Chapter 129. Case 17: Verify in person
Although I can see the ghost lady, the target of its attack is not me after all, because it is Hu Zongren who is urinating irreverently while shouting at it, of course, it cannot be ruled out that Hu Zongren is really in a hurry. But seeing Hu Zongren dragging backwards on the ground to the middle of the road still surprised me. Although it is late in this period, the traffic on this road is still relatively high, because most of the trucks are transporting materials from this road to Chengdu. I won't talk about big trucks, which often drive very fast, and often can't brake when they want to brake.
So I didn't have time to think about it, after I broke free from that sense of oppression, I jumped forward and grabbed Hu Zongren's ankle, the ghost old lady was not riding on Hu Zongren's body at the moment, but the whole person was lying on Hu Zongren's body in a prostrate state, reaching out and jamming Hu Zongren's neck, Hu Zongren stretched out his tongue painfully because his neck was stuck, and his feet began to kick around, and his hands also covered his neck. In the process of kicking my legs, I was kicked by Hu Zongren several times. Seeing that Hu Zongren was getting closer and closer to the roadway, and a few meters further, his head might be directly under the wheel, so I turned around, my head was in the direction of the guardrail, trying to pull Hu Zongren to the side of the road in the opposite direction, but the ghost lady's strength was very great, coupled with Hu Zongren's humiliation and stimulation just now, I am afraid that I am a little out of mind at this moment, I noticed that my strength could not compare to it, so I immediately turned over, left hand thunder charm and right hand wordless, both hands together towards the ghost lady's head.
With a shrill scream, I felt as if something had hit me hard in the chest, causing me to hold my breath for a short time, and then fall to the ground, so that Hu Zongren was able to break free, and at this moment, his upper body was already in the roadway. I shouted to Hu Zongren in a hoarse voice, you hurry back, you won't be able to row back when you are killed. Although Hu Zongren was weak, he was still conscious, and when he heard me say this, he struggled to climb towards the side of the road for a while and then got up, staggered to my side, and then helped me up. At this time, a large truck whizzed past us, and it was so fast that I could almost feel my body being swept into the air generated by the rapid movement of the vehicle. Hu Zongren and I helped each other to the side of the road, I looked around, looking for the trace of the ghost old lady, Hu Zongren said, let's run, this guy is angry and can't clean up.
I glared at him and said you're angry, can you stop being so impulsive next time. Hu Zongren didn't speak, just pulled me up and walked towards the car.
I was hurt less, but I was hit so hard that I now feel like I've eaten a big raw nut. Hu Zongren's shoulder seemed to have been injured when he was at the end of the day, he kept covering it with his hand, I asked him what was wrong, he said that it seemed that he had hit the joint when he fell, and he was a little dislocated. I didn't learn how to pick up bones, and I couldn't pick up a dislocation like in those movies. I said you go in the co-pilot, I'll drive, let's go back first.
Fortunately, the place we are going to is the hospital, so it is okay for Hu Zongren to hold on for a while. I quickly closed all the doors and windows as soon as I got into the car, applied a dressing to the windows, and rushed back to the hospital as fast as I could, but safely.
When I parked the car, I called Zhao Jing and asked her to come downstairs and take Hu Zongren to the emergency department to deal with the dislocation first, and I went directly back to the old lady's ward. Zhao Jing was very surprised when she saw our embarrassed appearance, and asked us what happened, I shook my head and didn't answer her, saying that these things would be talked about later. But when I returned to the ward, I found Mr. Leng sitting alone in front of the window, rubbing his brows a little tiredly, the woman had long since disappeared, I asked Mr. Leng where the woman went, and he told me that she went to the nurse's station to accompany the bed, and I guess I would be here tonight.
I looked at the sleeping old lady on the bed, and I had some doubts in my heart that could not be answered, so I secretly took out the compass and carefully examined the old lady's surroundings, and found that this old lady was really as I guessed, she was a good, complete person.
So I sat down on the chair beside the bed in a decadent manner, and thought about it again. After a while, the woman came back, and he saw me sitting on the side, a little surprised, but maybe I didn't look good at that time, so she didn't ask me anything. After a while, Hu Zongren and Zhao Jing also came back. Hu Zongren looked embarrassed, and at a glance, he knew that Dao had just suffered a lot. When I saw him come back, I called him out of the door with the woman.
