Li Huaishan cleaned up a corner of the kitchen, and there happened to be a three-pin socket in that place, which was perfect for the refrigerator.

Generally speaking, the refrigerator should be left to sit for six to ten hours before turning on the power when it is first bought, and usually, large appliances like this need to be transported by the merchant, and they will also send someone to debug the new refrigerator.

The reason why Li Huaishan and I shipped the refrigerator back by ourselves was completely to save money, when I bought the refrigerator, I specially told the store manager that I lived in this labyrinthine urban village, and the store manager frowned when he heard it, and then I said that the refrigerator can be shipped away by ourselves, but there are two conditions, one is that I want to pick up the goods on the spot, and the other is that I must give me a satisfactory discount.

The power of the labyrinth is really great, the store manager agreed to my conditions on the spot, and when we left, he kept saying that I was a kind person who knew how to think about others, and I was not afraid that I would break the refrigerator halfway and turn back to him to return the goods.

And since we bought a lot of meat on the way back, we were afraid of spoiling it after a long time, so we had to get the refrigerator working as soon as possible so that we could put the meat in.

Fifty catties of meat were cut into a large number of small pieces of meat of two or three catties a piece, and Li Huaishan was responsible for storing them one by one in the freezer.

After that, I looked at the stove of Lao Hu's house, and there was no shortage of things like oil, salt, and spices, and there were a few handfuls of not very fresh vegetables next to the pool, but fortunately, the leaves had not yet begun to rot.

Back in the east bedroom, Li Huaishan closed the door with his hand, and then sighed at me: "Alas, you are a person, you look lukewarm on the surface, but when you encounter this kind of thing, it is easy to overflow with love." ”

I said, "Why do I look lukewarm?" The 6,000 yuan just now was not just to help Lao Hu, think about it, if I don't help him pay off his debts, those people will come over to find trouble if they have nothing to do, but we have to live here for more than three months, and you are annoyed by hearing people slamming the door every day? ”

"Come on, you," Li Huaishan looked at me and smiled: "It's obvious that you help people pay back because they are pitiful, and you have to make so many excuses for yourself." Hey, what have you been talking about with that fat man for so long? ”

I straightened out my words and set aside the fat man's words succinctly.

After listening to my words, Li Huaishan folded his arms, frowned and said, "There is a person standing in front of the window?" It doesn't sound like it's very evil, isn't that fat man nervous? ”

I said, "No, when he talks about that night, he sweats profusely on his forehead, obviously frightened." If I am not mistaken, the reason why he couldn't move at that time should be because his body was infused with yin qi. In addition, he said, the person standing in front of the window had the joints of his arms and legs folded backwards, and normal people could not do that kind of movement. ”

Li Huaishan clasped his hands and pondered for a moment, and then said, "You say, what's the rancid smell in the warehouse?" ”

I said, "The key question is, what exactly is the flesh that stinks." ”

Li Huaishan nodded and didn't say anything more.

Seriously, I've known him for so long, and it's the first time I've seen him think so seriously, and looking at his pensive and silent look, I almost thought that the person in front of me wasn't him.

Bang, bang, bang......

Someone knocked on the door of the east bedroom, and Li Huaishan happened to be standing at the door, and the detective opened the door.

There are only a few people in the family, who can the person outside the door be Lao Hu if he is not Lao Hu? He stood in the doorway, his back bowed slightly, and he looked at me with a little embarrassment in his eyes.

I gave Lao Hu a smile, but my eyes swept over his shoulder and landed on the door of the west bedroom.

There was a crack two fingers wide in the door, and the madwoman seemed to be asleep, and I could faintly hear long breathing coming from the crack in the door.

At this time, Lao Hu asked me hesitantly, "Why are you ...... How did you remember to buy a refrigerator? ”

As soon as I heard this, I could roughly guess what Lao Hu would say next, which was nothing more than a polite remark, claiming that he couldn't afford such a big gift, or thanking me for helping him pay off his debts, saying that he would definitely return the money to me in the future, and then say a little about the refrigerator.

My mind is now on the side of the steel frame room, and I don't want to waste time on such trivial things, so I waved my hand at Lao Hu and said, "Hehe, you see that I have a lot of miscellaneous things at hand, such as debt repayment and refrigerator matters, let's find another time to talk." ”

Seriously, I really can't get used to Lao Hu's submissive appearance, and I even feel very annoyed when I see him, but in order to take care of his emotions, I still try to smile when I speak.

Lao Hu looked at me stunned, then nodded, and planned to leave.

I called him from behind: "Brother Hu." ”

He bent over, turned around slowly, and smiled at me very shyly: "Just call me Lao Hu." ”

I also returned him with a smile and asked, "Do you know how to cook?" ”

Hearing me say this, Lao Hu's eyes seemed to have a little more confidence, and he smiled and nodded: "I can do it, and the craftsmanship is okay." ”

Me: "Then I'll get you some food for the two of us tonight." You see, the two of us have been tossing and turning for most of the day today, and we are tired enough, and we are not the kind of people who are particularly good at cooking......"

