4. Friction

When the moon climbed onto the deep blue sky above the garage terrace, it was time for the food stalls to open.

The big TV was moved out,An old wire was fixed with tape crookedly on it,The TV screen is still quite clear,At this time, the news network is being broadcast,Only the old man Hong, who was sitting behind the lottery machine at the door, half-squinted his eyes in the direction of the TV。 I don't know if I was napping and sleeping, or if I was eagerly following the good news from all over the motherland.

The place where Lu Li found him was at the entrance of the town of Red Sea, and there were a few shops near the sea, all of which were old two-story small buildings, built on rocks along the coast. The sea is right in front of you.

The first thing I came in was Qi Ji's garage, next to the food stall and Aunt Qin's grocery store, next to the grocery store was a hair salon run by a couple, and then there was a small restaurant and a breakfast shop. Breakfast is sold early in the morning, and it is an oil and rice shop during the day, and then there is a post office connected to the rural credit cooperative, where the fishermen in the town save money and withdraw money.

I heard Qin's mother say that the road at the entrance of the town had just been renovated two years ago, and there were several buses passing by every day, and the trucks pulling goods in and out of the town had to pass by this side every morning.

Qin's mother is very kind, and her voice is also loud, she praised Lu Li's good looks, and took out her flip phone to show Lu Li a photo of her baby daughter.

Qin's mother said that Honghai Town is actually quite small, a few years ago it was called Honghai Village, and it was inhabited by fishermen who were fishermen, but later the villagers of Anyong Village were driven out by the rich people who had no conscience on the other side, and many fishermen over there came to settle down here, and this became Honghai Town. There are also seven or eight small villages in the vicinity, and now there is a market here every Tuesday, and the villagers from outside sell what they don't use at home. In the past, children had to go to other villages and towns to go to school, but now it's okay, the town has recently been repairing a hospital, and the children in the neighborhood go to primary school in the town, and when they get to middle school, they have to go to the next town to study, not far away, and they can get there by bicycle for more than half an hour.

Qin's mother also took Lu to a beach not far from the entrance of the town. Qin's mother said that other places that can go to the sea have been made into docks, and there are 500 fishing boats in our town, which is amazing. There is still this beach for crab farming and shellfishing, and in the summer the town's children play bare-bottomed.

Lu Li had seen the beach on the terrace of Qi Ji's house, and from a distance, it was not crowded with tourists like other attractions, but quiet, with only a few children playing happily there.

The sky gradually darkened, and Lu Li saw that the stars in the sky were quietly staying in mid-air, and the lights of the villas on the other side of the bay were also lit up, colorful and dazzling.

I used to live on the opposite side and never felt that it was so beautiful to see the former home from a distance.

"It's full of wolf-hearted bastards. Especially the scum surnamed Lu. Mama Qin had repeated this sentence for the fifth time along the way.

Lu Li really couldn't listen to it, so he went back under the pretext that he wanted to go back to help Uncle Guang.

Back at the food stall, Uncle Guang came out bare-chested with a big table, and when he saw Lu Li, he looked disgusted: "Tut, where are you running away if you don't come to help?"

Uncle Guang looks like he is forty or fifty years old, his complexion is darker than Qi Ji's, and he looks like a healthy person, but he is old, his muscles are a little broken, and his face is fierce.

"There won't be too many people tonight, so set up three big tables with six stools, one table with six stools, and then come to the back kitchen to help me wash the vegetables. "Uncle Guang" bang-" put the big table in front of Lu Li. Lu Li unconsciously stepped back.

The table was heavier than expected, and Lu Li struggled to carry it, so he used the drag, and then neatly arranged the chairs, and suddenly heard the old man who had been squinting and napping after hearing the lottery machine and laughed lowly: "Young man, you have never worked, right?"

Lu Li smiled awkwardly: "Heh, I'...... I've helped my brother see the store before. ”

The old man just shook his head, pointed to Lu Li's face and said, "I don't believe it...... But I'm sure your mother must be a big beauty. ”

Lu Li was stunned for a moment before he realized that the old man was talking about his appearance: "...... Thank you. ”

The old man immediately laughed, and said slowly: "When I see you, I think of me when I was young, and I was exactly the same as you are now. Hehehe......"

Lu Li saw that the old man was flattering him, and goosebumps appeared on his back. Smiled awkwardly and went to work in the kitchen.

Ten minutes later-

"Qi Ji, Qi Ji, where are you bastards, where did you find a useless little white face! No, the little white face is more useful than him! Qi Ji! Get out of here!"

With the angry roar of the middle-aged man, Uncle Guang took a kitchen knife and strode out of the kitchen, with a cigarette in his mouth, and a fierce look on his face yelling at the garage.

