The nurse's aunt took a few deep puffs of cigarettes and was about to leave, and I handed her the whole pack of cigarettes: "Let's talk casually, don't be nervous, the nursing home seems to be very evasive about this?"

The aunt took a cigarette: "Do you know why? He died a miserable death, not a normal way to die, and everyone felt bad luck and didn't want to say it." ”

"Oh, how did he die?"

"I had a strange disease, and I had scales on my body, and I was bleeding constantly, and the blood was black. A few years have passed, and the aunt is still full of fear when she says it: "I have never seen such a miserable thing, I pretended to be a funeral, and he didn't dare to look at it." ”

I also wondered what it was.

The aunt spitted: "After he died, no one wanted to live in that house anymore, it was empty for two years, and then it was converted into a warehouse." ”

"What did this old Zou do?"

"Railroad soldiers, more than half of the people living in this courtyard are retired railroad soldiers, he seems to have been transferred from some military hospital at that time, I just came here to work that year, in the summer of 1967, I remember very clearly, he was the first person to take care of him. ”

"Does he have a good relationship with Lao Kan?"

"Well, Lao Kan is a weirdo, only the two of them can talk and play chess together every day. ”

I was shocked in my heart, and I was sweating all over my body.

That day, I clearly saw him playing chess with Lao Kan, I brought two bottles of Erguotou to bribe Lao Kan for the first time, he got up and said goodbye, did he see the hell in broad daylight?

"Isn't there a second surname Zou in the nursing home?"

Auntie shook her head.

It seems that Lao Zou is a human or a ghost, and it is difficult to figure out for a while.

"Lao Kan is also a railway soldier?"

"He is a railway soldier, he was transferred from Jishuitan Hospital 10 years later, said that he was engaged in construction, and injured his leg, and it was sent by two young people at that time, and they left and never came. ”

"What kind of person is it?"

"At first glance, I was engaged in construction, covered in soil, and when I picked up a wheelchair, I smelled a smell of earth, and my hands were cold, and I wondered why my hands were so cold in summer. ”

I was just about to ask Lao Zou if he liked to read books and what kind of books he liked before his death, when a leader called his aunt away.

As I expected, Lao Kan was indeed a tomb robber, but why did he pretend to be a railroad soldier? and he knew so well about the bloody coffin incident in 1965?

There is only one possibility, Lao Zou was the witness of the blood coffin incident back then, and told Lao Kan about the incident, but the problem does not seem to be so simple, because Lao Kan's familiarity with the underground cannot be achieved by listening to a few stories, even if the witnesses return to the underground after decades, they may not remember it so clearly.

So, who is Lao Kan and who is Lao Zou?

It seems to be close to the mystery, but it is even more confusing.

I knew that I couldn't get anything out of Lao Kan's mouth, so I left the nursing home after a few casual conversations.

At work on Monday, Bai Jingjing quietly told me that when I went to the nursing home on Sunday, Lao Kan looked for her and asked her about the supernatural incident of the 330 bus, and I didn't know why he suddenly cared about this.

I said, "Maybe it has something to do with the zombies in the missing coffin, didn't you say that the three ghosts on the 330 bus are the zombies in the coffin." ”

Bai Jingjing pouted: "What kind of trouble is this going on!"

"He didn't get what he was looking for, and he was definitely not reconciled. ”

"What the hell is he looking for?"

"I don't know, it's probably a piece of cloth. ”

"A piece of cloth?!"

"To be exact, it's a piece of Huangjuan. ”

Bai Jingjing is even more dizzy, I can't explain too much, Lao Kan did mention the animal skin, and he quickly covered it up, and it's just my feeling at the moment.

But when it comes to animal skins, my heart is tight, what my old man gave to Lao Li is also a piece of animal skin, is there any connection between these two animal skins?

Also, didn't Lao Kan have a piece of animal skin on his hand, which I bumped into that time and hurriedly hid it in his pants pocket.

I had a hunch that Lao Kan was planning something, and he would still look for me.

I didn't expect it to be the boss who came to me first.

In the afternoon, I was rushing to catch up with the manuscript, and a few days ago I interviewed an antique furniture collector and went with him to Gaobeidian and Liujiaying for two days.

