The scorching sun is like fire, and the air is filled with heat waves, which makes people suffocate.
Li Yi threw a large bundle of old paper shells onto the old pickup truck, so tired that he gasped for breath.
The worn T-shirt on his body has been soaked with sweat, leaving sweat stains.
The dust and sweat on the white skin are mixed together, making it dirty.
"Damn weather..."
Li Yi pulls out a towel from the cab and wipes his face.
He picked up a large space cup and poured a few mouthfuls of cold boiled water.
Sit down at a shady place on the roadside, light a cigarette, and quietly watch the bustling street.
Li Yigang was abandoned when he was born. His grandparents picked him up and brought him up with a meager pension.
Although the life is a little hard, the family is also happy.
He was sensible since he was young, not only smart, but also very hardworking, and his academic performance has been very good.
Even in the key high schools where learning is as powerful as a forest, they are always top of the school.
I thought that through my own efforts, I could enter a famous school to change my life and let my grandparents live a good life.
To my surprise, a few months before the college entrance examination, Grandma died of a heart attack.
The grief stricken grandfather also suffered from cerebral thrombosis and spread out on the bed.
In order to take care of his sick grandfather, Li Yi had to give up the college entrance examination and waited on the old man in front of the hospital bed all night.
I thought that when my grandpa got better, he would go back to school and continue to take the college entrance examination. But grandpa has been lying in bed for more than three years, and finally died.
Over the past three years, my homework has been neglected. In order to see my grandfather, I still owe more than 100000 yuan in foreign debt.
The successive deaths of grandparents hit Li Yi hard, as if he had lost his ambition.
He was abandoned when he was young, and he especially valued his family.
Although grandpa is ill in bed and needs him to wait on him day and night, even if the old man still has a breath, his home is here.
Now, this home is gone.
Now he has no intention of continuing the college entrance examination, just want to pay off the famine as soon as possible.
Save more money while you are young, do some small business, and then get married and have children, and live a down-to-earth life.
"Brother, let's go..."
At this time, a man in his thirties came over.
He is not tall, his skin is dark, his clothes are dirty, and his hair is messy, which makes him very untidy.
This man is Meng Fan from other provinces. Now he is Li Yi's partner. They jointly run a waste goods purchase station.
Grandparents were poor all their lives, leaving Li Yi only a bungalow with a single house in the suburbs.
Meng Fan is not rich either. He only has a minivan that he doesn't know how many hands have been overturned.
So they got together and started a business of recycling waste.
With the economy becoming more and more sluggish, Li Yi now earns only hard money. After a month's hard work, Li Yi can also get three or four thousand yuan.
The car was piled full. Before leaving, they had to tie up the waste paper shells with ropes.
Li Yigang took the rope thrown by Meng Fan, and several young people came from the opposite side, talking and laughing.
They are full of youthful vigor and vitality, their clear eyes are full of confidence and publicity, and their slightly childish faces are full of smiles.
These young people are all former high school classmates of Li Yi.
He quickly turned around, fearing that his classmates would see him now in a low position.
It was not until several students walked past that Li Yi turned his head and silently looked at their faraway backs.
If something had not happened at home, I would be the same as them.
But if you look at yourself now, you can only travel around from dawn to dusk every day to pay off debts cheaply.
Thinking of this, Li Yi felt extremely lost.
He pulled down the rope in anger, because he tried too hard, his finger was scratched by the code nail at the edge of the paper shell, and blood flowed down in an instant.
The pain at the wound calmed Li Yi gradually.
He took a piece of cloth to cover the wound, then sighed and told himself in silence.
"Let's face it, this is the end of our life..."
The two men tied up the paper shells on the car. Instead of driving back, Meng Fan came to the antique market.
"Brother, come to the Antique City with me later..."
Lao Meng has some money lovers. He has been thinking about antiques for several years and always fantasizes about picking up a big leak one day.
