276: Are you Hannibal the Great Wei?
What kind of people smell like dead people?
Someone who was already dying.
People who deal with dead people all day long.
Cheng Qing felt that the old man was the second type, after all, this old man looked old, but he was full of energy, he was not tired of walking so far, and he could pry open the coffin by himself, he really didn't look like a dying man.
With such strength, why did she ask her to dig a grave?
Cheng Qing's palm is still hot and painful now.
Exercise is exercise, when has she ever done this kind of rough work!
The coffin was opened, and the unpleasant smell made Cheng Qing retreat, she wanted to retreat, but the old man seemed to have eyes behind him: "You are not afraid of the dead, but you are afraid of dirty?" Hand over the box. ”
Cheng Qing went to pick up the box, the box was not big, but it was very heavy.
The old man pried open the coffin with the tools he took from the box, and in addition to the hammer, there were also strips of cloth, a leather jacket, and all kinds of knives and small awls inserted in the leather jacket neatly placed.
Cheng Qing swears that she also smelled garlic, ginger and vinegar...... Not a tomb robber. Tomb robbers don't come to this kind of place like a mass grave, there is no oil and water at all.
It's more like the third watch of the Great Wei Hannibal came to the mass grave in the middle of the night to eat people, and he also prepared his own ingredients!
The old man mashed ginger and garlic and mixed it with vinegar, smeared it on the strips of cloth, and let Cheng Qing wrap his mouth and nose.
"Squeamish."
Cheng Qing wanted to blow up.
Normal people who like to smell the smell of death, what kind of squeamish is she!
Compared with the smell of corpses, the smell of ginger, garlic and vinegar is not unpleasant, this is a simple version of the gas mask?
Cheng Qing wrapped the strips of cloth, and the mixed smell of ginger, garlic and vinegar made her uncomfortable, but she really couldn't smell the smell of corpses.
"Don't be stupid, hand the knife over, the second one on the left!"
Cheng Qing thought that this knife had been cut on many dead people, so he was very responsive, and handed it to the old man with the handle of the knife on his sleeve.
You can't wear this dress anymore when you go back!
Seeing the old man cut the abdomen of the corpse with a knife, Cheng Qing's stomach churned.
The old man looked up at her, "I heard that you sewed back your servant's intestines with your own hands, isn't it the same thing as now?" ”
Cheng Qing wanted to say that he just stuffed it back, but it was Cheng Hui and Xiaopan who stitched the needle, and he endured it again.
This old man wants to know that she didn't sew it, so why force her to bring Cheng Hui and Xiaopan in?
In the middle of the night, I came to the cemetery to dig and dissect the corpse, and a woman with a big heart like myself could accept it, and I was scared to death when I replaced the eldest sister and Xiaopan.
Cheng Qing muttered, "How can sewing the living and cutting the dead be the same!" ”
"What is the difference, the living lie, the dead honestly obey the fiddling, it is easier to get along with the dead than with the living."
The old man said as he pulled out all his intestines.
Cheng Qing really couldn't help it, and ran to the side to vomit.
The old man wanted to ask her to hand over the tools again, but Cheng Qing didn't want to lean on the edge of the grave, so he couldn't wave his hand:
"It's killing or chopping, boss, just give me a word, please, don't toss me anymore!"
The old man laughed, "You're not afraid of old decay now?" Old decay has your biggest secret. ”
"I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I can't help it, look at your old and strong body, I can't beat it. While I don't know why you would know, I don't feel like you're malicious. I don't ask who you are, I guess it's a puppet or a doctor...... Are you interested in suturing or the invisible 'bacteria', just give us a word! ”
The old man snorted, shoved the intestines back into the corpse's belly, took out the needle and thread from the toolbox, and sewed the dissected stomach back with great dexterity.
Not only are the stitches neat, but the needles used are also very particular, not the needles used to sew clothes, the needles are bent, which is more convenient for sewing.
Cheng Qing knew that what she knew about the structure of the human body, in front of an old man who dealt with corpses all day long, it was an axe, this strange old man was not here for suturing.
"You want to learn about bacteria."
Cheng Qing made a bold guess, and pointed to the strip of cloth wrapped around his face, "Those who do your job often come into contact with disease-causing bacteria, and this strip of cloth not only prevents corpse odor, but also has the effect of epidemic prevention." ”
Therefore, the ancients may not have known what "bacteria" was.
Just like what is said in traditional Chinese medicine, in Cheng Qing's opinion, it is not that his own immunity is poor, and he will be recruited as soon as he encounters a cold virus.
The ancients could not see "bacteria", let alone "viruses", so they classified these as external evils.
Cheng Qing's eyes rolled, "If you want to understand bacteria, I can't say it clearly in a few words, but I think your ginger, garlic and vinegar cloth strip can be improved, use several layers of muslin cloth to make a mask, and the middle layer is filled with charcoal residue, which is much stronger than this ginger, garlic and vinegar cloth strip." Even if I show you the sincerity of this thing, I will have someone make a few more for you when I go back. ”
The old man sneered, "You are clever, you know how to buy people's hearts at a young age, a few masks, I don't know if it's useful or not, I just want to talk from the old man's mouth!" ”
Cheng Qing raised his hands.
"Don't get excited, I gave you a mask purely to see that your working environment is too bad, and as for why you know my secret, I don't particularly care."
If you know, you know.
Cheng Qing temporarily assumed that this old man had no malicious intent.
Even if there is malice, if she doesn't find out the old man's old way and find out if the old man has accomplices, she will not rashly startle the snake.
"You only have two or three years to live, and the poison in you is eating away at your internal organs, and in three years at most, you will die, unless you can find an antidote."
After listening to the old man's words, Cheng Qing just nodded, "Three years, it's not bad." You know that some people die very suddenly, and they don't even have time to arrange the aftermath, but I learned three years in advance that I would die, and there are a lot of things I can do! ”
Three years is enough for her to enter the academy.
Marry the second sister and the third sister again.
You should still be able to see the little nephew.
Whether it is enough to avenge Cheng Rong, she is not very sure.
Cheng Qing arranged it in his heart, feeling that although three years is not long, it is better than only three months or even three days left.
She really wants to live, but if God doesn't allow her to live, she can only accept it...... Just like she suddenly came from the modern society to the empty Great Wei Dynasty, death may not be the end, what if she died of poison, and returned to the world that belonged to 'Cheng Jing', or even went to a more wonderful world?
People, just to comfort themselves, even if the probability is only 1 in 10,000, then there is a chance.
Anyway, there are only three years left to live, and she is not allowed to live happily!
The old man realized that she was telling the truth.
In fact, the old man had many doubts, he did not question the 'bacteria' that Cheng Qing said, but wondered where Miss Cheng Si knew these things.
Confucius and Mencius didn't teach this.
Although Miss Cheng Si has a big secret of a woman disguised as a man, her life trajectory is traceable, she grew up as a son by her parents since she was a child, if it weren't for Cheng Zhiyuan's death in the prime of life, Miss Cheng Si would have to hold up the door, and she might not even participate in the scientific expedition.
The old man thought about it, and while Cheng Qing was not paying attention, he knocked her unconscious with his hand.