Chapter Seventy-Three: The Funeral Home
It didn't take long for Peng Gang to take a taxi, and as soon as we met, he anxiously asked me what was going on just now.
I told me how I saw Brother Peng. Peng Gang came to the Malatang stall, looked around, and found nothing. I walked over and pulled out a cigarette and handed it to him. He looked at me with a little unkind eyes: "Lao Liu, why do you think my dad will appear here?" You read that right? ”
I scratched my head and said, "If you say that, I'm a little unsure." The figure is very similar to your father, and it is gone in a blink of an eye. ”
I accompanied him back and forth several times in this night market, and I didn't find anything unusual. We talked as we walked, and his family was not having a good time now. In such a situation, Brother Peng, the company naturally cannot operate, and it has already cashed out. It is said that his mother's hair is now gray, and she will not be able to go to school if she is old.
Peng Gang and I were chatting when his mother called and told him to hurry to the hospital. It looks like things are more troublesome. Peng just said goodbye to me, and I told him to come to me if there was anything, and to help me if I could, and go home to take care of my mother.
When I got home, I was tired, and the key was that I was tired. Wang Chen and his little girlfriend went out to fool around again, the house was deserted, and I didn't have the heart to do anything else, so I took off my clothes and got into the quilt, leaning on the head of the bed and lighting a lamp to watch the city little yellow text. The more I looked, the more sleepy I became, yawning one after another, and my eyelids gradually became heavy. Just when I was in a daze, I vaguely saw that there seemed to be a person standing on the floor of the bedroom.
I'm not sure if it's a person or not, because all I saw was a pair of black leather shoes. I wanted to sit up and take a closer look, but I couldn't open my eyes, and my eyelids seemed to be glued to all-purpose glue. It's hard to describe, I'm very conscious, I understand what is happening, and my brain is functioning normally. But the body is in a deep state and does not listen to commands.
At this moment, I vaguely felt a person lying on my stomach. It seems to be a woman, and it feels like she has just crawled out of a muddy pond, damp and dirty.
She lay on top of me, and she seemed to smell a smell of decay. She was very fat, like a pig, but I knew in my heart that she was swollen with water and should not be a living person.
I struggled desperately to sit up, but I couldn't exert any strength on my body, as if I was firmly bound by something. At this time, the weirdest thing happened, the fat woman stretched out a hand, actually through my body, as if grasping something, and then pulled out little by little.
I felt as if there was another self in my body, tearing apart from my body and flying out. At the same time, I can feel that I am the one who is leaving, watching my body lying on the bed, trying to separate from it. It's indescribable, it's indescribable, it's indescribable, I'm completely split into two separate selves, and I can perceive two perspectives at the same time.
Subconsciously, I vaguely felt that this phenomenon was not a good thing, and it was extremely dangerous. At this moment, I only heard the door lock ringing outside, the hall light turned on, and then Wang Chen's shouting voice came: "Fuck, Lao Liu, you're back." ”
The feeling of being separated disappeared in an instant, and I was able to move again. Quickly jumped out of bed, ran out of the bedroom without wearing slippers. Wang Chen saw me running out of the stripes, his mouth was wide open, and he quickly covered his girlfriend's eyes with his hands: "Lao Liu, you are a fucking hooligan again." ”
I hugged him, my face pale: "Damn, I just met the hell!" ”
After that expedition to the building, Wang Chen was much less timid, and when he heard that there was a ghost, he reacted more strongly than a woman: "What is it?!" Ghosts? Fuck, you didn't invite me. ”
I told me what I had just experienced, and my little girlfriend Ding Ling interjected: "Lao Liu, that's not a ghost, it's a nightmare." ”
"What do you call a nightmare?" Wang Chen asked.
Ding Ling said: "You don't know what to do, nightmares are also called ghost beds, anyway, they are not real ghosts." ”
I sat on the couch trembling and shuddering, thinking about what had just happened, and my heart was pounding.
