Chapter 173: The Boy's Body in the Morgue
It is said that if the heavens do iniquity, they can live, but if they do evil, they cannot live. *.
I didn't feel this sentence deeply, but when I came out of this hairy crab specialty store, I was deeply moved when I recalled the bizarre events I had experienced before.
I entered the store at 11 o'clock in the afternoon, and when I came out again, it was almost 9 o'clock in the evening, not only did I not buy the hairy crabs, but my original plan to go home to have lunch with my parents and grandparents was also frustrated.
I didn't even miss dinner, but I didn't regret it, because in the previous ten hours, I had done something very meaningful, not only atoning for the sins of the once evil "me", but also saving an innocent life, and facilitating a beautiful marriage, which can be described as the best of all three.
This bizarre experience began ten hours ago......
When I came to the door of the hairy crab store at 11 o'clock, parked the car, and walked into the store, I felt that something was wrong, because I suddenly felt that this store was extremely cold.
I glanced back at the sun outside, it was very bright, warm and pleasant, after all, it was the crisp autumn season, and the outdoor temperature was 22C, so there was no need to turn on the air conditioner.
So I instinctively looked at the cabinet air conditioner in the store, but it was not turned on, and I immediately felt very strange.
Why is it so cold in this room when the air conditioning is not turned on? Could it be that the owner has installed some hidden refrigeration equipment?
With this doubt, the further I walked in, the colder I felt, and I could even see the hot breath coming out of my mouth, which is a natural phenomenon that can only be seen in the cold winter, but the problem is that it is only early autumn.
In my memory, the evil "me" of this shop has been here many times in the past two years, because my grandfather and mother both love to eat hairy crabs, so every year at this season, "I" will go to buy hairy crabs at my mother's request.
In the past few years, "I" had to drive a long way to buy it, but since the store opened the year before last, because it is very close to "my" parents' house, "I" have been buying at this store since the year before.
For the real me, it's the first time I've come.
So when the shopkeeper saw me wearing a big mask, she naturally recognized me and greeted me with a smile, because she knew that I was a big customer, and every time she came in the past two years, she would pick the biggest, best and most expensive one to buy, and each time she bought it, it was two large boxes, a whole two hundred.
The reason why I bought so much is because "my" grandmother is very skillful and very good at making all kinds of pastries, dumplings, buns and wontons with crab roe and crab meat, so every time except for a small part of it is freshly boiled and eaten, the rest is carefully taken out of all the crab meat and crab roe, frozen and used to make small snacks.
The shopkeeper was a young girl, very well-behaved, with a small dimple when she smiled, and she looked very cute.
It is said that she is still studying aquaculture, is a graduate student of Longwan Agricultural University, and her research topic is the breeding of hairy crabs.
The hairy crabs sold in her shop are all cultivated using the new technology she researched, and both the crab roe and crab meat are more delicious than ordinary hairy crabs, so there are many repeat customers, and the business is also very good.
So in my impression, most of the time, it is her partner who runs here, and it is rare to see this cute shopkeeper girl.
And her partner made a very deep impression on "me", because the boy was mute, very delicate, and wore a pair of glasses, which made him even more polite.
He looks very bookish, usually when there are no customers, he will hold a book and read carefully, the age is similar to the shopkeeper girl, and the personality is a little shy, especially when seeing new customers, there will be a little blush, but he works very hard, although he can't speak, but his gestures make customers feel very enthusiastic, and he is also very careful, so many old customers like this diligent little boy very much.
It's just that for the once evil "me", maybe no one is used to it, and I never respect others, and I have no patience, so when I learned that he was a dumb person, I didn't take him in my eyes at all, and sometimes I felt even more impatient when I had to take out a small book from my pocket and write it to "me" every time I communicated with him.
always had to be sarcastic about the other party, and very unceremoniously threw aside the small notebook he handed over, looking too lazy to pay attention to him, and then, slammed a wad of money in his wallet on his face, and said in disgust: "No need to look for it!"
It didn't take long for the little boy to push the cart and pull two large boxes to "my" car, carefully open the storage box, and put the two boxes of hairy crabs into the storage box with great difficulty.
