Chapter 35: Spells
The huge recovery in the hospital was very fast. Seeing that it was almost good, the hospital allowed him to go home to recuperate. In addition, his wife was serving him in the hospital, and he didn't have time to go home to manage his own clinic, and he came out for more than ten days, not worrying about his son, and afraid that the two little protectors would get the wrong medicine in the clinic and break into a catastrophe such as human life. Therefore, after her family of two, plus Xiao Taohong, and the three of them went through the discharge procedures, they didn't bother to go back to the construction site to say goodbye to Li Er, but took advantage of the fact that the sun had not yet set, got on the last long-distance bus home, and returned home directly. On the way home, Xiao Taohong called Li Er's mobile phone once, and said a few good words casually, even if she thanked Li Er. Li Er didn't blame her. It's all your own people, it doesn't matter if you thank you or not.
Zhao Wu came to pull the soil again, and Li Er was busy with the project, so he didn't have time to talk nonsense with him. But Zhao Wu is an idler and a good person. The more you ignore him, the more he will look for you. He loaded the car. went down to the construction site to smoke with Li Er, Li Er drove him away, he didn't leave, saying that there was a family asking for this cart of soil all day today, and it was idle to go back early. said that it was better to play with Boss Li on the construction site, and it would be delicious. Li Er wanted to touch the iron and shovel the soil, but Zhao Wu grabbed him and didn't let him do it. Li Er was helpless, and it was not easy to turn his face, so he had to give up the idea of working, calm down, sit in the cool place of the shed, and talk and smoke with Zhao Wu. Zhao Wu was angry about Li Er's command of the tractor and not working, so he pestered him to tell him the secret of the spell. Li Er diverted the topic and began to talk nonsense, he pointed to the hot sun in the sky, and said, "Do you know why it doesn't rain in the sky?" It was I who recited the incantation, and Grandpa the Dragon King sent the rain to the side. β
Zhao Wu was puzzled: "What does the rain have to do with you?" β
Li Er said: "If it doesn't rain, it's good for the project." If you think about it, it's raining and the ground is flowing, and there is a lot of mud and water on the construction site, and the vehicles that pull the soil and ash can't pull it in the mud. It costs labor to build roads, isn't that money? In addition, the moisture content in the soil is too large, and the ash made becomes mud, so heavy vibration rolls down, and the slurry is pressed out, and the density is unqualified in the future, and it cannot be crossed. β
Zhao Wu nodded, and figured out what Li Er meant, and it happened that it had been a while recently. Dozens of miles of Fangyuan around the construction site, there is a rain through the ground, the people take advantage of the good moisture, plant cotton peanuts, seedlings spring sweet potatoes, plant spring corn, all the crops that should be planted in spring, have been sown into the ground. There is only the mountainous area around the construction site, because there is no water on the mountain, and it is all dependent on the weather for food. If it doesn't rain, just expecting the common people to use buckets to carry water to those terraced fields on the mountain is simply a drop in the bucket and will not help. You can't grow crops. Naturally, the common people are anxious. The goddess is about to organize the burning of incense and make offerings to pray for rain to the sky. Listening to Zhao Wu, it was Boss Li Erli, who was doing the construction at the construction site, who recited the curse to prevent the Dragon King from raining. Suddenly his chest filled with anger. Good guy, it's strange that it has to rain, it's this kid who is doing it. Is this worth it? As soon as the Shenhan and the goddess were agitated, those old men and women who believed in God and had superstitious tendencies, under the leadership of the Shenhan, carried forks, dragged brooms, and also took hoes and shovels, shouting, noisy, and swarming towards the construction site, led by Lao Zhang, who made tofu, known as Tofu Zhang, was Zhao Wu's father-in-law. He originally had a lot of mountainous land, plus more than four acres of mountainous land of Zhao Wu's family of three, and also allocated it to him to plant, in previous years, at this time of the year, the spring rain, his whole family set out, and all the more than eight acres of land were sown