Son of the Devil

Chapter I

Winter 1998

Tongcheng, an ordinary small county town, is deep inland, isolated and backward.

Tongcheng First People's Hospital, the best public hospital in Tongcheng, many people come in and out of the hospital every day, and the sharp whistling of ambulances can be heard almost every day.

Lao Li Tou, a thin and wrinkled hunchbacked old man, came out of the countryside, has no education, let alone no background, it stands to reason that it is impossible for him to work in such a good hospital, even if he is not in the establishment, even if his monthly salary is only three or four hundred yuan.

The salary of three or four hundred yuan in 98 years is definitely not high in a small inland county, but it is better to barely hold the public job, you can get a salary at a fixed time every month, and three meals a day can also be solved in the hospital canteen, which can save a lot of expenses, for many people, this is already a good job.

It stands to reason that this kind of work can't be done by people like Lao Li Tou, but except for Lao Li Tou, no one really wants to do this job.

The guards cleaned the morgue, bad luck.

According to the older generation, this old inpatient building was built during the invasion of China by the R people, and they did a lot of terrible things in it, and after the defeat, some of the people of R still committed suicide in that building.

Legend has it that how much water there is is still to be verified, but the old hospital building is indeed quite eerie, the old building with only three floors on the surface is full of creepers, and the front and back of the building are full of bamboo forests, and people feel cold all over their bodies during the dog days. After the reconstruction and expansion of the People's Hospital, the old inpatient building was abandoned at the first time, and with the construction of the new inpatient building, the old inpatient building was squeezed into the most remote corner of the hospital, some sundries were placed, and the basement was sorted out as a morgue for the hospital to park the corpses.

The county town is not large, and it has a closed tradition, and unless there is a sudden death or emergency, many people, especially the elderly, prefer to wait at home for the last moment of their lives. Even if some people unfortunately pass away in the hospital, according to local customs, the family will bring the body of the deceased back to their homes in the shortest possible time, so there are not many times when the hospital morgue comes in handy.

Lao Litou's main job is to guard and clean this almost abandoned old hospital building, and manage the clutter in the entire building, including the morgue in the basement, and the sanitation of the surrounding park.

The work itself is not too hard, before Lao Li Tou, there were several people who had done his job because of various relationships, but the shortest of these people only worked for three days, and the longest only lasted for half a year, so they resigned from their jobs for various reasons. Gradually, there were some rumors in the hospital that the impact of chasing after the wind and shadows was not good.

In the 80s and 90s, information was underdeveloped, and there was a bit of turmoil in small county towns, which would be regarded as a big talk point.

In just a few years, the people who took care of the old inpatient building have died of madness for various reasons, so all kinds of stories about the old inpatient building have become more and more mysterious, and slowly, no one is willing to do this job anymore.

Lao Li Tou found this job by mistake, and he has been doing it for several years, there is no, and the rumors are self-defeating, but still no one has the idea of beating him for this job.

After consciously gaining a firm foothold in the hospital, he also took his wife from the countryside to the county seat, and finally found a job for her to wash sheets and quilts in the hospital, and finally found her a job in the hospital to wash the sheets and covers, the salary was very low, but it was more than her farming alone in the countryside.

The old hospital was used as a warehouse, there were many sundries in the building, and there were valuable and worthless ones, according to the hospital regulations, Lao Li Tou had to keep vigil.

There were many empty rooms in the old inpatient building, so Lao Li Tou and his wife picked a house with a sunny floor on the ground floor and picked it up as a bedroom.

The couple have been married for more than 20 years without children, and the relationship with relatives in their hometown is not close, they are afraid that no one will take care of them when they are old in the future, and they are reluctant to spend some salary, and they are rubbed in the hospital canteen three times a day, and the clothes are also picked up by others to wear, and after a few years, the couple has saved 20,000 or 30,000 yuan.

This amount of money is nothing in the county, but it is really an enviable wealth in their hometown.

The husband and wife are used to picking and searching, and the clothes they pick up are not neat, and no one knows that they have saved so much money.

The two of them summed up, and in a few years they couldn't do it anymore, so they took the money back to the countryside, turned over the old houses in the countryside, and spent their old age in peace, as they wanted.

However, plans never keep up with change.

In the middle of winter, the Spring Festival is coming, and as long as the patients in the hospital are not too sick, they have been discharged in advance to go home for the New Year, and the hospital is rarely deserted.

