madman and kidnapper

Chapter 21

Just as Li Zhuang finished counting the goods in that room, he saw a beautiful daughter-in-law walking in the distance. Li Zhuang hurriedly stretched his neck and squinted to look at it. The more he looked, the more he looked like the "cornucopia" of Li Guaizi's house.

The daughter-in-law walked quickly, and in a blink of an eye, she arrived in front of Li Zhuang's shop. Li Zhuang saw that she was indeed the daughter-in-law of the kidnapper's family. shouted:

"What are you going to do! If you don't buy it, don't buy it! You still have to smash other people's stores?"

"Smash the store?"

Li Zhuang shuddered, and then he felt that the woman was not kind, so he hurried out of the stage, and apologized to the woman with a smile:
"Hey, sister-in-law is here? What should sister-in-law buy? Tell brother, brother will give you a bargain."

The woman smiled, took a breath first, then sat down on the steps next to her calmly, pointed at the kidnapper who was panting wildly, and said to Li Zhuang, "Don't worry, I came here to ask you something."

As she said that, without giving Li Zhuang a chance to take the blame, the woman continued: "Just now, I was cleaning up the house at home, and this heartless lame went back to ask me for money, and even threatened me that he would give it to his parents." Going to the grave, I want to buy wreaths from you, saying that a wreath is [-] yuan, and a bundle of paper is [-] yuan. I thought, but anyone with a brain can’t do business like this? Is this money grabbing? This lame man must be thinking of a way Take money from me..."

When the woman was talking, she stared at Li Zhuang with her big eyes. Unexpectedly, before Li Zhuang said anything, the kidnapper next to him began to yell for injustice:
"I don't have any! I just asked him, and he said that the wreaths are three hundred a piece, without bargaining. How can I fool you, who do you think I am!"

When Li Zhuang heard this, he naturally knew that the woman came to him because of what he said to the kidnapper. Originally, this kind of thing could be treated as a joke, but let it go. After all, everyone knows what kind of person the kidnapper is. It's no big deal for him to joke around, but Li Zhuang doesn't feel guilty in his heart. He doesn't want to apologize, and he doesn't want to fool the past. He has been doing business in the village for so many years, and the little things in his heart are always more than the expressions on his face. With a slight turn of the spoon, the ladle opened on the mouth:

"Sister-in-law, don't listen to his nonsense, three hundred a piece? I am a shopkeeper, not a robber. This paper wreath is nothing more than handmade money with a clearly marked price. A hundred and one bundles? That's even more nonsense, so, sister-in-law, if you buy a wreath, I'll give you a bundle of paper money. You don't even need to bring extra money, do you think it's okay?"

The kidnapper opened his eyes to see Li Zhuang talking nonsense, and the more he listened to it, his mouth opened wider. At the end, when Li Zhuang said that the paper money was given away for free, his mouth was so open that he could stuff an egg in it. The kidnapper realized that something was wrong. This Li Zhuang If you put it like this, wouldn't you be a liar?
"No, how can you tell nonsense, kid? Obviously, obviously you said it..."

As soon as the kidnapper was impatient, he stuttered and his mind was a little confused. In the past, he was the only one who relied on others. For so many years in the village, he had all the names of rogues and rascals. Today, he was beaten up by Li Zhuang. On the contrary, I don't know how to refute it. Paying off the previous debt now can be regarded as "retribution".

"Hiss... I said Li Guaizi, you can beg for this food as you like, and you can say what you want," Li Zhuang interrupted the kidnapper, and blocked the kidnapper there, "I have opened a shop in the village for such a long time. , It’s okay that things are cheap all the time, the word of mouth has been accumulated over the years, oh, once you come here, just say it casually, do you want to ruin my reputation for many years? Let me tell you, don’t even think about it, you The boy wants to cheat his wife's money, but you think about it yourself, don't drag me into the water, I can't afford to lose that person!"

Kidnap was silenced by Li Zhuang. Although his mind was like a pot of mud, he still realized that Li Zhuang's words sounded more credible than his own. Think about it, too. The wreath sells for three hundred, but anyone with a little brain knows that they are bluffing, but I haven't bought anything for so many years, and I think it's because of the high market price of those things, and at that time, I was full of thoughts about going to the grave of my parents. , I didn't think about it carefully for a while, so I went to tell the woman. Looking at it this way, it really seemed that I was cheating money from the woman.

You can't tell a lie. If you tell a lie, you will either reveal your truth, or you won't be able to stop the car. Li Zhuang obviously belongs to the latter. As soon as he beat the kidnapper, he began to be proud of his words. Still now, a cripple, born in such a family, enjoys happiness for nothing, still wants to study after his parents are dead, but fails to finish his studies, and has nothing at home except a shabby house, yet he got a cheap daughter-in-law for nothing , It makes people feel uncomfortable to think about it.