in three days. Sesame, sweet potato, peanuts and other miscellaneous grains are all seedlings. This year is good, I have been busy for a week, and I haven't even held a third of the land. Even those planted sweet potato seedlings are all holding annoying bags, dying, looking precarious, especially at noon, the seedlings in the ground are withered, looking at it, miserable. If you don't water it, you won't be watering the seedlings for three to five days. I was in a hurry. found that the root of the disease was on Li Er, because he didn't let it rain, could he not be angry? I can't wait to kick him to death, it's he who hurt the seedlings all over the ground, can you not be in a hurry? . When a group of people surrounded Li Er, they were going to beat him. At that time, Li Er was discussing with Li Weimin, a cadre in the village, about repairing the dam. Li Weimin protected Li Er and shouted loudly: "Folks, listen to me, beating people is illegal, it doesn't matter if you beat someone, if Li Er, Boss Li does something sorry for everyone, I will help everyone beat him." That's it. Come out and tell me, what bad things did he do to cause public anger? β
Tofu Zhang jumped out and told Li Weimin in detail that it didn't rain because of Li Er's mantra. also took out the incident of Zhao Wu's tractor as circumstantial evidence.
Li Weimin used to be a soldier, and he didn't believe in these cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods at all. Li Er wants to have the ability to chant mantras to rain, what does the country do with artificial rain? Those places where there was a lot of waterlogging, rain, and flooding, invited him to recite mantras, and drove the flood away, why did he still use so many people to fight floods and prevent disasters? To say that Li Er can recite mantras is pure nonsense. He said Tofu Zhang: "It doesn't rain in our place, it's a coincidence, he will recite a mantra and read all the money from the bank to his kang hole, what else does he use to work?" He pushed Li Er in front of the villagers and continued: "Look, everyone, he is also long in bones and flesh, no different from us, he is not even a god, who determined that he can recite a mantra?" β
Zhao Wuyi raised his hand and said, "It's me." I testify that he really knows how to recite mantras. My tractor is made of iron, and it doesn't understand human nature at all. As soon as Boss Li recited the mantra, it had an aura, I scolded the tractor three times to his grandmother, it didn't work, just shook the fire, as long as Boss Li's right hand and two thumbs pointed to the sky, it immediately turned off the fire and stopped cooking, everyone didn't believe it, I went home and drove the car to try, if it didn't work, cut my annoying bag. β
Li Weimin didn't believe Zhao Wu's words, so he went home to drive the car and test it in public. Zhao Wu quickly ran towards the village. A few stubborn old men with a violent temper said in their mouths: "Outsiders harm us, whether it's true or not, let's smash him first." As he spoke, he squeezed forward and scratched Li Er, wanting to do something to him. Huang Jixuan, Hong Shun and his wife, and Shi Tianqing, the three of them, all squeezed forward and protected Li Er. Li Er has a hard time telling, no matter how he explains, where is everyone willing to listen? He shouldn't have joked with Zhao Wu, let alone allowed Zhang Fengxian to go back to his hometown with his father to go to his mother-in-law's grave. If she was around, how could she be so wolf?
Zhao Wu quickly drove the tractor to the mound outside the construction site. Li Er instructed the migrant workers to do whatever they wanted, and not to follow him to protect him, saying that he was enough to deal with these old comrades. He pulled the tofu Zhang to the inside of the tractor, and Zhao Wu was under the noses of everyone, just like that day, as he did that day, sitting next to the right front wheel, grabbing the tire with both hands, and scolding at the tractor three times. Just when Zhao Wu scolded the tractor, everyone focused their attention on Zhao Wu. Taking advantage of everyone's unpreparedness, Li Er took the tofu with his hand and opened his right hand, quietly reached out to the tractor fuel tank switch, pinched the switch handle with two fingers, and gently pulled it in the direction of "off", not turning off all the fuel tank switches, but closing to seven or eight out of ten, this small action was done clean and neat, and the people present were laymen to the tractor, even if they saw the bottom of the hand, they didn't know what was underneath, only the old driver knew the mystery.
