Chapter 3: The Night of the Stump Slaughter 3
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Night owls are not mascots, and hearing them call is really creepy.
"Okay, leave it to me here, you go on duty. Tang Wan commanded.
Nurse Li stuffed the medicine bottle into Tang Wan's hand, and then quickly retreated.
"It's fine. Tang Wan smiled at me, put the medicine bottle on the bedside table, and gave it to grandpa first.
The data on the monitor is normalizing, the blood pressure is 14 for high pressure, 75 for low pressure, and the heart rate is 70 beats per minute.
"Don't worry, it's fine. Tang Wan took back the stethoscope and skillfully replaced the medicine bottle.
During the whole process, Grandpa was asleep without making any sound.
I even suspect that Nurse Li was dazzled just now, and it is impossible for Grandpa to sit up on his own.
Tang Wan saw my doubts and explained softly: "Mr. Xia suffers from a common disease of the elderly, and the causes and manifestations of this disease are diverse, so any situation will occur, don't easily doubt others, let alone easily deny what others see, what do you say?"
I nodded: "Thanks, I'm just...... I just couldn't understand what Nurse Lee had just seen, after all, I had never experienced it before. ”
Tang Wan moved the chair over, sat down in front of the hospital bed, and then held her grandfather's right palm with both hands, from the fingertips to the palm, and slowly massaged it.
I hurried over and said embarrassedly, "Doctor Tang, how can I bother you like this?"
Tang Wan smiled and shook her head: "I'm a doctor, what do you mean by being tired and not tired? Patients who have been bedridden for a long time need this kind of frequent limb massage, which is also part of the hospital's treatment work." ”
As I stood beside her, I was delighted to smell the scent of shampoo coming from her hair.
At that time, Tang Wan had completely flattened his grandfather's palm.
"It's rare to see this kind of handprint, right?" she asked.
The three main lines in the palm of the grandfather's palm show a clear "Chuan" shape, up to the finger seams, down to the palm edge, each stripe is deep and wide, it is indeed very rare.
"Yes, it's rare. I whispered in response.
Tang Wan opened his left palm to look at it, and said to himself: "How can my palm prints be two together? What about yours?"
I bent over and stretched out my right palm.
Actually, like most people, my palm prints are the first two overlapping, and the last one is vertical, and there is no discipline to speak of.
Of course, Tang Wan's palm prints are the same, but her palms are extremely white, and the palm shape is as wonderful as her figure. Her fingers are slender and slender, and her nails are sleek and neatly trimmed, definitely the shape of a pianist's fingers.
She raised her hand, took my four fingertips, looked at it carefully for ten seconds, and then let go with a slight start.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"Ha, it's nothing, our palm prints are about the same, lackluster. Tang Wan laughed self-deprecatingly.
"I've never seen hands as beautiful as yours. I say from the bottom of my heart.
"I've never heard such a lame compliment as yours. She laughed again.
"Really, I never lie. "I took a step back and defended myself.
To be honest, if it weren't for the fear of being shallow, what I should really compliment me was her beautiful appearance.
In modern cities, most girls are pompous and cunning, and it is rare to see such an elegant and pure character as Tang Wan. At least, she's the only one of a few girls I've seen.
"Thank you. She nodded lightly, "I'll go back to duty, and you take good care of Mr. Xia." ”
She stood up, and instead of leaving, she glanced back at her grandfather on the hospital bed, then turned a corner, walked to the window, and looked out.
"There's nothing outside the window, and it's okay for a night owl to bark, but I'm afraid that Nurse Li is suspicious of a dark ghost. I followed her and explained softly.
Owls are the natural predators of mice, and they come out late at night to fly high and low, just to feed themselves.
"yes, I guess that's the case. Tang Wan said, and then added seriously, "Nurse Li made a fuss just now and was unintentional, don't tell others, so as not to affect the leader's opinion of her." You know, their month-end bonuses are directly linked to their work performance. ”
I sent Tang Wan out of the house and watched her walk to the nurses' station.
The profession of a doctor is extremely respected in any city, because in this huge hospital, the doctor is the master of life, the God of the patient and his family.
Tang Wan is the kind of beauty that makes people can't help but have a good impression when they see it, but I still have self-knowledge and know that I am not compatible with the other party.
When I returned to the hospital bed, I saw that my grandfather's arm was still exposed outside the thin quilt, so I bent down and held it and helped him put it back under the quilt.
