Chapter 25: The Red Envelope is gone
The T-shaped SUV is riding smoothly on the highway in the afterglow of winter.
Lori in the passenger seat was eating French fries and fed Luo Bin one from time to time.
When Luo Bin Nunu mouthed, she picked up a glass of Coke and handed it to Luo Bin's mouth, letting Luo Bin take a sip.
The radio station sounded the popular "Dara Bomba", Lori crossed her feet, swayed from side to side, and the ponytail behind her head swayed with her body, looking particularly playful.
She put her mouth on the crooked straw of her Coke glass and sang aloud along the radio.
When it was the boy's turn to be the boy and the king, she handed the Coke cup to Luo Bin, as if she was holding a microphone in her hand.
But after going back and forth a few times, Luo Bin still looked at the road ahead with an expressionless face, without distraction.
After a song, Lori pursed her lips, obviously Luo Bin's coldness made her unhappy.
There was still a certain pop song on the radio, and when the prelude to another song sounded, she was surprised to find that Luo Bin actually shook his body.
After the prelude, a deep voice in the car sang "Human" by British singer Rag'N'Bone Man
Maybe I'm foolish maybe I'm blind
Maybe I'm stupid, maybe I'm blind
Thinking I can see through this and see what's behind
Thought I could see through everything and the truth behind it
Got no way to prove it so maybe I'm blind
Can't prove anything, maybe I'm being blinded
But I'm only human after all I'm only human after all
But after all, I'm a mortal, I'm just a mortal
Don't put your blame on me
Please don't sprinkle your fire on me
Don't put your blame on me
Don't sprinkle your fire on me
Lori exclaimed "Wow" and opened her mouth wide, and then she never closed it.
She didn't expect that Luo Bin, who is usually boring, actually had a unique voice, slightly hoarse in the high-pitched voice when he switched from a deep low voice to a chorus, without dragging in one go, Luo Bin's singing voice completely overshadowed the original song on the radio.
When Luo Bin finished singing, Lori applauded with adoration.
Since this beginning, the singing in the car has never stopped.
Along the way, you sing a song, I sing a song, and occasionally there will be a male and female chorus. One voice is sweet, cute and playful, and the other voice is thick and hoarse, with a slight vicissitudes. It's quite a bit of a piano and a song.
Happy times always pass quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the SUV has driven off the highway in the dark night, driving from the peripheral roads of Linshan Town to Luojiawa Village.
Luo Bin opened the car window, lit a cigarette, and told Lori inexplicably: "Don't talk nonsense when you get home, don't call uncle, it's awkward." ”
Lori pulled the visor from the side and opened the rearview mirror, sorted out her appearance, and replied casually: "Just call uncle, uncle, uncle, uncle." ”
Luo Bin only felt that his head hurt, eased up, and compromised and said: "I can't get used to hearing this in the countryside, you call me "Brother Bin" in front of people, and when no one is around, you can call it whatever you want, it's always okay, right?"
Hearing him say this, Lori turned her head from the makeup mirror and asked with a wicked smile, "Is it okay to call my husband?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Luo Bin choked on his cigarette and turned his head to stare at Lori, who raised her chin not to be outdone.
Luo Bin had no choice but to be deflated, and said with a sigh: "Whatever you want, but you must not call me uncle in front of others." ”
"Is it okay to call your husband in front of others?"
"No way!"
"Why?"
"No way!"
"Can't you negotiate?"
"Nope"
Arguing all the way, the car drove into Luojiawa.
The street lamp at the door was on, apparently the lamp that my father had left for himself. Luo Bin honked the horn and saw his father open the door and walk out of it.
Before Luo Bin pushed the door and got out of the car, Lori on the side had already left the car, ran over, and shouted with a smile: "Hello uncle! My name is Luo Li, Brother Bin and I are back to accompany you for the New Year." ”
Luo Bin was afraid that she would talk nonsense, so he hurriedly got out of the car and stared.
Father Luo Fu looked at Lori beside him and nodded, and said with a smile: "Okay, good! Come back, come back, come back, it's just that the family is simple, and I have wronged you." While speaking, he glanced at Luo Bin from time to time, with relief in his eyes, as if he was praising Luo Bin, he did a good job.