I asked the woman, is there a person named "Zhao Manting" in your family? This is the only thing I can think of asking this woman at the moment, because next to the grave in question is this grave with a tombstone, and if the two dead did not know each other, they would not normally be buried together. The woman thought for a moment and said, the name sounded familiar, but she really didn't remember it. I asked her again, "Is there anyone in your family who is buried near the White Market?" The woman said that when I was a child, I heard my mother say that my hometown was in the Baishiyi area, but we have been to the city since we were very young, and those things are not very clear. Why do you suddenly ask this? I didn't answer the woman's question. It's not early, the old lady has already gone to bed, and she's old and injured, so it doesn't seem appropriate to wake her up at this time. So Hu Zongren and I decided to sleep in the car tonight and ask tomorrow when the old lady woke up.
So that night, Zhao Jing found a small hotel near the hospital to stay, and Hu Zongren and I went back to my car and fell asleep. Even if it's uncomfortable, your car should be safer after all. But I had to put up with Hu Zongren's snoring in the middle of the night and the occasional fart.
We woke up early the next day because it wasn't very comfortable to sleep in the car. I called Zhao Jing, and then the three of us went to the ward after eating something casually at the entrance of the hospital. But I don't know what happened on the first night of Lu Dao, the relationship between Mr. Leng and the woman seems to have improved, and they are talking and laughing on the side, as if the previous unhappiness had never happened. Mr. Leng saw that we were coming, so he walked up to us and said, I made it clear to this eldest sister last night that I will cover all the old lady's medical expenses, including the later conditioning costs, which I should bear, and then I will symbolically calculate the cost of delaying everyone's time these days, and this matter will be considered in the past. We were also very happy to see that he was able to solve this matter by himself, and Hu Zongren even apologized to the woman, saying that he was a little impulsive the first day and detained her. Although the woman still felt a little afraid of us, she could be regarded as accepting Hu Zongren's apology.
The old lady seemed to be in good spirits, so I chatted with her casually, and then quickly turned the topic to her family, and I asked her if she knew a person named Zhao Manting, and when she heard the name at first, she seemed a little surprised, and she told me that it was her eldest uncle.
I asked her again, do you remember where your uncle was buried after he died? The old lady said that she was not close to her uncle's family, and that her grandfather was doing business in Chongqing in his early years, at the end of the Qing Dynasty. And there are a total of four children around my mother, the eldest uncle follows my grandfather to do business, my mother is the third, the second is an aunt, but she died when she was young, and the fourth is also an uncle, but I have never seen it. I asked her why you haven't seen your uncle? The old lady told me that my little uncle was sent to someone else's house for foster care when he was very young, and my mother was married at that time, so the relationship between her siblings was not close, and it was only a few years before my mother's death that she resumed contact with my eldest uncle, and a few years after my mother's death, my eldest uncle also passed away, and we have not been in contact with each other since. I asked her, your uncle died in 1990, right? The old lady said yes. I said that you just know that your uncle is dead, but you don't know where Lu Dao is buried, right? The old lady nodded and said yes, because after her mother's death, her hometown was facing demolition, and they didn't pay much attention to it in the countryside, and their mother's grave hadn't been back to see it for decades, but they just set up a tablet at home to worship.
By the time I got that, I've basically guessed most of it. So I asked her, "Is your mother buried on a hill near the highway in Baishiyi?" The old lady asked in surprise, how did you know the Tao? I said I guessed, I'm not sure it's your mother, but I found another tomb next to that tomb, and that tomb belongs to your uncle Zhao Manting.
Actually, I really relied on most of the speculation, and the reason was that when I was inspecting Mr. Leng's car in the garage, after blowing incense ash, I noticed that the ghost's feet were a little strange, and it seemed that he only had a thumb and no other toes. In addition, when I helped the old lady to stretch out her feet to breathe, I also observed that the old lady's toes were intact, in this case, I was basically sure that it would not be the same person, but there was not enough evidence for me to directly rule out this speculation. And I can't help but start imagining. What kind of person might look like this old lady but have incomplete feet? After thinking about it for a long time, I felt that it was very likely that this was the old lady's mother, and the so-called feet without toes were not really none, but because considering the age of the old lady's mother, women had to bind their feet, and I once saw those old lady's feet wrapped on the Internet, and the shape was actually very similar to the traces I found on the car.
So when Hu Zongren and I found the two graves, I knew that as long as I was sure that one of the two graves had something to do with the old lady, then the other was very likely to be buried with her mother.
So far, I'm right.