After that day, neither Cher nor Da Zhou had any abnormal conditions, and my heart, which was hanging in my throat, finally returned to its original position. About a few weeks later, I received a few ambiguous love letters from Cher, and I kept them in good hands, and then continued to pretend that nothing happened. It's that compared with before, Dazhou's words have become a little less, but the spirit and spirit are still normal, because we are all students, and the main energy is still focused on studying, so as time passes, what happened in Guanqiao fades out of my memory.

During this period, a strange thing happened in my father's friend's house, and this article will call my father's friend Uncle Ma for the time being. Uncle Ma lives in a big family, the whole family lives in a large courtyard, the old Beijingers are used to calling this kind of courtyard a courtyard, and I also call the place where Uncle Ma lives a courtyard (I really don't know much about architecture). In just one week, Uncle Ma's grandparents, a brother and his children, as well as his wife and parents all fell ill, and it was preliminarily determined that it was a disease (a disease caused by hitting dirty things), but Uncle Ma was too busy.

Seeing that Uncle Ma's dark circles were getting heavier and heavier, but his body was getting lighter and lighter, walking swayingly, and being absent-minded all day long, my father's enthusiastic heart couldn't stay still, so he made an appointment with two friends who were very close to Uncle Ma to visit the patient at Uncle Ma's house together. As a result, when I went to Uncle Ma's house, everyone was basically blinded. Uncle Ma first accompanied everyone to his grandparents' house, only to see grandpa and grandma sitting on the kang, one of them covered with a quilt leaning against the corner of the wall, his eyes looked straight ahead, he couldn't speak and couldn't hear others, his father tried to feed the two old people some liquid food, but it basically flowed down the corners of his mouth, and he had no choice but to use a large needle to inject milk into the mouths of the two old people. It took a lot of effort, and only a few tubes were fed, but a few people got up and came to Uncle Ma's brother's house, this family is also quite scary, all of them have white and white faces, and everyone has lost their appearance. The cause is what to eat and vomit, now I am so hungry that I scratch my liver, and I dare not eat, I can only rely on some glucose every day to maintain, the family nests on the kang, and one person wears a quilt, after everyone greets a few words, there is no way, my father had to come to Uncle Ma's house again, Uncle Ma's daughter-in-law and parents are sleeping, my father is very strange, it's almost afternoon, why are you still sleeping, Uncle Ma said that I have been sleeping for three days, and I can't scream, so I will continue to sleep in a blink of an eye, Everyone tried to wake up Aunt Ma and Uncle Ma's parents, several people nodded to everyone in a daze, got up and leaned against the wall, and after only saying a few words, they kept the posture against the wall and fell asleep. My father and others studied with Uncle Ma for a long time, but they couldn't find a way, so they had no choice but to come back temporarily, ask the people around them, whether they have home remedies or encounter similar conditions, and then make plans.

My father said that after listening to my mother and me, my curiosity was like bubbling boiling water, so on weekend mornings, I also went to Uncle Ma's house on the pretext of visiting. Uncle Ma and Brother Ma were not at home at the time, but because the other patients were still there, they did not lock the door. I went in and walked around the house and found that everyone was resting except for those who were in a daze. I sensed it with my own God-given intuition, and the conclusion was mixed. I'm glad I didn't find death on anyone's face, and I'm worried that I didn't feel anything wrong, which means I didn't have a rut. Since Uncle Ma's house is far away from the city, I didn't eat in the morning, so I went to Uncle Ma's house, planning to find something to eat (the relationship is better than at my own home), and then wait for Uncle Ma or Brother Ma to come back, say hello to them before leaving. Uncle Ma's house is the normal three-room house in the north, that is, a large house is divided into three rooms, with a kitchen in the middle and bedrooms on both sides. I didn't find anything to eat in the kitchen, I guess Uncle Ma didn't have the heart to cook at this stage, the room on the left is Uncle Ma's daughter-in-law and Uncle Ma's parents are resting, I have been there just now, the right is his family's storeroom, because Brother Ma bought a house in the city after getting married, so I thought about whether it was wrong, but the stomach overcame the thinking, so I entered the storage room on the right, after all, the refrigerator or something is in this room. Sure enough, I found a few bags of milk in the refrigerator at his house, and there were a few dry breads on the table next to me. Suddenly, my instinct told me that there was something strange about this room, and by my innate senses, I searched all the corners of the room until I walked to the front of an old-fashioned wardrobe, and my instincts told me that the problem was there. Open the wardrobe and the drawers on the side, and there are bits and pieces of old clothes that are not worn. I touched the clothes one by one, and there was no problem. Then I started to check the drawer, there was a small tape recorder, a calculator, a BP machine, a point-and-shoot camera, a semiconductor flashlight and some damaged small household parts, I didn't feel anything else, except when I touched this camera, I didn't feel right, it felt like touching an electric soldering iron, it was very hot but not hot. I took the camera out, held it in my hand and turned around and walked out of the storage room, just as Uncle Ma's son came back, and we collided.

