"Don't worry! Feel relieved! I'm not a fowl. Beast. I tried my best to show a "harmless to humans and animals" expression.

Lie in bed. Both of them were embarrassed to say anything, but after turning off the lights, I didn't feel embarrassed. Wu Jinghan exuded a faint fragrance, which made me feel a little confused and feel a strong desire in my body. I had to change my thinking and try to restrain myself.

I don't know how long it took before I fell asleep in a daze, and I slept until dawn.

In the morning, I was woken up by the rapid ringing of my mobile phone, and when I opened my eyes, I glanced at my side first, and Wu Jinghan had already left. When I picked up my mobile phone, I saw that it was Li Guozhi calling.

Maybe because of listening to Lao Wang's words before he took his breath, when he thought of Li Guozhi, he always had a strange feeling, similar to the most familiar stranger.

Stunned for a moment, I quickly pressed the answer button.

"Brother Zhi, what's the matter?"

"Where's your kid?" Li Guozhi's fierce and angry voice came from the phone.

"Go back to your hometown with Wu Jinghan, and I'll go back this morning."

Li Guozhi, who was obviously on the other side of the phone, hesitated for a moment before he spoke: "Something happened!" Stationmaster He had an accident, we have to go over, and ...... In addition, the Wang branch secretary of Hewang Village also passed away, and the two memorial services are scheduled for the day after tomorrow. ”

Wu Baocai's steamed rice, the two of them pickled small pickles at their own home, and each ate a big bowl.

When I was eating, I felt that Wu Baocai was a little older than last night, and I don't know if it was because the lights were dim last night and I didn't see the appearance clearly.

Knowing that his grandfather was fine, Wu Jinghan seemed very happy, humming a song and walking with me to the entrance of the village, and it happened that there was a tricycle in the village that went to the county seat to deliver vegetables, and took us to the intersection of the water conservancy station.

The body of the stationmaster He was placed in the funeral home, and the mourning hall was solemnly arranged. The guide is whispering something, it's right to think about it, people are also a long station, how can you have a few collars. Export a field to show its faces.

I don't like this kind of occasion, I think everyone is hypocritical, and I bowed a few times behind Li Guozhi and Yao Liguo. When I bowed, I noticed that the mourning hall was full of people from the workplace, and there was no family member of the stationmaster.

He stationmaster has no family? It shouldn't be possible!

The body was surrounded by flowers of various colors, and the final part of the funeral ceremony was that all the people who attended the memorial service circled around the body, and cried while circling in circles, and the family members had to shout "Mother, father!" I can't bear you! Something like that.

This kind of funeral custom is actually different in different regions, just say that the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, in fact, there is a general pattern, but the details are still very different, the custom here is that everyone around the body is turning three times, and then three times upside down.

Just when I followed the crowd to the third circle, I inadvertently raised my head, and I saw that there seemed to be a layer of gray and white on Stationmaster He's face, but the vision in the hall was too dark, and I was a little short-sighted, so I couldn't see what it was.

When I turned backwards on the second lap, there was a woman in front of me. shouted loudly: "Uncle He's face has scales!" Suddenly, the entire mourning hall was in chaos, and many people noticed the things on Station Chief He's face and neck.

Sure enough, it was a thin layer of scales, like those on a snake's body, which should have grown in about a day after the person died. This incident caused a lot of uproar, and finally had to call the police.

Captain Li of the district police station led people over, emptied the people in the mourning hall first, and walked outside the funeral home before I had the opportunity to ask Yao Liguo.

Yao Liguo told me that Stationmaster He's family died of illness more than ten years ago, which made me a little more suspicious: Lao Hong's family died more than ten years ago, Li Guozhi's wife and children died more than ten years ago, Wu Baocai's son and daughter-in-law died more than ten years ago, and even Lao Wang said that his wife died more than ten years ago - although I still don't understand this.

Is there such a coincidence? I don't believe anything.

Thinking of Lao Wang, I feel a little uncomfortable, although I have not known him for a long time, but through a few drinks and meals, I have regarded Lao Wang as my own, so I thought about going to Hewang Village to see if I could help.

From a distance, I saw the white mourning hall in the open space next to the old Wang's house, and several old men in the village were arguing, and I respectfully kowtowed three heads in front of his spiritual seat, and when I got up, I saw a girl wearing a filial piety shirt with tears on her face thanking me.

Could this be Lao Wang's daughter? I remember Lao Wang said that her daughter's name is Wang Shengjia, and she works in other places all the year round.

Out of the mourning hall, I walked around, and I didn't pay attention to the old Wang's daughter-in-law, who just wanted to leave, and almost bumped into the bald old man who came towards me.

looked up and saw Zhang Laohan, a neighbor of Wang Yujue's house.

"What are you doing in a panic, young man!" Zhang Laohan asked me.

"Ao-Uncle Zhang, why didn't I see Aunt Wang?"

Zhang Laohan shook his head: "Don't say you didn't see her, it's just that no one in the whole village saw her." ”

This surprised me a little: "Wasn't you still in the hospital yesterday?" ”

"Yes! At that time, they were all panicked, no one saw her return to the village, and a few people in our village were talking about it! In my opinion, I have to call the police for this. ”

And when he had finished speaking, he went into the courtyard with his hands behind his back.

And what's going on? It stands to reason that his man is dead, so he should come back and him quickly. It's right to hold on to the future, and there is an unmarried girl, which is what a mother does.

Thinking of what Lao Wang's cousin said on the bus yesterday morning: The relationship between my cousin and my cousin-in-law is not good. I thought of Lao Wang's last words: In fact, my daughter-in-law died more than ten years ago......

At this time, I suddenly remembered this sentence, and I only felt that my scalp was numb.

Could it be that Lao Wang's daughter-in-law really has a problem, so Lao Wang's deathbed sentence is not nonsense? When I thought about it, I was terrified, so I turned back and wanted to take the opportunity to help Lao Wang with his funeral injuries to find out the truth of the matter.

Anyway, he is also a friend with Lao Wang, and he can't let him die blindly.

The funeral in the countryside is complicated, it takes three days in total, and almost half of the village will help. You don't need money to help, as long as you take care of a meal, the neighbors will be happy, this is the simplicity of the people in the village.

I thought about it for a while, nothing else, it should be no problem to keep an account, so I went directly to the account office.

After dinner in the evening, all the neighbors who helped gathered in the account office to "lead the work". "Foreman" is the work that waits for the steward's arrangement to help, who is responsible for building the grave and who is responsible for carrying the coffin, all arranged by the steward in advance.

According to the usual practice, the family will come out to thank you in the end, and those who are well-off will also stuff a few "white envelopes", each of which is 300 yuan.

Sure enough, at nine o'clock, the girl who was kneeling in the mourning hall just now walked in, first thanked her one by one, and finally stuffed three "white envelopes" for the steward.

Sure enough, it was Wang Shengjia, and I hurriedly stepped forward to say hello: "You are Uncle Wang's daughter Shengjia, right?" ”