I have a two world clock

Chapter 317 Sympathies

"I lied to you, do you still take it seriously?"

Seeing the confused look on the face of the tall, fat young man across from him, who seemed to really believe that he had become a monk, Li Mu laughed loudly: "I am such a good person, why am I a monk? If I were a monk, I would have caused a big mess."

The tall, fat young man opposite is Li Mu's cousin Yuan Yicheng.

The two have not seen each other for more than half a year. Yuan Yicheng's height has not changed, but his weight has increased significantly.

During the Chinese New Year, he was still a tall, thin and handsome young man. Now he has gained at least thirty pounds. I don't know what he has gone through.

"Hey, you really scared me!"

Yuan Yicheng breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "You look too much like a Taoist priest! Brother, why are you dressed like this?"

He has a very good relationship with Li Mu. He was Li Mu's follower when he was a child and kept in constant contact with each other.

When he was in love in college and had no money to buy a house, he would borrow money from Li Mu shamelessly. Anyway, he would go to Li Mu if he had no money and would not talk about repaying the money. Of course, Li Mu would not ask for it.

They all came from students. Li Mu knew how difficult it was for young people to find a house. He finally convinced his girlfriend to live out. It would be so sad if he couldn't have sex because he had no money.

A group of students are playing field games outside. Some of them do it for excitement, but some of them really do it to save money.

Li Mu feels sorry for them just thinking about it...

"Your brother and I have had short hair since I was a kid, either bald or crew-cut. Now I've decided to experience what it's like to have long hair."

"Then it doesn't have to be so long. It's even tied up in a bun. Can you call it a bun? It even uses a hairpin."

"Since I have long hair, why can't I wear it in a bun for fun? This is so refreshing, isn't it much better than having disheveled hair?"

"That's true! But your outfit is so different. You'll definitely turn heads when you walk on the street."

Yuan Yicheng marveled: "Cousin, I always thought you were a tough guy, but I didn't expect you to have such a sultry side!"

Li Mu smiled and scolded: "Is this called coquettishness? This is called individuality! This is called being ahead of the trend! Just wait, there will be more and more people wearing buns on the streets!"

Yuan Yicheng didn't believe it: "I don't believe it!"

When he said this, he approached Li Mu and looked outside the gate: "Brother, what are those gate posts outside? When did your family have sentries on duty?"

People who have guards standing guard in front of their homes are all important people without exception.

Now there is a sentry in front of Li Mu's house, which makes Yuan Yicheng very curious.

"Alas, your uncle is now a big shot in the court!"

Li Mu sighed: "As for what level it is, don't ask. If you ask, it's confidential and I can't tell you."

Yuan Yi was in awe: "I didn't expect that my uncle would become a high-ranking official in the imperial court!"

The official-centered mentality in Hedong Province is extremely serious. In fact, not only Hedong Province, but also most people in the northern part of Xia Kingdom have very serious official-centered ideology.

In the eyes of many old people, millionaires and successful businessmen are all idle and unemployed, and only civil servants have serious jobs.

In the eyes of the elderly, a corporate white-collar worker with a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan is not as good as a civil servant with a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan.

This kind of thinking can even be inherited, and many of the younger generation agree with this view.

When young girls are looking for a partner, they also like to find people with imperial staff. They would rather find low-paid staff than rich office workers.

Folk customs are like this and it is difficult to change.

Yuan Yicheng was also deeply influenced by this concept. After graduation, he began to take the public examination. He failed the exam several times before giving up.

But the awe of the court personnel in his heart has never disappeared.

Today, I heard from Li Mu that Li Haichuan had become a member of the imperial court and a high-ranking official. Yuan Yicheng was in awe.

The two have been close since childhood, and they are no strangers to each other when they meet. During the conversation, Yuan Yicheng did not hesitate: "Brother, I came here specifically to borrow a car. Did my second aunt tell you?"

Li Mu smiled and said, "Have you really reduced yourself to a blind date?"

Yuan Yicheng said depressedly: "Otherwise, what else can I do? I have been in Zhucheng for several years and have talked with several women, but those who don't have a car or a house are said to have no sense of security. They can just play for fun, and marriage is free." talk."

He is no longer as high-spirited as he used to be: "The more women I meet, the more I realize the importance of money!"

Yuan Yicheng expressed his bitterness to Li Mucha: "After all, I am also a serious university graduate, but now I can only barely solve the problem of food and clothing. I can't afford a car and a house. I feel tired to support myself. How can I find the energy to find a girlfriend to marry? Huh? In my situation, my family is always urging me to get married, ugh..."

Li Mu smiled and said: "You complain so much, why do you still go back to your hometown? Isn't it great to be alone in Zhucheng?"

Yuan Yicheng: "It's so cool, it's so cool. Now I don't even have a girlfriend. I'm with the fifth girl all day long, and my body has been weakened!"

