"Fatty!" Lu Qingjia poured a cup of warm water and put it on the table, and patted the other person's shoulder cautiously: "Are you okay?"
In normal times, of course, this kind of courtesy and thoughtfulness would not appear among pig friends and dog friends. The pig would voluntarily go to the refrigerator for food as soon as he came, I was afraid that there were not enough things, where would Lu Qingjia entertain him.
But at this moment, Fatty's appearance is obviously abnormal, his eyes are sunken, his spirit is haggard, and his whole person is like a frightened bird.
The most important thing is that this fat man, who was over 200 kilograms when we met last month, is now too thin to be human, and his shape is like a zombie.
If he hadn't grown up together and turned into ashes, he could smell the familiar stench, Lu Qingjia wouldn't have dared to recognize that the ghost-like guy in front of him would have made him small.
He sighed and said to Fatty, "I said earlier that the resources of one T in the hard disk are still a bit too much, so I asked you to delete some at that time, you see now—"
"Go away!" Fatty said with red eyes, "I will take the hard drive into the soil even if I die."
Lu Qingjia smiled: "Then there's no need for it. Brothers, it's not a problem to tie a dozen paper figurines. It doesn't matter whether you are tall or short, fat or thin, you don't have to be self-sufficient."
Fatty was startled: "Yes, it's not all bad when you think about it."
Lu Qingjia changed his tone again: "I burned all men."
After the death, the picture of the big man covered with the big man immediately gave the fat man goosebumps: "Can you stop giving me the things you like and don't like every time? I owe you a favor for keeping it for you for free."
Seeing that Fatty had recovered a little bit of energy, Lu Qingjia said seriously, "What's the matter with you?"
Hearing the words, the fat man's mood that had just relaxed began to tense again, and then he took out a few hundred-yuan bills from his pocket tremblingly.
Lu Qingjia wanted to say whether he knew that his time was running out, and he specially explained the only legacy left. Before he spoke, he found that although the color and texture of those banknotes were the same as real banknotes, the words on the top It is printed [XX Hades Bank].
Lu Qingjia took a piece of paper and looked at it carefully. If it weren't for these words, the money could really be faked.
The fat man had a sad face and began to talk about what happened.
After graduating from university, Lu Qingjia inherited his uncle's legacy and opened a farmhouse in a beautiful place. The fat man stayed in the city and became a primary school teacher.
This summer, at the beginning of last month, Fatty brought a few colleagues to play with him.
One day when I went to the lake for fishing, I almost drowned in the water, but I was lucky to be rescued. At that time, there was a false alarm, and everyone scolded Fatty for a while, and after ordering the warning, they didn't take it to heart, including Fatty himself.
As a result, from last week, the fat man began to have nightmares. In the dream, a sum of money appeared on him out of thin air, but every night an old woman changed her way to ask him for money. point.
And this kind of weakness is completely unexplainable, not only is it mental sluggishness, but even its own volume will become less visible to the naked eye.
That is to say, he changed from a fat man weighing more than 200 jins to the hemp-like shape he is now, not in more than a month as Lu Qingjia thought, but in just a few days in less than a week.
Fatty cried as he spoke: "I woke up the morning before and saw that I lost 30 pounds, and I was happy, and then I took out a handful of money from my pocket, as much as I had left in my dream. "
This time, no matter how heartless, he would be scared to death. After a few days of troubled waters, Fatty also figured it out.
"This money is my life. If it's spent, then I'm probably finished." The fat man broke down and scratched his scalp: "I also want to stick to the last money, but it's too late, brother."
"The old woman became stronger and more arrogant every day. It was only a dream at first, but now I can see her at any time. On the road, in the mirror, under the bed, I saw her last night when I opened the toilet lid when I was going to poop, every time I saw her. They all open their mouths to ask me for money."
"If this goes on like this, I'll go crazy sooner or later." Fatty said this, and looked at Lu Qingjia: "In the past few days, a voice in my head told me vaguely that the reason why I was punished for this was because of the drowning incident before. ."
"According to that thing, my life was originally picked up, and now it's just a screening trial."
"What to filter?" Lu Qingjia asked.
Fatty looked at him with despair: "Screen if I am eligible to participate in the game."
In other words, the horror and torture he is experiencing now is just the beginning.
Fatty grabbed Lu Qingjia like a straw to save his life and said, "Brother, among the people I know, you have a flexible mind. You have to help me."
"I've looked for Taoist monks and monks, and I've tried all the ones that jumped the big god and chopped the chicken's head. They're all lies. I can only come back here and try it."
Lu Qingjia is very popular, but he doesn't have many real friends. Fatty is one of them.
And when he asked the other party for help before, Fatty didn't shirk, and Lu Qingjia naturally had to be righteous.
So he comforted the other party, and agreed to go to the lake to explore tomorrow, and then settle down for the exhausted guy.
