Three

And with that majestic momentum, and in that customary order, he had always been like this in the past ten years and years: when every cadre of the clan had prepared incense paper and other offerings, and had just walked to the two willow trees and settled together, he would appear in front of them like a miracle.

"It's all here. He asked a rambling question, but there was no answer. So he was politely dressed, glanced at everyone, and walked northwest to the grave of his ancestors. How dare the clans slack off, they all came in order. "Be careful!" he added, and led everyone to the memorial service.

Burning incense, prostrating, prostrating, burning incense, there is nothing special to say here. What is commendable is his very intimidating and contagious description. From the beginning to the end, he was so respectful and pious, solemn and serious, and he was also meticulous in his blessings and bows, and the prayers were even more sonorous and entered the lungs. It is said that after this time, it is better to receive a great baptism.

——Wei Weihu, the twenty-first eldest grandson of the Xilongzhou Sect, the best descendant of Xilongzhou.

I don't know if he got the news later today, but he still has the intention to play the old play, in short, he is also a step late at this moment, just as in the past tense, just when everyone is beginning to wait for him.

At this moment, he had a straight back, a slightly open top, and a kind of unhurried, steady and steady step. He came, paced from the gap that the people had given way to the circle of people, and then to the side of the big willow. Contrary to the usual style, at this whole time, he did not have the slightest expression of emotion or observation, and the ordinary face of great color, which was both long and wide and slightly pale, seemed to be completely frozen because of it, and compared with the indignant crowd around him, at this moment, he was like a bleak clay sculpture.

What's wrong with him? What's wrong with him now? The people in the circle quickly sensed some kind of 'ominous' and quietly questioned: Look, look at the person in front of him, is he the old team leader and old clan manager Hong Renxuan who has vision, courage, and good decision-making, and is deeply relied on by the big guys? In front of this big right and wrong, this great hurt, and shame, why did he delay and not say a word like this? A word? Could it be that he was also like us big guys, who was just like us, and was frightened by the sudden accident in front of him? Frightened, or, or—everyone was in a state of astonishment, and a few of them quietly gathered together and whispered.

For a moment, no one knew that it was all the anxieties and worries that he hid under this cold indifference. To put it bluntly, at this moment, he has been spinning rapidly inside. He is also afraid of being fearless, but he is also worried about the turmoil and fluctuations that his every move, word and deed at the moment is enough to cause. The wrath of the crowd was great, but it was imminent. And the things of the moment, the things of the moment—after a few rounds of the willows, he finally opened his broad and calm old face, but his voice was so low—"Count, I count, nearly twenty years have passed in this moment, nearly twenty years, and in these twenty years, we have not come here so neatly to take a look, to take a look, to say something that we want to say, to do something that we want to do." But today, it happened, such a serious and serious accident, I want everyone to look at it for a while, and the anger is in the stomach, and the anxiety is in the heart. I don't need to go into details, it's the same as everyone's mood, I'm here, here-"

At this time, his voice was in a hurry, but he quickly made a turn: "Yes, yes, the sky has fallen on this day, the earth has fallen into countless places, and the calamities in the world are innumerable. But I don't know if this big guy has thought about it before, and has thought about it, that is, these seemingly evil and absurd accidents, but they can often make us think deeply and make us wake up. Who's to say no? There are a few words here, and I've been thinking about them for a long time, and I don't know whether I should put them here. I suddenly realized it one day, like this kind of gods, Buddhas and ghosts, this gods, Buddhas and ghosts, he was originally and there are none,—— you believe in it, and if you don't believe it, you don't have it. I don't believe we can try to imagine it, it's been more than a few years, but we haven't come here, burn incense, burn a few piles of money, chatter, but now look at this small family on our continent, as well as the neighbors, aren't they still so harmonious and smooth, peaceful?

"And don't say it, in this present scene, I also have other thoughts: this is our superiors, they have worked hard, sown these two seedlings, watered and cultivated the soil, and have grown up to this day, they have long been tall and magnificent, and their posture is also unusually comparable, so we all pity and worship them very much. If we can look at the essence of things through the phenomenon, then we may find that in fact, our love and our piety are nothing more than a kind of blessing; what it encompasses and expresses is actually a kind of simplicity and respect within us, and it is just a kind of spiritual presentation and sustenance of ourselves. Simplicity: We all honestly practice the right way, behave in a good way, and respect, so I will talk about it here.

"There is no doubt about it, and it is just as Fang Cai said: these two willow trees have been through the wind and rain, and have a history of hundreds of years, and they have their own style, and they have many styles, which is indeed true, and they can be called the mark of our ancient continent! Therefore, in the past, we have always cared for them in every possible way, but we still feel that they are not enough! But no one has ever imagined that at this time, they will actually call someone, and they will cut down one tree alive; this is not only a pity and a pity, but also a real and indignant and indignant thing. But today's situation is far from being comparable to the past, but it is an era when the law is heavy, one by one, and all must be clearly distinguished, so it cannot be tolerated, and the slightest confusion and assumption cannot be tolerated. Therefore, if you want to make some theories and theories about this accident, after pondering this, we must first go to the top for instructions before it is proper."

