Chapter 28

It is very common for people to hold a funeral feast, where the hosts are busy, and after entertaining their relatives and friends, they sit down at the end of the table to eat a little something, starving to the point of being famished.

But I have never heard of the main host of a funeral being able to personally join in and tuck into the feast.

Only then did Li Li Zhuiyuan recall that when he and Lu Runsheng were walking over earlier, Lu Runsheng had shouted from far away: "Grandpa, everyone has finished the feast, let's go home too!"

At the time, he only felt that something was uncoordinated, but he didn't think deeply about it; only now did he react.

Under normal circumstances, seeing one's elder drinking at a table with others, one would at least have to walk up to the table, greet the others, and then lead one's elder home; shouting from far away implies a lack of regard for the people at the table.

Although Brother Lu Runsheng is a bit simple and honest in character, he understands etiquette and rules; so the reason he did that was because, in his eyes, only Li Sanjiang was drinking at the table?

Li Li Zhuiyuan looked at Lu Runsheng beside him and saw that Lu Runsheng had already turned his back to Li Sanjiang, crouched down, and was already prepared to carry Li Sanjiang home on his back.

Yes, confirmed, Lu Runsheng cannot see those two people.

According to past habits, Li Li Zhuiyuan subconsciously wanted to pretend he couldn't see them either, but this path dependency was quickly rejected by himself.

Although he hadn't spoken directly to the other party, his posture while walking to the table earlier, and standing still beside his great-grandfather, turning his side to face the direction of the two people at the table... actually silently revealed that he "saw" them.

Pretending to be stupid at this time would only make him look like a real fool.

Li Sanjiang then took the initiative to hold Li Li Zhuiyuan's hand and said with a smile to the two people at the table:

"Look, how fair-skinned my great-grandson is; one look and you can tell he's a seed who will be good at studying and have a bright future."

Lu Runsheng was already a bit used to it; his Grandpa Li would praise Xiao Yuan many times every day, and now that he had been drinking, he was praising him even more incessantly.

Brother Bao nodded and said meaningfully: "This child, he does look very smart."

Today's host, the deceased Zhao Xing, also echoed: "Anyway, he looks sharper than I did when I was a child; I was no good at studying."

Li Sanjiang was happy to hear such praise and laughed: "Ha, did you hear that, Xiao Yuan Hou, they are praising you!"

Li Li Zhuiyuan felt a sense of helplessness inside; he had just been thinking about how to escape the current situation, not expecting his great-grandfather to pull him directly into the drinking party.

For the moment, Li Li Zhuiyuan could only pretend to be shy, lowering his head with a bashful expression.

"Come, Xiao Yuan Hou, sit down and eat some more."

Although Li Sanjiang was old, his strength was still full; otherwise, he wouldn't be able to retrieve corpses, let alone carry them ashore. Plus, he was already tipsy, and Li Li Zhuiyuan couldn't resist his grip, being forcibly pulled down to sit.

"Come, Xiao Yuan Hou, Great-Grandpa will pick some ribs for you; these are your favorite."

Li Sanjiang picked several pieces of sweet and sour ribs in a row and placed them on the plate in front of Li Li Zhuiyuan.

Lu Runsheng, who was waiting on the side, turned around in confusion and scratched his head; didn't Xiao Yuan say he wanted to carry Grandpa home? Why did Xiao Yuan sit down at the table and start eating himself?

If he wanted a late-night snack, he should have said so earlier; he could have brought some incense from home and sat at the table to eat a few bites too.

"Xiao Yuan..."

"Brother Lu Runsheng, wait for us on the side for a while."

"Alright, Xiao Yuan."

Grandpa Shan had told him that Xiao Yuan was smart and to listen to him more; Lu Runsheng felt the same way, so he simply turned his back to Li Sanjiang and Li Li Zhuiyuan, crouched on the ground, rubbed his eyes, and started yawning.

Li Li Zhuiyuan also felt relieved inside; as long as there was still room for a smooth transition, he was unwilling to risk a direct confrontation.

If it were a real "dead-walker," it would be fine; with Brother Lu Runsheng's brute strength and experience, it's not like they couldn't go up and fight.

But the problem now is very complicated; the two in front are not dead-walkers, at least, they don't have bodies here, and Lu Runsheng can't see them at all.

Then how do you fight? Fight with ghosts?

He picked up his chopsticks, picked up a piece of sweet and sour rib, and put it into his mouth.

