Chapter 2: Am I Dead?
Am I dead?
It was the first thought that occurred to me when I woke up.
I vaguely remember that after death, the soul will stay in the mortal world for a while, but there is no Huangquan Nai He Bridge in front of me, nor there is no bull head and horse face, but I have been in a coma for a long time, and I have just opened my eyes, and the sun is a little dazzling.
I felt a pair of hands gently brushing over my body, the fingers were very delicate, and the skin was as if I had been electrocuted, and I gradually adapted to the bright environment, and found that it was not the environment I was familiar with.
A white nurse's uniform, with a high chest and very close to my face, I immediately recognized what it was, and hurriedly tilted my head to the other, feeling a little hot on my cheeks, but I couldn't help but look back at it with a strong curiosity.
Looking at the nurse who was giving me a drip, I felt a little red-faced, I swallowed my saliva, I haven't touched the hands of such a girl, the only female friend who has played better is An Jin, and An Jin has been working for a long time, malnutrition, and the development is not very good, compared with the nurse in front of me, it is like a cloud and mud, this is the first time to be so close to a girl, especially she doesn't seem to have noticed that I have woken up, I can even feel her breathing, but at least I can be sure now, that is, I am still alive。
I twisted around and asked, "Miss Nurse, how many days have I been lying here?"
The nurse lady looked at me in amazement and looked at my face like a mummy, then looked at her chest, did not speak, a sweet smile hung on the corner of her mouth, just nodded, and then took the notebook next to her, recorded something, and walked out of the ward.
I followed the nurse's gaze, and I saw the man in the leather jacket, and saw the nurse walk to the door and respectfully say something to him.
The man in the leather jacket walked in through the door, oppressive at every step, and walked in front of me only looking down at me condescendingly.
I started by saying thank you to him, but the next scene surprised me:
He suddenly bowed to me and called Minister Zhang respectfully.
I looked at him with a look of astonishment, Minister Zhang? Did you cross over? I picked up the mirror next to me and looked at it, my face was entangled like a mummy, if it was usual, I would definitely scream, my face became like this, I am afraid I will be disfigured. Although I'm not a person who eats with my face, my previous appearance was not too ugly, and it seems inevitable that I will be disfigured like this, but now I don't have the heart to think about the problem of broken appearance anymore, I just want to figure out why he called me Minister Zhang.
I was a little overwhelmed and asked, "What time is it and where am I?"
He replied calmly: "August 7, 1996, Zhangjia Hospital, Chawachong City"
My doubts deepened, that's right, it was August 4 before I had a car accident, which means that I didn't cross, I'm still me, but who is Minister Zhang in his mouth......
I wondered: "You're mistaken, I'm not Minister Zhang, I'm from out of town, did we meet on the train, thank you for saving me, I'm still fine!I'll go first!", in fact, when facing him, I felt a little uneasy, I had been laughing at him for wearing a leather jacket in the summer, but I didn't expect to be rescued by him in less than a day.
I suddenly remembered that I had been missing for three days, and An Jin must be worried about himself now.
I jumped out of bed, rummaged for my clothes at the head of the bed, and just got off the ground I fell on my heels, trying to get up but not having any strength, I tried all my strength to get up
I don't want to do so much now, it doesn't matter what I sign or not, in the moment of life and death, I seem to know what is most important to me, I decide, I want to go back and confess to An Jin.
The corners of his mouth crooked, a wicked smile on his face, and an arm stretched out to me
I grabbed his arm, and with a slight pull, he pulled me up from the ground
Seeing that he was silent, I thought he had figured it out, so I staggered to the door of the ward.
As I walked to the door of the ward, I was suddenly stopped by a group of people.
A middle-aged woman wearing a silk robe that looks very expensive, with gray hair, because of sweat and her temples are wet on her face, she looks a little tired, but her eyes are very bright, the ravine carved on her face by the wind and frost of the years can not hide her former beauty, carrying a bag in her hand that I have never seen before, she is followed by several men in black tunics, I recognize their clothes, embroidered with a yao character on their chests, I have seen them at the train station, but I only now find out that this tunic is actually a standard clothing, everyone wears one。
The middle-aged woman is estimated to be in her forties, but her figure and skin remain as old as she is about thirty years old, if it weren't for the crow's feet at the corners of her eyes and the charm of, I would not have seen the woman's age.
The people behind her stood straight, their chests up, their hands behind their backs, blocking the doorway, blocking my way, and their faces were fierce, and I was a little frightened, so I had to retreat to the ward.
When the man saw the comer, he bowed and called out to the lady, and then respectfully retreated behind the woman.
The woman looked at me kindly: "Xiao Yang, you are still used to living, it's all your mother's bad and you suffered."
I looked at the smiling woman in amazement.
It's really strange that there are many things every year, especially this year, I really don't understand which one is singing, wait, what did he just call me, Xiao Yang? Could this Xiao Yang be the Minister Zhang in his mouth? I seem to have grasped a clue.
Is this a special habit of rich people? The legendary heavy money begging for children? I remember when I was a child, the fortune teller only said that I lacked water in my life, but never said that I lacked my mother?
The woman reached out and touched my face.
I subconsciously took a step back.
The woman stopped her hand in the air in embarrassment, and I caught a flash of displeasure in her eyes, and my intuition told me that this was not a woman to mess with......
I had a feeling that I was involved in something terrible.