When Wang Chen heard that it was not a ghost, his courage regained and he said with a smile: "This kid must have masturbated too much recently, and his yang energy is too weak." ”
I didn't pay attention to him, because I knew in my heart that it wasn't some kind of press just now. I know the pair of black leather shoes on the ground, which are the shoes he wore when I interviewed Brother Peng for the first time.
Thinking of Brother Peng's soul splitting needle, I got goosebumps all over my body. The scene of being dragged by a fat woman just now is too much like the legendary "soul scattering", she is trying to pull my soul out of my body!
I thought about it, but I still dialed Peng Gang's phone.
Peng Gang didn't seem to realize that I could call, and his tone seemed a little flustered. I asked him if there was any clue to his dad's disappearance. Peng Gang told the hospital about the investigation. The time when Brother Peng appeared in the hospital's surveillance video was half past two this afternoon. He walked down the hallway alone, into the men's bathroom, and never came out.
After careful investigation, no one else was in the toilet at that time, which means that there were no witnesses.
Could it be that Brother Peng ran out of the toilet window? Then it's even more unlikely. This toilet is located on the fifth floor of the inpatient department, and at the beginning of the hospital's establishment, there were cases of patients climbing out of the toilet window and falling to their deaths. With the experience of the past, the courtyard has welded a very strong iron fence outside the window, not to mention with bare hands, even with a saw knife, it can not be sawed at all in three or four hours.
Brother Peng, like David Copperfield, mysteriously disappeared in the secret room.
This matter is so unbelievable that it is beyond the capacity of the hospital, and the police can only be called. Now the police are investigating. When I called, Peng Gang and his mother were sorting out the things that Brother Peng had left behind in the hospital.
I heard Peng Gang say that what his father left the most was painting. Most of those paintings couldn't tell what they were drawing, like random graffiti, just large and small irregular circles, but they found a very unique painting in this pile of paintings.
Speaking of this painting, Peng Gang was very flustered, and it took a long time before he said: "Lao Liu, my mother didn't want me to say it, but I think it's not like that if I don't say it, it's still necessary to tell you." This painting left by my dad is about you! ”
I was shocked and speechless.
"Hey, hey" on the other side of the phone. I took a long breath, only to realize that I was still sitting naked in the hall, and Wang Chen and his girlfriend had already gone back to the bedroom. I shuddered and went back to my room, closed the door, put on a blanket, and squatted on the floor to smoke.
"Lao Liu, Lao Liu......" Peng Gang shouted.
"I'm here, what's that painting?" I asked.
Peng Gang hesitated: "What it looks like, you can see for yourself." Do you have time tomorrow? Why don't you come to my house, I'll wait for you. Oh, yes," he paused and said, "You'd better be prepared." ”
Damn, this kid was halfway through his talk, hung up the phone, and my heart was like a cat. After smoking for a while, my heart was so confused that I couldn't sit down and lie down, so I could only circle around the ground. This Brother Peng, you said that the two of us have no grievances, and I didn't let you cuckold, why do you stare at me. Li Yang was stunned, the copper lock was fat, Wang Chen coaxed, who are you looking for, you have to come to me. They're up for you to play.
These days are really possessed by the gods, is it really like what the ghost story says? You can't always go to unclean places, otherwise you will be contaminated with unclean things, and your life will decay.
I smoked a few puffs, snuffed it out, and called the manager to ask for leave. The manager may be out with a guest, the voice on the phone is noisy, and you can faintly hear a broken gong singing loudly. He got drunk and asked me what was wrong, and I said I would take a leave of absence tomorrow. The manager was angry at the time: "Xiao Liu, don't you want to do it?" If you don't have anything to do, you always ask for leave, like you, how can our company develop and grow? ”
I accompanied the caution and said soft words. He said: "Let me tell you Xiao Liu, you didn't pass the assessment period, and the human resources department wanted to fire you, but I tried my best to keep you." Can you grow your own face? "I said something was going on tomorrow. The manager said: "Tomorrow, the boss of the headquarters will come to us to investigate, and you can do it yourself." ”
Hung up the phone, I secretly cursed, big dick, I don't pee on your pot at all. Now that life is at stake, solving one's own problems is the right way.