Inadvertently, I noticed that my grandfather's palm prints seemed to have changed slightly, and the previous 100% was a clear and deep Sichuan character shape, and the skin between each vertical line was full and swollen, full of vitality. Right now, the three lines that make up the Sichuan character are becoming lighter, and the skin on the palm is becoming flatter and looser.
I was stunned, not sure what that meant.
"Grandpa, grandpa?" I leaned over and called twice.
Grandpa's eyes were half-closed, and he grunted in his throat a few times, and then let out a slight snoring sound.
"Maybe it's puffiness, just ask the doctor tomorrow. I tried to comfort myself and tried to touch my grandfather's palm prints.
Grandpa's palm was cold, like half-melted ice.
My fingers brushed over my palms, and the hairs on my back suddenly stood on end. The feeling at this moment is like ten years ago, in the main hall of the North Pole Temple of Daming Lake, watching the military thorn penetrate the palm of the eldest brother.
To this day, I dare not describe in any words the horrific and tragic scene, the stabbing up and down again and again, the fingers, the palm, the arm - then the other palm, the other arm.
"In this way, probably all the palm prints are useless, right?"
"Cut slowly, chop a little, hahaha, no matter how against the sky, the palm print palmistry can't beat the steel knife......"
"One hundred, one hundred......"
"After tonight, all is well......"
"The Xia family is broken, hahaha......"
Those people laughed loudly and lowly, and the eldest brother was like a trapped beast in the slaughterhouse, and he was being ** inch by inch in front of my eyes.
I struggled desperately, but at least four feet stomped heavily on me, especially the one on my face, almost stepping my head under the icy bluestone ground.
The eldest brother was silent, and I stared at his face with wide eyes.
Blood poured all over my body, and everything in front of me turned blood red.
My eldest brother was staring at me too, his gaze resolute and cold.
Under his gaze, I gave up my senseless struggle, stopped, and met his gaze.
There were many things in that gaze, some of which I understood and some of which I didn't.
A dying person should have hatred, fear, and anger in his eyes, but these are missing in the big brother.
At that moment, his gaze was like a hard nail, straight and straight into my heart.
In the end, the military thorn was transferred to the elder brother's eyebrow seal.
"It is said that before any animal is killed, all the grievances will be concentrated here, don't blame me, if you want to blame, blame God for letting you be born in the Xia family......" The man wearing the mask smiled grimly.
"Give him another chance to say something. "The man who stepped on me screamed.
"Yes, say something, leave a memento for your brother. Said the man wearing the mask.
The eldest brother's lips moved, and when his mouth opened halfway, a large mouthful of blood splattered out.
"I ...... I hate ...... There is a useless ...... Brother...... I don't blink my eyes when I die, and the ancestors of the Xia family don't blink an eye...... Reincarnation is not endless, see you in the next life-" The eldest brother said the sentence intermittently, and slammed his head forward, allowing the sharp military thorn to be inserted into the Yin Hall.
After breaking his palm and arm, half of his eldest brother's life has been removed, and this stab has also taken away the other half of his life.
"I hate having a useless brother" - this is the last complete sentence that the eldest brother left me.
"It's out of breath. The man wearing the mask stretched out his hand and touched the major artery on the side of the eldest brother's neck and said.
"Abolish the palmprint palmistry of the eldest grandson of the Xia family, this matter seems to be over, right?" someone asked.
"No, no, no, finding the 'Divine Mirror' is our goal. I firmly believe that that thing must be in the Xia family. "The man who stepped on my head removed his foot.
Immediately, I was picked up, thrown out at once, and fell into a pool of blood left by my eldest brother.
The masked man grabbed my left hand, and I subconsciously clenched my fist in an attempt not to let him see my palm prints.
"Forget it, the palm of his hand is not a Sichuan character pattern, which is different from the Xia family's heirlooms. "Someone reminded.
"So, this is a little wild seed? hahahaha......" The man in the mask laughed.
I cowered and endured this insult that I had never felt before.
"Made him together!" someone suggested.
The man wearing the mask raised his hand, and the thorn pressed against the side of my neck.
I have only one thought in my mind at the moment, and that is - "Live, live, live!"
Only by living can I take revenge on my eldest brother, kill all the enemies in front of me for my eldest brother, skin them, bleed, cut off their limbs one by one, and return the insults they inflicted on me a hundredfold.
"Uncle, spare your life, uncle!" I cried as I cried.
The thorn didn't move, but my body moved, and the skin on my neck immediately broke and bled out, and the pain made me shrink back and cry.
