When I woke up, I was still living in the house of the old village chief, and the fat man was lying on the bed moaning, saying, "The bones are scattered, no, I can't get up." "I was also not feeling well, my body was covered with bandages, and I jumped and ran out, and I could vaguely hear the wind and rain outside.

I followed his gaze and saw that in the cottage, I don't know when there were a lot of white spirit flowers, which were the kind that were pasted when the dead people in the house, because the wind and rain outside were too strong, all the spirit flowers were wet, and they hung on the wooden door.

Has anyone died?

The rain has not stopped, and even here, the sound of floods and landslides can be heard, which is mixed together, making people's ears tingle.

I sat down next to the stuffy oil bottle, and from this vantage point, I could see the other people's homes. Because of the rain, there were no open spaces in the stockade, but most of the windows were closed, and only the doors were open, and the children of the family ran around in front of the door, occasionally rushing into the rain to play.

After watching it for a long time, I asked, "When will this rain stop?" ”

"For three or five days, the thunder hasn't stopped, and that thing hasn't gone out yet." The stuffy oil bottle said lightly.

I looked at the fat man lying on the bed, distraught, and touched the gray 'elixir', which I carried with me for a day, but I didn't feel anything special, and finally I asked the stuffy oil bottle: "Can this thing save the fat man?" ”

The stuffy oil bottle pinched the beads in his hand, and the two fingers turned very flexibly, and after a while, he said, "You keep it, take him to the hospital." ”

Hospital?

I didn't reflect it for a while? The heart said what is the use of sending the fat man to the hospital? Can the hospital still detoxify the corpse?

Probably seeing my doubts, the stuffy oil bottle rarely took the initiative to speak, and said: "History is always moving forward, and the current hospital can treat it." As soon as I heard the calm tone of the stuffy oil bottle, I immediately became calm, jumped up happily, rushed to the fat man's bedside, punched him in the belly, and scolded with a smile: "Thank you for your mother for giving birth to you in the 21st century." ”

The fat man hissed in pain, smacked his lips and said: "I also want to thank the revolutionary martyrs who dedicated themselves to the cause of medicine, this is right, we can't always be played by the ancients, no matter how powerful this corpse poison is, it is also a thing of the Warring States, and it must be eliminated, Lao Hu thinks ......about it" The fat man stopped suddenly, snorted, and said: "Little brother knows so clearly, ask which hospital to go to." ”

I laughed dryly, changed the topic with the fat man's words, and asked the stuffy oil bottle at the door: "Little brother, do you have any recommended hospitals?" "After asking, I think it's a vain question, although the stuffy oil bottle has recovered his memory, but there are still some blank areas in the grid, for modern hospitals, I guess he can't find the north when he goes out.

The stuffy oil bottle turned his head, his indifferent expression was a little helpless, and he sighed: "It's okay, but the water hasn't stopped yet." ”

This sentence immediately made me confused, I carefully calculated the time, and the cold sweat came down.

It has been almost two days since the fat man was poisoned by the corpse, according to Lao Hu, he will die violently in seven days after poisoning, so that is to say, the fat man has five days left, and the Xiantao Mountain where we are at the moment, due to the rising water, has been completely isolated, like a lonely one in the ocean, if the water does not stop, we have no way to leave.

As I said earlier, it will take three to five days for the water to fade, and if it is only three days, we can risk the mudslide and rush down the mountain, but if it is five days, then it will be too late.

After speaking, the stuffy oil bottle turned his head to look at the sky again, with an indifferent look, but his brows were slightly wrinkled, obviously, he was paying attention to the changes in the sky as soon as he woke up, although he didn't say it, but he was also planning for the fat man's affairs in his heart.

The fat man also understood, touched his belly, and sighed: "Innocent, if the fat man really dies here, can I ask you for something." ”

I was sweating in a hurry, and I was even more sad when I heard the words, and said: "What are our brothers polite, if you have something to say, I will go to the soup and fight for you." When the fat man heard this, tears almost came out, and he said, "The fat man really didn't hurt you in vain." After speaking, he said: "When I die, remember to take my body out, don't leave me here, I don't have the face to see him." And also...... Bury me by the clouds, the fat man misses her. ”

I nodded while listening, and I felt something was wrong when I nodded, damn it, people aren't dead yet, why are you so unlucky.

At this moment, the stuffy oil bottle suddenly snorted, and seemed to be speechless for the two of us to confess his last words, he stood up from the threshold, squinted his eyes, and said, "The rain has stopped." ”

The fat man was stunned, like a dead tree in spring, a carp jumped up from the bed, rushed to the door to look out, and sure enough, the rain stopped, and even the thunder was quiet.

