Li He didn't want to listen to her nagging and could only try his best to avoid her.
The Li family had two university students, and they were both studying in the capital. They were famous within a radius of ten miles.
Not to mention this village, even when Wang Yulan returned to her maiden home in Hewan, everyone knew that her two children were promising, so people would look up to her. Wang Yulan, who used to be submissive, became a lot more arrogant, and her voice became louder when she talked to people.
After Li He got into university, some people joked that the Li family's Fengshui was good. No one took it seriously, but since Four also got into university, no one thought it was a joke anymore. It wasn't because of the Fengshui, but with Li Zhaokun's appearance, how could he accumulate good karma to get two university students?
In the future, they would have two iron rice bowls in the family!
The number of people who worked for the government could be counted on one hand, not to mention that the Li Family had two of them in one family!
The village's fortune-telling blind man seized the opportunity to jump on the bandwagon; he said that the Li family had invited him to build a cave on the mountain to bury Li Erhe's great-grandfather and great-grandmother husband and wife, and that after the burial, the family would certainly prosper and so on. He also said that this cave was an undefeatable land for three generations, four generations, five generations.
The blind fortune-teller wasn't really blind. It was just that fortune-tellers usually liked to close their eyes and pinch their fingers. For a long time, everyone called him a blind man. He developed a graveyard selection package. When people asked him to choose a grave, they would give him a free fortune telling. He even said that if he chose a good piece of land, he would definitely be rich …
To increase his credibility, he even pulled Li Zhaokun in and asked Li Zhaokun to come out and tell him about it, and agreed to split the business in half.
Li Zhaokun was bored at home and felt that this business was worth doing. He could brag and be respected by others, and he could also make money. Only a fool wouldn't do it.
Now, he had formed a set of excuses by bragging about his son. He had said it so many times that he could already recite it backwards.
Someone went to look for Li Fucheng to verify the authenticity of the matter. Li Fucheng said angrily, "Nonsense! When my father passed away, Blind Zhang was still wearing diapers. How could he choose a grave for my family!"
However, no one believed Li Fucheng's words. They felt that he was afraid that his family would steal his family's limelight.
There were also some who didn't believe it and even made fun of the two brothers, Li Zhaoming and Li Zhaohui. The Fengshui had been guided to the master, while the two brothers didn't get anything.
Zhang Xiazi's business was getting better and better. Not only did people come to him for weddings and funerals, but many people also came to him for help. He gave them a list of help, such as donating money, adjusting Fengshui, drawing talismans, finding a dog as a substitute, finding a peach tree as a matchmaker, and so on.
Furthermore, his mouth was eloquent, able to make people believe him even if they didn't believe him. He was just using vulgar words that were easy to understand. To put it bluntly, it was just a lousy poem that blocked both ends.
There were two trees in front of the door, and the door faced the latrine. The child did not live long. At the crossroads, sooner or later, there would be fewer deaths. The house was tall and wide open, so the shoulder pole could not make a sound. The house was low and the rain accumulated, and the wealth was flourishing. As expected, it was a combination of true and false, rhyming and easy to understand.
Li He saw that Li Zhaokun was about to go out again early in the morning, so he hurriedly stopped him.
"Can you not go? Tell me, if they don't work in the future, won't they find trouble with us? "
"If laozi doesn't go, give laozi money!" Li Zhaokun asked impatiently.
Li He was really helpless. He couldn't beat or scold him, so he asked, "How much does Zhang Xiazi give you?"
"At least seven or eight yuan a day."
"I'll give you two hundred yuan, don't go." Li He grabbed a handful of money and gave it to Li Zhaokun. In the past, he didn't dare to give Li Zhaokun money because he was worried that he would run away. Now that he was older and living at home, it didn't matter if he gave him money, but he still didn't dare to give him too much.
"Hehe, then I'll take it. My son is filial." Li Zhaokun looked around and saw that there was no one around, then stuffed it into his pocket. If Wang Yulan saw this, they might quarrel.
Li He saw that he was about to turn around and leave, "Didn't you say you weren't going?"
Li Zhaokun patted his pocket, "I'm going to try my luck."
"You're not allowed to go." Li He saw that he was going to play cards, so he didn't stop him.
He really couldn't get rid of these weird things in the countryside. If he said that he didn't believe in it, then he couldn't explain his rebirth. The Buddha statue in his house was still polished by him.
If he said that he believed in it, he was a person who received formal education and was a firm materialist. It was very difficult for him to sincerely believe in it.
Besides, China's history was too long. Those who believed in it all found it unreliable, so it was better to rely on himself.
And some old ladies preferred these things. Li He remembered that Wang Yulan poured him incense ashes during the year of his college entrance examination. It was said that she begged for it from the temple fair. The mouth was on his head, so Li He had the right to choose not to drink it.
Don't drink it?
Don't drink it, I'll cry in front of you.
Then say that I'm not filial and disobedient and so on.
Then I'll die in front of you.
In order to keep the peace, Li He pinched his nose and drank it. He wouldn't die from drinking it anyway. The potassium carbonate was also very nutritious!
Even during Four's college entrance examination, he was forced by Wang Yulan to drink a big bowl of incense ashes.
Therefore, Li He thought that it was wrong to say that Wang Yulan had no principles. This was her principle.
Usually, she looked quite normal, but when it came to weird things, she immediately changed into a different person. She was not allowed to be disrespectful, and she was very particular about it.
Wang Yulan also had a principle of respecting ghosts and gods, and that was not to spend money. She didn't serve any Bodhisattva who asked her to spend money.
It couldn't be said that they were stupid. Although they didn't know how to read, all the old ladies who lived at home didn't have a small plan in their stomach, and most of them were cunning.
Of course, it couldn't be said that only people in the countryside did this. There were many people in the city who did this. As long as they were China, they couldn't get away from this.
These weird things were also half-believed, and it would be difficult to expect them to believe all of them. They believed in these things with a strong purpose, and they were utilitarian. One day, their brains went out of control, and they didn't feel that it was effective anymore, so they threw it away and scolded whenever they wanted.
Didn't Wang Yulan give Four and Li He the incense ashes because she hoped that they would be able to go to school? She even thought that it was because of her incense ashes that they got into university. If both of them didn't get in, she might start scolding them and never believe in it again.
When people said that people in the countryside were simple, Li He wanted to look up to the sky and laugh. Don't think that just because you came from a poor family, you won't be fickle.
People are quite complicated.
"Second brother."
"Yanzi, why aren't you playing with Four in the room?" Li He asked with a smile. Li Yan was his cousin, the eldest daughter of his third uncle, Li Zhaohui, and she was only two years younger than Four.
Yanzi leaned against the corner of the wall and lowered her head to fiddle with the corner of her clothes. She rubbed her feet on the ground before saying, "Brother, do you think I can repeat my studies?"
"Repeat? What do you mean repeat? "
"I didn't get into high school," Yanzi said unhappily.
"You graduated from middle school?" Li He asked in surprise. Another person whose life had changed because of him. Yanzi didn't even go to middle school in her previous life.
He only found out that Li Dong had become a soldier when he came back, and he unknowingly influenced the people around him. Li Dong had never been a soldier in his previous life.
"Yes, I graduated, but I didn't get in."
"Then do you want to continue studying? If you do, just study."
"My dad isn't happy. He said he's going to find me a husband."
Li He frowned. "How old are you? Why is Third Uncle in such a hurry to find you a husband?"
"I'll be seventeen after the New Year."
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