Chapter 3: Pai Gu Lao
"I was a special attendant at the Yidu Clinic at that time, and I was also the only special nurse at that time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoNo one knows the dead better than I do!"
"Could it be that you are the only remaining estimator Su Sanye in Yidu at that time?"
"Well, at that time, even the doctors and nurses in the Yidu clinic died, and no one dared to work there, and only me, an old immortal, dared to fiddle in the pile of dead people!"
"But even if you're working there, it's hard to remember the name of every dead person so clearly!"
"If it was someone else, I may not remember, but I can't forget!"
"Why?"
"Because, he lived with me for three years when he was born! ”
"What, there is such a thing? This demon moth has never been mentioned to me!"
"Hey!" the old man's expression was gloomy, even a little depressed, "It's okay not to mention some old things......
"Old past?" Cheng Jun stared at the old man in a daze, it seemed that Su Sanye should be a person with a story.
But the old man refused to say more, and he was not embarrassed, but said: "But I obviously received Lin Kui's WeChat, how can I explain this? Besides, I have a more special password with him! Even other classmates don't know ......"
Saying that, Cheng Jun dragged the phone screen up, and a more strange combination of letters and numbers appeared on it, but the estimator didn't look at it, and directly pushed the phone away, "I don't understand these new things, but it's true that Lin Ku is dead, and I personally cremat......ed his body."
The estimator was a little excited.
"But Su Sanye ......"
"It's nothing!" the old man glared at Cheng Jun, his eyes were a little complicated, "You offspring, there is no grass growing in this radius for several miles, and you can't see people, aren't you afraid? Hurry up!"
The last sentence of the estimator was almost in a commanding tone, and a gust of wind swept through, Cheng Jun only felt a pain in the back of his head, his eyes were dark, and when he woke up, it was already the afternoon of the next day.
He opened his eyes, and a strange uncle was looking at him, "Child, are you awake?"
"Well, uncle, where is this? Why am I here?"
He just wanted to sit up, but he felt a little dizzy and swollen, and his body was a little weak, and he couldn't sit up.
"Son, you lie down and don't move! When I closed the door when it was dark, I saw you fainting at my door, and I couldn't wake you up, so I carried the general in. ”
"Thank you, uncle, for taking you in!
"Don't worry! You're welcome!" The uncle is dressed as a farmer, capable and sturdy, and while greeting Cheng Jun, he shouted outward: "Old woman, pour a bowl of hot soup, this child is awake!"
An aunt came in, brought a bowl of hot soup, and seemed to be a straightforward village woman, as soon as she came in, she said: "Child, your face is a little blue, drink the hot soup quickly, and avoid all evil ......"
The aunt didn't finish speaking, but was immediately interrupted by the uncle, and glared fiercely, "Old woman, send you a ghost green! It's none of your business here, why don't you go to the vegetable field and pull a few radishes!"
"Oh, I almost forgot," the aunt sneered, walked out a few words, and then turned back and said, "That big red rooster, are you killing or am I going to kill you?"
"I'm here in person today!" replied the uncle.
"Want to kill chickens?" Cheng Jun looked at the two of them with a strange look, "Uncle, if it's for me, then you don't have to!" Cheng Jun thought that after fainting inexplicably last night, if it wasn't for the uncle's kindness to take him in, he didn't know what would have happened;
"It's necessary, child, your face is blue, you must kill the big red rooster to go to the evil ......" The aunt is obviously the kind of person who can't hide her words, and she puffed out a sentence again, and was scolded by the uncle: "You old woman, you will die if you don't talk too much!"
"Turned blue?" Cheng Jun frowned, "Auntie, can you show me a mirror?"
The aunt handed a large round mirror to Cheng Jun, Cheng Jun took a photo, and startled himself, not only was he blue, his face was simply that kind of dead gray, and his eyes were full of bloodshots.
"Kid, you're just afraid you've gone to an unclean place.....! The aunt looked at Cheng Jun, mysteriously, but was glared at fiercely by the uncle.
"Old woman, you get me out!" the uncle scolded the aunt angrily, "Don't go yet!"
Obviously, this aunt obviously had something to say, and Cheng Jun felt the need to clarify something, "Uncle, you let the aunt finish speaking!"
"Kid, drink the soup while it's hot!"
Cheng Jun only took a sip, and felt that the soup seemed to be a little strange, with a strange fishy smell that seemed to have a familiar taste.
Seeing him frowning, the uncle said, "Child, this soup is a little unpalatable, but it is especially effective in dispelling cold..."
The aunt also interjected: "Yes, yes, drink it while it's hot, you can't get rid of the evil when it's cold!"
Uncle and aunt are simple in nature, and it is impossible to harm themselves, Cheng Jun hesitated slightly, drank all the bowls, and suddenly felt a warm current spread all over his body.
"Child, why did you fall at my door last night?" the aunt is straightforward and inquisitive.
"I, I don't know ......." Cheng Jun was indeed a little confused, so he had to give a rough description of last night's experience.