"Cough, sister-in-law," Li Zhuang suddenly frowned, and looked at the woman with guilt, "Actually, brother kidnapper came to me just now and asked me to help you hide it from you, but you see, I'm a businessman. That price tells you, how can I sell it to others, the villagers will scold me, after that, if you want anything at home, you can just buy it yourself, keep it cheap and sell it to you.”

The woman has been watching Li Zhuang's acting since she finished asking, and she nodded in cooperation from time to time. Seeing the kidnapper's speechless look on the side, she was very happy. She has been away from there for a long time, and she hasn't seen such a wonderful scene for a long time. performance.

"It's just that the acting skills are a bit clumsy." The woman thought to herself.

"Okay," the woman stood up and nodded when she felt that it was almost done, "I knew that he was a talkative guy, and what he said was the same as farting, so he couldn't take it seriously. If that's the case, I won't waste your time. Take two Wreath, you can give it cheaper."

"Okay!" Li Zhuang responded quickly, "Two count you ninety, how about a large bundle of paper money? Brother, isn't it interesting?"

The woman smiled and boasted:

"That is, you are an honest businessman, you are not as wicked as that lame guy, lying is as quick as drinking water, I don't know how my parents taught me back then, Bai grew up so big, it's a waste of air to live, to die It's a waste of land."

Li Zhuang was listening to the woman scolding the kidnapper with a smile at first, but when the woman spoke, she stared at him closely, her eyes were cold and clear. Although she was smiling, it was obviously a superficial smile, plus After seeing these swearing scripts that got louder and louder, Li Zhuang suddenly felt that the woman seemed to be scolding him. He subconsciously turned his head to look at the kidnapper, but found that the kidnapper had gone away at some point.

"Cough cough."

Two drops of cold sweat faintly broke out on Li Zhuang's head. After coughing twice in embarrassment, he hurried into the room to install a wreath and paper money, and came out to hand them to the woman.

The woman continued to take it with a nonchalant smile, nodded and said thank you, and then walked home without looking back.

Li Zhuang watched her go a long way, then reached out to wipe the cold sweat off his brow, turned his head and went back to the room, sat in the room for a long time, only then remembered that he had confiscated the money.

"oops!"

Li Zhuang slapped his thigh hard, and the pain in his heart was instantly tantamount to heartache.

When the woman came home, she just opened the door and saw the kidnapper sitting blankly in front of the pot burning the fire. The woman remembered that there was no leftovers in the house, so she went to lift the lid of the pot strangely, and found that there was only half of the water in the pot. And the water has already boiled, and it is bubbling and bubbling.

"Why burn so much water! Do you have too much firewood at home!"

The woman reached out and slapped the firewood from the kidnapper's hand, preventing him from adding ingredients to the bottom of the pot.

The kidnapper looked a little dazed. Hearing the woman scolding him, he let out a soft "oh" after a while, stood up slightly unsteadily, and was about to walk into the back room in a daze.

The woman knew in her heart that the kidnapper's appearance was nothing more than being stimulated by what happened just now, but she didn't expect that he had been a rogue for half of his life anyway, and his psychological endurance was too low, maybe he was being resented by others What's the big deal? Even if he really wants to get some money from himself and lies, he really has to care about it. In fact, he doesn't care about it. method.

So the woman couldn't figure out what the kidnapper was trying to do with his distraught appearance.

The woman thought for a while, and felt that although today's incident was a "sinful debt" owed by the kidnapper before, but one thing counts for another, and she couldn't let him be wronged. After thinking about it, she went into the house and pushed Push the kidnapper lying on the bed with his eyes closed.

"I knew that Li Zhuang was lying today, and I didn't believe him. I thought that if he insisted on selling us 300 yuan, I would block his door and prevent him from selling a single wreath. , I didn’t expect him to be a fox, he could get out when he saw the crack, and put the hat on your head instead, I really didn’t expect this, it’s an accidental injury, an accidental injury.”

Seeing the kidnapper's listless look, the woman felt embarrassed, after thinking about it, she still explained a bit embarrassingly.

The kidnapper's eyelids moved, but he still didn't open his eyes. He just pursed his lips and said weakly, "You know? What do you know? You put the hat on my head first, and he listened to you." , I just remembered how to pick it up, if you don’t remind him, what can he think of with his brain?”

The woman was taken aback, obviously just realized this problem, indeed, she set the target on the kidnapper from the beginning, Li Zhuang naturally had to hit the kidnapper with the gun, just now I didn't want to understand this matter, just thought It was Li Zhuang's brain that was easy to use, and he didn't realize that he dug the hole first.

"This..." The woman faltered for a moment. After so long, she still couldn't open her mouth to apologize to the kidnapper. Even if it was some soft words, she didn't know how to say it.

