Chapter Twenty-Six: The Old Lady
When I saw this, I seemed to be enlightened. As Brother Ning disappeared without a trace, his heart was empty and very melancholy.
I walked out of the apse and looked at the gloomy sky. He Qin, Director Tan, Lin Yong, and now Brother Ning are all dead. It can be said that the people in the team who are the most threatening to me and hate me the most are all dead, and it should be easy, but I can't be relaxed, I can't talk about the energy, and my heart is like a stone.
When she came to the front hall, Lu Wen had already woken up, leaning on a temple pillar, and the mute girl was holding her hand very obediently and was accompanying her. I looked around the hall and didn't see Fan Qiang, so I gestured to the mute girl. The mute girl gestured to tell me that Fan Qiang had already left, and he was out of the temple gate, and he didn't know where he was going.
I breathed a sigh of relief, such a person can just leave, and it is awkward to get together. I touched Lu Wen's head, it was still a little burnt, but it was much better. I asked her if she could go, Lu Wen nodded, didn't say anything, like the walking dead, let me arrange. The mute girl and I set her up, and the three of us helped each other out of this eerie temple.
Outside, the gloomy fog gradually dissipated, and I was suddenly in a good mood. Now in the team, a blind Lu Wen, and a weak little girl, I am the absolute authority here, and no one can put pressure on me anymore. Just as I was thinking, the mute girl pulled my hand and pointed to the plaque on the temple.
I looked up and saw that the plaque was in blue letters on a gray background, with "Hall of Five Senses" written, and a couplet was pasted on the pillars on both sides: Neither I nor I am not me, the five senses and five senses have no five senses. The gods chattered and did not become a rhyme, but from the literal understanding, it also corresponded to the strange fate of Brother Ning.
Thinking of Brother Ning, I felt a sense of melancholy in my heart, sighed, took the two of them, and slowly walked towards the far ahead.
The speed of travel is very slow, and I have no communication with Lu Wen, she is in a bad situation now, like she has no ability to think at all, she is stupid and stupid, and she will do whatever she wants.
We walked for a while, and we came to a road, so far in front and back, that I forgot which direction I came from. We're all numb, and we don't know what this place is, anyway, it's just a thought, go, where to go. I don't know how long it took, but I could vaguely see some low-rise buildings in front of me, all of which were makeshift board houses, like a large construction site. We walked slowly and saw a very desolate scene.
This is indeed a construction site, but there is not a single figure in sight. In the center of the construction site is the unfinished foundation, and piles of steel bars and cement are piled up. I don't know how long it has been unfinished here, the ground is full of wild grass, and the metal materials are rusty from the wind and rain, and no one cares about it.
We casually pushed open a board room, and there was a strong smell coming from it. The area is small, but it is densely packed with almost eight or nine beds with bunk beds. The bed was covered with colorful mattresses and quilts, and it was filthy and smelled unbearably musty. Although the environment is very uncomfortable, we really can't go on, so we can only choose to rest here.
Lu Wen's situation was a bit tricky, she began to talk nonsense, kept calling for puppet bar, and occasionally called grandma. I put her in a bed and covered her with a quilt, and now if I don't treat her, I'm afraid the consequences will be very unoptimistic.
I gestured to tell the mute girl not to run around, and I went out to find something to eat and drink. This is a temporary residence for migrant workers, and there are many such prefabricated houses, lined up in a long line, and I checked from room to room, and there was really no one. Searching, searching, let me find the kitchen.
The kitchen was dirty, stained all over the floor, the pot was cold, and it hadn't been fired for a long time. The smell was so bad that it almost pushed me out, so I covered my nose and looked around the kitchen, not to mention that there were a few water tanks in the corner, and when I lifted the lid, it was full of water.
I found a few bottles filled with water and carried them back to my residence. Helped Lu Wen drink some water, she had a fever all the time.
I sat on a bed, staring at the mute girl, and it was a very bleak scene. I'm already thinking about this, if Lu Wen doesn't get medical treatment, her condition is getting worse and worse, and in the end she is likely to burn to the point that she can't walk at all, what should I do at that time?
I stretched out my hands to the mute girl, "What should I do?" ”
The mute girl didn't understand what it meant at all, tilted her little head, and looked at me cutely.
Feeling bored, but not hungry, I lay down in bed and fell into a groggy sleep. At some point, I woke up from the cold and felt chills all over my body. As soon as I turned over and sat up, I found that the door was blown open, and the cold air outside was blown in with the wind. I touched my shoulder, I didn't care if I was cold, I was afraid that Lu Wen's condition would worsen.
I got out of bed and pulled my shoes to Lu Wen's bed, she fell asleep groggily. I touched her forehead, it was frighteningly hot, and my heart began to sink, and it seemed that now I had to think about the reality of what to do if she couldn't go.
I came to the door and saw a light rain outside. The rain was not heavy, it was dripping, but there was a bleak chill in the middle of the night. I was very depressed, and I was about to close the door, when I suddenly saw a fire not far away, just in the construction site.
My heart was beating wildly, and when I came back, I looked at Lu Wen and the mute girl who were asleep, picked up a hard hat from the wall, put it on, and walked out of the house to close the door, ready to check it out.
