"It's okay, I guess you don't have to rush back to work tomorrow, the whole hotel here is locked down. I hung up. A police officer came. ”

The phone just hung up. It's quiet, and even if I didn't use the speakerphone, Zong Sheng could hear the sound on my phone. With his hands in his pants pockets, he said, "Tonight is the head seven of that dead fish's eye." ”

I held my phone: "You mean, it's a dead fish's eye?" ”

Instead of answering me, he said, "Take me to the man's house today." ”

"Are you going to help him, or are you going to help the kid?" I didn't say ghost fetus, but used the child, for fear that he would be angry.

Zong Sheng exhaled slowly, and then said, "There are a few children of the ghost fetus who are happy. I shouldn't have come to this world in the first place, so why force it. It is better to let that child come into this world, only pain and anxiety, than not to be born in the first place. Let's go. ”

I looked at him, and my heart ached slightly, he was talking about himself. After so many years of being outside, he must have been wronged and afraid.

I pointed the other way and led him towards the man's house. This village is very large, and the man lives in the old village, and it takes more than ten minutes to walk from Zong Sheng's house to the man's house.

Walking on the blue brick paved path in the dim street lamp, I asked softly, "Zong Sheng, Lan Lan...... I want to be honest with Lan Lan. Your situation...... Well, that is, before she really gets to that level of obsession with you, I'll confess to her first. Or...... I'm just such a good sister as her, and I don't want us to quarrel in the future. ”

"What are you going to tell her?"

"Well, tell her about your physical condition and let her give up on her own."

"Haven't you gotten me into trouble enough? Xia Lanlan's affairs, I will handle it myself, you don't say a word. ”

"But I don't want to lose her as a sister."

"I'm not going to turn you back. I have my way. Besides, now tell her directly, when she is sad, she will go to Shen Jien, and she will really have to do it in the future, which will only be more troublesome. ”

I was stunned for a moment, I didn't know if there was any other way to get Lan Lan to let go.

That man, in the ranking, I should be called uncle, but the kinship is already far away, and I don't know how many generations of the same ancestor he counts. Their new house is being built, and the family is still living in the old house for the time being.

Looking at the light spilling from the crack in the wooden door, just as I raised my hand to slam the door, I heard the sound of crying and scolding coming from inside. The man yelled, "That's it! This day is over! I'm X, am I still a man? ”

The woman cried, and the old man also scolded: "Drink some wine and come back, you go to sleep quickly, what are you shouting, everyone doesn't have to sleep." ”

"Dad, you don't even know! This, this......" the man cried as he spoke. It's really helpless to encounter this kind of thing. Zong Sheng's mother, didn't she commit suicide in the first place?

I still tapped on the door and shouted, "Uncle, it's me, You Xuan." ”

There was no sound in the door, and then the door opened, and the man looked at Zong Sheng and me with unkempt hair, tear stains on his face, and red eyes, and was surprised that he couldn't speak. He probably thought that Zong Sheng must be angry today and would not help.

Zong Sheng walked in, the people in the family went to eat today, they all recognized Zong Sheng, they didn't speak for a while, and their eyes were a little scared when they looked at him.

Zong Sheng looked at the woman who was sitting on the ground, obviously slapped in the face, and said, "You come out." ”

The woman looked at her man, hesitated, and the man understood, and quickly pulled the woman out. The old man in the family shouted anxiously, "Where are you going in the middle of the night?" ”

The man yelled, "Dad, you can sleep with yours." Close the door, close the door. ”

We went out of the house again, Zong Sheng didn't say a word, and took a few of us to walk on the blue brick path under the street lamp. Everyone doesn't know what he thinks, and they don't know whether he is helping or not.

