I followed the sound and saw that it was a cone-shaped object the size of a palm that I had kicked down. I crouched down and held the thing in the palm of my hand to observe, it was a dull gray color with a faint red glow, and it felt solid when measured in my hand.

Wait, isn't this thing the same as the pyramid-shaped mound in the woods? Even the shimmer on the surface is the same color.

As soon as the idea came to me, I crouched down to find the source of the cone-shaped object. It turned out that there was a small square wooden frame at my feet, and I kicked it down, and the pale red liquid poured out of it.

I lifted up the wooden frame and put up everything that was supposed to be on it, and finally put the cone-shaped object in my hand in the middle of the saucer, but the water in the saucer that soaked the surface of the vertebrae with red light had already been spilled. I didn't know what it was, I didn't know what it meant, but somebody's going to know, right? So I took out my phone and took a few pictures from multiple angles.

At this time, Fan Xueliang's phone called, and the ringing of my mobile phone in this empty conference room made me panic.

I thought about Fan Xueliang's various reasons for looking for me, and finally answered the phone nervously.

I only heard Fan Xueliang say angrily: "Where did you die again? You don't have to do the list? We don't raise idlers here, if you don't like to do it, you will get out of me!"

Listening to his reprimand, I was completely out of my mind, and all my thoughts were still stuck in the strange scene presented by the wooden box. I walked downstairs and happened to meet Effie who had come back upstairs.

"How's Jia'er?" I asked.

"Fever, vomiting, sending her to the hospital to hang a bottle, it's all weird!" muttered Effie.

"What's wrong?" "It's the same as my previous two days, do you remember my acute gastroenteritis before? fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and the strangest thing is that both of our chests were scratched by ourselves, all of them were bloody, how could there be such a coincidence?

I stared at Effie dumbfounded, she was bewildered by me, and then punched me in the chest and said, "You're evil!"

I came back to my senses, realized the seriousness of the matter, and then pretended to be relaxed and said, "It's okay, I'm just stunned, right?

Back to the office, I pretended to work seriously under Fan Xueliang's nose, as soon as the time to get off work came, I immediately got up and left, returned to my Cherokee, I immediately dialed the phone number of the broken army, now these things, it is simply too unusual, only to find a knowledgeable person to help me, but the phone of the broken army is through, but still no one answers.

After so many days, I can still dial it, so it means that the phone is charged, so why didn't he contact me?

There were so many things that were swirling in my head, I could only concentrate on driving as much as I could, and I was already unfamiliar with driving, and I made the wrong turn at several intersections, so I couldn't help but drive a lot of wrong roads. When I finally got on the secluded path and started heading in the direction of my new home, my phone rang.

It was a broken army, I answered immediately, and then asked with a slashed face: "Where did you kid TMD die?"

Po Jun's voice was full of exhaustion: "I've been dealing with some things recently, and I didn't bother to contact you, what's wrong?"

"Can't you tell me about the big thing? Come and go, you and I will be a hotel?"

"You man, when I lived there, you drove me away, and when I left, you didn't say a word to you. ”

"Do you know that you left your things in my house? You left your son in a little trouble in my house. "I yelled at the phone.

"Oh, my ghost boy!" Po Jun realized.

"It calls me Dad, when are you going to pick it up?"

"You let it out?" asked Po Jun.

"yes, but it's back in the bag, I moved, and I took it out. ”

"Then tomorrow, you bring it to me tomorrow, I have some business today. ”

"Okay, then you can go to my unit tomorrow to find me, it just so happens that I have something to ask you for help." ”

After hanging up the phone, I took out the bag of ghost boys from my pocket, and then hung it on the rearview mirror and said, "Your father is coming to pick you up, and I will take your father and son to recognize each other tomorrow!"

I parked the car in the yard and got out of the car.

This is my second visit, but it is the first time I have taken a closer look at this place.

The same as last time, the sky was still overcast, and the vines and plants were still covering the outside of the building like a big net, but the difference was that this time there was a happy figure of the little pier, and when it saw me, it ran and jumped towards me.

I picked up the pier, scratched the itch, and walked towards the house.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw my things piled up at the door, and Wei Wei fell asleep on the sofa with the red wine in his arms.

I walked over and snatched his wine bottle, and he sobered up a little ignorantly: "Yo, brother, you're back!"

"You're not at work?" I asked, looking at his languid look.

