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Chapter 1224 Lu Zilin: My heart is bleeding!

The plaque with the words "Benefiting the Hometown" was hung high in the center of the ancestral hall of Bailu Village. The cinnabar and gold lacquer sparkled in the sun. All the villagers rushed in and bowed respectfully to the plaque, as if the plaque was really blessed by a god.

Lu Taiheng had no choice but to lower his posture, holding Bai Bingde's hand and saying, "Brother, your Bai family has made our Bailu Village famous this time. With this plaque hung here, our Bailu Village will surely have good weather and a prosperous population in the future."

Bai Bingde's face also turned red: "It's all thanks to the blessing of our ancestors."

Lu Zilin saw it all and hated it in his heart. He never imagined that a mere scholar, a farmer and a half-grown child could actually persuade 100,000 Qing soldiers to retreat. If he had known this would happen, he would have gone and "given" this enormous wealth to the Bai family for nothing.

Just when Lu Zilin was feeling indignant, he suddenly heard someone calling him.

When he looked up, he saw Qin Hao looking at him with a smile.

"Zilinda, do you remember the bet we just made?"

Lu Zilin suddenly felt a blockage in his heart and cursed himself for being fooled by this kid.

"Hey, kid, I was just teasing you just now..."

Qin Hao would not let Lu Zilin get away with it so easily, so he interrupted him directly: "Everyone in the village, young and old, saw it just now. Zilin, you are not going to deny your debt, are you?"

Upon hearing this, Lu Zilin simply put down his pipe and planned to cheat. What could a child do to him?

The next second, Qin Hao simply walked up to Lu Taiheng and said, "Master Taiheng, once words are spoken, they can be spilled. Zilinda made a bet in front of the whole village, young and old, and now he wants to default on his promise. Are you telling the villagers that the Lu family will no longer have credibility in the future?"

Suddenly, the eyes of everyone in the village, young and old, fell on Lu Taiheng and Lu Zilin.

Seeing this, Lu Taiheng slammed his cane on the ground and said, "A real man should stick to his words. Our Lu family always keeps their word."

"Da..." Lu Zilin wanted to stop him, but Lu Taiheng glared at him fiercely: "You are so careless with your words. Now someone has caught you with a handle. You deserve it. You have to learn a lesson."

Qin Hao couldn't help but sigh. It is said that old people become more cunning. As expected, old people are still the most experienced. With just one sentence, the Lu family was put in the position of victims. If the Bai family insisted on taking the two acres of good land from the Lu family, people would inevitably think that the Bai family was bullying them. Although the Lu family lost the land, they retained their reputation and won the hearts of the people.

Bai Bingde was about to smooth things over when he heard this, but Qin Hao stopped him and said to Lu Zilin with a smile.

"Zilinda, our family doesn't lack those two acres of land. It's mainly for the sake of the Lu family's reputation. How about this? You just give me the two acres of sloping land at the west end of the village."

As soon as the words fell, the eyes of the villagers present changed when they looked at the Bai family. The value of two acres of fertile farmland and two acres of sloping land were completely different. The Bai family could have taken advantage of the situation to make a killing for the Lu family, but in the end they only took two acres of abandoned sloping land.

"The Bai family is still kind and righteous."

"Otherwise, he was able to persuade 100,000 Qing soldiers to retreat. His moral character is there. No wonder the Bai family is getting more and more prosperous. We can't learn from this kind of mind. We have to admit it."

Even Lu Taiheng thought he had misheard because of his old age. The Bai family didn't want the fertile farmland but wanted sloping land?

"Slope?" Lu Zilin was stunned, then his heart was filled with joy. The two acres of slope were high, the soil was poor, and it was dry all year round. Nothing would grow. It had been abandoned for many years. The villagers said it was "ghost-shy" land, and no one wanted it even if it was given away for free.

He was afraid that Qin Hao would go back on his word, so he immediately shouted loudly: "Fellow villagers, you all heard it! It was he who wanted the two acres of sloping land, not me, Lu Zilin, who was stingy!"

Bai Jiaxuan looked at his son with a puzzled look. He knew his son well and knew he was definitely not the type to forgive others when he could. Why would he give up the fertile farmland and choose the sloping land instead?

Lu Zilin secretly rejoiced, patted Qin Hao on the shoulder, and said hypocritically: "My boy, since you took the initiative to ask for the two acres of sloping land, let's sign a document to avoid being accused of being untrustworthy in the future."

Qin Hao smiled and said, "Okay, I'll write the receipt."

As Qin Hao wrote the document with great speed, many people gathered to watch.

"Tsk tsk, the handwriting of this young master of the Bai family is really beautiful."

"It is said that a good teacher produces good students. Can the disciple of Master Zhu be bad?"

"That's not necessarily true. Isn't the eldest son of the Lu family also a disciple of Master Zhu? I don't think he's much better than my kid."