Walking out of the old village and walking to the entrance of the village, on the main road in front of the ancestral hall, Zong Sheng stopped, stepped on a stone slab under his feet and said, "I'll tell you the method, whether you can do it or not is your business." ”

When the woman heard this, she quickly said, "I'll do it, I'll do it, I'll do anything." I'm no longer an adult now. On this kind of day, it's better to be like your mother and die. ”

I frowned on the side, why did she mention this well? Zong Sheng snorted unhappily. After getting along for a long time, I also understand his temper, as long as I treat him as a normal person, he can still communicate. If you look at him as a monster, you can change the style of painting in an instant.

Zong Sheng took out the yellow talisman paper from so many pockets on his body, dipped it in cinnabar with a small brush, drew a talisman, and then handed it to the man and said, "At twelve o'clock tonight, soak this in water and drink it." Tomorrow from eleven o'clock to one o'clock at noon, find a way to let the child flow out and put it in a small coffin. At the same time, go and find the man's grave, grab a handful of grave soil, put it in a cloth bag, and then pry open the slate, dig a small pit, and put the cloth bag on it, and put a wooden board on it, and put a small coffin on the plank, and cover it with the slate. There are only two hours to do this before one o'clock, and if you miss it, he won't let you go. Tell the people in the village that this slate will not move for 10,000 years. If you move, something will happen. ”

Zong Sheng walked along this road for so long before he settled on this stone slab, I think there must be a reason for this. This is the center of the entrance of the ancestral hall, there are ancestral tablets in the ancestral hall, and there are stone drums on both sides, large stone drums, and statues of gods can be carved on them. I can't tell what it is. I heard my mother say that the slate was used to tear down the landlord's house and use it to pave the way when he was fighting the landlord in the past. What kind of mythical beast is carved on that stone tablet? There are many people and cars walking here, and it is impossible to see what kind of divine beast it is. All I know is that there are animals carved on it.

The man listened and nodded repeatedly: "Okay, her mother's house is here, and it will take more than thirty minutes to ride a motorcycle." I'll dig a pit tonight and wait. ”

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The woman frowned: "How can this child flow down?" It's not enough time to go to ......the hospital."

"What hospital!" The man said angrily, "Give the old lame man twenty yuan and let you down." ”

Old cripple? There was indeed an old lame man in the village, all of whom were already seventy or eighty men, and I remember when I was very young, he was the doctor in the village, the kind without a license. My mom even asked me to go to see him.

Zong Sheng didn't bother to listen to their quarrel, turned around and walked back, and when he passed by me, he didn't forget to reach out and take my arm.

"Zong Sheng, Zong Sheng, thank you." The man shouted from behind.

Zong Sheng didn't say a word, didn't turn back, and continued to walk forward. I followed him quickly, and I knew he was angry when I looked at his face. Away from the couple, I said, "Slow down, if you don't want to do this......"

He stopped, turned back to me, and said, "That kid shouldn't have been there." Let him be born, it will only hurt his mother, and he will also harm himself if he returns this person who is a hundred miles away. Why did you want him to be born? Why don't I want to, it's enough to have one of me, and I have to have a few more like me......"

He's so scary! On a night like this, in a quiet little village, his voice is probably heard by everyone who lives nearby, and even the nearby dogs bark. But he didn't realize that his voice was roaring. It's scary to roar on a night like this.

I was also scared, so I hugged his waist directly, buried my head in his chest, and listened to his fast and powerful heartbeat. With this action, he stopped talking at once, stiffened his body, and let me hold him. I don't know what to say, I just know that holding him like this is good for him, at least he won't associate it with himself from that child.

The street lamp stretched the two of us very long and cast them on the old blue brick wall on the side.

After a long silence, Zong Sheng said softly, "Let go." The tone was still so cold.

"Oh." I answered softly and let him go. He looked down at me and said in a low voice: "I think someone will report this matter tomorrow, and the matter of the slate will be at noon tomorrow, even if there is no special explanation, no one will touch the slate." Zong Youxuan, in fact, in the year I was born, my grandfather thought about crushing me under the stone slab. ”