As soon as I entered the house, my dad collapsed on the sofa and kept sighing.

My mother poured a cup of hot water and handed it to my dad: "Dad, what happened to the old Wang family? Yesterday was fine, why...

My dad looked at the water cup in his hand and had no intention of drinking it. He put the cup aside, took out a cigarette and lit it: "Oh, it's a big deal to burn the stove at night. The smell of coal smoke in the room, and the family of four was completely poisoned."

At that time, there was no collective heating in the tube building. In winter, every household would store honeycomb coal and build a stove to keep heating by themselves. That is, during that time, carbon monoxide poisoning often occurred in our small county town.

My mother also sighed: "Oh, the eldest daughter of the old Wang family will take the high school entrance exam next year. If something happens, it may affect her studies. If you say that Lao Wang is the same, it is not yet winter, what stove should I order?"

"I'm afraid that the Wang family will not be able to survive this time." My dad pinched the cigarette and said in a muffled manner: "When I carried the person out, the family of four was gone."

My mother looked regretful: "A pretty good family, why did they suffer from such a thing?"

My dad was still holding a half-extinguished cigarette butt in his hand, and he kept silent and frowned tightly, as if he was trying to recall something.

After a long time, my dad lit another cigarette, shook his head and said, "It's not right, something is wrong. When Lao Liu and I went in to carry the person, Lao Wang and his family of four looked like they were four, staring at each other, sticking out their tongues, and their hands and feet were all huddled together. It didn't seem to be poisoned at all, but it seemed like they were strangled to death by someone."

After hearing what my dad said, my mom was also scared: "Dad, don't scare me. When I first moved here, I heard that people had died in this building. Lao Wang and his family would not have been... killed by that person."

My dad glared at my mom: "Don't talk nonsense! Whatever you want is life-seeking is always superstitious..."

Halfway through the conversation, my dad didn't continue to talk. He must also think that something was strange about the old Wang family, but my dad couldn't tell me what was strange about it.

Not long after, someone knocked on my door and asked my dad to go out to discuss things.

In the afternoon of that day, many police officers came to the Tongzi Building. Liu Shangang said that Lao Wang and his family died when they were sent to the hospital and could not be saved. Then the people in the Tongzi Building called the police.

I was young at that time and didn't know how to be afraid, so I mingled in the crowd with Liu Shangang to watch the police investigate the case.

Several burly police officers were guarding outside Lao Wang's house, saying that the scene was blocked, and a few people were looking around in the house, taking a few photos from time to time.

During this period, there was a person who looked like a leader and asked questions everywhere, but the questions were the same, such as who reported the case and who was the first to discover the crime scene.

Liu Shangang and I looked at it for a while and found it boring, so we got out of the crowd and went to the patio to smash sandbags to play.

There was also an old man who was tall and thin, wearing an old blue-gray military uniform. From a distance, he looked like a telephone pole. I saw him enter the old Wang family and survey the scene with the police. However, since he entered the house, his eyes kept looking towards the ceiling and muttering words.

I didn't play with Liu Shangang for a long time, and the old man also came to the patio and waved to me from a distance: "Little baby, come here, come here, grandpa will give you a piece of candy."

When I heard that there was candy, I threw away the sandbag and ran over happily. Liu Shangang ran faster than me, and a gust of wind came to the old man.

The old man took out two pieces of milk candy from his pocket, opened one of them and stuffed them into Liu Shangang's mouth, and said, "When you see you like this, you will know that you are a little talkative guy. Give you one first and stuff your mouth."

Not to mention, Liu Shangang is really just a chattering person, he has been since childhood.

Liu Shangang chewed the candy cubes, shouting "It's delicious, sweet" while chewing, and his saliva kept flowing down the corners of his mouth.

The old man smiled and stuffed me another piece of candy. I chewed it twice, but found that the candy was like a cowhide band and had no taste at all when I chewed it.

I glanced at Liu Shangang, who looked enjoyable, and wondered at the time: "Why isn't this piece of me sweet?"

After hearing what I said, the old man smiled very brightly: "Haha, isn't it sweet? It's right if it's not sweet!"

I spit out the candy in my mouth, and pretended to be angry and gave the old man a blank look, turning his head and wanted to leave. But at this time, the old man took out a piece of candy from his pocket. I didn't even see clearly when the candy paper he had peeled, and the candy was stuffed into my mouth.

This piece of candy is sweet, and it has a strong fragrance as soon as it is in the mouth. I have never eaten such delicious candy.