When these words reached the ears of Lu Taiheng and Lu Zilin, father and son, they couldn't help but feel discouraged. They were afraid that the days when the Lu family was suppressed by the Bai family would not end in the short term.

When Lu Zilin saw that there was nothing wrong with the document, he gritted his teeth and pressed his fingerprints.

The plaques were hung up, the ancestors were worshipped, and after watching the excitement, the villagers soon dispersed. After all, there was still a lot of work to do at home.

Qin Hao and Bai Jiaxuan also helped Bai Bingde back to the Bai family.

As soon as he stepped through the gate, Bai Jiaxuan complained: "You exchanged two acres of good farmland for sloping land..."

Bai Bingde waved his hand and said, "You did the right thing. Our Bai family is already prosperous enough this time. If we take advantage of them again, it will inevitably make the surname Lu feel dissatisfied. Let's just keep the sloping land."

Qin Hao smiled calmly: "Master, these two acres of sloping land are not just wasteland..."

"What else could it be if not a wasteland? There's gold buried in the ground?" Bai Jiaxuan said unhappily.

"In a sense, there really is gold buried in these two acres of sloping land."

Bai Bingde and Bai Jiaxuan both had an expression that said: I have little education, so don't lie to me. Qin Hao smiled and lowered his voice.

"There is water in the ground."

Bai Jiaxuan almost screamed out loud, and finally calmed down and asked anxiously: "How do you know there is water in that field?"

"My uncle said so."

Bai Bingde and Bai Jiaxuan had no doubt at all. In their minds, Mr. Zhu was a saint. If he said there was water in the ground, then there must be water.

To celebrate the safe return of Qin Hao and Bai Jiaxuan, with the addition of the plaque sent by Governor Zhang and the two acres of sloping land with a hidden water source underneath, the Bai family had a triple blessing. Bai Jiaxuan quickly asked Xiancao to prepare wine and food, and the whole family was celebrating.

Xiancao was busy in the kitchen very efficiently, but halfway through the dish, she suddenly rushed out of the kitchen and retched.

Bai Jiaxuan stayed where he was, while Bai Bingde and his wife were ecstatic: "Xiancao, are you... pregnant?"

Xiancao nodded shyly: "I think so. Well, I haven't had my period for more than a month."

"Aunt, please sit down for a while. I'll go and invite Mr. Leng."

Qin Hao did not call Xiancao "Mom" but "Auntie". Xiancao understood this, and the relationship between the two sides was relatively harmonious. Seeing this, Bai Jiaxuan did not force Qin Hao to change his words.

At the entrance of a small courtyard at the village entrance, Qin Hao knocked gently on the door, and a clear female voice came from inside: "Is it an emergency?"

The wooden door creaked open halfway, and Leng Qiuyue stood in the midday sun, wearing a blue-gray cotton dress without any jewelry, but her pretty face could not be concealed.

"Is Mr. Leng home?"

Leng Qiuyue was slightly startled when she saw Qin Hao, her eyelashes fluttering like butterflies: "Young Master of the Bai Family?"

Before he finished speaking, he realized that he was being rude, so he stepped aside and said, "Father is preparing the herbs."

"Sister, who is it?" A childish female voice came from the inner room.

"It's the young master of the Bai family who comes to see me." Leng Qiuyue responded softly, then turned and walked into the yard.

Qin Hao followed her to the main hall, where a medicinal aroma filled the air. Mr. Leng was grinding the medicine with a copper roller. After hearing about the symptoms of the fairy grass, Mr. Leng stroked his beard and smiled, "I'm afraid it's a pregnancy pulse."

"You are the young master of the Bai family, the famous prodigy in the village?"

A little girl of about six or seven asked curiously.

"Qiu Shui, don't be rude." Mr. Leng said to Qin Hao apologetically, "This is my second child, Qiu Shui. She was raised by her grandmother before. She has a wild temper. I'm sorry for offending you."

"It's out of the way."

Mr. Leng stopped grinding the medicine and said to Leng Qiuyue, "You take care of the rest. I'll go out for a consultation first."

"Yeah." Leng Qiuyue took over Mr. Leng's position and ground the remaining herbs into powder with ease.

After Qin Hao and Mr. Leng left, Leng Qiushui held her chin and looked at her sister: "Sister, is this the young master of the Bai family you mentioned before?"

"Yeah." Leng Qiuyue nodded slightly.

"She does look pretty, but I wonder if she'll be as pretty as she is now when she grows up."

Leng Qiu Shui's words made Leng Qiuyue's heart beat faster. She had never left the house since she was a child and the only people she interacted with were her family members. Qin Hao was one of the few opposite sexes she had ever interacted with. Compared with those dirty kids in the village, Qin Hao was always clean and tidy every time he appeared, and his words and deeds were polite.

It is said that girls mature earlier than boys. Leng Qiuyue understood from a young age that her father spent so much effort to train her as a lady from a wealthy family, not to let her marry an ordinary farmer. She also vaguely heard her father mention that he was planning to choose a son-in-law from the Bai and Lu families.

