79 When he walked down the foot of the mountain, he found that there were several families around this village, but why didn't I see it on the mountain just now, could it be that the clouds and mist were too heavy, and I didn't see it, well, maybe, but anyway, since we have come to a place where people live, let's have some food,

I thought there was only one family living here, but now there are so many more, but I don't know which one is the home of the old man I met yesterday.

Walking down the steep hillside, in front of the magnificent village, it was surrounded by peasant families, these mountain people were dressed plainly, standing on the side with their hands in hand, and the place around them was the gate of this village.

In front of the gate, there was an old man in rags, sitting on a stone, holding an allegro in his hand.

I'm inexplicably happy, I actually met an allegro in this kind of place,

"Playing the bamboo board, tears in my face, listening to me judge the rights and wrongs of the Bai family, thinking about the old man under Xiangguang Peak back then, ......"

Listening to it gradually, I sorted it out in my mind, and finally sorted out the whole situation...... It is said that many years ago, this area is an ancient forest, in the forest, there lives a servant surnamed Bai, everyone calls him Bai Lao, Bai Laoqi lives by cutting wood, as soon as he has time, he picks some yams to help the poor brothers nearby to heal.

Regardless of the scorching heat and cold, he picked up firewood every day for 30 miles in the dark and went down the mountain to sell, and after selling firewood, he climbed 30 miles of mountain roads and returned to this deep mountain and old forest.

One day, he returned from selling firewood, and walked home with difficulty on a hundred-step ladder, which was really difficult to support, so he sat on the stone by the roadside to rest, thinking about the hard past, and thinking about the bleak old age, and sighed to the sky with tears: "Alas, how can I live such a day,"

"Don't worry, I'll help you end this hard life,"

The one who spoke was an old man with white hair and a childish face,

The old man seemed to know Bai Laoqi's life experience very well, he comforted Bai Laoqi, took out a golden seed from his sleeve and said: "When you go home, plant this seed, it can sprout this year, it will grow into a tree next year, and it will bloom and bear fruit the year after, and you can spend your old age happily with this tree."

Then the old man said, "When this tree grows branches and leaves, no matter what rain falls, you must pour water for 7749 days, 7749 quintals every day, and each quintal of water will seep into 7749 drops of sweat, and in the first year of the flowering of this tree, each flower shall be dripping with a drop of your own blood."

After the old man finished speaking, he suddenly disappeared, and only a yellow seed remained in the white old man's hand and sparkled.

After Bai Laoqi went home, he chose the best place to plant seeds.

After a few days, the buds really sprouted, and from then on, he went to the seedlings every day to watch, and he had to go to the seedlings to sell firewood before entering the house to eat.

When the sun is big, give it shade, when the wind and rain are big, build a shed for it, and catch insects for it when it hurts it.

In the spring of the second year, when the rhododendrons bloomed on Zhurong Peak, the seedlings grew taller than the azaleas, the wind blew the pole and did not bend, and the leaves did not fall when the rain hit, and the white old man picked up forty-nine loads of water from the bottom of the mountain every day, and each load of water sprinkled a lot of sweat, and watered for a total of forty-nine days.

In the third year, when the rhododendrons bloom on Zhurong Peak, this tree is several times higher than the azaleas, and has a bunch of pale yellow flowers, although the flowers are not as big as the rhododendrons, but its fragrance spreads all over the mountain, and the white old man dripped his blood on the flowers.

But what kind of tree is this, Bai Laoqi doesn't know, but he believes that the old man who gave him the tree is not a mortal, and this tree must not be an ordinary tree.

He hoped that the tree would benefit the poor people in the mountains.

The summer passed, the golden fruit of the tree swayed in the wind, making a jingling sound, as if shaking a string of copper bowls, the old man picked a bunch of hands, and a few coins rolled out of the shell, all of which were made of snow-white silver.

After the white old man picked the fruit, carefully calculated: how much should be given to him for the most bitter family, how much should be given to him for the poorest of the Zhang family, after the family is calculated, the rest can just buy some rice for his own family, Bai Lao Qi is afraid of revealing the secret and causing unexpected disasters, so he carried the silver money in the middle of the night, and quietly sent it to each family, these people got the money, they don't know where it came from, a year or two has passed, the poor people slowly discovered this secret, and Bai Lao Qi had to tell everyone the truth,

Since then, the poor people in the mountains have come to help Bai Laoqi cultivate this cash cow and protect this cash tree, and everyone also respects the owner of this cash cow even more.

Since there is a cash cow, the surrounding trees are also more and more lush year by year, the scenery on Zhu Rong Peak is becoming more and more beautiful year by year, and the life of the poor is becoming happier year by year.

However, this matter reached the county lord in the city,

The county magistrate sent people to investigate and secretly visit around Zhu Rongfeng, and sure enough, he found out the secret of the cash cow.