Li Mu laughed loudly: "It's not easy to deal with the women of the right age in our family!"

Yuan Yicheng was unfazed in front of Li Mu: "I know that our hometown has high betrothal gifts and high demands on women, but don't I have an uncle to support me? That's what I think. Isn't my uncle well-connected? Let's see if my uncle can help me. Find a job in the imperial court, even temporary work is fine. As long as you have something to do with the imperial system, you will have face when speaking out.

It’s not like you don’t know the women in our family. As long as you are a civil servant, they are willing to give you a virginity even if you have no money. As long as my job is stable, my girlfriend should also be stable, and I can give my parents an explanation when the time comes. "

Taocheng City used to be a nationally impoverished area. Now the economy has improved a lot, but it is still not very wealthy. Especially in rural areas, there is almost no industrial backbone.

Almost all young rural youths go out to work, and only return to their hometowns temporarily during the holidays.

The income here is low, and consumption is not very low. Because you are poor, you have to ask for higher betrothal gifts. Not only are the betrothal gifts high, but you also have to have a car and a house in the city, and you have to have fewer brothers.

Li Mu didn't understand this strange phenomenon for a while.

I don’t even understand what those men who have the courage to get married are after. Once they get married, they will be out with a million dollars, and nearly half of them will get divorced within three to five years.

So, you spend so much money and energy just for the right to live in these three to five years?

"Actually, I don't want to come to our hometown for a blind date."

Yuan Yicheng sighed: "Even I can't stand the customs in our hometown, let alone outsiders! Damn it, getting married costs seven or eight hundred thousand, who the hell has so much money? With all this money, I'm on the second line Wouldn’t it be nice to buy a small house in the city?”

Li Mu smiled and said, "Then why did you come home for a blind date?"

Yuan Yicheng: "I don't want to either. I'm being pushed by my parents! I'm the only male in my family, and my parents are going crazy thinking about having a grandson! As soon as I get home, my parents will nag me about this." The thing is, well, I can’t bear to see more and more wrinkles on their faces.”

He said to Li Mu: "Brother, you are older than me, and your family is still a three-way pass. You should understand my situation."

Li Mu scratched his head and felt the same way as Yuan Yicheng's words.

When it comes to urging marriage, Li Mu is under much greater pressure than Yuan Yicheng.

The reason why he didn't dare to go home in the past two years was because he didn't want to face the forced marriage from his parents.

Fortunately, I had an unexpected encounter this year, gained the ability to travel between two realms, and practiced the family skills to a very high level. It was not a bad idea to become an immortal and an ancestor.

When he reached this point, his family's pressure to get married came to an end.

After all, cultivating immortality is a serious matter, and it is more important to cultivate immortality than to get married.

But even so, Li Chengzu, Li Haichuan and his son, as well as Yuan Qinghua, still hope that Li Mu will get married early so that he can have several children, which can be regarded as the expansion of the Li family and the inheritance of blood.

The reason why Yuan Qinghua introduced Wang Jinping to Li Mu was because it was a kind of blind date.

So Li Mu understands Yuan Yicheng very well.

"Okay, don't say anything, I understand you!"

Li Mu didn't want to discuss the matter with Yuan Yicheng in depth: "I have several cars in the garage down here. You can pick one." When Li Haichuan built the clinic building, he specially designed an underground garage to facilitate his use for medical treatment or People buying plasters parked their cars.

When the garage was built, not to mention Li Chengzu, even Yuan Qinghua felt that it was unnecessary and money wasted. Even Li Mu felt that the garage was unnecessary.

You must know that more than ten years ago, the number of cars in Xia Guo was still very low. In the past six or seven years, car prices have dropped, and even zero down payments have greatly stimulated people's enthusiasm for buying cars.

Even in Taocheng, a poor area, people have a high car ownership rate. In rural areas, nearly half of the people have cars at home.

Nowadays, many people cannot go out without driving, even if they are only a few steps away.

In this way, the garage Li Haichuan built originally came into use.

Since the garage occupies a large area and has two floors, the hospital employees cannot use it at all, nor can the patients and business partners who come to see the doctor occupy it. The extra parking spaces are rented out.

Li Haichuan specially separated a small area and made it his own exclusive garage. This garage is underground in front of the yard.

"How many cars? Are they all luxury cars?"

Li Mu walked in front, and Yuan Yicheng followed closely behind: "Then I have to choose a car carefully!"

When the two of them approached the garage, Li Mu thought about it, and he took out the Pegasus car that was in the storage bag and appeared silently in the garage in front.

"It should be considered a luxury car."

Li Mu responded casually: "You'll know when you get there."

After the two walked to the underground garage, Yuan Yicheng's eyes suddenly went straight as he looked at the more than thirty luxury cars lined up in the garage: "Holy shit!"

