Chapter 45: Fireflies in the Night
Lao Cai was silent after listening to my affirmative answer, and asked me half-loudly: "Xiaoli, is there really only 30% certainty?" ”
I nodded, and he added, "But how can I let you take such a risk?" I....... ”
I interrupted Lao Cai's words, reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and smiled at him.
Lao Cai and I don't need to say much at all, sometimes you can understand each other's minds with a look and an action. So Lao Cai looked at me and didn't say the next words. He just smiled and hugged me and said, "Thank you......." ”
I dodged and kicked him in the ass at the same time, saying, "Get out of the way, disgusting or not?" ”
Lao Cai smiled and ran back again, not saying those hypocritical words. Just asked me and said, "I want to help, Xiaoli." You just say that my fat body is useless, just take it. ”
I habitually reached out and patted his head, and Lao Cai quickly dodged it. Of course, the main reason is that I didn't really mean to do it, otherwise he might not have been able to dodge it.
But when Lao Cai said this, I really remembered where he could help. So I said to him, "If you really want to help, use your cloth god to calculate what my chances of success are." ”
Old Cai Ma nodded his head, and then quickly found out what he needed from my house. I don't have a calculator at home, so Lao Cai told me to wait for him for a few minutes. Then he ran out in a hurry.
After a while, Lao Cai took a calculator and ran back in a hurry.
At this time, it was already dark, so Lao Cai and I went into the house.
After closing the door, Lao Cai sat down at the table and began to measure.
Maybe it's because I talked so much to Lao Cai, and I don't have the nervousness I had before at this time.
I suddenly remembered the monkey-like expression on Saturday night when I was drawing talismans. So I found some melon seeds and peanuts and sat in front of Lao Cai. Hehe laughed in his heart, little look, retribution is coming, right?
Then he crossed Erlang's legs and watched Lao Cai's movements with relish.
Not to mention, although my Sanqing Charm is quite handsome whether it is drawn or cast, but I can't appreciate it myself. Lao Cai is different, his method of calculation is really interesting.
Although I have seen it once, the lights off and the environmental conditions are not very good. This time is different, there is a lot of room for the lights to be lit. Lao Cai opened and closed widely, and I enjoyed watching it. If it weren't for the fear of disturbing him, I really wanted to slap the table and slap the chair to give him a "good ......".
I don't know how Lao Cai did it, he actually pressed the calculator with one hand, and he could write and draw on the notebook with the other hand. The most awesome thing is that Lao Cai closed his eyes during the whole process of doing this.
I was listening to Lao Cai's "performance" while knocking on the melon seeds, and I was thinking about whether to take out two steel hammers and throw them in his face when Lao Cai was over for a while, but I found that something was wrong.
I saw that more than half an hour had passed, and the notebook was flipped through by Lao Cai one after another. His face became more and more pale, and the beads of sweat on his forehead seeped out uncontrollably. Sweat condensed into droplets at a visible rate and slid down his face to his chest. In the end, a wisp of white smoke came out of his head as if he was filming a TV series.
In the quiet environment, I could even hear the squeak of Lao Cai's upper and lower teeth due to the bite too hard.
It's broken, something must have gone wrong.
I stood up anxiously and circled around Lao Cai. But I don't understand what Lao Cai's situation is. I wanted to open my mouth to tell him, but I was afraid that he was in some emergency now, and when I disturbed him, I would go crazy again.
What can I do? I'm anxious like an ant on a hot pan.
At this moment, Lao Cai's hand moved. It was as if he had lost his strength in an instant, and he fell off the stool in an instant.
I quickly grabbed him and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong Lao Cai?" Are you okay? ”
Lao Cai smiled at me and said, "It's okay, it's just too desperate, a little dizzy." Then he pointed to the table and said, "It's done, you can see." ”
I nodded, and helped Lao Cai to the stool to do it. Poured him another glass of water and told him to rest first.
Lao Cai took a sip of the water in my hand, and urged: "Okay, I just spent some energy, it's not a big deal." You'd better hurry up and see the results. ”
Hearing Lao Cai say this, I had to nod. Then he reached for his notebook.
The last page of the notebook was neat and not full of dense numbers like the previous ones.
At first glance, only Long Fei ....... Ahem, it should be regarded as the four big words of insects gnawing chickens. Anyway, there are dragons and phoenixes, and they almost all mean the same thing.
I carefully identified them for a while, and finally recognized those four words as "Night Fireflies". I handed the notebook to Lao Cai with a confused look and asked, "What does this mean?" I don't understand. ”
At this time, Lao Cai had recovered a lot, and Wen Yan took the notebook. When he saw the results, his expression changed suddenly.
I clearly captured the change in Lao Cai's expression, and suddenly had a bad premonition in my heart. I frowned and asked him, "What's wrong?" ”
Lao Cai put the notebook back on the table, looked at me with a complicated expression, and then said: "The meaning of the night fireflies ......." ”
Lao Cai's next words are a bit long, I thought about it for a while, and it would be better for me to relay it.
According to Lao Cai, the meaning of the night firefly can be understood as nine deaths and one life. In other words, if taken literally, my trip is very dangerous. Nine deaths are true, and there is only a 10% chance of surviving.
Isn't it, a little fluorescence in the dark night, doesn't it mean that there is little hope?
Seeing this, some people may ask, didn't you say that Lao Cai's master had already counted you to have about two years to live? That means you can't die now, so you just can't do it?