Before leaving the room, Lu Qingjia took the remaining money from Fatty. According to Fatty, this thing was related to his life. Fatty did not dare to throw it away and did not dare to damage it. It can be seen that he is trusted.
Lu Qingjia didn't figure out anything from the banknotes. When it was time for dinner, it might be because the banknotes left him, or maybe he couldn't hold it anymore, and the fat man slept fairly well.
Seeing this, Lu Qingjia didn't ask him to get up for dinner, he only had one for him and went back to his room to rest.
After searching for information on the Internet to no avail, Lu Qingjia appeared at a late-night station after falling asleep.
The station is in the middle of nowhere, with few buildings around, and in the distance are wilderness and hillsides plunged into darkness.
The stop sign is very old, and it reads [Shanweipo Station] in traditional Chinese characters. Every station name before and after the route is gloomy, and the terminal station is written with [Ghost Gate].
Lu Qingjia knew that he was in a dream at the moment. It was a lucid dream, but the dream was too real.
Even the dim yellow street light not far from the stop sign, because of the discomfort caused by the old and occasional flickering of the eyes, is so clear.
To the side and rear of the station is a small shop, the size of an ordinary bungalow. It is still open so late. Lu Qingjia can see a middle-aged man sitting drowsily guarding the shop behind the glass cash register.
There is a billboard with a faint red light at the entrance of the store [Qi Siba Difu Supermarket Chain], as if he is afraid of scaring people passing by.
Lu Qingjia took it into his pocket, and sure enough, the hundreds of coins he brought from Fatty also brought into his dream. The expression on the portrait of Grandpa Mao above also changed from kind to weird.
This is good, Lu Qingjia originally thought that Fatty could provide too little information, but now he can find out for himself.
Lu Qingjia put the banknotes back, and was about to go to the store when he turned around and suddenly an old woman appeared in front of him.
The old woman's gray and dry hair was so sparse that almost half of her scalp was exposed, and there were still some scars on her scalp. Her face was like the peel of an air-dried orange, with sunken eye sockets and drooping corners of her eyes, and her eyes were greedy and fierce.
But at this moment, seeing Lu Qingjia instead of Fatty seemed a little surprised, the fierce look on his face subsided, and he even squeezed out an ugly smile that he thought was kind.
Showing his dark teeth, he pretended to be pitiful and said, "Young man, grandma has no money to go home by car, can I borrow two yuan for the car?"
Lu Qingjia pondered, he was already in his twenties, and he still looked so easy to deceive
He looked obedient and obedient since he was a child, and when he grew up, he was also the kind of handsome, sunny, positive young man who had never experienced the sinister greenhouse flowers in the world. He was often used as a deception target when he went outside.
However, the tears shed by people who think this way are enough to wash their faces and make them sober. Instead, they are fat people who are not very kind-hearted. Those are the people who are really soft-hearted and kind and like to help others.
Encountering a similar situation, and still in a dream, it is somewhat unreal, and it is not that he was deceived at the beginning.
Lu Qingjia smiled and said to the old woman, "I'm sorry, I don't have any change." Then he pointed to the store: "They should have one, right? Go ask the boss to borrow it, he must have it."
Hearing this, the old woman's orange-peeled face suddenly collapsed, and she pointed at Lu Qingjia and scolded: "Two dollars is not easy, you can kill you, I am very old, and it is cold in the middle of the night. I'm hungry again, I can't stand up, you still kick me, it's only two dollars? You think if your mother and grandmother encounter this kind of thing outside, can others feel the same as you?"
Don't look at the old woman's appearance as if she has just climbed out of the ground, but her mouth is sharp, just like the routine of catching students to cheat money at the station.
Once your heart softens and agrees to borrow, the other party will increase the number and say you heard it wrong. Or wearing a high hat or moral kidnapping, generally young people are thin-skinned, this kind of trick is tried and tested.
However, Lu Qingjia's attention was not here. Originally, he just tried it casually, but the attitude of the old woman made him sure—
She really didn't dare to use the same routine to blackmail the store. Looking at the name of the store, it was obvious that it had a lot of background. Since it is a chain, it naturally has its scale, and it may even be "government-run".
Lu Qingjia has a good eye, and he can see most of the goods inside through the open door of the store.
In addition to the daily necessities of grain, oil and non-staple food stationery, there are actually incense, paper, money, ingot candles, and even paper people and paper carts and paper houses can be seen faintly in the corners.
As if aware of Lu Qingjia's sight, one of the paper figurines seemed to move their eyes, and then blinked in Lu Qingjia's direction, which was a little weirdly cute.
Lu Qingjia calmly retracted his gaze, as if he was losing ground in accusing the old woman.
He quickly apologized: "Cheng Chengcheng, I borrow it, can't I still borrow it?"
