Yang Qing's intermittent words echoed in my ears, in my mind, and in my heart, giving me a very strong sense of unreality.

I guess I must have heard it wrong!

I forced a smile and lowered my head to ask Yang Qing, "What were you talking about just now?" ”

Yang Qing bit her lip to prevent herself from crying, and her face was full of tears like a tearful person.

She didn't answer me, didn't give me any answer.

How I wish she could be like Fat Liu, just making an inappropriate joke and just wanting to ......

"Fifth Brother ......"

Yang Qing hugged me hard, cried loudly, buried her face in my chest, and her body trembled very much.

I instantly felt that my whole person was hollowed out, my mind was blank, and I stood there in a daze, my eyes widened, but I couldn't see anything.

Zhang Yi ran over and asked Yang Qing anxiously, "What's the matter?" Didn't the doctor say that he was just getting older and would be fine with a rest? ”

I suddenly became angry, reached out and grabbed Zhang Yi's collar, gritted my teeth and asked angrily, "Do you know what's going on?" ”

Zhang Yi hurriedly said: "At noon, I saw that Zhao Lao had been drinking water and his face was ugly, so I asked him what was wrong, and he said that he was not feeling well. Didn't you say that there was any harmful smell of wine in the ancient tomb, I was worried that something was wrong with Zhao Lao, so I forcibly dragged him to take blood for testing, but nothing was found. The doctor said that he was old and might be suffering from heat stroke, so he prescribed some medicine......"

I let go of Zhang Yi, and I didn't want to listen to the rest of the words, because I felt as if my body had fallen into an ice cellar, and my whole body was cold.

Vaguely, I remember that when he came out of the thief hole, Zhao Ye's pants were wet, saying that he fell by the lake in the underground palace; We took Yang Qing to the hospital for a long time, and he arrived at the hospital, and he was in a very bad state; Zhang Yi just said that Zhao Ye had been drinking water at noon......

Originally disparate images overlapped, pointing to a possibility, a possibility that I don't want to speculate.

I bent down to help Yang Qing up, and asked in a trembling voice, "What happened to Zhao Ye?" ”

Yang Qing hesitated for a moment, then stretched out his hand and pointed into the distance, choked up and said, "Liao...... Liaohe ...... Riverside. ”

Hearing this answer, I felt a "buzz" in my head, and I felt as if five thunders had hit the top, and my eyes went black, and I immediately lost consciousness.

When I woke up, I don't know how long it had been.

I lay in the hospital bed, feeling the breeze stirring the curtains, and even though I was covered with the quilt, I still felt a little cool.

Yang Qing fell asleep on the edge of the bed, her eyelashes trembled slightly, and she slowly opened her eyes.

When she saw me looking at her, she was slightly stunned, then her face was happy, and she said hurriedly: "Fifth brother, are you awake?" Don't move yet, I'll call the doctor. ”

With that, she got up and pressed my shoulder and pressed a red button on the head of the bed.

I wanted to ask Yang Qing where everyone else was, but my lips moved, but I couldn't say anything, I just felt that my throat was dry and about to smoke.

Two or three minutes later, the doctor and nurse hurried over, and after a brief examination on me, Yang Qing was taken out, leaving me alone and lying weakly.

After a while, Yang Qing came back, although her face was still very pale, but her mood was much better.

"Fifth brother, great, the doctor said that you just need to keep resting, and said that let me watch you and don't want you to move. I also want to remind you not to inject amphetamines in the future, that thing will really kill you. ”

I wanted to smile bitterly, but I felt as if my face was paralyzed, and I didn't know if I was crying or laughing.

Yang Qing poured me a glass of water, got a straw out of nowhere, inserted it in it, and after testing the water temperature herself, she carefully brought it over.

I only took a small sip, and I couldn't help coughing violently, which startled Yang Qing, and hurriedly helped me to my side and patted me on the back.

I coughed so much that my lungs hurt a little, but I didn't care, what I cared about was whether Zhao Ye was really dead, and whether Liu Fatzi and Shen Dali came out.

Yang Qing seemed to guess what I was thinking, her expression darkened, and she said in a low voice, "Fifth brother, I know what you want to ask me." In fact, the doctor won't let me tell you, for fear that your mood swings will be too great, which is not conducive to recovery......"

I couldn't move my hand because it hurt like a pinprick all over my body, and I could only move my fingers lightly twice.

Yang Qing grabbed my hand with one hand and covered her mouth with the other, tears dripped down and fell on my wrist, cool.

Brother Dali said that Brother Liu is gone and will not come back. Zhao Ye is now at the funeral home, and Zhang Yi is trying to find a way to contact Zhao Ye's family. None of the specialists who were infected by the nematode could be saved, and many died. At present, Liaoyuan City is in a state of water outage, and the Yangmu Reservoir and the Liaohe River are spraying insecticides on a large area. Fifth brother, I ......"

Yang Qing said, spoke, and couldn't cry anymore.

I felt my face go cold and my eyes burned. I know, I cried.

I have already guessed that Zhao Ye was infected by a nematode and died, I hate myself for not thinking about it a long time ago, if I found out earlier......

Thinking about this, I feel even more powerless and more uncomfortable.

Even if I guessed that Zhao Ye was infected when I saw the nematode, there was nothing I could do to save him.

I closed my eyes, and I couldn't breathe.

What appeared in front of my eyes was Zhao Ye's voice and smile, and what I recalled in my heart was the bits and pieces we had experienced since I met Zhao Ye.

He was a respectable senior who had long treated us as children as well as companions.

I vaguely remember the days when we ate peanuts together and drank the mountains, and vaguely remember the joy when we first went down to harvest the dragon pattern white jade belt of the Yuan Dynasty, and I vaguely remember......

If there is an afterlife, I hope we have not entered this industry, although I have no other skills, but I still have a body of strength, I can go to the construction site to do hard work, buy two bottles of liquor at night, a bag of peanuts, and drink with the old man......

If I can, I hope to use the rest of my life in exchange for Zhao Ye's eternal peace, or, just for "cherish".

If......

Unfortunately, there are no ifs.

……

Three days later, despite the doctor's dissuasion, I went through the discharge procedures and met Zhang Yi.

Zhang Yi told me that this was no longer an archaeological operation in the ordinary sense, but a disaster. The state has ordered the termination of this archaeological project, and has contributed a large amount of money to settle the families of the comrades who died in this disaster, and he helped Zhao Ye apply for a place, and there is a compensation and a cemetery. But because Zhao Ye's family has not been contacted, Zhao Ye's body is still in the funeral home and has not yet been cremated.

I didn't want to talk too much, so I asked Yang Qing to help me out of the hospital, take the car arranged by Zhang Yi, and come to the funeral home located in Hongwuxing Village, Nanhuan Road.

There were a lot of wreaths piled up in the funeral home, and the cries and shouts were very noisy, and the families of the deceased came from all over the place.

There were a few people guarding outside Zhao Ye's room, and I knew that Zhang Yi had sent them to monitor us.

Compared with other rooms, Zhao Ye's room was very deserted, and only Shen Dali was alone.

Shen Dali was a lot haggard, his eyes were dark and swollen, and he had lost a lot of weight.

When he saw Yang Qing helping me into the house, he was startled, and hurriedly ran over and asked, "Fifth brother, why are you here?" ”

I waved my hand, shook my head, and said, "Help me go to see Zhao Ye, I want to kowtow to him." ”