Chapter 27: The Turmoil in the Mall
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When I woke up the next day, it was already more than 10 o'clock, and it was not a natural awakening, but the sound of someone knocking on the rolling door to wake up.
After quickly putting on two pieces of clothing on his body, Li Le opened the door.
At this moment, Zhen Yan was standing in front of the door, looking at Li Le yawning again and again, her eyelids seemed to be completely open, and she asked, "Did you stay up late last night?"
"No, but it's a little late, and I don't go to bed until two o'clock." Li Le rubbed his eyes and said a little tiredly.
"You pay attention to your body, why are you in such a hurry? And no one is robbing you. Zhen Yan said with some reproach. After all, things can't be thrown away here, and processing finished products is not a matter of a day or two, so there is no need to rush so much.
"Didn't I want to see what's inside? I have a bottom in my heart if I get it out early. Li Le also knew that he didn't need to rush to work, but yesterday he was also thinking about the value of the inside, and he forgot the time when he did it.
"How's it going inside?" Listening to Li Le's words, Zhen Yan also became curious about the material in these pieces of ebony.
"It's okay! The material of golden silk nanmu, you can come and take a look. No matter how good it is, it can't be seen clearly, so Li Le directly led Zhen Yan into the door.
When Zhen Yan saw the three pieces of golden wood on the ground, her eyes froze
He was pleasantly surprised. Although there are some small flaws, it is a few good materials.
"Have you figured out what to do?" Looking at the ingredients that had been made, Zhen Yan couldn't help but ask Li Le.
"The small preparation is mainly based on ornaments and Buddha statues, the middle section can be made into two tea tables, and the last big one is ready to make a coffee table." Hearing Zhen Yan's question, Li Le pointed to a few pieces of wood and said his thoughts one by one.
"Need my help?" Zhen Yan looked at a few pieces of wood and couldn't help but want to move.
"Huh?" When Li Le heard this, he was a little stunned, and for a while he really didn't know what to ask Zhen Yan to do. But seeing her gearing up, I couldn't bear to get back to her interest. After thinking for a while, he said, "In this way, you can help me measure and draw the dividing line."
"Hmmm! Okay, so tell me how to divide it? ”
Li Le told Zhen Yan about his thoughts roughly and carefully, and also made a knife with his fingers on the wood and demonstrated it to her. After talking for about half an hour, Zhen Yan fully understood his thoughts.
Then Zhen Yan took the tool of measuring and drawing lines and began to draw slowly according to Li Le's ideas. Li Le directly took the first piece of wood and prepared to cut it.
The part with the hollow part is prepared to leave a little bit at the two ends, and then decide what kind of ornament to carve according to the shape of the hollow.
After the outer layer of ebony was treated, there was not much material left, and Li Le directly began to cut the hollow part in the middle.
Some good wood was left at both ends to be used as raw materials for making Buddha statues, and the rest was prepared to be preserved first.
Time passed little by little, and the two of them were quietly busy, and soon it was noon.
Zhen Yan got up and wiped her hands, and then said to Li Le: "Xiaole, it's almost twelve o'clock, let's go eat first."
When Li Le heard Zhen Yan's scream, he immediately turned around, then took out his mobile phone to look at the time, and stopped the machine that was running.
"Then let's go, Sister Zhen, I'll have a treat at noon today." With that, Li Le prepared to walk outside.
"You're going to go out like this?" Zhen Yan didn't move her steps, but asked Li Le with a funny face.
"Uh, what's wrong?" Li Le was a little puzzled, and then Zhen Yan added, "Look down." ”
Li Le instinctively looked down, only to see that his clothes were full of sawdust, and then wiped it on his face, it was the same situation, and he immediately understood what Zhen Yan meant.
I couldn't help scratching my head and smiled a little embarrassedly.
"Hurry up and wash up." Zhen Yan threw over a handkerchief and said to Li Le.
After cleaning up a little, Li Le followed Zhen Yan into the car.
The two of them didn't go to any particularly high-end places, Li Le wouldn't go out of their way to choose, and Zhen Yan wouldn't pursue it.
During the time she has known Zhen Yan, she has always been like a kind big sister, without any delicate atmosphere. This also made Li Le very willing to interact with her, whether it was doing things or talking, Li Le didn't feel any sense of restraint in front of her.
The place chosen by the two is a donkey meat restaurant, which is relatively clean and has some special dishes.
At the moment of walking into the hall, it seemed that all eyes were focused on Zhen Yan, especially the man's eyes, which were stunning and sluggish. Then he looked at Li Le, his eyes were full of envy.
There was a more playful eater, when Zhen Yan came in, he was gnawing on a big bone, and his posture was wanton and unrestrained. When he saw Zhen Yan, he was stunned for a moment, and then wanted to restrain his overly unrestrained posture, but he didn't put the bones of the mobile phone or gnaw it, which seemed quite restrained.
After entering the private room, Li Le smiled and said, "Sister Zhen, I can't see that your charm is so great, I was stunned by the situation just now."
