Chapter 2: Righteousness and Courage
Early the next morning, Li Xian was woken up by the panicked shouts of the pillar.
"Li Xian, there are a lot of public security officers in the village, looking for you, did you commit a crime?"
Li Xian frowned, got dressed without hurry, and walked to the courtyard.
"I said obviously, if you can't do it, let's run, if you enter the bureau, your life will be ruined. The pillar came in a hurry, wearing only a pair of shorts, and looked nervous.
At this time, Li Jinde walked into the courtyard with a shovel on his shoulder, threw the shovel in the corner of the wall, and shouted: "Li Xian, have you broken the law? The public security are here, and they are driving several police cars." ”
"Li Xian, the police are here to arrest you!" The villagers gathered in front of Li's house to watch the excitement.
Huang Po gathered in the crowd and rolled her eyes: "Wang Datou is fortunate not to marry his daughter, otherwise he would have to be widowed." ”
Peng Lanhua was anxious when she heard the voice, ran out of the stove room with a spatula, and happened to see a team of people in police uniforms coming, she almost fainted with fright, she staggered to the yard, knelt down with a plop, and cried and said, "Leader, you can't take Daxian away!"
"Mom, hurry up. Li Xian helped Peng Lanhua up distressedly.
Several policemen also hurriedly came over to support Peng Lanhua, patted the back of her hand and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, you misunderstood, we didn't come to take Li Xian away this time, but to bring someone to thank him." ”
"Leader, who are you?" Li Jinde was a little confused.
"That's right, Li Xian, some time ago, he encountered a gangster robbing Miss Xia, he acted bravely, fought to the death with the gangster, was seriously injured, but successfully prevented a bad incident. An older policeman stood up, pointed to a woman behind him, and said, "This is the person concerned, Miss Xia, and her parents." ”
The woman's name is Xia Xuan, eighteen or nineteen years old, she is very beautiful, fashionably dressed, and she looks like a city person. When she returned from her grandmother's house in the suburbs last month, she was overwhelmed by two habitual knife robbers.
Li Xian, who had just come back from school, passed by here and saw the gangsters committing murder, without saying a word, he picked up a stick and rushed up, but one of the habitual offenders was beaten with a stick, he was stabbed twice, and he was so frightened that he fell unconscious when he saw the blood, and the habitual offender thought he had killed someone, so he dropped the knife and ran away.
Fortunately, the nearby residents rushed to hear the news, surrounded the panicked gangsters, and sent Li Xian home.
After some diagnosis, the barefoot doctor invited by Wang Datou said that the knife was an inch further off and inserted into the heart, and at that time, even the king of Hades could not accept it.
Xia Xuan stepped forward with her parents in her arms, looked at the simple earthen embryo room, and frowned slightly.
Xia Xuan's parents are not too old, in their early forties, and they have been smiling and thanking Li Xian, but Li Xian is a little restrained, even if he has the experience of being a human being in two lives, he will never be able to cope with this kind of scene.
The police took out a letter of thanks from the District Public Security Bureau and handed over 200 yuan to Li Xian as a reward for helping the public security organs catch the absconding habitual offender, and Xia Xuan's parents also took out 1,000 yuan as compensation to compensate Li Xian for his medical expenses and nutrition expenses.
1,000 yuan was their family's year-round income in this era, and the eyes of the surrounding villagers turned green.
Peng Lanhua and Li Jinde kept the police, Xia Xuan and her parents for lunch, but after Xia Xuan thanked her, she didn't take a second look, turned around and left.
That kind of look, Li Xian naturally understood what it meant, and he didn't care, if she really didn't dislike it and wanted to stay for dinner, her parents would have a headache for buying vegetables and cooking.
Li Xian didn't want her parents to worry about a meal, so she better go.
Xia Xuan's parents saw Xia Xuan get into the police car, and their faces froze: "This child is a little afraid of ......"
After saying that, they thanked them again and followed into the police car.
After finishing their official duties, the police did not stay longer and drove away from the village.
After the police left, the surrounding villagers who were watching the excitement dispersed, but they all looked weird, as if they had eaten.
"Li Xian, this time it's going to be sent!" The pillar leaned over to Li Xian's side, his eyes looking straight at the banknote in Li Xian's hand.
"Hey, I'm trading my life for it!" Li Jinde shook his head, picked up the shovel and planned to go out again.
"Daxian, do you want your dad to save it for you?" Peng Lanhua was a little excited, she was always happy to see so much money at one time.
Li Xian has his own plans, this money is kept at home, but in the end it is still a thousand yuan, but he decided to use this thousand yuan to make more money.
"Mom, I'll keep this money for use. Li Xian took out a hundred yuan and handed it to Peng Lanhua, and the remaining one thousand yuan was put in his pocket.
"When the child is older and has his own plans, don't follow the foolishness. Li Jinde turned around and said a word, and went to the field.
Peng Lanhua refused to accept a hundred yuan, saying that there was no place to use money at home, but Li Xian still stuffed it into her pocket, after all, it always costs at home.
A thousand yuan is nothing for the people in the city, but he always takes the first step, but now Li Xian is in difficulty, he doesn't know what kind of money-making business to engage in, his first idea is to wholesale some rural specialties to sell in the city, but in this way, the profit is not high, and the road is too far.
After thinking about it, he still decided to go to Shenzhen, because Shenzhen completely began to take off in 1990, if he is not mistaken, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange opened in this year, and the initial stocks were developing rapidly.
This is undoubtedly the most profitable and fastest-coming business, but a thousand dollars to buy stocks is not enough.
After lunch, he decided to pull down his face and find Wang Datou once, and only he had the financial resources to support him, of course, he didn't agree to be a son-in-law.