Luo Bin thought that this was troublesome, and he didn't know how to explain it for a while.
After thinking about it, I felt that I had to quickly pull Lori away from my father, so I straightened my face and said, "Lori, come and move things." ”
But before Lori could answer, Luo Fu's voice rang out: "What are you shouting, won't you move such a thing?" while reprimanding Luo Bin, he led Lori home.
Luo Bin had no choice, so he had to hold his breath and start moving things by himself.
It took two trips back and forth before my father came to help.
As soon as he walked up to Luo Bin, he said angrily: "What are you capable of? Just call and drink to others? Huimin dumped you, it's not that you are not good to others? Why don't you have a long memory?"
Luo Bin hurriedly stopped his father's words and explained: "Dad, she is not my girlfriend, just a colleague." ”
While packing up his things, Luo Fu turned his head and glanced at him and snorted coldly: "I've accompanied you home for the New Year, and you still say this? Are you with gold on your face, do you have to follow you?" After speaking, he took his things and left.
Luo Bin stood in place, thinking that he would be miserable by Lori now, and next time he really wanted to bring a girlfriend home, he didn't know how to tell his family.
If this momentum continues, the people in the village will not regard him as a modern version of Chen Shimei, and will pierce his backbone?
I reluctantly moved things into the house, but I saw the two people in the living room talking and laughing trying on clothes, only to hear Lori say: "Uncle, you see that I picked out these clothes, you can't dislike them." ”
"Don't dislike it, don't dislike it, I'll put it on tomorrow. ”
"Well, wear this set tomorrow, and this festive red Tang costume to wear on the day of the New Year, the texture of the fabric is very good, you touch it. You must look good when you wear it, this retro handmade buckle, three-dimensional Fu word embroidery, the workmanship is superior, and you have to wear red for the New Year, which is called red and prosperous. ”
"There is also this set of Chinese-style stand-up collar wool suit, worn during the New Year, the gray looks very heavy, the style is mature and stable, and the design of the stand-up collar and the slim cut are not so serious. ”
Luo Bin stood outside the living room and watched, and the clothes she spent money on became her credit. Anyway, if he can make his father happy, he won't bother to argue.
By the time I had put away my belongings, it was already half past nine in the evening.
According to the customs of the countryside, Luo Fu went into the kitchen to cook two bowls of egg tea, let them eat, and then went upstairs to get busy.
Lori lowered her head and ate, while quietly asking Luo Bin: "Uncle, is this egg tea for the new daughter-in-law?"
Luo Bin was used to her non-stop way of speaking, but she said angrily: "If you want to be beautiful, guests will come to the door, but now the times have changed, and few people do this." ”
Lori flattened her mouth, as if she hadn't been treated as a new daughter-in-law, which made her a little disappointed.
The two of them were sitting on the sofa watching TV after eating, when Luo Fu came downstairs and came over, still holding this big red envelope in his hand.
Luo Binteng stood up and was about to speak, but was glared back by Luo Fu.
I saw him smile and say to Lori: "Xiaoli, we don't want to live perfectly, as long as we have a long time." Come, you take this red envelope, this is the rule for the first time, you must hold it. ”
Luo Bin looked at the thickness of the red envelope, coupled with what his father said just now, Jiuqianjiu didn't run away, and it is estimated that he went upstairs and scraped together some change, maybe he made up 9999.
He looked over his father's shoulders and glanced at Lori, reminding her that there should be a limit to play.
But who knows, Lori stuck out her tongue at him, and then shouted "Thank you, uncle!" and reached out to take the red envelope.
Luo Fu smiled happily when he saw her accept it, thinking that his daughter-in-law must not have run away.
He turned his head to Luo Bin and said, "I'll change all the sheets and quilts in your room, and after washing up in a while, let's go to rest early with Xiaoli." ”
Luo Bin had a bitter face and was about to explain: "Dad, it's not ......"
As soon as he started talking, he was glared back again, and Luo Fu said with a straight face: "What's the matter? What age is this, are you still embarrassed to get up?"
