245. Borrow a fire
Everything looked so good, and even on May Day, Xiao Yang, who had been stuck with Li Kang for almost a year, was finally completed.
Xiao Yang drew a successful end to his book "Strange Traces" on this day.
This is the first book he really wrote, and only after writing a book did he really know how to write a complete book, and after such a experience, Xiao Yang has matured a lot.
A book, to some extent, is also a portrayal of a person's life.
From birth to growth to the end, after sinking down to write a book, the author is as if he has finished his life.
Xiao Yang experienced this perfect ending, and finally understood that no matter how good the stalk is, it is just a stalk, and it is what he should do to calm down and turn the endless ideas in his head into a real book.
He has been tirelessly pursuing novelty over the years, changing one stalk after another, writing for many years and leaving only a bunch of pits, but there is no work that can really be mastered.
This has to be said to be a pity, and it is not too late for him to realize this problem.
This book has 1.5 million words, and if you want to burn it to Wang Yiluo, you have to type it out first.
That night, Li Kang secretly rubbed the company's printer and paper to copy the book word for word onto A4 paper.
Even though the font had been adjusted to the minimum, Li Kang still used more than 200 pages, and it took him a toner cartridge to finish typing.
After pit the company's property, it is already in the middle of the moon.
According to the system's instructions, Li Kang pasted a simple tablet with red paper and bought incense candles.
"And then?" Li Kang asked.
The system was visibly impatient: "Burn it to him." ”
Li Kang thought about it, he had to find a secluded place to burn books in the middle of the night, otherwise it would be bad to scare people.
It's the May Day holiday, the weather is neither hot nor cold, and there are a lot of people everywhere.
So Li Kang deliberately walked a little farther and went to a place where there was not even a ghost shadow.
It was a park five miles away from Li Kangzu, and there was a small forest in the park, but it was usually not visited because the caretaker had planted a lot of shrubs in it......
Ahem...... It's still the kind with a little prick.
So Li Kang is now squatting in a corner of the woods, ready to start working.
Everything has been prepared, the tablet is also placed on the ground upright, three incense sticks are inserted in front of the tablet, candles are placed on the left and right, and then Li Kang puts the stainless steel washing basin in the front, and then takes out the stack of A4 paper weighing several pounds, and his face is pious and ready to be burned to Wang Yiluo.
Immediately afterwards, Li Kang's eyes suddenly widened, and after eagerly groping up and down his whole body several times with one hand, he finally reluctantly admitted that he had indeed forgotten to bring fire.
He had the heart to borrow it, but ...... There is not even a ghost shadow here, let alone someone to borrow, there is no ghost to borrow!
When he mentioned the ghost word and thought of the purpose of his visit, Li Kang shuddered, and suddenly felt that this place was a little gloomy.
Swinging his head and cleaning up all his thoughts, Li Kang had to put away the things one by one, thinking about where to borrow a fire.
Afraid that the incense candles would scare people, Li Kang buried them under the stack of A4 papers together with the tablets, and turned around and walked back.
Tonight's night was really a toss, the pressure on the mortgage was small, Li Kang was reluctant to take a taxi, he first carried a basin weighing seven or eight catties, and walked five miles.
Now I have to carry the basin that is not lighter than a tael and continue to walk back.
After walking for two miles, Li Kang was stunned and didn't see anyone smoking.
Now the ban on smoking in public places in Shanghai is in full swing, so there are really not many people who go out for a walk and bring a lighter.
In addition, there are no people here, it is really difficult for him to borrow fire, and there is no convenience store nearby, Li Kang can't catch anyone and ask if there is a lighter, so naturally he can only borrow it from smokers.
But the smokers who were always known to be met today, for some reason, didn't meet any of them.
When Li was tired and couldn't put down the stainless steel basin to wipe his sweat, he suddenly found that there was a bean fire not far in front of him, and the fire was extinguished, it was ......
Li Kang's spirit was shocked, it was someone smoking!
Although his waist was a little sore, he still picked up the basin and walked up quickly, and smiled at the smoking uncle: "Uncle, can you borrow a fire?" ”
"Borrow what?" The uncle asked loudly.
"Borrow fire." Li Kang's voice improved a lot.
This time, the uncle heard clearly, and he generously handed the cigarette to Li Kang: "You can take it and order it." ”
"Uncle, I don't smoke, do you have a lighter or something?"
The uncle also complained helplessly: "I also borrowed this fire from a little brother, and the old woman was afraid that I would smoke, so she confiscated all my lighters!" ”
Hearing this, Li Kang's waist, which had just been forcibly straightened, was sore again.
He doesn't smoke, and it's useless for the uncle to give him the cigarette butt, not to mention that the cigarette butt can't light the A4 paper under normal circumstances.
Although the temperature of the cigarette butt reaches the ignition point of the paper, because the surface area is too large and the heat dissipation is fast, unlike the thick layers of dead leaves in the forest when the cigarette butt causes a forest fire, the temperature of the cigarette butt is completely unpreserved in this case.
So under normal circumstances, the butt of the cigarette can only leave a circle of charred black on the paper.
Thanking the uncle's kind cigarette butt, Li Kang continued to walk back.
I usually go out and see a few people smoking while walking in public, which catches the people behind and inhales a stomach full of second-hand smoke.
But today it's strange, except for the uncle who squatted on the side of the road and smoked, he didn't even see a person smoking on the road!
The core values of socialism have suddenly become powerful, and everyone's quality has improved tonight?
I don't know how long I walked, and even the tiredness was numb, Li Kang was suddenly pleasantly surprised to see a 24-hour convenience store, and this lighter finally had a place to buy!
Just look at it again, isn't this the one downstairs?
I still buy the red paper and glue for pasting tablets here!
“……”
Is this walking back again? It's a full ten miles back and forth, no wonder my arms are so numb and my waist is so sore.
More than 200 pieces of A4 paper are not heavy, but they can't stand for a long time.
It won't be so tiring to use the mention and resistance, but the end is the most tiring way, and after walking down ten miles, Li Kang is no longer good.
spent a dollar to buy a lighter, but he didn't have the courage to walk another five miles, just bought a house for more than a month, and took a huge loan of more than 3 million.
The starting price of a night taxi is eighteen yuan, but fortunately, Wuli Road is still within the starting price.
But Li Kang's heart was still dripping blood.
The house slave is cool when he has a house, it is this money, but he is more and more afraid to spend it.
Especially Li Kang, who is used to being poor, not only does he not have much sense of security when he has a house, but he is full of a sense of crisis, although the 3 million yuan owed to the bank can be divided into 30 years, but he always has the illusion that the loan may be cut off next month.