After all, it was a genuine banquet, unlike the paper-person feast held by the Cat-Faced Old Lady; Li Li Zhuiyuan dared to eat it, chewing in his mouth.

It's just that, in this environment, no matter how delicious the food is, it tastes like chewing wax.

He was very worried at this moment whether Brother Bao would still remember him.

"Xiao Yuan, right? Have we met somewhere before?"

Li Li Zhuiyuan looked at Brother Bao with some confusion: "Have we?"

Li Sanjiang spoke up: "I'm afraid not; the kid is back in his hometown for the first time and hasn't been here long, so he doesn't know many people."

Brother Bao continued: "Is that so? It's just that looking closely, he looks a bit familiar; you went to the town market yesterday, right?"

Li Li Zhuiyuan nodded: "Yeah, went to the small shop to buy snacks and stationery."

"Oh, which small shop?"

"The one next to the firecracker shop; I sat there drinking soda and watching people play billiards for a long time."

To the west of that small shop was the firecracker shop, and to the east was Sister Mei's video hall.

Li Li Zhuiyuan deliberately avoided mentioning the video hall, firstly for fear of stimulating Li Sanjiang; after all, Li Sanjiang knew what happened at the video hall yesterday, and being in a drunken state, he might open the floodgates of conversation if he wasn't careful.

Secondly, Li Li Zhuiyuan was gambling; gambling that when Brother Bao possessed that woman yesterday, he could only control her actions and couldn't know the other party's memories, and also gambling that when the small shop owner went to the video hall to tip off, he didn't have time to explain things clearly before he got high.

Li Li Zhuiyuan felt the success rate of the gamble was high, because if Brother Bao knew it was him who called the police yesterday, his attitude toward him now would definitely not be so calm.

After a pause, Li Li Zhuiyuan continued: "Hehe, there was an auntie yesterday who wanted to invite me to sit next door, but I prefer watching billiards, and Brother Lu Runsheng took the landlady next door to the health center at that time, telling me to wait for him there until he came back to take me home together; I have to be obedient and listen to my brother.

Right, Brother Lu Runsheng?"

"Huh?" Lu Runsheng was cleaning his left fingernails with his right fingernail, "Yeah, that's right."

He vaguely felt that this sounded a bit off; when he was with Xiao Yuan, although he was older, every decision was based on Xiao Yuan, so why did Xiao Yuan's words make it sound like he was the big brother in charge?

Hey, wait, who exactly is Xiao Yuan talking to?

"Xiao Yuan, you..."

"Brother Lu Runsheng, be quiet for a while; we'll go home after sitting for a bit longer, don't make noise and don't talk."

"Oh, okay."

Lu Runsheng obediently continued to pick at his fingernails and stopped talking.

Brother Bao said: "That's right then; I bought a pack of cigarettes at that small shop yesterday and must have seen you then, but you probably don't remember me."

"Hmm..." Li Li Zhuiyuan lowered his head slightly and said apologetically, "I must have been mesmerized by the billiards then."

It seems Brother Bao indeed doesn't know it was him who called the police, and looking at him like this, he doesn't seem to remember Lu Runsheng who took him to the health center either.

Is it because he was still in a coma and not dead at that time?

But Brother Bao should have died at the health center, and his soul walked from the health center to the video hall; did he not see Lu Runsheng at the health center?

Li Li Zhuiyuan recalled Lu Runsheng saying that he wanted to leave at the time but was stopped by the health center staff who wanted him to pay the medical fees; he really had no choice later but to wait outside Sister Mei's ward for Sister Mei to wake up, so that's why they missed each other?

Brother Bao asked again: "I just heard you say you took someone to the health center; how is she?"

"The doctor said it's fine, she'll be better after some rest."

"Oh."

Li Li Zhuiyuan noticed that Brother Bao's gaze toward him became a bit softer.

This was also the purpose of his deliberately mentioning Lu Runsheng taking Sister Mei to the hospital earlier.

Actually, there is another problem right now, which is that he can see them, which is a huge flaw.

But at the same time, this flaw seems to be covered up because Li Sanjiang is here, as it was Li Sanjiang who first saw them and started drinking with them.

And Li Sanjiang's identity is a bit special; a corpse-retriever, ferrying between yin and yang, inherently has some special qualities; not only do the living seek help from corpse-retrievers, but the dead do too.

There are similar records in "Jianghu Records of Strange Tales."

