The driver of the funeral car had locked the large wooden door with an iron pin.
Manager Zhou asked Han Shengmei to stay here and walked around the cold storage for a while. When he returned, he had a slender steel wire in his hand.
I saw Manager Zhou insert the steel wire into the keyhole, stir it up and down for a while, and then push hard with the palm of his hand, the iron lock was easily popped open.
Then, he slowly opened the big wooden door one meter wide, led Han Shengmei into the cold storage, and smelled the pungent disinfectant smell of formalin in the morgue.
They didn't dare to turn on the light, so they quickly found Hua Nianping's location by relying on the weak light from their mobile phones.
Manager Zhou leaned down, put his hands forward, then lowered his head and shook his shoulders, and Hua Nianping's body was firmly placed on his back.
Han Shengmei couldn't help but secretly marvel at Manager Zhou's quick movements, which seemed to be well-trained.
Under normal circumstances, a body will begin to ossify about two hours after death, and stiffness will appear after ten hours. However, when Hua Nianping was put into the carriage, his body could curl up and lay flat, and his skin was still soft as usual.
Touching Hua Nianping's face lightly with her hand, Han Shengmei noticed that it was slightly cold. She thought this was probably because it had been frozen in the freezer just now.
Han Shengmei thought in her heart that Hua Nianping's breathing and heart had no signs of life now. If he was sent to any hospital, it would be impossible to perform resuscitation.
The only thing she could do was to return Hua Nianping's intact body, take him to Shenzhen, choose a good cemetery, and bury him properly. This would not be in vain for Hua Nianping's feelings towards Walter Company a few days ago.
Help out.
Han Shengmei and Manager Zhou both know that according to the Criminal Law, stealing other people's corpses is also a very serious crime.
The two of them did not dare to neglect, and decided to drive out of Beijing immediately according to their current location, passing through Fangshan District in the southwest direction, heading towards Baoding and Shijiazhuang in Hebei Province.
After calculation, the two people calculated that the journey to Shenzhen was roughly 2,700 kilometers. If they drove the delivery vehicle along the Beijing-Guangzhou Expressway in shifts day and night, a little more than one day would be enough.
However, Han Shengmei was very worried about encountering unexpected police interrogations on the highway, so she could only choose to take National Highway 107.
After driving for a few hours from Fangshan, Manager Zhou suddenly shouted "No," because the road sign ahead showed that it was no longer the planned direction of Baoding, but to Yizhou, east of the foot of the Taihang Mountains.
It turned out that while driving in a hurry, I actually branched off to National Highway 107 at a highway interchange in Hebei and ran westward along the way.
The road in front of me has no idea where it leads.
Fortunately, Yizhou belongs to Baoding City, Hebei Province, and there must be a provincial highway connecting the two places. But at this time, it was about three o'clock in the morning, and it was completely dark all around, with no one to guide the way.
Han Shengmei saw that Manager Zhou was very anxious and tired, so she asked him to lie down in the driver's seat and rest for a while, and wait until dawn before making any plans.
She dozed until dawn. When Han Shengmei woke up, she saw that she was the only one left in the cab, so she got out of the car and stretched her numb legs on the roadside.
She raised her eyes and saw a long and dense old tree growing on the mountain road 200 meters away, soaring high into the clouds. Under the tree stood a huge stone several meters high.
Looking far away, there is a large lake with green water, vast and endless; there are mountains beside the lake, and a tall tower stands on the top of the mountain, shaped like a sharp sword, pointing straight to the sky.
At this time, the sky was lightly colored with clouds, and the cool breeze was blowing around her. Although the winter had not completely dissipated, the refreshing breath was everywhere, which made Han Shengmei feel refreshed.
Manager Zhou came back with excitement on his face and a smile on his face.
He originally found out that this place is not far away, which is the county seat of Yizhou, and he had been there many years ago. There was a comrade in the city who was in the North Sea Fleet, and he opened chain stores in many cities and counties in Tianjin and Hebei.
The pharmacy is also one of the main distributors of Watt's pharmaceutical products.
Not long ago, he contacted this comrade named Chen and asked him for part of the money owed to the office.
The two of them had not eaten anything since last night, and they both felt very hungry at this time. Manager Zhou had already used his mobile phone to contact his comrade, who happened to be at his home in Yizhou City.
They drove the car along the mountain road to the old tree. They saw that the trunk was covered with green moss, the path was more than ten feet wide, and there were piles of pebbles and vegetation growing under the tree.
The two chose a relatively flat grassland next to the boulder several meters high, and carried Hua Nianping out of the carriage. Han Shengmei stayed behind to take care of him, while Manager Zhou drove alone to meet his comrades.
Han Shengmei asked Manager Zhou to bring back some food and also buy a pair of shoes according to the size of Hua Nianping's feet.
She was extremely unwilling to see Hua Nianping being taken to Shenzhen with one foot bare.
After Manager Zhou left, Han Shengmei looked at Hua Nianping lying on the ground for a while. She couldn't bear the blood and mud all over his body and head, so she used the mineral water bottle on the car and went back and forth from Bihu many times.
Get some water and scrub him.
Gradually, the grassland around Hua Nianping was stained red by the blood flowing down.
After all the blood and mud on Hua Nianping's face were slowly washed away, Han Shengmei's heart suddenly moved, and she couldn't help but thought to herself that the man in front of her might really be saved.
Because, even though more than ten hours had passed, Hua Nianping's pale face still had some slight polish under the direct sunlight.
And when Han Shengmei's fingers, soaked in the cold water of the lake, touch Hua Nianping's limbs, she can clearly feel the elasticity and warmth of her skin.
In medicine, if the human heart stops beating for more than half an hour, doctors often use this as a standard to determine that the patient is dead. However, the prerequisite is that necessary rescue measures such as medication, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, ventilator placement, and electrocardiogram testing have been taken.
But as soon as Hua Nianping was sent to the hospital, it was judged that there was no need for resuscitation. Therefore, in Han Shengmei's view, the emergency center of that hospital was not ineffective in rescuing Hua Nianping's condition, but that there was no multi-faceted rescue effort at all.
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However, in front of him, Hua Nian was lying quietly and silently on the grass under the big tree, which was an indisputable fact.
Han Shengmei thought of the clinical medical theory that when she was studying at a medical university, for patients with brain trauma who are in deep coma, if the patient has a strong desire to live, there will be a certain chance of waking up after the continuous calls of relatives.
"Brother Nianping——"
Han Shengmei then tried calling for the first time.
When she thought of the physically disabled man in front of her, she was still in her teens. What impressed her deeply was that Hua Nianping was an intern in her father's company. Although he was lame on one leg, he looked elegant and restrained, especially his deep eyes.
, which not only sparkles with smart and charming eyes, but also gives people a feeling of melancholy and confusion.
Now, he closed his eyes tightly, not knowing whether he was dead or alive.