"What's a life-saving thing?" Wang Sihe asked again.

The old woman twisted her head, as if she didn't hear Wang Sihe's words, she no longer paid attention to Wang Sihe, and her eyes were fixed on my father.

My father was frightened by the old woman's staring, but the old woman's eyes were very clean, and my father could feel that the old woman had no intention of harming herself.

My father thought for a moment and asked, "Where is your home?" ”

When the old woman heard this, she smiled with satisfaction, because my father asked her this and said that he had granted her request. The old woman raised her chin at my father, and the place where the chin pointed was my father's ear.

My father was stunned for a moment, immediately understood, took two steps towards the old woman, put his ear to the old woman's mouth, the old woman licked her lips, and whispered into my father's ear.

After a while, my father jerked his ear off the old woman's mouth, and said with a stunned expression, "There is no house there, we have just been there during the day." ”

The old woman smiled and said mysteriously: "There is a house, you can't see it during the day, and you can only see it after the second watch at night, remember what I just said, you must come out of the house before the third watch, otherwise, you will never be able to come out!" Saying that, the old woman looked at her own chest, and whispered: "I have a token in my arms, you can enter the house with it, remember, the burden is under the bed, you must take the burden out of the house before the third watch, remember, ......" After speaking, the old woman's eyes rolled up suddenly, her eyelids closed, followed by her head drooping, and the whole person did not move......

My father was stunned for a moment, and then shouted, "Old woman, old woman, ...... old woman," but no matter how my father shouted, the old woman never woke up. My father put his hand under the old woman's nose and tried it, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, the old woman was still angry, as if she was asleep.

My father looked at the sleeping old woman blankly, recalled her words in his mind, turned his head to Wang Sihe next to him and said, "Sihe, you go outside and guard, don't let anyone in." ”

Wang Sihe was puzzled and asked, "Brother, what are you going to do, what did this old woman tell you?" ”

"You go outside and keep watch, I'll be fine in a while." My father doesn't say.

Seeing my father's serious face, Wang Sihe stopped asking, turned around and left the morgue, and when he went out, he casually closed the door.

After Wang Sihe left, my father looked at the closed door, believing that Wang Sihe would definitely stay outside, without his own words, Wang Sihe would not let anyone in even if he tried his best, and at the moment, it was absolutely safe.

My father took a deep breath, cheered himself up, and reached into the old woman's shirt and touched it.

I touched it two or three times, and I really touched a gadget for him, which was flat in terms of feel, and took it out to take a look......

What is this? It's hard to say, because of the next experience, my father didn't dare to mention it to my grandmother when he came home for a long time, and then my grandmother forced him to ask, my father said it, this is a dollar-sized brand, thin, black, there are words on both sides, it seems to be written in blood, dark red, my father doesn't know any of these words, it seems to be an ancient seal character. My grandmother asked him what the brand was, but my father couldn't tell. My father said that it was like an animal skin, and it was like scales, and it was cool and slippery in his hand. When my grandmother heard this, her face immediately changed, and she said to my father, "That's paper!"

What is the paper, it seems to have been mentioned earlier, the book of life and death of Lord Yama is written on this kind of paper. Of course, this is just a legend, as for what is going on, it will be a long story, as for the "paper", let's talk about it when we have the opportunity in the future.

Of course, my father didn't know what it was at this time, it looked like a small brand, after taking out the brand from the old woman's arms, he looked back and forth a few times, he didn't know any of the ancient seals on it, he stuffed the brand into his pocket, walked to the door of the room a few steps, the door opened, the first thing he saw was Wang Sihe's back, Wang Sihe was very responsible for the door, my father breathed a sigh of relief.

The sound of the door opening seemed to alarm Wang Sihe, and Wang Sihe turned his head sharply. Wang Sihe looked at my father, then at the old woman in the house, and asked with a puzzled expression, "Brother, what do you want to do?" ”

My father shook his head and said, "I don't know what I want to do, but when I see this old woman, I think of my mother, and I want to help her...... Come in and get this old woman down for me. ”

Wang Sihe entered the house and untied the rope from the old woman's arm with my father. My father asked Wang Sihe to hold the old woman, squatted down by himself, and asked Wang Sihe to put the old woman on his back. Seeing this, Wang Sihe asked my father: "Brother, where are you going to carry this old woman?" ”

"Carry us in the house." My father replied.

"This, I'm afraid this won't work, in case Zhou Jianhong sees ......"

"Didn't he tell us to guarantee that this old woman would live until tomorrow afternoon......" Before Wang Sihe could finish speaking, my father interrupted him, "It's so old, it's hanging like this, what if you hang it, put her on the bed, let's take turns watching to ensure that she can't run." ”

My father said this, Wang Sihe didn't say anything anymore, and put the old woman on my father's back.

As mentioned earlier, my father and Wang Sihe's room was quite large, and there were only two of them, and there were more than two beds in it.