Here I want to explain. The sloppy old man's calculations do not mean that I have two years to live, but that I will not live to be twenty years old. This means that I will die at any time in the past two years, it may be tomorrow, it may be the day after tomorrow, it may be tonight. If there are no accidents, I will live for two years, but I will definitely not be more than twenty years old.
The sloppy old man's conclusion is this, and Lao Cai's current calculation result is that I will die tonight. Could it be that my limit is tonight? I can't take it. Until then, I might be able to force myself to forget the fact that my life was short. But when this fact came to me so quickly, I was a little reluctant.
I can't bear my parents, I can't give up my grandfather, and I can't give up the world. Even the braised pork I ate at dinner was going through my mind at this time.
I suddenly realized that I was really not as free as I thought. When it was really time to leave this world, I realized that I had so many things that I couldn't give up.
A flower and a grass, a drink and a peck. At the end of the day, I don't want to die right now.
So I asked Lao Cai, is it really so serious?
Lao Cai didn't speak, and his silent movements answered my question.
Suddenly, Lao Cai seemed to think of something. In fact, there is another answer to this word. I asked him what his answer was. Then Lao Cai said the next thing to me again.
He said that according to legend, during the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Bei and Cao Cao were defeated in a decisive battle and retreated on the shore of the Han River (present-day eastern Sichuan), and his wife and children were captured by Cao Cao. Before the victorious general Zhao Zilong went to the rescue, Zhuge Liang had divined a hexagram for him, and the hexagram was "fireflies in the dark night".
At that time, one of Zhuge Liang's answers was the same as what I had guessed just now, which was the image of nine deaths and one life. The second is that this hexagram may also represent light death and dark life.
In other words, on the surface, the trip is dangerous, but on closer inspection, it is not. Because there is still a glimmer of firefly light in the dark night, doesn't it mean that there is actually hope?
Later, Zhao Yun Changbanpo entered and exited seven times, not only successfully rescued Liu Bei's son, but also beheaded more than 40 of Cao Cao's generals under the horse.
Zhao Yun proved that the hexagram "Dark Night Firefly" was not as bad as he imagined. Because he successfully established his name as Changshan Zhao Zilong with this battle.
After listening to Lao Cai's words, I saw hope again, and I asked him: "Then you said that I will be the same as Zhao Yun, it should be dangerous, right?" ”
Lao Cai was silent for a moment and said that this was the case in theory.
I was a little speechless and asked him, "In other words...... is this hexagram equivalent to saying nothing?" ”
Lao Cai was stunned for a moment, and then nodded after a while and said, "It seems that this is really the ......." ”
I'm even more speechless, I dare you to put so much effort into it, but I still haven't figured anything out. It's not the same as before, I'm still the same unsure.
So I said, forget it. It's useless to think so much, it's better to just do it. Take out the rune paper in your pocket. There are three five thunder talismans, four amulets, two eye-opening talismans, and five exorcism talismans.
I patted it in my hand and said, "I still don't believe I can't do it?" ”
Saying that, I asked Lao Cai how he was resting? Lao Cai stood up and said that it was almost there.
I told him that's okay, let's go to your house now, wait a minute, I'll go alone, and you can watch Uncle Cheng at home. Then he was given two amulets.
Although it was impossible for that thing to have a chance to get out of it and find Uncle Cheng after I went, I still left two talismans for Lao Cai. This is my back hand to prevent accidents from happening. Because it's hard to say anything about accidents, and if it really comes, it's going to fuck up.
Lao Cai took the talisman in my hand and didn't speak, and then went out with me.
To my surprise, when Lao Cai and I walked to his house, the yard of his house was full of people. When I looked around, it was all the crowd of road builders watching the excitement at noon.
When they saw me coming, they immediately gathered around me. said that he wanted to see how the little gentleman showed his might.
Uncle Cheng heard the movement in the yard and walked out, and I looked at his outfit. Good guy, dressed like he's going to a mountaineering, in a tracksuit.
Looking at that posture, it looks like you're going to go with me.
Sure enough, Uncle Cheng walked up to me and said, "Xiao is here with you, why don't we leave here?" ”
What's that? We, what we? I'm not going to let you go too.
So I said, "Uncle Cheng, don't you go?" I'll just go alone, and I promise you'll wake up tomorrow morning and the problem will be solved. ”
Uncle Cheng waved his hand and said, "Then what's the matter, don't worry about you if you don't look at me." And didn't you say that it was just a little evil thing that could be cleaned up in minutes? Don't worry, we'll be watching from the sidelines and won't bother you. You see everyone is ready, if you don't see it, everyone will not be reconciled, right? ”
After finishing speaking, Uncle Cheng took the lead in walking out, and the workers who built the road also followed Uncle Cheng first.
Lao Cai and I were left behind, and I motioned to him with my eyes to persuade his father. Lao Cai shrugged his shoulders and waved his hand at me, meaning that he had no choice.
I really want to slap myself in the face and call me a bunch of nonsense. But when I think about it, it doesn't seem like it works if I don't say that.
Alas, I sighed and let them go. It's a big deal, tell them to stand farther away. If there is really any accident, it is a big deal to protect them desperately, and Lao Tzu will let it go. Die early and die sooner or later, you have to die sooner or later, go to the special one, die and die. Eighteen years later, Lao Tzu is still a good man.
Not to mention, as soon as this momentum came up, I really looked like a good man at this time.