The meaning in my eyes seems to be to say, if you don't hurry up and give birth to a grandson, I'm not done with you.
Lori, who was sitting on the side, giggled, and didn't mean to explain at all.
Yes, even if you jump into the Yellow River, you can't wash it away. Since the old man is happy, let him forget it, anyway, it's not that they haven't slept together, as for the future, let's talk about it later.
After watching TV for a while, the two washed up, and went upstairs together under Luo Fu's gaze.
Entering the room, Lori laughed uncontrollably. Then she put one foot on the bed, touched her thigh with one hand, hung her long straight hair on her neck, and whispered with a spring in her eyebrows and eyes: "Husband, since the wood is already in the boat, you will be from the slave family." ”
Luo Bin said angrily, "Get out", and went to bed to ring the quilt by himself, leaving Lori with a back.
Lori smiled and put away her posture, got on the bed, saw that the quilts were all run away by Luo Binquan, pouted and said, "If you don't hurry up and give me some quilts, I'll call my uncle." ”
Luo Bin, who was lying on his side, sighed deeply and obediently loosened the quilt.
Lori put out the word "big" and occupied most of the bed like a gentleman, while Luo Bin was like a wronged little daughter-in-law, leaning sideways and lying on the edge of the bed carefully.
Maybe they were tired from playing on the way, and the two fell asleep without saying a few words.
Since Luo Bin fused the two crystal nuclei energy, he no longer had strange dreams, and he slept soundly this night.
It wasn't until the next morning that he was woken up by his father.
Looking at his phone, it was already more than nine o'clock in the morning, and he yawned and went downstairs, but he was in a daze.
I saw a lot of people sitting in the living room, all chattering and laughing around Lori.
There are next-door neighbors, there are also mothers-in-law and aunts in the clan, and most of the people in the group are women.
They should have heard that Luo Bin had changed his girlfriend, and came to see something fresh early in the morning.
Look at Na Lori again, although her face is shy, she talks and laughs to a certain extent.
Looking at Lori's shy and timid appearance, Luo Bin thought that he had recognized the wrong person, where did the naughty and off-the-beat girl go?
Luo Bin thought about it and didn't bother to ask, anyway, he was a yellow clay crotch, and it was not a thing.
Simply spread smoke for the men in front of the hall and in the yard, most of the men are more interested in cars, standing in the yard you and I are commenting one by one, and some even took out their mobile phones to take pictures.
In fact, every household in the village has one or two cars, most of which are scooters of more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan, of course, there are also luxury cars, but no one has ever bought the T-shaped SUV, so they all came to see it.
A group of people looked at the car and said things like, "Binzi has made a fortune!" and "The company's benefits are good." "Brother Bin, you don't drive more than one car. and so on.
Luo Bin explained them one by one, saying that the car belonged to a friend and was just borrowed to drive.
For Luo Bin's explanation, some people believe it, and naturally some people don't believe it. Most of them still suspect that Luo Bin is pretending to be low-key, afraid that others will borrow money.
Just as everyone was talking and laughing, a few angry shouts erupted from the courtyard not far away, followed by the sound of scolding the mother, the sound of smashing things, and the heart-rending howl of a woman.
Everyone listened carefully, and they all walked over there to see what was going on.
The people in the family walked seven-seven-eighty-eight, and at this time, Lori, who heard the movement, also walked into the yard, Luo Bin said hello to Luo Fu and walked over there.
There were two grandparents living in that house. The grandson's name is Luo Junjie, seven or eight years younger than Luo Bin. Shortly after Luo Junjie was born, his father fell into a mountain stream in a coma due to heat stroke and was sent to the hospital to die.
His mother, who was overjoyed and depressed, later blamed the cause of the disaster on a scalper in a family.
Because the scalper had entered her yard unattended, he didn't care at the time. It's just that after her husband died, she went to the river to wash clothes, and a mother-in-law with many mouths and long tongues pretended to tell her that the scalper would cause trouble if he entered the house, and it was estimated that her man's death had something to do with the original cow.
