Chapter 2: The Funeral Fifteen Years Ago
"This is the autopsy report, I'm sorry, Mr. Joseph Cox, your wife has a very serious heart condition, so ...... It's just a matter of time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć An officer handed the autopsy report to Joseph, handed over a pen by the way, and pointed to a place under the document, "If you think there is no problem, sign it here." ā
Joseph got the autopsy report, but as he looked at it, his face kept changing. There were no external injuries, no abnormalities, and no abnormalities in the teeth? He looked at the policeman with some blankness: "This...... Oh my God, it's impossible......"
"If you have any doubts, you can apply to the coroner again for an autopsy and ask your questions, and that's it! Do you want to sign?" the policeman seemed impatient, pointing to the place where he had signed.
Joseph didn't dare to question it anymore and quickly signed. He didn't know how he got home. When he entered the room, the young man stood up, and next to him was Lisa, a little girl lying on the couch and dancing. He nodded at the young man, and there were many words in his heart, and he endured it, but he still didn't say it.
"Why is there no wound on the corpse, why is it a heart attack...... I know you're bound to have a lot of questions. The young man said to Joseph, "I know it's all too surprising, and I'll make it clear to you." ā
Joseph didn't speak, he took his daughter in his arms, went back to the room, and quietly accompanied his daughter in bed, until his daughter woke him up with dancing hands, he got up, thought about it blankly, and then remembered that Melissa should be given a funeral. But the most important thing to figure out at the moment is who this young man outside is.
The young man was still sitting in the drawing-room, and he seemed to be waiting for Joseph, and did not pay the slightest attention to the rudeness of Joseph in not greeting him, and not grateful for his saving grace.
"The world...... It's not the world you imagined, it's not the world I used to be......" The young man looked at Joseph, "It took me many years to figure it out, the world is just a joke to me, to you...... It may be a disaster, but ...... It's nothing, I've gotten through it. ā
Joseph just listened quietly. The young man's mouth was filled with words that were a little difficult for him to understand. Vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and even superheroes...... For him, this is simply absurd.
"Okay, listen...... I don't know where you came from or who you are, but I'm grateful to you, you saved me and Lisa, and I can entertain you here if you want, and show my gratitude......" Joseph said patiently as the young man finished speaking.
"I love French black pepper steak with pasta, right...... A little more Bordeaux Merlot, the sound I want to ...... It will taste good. And, of course, a glass of apple juice!" the young man said unceremoniously and directly.
"Well, I'm sorry, sir......" said Joseph with a snort.
"My name is Huan? Chinese!" the young man said.
"Mr. Jia......" Joseph looked at him with some embarrassment, "I only have gin and red wine from Temecula here......"
"Then red wine is good. The young man nodded casually, "I'll go see Lisa...... Is it called Lisa? It's a nice name, but the little girl...... Always be careful......" He said as he went to the bedroom and picked up Lisa, who was in the cradle of the bedroom. The movements are very skillful, not at all like a raw hand, as if they are very good at taking care of children.
Joseph looked at it, felt that he could rest assured, and went to the kitchen. The steak for dinner tasted very ordinary, and Joseph was not a chef, but he felt that it was already a good one for himself, and another time it was a good one, and that was when Melissa was just pregnant, and he thought he had done it well.
Jia Huan ate very seriously, basically didn't say anything, and Joseph didn't have the habit of talking during meals, so the two finished the dinner in a dull manner, and only Lisa on the side made a "babbling" sound. This makes the monotonous and dull atmosphere, a little bit of freshness squeeze in.
"I want to ...... Or should Melissa be given a funeral, tomorrow...... I'd like to get the body back from the police station first, and Father Cadisi from the church in town will take care of it for me...... Are you going to participate?" Joseph didn't know how to talk to Jia Shihuan, but he always felt like he had to say something.
Seeing that Jia Huan seemed to be indifferent, he became embarrassed again and spread his hands: "If you don't want to...... Yes, we just happened to meet, and you forgot what I just said......"
"No problem, I have time. Unexpectedly, Jia Huan agreed to come down, "Where do I sleep?" He seemed to treat this place as his home.
"We also have a room...... It's been empty, very few people have lived there, I can help you sort it out!" Joseph pursed his lips and didn't say anything, he couldn't speak, so he nodded.
As soon as Jia Huan left, Lisa suddenly burst into tears. Joseph hurried over and teased the child gently, but Lisa cried harder and harder, as if she couldn't catch her breath. This made Joseph a little at a loss, usually Melissa did these things, and he was a little rusty.
"It's time for you to breastfeed her. Jia Huan stood still and glanced back, "Use the milk in your refrigerator, remember to boil it, and then cool it to room temperature, you can put the first drop on the back of your hand, and if it's not hot, you can feed it to her." With that, he walked straight to the room.
