Chapter Twenty-Four: The Old Man Who Came Back from the Dead
Just thinking about it, a person suddenly ran in outside the door, dressed as a servant, pinned a small gourd around his waist, with a look of anxiety on his face, and when he saw Cheng Ming, he hurriedly shouted: "Dao Chief, help, Dao Chief, my father is ...... Live again! β
Cheng Ming was slightly stunned, took off the small pipe, and said, "Don't worry, say slowly, what's wrong with your father?" β
"My father ......" the official took two quick breaths and shouted, "My father has come back to life!" β
This official Cheng Ming is more familiar with it, when he was dealing with the sand trouble, he followed Liu Zhuji, served before and after the saddle, beckoned people for help, and walked around with Cheng Ming, and he was tired.
Cheng Ming saw that his personality was quite in line with his heart, and when he took back the gourd, he left one for him.
His little gourd was specially dealt with by Cheng Ming, and he changed the sucking sand to spraying sand, and the strength was quite small, which gave him a lot of help.
This kid has benefited, but he hasn't forgotten the grace, he goes to Cheng Ming every once in a while, showing a little face, although he is not very close, he must also be familiar.
What's the name......
Cheng Ming thought for a while and said, "Oh, that's right! Su Dan, right? You speak upside down, how can I understand! Drink saliva, press your breath, and tell the story from beginning to end. β
Cheng Ming handed over a cup of tea, Su Dan grabbed it and drank it all, took Cheng Ming's sleeve when he came up, and said hurriedly: "It's too late!" Hold you or come with me, I'll tell you on the way! 100,000 urgent, human life is at stake! β
Cheng Ming thought about it, then go!
Then he stood up and followed the servant out of the door.
The two of them hurriedly walked out of the south city gate and went straight to Sujiazhuang, twenty miles away.
On the way, Su Dan told the whole story.
Su Dan's father is old, and in the past few months, there was a sand plague around Wucheng, and everyone was busy fleeing, and after he came back, he became seriously ill and has been sick in bed.
Although someone at home has been carefully cared for, his condition has deteriorated, and just seven days ago, Old Man Su finally swallowed his last breath.
People can't be resurrected after death, and Su Dan's family is an old household in Sujiazhuang, so he and his neighbors helped to do white things, which can be regarded as a beautiful and beautiful send-off.
Today is the seventh day of the mortuary, and it was supposed to be buried in the afternoon.
Who knew that when everyone was about to carry the coffin, they suddenly heard Old Man Su shouting inside.
Everyone hurriedly opened the coffin and found that the old man was alive.
The family was surprised and delighted, and gathered around to express their grief.
But without saying a word, Old Man Su said that he was reluctant to give up his family, and he was afraid that he would be lonely over there, so he wanted to bring the old woman over.
As soon as these words came out, everyone's faces changed.
Mrs. Su hurriedly stabilized Old Man Su, and Su Dan hurriedly came to Cheng Ming to save his life.
Cheng Ming was a little puzzled and asked, "Just talking two nonsense, what are you afraid of?" β
"It's not nonsense, Dao Chief!" Su Dan's face wrinkled, gritted his teeth and said, "You don't know, last year and the year before that, this kind of thing happened in our Zhuangzi!" Usually the dead lie down first, suddenly stand up when they are about to be buried, and when they lie down again, they will inevitably take one or two with them. β
Cheng Ming exclaimed: "Take it away without warning? β
"There's no injury on your body!" Su Dan shook his head: "Dao Chief, I am on an errand in the Yamen, and I have a good relationship with a few working people, so I also invited me to come and see it at that time, but I couldn't check it out at all." And in the village, at least 100 pairs of eyes have seen this with their own eyes, so you can't believe it! β
Cheng Ming touched his chin and stopped talking. Gestured to Su Dan, and the two of them sped up.
If this matter is seen by the people, I am afraid it will be another ghost story, but Cheng Ming feels that there is something strange in it.
Recall Chu Jingyu's rhetoric.
Cheng Ming will be skeptical, could it be that this plane really has these things?
There was nothing to say all the way, and more than ten miles came in a flash.
When I entered Sujiazhuang, every house was closed, and every household was silent. Only the courtyard of Su Dan's house was open, and seven or eight people from the family surrounded the mourning hall, and there were bursts of talking inside.
Could it be that all the people in the Zhuangzi have run away?
Cheng Ming sensed it and shook his head, it turned out that they were all hiding at home, and they didn't dare to come out.
This is for fear of being taken away by Old Man Su.
Entering the courtyard of Su Dan's house, a little daughter-in-law wearing a blue cloth skirt was already waiting at the door, and when she saw Su Dan coming back with Cheng Ming, her face suddenly showed joy.
Su Dan asked with a face, "How is it?" β
The little daughter-in-law hurriedly said: "It's the same as what the old man in the village said, if you don't talk to him, the old man will say that sentence over and over again, like a wooden man, staring at his mother-in-law with his eyes, but he is scared to death!" β
Su Dan turned around and bowed to Cheng Ming, and said hurriedly: "Dao Chief, help!" β
Cheng Ming nodded and stepped into the mourning hall.
I saw a few people leaning against the wall, their mouths tightly closed, not saying a word, their eyes rolling around, and when they saw Cheng Ming coming in, they all showed joy.
An old man sat in the coffin, with one hand on the edge, staring at the old lady next to him, and said, "Come with me, okay?" What fun is there in the hands of your old bones, in the hands of your children, and everything has to depend on them? Why don't you come with me, I just want to take you with me when I come back! β
The old lady smiled and did not speak.
The old man said it again after a while.
After a while, it was said again.
I said it five or six times during the tea time, and it was the same sentence over and over again.
It feels like reading the lines, and if no one gives him the right lines, the plot won't go on.
When the old lady saw Cheng Ming coming, she nodded slightly, but she didn't get up.
Cheng Ming clenched his fists from afar and began to observe the old man carefully.
The old man was obviously a peasant, and he had worked all his life facing the loess with his back to the sky, and the various characteristics on his body were very obvious.
made Cheng Ming suddenly think of that a very famous sketch.
The old man's face was ruddy, and his eyes looked bright, but his movements were a little stiff, and his speech was sticky and his teeth were a little slurred.
How do you look like a living person.
Cheng Ming was silently afraid of taking a step forward, and the invisible fluctuations on his body spread.
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Like water ripples, enveloping the old man, Cheng Ming's expression moved slightly, turned his head slightly, and nodded slightly at the few people who had seen it with hope in his eyes.
There was a blank card in his hand silently, and he walked slowly to the old lady and asked her with his eyes.
The old lady sighed and nodded slightly.
At this point, the old man asked again.
With a wave of Cheng Ming's card, the old man disappeared directly, and reappeared in the blink of an eye, lying flat in the coffin.
There was a suppressed exclamation from the mourning hall, and I don't know who cheered, and then it was quickly dragged away.
After all, it's a mourning hall, isn't cheering looking for a fight?
The old lady reached out and touched the old man, with a little sentimentality in her eyes.