When the woman heard this, she was indignant when she went home to cook, so she rushed into the cow's house with a kitchen knife, and the adult was not there, but only the child was left to play in the hall, and she cut off the child's head regardless of picking up the knife, and the child's howl attracted the neighbors in time, so that it was stopped from making a big mistake. Later, the woman was sent to the police station, and the child was sent to the hospital.
Fortunately, the child's injuries were not serious, and a thin piece of bone was cut from the two wounds next to each other.
Later, the woman was found to be mentally deranged and sent to a psychiatric hospital, and considering that the child in the family had not yet been weaned and needed to be cared for, the woman was released home a few months later.
It's just that the way home is not easy to walk, from the village entrance to home, just a few steps, but by the men and women of the village old and young pointed out.
It snowed heavily that night, and the villagers were all sitting in their homes with the stove and reluctant to move. And the woman quietly threw the baby in the snowdrift behind the house, went back to the house and locked the door, and the hanging beam died.
The grandmother of the family got up at night, and her heart was not steady, so she wanted to take a look at her grandson, but found that the door of the house could not be opened, and no one answered the door no matter how she shouted.
It wasn't until the neighbors heard the commotion and ran over that they opened the door together, and all they saw in the house was a woman hanging from a beam and dead.
Grandma didn't have time to scream, so she ran to the bed to look for it, but there was no trace of the child.
The man helped to take care of the dead, and the women began to look for the child, and finally Luo Bin's mother found him from the snowdrift behind the house, when the child's lips were blue and there was no sound, Luo Bin's mother kept holding on to it, and sat by the fire all night before the child recovered.
Since then, the old and the young have lived, and the old man has a strong hunchback, but in order to feed and clothe his grandson, he didn't let himself be idle for half a day. The action is just slower, she has planted the vegetables that should be planted, and she has not cultivated the fields that should be cultivated. This did not give the children less than food and clothing, but the money for school was received by the village.
The child dropped out of junior high school and has been working in other places. But he is very filial to his grandmother, watching his grandmother's back become more and more bent, he will come back to accompany him every New Year's holiday and say something considerate.
When Luo Bin walked to the courtyard, he saw several gentlemen in the villagers confronting five out-of-town gangsters.
The gangsters all held watermelon knives in their hands, glared at the villagers with fierce faces, and shouted one after another: "Come on, come over if you are not afraid of death." ”
Seeing this posture, the villagers who were supposed to do so all seemed a little hesitant.
Luo Bin saw Luo Junjie lying on the ground holding a hand, blood flowed from the cracks between his fingers, and there was a broken finger on the ground.
Luo Junjie's grandmother was hunched up, hugging her grandson's head, and she was already crying.
Just when the villagers were in a dilemma, Luo Bin pushed aside the crowd and stepped forward and shouted, "What are you doing?
The other party led a board inch, touched his head and smiled at his companions next to him: "Hehe, another one who is not afraid of death." ”
Seeing that the other party didn't mean to talk, Luo Bin picked up his mobile phone and said, "Do you send him to the hospital first, or will I send you to the police station?"
Ban Cuntou spat out his phlegm, glared and shouted: "Grandson, it is natural to repay debts, even if you call the police, he will have to pay back." ”
Luo Bin argued on the basis of reason, and did not let "a society ruled by law, pay back money if you owe money, and pay for your life by killing." If you don't take people to the hospital, or they will die, and you will lose more than you gain. ”
Hearing this, the head laughed: "Boy, we have played with more knives than you have ever held chopsticks." We know better than you where the knife will kill you. Aren't you talking about the legal system? Then I'll teach you again, cutting off his tail finger is the most serious and not a minor injury, do you think he dares not to reconcile with us? Even if he is unwilling to reconcile, the boss is active in the relationship, at most for a year and a half, and the settlement fee can still be dug out of him, do you believe it?"
Luo Bin quickly went through the stakes in his mind, what he said was not necessarily a lie, so he could only ask helplessly: "How much does he owe you?"
