Chapter Forty-Nine: Dead as Ashes

I walked over slowly

I saw that the electrician's hair had already fallen out, and his eyebrows were burned clean because of the high temperature.

The whole skin is pitch black.

There was a smell of burnt flesh all over the body, and the skin was open in many places.

The death was terrifying.

I've seen people burned to death before, but it's the first time I've seen someone who has been burned like this in an instant.

Some of the timid women had already run home, leaving only a few of us to watch.

The village chief sighed and said with deep regret: "Brother Zhenming died unjustly, he worked as an electrician all his life, but he didn't expect to die under electricity!"

I looked at the excitement and went up and asked, "Village chief, does this electrician have any family?"

The village chief sighed silently and replied: "It turned out that there were, but I am divorced, and now I am strict with myself, and I don't have any family."

When I said this, Wang Ruohan interjected a sentence, but gave me a reminder.

Wang Ruohan said next to me: "It's strange, the people who died in the past two days are either outsiders or people who have no family, do you say that this single dog can't survive?"

The village chief glared at Wang Ruohan fiercely.

There is no squeak on the lips, but you are angry and greet everyone, you quickly let the people of the village hold a funeral.

In the end, the people in the village did not call the police, so they regarded the incident as an accident.

In a rural place like ours, it is also a very normal thing for someone to die.

There is not so much attention, especially the accidents that can be seen at a glance, are basically buried, which can be regarded as the end.

The people of the village were already in tears when they faced this incident.

It is said that this electrician was very enthusiastic before his death, and he personally went to help anyone who had a problem with the circuit.

But it's a pity that such a good person died while cultivating.

The other electricians in the village were the main group of people to see them off, but after their investigation, they found that the power outage in the village was also inexplicable.

The source could not be found at all.

Everyone can't talk about this matter, but there is a stone in my heart.

Whether others know or not, I know it clearly.

The electrician told us last night that he couldn't get out of the electricity at night and went home to rest.

But a person who went home to rest, why did he come out to repair it again for some reason?

After the crowd had left, Wang Ruohan and I decided to conduct a detailed investigation.

That morning, they dragged the electrician's body to the crematorium.

We have to go with the people of the village, and besides, it is nothing to have more of me and less of me.

By the time the crowd was almost gone, there were basically only a few children left on the spring trip.

At this time, Wang Ruohan and I went directly to the electrician's house.

When I opened the door, I saw that the electrician was a small room with one bedroom and one living room.

There is also a quilt rolled up in the middle of the bedroom.

The quilt was not folded.

Wang Ruohan interjected and said: "It's really strange, I remember that this electrician lives a very rhythmic life and is very clean, why did he get up without folding the quilt this morning?"

I walked over with a frown and reached into the bed with my hand.

Suddenly, I found that there was a warm baby in the bed.

In our village parlance, it's a hot water bottle.

I pulled out the hot water bottle and found that the temperature inside was already cold.

Then I looked around the room and found that there was a stove in the hall with a kettle on top of it.

When the kettle was opened, it was found that there was still half a kettle of water inside.

I see, last night the electrician used this kettle to boil water into a hot water bottle to keep warm.

At this moment, all of a sudden, I heard a noise from the door next door, and I ran out, and saw a little girl lying in front of my door, cautiously looking over.

Wang Ruohan walked out and said hello to the little girl, who smiled.

I saw that the little girl was unsuspecting, so I walked over and asked, "Little sister, I want to inquire about something, have you been at home yesterday?"

The little girl looked at me suspiciously, but fortunately I had the candy in my pocket that the family had brought casually, and I gave the little girl two.

The little girl took the candy and immediately jumped up and down laughing, then nodded and replied, "Yes, my mother won't let me walk around, so I've been here all the time!"

The little girl had already walked out of the room as she spoke, and I looked through the crack in the door to see that there seemed to be no one else in the room.

Wang Ruohan asked casually on my behalf: "Little sister, where have you been in your family?"

The cute little boy didn't seem to be wary, so he pointed to the distant hillside and said, "My mother and father went to see off Uncle Electrician in the morning, and they said that Uncle Electrician was going back to his hometown, but in fact I wanted to go too, but my family disagreed!"

It turns out that this electrician is quite famous in the village.

When I thought of this, I then asked, "By the way, little sister, did you see smoke coming out of the chimney of this house last night?"

The little girl covered her face and thought for a while, and then told me that she had seen smoke coming out of this chimney once at about 5 o'clock in the evening.

But after that, there was no more smoking.

The little girl was just going to watch a cartoon tonight and went to bed late when she saw it.

So until about 12 o'clock at night, I never saw smoke before going to sleep.

When he said this, he slapped his thigh and immediately walked out of the room, and said to Wang Ruohan: "This is so wrong, everything is not logical, the two of us have seen it before, there is such a coal stove in this electrician's house, which is basically used for cooking and cooking, but as long as the coal is burned, the chimney will definitely smoke!"

Wang Ruohan nodded and confirmed: "That's right, didn't that little girl say it?

I know.

Of course I know, but the problem is that most people fill the hot water bottle and are ready to put it in the bed to warm up and prepare for sleep.

But the other party boils the water at five o'clock, so after filling the hot water bottle, the next thing to do is to put the hot water bottle into the quilt.

The hot water with a hot water bottle is not cooled and all the temperature is left in the bed.

But what the electrician did next didn't make sense.

If the other party went to practice in the middle of the night, then why did he deliberately want a hot water bottle?

Once this hot water bottle is opened, the quilt will basically cool down automatically, and it will not retain the temperature, and there will be no smoke throughout the night, which means that this electrician has been putting a cold hot water bottle in the quilt to sleep?