Chapter Forty-Four: One and a Half Days
For Director Chen, this is definitely the best news. The old man clearly explained the burial location, which means that the old man can be buried, and the work on the hospital side, including the back of the community, is much smoother.
"Good, good! Good! Director Chen said three good things in a row, obviously very satisfied with Anxin, "The old man's relics will be sorted out and handed over to Miss An, and we will go back to check some information now, so we won't compensate Miss An here." ”
Director Chen turned his head: "Officer Yang, please." ”
After speaking, Director Chen left Chen's house with Xiao Zhao, and Yang Hongwei's hanging heart finally fell to the ground.
"Do you need me to stay with you here?" Yang Hongwei asked for peace of mind.
"Go ahead, I'm not a three-year-old anymore, and you can't help here."
Sending Yang Hongwei away, he returned to Chen Hai's room with peace of mind, and continued to sort out the relics later.
After solving the most difficult problem, I returned to the original process with peace of mind, carefully observed all the rooms and took pictures and records, and first began to tidy up the old man's bedroom.
As a rule, peace of mind begins with tidying up the elderly's clothes.
In the wardrobe, there are not many clothes, but they are all old tunics and ordinary coarse cloth fabrics. After taking photos and recordings, I began to organize them one by one, ironed and folded the clothes first, and then put them in a plastic bag and hung them back. In the innermost place, Anxin found a "shroud", which was obviously the clothes that the old man had made after learning that the deadline was approaching.
Anxin did not contact the community immediately, and was ready to drop by to the community at six o'clock.
From more than three o'clock in the afternoon to six o'clock, the finishing work on the bright side has been basically completed, and the rest is some cabinets, drawers, and some valuables still need to be organized.
In the process of tidying up, Anxin also found some unexpected situations.
First of all, judging from the date of the photo, more than 50 years have passed since Chen Lao and his wife were married. The old man has a habit of collecting the receipts that his wife has bought for him. Judging from the timeline, the small ticket lasted from the marriage of the two to 1992, and there has been no similar receipt since then. In other words, ten years after the two got married, Chen Hai's wife died.
After more than forty years, the old man did not remarry, and lived alone until now.
How warm is a relationship that can make a person unswerving for forty years? Anxin really wants to know about the past, but from the current items, Anxin can't find it.
Write down the information you have compiled in a notebook and pack up your things and return to the community with peace of mind.
When I returned to the community to see Director Chen, I found that Director Chen's face was a little ugly.
"What is this?" Director Chen took the notebook handed over by Anxin.
"It's some information that I summarized for the elderly, and I hope it can be of some help to the community."
Director Chen was instantly surprised when he saw it, Chen Lao's marriage time, as well as some simple experiences, Anxin had made detailed records, and it only took more than two hours to sort out a full two pages of information, which I have to say that this is of great help to the community.
But now there is also a crucial problem: it has taken a long time for the community to find the burial place of the elderly wife.
In other words, before the burial place of the old man's wife could be found, Chen Hai's body had to be placed in the morgue of the hospital.
The more time passes, the more complex the problem will become for the elderly and the community. What's more, as soon as Director Chen returned to the community, he received an invitation from the TV station, and the other party had already learned the news of Chen Hai's death and wanted to make a brief report on the life of "Tianfeng's most bullish nail household".
Director Chen knew that people from the TV station would definitely ask about the burial of the old man, and if the TV station reported that the old man's body was still parked in the morgue of the hospital, it would definitely cause bad public opinion.
Therefore, Director Chen was under a lot of pressure, and he had to solve this thorny problem before the TV interview.
"I just contacted Yang Hongwei, and I'm going to borrow a few criminal investigators to go to the old man's place, and now there is really no other way." Director Chen's face was full of embarrassment.
"But in that case...... "Anxin is very clear, the criminal investigation intervention will definitely be more efficient, but this method will undoubtedly disturb the purity of the deceased, and will also mess up the old man's room, for an old man who loves cleanliness, it is simply a kind of torture.
"I know what you mean, people want to be pure when they leave, and our tradition of treating the deceased must have a minimum of respect, but in this situation, I can't help it. I hope Miss An can also understand me. ”
Having said that, Anxin has no way to refute it. But suddenly, Anxin didn't know where the impulse came from, and said, "Director Chen, can you give me three days?" I promise that I will find the burial place of the old man's wife in three days. I'm a professional relic organizer, so at least I won't ......"
Director Chen shook his head, Anxin was indeed very professional, he could see it, but at the moment he still believed in the ability of criminal investigation.
"Two days. I only need two days, please trust me. ”
Anxin didn't give up, and looked at Director Chen in front of him with expectation.
Looking at the dense words on the notebook in his hand, Director Chen hesitated a little, he knew very well that it was obviously the most suitable for the old man to do it with peace of mind.
"A day and a half! I only need a day and a half. ”
"Good!"
Director Chen finally relented, and the interview time of the TV station was two days later in the afternoon, that is, there were still two and a half days to go. He has already done his best, if peace of mind can't be done, he still has at least half a day to ask the criminal investigator for help, and the other half day to organize coping strategies, and there is still time to do so.
After getting the nod of Director Chen, he went out quickly with peace of mind, had a light dinner at a roadside stall, and then quickly returned to Chen's home.
When I passed by the flower shop, I bought a pot of chrysanthemums with peace of mind. There was a plant specimen on the old man's desk, although the specimen had been completely deformed and faded due to the long time and improper preservation, but Anxin could still see at a glance that it was a specimen of chrysanthemums. And there is still a faint fragrance of chrysanthemums in the room, although the balcony has been wiped clean, but there are obvious traces of the flower pot moving, peace of mind knowing that before he passed away, Chen Lao had found the best home for the pot of beloved chrysanthemums.
Sure enough, when he returned to the door of Chen's old house, Anxin specially observed the surrounding environment, and soon found the pot of chrysanthemums that had been transplanted not long ago in the flowers next to the yard.
After touching the soil, I can be sure that this is the pot of chrysanthemums transplanted here before the old man died.
"Leave the rest to me." Before entering the door, Anxin silently recited this sentence as usual, and then sorted out his equipment and entered the old man's house.
Time was of the essence, and peace of mind had to be done in a day and a half, but she didn't change the process or disrupt the plan, and he had two full nights except for the whole day tomorrow.
At seven o'clock, Anxin officially began to tidy up, and this time, she put the target on the old man's desk.
There was a red thread in the drawer, which was strange because Anxin didn't find any red clothes in the process of tidying up. Chen Lao likes plain colors very much, even on objects such as sofa covers, bowl mats, and scarves, there is no red color. And the old man is a very simple and meticulous person, and never prepares superfluous things.
Anxin continued to sort through and found a red handkerchief in the wooden box of the drawer, which was apparently a woman's belongings. Anxin can be sure that this is not a relic of the old man's wife.