Chapter 17 Touching the Prize
In the next few days, Li Qing was so busy that his feet did not touch the ground, pointed, dug pits, entered the soil, rented a robe and danced superbly, when he was finally busy, he was already tired and lying on the bed and couldn't move, this so-called bed is the wooden board of the blind old man's corpse, Li Qing doesn't care anymore, he even falls asleep on him when he wipes the dead man's body, a mere plank, what else is terrible.
"Li Gongzi, let's eat something!"
A plain white curtain took a bowl of porridge, blew it gently, and put it at the head of Li Qing's bed, she already knew that Li Qing had given all the money to herself, "Thank you for your kindness!" This request must be repaid in the future! She had already made up her mind.
After the funeral, it was time to think about the future, Li Qing drank porridge carelessly, but he was thinking about the arrangement of the curtain, it was best to find his biological parents, and it would be considered a big burden to be unloaded.
"Curtain, do you have any clues about your biological parents?" Li Qing took another sip of porridge and asked quietly.
Speaking of her biological parents, Curtain Er was not the slightest excited, she pulled out a piece of jade pendant from under her neck and said, "This is the only thing they left me." β
The jade is semi-circular, undoubtedly a piece of excellent jade, the jade color is green and pure, delicate and smooth, and it feels a little cool in the palm of the hand, but it is obviously only half a piece, if the other half is combined, it should be a complete chicken oval. Li Qing flipped it over again and found that there were fine lines engraved on it, and when he looked through the sun, it was actually the word 'Cui'.
"Is your surname Choi?"
"Perhaps!" The curtain took the jade pendant and carefully hung it back in its place.
"Then your name is Cui Lian?"
"I don't call it Cui Curtain, my grandfather called me Curtain, then I will be called Curtain for the rest of my life, what blowing, sucking, it has nothing to do with me!"
The curtain suddenly became angry, her face swollen red, her eyes staring at the window, her chest rising and falling violently.
"I'm sorry!" Li Qing suddenly understood, and said apologetically: "I shouldn't have mentioned this matter!" β
She sighed, slowly calmed down, and said in a low voice: "I should be the one who said I'm sorry, I shouldn't be angry with Childe"
"So, what are youβwhat are your plans for the future?" After hesitating, Li Qing still asked this most difficult question.
The curtain looked at him in surprise, and suddenly understood in her heart, it turned out that he was afraid that he would affect him, she was sad in her heart, slowly walked to the window, stared into the distance and said slowly: "I don't know, but the world is so big, there is always a place for me!" β
Li Qing knew that she had misunderstood herself, so he hurriedly walked behind her and said hurriedly: "I didn't mean that, I mean, if you are not afraid of suffering with me, then we will live together in the future." β
"Mistaken! That was not what I meant. β
He suddenly found that his speech was sick, his old face couldn't hold back, and he wanted to explain again, but his tongue was ten times larger, but the curtain turned around suddenly, blinked his big eyes and smiled in surprise: "This is what you said yourself!" I'll rely on you in the future, and if you have a piece of bread, you'll get half of it. In an instant, she changed from a miserable woman to a lively girl.
"Maybe she doesn't understand the affairs of men and women!" Li Qing comforted himself, but he forgot that in ancient times, women could marry when they were teenagers.
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"Guest, you want to sell this horse?"
The horse dealer didn't look at the horse, but stared at Li Qing up and down, without hiding the mockery in his eyes, Li Qing's face was slightly red, this is an inferior horse, but it is a horse anyway!
"What, can't I sell it?" Li Qing raised his voice and glared at the horse dealer viciously.
"Where? Of course you can sell it!" When the horse dealer saw that the person who came was a head taller than himself, he glanced at the big fist again, and his heart was stunned for a while, and he hurriedly laughed and said, "It's not that I don't buy it, but this horse is some, someβ"
"Something! You tell me clearly, what's wrong with this strong horse? β
"Strong horses?" The horse dealer almost burst out laughing, but he forcibly restrained his smile and said: "Guest, you may not know much about horses, if you look at his teeth, he is twenty-five or six years old, which is equivalent to a seventy-year-old man, and one of his legs is not good, doesn't the guest see it?" β
Li Qing looked down carefully, but no, one of the front hooves was really lame, and he heard the horse dealer say in his ears: "It's just that the horse is old, but this leg is sick, and he can't do work, and he can't pull a cart, what's the use of it?" β
"Then you give a price! Sold to you, how much do you give? β
The horse dealer secretly looked at Li Qingdao: "It stands to reason that this horse is for me, and I am also a burden, but if the customer really wants to sell it, then it will be five hundred yuan, and if it doesn't work, the customer will take it away." β
"Five hundred Wen, selling horse meat!" Li Qing was secretly angry in his heart, but he was really in a hurry to use the money, so he had no choice but to agree, but the curtain led the horse over, and said hatefully: "We won't sell this horse!" β
The two walked back to the street, since listening to the horse dealer's evaluation of it, the more Li Qing looked at this horse, the more angry he became, he couldn't ride a horse, let alone farm, what was the use of it? Seeing that the curtain was gloomy, he thought that this horse was hers, and Li Qing had to tuck the fire back into his stomach.
