When he got home, Li Changan was ready to fill up the hole he made last night, "Sister-in-law, are the bricks piled at the root of the wall outside our family's?"
"Well, yes." Liu Zhiyin was making wine, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and stuck his head out to say.
Li Changan approached the pile of bricks and found that there were footprints on it, and it seemed that they had been stepped on recently.
Frowning slightly, he walked around the wall and had some guesses in his mind.
Li Changan carried the bricks into the yard, and Liu Zhiyin complained in a low voice, "I just went to the market and there are no hawthorn fruits for sale today. Xiaolan also said that the orchards outside the city do not sell hawthorn fruits."
"What a ruthless businessman. He just wants to raise the price. If he doesn't sell takeout now, he doesn't know how much he will raise the price."
Li Changan shrugged his nose, good fellow, my sister-in-law, you even scolded your brother-in-law, "Sister-in-law, I brought ten kilograms back here, we have no shortage of hawthorn fruits."
Liu Zhiyin blinked in surprise and raised his voice, "Huh? Where did you buy this from?"
"Sister-in-law will know tomorrow." Li Changan put down the bricks with a smile and continued to move.
"Okay, I got it." Liu Zhiyin rolled her eyes at Li Changan, came out of the kitchen, picked up the hawthorn fruits and started cleaning them.
"By the way, sister-in-law, when you wait for Sister Xiaolan and Xiaofang to come later, you will tell them that these hawthorn fruits are the leftovers from the previous purchase." Li Changan found a shovel and was about to shovel the soil to fill the hole.
"Huh?" Liu Zhiyin turned her head in disbelief, "If the hawthorn fruit is not sold that day, it will definitely not be fresh the next day, and Xiaolan Xiaofang and the others won't believe it."
Li Changan smiled and said, "Bury the hawthorn fruit in sand, fill it with water, and keep it for two days."
"It's almost as good as being buried in the mud."
"When the time comes, my sister-in-law will directly tell Sister Xiaolan and Sister Xiaofang the method. If others ask, tell them not to hide their secrets and answer all questions."
Liu Zhiyin looked at Li Changan suspiciously, always feeling that Erlang's idea was a bit bizarre, and he couldn't figure it out.
It's like reading a book from heaven. It's cloudy and foggy, making it difficult to see clearly.
"My sister-in-law and I will go out of the city together at noon tomorrow. I will give her a good explanation then." Li Changan said with a smile.
"Then will we still be selling candied haws on a stick tomorrow?" Liu Zhiyin asked subconsciously.
"Sell it, but we need to change the style. In addition, we have to do some other business." Li Changan shoveled the soil and poured it into the pit, stamping it firmly.
Lunch was very simple, two steaming steamed buns and a small plate of pickles.
After dinner, Li Changan worked in the study room in the north room for more than half a month before going out with the paper.
Came to the blacksmith shop again.
The blacksmith looked at the two pieces of paper handed over by Li Changan with a strange look on his face.
"What...is this thing again?"
It was just that I got two strange pots last time, but why did I get another weird object this time?
"There are mice in the house, so this is a mouse trap." Li Changan said with great seriousness.
"Are you sure it's a mouse trap?" The look on the blacksmith's face became even more strange, pointing to the mouse trap on the paper, "This must be nearly a foot long, right? Is your mouse bigger than a dog?"
Li Changan nodded seriously.
The blacksmith couldn't help rolling his eyes, unable to complain.
"And what is this?"
The blacksmith pointed to another piece of white paper, with something even weirder drawn on it, as if the ends of four nails were fused together, with sharp barbs on all sides, and it was uneven. No matter how you put it, a nail would stand up.
"Some gadgets, nothing worth mentioning."
Li Changan said with a smile.
There is no way, there are no roadblocks in this world, so we can only make nonsense.
"It can be done, but it won't be too fast and it will be more difficult."
The blacksmith hummed, not a single word of the boy in front of him was true.
"If I make ten mousetraps, I'll make a hundred of these nails."
"I'll come over tonight to pick it up. Can it be made?"
"Yes, but it must be before Youshi." The blacksmith took the paper and called out all the clerks in the shop.
"How much?"
"Five hundred coins."
…
On the way to the evening market,
Liu Zhiyin followed Li Changan, "Erlang, what are those things you just dragged home? Why have I never seen them before?"
"Our wine sales have been good these days. I'm worried that someone will get pink eye again, so I made some preparations in advance."
Li Changan explained in an understatement and did not reveal the footprints on the pile of bricks outside the wall.
I had good luck at the evening market today and found another wine shop. However, I didn't ask for fifty pounds all at once. Instead, I ordered twenty pounds first to try out the situation.
After returning home, Li Changan arranged mouse traps and barricade nails under the yard wall.
Then a layer of boiler dust was sprinkled on top.
"Sister-in-law, please don't come to this place again."
Li Changan wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Just spread the barricade nails in a circle, but the mousetrap is really difficult. Fortunately, during the design, a pry bar was added, otherwise the current weak body would not even be able to open the plywood.
