Chapter 196: Folk Customs
Sunset dusk.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the off-road vehicle drove with difficulty to the two large locust trees.
There is a vacant land here, which is the threshing floor of the village, and it is more than enough to stop five or six cars.
Li Qingzhao grew up here since he was a child, and he is no stranger to such a thing.
Before getting out of the car, Lu Yu deliberately took down a few packs of cigarettes from the back seat and scattered one for each person, when the villagers asked him who he was from Li Qingzhao, Lu Yu generously admitted that he was Li Qingzhao's boyfriend, and Li Qingzhao did not refute it.
After all, Lu Yu appeared as Li Qingzhao's boyfriend in front of Li Jinhua and even the Li family.
The villagers who received the cigarettes were very polite to Lu Yu, and some people invited him to their house for dinner, but naturally Lu Yu refused.
Hear a commotion outside.
Li Jinhua walked out of the yard with a spatula.
"Mom!"
"Qingzhao is back?"
Li Qingzhao took Li Jinhua's hand: "Well, Mom, let's go in and talk." ”
"Where's Xiao Yu?" Li Jinhua looked around and saw Lu Yu in the crowd, so she was relieved, and immediately said: "You said that you, such an adult, you don't call in advance when you bring your boyfriend back, I haven't prepared anything, how can Xiao Yu enter the house?" ”
"Mom, Lu Yu is not that kind of person."
"Not sensible!"
“……”
"Don't be stunned, hurry up and pull Xiao Yu into the house, it just so happens that today is your grandfather's birthday, I killed a chicken, stew some potatoes in a while, and have a meal together."
At this time, Lu Yu also saw Li Jinhua, and just wanted to come over to say hello, but was stopped by the crowd.
With his strength, it's actually very simple to come out.
But these people are all ordinary people, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, Lu Yu naturally didn't dare to mess around, so he could only let everyone talk.
Seeing this, Li Jinhua shouted: "What are you doing? Don't let people eat? If you have something to do, we don't have time to entertain you today. ”
"Jinhua, this is your mistake, the eldest girl has found a boyfriend, what's wrong with us coming to be lively?"
"That's it!"
"It just so happens that we haven't eaten yet, so I'll go to your house to eat in a while!"
"We don't eat in vain, it's a big deal that you owe my family three liters of rice last month, I don't want you to pay it back."
"That can't be, they owe my family hundreds of yuan, since the eldest girl is back, Jinhua, should this money be returned to me?"
"And mine, this year is very dry, there is no harvest, my son and daughter-in-law did not make any money outside, and I returned the thousand yuan I lent you the year before last."
"Yes, pay back!"
"If you want us not to make trouble, if you return the money, we will naturally leave, but if you don't pay back the money today, don't blame us for ignoring the feelings of the villagers."
One word from you, one word from me.
They are all here to ask for money.
There are also some people who have no conflicts of interest, all of whom put their hands in their pockets and look like they are watching a good show.
Li Jinhua roared: "Didn't you say that when the grain is harvested and the money is exchanged, I will give it to you when the time comes?" It's the end of July now, and I'll definitely return the money to you in half a month at most, what's the hurry? ”
"How can you not be in a hurry!"
"You push tomorrow today, tomorrow the day after tomorrow, how do we know if you will pay us back if you harvest the grain next month?"
"Look at the big girl, such a talented girl, she drives herself when she comes back."
"It makes sense, you can afford to buy hundreds of thousands of cars, and you can't afford to pay back our hundreds of dollars, right?"
Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
This is the folk customs of the mountain people.
You can say that they are material, it is because they are poor and afraid, poor mountains and bad waters, material resources are difficult, life is not easy, who has spare money to lend out?
The reason why it was lent to the Li family was not because the Li family had two pretty girls!
What a pity!
The Li family borrowed money, but they refused to let go, and even Lin Dahu, who was considered a powerful person in their eyes, was rejected, do you think they are not worried?
Li Jinhua was speechless.
The face is very bad.
Lu Yu took the opportunity to come to Li Qingzhao's side, pressed his hand, and shouted: "Everyone is a fellow villager and a neighbor, there is no need to make such a fuss, as for the matter of repaying the money...... Well, let's do it, tomorrow, tomorrow at noon, everyone get the voucher, and we will naturally return the money to you, how about it? ”
"Really?"
People are a little unconvinced.
Lu Yu was helpless and glanced at Jin Xiaoliu.
