Suitable for: funerals and worship; taboo: inappropriate for all things.
Ma Jianguo has been working as a taxi driver for more than ten years. His biggest dream in his life is to save money to buy a truck, and then work for himself as both a driver and a boss.
You can't just work all your life.
On July 14, Ma Jianguo and his apprentice Li Dagou drove the company's pickup truck to Nanyuan Xincun Community to deliver goods. After unloading a whole truck of ginger, it was completely dark.
Originally, Ma Jianguo planned to stay one night with his apprentice Li Dagou in the Nanyuan Xincun community, and then go back early tomorrow morning and do some private work. Who knew that a phone call from his boss disrupted Ma Jianguo's original plan.
The boss asked Ma Jianguo to come back as soon as possible after unloading the goods, and he would be able to get out of the car early tomorrow morning.
There was no other way. With the boss's salary, they had to listen to the boss's words. After Ma Jianguo and Li Dagou filled their stomachs at a nearby noodle shop, they immediately got in the car and prepared to drive back overnight.
Nanyuan Xincun community is located in a somewhat remote location. There is a long mountain road away from the highway. Because of the inconvenient transportation, people often take a ride to the city during the day.
Since Ma Jianguo took Li Dagou as his apprentice to deliver goods together, whenever he met a lone hitchhiker on the road, he would pick them up along the way to earn some cigarette money.
When we went back that night, we happened to meet a tall and thin man on the roadside, carrying a bag and waving at them.
Seeing someone waving, Ma Jianguo stopped the car habitually, opened the window and asked:
"Fellow, can I take a ride?"
The tall and thin man pointed to the front of the road and said:
"Well, how much does it cost to go to Jiang County?" The man said and stuck out his tongue out of habit.
"Just give me gas money, thirty, and I'll deliver it to the county for you." Ma Jianguo thought to himself that he happened to be passing by Jiang County and could get on the expressway from there without taking a detour. Fortunately, he didn't ask for more.
The tall and thin man hummed, opened the door and sat in the back. When he got in the car, he put his head first into the car.
After the tall and thin man sat down, he didn't speak anymore. Li Dagou got bored and played mobile games. Ma Jianguo concentrated on driving and glanced back from time to time with the rearview mirror.
The tall and thin man sitting in the back always lowered his head and remained motionless. The atmosphere was a bit serious, so Ma Jianguo asked:
"Fellow, why are you still going to the county seat at such a late hour?"
"My grandson is in hospital. I don't feel safe going to see him. I can't get a taxi, so I have to stop him on the road." The tall, thin man still lowered his head when he spoke.
When Li Dagou, who was playing a game, heard this, he turned around and asked:
"Uncle, where do you live? There seems to be no village near where you got on the bus."
Just because of this glance back, Li Dagou accidentally saw a scene that made him particularly puzzled!
Through the white moonlight shining in from the car window, he could clearly see the tall and thin man sitting in the back, his bare feet were purple and black, and his feet were hanging straight down, with his toes touching the ground!
The drooping feet swayed back and forth with the car...
A normal person's sitting posture must be with the soles of their feet on the ground. Why is the posture of this man's feet so weird?!
After retracting his gaze, Li Dagou suddenly thought of another thing that made his hair stand on end. He had seen a documentary on TV introducing the profession of forensic medicine. There were a few words from a forensic doctor in it that impressed him.
profound:
"When we meet a hanged person, we are most afraid of seeing the feet straight forward. If the deceased hanged to death naturally, then his feet must be hanging down, with the toes facing the ground. If the deceased died by hanging,
When the corpse is rigor mortis and then hung up by the suspect, the toes of the deceased's feet must be facing forward."
Because Li Dagou has watched this documentary, he is more aware that the way a person hangs his feet hangs down is exactly the same as the tall, thin man sitting behind him!
Thinking of this, Li Dagou no longer had the intention to play games. He was not very courageous in the first place, 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 happened, the more frightened Li Dagou felt in his heart, and he couldn't help but think about the hanging man.
He looked at his master Ma Jianguo who was sitting next to him and was driving. He wanted to tell him but didn't dare, so he could only edit a paragraph on his mobile phone and quietly handed it to Ma Jianguo.
Ma Jianguo looked down and didn't pay attention at first, and asked:
"Big dog, what are you showing me again?"
Li Dagou gained wisdom out of desperation:
"Master, look, this is a text message sent to me by my boss."
Ma Jianguo then took a closer look at the mobile phone handed over by Li Dagou, and there was a sentence written on it:
"Master, look at the feet of the person behind you, something is wrong!"
Ma Jianguo glanced back subconsciously. By chance, the tall and thin man raised his head and met each other's eyes. Ma Jianguo saw that the man's eyes were white and his face was lifeless. He immediately lowered his head and looked at his feet.
, as expected, as my apprentice said, a pair of feet without shoes, black and black, hanging straight down, with the knees raised as high as possible, with the toes facing the ground!
Seeing this, Ma Jianguo was trembling in his heart!
But after all, he has experienced a lot. He has been driving for more than ten years and has seen too many car crashes and fatal accidents on the road, so he is naturally more courageous:
"Fellow, you...what's wrong with your feet?"
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 the car and kept staring 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 a little longer than normal.
cut!
What kind of person has a long neck?
That's the man who hanged himself!
When Ma Jianguo was a child, a woman in the village hung herself from the beam of her house. When she was discovered, she was already dead and her neck was stretched out.
His feet were black and hanging straight down, his neck was long, his eyes were white, and his face was lifeless. When Ma Jianguo thought about it, his head exploded with a buzzing sound, and his hair stood up one by one!
I felt a chill coming from behind me, and my heart was beating loudly.
Is this guy pulling a living person or a dead person?!
Because he was too frightened, Ma Jianguo was a little distracted and almost ran into him when he was turning in front!
Ma Jianguo suddenly stepped on the brakes. There was a layer of sand on the cement floor on the mountain road. He stepped on the brakes hard and the rear wheels skidded. The front of the car finally hit the guardrail. Fortunately, the impact was not strong.
"Master, is the car okay?!" Li Dagou said and glanced behind him subconsciously.
