In Bai Jiaxuan's life, he married a total of seven ladies. This record not only broke the record for a man's wife in Bailu Plain, but also caused him to endure the pain and despair of six wives and six funerals. In just six years since his sixteenth birthday, he witnessed six different forms of female corpses being lifted from his kang. Such an experience is enough to plunge any man into deep self-doubt and fear.
However, Bai Jiaxuan did not collapse because of this. After a period of adjustment and precipitation, he decided to go to the mountains to seek inner peace. There, he brought back the mountain girl who reborn the Bai family, Xiancao. The liveliness and vitality of the fairy grass brought long-lost laughter to the Bai family, and also successfully dispelled the haze of the family. She and Bai Jiaxuan had three boys and one daughter, which made the Bai family gradually prosperous, completely breaking the curse of "marrying a wife and losing a wife".
After experiencing the despair of six wives and six funerals, the Bai family finally ushered in the prosperity of the family. At this time, Bai Jiaxuan said meaningfully: "The world is impermanent, and blessings and misfortunes depend on each other. Don't be ostentatious in good times, and don't panic in bad times. For good things turn into bad things, and in bad things there are seeds of good fortune. We need to be reasonable, humble in the face of good things, and tenacious in the face of bad things. Only by surviving the hardships can we welcome the beautiful arrival. ”
This passage is not only a summary and emotion of his life, but also a profound exposition of the life philosophy of "blessing and misfortune depend on each other". After six times of despair of marrying a wife and six funerals, the Bai family finally ushered in a good time of prosperity and family prosperity.
For Bai Jiaxuan, marrying seven ladies in his life should have been a heroic thing. However, only he knows the hardships and pains. The people of Bailu Village not only laughed at his ill-fated fate, but even rumored that he had a poison on his body, which led to the death of his previous wives. These gossips deepened the pain and struggle in his heart. The discussions and curses of the villagers did not let Bai Jiaxuan fall into the quagmire of self-abandonment, because he knew the truth that "blessings and misfortunes depend on each other" in the world.
In the face of adversity, he always kept a cool head and understood that panic would not help. Therefore, when his mother, Bai Zhao, urged him to marry again, he calmly replied: "This time we must be cautious and not act hastily." Otherwise, you will be stuck in a cycle of wives and funerals for the rest of your life. Bai Jiaxuan understands that the difficulties in front of him may be a turning point, and if he survives the misfortune, good things may be in front of him.
When marrying back to Xiancao, Bai Jiaxuan was uneasy in his heart, worried that this bright and sunny woman would leave him like the first six women. However, just when people thought that the fairy grass would become another misfortune for the Bai family, she was pregnant, and she sat in front of the spinning wheel and worked happily, bringing a new life to the Bai family. The Bai family courtyard house is once again full of vitality and tranquility.
Xiancao gave birth to three sons and one daughter for the Bai family, completely sweeping away the previous haze. Bai Jiaxuan looked at the scene of Xiancao breastfeeding the child, and sighed with satisfaction: "You have made a great contribution to the Bai family, and now I have three male babies." Lu Zilin only has two, and his woman seems to be unable to have children. After experiencing despair and rebirth, Bai Jiaxuan firmly believes in the principle of blessing and misfortune. Since then, he has not been surprised and calmly faced the changes in the world.
Bai Jiaxuan's life has always been closely linked to blessings and misfortunes. After enduring Heiwa's betrayal, he ushered in Lusan's sacrifice to save him. All this confirms his insight and understanding of the world. He has always cared for Heiwa, not only letting Heiwa go to school with him when his son was in school, but also personally pulling him back to Mr. Xu when Heiwa skipped school. However, Heiwa has had a deep resistance to Bai Jiaxuan since he was a child, and the reason is that he feels that Uncle Jiaxuan's waist is too straight and too hard.
