Mr. Xu maintains a good habit of going to bed early and waking up early. As soon as he blew out the lamp and lay down, he heard the sound of knocking on the iron ring of the ancestral hall. After he was fully dressed, he folded the quilt again before opening the door. In the dark, I heard that it was Bai Jiaxuan, and hurriedly introduced it indoors.

Bai Jiaxuan said: "I think about things. Mr. Xu hurriedly asked, "...... What's going on?" Bai Jiaxuan said: "Give that dead (historical) man a little color and look at his face!" Mr. Xu asked anxiously: "What's the trouble?" Rebellion?" I'm a stupid farmer, I can't play with a knife, I can't play with a stick, I haven't even seen a fast gun, what a rebellion!" Bai Jiaxuan said, "The seal tax is collected according to the person and the mu, which is obviously a knife on the farmer's neck to search the waist!" Can this crop still be made? It can't be done! Since you can't make crops, hand over the farm tools and tillage tools to the county government, and hand them over to the dead (historical) person, and don't make crops!" Mr. Xu was silent. Bai Jiaxuan continued: "You are a scholar who knows books and etiquette, you say, is this considered a crime?" Is it considered disloyalty and unfilial piety?" It doesn't count!" Mr. Xu replied, "You should respect the Ming monarch, and you should be against the faint monarch; Respect the Ming Jun is loyal, and the Anti-Faint King is the Great Loyalty!" Wow! Mr. Xu, I'm still worried that you're afraid of causing trouble!" Bai Jiaxuan said, "I would like to ask you to write a post. "Chicken feather post? Write!" Mr. Xu was awe-inspiring and generous, "How do you say to write?" I've heard old people talk about chicken feather postings, but I've never seen them. "Nobody has ever seen it. I've also heard the elders say that the chicken feathers used to kill thieves that year were posted. Bai Jiaxuan said, "You want to write it!" As long as you can stir up the people! I'm afraid it can't be too long. ”

Mr. Xu took a piece of yellow paper and happily ordered the pen, as if he had already made a bamboo in his chest, and did it in one go: "Harsh government is fiercer than a tiger." The gray wolf eats meat, and the white wolf sucks blood......" wrote it into a thick paper envelope and handed it to Bai Jiaxuan. Bai Jiaxuan said: "Mr. Xu, I will take care of this matter, and I will not affect you whether I live or die." Mr. Xu said, "What a word! A gentleman sacrifices his life. Dare to do it, but also dare to deserve it. ”

Bai Jiaxuan did not enter the courtyard gate, and walked directly into the horse number of the opposite country. Lu San asked quietly, "It's written?" Bai Jiaxuan said, "Okay. Bai Jiaxuan took out three identical posters, inserted three white rooster tail feathers into the opening, and said to Lusan: "You go to Shenhe Village first, enter the family at the west end of the village, knock on the door, stuff the poster through the crack in the door, and only greet the master's family with a 'goods have arrived' and leave, and look at the others." Did you write it down?" Lu San said: "This is easy to remember. Bai Jiaxuan then instructed: "The remaining two copies, you give them to He Deao, the boss of Hejiafang Village, the sixth in the west of the South Lane of the Cross in the heart of Hejiacun Street." You'll be left alone. On the way back and forth, I didn't say anything if I didn't meet an acquaintance, and when I met an acquaintance, I pretended not to know and bowed my head and walked quickly. Did you write it down?" Lu San said: "I can touch the He brothers in Hejiafang with my eyes closed, don't worry." So saying, he took the three copies of the post, tied them into the blue cloth belt, wrapped them around his waist three more times, put on a jacket on the outside, and said, "I'm leaving." You go to sleep. See you tomorrow morning. Bai Jiaxuan said: "I'll wait for you, right here." Listen, if you meet an acquaintance along the way and can't hide, just say that you sent a cow to my uncle!" Lu San was a little impatient: "Oh, Jiaxuan! You treat me like a nose-mouthed baby, and you can't even weigh it out?" Then he walked out of the horse. Bai Jiaxuan suddenly felt soft, as if someone had pulled out his muscles and bones, and lay on Lu San's kang mat.

Lu San had already removed the wheat straw laid under the reed mat, and the adobe kang was covered with a reed mat soaked with sweat, exuding a smell of sweat similar to horse urine. He pillowed Lu San's quilt roll, and the quilt roll also exuded a fishy smell similar to that of a man with horse urine. He remembered what the old people often said about killing thieves with chicken feathers. A message with white feathers was secretly passed in the countryside of Bailuyuan, and at the appointed time, men from various villages flocked to the village inhabited by several thieves, killing all the old men and babies wrapped in clothes. The houses were burned, the cattle and horses were peeled and boiled, the grain was burned, and the land occupied by the thieves was distributed to the neighboring villages according to the village and household by the method of relocation, and was leased out as the official land in the ancestral hall of each village, and the rent collected was used as the expenses for the sacrifice of the ancestors......

