Liu Shiyan said this, thinking that the scavenger would not agree. Unexpectedly, the two of them seemed to have discussed it a long time ago. They said in unison, "Okay, the two of us will go down and touch. Each bag will be worth a thousand yuan. How many bags are there?" Just a few thousand dollars.
The price is too high. If there are ten bags, wouldn’t it cost 10,000 yuan? After Liu Shiyan asked back, he bargained and said, I have the final say. No matter how many bags I pick up, one bag will cost 20 yuan. If there are 10 bags, it will cost 200 yuan. If there are more, add more. I can afford the money, so I won’t ask for my son.
Every time I touch a bag of 1,000 yuan, I won’t do it even if it’s even one penny less. The taller one said as he picked up the snakeskin bag placed on the roadside and prepared to leave.
I won't do it either. A short supporter.
Isn’t this better than picking up rags and selling them for money? Liu Shiyan tried to inspire them with analogy and bring them into compliance.
The taller one said, "It's not risky to pick up rags, but how risky it is to go into such a deep reservoir to touch things!" Generally speaking, the higher the risk, the greater the reward. As long as you, Uncle Liu, are willing to spend the money, we are still willing to take the risk. If you think about it, you can come to us. We have been picking up rags in your Liuzhuang these days, and you can find us anytime and anywhere.
The asking price is so high. I have to tell my son that I can't afford that much money. After Liu Shiyan said this, he did not go home directly. Instead, he walked to the town to catch a bus, and then went to the city to discuss with his son how to arrange for people to salvage a few bags of bones from Qingshan Reservoir.
Obviously, with Liu Yangsheng's personality, he would not agree to find someone or invite divers to Qingshan Reservoir to touch the sacks of dead human remains that were sunk in the deep water. His father Liu Shiyan's search was in vain.
It was already dark at that time, and Liu Shiyan went to his son's home to find him in the villa. As soon as he mentioned that matter, Liu Yangsheng said this to him: I am a living person, am I still afraid of dead ghosts?
Liu Shiyan told his daughter-in-law Zhai Haoyue the reason for coming to the city to find his son. Unexpectedly, Zhai Haoyue did not support him. He also said that it was impossible. If you are looking for someone or asking divers to dive into deep water to retrieve a few bags of dead people's remains, you are still afraid of a safety accident. Yangsheng said that he would not drive through the railway track in the city in the future, so he had to be careful. I remind him every day now, so there should be no problem.
Liu Shiyan originally wanted to tell Zhai Haoyue about the ghost spirits outside the Tang Dynasty military personnel who wanted to settle accounts with Liu Yangsheng, so that she could understand the stakes involved, but he felt it was unnecessary because Zhai Haoyue, like his son, did not believe it.
Liu Shiyan stayed at his son's house for one night. As soon as he was on the road the next day, he met two familiar looking scavengers. The shorter man said with a gesture of his hand, "Uncle Liu!"
Is there a problem? Liu Shiyan glared at him and asked.
Before he could reply, the taller one took the lead. Did your son agree to that? A bag of bones from Qingshan Reservoir costs one thousand yuan.
I won't do it for a thousand yuan or even a thousand cents, for fear of a safety accident. It's autumn and winter again, and it will be bad for everyone if something happens. Liu Shiyan said this and hurried on. The short man followed him and said, "Uncle Liu, let's cut the price by half. It only costs 500 yuan to pick up a bag of bones from the water, okay?"
It's not a money issue now, it's a safety issue. Even if you two don't want me, Liu, to pay, and volunteer to help touch those bags of bones, I don't agree. Once a safety incident occurs, our Liu family cannot afford it. Liu Shiyan said it right and got rid of the entanglement of the two scavengers.
On this day, he also did not return to his hometown of Yangjiaoshan Village. Instead, he took a bus to the medical department of L Province to find Shi Zaitian and told him about his son's refusal to do this or that and his refusal to apologize to the Tang Dynasty military officers. , begged Shi Zaitian to meditate again and go to plead with the Tang Dynasty military officer Wai. As his son, I am willing to paint the warrior Wai's portrait and offer sacrifices to his soul after returning this time, burn incense and pray every day, and apologize on his son's behalf. I only ask that the Tang Dynasty military officer Wai will no longer secretly have sex with his son. Don't fight, especially don't let him drive or ride across the railway track in the city to cause problems.
Shi Zaitian pondered for a long time, and then said, Old Liu, you ask me to handle this matter. I am not sure whether the Tang Dynasty military personnel will buy it from outside. I can help you or your son with work other than being a military officer in the Tang Dynasty. Come back to me tomorrow morning and I will tell you.
I won't come. If I go back now, I believe that the Tang Dynasty warriors will buy your fault if they don't look at monks and Buddhas.
Liu Shiyan took a train from the provincial capital back to Qianshan County. The train he took must pass by the railway where his son's car had a problem.
He came out of the train station, which is the south of the city, and walked across the railway to the north of the city. He walked very slowly. When he passed the railway, he looked repeatedly, as if he wanted to find out the cause of his son's problem on the railway tracks. Of course he couldn't find it, so he kept chanting: I hope my son will be safe driving or riding through here in the future!
Liu Shiyan went to Chengbei Street, found a painter, and asked for a picture. The painter thought he was going to paint a picture and asked him to sit there as a model. Liu Shiyan asked me how useful it would be to paint my face. If I wanted to paint the face of Liu Yuanwai of the Tang Dynasty, I would also paint his portrait.