No one paid attention to him, but the window on the second floor opened, and a small head popped up: "Uncle Qi Guang, my father said that Uncle Wang's tractor broke down halfway, and he rushed to repair it as soon as he received the call, and he won't be back until a while." ”

Xuan Xuan puffed out his little face as if he was eating something, and when he tried to speak, the juice in his mouth dripped down, and it happened to drip on Uncle Guang's head.

Uncle Guang touched his face, and when he saw that it was Xuan Xuan, he didn't care about it, and he took a kitchen knife and prepared to go back, and when he turned his head, he saw that at the door of the grocery store next door, Qin's mother moved a bench and was watching the TV in the food stall snorting melon seeds.

The woman gloated when she saw Uncle Guang's angry appearance: "Ouch, what are you arguing about, didn't you see me and the old man watching TV! Just now, there was a man in the TV who made noise every day, and guess what, he was stabbed three times by his neighbor......

Qin's mother said gloomily, carving melon seeds on her mouth, and glaring at the person with the kitchen knife.

Uncle Guang opened his mouth to say something, but Master Hong poked his head out and touched his chin to watch a good show, so he couldn't help it.

"Lao Tzu is a good man and does not fight with women. ”

"Just say it, don't you, old man?"

"Hehehe-hehe-beating is love, scolding is love!" the old man squinted his eyes and was happy.

Uncle Guang went back to the kitchen.

Then his roar came from the kitchen: "I told you to wash the sprouts, and you blocked my sink for me." I let you kill fish, you make the kitchen a tsunami scene, I let you cook, you can't wash rice...... I-"

Uncle Guang wanted to swear, but looking at the person standing in front of him who was half wet in a puddle of water, looking at the ground with half-lowered eyes, Uncle Guang suddenly couldn't scold.

Uncle is used to quarreling with his aunt every day, and he scolded people for the first time but didn't respond, and this little ghost called Lu or something looks like this thin skin and tender meat, it is because his own brain is grass that he expects him to really be able to work as hard as Qi Ji.

"Forget it, you go outside and wipe all the tables and stools, and I'll make everyone's dinner first. What time is it, and Xuanxuan upstairs is still hungry. Hurry up!" Uncle Guang finished his anger and thought that this young man was a relative of Qi Ji's friend, so he still endured it. Throw a rag and a mottled bucket to Lu Li, and send the person out of the kitchen.

Lu Li didn't talk much all night. The five or six tables of guests who came to eat at the food stall all found that Chef Guang was not in a good mood today.

But looking at the fact that he has to cook and order again, clean up the table, and be busy in and out, you can know the reason why he is not in a good mood. Of course, the regulars also found that there was a good-looking little brother in the food stalls at the entrance of the town today, but that little brother could only look at the appearance, and he was really -

"Hey, I'll just serve it-" Hong Jianguo, the mayor of the town, came here to drink wine, smoke cigarettes, eat and communicate with the contractor of the small hospital building in the town.

Just now, the little brother put on the plate of fish and walked to the table, and he couldn't help coughing, so the soup was half spilled, and now he saw him staggering and bringing a pot of soup, which was really terrifying.

Hong Jianguo went to bring the soup over and put it on the table. He gave the new guy an encouraging smile and continued to talk with the two foreman bosses.

The new building of the hospital in the town is almost ready, and when the time comes, we will be equipped with some equipment, and the doctors who have treated diseases well in the county will be called over to occasionally open specialist outpatient clinics or something to see a doctor for the villagers, how convenient it is. And in the future, minor illnesses can be operated on in the town, and the villagers don't have to toss back and forth. The thought of the mayor of the town was so happy that he drank a few beers in his stomach, and the words on his lips became more and more.

The biggest news these days is the news that Lu Jingtian, the public enemy of Ernst & Young and Red Sea Town, has been brought to justice.

The two contractors also happened to be from Yong'an Village opposite, so their conversation was as ugly as it sounded.

In the ears of other villagers, they are all scolding and cheerful words.

And in Lu Li's ears, who had been silent, serving dishes, washing dishes, and sweeping the floor, it was like a knife cutting his heart.

Uncle Guang stood on the side and ordered, and when he heard the scolding here, he happily added: "Ha, I saw it on TV yesterday, what is the name of that movie? Oops, I can't remember, that sentence is good." The ones who do business are bitches raised by bitches!"

Uncle Guang's pronunciation turned out to be round, and he happily explained the meaning of bitch to everyone.

The crowd drank and made a lot of noise.

"Lu Jingyun, who was raised by that son of a bitch, is worth more than 200 million, and he is not satisfied, and he colluded with those dog officials to deceive tens of billions, which is really unbearable. The family can't die well!" the foreman shouted, and Hong Jianguo smiled and answered: "Okay, cheers!"

