Li Laifu did not answer the old man's words, but said: "Uncle, can you stop laughing like this? There is a coffin shop behind me, and you are smiling at me like this? My pores are standing up."
The old man chuckled twice and said: "You are so cowardly that you still come to visit the ghost market. Go home quickly!"
Does this old man look down on him? Li Laifu changed the subject and asked, "Uncle, why don't you tell me why the buyer doesn't look at the seller's face?"
He must figure this out. He will come to this street often in the future. In the past few years, those old and young people who have been deprived of food have almost all pawned the good stuff.
You still have to be able to pick out leaks in this day and age. You don’t even need to know anything about antiques, you just need to spend money to buy them. Just one sentence these days? The price of the genuine product is too low and it is not economical to fake it.
The old man knocked the cigarette pot on the roadside. Li Laifu quickly handed him another cigarette and helped the old man light the fire.
The old man took a deep drag on his cigarette and said, "Actually, you can't look at the owner's face. It's not about the rules of this street, nor the rules of the owner. It's for the good of you buyers."
Li Laifu rolled his eyes and said, "Uncle, why are you kidding me? When you first came here, you said you couldn't look at your face, and now you say it again? Isn't that a rule? Are you treating me like a Sunday?"
The old man held a cigarette and said, "Can't you be a little patient?"
The old man pointed to the distance and said: "Look at those people using flashlights to only shine on objects without raising their heads? Don't you think it's strange?"
The old man was really annoying, and Li Laifu said helplessly: "Uncle, I came here to ask you this. You have already smoked two of my cigarettes, and my sixteen cents are gone. You haven't gotten to the point yet?" "
The old man coughed once or twice, relieved his embarrassment and said: "Young man, don't worry. I'm old and inevitably talk a lot. I don't have anyone here, so I'll just chat with you for a while."
Seeing that the dead old man took a few more puffs of cigarettes, your sister's cigarette was gone again, and he had no intention of saying anything. Li Laifu shook his head and took out a big cigarette for him.
"This cigarette is fine too!" the old man said.
Only then did the old man slowly say: "Don't look at the seller's face? In fact, it has been rumored in this street for a long time." The damn old man took a break again.
"That's because the people selling goods on this street are not necessarily... human beings!"
Li Laifu stood up with a bang. This damn old man had just taken a break, which definitely heightened the atmosphere.
Swish, a small breeze blew by, and the old man nodded, probably very satisfied with the atmosphere.
Li Laifu turned away and said, "Uncle, I'll come back in two days. I'm not ready today."
It's not that Li Laifu is timid, the point is... who the hell... is listening to ghost stories outside the coffin shop? Sleeping with someone in a mass grave? Someone to play cards with...? After winning money, going home and looking through your pockets is full of paper, which is almost as scary as this kind of thing.
Especially the old man who refused to let him shine his face, but there was candlelight in the coffin shop opposite, which illuminated the old man's face from white to black. In addition, his last sentence...not necessarily all people.
Li Laifu strolled towards home, thinking that the old man definitely did it on purpose.
After returning home, he took out 20 kilograms of cornmeal, but he was not ready to go back to his room. The two brothers slept with the door closed, and everyone in the room was choking. They were so angry.
He gently moved the couch out and placed it directly in front of the door of the three best rooms in the courtyard, which was the main room. The family was on a business trip. Fortunately, it was summer.
I was woken up in the morning. Old man Zhang was lighting the stove again and asked: "Your kid was beaten by your father yesterday. Why are you sleeping in the courtyard?"
"Uncle Zhang, our family Laifu will not be beaten. Is Laifu sensible now? He peed on the kang because of his bad luck, and he was disgusted with the smell," Zhao Fang said as she came out of the room.
Jiang Tao, Jiang Yuan is up. After all, he still has to go to school. Jiang Yuan stood in the kitchen and shouted: "Mom, what are you talking about?"
Zhao Fang said with an indifferent expression: "What nonsense did I say? Are you afraid that people will tell you that you peed on the bed? You still have the face."
Jiang Yuan had a stinky face and looked angry. Zhao Fang took the hen out of the kitchen and said, "If you have a face and a temper, don't eat breakfast."
Jiang Yuan said directly: "Then I have no temper."
Li Laifu touched his head. This brother was good at everything, but he had no immunity to food.
The two brothers each had a cloth bag. "Brother, let's see what you are eating?" Li Laifu said and opened the cloth bag.
There was a layer of wild vegetables on the outside. Li Laifu opened it and looked at the two-faced steamed buns inside. He nodded and found two hard candies and a piece of White Rabbit milk tea inside.
"Thank you, brother," Jiang Tao spoke first.
Jiang Yuan jumped up and was about to jump into his arms. Li Laifu pushed him away with a look of disgust and said, "Stay away from this smelly person."
Li Laifu carried a basket on his back to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought three towels, ten pairs of socks, a flashlight, ten pounds of salt, two pounds of White Rabbit toffee, and ten pounds of cakes.
"Why did you buy so many things?" Aunt Liu asked. Xiaolaifu said that she had put away the cigarettes and alcohol she bought yesterday. She bought so many daily necessities today, so she asked casually.
Li Laifu took out the money and the ticket and said, "I'm going to my grandpa's house in the next two days to bring it to my grandparents."
"You are such a filial child. My child is as old as you. Why don't you ask for money? You just came back after eating something good outside, and you want him to take it home? It's impossible," Aunt Liu said with emotion.
"Laifu? When you go to the countryside, can you bring some meat or something for your buddy?" Qian Erbao said, arm-in-arm.
"Don't forget Laifu, and you, Brother Monkey, and me,"
Qian Erbao said with a look of disgust: "Monkey, why are you everywhere? When I speak, you... are you afraid that your words will fall to the ground?"
"Go away! Go away, I'm talking to Laifu about business," the monkey said cursingly.
Li Laifu nodded and said, "Okay! If I get the meat this time, I will definitely bring it back to you.
Now in this supply and marketing cooperative, everyone gets along very well with him, and everyone makes jokes when he comes.
When he got home, he gave Zhao Fang ten pounds of fine salt and four pairs of socks. These were for Zhao Fang and Li Chongwen. Jiang Tao and Jiang Yuan had no way to wear socks. Zhao Fang would not give them new socks at all. He gave the tickets and vermicelli tickets directly.
But Zhao Fang was so happy. She was so beautiful when she saw 20 kilograms of cornmeal in the morning. Little did she know that Li Laifu went out and bought these things again.
"You kid, your aunt told me that you can just mend your socks. Why did you buy new ones for your aunt?" Zhao Fang said, stroking the socks gently.
"Auntie, I don't have much money for these socks. Just wear clean ones every day. Don't wear your socks that look like a map again," Li Laifu joked.
"Auntie! One more thing," Li Laifu said seriously: "In the future, our family will eat that kind of fine salt. If we eat that kind of large salt, we will easily get big neck disease."
