Chapter 19 019: The mysterious brother Jing Zhao

Jing Zhao wanted to clear the fog and touch the girl's face, but he woke up from his dream.

The mobile phone was placed on the bedside table. He picked it up and looked at the time, which was four fifty-eight in the morning.

He got up and poured a glass of ice water, then took the glass to the balcony. It was still dark outside, so he turned on the light, pulled out a chair and sat down. The glass was held in his hand, and the ice cubes shook, hit and made sounds.

Unlike Ms. Lu's balcony, which has colorful potted plants, there is only a table and a chair on his side.

Jing Qianqian was sleeping in the living room when she was woken up by the sound and meowed twice. She was wearing a Lolita skirt that Ms. Lu had just bought and a hat of the same color on her head. She looked like a cat princess. She was twisting and turning enchantingly.

He walked to the balcony, rubbed his head against Jing Zhao's trouser legs, then lay down at his feet and continued to sleep.

Before he finished drinking the glass of water, Jing Zhao's cell phone rang. The call came with a string of numbers, but no name was saved.

Jing Zhao stared at the screen for a few seconds before putting the phone to his ear.

"Jing Zhao."

The surroundings were so quiet that you could faintly hear the breathing on the other end of the phone.

It's a business leader.

"Why aren't you sleeping yet?"

The cup filled with ice water soon became covered with a white layer of water vapor, which condensed into water droplets and flowed into Jing Zhao's hand.

"How do you know I'm not asleep?"

She said: "I was downstairs and saw the light on your balcony."

The shaking ice cubes in the cup became silent.

Jing Zhao put down his cup and walked to the guardrail. He lowered his head and looked down. He saw a businessman waving from below, wearing a pink helmet on his head. An electric car was parked next to it.

He was on the 18th floor and couldn't see the business leader's face clearly: "Are you still going out at this hour?"

"Yeah, it's so annoying." She raised her head, a small one, "Our curator called me and asked me to go over and work overtime now. I don't want to go, but I can't do it. The library just accepted a patient

The body is so badly damaged that if it is not repaired quickly, it will be very difficult to preserve it later."

Jing Zhao heard what she said but didn't answer.

She was afraid of disturbing others, so her voice was very low: "Go to bed, I have to leave."

In the eastern sky, the sun began to rise, a bright red corner. The business leader waved to Jing Zhao from below, then hung up the phone and pushed the electric car out of the community.

Jing Zhao watched her walk away from upstairs, then drank the water, put down the cup, and went to the bedroom to get a coat.

It's too dark for girls to go out.

At 5:22, the business leader arrived at the funeral parlor. As soon as she locked the car, she heard Sister Zhou calling her.

"Lead."

The business leader's face showed no signs of fatigue from getting up early: "Good morning, Sister Zhou."

"Did you eat breakfast?"

"No."

Sister Zhou took out a stick of corn and a tea egg from her bag: "Eat quickly, otherwise you will lose your appetite after the body is repaired."

"Thank you, Sister Zhou."

The business leader took the egg and rolled it on his head, causing the eggshell to break.

Sister Zhou smiled as she watched her eat eggs and gnaw corn, feeling like a hamster.

Before the two of them reached the body dressing area, they heard loud noises. Looking from a distance, they saw several people standing in the aisle of the wake hall.

It should be a family, and the atmosphere is very solemn.

Fifty minutes ago, the corpse truck delivered a severely damaged body. It was an old man. He was a freight worker in a clothing factory. He drove a tractor to pull goods before dawn every day.

This time, I'll never come back.

Standing in the aisle were all his family members, two sons and two daughters.

"You mean you won't pay for it?" This is Lao Si, the old man's youngest son.

The body was so badly damaged that it would cost tens of thousands to repair.

"It's not like you don't know the situation in my husband's family." This is the second child, the old man's eldest daughter.

Even if you cry, you are crying.

But the quarrel continued.

The fourth child didn't know whether he was angry or crying, his face was red and his neck was thick: "Isn't it your father who is lying there?"

The second child said nothing.

The third child said something: "The year before last, our dad had artificial joints installed, and my second sister and I each got more than 10,000 yuan. Last year, my dad had surgery, and my second sister and I got more than 20,000 yuan. When we need to pay, we come to me and our second sister."

, why didn’t you think of us when you sold your house in the first half of the year?”

The third child blew his nose and cried uncontrollably.

The fourth child said: "You are married daughters——"

The third child couldn't hear this: "What happened to the married daughter? Did we fail to support the elderly, or did we fail to take care of her at the end of the bed?"

The eldest son, who had lowered his head and said nothing, spoke: "Okay, just say a few words." This is the old man's eldest son.

The quarrel stopped, and the second and third children were holding their hands on the wall and crying in confusion.

At this time, the fourth daughter-in-law said to her husband: "Why don't we talk to mom again? Is it necessary to spend this money? The body has been repaired and it doesn't need to be cremated."

The boss also heard it and said nothing.

The third child wiped away his tears: "The fourth daughter-in-law, are you still speaking in human language?"

"I don't speak human words, so why don't you pay."

So, the quarrel started again.

Don't they love their father? They probably do too, so they cry so hard that they can't breathe.

Does that mean they have no conscience?

Who knows, others will never understand other people's suffering, because others are not experiencing it.

"Old lady." The curator is also here.

The old man who passed away also had his wife, who also came. The old lady had been standing at the door of the morgue. She was very small and had a severe hunchback.

The curator asked her: "Will it still be restored?"

The old lady took out a passbook wrapped in a handkerchief from her coat pocket. She put the passbook into the curator's hand, then walked to the corpse truck and touched the body bag: "My old man is afraid of pain. You guys

Can you be gentler when sewing?"

The director is the most soft-hearted person in the entire funeral home. He has obviously been used to this kind of scene for a long time, but he still gets jealous every time: "Don't worry."

"Thank you."

The old lady supported the corpse cart and called "old man" twice.

The business leader threw away the half-eaten corn, put on protective clothing and gloves, and pushed the corpse cart into the body repair room.

In this house of less than thirty square meters, there are all kinds of life and all kinds of human nature.

*****

There is a police room at the entrance of the funeral home. Lao Jiang was on duty today. He looked out the window several times.

The red sports car was still parked on the roadside, and there was a scratch on the car.

Lao Jiang came out of the police room with his hands behind his back, walked to the sports car, and knocked on the window: "Do you want to drive in?"

The window is lowered.

Lao Jiang said: "If you drive in, you must register."

Jing Zhao said: "No need."

The car drove away again.

There is a watch shop at the end of Shatang North Street that has been passed down for four generations. The owner is Zhong San. He is good at repairing watches and is famous for his craftsmanship.

Zhong San was holding a bun in his mouth. As soon as he opened the door, a guest came in. Zhong San recognized this guest.

"So early?"

This guest always brought a black umbrella, no matter it was sunny or rainy. This time he drove here and the umbrella was in the car.

"I have something to do, so I stopped by."

He came to get the watch.

Zhong San took a sip of powder, found a key from the upper drawer, unlocked the bottom drawer, took out the watch inside, and put it on the glass cabinet.

It's a good watch, but it's really worn, and the strap is obviously worn.
To be continued...