Cheng Jun didn't say a few words, and the aunt looked frightened, and the corners of her mouth trembled, "Ah~, you really went to Yidu! Oops! That ghost place can't go ....."
And when it came to the dark building, the uncle's face also changed color suddenly, "What? That old man is actually the only remaining ancient guy Su Laosan in Yidu back then?"
"Yes. ”
"Pai Gu guy Su Laosan?" At this time, the aunt opened her mouth in shock, "Didn't Su Laosan disappear more than ten years ago?"
"I also think it's strange, the plague killed more than 1,000 people, all of them were Su Laosan's corpses; after the aftermath was dealt with, Su Laosan also disappeared, in the past fifteen years, not to mention us, even the villagers within a radius of more than ten miles near Yidu have seen Su Laosan!"
The uncle was obviously a person who was in trouble, his brows furrowed, and he said: "However, Su Laosan's disappearance is just an official statement, if you want me to say, although this platoon was strong and different from ordinary people back then, but when he dealt with more than 1,000 corpses that died horizontally, most of them were also infected with that kind of plague..."
"Lao Zhao, do you mean that the old guy also died in that epidemic in the end?" the aunt asked.
The uncle didn't answer clearly, but his face became more and more complicated. But the aunt's words were denied by Cheng Jun, "No! If Su Sanye dies, how can I see him?"
"Silly boy, I said that it is an unclean place, even in broad daylight, no one dares to go there, and you see something that is naturally unclean!" said the aunt in surprise.
Having received a materialist education since childhood, Cheng Jun never believed that there were really ghosts and gods in this world, and retorted: "Is it true that what I see is still a ghost?"
"Perhaps!" At this time, even the uncle became suspicious, "I have passed through Yidu with a few young students before....."
"What, Lao Zhao, you actually went to Yidu without me! The aunt reacted greatly.
"It's daytime, it's not night, it's just passing through the neighborhood!"
"You can't go to it during the day! That kind of ghost place, even if it's nearby, is very evil!" The aunt scolded a few words, as if she remembered something, "No wonder after Qingming last year, you and several young people had a serious illness for no reason!"
"You don't have to be surprised, I'm not alive and well now!" the uncle replied, "It's that day that the food delivery was really urgent, there was no way, so I had to take a shortcut!"
"You can't do this anymore, you have to have three long and two short, how can I live?" the aunt complained.
"That kind of ghost place, even if you force me to go, I won't go again!"
The reaction of the uncle and aunt was so shocking, Cheng Jun also felt a dark cloud in his heart, looked at the uncle and said, "What's the matter? That day, did you meet someone, uncle?"
"People?" said the uncle, "there was a dead air, there was silence, not a single human hair was seen, not even a single bird was seen; we just passed through that neighborhood, and the daylight was full of ghosts, and after the Qingming was supposed to warm up the sky, but it was unusually cold there, and the wind was gusting, and a few rags were spread like a spirit flag, and some shadows were .....moving."
The uncle is at least nearly 50 years old, and when he said this, his face changed color, showing a look of fear, and the aunt listened to it so much that the corners of her mouth trembled a little.
The uncle added: "The beef rice noodle shop you mentioned should be the place at the mouth of Firewood Alley, right?"
"It's the shop in Firewood Lane!" Cheng Jun nodded and replied with great certainty.
After experiencing the warlord division and World War II, blocking the sweep of the devils, Yidu Street was the only century-old street in Wuguang City at that time, and Firewood Lane was a longitudinal alley on the right fork of Yidu Street, which can be said to be a smaller commercial street.
According to the old people here, in the thirties and forties of the last century, when there was no electricity and no coal, firewood was burned for heating and cooking, and woodcutters from loess slopes, lawns and other places dozens of miles away picked firewood to sell here, and many people in the city also came here to buy firewood, forming the largest firewood market in the entire city at that time.
Later, with coal, electricity, and liquefied gas, firewood was completely withdrawn from the market, but Firewood Lane was still intact and became a commercial street where small traders and hawkers gathered.
His former site is even older than the main street of Yidu, and it is said that it is the birthplace of this Yidu Street, which is not necessarily known to the young descendants of the nearby villages; Cheng Jun's affirmative answer made the uncle and aunt a little surprised, and both of them stared at Cheng Jun: "Do you still know Firewood Lane?"
"I'm from Yidu, of course I know Firewood Lane, and I had to pass by every day when I was a child!"
Because Cheng Jun said more roughly about last night's events and did not mention that he was a Yidu person before, so that the two did not know his identity, Cheng Jun explained a few more words.
"What? You are actually a survivor of the warm epidemic?" After figuring out Cheng Jun's identity and why he came here, the two suddenly changed color, and the aunt's face became more difficult to look at, and she hurriedly pulled the uncle outside the room and muttered quietly.
"Before, there was also a young student who came to find Xiao Yi like him, and he never came back...."
Cheng Jun couldn't hear the conversation between the two in the room, but after hearing the words of the aunt, "He is dead, he is an ominous person..."