At least, so far, neither Brother Bao nor Zhao Xing has expressed surprise that he can see them.

Even Lu Runsheng, under his cover, is in a "as if seeing" state.

"Hiss... Tsk!"

Li Sanjiang downed another glass of wine, wiped his mouth, and picked up a mouthful of food with his chopsticks to press it down.

Li Li Zhuiyuan sighed silently; he was here being cautious and racking his brains to patch things up, while his great-grandfather was eating and drinking with gusto.

Zhao Xing asked: "How is the food today? Are you satisfied?"

Li Li Zhuiyuan lowered his head and continued to eat the ribs: "Delicious."

Li Sanjiang nodded and said: "Your Zhao family are kind people; the food at this feast is really not bad."

Li Li Zhuiyuan guessed that his great-grandfather must have mistaken Zhao Xing for some nephew of the Zhao family.

"That's good, as long as everyone can eat and drink well; I'm just afraid it wasn't done well and neglected everyone."

A smile appeared on Zhao Xing's face, but his complexion was already pale, and paired with the smile, it made people feel even more terrified.

Li Li Zhuiyuan picked up a piece of salted meat, dipped it in the plate, and put it in his mouth.

Only the cold dishes on the table were still edible; the other dishes had gone cold.

However, this host really cares about the evaluation of the feast.

Actually, at a funeral feast, if the host who was supposed to be lying there personally crawled up to ask, I guess no one would dare to say the feast wasn't good.

Brother Bao said: "If I didn't know your feast here was good, would I have rushed over to eat?"

Zhao Xing laughed: "Alright, don't I have to go to your place to eat in two days?"

Brother Bao replied: "Yeah, but my feast definitely won't be as good as yours; your Zhao family does big business, while mine is just a small business; after expenses, there's not much left, but when you come, I will definitely accompany you well, just like you today."

Zhao Xing waved his hand: "Eating and drinking are secondary; it's mainly the atmosphere; with our relationship, there's no need for those polite formalities."

Li Li Zhuiyuan picked up a pair of chopsticks of cold spinach; this kind of mutual invitation to eat each other's funeral feasts after death is really quite novel.

However, how should he end this drinking party in a more natural way?

Also, why did they appear and drink with his great-grandfather? Was it because they were lonely, or was there something going on?

Li Sanjiang looked at Brother Bao: "What's wrong? Is your family holding an event too?"

"Yeah, soon; when my wife's health gets better, we'll hold it."

"Then that won't do; your wife is sick, and you're still staying here drinking so late; shouldn't you go back and take care of her? That's too irresponsible.

Besides, holding a feast is very troublesome; since your wife is sick, you have to be the one in charge; you can't hide from it."

Li Li Zhuiyuan immediately nodded in agreement: "When I'm sick, I always hope someone is with me."

Brother Bao shook his head helplessly: "I did something I'm sorry for to my wife, and her illness was also caused by me making her angry, so it's not appropriate for me to go home now. Counting today, I'll hide outside for six more days, and when the seventh day comes, I'll go back; by then, she should have calmed down."

"Hehe." Li Sanjiang pointed at Brother Bao with his chopsticks, "You young people are really something; either don't get married, or don't go out and mess around once you're married."

"Uncle is right." Brother Bao picked up his chopsticks and turned them in his hand.

Li Li Zhuiyuan sensed that Brother Bao was angry.

As a hooligan in town, how could he allow others to point at his nose and educate him like this? In the past, regardless of whether you were old or young, he would have directly taught you a lesson.

But now, he is enduring it.

Zhao Xing took the initiative to take over the conversation: "I say, Uncle..."

"Pah, how old are you, kid? You look at most twenty, and you call me Uncle?" Li Sanjiang pointed his finger at the mourning hall, "This Old Zhao is only worthy of calling me Uncle, and that's because I'm not calculating with him; you're about the same age as the main character who left today, right?"

Seeing Li Sanjiang turn his head to look at the portrait in the mourning hall, Li Li Zhuiyuan was terrified that his dizzy great-grandfather would see it and realize who the person sitting in the dark under the lamp at the table was.

He hurriedly picked up the wine bottle to pour wine for his great-grandfather, and deliberately let it overflow after filling it.

"Hey hey hey, enough, enough, what a pity, wasting the wine." Li Sanjiang's attention was quickly pulled back; while steadying the bottle, he lowered his head and took a "slurp" of the spilled wine on the plastic sheet of the table.

