I am old in the Han Dynasty

Xie Lang: "It's sold."

"How dare you!" Li Zheng pointed at him.

Xie Lang couldn't help blinking again, did this old man contract the madness after treating the albino tiger as a divine beast?No, the old man's expression is not crazy, but angry, "Not for sale?"

"Of course not for sale. This tiger is—"

Xie Lang hurriedly interrupted him, "I know, I know, the offspring of the white tiger beast. But if they are placed in this mountain forest, they will definitely be eaten by the wild beasts in the mountain."

"Then bury it." Li Zheng said.

Xie Lang: "Dig the ground three feet? Do you and I have a shovel and a hoe? No. It's better to sell it and make use of its remaining value. The money from the sale can support its children. If the white tiger beast knows it, it won't blame you or me."

"But you promised the tiger to help it raise its children." Xie Dalang couldn't help but say.

Xie Lang's breath stagnates, this damn thing, "Shut up!"

"Shut up!" Li Zheng stared at Saburo.

Xiao Qi raised his hand and raised the little tiger, "Bite you!"

Ri was stunned.

Others were also stunned, including Xie Lang.

Xie Lang came back to his senses, and suddenly couldn't laugh or cry, "The little tiger is still young." As he spoke, the smile on his face froze.

"What's wrong?" Xie Guang's father asked hurriedly.

Xie Lang pointed to the little milk tiger in Xiaoqi's arms, "It hasn't opened its eyes yet?"

Everyone looked over quickly.The little milk tiger closed its eyes tightly.

Xie Guang's father remembered that his puppy's eyes were closed when he was born, "This little tiger was just born?"

"It looks like it." Xie Lang said and turned to Li Zheng, "It's so small, if—"

"Shut up!" Lizheng didn't want to know what he was going to say, "If anything happens to it, come to the mountains to accompany its mother."

"Also?" Xiao Qi opened his eyes wide and raised the little tiger again.

Lizheng opened his mouth to refute, but when he saw the little tiger's body swaying, he quickly said, "I won't say anything, put the little tiger down quickly."

"Give it to me." Xie Lang saw his little arms swaying wildly, and was also worried that he would not hold it steady and threw the little tiger to death.Then he looked at Lizheng, "There are no wolves, tigers and leopards in the ground, but there are snakes and mice."

Xie Dalang nodded, "Sanlang is right."

Li was looking at Tiger, then at Xie Lang, "What do you think?" He quickly added, "It's impossible to sell."

The roar of the tiger made it so quiet that there was not even a bird in the surrounding area, and they were not in danger for the time being.Xie Guang's father was worried that it would be dangerous to stay any longer, so he said, "I think it's burned."

"Burn?" Lizheng turned to him abruptly.

Xie Guang's father nodded, "It can't be sold, and it can't be buried. It can only be burned."

Lizheng disagreed.

"Then what do you want to do, father?" Lizheng's youngest son also felt that his father was a bit annoying today.

Li Zheng looked at the tiger again, pondered for a moment, "Carry it down the mountain and bury it."

Everyone was silent.

Xie Lang resisted the urge to roll his eyes, "Lizheng, we agree, and other people in the village also agree? Don't talk about burying them behind their backs. We haven't gone back for so long, and the big guys are worried about us. Maybe we've already reached the foot of the mountain by now. "

"My father is worried about Saburo, so he will definitely come." Xie Dalang said.

Xie Guang's father nodded, "Our family Xie Guang wanted to come before, if he knew that Uncle Jianye was coming, he would definitely follow him."

"Then burn it." Li was talking and looked at the tiger again, very reluctant, "Xie Jianye and your family Xie Guang listen to me, Xiao Qi's two heartless uncles listen to me, wait until we sleep The tiger must be dug out."

Xie Lang wanted to laugh, "It's good that you know."

Li Zheng gave him a glare, and turned the torch to the tiger.

Xie Lang hurriedly said: "No!" Seeing everyone staring at him, "Burning here will set the mountain on fire. Carry the ashes to the river and burn them. Throwing the ashes into the creek is considered a water burial."