Every time "I" didn't appreciate it, I had to glare at the little boy fiercely from the rearview mirror before scolding and driving away.
This bad behavior of "me" was also seen by the shopkeeper girl once, so when "I" came again, as long as she was there, she would deliberately let the boy entertain other guests, or when there were no other guests, let him read on the side, and not let him come to help her, for fear that "I" would be angry with him again.
When looking at the familiar shop in front of me, the familiar shopkeeper girl, I inadvertently remembered all the memories of the once evil "me" and this boy, and at that moment, I was also ashamed of the attitude of the once evil "me", so I plan to formally apologize to this boy today, hoping that he can forgive the arrogant and rude behavior of the former "me", otherwise I will never be at ease now.
However, when I looked around the store and didn't see the little boy who loved to read, I casually asked the owner girl why the little boy didn't come to work today.
Unexpectedly, the smiling expression of the shopkeeper girl instantly became a little worried and lost, so I asked curiously what happened.
By the way, I also asked why the store is much colder than the outside, and did she install any hidden refrigeration equipment in this store to ensure the freshness of the hairy crabs?
The owner, the girl, told me sadly that the boy had left a week ago, and that she didn't know why it was so cold in the shop, because she had neither turned on the air conditioning nor installed other refrigeration equipment.
She didn't seem to be willing to say much to me when it came to talking about the boy, and I could understand that, after all, the once evil "me" treated the boy like that, and she didn't think I really cared about him.
When I sincerely said that the reason why I wanted to meet the boy was to say sorry to him personally, the shopkeeper girl had no worries and told me about the boy.
It turned out that a week ago, on Sunday, when she had come to the store to help as usual, the boy had unusually not come to work all day.
So, after work, when she called and inquired according to the phone number filled in the boy's resume when he applied for the job, it was actually the morgue duty room phone of a hospital, and what made her even more incredible was that the old man in the hospital morgue was surprised for a long time when he heard her say the boy's name, and then told her that the boy was an unclaimed body for three years, which had been refrigerated in the freezer, but it disappeared inexplicably last night!
At first, the girl who owned the shop thought it was a prank, or a coincidence, or that the boy had deliberately impersonated someone else's name to come to work here, but after putting down the phone, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong, and after hesitation, she called the police.
Over the next week, the police carefully investigated the morgue and her shop, and from the head and fingerprints collected, it was determined that the boy who had worked in her shop for almost three years was the same body that had been in the morgue for three years.
According to the police investigation, the boy was sent to the hospital three years ago by a man who claimed to be his brother, and he had a small tumor in his throat, but it was benign, as long as it was removed, it would be fine, and it was not a major operation.
As a result, during the operation, the attending doctor was extremely upset because of the recent divorce with his wife, and he drank again, so he made a mistake for a while, not only accidentally destroying the boy's vocal cords, causing him to be unable to speak anymore, but also cutting the major artery in the neck, resulting in massive bleeding.
Although the other nurses hurriedly reported to the dean and urgently replaced him to continue the operation and rescue the boy, it was still too late, and the little boy stopped beating soon after and left this world forever.
Afterwards, the hospital could not find the boy's family, that is, the man who signed the operation confirmation, so it could not discuss compensation, so it had to turn to the police to help find it, but after the police investigated the man's name and mobile phone number, there was no such person at all, apparently the man used a fake identity at that time.
At the suggestion of the police, the hospital had to temporarily freeze the boy's body, and it would be safer to hand over the body to his family for disposal when the boy's family was found in the future and the case was closed.
After three years, the hospital and the police almost forgot about the boy's medical malpractice case, but I didn't expect that after receiving a report from the girl who was the owner of the hairy crab specialty store, this unsolved case that had been sealed for three years was turned over again.
After reading the case file, and according to the story of the shopkeeper girl, the police also felt incredible, but there was no way to continue the investigation, because there were no new clues, and the boy's family could not be found, so this bizarre case came to an impasse.
The police also don't know whether to continue the investigation with the previous medical malpractice case or the new missing person case, because the male protagonist of the two cases is actually the same person!
After listening to the shopkeeper girl tell all this with a solemn face, I felt even more that there was something strange in this shop.
This inexplicable cold, there must be a supernatural event!