Chapter 21: The Old Meet
Some things in life are often like this, no matter how carefully planned, there will always be times when there are accidents.
This surprise may be a surprise.
Or maybe it's a disaster.
No one could have predicted.
It's like a relationship full of anticipation and even giving up everything, but it can also be broken.
Some people say that there is no right or wrong in love, and I think that's right. Because I never resented the feelings that had passed, but whenever the night came, I couldn't help but think about it. Then I thought deeply, missed, and in the end, I couldn't let go.
It's an infinite loop, but it's a helpless process.
I never expected to meet her so soon, and in such a place, in this situation, to meet her in an extremely embarrassed way.
When I woke up in the woods with Lao Fei and Yan Xiaoying, I found that a team of people had just arrived.
The news of the plague in the village spread, and the above quickly reacted, and this wave of people came to maintain order and control the epidemic.
They were dressed in protective suits, wearing masks, holding weapons, and were fully prepared.
Dozens of people rushed to the village and then set up a cordon.
Among them were five medical staff in white coats, including a highly respected and skilled professor. When they arrived, they naturally investigated the truth of the epidemic incident.
This professor is just here to investigate the situation, if the situation is serious, more famous people in the medical field will come to study, and the power of the state will completely control this place, if they want to, this matter will not spread.
There was a middle-aged man beside the professor, three young men, the middle-aged man was the director of the town, and the three young men were the most prominent doctors in their hospital.
Two men and one woman, I am not familiar with the two men, but I will never forget the woman.
Her name is Huang Yuting, and she was in the same class as me in junior high school and the same class in high school. Our relationship started in junior high school and ended in the second year after graduating from college, how can people forget the relationship of more than ten years?
Although I don't want to admit it, after coming out of society, a person can really change.
There is a huge difference in economic ability, a huge difference in family background, and the relationship will become sour, and I once thought that we could share the ups and downs, survive the difficult life, and build a happy family.
However, the pressure of life made her full of anxiety and lack of self-confidence, she was unhappy, very oppressive, several degrees of separation and reunion, and finally I compromised.
There is no betrayal, only the pressure of life, which is enough to kill this unforgettable love.
When they came to us and started questioning, I looked at her blankly, and my heart ached as if I was dripping blood.
She also saw me, her gaze did not dodge, and her expression was calm.
It's like an old classmate who hasn't seen each other for many years, saying hello to each other and being well.
At that moment, my mindset was changing, I became cowardly, and I wanted to escape.
When Yan Xiaoying wanted to hide something, I interrupted her.
Then he slowly confided in everyone, and told the matter of the reservoir Jiaojiao, the corpse poison nail, and even the Daomen Lu Ji.
I said it in detail, not only what I knew, but also what I guessed, and I said it word for word.
I told them that it was not a plague, but a plague caused by a snake.
I don't know how they will react and deal with it, because the moment I met Huang Yuting, I decided to tell everything.
As always, I didn't want to hide any secrets from her.
After I finished speaking, I left, ignoring their reactions, nor paying attention to Lao Fei and Yan Xiaoying in a daze.
I climbed Paradise Hill alone and returned to my cabin on the reservoir embankment.
Now I don't want to see anyone, I don't want to talk to anyone, I just want to be alone and ignore anything.
Time will make some things fade away, and it will also make some things more and more profound.
I am a person who cannot forget the past, and I am also a person who always likes to escape.
I stayed in my room all day.
Didn't think about anything, but thought about everything.
It's a contradiction, but it's not.
Until I was in agony and had a splitting headache, I suddenly felt a cold chill in my chest, and the chill spread all over my body like an electric current.
I ripped off my collar and saw that the coolness was coming from a jade pendant, which was carved with the appearance of Lin Jingmei. This is what she put on my neck with her own hands before she left.
Perhaps, she sensed my thoughts now and got angry.
I smiled bitterly, burned a stick of incense on Jingmei's tablet, and said in a low voice: "I'm not a half-hearted person, it's just that there are some things that can't be let go, after all, I am a mortal, there are always times of distress and pain, I hope you can understand." ”
As soon as the words fell, there was another warmth on the jade pendant.
The warmth is like a spring breeze blowing through the heart, like a silent comfort.
I grabbed the jade pendant, and my heart was moved, if I have a wife like this, what more can my husband ask for?
People who are always mindful of the past can make people fall.
At around eight o'clock in the evening, when I slowly began to clean up my mood and go into the kitchen to eat. The door opened, and the group walked in with flashlights.
It was Yan Xiaoying and Lao Fei who came in, Lao Fei carried Xiaoya on his back, and followed the two of them behind them.
A pair of young people, listening to Yan Xiaoying's introduction, the man's name is Chen Liming, and the woman doesn't need her to introduce her, it is my ex-girlfriend Huang Yuting.
The reason why they came here is very simple, one is that they still have a lot of things to figure out and want to ask me about it. The second is to check the reservoir and see where the snake once lived.
This is not only what they meant, but also what the professor and the above meant.
It's just a task, not mixed with personal feelings.