Li Xian went to Wang Datou's house in the next village, and after being seen by good people, it spread in a boiling manner, and for a while, the news that Li Xian was going to be the son-in-law of Wang Datou's family spread with a nose and eyes.
In the countryside, there are almost no secrets to speak of, what your family eats today can be judged by people the next day, and the whole village will know about it, not to mention that Li Xian went to Wang's house to attract such a topic.
Wang Datou's house is a two-story brick house, which is the only one in the village, and there is a large yard in front of the house, which is full of flowers and plants.
At this time, Wang Datou sat under a big tree and smoked a pipe, as his name suggests, he did have a big head, but the top of his head was bald, and the hair on both sides of his ears was smeared with lard to make stirrups shiny and shiny, showing his richness in life.
After seeing Li Xian appear at the gate of the courtyard, Wang Datou squinted his eyes and didn't get up to say hello, he was still haunted by yesterday's incident.
"Uncle Wang, I came to discuss some things with you today. Li Xian ignored Wang Datou and pretended not to see it.
"Oh, what kind of wind blew our eldest prince Li here?" Wang Datou took a puff of cigarette and sneered.
"Uncle Wang, I came this time to borrow 10,000 yuan from you, and I will repay you an extra 2,000 yuan at the end of the year. Li Xian didn't hide anything, and directly stated the purpose of this trip.
Wang Datou Huo Ran stood up, stared at Li Xian's eyes and asked: "Li Xian, you're not confused, are you? You can't read a book, borrow 10,000 yuan from me? Do you know what 10,000 yuan can do? You can tear down your house and build a two-story villa, just like my family." What guarantee do you have? Just your two broken houses?"
"I, Li Xian, said it, I can naturally do it, if Uncle Wang doesn't plan to make money, I'm in vain. Li Xian turned around and left, saying things that couldn't be done, and it would be a waste of time to stay any longer.
Wang Datou hesitated for a while and stopped Li Xian: "Wait a minute, your kid has always been honest and responsible, and my uncle is not sincere enough to get along with you, 10,000 yuan is really a lot of money, if you don't say why, how can I rest assured?"
Li Xian thought about it, so he turned around and smiled: "Uncle Wang, I have a classmate, his brother works in Shenzhen, and he said that there is an easy way to make money there, so I plan to go and see the world." ”
Wang Datou frowned, shook off the cigarette ash of the cigarette gun, still didn't believe Li Xian's words, and his voice increased a little: "It's not impossible for me to borrow money, but if you can't pay it at the end of the year, you have to agree to be my son-in-law, and the 12,000 yuan will be deducted from your dowry." ”
Speaking of which, he has always liked Li Xian, a child who looks white and clean, behaves and talks decently, and is still the only high school student in Li Village, who has drunk ink in his stomach.
And he only has one daughter, Wang Xiaoya, so he wants to find a son-in-law, considering all aspects, it is obvious that Li Xian is the most suitable candidate for his requirements.
Li Xian said without hesitation: "A word is a certainty!"
Wang Xiaoya leaned on the door, glanced at the door, and saw that it was Li Xian, and ran upstairs angrily.
After setting up a note and holding the 10,000 yuan wrapped in a cloth bag by Wang Datou, Li Xian was full of confidence, and at the same time sighed that Wang Datou did have some family background, saying that he really took out 10,000 yuan if he took 10,000.
He said it casually, waiting for Wang Datou to bargain, and even planned to borrow only 1,000.
What Wang Datou thought was, I gave you the money, give it more, you Li Xian had better not pay it back, and then be your son-in-law, and the more than 10,000 yuan will be your selling money.
After having 10,000 yuan, he paid attention to the rural credit cooperatives again, but he was not old enough, so he could only beg his father to borrow some money.
After returning home, Li Xian expressed to Li Jinde that he planned to go to Shenzhen to break through.
Li Jinde sat on the threshold with a calm face, smoking a cigarette rolled from the leaves sullenly.
"Lao Li, Daxian is going to Shenzhen, you have some ideas. Peng Lanhua was anxious, and while cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, she looked at Li Jinde, "Smoke every day, you can't kill you if you smoke, and you can't let out a fart for a long time." ”
Li Jinde choked for a moment, coughed violently a few times, and only after relieving himself did he say, "Daxian, you have decided?"
"Don't worry, Mom and Dad, I know it. Li Xian shrugged, in his previous life, he always complained that Li Jinde's smoke was too strong and he didn't like to talk to him, but now he feels extremely kind.
"The money, I'll do it tomorrow, and there are still two cows at home, which can be mortgaged. Li Jinde threw away the cigarette butt and furrowed his eyebrows.
Peng Lanhua wanted to say something more, but finally shook her head and walked into the kitchen.
The next day, Li Jinde took his household registration book and ID card to complete the loan, mortgaged the four cows, and after asset review, he took out a loan of 2,000 yuan in a few days.
Li Xian also took advantage of the time to enter the town and applied for an ID card.
In this era, a small county like Yongxian County, where Li Xian is located, has relatively old-fashioned ideological concepts, and everyone generally wears clothes sewn by themselves with a single color, and Li Xian feels that the clothing business is a head.
A few days later, the ID card was obtained, Li Xian decided to go to Shenzhen, and Zhuzi also wanted to see the world with him, so he bought a ticket with Li Xian and got on the train.
Under the train, Peng Lanhua stuffed two hundred yuan into Li Xian's hand, one hundred of which Li Xian handed over to Peng Lanhua that day, and the remaining one hundred yuan was borrowed from Peng Lanhua's mother's family.
Li Jinde and Peng Lanhua waved to Li Xian and told him to pay attention to safety.
Li Xian also told them to take care of their bodies and not to be too tired.