Chapter 26 Granny
Seeing this sentence, I seemed to have enlightenment. As Brother Ning disappeared without a trace, my heart was empty and very melancholy.
I walked out of the back hall and looked at the gloomy sky. He Qin, Director Tan, Lin Yong, now Brother Ning, are all dead. It can be said that the team poses the greatest threat to me and all the people I hate the most are dead. It should be easy, but I can't feel relaxed. I can't say that the energy is so strong that I feel like a stone is blocked in my heart.
When I arrived at the front hall, Lu Wen had woken up and leaned against a hall pillar. The mute girl held her hand very obediently and was accompanying her. I looked around the hall for a week and didn't see Fan Qiang, so I gestured to ask the mute girl. The mute girl gestured to tell me that Fan Qiang had left and left the hall gate, and I didn't know where to go.
I breathed a sigh of relief. Such people would leave, and it would be awkward to get together. I touched Lu Wen's head, but it was still a little burnt, but it was much better. I asked her if she could leave, but Lu Wen nodded without saying anything. She was like a walking corpse, letting me arrange it. The mute girl and I set up her up, and the three of us supported each other and walked out of this weird temple.
When I came outside, the gloomy fog gradually dissipated, and I suddenly felt very happy. Now in the team, there was a blind Lu Wen and a weak little girl. I am absolutely authoritative here, and no one can put pressure on me anymore. Just as I was thinking, the mute girl pulled my hand and pointed to the plaque on the temple.
I looked up and saw that the plaque was written on the gray-bottomed blue, with the words "Five Character Hall" written on it. There was a couplet on both sides of the pillars: It was neither me nor me, nor me, and my facial features had no facial features. It was ridiculous and not a rhyme. However, from the literal understanding, it was also a strange ending with Brother Ning.
Thinking of Brother Ning, I felt a sense of melancholy again. I sighed and took them to slowly walk towards the distant front.
The speed of traveling was very slow, and Lu Wen and I didn't communicate. Her situation was a bit bad now, as if she had no ability to think at all, and she was stupid and did whatever she asked to do.
We walked a long way and came to a highway. It was so vast that I forgot where I came from. We were all numb and didn’t know where this was. Anyway, we just had one thought, and we could count wherever we walked. We didn’t know how long it took, and we could vaguely see some low buildings ahead, all of which were built temporarily, like a large construction site. We walked over slowly and saw an extremely desolate scene.
This is indeed a construction site, but there is no one to see. The center of the construction site is a foundation that has not been completed, and piles of steel strips and cement have accumulated into mountains. I don’t know how long it has been unfinished here. The ground is full of weeds, and the metal materials are rusted by wind and rain, so no one cares about this.
We pushed open a prefabricated room and emitted a strong smell. The area was very small, but it was densely packed with almost eight or nine beds with bunks. The bed was covered with colorful mattresses and quilts, which were dirty and emitting an unbearable musty smell. Although the environment was very uncomfortable, we really couldn't walk and could only choose to rest here.
Lu Wen's situation was a bit tricky. She started talking nonsense, kept calling her, and occasionally called her grandma. I placed her on a bed and covered her with a quilt. If she didn't receive treatment, the consequences would be very unoptimistic.
I gestured to tell the mute girl not to run around, and I went out to find some food and drink. This is the temporary residence of migrant workers. There are many such prefabricated houses, and I checked each room one by one, but there was really no one. As I searched, I found the kitchen.
The kitchen was dirty, covered with stains, and the stove was cleaned and the stove was cold. It had not been on fire for a long time. The smell here was really bad, and I almost pushed me out. I covered my nose and searched around the kitchen. Not to mention, there were a few water tanks in the corner of the wall, and the lid was lifted, and it was full of water.
I found a few bottles filled with water and carried them back to my residence. I helped Lu Wen and drank some water. She had been having a fever.
I sat on a bed and looked at the mute girl face to face. The scene was very desolate. I was already thinking about this issue. If Lu Wen was not treated, the situation would become more and more serious. In the end, it would be so hot that she could not leave at all. What should I do at that time?
I spread my hands at the mute girl: "What should I do?"
The mute girl didn't understand what it meant at all, and she tilted her head and looked at me cutely.
I was upset and didn't feel hungry. I lay on the bed and fell asleep in a daze. I don't know when I woke up by the cold and felt cold all over. As soon as I turned over and sat up, I found that the door was blown open and the air conditioner outside was blowing in with the wind. I touched my shoulders and it didn't matter if I was cold, I was afraid that Lu Wen's condition would worsen.
I got off the bed and pulled my shoes to Lu Wen's bed. She fell asleep drowsyly. I touched her forehead, which was so hot that it was scary that my heart began to sink. It seemed that now I had to consider the real problem of how she should deal with if she couldn't leave.
I came to the door and saw it raining outside. The rain was not heavy, drizzling, but there was a coldness in the middle of the night. I was very depressed and was about to close the door, when I suddenly saw a place not far away, just at the construction site, a fire suddenly lit up.