As he said that, he took out a hundred-yuan bill and muttered, "But I really can't give you all of them. That's all I have left."
"Otherwise, I'll go to the store to buy a bottle of water and get some change, will you wait for me here?"
When the old woman heard this, she quickly said, "Oh, I'm thirsty and hungry at the moment. Do you please, young man, why don't you just buy me something to eat?"
"Come, I'll buy you some bread and mineral water."
"I'll go too, you don't know what I like to eat." The old woman followed Lu Qingjia firmly.
Lu Qingjia had no choice but to agree, but in the slightly embarrassed smile, there was a certain playfulness in his eyes, which was not noticed by the old woman who also felt sure.
The store is less than fifty meters away from the station sign, a few steps away.
Lu Qingjia knocked on the glass cabinet and said to the middle-aged man who was dozing off, "Boss, buy something."
Then he said to the old woman who looked at him urgingly: "Grandma, go in and get it yourself, don't take too much, I don't have much cash on me."
The old woman got this sentence, as if there were some restrictions around the store that had been released for her, she jumped into it at once, and started to sweep the goods on the shelves with all her might.
Regardless of what Lu Qingjia said, she looked like she was going to empty the store.
In fact, the old woman's thoughts are easy to understand, but Lu Qingjia still doesn't understand the situation.
Anyway, after taking the things, if Lu Qingjia refused to pay the bill, it would be a big deal for her to roll around, but as long as the other party couldn't hold back and let go, it would be over.
Looking at the situation at the moment, but there are no police officers who can handle disputes. If someone comes with you, the owner of the store will naturally be with you.
The old woman was full of pride, her eyebrows were beaming, and she looked at the goods with greedy eyes. She tried her best not to say anything, and even opened it on the spot to eat and drink.
Lu Qingjia called her twice to calm her down, but the old woman obviously couldn't hear it.
Lu Qingjia had to sigh helplessly and said to the boss: "Sorry, my grandma is like this, but don't worry, we will all take down everything she dismantled."
As if he had just explained it in vain, he gave himself up and said: "Forget it, just stock up on cigarettes and bring me two pieces of Chinese."
Hearing this, the boss glanced at Lu Qingjia, and now Lu Qingjia's image is similar to his daytime appearance.
He inherited the legacy of his uncle. Although he could only live in the countryside for various reasons, he was not bad at making money, and he was not considered a wealthy person, and ordinary rich people were not modest.
Dressed well and with a bright appearance, Lu Qingjia has never been questioned about his spending power, and of course it is the same now, although he just said that he doesn't have much cash on him.
The boss immediately opened the glass container and took two cigarettes out of it. According to the market price, these two cigarettes were worth several thousand.
Lu Qingjia unpacked on the spot and put one in his mouth, thinking that he could at least prove two points.
First, the store does not have the same position as the old woman, and second, he doesn't know much about the situation of a dreamer like him. So far, the other party is just like an ordinary store. Existence has certain deterrence, for example, the other party cannot enter the store alone.
Then combined with the road signs and the store name, a guess gradually formed in Lu Qingjia's mind.
Lu Qingjia slowly exhaled a puff of smoke and saw the old woman was still desperately unpacking, trying to make him look like he had to pay for the pile of things in a while.
He seemed bored to wait and said, "That paper cart is good. I want to burn it for my grandfather. Can you take it off?"
The paper cart is in the far corner of the store, stacked with the paper man paper house, and you have to take a stool to get it.
Seeing that Lu Qingjia had made a lot of money and his grandmother was still in the store, the boss didn't have any doubts. He turned around and got on the stool and took down the paper cart.
Just looking back, where is the young man at the door of the store? Then, of course, the two cigarettes disappeared.
The boss snorted, then looked at the old woman, who was still trying to put something in his mouth, he walked over in three steps and grabbed the old woman's hand: "Where's your grandson?"
The old woman said vaguely with something in her mouth: "Don't mind me, don't mind me, someone will pay you later."
The boss sneered: "It's fine if someone pays, I'm afraid that kid has nothing to do with you."
"He just took two cigarettes, not more than one thousand seventeen."
The old woman has been working so hard these days to deceive the fat man, and she has to repost it. She looked back at the empty shop door, and the whole ghost was stupid.
The fat man woke up the next morning, feeling much better with the naked eye. When he came to the restaurant, he met Lu Qingjia who was having breakfast.
He said happily: "Sure enough, you were right to come here. I slept so soundly last night that I didn't dream of the old woman all night, and I didn't see her in the mirror when I woke up in the morning to wash."
Lu Qingjia held coffee in one hand and a Chinese cigarette in the other. Fatty knew that this guy didn't like smoking, let alone Chinese, and was wondering when he changed his taste.
He heard the other party say: "I couldn't afford to buy something and was detained by the store. Of course I didn't have time to come to you."
Fatty: "...?"