Chapter 15: The Last Day
Vice President Li handed the box to Yin Qiufeng and said, "Fortunately, I don't disgrace my life." ”
Yin Qiufeng nodded: "You haven't opened it, have you?" ”
Vice President Li's expression has always been very flat, but this sentence made her face flush, as if she had been greatly humiliated: "The boss didn't let me see it, and I will never take another look." ”
Yin Qiufeng smiled: "Thank you for your hard work." With that, he stood up with the box and walked out.
"You can't go!" The little aunt suddenly shouted, and we were all startled. In the past two days, Yin Qiufeng was offered by this family like a Buddha, and suddenly popped out to speak unpolitely, feeling particularly abrupt.
Yin Qiufeng turned his face to look at her.
The little aunt said: "This thing was left by my old lady, and according to legal procedures, it should belong to our family." You're an outsider, what's the matter if you don't know what happened if you took it? ”
The old uncle jumped up in a hurry, grabbed his sister, and said to Yin Qiufeng respectfully: "Mr. Yin, don't listen to her nonsense, my sister's brain is not very good." ”
Yin Qiufeng was also polite: "If it's not good, it will be treated." He lifted his leg and left.
The little aunt ran over in a few steps to grab someone's sleeve. This is a big fuss, and there is room for relaxation in verbal conflicts, and the nature of the action has changed. Li Yang quickly jumped between them with his hand and stopped the little aunt: "Auntie, don't make trouble. The little aunt's eyes widened: "Yangyang, you kid doesn't understand what's going on inside, hurry up and flash aside, don't turn your elbow out!" ”
The uncles all came to stop the little aunt, and the uncle persuaded in a low voice: "Sister, Mr. Yin will be the god of wealth of our family in the future, how many projects are pointing to others." Look at the faces of a few brothers, don't make trouble, okay? ”
The little aunt said, "If you say you're stupid, you'll have a runny nose." What kind of treasure map is in this box? Or something of value. How do a few projects compare to that pile of gold? Which one is heavier and which one is lighter. ”
The uncle said, "You can pull it down, stop and stay." There is also a treasure map, I have watched too many TV series. ”
Several uncles said sorry to Yin Qiufeng together. Yin Qiufeng stopped moving, he thought for a while and said, "As for me, I have always done things above board. Since this thing is related to your old lady, I can't say anything if I don't let you take a look at what the Tao is. ”
He took the box and looked at it, groped with his hand for a while, but he didn't know what he touched, only heard two soft "clicks", and the lid on the wooden box gently bounced a gap. Everyone held their breath and looked at it together.
The box unfolded, and inside was a piece of rice paper folded in two. The paper is thick, not white, but a deep earthy yellow. I have never seen rice paper of this color, and I think it is very strange, this color reveals the vicissitudes of time. Yin Qiufeng took out the paper and gently unfolded it, its area was not large, about thirty centimeters long. There was nothing on it, right in the center, and a butterfly was drawn.
This butterfly is outlined in black ink, and it must be painted by a Danqing master. The composition is simple, but it looks lifelike, spreading its wings and ready to fly. At first glance, it looks like a living black butterfly falling on paper.
Anyone can see that the butterfly pattern is a metaphor, and it can't be a treasure map or some other topographical map. Because it has few lines, no other markings, and there is a lone butterfly on the huge paper.
We were all dumbfounded, no one thought that the monk was so solemn before his death, and the entrustment across time and space was such a headless butterfly pattern.
Yin Qiufeng asked, "Have you finished reading it?" "I'm going to put it away as I speak. Not to mention that the little aunt's brain was spinning fast, she shouted: "Wait." She said vigorously: "Mr. Yin, I don't object to you taking it." I guess it's always okay to take a picture of this piece of paper, right? ”
Yin Qiufeng smiled and made a gesture to ask for convenience.
The little aunt used her 8-megapixel phone to change the angle of the butterfly and took N photos. After filming, Yin Qiufeng put it away, and Vice President Li and Wang Xue followed him and walked out of the ward together. I was standing at the door, and after they went out, Yin Qiufeng confessed to Wang Xue, which was very soft, but it happened to let me hear it.
What he said was, "Find me a tattoo master." ”
I was stunned when I heard it, what is Yin Qiufeng looking for a tattoo artist? Is he going to tattoo a butterfly on his body? What does that mean? It's unbelievable.
Wang Xue nodded, and immediately picked up the phone to contact someone. Yin Qiufeng suddenly said: "Xiaoxue, you don't have to do this matter. Then he said to Vice President Li: "Xiao Li, you can do it." ”
Wang Xue put down the phone, her eyes widened, as if she was asking, and she was unwilling. Yin Qiufeng didn't explain much, strode into the elevator and went down.
I told Li Yang about this, but we really can't deduce the reason, so we can only wait and see what happens.
On this night, Yin Qiufeng did not appear again. Li Yang also wanted to accompany me, so he didn't go home, so we bought canned beer and drank it in the ward. The negative energy in the hospital is too great, the air is depressed, and my eyes are full of life and death, illness and torture in the past few days, and my mood is heavy, like a big stone.