"My hand shook, Great-Grandpa."

After Zhao Xing and Brother Bao looked at each other, they changed their words: "Grandpa, we two brothers want to ask you for a favor."

"Tell me first."

"Old Jiang in Shigang Town owes us brothers a debt and has been dragging it out without paying."

"Old Jiang?" Li Sanjiang patted his forehead, trying hard to recall through the alcohol, "Sounds a bit familiar; ah, is it that Old Jiang who runs a karaoke room and bathroom in Shigang Town? That guy is famous in that area; I heard he started by doing earthwork business in his early years?"

"Yes, that's him."

"Then it's hard to handle; he owes you money, why don't you go find him and ask for it yourselves? Do you have an IOU?"

"We're being held by the handle by him, so it's really not convenient to see him."

"Hey, I can't manage such things." Li Sanjiang hurriedly shook his head, "I'm not a big shot, just someone who retrieves floaters in the river; how could I help with such things? If I had that ability, would I still be taking jobs now? I would have been lying at home enjoying life long ago."

"There is a vat in the middle of the pond at his house, and there is a large Tai Sui in the vat; he retrieved it from the river many years ago; because he tricked us into eating that thing, it made us brothers very uncomfortable now.

Not only do we dare not find him, but we also have to continue working under him."

"What kind of Tai Sui?" Li Sanjiang was confused, "Is it poison? Did he feed you two medicine?"

"We only ask you to help us destroy that vat of Tai Sui at his house; burn it, take it, bury it, or throw it away, anything is fine, as long as you don't let that vat of stuff stay at his house."

"I say, what are you two talking about? Isn't this asking me to steal things? I'm already at this age, how can I do such things? You found the wrong..."

Zhao Xing kept pulling out bundles of "Da Tuan Zhao Jie" (ten-yuan notes) from under the table, pulling out a total of nine bundles.

Each bundle of money was brand new, tied with white paper.

Li Sanjiang swallowed his saliva, and his breathing became rapid.

"Grandpa Li, as long as you agree to help, all this money will be yours."

The hand holding the wine glass was already trembling; you have to know, he originally went to the Niu family despite knowing there were dirty things there, all for money, while dragging his injured body.

But this time, even though he was drunk, Li Sanjiang still forcibly lowered his head, and at the same time, slammed the wine glass in his hand heavily onto the table, saying with resounding force:

"No!"

Immediately after, Li Sanjiang kept slapping the table with his hand and cursed:

"Two blind little bastards, do you think your grandpa is the kind of person who would do dirty things for money? Pah!"

Brother Bao and Zhao Xing were both stunned, and then a greenish color began to appear on their faces; this was a sign of anger.

The surrounding air also turned cold.

Even Lu Runsheng, who was crouching on the side and almost asleep, couldn't help but shiver.

Li Li Zhuiyuan asked: "That Old Jiang, has he committed any crimes?"

Seeing the two cast their gaze at him, Li Li Zhuiyuan explained: "I want to help my great-grandfather, so I'm asking clearly."

Zhao Xing shook his head; he didn't know.

Brother Bao said: "I've seen it; in the pond mud under that vat, there is a person buried; it's Old Jiang's enemy, surnamed Zhou."

"What, he even killed someone?" Li Sanjiang's drunkenness faded a bit upon hearing this, but his first reaction was, "You motherfucker, you want me to go to a murderer's house to steal things?"

Zhao Xing looked at Brother Bao and asked: "When did you see it?"

Brother Bao replied: "Because I helped him bury it; Old Jiang said the corpse buried there can nourish the Tai Sui."

Zhao Xing was surprised: "So, you've been helping him for a long time; you didn't tell me earlier, otherwise I wouldn't have been so miserable."

Brother Bao sneered: "Have you forgotten? We left one after another."

"Also true, I really forgot about that. What a pity, my family fortune."

Zhao Xing looked around with great regret; his family conditions were good, and his father had the ability to earn money, so he could have continued to enjoy life; whenever he had played enough and wanted to properly marry a wife, there was really no marriage his father couldn't buy with money in the ten miles and eight villages.

However, what he didn't know was that it was precisely because his father was too good at earning money that he, a person with thin fortune, couldn't afford to enjoy it too early.

Li Sanjiang was just about to say something more, when suddenly his stomach churned, and he turned to the side and started vomiting.

