"Okay, okay," I rubbed my temples and pretended to be distressed and said, "I have other things to do and I'm too lazy to talk to you. I'll give you the gold bracelet. I want the jar."
A smile immediately appeared on Lao Zhang's face.
The curtains were closed during the day, and after Lao Zhang left, I called the boss and learned that they had arrived at the foot of Miyao Mountain early and were waiting for me. I said that I was busy with a small job and the guards in the village were lax, so I would leave tomorrow.
"Botou, have you ever seen white crystals growing on the skulls of dead people?"
"No...it's not white crystal either. It's just a white lens, a large one on the back of the head."
"What do you mean?" Maybe I spoke too fast and didn't understand.
"It's nothing, just hang up." Thinking that we would meet tomorrow, I didn't ask any more questions.
The sun sets and night falls.
I stuck Xiao Xuan's leather sheath knife on my back and saw that the clock on the wall had passed eleven o'clock. I waited and waited, but Lao Zhang didn't come.
Did he run away because he was afraid?
I can't wait any longer. I will leave tomorrow. Before I leave, the hole must be backfilled. My teacher taught me that if you only dig without filling, you will be finished sooner or later.
It was late at night, and as we were approaching the carrot field, a voice suddenly came from behind.
"Wait for me!"
"It's me! I'm late." Lao Zhang ran over panting, holding a headlamp.
When I got closer and saw his appearance, I was shocked.
"you are sick?"
"It's nothing serious. I just kept having diarrhea when I went home during the day. I went to the clinic and bought a bottle of Xielistin. Otherwise, I would have called you earlier."
"Then why do you have such a mouth?"
Lao Zhang's lips are "blue", which is very obvious.
Shouldn't the color of a normal person's upper and lower lips be red? He's not. What I see is cyan, just like...the color is colored with a watercolor pen.
"It's okay," Lao Zhang wiped his lips: "The doctor said I had too much diarrhea during the day and was a little dehydrated. It won't affect me. I'll be fine in a few days."
On the road, Lao Zhang often farted while walking. The smell was very smelly, almost like eating rotten eggs. He didn't care about it.
When we arrived at the radish patch, Lao Zhang said, "Brother, I've had diarrhea all day and my hands are weak. Please help me remove the board and see if my wife is underneath."
"Oh...Okay, you really don't look good."
After saying that, I squatted down and started to dig up the soil and remove the wooden boards.
I specially wore a coat at night, and while I was digging dirt, I secretly opened a corner of the coat and placed a small mirror here.
In the small mirror, I saw Lao Zhang behind him with a pale face and blue lips.
He stood there, holding his stomach with his left hand, his expression seemed a little uncomfortable.
I kept staring at Lao Zhang in the mirror. Once he made a move, I could react immediately.
After removing the board, Lao Zhang ran over and turned on his flashlight, shining it down the hole.
You can see that there is a large pool of dried blood at the bottom of the robbery cave.
A woman's hair was spread out, her neck was bent at a weird angle, she was leaning against the wall, her legs were spread wide apart, her hands were hanging to the side, motionless, dead.
Lao Zhang suddenly cried as he looked at it. He cried and said: "I'm sorry, my wife. I regret it a little now. You gave birth to my son, washed my clothes and cooked for me, but why do you look down on me? Why do you and your whole family look down on me?"
People look down on me, I’m not a bad person, I’ve been working hard.”
As he spoke, Lao Zhang stretched out his hands to grab his hair.
At first he scratched his hair, then scratched the back of his head with his backhand, and his movements became larger and larger.
"Brother, look at me, I'm a little itchy."
Lao Zhang turned around, held down his hair and asked me to help him take a look.
I held up the flashlight and looked at the back of his head, and I was shocked!
