Chapter 3 Chance Encounters
It was another sunny morning, Meng Hao got up early, washed up, prepared some tribute, and took some paper money from the side house, and then went out and walked towards the mountain behind the village, planning to go to the mountain to worship his grandmother on the mountain.
There is a small temple on the top of the mountain behind the village of Meng'an Village, which is very old, and it is a special place to store ashes, and most of the ashes of the older generation are placed there, and the ashes of Grandma Meng Hao are also in that place.
About two hours from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain, Meng Hao walked along a path towards the mountain, about half the way, Meng Hao wiped the sweat on his forehead, came to a boulder, ready to rest here, just when Meng Hao overlooked the scenery under the mountain, found that there were also figures walking up the mountain halfway up the mountain next to him.
"It seems to be Cao Ergou?"
Due to the distance, Meng Hao was not very sure. I remember when I was young, I often bullied Cao Ergou with my friends in the neighboring village, but every time that person was bullied, he smirked and didn't lose his temper, and we all laughed at him at that time, and now I think I'm sorry for him.
didn't pay any more attention to Cao Ergouzi, Meng Hao continued to walk towards the mountain after resting for a while. At this time, on the mountain next to him, Cao Ergou was slowly walking towards the cave, his expression was Muna, his face was pale, like a walking corpse, unlike yesterday, Cao Ergou's chest clothes were full of blood, even the corners of his mouth.
After walking for more than two hours, Meng Hao finally came to the top of the mountain, on the top of the mountain, there was only a small temple standing here, and there was nothing else. The temple is very small, with only one main hall and two side rooms, and it is also very dilapidated, and the roof is overgrown with weeds. In the center of the courtyard, there is a three-legged brass giant tripod, which is full of burned incense tails and incense ashes, and there is a gossip furnace next to the courtyard, but it is by no means the thing of the old gentleman in the Journey to the West, it is specially used to burn paper money.
Meng Hao walked into the main hall, inside was a row of cabinets dedicated to storing ashes, placed against the wall, Meng Hao came to the left corner, in one of the grids, there were tablets and ashes, which was the spiritual seat of Meng Hao's grandmother.
Meng Hao gently wiped the dust on the tablet and urn, and then placed the tribute on the ground, stopped in front of the grandmother's tablet for a long time, Meng Hao knelt on the ground, kowtowed to the grandmother's tablet four times and walked out of the house, came to the gossip furnace, burned the paper money brought, lit four long incense sticks and inserted them in the ding, and then went down the mountain.
It was already noon when he walked down the mountain, and Meng Hao did not go home directly, but walked towards the stop sign where he got off the bus, and there was only a bus to the county seat. Because I haven't returned to my hometown for eight years, my home has long been out of electricity, and now if you want to use electricity, you need to go to the county power supply bureau to register and get an electricity card before you can use it.
It was already more than one o'clock in the county, different from Cao'an Village, the county has changed a lot, although it is not as good as the market, but it is also a lot more prosperous than before, Meng Hao asked many people and finally found the location of the power supply bureau, and it was already more than two o'clock when the electricity card was done.
The stomach that had not eaten for two meals began to rumble, and after touching the stomach of protest, Meng Hao found a small restaurant in the county town that looked clean and hygienic and walked in, it was already past the meal, and there were not many people in the restaurant, just when Meng Hao found a place and just sat down, a voice full of surprise sounded in Meng Hao's ears.
"Meng Hao. ”
Hearing someone call his name, Meng Hao looked at him with hesitation, in front of Meng Hao, a beautiful girl looked at Meng Hao with a sweet smile, the girl was the same age as Meng Hao, wearing a white short-sleeved T-shirt on the upper body, a pair of tight blue jeans on the lower body, wearing white sneakers, long hair tied in a ponytail, full of the vitality that a girl's generation should have.
The girl in front of her is called Zhou Tingting, and Meng Hao are classmates, and Meng Hao went to the same elementary school, the same middle school, the same high school, and they are all in the same class, which can be said to be very fateful. Zhou Tingting is beautiful, and has a gentle and graceful personality, she is a typical school flower-level character, and she is very popular with boys in the class.
Looking at the girl in front of him who was staring at him with surprise eyes, Meng Hao was not as excited as he imagined, and said indifferently: "Why are you here?"
I didn't expect Meng Hao's answer to be so indifferent, and the girl's expression was a little more panicked: "This, this is the restaurant opened by my family." ”
Meng Hao knew that Zhou Tingting's family opened a restaurant, but he didn't know where he opened it, but he didn't expect to meet her in a random restaurant.
