Chapter 81: Huang Ye repays his kindness
The moon is a little yellowish, and there is an extra moon halo around it.
There is a gap in the lunar halo, and the direction of the gap is the direction of the wind.
Therefore, there is a folk proverb: "The sun is halo and the rain is three, and the moon is halo and the wind is at noon," or "the moon is halo and the wind, and the foundation is moist and rainy." ”
The old man looked at the celestial phenomena and continued: "Your kindness to my Bai family, I am unforgettable, I have been thinking about it all these years!" I just want to see your old man again, I didn't expect to be able to fulfill my long-cherished wish in my lifetime, that's enough! It looks like you're going to ascend to immortality today, I'm happy for you,"
Lao Huang sat still, pricking up his ears to listen to the old man's chatter.
It seemed to grasp the old man's words, and listened to it with round eyes, and then began to stir again.
Old lady Bai faced that thing and knelt down slowly, which made Suo Ba even more confused.
Old lady Bai not only knelt down for it, but also said a bunch of inexplicable wonderful words, Suo Ba thought, old lady Bai! What are you doing?
Suo Ba said softly casually: "People are not crazy or demons, it seems that the old man is stunned."
The old man continued to mutter: "Grandpa Huang, you are a fairy, go ahead!" There is a place for you in the fairy world, my fairy Grandpa Huang, I respectfully send you to the immortal. ”
Say it! Old lady Bai respectfully kowtowed to Lao Huang again, and it could be seen that she was quite pious.
Lao Huang still held two little hands and kept waving at the old lady Bai, and the old lady Bai rang his head three times.
A golden light shines on the top of the old yellow in the morning, the golden light rises, illuminates the courtyard full of golden light, the glow is ten thousand, and the color is thousand, just like a fairyland.
Then Huang Xian flew into the sky, and the old lady Bai stood in the courtyard and kept waving goodbye to the air.
After sending Grandpa Huang away, Suoba followed Old Lady Bai to his bedroom.
Suo Ba asked what kind of kindness Old Lady Bai Huang Xian had for the Bai family? Let the old man be so grateful for the worship of tears.
"Old lady, what is the matter with this Lao Huang? I still call it Grandpa Huang. ”
The old man picked up the teacup and took a sip of fragrant tea, and only then told Suo Ba what happened a few years ago.
Old lady Bai sighed and said, "This is a child who has no mother to talk for a long time, and we will talk about it if we are fine."
Old lady Bai Zhanping was originally from Shandong, and his family was poor when he was young, so he made a living as a long-term worker for the landlord's family.
He went down to the field to do farm work for the old landlord's house during the day, and took care of the horses for the old landlord's house at night.
The old landlord was a cunning and stingy "Zhou Papi", who let the old man sleep with the horses in the stable all the year round.
This year, there was a strange thing, the old landlord's chicken always died in the chicken coop for no reason, and the chicken was found to have died after being sucked dry blood, and it was obvious that it was not done by people.
The old landlord suspected that Huang Pizi did it, because Huang Pizi was a famous chicken thief, and the means and methods were also right.
One died today; One will die tomorrow, a litter of more than a dozen old hens, and it will be served in a pot soon.
One day the old landlord went to the bazaar and bought a king-size rat trap.
A piece of burnt pork was placed on the clip as bait, and the old landlord instructed Bai Zhanping to put the mouse trap at the door of the chicken coop, so as to wait for Lao Huang to throw himself into the net.
Bai Zhanping knew that all Lao Huang had spirituality, and he would repay him, and whoever wanted to hurt them would not benefit the three generations of grandparents.
Lao Huang doesn't toss a family and dies, he will never give up.
But if you are gracious to it, it will also help you and ensure your promotion and wealth.
Bai Zhanping thought to himself that the old landlord asked him to do this immoral thing, and it was obvious that the old landlord was calculating himself.
If you eat other people's food, you have to listen to them, and you can't help but do what the old landlord wants.
So Bai Zhanping racked his brains to think of the best of both worlds, and he put a wooden strip between the upper and lower iron bars of the mouse trap.
If Lao Huang is unlucky, the wooden strip will make a gap between the upper and lower iron bars of the clamp.
Lao Huang can not only get away with it, but also remind it that there is danger here, and it must not come again in the future.
The next day, Bai Zhanping got up early in the morning and came to the chicken coop.
Sure enough, the mouse trap had already clamped the wooden strips to death, but it didn't hurt a single hair of Lao Huang.
He quietly took down the wooden strip and threw it away, and couldn't help but secretly rejoice that it was not discovered by the landlord.
Since then, the old landlord's chickens have never been lost, and then a strange thing happened.
As the saying goes, "people have no foreign wealth, no wealth, horses have no night, grass is not fat", according to the instructions of the old landlord, Bai Zhanping should get up in the middle of the night every day to add forage to the horses.
But in the past few days, Bai Zhanping got up in the middle of the night to feed the horses, and the horse trough was full of horse grass and horse feed.
He secretly wondered if he didn't have the habit of sleepwalking? And there will be no diligent people to work for him, who did this good thing? He couldn't figure it out all day.
Bai Zhanping came out in order to figure out why, and got up in the middle of the night to put on his coat.
He crept in to check, his eyes glazed over.
Seeing the sieve used to hold the horse feed rolling back and forth in the manger, he thought to himself if it was haunted.
He dared to get closer, and it turned out that Lao Huang was pushing the sieve in the manger.
The sieve contains the hay, which is evenly distributed in the manger as the sieve rolls.
Finally, the truth is revealed, Lao Huangguo is really spiritual, and he will repay his kindness.
Lao Huang knew that it was Bai Zhanping who saved it, so he repaid the grace of saving his life by helping to work.