Li Li Zhuiyuan helped him pat his back, while his peripheral vision continued to focus on Brother Bao and Zhao Xing.

Brother Bao urged: "Are you agreeing or not? Give me a straight answer quickly; for my wife's sake, I don't want to make you look too bad."

Li Sanjiang had just finished vomiting and was catching his breath; hearing this, he asked in confusion: "What does your wife have to do with me?"

After asking, Li Sanjiang started vomiting again, this time vomiting more violently than before, his whole body hunched over, lying on his side on the bench.

Li Li Zhuiyuan continued to pat Li Sanjiang's back and said: "If we can help, we will try our best; we don't want the money, and if we can't do it, don't blame us, okay?"

At this moment, the two people who could barely be considered human-like suddenly sat straight on their seats.

Their complexions were livid, patches of corpse spots appeared on their skin, and those eyes were completely filled with white.

Their lips opened and closed rapidly, as if they were talking, but the sound couldn't be heard clearly.

Li Li Zhuiyuan tried hard to hear some useful information, even if it was threatening words, but things went against his wishes; he really couldn't understand a single word, only feeling like there were countless flies "buzzing" around his ears.

What is going on?

Weren't they communicating quite well just now?

Did something go wrong with them, or did something go wrong on his side?

"Clap!" "Clap!"

Two pairs of chopsticks were neatly inserted into the rice bowls in front of the two.

The two's mouths were still shaking rapidly, and still, nothing could be heard clearly.

But in the blink of an eye, the two stood up;

In another blink of an eye, the two left their seats;

At the third blink, the two left the shed.

When Li Li Zhuiyuan looked again, he found that the two had already appeared in the distant fields, their figures very blurry.

Then, the two disappeared completely. However, in the end, Li Li Zhuiyuan still couldn't understand whether those two recognized the plan he mentioned?

However, in all likelihood, they probably didn't recognize it; otherwise, they wouldn't have said so much before leaving; although he didn't understand a single word, there were quite a lot of words.

At least, it wouldn't be a simple "Okay, goodbye."

Li Li Zhuiyuan looked at Li Sanjiang, only to find that Li Sanjiang had actually fallen asleep on the bench.

When did he fall asleep?

It seems it was when those two guys were talking and he couldn't hear clearly.

"Brother Lu Runsheng." Li Li Zhuiyuan went to push Lu Runsheng.

"Ah, are you done eating?"

Lu Runsheng stretched; he had just really fallen asleep and suddenly felt a bit cold in his dream.

"Yeah, Great-Grandpa is drunk; Brother Lu Runsheng, carry Great-Grandpa on your back."

"Alright."

Lu Runsheng got up, first grabbed Li Sanjiang's arm, and then swung him up; Li Sanjiang was carried on his back in a very standard posture.

It was indeed very standard, a standard corpse-carrying posture.

Li Li Zhuiyuan turned his gaze to the nine bundles of money in the center of the table, reached out to take them, and shone his flashlight on them.

The original ten-yuan notes had actually turned into underworld money at this moment.

"Are we leaving, Xiao Yuan?" Lu Runsheng asked.

"Wait a bit longer."

Li Li Zhuiyuan fished out matches from Li Sanjiang's pocket, then picked up the underworld money on the table and went to the front of the mourning hall, where there was a fire basin that had long since gone out.

After putting the underworld money in, Li Li Zhuiyuan lit it, picked up a half-burnt wooden stick from the side, turned it over to ensure it burned thoroughly, and then said to the portrait:

"The money you dropped has all been returned to you."

No matter how things end up, cutting ties with such dirty things as much as possible first can't be wrong.

After doing all this, Li Li Zhuiyuan walked back; when passing the wine table, his flashlight swept over the positions where Brother Bao and Zhao Xing had sat earlier, and an unusual reflection immediately appeared.

He stepped forward to look carefully; it was water stains.

Regardless of the disgust, he touched it with his finger; it was very greasy.

He shone the flashlight under the chair again and found that a pool of water had accumulated under the chair, as if a light rain had just fallen.

Because the terrain here was uneven, the water stains hadn't flowed toward the positions where he and his great-grandfather were sitting earlier.

"Wet, so much water..."

Li Li Zhuiyuan immediately followed his memory to explore the positions where the two had stayed during the previous blinks.

A pool of water,

A pool of water,

Two pairs of water stains with visible footprint traces.