"Oh" Meng Hao replied and stopped talking, looking down at the menu.
Meng Hao's indifference made the girl a little restrained, looking down at Meng Hao, who was silent on the menu, the girl said: "My father's boiled fish is a specialty dish, do you want to try it." ”
"No, bring me a rice bowl. Meng Hao simply rejected Tingting's suggestion, ordered a rice bowl directly, then took out his mobile phone, flipped through it, and didn't look at Tingting again.
"Good"
Tingting said softly, her tone was full of loss, and she turned around and returned to the back kitchen, her expression was very different from the surprise she had just seen Meng Hao.
Meng Hao looked at the back of Zhou Tingting's departure, and his mood was also very complicated, both of them originally had a good impression of each other, but they did not pierce this layer of window paper, so the relationship between the two was still at the level of friendship. Just a week ago, on the night of Meng Hao's birthday, Zhou Tingting sent a blessing text message to Meng Hao.
If there was no text message, Meng Hao's eyes would not have left his mother, and his mother might not have had the opportunity to commit suicide by jumping off the building, with such an idea, Meng Hao had a change of attitude towards Tingting, even if he knew in his heart that this matter had nothing to do with Tingting, she just happened to send a message at that time, not so much a psychological problem, but a failure to face reality.
It didn't take long for Tingting to walk out of the back kitchen with a plate of rice bowls, different from the loss when she went in, Tingting regained her vigor and put the rice bowls in front of Meng Hao, Tingting went to the refrigerator to get a bottle of drink and put it on Meng Hao's table, and sat opposite Meng Hao.
"Please. Tingting said with a smile.
"Thank you"
Meng Hao thanked him, and then buried his head in eating the rice bowl in front of him, as if he couldn't see Tingting sitting opposite, and the atmosphere between the two seemed a little awkward.
"I've heard about your mother, and I wish you ... Tingting was the first to speak, feeling that Meng Hao's reason why he was like this was because his mother had just died, and she wanted to comfort him.
"The past is over, don't mention it again, you go and get busy. Meng Hao directly interrupted Tingting's next words, looked up into Tingting's eyes, and his tone became a little indifferent.
"I... ”
"Bang !!"
Tingting just wanted to say something, the back kitchen suddenly let out a roar, Meng Hao only saw a fire rising from the back kitchen, the glass shattered instantly, and then a wave of air carrying glass shards hit, almost blowing Meng Hao to the ground, the roar of the explosion directly made Meng Hao's ears buzz, and he couldn't hear any other sound. Tingting screamed in fright by the explosion, and lay on the table with her head in her hands, as did the other customers in the restaurant.
Meng Hao was the first to react to the fire in the back kitchen, rushed directly to the door of the restaurant and picked up a fire extinguisher and rushed to the back kitchen, the back kitchen was in a mess, the table was blown to the ground by the explosion, things were spilled all over the ground, a raging fire had been ignited on the stove, the flames had burned to the roof, and billowing smoke began to rise on the roof.
Next to the stove, a middle-aged man covered in blood fainted to the ground, his life and death were unknown, and the clothes on his body also ignited a fire, Meng Hao hurriedly stepped forward to extinguish the fire on the man's body with a fire extinguisher, and then picked up the man on his back and walked quickly outside.
"Dad"
As soon as Meng Hao came out of the back kitchen, Tingting, who had an anxious look, rushed to Meng Hao and kept shouting at the man on Meng Hao's back.
"Let's go out first. ”
Meng Hao shouted loudly, and then ran towards the outside of the restaurant with the man on his back, Tingting following closely. As soon as I came out of the restaurant, there was a secondary explosion inside, but fortunately, the personnel were evacuated in time and there were no more casualties.
"Call an ambulance, your father needs immediate treatment. Carefully putting Tingting's father down on the side of the road, Meng Hao shouted loudly to Tingting, who was already panicked beside him, because of the explosion, Meng Hao's ears were still buzzing.
"Oooh"
Hearing Meng Hao's words, Tingting reacted and hurriedly dialed the ambulance. Meng Hao dialed the fire alarm and told the scene here. Ten minutes later, the ambulance and the fire alarm arrived at the scene at the same time, Meng Hao and Tingting father and daughter got into the ambulance, and the fire alarm began to maintain order and extinguish the fire.