At the door, I thought about it and picked up a shovel. Along the way, all kinds of strange things have continued, and it is better to take protective measures. In the middle of the night when it was raining lightly, I could barely see my fingers, and my whole body was soaked, and my body was very cold. As I got closer, I saw a fire burning at the construction site, and I hid behind a pile of cement bags and peeked carefully.
When I looked closely, I secretly screamed bad luck. It turned out that there was a simple shed in the middle of the construction site, which was leaking on all sides, and there was an old lady in a black cotton jacket squatting in the shed, with a brazier in front of her, and she was burning paper there.
She was chattering while burning paper, chattering, and there was no sadness in her tone, very gentle, as if she was chatting with someone. On this big night, seeing such a scene, it was terrible and unlucky. I hesitated for a moment, and I wanted to leave, but considering that it would be good to ask someone for directions, it was better than walking blindly without direction.
The other party was just an old lady, and she didn't need a shovel, so I threw it aside and walked over slowly.
When I got closer, I found that there was an offering table in this shed, on which there were four bowls and some fruits, and a posthumous photo was placed in the center. The photo is a middle-aged woman, not ugly, but with high cheekbones, especially now it is still a black and white posthumous photo, which makes people feel a little gloomy.
The old lady was squatting there and throwing paper money into the brazier, and when I came closer, she didn't respond. She tossed and chattered, her body swaying back and forth with the sound, and from time to time the wind blew in, blowing the flames in the brazier.
I saw a mountain of paper money stacked next to her, and I thought to myself that she would burn it like this, and it would not be burned until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse Month. I couldn't wait, hesitated, and said hello: "Auntie, auntie?" ”
The old lady is still burning there.
I changed my title: "Auntie? Elderly? ”
The old lady hung her head and burned, and I suddenly felt that something was wrong. Even if it's a little cool tonight, it's summer after all, so you won't wear a padded jacket. The old lady seemed to be particularly afraid of the cold, and wrapped herself tightly, and the most terrible thing was her hair. It has a grayish-yellow color that is almost life-decaying, and that kind of gray is a little disgusting to look at.
Is this old lady Alzheimer's? This place made me very uncomfortable, and I turned to leave, when suddenly the old lady raised her head: "Who are you?" ”
I coughed: "My companion and I passed by here, and saw that you always burned paper here, and wanted to come over and ask for directions." ”
"Oh." The old lady didn't say anything. I finally saw her face, and my heart chuckled, this old lady is honestly quite beautiful, her face is snow-white, her skin is very good, although she is old, but her facial features are quite delicate, and I don't know how to maintain it.
"Who is this?" I pointed to the photo on the mourning hall.
The old lady sighed: "This is a mother. Her daughter had a bad relationship with her, after she died, her daughter didn't ask, poor that, she didn't even have a paper burner, what can she do if she encounters such an unfilial daughter. I am a kind-hearted person, and every year on her death day, I come to burn paper, and I should pay off her daughter's debts. ”
I coughed twice and casually asked, "You live here all the time?" ”
"Yes, I used to study medicine when I went to the countryside, and I was the foot doctor in the village. Now that I'm old, I'm lonely, and I don't even have any retirement money, so I can only be a doctor in the small medical room on the construction site, just chew the grain. ”
I blinked, "Do you always treat burns and eye diseases?" ”
The old lady looked at me, grinned with her teeth, and her voice was particularly like that of a crow, rattling: "I have no other ability, but I can see falls, bruises, and burns." What do you think, in addition to headaches, brain fevers, colds and fevers, construction site workers usually have all kinds of work-related injuries, and I dare not say anything else. ”
I am overjoyed in my heart, isn't this a coincidence, it is really Lu Wen's life that should not be extinguished. I clenched my fists: "Old lady, there is a girl in our companion who has been burned by steam, can you help show it?" Oh, sorry, we don't have much money, but tell me what you're going to do, and I'll do it for you. ”
The old lady looked at me and kept grinning, and in the faint firelight, her smile was particularly terrifying. I looked at her gloomy face, and suddenly regretted it a little, I didn't know what was going on, and I had a bad feeling in my heart.
The old lady said, "Although I am just a little doctor, I also know the truth of curing diseases and saving people." Let's not talk about hanging pots to help the world, it's too big, but it must also be worthy of the conscience of being a doctor. Young man, you don't have to pay anything, you can send that girl to the infirmary in a moment, and I'll show her. ”
I accompanied the old lady to burn the paper for a while, and by the way, I asked her why there was no one here. The old lady said, "Iniquity." I heard that the real estate boss who developed here went in because of some commercial fraud, and he gave the material merchants, migrant workers, and even the pre-sale customers who had already paid for the house. I heard that there can be hundreds of millions of dollars after being cheated, and many people have lost their hard-earned money, and they have lost all their money and created evil. ”
"Then why are you still here?"
The old lady quacked again: "Where else can I go to a lonely old woman?" Wherever I go, I eat and drink and wait for death, so I might as well die here, guarding such a large place, which is my tomb. ”
Let her tell me that I broke out in a cold sweat, and I didn't dare to answer.