Old lady Bai said earnestly: "Since then, we have become good friends as soon as we are yellow, and it is more than a hundred years older than me!" That's why I affectionately call it Grandpa Huang. ”
Suo Ba said with a little understanding: "This is your old man's creation!"
After the old lady Bai finished speaking, he took two sips of dry tobacco pouches, and then he continued to talk about the history of him and his grandfather Huang.
One day, Bai Zhanping was not feeling well, so he slept soundly.
In his sleep, he felt that someone was pulling his hand hard, and his hand hurt for a while, and when he opened his eyes desperately, he found that it was Lao Huang holding his hand with his mouth.
Bai Zhanping suddenly felt a pungent smell coming to his face, and it turned out that there was already a fire in the stable.
The smoke choked him so much that he didn't even have time to put on his clothes and pants, so he hurriedly followed Lao Huang out of the stable.
The front foot came out of the stable, and the rear foot of the barn was burned down by the fire, and the five or six horses in the stable were also buried in the fire.
When the old landlord learned about it, he rushed to the fire, he was furious, and he refused to let Bai Zhanping go, and he framed Bai Zhanping for setting fire to the stable.
No matter how you explain it, the old landlord doesn't believe it, the old landlord said that it wasn't you who set the fire, why didn't you save the horses, but only you escaped alive?
Bai Zhanping stood there trembling with anger, really speechless.
The old landlord instructed the family to strip the white exhibition screen to the fine, and then tied the five flowers to the old poplar tree outside.
The leather whip was dipped in cold water and beaten one after another, preparing to beat him half to death first, and then hand him over to the yamen for conviction the next day.
The ten winter wax moon can be described as dripping into ice, and poor Bai Zhanping has no strip of cloth on his body, and he has been splashed with cold water.
The cold water has frozen on his body, and he was injured all over his body, and the blood flowing from the wound has frozen into ice lumps, and I am afraid that he will freeze to death in the next day.
After repeated beatings, everyone went back to sleep.
Now that Bai Zhanping is tied to a tree, there is nothing to be done, and the matter has come to this point, only by fate.
At this time, his grandfather Huang came, and he climbed from Bai Zhanping's body to the tree, and bit off the rope with his teeth.
can be regarded as rescuing Bai Zhanping, and Lao Huang brought clothes for him to wear.
Grandpa Huang grabbed Bai Zhanping's trouser leg with his mouth again, and it tugged his trouser leg to the side.
At first, Bai Zhanping didn't understand what it meant, and he was so anxious that Lao Huang went around.
"Grandpa Huang, do you want me to go with you?"
Lao Huang nodded, then it turned around and ran, and Bai Zhanping followed behind Lao Huang to the west wing.
The west wing was originally a place where the landlord's house piled up sundries, the house was dirty, messy, and poor, few people came on weekdays, and the door was never locked, but just hidden.
Bai Zhanping gently pushed open the door, and Lao Huang stepped into the west wing first.
There is a large water tank against the wall of the west wing, and Lao Huang stood in front of the water tank and "squeaked" and whispered twice.
"Grandpa Huang, what's in this tank?"
Bai Zhanping looked into the water tank, which was filled with a tank of muddy silt water.
At this moment, Lao Huang became more and more anxious, only to see that after two circles around the water tank, he stood up.
Like a human, he pushed the outer wall of the water tank with two small hands. Bai Zhanping understood, it turned out that Grandpa Huang was going to knock down the water tank! Could it be that there is a hole under the water tank?
Bai Zhanping stretched out his hand to help him Grandpa Huang knock down the water tank, and all the water in the full tank flowed out.
At this time, Lao Huang began to pick up the ground with his hands, and the place where he picked up was the location of the water tank.
Bai Zhanping thought to himself, is there any treasure buried here? He turned back and found the shovel.
A layer of black soil was gently removed with a shovel, and a square wooden board appeared after the layer was removed, and Bai Zhanping carefully removed the wooden board.
Beneath the planks presents a one-metre square cellar, which is only a lid for the cellar.
The five sides of the cellar are made of red brick cement, and in the cellar is a large faded red cloth bag.
The upper mouth of the red cloth pocket was tied with hemp rope, and Bai Zhanping trembled and untied the hemp rope, and when he opened the pocket, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded.
This red cloth pocket is full of yellow and white things, the yellow is the golden gold bar, and the white is the heavy ingot.
At this moment, Bai Zhanping became even more nervous, he had never seen so much gold and silver since he was born in a poor family; Second, he considered whether to take all the gold and silver for himself.
Who is not afraid to be a thief? Thinking of this, the honest Bai Zhanping suddenly felt his heart beat faster.
After hesitating for a moment, he put the bag on his back and walked out of the West Wing with Grandpa Huang in his arms.
At that time, Bai Zhanping was also young and vigorous, thinking about being wronged just now, and he was beaten badly.
It's really hurt in my body, it hurts in my heart, I have suffered this injustice, it's a great shame, humiliating my ancestors!
He does not do anything in his heart, and he does not stop doing it, since it is also a crime to take gold and silver.
Didn't you wrongfully burn your horses? Then I'll really bring you a fire, and at the same time burn the bad luck on my body.
In this way, he set fire to the courtyard of the landlord's house, and he didn't know exactly what it would be, and Bai Zhanping, who got into a lawsuit, began to die.
Desperate, he decided to break into the Kanto region, which is said to be far away from the emperor and has a lot of resources.
As long as a person is diligent and casually finds a piece of land, plows a few pickaxes, and scatters some seeds, he will not starve to death.
Bai Zhanping didn't want Grandpa Huang to wander around with him to live a hard life, so he decided to put Grandpa Huang on the mountain.