When Ban Cuntou saw that someone was willing to pay back the money, a smile instantly appeared on his face: "Not much, 120,000." ”
Luo Bin looked at Luo Junjie on the ground, afraid that he would delay the time to go to the hospital to pick up his fingers, so he said in disgust: "Take the account, I'll pay it back for him, get out of after taking the money." ”
At this time, Luo Junjie, who was lying on the ground, shouted bitterly: "Brother Bin, IOU." As soon as he finished speaking, the bastard next to him kicked him in the leg and cursed in his mouth: "You can't stop your mouth with a knife." ”
Of course, Luo Bin understands these usury routines, as long as you don't pay back, they will ask you to rewrite the IOU with interest, and verbally promise that the previous IOU will be invalid, but when you go to court, there will be a bunch of IOUs in front of you.
Luo Bin didn't want to waste time arguing, the IOU was useless in the court, so he just said to the bank: "120,000 can be transferred to you now, but you have to leave the IOU." ”
The board grinned and made a cheeky face: "I forgot to bring the IOU today, and I promise to send it to you tomorrow, but this money must be obtained today, otherwise he will be cut off more than one finger." ”
Luo Bin looked at the other party's face, and it was clear that he was bullying, and his heart was already angry, He bit his back molars and put the phone in his pocket.
There was a gangster in front of him who stepped forward and wanted to snatch his mobile phone, Luo Bin was itching with hatred, grabbed his wrist, and ran the Tai Chi roulette wheel of the dantian, the gangster instantly shook like chaff, Luo Bin loosened his hand, the man fell down like a salted fish, Luo Bin took the knife in his hand and looked at the rest of the gangsters angrily.
At the moment when they were facing the enemy, the bastards naturally didn't think much about it, they just thought that their brothers had been plotted by Luo Bin, so they picked up the blades and slashed at Luo Bin one by one.
Luo Bin's Taiji diagram was running rapidly, implying thunder in the palm of his hand, but there was no thunder light.
He relied on his transformed body with his ability, and held the knife in front of him, forcibly blocking the three knives that were cut off on the head, and in an instant, lightning shot out from the palm of his hand, all the way through the blocked blade, and exploded in the hands of the three opponents. I only heard the three people shouting, and the watermelon knives in their hands fell to the ground one after another, revealing a charred black palm.
Just when Luo Bin was worried about whether the surrounding villagers would find out his secret, a watermelon knife stabbed him in the waist and abdomen from front of him.
In a hurry, Luo Bin didn't care about being discovered, the roulette wheel was spinning, and the momentum of the current wrapping around the whole body was about to skyrocket, but suddenly the head of the board in front of him stopped his hand and fell down on his back.
Luo Bin hurriedly put away his ability, and broke out in a cold sweat, he saw that the head of the plate was hit by a stone, and he was lying on his back on the ground.
Luo Bin turned his head to see which hero had relieved him, but he saw Lori's cute smiling face.
At this time, the onlookers had already rushed up and tied up these gangsters.
The man had just finished tying up. The town's ambulance and police car arrived together.
It turned out that some villagers had secretly called the police.
Luo Bin didn't dare to stay for a long time for fear of exposing his secrets, and saw that the five gangsters were woken up by the police, knowing that no one was killed.
Reached out and took out the red envelope given by her father from Lori's pocket, threw it in the ambulance, and then turned around and left.
Lori caught up from behind, put her arm around him and praised, "Uncle is awesome, have you ever learned qigong?"
When Luo Bin heard this, his face was full of sadness, and he thought to himself: "It seems that there was no flaw just now, Lori's statement is not bad, and it is enough to cover it up when you explain it to others." ”
I was in a good mood, so I laughed: "What's so great about qigong, it's not as powerful as a stone of yours." ”
The two looked at each other and smiled, and walked into the courtyard.
In the whole Spring Festival that followed, the villagers were not very surprised by Luo Bin's kung fu fighting, but boasted that they were brave and fearless that day.
As for Luo Bin's performance of righteousness and squandering wealth that day, it made the villagers spread the rumors, and everyone was sure that Luo Bin had made a fortune. As for Luo Bin's so-called borrowing a friend's car, no one believes it.
For a while, Luo Jiawa was a low-key person, and the model of high-profile work was none other than Luo Bin.