Chapter 1470 Accident
With his mouth wide open and his lips trembling, the fat man was so frightened that he couldn't say a word. He didn't understand why the ghost didn't kill him, but snatched the guide sign.
Suddenly, a harsh sound came, and the fat man immediately turned around. It was the sound of gongs, coming from the village!
The gongs sounded one after another, the ground was shaking, and cracks appeared in the surrounding scene little by little. Finally, in the fat man's horrified eyes, it shattered like a mirror. The next second, a face appeared in front of him.
“You’re awake!”
When the fat man saw the doctor's face, his first reaction was not to feel relieved. Instead, he immediately stepped back until he could clearly see the scene around him.
This is still the thatched house. Except for Shao Tong guarding the door, the doctor and Li Bai are with him. At this moment, he is lying on the bed with a wet cloth covering his forehead.
The fat man wanted to open his mouth to speak, but his throat was very dry, and the sounds he made were "ah...ah...". Li Bai thoughtfully took a water bag and fed it to him.
Seeing that the fat man was fine, Jiang Cheng also breathed a sigh of relief, and the worry in his eyebrows gradually disappeared, "What's wrong with you? I can't wake you up even if I scream."
Through communication, Fatty gradually understood what happened during this period. The first half of the night between the doctor and Shao Tongshou was uneventful, but when the shift was changed, he suddenly realized that he could not wake up, but Li Bai, who was sleeping in the same bed, was No, everyone realized something was wrong.
After regaining his composure, the fat man told what happened last night, but because his thoughts were confusing, everyone could only get a general idea.
"How do you know that the figure outside the window is Grandpa? You have never seen him." Li Bai asked the first question.
"It's a cough... I heard it very clearly, just like what we heard yesterday when we first arrived. Also, I looked out through the crack in the window, and there was a haggard figure outside. It was a Old man, there was a moon in the sky at that time , The moonlight is very good, I can see clearly. "
After hearing the fat man's explanation, Jiang Cheng came and squatted behind the closed window. After a while, he stretched out his hand to call the fat man over, and waited until the fat man also squatted behind him. After getting to the location, I realized something was wrong.
The cracks in the window have long been sealed, and you can't see outside at all.
"Also, there was no moon last night, and there was almost no light in the village. There was no shadow cast on the window paper, and the stove in the room was not extinguished."
"Let's use it as a dream to describe it. In that There were so many unreasonable things in the dream. I’m afraid you came back alive thanks to the sound of the gong.”
The fat man was stunned when he heard this, “Why, you heard it too. The gong sounded?"
"Well, you woke up shortly after the gong sounded," Li Bai said, raising his head and looking in the direction of the village, "The gong sound came from that direction. "
"By the way, that sign!" Fatty suddenly reacted and touched the wooden sign on his chest through his clothes. It was a guide sign given by the Hou Mansion. Fortunately, there was no wooden sign. lost.
The fat man breathed out, wiped the cold sweat on his face with a wet cloth, and finally felt relieved. It seemed that this dream was not so weird that it distorted reality. This was what he was most worried about.
“Take out the sign.” Jiang Cheng said.
The fat man untied his clothes and took out the brand from the innermost pocket. But the moment he took the brand into his hands, the fat man realized that something was wrong. The brand was still the same brand, but this touch...how? A little sticky?
At the same time, a slight stench, a strange smell mixed with the smell of blood spread, irritating everyone's nostrils.
It’s blood!
Look carefully, there is actually a bloody handprint printed on the dark wooden sign!
"There is blood and the smell of rotting corpses." Jiang Cheng said without changing his expression. He rubbed the sign with his hands, "There is some mud mixed on it."
With Jiang Cheng Compared with his attitude of being accustomed to such scenes, Fatty was speechless for a moment. The scene last night was shattered and reorganized in his mind, and for a while he couldn't tell whether it was fantasy or reality.
"Ah...! Ahhh...!"
A woman's scream came from next door, followed by a cry.
"Grandpa! Grandpa!"
Hearing the gong means that the night has receded. Jiang Cheng wrapped the wooden sign with cloth and then took it back to himself, "Let's go and have a look."
Hearing the cry, Yao, Shun, and Yu also walked out of the room. As soon as they arrived at the door of the woman and her grandfather's house, the door was opened, and the woman with tears on her face stumbled out, and she became in a trance. , seemed to be in great grief, "Grandpa, he...Grandpa, he is dead!"
"Dead?"
"I woke up this morning when I heard the gong. I saw that grandpa was still sleeping, so I didn’t disturb him, but just now...just now I was about to wake grandpa up for breakfast, and then I realized...then I realized..." The woman's face was full of tears, and she could no longer control her emotions. It looks very pitiful.
Jiang Cheng looked in through the open door and saw a person lying on a shabby earthen bed, wrapped tightly in a quilt, and his face could not be seen.
"Please help me take care of my grandpa. I...I'm going to find people in the village to help arrange my grandpa's funeral. I'm asking you."
A woman's sadness is not like a performance. What's more important is that she didn't give Jiang Cheng and the others a chance to refuse. After saying this, the woman stumbled away and looked like she had lost her soul from the back.
After the woman left, the small courtyard fell into silence. Everyone looked at the figure on the earthen bed. To be precise, it was a human figure wrapped in a quilt. The scene was a bit strange.
Jiang Cheng succinctly told Yao, Shunyu and the others what happened to the fat man last night. At this moment, everyone felt guilty, worried that what was hidden under the quilt was not a corpse, but a fierce ghost.
Shao Tong volunteered to step forward, which was exactly what he wanted. As the corner of the quilt was lifted little by little, an old face was revealed.
The old man did not walk peacefully, his face was distorted, and he was even a little out of shape. His eyes were not completely closed, and his mouth was open, as if he had something to say. The fat man immediately recognized that this was the man he saw last night. That grandpa.
Jiang Cheng pulled out Grandpa's hands, compared them, and then took out the sign from his arms. After verification, the bloody fingerprints on the sign matched his left hand perfectly.
Now everyone is convinced that the fat man’s dream last night was related to Grandpa.
Li Bai opened the old man's eyelids, then reached out to check the old man's body temperature, lifted the body to check, and made a judgment after a moment, "The pupils are dilated. Judging from the temperature and other physical signs, the person should be dead." Not long after, about 4 or 5 hours, spots of corpse appeared on the back and other sinking areas.”
"According to this time estimate, when we first arrived yesterday, the old man was indeed not dead yet, and the cough we heard was also made by him." Zhu Jie analyzed.
"It looks like this from the corpse." Li Bai nodded. (End of this chapter)