The ambulance returned to the hospital, and the doctors who had been waiting for a long time carried the seriously injured Tingting's father onto a stretcher and sent him to the operating room. Meng Hao and Tingting were just some flesh wounds, and after a simple bandage, they came to the operating room to wait for news.
"At present, the patient is in critical condition and urgently needs blood transfusion, but there is not enough blood type O in our hospital, you are the family members of the patient, please go and sit down for a blood sample and prepare for a blood transfusion to the patient. The doctor said.
"I'm the patient's daughter, I'm going to go now, where will I draw blood?" Tingting said hurriedly.
In the laboratory, the nurse took the test report and said to Tingting: "I'm sorry, you are blood type A, which is different from the patient's blood type, so you can't have a blood transfusion." ”
"How can this be !!," Tingting said anxiously.
"Miss Nurse, I'm blood type O, draw mine. Meng Hao on the side suddenly spoke.
"Meng Hao" Tingting looked at Meng Hao beside her, her eyes were full of emotion.
"It's important to save people. Meng Hao was just a simple sentence, but it made Tingting's heart unable to calm down for a long time.
After the blood transfusion, Tingting waited anxiously for the results outside the operating room, because of too much blood, Meng Hao lay on the bed in the infusion room to rest, and it didn't take long for Tingting's mother to rush to the hospital. After more than four hours of rescue, Tingting's father was finally out of danger, which made the mother and daughter finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Just when Tingting wanted to thank Meng Hao for his help, she found that there was no Meng Hao on the bed in the infusion room, and Meng Hao had quietly left the hospital after learning that Tingting's father was out of danger and got on the last bus home.
At eight o'clock in the evening, it was already dark, but the moon on the sixteenth was exceptionally bright, and when Meng Hao, who got out of the car, was walking along the dim cement road towards the village, several police cars from the neighboring village drove towards the county seat.
When Meng Hao walked to the entrance of the village, he saw that the only store in the village next to the road was about to close, so he hurriedly walked in, ready to buy some brown sugar to replenish blood qi.
"Uncle, do you have brown sugar, come to half a catty. Meng Hao asked.
"Yes, wait for the uncle to bring it to you. "The person who opened the commissary was an old man, he was very warm and kind, and the business of the commissary was good.
"By the way, uncle, why did you close the door so early?" Meng Hao asked casually.
"Hey, you just came back from outside, this morning, someone found that Aunt Cao from the east of Cao'an Village died at home, so I called the police, I heard that she was killed, the death was very tragic, and the murderer has not been caught yet." The uncle said in a low voice.
No wonder when I came back, I saw a police car in the neighboring village, and the village was much quieter, usually at this point, the uncle and aunt in the village would walk around at the entrance of the village, Meng Hao thought to himself: "Aunt Cao, isn't that the old lady who adopted Cao Ergouzi?"
"I heard that it seems that Ergou's child was killed, and I don't know where I went, so the police made a notice, saying that they would call the police immediately when they saw Ergou. The uncle continued.
After paying the money, Meng Hao took the brown sugar and walked home, Meng Hao was skeptical about Cao Ergou's murder, how could Cao Ergou's character kill his eldest mother for so many years, but the world is unpredictable.
When he got home, Meng Hao found a ladder to carry and went out again, and the meter box of each house was on the pole outside the door, and the electric card needed to be plugged in to have electricity. Just when Meng Hao had just plugged in the electric card and was about to come down, Meng Hao inadvertently saw a figure walking slowly from the field towards the east of the village, and by the bright moonlight, Meng Hao saw that his figure was very similar to the Cao Er dog he saw during the day. Meng Hao decided to check it, so he hurriedly got down the ladder, and then followed towards the east end of the village.
Turning an intersection, Meng Hao hid in the corner of the wall and carefully confirmed, and found that it was indeed Cao Ergouzi who was moving slowly in front of him, but seeing that his demeanor was a little weird, Meng Hao immediately called the police.
"Hey, my name is Meng Hao, I'm from Meng'an Village, is there a murder in Cao'an Village, and the police want a person named Cao Ergouzi?" Meng Hao first asked if there was indeed such a thing to avoid misunderstanding.
"Yes, do you have a clue?" asked the other person on the phone.
"I found the traces of Cao Ergouzi, he is now in Meng'an Village, I am following him, if you want to arrest him, come quickly. ”
"What? I know, don't mess around, continue to follow carefully to avoid being discovered, we will send the police immediately, and contact us when the time comes." ”
"Okay, got it. ”