"Who are you? A family member of the patient?" the doctor in a white coat asked me.
I quickly said: "Hello doctor, this is my dad, I'm here to see my dad."
The doctor frowned and asked, "Why aren't you coming for the surgery this afternoon?"
I lied and said, "I work out of town, and I came to the hospital right after I got off the train."
"Let me see the ID card."
I couldn't refuse it openly, so I gave it after a brief hesitation.
He looked at it, handed the ID card back to me and asked, "So your father's surname is Du and your surname is Xiang?"
"Yes, that's right! This is my stepfather, haha."
I quickly changed the topic: "By the way, doctor, how is my father doing? When will he wake up?"
He replied: "This patient's situation is special. It should be said that he would wake up after the anesthesia took effect, but he never woke up. After a series of examinations, the results showed that there was nothing wrong with his head, except for a few fractures.
Blood pressure and electrocardiogram also look normal.”
"Doctor Zhao! There's something wrong! Come to Ward 6!"
"coming."
The doctor walked to the door, turned around and warned: "Stay in the hospital for a week and check the situation. If the person is still awake, figure out where the problem is."
"I understand, doctor, please excuse me."
Huacun is not far from Nanping. After one o'clock, I saw Cha Hukou again. I hadn't seen him for several months. He was still the same, but his hair was longer.
As soon as he saw me, he frowned and said, "Boy, your eyebrows are cut off at the end, there are vertical lines on the corners of your eyes, and your eyes are black and blue. With such an unlucky face, are you a ghost?"
"Master Cha, don't be joking, I haven't seen any ghosts."
"It will be serious when you see it. Forget it, go see Lao Du first."
In the ward.
"It's strange...it shouldn't be. Judging from Lao Du's appearance, he has not had any disasters in the near future."
After staring at it for a while, he frowned and said, "This matter is big or small, don't hide it, tell me in detail what happened that day."
I still trusted him, so I immediately told the whole story. Of course, there was a murder in the orchard, so I didn’t tell him.
He frowned even deeper after hearing this.
"So that's what happened. The old snake girl from Zhanghu died in a foreign land, and you drove her back?"
I nodded and said yes.
"He was buried? What was the cause of death?"
I said he was buried. There was no cause of death, he just fell asleep.
After hearing about the household registration check, he kept pacing in the ward, turning his head to look at the hospital bed from time to time. After a while, he sighed: "Old Du was born with a very tough character. His ancestors made a living by fishing corpses from the Yangtze River. Old Du is in the funeral parlor.
I have been working for more than ten years without any problems, but I didn't expect that something like this happened now. According to me, it was the car accident that knocked him out of his mind, so he couldn't wake up."
"why do not you believe Me?"
I said I believe it.
"Don't be so harsh, kid. If you don't hit the wall, you won't cry. Do you know what it means to hide one's eyes from a ghost?"
I shook my head.
He stretched out his hands to block his eyes and said, "Let me ask you, if I cover your eyes like this, can you still see the cars on the road?"
I then shook my head.
He put down his hand, shook his head and said: "In this world, so many people cross the road every day and get into car accidents. Haven't you seriously thought about it, it's all because of carelessness?"
"To put it bluntly, it's just that ordinary people can't see it."
He looked at the time: "Wait for me here. I'll go back and get something. I'll be back at about 3 o'clock."
Around three o'clock, he came back on time to check his household registration. Compared to when he left, he had a big, bulging bag in his hand.
"No one will be coming at this time. Lock the door."
After saying that, I watched him take things out of his bag one after another.
Empty bowl, mineral water, yellow cloth, horn snail, old hen with legs tied, wooden stick, small iron ring...
