"Are you Li Hao?"

I walked up to the kid and asked softly.

"Yes, you are?"

Li Hao raised his immature face and looked at me suspiciously.

does not have the rough body of the old Li, different from the five big and three thick of the Northeast man, although Li Hao is not short, he looks very delicate, and there is a delicate spirit of a Jiangnan genius between his eyebrows, and the arrogance of a Northeast man, but he is really a talent.

"Is Brother Li your father? Ahem......"

When I mentioned Da Lao Li, I felt a pain in my heart, and my body was already a little weak, so I couldn't help coughing.

Li Hao said 'ah': "You, are you okay?" ”

I wanted to see if he was okay, but now he asked me if I was okay.

I smiled wryly and waved my hand: "It's okay." ”

"Why don't you sit in the room and drink a cup of hot water?"

Li Hao said, took out the key that was worn by the red rope and hung around his neck from the inside of his chest clothes, and opened the door.

I originally wanted to say no, but after thinking about it for a while, I didn't say anything, and followed him into the small courtyard.

The courtyard was very clean, and as soon as I entered, I heard a few dog barks.

Li Hao seemed to be afraid that I would be bitten by a dog, and shouted inside: "A few bastards are lying on my stomach." ”

This voice is quite the style of Da Lao Li.

The two howling hounds rushed out and immediately lay obediently at the door.

It is the two hounds that Da Lao Li called the second Lao Li and the third Lao Li.

It seems that we have been mentally prepared, and the day after we went up the mountain, Da Lao Li asked the two hounds to go home by themselves, but I didn't expect them to come back obediently.

When I saw them again, I felt a pain in my heart again, and my nose was a little sour.

Under the protection of Li Hao, I followed him into the courtyard, the eldest Li family only had two brick houses, he let me into the room with the hall to sit down, hurriedly went to pour me a glass of boiling water, and then said very politely: "Uncle, do you know my father?" ”

Uncle? Am I that old?

But thinking about my current appearance before I get old, I can't help but feel related, uncle is uncle.

"yes, yes."

I drank boiling water and said casually.

"You're my dad's business friend, right? Do you know where my dad went? I haven't been back for days. ”

Li Hao was a little worried when he said about Elder Li.

I licked my lips, I don't know whether to tell him about the death of Da Lao Li, he has the right to know, but I can't bear to hurt a child's weak heart at this time, after all, he is only twelve years old, looking at the wall full of honorary awards, I know why Da Lao Li cherishes his son so much.

What could be more reassuring to parents than good academic performance?

I was hesitating, two dog barks suddenly sounded outside the gate, and a dusty middle-aged woman walked in from outside the door suspiciously, and shouted when she entered the gate: "Li Hao, you haven't gone to school yet?" I'm going to be late! ”

The middle-aged woman walked over as she spoke, stamped her feet at the door, stomped off the snowflakes on the upper of her black cotton shoes, and walked in.

When Li Hao saw the visitor, he immediately shouted: "Mom, there is a guest at home, and I am doing business with Dad." ”

I hurriedly got up and stood at the table as the woman lifted the curtain.

"Doing business with your dad?"

The woman lifted the heavy cotton curtain and glanced into the living room, and when she saw my face, the basket she was carrying fell to the ground.

In that basket, several eggs shattered.

"Mom, what's wrong with you?"

"Sister-in-law!"

Li Hao and I stepped forward almost at the same time and helped the middle-aged woman.

The middle-aged woman's body trembled slightly, and she said to Li Hao in a slightly trembling tone: "Child, go to school, Mom is fine, Mom will say a few words to your Uncle Ou." ”

She actually knows my surname Ou!

Li Hao glanced at me hesitantly, obediently didn't make a sound, and nodded: "Then I'll go to school." ”

After speaking, Li Hao walked out of the room.

Soon, we heard the gate closing.

I let out a sigh of relief, this child's eyes were too stressful for me.

As soon as Li Hao left, Lao Li's daughter-in-law was weak again and sat on the ground: "Mr. Ou, our Lao Li, is it already?" ”

Although I don't know how she got the news, she undoubtedly said what I wanted to say, and I didn't have to hide my embarrassment anymore, so I nodded lonely.

'Woo woo woo'

Lao Li's daughter-in-law held her knees with her hands, sat on the ground and cried bitterly.

The pain of bereavement, which woman can put it on her body without crying?

I didn't know how to comfort her, I just watched and watched.

Lao Li's daughter-in-law was much stronger than I imagined, and after crying for a while, she actually got up, took out a broom from the door, shoveled the ashes from the bottom of the pot, spread them on the freshly broken eggs, and cleaned the ground.

When she did these things, I could only stand there helplessly and look at her, her body was trembling, her hands were trembling, she was suffering a huge mental blow, but she seemed extremely calm, and the composure was beyond my expectations.

When she had done this, she poured me another glass of boiling water, and her hands were shaking, and the boiling water splashed on the table and burned on her hands, and she seemed to be unaware.

After doing all this, she rubbed her hot red palms and sat down at the table: "Mr. Ou, please take a seat." ”

I sat silently on the stool, looking at the woman who seemed to be ten years older for a moment, not knowing how to speak.

"Lao Li said a long time ago, he kills every day, and every day he dreams of being hacked and killed by all kinds of strange elves, and he says that sooner or later he will die on the mountain.

Sure enough, there was an omen! Lao Zhang's family held a banquet and invited Lao Li to kill the pig, Lao Li said that he would not live long, and watched the pig flutter under his knife, as if he saw the day he was disemboweled. ”

When Lao Li's daughter-in-law said this, she couldn't help choking again, and tears flowed down her eyes.

I pulled out a tissue for her, but she wiped her eyes twice with her sleeve: "Lao Li and I saw you when the Zhang family had an accident before, and we know that your surname is Ou, and Lao Li said at the time that he will definitely die, and we must find a way to get two peace charms for our mother."

I asked him why, and he said he was afraid, he killed too much, and when he was alive, he was so murderous, those beasts didn't dare to provoke us, he was afraid that after he died, he was afraid that those beasts would come to take revenge on our mother! ”

The more Lao Li's daughter-in-law spoke, the more sad she became, and my nose became more and more sore.

I don't know what to say, I'm too emotional, I originally wanted to give her two blue paper talismans, but after listening to her words, I was sad, I took out two purple paper talismans from my pocket and put them on the table, and then took out a roe deer tail and put it on the table, and finally took out a thousand yuan and put it on the table.