Chapter 68: The Rich and the Poor
Brother Long negotiated with Director Shen, and went to see the Fake Teng Snake's Neidan as soon as possible, but found that it was missing.
That thing is worth at least a million dollars, and when you meet someone in need, the price may double.
There is a clear record in the Compendium of Materia Medica about the body of animals absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon, and it is called the four wonders together with Dog Treasure, Ambergris and Tai Sui.
If there is a spiritual thing in the world, it is only a treasure if it falls into the hands of people who don't need it. In the hands of people who don't know the goods, it's an ornament, but in the eyes of the patient, it's a life.
Life is priceless, no matter how high or low.
This sounds very pleasant and nice, but in reality it is not like this.
I have seen people in the village lose their lives because they were poor and could not afford tens of thousands. And the rich have a terminal illness, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars are invested in it, but they can live many more years.
So, those nice words are just lies made up by rich people to appease the poor.
Brother Long quickly locked the object of suspicion on me and Li Lin, I pulled Li Lin up and said, "I'm talking about the money when I go back, I believe my father has his plans!" ”
Li Lin stood up almost in prostration, and he didn't blame my mother and my father. I have been carrying the 100,000 yuan that Zhao Linger gave me in the morning, and I took out my own things and put them in my mother's basket with my bag.
It's already noon, and I can't catch the bus when I go back.
My mother has never been in the city, and although my daughter-in-law is familiar with the things in the city, she is also the kind of person who can't take care of herself.
After thinking about it, I still think that my mother and daughter-in-law should settle down first.
Chen Xue came over and said, "Ling'er, she just went back, I'll call her and ask Auntie to go home first." It's safe that way! ”
Chen Xue's reminder, I only realized the safety problem, not to mention whether Du Jiang knows about the demon card, I am very worried about the onmyoji of the cherry blossom country. Zhao Ling'er's community is relatively upscale, and there are many people living there, which is safer than living in a hotel.
Seeing that I agreed, Chen Xue called Zhao Ling'er. Brother Long also gave more face, so he didn't come over to make trouble. Of course, whether it is to save face or to be afraid of his daughter-in-law, only he knows.
Zhao Ling'er estimated that she didn't go far, and the phone was connected for about ten minutes, and I was worried about their safety, so I asked Ermao to go back.
Before my mother and the others left, Brother Long came over and asked, "Boy, where is Neidan?" Don't play tricks on me, everyone has a part in that thing. ”
The skin of the fake snake is rough and thick, and the position of Neidan is seven inches below, and he didn't break it at that time, and I now lie that it's not appropriate to tear it out and eat it. So he said embarrassedly: "I took out the sarcoma and Li Lin, and we were about to put it away, but I didn't think that Ermao would snatch it from my hand." Brother Long, I'm really sorry! ”
I looked sincere.
Brother Long stared at me, helpless. Ermao is gone, it can't catch up, and it's pulling it out of its stomach.
Li Lin came over, turned all his pockets over and said, "If Brother Long doesn't believe it, you can search it!" ”
I hurriedly pulled out all my pockets. Brother Long scolded: "! ”
Li Lin and I made bitter faces, put our pockets back, and I chased after Brother Long and asked, "Brother Long, we don't know how to use the merit points, do you see if you can convert them into cash for us?" ”
Brother Long nodded very dryly.
I was overjoyed and hurriedly asked him how much he could redeem for 500 merit points.
Chen Xue said that that thing can be exchanged for things that money can't buy, which shows that it is still a little hard. Li Lin and I are now bankrupt and urgently need a sum of money to support our lives.
However, the money in the future cannot be handed over to my mother, let alone my father.
No matter what his purpose is, his life is not guaranteed, and there is no point in caring about that.
Brother Long smiled and said, "Five hundred!" ”
Li Lin was afraid that he had heard it wrong, so he chased after Brother Long and said with a smile: "Five million, isn't it a bit much?" ”
The two women from the Heavenly Master's Mansion with a ponytail and short hair sneered beside them, "It's five hundred yuan, not five million." Bumpkin! ”
Li Lin was still smiling, and when he heard the last three words and five hundred yuan, his face turned cold.
Brother Long walked to the corpse of the leech and reminded the museum specimen maker: "After the corpse is made into a specimen, it must not get wet, and it is better to put desiccant in it!" ”
The leeches near southern Yunnan are the simplest Gu poison in Miaojiang, the carcass of the leeches is dried and pounded into powder, and when it encounters water, the powder will turn into leech larvae, and people will parasitize in the esophagus and nasal cavity after eating.
When I was seven or eight years old, adults were not allowed to drink water in Longtan, because they were afraid of eating leeches. When I was in elementary school, I saw several classmates with leeches in their noses, and they had a faint amount of blood in their noses all day.
It's scary.
The leech in front of me has been raised by the Onmyoji, and it has already mutated, and if it still has that characteristic, it will be even more dangerous than it is now after drying.
When the museum experts heard this, they were even more careful.
