Chapter Forty-Eight: Barley Water

Pharmaceutical factories belong to chemical enterprises, and it is inevitable that some odors will be produced in the production process.

In response to the sudden smell, Tang Wuzhou also consulted an expert, and some people said that it might be due to the upgrading of equipment.

After mentioning such a reply, Tang Wuzhou didn't care too much about it.

In addition, the Zhuang (Harmony) Yang produced by him belongs to Chinese patent medicine, and there are not too many chemical ingredients, which is still different from Western medicine.

Half a year later, there was a sudden incident of collective poisoning of workers in the factory.

Speaking of this, Tang Wuzhou regretted a little: "If I had paid attention to this issue at the time and found someone to investigate it carefully, maybe this thing would not have happened." ”

"Not necessarily."

Hearing my dad say this, Tang Wuzhou looked at him: "What do you mean ......?"

My dad walked around the medicine tube with his head down, and when he found a seat, he grabbed a handful of barley from his pocket and sprinkled it on the ground.

Then my dad crouched down and watched carefully at the changes in the barley.

The barley grains are round, and when they fall to the ground, they all stand up.

My dad stared at the grains of rice, and after a while, suddenly a puff of black smoke came out of the ground, and the barley on the ground burned.

Tang Wuzhou on the side saw the situation, he just wanted to ask my dad what the situation was, my dad got up and walked to the back door of the factory.

Leaving the factory, my dad came to the loquat tree.

It's not the season to eat loquats, and the leaves of the trees are shining silver in the moonlight.

"That dead body, you are buried under here?"

"Yes." Tang Wuzhou nodded: "I really don't want to make a fuss, after all, I have invested such a large amount of money, if this is known by the police, I am afraid that my pharmaceutical factory will be suspended." ”

As he spoke, he sighed again:

"I didn't expect that such a thing happened later, and the factory was still ...... when I went around and around."

Hearing him say this, my dad reached out and plucked a loquat leaf, then put it in his mouth and chewed it a few times.

After spitting it out, he frowned.

I grabbed another handful of barley and threw it on the ground, and all the rice grains were scattered on the ground, and the bits and pieces looked normal, and they didn't stand up like just now.

My dad suddenly got up and asked Tang Wuzhou: "Do you have a kitchen in this factory?" ”

"Yes."

"Take me there."

In order to solve the problem of eating, Tang Wuzhou built a large canteen at the back of the factory to cook for these hundreds of people.

This canteen was built larger than the factory building, and when it started before, it was overcrowded every day.

Later, after the accident in the factory, the workers were admitted to the hospital and the canteen was empty.

When I touched the stove, there was a layer of ash on it.

My dad added some water to the iron pot, put some barley in it, and then turned on the fire and boiled the water. Seeing that my dad was busy with this, Tang Wuzhou didn't bother him.

After the cauldron of barley water boiled, my dad filled a bucket full of iron.

The iron bucket was a little heavy, so he called Tang Wuzhou to carry it to the factory with him.

Walking around the medicine pot, my dad poured all the barley water on the concrete floor.

When the barley water had just touched the ground, Tang Wuzhou heard a ghost crying wolf. He couldn't tell where the sound was coming from, only that he felt a chill suddenly rise around him.

Immediately afterward, a circle of black smoke rose from the ground that had been watered with barley, as if it had been burned by something.

A fishy smell came from the ground.

Tang Wuzhou asked my dad what the situation was, and my dad handed him a bag of barley.

Pointing to the door, my dad said to him, "Take this thing, you go out of here, take a step, and scatter one." When you go to the factory gate and scatter barley, no matter what sound you hear, no matter who calls you, don't look back. ”

Tang Wuzhou opened his mouth to say something, but my father said again: "Don't ask anything, just do what I say." ”

Holding the barley in his hand, one by one slippery, although Tang Wuzhou didn't understand why my father asked him to do this, but since he said before that he could help himself, then try as he said.

The sound of those ghosts crying and howling continued, and my dad patted Tang Wuzhou on the back: "You go, remember, the barley should be thrown one by one, walk forward slowly, and don't look back when you hear anything." ”

Tang Wuzhou nodded and began to walk forward.

The wind was blowing, and the lights overhead were shining.

Tang Wuzhou, as my dad said, took a step and sprinkled a barley. The surrounding voices grew louder and louder, and in the midst of the noise, someone was shouting:

"Tang Wuzhou, wait for me, don't go too fast, I can't ...... at all"

The voice sounded like a little girl talking, her voice was very thin, somewhat similar to the sound of electricity in the radio, but Tang Wuzhou didn't look back, still moving forward at his own pace.

Out of the factory gate, Tang Wuzhou saw the moon in the sky, which was twice as big as before.

For a moment, he felt a little dazzling.

Just threw it one step at a time, and it didn't take long for him to come to the door of the factory.

The light in the guard room was slightly on, Lao Zhang didn't know what he was doing, Tang Wuzhou was about to open the factory door, but he saw the door of the guard room open, and Lao Zhang came out of it wearing a dress.

Lao Zhang held an old-fashioned flashlight in his hand, looked at Tang Wuzhou, and suddenly said:

"Why did you get here?"

Tang Wuzhou was stunned.

was about to say something, but when he saw Lao Zhang walking behind him, he glanced at Tang Wuzhou, and his expression was very nervous: "Didn't you let you stay well, why did you run around, in case you ......?"

Tang Wuzhou remembered my father's words and never looked back.

Seeing Lao Zhang walking back, he wanted to pull Lao Zhang, but he didn't have enough hands.

The factory door in front of him had already opened, and when Tang Wuzhou threw out all the barley in his hand, the sound of ghosts crying wolves in his ears finally disappeared.

When I looked up, the moon in the sky was much smaller than just now.

The temperature has also returned to normal, and the noise that surrounds the ears is gone.

Everything, it seems, is back to normal.

Tang Wuzhou turned back this time, and he found that Lao Zhang was no longer there.

Back in the factory, my dad was still squatting under the medicine cartridge, Tang Wuzhou was about to say something, my dad shushed at him, pointed to a pipe and asked Tang Wuzhou:

"Where the air leaks, isn't it here?"

Hearing my second uncle say yes, my father stood up, and he said to Tang Wuzhou, "Do you know where this factory was before? ”

"Furniture factory."

"What about before the furniture factory?"

"Before......" Tang Wuzhou shook his head: "Then I don't know." ”

My dad said, "Before I came here, I investigated, and your pharmaceutical factory, seventy years ago, was a mass grave!" ”