Chapter 4 Pits and Smells
Looking at Hu Laosan's expression at the moment, and half a mouthful of sand, my head suddenly became bigger, and I couldn't help but take two steps back, my eyes were full of horror. At this time, it was not yet dawn, and I was afraid, but I didn't know how to ask. My grandfather told me a lot of things in the past, and in my mind, the "dirty" things in the river would never speak.
Because of this, I hesitated for a while, and I couldn't tell what was going on with Hu Laosan in front of me. I didn't dare to let him into the courtyard, so I stared at him through a courtyard gate.
"I'm in a hurry to get home, just say a few words and leave." The sand in Hu Laosan's mouth never spit out, his speech was a little slurred, and his tone and expression were very different from usual, he lowered his head again, hesitated for a while, and said: "You and your lord said that the things buried under the wall should not be dug out during the day."
"What!" I was shocked in my heart, and immediately realized that my feeling should be right, Hu Laosan was very wrong, but I didn't have time to think about it, as soon as he mentioned my grandfather, it made me difficult to hold myself, rushed to the door in one step, and eagerly asked, "What did you say?" Where's my grandfather? Where is he? "
"The things at the root of the wall, dig them out at night, your lord said, don't forget." Hu Laosan was resigned, and after saying these words, he finally looked up at me and said, "After speaking, I have to go home quickly." "
"Wait!" I couldn't care about being scared, so I rushed out and grabbed him: "Where is my grandfather!" "
"I don't know, I don't know"
"Third uncle! My grandfather is gone! I can not find him! I was so anxious that I wanted to shed tears and begged, "Where did you meet him?" You tell me. "
"Mizuya." Hu Laosan was always reluctant to look up at me again, so he lowered his head and said: "Your lord is thinking about the villagers in the usual place, and he can let me rush home to take another look, it's already a blessing, don't ask, don't ask."
I finally realized something, and I couldn't help but flicker. I grabbed Hu Laosan's arm, and felt that his body was cold and hard, and both ears were blocked with sand. It was a very bad feeling, and my hand suddenly retracted like an electric shock.
Hu Laosan turned his head and walked in the direction of his home. I refused to give up, quietly followed from behind, there were a few people in his house who stayed to help take care of the aftermath, when Hu Laosan walked into his yard, it caused a commotion, his wife was surprised and happy, and the others looked at him in confusion, all surprised.
In a blink of an eye, Hu Laosan said a few words to his wife, hugged the two children, and then saw him fall headlong in the yard. A group of people were panicked, chaotic, I took the opportunity to run outside the courtyard gate, the neighbor Seventh Grandma is a woman, but she has always been very bold, she came from behind the crowd, looked at Hu Laosan who fell to the ground, and her face immediately changed.
"The third child" The seventh grandmother looked at Hu Laosan's wife in embarrassment, and said, "The third child has passed."
Hu Laosan's wife suddenly broke out into a wail, crying and wiping her tears, and shook Hu Laosan vigorously, as if she wanted to shake her man awake, and everyone else was persuading. The seventh grandmother shook her head and said beside her: "It's hopeless, let's prepare for the future." "
Grandma Qi's face was a little strange, but the people around her were attracted by Hu Laosan's affairs, and no one noticed this. I wanted to figure things out, so I looked outside the door for a while, and then quietly asked Grandma Seven, "What's wrong with the third uncle?" Say it's over? "
In the eyes of Grandma Seven, I was still a hairy child, so she refused to say, I begged back and forth for a long time, and she said: "It's not good for children to know this." "
"I'm not young, I'm nineteen years old this year." I defended: "The pillar and Baoshan are as big as me, and they are already fathers, aren't they?" "
The seventh grandmother couldn't help it, raised her eyes to look at those busy people, and whispered: "The third child seems to have been dead for a long time." "
My head banged, and my eyes went dark, and that's exactly what happened!
At that moment, I was in turmoil, not only because of Hu Laosan's affairs, but also because of the few words he brought me. Hu Laosan won't come to me for no reason to say that, since he said it, it can only mean that he met his grandfather, and he must have met him.
But Hu Laosan is dead, this clue is completely broken, and it is impossible for me to ask anything from the mouth of a dead man.
The people around were still busy, and some people were rushing to find a coffin for Hu Laosan, but I couldn't help, and the psychological burden was very heavy, so I walked back to my house from his house in a daze. I remember that in that "dream", my grandfather told me that he wanted me to dig up something buried in the corner, and at this time he specifically asked Hu Laosan to come back and greet me, which can only show that this thing may be very important.
