Chapter 53: The Gods in the Wine Jar (1)
Before the driver's money could be found, I closed the door and hurried into the city. The outpatient building was closed, and I anxiously shook my head back and forth, and finally saw the emergency department with the lights on on the side, and rushed over.
As the weather warms up, people's hearts become restless, and the emergency department becomes busy. The ambulance kept coming in and out, and the red-blue lights and the shrill honking of the horn made my already nervous mood even more irritable. I kept making out the hospital beds that were speeding past me in the aisles, and the words that came out of the mouths of the doctors and nurses made my heart clench. The pungent smell of disinfectant once again evoked disturbing memories in me.
Just as I was turning the corner and walking to the other side, a hand jerked out from the bend, grabbed me tightly, and pulled me to the door of the rescue room.
"You're finally here! Let's go say goodbye to Dad. The crying female voice came from the direction where I was holding my hand, and when I heard the word "goodbye", I immediately leaned against the wall as soon as my legs became weak.
Dad, did you have an accident......
"Ah, I'm sorry......" the woman said to me, wiping the uncontrollable tears from her eyes with a tissue, and her scarlet eyes open, "I'm sorry...... I recognize you as my daughter...... Sorry ......"
"It's okay." It turned out that I recognized the wrong person, and the three souls and five spirits that had just escaped from my body returned to the original gods. It's good that it's not my dad, it's not my dad...... I kept meditating in my heart.
"Sick sick!" On the other side, another voice stopped me. My nerves, which had been relaxed, tightened again. I turned back in a panic, and my mother was staring at my face in horror, her bloodshot eyes sunken deeply, as if she hadn't slept in a long time.
The woman who had just mistaken me was helped into a corner seat by her daughter, who had hurried over. I was running into my mother's arms in the aisle mixed with cries and shouts. The world is so terrifying, I just want my mother's warm arms now.
"Mom!" I staggered over and grabbed her. The familiar taste, the familiar warmth, it feels so good.
"Where have you been?" My mother couldn't stop wiping away her tears and kept touching my whole body, as if she was afraid that something would happen to me. "Do you know that it's a little late, and my dad and I are ready to go to the police!"
"I ......"
"When I received that call, I thought it was a scam at first, but you didn't answer your phone, and you weren't in the company, and you didn't even return to the apartment, how can you let me rest assured!" Mom said, she couldn't help the emotions overflowing in her chest, and the rushing tears were surging.
"I know, I was wrong, I was wrong......" I hugged my crying mother into my arms, my slightly trembling body tugging at my heart and trembling, "I'm not here, it's okay...... However, why are you here, is something wrong with the family? ”
Hearing me ask, my mother wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, turned her head back slightly, frowned again, and said in a hoarse voice, "It's not us ......"
I followed her eyes, and the people sitting at the door of the second operating room were actually the Qin family. I looked at them in astonishment, all of them frowning, losing their usual amusement and joy. There were a few people in the row, I couldn't recognize them, but at a glance, I saw Qin Chuyi hugging his knees and huddled in the corner. He stared silently ahead, just as he had been in the last car accident.
I walked past the Qin family, they didn't attract much attention because of my arrival, only Aunt Qin raised her head slightly and responded to me with a pale smile. I came to Qin Chuyi and blocked the ground he was looking at. The moment he saw me, his eyes widened in surprise, then his eyes gradually dimmed, and his thick eyelashes drooped.
"You're back." His voice sounded like a withered leaf, crushing at the feet of pedestrians, emitting a tiny tone of life burned out.
……
Qin Sanyou's funeral was held on June 1, and the vigorous day gave the funeral a different color. This was done according to his last wishes, and indeed in his usual style. His family revered his last directive, and did not hold a three-day funeral service at home, but was hastily cremated and placed in their ancestral hall the day after the death was announced. The process was soon over, and a person disappeared into the noisy and impetuous world.
In June, the weather is gradually starting to steam, and the temperature is much higher. Coupled with the early arrival of the rainy season, the sky was overcast and the precipitation continued continuously. Laughter and pain were washed away by the rain that poured down on the earth.
At this moment, I am sitting with Qin Chuyi in the house where Qin Sanyou lived before his death, and the courtyard is still the scene before I left, the leaves of the ginkgo tree are much larger than before, and it will not be long before it will begin to bear fruit. According to the will, Qin Chuyi inherited his grandfather's house. The old man was not there, and he kept the house to confin countless thoughts of the past.
Mom said that Qin Chuyi had been locking himself up at his grandfather's house for the past few days, and he hadn't stepped out of the door. I was worried that something would happen to him, so I rushed over early to accompany him. He didn't do anything extreme, just sat quietly on the stone steps in front of the main house, looking at the scenery in the courtyard, and it seemed that he could still feel Qin Sanyou holding a broom, joking with me with a smile, sweeping the golden ground.