Because of this resistance, after Heiwa dropped out of school, she resolutely refused to work in the Bai family. No matter how Lu San praised the Bai family's benevolence and kindness in front of Heiwa, Heiwa decided to go out and explore the world. After going out to work for less than a year, Heiwa brought back the beautiful and moving Tian Xiao'e.
As soon as Bai Jiaxuan saw Tian Xiao'e, he saw that she was a woman with an unknown background. He was worried that Heiwa would be in trouble by such a woman, so when Heiwa proposed to enter the ancestral hall to worship his ancestors, he flatly refused. couldn't enter the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors, so Heiwa hated Bai Jiaxuan.
Later, when Heiwa ran away because of the agricultural cooperative, and Tian Xiao'e was punished by Bai Jiaxuan with a severe punishment for not obeying women's morals at home alone, Heiwa, who learned the news, hated Bai Jiaxuan even stronger.
So, Heiwa, who became the leader of the bandits, sent his men to ransack the Bai family on a dark and windy night. After the bandits forced Bai Zhao to tell the burial location of the gold and silver, they dug up all the *** of the Bai family Before leaving, they also discounted Bai Jiaxuan's waist, leaving him with permanent scars.
Later, Bai Jiaxuan judged that it was Heiwa's subordinates who ransacked the Bai family through what the bandits said, "Your waist is too straight and too hard". In order to confirm this judgment, he inadvertently mentioned it while chatting with Lu San: "Third brother, do you remember?"When Heiwa skipped school, I wanted to send him back to school, and he told you, 'I think Uncle Jiaxuan's waist is too hard and straight'. ”
Lu San clearly remembered Heiwa's words: "Yes, he has said such things more than once!."He said it when I asked him to come and mow the cows, and he said it when I asked him to do the topping for me. Listening to Lu San's words, Bai Jiaxuan closed his eyes in pain. After he told his brother-in-law, Mr. Zhu, about it, he decided not to mention it to anyone else.
Misfortune and fortune relied on, and when Bai Jiaxuan suffered the heavy blow to the waist of Heiwa, he seemed to be away from disaster. When Bai Xiaowen lost everything under Tian Xiao'e's **, putting the Lu family in an extremely embarrassing situation, Lu San's heart ignited anger. He was determined to eradicate this scourge, so he came to the cave where Tian Xiao'e lived late at night, holding the steel blade of the shuttle dart in his hand, and stabbed her without hesitation.
After Heiwa learned that Tian Xiao'e was killed, she immediately thought of Bai Jiaxuan. He sneaked into Bai's house at night and rudely dragged Bai Jiaxuan, who was sleeping, from the bed to the kang, intending to avenge Tian Xiao'e. However, just as Heiwa was about to make a move, Lu San suddenly appeared in front of him and shouted in a firm tone: "I killed that **, you let go of Jiaxuan, and if you want to kill or chop, you will come to me." Lu San said, throwing the blood-stained pike dart steel blade at Heiwa's feet, indicating that this was physical evidence. At this critical juncture, Lu San rescued Bai Jiaxuan.
If Bai Jiaxuan revealed Heiwa's robbery of the Bai family in front of Lu San, Lu San might not be able to stay in the Bai family because of shame. Even if he leaves, he will still kill Tian Xiao'e. No matter who killed Tian Xiao'e, Heiwa would believe that Bai Jiaxuan did it. Because Tian Xiao'e once put Bai Xiaowen in a predicament, Bai Jiaxuan lost face. After Lu San killed Tian Xiao'e and left the Bai family, Bai Jiaxuan was speechless in front of Heiwa, and seemed destined to die. However, Bai Jiaxuan did not expose Heiwa, and Lu San, who remained in the Bai family, came to the rescue at a critical moment.
Blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, and when Bai Jiaxuan endured the attack of the black baby, he also avoided the disaster for himself. He withstood the blow of his son's ruined family business, but won the respect of his people. As the eldest son of the Bai family, Bai Xiaowen has carried all the expectations of Bai Jiaxuan since he was born, and also freed him from the despair and misfortune of the past. In order to train Bai Xiaowen to become the heir of the patriarch, Bai Jiaxuan made great efforts.