"What's the matter, is it itchy skin or want to loosen your bones, and dare to tease you Sister Zhen?" Zhen Yan moved her slender fingers and made a threatening gesture.
"Huh?" Li Le's smiling expression just now suddenly disappeared.
At this time, the waiter walked in with the menu.
When Zhen Yan saw an outsider, she immediately restrained her threatening posture and changed to a bland posture. Li Le took the menu handed over by the waiter, and then pushed it in front of Zhen Yan, "Sister Zhen, you can order it." ”
Zhen Yan didn't refuse, opened the menu, and it was already ordered in a short time.
After the waiter left, the two laughed together.
The lunch meal for two people was very casual and very palatable. The dishes are mainly donkey meat, which is very distinctive and tastes very good.
In Li Le's heart, he has always liked to eat in some characteristic small restaurants. High-end places have a sense of restraint in terms of words and deeds and eating postures, and there is no comfort in such a small place.
Zhen Yan left after sending Li Le back to the warehouse, she still had her own things to do in the afternoon, so Li Le didn't stay.
Li Le was busy working alone in the afternoon, and when it was more than four o'clock, he went to Liu Yunyao's house again.
Li Le's father will eat a little more of the food that Li Le's father cooks, which is also the main reason why Liu's mother let Li Le come over often last time.
After Liu Yunyao cried last time, her attitude towards Li Le seemed to be much better, and sometimes she would say a few words to Li Le. But when I'm alone, there's always a worry and sorrow between my eyebrows.
Although Father Liu can eat a little more, his physical condition is getting worse day by day. In the two days I came back, I sometimes wanted to fall asleep when I sat down, like a person in the twilight.
When leaving Liu Yunyao's house, Li Le received a call from his aunt Li Hong, saying that he hadn't been to her for a while, and asked Li Le to come over for dinner at noon tomorrow.
After thinking about himself, he basically didn't go to his aunt's house after coming back from Tang Chongming, so Li Le agreed.
In the evening, Li Le processed the slightly flattened piece of wood. The outer cortex of this piece of wood was removed, and the cracked parts of the two ends were removed, leaving only about 1.4 meters.
Lai Le prepared to carve two small tea tables of 60 by 40. He has also thought about the idea of the tea table, one is "Mountain Yi", and the other is "Shui Yunyao".
The tea table in the mountains, he is ready to divide the high and low levels, with large bread and small noodles. And on the table, using the raised part, he is ready to carve the scene of the Taoist priest and the monk playing chess. The side of the tea table is carved in relief to outline the posture of the cliff to respond to the scenery in the mountains. The final base is supported by the natural shape of the stone.
And Shui Yunyao's tea table, he wants to build a scene of a rushing boat in the lake. On one side is the hillside, and on the other side is the reeds and the viewing platform. Take the water surface as the platform, and draw water patterns on the side.
After the wood was removed, Li Le picked up the pen and began to slowly sketch on the wood.
Time passed slowly, and Li Le didn't feel the outside environment gradually quieting down. The sound of traffic was gone, and so was the sound of talking, leaving only silence.
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It was already nine o'clock when Li Le got up the next day, and he didn't carve the wood until about two o'clock last night.
After washing up a little and changing his clothes, Li Le went to the bank to withdraw more than 4,000 yuan and went straight to the mall.
In the past, Li Le was not sensible, so he basically never bought anything for Li Hong. Last time, Li Le didn't have much money on him, so he just bought some fruits in the past, but now he still has some money from the strange stones, so he thought about bringing something over.
When he came to the mall, Li Le walked around casually, and began to think about buying some gold and silver, but then felt that it was not suitable, until he walked to a cosmetics counter, Li Le stopped.
Li Le thought that his aunt was usually very thrifty, and she never paid attention to the maintenance of this part, and most of the cosmetics she used were just more than ten yuan a bottle of skin cream and the like, so it was a good choice to send her a set of cosmetics.
The salesman at the thick counter was a beautiful girl of twenty-three or fourteen years old, and when she saw Li Le looking at the counter, she showed a sweet smile, and then said, "What kind of cosmetics do you need?" Is it for men or women? I can introduce you to it. ”
"For ladies, age is about forty, can you help me choose?" Li Le basically didn't understand this, so he asked the salesperson to pick it up.
"Okay, do you have any requirements for the brand and price? Do you need a complete set? When the girl heard Li Le's answer, she was still smiling and tirelessly asking, showing good professionalism.
"Well, there are no special requirements, you want a whole set, as long as it's better."
The girl nodded, and then began to pull out a set of Maybelline's cosmetics, and then began to talk about the characteristics of the set. After one set, another set was started, and a total of three sets were introduced, the second set was Olay, and the third set was Avon. The price of the three sets is not much different, all of them are around 1500.
When she had finished speaking, the girl stopped talking, leaving time for Li Le to think.
Li Le thought for a while, and was about to say that he wanted the Maybelline, but he saw the girl's eyes looking behind him, and his brows frowned slightly.
Li Le couldn't help but look behind him, and saw a man walking in his direction with an apologetic face.
