magic eye doctor

Chapter 3804 Nothing Found
Because of the timely rain, Yan Shao and Liu Shao were in a very good mood, and they even slept exceptionally well that night. When they woke up, they found that it was still drizzling.

This made the two brothers even happier.

While they were in high spirits, the Huang family members in Shishi, who had been waiting all night, were devastated.

Most of the Huang clan members who returned to Shishi from other places to sweep the tombs originally planned to return home that afternoon, but due to the accident at the ancestral graves, they had to stay in Shishi for one or two nights.

Grandma Huang also stayed.

The Huang clan members barely slept last night. When they woke up this morning and saw that it was still raining, their hearts, which were already sinking to the bottom, sank even further.

The drizzle didn't care about anyone's mood, it just kept falling all over the sky until after 6:30, when it gradually subsided and finally stopped around 7:00.

After the rain stopped, the light became brighter and brighter.

The Huang clan members, feeling down, ate a quick breakfast, waited for the rain to stop, packed their belongings, and set off for the cemetery again.

This time, Grandma Huang didn't go; she waited for the results at her hotel.

The Huang family members stayed in scattered locations, starting from different places, gathering at the foot of the cemetery, and then forming a team to climb the mountain.

Most citizens went up the mountain to sweep the tombs yesterday. Because of the rain, very few people went up the mountain to pay respects to their ancestors. The Huang family's small group did not encounter anyone along the way.

The group climbed to an area not far from the foot of the mountain and first went to see the tomb of an ancestor of the Huang family, which was not far from the main mountain path.

When the crowd arrived at their ancestors' graves, they saw only a pit filled with murky mud. The dust layer formed by the grave mounds and tombstones on the platform had long been washed away by the rain, leaving only some debris that had come down from the mountain with the water.

Judging from the current state of the cemetery, the probability of the ancestors' remains being preserved is extremely slim.

The ancestors who were buried very close to the foot of the mountain had only been gone forty or fifty years. At that time, cremation was not yet practiced, so they were buried in the ground.

The Huang family said that they did not know whether their ancestors' coffins had turned to ashes. With heavy hearts, they took the bamboo they had brought and dipped it into the water pit to test the depth of the muddy water.

When I probed with a bamboo pole, my heart sank.

The water in the pit was very deep, and the bottom was clearly soft silt.

This shows that the coffin, along with the stone tablet and tomb bricks, all turned to ash.

Similarly, the remains of our ancestors could not possibly escape this fate.

Yesterday's heavy rain lasted from late afternoon until night. With such heavy rain and such a long duration, the ashes in the tomb may have been washed away by the water. The silt currently in the tomb may be a mixture of debris washed down from the hillside.

If this is the case for ancestors buried deep in pits, one can only imagine the fate of those who were cremated and buried shallowly.

The Huang family members felt a chill in their hearts. They silently packed up their tools and continued climbing the mountain, heading straight for the oldest ancestral grave in the family.

They did not visit the graves of other ancestors along the way, only glancing at those that were visible from the road.

The mountain path, washed by water, is clean in some places, but piled up with weeds, twigs, or mud and stones washed away by rainwater in others.

There were even dead insects and ants, as well as snakes, rats, and birds.

Some sections of the road, resembling ditches, have water flowing through them, turning the road into a ditch.

Fortunately, the rain stopped and the water on the road was shallow.

The Huang family's small group stumbled along the mountain path, climbing with great effort until they finally reached the mountainside, panting heavily.

The small group rested for a while not far from the ancestral graves, catching their breath, before setting off again.

When the group arrived at the edge of the platform in front of the ancestral graves, all they could see were scattered piles of branches, broken grass, rocks, mud, and bare soil.

The Huang clan members were all on edge and hurried toward the ground.

The men and women ran to the ancestral graveyard, then dispersed to search for the location of the urn containing their ancestors' remains.

The original ancestor of the Huang family was buried here. The graves of the second and third ancestors, as well as several ancestors who made outstanding contributions to the Huang family, were located elsewhere. Later, when the Huang family prospered, they moved several ancestors here when repairing the ancestral graves, creating a small family cemetery.

When the ancestral graves were built, the remains of the second-generation ancestors and other ancestors had long since turned to dust. When the graves were relocated, the soil from the ancestors' graves was moved over and then placed in the coffins.

Some ancestors still have some remains, or fragments of coffins. The descendants of the Huang family picked them up, put them in jars, and then put them in coffins for burial.

In the past, when the Huang family built tombs for their ancestors, the interior was constructed with bricks, and the top was piled with soil. As a result, the mounds of the Huang family ancestral tombs were tall, majestic, and very imposing.