If she had to choose between the Bai and Lu families, she hoped it would be the Bai family.

……

After Mr. Leng's diagnosis, Xiancao was found to be pregnant, which made Bai Jiaxuan very happy. It also made Bai Bingde shake off his previous sickly state and become more energetic.

In Bai Zhao's words, this is called "rushing for happiness."

After the news spread, Lu Zilin became even more indignant. Originally, the Bai family had been superior to the Lu family. The only thing that made him better than Bai Jiaxuan was that he had one more son. But now, his wife was unable to give birth, while Bai Jiaxuan had married a younger wife. If things went wrong, he might be superior to the Lu family again.

"Da, what kind of shit luck do you think the Bai family has? Is it true that our Lu family will always be suppressed by the Bai family and will never be able to turn things around?"

Lu Zilin was extremely depressed.

Lu Taiheng took a few puffs of his pipe and exhaled clouds of smoke: "Don't worry, there is still a long way to go. As the saying goes, everything that goes up must come down. I think the Bai family is about to go downhill."

Lu Zilin's mentality became slightly more balanced.

……

One morning a few days later, on the slope at the west end of Bailu Village, Qin Hao, Bai Jiaxuan, Lu San and Heiwa, carrying hoes and shovels, worked in the fields for most of the day.

"Haozi, are you sure there is water here?" Lu San wiped the sweat off his forehead, half believing and half doubting.

Before Qin Hao opened his mouth, Hei Wa said, "Da, if Hao says there is, then there must be. Let's keep digging."

As soon as he finished speaking, Heiwa dug the soil with his hoe, and a stream of clear water suddenly seeped out of the soil, gurgling out and soon forming a small puddle in the low-lying area.

"Is there really water?" Bai Jiaxuan was surprised and lay down beside the pit, reaching out to scoop up a handful of clear water.

"How sweet!"

Lu San and Hei Wa couldn't help but scoop it up and gulp down a few big gulps.

"Brother Hao, you are so awesome. Wherever you say there is water, there it will be." Heiwa said with admiration on his face.

Qin Hao smiled at him and said, "It's not me who is amazing, it's my uncle who is amazing. He was the one who told me there was water in the ground."

After the excitement wore off, Bai Jiaxuan couldn't help but remind everyone: "No one is allowed to tell anyone that there is water in the field, lest the Lu family..."

"Da, there is water in the ground, and we can't hide it."

If you want to grow crops on a piece of land, you need to plow the land, sow seeds, apply fertilizer and irrigate it. In a rural society like this where everyone is familiar with each other, there are no secrets at all. Unless the Bai family does not cultivate this land, the news will spread quickly.

Bai Jiaxuan frowned: "No matter what, we have the document signed by Lu Zilin, he can't deny it."

Just as Qin Hao expected, the news that water was dug out from the slope quickly spread throughout the village, and villagers rushed to watch the excitement.

Some villagers exclaimed: "Oh my God! There is water coming out of this slope? Won't the wasteland be turned into paddy fields in the future?"

The value of paddy fields is higher than that of fertile fields. When Lu Zilin heard the news, he hurried over. When he saw the gurgling spring water, his face turned pale and he almost vomited blood.

"Bai Jiaxuan, you...you and your son teamed up to plot against me!"

Qin Hao pretended to be innocent: "Uncle Lu, how can this be called a plot? The land was given by you voluntarily, and the water was given by God. If you want to blame someone, you can only blame yourself for not finding it earlier."

The villagers who were watching laughed loudly, and one villager teased, "Zilin, you really lost a lot this time!"

Lu Zilin gritted his teeth until they were broken, but he was helpless against Qin Hao. He could only watch Qin Hao and Bai Jiaxuan take people to plan canals and reclaim land.

He clenched his fists, hating in his heart: "Bai Jiaxuan, Bai Hao, you two, wait for me!"

The Bai family's happiness of obtaining the paddy fields did not last long. The next day, Mr. Zhu left a letter and quietly left before dawn to fulfill his promise.

Mr. Zhu left a letter for Qin Hao, in which he reminded him that during his absence, Qin Hao could go to his house to read and review, and not to neglect his studies. He also left a letter for Bai Jiaxuan, asking him to find a new-style school in Xi'an so that Qin Hao could enroll as soon as possible and not to waste his talent.

Bai Jiaxuan naturally obeyed his brother-in-law's words and drove a carriage to Xi'an the next day.

"What? Bai Jiaxuan went to Xi'an again?" Lu Zilin became anxious when he heard it. Bai Jiaxuan had only been to Xi'an a few times, but he gained a lot every time he went back. Last time it was money, and this time it was fame.

He was sure that Bai Jiaxuan's visit to Xi'an would not bring good things to the Lu family, so he quickly asked someone to find out. As a result, he actually found out that before Bai Jiaxuan left, he asked the patriarch of the next village to inquire about the new school in Xi'an. (End of this chapter)