He is not only strict in his words and deeds and strategy, but also does not relax in the slightest when it comes to bed. Despite this, Bai Xiaowen was under great pressure, making him a model gentleman in the eyes of others, but he longed for freedom and the satisfaction of his desires in his heart. He longed to be free from feudal etiquette and patriarchy, and wanted to pursue freedom and independence. Lu Zilin found this opportunity, and he decided to use this person to fight against Bai Jiaxuan. Lu Zilin said to Tian Xiao'e: "You have to discredit the eldest son of the Bai family, only in this way can you really hit Bai Jiaxuan." ”
Tian Xiao'e remembered her humiliation and decided to promise Lu Zilin, in order to take revenge, she easily seduced Bai Xiaowen with her beauty and made him fall into depravity. In the original book, when Bai Xiaowen lost his land and family business, it was described as this scene: Xiaowen's land was sold out, along with the hope of the harvest. The silver dollars exchanged for eight and a half acres of land failed to make a big deal in an emergency.
In between smoking a lot of cigarettes, he sold his oxen, his horses, his mules, his pigs, and his furniture, and the kang tables, the pedals, the spinning wheels, and the covers on the kang in the nursery, and the cooking panels, rolling sticks, and sieves, and everything that could be turned into money became money, and was exchanged for silver dollars or copper. In the end, most of the large apricot trees were sold, and seven or eight long-term laborers were hired to replant the land with those silver dollars. These silver dollars did not cheer Bai Xiaowen up, but disappeared as if injected into a bottomless pit.
Tian Xiao'e's plan dealt a heavy blow to Bai Jiaxuan. He stood in front of the cave, and heard the voice of his son Hetian Xiao'e in his ears, and he was sad and angry for a while, and he couldn't accept it. Faced with this cruel reality, although Bai Jiaxuan was in pain in his heart, he was not defeated. He survived all this with tenacity, did not get carried away by anger, and did not plunge the Bai family into chaos. He understands that this is just a bump in life, and he has more important things to do.
Tian Fuxian took pity on Bai Xiaowen's plight and helped him enter the county security brigade. Although Bai Xiaowen is in the middle of the road, he is smart and witty, and he is good at planning. In the security brigade, he gradually rose to prominence with his own ability, and a few years later he became the battalion commander of the security regiment in one fell swoop.
His name began to circulate in Zishui County, and his story was passed down by word of mouth. However, all this glory and success is based on betrayal and betrayal. Although Bai Xiaowen's reputation is loud, his heart is full of uneasiness and guilt. He understood that true glory did not come from outward accomplishments, but from inner integrity and honesty.
Bai Xiaowen, now the battalion commander, decided to return to his hometown to worship his ancestors. His glory is undoubtedly to wash away the unbearable memories in Bailu Village. When the news came back to Bailuyuan, it caused an uproar. The villagers admired, "The dragon gives birth to the dragon, the phoenix gives birth to the phoenix, the descendants of the Bai family are extraordinary after all." In the envy of everyone, Bai Jiaxuan felt unprecedented satisfaction and pride.
The enthusiastic response of the clansmen gave Bai Jiaxuan a new understanding of life. Blessings and misfortunes are inseparable, and they depend on each other to show the truth. When the misfortune is over, it is a blessing. Bai Jiaxuan has been entangled with fortune and misfortune all his life, and he knows very well that when he comes, he is unassuming and doing things as usual, as if all this is taken for granted. When disaster strikes, he does not panic, because he understands that as long as he persists, there will always be a turnaround.
His wisdom in life comes from the belief that "good and bad are interdependent". No matter how the world changes, he can face it calmly. Because he knows that after gritting his teeth and enduring it, good fortune will come. Life is nothing more than the word "blessing and misfortune". As long as you persevere, blessings will always come, and good things will always follow.