The fourth place was in the field, so Li Li Zhuiyuan didn't go down to the field to look for it.

At this moment, thinking of what the two said, that the vat for raising Tai Sui was placed in the pond, and there was a corpse buried under the pond.

And, the two's fear of the Tai Sui in the water vat clearly looked like they were being controlled.

Li Li Zhuiyuan's gaze gradually sank:

"You two, don't tell me you have a connection with the dead-walkers?"

Lu Runsheng turned his head, about to urge him again, but after seeing Li Li Zhuiyuan standing there with a flashlight, for some reason, his words got stuck in his throat and he didn't dare to say them.

Because he suddenly felt that the Xiao Yuan in front of him was so strange and so scary.

The purer and simpler a person's nature is, the more sensitive they are to the outside world; clearly, everyone around felt Li Li Zhuiyuan was very well-behaved and sensible, praising and liking him, but Lu Runsheng, since the first time he came to Li Sanjiang's house and took the initiative to go to the second floor, had never gone up again.

Everyone else in the house thought it was because the girl was there, and the girl didn't like to contact outsiders.

But only Lu Runsheng knew that compared to that girl, he was more afraid of Xiao Yuan; he didn't dare to disturb him unless he took the initiative to find him.

Li Li Zhuiyuan raised his head, and Lu Runsheng immediately turned his head back, not daring to make eye contact.

"Let's go, Brother Lu Runsheng, let's go home."

"Yeah."

On the small field path in the middle of the night, Lu Runsheng was walking in front carrying Li Sanjiang, followed by a boy.

The boy was half-squinting his eyes, head lowered, his hands gently clenched as he walked.

Li Li Zhuiyuan was very angry now.

Because he felt this sense of powerlessness once again.

Before, hadn't he wondered if the frequency of him encountering such things was a bit too high?

But looking at his great-grandfather, he could even sit at a table with two dirty things just by drinking.

He felt his frequency was still normal.

Moreover, although quite a few people had died in these incidents, in the eyes of ordinary people, those people died of accidents or illnesses.

Indeed, it is very difficult for a normal ordinary person to encounter or hear about such a thing; but if it were replaced by various accidents, it would immediately become very common.

He, nothing more than because of some special changes, could see through some accidents in the eyes of ordinary people and know what he had encountered.

Just like in real life, bacteria are everywhere, but because the human eye can't see them, everyone thinks it's normal; if you look with a microscope, they are everywhere.

Li Li Zhuiyuan actually quite enjoyed this change and liked to explore and learn on this path, but he resented these sudden occurrences time and time again, and even more loathed his own pale powerlessness time and time again.

He could admit he was a poor student, but that didn't mean he could accept this practice of reminding and reporting his grades every few days.

A poor student also has dignity.

Returning home, after settling Li Sanjiang on the bed in the bedroom, Li Li Zhuiyuan walked into his bedroom and turned on the desk lamp.

The fatigue from going out earlier had disappeared at this moment, stimulated; he held a pen and quickly drew on the drawing paper.

Under the desk lamp, the boy's eyes were full of determination.

Like a student who doesn't study hard usually, making a final desperate effort before the exam.

In Li Li Zhuiyuan's life experience, he had never entered such a hardworking and focused learning state.

Finally, when the clock struck five in the morning, Li Li Zhuiyuan finished the drawing in his hand.

He got up to tidy up, but found that his shoulders and legs had lost sensation; his whole body tilted, and if he hadn't supported the table in time, he might have fallen down long ago.

After a long while, he recovered from the numbness.

Too busy to rest, Li Li Zhuiyuan organized the drawings; this was of course not all of "The Righteous Path Subduing Demons Record," in fact, these drawings were just the tip of the iceberg in the book.

But this was a set of tools that Li Li Zhuiyuan had selected for himself, which were the most convenient and practical to make nowadays.

Some raw materials prepared yesterday were also organized and classified by Li Li Zhuiyuan again.

Next, it was to assemble and make them.

The door was gently pushed open at this moment, and A Li walked in.

Usually at this time, when she came in, Li Li Zhuiyuan should be sleeping on the bed.

The girl walked to the boy, squatted down, looked at the boy, reached out, and touched his forehead.

Her grandmother had done this to her more than once; in her cognition, this represented care.

"A Li, you're here; I'm fine, but today, I still have to trouble you; let me explain the process of these drawings to you."

