A scream woke up the whole family;
No wonder.
It's scary enough to open the door of a dark bathroom late at night while holding your pee and suddenly see someone inside. I believe most people have had similar experiences.
What's more, what my sister-in-law encountered was a ghost.
Lin Wanqiu came out of the bedroom and reached out to pull up her sister.
"What's the matter? What's the matter?"
The father-in-law and mother-in-law also came up from the first floor together and saw their little daughter crying in her sister's arms. Then they looked at Zhou Ze who was still sitting on the toilet.
"Xu Le, you are such a greedy bastard that you have set your sights on my little daughter!"
The mother-in-law picked up the broom at the bathroom door and prepared to hit Xu Le.
The father-in-law was the same, ready to come in angrily and teach his bastard son-in-law a lesson.
No wonder.
Seeing this scene,
Everyone would naturally think in that direction.
My brother-in-law went crazy.
Being unfaithful to my sister-in-law,
After all, as the saying goes, if the sister-in-law has half of it, it belongs to the brother-in-law.
"Mom and Dad, Xiaoyi was frightened when he went to the bathroom." Doctor Lin said.
My mother-in-law was stunned for a moment, raised the broom in her hand but didn't know where to put it.
My father-in-law also paused, then took a few steps back awkwardly.
Zhou Ze was interrupted by this and suddenly found that the blue veins in his arms had faded away without him knowing when, and the intense pain also disappeared.
At the moment, I feel very tired and sleepy and want to sleep.
He stood up and prepared to leave the bathroom. As for his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Zhou Ze was too lazy to care about anything. He had no interest in cleaning up the mess for that coward Xu Le.
However, when Zhou Ze stood up, the sister-in-law was so frightened that she trembled several times and hid in her sister's arms.
"Ah! Don't come over here! Don't come over here!"
Zhou Ze frowned slightly. What did she see just now
"What the hell is going on!" The mother-in-law asked her little daughter, with her hands on her hips. She didn't look like she was frightened like this. "Xiaoyi, my dearest child, tell me what's going on. Did he do that to you?"
My sister-in-law is still very honest, and she also knows that she cannot lie about such things, otherwise the matter will be very serious.
"No, I came to the bathroom and when I opened the door I saw him sitting inside. It was so scary!"
After the sister-in-law mustered up the courage to say all this, she buried her head in her sister's arms again.
alright,
It was a misunderstanding after all.
"You stupid thing, you don't know how to turn on the light when you go to the toilet at night
Do you think my home is your home? You are so stingy.
I can't bear to spend this electricity bill!
If this scares my daughter into something bad, how will you compensate her..."
The mother-in-law began to blame Zhou Ze, almost poking her finger at his face.
Zhou Ze was very tired at this time. When people are extremely sleep deprived, their tempers tend to be very bad. In addition, Zhou Ze had long been impatient with the network of relationships that Xu Le had left for him.
If you don't sleep in separate beds,
Zhou Ze might not get angry yet.
Now we even sleep in separate beds.
Zhou Ze was too lazy to endure the anger of this snobbish mother-in-law any longer.
“Bang!”
Zhou Ze waved his hand and slapped away the finger that his mother-in-law was pointing at him.
"Leave me alone."
The mother-in-law glared at him, obviously unable to believe that her son-in-law, who had always been a coward, dared to speak to her like that.
"How do you talk to your mother like that? Do you have any manners at all?" At this time, the father-in-law started scolding.
"If you want your daughter to become a second marriage, then you should continue to tell me the rules!"
Zhou Ze retorted directly, then pushed his father-in-law away with his shoulder and walked back to the bedroom.
With a "bang", the door was closed with great force.
"How ridiculous! How ridiculous!" The father-in-law was so angry that his chest heaved.
The mother-in-law hurried to her husband and touched his chest.
But the two of them didn't dare to continue the quarrel.
after all,
What Zhou Ze just said had a great deterrent effect on them.
Although I don't know what happened to the cowardly son-in-law who usually can't even say a word, but he is right. Once the eldest daughter gets divorced, her next marriage will be a second marriage, which is not good for her reputation or the reputation of her family.
Moreover, in their opinion, a woman who remarries is worthless and cannot find a good family.
In fact, a person's quality and whether his thinking is feudal have little to do with his education and family conditions. The key lies in the individual's own quality.
For example, Xu Le's father-in-law and mother-in-law, no matter how angry they were, did not dare to provoke their bastard son-in-law at this time, for fear that he would really jump up and shout for a divorce.
Zhou Ze lay on the bed, took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and prepared to sleep. He was really tired.
After about a quarter of an hour,
Zhou Ze heard a knock on the bedroom door:
"Xiaoyi is scared, I will go and sleep with her tonight."
It was Lin Wanqiu's voice, and then she left.
You said it as if you really slept with me;
… …
The next day at noon,
My father-in-law and mother-in-law are having lunch.
"He went to the bookstore?" the father-in-law asked the mother-in-law.
"He hasn't gotten up yet." said the mother-in-law angrily.
"That's outrageous," commented the father-in-law.