Hong Renxuan just stood there steadily, turning in one breath, one breath at a time, and almost no one else kept saying the above big words, until the end, he turned his head and looked at the villagers around him.

For a while, they were stunned, all of them were stunned, and all of them just took a pair of blank eyes and looked at Hong Renxuan coldly, as if they had never known this person. - Listen to it, look at it, at the head of this great trouble, at the head of this mess, everyone is looking forward to the stars and the moon and looking forward to this Hong someone, but he doesn't say anything there, he has opened his mouth, and he is just chattering about it, but he is talking about something, what is he talking about? What is "there is nothing", what is "just that", is this what the big guy wants to hear and want to hear?

Originally, as you said in the past, there is no water that cannot be boiled in this world, and there is no stone that cannot be polished. To put it bluntly, after more than 10 years of the cultural revolution, some of this big guy's original ideas and concepts have been transformed and transformed to a greater or lesser extent, deep or shallow; but why do you want to leak these things out at this moment? And you are so prevaricating and flickering? Why do you still want to use the so-called 'ideas' and 'views' again and again to restrain and restrict all of us in thinking and reasoning? Could it be that you want to call us, while abandoning those outdated concepts, you will also eradicate the roots that we have relied on for generations to grow, and destroy and eliminate this minimum desire to seek our ancestors and respect our ancestors? In the chaotic muttering, I don't know who let go of his voice and said a word, and immediately there was a voice of echo, and he didn't stop.

Could it be that I still have something that I haven't explained? Isn't this a pretending to provoke a fish bone? Hong Renxuan couldn't help but quickly sweep away the villagers here, and a layer of embarrassment surged up on his face, a rare embarrassment.

This has to be said carefully, it is not that he has not thought that there will be such a difficult situation. It's just, it's just, who told him to be sensitive and understandable. In fact, just a moment ago, when he heard the news, he had already figured out what kind of accident had happened and the root cause of this accident. But look at the present moment, look at the chaotic atmosphere in front of him, and at this moment and now, can he not cover up and conceal it for the time being? But can he make that incident in vain in the face of the anger of the people? What kind of consequences will that be? I am afraid that it is not impossible that a few lives will be caused in the end. At that time, the only thing he thought about was how to channel and work hard in time to calm the imminent public anger, so that the serious accident in front of him could finally be calmed down and then smoothed down - but things did not go as he wanted, and it was obvious that he had made up so many after painstaking words and circles, but not only did he fail to win some echoes and responses, but many people pointed the finger at him. It seems that if he didn't immediately come up with an idea and a way to do it—but it was important right now—he deliberately patted the hem of his blouse, which had no traces of dust, and pretended to be regretful and embarrassed, but his voice was still as steady as before: "Please be quiet, be quiet." I can understand what everyone means, but no matter what, the reality also needs to explore the causes of this accident clearly. Okay, okay. I also see it, I'm afraid everyone is also targeted. I thought about it, I think that I, Hong, just grumbled nonsense, and I believe that the clear-eyed person has already seen it, and has already seen it, this matter is serious, but it has nothing to do with me and me. Everyone, please don't be nervous, don't get excited, just listen to what I have to say. It's true that this matter has something to do with me, Hong someone, but there are many, many of them, and the reasons for this cannot be clearly stated at the moment, so the big guy is very indignant, and I am also very troubled and nerve-wracking here. Here, I also hope that everyone can do the same as a gentleman, endure and bear some patience first, and it is also convenient for me to do some combing and witnessing quickly. I won't wait for three or five days, I will give you a clear explanation as soon as possible. ”

For a while, he was angry and in an uproar, coupled with helpless sighs and shaking his head, and looked at each other with indignation. It seems, as if it had been a nightmare, and that it could only be regarded as a nightmare, and that he had just been awakened from a dream by his own punches and kicks, and that he had seen the shadow of the evil thing in a daze—a dream that had reached a terrible place, and that it had to be continued. The people in this circle didn't even glance at Hong Renxuan again, so they "coaxed" and dispersed. And in particular, it was the stunned young men who had been tightly together, and for a while, long prickly hairs grew under their feet, jumping step by step, and one of them also made a long whistle.

How do you know that they are running happily, but there is a thunderous voice behind them: "Juniors, take a step slowly!"

The voice was actually quite peaceful, but it was, at the moment, they were all very sensitive to even the slightest noise about them. But the most feared thing finally appeared, and they couldn't help but turn around in a daze when they heard the news, but they made a covenant again, and they all pretended to come to Hong Renxuan's feet as if nothing had happened.