"How am I going to get there? I'm alone, I don't know how to drive, how do you think I'm going to go?" That's right, I forgot about it, but if I said that, wouldn't this guy be able to go to work as long as I was on duty in the future?

"Then why are you piling up my luggage at the door?

"There are so many rooms, I know which one you want to sleep in? I cleaned it up for you and you don't like it anymore, isn't that a matter of two times?"

"What have you been doing for the past two days?"

"Eat, sleep, bathe, drink, show off your wealth!" Wei Wei smiled with his eyes closed.

"Oh yo yo, you look at your virtue, and you still show off your wealth, does this have anything to do with you?" I glared at him with disdain.

Wei Wei immediately pulled me to sit next to him, and then excitedly told me how hilarious he was in the past two days!

"Brother, really, I must make money, I want to make good money, you see, although this house has nothing to do with our dime, but yesterday I took two selfies and sent out two bathroom photos, and guess what? Hehe! The people in the circle of friends who I thought were dead are all alive, and they give me praise one by one, asking me where this house is, and my popularity is not mentioned. The most relieving thing is that Zhang Fufang's slut actually took the initiative to contact me!"

"You, if you have a little bit of self-esteem and self-love, don't bother with her, you know?"

"Why should I ignore her? I have to ignore her, I have to make her regret it! So I sent her two pictures of other places, and told him that our distant relative had died, and that the family had no children and left me the inheritance. ”

"You kid really lied and didn't blink, now you're miserable, a snob like Zhang Fufang is probably going to come to you, and then stalk you, I have to marry you and then kill you and then inherit your inheritance!" I said with added vinegar.

Funeral parlors are different from other public institutions, because people will not say that they will not die first for the sake of Saturday and Sunday, so that public officials can take a good vacation, so we can't enjoy the treatment of two days off.

Our department is a single break, a series of breaks, and other departments are even worse, take the mortuary as an example, if you catch up with the busy, it is a day off, continuous rotation, so sometimes looking at them with haggard faces and big dark circles under their eyes, I will always have the illusion that there is no distinction between people and ghosts. It's not easy, it's not easy for ghosts, it's not easy for people, and it's not easy for even the dead people who have to be fiddled with and fiddled with and burned to ashes in the end.

When I went to work on Sunday, Effie didn't come because of acute gastroenteritis, so the person who took me became Wen Jiaer. Fortunately, it's him, if I follow Fan Xueliang or Shi Ming, then I will simply have nothing to love.

On this sunny Sunday, Wen Jiaer and I had to follow the funeral car to run a foreign list. The so-called outer order is not in the city, because the funeral parlor has not heard of Hebei's have to be pulled to Henan to hold a funeral, so the township and village can be regarded as the farthest place, so the outer order is named because of this.

The deceased was an 83-year-old lady, and when we followed the funeral home's car to the county hospital, the medical staff there told us that the deceased had been transferred back to the village by his family.

"Well, it's the first time I've been working for so long. Wen Jia'er smiled bitterly.

But the hospital was also very helpless, they said that the funeral home's phone was made by them, and the patient's family forcibly wanted to pull people after the patient's death, and the attitude was very fierce, and they couldn't stop it at all, so they contacted our side.

"What's wrong with the old man?" I inquired inadvertently.

"Hey, it's all worrying to watch, malnutrition has led to multiple organ failure, and the hungry are full of skin and bones. The little nurse said with red eyes.

"Hungry? Is the old man unable to eat because he has bad teeth?"

"What's right, the old man is just old and his legs and feet are paralyzed in bed, and a son and two daughters have no one to take care of at all, so they are starving like that at home, and then they are still 120 called by kind villagers. I'll just say this, but any child who takes the old man and waits for the old man will not die, it's too miserable. ”

"Is it because the children's economic conditions are not good?" Wen Jia'er asked.

"I don't know, my son is definitely not poor, just look at the big gold necklace around his neck, but then again, even if the family is poor, you can't ignore your parents, right? If the economic conditions are not good, you won't support the elderly? Who doesn't have an old man? When we were young, we didn't hear any parents say that the family was poor and didn't care, and now we can't support our parents and children? This is too unreasonable, right? I have parents and parents-in-law, so I can't stand it when I see such a thing. As she spoke, tears welled up in the little nurse's eyes.

In order not to delay work, we quickly inquired about the address of the deceased's house and drove there immediately.

Phixing Village is not far from the town, but because the road is not easy to walk, we still took some detours. When I finally arrived at the deceased's house, the courtyard of the old house was a festive and peaceful scene, and I didn't know that I thought it was going to be a wedding.

