On New Year's Day, the breakfast shop downstairs was closed. I drove around the city for a long time before I found a place to have breakfast.
Then I went to the hospital, and then took a symbolic tour of each department. Today I no longer have the enthusiasm and passion for work that I originally imagined.
After returning to the office, I called Tong Yao and said, "Can you please accompany me to a place?"
She asked me: "Where?"
I said: "I want to visit Chen Yuan and go to the cemetery. I should have gone alone, but I'm afraid."
She immediately laughed, "You are still a man, what are you afraid of?"
I said: "Tong Yao, I don't have many friends in this city, so I can only trouble you. I'm really scared because I heard something I shouldn't have heard at home last night, which really scared me.
You don’t know, the day Chen Yuan left, our child..."
Immediately, I told her about the incident and the sound I heard when I took a shower last night. Finally, I said: "I am a doctor. I shouldn't believe those things, but I really heard it."
.You don’t know, I’m really scared. And I’m not going to sleep there anymore today. I want to move as soon as possible.”
She was silent for a moment and then said to me: "Feng Xiao, I want to accompany you there. But have you ever thought about it? There is simply no such thing in this world. I think your current state is not right, maybe
You are hallucinating."
I said, "Maybe. Then, how do you explain what happened to the child that day?"
She smiled and said: "Such a young child, he can't speak. Who knows what happened to him at that time? You can't guess the child's behavior based on what adults think? You think so? Maybe, the child was
He accidentally pointed at that place and called out "Mom". It was an unconscious behavior at all, but in the end, you used superstitious ideas to explain his unconscious behavior. In fact, this is the beginning of superstition."
I could only smile bitterly, "Tong Yao, you don't have the same experience as me, so you can't imagine the fear I felt last night. You don't know, you really scared me last night."
She sighed, "Well, you come to my house to pick me up. We'll talk after we meet."
I am really grateful to her in my heart.
Immediately, I drove to her home, picked her up and drove towards the cemetery. Today she was wearing a gray coat. It was obvious that she had considered where we were going.
The first thing she said to me after getting in the car was: "Feng Xiao, I'm going to stay at your place tonight. I want to see what's going on."
I hurriedly said: "No, it's really scary. I'm not going to live there from today on. I have to move."
She looked at me, "Feng Xiao, I think you are probably too lonely. A person may have hallucinations when he is particularly lonely. You are a doctor and you should know the reasons. So today I
I must go to your house to see you at night, so as to dispel the fear in your heart. I am helping you, do you understand?"
I was very touched, "Thank you, Tong Yao."
But she immediately laughed, "Okay, don't thank me. We are friends, right? Friends should help each other like this. By the way, when we come back in the afternoon, we will buy some food and then go to your house.
Let’s cook it ourselves. You must not have cooked at home for a long time, right? Let’s make a good meal today. By the way, do you have wine at home?”
I said, "Yes. We have all kinds of wine."
She smiled and said: "That's great. Let's take out your good wine and drink it tonight. Feng Xiao, I am very relieved about you now. You are actually quite a gentleman, and I am very relieved about you."
I knew she was talking about what happened that night when we were in the stone house, so I couldn't help but laugh, "Why do I think you talk like a leader?"
As soon as I said this sentence, I regretted it: Feng Xiao, you really don’t want to pick up the pot. Why do you still say this after someone has just been punished like that? Then he hurriedly said: "By the way, Tong Yao,
Let me tell you something."
Fortunately, my words really diverted the possible embarrassment between us, and she immediately asked me: "What's going on?"
"I recommend a person to you. I met this person once and thought he was very mysterious. No, to be precise, he should be very magical..." I said, and then I mentioned the time when Qin Xuquan and I went to visit the old man.
The story was told to her, and then she added: "I think this person is either really good at fortune-telling, or he is a master of reasoning. Anyway, there are some things that I can't understand."
When she heard this, she immediately became excited. I didn't know why she was like this. She said: "Feng Xiao, I will accompany you to the cemetery today, and you must accompany me to visit that person tomorrow. Okay?"
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I said, "I wonder if he is here. I heard that you have to rely on luck to see him."
She pursed her lips and said: "Then I don't care! I just happen to be staying at your house tonight, and we will go there together tomorrow. You must promise me that if we can't see you, we will go there the day after tomorrow. Anyway, until we see you."
I was suddenly surprised, "Tong Yao, do you want to go to him to tell your fortune, or do you want him to help you in the future?"
She smiled and said: "Don't worry about it. Anyway, your mission is to take me to see him, and you must see him."
I smiled bitterly and said, "Well, since I've said it all, I have no choice but to do this."
She glared at me and then smiled and said, "Didn't you suggest that I open a private detective agency? Let me wait until I meet this person."
I suddenly became happy and said, "Tong Yao, as long as you think that kind of thing is suitable for you. I said, if you need anything, just tell me directly."
She pursed her lips and said, "Of course I won't be polite to you."
We talked all the way and quickly arrived at the cemetery. She accompanied me to buy some paper money and other things, and then followed me to Chen Yuan's tomb.
When I arrived in front of Chen Yuan's tomb, I found that the place was covered with weeds, and I immediately felt guilty. So I went to pull out the weeds one by one, and at the same time said to Chen Yuan's tombstone: "Chen Yuan, I'm sorry.
I haven't come to see you for a long time. You don't hate me, right? By the way, did you come back last night? If you really want to tell me something, just tell me a dream..."
I just burned paper for her and muttered like an old lady. After a long time, I heard Tong Yao sigh from behind me.