The old man smiled at me and asked me: "Is it sweet?"

I originally wanted to say "sweet", but I remembered the "cow rubber band" that the old man gave me just now, so I looked very indifferent and curled my lips: "It's okay."

"Hehe, a little man is big." The old man patted my head with a smile, and asked me with a smile: "What's your name? How old is this year?"

I replied without thinking: "My name is Zuo Kang, this year... well..."

Just when I was counting how old I was with my fingers, I suddenly found that the old man was staring at me with big eyes. His eyes were straight and very bright, and he could almost discharge electricity.

I was startled by the old man's expression and all of my goose bumps all over my body.

Even the smile on the old man's face seemed particularly creepy to me. He smiled even brighter now, and he stretched out his hand to touch my head. I was so scared that I burst into tears on the spot.

The old man's hand stopped in the air and frowned and asked me: "What are you crying? I'm not a ghost."

After hearing what he said, I remembered what my mother said in the morning, "That's what life-successful, what is that? Isn't it just a ghost?" Although I was young at that time, I had heard a lot of ghost stories. It happened that time I was acting in the TV series again. I only watched the opening of the movie once, and I was so scared that I didn't dare to go to the bathroom by myself for several days.

At this time, all the gods and ghosts suddenly appeared in my mind. The more I thought about it, the more I became more scared, the more I cried louder I cried.

As soon as I cried and made a fuss, the people gathered at Lao Wang's door came to the courtyard one after another.

The first time I came to the courtyard was Liu Shangang's father. He quickly picked me up and then shouted at the old man: "What are you doing?"

The old man looked innocent: "I didn't do anything."

"What didn't you do? Why didn't you do it? The child was scared like this by you?" When Liu Shangang's father shouted to the old man, many people had gathered in the patio.

Those who live in the tube building are all employees of the same factory. Whether they are at work or in life, they are all in a small circle. Although neighbors will quarrel over trivial matters, no matter who encounters a family, they are still these neighbors and neighbors.

The old man probably saw too many people and was afraid of losing money. He sighed, turned his head and left the tube building. Before leaving the gate, he murmured: "Oh, you have no fate, you can't force it."

No one knows what his words mean, but he is too lazy to guess.

Not long after the old man left, the police also evacuated the scene. In the end, Lao Wang's case was characterized as an ordinary carbon monoxide poisoning accident, but everyone knew that things were not that simple.

However, as time goes by, life in the Tongzi Building gradually becomes stable.

Everyone thinks that this matter has just passed, but since then, I have never had a few illnesses since I was a child, but my body has become very weak and I will get sick almost every few weeks.

When I first got sick, I had stomachache first and then I started to catch a cold. Later, the simple stomachache turned into acute gastroenteritis, not only diarrhea, but also vomited, and almost vomited whatever I eat, and a minor cold also turned into a high fever.

Seeing me from a fat guy to a skinny man, my dad and mom were so anxious that my mom simply quit the job of delivering milk and concentrate on taking care of me at home.

When I was most ill, it was the time when the factory had poor performance in 1994. I often couldn't even pay my salary. At that time, almost all of our savings were handed over to the hospital, and life gradually became more and more difficult.

However, for me at that time, life was difficult or not, I couldn't feel it. It was just that there was less meat when I was eating, and there was no new clothes to wear except for the Chinese New Year. Anyway, even if I had meat, I couldn't eat much. A boy didn't care whether he had new clothes to wear.

On the contrary, I was quite glad that I was sick at that time. Although I felt uncomfortable with my ticks and vomiting, I at least didn’t have to go to school or do my homework. I just lie in bed watching TV every day. For children aged six or seven, TV is definitely the most indispensable thing in life.

But a high fever soon ended and almost killed me.

The winter when I was seven years old was very cold, and our place was dry, and the wind blew on my face, like cutting it with a knife. It was cold at first, and then it hurts so much.

Since the beginning of winter, I started to have a high fever, and it has not subsided for more than a week. One day, my mother took my temperature and took out her thermometer to see that I actually had a fever of 42 degrees.

My mother quickly ran to the communication room and called my dad. When my dad came back, I was in a daze. My mom wrapped me in a coat, and then my dad carried me to the hospital.

Most of the things that happened later on, I just had a vague impression. I only remember that Liu Shangang's father drove the noodle packaging truck in the factory and took my father and I to the hospital for water supply. I didn't know when I arrived at the hospital. I fell asleep on the way and didn't even wake up when the injection was acupuncture.
Chapter completed!