The painter said, how can you paint without a model? Liu Shiyan then remembered that he couldn't draw, so he gave up and walked directly to the bus station to take a bus back to the town, and then walked back to his house in Liuzhuang, Yangjiaoshan Village.
Late that night, Liu Shiyan was lying on the bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. He was worried about his son. He also knew that there was no point in being anxious, he still wanted to sleep, otherwise, if he didn't close his eyes all night, he would not be energetic tomorrow. He thought this subconsciously, remembering that he had suffered from insomnia before, and the doctor taught him a conservative and feasible way, that is, don't think about anything, just touch your fingers and count silently one, two, three, four...
This trick really worked. Before he could count to a hundred times, Liu Shiyan fell asleep. When he came to Shi Zaitian's house and saw Shi Zaitian, he bowed his hands and said hello to Professor Shi! He was about to talk about his son, but Shi Zaitian asked, have you done what I said last time? Otherwise, the military officers of the Tang Dynasty will continue to oppose your son.
Liu Shiyan smiled bitterly, touched the increasingly thick mustache on his chin, and told him that his son did not listen to his persuasion at all.
Professor Shi said, that would be difficult to handle. In fact, I know these things even if you don't tell me. I asked you on purpose. He knows everything your son said about how anyone is afraid of death and other things that hurt the Tang Dynasty military personnel.
Liu Shiyan was shocked when he heard this and asked, how did the Tang Dynasty military personnel know that my son said such disrespectful things?
Lao Liu, you don’t know something. The military members of the Tang Dynasty were not Yang people, but people from the ghost tribe, also called Yin people. Yin people followed Yang people, but Yang people didn’t know it because they couldn’t see the Yin people.
To put it more simply, generally speaking, everyone believes in ghosts, but not many people actually see ghosts. I want to tell you that Tang Dynasty military officers follow your son almost every day. He knows everything your son says and thinks. Let me tell you, all ghosts and gods have supernatural powers compared to humans. Sadly, your son is unaware of these adverse circumstances.
Shi Zaitian made gestures as he spoke. Sometimes, to emphasize his tone, he would reach out and slap the coffee table.
When Liu Shiyan heard this, he panicked and immediately asked, "What do the Tang Dynasty military officers want to do by following my son outside?"
Need I say more? It means going against your son and making your son unhappy.
Shi Zaitian said it very directly. I also told him that a few days ago I was working with a military member of the Tang Dynasty and asked him if he could let your son go. He raised his face and raised his eyes, saying that that bastard didn't admit he was wrong at all. Will I forgive him? If you don't punish him to death, he is considered powerful.
I couldn't persuade him any more at that time, so I just said softly, "Except for the military personnel, you are the most numerous, and you are the ancestor of more than a thousand years ago. Can't you be a little more lenient to Liu Yangsheng, the junior who was more than a thousand years later?" What's more, his father Dai'er admitted his mistake.
The military officer said, Professor Shi, someone dug up your ancestral grave and threw the remains of your ancestors everywhere. This is extremely disrespectful and contemptuous. Will you forgive him? When a military member of the Tang Dynasty asked this question, I was really speechless.
Hearing this, Liu Shiyan sighed and said that it was understandable for the Tang Dynasty military officers to be so angry. It's just that my son has a bad temper and won't listen. If I were rich, I would really like to hire divers for my son to sneak into the Qingshan Reservoir and salvage the remains of several sacks containing the Tang Dynasty warriors and their wives and concubines, and then move them to a high mountain to bury them and apologize to the Tang Dynasty warriors with practical actions.
I found that even if you have money to hire someone, you will still hesitate because you listened to your son and worried about safety issues.
This is also true.
Liu Shiyan also heard Professor Shi say this in his dream, I can't help your son. I just told the Tang Dynasty military officers that if you want to go against Liu Yangsheng, you shouldn't let his car stall after driving on the railway track. This will not only harm It was Liu Yangsheng who offended you, and others who had not offended you were also harmed.
If Liu Yangsheng's car drove onto the railway track without asking someone to lift it off, or if it was too late to ask someone to lift it off, and the train was coming before it could be lifted off, then Liu Yangsheng would have successfully jumped out of the car before that, and would not have been able to. Those who escaped were the crew and passengers on the train.
If a train hits a car lying on the track and overturns several carriages, then the crew and passengers will definitely suffer, and the person you are trying to trick, Liu Yangsheng, will be the least affected. The Tang Dynasty military officer thought that Professor Shi's statement was reasonable, and immediately gritted his teeth and said that I would change my methods in the future and deal with him specifically.
He here, of course, refers to Liu Yangsheng. After Liu Shiyan learned about these situations, he was very worried for his son. He was about to ask Shi Zaitian if there were any other ways to resolve the confrontational friction between his son and the Tang Dynasty military officers. In the blink of an eye, he somehow woke up.
It was not yet fully dark, and the vague outline of the house could still be seen. He wanted to tell his wife what was going on in his dream, but her wife moved, indicating that she was also awake. But it is not convenient to talk about it at this time. It would be taboo to say something unlucky so early in the morning.
In the middle of the morning, Liu Shiyan, who was not in the mood to do anything, still told his wife what Shi Zaitian told him in his dream last night about the Tang Dynasty warriors who were against his son. When the wife heard this, she urged anxiously, "Go to the county town quickly to find your son, and tell him to be careful whether driving or taking a ride. The military officials of the Tang Dynasty have said that they will change the way they deal with foreign students, and tell foreign students to be careful at all times."
I know, I just came home from the county town yesterday and I was too tired. I will go to the county town in a few days to give him instructions. Liu Shiyan said what he was pressing on his heart, and his mood seemed to relax slightly.
