I rewrote family history

Chapter 145 The Fox's Whereabouts

Going north from the west gate of the county seat, bypassing a mountain depression, there is an official road full of ruts of cattle and horses, leading directly to the back village of Xuemiao village.Xuemiao Village is adjacent to Xujiapuzi.One is on the plateau slope and the other is on the plateau slope.

Two days ago, the gray-white fox fled from the backyard of the Liu residence.It first wandered around the alleyway of Xu Cong's residence for a while, and when it saw a couple of newlyweds, Hemeimei, Enenaiai, it thought for a while, and then left, deciding not to disturb the two of them.

Xu Cong has gone his own way.

It has nothing to do with it anymore.

It doesn't belong to Yanjing, it doesn't belong to the bustling place, I just want to stay in my hometown.

People have to live for themselves.

Even if the other person is him.

It ran from the trail to the back village of Xuemiao Village in the dark, then took a small road from Yuanding to the back village, and went to Xujiabaozi.There are many small roads connecting two adjacent villages in the countryside. Usually, some half-grown children take the lead and step on them, and use them to wander around in small groups.

The road is not wide, only two or three palms away.

Now it has given up the offerings of Xu Cong and Miss Yu, and it doesn't know who will be able to see it next.

Even... maybe because its way is too weak, the spell of hiding and invisibility will not last long, and it will completely reveal its true body in front of the eyes of mortals.

Its skin is smooth and smooth, and every villager who sees it will be moved.

Once exposed, it may die.

Therefore, it chose the trail as much as possible.

After passing a few green cypress trees and fluffy willow trees, Xu Erlian stepped on a yellowed leaf near the birch tree that was sunken in the soil with his two front paws, and looked forward secretly with his two fox eyes. Follow every move on the streets of Baozi.The place where it is standing at the moment is a small dirt slope.

Today is about the first day of September, so there is no need for a fox to remember the specific day.At this time, the late wheat has been harvested and the corn seeds have been planted.It saw a few villagers carrying pearshares and hoes on their shoulders. According to its guess, they might have gone to plant soybeans in the field. The green vegetables in the wet soil, as well as some persimmons and cucumbers, they went to pick and dig vegetables.

It waits for the night to come.

The village seems to be much more desolate than before.

Some familiar faces have never been met. It guessed that these people might have been buried in the loess by the big worms, and the coffins were hiding in the graves waiting to be corroded, or they were resting at home after busy summer.

Except for the busy farming, the villagers are not very busy on weekdays.Except for women, women probably have to work all year round, weaving in the spinning wheel room.However, things are not absolute. Hardworking peasants are not allowed to rest all year round. They go to other villages to build houses or work as brokers. Anyway, what they do is hard work.

The night came quietly.

Only five or six families in the bunker lit oil lamps, and the rest of the houses were pitch-black.

Xu's house has changed a lot from what it saw a few years ago.The Zhuang wall is newly repaired, and it is thick and much higher.And the door, a new wooden door painted black.As for the layout of the parties, it has not changed much.

After entering the main entrance, to the front yard, the stables are on the right.Walking straight along the long corridor in the front yard, you will arrive at the backyard of Xu's house.The place where masters, wives and other masters live.

The new groom in the stable is cutting grass by the light of a kerosene lamp. He is sitting on the big bluestone where Xu San'er used to sit.

The half-big black horse on the side happily rubbed against the stall, staring straight at the hay, and white saliva was already secreting from the corner of its mouth.

The groom's surname is Xu, and he is one of its uncles.

It knew the groom's face.

But there are hundreds of people in Xujiapuzi, and it doesn't remember his name.

That's right, those who can work as grooms are definitely marginal people who can't get along in the village. If they are not a few wealthy households, how can it remember the specific names.

It glanced at the stable and the side room next to the stable, was startled for a moment, and then walked towards the backyard.

After a while, it came to the dining room in the backyard.

The lights in the dining room were brightly lit, and the masters of the Xu residence gathered together.

In addition to Xu Shuwen, there is also Xu Shuwen's wife, his mother, Mrs. Xu.

Meals are simple.

Steamed buns, red bean and white rice porridge, a plate of scrambled eggs, and a plate of radish and pickles.

It seems that its source of blessing has arrived, and the masters of the Xu house did not gossip, but only talked about important matters closely related to it.

"I heard you went to Xu Cong's wedding banquet?"

Mrs. Xu took a stick of radish with a chopstick, and she put it in her mouth to smack the taste. After tasting the salty taste, she took a sip of the rice soup, and then sipped the tip of the chopstick.

In the spare time of eating, she talked about business.

"He killed your father."

"It's unfilial for you to go..."