After Brother Long finished speaking, he turned back to us and said: "In two months, it will be the annual event of Xuanmen, and when you go to Longhu Mountain to participate in the event, you can exchange merit points for some things." ”
Two months later?
Brother Long nodded, and didn't say much, but went to see the people in the museum deal with the snake corpse.
Director Shen was also there, and when he saw us coming, he pointed to the snake corpse on the ground and said: "This thing is very similar to the Teng snake in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, if it weren't for the environment that does not allow it to continue to grow, I'm afraid what we see is the Teng snake in the Classic of Mountains and Seas!" ”
I asked curiously, "Director Shen, is this thing really a snake?" ”
Director Shen smiled and said: "No one dares to say that it is, and no one dares to say that it is not, many things, there is no much point in tracing back to the source, you can only see is believing." ”
I seemed to understand something, but I nodded incomprehensibly, and didn't continue to ask.
At noon, the people from the museum transferred the excavator and began to clean up the earthwork, I think it is useless for me and Li Lin to stay here, I think my daughter-in-law, I told Brother Long, and after he agreed, we went back to Zhao Ling'er's house first.
Before we got out of the car, we saw Du Jiang, and as soon as we got out of the car, he walked towards us and saw his evil face. Li Lin and I walked towards him with a smile, but when he was about to find fault, Li Lin and I ran away laughing.
Du Jiang didn't react, and Li Lin and I had already run away.
Confronting him now, except arguing, there is no point.
As soon as Li Lin and I ran away, it was impossible for him to catch Chen Xue, after all, there was a debtor and a debtor.
Chen Xue caught up with us outside the community building, and she was also very speechless about my behavior and Li Lin's behavior. I guess only half-grown kids like us would use this method. However, Chen Xue also reminded us that if the Heavenly Master Mansion really investigates the Du family and doesn't find anything, we have to be careful, the Du family will not let us go, and we may be troubled at the event.
I didn't think about the Xuanmen event at all, and the matter in front of me hasn't been solved yet, who cares about the merits.
Back at Zhao Ling'er's house, my mother was a little unaccustomed to it, so she asked me to find a place for her and her daughter-in-law, she didn't want to trouble Zhao Ling'er.
I was a little sad to hear, but I didn't think my mother was ashamed.
She has spent half of her life on me, she has never eaten well, she has never lived in such a luxurious house, it is normal for her to be uncomfortable.
Now she is not uncommon to live in a good house and eat good food.
What she cares about is whether I can live well, whether I can be safe every day.
My mother is a typical rural woman, and she rarely asks about family affairs, but that doesn't mean she doesn't know. When I stuffed 100,000 yuan into her back basket, the worry in her eyes that wanted to ask and was scared was deeply imprinted in my heart.
Li Lin packed up my things with me, took Ermao, and led my mother and daughter-in-law to prepare to go out to dinner.
Zhao Ling'er is still very enthusiastic, but my mother is uncomfortable, and it is also related to this enthusiasm.
She asked us to eat, but I refused, and asked her to come with us if she didn't dislike it.
I don't say this to complain about her or to draw a line with her, but to show my sincerity, and if she refuses, I won't feel that she looks down on me.
After all, our way of life is not at the same level, not at the same level.
Friend, I don't have to cater to her, let her rich accept my life to be called a friend.
When Zhao Ling'er heard this, she took Chen Xue's hand and said naturally: "Then tonight, I'll have dinner!" ”
When I came out to the community, I was worried about knocking down Du Jiang, so I deliberately went out through another door.
Zhao Ling'er kept asking me on the way, if the onmyoji and ninja would come tonight.
She knew this, it was Brother Long who said it. The style of doing things in the Heavenly Master's Mansion is very direct, they deal with one thing, as long as it is the people involved, they will not do anything to hide it, as for believe it or not, it is someone else's business.
Because of the matter of the wanted second uncle, I originally didn't have a good impression of the Heavenly Master's Mansion, but I still agree with their attitude towards this kind of thing.
This is the same reason as when I came out with my daughter-in-law and drank blood.
The hotel I chose was not good, nor was it bad. But I ordered ten dishes in one go, wanting my mother to taste something I hadn't eaten before.
Now, in the future, I will do my best to make her happy, this is my greatest ideal.
I ordered a few big roosters for my daughter-in-law, gave her raw blood to drink, and I asked the people in the restaurant to cook the chicken for half a life, and gave it to Ermao to eat.
Because my mother was here, I didn't talk much about the construction site, so as not to worry about her again.
made Zhao Ling'er absent-minded when eating, until she saw her daughter-in-law eating, she was startled. After I explained, Zhao Ling'er kept staring at her daughter-in-law, very curious.
My daughter-in-law also clubbed her chin after eating, looking at me stupidly, making me uncomfortable eating.
However, as soon as she left the Yin Village, she would recover, and I didn't dare to provoke and tease her. Just concerned to ask if she was full.
The daughter-in-law nodded, and then said the second sentence in a whole day: "Be careful tonight!" ”