Jin Xiaoliu immediately got out of the car, still carrying a bag in his hand, and with a snap, he opened the bag: "See?" ”
The bag was full of money.
A pile of them, neatly and neatly.
Not to mention how tempting it is.
Lu Yu said lightly: "It is natural to repay the debt, I understand your feelings, but it is too late today, we hurried back and didn't even eat dinner yet, so please go back first, you have also seen the money, as long as you can come up with the voucher tomorrow, I guarantee that you will not lose any points." ”
It was guaranteed that all talents left.
As soon as they left, the Li family was a lot quieter, even a little weird.
Even Lu Yu felt something strange.
Seems...... There's something spooky about this place that gives a chilling feeling.
Lu Yu looked around quietly, and found that this cold air actually came from the Li family's house, which made Lu Yu feel very surprised.
You must know that Lu Yu is a chemical strength.
Even he felt gloomy, and even his internal strength was suppressed, let alone ordinary people.
"No wonder the Li family has many disasters and diseases, and their feelings are evil things, but they don't know what it is." Lu Yu thought about it and didn't tell him what he had discovered.
He handed the money to Li Qingzhao.
Only then did he say to Li Jinhua: "Auntie, I didn't bother you uninvited, right?" ”
"Don't bother, don't bother."
"Well, let's go inside!"
Li Jinhua was full of joy: "Okay, come in, by the way, I just killed a chicken and stewed it in the pot, Qingzhao, you take Xiao Yu to meet your father and grandparents." ”
"Good!"
The group entered the house.
The Li family's house is made of wood, and it looks old, it is a semi-open courtyard house that was common in the seventies and eighties, and because of the age, the house on the east side is no longer inhabitable.
The one on the west side is home to livestock, so the only thing that can really live in the whole courtyard is the main house.
The first thing that comes into view is the hall, which has a high threshold and requires a leg lift to cross it, a few chairs under the eaves, a high table inside the hall, and a shrine in the innermost part.
I just entered the hall.
An object on the shrine caught Lu Yu's attention.
Incense burner!
"That's where the chill comes from!"
Lu Yu was very sure of this, so he carefully examined the object.
This incense burner is larger than the general incense burner, and it is much larger, a bit like the meaning of the bronze tripod, if it is an ordinary person may think it is useless, it is an ordinary incense burner.
But in Lu Yu's eyes, this thing is very unusual.
Because it's not an incense burner.
It's an alchemy furnace.
Lu Yu's eyes were full of doubts: "I don't know how the Li family got this treasure, such an object, if it is a knowledgeable person, I am afraid that I will want to snatch it, but the Li family swaggers and puts it in the hall as an incense burner." ”
"That's not right!"
"It stands to reason that the incense burner should be relatively hot, and there shouldn't be such a heavy cold, isn't it ......?"
Thinking of this, Lu Yu asked quietly, "Is there anything in this incense burner?" ”
"I don't know, but this incense burner is said to have been picked up by my grandfather on the battlefield, at first they thought it was a cultural relic and needed to be sold for some money, but later a dealer saw it and thought it was worthless, so grandpa used it as an incense burner."
Lu Yu frowned and said, "This incense burner is a bit weird!" ”
"Uncle Shi, what's weird?"
"Do you think about it carefully, has it been a plague in your family since this thing appeared?"
“……”
was said by Lu Yu, Li Qingzhao recalled it carefully, and found that it was really similar to what Lu Yu said.
No way?
Is this really an evil thing?
Li Qingzhao nodded: "It seems to be like this, by the way, there is a compartment behind the shrine, which used to be where the grandparents lived, and then the grandparents moved to another room when they got sick, so they let the uncle live in it, but it didn't take long for the uncle to get sick, and I don't know why, so the uncle became disabled." ”
"Where's your dad? Have you also lived? ”
"Well, my dad did live before the accident, but he lived with my mom, why didn't my mom have any problems when my dad had an accident?"
Lu Yu was silent for a while, and said, "Let's not talk about this first, there are some things I can't be sure about yet, you take me to meet your father first." ”
"Okay, my dad is in the room on the left."
It is also because there are too many patients in the family.
Li Qingzhao chose to worship Mojiu to become a teacher, although her medical skills are not as good as Lu Yu, but compared to ordinary Chinese medicine, Li Qingzhao is much stronger.
was reminded by Lu Yu like this, and she reacted a little.
glanced at the incense burner, and then took Lu Yu and the others to her father Li Deshan's room......