But the money was wasted, but the things I received were all junk that nobody wanted.
Li Yi, who is depressed, doesn't have the heart to hang out with Lao Meng and stay in the car waiting for him.
Because he was bored, he turned over an old newspaper and read it.
The newspaper was half a month ago, and the whole front page was full of news about the Wulingshan earthquake.
Up to now, he still has some fear when he thinks of the scene at that time.
It was early in the morning. Li Yi, who was sleeping soundly, almost lifted him under the bed with a violent shaking.
The earthquake almost affected the whole Qianzhou region. Fortunately, the epicenter was located in the depths of Wuling Mountain, which was rarely visited by people, and there was no loss of people and property.
Even so, the impact of the earthquake caused great panic to people in the towns and villages around Wuling Mountain.
Shaxi City is also in a state of panic. Several supermarkets even have a panic buying trend. Even he and Lao Meng have been outside their houses for a week.
After waiting for an hour, Lao Meng came out of the Antique City.
He got on the bus excitedly and said excitedly, "Brother, I picked up a big leak today. Come on, let's open your eyes..."
Then he took out a blue and black jade pendant from his pocket.
Li Yi took it and looked at it. He was almost not happy. What a piece of junk.
The jade pendant is about half a finger thick, two inches long and more than one inch wide, with dense patterns engraved on both sides.
The surface is mottled, and most of the patterns are unrecognizable.
"Brother, I got it from two friends. According to them, I found it in Wuling Mountain on the day of the earthquake..."
Even if he didn't know about jade, Li Yi could see that the jade pendant was of poor quality, and its appearance was even worse.
"Brother, the material of the jade is average..."
"Brother, this is Gao Guyu. You don't know anything about antiques, and you don't know anything about antiques."
He pulled out a broken towel under his buttocks, grabbed the jade pendant, and wiped it like a baby, showing off while wiping.
"The person selling the jade pendant said it was very mysterious. This jade pendant flew out of the mountain on the day of the earthquake. It was still hot when I picked it up..."
Li Yi smiled and didn't try to persuade him again. If someone is possessed, it's useless to say anything.
On the way back, he was very depressed and didn't speak.
Lao Meng was very excited. He kept on talking all the way and felt that he had picked up a big leak this time. Since then, fortune has changed.
Back home, Meng Fan drives the truck into the yard and jumps out with the jade pendant.
"Brother, I'll find someone to take some photos of the jade pendant and try to sell it for a good price. You should work hard to unload the paper shell from the car."
Regardless of Li Yi's willingness, he left the yard excitedly.
"This bastard is lazy again..."
Looking at the old paper shell on the car, Li Yian scolded.
Although Meng Fan likes to calculate and is always lazy when working, he is not bad at least when distributing money every month.
To tell you the truth, if Meng Fan had not been Zhang Luo before and after, Li Yi alone would not have been able to deal with this waste purchase station.
In any case, this is a serious business, allowing him to save some money every month to repay the famine slowly.
My grandfather used to tell him that it is good to suffer losses.
So he never quarrels with Meng Fan on some trivial matters.
I'm young anyway, and I can't die if I do more.
The next day, it began to rain in the morning, and they lost their livelihood.
Li Yi woke up and lay on the bed, took out his old machine and read the online novel with great interest.
Since the death of his grandparents, he has been very decadent, and he has been living a broken life.
Fortunately, there are web articles in this world, which make him forget all kinds of unhappiness in his life during the most miserable period of his life.
When Meng Fan opened the door and came in, he sat on the bed with a sullen face and smoked heavily.
Li Yi knew that Lao Meng had gone astray again.
The antique trade is very deep. Meng Fan is at best a novice.
In the past, he used to hang things on the Antique Forum. As a result, he made a lot of jokes, and the old birds in the forum regarded him as a joy.
"Lao Meng, have you sold the jade pendant?"
"If you are paralyzed, you can only give 50 at most..."