"Will it be eaten by fish?" Lizheng was very worried.

Xie Lang wanted to roll his eyes again, "Fish eat grass."

"Oh, yes. I'm so old-fashioned." After Lizheng finished speaking, he asked Xie Dalang and his youngest son to carry the tiger to the stream.Others carried the bear down the mountain.

Xie Lang reminded, "Where are these two wild boars?"

"I can't finish eating all the ones down the mountain." Xie Dalang said.

Xie Lang didn't bother to talk to him, and looked at Li Zheng.

Lizheng said to Xie Guang's father, "You send the bear down the mountain, and then come and carry the wild boar." Then he looked at Xie Dalang, "If you can't finish eating, salt it."

Xie Lang looked at Xie Dalang and smiled.

Xie Dalang glared at him, and Lizheng's son picked up the tiger and left.

Xie Lang turned to Lizheng, "Will this bear stink tomorrow?"

"It's cold, no." Li Zheng said it, and felt that Xie Lang couldn't ask this question for no reason, "What do you think?"

Such a big bear must be able to sell for a lot of money.

The money belongs to everyone, because the wild boar that was frightened by the tiger and the bear and fled down the mountain was repelled by the big guys.

When buying pottery rings before, Lizheng didn't care about the money from the villagers. He wanted to wait for the well to be dug before collecting money from door to door.Now that we have the money to sell bears, we don’t need to pay for it. We can also buy green bricks to raise the wellhead, and then order a few blue bricks that can only be lifted by two people to cover the wellhead, so that ignorant children don’t fall into it.

But these don't cost a lot of money.Xie Lang just wanted to dig another well in the east and west of the village, next to his house.If there is any leftover, three houses will be built on the open space in the south, and a teacher will be hired to teach the children in the village to read and write.

Xie Lang roughly told Li Zheng what he was thinking, then looked at Li Zheng, waiting for him to express his opinion.

Li Zheng couldn't help looking at Xie Lang, as if he didn't know him.

Xie Lang knew why he looked at him like this, because San Lang couldn't say those words, so he deliberately asked, "No?"

"Yes, yes." Li Zheng stared at Saburo and said, "I didn't expect you, a child, would think of asking for a wife."

A long time ago, there was a master in silkworm farming. Lizheng, Xie Jianye and Saburo's father were all named by that master.It's a pity that the master taught for three years, and his father died before he could teach Saburo.

After the death of his master, no one gave him a name. Although Li Zheng could read and write, all the words with good meanings he could think of were used by his master, so that the names of the generation like Sanlang were all given by their fathers. started.

Lizheng saw that the boys in the village were all one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight, and the girls were either flowers or grass, or silk, eel, etc., so he wanted to propose to the big guys that each family should contribute some money, please A master enlightens the child.

However, half of the families are not well-to-do, so Li Zheng never dared to talk about it.

It was also because he had never told anyone before that Xie Lang's words surprised him.

Xie Lang smiled and said: "I didn't think of it before. You helped me write the paperwork." Looking at Xiao Qi, "I didn't even know a word, so I thought of it."

"No wonder." Li was talking, seeing Xie Guang's father carrying the bear away, "Let's go too."

Xie Lang asked Li to be in front of him, calling him the elder.In fact, Xie Lang held Xiao Qi in his left hand, and asked Xiao Qi to hold Xiao Naihu. He spread his right hand and sprinkled cotton seeds, corn kernels and sunflower seeds behind his back.

Xie Langsa's hands were sore, the two adults and one child also came to the stream.

Li Zheng asked Xie Dalang and his son to find some dry grass and cover the tiger.Xie Lang took the opportunity to put Xiao Qi down and picked them up together, but actually took out the sweet potatoes in the map of mountains and rivers and buried them under the leaves.

After burying about thirty of them, Xie Lang picked up the leaves honestly.

When the tiger was burnt to the bone, Lizheng personally picked up the tiger's ashes and sprinkled them into the stream, chanting words, as if he was praying for something.