"Brother, when did you come here?" Brother Ma is older than me, so he called me brother, and greeted me first, "Brother Ma, where did this thing come from?" I shook the camera in my hand and asked, "Oh, I bought it from the stall, it's not a lot of money, if you like it, I'll give it to you, there is still half a roll of film left, if you finish taking pictures, remember to give the first half of the film to my brother to develop." "Brother Ma was very generous and gave me the camera." Okay, then I'll play for two days. By the way, why did Uncle Ma go? I hurriedly changed the topic and asked, "What else can I do, the sky is about to fall at home, my dad went to a 'fairy'er's house, there is no way, now as long as the person can be good, it doesn't matter if it is out of the horse or a fortune teller, as long as it can save people, they all say that the 'fairy' is very smart, try it." Brother Ma said helplessly, "Don't go to school today?" Brother Ma continued to ask me, "This weekend, I wanted to come over to see Uncle Ma and everyone, so I came over, it's okay, Brother Ma, I promise that it won't take half a day, and everyone will get better." I gave Brother Ma a smile, "Have you eaten?" Brother Ma smiled, patted me on the shoulder and asked me, "Eat, I can still be polite at my brother's house, I will eat the milk in the refrigerator and the bread outside." I smiled and replied, "Then I won't leave you to eat." "Brother Ma estimates that this period of time is also depressing enough." By the way, who shot the half roll of film you used? I changed my words and asked the key part, "It's these people in the family, I can still stand on the street and catch a beautiful woman and shoot it, your sister-in-law won't punish me for kneeling instant noodles at night?" Brother Ma can still answer humorously at this time, which is enough to prove my previous judgment, Brother Ma is not very close to the family, "Didn't you take two photos of my sister-in-law?" "No, your sister-in-law is busier than me, where do you have time?" "Oh, then I'm leaving," I was ready to leave, having reached the conclusion I wanted, "I'll send you." "No need, you're busy, the next time I come, everyone will be fine." "Lend you good words." After a few polite words, I put the camera in my bag, pushed my bike and pretended to leave.

After riding out for about a few minutes, I saw that Brother Ma had returned to his courtyard, so I hurriedly turned around, returned to the outside of the Ma family's compound, locked the bicycle and hid it under the bud rice stack, and then quietly ran to the outside of the courtyard wall near the main house, took the camera out of the school bag, pushed open the back cover, and pulled out the film inside. Under normal circumstances, once the illuminated film is directly exposed to sunlight, it will turn white, but as I thought, after the part of the film that has been used is exposed, the people on the film are still very clear, and my feeling is that they almost can't speak, and they are basically the spirit of the patients inside. I touched my body, there was still half a pack of matches left (I was already smoking at that time, smoking is harmful to health and it is difficult to quit smoking, can you not touch it), theoretically I think that after burning, it should be fine (fortunately, it's okay, otherwise I really don't know what to do), and then I lit a fire to burn the film, different from the previous burning things, this time when burning, a few wisps of white smoke came out, slowly drifting towards the yard, and divided into several directions, into the three houses with patients. It didn't take long for me to hear the sound of many people walking around in the courtyard, and I pushed out the bicycle under the bud rice stack, unlocked the car and rode happily home, hiding my merit and fame.

Many years later, I took the camera at that time and asked Zhang Tianshi, Zhang Tianshi played with it, and told me that now this camera no longer has the function of sucking people's souls, because it has not been exposed to yang energy for a long time (I think it is, since I burned the film inside, I have been throwing it in the drawer), and now it is an ordinary camera, the reason why it has the effect of sucking people's souls at that time is because this camera took pictures of some people who are dying, which also explains the reason why Ma Ge can get this camera at a low price.

to be continued