Chapter 13: Death
"Dad, are you eating?"
Because it was too dark in the bedroom, Liang Bin could only vaguely see that the old man seemed to be eating something, but he couldn't see it clearly.
But by the time he asked, he had already turned on the light in his bedroom.
The bedroom lit up instantly, and the sudden incandescent light also shook Liang Bin a little unable to open his eyes.
But after a short period of discomfort, Liang Bin still saw the scene in the bedroom clearly.
There were a lot of pots and pans on the floor of the bedroom, stacked in a mess, and most of the quilt on the bed fell to the ground. And it is full of a smell that is unique to the elderly.
Liang Bin can't describe this smell, but there will be a similar smell in the rooms where many elderly people live.
It's just that that's not the point. What really made Liang Bin unbelievable, even unbelievable, was what the old man ate in his room in the middle of the night.
That's a small bag of sesame seeds.
The old man still had some sesame seeds in his hand that he didn't have time to stuff into his mouth.
However, soon, Liang Bin gasped, because he suddenly noticed that the sesame bag that the old man was carrying in his hand was actually moving!
To be exact, it was the sesame seeds inside, which turned out to be alive.
No, it's not a sesame seed, it's just a living black beetle!
His dad had just eaten worms again.
Liang Bin froze, and as for Zhang Ming, who was following him, he let out a terrified cry after seeing it clearly, and he didn't know where he had fled.
Liang Bin turned his head and shouted Zhang Ming, but Zhang Ming ignored him and fled directly back to the room.
When he turned his head again, he only felt a cold gaze poured on him like cold water.
That gaze was on his father.
At this moment, his father was glaring at him with a gaze that was akin to that of a poisonous snake.
It was as if he could rush over at any moment and bite off his neck.
"Dad, what the hell are you doing! Who made you eat these things! ”
After Liang Bin came back to his senses, he immediately rushed over to snatch the bag containing many disgusting black worms that the old man was carrying. But the old man clung to it and didn't intend to hand it over to him at all.
"This is a cure, I can't give it to you!"
The old man put the insect bag into his arms, and refused to take it out no matter how Liang Bin wanted it.
Liang Bin was also a little anxious at this time, and he didn't care if his father gave it to him or not, so he stretched out his hand and planned to grab it:
"You give it to me, it's a worm! How can you eat blindly! Hurry up and give it to me. ”
"You want me to die, but I don't want to, I want to live, I don't want to be burned to pieces!"
The old man yelled at Liang Bin, and Liang Bin didn't listen to what the old man said, he just wanted to quickly dispose of the bag of disgusting bugs. But perhaps the old man's emotions were too intense, or perhaps he had consumed too much strength in the process of stopping him from snatching, and then he suddenly screamed, and then opened his mouth to spit out a large mouthful of blood.
However, the blood is not pure, because there are many black bugs stuck together.
Some of the bugs are even alive, struggling to crawl in the blood.
Liang Bin's body splashed some, but he didn't immediately deal with the things that seemed disgusting to him, because the old man spat out another mouthful of blood, and then fell to the ground with dead eyes.
Motionless.
Only the black insects that had not been digested by him before, crawling around his bloody face like a swarm of foraging ants.
Into his eyes, into his nostrils, into his ears......
Although Liang Bin sent the old man to the hospital in time, after some rescue, the old man's life still came to an end.
However, the cause of death was not cancer, but choking.
As for the old man's stomach cancer, I don't know if it was a miracle or some other reason, the cancer cells miraculously disappeared.
The stomach is just an ulcer.
No one knows what the hell is going on.
If it is said that it is misdiagnosed by hospitals, it is impossible for all hospitals to misdiagnose, so Liang Bin can only attribute it to the fact that some kind of miracle that cannot be explained by modern hospitals happened to the old man.
But then again, although a miracle happened, the old man died.
And the old man's death has an inescapable relationship with him.
If it weren't for the fact that he had to snatch the old man's bag containing the black worm, if he hadn't suddenly pushed the door and broken in, maybe the old man wouldn't have died.
Of course, if he could take the old man and go to the hospital for some examinations, maybe these things would not have happened.
But the cruelty of this world is cruel, there are no ifs, only results.
Liang Bin called some of his family and friends to inform him of the old man's death, after all, this kind of white thing still has to be done, and someone needs to participate.
However, compared to the wakes and worship in some rural areas or county seats, it is much easier to do white things in the city.
You only need to send it to the funeral home, choose a cemetery, and find a Mr. Yin and Yang, and the rest just needs to be arranged by Mr. Yin and Yang.
The third day of the old man's death was a good day for the funeral, and the funeral was also scheduled for this day.
Liang Bin's family has a lot of relatives, who don't move around much on weekdays, originally with Liang Bin's character, if a relative comes over, he will definitely entertain him. But at the juncture of Taotao's disappearance and Zhang Ming's emotional instability, he really didn't have the mood to entertain.
If he hadn't felt guilty about his father's death, he might not have done this funeral.
But in the end, he did it, and although he was not in the mood, he did not dare not do it.
He was afraid.
I was so scared in my heart.
Because his father was almost killed by him.
He has always felt that he is a filial child, and he will not let his father suffer no matter what. But as a result, he did something that he couldn't accept at all.
His conscience can't get over, so he can only use other ways to make up for his heart as much as possible.
To put it simply, this funeral was not for his father, but for the guilt in his own heart.
Perhaps, all funerals are organized by their children for themselves.
Because how big the coffin the body is in after death, and how deep it is buried in the soil, does not mean anything to a dead person.
Funerals are never just the thoughts of the living.
Of course, it may also be that at some point, it has become less pure.
The day of the funeral was a rainy morning.
Liang Bin came to the crematorium with two dark circles under his eyes and a group of relatives and friends who came to attend the funeral.
For funerals, one place for one number.
On the side of Liang Bin and his family, before the deceased is sent to the incinerator, relatives and friends will first pay respects to the body and hold a memorial service, and then some paper money will be burned, and when the paper money is burned, the body will be sent to the incinerator for incineration.
Although Zhang Ming's mental state has not been very good recently, as a daughter-in-law, his father-in-law's funeral cannot be ignored no matter what, so he also went to the funeral home today.
Fortunately, with Han Qing by his side, Liang Bin can rest assured.
All the relatives and friends had arrived, and the old man had already drawn his clothes, put him on a trolley, and pushed him out of it.
Seeing the corpse, many people cried, Mr. Yin Yang did not let people approach, and when the car stopped in the place surrounded by wreaths, the sad music of the scene sounded, and the photos of the old man before his death appeared on the big screen.