A Li had shown extremely strong manual talent yesterday; Li Li Zhuiyuan only needed to explain the drawings to her once, and she could make them with the existing materials.

Today, A Li was wearing a black tight-fitting training suit; Li Li Zhuiyuan suspected that Liu Liu Yumei had learned from yesterday's lesson and thought black was dirt-resistant.

After explaining to A Li, Li Li Zhuiyuan and A Li made them together; not long after, the sky turned bright.

"A Li, you keep working, I'll go out for a while."

After saying that, Li Li Zhuiyuan held a stack of drawings and a prescription and went downstairs.

"Xiao Yuan, breakfast is ready." Liu Yi happened to come out of the kitchen.

"Liu Yi, can you help me decoct this medicine?"

Liu Yi took the prescription, glanced at it, and looked at Li Li Zhuiyuan again.

"Please, Liu Yi, this is for Great-Grandpa to drink; Great-Grandpa's body has been weak recently, he said he wanted to nourish it, this is... your job."

"Alright, Auntie knows, I'll decoct it for you."

Decocting medicine is a troublesome job, and even more of a technical job; if Li Li Zhuiyuan decocted it himself, it would be time-consuming and laborious and couldn't guarantee the medicinal properties, so he could only seek help from Liu Yi.

Although it was a bit inappropriate to force people in this way, Li Li Zhuiyuan was very short on time now; those two guys would give at most three days, and when they saw that he hadn't finished the matter here, they would probably come looking for him again.

"Thank you, Liu Yi."

"Hey, breakfast is ready, where are you going?"

"I'm going out for a while."

Li Li Zhuiyuan ran to the old carpenter's house in the village; the carpenter's house was a two-story building, quite impressive.

Because the other party was originally a formal worker at the Xingren Machinery Factory, although he is now retired at home, he still takes some jobs to do on weekdays, plus his two sons also work at the machinery factory, so the family conditions are considered good in the village.

When Li Li Zhuiyuan came in, the old carpenter was eating breakfast.

"Are you, Li Weihan's grandson?"

"It's me, Grandpa, my name is Li Li Zhuiyuan; this time it was my great-grandfather Li Sanjiang who asked me to come; he said there is a batch of tools that need you to hurry up and help make, the faster the better."

The old carpenter took the drawings, looked at several of them in a row, and asked in surprise: "Who drew these drawings?"

These manual drawings were drawn very finely and professionally, and for the manufacturer, they were also very thoughtful.

Actually, Li Li Zhuiyuan's ability to draw was not learned recently; in the past, in his mother's study, the table and floor were full of these drawings; he had been crawling on these drawings when he was very young.

"I don't know, my great-grandfather gave them to me; Great-Grandpa said it was urgent and that he owed you a big favor."

Li Sanjiang's favor is still very useful in the village, especially for the elderly.

Because in this life, one can never escape that final destination, and in the end, one has to invite Li Sanjiang to sit for the funeral rites.

Li Li Zhuiyuan didn't feel that he was abusing his great-grandfather's favor; after all, those two guys came to his great-grandfather this time, and him rushing to make these things was also helping his great-grandfather.

"Okay, leave it to me, no problem, I'll rush to make it immediately; there are materials at home, all ready-made. It's just that some parts on your drawings need to be machined on a lathe...

I'll let my son take them to the factory and borrow the factory's lathe to help you make them."

"Thank you so much, about how long will it take you to complete?"

"So urgent?"

"Yeah!"

"Come and get them tomorrow morning; I'll call my two apprentices to come and help together, it will be done very quickly."

"Thank you for your hard work, I'll come to pick them up tomorrow morning."

After Li Li Zhuiyuan thanked him, he ran home; just as he was about to go upstairs, he was stopped by Liu Liu Yumei: "Xiao Yuan, call A Li down for breakfast, we can't call her."

"It's okay, we won't eat, we have snacks."

Eating snacks while working doesn't delay progress.

Seeing Li Li Zhuiyuan run to the second floor, Liu Yi said in surprise: "Xiao Yuan has been busy since early morning, what's wrong?"

Liu Liu Yumei, who was sitting on the side drinking porridge, hummed lightly:

"Who knows, maybe he bumped into a ghost."

"Then should A Li be called down?"

"If that kid doesn't speak, who can call A Li down for a meal?"

"Also true." Liu Yi had just gone to call her, but A Li didn't give a response at all, "I don't know what A Li is doing in the room."