Walking off the bridge, he saw a large number of people in front of him who were running around the rivers and lakes, his eyes rolled, and he remembered the method of a Jew who sold a dead horse, he hurriedly whispered a few words in the ear of the curtain, and the curtain looked shocked, "Childe, is this okay?" β
"If you don't try, how do you know it won't work."
He immediately went back to prepare, and the next day he set up a stall in the place where he used to tell fortunes, and took a piece of jute paper and wrote the two words of Douda: "Touch the lottery!" β
This Sichuan people love to watch the excitement, he tossed so much, inside and out, he couldn't get through it for a long time, and he didn't know what new thing this young man was going to play.
"Folks!" Li Qing learned to clench his fists first, and then took out a jute note and said: "Today I play a new thing, here is a small piece of paper, each piece of paper has two identical numbers, one number is held by himself, and the other number is put into the box, and finally I shake out one from this box, and who has the same hand, then he has won the lottery, the color head!" It's this horse. β
At this time, the curtain led the horse around the field and walked slowly around, and when they went back, they washed the horse, and fed it, and they were a hundred times more energetic, and their appearance was not as dirty as before, and they walked slowly, and if they did not look closely, they really could not see that it was an inferior horse.
This is definitely a new thing, I heard that there is such a good thing, more and more people gather, and the whole street is blocked, a few people who are anxious, urging repeatedly, eager to try, Li Qing saw that the popularity was enough, so he laughed loudly: "Of course, there is no free lunch in the world, if you want to touch the number, you have to give Wuwen luck money!" β
Hearing that they were going to give money, those who were anxious hesitated and retreated, Li Qing smiled and said loudly: "Everyone, this is to spend money to try your luck, if you have good luck, you can lead the horse back with five cents, isn't it cost-effective?" β
Sichuan people are also heavy in gambling, these five cents are just a pot of tea, it's not a pity, but if you win, it's a horse! Many people began to itch their hands, but no one stepped forward.
"I'll come first!" A big man came up, took out five cents casually, threw it into the urn, and took out a note from Li Qing's hand, tore off half of it and threw it into the box, the curtain on the side was pounding, this person she saw at home yesterday, Li Qing muttered to him for a long time, it was actually the matchmaker he found, she couldn't help but look at Li Qing, seeing that his face was red, his eyes were staring at the copper coins in people's hands shining, and she was slightly disappointed in her heart, this person was too philistine.
Sure enough, someone took the lead, and it was much smoother in the back, and dozens of people rushed to touch it all of a sudden, but Li Qing asked them to line up, one by one, only half an hour, and half of the stack of paper was touched, Li Qing prepared a total of 500 small pieces of paper, that is to say, if all were sold, the horse could be sold for two 500 yuan.
"Everyone, it's only five cents, even if you drop it, you don't feel distressed, just take it as a trick, but if you win, this horse will be taken home by you."
He tore open his throat and tried his best to incite, just hate to put out two big speakers to help the fun, some of them were a little hesitant, and they couldn't help but itch, and stepped forward to touch one, and even a few children took out the money to buy cakes to try their luck.
At this time, a Confucian student lined up, he stared at Li Qing for a long time, and suddenly said: "If the person who won the lottery was arranged by you in advance, then aren't you cheating money?" β
"How is that possible!" Li Qing was angry, "Everything is in broad daylight, and everyone's eyes are staring?" How to fake! If you don't want to buy it, I won't force you! β
"But there are such good things in the world! Can you buy a horse for five cents? β
'Whew! Li Qing sneered and said, "Can't you understand? To tell you the truth, I can sell this horse for two yuan when I go to the horse market, and I can use this method to sell it for two times and five hundred yuan, and everyone is willing to fight and suffer, and no one will suffer. β
"Hey! The people in front, whether you buy it or not, if you don't buy it, get out of the way, don't get in the way! The people in the queue behind couldn't help but yell when they saw him asking a wordy question.
The Confucian student glared back fiercely, took out five cents, threw it into the urn, picked left and right to select one, opened it and looked at it, and quickly closed it, as if luck flew away at this glance, he looked at Li Qing suspiciously, and then slowly walked away.
Soon, five hundred lottery tickets were sold smoothly, and there were still some that were not bought, standing there and shouting regretfully, so that Li Qing could not regret it, and he would have gotten a thousand if he had known.
"Everyone, the lottery tickets have been sold out, and now is the lottery session, in order to reassure everyone, I am barearmed"
Li Qing took off his clothes, tightened his upper body and began to seal the box and shake the number, seeing that the curtain was blushing and heartbeat, his eyes were slanted to the sky, and he didn't dare to look at him again.
The players below began to get excited, and the crowd was surging and roaring around a few tables.
Li Qing took a long breath, tore open the seal on the box, and reached out a thin piece of jute paper from it.
He jumped on the table, held the note aloft in the air, and yelled, "Five, five, five, six, eight, who is it?" Who's hit! β
The audience was silent, there was silence, everyone looked around, all looking for the person who won the lottery, suddenly, a young voice asked in a milky voice: "Mother!" What is the number of this one of mine? β