He slowly stepped forward and approached the luxury cars in front of him: "Holy shit!"

It took him a long time to regain his composure, and said with a wry smile: "The cheapest of these cars seems to cost 3 million, and the most expensive seems to be almost 100 million. Even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it. My uncle has made a fortune. Ah, the total cost of these cars is at least one billion!"

His mind was a little dizzy: "I can't drive these cars! I can't even afford to pay for the slight scratches on the paint!"

Yuan Yi is not stupid. He is just going on a blind date this time, not to fight for wealth. The cars in front of him are too expensive, especially the dozen or so sports cars, each of which costs tens of millions. It is not something he can do. Affordable to drive.

People are self-aware. Yuan Yicheng does not think that driving such a luxury car can improve his status. Moreover, ordinary women may not recognize such a luxury car, and even if they do, they will not think that they can afford it. of.

He might as well just drive a relatively ordinary car.

"You can just pick any of these cars and I'll give it to you."

Li Mu waved his hand: "These cars are not interesting. Your uncle is over 1.9 meters tall. These sports cars cannot be driven at all. If they are placed here, they can only be used as decorative toys and have no practical value. You can drive one out, It can be considered as making the best use of everything.”

Yuan Yicheng: "..."

What kind of talk is this?

Use this to test cadres?

Who can stand this?

"I...this...then I really have a choice!"

Yuan Yicheng glanced at the parking lot for a long time, and finally stopped at Li Mu's Pegasus car: "Brother, I feel that this Pegasus is the only one I can barely control."

Li Mu nodded and threw the car keys to Yuan Yicheng: "Okay, let's drive away!"

"what!?"

Yuan Yicheng hurriedly took the key and was a little confused: "This is a car worth more than one million yuan! If it gets damaged in a collision..."

Li Mu waved his hand and said, "You have just bought the insurance for this car. You are very good at it, but you have to buy the insurance for the next year yourself."

Yuan Yicheng murmured: "I can't afford a year's insurance for this car. I'd better drive it for a few days."

He knew from beginning to end that he couldn't control such a luxury car now, and with his current income, he couldn't afford it at all.

"This time I came to my aunt's house to borrow a car. I was really out of my mind!"

Yuan Yicheng regretted borrowing the car.

Li Mu's cars are good, but they are too good. He drives such a good car on a blind date, but the woman from his family knows about it. This is a bit like trying to pretend to be fat, which is very inappropriate.

Yuan Yicheng struggled with the car key for a long time, and finally said to Li Mu: "Brother, how about this? If you have nothing to do these days, just drive me off. Your car is too good, and it is too inappropriate for me to drive it. .”

Li Mu smiled and said, "Okay, I really want to meet your blind date and check it for you."

Yuan Yicheng breathed a sigh of relief: "Then it's settled, you can accompany me tomorrow."

Li Mu nodded and said, "Okay, where can I meet the woman?"

"It's in Taocheng City."

"Then don't leave today. Let's have a drink together."

"Okay, where to go? What to eat?"

"Let's go get some skewers."

"Walk?"

"go!"

Li Mu drove his Raptor off-road vehicle to a well-known dumpling restaurant in Taocheng City. Although this restaurant is called Dumpling City, it actually has everything, including hot pot and skewers. The chef's skills are really good.

Li Mu used to often eat with Li Haichuan, and it was this dumpling city that he visited the most.

The two of them didn't go to the private room, but directly found a table in the hall. They simply ordered a few dishes and asked the skewers master to grill about a hundred skewers and two boxes of beer, and then started eating.

After not seeing each other for more than half a year, the two of them had something to talk about. They were having a great time drinking. When they were happy, they heard a quarrel not far away.

Yuan Yicheng was a little curious and turned around to look: "What's wrong?"

Li Mu said: "Never mind it, drink and drink, they are quarreling with them, it has nothing to do with us."

So I continued drinking.

The quarrel not far away became louder and louder, and then turned into a beating. The entire restaurant was alarmed. Three or five men and women were fighting nearby, and tables and stools were flying around.

A young woman with disheveled hair started to run, and two women chased her, cursing constantly:

"Shameless mistress!"

"Slutty hooves! What a slut that little pussy raised!"

When the young woman ran to Li Mu, she tripped and fell to the ground.

Two women behind him rushed over, pulled the woman's hair, and began to take off her clothes: "Smelly bitch, aren't you a coquettish one? I'm going to make you so coquettish today!"

These two old women were really energetic. They took off the young woman's clothes and lay naked on the ground writhing.

Li Mu frowned, stood up and said, "Let's go, let's eat somewhere else."

Yuan Yicheng looked at it with gusto. He stared at the white body of the woman on the ground and said with a smile: "It's so white!"

(End of this chapter)