"Don't cry!" the masked man waved at me and gave me a big slap.
I didn't dare to cry anymore, tears poured silently out of my eyes.
"He's not. "Someone said.
"He's definitely not, since I was a child, I've seen his palm prints at least a dozen times, and it's really a child picked up by the Xia family from outside. Someone else said.
"Drag him south in a moment and throw him into the lake to fend for himself. "The man wearing the mask stood up.
I seemed to see the hope of life, but I still didn't dare to be careless, and shouted in a trembling voice: "Uncle, don't throw me into the lake, the water is deep...... Don't throw me ......"
The person wearing the mask held the military spur in his right hand, pinched the knife head in his left hand, and broke it with a force, and with a click, the military spur was broken into two sections.
"Tonight's business is over. It is a big deal to find the 'Divine Water Mirror', and there is another thing, the Chang'an ruins ......"
As soon as I heard this, I was dragged up by two people, all the way out of the main hall, to the lake, and then I was dragged by the arms and feet, and after a few leisurely swings, I was thrown into the water at least ten meters away from the shore of the lake.
There are no children in Jinan who can't swim, I pinched my nose before I fell into the water and held my breath, and after sinking into the water, I immediately kicked my legs and swam to the west in the dark place overgrown with reeds.
Soon, I was emerging from the reeds and looking out towards the Arctic Temple.
Those people came out of the temple one after another, one to the east and the other to the north, and soon disappeared without a trace.
I soaked in the water for an extra hour before I went ashore, but I didn't dare to enter the temple, so I first shivered out of Daming Lake and ran back to Zhongyi Hutong to call people.
Lei Zi was fine, but he was knocked unconscious, and the doctor diagnosed him as a moderate concussion, and he slept in the hospital for more than ten days, leaving no sequelae.
The strange thing is that everyone searched the North Pole Temple, but they didn't find the body of the eldest brother.
This matter has become a headless unsolved case, and the police have no choice but to record the incident in detail and then file and report it.
At this moment, I touched my grandfather's palm prints, and then thought of the last sentence left by my eldest brother, and suddenly felt that my heart was very blocked.
It's been ten years, and I want to avenge my eldest brother, but I have no clue about this case. At the beginning, I went to the police station every month to inquire about the progress of solving the case, but later the police who handled the case got annoyed and avoided me.
Today, "avenging the big brother" has completely become an empty phrase.
"Summer Stone, you're such a useless and boring person!" I looked up, mocking myself at the shadow in the glass window.
Outside the window, the poplar trees swayed, and the owls began to chirp again, constantly making strange sounds like crying and laughing, "coo, meow", as if they were gathering to laugh at me.
I stood up, walked to the hanger, pulled out a wooden fork slingshot and three glass beads from my coat pocket, walked quickly to the window, and pulled open the plastic steel window.
The night breeze was a little cool, and the neon lights on the rooftops in the distance flickered high and low.
Jinan is the provincial capital of Shandong, with high-rise buildings, famous cars and mansions, handsome men and beautiful women, song halls and dance halls...... This is an advanced and prosperous city, which is the number one in Shandong Province, but for me, the city belongs to the rich and powerful, humble as me, who can only open their own small bookstore in Zhongyi Hutong and live a half-starved and half-hungry poor life. I, and many others like me, are just ants in the city, and they can never match those extravagant lives.
Now, I have not only sadness in my heart, but also anger and helplessness, because this is the reality.
In reality, a rich and powerful person is an uncle, and a person without money and power has to be a grandson honestly.
I pulled my slingshot and searched for the owl's shadow among the dark leaves.
"Scream, dare to scream again, and I'll kill you!" I sneered hatefully.
Ten years have passed, and all I have that can be called a "weapon" is a slingshot, and all that is left is the broken military thorn that I picked up in the Arctic Temple. I begged the neighbors to put the second half of the stab back on the grinding wheel and sharpen the blade, and changed it into a nondescript short knife, the blade was only three inches long, and it didn't seem to be of much use in a fight.
To be honest, I don't know how to avenge my eldest brother, even if I find those people, what ability do I have to kill them one by one?
This is the greatest sorrow of my life, knowing that I cannot carry the burden, but I have to take it on.
Parents are missing, big brother dies tragically, grandfather has Alzheimer's disease...... That's the state of the nest I'm facing. Not to mention being a hero, I'm afraid I don't even have the qualifications to be a bear.
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