In fact, I also know that coming here today, including the words I just said to Chen Yuan's tombstone, is just a kind of self-psychological comfort. But I also know that such self-psychological comfort is essential.
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I bought a lot of paper money. After they were burned to ashes, they were immediately blown up by a strong wind, and then flew into the air. Looking at this scene, I couldn't help but feel even more panicked: Could it be that this
Is it also a coincidence?
I found that once a person is superstitious, he will become even more superstitious. However, at this moment, I don’t think I am superstitious.
"Let me burn some paper money for her too." She suddenly said to me from behind. I immediately gave her a wad of paper money, "Thank you."
So, we started to burn paper money for Chen Yuan together, but the ashes of the burned paper money were never blown up by the wind. I couldn't help but feel sad in my heart: Is she rejecting Tong Yao beside me?
"Feng Xiao, don't be so superstitious, okay? They were blown up into the sky because of the wind. Now there is no wind, so that's why." Tong Yao saw my heart, she said this next to me. Very
Obviously, she just noticed me looking at the black ash floating in the sky, and she also saw my anxious expression at the moment. Then, she said: "Feng Xiao, I shouldn't be in a place like this.
You say such things because they are disrespectful to your wife no matter what. But do you know? What happens when a doctor becomes superstitious? Not to mention you are still the dean. "
I was silent for a moment.
She sighed and said, "Let's go. The wind here is so strong. You should come here regularly from now on. You saw just now that there are so many weeds in front of her tomb. It must be because you haven't been here for a long time."
Her words shocked me: Didn't Lin Yi say that day that Shi Yanni came to see Chen Yuan? How could she let so many weeds grow in front of Chen Yuan's tomb without pulling them out?
At this moment, I suddenly felt a sad emotion filling every nerve in my body: What kind of mother is this?!
At noon, we had dinner in a town not far from the cemetery. It was a small shop, and it was still open during the Spring Festival. Originally, we wanted to find a place to have a meal, because on days like this
It's good to be able to find a place where you can eat. But I didn't expect that the food in this small restaurant tastes very good.
This shop sells all ready-made dishes: braised beef, braised pork sausage, stewed kelp with hoof flowers, steamed pork with rice flour, pork with pickled vegetables, bean curd, charcoal-roasted green peppers...etc., every dish tastes very good.
Tong Yao was also amazed. She said: "Actually, this is normal. If the taste is good, the business will be good. Even during the Spring Festival, people want to come here to eat. Since they can make money, of course the boss will open the business. This is only logical.
.Some things that are illogical can only be regarded as weird."
I didn’t know why she suddenly made such a mysterious statement about a store opening during the Spring Festival. I thought she was practicing her ability to open a private detective agency in the future. I couldn’t help but laugh. But I just smiled.
I didn't say much because I didn't want her to lose interest.
After finishing the meal, Tong Yao said to me: "Let's buy vegetables here. This place is close to the countryside, the vegetables are fresh, and the meat here seems to be different from the ones in the city. Did you notice? What we ate just now
The meat is very fragrant and glutinous. When people feed pigs, they don’t use much feed. Nowadays, many people add additives to the feed when feeding pigs. Those pigs are all fattened, so of course they don’t taste good. Now
There are too few real things, and many things are fake.”
I immediately laughed, "Yes. The food now tastes far worse than the food we ate when we were children. First of all, the quality of the meat is worse."
She looked at me, and I thought her eyes were a little strange, but I didn't know why. She continued: "As long as it is real, it will be popular. Unfortunately, many things nowadays are too fake, but generally
But it is difficult to distinguish between people. I once had a colleague who later stopped working as a police officer and returned to his hometown to grow vegetables, raise fish, and make wine. The vegetables he grew did not use chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and the fish he raised did not add feed.
, and it is naturally raised in the river. The wine he brews is roasted from pure grains, then sealed in jars and placed in the soil. Two years later, it is dug out and packaged in beautiful small earthen jars. Feng Xiao, you know
The sales of the vegetables he grows, the fish he feeds, and the wine he brews are particularly good. Especially the wine he brews can be sold for nearly 300 yuan per jar. Do you know why this is? Because
His stuff is real. Nowadays, people are becoming more and more afraid of fake stuff, which is why his products are so popular. Unfortunately, a large part of us are now numb and indifferent to those very obvious fake stuff.
, they simply won’t think about such issues, and won’t analyze whether some things are true or false. Someone once said that a large part of us Chinese people are numb and willing to be slaves, and there are even a few
People are proud to be slaves. Alas! How pitiful and deplorable!”
I secretly wondered: What's wrong with her today? Why is she suddenly interested in such a thing? So much so that she talks so much?
But she continued: "Actually, when we solve cases, we are just like you as doctors. We must eliminate the false and preserve the true before we can find out the truth of the matter. For solving the case, after eliminating all impossibilities, that is to say, we must remove the false and keep the true.
After the phenomenon is stripped away, the truth will come out."
I remember she had said this to me before, and compared it with our diagnosis of diseases. Unexpectedly, she actually said it again today. I think this is because she is planning to open a private detective agency in the future.
So excited.
I nodded and said, "Yes. What you said makes sense. Just like when we diagnose a disease, a correct diagnosis can only be made when other possibilities are completely eliminated."
She looked at me and sighed slightly.
I was a little confused, "Tong Yao, what's wrong with you? Why did you sigh suddenly when you were fine?"
She smiled bitterly and shook her head: "It's nothing."
Later I found out that she was reminding me at that time, but she was so hesitant to prevent me from being in danger. Later I also realized that she had always been very contradictory. (