Just listen to the sound of "bang-" on the ground.

The mayor and the two contractors suddenly had a pot of fried rape in front of them.

It's still the little brother who can only watch and can't do things, and the soup was spilled accidentally before, but this time it must be intentional.

Because a pot of rape was directly buckled on the table, even the plate containing the rape was cracked.

The originally bustling food stalls suddenly fell silent.

Everyone looked at the mayor's table, and the little brother with a fierce face and red eyes.

Uncle Guang soon came out, with a cigarette in his mouth, and glared at Lu Li with an incredulous expression: "Boy, what are you doing, he is our mayor, no matter how unstable you are serving, you don't have this kind of way! Apologize quickly!" Uncle Guang pushed Lu Li fiercely. His usual movements were not light or heavy, Lu Li was slapped forward by him, slamming the mayor's table to a staggering moment, and half of the broken plate was shaken to the ground. Crushed crisp.

Lu Li just stood still. The hand was clenched into a fist, tightly.

Everyone was embarrassed, no one spoke, and the atmosphere was cold to freezing.

It was Hong Jianguo who smiled first and said: "It's okay, it's okay, the little brother is new, just be careful with the dishes next time." ”

The two contractors obviously felt Lu Li's malice, but on other people's turf, they smiled and thought it was probably just a misunderstanding.

"Boy, apologize!" Uncle Guang pushed Lu Li again, while putting away the broken plate, and said with a smile: "I'm really sorry, all the dishes are remade, and the wine money is our boss's." Hahaha. ”

Lu Li was still motionless.

When Uncle Guang pushed him for the third time, he walked straight out of the food stall.

In the food stalls, you look at me, I look at you. Uncle Guang looked at Lu Li's back like a monster, with an innocent expression: "This ...... What kind of song did this kid Qi Ji find? I didn't do anything all night, and I had two sentences ringing in my throat, and that's it? I said that he couldn't do two sentences? Ancestor? Tell me about ......

The guests followed Uncle Guang's words and comforted them.

The old man Hong behind the lottery machine squinted his eyes and muttered, "Tsk, that kid...... Probably not ordinary people......"

The old man's voice was very soft. He didn't even see Mama Qin, who was closest to him.

When Qi Ji came back, he saw Uncle Guang scolding and scolding and cleaning up the table while compensating the guests.

Qi Ji knew that there was no shadow of Lu Li as soon as he saw it.

Uncle Guang's stomach was on fire, and Qin's mother was always there when the accident happened, and when Uncle Guang became angry, she went to persuade her to stop after a few words, and when she saw that the store was too busy, she went over to take a hand. Finally waited for Qi Ji to come back, compared his chin in a direction, and shook his head.

It was already dark. Honghai Town is no brighter than the wealthy area opposite, except for the bright light of the row of shops on this side, only a few lights lit up in the homes of villagers in the distance. Qi Ji cursed a swear word, went up to the terrace of the garage, and saw Xuan Xuan carrying Xiao Huang into the house and watching TV together, and he didn't bother to nag, standing on the terrace for a while, and saw a small black dot on the beach in the distance illuminated by the moonlight.

"Dad, are you back? I left you a meal, Uncle Qi Guang made a big tomato money fish today, and I left you a fish tail." Xuan Xuan opened the door and heard that his father was back, so he hurriedly covered Xiao Huang with a blanket, and then came out to find Qi Ji.

It's just that the terrace is empty, and Dad is long gone.

……

Not far away, on the beach, someone was wearing clothes that had not yet dried and blowing a cold wind.

"Hey, go back and apologize to the mayor. When Qi Ji ran over, he saw Lu Li bending his knees on the seashore, like a statue.

"I said, you are really a big young master, Uncle Guang said that you didn't do anything serious all night, but it scared the mayor and the two contractors. Go back with me and apologize!" Qi Ji was a little fierce, and went to pull Lu Li's hand, the man's hand was cold, but his strength was quite strong, and he refused to move.

"There are sea monsters in the sea, aren't you afraid of being eaten?" Qi Ji deliberately said gloomy, usually Xuan Xuan is greedy for fun and doesn't go home, he uses this method, it is useful for Xuan Xuan, it seems that it is still useless for an adult.

"Tsk......" Qi Ji was helpless, took out a cigarette to smoke, took a lighter out and lit it, turned his head to look at Lu Li, and walked away before smoking.

The two of them are only twenty or thirty meters away.

Qi Ji hadn't eaten dinner yet, so he smoked his cigarette first, resisted his stomach, and then talked to the eldest young master.

Just sobbing, he frowned as he looked at the dark and dreary sea.

On the surface of the sea, from far and near, the sound of motors can be heard......