"that is… "
At this time, the mother-in-law suddenly stopped talking, because she saw Zhou Ze coming down from upstairs. Zhou Ze's eyes were red and his eye bags were very serious.
The atmosphere was somewhat stagnant.
Perhaps because of what happened last night, Zhou Ze's status as a son-in-law in this family has been elevated to a certain extent. At least, this time his father-in-law and mother-in-law did not say anything to provoke him.
Of course, it was also because Zhou Ze now looked like he might chop someone with a knife at any time.
He glanced across the dining table.
Zhou Ze put his hands over his chest.
Rice aroma,
Meaty,
So disgusting,
I feel like vomiting again.
Zhou Ze walked out of the house, breathed in the slightly cool fresh air outside, and felt a little more comfortable.
Feeling a little dizzy, Zhou Ze began to wander the streets alone. He needed to think about some things quietly, but his current state of being extremely sleepy and unable to sleep made it difficult for him to really calm down.
Very tangled,
Very uncomfortable,
It was like walking out of an Internet cafe after two consecutive nights, or like a middle school student who had been hiding under the covers all night reading novels and then getting up early the next day to go to class.
As he walked, Zhou Ze suddenly stopped. The surrounding environment seemed familiar.
Then he saw the sign in front of him.
Tongcheng First Affiliated Hospital.
I actually walked to my old workplace. Haha, maybe it’s because Tongcheng is too small.
Zhou Ze walked into the hospital, not to revisit the old place, but to try some sleeping pills;
I can still bear not eating for a while, at worst I can just drink more water, and drinking enough water can temporarily get me through. But not sleeping will be a long-term torture.
Familiar hospital, familiar working environment. Zhou Ze saw that his photo on the list album of the emergency department on the ground floor of the building had turned gray.
Then he subconsciously walked to his original office. His desk had been occupied by someone else. A middle-aged doctor with many pockmarks on his face sat in his seat. He glanced at the name card on the table. The doctor's surname was Kang.
He let out a long sigh, with a hint of regret.
Zhou Ze temporarily forgot about getting sleeping pills. Perhaps it was the feeling of "things have changed and people have changed" that temporarily suppressed the torment of sleepiness. Zhou Ze began to walk around the hospital.
He was recalling every detail of his life here.
His work,
His life,
as well as,
His past,
Or rather, it was his previous life.
I can’t go back, I really can’t go back, Zhou Ze kept repeating to himself.
Then, before I knew it, I had walked down the stairs and arrived at the underground floor.
He stood there. As a doctor who had worked here for many years, he knew the layout of this floor.
Some equipment storage rooms, and then, the morgue.
He remembered that he had once been lying in the hospital morgue, where he had been made up by a makeup artist.
He started walking again, heading towards the morgue.
Zhou Ze wanted to go and have a look at the place where he once lay. This was his own explanation for why he was walking over there now, but in fact, it was a special feeling in the dark that was guiding him to move forward over there.
As he walked, Zhou Ze saw the door of the morgue. There was an electronic combination lock on the door. Coincidentally, Zhou Ze remembered the combination. If he was a doctor from other departments, he probably wouldn't have any intersection with this place, but Zhou Ze used to be in the emergency department. People who were sent to the emergency department were generally seriously injured and sick. It was inevitable that some people could not be rescued and had to be sent here for placement.
In fact, this hospital also serves as the police station's morgue. Some bodies of unknown origin or that still need to be "dealt with" will be temporarily placed here. This is common practice in many places. If the local police station is not well-equipped or the forensic doctors are not adequately equipped, the bodies will often be placed in the local funeral home or hospital.
Entered the password,
The door lock opens directly.
Zhou Ze walked in.
The coolness came.
It's not the kind of coolness that irritates the skin.
It's that special chill that seems to cover up the warmth in your heart.
In the morgue, of course, there are corpses lying. This is the temporary resting place for the deceased.
Logically, there should be an administrator outside, but for some reason, Zhou Ze didn't see anyone when he just walked in. Maybe the administrator was absent.
Zhou Ze walked among them. There were several bodies placed on cold stretchers, covered with white sheets. There was also a body wrapped in a floral quilt used at home. Judging from the silver hair exposed on the head of the body, the deceased should be an old grandmother.
Because of his profession, Zhou Ze was not very afraid of corpses. What's more, he was a ghost himself.
Zhou Ze walked to the freezer, which was the kind with layers that could be pulled out.
There are labels on the outside of the freezers containing corpses, recording the corpse's name, gender and other information.
Zhou Ze opened an empty freezer, reached in, closed his eyes, and slowly sensed what was going on. Gradually, he felt intoxicated, as if only here could he find peace.
After hesitating for a moment, Zhou Ze lay down.
"Squeak..."
The freezer was slowly pushed in and finally closed.
Quiet,
Ice cold,
Silently,
Zhou Ze slowly closed his eyelids.
I feel sleepy.
He finally found the feeling of sleep.
But he couldn't sleep yet.
Because he didn't know,
Who was standing outside just now and helping him push the freezer in...