The smile on Lao Hu's face bloomed even more: "Okay, then I'll cook for you, it just so happens that there is still a lot of rice at home." ”

Li Huaishan interjected: "There are fifty catties of meat in the refrigerator, this guy can eat it, at least ten catties of fine meat for a meal, haha, you just watch it." ”

Lao Hu said: "When I was a soldier, I would make a big pot of rice, and ten catties of meat would not be difficult for me." ", while helping us to close the door.

When Lao Hu's footsteps were far away from the door, Li Huaishan turned his head and said to me: "I said that you can eat ten catties of meat in one meal, and he was not surprised at all. ”

I pouted, "Maybe it's because he knew I had a lot of food early on." ”

Li Huaishan: "Gai Dong told him? ”

I nodded, "It should be." ”

When I was talking to Li Huaishan, my eyes were still on the door, thinking about what Lao Hu looked like just now. When it comes to cooking, he seems to suddenly have confidence, especially when Li Huaishan says the word "meat", his eyes are shining.

I don't know why, Lao Hu's various reactions always remind me of the rancid smell in the warehouse.

After a while, Li Huaishan said to me again: "You said this old Hu...... Could it be that he is also a person in the trade? ”

I pouted, noncommittal.

Probably because the stew took too much time, it wasn't until half past eight in the evening that Lao Hu shouted that the meal was ready and called me and Li Huaishan out to eat.

When Li Huaishan and I came out of the bedroom, Lao Hu happened to put a pair of chopsticks on the dining table, and I saw that there seemed to be markings on the chopsticks from a distance, so I stepped forward to take a look, but found that each chopstick was moldy, from the middle of the chopsticks to the tail of the chopsticks, all covered with scattered mold spots.

Looks like I'll have to go out tomorrow to buy a few sets of chopsticks and come back.

There are four people in the family, but Lao Hu has prepared five pairs of dishes and chopsticks. Li Huaishan and I didn't know why, but we just glanced at each other and didn't ask much after that.

The madwoman also sat down with her, she seemed to be silly and silly, but she was very quiet when she ate, but every few bites of food, she had to pick up a piece of meat and put it in the useless bowl. Whenever she made such a move, Lao Hu would throw an embarrassed look at me, and I would just smile and wave my hand, indicating that it didn't matter.

There were a lot of meat dishes on the table, but the crazy woman kept staring at the green vegetables to eat, and all the meat she picked up was also put in the empty bowl, and only when Lao Hu put the meat to her mouth, she would smile at Lao Hu, and then obediently eat the meat.

During this period, I noticed a detail, that is, every time Lao Hu looked at the crazy woman, there was an unpretentious pity in his eyes, but in this love, there was also an incomprehensible firmness.

After eating, the hour hand of the wall clock had just passed nine o'clock, and the time was too early, so I could only ask Lao Hu for the key to the house first, and then I went back to the bedroom with Li Huaishan to wait.

Originally, I was going to watch TV, but Lao Hu's family didn't close the line at all, and I couldn't receive any TV.

When I was bored, Li Huaishan opened my laptop to play minesweeper, and I took out the sixty-four hexagram notes given to me by the head of the empty cloud road from my suitcase, leaned on the head of the bed and looked at it heartlessly, so as to kill time.

It wasn't until twelve o'clock at midnight that Li Huaishan and I quickly packed up our things and tiptoed out of the bedroom.

The room was very quiet, only the occasional slight snoring sound came from the west bedroom, in order not to wake up Lao Hu and the crazy woman, Li Huaishan and I deliberately lifted the doorknob when we went out to prevent violent friction between the ground and the door panel.

After carefully closing the door, Li Huaishan first breathed a sigh of relief, and then took out a flashlight, and I stretched out my hand to block him: "Don't hit the light." ”

Li Huaishan turned his head to look at the village road and put away the flashlight again.

At this point in time, every household in the village has already turned off the lights and gone to bed, and there are no street lights on the village road, so it does feel dark when you first go out, but when you get used to the unlit environment, you will find that the moonlight is enough to make you distinguish the wet mud and puddles on the road at a glance.

In the past, there was a saying in the business of mountain drivers, called "silver water dark road black mud", many people rely on this sentence to pass through the deep mountains and old forests on a night with only moonlight.

The moon is bright enough today that I can see not only the road, but also the houses along the village road.

Li Huaishan whispered behind me, "How to go?" ”

I waved at him, and then I headed due east.

The village was eerily quiet, and as I walked along the village road, I could only hear the sound of my own breathing and the rustling of my feet when they touched the ground.

In fact, when I first entered this village, I felt strange in my heart, such an urban village, why can't you see a dog in the streets and alleys, and now Li Huaishan and I walk the village road at night, and there is no dog barking in the surrounding houses.

(End of chapter)