I looked at the woman opposite and said softly, "I'm sorry, I'm not Minister Zhang, nor your son, my name is Zhao Miao, not Xiao Yang."
The woman put down her hand that was stopped in the air, and then laughed, "Zhao Miao, right, I just tested you just now, if you hesitate a little bit just now, I promise you will regret it, before Leng Yue told me that he met an excellent candidate in the county, and now when I look at it, it is really the same as what he said."
The man bowed slightly behind him.
I wondered, "I'm not interested, I'm still in business, but I still want to thank you for saving my life."
I only have one thought now, and that is to run, and there must be nothing good about getting involved with these people.
I saw the woman pause, and then said, "You want to bring such a sentence to save your life?"
"Then what do you want, I don't have any money, since you saved me, then you can take my life, and it can be regarded as repaying your life-saving grace......" I said a little scoundrel, thinking that they couldn't kill me here, and secretly admired my own wisdom in my heart
"This is what you said yourself, I really need your life......" There was an unfathomable smile on the corner of the woman's mouth, which made me look a little creepy, "From today on, your life belongs to me, and Zhao Miao has died in that car accident." ”
I looked disdainful, "What are you kidding, why did I die if I lived so well......".
The woman, as if expecting my answer, took a piece of paper from behind her and handed it to me
I subconsciously took the paper, and after reading it, I suddenly felt my heart go into arrest, because the paper turned out to be my death certificate, and there was a hospital stamp underneath, I looked up at the expression of the woman opposite, it didn't look like a fake, that is, Zhao Miao was indeed legally dead...... This situation is beyond my comprehension
I looked at the woman across from me, a little puzzled
The woman who was surrounded by people around her looked at me with admiration, "From today on, you are the third young master of the Zhang family, Minister Zhang of the Heyao Society, and you are no longer that poor boy."
My mind went blank, and the woman's list of names was like a thunderbolt in the clear sky, and I couldn't turn around.
When the woman saw that I did not speak, she took two more photographs from her hands behind her.
The first photo is a teenager about the same age as me, but what shocked me even more was that this teenager looked so similar to himself, and the second photo turned out to be An Jin!
The woman pondered for a moment and said, "My little Yang used to be as young as you, but because he was so kind, he will never wake up again, as for this second photo, I think this person should be a very important person to you."
"What the hell do you want to do?......"
The woman suddenly tore up An Jin's photo, and said in a deep voice, "You have two choices in front of you now," the woman thought for a moment, and then continued, "You didn't have a choice......
I looked at the third lady with an angry face, and wanted to go up to grab the photo, but the man just stretched out an arm and pushed it gently, I felt a surge of blood in my chest, a little out of breath, and fell directly on the hospital bed, my eyes were blood-red, and I had to protest with words "You crazy ......"
"Heaven or hell, it's just a thought, either live for Xiao Yang and help me get the property of the Heyao Society, or, become the dead Zhao Miao, and I will send her to the underworld to meet you......" The woman said with a hint of disdain.
I don't doubt what the third lady said now, don't say that the few bodyguards in tunics behind him are stronger than the security guards of the publishing house, even if it is the man who wears a leather jacket all the time, I am afraid that he can't beat it with one hand, I'm afraid that these people want their own lives, it is no different from pinching an ant to death, and they can live until now because they still have the value of use.
The woman went to the window, opened the window, and the wind outside was very strong, and poured in through the window fiercely, and then looked at the traffic outside the window, and I shivered in my thin hospital gown, but the woman didn't seem to realize it at all, and just kept silent
It was this silence, as if a storm was brewing, that suddenly the woman spoke:
"I've read your information, an obscure little writer, it's a problem to even eat and clothe every day, and you have to swallow your anger when you are deceived by the publishing house, young people like you, you know how many there are in this world, and you, just need one sentence, you can stand here every day, looking down on them......"
I also fell silent.
Maybe she's right, I came to the tea city for a signing fee of 100,000 yuan, and became the heir of the Heyao Society, although I don't know what the Heyao Society is, but I know that it is definitely a behemoth that I can't imagine, and the so-called backbone can only be fast for a while, and I have to live a month of eating instant noodles, what do I not want to do.
It's just that once I embark on this road of no return, can I turn back, I looked at the woman in front of me, and I knew that even if I got the property of the Heyao Society, she would definitely not let me live. I'm afraid it's because of An Jin, but now there is no choice, Zhao Miao's death will be transmitted back to the county seat soon, and she will not let me go back to the county seat again
I bit my lip, my fists clenched, and I didn't react at all to the bleeding from my lip, and after a long time, my clenched fist finally let go
The woman finally smiled smugly
Then I said, "But I have one condition, you have to mail me a sum of money."
The woman nodded, "I have naturally thought of this a long time ago, in addition to your insurance payment, I also sent 200,000 yuan to your family, no thanks, this is your life money...... From today onwards, you have to completely forget that you are Zhao Miao......"
I looked at the woman in front of me in amazement, how could it all seem like he had planned in advance, "You are so sure that I will agree to your terms?"
The woman smiled noncommittally, "You don't have a choice."
Then he turned around and looked at the people behind him, "What are you still doing in a daze, it's called Minister Zhang!"
Leng Yue and the other members of the Heyao Society bowed respectfully to me and called out to Minister Zhang, their voices in unison.
I heard this voice, and for some reason, there was a fire burning in my heart, and there was a trace of satisfaction in my vanity.