Last night, he hung the photo of the jade pendant on the Antique Forum, thinking it would sell at a good price.
Gao Gu yu is very knowledgeable. The materials, techniques, patterns and colors of this jade pendant are wrong.
No one wants it at all. The comment area is full of cynicism from antique birds.
Meng Fan took a deep breath of his cigarette, threw the cigarette butt to the ground, and stepped on it vigorously.
"Even if I break it, I won't sell it to these bastards..."
He took out the jade pendant from his pocket and casually threw it onto the cabinet at the bedside.
"Today, I'll go around the city and collect the jade pendant for me. I don't believe that I can't meet any discerning people..."
Li Yi didn't take this seriously at all. Now Meng Fan doesn't regard the jade pendant as a treasure.
The reason why we say so is that we cannot lose face.
After Meng Fan left, Li Yi looked at the jade pendant on the bedside table, picked it up and looked at it carefully.
"This broken jade is worth fifty. It's really a lot."
Li Yi shook his head and tried to throw the jade pendant aside, but his palm suddenly cooled.
It seems that a trace of cool air, if any, spreads out from the jade pendant and slowly melts into the hands.
I don't know whether it is the real feeling or the psychological effect, which makes him very comfortable anyway.
Close your eyes, hold the jade pendant, and feel the cool breath with your heart.
After a while, Li Yi felt that the cut on his finger yesterday was a little sore.
When I opened my eyes, I was dumbfounded.
The blood seeps into the gauze and touches the jade pendant. What's scary is that the jade pendant is sucking his blood crazily.
What a devil! It's too evil.
He wanted to throw away the jade pendant, but it seemed to stick to his hand and could not be thrown away.
"Hum..."
Suddenly, a roar came from his mind, which made him lose consciousness.
It took a while for his mind to clear up.
Before he recovered from his terror, he found hundreds of mysterious characters in his mind.
These mysterious characters are very strange, but he knows them all.
The information that flooded into his mind was an inheritance skill left by a certain immortal cultivator, which was called "Demon Tianlei Zhenjie".
What shocked him was that such obscure and difficult chapters often have thousands of words, and when they are translated into sentences, they are even more like divine script.
But he seems to have understood for a long time, and the meaning of the whole mantra has been clearly displayed in his mind.
You don't even need to deliberately comprehend to know what to do next.
This skill is divided into nine parts. It uses the power of thunder between heaven and earth to refine the body and spirit.
It is said that the body can transcend the rules of heaven and earth and achieve immortality and immortality. Anyway, it is quite mysterious.
Seeing this, Li Yi trembled with excitement.
Although he has read a lot of fairy tale novels in the past two years, he only regarded them as fairy tales.
If you didn't experience it yourself, you would never believe that there is such a mysterious thing in the world.
This is a fairytale.
Even if you can't live a long life, even if you live a few more decades, it's worth it.
Li Yishen took a breath, calmed down his excitement, and began to study this skill.
After watching for a while, the original excitement disappeared.
This skill is too abnormal. The first time you practice it, you should lead the thunder into your body.
The first sentence of the opening chapter: "The thunder of the heaven and the earth is as powerful as it is. All will be destroyed and destroyed. Those who have just practiced this skill will be close to death
To put it bluntly, to cultivate this skill, you must first be struck by thunder.
In particular, the first training is the most dangerous. Only a few people can survive the destruction of the world's thunder.
As for the rest of the people, I guess they are all dead.
What's worse, Li Yi's inheritance is only the general outline of the martial arts and the first formula.
Of course, as long as we survive the baptism of thunder, we can ascend from the mortal body to the sky and achieve the innate Tao.
It can also condense a thunderbolt in the body to store the violent force of thunder.
You can not only use the power of thunder to refine the body and spirit, but also fight to hurt the enemy. It is extremely powerful.
However, Li Yi still has no idea.
He would rather take a lifetime of rags than gamble on the fate of a near death by taking the risk of five thunders.