On the table, Yan Xiaoying looked at me with a worried face and asked me what happened today? Something seems wrong.
I shook my head and said that I was not feeling well, so she didn't have to worry.
Later, she told me that the snake people in the village who had been cursed by corpse poison were gone, and that the people who had been sent to the hospital and were under official control had also escaped. They led people into the village and searched almost everywhere, but they couldn't find a single figure.
To my surprise, there was only a small part of the village, and if the snake people were inside, they couldn't find it.
Now the snake people are gone, and there is only one reason, they have left the village.
It's just that Old Lady Yan had sprinkled lime and sulfur outside the village, how could those snake people leave? And where do they go after they leave?
There was no shortage of scouts among the group that came in the morning, and Yan Xiaoying told me that they had found that the snake men had left from a large river behind the village, and that there was no lime and sulfur sprinkled in that place.
However, when they searched along the river, they did not find any trace of the snake people, and they seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.
The professor speculated that those people may have drifted downstream along the river, or they may have come to the source of the river, which is the heavenly reservoir where we are now.
All in all, the main task now is to find those people, and only by catching them and teaching them will they have the object of study, otherwise they will not be able to explain to the above.
Next, Yan Xiaoying placed the girl Xiaoya in the utility room where Lao Fei lived. Then he, Lao Fei and the doctor named Chen Qiming, the three of them went out to explore the reservoir overnight with flashlights.
There were only two people left in the hall, Huang Yuting and me.
The atmosphere was not embarrassing, she took out a notebook and asked me about the snake, and I answered a question.
Half an hour later, she really couldn't think of any other questions, so she ended the Q&A at work.
After that, we naturally started to do home.
"Tianyan, have you been doing well in the past three years?"
"It's not too good, but at least I survived, what about you?"
"I'm okay, I've lived a full life, I've been busy every day. In the second year of separation, I was with him, had a good time, and was ready to get married at the beginning of the year. ”
"Congratulations."
"Thank you."
"Will you come when I get married?"
"I don't know."
It was a very childish but awkward chat, and then the two were silent, and no one spoke.
This silence lasted until the three of them came back.
There was no situation in the reservoir, they circled the whole reservoir, and they didn't find any clues, it seems that the snake people didn't come here.
This was a bit of a surprise to me, as I guessed that if those snake people left the village, they would most likely come here and kill me and Yan Xiaoying.
After all, Yan Xiaoying and I are the snake's biggest enemies, and of course Lu Ji who cut off its head.
"If they don't come here, where can they go?"
We can't figure out this problem, and Yan Xiaoying is even more worried.
However, Chen Liming began to not believe what I said, and even suspected that no one was poisoned by the corpse at all, and it was just a panic incident caused by rumors.
I don't have much to say about that.
For a man who robbed his ex-girlfriend, I won't have a good face, but I won't be resentful and jealous either.
It's just a meeting of everyone.
No matter how bad the mood is, I still have to entertain them tonight, after all, it is late at night, and it is impossible to drive the two of them down the mountain.
It's just that now there are only two rooms, and allocating accommodation is a problem.
In the end, Yan Xiaoying, Huang Yuting and Xiaoya lived in the utility room, while I, Fat Man and Chen Liming lived in my grandfather's room.
A bed is not that big and can't fit three people.
When I dragged out a black coffin from under the bed, Chen Liming frowned, and his face was a little ugly; The old fat opened his mouth wide in surprise.
"I said Lao Yan, why are you hiding a coffin under your bed, this is too unlucky, right?"
"This room used to be lived by my grandfather, and the black coffin was his."
I smiled and explained as I sat on top of the coffin.
I didn't have any psychological impact on this black coffin, and when I was a child, I secretly went to the reservoir to swim, for fear of being punished by the old man, and I hid in it for a night.
There were no wooden planks left in the room, and the floor was cold and damp, so I could only lie on top of the black coffin for the time being, and spend the night.
Chen Liming looked unaccustomed, especially when he saw me offering good night to Jingmei's tablet, his eyes were full of disgust.
Naturally, I ignored him, this is my own place, love is what it is, there is a bed for him to sleep in, even if it is to give him a face.
As for snubbing or something, I don't care.
Lao Fei had already seen that I had something on my mind, opened a bottle of hundred-year-old confusion, and the two of them sat on the ground, used the coffin as a table, and drank it.
"It's rare to be confused in life, brother, some things have passed in the past, why do you want to do so much?" The old fat glanced at me and said with a big grin.
I shook my head and smiled, took a cigarette from the old fatty, and smoked it.
It's not that I don't smoke, it's just that I've been quitting for years.
The two drank and smoked, and Chen Liming lay on the bed tossing and turning, looking impatient, but he didn't dare to say anything about us.
Until one o'clock in the morning, Lao Fei drank two more sips and fell on the bed and snored.
I lay on the black coffin wrapped in my coat, but I didn't feel sleepy, and I stayed up like this for more than an hour, when I suddenly heard a creaking sound from the gate of the courtyard.
It was as if someone was slowly pushing the wooden door open from the outside......