She took another bowl of rice soup with a spoon and said in a deep voice.

"The shopkeeper?"

"You went to Xu Cong's wedding banquet? Why didn't you tell me about it?"

Tian Huilan paused while eating, and said in surprise.

She has been pregnant for two or three months, and she is a little pregnant at this time.I'm fatter than before, and my face is round, and my whole face is what the Buddhists say is a blessing.The clothes she was wearing were not the clothes she used to constrict her figure, they were much looser.

"Father died because of growing opium..."

"Xu Cong didn't kill him."

Xu Shuwen took a bite of scrambled eggs, his eyes were firm, "Mother, I said at the beginning that growing opium is only for temporary profit. Once it is exposed, the consequences will be unimaginable. I told you to cut off the opium as soon as possible. You just don't listen. Now it's all right. , fell into someone else's hands, and my father died because of this."

Xu Zhiyong has always known about secretly embezzling fields to grow opium.

But close relatives hide from each other, killing relatives righteously is an evil thing that can only be done by people who have cut off their humanity. He can only choose to persuade Xu Zhi to stop as soon as possible.

"Without Xu Cong, there would be other people reporting on Dad."

Xu Shuwen pushed his gold-rimmed glasses and took a sip of rice soup.

"Besides, Dad didn't do the right thing before, Xu Cong found an opportunity to retaliate against him, and he had to accept it. This is fate. If I don't know the way anymore, do I want to learn from Liu Dan? Take the whole family into it?"

Speaking of this, he snorted coldly and said, "If I don't attend Xu Cong's wedding banquet, Chief Zhong will not let our family go. Do you understand this?"

"If I refuse to forgive Xu Cong, then Section Chief Zhong will be on pins and needles and end up like Liu Dan's family. Liu Dan is not dead now, but I think it will be soon."

He made a prediction about Liu Dan's ending.

"what?"

"Cousin, is he going to die?"

Tian Huilan was taken aback, with a look of panic on her face.

She is related to Xuansheng Mipu shopkeeper Liu's family, and they are very close relatives.

And Liu Dan was her childhood playmate.

"Yes."

"He's going to die..."

Xu Shuwen affirmed this rhetoric, "From the moment Xu Cong fired his gun, he had to die. As I said, the opinion of the big smoker is not light, our family is still stable and there is no trouble, and I am also a member of the Xu family. The patriarch of Baozi, so Section Chief Zhong didn’t touch us. I went to Xu Cong’s wedding banquet to tell Section Chief Zhong that our family suffered from this loss, and we will not take revenge in the future.”

Hearing this, Tian Huilan twisted the handkerchief and wiped her tears.

The dining room was quiet for a while.

A pair of chopsticks picked up another radish stick.

It's Mrs. Xu's chopsticks.

She licked the root of her chopsticks, "You have been in school for so long, but you didn't know anyone? Xu Congyou Zhong Section Chief helped him, and Liu County Chief helped him? What about you? You have studied for a few years longer than him , the grades are not worse than him. Are you not as good as him?"

She questioned her son.

Even though she knew that all of this had to be done according to what Xu Shuwen said, her late husband did not agree.

If justice can eliminate hatred, then the word hatred does not need to exist.

"Yes, I know quite a few high-ranking officials' children."

"My teachers also have high-ranking officials..."

Xu Shuwen sighed, "How dare you tell me about the matter of planting opium cigarettes? If our family has been wronged unjustly, I will go to Kaifeng to kneel and ask for justice, but our family does You deserve it. You deserve it. What do you want me to kneel with?"

As soon as these words came out, Mrs. Xu's lips trembled, and one of the pair of chopsticks she held in her hand dropped.

"You're old."

"I've lost my temper, Mother... Mother can't control you, I'm going back to my room."

She got up and walked out of the dining room door.

Seeing this, Xu Shuwen wanted to stop Mrs. Xu.But as soon as he got up, he seemed to think of something again, and fell back into the chair again, continuing to eat without saying a word.

"The shopkeeper's..."

"Is there really no way out?"

Tian Huilan's eye circles were a little red, she asked.

"I can't help it."

"We can only wait for Section Chief Zhong to be transferred, or catch him..."

"But the latter is difficult, and we are also caught by him."

Xu Shuwen shook his head.

A meal ends with everyone's unhappiness.The gray-white fox followed Xu Shuwen who had left the dining room into the study.The kerosene lamp was lit in the study, and Xu Shuwen sat on the chair his father sat on.

He read the Times for a while, and flipped through the books for a while.But whether it was the Times or the book, he didn't read a single word.He took out his father's belongings from the cupboard, an old hookah. He looked at it carefully for a quarter of an hour, and the eyes kept falling down with dirty tears, and even the beard on his upper jaw was also stained with tears. .