The old man's yard is not big, in addition to the children, there are many villagers standing in a miscellaneous manner, and there is a wooden coffin in the small house, a skinny old man is lying in it, she is wearing a red and green pattern shroud, the shroud may be the smallest size, but it still looks very fat on her body. The old man's purple-black eyes are deep-set, the flesh on his face is loosely spread on both sides due to the lack of fat support, and his lips are tightly closed, as if expressing his dissatisfaction, this scene reminds me of a person.

I looked around, but I didn't see the shadow of the ghost.

"Who are you?" a bald, greasy, sunglassed man strode towards us.

Looking at the gold chain around his neck, I knew who he was.

"Are you Wang Caiqin's son?" asked Wen Jia'er.

"What's the matter?" the other said in a tough tone.

"We're from the funeral home, and now we're going to take your mother away. ”

"It's not good!" said the golden chain arrogantly and pointed his chin at Wen Jia'er.

"This is not a good thing, you are not allowed to be buried here, what are you going to do with the old man in the coffin?" Wen Jia'er asked angrily with a pout.

"What do you say you can do in the coffin? Get four people to play mahjong?" After the golden chain finished speaking, the villagers behind him laughed together, "Don't tell me so many rules, there is nothing that is allowed and not allowed here, and it is easy to move graves and break ground to find me? I have already said hello, why should you go, don't waste time at my house." ”

"Ho! So capable? According to what you said, there is nothing in this world that you can't do? Then why didn't you keep your mother? Maybe it's because I'm young, I've heard of any kind of death when I'm so old, but I've never heard of an old lady in her eighties starving to death. ”

Wen Jia'er doesn't usually like to squeak, but when she comes up, her temper is good enough to speak, the gold chain was said to be red, he glared angrily, gritted his teeth and said: "There is no taboo for Lao Tzu to beat people, don't think that you are a girl, you can jump your feet! If you know each other, get out quickly, if I turn my face, my relatives don't recognize it." ”

"Don't scare me, I'm worried that no one will raise me, no one is blind in broad daylight, if you dare to move a finger of mine, then even if I find the gold master, come, beat me, if you don't beat you today, you will be your grandson!

"Who are you scolding, grandson?" said the gold chain, and shook his fist.

I stopped with the car.

"Don't be angry, don't be angry, what are you doing with the same knowledge as a woman?"

The gold chain should have been going to pretend, but when he saw that there were steps, he immediately came down, he stretched out his right hand and pointed at Wen Jia'er with his index finger and said: "For the sake of my mother's death, I don't have the same knowledge as you, hurry up and go, do you hear?" ”

Wen Jiaer was about to jump back to her mouth, but was immediately stopped by me. I pulled her aside and said, "Jia'er, you guys go back first, don't waste time here, I'll stay and do their work, and you can pick me up when the time comes." ”

"Then, who will pay the fare?"

"Of course they're them! ”

Wen Jia'er asked worriedly: "Can you do it?" Looking at that guy's old appearance, it is better to call the police directly, I guess ......."

"You trust me. I looked at Wen Jiaer with confidence.

She finally acquiesced, and left with the others.

After sending off the corpse truck, I went back to the courtyard, and the people in the courtyard looked at me as if they were looking forward to the next show.

As soon as the gold chain saw me, his face straightened: "Why are you still here?"

"Hey, I'll tell you the truth, I just saw Lingtang's appearance, I immediately remembered my grandmother, I was brought up by my grandmother, and my feelings were very deep, when my grandmother died, I was studying in other places, and my family didn't tell me for fear that I would delay my studies, which became the biggest regret in my life. Today I see your mother and suddenly want to make up for the funeral of my grandmother who was absent many years ago, and I want to hold a wake here. ”

Once upon a time, I was too upright to be straight, and my ability to make up nonsense was perfected.

The gold chain was amused when he heard it: "Yo he, this kind of thing of fighting for other people's homes is the first time I have encountered it, I said just now that I saw that you are more pleasing to the eye in such a group of people? It seems that you are also kind-hearted, yes, if you want to keep the spirit, you can keep it, more than one of you, no less, no less." ”

The permission of the gold chain is like an entry ticket, which makes me no longer dazzling among these people. Although I was able to stay through lies, I still have a sense of truth. Actually, the person I think of with that old man like dry wood is my mother, Orchid.

(End of chapter)