Chapter 51: Hanging
After listening to Lin Xue's words, Grandma's face changed suddenly: "Didn't he go to the hospital to accompany Peihua today?" Why get drunk? Why do you want to die when you get home? ”
She sat on the chair, covered her forehead with her right hand, and sighed: "It's really a wave of unsettled, wave after wave, Peihua's illness is not completely healed, your uncle is drunk and can't think about it, you and I can go up to the second floor to see him."
Lin Xue: "Okay."
Lin Xue took her grandmother's rough left hand and walked up to the second floor.
The two stood next to the sofa, and Lin Xue found Liu Ruxi lying quietly at the foot of the sofa.
Grandma glanced at Liu Ruxi and said, "Xiaoxue, this little white raised is really sensible, why do you say your uncle is looking for death in a good manner?" You go downstairs and help me make a cup of honey water and bring it up, I'll wake him up later." ”
Lin Xue: "Well, grandma, you wait, I'll come up soon."
Lin Xue quickly brewed a cup of honey water, she carefully carried the cup upstairs, and after her grandmother heard her footsteps, she said to her uncle: "Awen, Awen, you get up first, you get up and drink saliva before you sleep."
Lin Xue heard her uncle say vaguely: "Mom, Mom, you let me sleep for a while, I'm so tired."
Grandma coaxed him patiently: "Just listen to what your mother said, drink this glass of water and then sleep, okay?"
Lin Xue walked to the sofa and stopped, she saw her uncle's eyes scarlet, he was helped up by his grandmother, leaning on the armrest of the sofa, and her grandmother took the cup of honey water from Lin Xue's hand: "Thank you, Xiaoxue, you go back to the room first, I have something to say with your uncle."
Lin Xue: "Okay, grandma, if you have anything to ask me to help with, just call me out."
After Lin Xue saw her grandmother nodding, she picked up Liu Ruxi, who was lying on the tile, walked into the room, and closed the door.
She glanced at Liu Ruxi in her arms, then put her right ear on the door and pricked up her ears to listen to the sound of talking outside.
Grandma: "Awen, don't hold it in your heart if you have anything, tell your mother, and your mother can share the pain for you."
Uncle: "Mom, I can't say ......"
Grandma: "It doesn't matter if you can't say it, Mom will always be with you, you are my son, I won't harm you, I just want to know why you went to drink?"
Uncle cried: "Mom, I, I, Peihua, she ......"
Lin Xue thought: What happened? Why did my uncle cry?
She pressed her right ear closer to the door panel.
Grandma: "It's okay, it's okay, everything will pass, Peihua, she just got sick for a while, and she will be fine soon, Awen, you have to cheer up."
The uncle hoarsely voiced: "Peihua won't be fine, because she is dead."
After Lin Xue heard this, her eyes widened and she looked shocked.
Grandma: "Awen, are you drunk?" How could Peihua die? ”
Uncle: "It's all to blame that I went out to buy something to eat at noon today, and didn't go back to look at Peihua, when I returned to her ward, I found that there was no nurse in the ward, and Peihua was not on the hospital bed......" He didn't say any more.
Outside the hall, there was a deathly silence.
Uncle spoke again: "Soon after I went out, when the nurse was inspecting the ward, I found that the nurse was just not there, Peihua hung the triangle iron of the toilet flush tank on the second floor with the edge cloth strip of the pillow cushion, and the nurse immediately hugged her and put her in the bathroom after seeing it, and the nurse notified the nursing staff and the doctor to rescue her in the bathroom, but she still couldn't survive......" Lin Xue heard the sound of her uncle crying in the room, she frowned, and the corners of her eyes were dyed with a trace of sadness.
Grandma: "How could this happen?" Didn't you say she was much better? I'm still waiting for her to be discharged, Arwen, how can this be......"
The uncle answered Grandma's question with a cry.
Grandma said in a hoarse voice: "Awen, don't keep the pain in your heart anymore, it's been a pain for you this time, cry out, mom and you cry together......"
The uncle shouted with a crying voice: "Mom......"
Lin Xue hugged the fluffy Liu Ruxi and squatted on the ground, she leaned her back against the door panel.
Ten minutes later, the outside of the hall finally calmed down.
Grandma: "Awen, it's okay, you have to think about everything, don't get into the horns, you know?"
Uncle: "Got it, Mom."
Grandma: "Mom is old, I don't want to lose you again with the loss of my husband, daughter and daughter-in-law, don't let me worry anymore, okay?"
Uncle: "Mom, I'm sorry."
Grandma: "Don't tell me I'm sorry, your life was given to you by me and your father, and you can't throw it away."
Uncle: "Mom, I know."
Grandmother: "My good son, you have to be strong."
Uncle: "Well, I'll be strong."
Lin Xue didn't want to listen anymore, she hugged Liu Ruxi and sat on the small bed and pressed the TV switch, she turned up the volume a little higher, and asked, "Liu Ruxi, you say, why did that female ghost pester her uncle just now?"