Li Er pulled Tofu Zhang to sit on the mound, and asked Zhao Wu to shake the car to light the fire, Zhao Wu just started the car, Li Er grabbed Tofu Zhang's hand and lifted it to the sky, and the tractor went out with a few sounds. Li Er's finger tractor chimney said something to Tofu Zhang, and no one heard it. Zhao Wu went to shake the car and make a fire again, Tofu Zhang didn't use Li Er, he pointed his hand to the sky, and the tractor caught fire again, three times in a row, all the same. The old men and ladies present all looked at Tofu Zhang with strange eyes, and they couldn't understand him for learning spells in an instant.
Zhao Wu hung his head and was about to smash the fuel tank with a shake to vent his anger. Li Er said of him: "It's the same as last time, call him his father three times, and he will work and listen to the command." Zhao Wu said according to Li Er. Then he went to sit in front of the right front wheel, hugged the wheel and called his father. At this time, Li Erzao asked Tofu Zhang to go around to the tractor and secretly reset the fuel tank switch. Zhao Wu called his father back, touched the rocker to shake the fire, turned it three times, and as soon as the decompression handle was released, the tractor "all passed" black smoke and rotated at high speed. Zhao Wu drove the car fifteen steps away, stopped the car and turned off the engine, looked around the car carefully, and didn't see anything wrong. The old man and the old lady no longer cared about Li Er, and gathered around Tofu Zhang one after another, asking him what was going on.
Tofu Zhang pondered carefully, tasted the taste, and gave a thumbs up to the back of Li Er, who was far away from the construction site, he admired Li Er's proficient tractor technology, and he didn't read any spells, so he put the tractor away from the clothes, and his son-in-law Zhao Wuxin was convinced.
When Li Weimin saw that the villagers were surrounding Tofu Zhang, he walked over, pulled Tofu Zhang to the top of the mound, and asked him to show up and explain the secret. Tofu Zhang was not polite, and told Li Er about stealing the handle of the oil switch with his hand, and talked about it in detail from beginning to end, and used his hand to pull the switch to demonstrate while talking. After listening to the five, he suddenly opened his mouth, he used his hand to play the switch several times, and said with a smile: "I am really good at magic when I am Boss Li, it turns out that I am playing tricks on this kid to coax me, I already knew that this is the method, not only I will, but even my six-year-old daughter can do it." He scratched his cheek vigorously, "Why didn't I think of that?" β
Tofu Zhang said to his son-in-law: "If you can think of this earlier, you are not Zhao Wu, you should be called Li Wu." β
Zhao Wu was robbed by his father-in-law, but he didn't answer, drove the tractor, and drove back to Zhuang with a smoke, and since then he no longer troubles Li Er, let alone against Li Er. Later, Li Er also became friends with him.
He listened to the weather forecast broadcast on the radio, saying that there would be heavy rain three days later, and said that there were still two layers of soil left on the construction site, and the total elevation difference was 40 centimeters. The problem is that when you reach the top two floors, you need to level it to match the elevation required by the whole project. Generally, large construction teams have scraping machines, and leveling with bulldozers is too slow, and two layers of soil are done in three days, I am afraid that they will not be completed. He said hello to Minister Lou and asked Minister Lou to inspect it early tomorrow morning, and try to borrow Party A's large rotary tiller and scraper to help carry out a surprise attack, and strive to complete this section of the project before the heavy rain comes.
