Volume 1: Candle Dragons of the South China Sea Chapter 5: Black and White Photographs (2)

In the afternoon, I got on the bus back to my hometown, I hadn't seen my grandfather for a few months, I bought some fruit from the street stall and went directly to the nursing home, which is located in a relatively remote location in the suburbs.

When I arrived at the nursing home, a group of people inside looked at me stupidly, and I saw that these people were quite pitiful, so they quickly took out the fruits and distributed them one by one.

After a while, the dean walked out, and the dean saw me and said, "Your grandfather's health has been getting worse day by day, and he coughs every day, and no one comes to visit, by the way, your father didn't come." ”

I sighed and said: "How do I know, he only comes back once a month, sometimes he doesn't see anyone for several months, this is the same as having a father and not having a father, I still have to watch the shop every day, it's not easy to be idle." ”

After speaking, I followed the dean's leadership to a door, I pushed the door open, the room was not big, I saw my grandfather lying on a bed, coughing a few times in his mouth, seeing me coming, grandpa got up and motioned for me to sit down.

I walked over and looked at my grandfather, who always had a kind smile on the wrinkles on his face, and he gestured to me that he wanted to smoke, so I said, "You better stop smoking, you're coughing like this, you might as well live a few more years and wait for your grandchildren." ”

Grandpa smiled at me, I looked at him like that he was no longer the domineering Chen Erye who had walked through the north and south of the river, and now he was enjoying his old age in peace, but he was left behind by my irresponsible father and spent the rest of his life in this lonely and cold nursing home, I couldn't help but feel a little moist in my eyes and feel sorry for my grandfather.

I picked up a banana, peeled it, handed it to my grandfather, and said, "You are old and have bad teeth, so you should smoke less and eat more fruits. ”

My mind flashed for a moment, and I remembered the photo, so I took out the crumpled photo from my pocket and handed it to my grandfather and said, "When I received the antiques, someone asked me to give this to you, it should be your old friend, you can see what is important." ”

Grandpa's face suddenly lost the smile he had just now, and the banana in his hand also fell, and he said to me with a solemn face: "Who sent it, have you seen it?" ”

I was a little puzzled when I saw my grandfather like this and said, "I don't know who sent it, I opened it and showed it to be an ordinary black and white photo." ”

After speaking, my grandfather snatched the photo in my hand and held it with a little trembling with both hands, cold sweat kept breaking out on his head, the expression on his face was full of fear and fear, and there was a non-stop coughing sound in his mouth, and he fell on the bed after a while.

I saw that the matter was a little serious, and my grandfather seemed to be stimulated by this thing, so I was so frightened that I hurriedly helped my grandfather up, and quickly called the dean to call the hospital's emergency call, and after a while, the ambulance also rushed over, and the dean and I carried my grandfather to the ambulance. Watching the ambulance gradually disappear from front of me, my heart also tugged up, hoping that my grandfather would be safe.

Sitting in a hospital chair and watching a group of people go about their business, Grandpa was wheeled into the emergency room. I quickly took out my mobile phone and called my second uncle and father, and they got the news on the phone and hurried overnight, saying that they would be able to go to the hospital in the afternoon.

When I arrived at the hospital, I looked at my grandfather lying on the hospital bed, with an oxygen cylinder in his mouth and a drip in his hand, it seemed that his condition was very serious, I asked the doctor if he could be cured, and the doctor sighed and said that he was afraid that it would be more auspicious and less auspicious, and please be mentally prepared.

I scolded in my heart, and hurriedly took out my mobile phone to call Wang Wei of that dog day, this damn Wang Wei really dared to introduce anyone, and I regretted it ten thousand times in my heart, I knew that I really shouldn't have accepted that antique, what did that person do to kill my grandfather. But Wang Wei on the other end of the phone seemed to have a premonition, and refused to answer the phone, and finally the phone was turned off.

I immediately smashed my phone in a fit of rage, and the onlookers saw me and dodged away, so I had to put away my anger and walk outside to smoke one cigarette after another.