"First year," I called out to him softly, "you're alright." ”
"I'm fine."
Then there was silence......
Since Qin Sanyou's death, Qin Chuyi has become taciturn, as if he was not the lively and cheerful young man he was before. Unadorned, he makes me feel a little similar to a crane.
"Xiaoxiao, do you believe me?" He suddenly tilted his head, stared into my eyes, and said in a firm tone.
"yes, what's wrong?" His eyes were like a sharp arrow, and I couldn't escape them.
"They didn't believe me, saying I was hallucinating from overthinking. In fact, I know that my grandfather's physical problems are not myocardial infarction at all, he is in such good health and often exercises, how can he get that kind of disease......"
Myocardial infarction again.
"The First ...... of Junior High School"
"Since we came back from Biqi Town that day, that shadow has never left. It was it that took Grandpa, you believe me! Qin Chuyi's burning eyes locked on me tightly, making me a little overwhelmed.
"I believe you, but ......"
"I'm going to get that dark shadow out, no matter what."
I swallowed back what I wanted to say and sat with him in front of the house until late in the evening. Finally, he said he was a little hungry, and I hurriedly helped him up and went to the front room to eat. After sitting all day, my legs were a little numb.
As soon as I reached the door of the front room, I heard a fierce commotion coming from inside.
"If you don't come back sooner or later, you just come back when your dad dies, what kind of heart do you have!"
"Do you think I do! What can I do if Dad won't let me come back! It's you, why didn't you take good care of him! ”
"What do you say! Think about yourself and whether you've ever made a difference! At this time, when I told me about the house, there was no door! All according to the will! ”
"Will?! Is it just the lawyer's mouth? Dad's house is my share! If it is not given to me, the new one is mine! ”
"That's what Dad left for Xiaoyi, you get out of me!"
"Even if it goes to court, I won't stop!"
"Get out of here! I don't want to see you again! ”
Then, there was a sound of things breaking through the room, which was particularly harsh.
I helped Qin Chuyi to enter the door, and I was greeted by a middle-aged strange man, who hurriedly walked out from the door of the house, with an angry expression on his face, and almost bumped into me and Qin Chuyi.
"I'm sorry......" he left and walked away without looking back.
It was this strange man I had seen in front of the second operating room. At the time, I felt that I was fresh, but now it looks a little more familiar.
"That's my uncle," Qin Chu, who was beside him, saw that my eyes were still on the back of the man leaving, and said silently: "I probably came here again for the division of family property, several times this week." ”
Qin Sanyou made a will before his death, but he didn't know where to put the paper version, and he couldn't find it no matter how he found it. Fortunately, the lawyer in charge of drafting the will remembered and did as he said. Now, it seems, things are getting complicated.
Walking into the living room, Uncle Qin was angry, his chest was rising and falling violently, and he poured water into his mouth violently. Aunt Qin swept the floor on the side, cleaning up the other teacup that had just been broken. When she saw us come in, she immediately changed her smile, but you could see that she was still preoccupied.
"Eh, you're back, hey, Lao Qin, don't be angry, let's eat together." I took the broom from Aunt Qin's hand, and she went to cook the house. I looked at the mess left over from the intense normality, and it was going to be hard to solve for a while.
There was debris everywhere on the ground, and I had to go to the corner to sweep it up little by little. Just then, I suddenly noticed that on the sofa in the corner, something wrapped in cloth was lying on it. Curious, I walked over and took it in my hand.
"Uncle Qin, what is this?" I asked as I walked over and handed him the things.
"Oh, this," he said, looking a little surprised, coming back from his anger and taking the package from my hand. "Probably that bastard just fell. On the first day of junior high school, you put it away first, and return it to him when he comes back in two days. Really! Don't think our family stole him! ”
Qin Chu obediently took the package, and also put it in his hand and checked it, revealing a surprised expression.
"Eh, it's pretty heavy." With that, he immediately untied the strip of cloth on the package, and the contents were impressively presented to us.
Uncle Qin just wanted to stop him, but when he saw what was inside, he stopped the movements in his hand and followed suit.
Lying inside the package was a clay pot, all brown and with a very smooth surface. There are no markings on the clay pot, so it is not clear what the age is.
"It can't be an antique, is it?" Aunt Qin also came over and said curiously.
"Impossible!" Uncle Qin denied it, "That bastard is so poor, how can he afford to buy any antiques!" ”
I was also fascinated by this strange clay pot and couldn't help but shake it, and I was taken aback by the strange feeling of gravity, and there was a crisp shaking sound coming from inside.