Melissa's funeral was held in a church in the town. It is the only church in the town that can accommodate 160 people to come together for prayers and meetings.
Melissa's popularity doesn't seem to be very good, and there are not many people who come to the funeral, only about twenty or thirty people. This makes the whole church seem a little empty.
The coffin was placed at the front desk of the church, and Melissa lay in the coffin as if she were sleeping peacefully. Her lips were closed, her two sharp teeth were gone, everything seemed to be normal, she was just like a normal person dead. This made Joseph a little delusional, and he felt that the scene he had seen before was like a ridiculous dream.
But the presence of Jia Huan, who was sitting at the back of the church, made him feel that all this seemed to be true. The Chinese seemed to be reminding himself that this absurd dream he had experienced was the truth.
At the moment when the coffin was buried, looking at the deep pit deep into the ground, suddenly there was a restless sound coming out of the coffin, he wanted to get closer, wanted to hear something, "bang", loud noise, the hand that had been miserable suddenly stretched out from the coffin, and grabbed his lowered head unexpectedly.
Joseph only felt a tightness in his throat and wanted to shout loudly, but he didn't have time to scream, and he was suddenly dragged into the coffin, and his eyes suddenly went dark...... His body struggled, and indeed it was getting closer and closer, as if he was trapped by a rope, and even his breathing began to be difficult, as if a hand was holding his throat.
In the darkness, he could almost see two miserable white lights suddenly lit up in the coffin, they were Melissa's eyes, those eyes suddenly opened, and there was a miserable white light in the eyes, and the open mouth, two sharp teeth, slowly growing out of the mouth......
"Ahh
Joseph shouted, he suddenly took two steps back, and suddenly felt a light in front of him, as if all the dark things had disappeared, and he looked around in a hurry, and found that he was actually standing next to the grave, and almost fell down. It's just that he didn't fall because one of Jia Huan's hands grabbed his hand.
"You're distracted" Jia Huan looked at Joseph and nodded.
The people around looked at Joseph too, with a look of pity in their eyes, and indifference, yes, these things, for some, are not worth thinking about or doing.
This poor fellow, as soon as the child was born, died his wife. With such an abnormal reaction, you can see how pitiful this guy is. Someone walked over and gently patted him on the shoulder as a sign of comfort.
Joseph had not yet come to his senses and did not show a timely response to the comfort of these people's actions. But no one blames him, he's pathetic enough.
"Yes, I want to...... Yes, I was distracted. ā
Joseph addressed those men and explained in the weakest of words. But he knew that he didn't seem to be so distracted just now, and that feeling was very real...... It's as real as if the person in the coffin will really pop out at any moment.
The priest had finished praying and someone began to throw flowers at the coffin. Then someone left, and it was not until someone began to shovel dirt into the pit that Joseph turned around in a lost way.
"You were distracted just now?"
Suddenly, a voice came from behind him, he stopped, turned his head and saw that it was Jia Huan, who was standing not far behind him, looking at Joseph. Shrugged his shoulders at him.
"Yes, I think so!" Joseph nodded. He prefers to think of this as a hallucination after wandering.
"Maybe, sometimes, who can tell the difference between illusion and reality?I have spent so many years on this, so long that I have forgotten how many years......" Jia Huan suddenly smiled at Joseph, "Lisa is taken care of, don't worry, there is ...... I plan to stay here for a while. ā
"It's your own decision, you don't have to tell me!" Joseph pursed his lips, he was still in a trance.
"I know, but ...... The place where I want to live is in the woods not far from you. Jia Huan said, holding up a piece of paper in his hand, as if it was a document or something, "I have obtained the right to build on that piece of land, and I am very familiar with these routines, so I need a house, it doesn't need to be too big, I just need one." ā
"You'll find the right house for you!" Joseph nodded, and then walked towards the front.
He didn't know what the future would be, he only knew that he should raise Lisa well, this was the only thought he had now, and if he firmly established this thought, then whether it was the previous hallucination, or Melissa's death, he would try to forget it, and then start a new life.
Jia Huan watched Joseph walk towards his home, and couldn't help but shrug his shoulders. Yes, he should have stopped for a while. He's walked too far, it's been more than a hundred years, it's not finished, it's still going on, and he feels like he needs to stop every time he walks, and then slowly adjust himself.
This world is no different from the world before me, the only difference is that there are many unknown secrets here, and there are all kinds of strange things that no one knows.
Fifteen years, just a flash.
Fifteen years later, the hut in the woods grew even greener, for many vines had climbed up the roof, windows, and walls.
And in that wooden house, there lived a young man, as young as he had been fifteen years ago, without the slightest change......