"Forget it," the kidnapper turned over and turned his back to the woman, "You don't have to think about it by yourself, anyway, I'm used to this kind of thing, it's no big deal, tonight's dinner, you make your own Just eat, I'll go to bed first."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for the woman to respond, he grabbed the quilt from under his feet and wrapped himself tightly, wrapping his head in it.

The woman suddenly got angry, went out and brought in the wreath, threw the wreath over the kidnapper's head, and cursed:
"You don't look like a man, you are angry, you have something to say, you go to argue with Li Zhuang? Why didn't you say it at the time? You think I'm not helping you, so just say it, and who will you make this half-dead look like?" See? Who are you against? You deserve it if you like to eat or not, starving to death!"

Saying that, he went out angrily.

People who can't lower their heads are like this. It's obviously their own fault. After being pointed out by others, they can't say a few words of apology, but it's a matter of minutes before they become angry. Women are obviously such people.

Kidnap was smashed for no reason, but he still nestled lifelessly under the quilt, letting wreaths and paper money be pressed on his body, so that people who didn't know would see it, thinking that Kidnap's house had started to celebrate Qingming when he was on the kang.

The kidnapper was indifferent, but Guangzong, who was sleeping beside him, was slapped directly on the face by a bundle of papers, and immediately howled out loudly.

The person in the quilt waited for a while but still didn't see the woman coming in, so he had no choice but to get up and coax the screaming boy.

"Okay, okay," the kidnapper held Guangzong in his arms and shook him up and down, "Stop howling, don't howl, it's just the tigress getting angry, what are you afraid of, go to sleep, go to sleep."

The paper money was not heavy at all, and Guangzong slept soundly. Even if he was thrown up, he was crying subconsciously. Now he was bumped by the kidnapper a few times, and his body felt comfortable. His neck tilted, and he fell asleep again.

The kidnapper carefully put Guangzong back on the kang, and just as he arranged his son's head, he turned his head and found a woman standing beside him at some point.

"Hey!" The kidnapper was taken aback and almost put his elbow on Guangzong's body. Fortunately, the kidnapper stabilized himself in time, otherwise the kid who was just hit would be seriously injured.

"Why did you come in without making a sound?" Kidnap complained smoothly.

"Who did you say was a tigress just now?" The woman raised her head and looked at the kidnapper with her nostrils, "Say it again."

The kidnapper stared, obviously he didn't expect that the woman would still be entangled in this matter. He also said it casually just now, and the voice was not loud. Why are her ears so sharp?
"No, I, am I coaxing my son..." The kidnapper was at a loss for words, pointing at Guangzong who was still slamming his mouth while he was asleep.

Unexpectedly, it’s okay if you don’t point it, but a new problem arises when you point it. The woman looked at Guangzong who was arranged squarely, and then looked at the wreaths and paper money on the kang that the kidnappers hadn’t had time to clean up. When he came out, he frightened the kidnapper quite a bit with his mouth:

"Are you attending the funeral for your son!?"

Kidnap didn't expect a woman to say such a thing, so he quickly spat three times out of the window "Bah, Bah, Bah!", stood up on the kang, and yelled condescendingly to the woman:
"Can you say something nice? You wronged me today, and I didn't say anything. You smashed me with a wreath, and you smashed it. But Guangzong is your own son. What are you talking about!"

In fact, the woman regretted it as soon as she said it, but what she didn't expect was that the kidnapper would actually yell at her this time. The woman who couldn't lower her head picked up the paper money at hand, raised her head and pointed at the kidnapper, saying:

"You yell again."

The woman's words are more effective than that cold water, and instantly extinguished the small flame that had just started to burn. The kidnapper rubbed his hands, and quickly sat on the kang again, looking flatteringly at the woman:

"Then, isn't that your son? It's fine if you say it. How could your own son be willing to say that?"

The woman snorted coldly, and threw the paper money into the kidnapper's face.The kidnapper didn't dare to lose his temper, so he hurriedly put the wreath and paper money on the bed back into the bag, went out from the kang and put the bag in the wing room. When he came back, the woman was actually setting a table on the kang.

"What are you doing in a daze? Go get the rice out of the pot." The woman wiped the table without turning her head.

The kidnapper scratched his head, turned around and went outside to lift the lid of the pot, only to find that there was fried rice in the pot. The yellow rice was lit with diced meat and carrots, which made people's index fingers widen.

The abductee grinned, feeling a lot better after being bored for so long. He knew that women were hard-spoken and refused to give in. He could bear a woman's bad temper. It was nothing if he didn't save face in front of outsiders. What's the use, can it be eaten as a meal?If you don't want to keep it, don't keep it, as long as the lining is strong enough, you can wear it no matter how ugly it is.

(End of this chapter)