He sat on the Taishi chair, squinted his triangular eyes, touched his mustache, and said with a smile: "The old man has been running around for decades, and today I am looking forward to this day of blessings,"

He calculated in his heart that after accepting the fruit of the cash tree, he would give the treasure tree to the emperor, so that he could not only make a fortune, but also be promoted.

Soon, he sent a group of officers and soldiers, armed with swords and swords, to the mountain temple with a fierce spirit, and pasted a notice from the official yamen, saying that the whole world is not the king's land, and the strange flowers and trees in the mountains belong to the government, and no one is allowed to cut down trees and pick fruits.

The poor man knew that this was to plunder the cash cow, and immediately discussed with Bai Laoqi how to deal with it, Bai Laoqi was also anxious about this matter, he thought, if it was a dead thing, it would be good to hide it, but this is a big living tree that breaks through the sky, it is not easy to hide, and it is afraid of moving to death, what should I do, it is difficult, they think about it, they can't think of a good way, everyone is in a hurry,

Suddenly, hearing the ghost shouting and screaming, the fierce officers and soldiers came into the mountain, and immediately surrounded the cash tree, and the people were not allowed to close the side, at this time, the bunches of fruits on the tree had turned golden, swaying in the wind, and made a brass bell-like sound, in previous years, at this time, money would grow in the fruit, and silver would be sprinkled, and the county officials and his officers and soldiers were pleasantly surprised, thinking that they had made a fortune, and they looked at the cash tree and drooled.

But, wait, wait, wait, a day passed, two days passed, a month passed, two months passed, the flowers were gone, the fruits were gone, the money was gone, the silver was gone, they were empty,

They were annoyed and angry, cut down the cash cow, and wanted to kill the white old man.

However, Bai Laoqi has gone away and flew high, when he left Nanyue, he gave each household a seed of a cash tree, so the cash tree grew in Nanyue again, and later, some of the people of Nanyue went to Huainan, some went to Guanwai, some went to the lakeside, and some went to other deep mountains, and they all planted the seeds they brought to the place where everyone settled, so now many places have grown cash trees.

And more than 100 years later, there is a family surnamed Bai, claiming to be the descendants of Bai Laoqi, settling here, but the Bai Laoqi was so old, how could there be descendants, this question, no one has gone to the details, some people say that Bai Laoqi received the righteous son before his death, and some people say that Bai Laoqi followed the immortals to learn what immortal arts, leaving a son and a half daughter, but this question is no longer clear,

"The Bai family has been passed down from generation to generation, and now the children and grandchildren are in their prime, they don't worry about eating, they don't have to worry about drinking, the old ones go down in the early years, the small ones are more than the family property, yours are more, mine is more, there is no way to fight for it, the east family is crying, the west family is making trouble, stirring up the chaos in the mountains, and the villagers are persuading good people to ...... more"

"Squeak,"

Just when the old man was singing Allegro, the door of the Bai family was suddenly opened, and the old man suddenly stopped, everyone looked together, but they saw a young little butler, who came out and scolded loudly: "You uninteresting rough horsemen, I don't know how things have happened in our Bai family recently, and they are still making trouble here, you are not annoying, we are still annoying, we are all going away, let's go,"

At the signal of the young butler, the villagers turned around slowly and gradually dispersed.

Only I stayed, looked up, and was stunned, just now I just listened to the old man's allegro, but I didn't find that in the courtyard of the Bai family, there was actually white silk,

It turns out that the Bai family is dead,

"Who are you, why are you still here and refuse to leave,"

The little butler looked me up and down and asked dissatisfiedly,

"Hehe, a person from the mountains and wilderness, passing by here, hungry and thirsty, I don't know if I can go to the house to make a bowl of food to eat,"

I immediately clenched my fists and saluted,

"Oh, it turned out to be Mr. Shanzato, but there are a lot of things going on in our family now, and I'm afraid it will be inconvenient for Mr.,"

The little butler said gently, with a hint of politeness,

"There is no hindrance, life and death are like fate and extinction, I don't mind below, but I am really hungry and thirsty under the bottom, and I don't have half the strength to go to the next family, so I ......"

As I spoke, I deliberately made an extremely uncomfortable posture,

"That'...... Then I'll go in and report to the eldest lady first, and then I'll entertain the gentleman later, and the gentleman will be a little later,"

The little butler smacked his lips in embarrassment, but nodded, turned around and walked in, I couldn't help but be happy, although there are evil words, but there are good roots, but between good and evil, it is easy to go astray,

After a while, I saw that the door was opened again, and the little butler said respectfully: "Sir, our eldest lady has a love for you to go in,

"Hehe, so, thank you little brother for telling me,"

I hugged my fist and saluted, and followed the little butler into the Bai family's village, this village, really walked in, only to find that its grandeur and magnificence, definitely not lower than any county town, pavilions, carved beams and paintings, simply have both ancient heritage, and modern dignity and elegance, people can't help but sigh,

(Tianjin)