Carrying the old woman out of the morgue, it happened to be a meal at this time, it is estimated that those Red Guards are eating in the cafeteria, and there is no one on campus. My father carried the old woman into their room on his back.

After putting the old woman on a bed, my father said to Wang Sihe, "You watch her here, I'll go to the cafeteria to get you some food." Wang Sihe nodded and sat on a bed next to the old woman.

These Red Guards were all eating in the cafeteria at this time, and the several tables in the cafeteria were almost all full.

As soon as I walked into the cafeteria, my father heard someone shouting "Jia Fuqian", and after walking a few steps, he realized that his name was "Jia Fuqian" at this time.

Turning his head to follow the voice, Zhou Jianhong was sitting at a dining table not far from the door and beckoning to him. When my father saw it, the table was full of the heads of their Red Star Sect.

My father walked over, and Zhou Jianhong asked, "Comrade Jia hasn't eaten yet?" My father nodded.

Zhou Jianhong asked again: "What happened to the four girls of the cow ghost, snake god?" ”

My father didn't even think about it, and replied directly: "I carried her from the morgue to the house where we lived and put her in a bed. ”

"What?" Zhou Jianhong's face sank when he heard this, his lips moved, and it seemed that he wanted to say something, but my father didn't wait for him to say it, and then said: "Hang her like that, we brothers dare not guarantee that she will live until tomorrow, * said: 'Strategically we must despise the enemy, and tactically we must attach importance to the enemy,' to deal with such hard bones, since we can't make them succumb to *, we must psychologically let them disintegrate, treat the prisoners well, and sometimes get unexpected results, right?" ”

Zhou Jianhong blinked his eyes a few times, as if he was a little confused by what my father said, and before he could react, Xiaoru next to him put down his chopsticks and said: "Comrade Jia said very well, I agree with Comrade Jia's statement, if you want the enemy to submit, you don't necessarily have to rely on force, * has been teaching us, 'to fight without fighting', I think Comrade Jia's work is very good!" ”

Zhou Jianhong heard Xiaoru say this, glanced at Xiaoru, and probably didn't know which sentence to quote * to refute my father, so he said to my father: "Then you go to eat, find a way to let the four girls eat the food, and don't let her go on a hunger strike." ”

My father nodded and left.

This day's lunch was rice, green vegetables and tofu, and a few shredded meat could be seen in the dish, which was a meal that my father couldn't think of at home.

When I returned to the room with the teapot, the old woman was still asleep, not so much asleep as unconscious, and my father called her a few times, but still did not wake up. My father had no choice but to hand Wang Sihe a teapot, and the two of them devoured the food.

The book says briefly. In the evening, the old woman still did not wake up, and my father put his hand under her nose and probed again, and was still angry, but it was not a problem for her to fall asleep all the time, and besides, the old woman had not eaten for a day.

It just so happened that the canteen was cooking millet porridge in the evening, and my father asked Wang Sihe to help and helped the old woman up. My father was about to feed the old woman with a spoon, the old woman actually opened her eyes, the old woman looked at my father and said: "Be careful all the way, get the burden and come back quickly, I will wait for you here" said, and looked at Wang Sihe again, "You two brothers can go together, and there will be a ............ to take care of when the time comes" After speaking, the old woman tilted her head and fell asleep again.

What's wrong with this? My father and Wang Sihe, you look at me, I look at you, look at each other.

My father's generation barely had the ability to count the hours, but fortunately, my grandfather and my grandfather's two pocket watches were not copied by the Red Guards, and they were still usable.

After settling the old woman, my father took out the pocket watch and looked at the time, a little more than half past seven, and the second watch was at nine o'clock, my father motioned to Wang Sihe and set off immediately. It's a bit early to set off at this time, but it's better to be early than late.

The two men turned off the lights in the room and walked out of the room side by side. At this time, the moon in the sky was bright and the stars were sparse, and it was not dark in all directions, and the whole ground was like a layer of frost.

Because it's still early, the campus is quite lively, the autumn is crisp, there are people walking, and there are a few pairs of romantic men and women who whisper and laugh under the moon, it looks like that, but who would have thought that they would become a group of devils who don't even recognize their parents during the day.

No one paid attention to my father and Wang Sihe, out of the school gate, the two of them kept walking south, and after walking for a while, Wang Sihe couldn't help but ask my father, "Brother, where is the old woman's home?" ”

My father said, "You'll know when you get there, we've just been there during the day." ”

"Just been there during the day?" Wang Sihe looked puzzled, "It can't be that mass grave, right?" ”

My father looked at him and didn't speak.

Ten minutes later, the two of them left the town, my father walked in front, Wang Sihe followed, but Wang Sihe's footsteps became more and more hesitant, and finally simply stopped, and asked my father with a shocked face: "Brother, isn't this the way to the mass grave, let's really go to the mass grave?" ”