14. Windfall
Li Bald was honest, but it didn't bring any practical help, and his answer was no different from before - they hadn't touched the earth or dismantled anything since the first lunar month, and the nameless fire came suddenly, and he had no clue at all.
Qiao Wei couldn't get famous from Li Baldzi, so he decided to come over tonight to control the big fire with the white python immortal, and then use the next ten days to continue to look for clues. As for the arson in the medical school, Qiao Wei also decided to put it aside for the time being, and deal with the important matters in front of him before going back to settle the account.
After leaving Zhiye's head office, I invited the kid to rub together with his two friends to briefly express my gratitude.
At the dinner table, the boy reassured me, he said that Li Baldzi's subordinates called Uncle Wei after they came out, and Uncle Wei directly said on the phone, "Whoever has a kind of thunder will try it." This sentence is equivalent to putting a talisman on me, at least I don't have to worry about Li Bald taking me as the softest persimmon to pinch.
In addition, the kid also talked to the friend that Li Bald met and said that although Li Bald was horizontal, he would never do anything that would cause trouble.
In the afternoon, Qiao Wei and I went to the development zone again, and we went there until four o'clock. But in the end, we didn't get any valuable clues either.
Qiao Wei said that I don't have to come over at night, first, I can't help much, and second, when there is danger, he may not take care of me, afraid that I am in danger. I think what Qiao Wei said makes sense, I am indeed an obstacle when fighting with ghosts, so I didn't raise any objections, just reminded Qiao Wei to be careful of that white python fairy.
After saying goodbye to Qiao Wei, I was going to go home directly, but my dad suddenly called me and asked me to take Shu Xin home for dinner in the evening, and said that there was something important to discuss.
I thought he was going to talk to me about my marriage to Shu Xin, but after the evening, I found out that it was my uncle who would go back to his hometown next month for his 80th birthday, and my father planned to celebrate this birthday banquet, so he asked me to come back and study how to celebrate the old man, and also let Shu Xin and I free up the time on the birthday day.
My uncle is my father's third uncle, and although I don't know his full name, I know that he is a bull breaker!
According to my father, during the Cultural Revolution, my father was beaten as a rightist, and my whole family became bad elements. My uncle was a soldier, and the Cultural Revolution did not involve the army at the beginning, so my uncle has been living in my grandfather's house to act as a shield, as long as he is at home, others will not dare to arrest my family for the time being.
But then the army also suffered, and my uncle's situation began to be bad, so he fled alone and went to the south. I didn't hear what happened to my dad later, anyway, when I was six years old, my third uncle was already a teacher.
Probably because of such an experience, every time I mention my third uncle, I immediately think of the Cultural Revolution, and when I think of the Cultural Revolution, I naturally think of the dead, and when I think of the dead, the message of the fire pit and the living sacrifice transmitted in the ghost message also jumps out at once.
So at dinner, I asked my dad in a casual tone if many people died during the Cultural Revolution and how those people died.
My dad said that most of them committed suicide because they couldn't stand the repeated criticism and punishment, and some were beaten to death because they resisted.
I asked him again if he had ever heard of digging a pit and burning people for sacrifice.
I thought my dad would give a no, but to my surprise, my dad actually asked me, "How do you know this?" ”
This answer really caught my eye!
On the day I saw the ghost information in Shenzhen, I checked it on the Internet, but in addition to the advertisements of the Northeast barbecue restaurant on the Internet, there were reports about some fires, and I couldn't find any content about digging big pits and burning people, so I guess it was probably an unknown black history. But now it seems that things may not be as complicated as I thought.
I quickly asked him what was going on. My dad replied that he also heard from my third uncle, and the general content was that when my dad was four or five years old, my third uncle dug a big pit and burned many people to death, and after that, many families had enough food to eat. This answer may sound confusing and unrelated, but it takes a little thought to find the connection.
When my dad was four or five years old, it was the time of three years of natural disasters. Of course, natural disasters are only the official statement, but the actual situation is that no one farmed the land because of the Great Leap Forward activities to catch up with the United Kingdom, so there was a great famine for three years, and many people starved to death during that period.
If it was during this time that the digging of the pit and the burning of people took place, and the purpose was to give more people food, my third uncle was also involved in it, that is, the army......
I couldn't help but shudder all over my body - could I really guess the black history?!
To further confirm my suspicions, I asked for my third uncle's phone number, and when I got home in the evening, I dialed his old man's number. After the phone was connected, I introduced myself first, and the third uncle quickly remembered me, and asked me how the novel was written, when I would get married, obviously I had already heard my father talk about my situation.
After a few brief pleasantries, I turned the topic to the main topic of burning ** pit.
There was a sudden silence on my uncle's side, and after a few seconds he asked rhetorically, "How do you know about this?" ”
I replied that I listened to my father, and then I also told the old man about my encounter with ghost handprints, corpse poison, strange dreams, ghost information, and ghost fire attacks on the development zone, and Zuihou asked him if the burning ** pit was related to the living sacrifice.
My third uncle immediately denied the existence of the living sacrifice.
He sighed heavily, and then told me something he had wanted to forget about fifty years ago, but could not forget anyway.
It happened in 1960, the second year of the three-year natural disaster and famine. My third uncle was stationed in Guannei at that time, but because he returned to Heilongjiang with the army for the task of requisitioning grain, he decided to go home to see the situation because he had not returned home for many years and caught up with the famine.
As a result, when I got home, my third uncle learned that something had happened at home - his eldest brother, who was also my eldest uncle, suddenly fainted five days ago, and had a high fever that did not go away, and died less than a day after being taken to the hospital. After my eldest uncle died, my grandmother, my fourth aunt, other family members, and even the neighbors were taken to the hospital for a check-up, and they were not allowed to go home during the check-up.
My uncle didn't understand what it meant at the time, but now he understands that it's quarantine.
At that time, the famine had been going on for a year and a half, and children like my grandmother's side who had a little more would basically go hungry. When people are really hungry, they will eat everything, even rats, weasels and so on, so that they can easily contract the plague. My uncle died of the plague, and the burning kang also came because of the plague.