In the afternoon, my father and my second uncle also rushed to the hospital, and when I arrived at the hospital, my father and my second uncle asked me what had happened, and I told me about collecting antiques.

After a while, a nurse came out of the emergency room and pulled out an object, apparently the picture that killed my grandfather.

The father and the second uncle took the photo and looked up to the sky and sighed: "He still came, hid for so many years, and finally found it." ”

I snatched the photo in my second uncle's hand, the back was wet, and when I turned it over, cold sweat suddenly flowed down my forehead, because on the back of the photo was my grandfather biting his hand and writing the word "ghost" in blood.

I was about to ask what was going on, but the second uncle said to me sternly: Hurry up and burn this thing.

I saw that something was a little strange, this thing was not instructed by Wang Wei, what kind of shocking secret was hidden in it, I walked out of the hospital and secretly hid the photo. Later, I went back and lied that I had torn it up and lost it.

The three of them didn't sleep all night, sat outside the emergency room and kept watch all night, the three of them didn't say a word this night, just hoping that grandpa would be safe and sound, and so on until the next day, a doctor came out of the emergency room, only to see a sad expression on her face, the three of us went around and asked, grandpa has passed away.

Grandpa's death was very sudden and strange, so that our family could not bear it, I was even more unspeakably sad and self-blame in my heart, my father and second uncle also looked up to the sky and sighed, and the two of them went outside to smoke, with a sad and sad expression on their faces.

I also walked out, crouched in the corner outside, lit a cigarette. Although this man was born, old, sick and died, but the matter happened in my hands, and I felt very guilty in my heart. When my father saw me like this, he came over and comforted me with a few words of condolences, don't blame myself too much.

I looked at him, pushed him away with one hand, and said angrily: "Where have you been all these years, and you won't come back if you go, grandpa is lying in that lonely and lonely nursing home and can drive people crazy if he is not sick." ”

My father didn't lose his temper when he looked at me, but touched my head and said, "Your grandfather has experienced too many things in his life, and now he can finally rest, but you have to remember that we are doing all this for you, and sooner or later you will understand." ”

I couldn't hold back crying anymore, and I secretly cursed myself for accepting that antique in the first place, because I killed my grandfather.

The second uncle also came over when he heard the quarrel between me and my father, and whispered something in my father's ear, and my father comforted me and said, "If you don't want to go to see the shop, stay at home first, we have something to go out for a few days, and I will come back to see you next month." After speaking, he followed the second uncle and got up and left.

I looked at the irresponsible father in front of me, and slammed my fist against the wall, and a burst of pain came from my hands, and I also had blood on my hands, shouting, "Let's go, never come back." ”

After my father left, the second uncle turned his head to look at me and whispered, "When you grow up, we'll tell you." With that, he looked at me and shoved a note into my hand.

I see that this matter is a little strange, the second uncle and I have a good relationship in Pinri, this thing must be very important. After they left, I opened the note and saw that it was a string of phone numbers left by the second uncle.

After returning home alone, after dealing with my grandfather's funeral for a few days at home, because there is a tradition in my hometown that all the things of the dead must be taken and burned, I sorted out my emotions and looked for some things in the house that my grandfather used to have, except for some old things that were turned out, as well as a few old clothes, and some archaeological tools that my grandfather used to have, there was nothing else.

Grandpa didn't leave any clues, but he himself died inexplicably.

Why did Grandpa die so weirdly and bizarrely?

And the second uncle said to his father, "He is still here"?

What is the origin of this black-and-white photo?

Grandpa's accidental death brought me not only grief, but also unknown secrets.

What do people fear most? That's the secret, and there's nothing more torturous than a secret!

At this time, I took out the weird black and white photo again, only to find that the grandfather in the photo seemed so mysterious and strange.

There was a sense of loss and doubt in an instant, perhaps, I didn't know anything about my grandfather, who had lived together for seven years when I was a child.

However, I really can't remember the memory of after the age of seven, only since I was a child, after my parents divorced, I went to the boarding school alone, for my own memory, my heart has long been blurred, I heard my father say that I was a child after a car accident, since then I have lost the most precious memory of my relatives.