He looked at her: "She is a hanged ghost, that is, a ghost who hangs herself and dies, the hanged ghost is also called a hanged ghost, the hanged ghost likes to entangle people who have the heart to die, watching him (she) kill himself, the hanged ghost will tempt him (her) in every possible way, persuade him (her) to hang himself, that hemp rope is the thing that the hanged ghost uses to harm people."
Lin Xue: "Didn't you just burn that hemp rope with fox fire, didn't you do a good thing?"
Liu Ruxi: "I saw that you wanted to save your uncle, so I burned the hemp rope in a moment's heart."
Lin Xue: "Thank you for saving my uncle, if it weren't for you, my uncle and I might have died, I still have a question, why didn't that female ghost come to hurt us again after you burned her head?"
Liu Ruxi: "Maybe it's because of that fox fire, that female ghost lost part of her soul body and part of her memory."
Lin Xue lowered her eyes and thought for a while, then said, "Oh, so that's the case, you can actually turn a flame into a blue bird, are you a god?"
Liu Ruxi leaned his head on the small bed: "I'm not a god, I just use my telekinesis to transform and move the flames."
Lin Xue was surprised: "Mental power! Oh, my God! Isn't telekinesis the ability to pick up things through the air? By the way, I want to ask you, in those bloody novels, it will always be written that you monsters can live to thousands or tens of thousands of years, is it true? Also, I've read a lot of novels that those fox demons have nine tails, will you still grow tails? ”
Liu Ruxi blinked: "I haven't gotten along with my kind, so I don't know how old their longest life expectancy is." I think there should be only a few monsters that can live to be thousands or tens of thousands of years old, because monsters, like people, will die, and youkai can't escape the six reincarnations. I've only had one tail since I was a child, and maybe I won't grow any more. ”
Lin Xue: "The average age of human beings seems to be only 80 years old, and I have a hunch that when I die in the future, you should not be dead."
Liu Ruxi: "Well, maybe I will be reincarnated as an adult in my next life."
Lin Xue: "A lifetime will pass quickly."
In the evening, after the second uncle came back to eat, he began to sit in the hall on the first floor with his uncle and grandmother to discuss things.
Lin Xue stood by the sink washing dishes, and in addition to the sound of running water, there was also the sound of their conversation.
Uncle: "After the forensic doctor of the Public Security Bureau examined Peihua's body, he came to a conclusion: the possibility of his murder was ruled out, and Peihua was hanged."
Second uncle: "Mom, you just stay at home, my eldest brother and I will go out tomorrow to do a good job of this matter, there are many acquaintances next to our house, I don't want to make this matter known, I have contacted the crematorium, they said that tomorrow will transport the body of the sister-in-law to be cremated, and then I will call Chen Bisi to see off the sister-in-law."
Grandma: "Ah Wu, fortunately you are here, you have helped a lot, but where should Peihua's ashes be buried?" Over there in Xishan, your father, your sister and Lin Fei are all buried there, that piece of land is big enough, your father spent a small amount of money at that time, but he bought a good piece of land, or I will take Peihua's birthday to Aunt Xie to calculate it and see if she is suitable to be buried there. ”
Second uncle: "Mom, don't let her talk about this everywhere."
Grandma: "Aunt Xie's tone is tight, I have been friends with her for 20 years, and I can trust her."
Second uncle: "Big brother, I think you should rest, there are still many things to do tomorrow, you go and get a good night's sleep."
Uncle: "Ah Wu, you should go to bed early." The uncle walked up to the second floor.
Only her grandmother and second uncle were left in the hall, Lin Xue dried her hands, walked to the hall and said to her grandmother: "Grandma, I remember that my grandfather was cremated three days later, why did I let my eldest aunt be cremated so quickly?" Is that okay? ”
Grandma rubbed her eyes: "Your mother used to know some people in the volunteer support group, I just asked on the phone, that person said that there is no need to wait for 3 days, tomorrow she will directly take people to the crematorium for Pei Hua to carry out the prayer ceremony, your mother and I once participated in the funeral of a distant relative, at that time it was this prayer group that used to chant for that distant relative for free, and now there are many of these unpaid Buddhist volunteer groups will provide free services for others, you will go home tomorrow after breakfast, you are a child, I don't want you to go to a crematorium like that. ”
Lin Xue pursed her mouth lightly: "Well, grandma, are you tired?" If you're tired, go upstairs and take a shower, right? ”
Grandma frowned, and the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes deepened a little: "Okay, I'll go up now." Lin Xue watched her walk up to the second floor.
Lin Xue put down the dishes and chopsticks, cleaned up the table again, and picked up Liu Ruxi on the chair and went upstairs.
There was a Xianxia drama playing on the TV, Lin Xue only watched it for a few minutes before changing the channel, she really didn't like this kind of vulgar plot of the past life, this life and the next life.
She said to Liu Ruxi, who was lying on the side of the small bed: "Fortunately, my uncle is drunk and unconscious today, if he is not drunk, he will definitely see you turn from a fox to a human."
Liu Ruxi's eyes flickered: "Well, if I am seen by him, will you let me leave?"