The mules and horses were already lying in circles, the oxen were quietly pulling their necks and pouring foam, the thick esophagus was constantly returning the swallowed forage, and the sound of chewing was very loud, like the tapping of thousands of feet running on a country dirt road, more like a sudden storm in the summer. After Bai Jiaxuan calmed down, he felt that the tapping sound was encouraging and fascinating.

Bai Jiaxuan later regretted for the rest of his life that he did not hear the tapping sound of the crowd. The eighth day of April is coming in anticipation. On the night of the seventh day of the first lunar month, Bai Jiaxuan never closed his eyes all night. He brought the white copper hookah to Lusan's horse, and the two of them sat and smoked all night. As soon as the day was dawning, Lu Zilin led Tian Fuxian to block the door. Tian Fuxian said: "Jiaxuan, hurry up and strike the gong!" Shout loudly, don't go to the county, don't listen to the instigation of the traitor. Bai Jiaxuan said coldly: "I don't dare to strike that gong." Tian Fuxian said: "You are an official and a patriarch, why don't you dare to knock?" Bai Jiaxuan said: "It is clearly written on the post, whoever does not go to the county government to hand over farm tools, and whoever obstructs the delivery of farm tools, will smash the pot and burn the house." I don't dare. I'm afraid I'll smash the pot and burn down the house. Tian Fuxian said: "Who dares! Whoever really burned your house, I will let whoever pay you!" Bai Jiaxuan said contemptuously: "What are you blowing!" Even the county magistrate dares to rebel against the post, who will treat you as a head township!" Tian Fuxian's face turned red. Lu Zilin also felt uncomfortable being slighted. Bai Jiaxuan said: "The gong and gong mallet are placed in the ancestral hall, and I want to knock you to knock it." I'm not going to knock today. At this moment, there were three earth-shattering bangs in the village, and the roar of guns sounded in the neighboring villages. In Bailu Village, there was a crackling sound of doors opening and closing, and the sound of chaotic footsteps echoed in the quiet village alleys in the early morning, and men carrying plough sticks and rakes and brooms jumped forward in the egg-blue morning light, hurrying towards the road north of the village. Bai Jiaxuan stood on the field outside the door and said, "How to cover the flood? Who will knock the gong to block ...... I'm going to have to beat him into a lump of meat!" Tian Fuxian's face turned white: "I can't stop it, maybe we can persuade each other with good words?" Let's go!" Bai Jiaxuan couldn't shirk it, and followed Lu Zilin and Tian Fuxian around the village alley. The village has become a woman's world, and there is not a single adult man left. Without men, the village shows a sense of emptiness and vulnerability. Bai Jiaxuan was anxious, the peasants who were instigated by the poster must have gathered in the Sanguan Temple, but the leader who instigated them couldn't pull out his feet, and the brothers of the He family were angry and didn't lead everyone to smash him into a lump of meat! Bai Jiaxuan pulled down his face in a hurry and said, "The two of you are busy with your official business, and I am out of company." "Just leave. Tian Fuxian ran up and stopped, saying, "Jiaxuan, tell the truth!" Someone told the county government that you were the leader of the trouble. I patted County Magistrate Shi on the chest and said that you would never make such a mess. Since you can't stop it and can't persuade it, let them go! You can't go. Lu Zilin said with a smile: "I don't believe that Brother Jiaxuan will make trouble with those people at all." Let's go! Brother Jiaxuan, come and sit down in your room and ask my sister-in-law to make us a pot of tea. ”

Bai Jiaxuan couldn't find any more excuses, so he went back to the house hard, hoping that the He brothers would take the lead in handing over agricultural tools in the county seat. But he didn't know that the He brothers, like him, were entangled by several officials and gentlemen arranged by Tian Fuxian at the moment and were not allowed to go out. This was originally a careful arrangement by County Magistrate Shi.