"The beast swam into the Yangtze River?" The fat man said.

"It should be." I nodded.

The stuffy oil bottle turned his head and said, "Without further ado, I'll leave tomorrow." ”

Although the thunderstorm has stopped now, the flood will not recede until at least tomorrow, and the soil and rocks in the mountains are soft, and the chance of mudslides is too great, so it will definitely not be possible to go today. I put my heart back in my stomach, and the whole person sat on the threshold as if I had fought a life-and-death battle.

Life in the mountains was boring, not to mention TV, there was not even an electric light, and that night, through small talk with the old village chief, I knew who the deceased was. It is said that after Zhao Wang's disappearance, his father washed his face with tears all day long, and in the early hours of yesterday morning, for some reason, he died in his sleep, and was found the next day.

The old village chief asked us if we had met Zhao Wang when we entered the mountain, and I thought for a while and said, "No." ”

The old village chief sighed, looked in the direction of the Ghost Thunder Mountain, and said, "Alas, I hope the child is okay, the mountain has collapsed." Then, he didn't say anything more, stared at the direction where the Ghost Thunder Mountain was located for a long time, his cloudy eyes gradually became distant, as if he was recalling something, and after a long time, he fell asleep.

Zhao Wang's father's mourning hall was parked in the village, and that night, I took the fat man to the mourning hall to keep vigil. In front of the inferior black wooden coffin, a lantern was lit, and an old black and white photo was placed in front of the lamp, the person in the photo was very young, very similar to Zhao Wang, it is estimated that he was only in his early twenties, and the people in the mountains did not take much pictures, it is said that this photo was taken by Zhao Wang's father when he was young.

The ever-bright lamp flickered in the night wind, the old village chief said, it was originally intended to be sent to the cemetery of the mass grave, but suddenly there was a big flood, and it was delayed, I pulled the fat man to kneel, thought about it, and said to the coffin: "Old man, I am your son's boss, I estimate, you have now reunited with him, the specific matter, your son should have told you, please help me bring him a word: just say that I and the fat man thank him, what do you need in the future, let him give me a dream at any time." ”

After speaking, I felt that I couldn't go on, there was a dilapidated scripture in front of the mourning hall, in the Sichuan and Shu regions, after the death of a person, there should be relatives to read the scriptures to send the soul, I knelt in front of the coffin to read the scriptures, a reading is the middle of the night.

I read this scripture for many people, and I thought about many things during this time.

The third uncle once said that once you do this business, many things are involuntarily, and you will never know what will happen to you in the future, and you will never be able to predict what kind of person you will become in the future. I have always thought that no matter what, at least I will not harm others, people will not offend me, I will not offend others, I will act with a conscience, and I will have a clear conscience.

But this time, I have a loss, and a very bad loss, like a stinger, I can never pull it out.

It wasn't until this moment, kneeling in front of the black coffin, listening to the sound of the fat man's chanting, and listening to the whistling mountain wind in Wushan, that I deeply understood the meaning of the third uncle's words, and even understood why he strongly stopped me in the first place.

During this period, the fat man has been very silent, he recites the scriptures more smoothly than me, probably as he said, he has done too many things in the first half of his life, so he is very familiar with it. We knelt in front of the black coffin and chanted, it was hard and boring, but we didn't feel enough, and after a long time, we sat on the door frame and looked at the sky, walked up to us, and said, "Leave tomorrow and go back to rest." ”

The fat man opened his eyes, his eyes were red, he pretended to yawn, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said, "Ming'er get up early, go to sleep, just get your mind when you arrive, we are not professional monks." ”

I saw that his eyes were swollen from crying, and he still wanted to save face, stared at him for a long time, and said seriously: "Fatty, will you fight in the future?" ”

The fat man paused as he yawned, and said to me seriously: "Innocent, don't go down, never again." After speaking, he looked in the direction of Ghost Thunder Mountain, squinted his eyes and said: "The fat master has made enough money, with this kung fu, it is better to find a daughter-in-law and travel abroad." ”

I didn't say anything more, and went back to my room to rest.

Early the next morning, he said goodbye to the old village chief, Xiaohua disagreed, saying that it was too dangerous to go down the mountain now, the soil in the mountain was soaked loose, and it was easy to encounter mudslides or landslides, and he thought that if he wanted to go down the mountain, it would take at least three or four days.