Li Er called Minister Lou according to Huang Technology, Minister Lou was very concerned about the project, he also received a weather forecast, knew that there would be heavy rain three days later, and was about to inquire about the situation of ash and soil replacement, and it happened that Li Er came to call. He instructed Li Er to transport the soil tonight, to bulldoze it with the soil, to spread the ashes tomorrow at noon, to transfer the large tiller in the afternoon or evening, to rotary tillage twice, and the bulldozer to follow the rotary tiller for preliminary compaction. As for the large-scale scraper, Party A is also using it, depending on the situation, and told Li Er, tomorrow at eight o'clock, he and several technicians from the technical department went over to check the quality.
After Li Er finished the call, he took out the money and Hongshun's daughter-in-law to buy some drinks and mineral water, and asked her to buy two boxes of good cigarettes. After the cigarettes were bought, Li Er took the cigarettes apart and smoked them with Huang Ji and Hong Shun, until it was dark, and the three of them almost smoked a box of cigarettes. Li Er shook the cigarette box, and there were five cigarettes left, so he put the cigarettes away, and he didn't smoke anymore, Huang Ji asked him: "There are a few cigarettes left, it's better to smoke at ease." β
Li Er smiled but did not answer, forked the topic to the project, and stopped mentioning the matter of cigarettes. On the second day of the war, Li Erhuang went to the construction site as soon as it was dawn and replaced Hong Shun, who had worked for a day and a night, and went back to sleep. At less than eight o'clock, the pickup truck of the engineering department stopped at the edge of Li Er's construction site. Minister Lou was in front, followed by several technicians with men and women, and as soon as they entered the construction site, they divided labor according to their own labor, sampling of sampling, and measurement of compactness. Copying the level. Li Er pulled Huang Ji to Minister Lou's side, took out the small half box of cigarettes from yesterday, took out one from it, first gave the standing technical team leader - a young man with glasses, handed two to Huang Ji Ji, took out one and put it in his mouth, flicked a cigarette case with his right index finger, handed it to Minister Lou's face, opened the flap of the cigarette box, let Minister Lou take a look, and said with a smile: "It's a coincidence, there are only two cigarettes left, even a cigarette case for you." β
Minister Lou glanced at the cigarette case, and his eyes suddenly lit up. He took the cigarette case with a smile, took out one and put it in his mouth, stuffed the cigarette case into his trouser pocket, took out a lighter, lit the cigarette for Li Er first, and then said to the people present, "I'm sorry, it's convenient." With that, he went into the walnut grove next to him. When he came back, there was a cigarette left in his mouth, he took out the cigarette case that Li Erfang had given him from his trouser pocket, took out the only remaining cigarette in it, put it in his mouth, and threw an empty cigarette case on the ground. He said to Li Er: "Hurry up the project, what machinery is needed, call me at any time, it will be there immediately, the progress of the project is important." After speaking, he beckoned his men, got into a pickup truck, and drove to the construction site next to him.
Just when all the staff worked together and worked hard to complete this section of the project in three days. A chubby elderly woman, out of the walnut orchard, sat in front of the scraper, blocking the way of the leveler. Isn't that fatal? On the construction site, the scraper pointed to the scraper to quickly scrape the working face so that the next process could be carried out. It's good now, an old lady came out and sat in front of the car, everything was closed, and all the work stopped. Burning the fire of Li Erqi, he rushed over and wanted to pull the girl away. Before he could pull it, the fat girl jumped to one side, and Gollum lay on the ground, with all four feet to the sky and eight paws to the ground. It is really on the ground, and no matter who persuades it, it will be ineffective. Threatened to ask for 10,000 yuan. Reason: Pulling lime polluted her family's walnut orchard, and this year there was less flowering, less fruit, and the loss of dry work. Hong Shun's daughter-in-law said: "Isn't this the tofu Zhang's wife who sends us tofu every day." Li Er remembered, isn't Tofu Zhang Zhao Wu's mother-in-law? Immediately brought Zhao Wuyu and asked him to persuade the old woman to leave. Zhao Wu's words, the old lady didn't listen at all. Zhao Wu called again and ordered her wife to run forward immediately, come and pull her mother away, if it was delayed for too long, Boss Li recited a spell, and her mother would either die or be injured.