How thoughtless it must be to take the initiative to be struck by thunder.
Isn't it good to live
In the next few days, Li Yi's life did not change much, and he still ran around from morning to night.
Only hundreds of mysterious characters are lingering in his mind. It's hard to forget them, so he always wants to try to cultivate.
In fact, he still had a little thought in his mind.
After all, a chance, do not try, always feel unwilling.
Li Yi looked up some knowledge about Qigong on the Internet and studied it for two days.
Of course, he would not be foolish enough to be struck by thunder.
Just learn from the traditional way of Qigong cultivation, imagine the sense of Qi with your mind, and then try to cultivate according to the path of Qi movement.
After several times of training, I felt the qi.
But there was no effect of increasing strength, washing wool and cutting pulp.
The wisp of wild hope that remained in my heart was finally shattered.
Fortunately, in a few days, it brought him some surprises.
Cultivate once a day. Even if you are tired to death in the daytime, just sleep and get up in the morning feeling refreshed and tired.
This comforted Li Yixin. Even if he could not become an immortal, even if he could develop a good body, it would not be a wasted opportunity.
Li Yi didn't tell Meng Fan about it.
It was so weird that he decided to rot in his stomach and never mentioned it to anyone.
Li Yi put the jade pendant in the drawer of the bedside table. If Lao Meng wants it one day, he can give it back to him.
But in the next few days, Meng Fan forgot the jade pendant and never mentioned it again.
Maybe Lao Meng is still a little unwilling, and his posts on the Antique Forum have not been deleted.
Of course, the jade pendant is still unpopular.
Once again, he lost his sight. These days, he often went out to find fellow townsmen to drink and came back very late every day.
Li Yi didn't mean to persuade him. It was not the first time that Lao Meng had gone astray. He had long been used to it.
That morning, Li Yi, who was sleeping soundly, was suddenly awakened by someone.
Rubbing his bleary eyes, he turned and looked, almost scared to death.
Meng Fan squatted beside the bed, looking at him straightly.
It was just beginning to dawn, and the light in the room was very dark.
Lao Meng squatted there and could not see his expression clearly, but he always felt gloomy, which made Li Yi's hair stand on end.
"Lao Meng, you want to frighten me to death. Let's talk about something at dawn. I'm sleepy..."
He put the quilt over his head and wanted to go back to sleep.
"Give me back the jade pendant..."
Lao Meng opened the quilt and shouted at him.
His voice was very low, and he seemed hoarse.
Li Yi was so sleepy that he took out the jade pendant from the drawer of the bedside table and thrust it into Lao Meng's hands. He rolled over and went back to sleep.
When I woke up again, it was already over eight o'clock.
After washing up, the phone rang just as I tried to deal with breakfast.
The call was from the traffic police team. Li Yi was asked to go there in the morning. The other party didn't say anything specific.
Li Yi was worried. Lao Meng often drove out at night these days, and he came back several times to get drunk.
He can't be detained for drunk driving.
He came to the traffic police team with great anxiety, and was greeted by a young police officer.
"Hello, I'm Wang Zhen and Meng Fan from the Accident Department. Do you know each other?"
Hearing that the other party is from the accident department, he also asked Lao Meng. Li Yi couldn't help but get nervous. Could this guy have hit and run.
Thinking of this, Li Yi nodded and said, "Yes, we are partners in running a waste purchase station."
"At 8:30 last night, we received a report from the masses that there was a car accident on Yunshan Road, a man was hit and killed, and the vehicle that caused the accident escaped from the scene..."
After listening to the other party's words, I remembered Lao Meng's abnormal behavior in the morning.
Li Yi could not help lamenting that it was over.
It seems that I didn't guess wrong. This guy really got into trouble.
Wang Zhen looked at Li Yi and said in a deep voice, "Through the victim's ID card, we have preliminarily determined that the victim is Meng Fan..."