"Father, I'm sorry!"

He choked up.

With Xu's family property, it is enough for his father to live comfortably for the rest of his life.And the reason why his father grows opium is not for anything else, but for him.He went to Kaifeng to attend the provincial European and American preparatory school.But if you want to study in Europe and the United States, the cost is not a little bit.The Xu family has enough money, but if the money is spent, the family will collapse...

His mother moved her lips about these things, but didn't say anything.

But he has a clear heart.

The gray-white fox squatted aside, and was a little surprised to see Xu Shuwen who looked like this.

To be honest, it has complicated feelings for the young master.In the original time and space, the young master had never betrayed it, but it was not as good as the young master in this time and space.

It and the young master were originally just a relationship between the small long-term worker and the wealthy young master.

It is only because it made Xu Cong embark on the road of reading that there are such complicated entanglements.

The study door suddenly opened again.

The gray and white fox stepped on the threshold and walked out.

"Is it a ghost?"

"Another ghost?"

The autumn wind blowing outside chilled people's bones.When Xu Shuwen saw this scene, he was terrified, and suddenly remembered the night when Xiao Changgong was imprisoned by Chief Zheng Bao several years ago.

That night, he seemed to have bumped into something.

You can't see it, you can't touch it.

"This is the ghost in my heart!"

"Zibuyu is strange and chaotic. There is nothing wrong with the outside world."

Xu Shuwen clenched his fist and slapped it on the table.

However, all his pretentious acts of courage have been in vain.The autumn wind outside the door was surprisingly strong. It swept the fallen leaves from nowhere, gathered them into a pile, and swirled in the study for a long time.Immediately afterwards, the whirlwind rolled away from some series of books on the bookshelf and danced together.

Xu Shuwen in the study couldn't dodge in time, his face was covered with fallen leaves.

He was blown over and over.

When he got up, the strong wind slowly backed away from the door room.

"ghost?"

"Ghosts and gods come to punish me?"

"I'm an atheist, and I belittled ghosts and gods, so ghosts and gods came to punish me? No, according to scientific knowledge, this should be just a wind. It just happened to blow to me..."

Xu Shuwen swallowed, thinking.

He wanted to explain this phenomenon with scientific knowledge, but as he sorted it out, although he understood it, he still inevitably believed in the theory of ghosts and gods in his heart.

The next day, it was just dawn.

Xu Shuwen asked the butcher in the village to slaughter pigs, cattle and sheep, prepare three animals, and go to the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors.

Everyone knew about the strange things that happened in Xu's house last night, and there were many discussions.

"It was the former patriarch who planted opium, which ruined both Yangshou and Yinshou."

"The patriarch used the money of the dead, so the ghost messenger came to punish you, the patriarch..."

"I want to avoid this disaster..."

A yin and yang gentleman invited from a neighboring village took a look at the feng shui in the house, then swung a red cloth towards a certain place in the study, and said slowly.

Before he could say anything, the kid in the red cloth went on a rampage, squeaking non-stop.

"The feng shui of this house was originally a place where all the veins gathered, and it was the prime minister of Xuanwu. It's just that you, the patriarch, did something immoral and forcibly bought this house site, resulting in a single lineage for descendants, lack of grandchildren and few children... ..."

he said again.

This statement seems extremely believable.

Xu Shuwen remembered what his father Xu Zhiyong had told him. His family's feng shui was able to make connections, but his mother died after giving birth to several children, leaving him alone.

It’s just that this homestead was over 70 years ago….

Who knows if his ancestors were lacking in virtue?

Xu Shuwen held a banquet with good wine and tea and invited elders from several nearby villages to ask about the past stories of this homestead.The respected elders are all old men in their 80s, and they should be able to remember the past when they search for their roots and seedlings.

"That's right, the land under your house... belongs to Haili's family. Your grandfather got the hexagram from Mr. Yin Yang and tricked Haili into buying this land for only two taels of silver."

"Haley, I remember..., um..., it seems that he died more than 30 years ago."

"Before he died, he still looked for your father and wanted to return to his land."

"Your father beat him up."

"Is it Hailey's dead soul?"

When several elders counted together, they turned over the old accounts.

"Haley?"

Xu Shuwen frowned, looking for this person in his mind.

But it was useless for him to think about it.He is only in his twenties, so he doesn't know what happened 30 years ago.

"It seems that there is such a thing."

"I married into the Xu family...it was the first year of Guangxu, how many years did Guangxu live, 34 years, plus the years of Xuantong, and the years of the Republic of China..."

Mrs. Xu is counting the days with her fingers.

(End of this chapter)