Lin Lan looked at him and smiled: "You are not here to bring me mooncakes, are you?"
Li Xiangyang smiled and nodded: "What you make is what you make, and what I give to you is what I give to you!" He took out a bag of white rabbit from the back of his pocket and handed it to Xiao Douzi, "Others gave it to Douzi and Dandan.
One bag per person.”
Xiaodouzi happily took it: "Thank you, Uncle Xiangyang!"
Li Xiangyang rubbed his furry head and handed the basket to Lin Lan: "These are a gift for you."
Lin Lan took it and saw that it contained a pack of jujubes, a piece of pork belly, a pair of pig's trotters, and two envelopes of mooncakes. Thinking of this, she sent some mooncakes over.
She looked at him sheepishly: "Xiang Yang, you are too polite."
Li Xiangyang smiled and said: "It's all from home, so why are you so polite?"
Lin Lan smiled and picked out the things, then took a few envelopes of ham mooncakes and pretended to return the gifts: "Bring them to Uncle Li."
Li Xiangyang nodded: "Okay! I'll go back first."
The mother and son saw off Li Xiangyang, and Lin Lan took two old pumpkins to the kitchen to make lunch and pumpkin cakes. Lin Yuezhen came back with a bamboo pole on her back.
Just after dinner, Li Guizhi brought over a basket of peas and looked at Lin Lan with a gossipy face: "Xiao Lin, something happened to Liu Jinbao, do you know?"
Lin Lan shook his head: "I haven't been out in the past few days."
Li Guizhi lowered her voice: "Liu Jinbao fell down yesterday afternoon at the cemetery of the construction brigade. I heard that he fell very hard. Everyone is saying that Liu Jinbao was too angry and met a ghost in broad daylight and hit the wall."
Lin Lan looked at her in surprise: "Really! That wouldn't scare anyone to death."
Li Guizhi nodded: "That place was not clean to begin with. Rongqing said that the old society was beaten to death in sand jars, and the corpses that no one collected were buried there. I have to pass there when I go back to my parents' home. Every time I go there, I feel guilty.
It feels so cool that I can’t wait to walk there in just three steps.”
"The yin energy is very strong in some places." Lin Lan smiled and said, "Don't talk about this during the holidays. I made moon cakes and said I would send them to your house later. You can take them back to taste when you come."
Li Guizhi looked at her sheepishly: "Thank you! I went to the eucalyptus forest to sell eggs, and they said your mooncakes are delicious."
Lin Lan smiled and said, "It's far worse than those from the supply and marketing cooperative." After that, he went into the house to get moon cakes.
Xiaodouzi brought out the pumpkin pie: "Auntie, eat the pumpkin pie."
"Little Douzi is so good!" Li Guizhi looked at the golden pumpkin cake on the plate, "Is this really made of pumpkin?"
Xiaodouzi nodded: "Yes! Mom made it."
Li Guizhi tasted one and felt that it was not made of pumpkin at all. She looked at Lin Lan and said, "Xiao Lin, you are so skillful with your hands."
"I made it randomly." Lin Lan handed the mooncake to her.
Li Guizhi took it and said happily: "Thank you, Xiaolin, I will take it back and give it to my mother to taste."
"That's right. I'm going back to my parents' house in two days to have a look."
"Do you want more rapeseed oil and beans? I'll pick up some when I get back."
"As long as the thing is good, I still want it."
"I know, I won't take back the bad things to you."
Lin Lan sent Li Guizhi away, and sent some mooncakes to the Taiye and Yang Meihua's families. After walking to two houses, she heard several versions of Liu Jinbao's encounter with ghosts, which seemed more and more outrageous.
The news spread throughout the small team, and everyone was saying that they should go around in a circle and not pass by the construction brigade cemetery.
The next afternoon, Yao Xiuyun also came to Lin Lan's house. When he saw her, he gloated and said: "Retribution, retribution!"
Lin Lan looked at her puzzled: "Who suffered retribution?"
