Chapter 60: The Man Who Delivers in an Abandoned Farmhouse
I was afraid that her shouting would frighten Uncle Feng's family on the second floor, so I made a lot of effort to wake her up, and the Yuqin who woke up was like a frightened rabbit, holding me and shaking and shedding tears. I asked her what was going on? She still bit her lip and refused to say it, she immediately became angry, thinking that she was angry with her man and didn't dare to tell others. I took out my mobile phone and said that I was going to call her man, and Yuqin relented and said that she would tell the truth when there was no one at home the next day.
When it was daytime the next day, Uncle Feng and the eldest sister went out, and when there was no one at home, Yuqin was very scared to tell me something, that is, her man's work was not as simple as it seemed, and she was afraid that her man would have an accident sooner or later. It turned out that I heard Yuqin say that since her man went to the western suburbs cemetery to be an administrator, Ma Zhipeng often went to the cemetery to worship and burn paper.
In the beginning, Ma Zhipeng just chatted with her man, and sometimes took a short break in his office. His man remembered that Ma Zhipeng had a lot of taboos, so he never dared to take the initiative to talk to him. Later, gradually, Ma Zhipeng often brought his wife to the cemetery to burn paper to worship, and the day he came was not a holiday, Yuqin's man felt very strange, and thought about how they were not afraid of scaring the children when they went back?
Gradually, the Yuqin man and Ma Zhipeng became more and more familiar, and at this time, Ma Zhipeng asked the Yuqin man to do him a favor. Let him drive a small electric tricycle and go somewhere in the fog to deliver something. Yuqin's man felt that this was a trivial matter, so he nodded and agreed without the slightest hesitation, and helped several times in a row, Ma Zhipeng saw that Yuqin's man was doing things properly and didn't talk nonsense, so he handed over the work of sending things to him, and every time he finished sending something, he would give him another sum of money.
Hearing Yuqin say this, she thought that she felt sorry for her man, and she was afraid that she would tire him out, after all, when she was at home, Yuqin did all the dirty work. So, I persuaded Yuqin that it would not be too tiring to run errands and deliver things for Ma Zhipeng, and that the work would be the same as the express delivery in the city, and it could be done in a while, so that she should not always worry and be afraid. However, Yuqin still kept crying after I finished speaking, and her reaction told herself that the truth was not what she thought.
After continuing to ask for a long time, Yuxiu hesitated and said that Ma Zhipeng asked his man to do bad things, not as simple as just sending things. I asked her why she said that. Yuxiu said that the place where his man went to deliver things was only three bus stops away from the Western Suburbs Cemetery, which was a very desolate, remote and strange dilapidated farmhouse.
As soon as you enter the courtyard, you will be greeted by a lonely old tomb, which stands particularly abruptly in the middle of the farmhouse. There is no tombstone on the head of the old tomb, and the whole body is made of loess, and a few white spirit flags are inserted on it, which looks particularly infiltrating. In the courtyard lived some men of five size and three thick, smoking cigarettes in their mouths, tattoos on their arms, and holding shotguns in their hands, and around them lay seven or eight big wolfdogs with red eyes and sticking out their tongues.
Her man said that there was nothing in the courtyard of the farmhouse on the surface, and it was not good to look around at the tattered and decayed, but for some reason, as soon as people walked in, they felt that it was full of eyes, and they were staring at themselves. Seeing the appearance of those men, Yuxiu's man was worried about whether the things he asked him to send would be contraband such as drugs, and he was especially worried about whether he had broken the law.
That Ma Zhipeng seemed to be able to guess what he was thinking, and after giving things for the first time, he gave him a shopping list full of words, and asked Yuxiu's man to buy those things by himself. Then let him load his things into the electric tricycle and deliver them to the dilapidated farmhouse. In this way, Yuxiu's man was relieved, and there was absolutely no problem with what he sent over.
The things he sent were some daily necessities or common medicines, from toothpaste, towels, toilet paper, to rice, flour, oil, salt, ginger, vinegar, tea, to cold medicine, anti-inflammatory drugs and clothes, etc., almost all of which involved in life. The most incomprehensible thing for Yuxiu's man is that there are many items for women in the things he sends, such as sanitary napkins, medicine for menstrual cramps and women's underwear, etc., he doesn't understand that there are no women in that place at all, why do you need to send women's things?
But he didn't dare to ask others the reason, let alone Ma Zhipeng. When he was doing this job, Ma Zhipeng once warned Yuxiu's man that he must not tell anyone about delivering things, including his wife Yuxiu. Because the owner of the abandoned farmhouse is not a good man, he has an underground casino there, and that place must not be leaked, otherwise his wife Yuxiu and two daughters will disappear from the living pile.
Moreover, Yuxiu's man must not talk nonsense, let alone inquire or wander around in the abandoned farmhouse, the less he knows, the safer. It's best to put down what you've been given and turn around and leave right away, so you don't get yourself in trouble. After Yuxiu's man delivered the goods a few times, he felt that none of the people in the abandoned farmhouse were serious people, so he didn't want to continue to do this, but he couldn't resist Ma Zhipeng's soft grinding and hard bubbles, coercion and temptation.
According to Ma Zhipeng's words, the first time you send it, you are already a grasshopper on a rope, this kind of thing is impossible to change people halfway, and they give a lot of money, and they don't take risks when they send daily necessities, why not do it? In this way, Yuxiu's man kept doing it, he said that every time Ma Zhipeng left a message, he would press it in front of the tombstone of Ma Zhipeng's mother-in-law, and put it together with the burned paper money.
Usually, the message he leaves is a shopping list full of words and a tightly packed brown paper bag. On the shopping list are things that need Yuxiu's man to buy, there are still some papers in the kraft paper bag, Yuxiu's man is only responsible for buying things and sending them there, he doesn't know anything else. When he delivered things, it was completely based on the time when Ma Zhipeng and his wife came to the cemetery in the western suburbs, sometimes early and sometimes late, sometimes very frequent, and sometimes several days apart.
Yuxiu's man sent things like this, and once he inadvertently told Yuxiu about it, Yuxiu was also scared when he knew it, but Yuxiu's man comforted her and said that Ma Zhipeng promised Yuxiu's man that after October 1st of this year, this thing would not have to be sent. Therefore, as long as he endures for a while and does not leak the news to others, he can get rid of this drudgery and work steadily to make money, Yuxiu often cries secretly because he is worried about this.
However, it was such a coincidence, just when Yuxiu and her family were enduring hardships in every possible way, something happened to her man's side.