"Xuanbo—" This is going to be a different occasion, and most of them will say in unison: Look, we are all here, if you want something, please share it, and it will be up to us. But at the moment, they all screamed as if they were dumbfounded, so they screamed, but they couldn't say a word.

This group of young people! Looking at these ordinary moments, one by one, they are always happy to get close to this old-timer and talk about it, and they are also happy to be called by him to call and support him; this is not only because of his important status in the past on Xiaozhou; as far as he is concerned, he is still a figure that they all respect and admire in their hearts. Who says that it is not, just look at his open-mindedness and understanding, that kind of mind and responsibility, but this is something that ordinary people of the older generation can have and possess? If it is not such a generation, what relatives should follow, if it is not his call, how can he listen to it-but he said that it has fallen into the situation in front of him, and he and the others all know it; he knows that this old-timer Lao Hongtou has stopped them at this moment, and he does not want to call them or anything temporarily. Let's talk about the current situation, but it is like this window, there is such a thin layer of paper separated from the window. In the days before this, they had done it quietly, and this old uncle, Hong Renxuan, had already noticed it clearly; and, in the light of the emotions expressed by the elders, they had seen this matter too easy and simple at first; the many things they were connected to the big willow trees were not as they had thought at the beginning, but they were just 'a trivial matter', not to say that they were urinating on the Bodhisattva's head, but also poking into a hornet's nest. Just now, just now, if it weren't for this old uncle Hong Renxuan, without him in time and trying his best to maneuver around, and standing up in time to take responsibility, I'm afraid that today, today, there must be a humble retribution. They even understood that they had thought about it, saying thousands of things, saying thousands of things, this Uncle Hong would not let them go easily in the end. They also know the temperament of this senior: everyone is good when they are good, but once someone has something in his hands, he will never spare it. And today's things, today's things - at this moment, they didn't dare to think about it one by one, but they only cared about being careful, stiffened their scalps, and looked at Hong Renxuan with a red head and neck, as if they were praying repeatedly: The mistake has been missed, please watch and do it, please watch and do it - how do you know that Hong Renxuan only glanced at it coldly here, just glanced at it, and his body and bones did not move. But it was obvious that with this glance, he seemed to have clarified everything he wanted to clarify, and it seemed that he had finished everything he wanted to say - it turned out that not long before that, this group of young people had hoped that he would show his wind, saying that he wanted to get a pottery factory or something, and he had come to the door several times to "ask for advice". This has to be explained in detail, as the hope of a continent and the elder among the elders, he is willing to move the juniors, and he Hong Renxuan has already considered and prepared here; Affected by it, the backyards of the front village are all opening all kinds of enterprises with great fanfare. For this reason, he made it very clear to him at that time: what the enterprise can do, but first of all, it must take into account the coordination between subjective wishes and objective feasibility, and also need to understand the methods and measures for formulating various management such as production and sales, especially emergency leakage, and make plans before acting. The juniors also said sincerely: If things go as they wish, they will act according to their words - but he was negligent there. In that paragraph, I took care of what they talked about, but I thought they were just talking casually (all the technical and financial resources were zero, so it was not easy to talk about it), and if there was good news, I couldn't ask for it. But they didn't think about it, but they didn't think about it, but they knew that he had planned it in advance, and they immediately put it into action—they must have decided to set up that factory, and wanted to borrow this old willow tree to make that factory shed and all kinds of racking materials. It's really fast, it's fast, modern young people! But, but do you and other little things know, what kind of 'one work' that is so turbulent and chaotic, what a 'one work' that is so presumptuous and chaotic, hey!

But he thought about it here, and he felt that it should not be blamed entirely on them, but on them. Thinking about this for more than a few years, the government has always advocated the elimination of superstition and anti-feudalism, and since they are all young and inexperienced, they may not even know the direction of the grave of this old ancestor, let alone say what the meaning of these two willow trees is; even if they occasionally hear some rumors or something, how can they take it seriously? And now, forced by the situation on all sides, they want to use it to do something. But after thinking about it, this "generation is like a mountain", I was worried that this matter would eventually not be able to bypass the elders, so it was finally agreed that there would be a prelude to the first cut and then the prelude - it's just, it's just that this is already a 'good thing', why don't you come to "play a play" - "You hateful monkey boys!" Hong Renxuan swept away the embarrassed juniors, scolded in his heart, stretched out his arms and waved forward, signaling them all to go away, go away - not a word, blame, He must have understood everything, so why didn't he say a word? Let's go, look at his attitude, but it is not the time to speak, let alone the opportunity to beg for mercy. One of them, a young man who was nicknamed a rat, gave him a few glances like a fox, and everyone went away without saying a word.