And when I think about it, I feel a little relieved in my heart that no matter what, grandpa is definitely still alive.
It was already dawn, so I ran to the place where the boat had been parked yesterday, pushed my boat into the water, and then went all the way to the area where the stone coffin was infested last night, and searched around the neighborhood, wasting half a day.
Everything is gone, leaving no trace, as if nothing had ever happened here. I still refused to go, and spent a full day in the river, and only stopped the boat when it was about to get dark. Originally, I wanted to search all the way desperately, but the words brought back by Hu Laosan made me understand that the things at the root of the wall must be taken out.
I ran home again, hurriedly got something to eat on the stove, and filled my stomach haphazardly. As soon as the sky was dark, the village was lit up with sporadic oil lights, the funeral of Hu Laosan's family had begun, and a funeral shed was set up at the door of the house. I waited patiently until late at night, then went to the courtyard gate, took the flashlight at home, and ran to my grandfather's bedroom.
This bedroom, I can not be familiar with it anymore, since I was a child, I slept on this bed, my grandfather shook a fan for me in summer, and burned the kang in winter, with a trace of warmth in the familiarity. But at this moment, looking at this familiar bedroom, the corners of my eyes couldn't help but get wet, and my heart felt very uncomfortable.
In the haze, I seemed to be able to see my grandfather lying on his side on the bed as before, slowly shaking his head at me, and said, "Shui Yan, the river can bleed, but not tears."
I sobered up, stopped the tears that were about to overflow my eyes, rolled over and got under the bed, removed a few bricks from the base of the wall, and began digging. I don't know how deep my grandfather's leftover was buried, but when I dug it up for more than half a meter, a foul smell came to my face.
It was a disgusting smell, like the worst smell in the world, and people who smoked it were dizzy and wanted to vomit. I pinched my nose with one hand and continued to dig down with the other. As the digging deepened, the smell became heavier and heavier, and in the end, I couldn't help it, so I quickly got into it and ran outside the house to take a few breaths.
At this point, I felt a little hairy in my heart, and I could vaguely tell what the smell was, because it wasn't the first time I had smelled it. I think it's a lot like the smell of a corpse.
When the river is patrolling, if you meet someone who has not died in the water accidentally, you will do your best to save it, if you encounter a corpse in the river, you will also decide whether to salvage it according to the analysis of the situation. The corpse that should be fished up, without anyone begging, will help to fish it up, and if it shouldn't be fished, even if the other party's family kneels there and begs bitterly, they will definitely not do it.
However, once the river is decided to salvage, no matter how difficult the process is, he will not receive any payment, and after the body is fished up, he will have to find his family members and let them come to claim it. A large river with a vast basin, the floating corpses we met in the river patrol section actually don't know where they floated from, and some have been dead for a long time. The body was dragged to the riverbank, covered with a straw mat, and then went to the family. Sometimes, it is not necessary to notify the family of the deceased in time, and the body has to be left on the river beach all the time, especially in summer, when the weather is so hot, the body that has been soaked in the river for a long time will soon emit an extremely bad smell.
The thought of this made my stomach tumble and I wanted to vomit out the food I had just eaten. What is buried under Grandpa's bed? How can it smell of corpses?
Could it be that there really is a corpse buried under his bed? Thinking about it, I broke out in a cold sweat, and my grandfather himself and Hu Laosan didn't explain what was buried under the bed, which was a matter that had no answer for the time being, which made me uneasy.
But he should never have been afraid of these things, so I took a breath outside, found another cloth, soaked it in white wine, put it on my nose, and ran back to my grandfather's bedroom.
Originally, I just wanted to dig out what my grandfather had left behind, but the faint stench was disgusting, but it filled me with curiosity, and I wanted to know what was going on.
So I enlarged the excavation area, moved the small bed away, and removed the bricks from the ground one after another, and dug down a large pit with a diameter of more than two meters. It took me three hours to dig the pit down to a depth of one meter. The more I dug down, the slower my movements became, because I was not sure what was buried in the pit now, and I was alone in the middle of the night doing these things, and I was afraid that I would suddenly dig up something that I couldn't accept.
When the big pit was dug for more than a meter, the pickaxe suddenly touched something, and there was a faint clicking sound, which made my already restless heart tremble, because the sound was like a bone buried in the soil, which was suddenly slashed by the pickaxe.
I quickly withdrew the pickaxe in my hand, and the pickaxe turned upside down, bringing up a handful of sand, and in an instant, I finally knew where the smell of the pit came from. Seeing the scene in front of me, I couldn't stand it anymore, I didn't have time to crawl out, and I started to vomit with a wow, and I vomited.