Xiaowen and Xiaowu returned to Bailu Village with a bundle of blanket rolls. Due to the serious loss of students, they have been invested in the new schools in the city to study, the Bailu Academy founded by Mr. Zhu was officially closed, and the first new school in Zishui County, the Junior Normal School, was reluctantly hired as the dean. Seeing the return of the two well-educated sons, Bai Jiaxuan likes it very much, with such two descendants who are as strong as locust saplings, the ancestors of the Bai family who have suffered a lot can be comforted under Jiuquan. That night, Bai Jiaxuan held a candle in his hand, led his two sons to the gatehouse, and illuminated the four big characters engraved on the gatehouse, "Cultivating and Reading Heirlooms", and led them back to the courtyard to revisit the couplet engraved on the two pillars again: Farming and weaving heirlooms for a long time, and books for a long time. Bai Jiaxuan asked his son, "Write it down?" The two sons replied in unison, "Write it down." Bai Jiaxuan asked again: "Do you understand?" The two sons replied, "Yes." Bai Jiaxuan sat at the table in the hall and said, "It's good to understand." Tomorrow morning, get up early and put on your old clothes, and follow your third uncle to the fields to work on the crops. Both children obediently agreed. Bai Jiaxuan warned: "From today onwards, don't talk about where people go to study and what they do. Each family has its own way of living. Our family has our way of living. Let's just do what we want to do according to our way of life, don't look at it, don't say what this house is like, what that house is like. ”

Bai Jiaxuan then went to the mountains and discussed with his father-in-law about letting his second son Xiaowu jointly run the Chinese herbal medicine purchase shop. The descendants of the Bai family have become adults, and the situation of being managed by the father-in-law should end as soon as possible. Xiaowu was then ordered to go into the mountains. The eldest son, Hyo-bun, stayed at home. After long-term observation and countless comparisons, Bai Jiaxuan determined that it was legal and appropriate for Xiaowen to lead the family affairs and succeed the patriarch in the future. Both children are dignified, polite to everyone, unsmiling, and never uninhibited, which is obviously different from the free and casual appearance of ordinary rural youth. But Xiaowen is more alert than Xiaowu, more serious in appearance, and more skillful in handling things.

After Bai Jiaxuan sent his second son Xiaowu into the mountain, he walked into the matchmaker's courtyard with a gift. He solemnly put forward his intention to marry Xiaowen during the Chinese New Year, and asked the matchmaker to negotiate with the woman's parents. The woman is three years older than Xiaowen and has already handed over nineteen, and her parents are already anxious, but they are ashamed of face and inconvenient to urge the Bai family to marry quickly. Because it was the first marriage, Bai Jiaxuan was very serious and decent, and deliberately killed a pig to make a banquet. More than half a month after the marriage, the township party who had tasted the blessings of the mouth was still talking about the richness of the banquet with endless aftertaste. Bai Jiaxuan, in the name of the patriarch, presided over the ceremony for his son and daughter-in-law to enter the ancestral hall to bow to their ancestors. This ritual requires all married men and women with the surname Bailu to participate. The newlyweds bow down to their deceased ancestors and their living uncles, uncles, aunts and sisters-in-law, and ask them to accept new family members.

Lu San has participated in this kind of grand ceremony countless times, but he never expected that his black baby would bring back a small **, and he could not enter the ancestral hall to worship his ancestors, nor could he see the face of his father and fellow villagers. He once laughed at Lu Zilin. Lu Zilin gave his eldest son Zhaopeng a marriage that was also completed during the Chinese New Year. Earlier, three media and six certificates ordered Mr. Leng's eldest daughter, but Zhaopeng suddenly became reluctant and stayed in the city and did not go home. Lu Zilin rushed to the city, and a slap made Zhaopeng's nose and mouth bleed, and his crying face was considered submission. On the first night of the wedding, Zhaopeng refused to eat Hehuan wontons, let alone sleep in the new house, Lu Zilin slapped another hand of blood, and beat Zhaopeng to the new house. On the third day, he entered the ancestral hall to worship his ancestors, but Zhaopeng was reluctant to go, but Lu Zilin's slap put him in the ancestral hall. After completing a series of wedding ceremonies, Lu Zilin said: "You can go wherever you want now!" Die wherever you want! Your baby remembers: you have a daughter-in-law in the house!" Lu Zhaopeng went into the city without saying a word. Lu San compared the scene of the two Bailu families to marry their sons, and deeply sighed that Bai Jiaxuan's godson is worthy of being a model, and what kind of style has Lu Zilin's descendants become! In the final analysis, one sentence: "After all, Zude is too shallow and thin!" Now Heiwa is not qualified to lead his daughter-in-law into the ancestral hall at all, and Lu San is no longer embarrassed to laugh at Lu Zilin, this matter is like a piece of food that cannot be dissolved and piled up on his heart.

