A small county town in a mountain col, a railway station in the night rain.

At two o'clock in the middle of the night, Xu Zhen and others sat boredly on the benches in the waiting hall, waiting for the "reinforcements" to receive them.

Due to heavy rain and waiting for the morning train, the waiting hall at this time was crookedly crowded with passengers.

These people are generally older, carrying large bags and small bags of luggage, and they look dusty.

In the middle of the night, most of these people were dozing off with their luggage, and some people simply took the package as a pillow and shrunk directly on the bench to sleep, and the snoring in the waiting hall came and went.

There are also people holding instant noodle bowls and lining up in front of the water boiler, intending to have some supper to survive the long night.

"Gollum ......"

Qi Kui looked at the red, green, and green buckets in the hands of these people, smelling the strange taste of braised beef, Laotan sauerkraut, fish plate shrimp and other "folk food" flavors mixed in the air, and drooled uncontrollably.

Alas...... How could I have thought that the road to the crew to report was so difficult......

In order to be in a hurry, they only hurriedly bought some fast food in the afternoon.

I thought that I would be able to go to the crew of "Breaking Guandong" tonight, but I didn't expect that they are still "breaking through Guandong" until now......

That's embarrassing.

"Hey, you two, are you hungry?"

Qi Kui was hungry, and suddenly saw Liang Minying on the side dragging a canvas bag from his feet, unzipping it, and said with a smile: "It's boring to sit down, let's eat something too, right?" ”

As soon as they heard this, Qi Kui and Xu Zhen's two pairs of eyes suddenly looked green.

I saw Liang Minying put her hand into the package and began to rummage through the bags of things:

Puff pastry, savory biscuits, corn sausages, strange beans, pickled pepper and chicken feet, compressed dry food, various instant noodles with different flavors......

Rolling and rolling, the eyes of the two young men widened and widened.

- After a long time, I was carrying such a heavy bag of things on the road just now, and it was all war rations?

I'm a mother, you're going to the crew, not to a picnic, can you bring so much food? ?

But...... Well done!!

"Hahaha......"

Liang Minying listened to the sound of the two young men swallowing saliva, waved her big hand, and said with a smile: "Take what you want to eat, when you are full, let's take turns to sleep for a while, and when it is dawn, we will go on the road in good spirits, don't delay the progress of the crew." ”

Xu Zhen and Qi Kui grinned, thanked Liang Minying, each picked up a bucket of instant noodles, and lined up to get hot water.

After walking a few steps, Qi Kui hesitated and folded back, took a ham sausage with a smile, thought about it, and grabbed two braised eggs, only then did he catch up with Xu Zhen in front.

"Hey, Lao Xu, do you want to eat sausages and braised eggs?"

"Don't eat? Then I'll eat it all......"

……

At three o'clock in the evening, the station attendant walked out of the duty room with a broom and began to clean the floor of the waiting room.

The county seat is located in a mountain col and has a small permanent population, and most of them are elderly.

The attendant looked at the weather-hardened faces in the waiting hall and shook his head helplessly.

He has been working at the station for more than 20 years, and he has seen fewer and older people come to take the train.

The news that the attendant has often heard recently is that an old man who has been riding this train all the year round and occasionally drinks a little wine and eats peanuts with him has passed away, which makes him feel sad every once in a while.

The small county town is too poor, and young people will try their best to run out when they grow up, and no one wants to stay here for the rest of their lives.

The only people who live here are the elderly.

The rolling mountains seem to isolate this small county town from the outside world of flowers.

No matter how the world changes with each passing day and turns the world upside down, he is still carrying this broken broom, cleaning the old station that has been around for ten years, and chatting with fewer and fewer old guys about some old news that I don't know which era.

"I was originally a loose person in Wollongong, relying on yin and yang to protect the world......"

While sweeping the floor, the attendant sang Peking Opera in a low voice, chatting and entertaining himself in the boring life.

"Ahh

At this moment, a sharp cry suddenly resounded through the small waiting hall.

The attendant was startled, and immediately straightened up and turned his head to look, but saw that not far away, a middle-aged woman jumped up from the bench like a burning buttocks, covered her mouth in horror, and stared at an old man crooked on the bench in front of her.

