The gate of "Shengguang Machinery" is being renovated, and several construction workers are busy laying bricks. Officer Gong in the township rode his bicycle away from the factory gate and ran into a funeral home.
The widow and orphan wore sackcloth and mourned, holding the coffin and howling from the street. A lot of paper money was scattered on both sides of the road, causing the people to watch along the way.
"Who is dead?" A construction worker from a foreign country grabbed a trowel and looked at the funeral procession in a puzzled way. "Why are you returning two coffins?"
"For the Township Joint Defense Team, it is the father and son who died." Officer Gong replied in a low voice, feeling that he was talking too much and evasively rode away quickly. He likes to run towards the'Shengguang Machinery' without much trouble at the township government, basically acting as Zhou Qingfeng's secretary.
"Father and son are both dead?" The out-of-town construction worker was even more surprised, "What did you die?"
Unable to answer the question, Officer Gong left quickly and wanted to take a trip to the county. He is currently thinking about a question whether he should resign from the village to apply for "Shengguang Machinery", specializing in public relations matters.
As for the funeral team from the entrance of the factory, Officer Gong dare not say much. He was well informed and knew that many people had died in the village in the past two or three months. More than a dozen lives were gone, all died in accidents.
Some of them drank fake wine, some suffered sudden cerebral congestion, and some accidentally fell into a ditch while walking and drowned. As for why the shallow river can drown the captain of the joint defense who has lived in the village for decades? I don't know, I dare not say.
The captain of the joint defense drowned, and his son scolded angrily, saying that someone in the village deliberately murdered and wanted to go to the county to file a lawsuit. As a result, that night, the captain's son drowned in the same river, in exactly the same way.
The news spread, no one sympathized, it was just chilling. Two coffins were carried over from the front of the factory. This is the only remaining dissatisfaction and venting of the family of the deceased. It's just that everyone still clap their hands behind their backs about this, but they feel like a mirror in their hearts.
There are too many domineering people in the village, it's nothing more than a cruel encounter in the past.
Officer Gong only heard that the joint defense team had troubled the "Shengguang Machinery", and the captain who had worked for more than ten years sent someone to pass a message-if his son was not allowed a white-collar salary, the factory would never go on. It's not easy for anyone to intercede, only his words will work.
So the day after the message was delivered, the man died.
The Township Joint Defense Team was not the first to send someone to spread the word, nor was it the first to die in an accident. If Secretary Gong had more extensive news, he would know that there have been a lot of personal accidents in Tianyang area recently.
There are high-ranking figures in the city who died of overwork and illness because of the versatility of the day, and the memorial service was held to end. Even some small officials who are used to eating and taking cards have a sudden stroke, have a crooked mouth and nose, and cannot take care of themselves. They can only retire and need organizational care.
It is difficult to count how many accidents there are, and no one counts them. It's just that after the accident, the river and the sea often feast, and the world is peaceful. The number of corpses in the vegetarian meal is much less, but the people feel happy and praise God for opening their eyes.
The funeral procession passed by the street funeral, and the cleaners in the factory came out to clean up the scattered paper money. After sweeping, I dumped it into the garbage dump, and it seemed as if nothing had happened on the street. What should ordinary people do, talk and laugh freely, as if it has no effect.
The township health clinic was on the street, and Doctor Yu stood by the side of the road and sighed a few times to the funeral procession going away. Fights are common in the village, and there are not a few people who commit crimes. Some people are accustomed to being king and hegemony, and feel that anyone can provoke them, so they kick the iron plate.
A few neighbors on the street came out and muttered, and they laughed and asked Doctor Yu, "How did the father and son die? Is there any inside story?"
"How do I know what's inside?" Doctor Yu exclaimed, lowering his tone, "It's all said to be drowned. Don't talk nonsense behind your back."
"A liar." Several neighbors pouted in disbelief, and continued to ask: "Didn't you let you go for an autopsy? Didn't you see anything?"
Doctor Yu was even more shocked, "I was called for first aid. By the time the body was hard, I filled out a death report and estimated the time of death. The father and son both drank alcohol and fell into the ditch in the middle of the night. There are signs of drowning in the department, nothing special."
The neighbors still shook their heads, and continued to ask, "Could it be that kid did it?"
Doctor Yu's face collapsed, "Do you want to die? Just a mouthful. Two nights after the accident, the boy had evidence of his alibi. He didn't work overtime with dozens of workers in the factory, but he opened a night school at the elementary school. Training."
The neighbors laughed now, "Doctor Yu, look at you in a hurry. We didn’t say who it was? You rushed to talk about it. There must be a ghost behind this, otherwise, how could the father and son of the Joint Defense Team die in two days or so? the same place?"
Doctor Yu was really angry and cursed fiercely: "I can't control my own mouth? There is a kind of yelling, go to the boy and yell. See if he is kind to him and pushes you into the washbasin. Go to the big ditch and puddle?"
Several neighbors didn't dare to speak, and they scattered. Doctor Yu sighed and didn't know how to think about it—this accident was so strange that it made people feel scared. The biggest suspect has been showing up in public, which is even more frightening.
That kid has always been known for being stupid and having a lot of money. It seems that anyone can come up and pick up some wool, and he is very happy. But now that the wool was in his hands, he discovered that there was probably a fierce hungry wolf under the sheepskin.
It is impossible to say that everyone is not frightened.
Doctor Yu severely rebuked the neighbor's'rumors', but he was very worried. He sat in the health clinic for a long time, and in the afternoon heard a shout from outside, "Doctor Yu."
Doctor Yu was taken aback. Zhou Qingfeng walked in from the outside and smiled at him: "Is all the cotton gauze for hygiene? I want to buy some."
"Cotton gauze? Yes, yes." Doctor Yu quickly got up to help Zhou Qingfeng to find it, digging out a big bag. Zhou Qingfeng paid for it, but he quickly stopped and said: "Forget it, forget it, no money."
"How can it work?" Zhou Qingfeng still had to pay the bill.
Doctor Yu said carefully and embarrassingly: "Xiao Zhou, you see, I have taken a lot of money from you in the past two or three months. Bicycles, watches, radios, etc., you must have lost it, or I will give it to you. Will you make up the money?"
"Why do you want to make up?" Zhou Qingfeng waved his hand, "I am not at a loss."
"Look at the town recently.... There are a lot of dead people. I have something in my heart..." Doctor Yu rubbed his hands, but didn't dare to continue.
Zhou Qingfeng didn't seem to understand, "Oh, what can be a reasonable and legal transaction? I have any trouble in the future, and I have to ask Dr. Yu for your help.
As for the recent deaths, I also feel strange. It may be that some people do too many bad things and meet ghosts when they go out. What does it have to do with me? Not much to say, I have an appointment tonight, and I am leaving. "
When the young man left, Doctor Yu put down a big stone in his heart, and he was much more relaxed. Several neighbors outside the health clinic probed their heads and asked from a distance, "Lao Yu, what are you talking to that kid?"
Doctor Yu felt relieved. Seeing these neighbors became angry again, he shouted angrily: "You are spreading rumors, making people panic. Those bastards who died must have done too many bad things and met ghosts. Isn't this normal?"
At this moment, in the old workshop of'Shengguang Machinery', in a reverberatory furnace used for smelting metals, platinum bars are melting at a high temperature of two thousand degrees. On the electric furnace next to it, the epee "Evil Breaking Evil" was heated to redness and was about to be recast.