Chapter 124: The Last Remembrance
Dou Dabao's octagonal lantern is only not much bigger than a child's fist, it is said to be a lantern, but there is no bamboo skeleton, just made of yellow paper talismans.
From Dou Dabao saying that the lantern was burning, to the time I turned my head to look, the lantern had been burned to ashes in just a blink of an eye.
Dou Dabao was frightened and asked me with a crying voice, if the octagonal lantern was burned, would the blind man be wiped out.
I reluctantly asked him, where did this octagonal lamp come from?
Dou Dabao said that it was given to him by his master before, and the master had also taught him the practice of octagonal lanterns, but this time, for the sake of insurance, he did not use it himself, but used the 'magic weapon' given to him by his master. Why the lantern burned on its own, he couldn't tell.
I gritted my teeth and told him not to panic.
The truth is, we did everything we could for the blind. If you can't save the blind man, even if you are unwilling, you can only say that this is the will of God.
I patted Dou Dabao on the shoulder, and was about to turn back to check the condition of the blind man, when Dashuang suddenly hurried to the backyard.
My heart moved, and I hurriedly followed.
Dashuang ran to the rock, looked down, and immediately turned around and shouted, "It's done!" He must be fine! ”
When I went to look at it, I found that the stone platform was still as smooth as before, and there was no trace of carving on it.
Dashuang's temperament has always been a little slow, but he was nervous just now, but now he returned to his original state, and said to me slowly:
"This is just an ordinary stone, as for why there are no traces on it, although Uncle Chen and I are both housekeepers of the post station, we can't say it."
"Wordless?" I blurted out. As far as I can remember, I seem to have heard him say those three words.
Big Pair lowered his eyes and didn't respond to me.
At this time, the voices of Sun Lu and Dou Dabao came from the room at the same time: "The blind man (blind Bing) has reacted!" ”
When I rushed back to the wooden cabinet of the three corpses, I found that the chrysalis had completely split.
The blind man was still dressed in the clothes he had used to enter the wooden cupboard, and he was curled up in the cabinet with his hands and knees, but his face was still raised.
To be precise, the blind man himself did not react obviously, but after the chrysalis cracked, the surface of his body, including the wax-like eyeballs, actually appeared fine cracks, and the area of the cracks continued to spread.
After about a minute, the blind man's eyes seemed to roll.
With this movement, the white layer outside the eyeballs really fell off like a wax seal, revealing the eyes of normal people.
Seeing the brilliance flashing in these eyes, I couldn't help cheering and scolded loudly:
"Holy shit, it's finally back!"
The exposure of his eyes seemed to be just a signal, and then, the blind man's 'skin' began to fall off, followed by a slight cracking sound in his clothes.
The blind man came out of the cupboard on his own.
The first thing he said when he came out was: "No one should mention the process of my coming back to life." ”
I nodded, "The most important thing is that no one will say anything about what they have eaten......"
", still say?!" The blind man jumped high and fell back to the ground, but it was retching.
Jokes aside, I agreed to the blind man's 'request'.
His return process is really a bit bizarre, but it doesn't matter. Importantly, he returned.
Not only did he come back to life, but the terrible wounds on his body before entering the wooden cabinet were miraculously healed with the process of 'transforming from a chrysalis to a human'.
'Old friends reunited', Dou Dabao couldn't recover again, and while going to the ground to pick up the hard shell that peeled off his face, he joked:
"I said Master Liu's face is so thick-skinned, dare to love has always been a two-skinned face."
Dashuang seemed to be afraid that I would ask for some secrets that could not be told, so he gave an eviction order at this time:
"Okay, it'll be fine when the people come back. Let's go first, I've got to clean up quickly, and I've got to get back to work. ”
I smiled and said I hadn't been going to ask him anything more.
When I walked to the door, Dashuang suddenly called out to me.
I turned around, bit my lip and was silent for a while, and asked a little stammering:
"The one who lives on the 28th...... That girl, I'm ...... How come I haven't seen it? She's a friend of Sang Lan? Or ......"
Before he could continue, I interrupted him:
"All I can say is that she is a saltless reincarnation. As for why I took this ugly monster in, I'm sorry, although I'm the owner of the inn, I still can't tell you some secrets. ”
Out of the 14th, the complacent Sun Tuzi laughed, saying that although Dashuang is a good person, he usually grinds and chirps, twists and pinchs. Now one second is still hiding it, and the next second it is being scolded back by my current world newspaper, which is really happy.
I grinned and didn't speak.
I am indeed not a broad-minded person, but in addition to 'revenge' Dashuang for keeping the so-called secret to me, the most important thing is that I really promised Xiao Yu that I would never reveal her identity.
Dou Dabao proposed to go to the restaurant on the street immediately and ask the boss to send some good dishes, and celebrate with Xu Jie for the blind man who 'came back from the dead' and 'came back from the dead'.
"Toss this night, aren't you sleepy?" The blind man gave him a blank look, turned his head and said to me, "Two things, one is that Jiayin should wake up at this time, and I have to go to see her immediately." Also, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and I want to work with me to find a good cemetery in feng shui as soon as possible. ”
Then his expression darkened, and he said in a low voice: "I don't want the old bald man to have nowhere to go for the New Year." ”
Hearing him mention Jinghai, several people were silent for a while, and after a while, Dou Dabao rubbed his eyes and said, "I'll cover the old girl's expenses over there." ”
……
I didn't deliberately inquire about what happened to Jubao Villa, but one day Sun Lu called me when he was on duty, saying that Hukou Cave was no longer a secret, and the police officers in Linshi not only found the bodies of those waiters, but also excavated some 'incredible' suspected monuments in the passage of Shentai.
Since it is a 'historic site', of course, there are relevant departments involved in the excavation.
The deaths of those waiters were preliminarily determined to be poisoning.
The suspect in this tragedy, Zheng Yuerou, was seriously injured and was treated under special care by the police.
Poisoning so many lives, and in that special place, although the official kept it a secret, the spearhead of the investigation was all pointed in the direction of the evil cult.
I am very glad, even a little grateful, to Wang Xizhen and Feng Wansan, from the beginning to the end, no police came to me because of this incident, it should be that they did not say that I was a participant.
Although the call to the police was made by Sun Tuzi, it is always reasonable to use his vacation time to visit relatives and accidentally discover the case and then report it. So, he wasn't much involved.
Jinghai once said: 'No one is a god'.
Since they are all mortals, no matter what they encounter, how many problems they need to solve and how many problems they can't solve, they will always have to live.
On the day the blind man came back, Duan Jiayin, who was in the intensive care unit of the hospital, miraculously woke up.
In addition to taking care of her, the blind man ran non-stop with me in various cemeteries to choose a cemetery for Monk Jinghai.
In a few days, the two of us traveled to almost all the cemeteries in the local area and neighboring cities.
However, it turned out to be ......
After the blind man thought about it, he, plus Dou Dabao, and the three of us each contributed a share of money to buy the cheapest tomb in a remote corner of a small county town.
In addition to the payment procedures, we were greeted by an acquaintance - Fang Qiqi.
Yes, Jinghai's 'home' was eventually placed on the other side of Chenghe Street, and I became 'neighbors'.
Although it wasn't even a well-dressed mound, we still went through the formality and held a funeral for the old monk that was not very pompous.
At the end of the funeral, several people gathered in Dou Dabao's shop, and Dou Dabao, the 'special second' chef, personally burned a few hard dishes, and began to pay the last remembrance to Monk Jinghai.
"Buzz...... Airplanes...... Buzz ......"