, and it seemed that he really couldn't find a thing that Bai Jiaxuan had quietly done. Bai Jiaxuan said calmly: "I have never done anything unsightly in my life. Whatever is feared that people will know should not be done, and what should be done should not be feared by others, and even the more people who know, the more it will appear that it should be done...... You two remember this measure!" Bai Jiaxuan said this, looking at his two sons. Lu San said: "If you don't get rid of that harmful spirit, maybe you will hurt someone!" She died in the kiln and stinked in the kiln, and I didn't hear a word in Bailu Village that she died pitifully, and they all ......said that she deserved to die," Bai Jiaxuan interjected: "Who she harms or not, it depends on who she is, and she needs to be hard to strike iron; Anyone who was harmed by her was a person who was not tough. As he spoke, he nodded solemnly to his two sons, and then looked back at Lu San, "If people listen to you, they are your daughter-in-law, and if people don't listen to you and don't obey your discipline, they won't be your daughter-in-law, and you won't be someone's father-in-law. Are you angry that you're afraid of people poking you in the back? I don't see it that way. Filial piety lives his people, I live my people, and everyone lives his own people. Lu San found that his heart was a little deflated, and he still said stiffly: "You can think about things, but I can't think of it so well." Anyway, if I killed her, I also confessed my innocence to Heiwa, and I don't regret it. Bai Jiaxuan said: "Regret is resolutely not regretful." It's not worth regretting that this person died one and ten died, but it shouldn't be up to you. It's good that you don't regret it. If you regret it, you're in big trouble......"

There was a bang, and the crackling rain suddenly sounded on the yard and roof tiles. Lu San jumped off the bench and ran to the yard, crying with a wow: "Oh my God!" Bai Jiaxuan was so anxious that he fell down from the stool, his two sons had already run to the courtyard screaming and jumping, he climbed to the door and fell down the steps, knelt in the courtyard, raised his face, and let the cold rain drop down. The rain is getting heavier and heavier, and there is a clamor of rain. The whole Bailu Village resounded with laughter, shouts, cries, and curses were thrown into the sky together, God who saved his life, God who hated God who pit the dead! How do you remember that there is still a layer of Li people in the world who have not starved to death? Lu Sanyi was drenched, and pulled Bai Jiaxuan, who was kneeling in the muddy water, up the steps, and the rain splashed down like a dump, with a muddy smell. The noise in the village gradually sank, and the noise of heavy rain covered the sky and ground......