Xie Lang really wanted to persuade him that death is like a lamp being extinguished, and so is the death of animals, no matter how much he babbled, it was useless.He was also worried that Li was scolding him, so he simply turned his head away, so that he could see nothing.

Waiting Li was throwing the last handful of ashes into the stream when Xie Guang's father also brought people up.

Xie Lang went down the mountain with them.

At the foot of the mountain, Xie Jianye ran over with a limp, "Are you all right? Saburo."

Xie Lang: "It's fine."

"Hey, what is Xiaoqi holding in his arms?" Xie Jianye couldn't help asking.

As soon as Xie Lang heard this, he knew that Xie Guang's father and the others hadn't told the villagers about the tiger, so they simply said nonsense, "Wild cats. Xiao Qi likes them. I thought they would catch mice by themselves. I didn't need to feed them, so I brought them back." .”

As soon as this statement came out, several people who were going up the mountain looked at Xie Lang at the same time, this kid really knows how to talk nonsense.And when they thought about Xie Lang's suggestion to Li Zheng to build a school in the village, they couldn't expose Xie Lang.

Xie Jianye did not doubt that he was there, "Then go and eat quickly, the meat is all roasted."

"Is it enough to eat?" Xie Lang asked smoothly.

Xie Jianye: "A lot. There is more than half of what we will eat tonight after removing the fat." Then he said to Li Zheng, "The women in the village suggested marinating the meat and selling it in the city tomorrow."

"Let's keep it for everyone to eat." Pork is worthless, Lizheng said when he went to the village, Sanlang proposed to sell the bear, and use the money to dig a well, build a school, and hire a master.Xie Lang wanted to explain, it wasn't him, it had nothing to do with him, and the village chiefs praised Xie Lang's idea one after another.

Xie Lang had no choice but to swallow the words back and couldn't help frowning, why did Li Zheng confess him.I don't know if the gun hits the head.

Lizheng didn't know, so he continued, "There are also two wild boars that were brought down from the mountain. They can be sold as much as they can in the city. If they can't be sold, they can be divided among the families."

The villagers also know that pork can't be sold for much money, so they naturally have no objection when they hear Lizheng say so.After all, all the pigs combined are worth less than a bear.

After eating and drinking enough, they went back to each house with the meat.

Xie Lang hugged Xiao Qi, only one arm could carry the meat, Xie Jianye asked Xie Dalang to help him take the meat home.

Xie Lang was not polite to him either, he sent Xie Dalang away, closed the gate, built a simple stove with blue bricks in the yard, put his biggest clay pot on the stove, added some water to the pot, and separated them in the pottery. A fire was raised under the pot, and beside it.

The fire next to the clay pot illuminated the courtyard like daytime, so Xie Lang went into the kitchen and put a basin of hot spring water out to wash the fat pork, and then put the fat pork in the clay pot with a little water to boil the oil.

After finishing all this work, Xie Lang couldn't help rubbing his waist, sat in front of the fire, and waved to Xiaoqi, "Are you sleepy?"

"Not sleepy." The child yawned as he said.

Xie Lang couldn't help laughing, and was about to say something when he suddenly remembered something, "The little tiger must be hungry."

"Hungry." The child raised the little tiger, "I want to eat my hand."

Xie Lang hurriedly asked: "Did you bite your hand?"

"No." Seeing that he was anxious, the child quickly shook his head.

Xie Lang breathed a sigh of relief, "Give it to me, I'll cook something for the little tiger. You keep an eye on the fire. If you see that the fire is getting smaller, add some firewood."

"I will." The child said seriously.

When Xie Lang got up, he touched his little head, "Xiao Qi is the most obedient."

When I got to the kitchen, I put some silver fish in clay pots, boiled them until they were rotten like mud, and let the little tigers eat them in the air.

Xie Lang didn't know if the little tiger could eat whitebait, but he couldn't do it, so he could only do this.Besides, he was tired all day, and he didn't have the strength to do anything else.If he died because of this, Xie Lang could only say, "Amitabha, the benefactor has nothing to do with me."