Lao Li Tou and his wife have been living in the county town for several years, the house in the countryside has long been rotten, and there are no close relatives in their hometown, and they have not returned to their hometown for three or four years.

On the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, there were only a few patients in the hospital who really could not get out of the hospital, and the doctors could go home and all left, and the old Li Tou couple were busy all year, rare luxury, bought some meat and vegetables back, borrowed a stove from the hospital canteen, stewed a pot indiscriminately, and the old two ate to their heart's content, and slept until midnight.

Lao Li Tou was dreaming, and his mouth was chirping, when his wife's suspicious voice suddenly sounded in his ears: "Old man, wake up, wake up, do you have any sound?" ”

Lao Li Tou slept soundly, and he was still a little dazed when he was woken up, only to feel that his body was very cold, and he caged the quilt on his body, and said angrily: "What is the ghost called in the middle of the night, and I don't let people sleep." ”

"Shhhh......h Coming from below. Grandma's voice trembled, and as soon as she finished speaking, there seemed to be a shrill voice, faintly like a baby's cry, intermittent, not real, but creepy.

The dim light bulb in the room flickered and went out suddenly, and the cold wind whirred into the house through the cracks in the window, and the room seemed to have dropped several degrees suddenly, covered with a thick quilt, and the couple couldn't help but shiver.

Bang.

Without warning, there was a thunderclap, as if it suddenly exploded overhead.

At this moment, Lao Li Tou completely woke up, he listened with his ears pricked up for a long time, except for the sudden thunder and rustling bamboo leaves outside, he seemed to have heard the voice of his grandmother.

Lao Li Tou has been working in this old hospital building for several years, and occasionally he hears some strange noises, he usually pretends not to hear, covers his head with a quilt, and nothing happens until dawn.

Tonight, however, he was a little unstable.

In the increasingly intense thunder, the intermittent cry of the little baby, like a magic spell, continued to amplify in the minds of the old Li Tou and his wife, and after a few minutes or half an hour, the grandmother could no longer lie down, she poked the thin arm of the old Li Tou and said, "Do you say it will be the pregnant woman today...... Raw. ”

"Don't be nonsense, she died when she was taken to the hospital, how could she give birth in the middle of the night?" Old Li Tou denied it in his mouth, but a young woman's face and her towering belly flashed in his mind.

It was an unforgettable face, very beautiful, even more beautiful than the stars on TV.

Even when it was Lao Li Tou's turn to take over her, she was already stiff, her face was gray, and her eyes were closed, which still made Lao Li Tou amazed.

After the amazement, it was a sigh, this woman was sent to the hospital by passers-by, very young, without any identity information on her body, before entering the hospital she was bleeding and breathless, the hospital reported to the police, today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, after confirming that the woman did die of dystocia, the police simply made a record, let people send her to the morgue first, and then conduct relevant investigations after the New Year.

Lao Li Tou's biggest regret in this life is that he has no children, when he was young, his grandmother was also pregnant several times, but the child was aborted and died before he was born.

Seeing this woman's towering abdomen, Lao Li Tou thought of his children who had no chance and sighed.

"But I did hear the cry, what if someone else gave birth to a child, don't throw it away? What should I do if I freeze on such a cold day? Saying that, Grandma Sun's heart was completely activated, in case anyone really gave birth to a child, they could pick it up and raise it themselves, even if it was a little girl, it would be good to raise it.

Children are the biggest heart disease in grandma's life.

After the terrible thunder, the baby's cry was heard again in her ears, and the grandmother immediately jumped out of bed, not bothering to get dressed, grabbed her slippers, picked up the flashlight placed next to the pillow and ran out.

By the time Lao Li Tou reacted, Grandma Sun had already opened the door of the room and plunged into the darkness.

Lao Li scolded in a low voice, quickly got up and picked up the coats of the two and chased them out.

By the time he caught up, there was already an extra baby in her arms, and she carefully coaxed the child, gently wiping the □□ on its body with her sleeve, and the wrinkles on her dry face seemed to be all stretched.

The woman covered with a white cloth had her stomach deflated at some point, and there was a puddle of pitch-black liquid on the ground beside her, which was extremely fishy.

Lao Litou's brain was blank for a moment, and the cold wind from nowhere swirled into the morgue, making people's hairs stand on end, and the dim flashlight light on the side flickered twice, and suddenly went out, and suddenly the entire morgue was so black that he couldn't see his fingers.

"Old, old woman, ......"

"Ahh

A terrible scream spread through the darkness with a faint smell of blood......