Bai Jiaxuan expressed his most sincere concern for Lu San's heart disease. He walked into the horse and said to Lu San: "Third brother, you can't lament all day long. You have to think about it. Lu San said discouragedly: "I said he didn't listen. I smashed that thing to death with a hammer, and I had to pay for my life. Bai Jiaxuan was full of confidence: "You go and call him, I'll tell him." I don't believe he can't tell the smell of food and fart. Lu San was very moved by Bai Jiaxuan's personal action, and immediately ran to the flat field in front of the broken cave at the east end of the village, and shouted loudly at Heiwa. Heiwa followed her father to Bai Jiaxuan's horse number. Bai Jiaxuan asked straight to the point: "Heiwa, I didn't let you go to the ancestral hall with that woman to worship your ancestors, do you hate me?" Heiwa replied honestly, "I know the rules. It's not your fault. Bai Jiaxuan said loudly: "Okay! Heiwa is not confused. Uncle asks you again, can't you get rid of that woman?" Heiwa didn't expect Bai Jiaxuan to say it like this, leaving no gaps, and lowered her head after staring at it. Bai Jiaxuan was not in a hurry to ask him to answer, and continued to say calmly: "You can't ask for this woman. This woman is not a woman who lives at home. You pick up this woman, and you're going to cause trouble. I could tell at a glance that she wasn't someone you could raise as a black baby. Throw it away before it's too late, so you don't regret it. People say that regret is easy and regret is hard. Lu San couldn't hold it back: "What your Uncle Jiaxuan said is all the truth and good words!" When you look at it, it's not something you have in the house. Heiwa was embarrassed and said, "As soon as I leave her, she will definitely have no way to live." The deer smacked his lips in a loud voice: "Tut-tut! This rotten woman is dead and clean! Don't look at your desperate urging on the jiri, and still care about the goods. Bai Jiaxuan was still not in a hurry, maintaining the prestige of the elder: "Don't worry about leaving her and finding her daughter-in-law." Just leave her behind. I have covered your daughter-in-law, and my uncle has paid for you with the marriage contract. Heiwa stared at Bai Jiaxuan in surprise, and there was no excuse or excuse not to throw away her. He suddenly crouched down and stumbled on the horse's feet.

Twenty years ago, Bai Jiaxuan's father, Bai Bingde, came forward to pay for Lu Sanlian's engagement and marriage, and this righteous deed is still recited by people. Heiwa's mother didn't hide this matter, and she repeated tirelessly since Heiwa could understand the words: "Heiwa, you have to remember that the Bai family is a kind-hearted person!"

Thinking of this, Lu San blushed: "Jiaxuan, you don't say so many good things to him." Even if you pull a naked man, you can't ask for that goods! Immediately get the goods out of the house, and talk about the next thing. Bai Jiaxuan said emotionally: "For the sake of our friendship between two or three generations, Uncle really can't bear to watch you recruit a disaster star into the door." I don't force you, you think again. Heiwa stood up and nodded, indicating that he was going to think about it seriously, and hurriedly pulled his legs out of the horse.

After Heiwa left, Bai Jiaxuan said in a philosopher's tone: "It's done." I concluded that Heiwa couldn't get rid of that woman. If he could throw it away, he would say it right away. There is no way. A saint can see the world's events from a foot away; We mortals can only look one step away, and let's take one step at a time; Like Heiwa, a chaotic disciple, he can't see through a single step away, and he can't see the ditch under his nose. You can't use it in a hurry. Let him bump into him a few times, maybe he can wake up from the collision, it's useless to be anxious. ”

Bai Jiaxuan is really unlucky. Lu San also luckily left the goods after the black baby "thought about it", and went home at noon the next day, and asked the woman to persuade the black baby again, but unexpectedly learned from the woman's mouth that the black baby was carrying a bluestone rammer and hanging a wooden model, and the sky was unknown and he got up and went to the village to beat adobe for people. Alas!

In view of Heiwa's severe lesson, Bai Jiaxuan paid more and more severe attention to his son Xiaowen's code of conduct. Xiaowen is good, wearing old clothes, every day with Lu San to the field to learn crops, a face of sweat, never crying out and tired. It's just that the child's face is a little haggard, and he concluded that it was not because the farm work was too heavy. Bai Jiaxuan solemnly said to Xiancao at night: "It seems that this cub is greedy for sex. You have to give that daughter-in-law a bright ear. Xian Cao pursed the corners of her mouth and glanced at her husband. After marrying her daughter-in-law, Xiancao first enjoyed the taste of being a grandmother, and her status in the family naturally changed, and she could talk to her husband a little easier: "What do you do with the little two of you?" It's all the same when you're young. You weren't in a hurry to pick peaches like a monkey. Bai Jiaxuan still said very seriously: "How old will I be!" How old will this be Hyo-wen? Just handed over sixteen, and is growing in body! Sensei is greedy and greedy!" Xian Cao smiled and agreed, and thought more carefully: "It's not easy for me to say this." I'll tell my mother, let her give her grandchildren and daughters-in-law bright ears, it doesn't matter if the words are light or heavy. Bai Jiaxuan guessed Xiancao's intentions: "Are you afraid that your daughter-in-law will hate you?" Let our mom say this annoying thing? But it's nothing, people who can think about things know it's good for her. ”

Xiaowen had almost no contact with any woman other than his mother and grandmother before he got married, and naturally he didn't know anything about women after he got married, and he still maintained a good habit of reading late on the wedding night, and sat at the table quietly reading a book. A pair of gilded red candles danced happily and bounced the flames, and the new daughter-in-law was spreading a warm quilt on the kang, and he felt cramped and uncomfortable. The new daughter-in-law warmed the futon, put a pair of wedding pillows embroidered with mandarin ducks and lotus flowers side by side, sat cross-legged on the kang and said, "You can rest, you have worked hard all day today." Xiaowen said, "You sleep first." I'll look at the book. The new daughter-in-law hurriedly slipped off the kang: "Do you drink tea?" I'll boil water for you. Xiaowen said, "Don't drink, don't drink." You go to sleep. The new daughter-in-law fell asleep quietly. Xiaowen was tired of reading and lay down, his bare legs hit her bare legs in the bed, so he dodged to the side and soon fell asleep. It was like this for two nights in a row.