said that this Hong Renxuan complained about Ai Ai here, and slowly stood tired, and he was exhausted of thinking, so he couldn't help but look at the willow tree on one side and move it, and climbed a bald branch with his hand to gasp for breath. He didn't even think about it, he was not yet able to stand on his feet here, but the fingers that were clinging to the branch suddenly called something to sting, and again, he hurriedly returned his hand and took a look, but saw a termite lying firmly in his hand. He couldn't help but be stunned, and then looked away, only to find that the bald branch was empty of a dead shell. He became nervous for a moment, and hurriedly knocked all the way down the big willow tree to east and west, but all he made was a hollow and dumb sound. Only then did he understand, he understood, it turned out that most of the willow tree had already been hollowed out by this hateful ant insect—for a moment, he couldn't help but be stunned, frozen, as if an invisible giant claw stretched out in the air, and in an instant took away his mind and consciousness, and he only felt a terrible dizziness and emptiness, until the sky turned dimly, shaking the mountains and the earth—

Four

Perhaps it was the will of God, these little ants and insects damaged the big willow tree, but they also saved Hong Renxuan a lot of worries and distresses, and relieved an urgent need.

There are some things that humans can't do about it. Resentment and hatred in the vast world are also common, but as long as you are justified, as long as you are willing, you can go to find any unjust creditor to avenge your grievances and vent your anger, but when you face the disaster brought by the raging ants and insects, I am afraid that you can only feel sad and heartache. And the many difficulties in the past are probably over.

This matter has been discussed so much that it seems that it can be put to an end. It is also a common thing in the world to obey the situation and succumb to things, and it is not uncommon. As everyone knows, there are a few pious old men and old women who live in the old house, but they are always in a panic from now on, and the Tao is that this time it will hurt Xiaozhou's vitality, but I am afraid that there will be another disaster. Those who come to the beginning or end of the moon will be beckoned to go to the ancestral tree to walk, knock on the head of the mountain, and burn the incense of the turns. I still don't feel at ease like this, and sooner or later I will call the younger generations and neighbors to chatter non-stop, the Tao is a disaster, and the vain ones invite themselves, so everyone should be more careful about current affairs from now on. They also invited each other to summon Hong Renxuan, and chattered that he should take the lead in building a 'Calamity Pavilion', because they had already heard people say that the people's 'faith' had long since returned to 'freedom'.

As the saying goes, if the blessing is not there, the person says that the disaster will come. One day not long after that, another resentful incident occurred in this small Xilong Continent that shocked the old and young of a continent.

It is said that at the top of this village, there is a family surnamed Hu Hong (everyone's surname - Zong's surname), whose owner's family is also ordinary and has no great ability, but he has good luck in his life, and he really retreats after a disaster, and hopes that wealth will enter the door, and his family is very popular, which is rare in a continent; Such a household, the people of the continent should naturally look at it differently.

Baby, Hong Yunlai, is twenty-eight years old. This posterity is also a mediocre person, but he was born with a round waist and broad shoulders, thick arms and thick legs, and he can hold it and have two shoulders. As a farmer, this is enough to shake his fingers.

However, I don't know why, this guy has never been able to meet a partner at such an age under such conditions. Some people say that he may be picking on someone to be a little more picky, and some people say that he should have had a girlfriend earlier, but he didn't stop it. There is sound in the words, and around the New Year's Festival, good news really came. The married girl lives in this continent, her surname is Qin Yanzhi, and she is still a beauty who is one in a hundred.

Needless to say, this matter immediately caused a lot of attention and sensation. As soon as the news spread, a crowd of people went to congratulate and have fun. This family is also more resolute, this girl's family can get by, so they are going to do happy events; His family has always been very capable of making moves, and he is naturally more generous in this matter, and before the other party can speak, he will let go of three thousand, three thousand yuan!

It seems that the two are good, and the woman is also very generous, and the wedding is not worth anything, and one condition is proposed: the sedan chair must be used to carry the marriage to the past.

Let's talk about this sedan chair, it is a small thing to get old. But look at today, but there are a lot of old brands and old styles are on the rise, but they are still having fun. So this condition is not picky. When the Hong family heard that they didn't say a word, they immediately went to the family, cutting bamboo, inviting craftsmen, and cutting silk, everything was good and fast. In this way, it took less than two days for his family to make a large sedan chair that was particularly bright and gorgeous. On the day of the new year, it is natural that the door is like a city, and a continent is gathered.

At this moment, at this moment, I am afraid that no one imagined it, when the Hong family welcomed the new party with gongs and drums, happily carrying the red sedan chair, and flocked to the woman's court, they were greeted by two tightly closed doors. According to people familiar with the matter, just before this hour, Yanzhi, the daughter to be married to the Qin family, avoided everyone's eyes, and she was the only one who disappeared