I said we could offer a higher price.
Li Fu smiled: "It's not about the price, it's about the agreement I made with them. As men, we can't change our minds when we make an agreement with others. Don't you think so, young man?"
I said that is indeed the case.
Then I walked up to him and tried to have a casual chat with him first, taking the opportunity to inquire about Zhenzhen. When I was chatting with him, Zhao Hu said he was thirsty and wanted to drink hot water. Li Fu pointed to the house and said There's still some hot water left in the kettle inside.
Not even a moment after Zhao Hu entered, he suddenly walked to the door and winked at me, indicating that something was going on inside the house.
I made the same excuse, saying I also wanted to drink some hot water, and went in.
As soon as we entered the room, Zhao Hu pointed to a photo on the wall and showed it to me.
It was a portrait of a young woman. She was none other than Zhenzhen.
My heart skipped a beat. Although I had speculated that Zhenzhen might be dead before, there was no substantial evidence after all. Now that Zhenzhen’s portrait is hanging on the wall, it can’t be false, right?
Zhao Hu asked me in a low voice what I should do now. Zhenzhen was really dead.
I smiled bitterly and said, "I'll ask Li Fu later and see if I can get some useful information out of him."
After the two of us went out, Li Fu had almost pounded the head of the three-grain coffin and was about to get up and put it into the jar next to it.
Maybe it was because he had been squatting for too long, or maybe it was because he had an old waist problem. When he got up, he suddenly staggered and almost fell. Naturally, I hurried over to help him.
Li Fu took a few breaths of relief, patted me and said, "Thank you, young man. If you hadn't supported me, my old bones would have been broken again."
I said I was just doing a favor, no need to be so polite.
When he walked to the side, his walking posture was not right. I asked him if he had an old problem with his waist. He nodded and said, "It's not that bad. He has been hunting in the mountains all year round since he was young and often slept on the ground. The disease was caused by severe dampness on my waist.”
I took this opportunity to tentatively ask: "Then you didn't ask your son or daughter to take you to a big hospital in the city?"
Li Fu sighed: "Forget it, both of my children are gone. My eldest son died of illness ten years ago, and my second daughter hanged herself last year."
When Li Fu said these words, I felt quite emotional. Li Fu was also very pitiful. Both of his children died.
"Hang yourself? Why?" I continued to ask.
"Because of men, she met an unreliable man who played with her feelings. She couldn't think about it and hanged herself."
Li Fu seemed unwilling to talk about this topic, and then waved his hands and said: "Forget it, let's not mention these things. I feel uncomfortable when I mention them. Do you still drink hot water? If there is not enough in the kettle in the house, I will Go make a pot."
I said enough, no need to burn it.
In my opinion, if you want to open Li Fu's heart, you must first establish a good relationship with him and let him let down his guard. It just so happens that he is suffering from dampness in his waist. I remember that there is a passage in my family's ancient book that records how to cure this.
I said to Li Fu: "Uncle, I have an ancestral folk prescription at home, which is very effective in treating your back pain caused by moisture. How about I give you the prescription and you can grab some medicine to try later?"
Li Fu sighed: "I accept your suggestion, but I don't want the prescription. I have been suffering from this disease for many years. I have also seen many Chinese medicine doctors and tried various folk remedies, but nothing works."
I said this works great for me.
Zhao Hu next to me also helped me fool and said: "Yes, uncle, his prescription is very effective. My grandpa's condition is more serious than yours. He can't even get out of bed every morning and night. It's only when it's warm at noon that he can get out and have sex." Toilet, but after drinking his prescription, I felt better immediately."
As soon as Zhao Hu said these words, I almost couldn't help but laugh out loud, thinking that you are really working hard, even your grandfather moved out.
I was afraid that Li Fu thought I was trying to make money from him, so I quickly said that I didn’t want the money. It was purely because of fate that I gave it to him.
Only then did Li Fu become interested: "Okay, then write me a recipe and I'll try it later."
Then, he pointed to the three-patterned coffin head powder next to him sheepishly: "Since you are so interesting, young man, then I am not stingy anymore. I can sell you part of the medicine, but just this time, I really want the rest." I want to give it to an old customer, and I agreed to it."