After lying on the bed for a while, I really didn't dare to sleep, and as soon as I closed my eyes, I remembered the fat woman who was wet just now. I had to come to the living room, put on a blanket, endure sleep, and read the e-novel on my mobile phone with or without a ride.
I don't know when I fell asleep on the sofa, and the next day I was woken up by the ringing of my mobile phone. I squinted my eyes to answer the phone, and Peng Gang hurriedly said on the phone: "Lao Liu, you go to the city funeral home right now." ”
My mind was quick, I rolled over and sat up, and hurriedly asked what was going on.
Peng Gang said: "Just now the police called and said that there is a strange person who has been hanging around the morgue of the city funeral home recently, and he looks very similar to my father. ”
The funeral parlor is on the outskirts of the city, very far from where I live, and basically straddles the two ends of the city. In order to be in a hurry, I took a taxi, calculated the distance and touched my wallet, which was really painful. It's not that I'm stingy, I work hard in a big city, and my salary is barely enough to make ends meet, so I have to be careful about everything.
When he was halfway there, Peng Gang was urged by phone calls and text messages, and kept asking where he was. I'll tell him to be at ease, and he'll be there in a moment. As everyone knows, I am also anxious.
I couldn't help but think about it, what was Brother Peng doing at the funeral home alone?
The funeral parlor is located in the wilderness, out of the city, and there are only cars and pedestrians on the entire avenue. In broad daylight, it looks so desolate. When I saw the wreath shop on the side of the road, I knew that the funeral home had arrived.
Today, I don't know which families to catch up with for the funeral, more than 100 people, crying and crying, filial sons and grandsons tied with filial piety, and went in gloomily. I got out of the taxi and called Peng Gang, and he told me that he was waiting in the lobby and told me to hurry over.
There is still a long way to go from the entrance of the funeral home to the hall. The funeral parlor is located in the middle of nowhere, backed by the mountains, and it is winter, with dead leaves floating all over the mountain, and the cold is slaughtering. Today, for some reason, the wind was very strong, hard and cold, and when I walked into the hall, my nose almost froze.
The hall was full of people, all of whom came to mourn and participate in the memorial service, and the farewell hall for the remains on the upper and lower floors was all full, looking at the past was a huge wreath, and the sound of crying and wailing was endless.
I rubbed my frozen ears and saw Peng Gang waving and hurriedly walked over. There were a few other people with him, one was a middle-aged man in a blue police uniform, with a calm demeanor, which made people feel down-to-earth when they saw it. There is also a middle-aged woman, wearing a red cotton jacket, her hair is half white, her hair is tied in a bun at the back, her face is yellow, and she looks like a walking corpse. I have a plan in my heart, this must be Peng Gang's mother, Brother Peng's wife.
I quickly stretched out my hand and shook his mother: "Auntie, I'm here." ”
Peng Gang hurriedly said: "Mom, Uncle Chen, this is my good friend Liu Yang." Came over to help. ”
The middle-aged policeman nodded at me, and I quickly stretched out my hand: "Uncle Chen, hello." He shook my hand.
Officer Chen said: "Let's go, it just so happens that the curator is here, so you can understand the situation." "A few of us went out the back door of the hall and into the north office building. In the office on the second floor, I met the funeral director.
The curator and this Officer Chen are quite familiar, shaking hands and pouring tea. Officer Chen said, "Director Wang, you can call the witnesses who saw the strange thing, and we will find out the situation." ”
Curator Wang made a phone call, and after a short time, there was a knock on the door, and an old man in a black uniform and dirty and not trash entered. Director Wang said: "Master Lao Tian is an employee of our funeral home, who is responsible for burning corpses, let him talk about it." ”
Officer Chen handed Lao Tian a cigarette: "Master, tell me what's going on." ”
Lao Tiantou put the cigarette under his nose and sniffed it, dragged a chair and sat down, crossing Erlang's legs: "Comrade policeman, this is Yuxi, right?" This smoke is good. It's too mysterious, I'm afraid that you won't believe it when you say it. ”
Director Wang said: "Lao Tian, the police still have business, don't talk about the calf, what do you have to say." ”