"I know it's dangerous, but we're running out of time. Xiaohua ...... "Finally, I thought about it, but after all, I didn't ask anything, and said, "Take me to say hello to her." ”

Xiaohua didn't answer me, neither admitted nor vetoed, as if he hadn't heard, and finally he patted me on the shoulder and said, "Very good, grown up." ”

I smiled wryly, punched him, and said, "Damn, you're only a few years older than me." "If it was before, with the relationship between him and Chen Wenjin, I would not give up this clue easily, but at this moment, I don't want to ask anything.

Wen Jin is obviously in a state of corpse, and should still be conscious, but it is estimated that it won't last long, I don't know why she found Xiaohua, and I don't know what kind of cooperative relationship there is between them, or, as Xiaohua said, it just makes the rest of her time more stable.

Now, I don't want to know, and I even have an urge to escape, this vortex is too big, there are too many people around me who have died, if the truth needs to pay so much, then I will 'grow up'.

Immediately afterwards, the corners of Xiaohua's mouth hooked, smiled, and said, "I have time to come to Beijing to play." In the end, he commanded and said, "Go and prepare something for the third master." "After a while, the middle-aged man with a dog leg packed a package for me, which contained everything from food to some emergency medicine, enough for the three of us, because I and the fat man were injured, the stuffy oil bottle took the equipment and carried it on his back, and the three of us walked on the muddy mountain road under the eyes of the villagers.

The process of going out of the mountain, I really don't want to say more, all the way is full of muddy mountain roads, the stones are loose, a step on the slippery, and even encountered several small area landslides, but I am a scholar of architecture, for the solid foundation of the judgment is more profound, encountered more dangerous places, have taken them around.

Most of the time, it was the stuffy oil bottle in front of the road, and when we went down to the foot of the mountain, the water in the lower reaches of Wuxia was still surging, the water was churning, there was not a single boat on the river, only on the simple dock on the opposite bank, there were a few bamboo rafts, and there were two people on the bamboo rafts, who seemed to be salvaging something.

The fat man yelled at the other side: "Brother, we have to cross the river." ”

The two men stopped salvaging and seemed to discuss something more, and after a while, one of them shouted, "The water is too big, slow down, you wait." ”

"Damn." The fat man scolded, sat on the rocks along the coast, felt out the food from the equipment bag, we waited until the afternoon, the water slowed down slightly, and the two people on the opposite bank supported the raft to cross us, I originally planned to go back to Hangzhou directly, but the fat man's situation was not optimistic, so we went out of the county, and accompanied the fat man directly back to Beijing, under the guidance of the stuffy oil bottle, selected the Beijing Military Hospital to stay.

As soon as the doctor saw the things on the fat man's body, he was immediately shocked, full of professional terms, to the effect that the fat man had a rare disease, probably infected with some viruses, causing subcutaneous vascular lesions, forming something similar to corpse spots, and then there was an expert consultation, although it was troublesome, but he still came up with a set of treatment plans, and the doctor said that he would stay in the hospital for more than a month.

I breathed a sigh of relief, and stayed in the hospital with the stuffy oil bottle, and we were both injured, so we simply went to a ward with the fat man, and the stuffy oil bottle quickly regained his vitality, so the fat man threw the key to the stuffy oil bottle, and asked him to go to his own yard first, and wait for me to be discharged.

I was discharged from the hospital faster than the fat man, and I was alive and kicking around in a week, and I went to say goodbye to the fat man that day, and asked him to contact me at any time if he had any situation, but the fat man didn't say anything, stared at me for a long time, and repeated: "The fat man will not fight in the future." ”

I thought about it and said, "I won't go down either, little brother, I will watch him and fight if I can't fight." The fat man snorted, suddenly pulled me closer, and whispered, "Little brother will be handed over to you, you be careful yourself." ”

I understand what the fat man means, this matter is not over yet.

I patted the fat man's hand and said, "I know, you put a hundred hearts." ”

Since we didn't have ID cards, we had to take the train back to Hangzhou, and when we arrived at my shop, it was the last day of October, the 31st. I subconsciously calculated, there are more than ten days left in the two months mentioned by passer-by A and the second uncle, and the time should be between November 11th and November 15th, and those three days will be the key to everything.

I waited quietly, and my heart was at peace.

After going back, I spent three days with the stuffy oil bottle, eating, sleeping, eating, until I went downstairs on the fourth day and saw Wang Meng who was cleaning up downstairs, and this kind of ** day ended.