Liu Liu Yumei sighed:

"What is she doing? She's working for that kid."

Returning to the bedroom, Li Li Zhuiyuan opened the snacks and placed them in front of himself and A Li; the two continued their work while eating.

A Li didn't talk anyway, and Li Li Zhuiyuan couldn't care about talking today; only the sound of pounding and knocking kept coming from the room.

Various materials were processed in an orderly manner in the hands of the boy and girl, and small parts were also made one by one.

The two didn't go down for lunch either; anyway, they ate snacks when they were hungry.

By evening, all the work on hand was almost finished.

Li Li Zhuiyuan slumped on the ground, while A Li looked at the results of her and the boy's work over the past two days; she didn't seem tired, and even seemed to have unfinished business.

At this time, Liu Yi shouted from below: "Xiao Yuan, it's decocted."

Liu Yi didn't call Great-Grandpa to drink the medicine.

Li Li Zhuiyuan walked out of the room; having not slept all night, he was now a bit lightheaded, and had to hold the wall when going downstairs.

Tomorrow morning, as long as he goes to get the crafted tools back and performs the final assembly with the various materials prepared on hand, it will be completely finished.

Today, only the last step remains; once done, he can have a good sleep.

Downstairs, Li Sanjiang was sitting there watching TV with Lu Runsheng; seeing Li Li Zhuiyuan come down, Li Sanjiang asked:

"Xiao Yuan Hou, what are you doing in the room today, not even coming down for a meal?"

"Great-Grandpa, last night at the wine table..."

"I drank too much last night and even had a dream; in the dream, someone gave me a lot of money and asked me to do illegal things, which I refused.

Oh my, my heart still aches now; this dream was too real, making me almost mistake it for not being a dream; fortunately, I asked Lu Runsheng Hou, and Lu Runsheng Hou said that when he went to pick me up last night, I was the only one drinking."

Li Li Zhuiyuan: "..."

At this moment, Li Li Zhuiyuan suddenly empathized with Grandpa Shan.

Li Li Zhuiyuan went to get the medicine.

Li Sanjiang sniffed and asked: "Is this Chinese medicine? What's wrong, are you feeling unwell?"

Li Li Zhuiyuan took a sip from the edge of the bowl and said: "No, Liu Yi was afraid that my studying was too hard, so she stewed this brain-nourishing soup for me."

"Oh, then drink more."

Li Li Zhuiyuan carried the medicine back to the room; just as he put the bowl down, the little black dog actually ran over by itself and started drinking "slurp slurp."

The taste of this medicine wasn't hard to drink, but it wasn't good either; Li Li Zhuiyuan had originally thought about force-feeding it.

The little black dog drank all the medicine, then walked back to the cage by itself, walking unsteadily, seemingly a bit full.

Li Li Zhuiyuan took out a small syringe, walked to the cage, and waved his hand.

The little black dog sat with its belly facing the cage, one claw grabbing the cage, and the other claw reaching out from the gap in the cage to give to Li Li Zhuiyuan.

Li Li Zhuiyuan had seen this set of postures; it was the giant panda he saw receiving a physical examination when his parents took him to the zoo when he was a child.

Li Li Zhuiyuan held its dog claw, the needle pierced in, and he drew a little blood back.

Then he wiped it with a cotton ball.

The little black dog didn't bark or make a fuss, just waited very quietly for Li Li Zhuiyuan to finish; after confirming there was nothing for it, it fell backward and started to sleep.

"Why are you so well-behaved..."

Li Zhuiyuan felt that if Wei Zhengdao were resurrected and saw such a sensible black dog, he would probably be envious enough to drool.

After dripping the black dog blood into each of the prepared accessories according to the ratio, the production process of the last link was completed very quickly.

Only the final assembly link tomorrow morning remains, which is simple.

"A Li, thank you."

A Li walked to Li Li Zhuiyuan, reached out and touched Li Li Zhuiyuan's head, and then pointed to the wooden bed in the room.

In the past, it was Li Li Zhuiyuan who coaxed her back to the room to sleep like this.

"Okay, I'll sleep."

Li Li Zhuiyuan really couldn't hold on anymore; he would wash up after waking up; lying on the bed, although the straw mat underneath was hard, his whole body felt as comfortable as if it had sunk into cotton.

Before closing his eyes, Li Li Zhuiyuan looked at the top of the bed and silently recited:

"Counterattack, starting from now..."

(End of chapter)