"What's going on?"

"What's wrong, what's wrong?"

“……”

Many people around were awakened by this cry and asked one after another.

The woman was stunned for a long time before she stretched out her finger and pointed at the old man on the bench, and said in a trembling voice: "This old man seems to be gone, and my hands are cold when I touched him just now......"

As soon as they heard this, the passengers around the old man were suddenly startled, and they hurriedly picked up their packages and hid far away.

When the watchman heard this, he hurriedly put down the broom in his hand, squeezed closer, and reached out to probe the old man's neck—sure enough, there was no pulse.

And the body is already cold, I don't know how long it has been gone.

Looking at the death in front of him, the attendant was uncomfortable and blind.

What can I do, call the emergency or call the police?

I don't know the identity of this person, how can I contact his family?

I've never dealt with anything like this!

The duty officer hesitated for a long time, so he had to hurry back to the duty room first, inform the duty director of the incident, and then call the police and the general office.

……

At this time, Xu Zhen and the other three, who were taking turns to rest, were also awakened by the commotion in the waiting hall.

"What's going on, what's going on?" Liang Minying, who had just woken up from a light sleep, yawned and asked, "Why are there a bunch of people over there?" ”

Qi Kui, who was beside her, frowned and said in a low voice, "I heard that someone seems to have died." ”

Hearing this, Liang Minying was startled, suddenly sleepless, and said in amazement: "What's the matter, how did you die?" ”

Qi Kui shook his head and said, "I don't know, the quiet person is gone, and the body is already cold when he finds it." ”

Liang Minying turned her head to look over there, and saw an old man sitting quietly on the bench in the southwest corner of the waiting hall.

The old man tilted his head and closed his eyes, as if he was sleeping, and there was nothing unusual about his appearance.

However, at this time, there was no one within three or four meters around him, and on the periphery, almost half of the people in the waiting hall were gathered in that area, looking at the old man with strange eyes, with a frightened, curious, or numb expression on his face.

Some people whispered to each other, and some even took out their mobile phones and took pictures of the elderly.

And so on and so forth.

It was as if it were not a corpse, but an "exhibit" for people to see.

Seeing this scene, Liang Minying only felt a sadness in her heart, which was very unpleasant.

She didn't know who this strange old man was, however, he died suddenly in such a desolate small county town, without even a single relative by his side, and he was silently watched like this, which was really uncomfortable to watch.

She couldn't help but think of her old father.

When her father left a few years ago, she couldn't come back to see the old man for the last time because she was filming in the crew.

For a long time after that, Liang Minying couldn't recover from it, so much so that she hated acting, began to overeat, begged God and worshiped Buddha everywhere, and almost gave up her acting career because of this.

Touching the scene, Liang Minying's heart was sour, and she hurriedly opened the package, looking for anything that could help the old man cover up.

However, at this time, Xu Zhen on the side suddenly whispered in her ear: "Mother, I'll go over." ”

With that, he got up from his seat, took off his hood, put on his mask, and squeezed his way through the crowd to the old man who was "sleeping" on the bench.

Seeing this, Liang Minying was slightly stunned, and hurriedly grabbed a silk scarf and followed.

What is Xiao Xu going to do?

Does he also want to cover it for the old man?

But he didn't take anything......

When he was puzzled, he saw that Xu Zhen had already walked in front of the old man.

He leaned down, knelt on one knee, and took the old man's thin, rough hand.

After confirming that the old man had indeed lost his pulse, Xu Zhen sighed softly, lowered his head, and recited softly: "Nan no Amitabha, Nan no Amitabha ......"

"That's what I smelled. For a while, the Buddha was in the heavens of Enlightenment, speaking for the mother. At that time, the ten directions are immeasurable, and all the Buddhas cannot be said ......"

Not far away, Liang Minying was stunned.

She didn't know what scripture Xu Zhen was reciting, but she knew that he was overspending the old man.

Liang Minying's eyes blurred all of a sudden.

This strange old man, who unfortunately passed away in loneliness, finally had a warm hand to hold him and recited a scripture of the past for him.

At this time, the originally noisy and noisy waiting hall gradually quieted down, and the atmosphere gradually changed from frightened to solemn.