Zhao Wu said: "This year's spring drought has made it impossible for spring crops to hold seedlings, and there is no hope for a harvest. In addition, the tofu made is not easy to sell, the family economic income is reduced, and the elderly want to make up for the loss outside the embankment, so they come up with this strategy and want to rely on some money to spend. β
Li Er understood the old man's difficulties, and said Zhao Wu: "First tell the old man to get out of the way, don't affect the project, as for other things, wrap it up on me, I have contracted the tofu thing, you let go of the manufacturing of your hands and feet every day, and I will sell you as much as you make." β
As soon as Zhao Wu told his wife about this, his wife was full of joy, and went over to pick up his mother and leave. Li Er pointed at Zhao Wu with his hand, Zhao Wu scratched his scalp and smiled. Give Li Erqi a leg lift to Zhao Wuyi's kick. It turned out that this matter was planned by Zhao Wuyi. He wanted to think of a way to make money for his father-in-law, but he was afraid that Li Er would not help, so he acted in this bitter scene for Li Er to see. If you are angry, you have to do it. In the evening, Li Er told Tofu Zhang in detail about the method of making colorful tofu. He asked Tofu Zhang to make a chili tofu first and send it to the construction site to try. It turned out to be good, and everyone scrambled to eat the spicy tofu. The laborers who work have heavy mouths, eat some chili tofu, which is appetizing and refreshing, and they have a lot of food, and they are energetic to work. Other construction sites around the area also welcome chili tofu. The small restaurant also wants goods, and Zhang Xi can't close his mouth with a tofu, and his hands and feet are busy, and then he puts on other varieties of colorful tofu. It is also in short supply. Not only did the old woman have a job, but even her daughter called over to help. Zhao Wu is a lazy man who doesn't want to move, just delivering deliveries and running errands. In the end, I saw that I made a lot of money. Zhao Wu simply sold the tractor, bought electric tools for making tofu, and opened a husband and wife tofu shop with her wife, known as Tofu Zhao. and his father-in-law, Tofu Zhang, monopolized the tofu market within a radius of more than ten miles. I also bought a motorcycle tricycle and specialized in purchasing and delivering goods.
Li Er met Zhao Wu on the construction site on the side of the highway, so he reached out and grabbed his handlebar, and asked him to come down to smoke and drink tea with him. Stomp Zhao Wu anxiously. He took out all the cigarettes in his pocket and handed them to Li Er with both hands: "It's all for you, you smoke slowly, I don't have the time to play with you." After speaking, he stepped on the three-wheeled motorcycle and increased the throttle and wanted to go, but let him increase the throttle of the motorcycle no matter how big, the car just didn't move, he was very strange, looking back, Li Er and Huang Jiji, one of them grabbed a corner of the rear bucket of the tricycle, lifted the rear bucket of the tricycle from the ground, and the two rear wheels were idling. Zhao Wu couldn't cry or laugh, so he had to turn off the fire and get out of the car to beg for mercy.