My heart was beating wildly. When I came back, I looked at Lu Wen and the mute girl who were sleeping. I picked up a hard hat from the wall and put it on. I walked out of the house and closed the door, preparing to check it out.
At the door, I thought about it and carried a shovel again. Along the way, all kinds of strange things kept coming, so I took protective measures. In the middle of the night when it was drizzling, I almost couldn't see my fingers. My whole body was soaked and my body was very cold. As I got closer, I saw a fire burning in the construction site, and I hid behind a pile of cement bags and peeped carefully.
After seeing carefully, I secretly called bad luck. It turned out that there was a simple shed in the middle of the construction site, with air leaking from all sides. An old lady wearing a black cotton jacket was squatting in the shed, and there was a brazier in front of her, and she was burning paper.
She was burning paper and talking, and her tone was not sad, and she was very calm, as if she was chatting with someone. On this night, when I saw this scene, I was both insane and unlucky. I hesitated for a moment and wanted to leave, but considering that it was good to find someone to find a way, it was better than walking without direction.
The other party was just an old lady and there was no need for a shovel. I threw it aside and walked over slowly.
When I approached, I found that an altar was set up in the shed, with four vases and a bowl on it, and some fruits. There was a photo of it in the middle. The photo was a middle-aged woman, not ugly but had high cheekbones. Especially now, she is still a black and white photo, which makes people feel a little gloomy when they see it.
The old lady squatted there and threw paper money into the brazier. When I came closer, she didn't respond. She threw it while muttering, and her body was still shaking back and forth with the sound. From time to time, the wind blew in, causing the flames in the brazier to run around.
I saw that there were paper money like a hill next to her, and I thought that she would burn it like this, and it would not be finished until the year of the monkey and horse. I couldn't wait anymore, so I hesitated and said hello: "Auntie, auntie."
The old lady is still burning there.
I changed my name: "Auntie"
The old lady was drooping her head and burning, and I suddenly felt something was wrong. Even if it was a little cold tonight, it was summer after all, so I wouldn't wear a cotton jacket. The old lady seemed to be very afraid of the cold and wrapped it tightly for herself. The most terrifying thing was her hair. It showed a grayish yellow color that was almost withered in life. The grayishness was a bit disgusting to look at.
Is this old lady sick with Alzheimer's disease very uncomfortable? I turned around and wanted to leave. Suddenly the old lady raised her head: "Who are you?"
I coughed: "My companion and I pass by here. I see you always burn paper here, and I want to come over and ask for directions."
"Oh." The old lady wasn't saying anything. I finally saw her face and my heart skipped a beat. To be honest, the old lady is pretty, with a white face and good skin. Although she is a little old, her facial features are pretty and I don't know how to take care of it.
"This is" I pointed to the photo in the mourning hall.
The old lady sighed: "This is a mother. Her daughter has a bad relationship with her. After she dies, her daughter doesn't ask. It's a pity that, there is not even a person who burns paper and throws a basin. What can I do when I meet such an unfilial daughter? I am a kind person. Every year on this day of her death, I come to burn paper and treat it as paying off the debt for her daughter."
I coughed twice and asked casually: "You always live here."
"Yes, I studied medical treatment when I went to the countryside, and I was a traveling doctor in the village. Now I am old and lonely, and I don't even have a retirement money. I can only work as a doctor in the small medical room on the construction site and just eat the grain."
I blinked: "Can you cure burns and eye diseases?"
The old lady looked at me and grinned, her voice was particularly like a crow, quacking: "I don't have other abilities, but I just have bearish and bruises and burns. Think about it, the construction site workers usually have headaches, fever, colds and fevers, and they have all kinds of work injuries. I dare not say anything else. The teacher I worshiped when I went to the countryside is the ancestral craft of treating scalds, which is called a hand-held pinch."
I was overjoyed. Isn’t this a coincidence? Lu Wen’s life should not be lost. I hugged and said, “Old lady, there is a girl among our companions who was burned by steam. Please help me see. Sorry, we don’t have much money, but tell me what kind of work you have to do, I will do all I can.”
The old lady looked at me and kept grinning. In the faint firelight, her smile was particularly creepy. I looked at her gloomy face and suddenly felt a little regretful. I didn't know what was going on, but I felt a bad feeling in my heart.
The old lady said, "Although I am just a little doctor, I know the principle of curing diseases and saving people. Let's not talk about saving the world. That one is too big, but you have to be worthy of your conscience as a doctor. Young man, you don't have to pay anything. You can send the girl to the medical room later and I'll show her."
I accompanied the old lady to burn paper for a while and asked her why there was no one here. The old lady said, "It's a sin. I heard that the real estate boss who developed the property went in because of some commercial fraud. He cheated the material dealers, migrant workers, and even the pre-sale customers who had paid the money. I heard that if I cheated, I could get hundreds of millions of dollars, many people lost all their hard-earned money, and they lost all their money. I'm a sin."
"Then why are you still here?"
The old lady gagged again: "I, a lonely woman, can go anywhere, eat, drink and die. What better to die here, guarding such a large area, which is my grave."
Chapter completed!