After passing by, he shouted directly to the girl behind him, "Xiaojie, are you forgiving me once, okay, I promise to change it again in the future, can we not break up." ”
The girl said hello to the salesperson at the other counter and asked her to take care of it, and by the way, help her with the rest of the work. Then he walked out of the counter with a cold expression, "Let's go outside." Then he showed an apologetic expression to Li Le.
The girl clearly did not want to be noisy on such an occasion. Not to mention affecting the image of the mall, if it doesn't work, it will also have an impact on her own work.
But the man didn't seem to think so, and didn't pay attention to the girl's words, but knelt directly in front of the woman, "I don't go outside, I'll stay here, if you forgive me, I'll get up, otherwise I'll always kneel here." ”
"Can you be more mature, don't be so unreasonable!" Seeing the man cheating, the girl felt that she couldn't get used to his words and deeds.
Although he didn't know what happened between the two, just from the man running to the girl's place of work, Li Le felt that the man was not very good.
"I didn't make trouble, I just beg you to forgive me, and I promise to listen to you well in the future."
At this moment, there were already many people around him, and when he saw this scene, someone said, "Why don't you forgive him once."
"That's right, the little couple quarreled, what can't get by."
"You see that he is so sincere, just forgive him."
Li Le shook his head slightly in his heart, it seemed that the man's attitude seemed to have won the sympathy of many people.
Seeing so many people pleading, the girl didn't have any expression, she didn't seem to care about such a thing, and then said coldly: "You go, there is no forgiveness between us, it is not appropriate at all."
When the passers-by next to him saw the woman say this, they all exchanged their heads and ears, and even pointed at the woman with a look of disgust on their faces.
"Do you have to be so ruthless?" The man doesn't seem to give up yet.
"It's not that I'm ruthless, it's that I'm really disappointed in you!"
"Just this once, I really won't go again in the future, just trust me once!" The man suddenly hugged the girl's leg and kept begging.
"You let go of me, let go!" The woman was hugged by the man, and immediately pulled with her hands, but it was not as strong as the man.
"I beg your pardon me, really just this once."
"How many times have you said this, asking you not to gamble, but every time I forgive you, you are the same again, I really can't stand this kind of life. You let me go, one, two! Without waiting for the girl to count to three, the man finally let go, and the girl immediately took two steps back, for fear that the man would hold her again.
The person next to him also understood from the woman's words just now that the two broke up because of the man's gambling, and he was repeatedly taught. Suddenly, the direction of the finger fell to the man's side.
"I thought he was sincere and sympathetic to him, but I didn't expect it to be such a person."
"That's right, it's better for such a person to break up early."
Li Le stood aside, neither speaking nor pointing. For such a situation, he can only watch.
"How on earth are you going to forgive me?" The man saw that the people next to him had changed the direction of the wind, and his face became a little desperate, and then he asked the girl in a hissed voice.
"You go, we really can't do it anymore" The girl still didn't forgive her thoughts, and there was a sense of firmness in her words.
"I'm not leaving, I'm not leaving!" The boy seemed to be getting a little crazy, and his voice was a little sharp.
The girl glanced at him, sighed slightly, and then turned to leave, she didn't want to linger here anymore.
When the man saw that the girl was about to turn away, there seemed to be no room for manoeuvre. Immediately got up. The previous madness in his eyes slowly turned into hatred. The hand gradually reached behind his waist.
Li Le's eyes were sharp, and he caught a glimpse of a handful of metal objects from the corner of his clothes, and he was suddenly shocked. He hurried towards the boy, shouting at the girl's back, "Be careful, he has a knife on him."
The boy quickly took out a fruit knife and opened it, the girl turned her head in amazement, and the eyes of passers-by went from shock to shock, and then quickly hid away from the man's side, for fear that she would be injured.
Li Le had run towards the boy with all his might before shouting, and coupled with his perverted body, he finally rushed behind the man when the boy opened the knife and was about to stab him out.
The girl was already stunned at the moment, she never expected the man to behave like this. Seeing the man's knife stabbing at her, she was frightened and retreated back again and again, but she fell directly to the ground with a mixture of feet.
Li Le didn't hesitate, and directly grabbed the man's shoulders and took him back. He was too close to the girl for him to pounce on.
The man didn't expect that someone would dare to approach him, so he was immediately dragged back by Li Le, and then reversed the knife in his hand and stabbed Li Le's hand.
A heart-piercing pain suddenly came from his hand, and Li Le felt the knife insert into his right forearm, and then pulled it out again. Li Le secretly screamed in his heart, and without any hesitation, he stepped back violently, and suddenly led the man backwards.
He ignored the pain in his hand, and walked directly to the man's side, and then grabbed his wrist with his left hand and forced. He let go of the knife in his hand, and hurriedly grabbed it with his right hand and threw it into the distance, and his whole body pressed directly up.
No matter how the man moved, he didn't move at all.
Not long after, the security guard of the mall rushed to hear the news, and then pulled Lai Le up and treated the man. (The novel "Rebirth: Meticulous Crafting" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! )