The next morning, when we saw the talisman on the lintel, our hearts were cold. I don't know when this talisman burned to a trace, and the black paint was almost invisible.
Today is the day after the worst.
The old lady didn't work hard anymore, she was almost thin, her eyes were closed, and all kinds of tubes were densely inserted on her body, we all knew that even if it was Da Luo Jinxian, she couldn't save this life. According to the doctor, the old lady probably won't be able to stay up until it gets dark.
From early in the morning, relatives and friends from all walks of life in the family came, and the uncle sat in the town to receive relatives and friends. Most people come to see the old lady and say a few words of condolence, stuff two dollars, or throw away a big bag of nutritional supplements. After a while, the floor of the ward was piled up.
I am really embarrassed to be an outsider on such an occasion, and Li Yang has always been by my side. If the old lady leaves, I am also sad, but at the same time I am relieved, I am so tired these days, after following their family, what do you say I want to do.
Li Yang and I were chatting, and suddenly the door of the ward was pushed, and the little aunt pulled her daughter Yang Shanshan and walked in crying: "Mom, ......"
Uncle slapped the table: "What are you crying about?" Mom hasn't left yet! ”
The little aunt pulled a chair and sat next to the bed, pulled the toilet paper and blew her nose, crying and saying, "I had a dream last night, and I knew that the road was not good, so I ran over early in the morning, brother, our mother can't survive......"
The uncle looked at her with a gloomy face. The little aunt sobbed and said, "I dreamed last night, and it seems to be the New Year in my dream." I, my mother, and my grandmother who passed away, and my mother prepared the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. made three full tables, dazzling, almost catching up with the Manchu and Han full seats. In the house, there are somehow more monsters, they don't look like foxes, they don't look like big roosters, they fly all over the house with their wings. We were cooking and chasing these monsters, and the last dish, I remember, was like a plate of bacon, and I cooked it all afternoon. In the evening, our mother said, "I'll go to another room with your grandmother to eat, and you can eat by yourself." I panicked and said no, I want to eat together. Our mother said okay, let me sit down first, and she and grandma will serve the food. As soon as they left, they never came back, and they disappeared like smoke. I knew in my dream that something was wrong, and I searched all over the house and the kitchen, and there was no sign of them, and I ran into the yard, and I saw that the yard was deserted, as if in the middle of nowhere, and then I saw a black dog. The dog had only hair on its back, and it was dragged down to the ground, its belly and limbs bare. It just looked at me like that, and I cried......"
I sat in the ward, guarding the dying old lady, listening to such a very absurd and strange dream with no end and no end, and this depression in my heart caused goosebumps wave after wave.
The little aunt cried and said, "Not only did I dream of it, but my daughter also dreamed of it, Shanshan said." ”
Yang Shanshan said in a low voice: "I also dreamed of grandma last night. It seemed to be a particularly festive family banquet, with colorful lights and a table full of meals, just me and my grandmother. My grandmother and I both wore ...... Black shrouds, sitting together. I was about to move the chopsticks when my grandmother suddenly smiled at me and said that they were not for me. After saying that, it was gone. I woke up with a fright. ”
Uncle was impatient: "Okay, okay, don't talk about it, don't get tired of you." I was already irritable in my heart, and you two still came to add to the blockage, so you can stay where it is cool. ”
I looked at Yang Shanshan, and suddenly my heart moved, and I remembered one thing: "Yang Shanshan, you hold up your wrist and I'll take a look." ”
Yang Shanshan was annoyed and angry, and said angrily: "What are you doing? ”
I said, "I'll look at your tattoos." ”
"What do you want me to do with my tattoos?"
I patiently explained: "Your tattoo is a butterfly ......"
This sentence was like water dripping into an oil pot, and the little aunt stopped crying, holding the paper and saying, "Girl, what's the matter, you still have a tattoo on your wrist?" ”
Yang Shanshan glared at me viciously, it seems that her mother still doesn't know the secret of this tattoo, which is a relatively ** problem. The two of them are really good, and there is an extra tattoo on the part of the daughter's body that is not too secret, which is not a mother's surprise.
Yang Shanshan reluctantly showed her wrist to her mother, and the little aunt screamed in surprise and threw away the paper. The uncle shouted: "Little sister, if you make nonsense again, you will give me a mess." ”
The little aunt dragged Yang Shanshan's wrist to show her uncle: "Brother, do you see Shanshan's tattoo, is it the same as the one in the box yesterday?" ”
At first glance, it looks like it, but it's not a thing, and no one can say. Because the shape and composition of the butterfly are very simple, and the lines are not cumbersome, that is, they spread their wings and seem to fly. Uncle snorted coldly: "Like a fart!" Take care of your daughter, what is not good to tattoo, tattoo a butterfly! Do you know what kind of woman tattoos butterflies? I won't say anything nasty. Shanshan, if you want a face, find a beauty hospital, wash off the tattoo, and don't be ashamed to lose it! ”
Yang Shanshan was quite stubborn: "What are you washing, this is a tattoo made by the living Buddha!" A Buddhist scripture is a needle, keep me safe, what do you know? ”