Yao Xiuyun said with a smile: "That second-rate guy Liu Jinbao, he passed by the construction brigade cemetery the day before yesterday afternoon and fell off his bicycle. Only when he met a passerby did he take him home.
He was sent to the hospital for examination, and the doctor said that his kneecap was cracked and that he would need to be hospitalized and undergo surgery. When Sun Xiuhua went home to get the money, she discovered that the money she had left at home was missing, and called Liu Guozhi to come to the hospital to report the crime.
After we went to check, we saw that the door and cabinet lock of his room were in good condition without any damage. We thought it was either a familiar thief or a domestic thief. Finally, we went to the hospital to check with Liu Jinbao, but it turned out that he had stolen all the money and lost it all.
More than a thousand yuan was gone, and Sun Xiuhua fainted on the spot. She woke up crying and begged us not to make this public, so as to save some face for her family."
"You deserve it, God has eyes." Lin Lan said angrily, "It spread to the team yesterday. I didn't expect these things to happen."
She suddenly remembered that Lin Guoliang and the others were also at the cemetery with Liu Jinbao's sacks, and they were there again this time. Could someone be doing justice for God?
Yao Xiuyun glanced at her with a smile: "My colleagues in the office checked, and there were no suspicious signs. They suspected that he had provoked someone he shouldn't have provoked and was being retaliated against."
She suspected that Xiang Yang had someone do it. Yesterday, she and Xu Dong went home to ask Xiang Yang, and it turned out that he was the one who did it.
The two of them also laughed at him, saying that if he protected him now, he would be raking his ears 30,000% of the time.
Xu Dong said that he ran up and down for her before their relationship was settled. Wasn't he afraid that Lin Lan would not marry him in the future?
He said with confidence that he was confident that he would be able to impress Lin Lan and take her home.
"Don't talk about those disgusting things!" Lin Lan changed the subject with a smile, "I also left some nuts, egg yolks and ham, you can take them back when you leave later."
Yao Xiuyun said with a smile: "I'm not polite if you have something to eat. You can get me some more sauerkraut. The ones I pickle are not as delicious as yours."
Lin Lan looked at her belly: "You want to eat something sour, don't you have it?"
Yao Xiuyun touched her belly, counted the days, and patted her head in annoyance: "If you don't tell me, I haven't noticed that this month has exceeded half a month, so I will go to the hospital for a checkup."
Lin Lan smiled and joked: "The youngest will be next year."
Yao Xiuyun shook her head without hesitation: "I have a lot of headaches with both babies. If there is another one, my whole life will be around the baby. I won't say anything anymore. I'll go to the hospital first."
"Let's check first." Lin Lan put the moon cakes and pickled vegetables into the basket and sent her away.
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In the Orthopedics Department of the Municipal Hospital, Liu Jinbao was lying on the hospital bed with a plaster on her leg. Thinking back to the first time he went to trouble Lin Lan, her face turned pale with fear.
The second time she went there, she seemed like a different person and dared to stab him with a knife...
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that he had been put in a sack, that the ghost encounter in the cemetery was related to Lin Lan, and that every time something happened, it was over there in the cemetery. Could she really be a thousand-year-old female ghost?
Liu Jinbao shuddered, a little scared and a little excited, and suddenly felt that he had discovered Lin Lan's secret.
Sun Xiuhua saw his eyes rolling around and slapped him angrily: "Debt collector, I owed you in my previous life.
My money! It’s more than a thousand yuan. I can demolish our house and build it into a brick house three times.”
Seeing her heartache, Liu Jinbao also felt a little distressed. For once, he did not say anything and allowed Sun Xiuhua to scold her.
When she was angry, he pulled her to sit down and whispered: "Mom, what did you say about the gentleman you were looking for?"
Sun Xiuhua was stunned for a moment and looked at him: "Don't you believe this?"
Liu Jinbao glanced at the bed next door: "Tell me."