Li Er pulled out the car key and was about to throw it into the dam, but Zhao Wu hurriedly stopped: "It's not that I forgot to dig the well." I want to take a free time, good students, please two of you. But I don't have time. I used to be idle and had nothing to do, but I had time to play with you. Nowadays, there are so many tofu wants, and I really don't have time. Spare me, the restaurant is still waiting for the tofu to go to the pot, I have to go. Seeing that Li Er wouldn't let him go, he said, "I'll find two young ladies tomorrow, one for each of us, a newcomer, and I'm not an old product." β
Li Er didn't let go, he stomped his feet: "The two young ladies are all yours, I don't want one of them, I should do it, I pay for you to eat and play, let me go, people are really waiting for the tofu to go to the pot." β
Li Er said: "If you want to be brisk, this is also easy to do." Secretary Zhao wanted to ask his brother-in-law to make colorful tofu, and Li Weimin and his wife also came to me. Won't you be brisk when I teach him two times? β
Zhao Wu didn't wait for Li Er to finish speaking, hurriedly grabbed his hand, and said very anxiously: "Boss Li, Master Li, can you teach them." I've finally found a way to make a fortune, but you can't cut me off. Isn't it very good for the two of them to do a fried merger, why don't you leave the bank and turn around and grab this little deal from me? Grandpa Li, I beg you, old man, say a thousand things and ten thousand, I can't tell them the technology of colorful tofu, when the two of them start work, it will be the day when my Zhao Wu will be destroyed. β
Li Er couldn't help but laugh out loud when he saw Zhao Wu in a hurry. Huang Gong also laughed. The two laughed enough. Fang returned the three-wheeled motorcycle key to Zhao Wu. Huang Jishu patted Zhao Wu on the shoulder and encouraged him: "Boss Li is teasing you." Man, go on the right path, do a good job, and when we have the money, after we leave, pass by here, beg for a bowl of water to drink, and have a family. β
Zhao Wu nodded seriously and said yes, and wanted to leave. But Li Er and Huang Jishu lifted the back bucket again. Zhao Wu got out of the car and arrested the two of them, and they ran away, but when Zhao Wu got in the car and was about to leave, they ran back to lift the back bucket for him. Zhao Wu couldn't do it, so he had to get out of the car and arrest them again, and the two of them ran away again. Toss it three or four times. Deflated Zhao Wu. didn't fire either, got out of the car and pushed dozens of steps, seeing Li Erhuang's technique far behind, he jumped into the car suddenly, flinched on the gear, quickly escaped, and finally got rid of the pranks of the two guys. In order to escape, Jing Rush sweated. When he returned home, he called his wife and scolded him: "It takes two trips to deliver a trip, did you go to a hotel to find a little lady for fun?" β
Zhao Wu said that when he encountered Li Erhuang's technique and the two of them carrying the car, Zhao Wu's wife scolded him again; "Ed., and then ed. I can't say nonsense, Li Lao is so busy, how can he have the kung fu to mess around with you. So a civilized boss, as well as a glasses-wearing, well-mannered intellectual, like you, a second-rate son of Lai Han, who doesn't do his job all day long, and does some tricks to trick people? β
Zhao Wu saw that her wife didn't believe it, so angry that he stared at him bigger than a dog's egg. No matter how he decellishes, his wife just doesn't believe it. The more the two argued, the higher their voices were, and they saw that they were going to fight. It just so happened that his father-in-law came to borrow something and bumped into each other, and scolded the two of them before calming down the turmoil. Who knew that someone outside the window was snickering. Zhao Wu went out to take a look, it turned out to be Li Er and Huang Jiyun who were eavesdropping on him outside the window and scolding each other for fun. Zhao Wu pointed at the two of them and said hatefully, "Wow, dare to eavesdrop, see if I don't buy five catties of pig's head meat to support you two, in order to relieve the hatred in my heart." With that, the three of them looked up to the sky and laughed at the same time.
Li Er got drunk at Zhao Wu's house, went back to the office and fell asleep. He didn't even know who took off his clothes. Sleeping until midnight to drink water, a woman handed him warm boiled water. After drinking water, he was much more sober, and through the bright moonlight outside the window, he vaguely saw that it was Liu Xueyin, and he asked her in a low voice: "Why are you here?" β
Liu Xueyin put down the water cup, helped Li Er lie down, and lay beside him himself, wrapping his arms around Li Er's neck: "Give Da Da to get medicine, he can't leave imported medicine for a day." We didn't have it, so we had to take a car to buy it. I haven't seen you for a few days, I miss you, and by the way, I will let you spend the night. β
Li Er said of her: "Get up in the morning and leave early, so that one of Hong Shun's two people will not be good if he meets him." β
Liu Xueyin nodded and plunged into Li Er's armsγγγγγγ