Although we have already obtained a lot of three-pattern coffin heads, the more the merrier. I nodded and said, "Okay, thank you, uncle. I'll give you more when we calculate the price."
"No, no, the price is whatever it is, I won't charge you more."
I said thank you then.
When Li Fu installed the three-pattern coffin head for us, he kept praising the benefits of the three-pattern coffin head.
He said that this stuff was very effective in exorcising evil spirits. When he was going back to the wooden house on the mountain to rest after catching the three-marked coffin heads the night before, he encountered a ghost that had broken into the wall. No matter how hard he walked, he couldn't reach the wooden house, so he ate some three-marked coffin heads. The powder on the coffin head came out immediately after eating it.
I also suddenly remembered that when Xiao Zizi found Sesame Wolf yesterday, didn't we see some footprints? It seemed that the footprints were left by Li Fu the night before.
He might have just passed by the wooden house without going in. As for the ghost breaking into the wall or something, it was probably Zhenzhen who did it. The purpose was to prevent Li Fu from going to the wooden house and discovering Zhao Hu's existence.
I also asked Li Fu tentatively: "Then you are quite brave. You dare to stay in a wooden house after encountering a ghost and breaking the wall?"
Li Fu waved his hand and said with a smile: "Where? I didn't dare to sleep in the wooden house that night. I went directly around the wooden house and went down the mountain."
I thought that was right, the footprints were left by Li Fu, and he accidentally brought Sesame Wolf near the cabin.
After chatting for a while, I talked to him about Zhenzhen again. Li Fu was still reluctant to talk about this topic at first, but later the conversation opened up and he told me a lot.
It turns out that Zhenzhen had a boyfriend two years ago. This man happened to be from our hometown. He was tall, handsome, and good-looking. Most importantly, he was good at coaxing people, so Zhenzhen was coaxed around by him.
A year after the two got along, Zhenzhen suddenly discovered that this man was dating several people outside at the same time. She went to find this man to argue with him, but he actually scolded her and humiliated her together with other female lovers.
Zhenzhen committed suicide a few days after returning to her hometown because she couldn't bear it. After she committed suicide, Li Fufu also went to our place to find this man.
Only then did we find out that the specific address and name provided by the man were all false. Li Fuqing was filled with hatred, but even now he still can't get an explanation from his daughter.
After saying this, Li Fu's eyes began to moisten. He said that if he could avenge his daughter in this life, he would just find that man and beat him up. He was afraid that he would not have this chance before he died. I have no face to face my daughter who is under Jiuquan.
I smiled bitterly and said, "To be honest, Uncle Li, we and that man are from the same place."
"Ah?" When Li Fu heard this, his brows instantly wrinkled.
Compared with just now, his eyes were obviously stunned, but then he smiled bitterly and said: "To be honest, because of this beast, I don't have any good impression of your place, nor do I have any affection for the people in your place. I have a good impression, but I am also a reasonable person. There are good people and bad people everywhere. I think you are good people, and you also helped me today. I am still grateful to you in my heart."
I continued: "Don't worry, when I return to my hometown, I will help you investigate. If I can find that man, I will personally send him here to let you vent your anger."
In fact, my words were not meant to deceive him, but the truth. I really planned to go back and do this. But looking at Li Fu’s expression, he probably didn’t have any hope in what I said, but he still nodded and said thank you. .
As for our acquaintance with Zhenzhen and the fact that we came here with Zhenzhen this time, I finally did not tell Li Fu.
On the one hand, I think Li Fu didn't know about Zhenzhen turning into a "ghost". Even if we told him, he probably wouldn't be able to help us solve any problem.
On the other hand, if he knew that Zhenzhen was still working as a lady in a bathing center after becoming a ghost, he would either not believe it and think we were slandering his daughter, or he would believe it, but he would probably feel even more uncomfortable, so he would forget it.
After paying the price for the three-pattern coffin head, I wrote him the prescription for treating back pain, and then we left his house.
As soon as we walked out of the courtyard, Zhao Hu asked me in a low voice: "No, are we just leaving? Don't you plan to tell him about Zhenzhen turning into a ghost?"