As soon as I got my thoughts in order, my boss called me to her office.

The first thing the boss said was to ask me to report the progress, and I said that it should be finalized tomorrow.

The boss said no, who started a manuscript on the same day as you, and she will deliver it today.

"Impossible!" I said, "We're reporting the same progress." ”

We received the manuscript task on the same day, and the progress was correct, and it was agreed that the manuscript would be delivered in 5 working days.

Actually, I am very serious at work, and I rarely cheat and cheat.

Hearing me say this, the boss also lowered his face: "Do you want to call her in and ask, she is still a newcomer, you are an old comrade, how to set an example?"

As soon as I heard it, I understood that this girl was trying to provoke me and make me resign myself.

Here I want to talk about the situation of my three years in the publishing house, before I joined the publishing house, I existed as a plug-in of the publishing house, that is, they outsourced some difficult manuscripts to me, and the two sides were in a cooperative relationship.

After a year of cooperation, the two sides felt happy to cooperate, and the boss asked me if I would like to go to work. I thought about it, although I was free to work part-time, but my income was unstable, so I negotiated a salary and entered a publishing house.

At that time, there were only six or seven employees in the publishing house, and there were only three people who wrote the manuscript, all of whom were novices, so they asked me to work part-time. In the past few years, the training has been almost, and this girl is going to cross the river and tear down the bridge, because the newcomers are all students who have just graduated for a year or two, and the salary requirements are low.

But this girl is not stupid, my contract is signed every two years, and there is still one year to expire, if I quit I will compensate me for a few months' salary, she knows my personality very well, so she gave me a radical method and let me go by myself.

I understand her routine very well, but I can't get rid of my personality, the next day Lao Tzu submitted his resignation, and the old ladies didn't even bother to play the drama of pretending to stay, and signed directly.

Two of my colleagues left the company in the same way, and this woman found inspiration from me. People who chant Buddha and burn incense all day long may not be able to become Buddhas, and there are many people with Buddha faces and snake hearts.

In this way, Lao Tzu was unemployed.

I was thinking about finding a job when I suddenly received a call from the bank, warning me that if I didn't repay the loan, they would sue me.

This has to start from half a year ago.

As mentioned earlier, my father didn't do a good job of robbing tombs, so he had to learn from others to contract projects, and the underground operation was changed to an above-ground operation, and he contracted a few small construction projects in the county, but the project money became a bad debt, and he didn't come back for a few years. Those who do engineering know that most of the construction projects need to be advanced, and the money advanced is all scraped together, and later borrowed usury, hundreds of thousands of usury, and two years later it became more than 200,000, these are all good things that he made his own ideas and hid from my mother. When my mother found out, she cried and told me that she couldn't live her life. I was also very shocked, and I was also frightened by the loan sharks who eat people and don't spit out bones, and in order to prevent the two of them from parting ways, I said I wanted to find a way. When my father found out, he scolded my mother, saying that I don't have to worry about loan sharks, and I look like a gentleman. However, he continued to let the usury rise, and even the monthly interest could not be repaid, and later he became addicted to gambling, and the grass platform team did not care much, and he didn't care about robbing the tomb, so he broke the jar directly, if I didn't care, the snowball would get bigger and bigger, and finally it would have to be pressed on me, my mother played a bitter trick, and I was forced to be helpless, I ran a few credit cards, and cashed out more than 200,000 usury, on the condition that they must repay the bank interest every month. The bank's interest rate of 5/10,000 per day is already much more benevolent than that of usury, and I am also relieved.

Later, the bastard dad asked my mom to call me again, wanting to return to the stage, but as the head and deputy head of the troupe, the two of them couldn't ride a broken motorcycle to perform.

The meaning is obvious, they need a car.

I asked my mother if I was their biological child, and my mother was stunned.

Half a year later, the bank called me to inform me that I had not repaid the loan for more than three months, and another bank for more than four months.

Thanks to my father and mother, I'm going to be entangled in lawsuits.

At this time, Bai Jingjing called me and said that Lao Kan wanted to see me.

When I saw Lao Kan, the first thing he said asked me was if I would like to accompany him to Mongolia.