Although my health has improved due to that mutation, my foundation is still too weak.
Liu Zhiyin witnessed the whole process with his own eyes and felt a little scared. No matter how you look at these things, they are a bit scary. "Erlang, will this cause death?"
"Don't worry, it will only cause injuries, not life."
Li Changan closed the door, placed two large mouse traps at the door, and then sprinkled a few barricade nails to mark the door.
The night is getting darker,
A black shadow quietly approached the Li family wall and quickly hid in a dark corner.
"This consumptive man, his wine sales have been getting better and better in recent days, and even I have been robbed of a lot of business."
"I want to see what secrets are hidden in your wine."
Until late at night, the surroundings were silent except for the occasional barking of dogs in the distance.
Only then did a dark shadow come out of the corner, and the dim moonlight illuminated the man's face.
It's actually Wang Ergou!
"She should have gone to bed already."
Wang Ergou stuck his head out, listened carefully, and made sure that Li Changan and Liu Zhiyin were asleep. He stepped on the pile of bricks and found that they were a little shorter, but not in the way. He jumped lightly, climbed up the wall, and then jumped down.
"ah……"
The shrill screams pierced the silence of the night sky.
Wang Ergou's feet were pierced by nails from the barricade. He was trembling with pain and took two steps back.
"Click."
"Bang."
"Ouch..."
Severe pain swept over him like a tide, and his right foot seemed to be broken. Wang Ergou screamed in pain.
In the north room, Li Changan woke up suddenly, stood up quickly, grabbed the bricks by the door and rushed out.
The lights in the east room are also on.
Li Changan was holding a lantern in one hand and a brick in the other.
When I walked out of the door, I saw a black shadow tumbling out from the wall in a panic, and then there was a sound like a cloth bag falling.
But that person's appearance was just a general look.
Liu Zhiyin also ran out wearing a coat, her beauty pale.
"Erlang..." Liu Zhiyin grabbed the corner of Li Changan's clothes and did not dare to let go.
"It's okay, sister-in-law."
"That big rat has escaped."
Li Changan comforted him with a warm voice, but his eyes were extremely cold.
You bastard Wang Ergou, how dare you climb over the wall!?
Liu Zhiyin was like a frightened quail, hiding behind Li Changan, her big eyes full of panic.
"Sister-in-law, go to bed quickly. When daybreak we will go deliver wine together."
Li Changan sent Liu Zhiyin back to the east room.
But Liu Zhiyin was still afraid, and her voice was trembling, "Erlang, who is that person? Is it Wang Ergou?"
"Sister-in-law, don't be afraid, and don't think too much, leave everything to me." Li Changan said with a smile.
After closing the door, Li Changan sat on the stone outside the east room, "Sister-in-law, sleep peacefully, I will guard outside..."
The weak lights in the east room swayed, and the crescent moon in the sky slowly moved westward.
Li Changan put the bricks aside.
If you can only be a thief for a thousand days, how can you prevent a thief for a thousand days?
You must take the initiative.
Wang Ergou, we need to settle our accounts carefully.
The cold wind blew from time to time, and Li Changan couldn't help but shiver.
The door behind him opened with a creak.
A refreshing fragrance like jasmine comes.
Liu Zhiyin hugged the quilt and said in a voice as soft as a mosquito's moan, "Go to the north room."
ah?
Li Changan's heart trembled violently.
What...what does it mean?
In the darkness, Liu Zhiyin's face seemed to be stained with rouge, blushing like a peach blossom.
A lot of fuss,
Li Changan's eyes widened and he was hopeless.
There is always a fragrance lingering in the nose, vague, but fascinating.
My sister-in-law slept in the study room in the north room, with only a curtain between them.
Li Changan tossed and turned on the bed, unable to fall asleep.
There seems to be two villains fighting fiercely in my mind,
"Li Chang'an, Li Chang'an, she is my former sister-in-law, what the hell are you thinking?" the white villain shouted loudly.
But the other black villain pushed the white villain down,
"You are you, and your predecessor is your predecessor. Want to be a hammer? Such a beautiful woman like a flower..."
"Snapped."
Li Changan suddenly slapped his head, trying to swat these two villains away.
"Erlang, what's wrong?"
"No, it's nothing, there are mosquitoes..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Changan felt that he was stupid. It was already the end of October, where were the mosquitoes?
In the study next door, Liu Zhiyin buried her head in the quilt, her pretty face flushed.
It seems a bit hot in the cold winter.
sleepless night,
When the sun rose in the east, Li Changan yawned with a pair of panda eyes.
Liu Zhiyin also stood up. Seeing Li Changan's appearance, his cheeks turned red. He quickly quickened his pace and trotted back to the east room with the quilt in his arms.
Li Changan walked into the study and looked at the stool that was put together, "I have to get a bed and put it here."
"How about building a kang?"
"It will be much more comfortable to sleep on the kang in the coldest months of winter..."