The times and luck contributed to a feat in Lu San's life. He carried a plough stick without an iron ploughshare, and when he walked out of Bailu Village, he swarmed into the crops pouring out of all the villages, greeting those he knew and those who did not know him. People are often like this, when they are alone, they are one way, and when many people come together, they become completely different. Approaching the Sanguan Temple, on the avenue and path leading to the Sanguan Temple from all directions, the crowd converged into a torrent of black pressure. The small courtyard of Sanguan Temple has long been crowded, and the field outside the door is also crowded with people, waist-high wheat is trampled to the ground, and the green seedlings trampled into mud exude a quiet and quiet fragrance. As soon as Lu San stopped, he heard a terrible rumor, and the person who talked about it was so frightened that he didn't dare to come forward! The person who talked about it again accepted the bounty of the county magistrate Shi and was bought! The most terrible thing is that the two leaders who are unwilling to accept bribes have been arrested by County Magistrate Shi and are now tied up on the city wall for public display! No one can confirm it, and therefore it is impossible to distinguish between the real and the false, but it is a fait accompli that the leader of the incident did not come forward. Then the most brutal and unbearable curses were no longer directed at the county magistrate Shi who collected the seal tax, but concentrated on the uprisers of the chicken feather post, but so far no one can figure out which village Zhang San, Li Si, and Wang Mazi instigated the incident. So the chaotic and angry farmers cried out to punish the troublemakers. The crowd began to riot and reverse the path of the avenue from which they came. Lu San's heart was as anxious as fire, but he was helpless after all.

At this time, a cheer suddenly came from the courtyard wall of Sanguan Temple: "The person who started the incident has come forward!" The news swept over like the wind, and the people who were flowing backwards turned back from the avenue path. Lu San saw the crowd pouring out of the gate of Sanguan Temple like flowing water, the click of farm tools being trampled, mixed with the screams of people who had been trampled down, and people kept jumping down on the wall. A group of people carried a bald monk from the temple gate to the middle of the field. The monk stepped on the shoulders of the two people, held a wooden fork raised into the air with his left hand, and waved the white feather in the air with his right hand: "Harsh government is fiercer than a tiger!" The gray wolf eats meat, and the white wolf sucks blood......" The monk has a good voice, reciting the post, the voice is loud, the tone is frustrated, and the feelings are intense: "The corrupt officials are not moral, the sky is angry and the people are resentful, the people of Li have no way out, and they will stop planting and ......harvesting" Everyone was silent. Lu San suddenly envied the monk. After reciting the post, the monk said, "I am alone. The fathers and elders recommended three more leaders and led everyone into the city to hand over the farm tools! Which hero volunteered to stand up better......" Lu San heard this and shouted: "Bailu Village Lu San counts as one!" Before he could finish speaking, he was immediately picked up by the person next to him. Lu San stood on the shoulders of the stranger, looking down at the black head of Wu Press, and suddenly felt that he was not Lu San but Bai Jiaxuan. Until he died, Lu San didn't think through how he could have such a strange and ridiculous feeling. The crowd elected two more people, and the monk then announced that the four leaders, including himself, were the leaders of the east, west, north, south, and four roads. The monk roared, "The people of the Eastern Plains enter the East Gate, the people of the Western Plains enter the West Gate, the people of the Southern Plains enter the South Gate, and the people of the Northern Plains enter the North Gate." The county magistrate Shi did not retract the order and vowed not to return to the original. Howling roars mixed with curses, the flow of people rolled like a flood towards the county, yellow dust was raised on dirt roads, and the wheat on both sides of the avenue was trampled like the residue of a cow.

Lu San rushed to the city wall, the city gate was closed, and the roar shook the sky. Dozens of people slammed into the door with a piece of wood, and the panel was shattered, only to find that it had been sealed with bricks. Lu San shouted to tear down the wall and pick up bricks. People crowded and crowded, and the efficiency was extremely low, some people threw the bricks they picked up into the city walls, and some bricks fell and smashed their own heads. At this time, a gong sounded on the city wall, and a person struck the gong and shouted: "The county magistrate salutes everyone!" A group of attachés surrounded the county magistrate Shi and appeared on the city wall, and the county magistrate knelt down and kowtowed. The gong maker loudly announced: "The decree of the county magistrate of Shi, the general order to collect the seal tax is invalid." Fathers and brothers are invited to return to their hometowns. "Bricks flew up the city wall, and the county magistrate's attachés caught the bricks in the air like acrobatic volleys, protecting the county magistrate. County Magistrate Shi took his attachés and followed the gong beaters along the city wall. Lu San didn't know what to do, and the anger held in his chest had not yet fully exploded and been released, but it had already been declared over. It didn't take many twists and turns to successfully achieve the goal and achieve victory, but it made people feel that they were not satisfied and not very happy. The people gathered under the walls immediately turned their spearheads, and shouted that it was time to practice the precepts of the post, and to punish immediately those who did not come to hand over the tools, and to denounce them for not taking risks and sharing in the fruits of the victory of the struggle more hateful than the dead. Lu San complied with the wishes of the people and returned to the villages he had passed through on the original road, where all the families who did not participate in the handover were severely punished, the pots and pans were smashed to pieces, and the houses were smashed (they should have been burned, but they were not lit for fear of harming their neighbors). Two wealthy gentlemen with bad character in their hometowns were also punished in the same way. Lu San returned to Bailu Village, Bai Jiaxuan greeted him at the gate of the street and bowed to him deeply: "Third brother! You're human!"