Chapter 1 sagging feet
July 14th, the sky is clear.
It is advisable: funeral or worship; it is advisable: everything is not suitable.
Ma Jianguo has been working from a taxi driver to a truck driver for more than ten years. His biggest dream in his life is to save money to buy a truck, and to do his own jobs in the future, becoming both a driver and a boss.
People can't work all their lives.
On July 14th, Ma Jianguo and his apprentice Li Dagou drove the company's pickup truck to Nanyuan Xincun Community to deliver goods. The whole truck of ginger was unloaded and it was completely dark.
Originally, Ma Jianguo was planning to stay with his apprentice Li Dagou in Nanyuan Xincun Community for one night and deal with it for one night. He would go back early tomorrow morning and would have some private work when he went back. Who knew that the boss's phone call disrupted Ma Jianguo's original plan.
The boss asked Ma Jianguo to come back quickly after unloading the goods, and he had to leave the car tomorrow morning.
There is no way, and you have to listen to your boss's salary. After Ma Jianguo and Li Dagou fill their stomachs in a nearby noodle shop, they immediately got on the car and prepared to rush back overnight.
The Nanyuan New Village community is located in a remote location, and there is a long mountain road from the expressway. Due to inconvenient transportation, people often take a taxi to the city during the day.
Since Ma Jianguo brought Li Dagou, his apprentice, to deliver the goods, he would take them along the way to earn money from cigarettes whenever he met someone who was alone on the road.
When I went back that night, I happened to meet a tall and thin man on the side of the road, carrying a bag and waving to them.
Seeing someone waving, Ma Jianguo habitually stopped the car, opened the window and asked:
"My fellow villager, take a ride?"
The tall and thin man pointed directly in front of the road and said:
"Well, how much does it cost to go to Jiang County?" The man said, and he habitually stuck out his tongue.
"Just give me some money for gas. I'll send it to the county for thirty." Ma Jianguo thought that he happened to pass by Jiang County and boarded the expressway from there without taking a detour, but fortunately he didn't ask for much.
The tall and thin man nodded, opened the car door and sat behind. When he got in the car, his head first reached into the car.
After the tall and thin man sat down, he didn't say anything. Li Dagou was bored and started playing mobile games. Ma Jianguo concentrated on driving and glanced backwards with the rearview mirror in the car from time to time.
The tall and thin man sitting behind him always lowered his head, his body motionless, and the atmosphere was a little serious, so Ma Jianguo asked:
"My fellow villager, why are you still going to the county town when you're so late?"
"I was hospitalized and I was worried about going to see it. I couldn't get a taxi, so I had to stop the car on the road." The tall and thin man still lowered his head while talking.
When Li Dagou, who was playing the game, heard it, he turned around and asked:
"Uncle, where do you live? There seems to be no village on the part where you get in the car."
Just because of this glance, Li Dagou accidentally saw a scene that made him particularly puzzled!
With the white moonlight shining in outside the car window, he clearly saw the tall and thin man sitting behind barefoot, his feet were purple and black, his feet were drooping straight and his toes were on the ground!
The drooping feet swung back and forth with the car...
A normal person's sitting posture must be on the ground, so why is the posture of this man's feet so weird?!
After retracting his gaze, Li Dagou thought of another thing that made him creepy. He had watched a documentary on TV that introduced the profession of forensics, which impressed him with a few words from a forensic:
"When we meet a person who is hanging, we are most afraid of seeing the straight feet forward. If the deceased hangs naturally, then his feet must have drooped and his toes towards the ground. If the deceased does not hang himself to death, and his body is stiff and then hung up by the suspect after death, the deceased's toes must be directed forward."
Because Li Dagou had watched this documentary, he knew more about the way his feet drooped after he hanged, which was exactly the same as the tall and thin man sitting behind him!
Thinking of this, Li Dagou no longer had the intention to play games. He was not brave enough, and now he didn't even dare to look back. He kept saying to himself, "Don't scare yourself, don't scare yourself..."
The more this happens, the more scared Li Dagou becomes, and he involuntarily thinks about the hanged ghost.
He looked at the master Ma Jianguo who was driving beside him. He wanted to tell him but he didn't dare, so he could only edit a passage on his phone and hand it to Ma Jianguo quietly.
Ma Jianguo looked down and didn't care at first, and asked:
"Big Dog, what are you showing me again?"
Li Dagou was quick to learn to know:
"Master, look, this is a text message sent to me by the boss."
Then Ma Jianguo took a closer look at the phone handed over by Li Dagou, and said something on it:
"Master, look at the feet of the man behind him. It's not right!"
Ma Jianguo subconsciously looked back and happened to see the tall and thin man raised his head and looked at him with his eyes facing each other. Ma Jianguo saw that the man's eyes were white and his face was not full of energy. He immediately lowered his head and looked at his feet. As his apprentice said, his feet were not wearing shoes, black and black, drooping straight down, placing his knees high, and his toes facing the ground!
Seeing this, Ma Jianguo was also trembling!
But he has experienced a lot after all. He has been running a car for more than ten years and has seen too many accidents of car destruction and death on the road, so he is naturally more courageous:
"My fellow villager, you...what is going on with your foot?"
The tall and thin man said slowly:
"Arthritis is an old problem, I can feel more comfortable like this."
When the tall and thin man was talking, Ma Jianguo slowed down and stared at his face with the rearview mirror. When the tall and thin man raised his head to speak, Ma Jianguo noticed something was wrong with his neck, which was growing a piece more than a normal person!
What kind of person's neck will grow a piece?
That's the person who hangs it!
When Ma Jianguo was young, a woman in the village hanged her house beam. When she was discovered, she was already dead and her neck was stretched out.
His feet were black, drooping straight down, his neck was long, his eyes were white, and his face was not full of popularity. When Ma Jianguo thought about this, his mind exploded with a "buzzing" sound, and his hair stood up one by one!
I felt a chill coming from behind, and my heart thumped.
Is this a living person or a dead person?
Because of excessive fright, Ma Jianguo was a little distracted and almost ran into the corner in front!
Ma Jianguo stepped on the brakes quickly, and there was a layer of sand on the concrete floor on the mountain road. He stepped on the brakes to the bottom. The rear wheel slipped, and the front of the vehicle finally hit the guardrail. Fortunately, the impact was not strong.
"Master, is the car okay?!" Li Dagou said as he subconsciously looked behind him.
He shouted out loud:
Chapter completed!