Chapter 56: Returning Home
After more than four hours of travel, the plane went from mountains to endless blue sea under the butt. I already smell the fishy smell of the sea breeze without opening the window, which is the smell I am most familiar with. I know, Xiamen has arrived.
After getting off the plane, I didn't delay for a moment, I didn't even go home, I shook a Didi car and went straight to Zhangzhou, heading towards the lake where Lao Lu and I met. At this moment, the most important thing is to retrieve the "living dead jade" stored in the hut by the lake first.
The Didi car drove for about an hour and finally arrived at its destination. After getting out of the car, I paid an extra eye and did not walk directly to the hut, but pretended to be a passer-by for a walk, and walked around the lake three times slowly, carefully observing the surrounding situation. Fortunately, there are not many people coming to this lake on weekdays, so in the afternoon, the old men and old ladies are either taking a bath in the bathhouse or playing mahjong in the chess and card room.
After confirming that it was safe, I took three steps and two steps, and got into Lao Lu's hut in one go. After entering the house, I didn't need to think much to roughly guess where the Living Dead Jade was, this room was so big that there was no place to hide anything except under the bed and in the cabinet. So I put my head under the bed, took out a clay pot from it, and laughed in my heart, thinking that if this living dead jade was not in it, I would write it upside down. So when I opened it, it was a jar of pickles, and I immediately blushed and cleared my throat in embarrassment.
I had no choice but to put my head under the bed and dig out, and then took out a clay pot, this time I learned well, first shook back and forth, only to hear the sound of ding dong ding dong inside, this is not the sound that pickles can make, so my heart was overjoyed, and I opened it to see that it was indeed the living dead jade!
I found some newspapers and wrapped the three layers of the living dead in the jade inside, and I couldn't put such a precious thing in the box, so I gently put it in the inner pocket of my jacket. After settling the Living Dead Jade, I put away the paintings on the wall one by one, rolled them, and then stuffed them all into the box, and put away a few bank cards under Lao Lu's pillow. Finally, after carefully inspecting the whole hut to make sure that nothing precious had been left behind, I walked out of the hut, sighed softly, and finally glanced at the hut where I met Lao Lu, and then locked the dilapidated door forever.
After returning home, my mother was grinning happily, lying on the sofa watching variety shows, and when she saw me coming back, she immediately ran over excitedly and asked: "Son, in ten months, your mother and I will be able to hug Mo Laosi, right?" ”
I was surprised, "What are you talking about?" ”
My mother poked me with her elbow, and said with a thief's eyebrows: "Come on, don't act, the owner of the commissary downstairs told me everything, four days ago, a beautiful little girl came to our house downstairs to block you, is there such a thing?" Then you took the family to Xiamen, and then you didn't come back for four whole days, you said that you are a lonely man and a widow, dry firewood, and the two of you lived together for four days, if you haven't been pregnant with Mo Laosi, then you have to go to the hospital to check. ”
My mother's face was covered with a mouthful of old blood, and she said angrily: "Are you really my own mother?" Is it appropriate for you to talk to your son and me about such a sexually explicit topic? You're too open-minded, aren't you? ”
My mother said righteously: "Old people often say that a man is thirty and starts a family. You have more than three cards, you haven't started a business, it's not a big deal, but it's not okay to not start a family, as the saying goes, filial piety comes first, what is filial piety? Inheritance is filial piety! You just mess with you like this, no matter how you go down, my old Mo family's sweet and sour carp will have no successor! ”
I listened to my mother talking farther and farther, all to the sweet and sour carp, what is this, tell her again, I didn't want to get out in four or five hours, so I hurriedly said to her: "Stop, stop, you always stop." I have a lot of things, you should continue to watch your variety show, I will take this matter of the inheritance of the old Mo family to heart, the girl who came downstairs to block me last time is not a good stubble, she is short-tempered, if I marry her home, the ceiling of our family will be gone, do you believe it. Forget it, in a word, I promise you that I will definitely give you an explanation of my marriage within two years, okay. ”
When my mother heard me say this, although she was a little unwilling, she had to nod, she looked at my back as I went upstairs, and shouted at me again: "I'm still worried about the girl who came downstairs to block you at our house, whether it's a radish or a melon, you have time to bring it back to me to see, okay?" ”
I replied listlessly, "Okay." ”
After returning to the house, in order to prevent my mother from nagging again, I locked the door of the house, first rested for a while, smoked a cigarette to refresh myself, and then packed up all the miscellaneous luggage and Lao Lu's relics. After doing all this, I turned on the computer and logged in to QQ, because the pudding girl had been missing for four whole days in the author group, and everyone had already exploded and speculated about her whereabouts.
Because the people in this group are all writers, and their brains are very big, some people say that the pudding disappeared for four days, and it is very likely that he won the lottery, at least five million to run up, and he no longer needs to work, and since then he has been prosperous and rich, and he has enjoyed inexhaustible. Some people also say that Pudding has seen through all the states of the world, has gone to Wutai Mountain to become a monk, and has become a comfortable person with great enlightenment. Some people even say that Pudding's real identity is actually the third daughter of Prince Zong, the general of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, and this time her father is at war with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, she just travels back to the modern day, and wants to change history through the cause and effect of literary novels, so as to help his father calm the troubled times.
After the pudding was launched, he didn't say a word, just a red envelope of 100 yuan divided into 200 parts, with an average of five cents per person, and finally blocked the mouths of the people in the group. I just smiled awkwardly, watching these unnutritious group chats was a waste of time, so I simply reported peace to each other with Pudding, and turned off QQ.
I sat alone in the quiet room staring at the computer in a daze, Lao Lu's words before his death echoed in my ears from time to time, although I had firmly told him that everything in the future would be entrusted to me, but in fact I had no way at all. I don't even know what to do next. I remembered what Lao Lu said to me with all his last breath of strength before he died: "Go find him, go find him!" Without that man to help you, you can't find the Living Dead Jade. ”
There is no doubt that the man who can help me in Lao Lu's mouth is a god man who is more powerful than Lao Lu: "Old man". But the question is, the old man and Lao Lu have broken off their friendship, will he really help me? Thinking of this, I couldn't help but sigh, the road ahead may be more complicated than I imagined. It is better to ask for people than to ask for it, and it is better to rely on the sky than to rely on the earth. So I opened Baidu and typed a line of words on the search box: Jade of the Living Dead.