"Not interested. "I'm in the middle of a lawsuit, how can I be in this mood.

"You don't ask me what I'm going to do?"

"Isn't it just for a piece of cloth? ”

Lao Kan was shocked, he didn't expect to be broken by me, in fact, I just lied to him.

"Brother, I didn't read the wrong person!" Lao Kan quickly recovered his expression: "Don't let you run for nothing, let's cooperate, it's much better than your broken class!"

Obviously, Bai Jingjing had already told him about my resignation, but I promised him like this, wouldn't I let him look down.

"I'm sorry, I still have a lot of things to do, and I really don't have time. ”

Lao Kan smiled: "I know that you are busy, I don't have to call you, it's just that the opportunity is rare, and you should be more knowledgeable when you write." ”

The more Kan said this, the more it showed that he needed me very much.

"See you robbing tombs?"

"Brother, don't be so poisonous in your mouth, we also need to cooperate with each other. ”

In the end, I agreed to Lao Kan, because he offered a price that I couldn't refuse: 300,000.

I had a feeling of selling my soul at the time, and I was struggling and disgusted with myself, but the urge to finish, the pressure of debt, I chose to exchange.

However, I made my condition, and I had to tell me the truth about the origin of the skin, and I did not want to die in vain.

Lao Kan agreed, told me after the matter was completed, and added: "Bai Jingjing will also go with me." ”

This girl is really addicted to exploration, or is there something else, I don't know why, my mind suddenly flashed back to the picture of the cave fighting the giant snake and a wound on her neck, I'm afraid she is not as innocent as it seems, and it may be deeper than what Lao Kan hides.

I asked Lao Kan, have you ever looked for Bai Jingjing?

Lao Kan smiled: "I investigated, the witnesses of the 330 bus supernatural incident are no longer alive, and she is the only one who is still alive." ”

"I'm afraid it's not your concern whether she's alive or dead, right?"

"Hahaha" Lao Kan laughed and pointed at me: "I can't hide anything from you, let's tell you the truth, the salted fish in the coffin is gone, I don't want to understand what's going on, you think about it, the coffin has never been opened, and there are three circles of golden hoops, how can the salted fish run out by itself? A few days ago, I suddenly thought of what Bai Jingjing said, she said that the image in the coffin was very similar to the child on the 330 bus, and I suddenly figured it out!"

"He wasn't put in the coffin at all? That's not right, how do you explain the image inside?"

Lao Kan smiled proudly: "We made a mistake and kept treating him as a human being." Seeing my puzzled expression, he slapped his thigh: "He's a ghost!"

"Even if it's a ghost, you have to get your body out. ”

Only in this way can it be explained, on the 330 bus, one master and two servants happened to be returning to their hometown in Mongolia. ”

I shook my head: "It's a bit far-fetched, as far as I know, Yuan Ningzong, the penultimate emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, was a short-lived little emperor, reigned for 43 days, and was less than 7 years old when he died, which was about the same age as the child in the coffin. ”

Lao Kan came to the spirit: "What happened later?"

"After the death of the little emperor, his elder brother succeeded to the throne, that is, the last emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Yuan Shun, my brother was busy quelling the rebellion and civil strife, and also had to deal with Zhu Yuanzhang and other peasant uprisings, I analyzed that he may have buried his younger brother in a hurry, a few years later Xu Da attacked the Jingshi, Emperor Yuan Shun saw that the great Yuan Dynasty was exhausted, and fled back to the Mongolian steppe. Emperor Yuan Shun didn't want to leave the bones of his younger brother alone, so he asked people to transport his younger brother's bones back to Qilin Valley for burial in advance. ”

"Well, that makes sense, so I'll have to ask you to come along. ”

"Why do you think that animal skin is in the tomb of the little emperor?"

Lao Kan didn't expect me to ask this question, so he was stunned for a moment.

"I can't tell you just yet, but I'll say it when the time comes. ”

He doesn't say it, and I can't force it. Because we have to go abroad, apply for passports, get visas and many other things to deal with, we prepare separately.

When I left the nursing home, I inadvertently turned around at the south gate, and saw again a blurry face reflected in the glass window of Lao Kan's room, which was actually Lao Zou's face.