The family ancestral grave was blown up. After an official investigation, no external factors were found. It is suspected that a large amount of gas may have accumulated in the inner chamber of the Huang family ancestral grave. The gas escaped and came into contact with an open flame, causing the explosion.

Having learned from their mistakes, the Huang family did not rebuild the ancestral tomb as they had before, but instead constructed a small burial chamber that could hold an urn of ashes.

Moreover, when reburying ancestors, coffins were no longer used; instead, jars were used to hold the remains of the ancestors, or soil mixed with the remains of the ancestors.

When we re-collected our ancestors' remains last time, we also sorted out the jar fragments that had been damaged in the explosion and buried them together with the remains. The coffin fragments were burned.

When the Huang family reburied their ancestor, they first dug a shallow pit large enough to hold the urn and prevent it from shifting. Then they backfilled the small tomb chamber with soil to prevent gas from accumulating again due to the airtight interior.

The Huang family members, armed with poles, hoes, shovels, and other tools, cleared away piles of debris in the area roughly where their ancestors' bones were believed to be buried, searching for the burial pits where their ancestors' ashes would be placed.

Soon, someone found a depression that resembled a grave.

After clearing away the debris and removing some silt, confirming it was a grave, the urn containing the remains should have been found by now. However, nothing was discovered. The Huang family still held onto hope, assuming the urn had been broken by something.

They continued cleaning, even until they reached the bottom, but they still couldn't find the jar or any fragments of it.

The disappearance of one urn in a grave did not mean the end; the Huang family refused to give up and continued a thorough search.

Soon, one grave after another was discovered.

The result was the same: not only was the jar not found, but not even a fragment was discovered.

The urn containing the remains was made of earthenware and was buried in a pit; it would have been impossible for water flowing from above to wash the urn out.

Even if the water flowing down the slope is very rapid and might wash away one or two jars, there will always be one or two jars left in the burial pit. Even if the surface is broken by some heavy object, some fragments will be found.

However, in reality, they only found the burial pit where the urn was placed, but not the urn containing the ashes.

Moreover, the silt in the burial pits was not pure soil, but also mixed with some branches and leaves. Dead insects were found in one pit, and paper money was found in another.

Some of the branches and leaves were withered, while others were still new branches and tender leaves.

This also shows that the silt in the pit was not the soil backfilled when the ancestral grave was rebuilt, but rather alluvial material that flowed into the grave pit with the water flow.

Originally, the Huang clan members saw that the mud surface behind the cemetery wall and the soil under the floor were intact, and thought that the urn located below the ground surface had been spared and could be preserved.

Now the facts are clear: not only have the burial mounds, tombstones, walls, and floor tiles of the Huang family's ancestral graves all turned to ash, but even the urns containing ashes have been completely reduced to ash.

After last night's rain, not only could the ashes of the Huang family's ancestor not be found, but even the soil mixed with the ashes was washed away by the water, and its whereabouts are unknown.

This situation also confirms the saying—"to die without a burial place."

"It's gone, everything is gone!"

"Our ancestors... their remains have vanished..."

Looking at the gravesite filled with only miscellaneous items, the last vestige of faith in the Huang clan was extinguished.

Once upon a time, the Huang family's ancestral tombs, which were a collective burial site, and the ancestral hall in the Huang family's residence were the buildings that the Huang family was most proud of. They were the face of the Huang family and a symbol of the family's prosperity.

After experiencing the upheaval, in order to preserve the Huang family lineage, the descendants of the Huang family were forced to relocate and avoid further trouble, giving up the original homestead and ancestral hall of the family.

Although the sale of the homestead and ancestral hall left Huang's descendants feeling resentful, the ancestral graves still stood, and so did their hope.

The Huang family's ancestral graves are still rooted in Shishi. Even if the Huang family's descendants are now forced to disperse to various places, they will surely be like "horses of the north wind and birds of the south nesting on branches of the south." Even if the previous generations die, they will die with their heads turned towards their burial ground.

With the lessons of their ancestors in mind, the younger generation will be inspired by shame and strive harder. They will eventually turn their fortunes around and return to the birthplace of the Huang family once it is restored.

But now, the ancestral graves are all destroyed, and not even a trace of the ancestors' ashes can be found.

The pillar of faith that embodied the family's beliefs has collapsed!
"Why did it become like this?"

"Heaven is going to wipe out the Huang family!"

Despair welled up in the hearts of several middle-aged and elderly people. A surge of blood rushed to their brains, causing them to feel dizzy and unable to stand, and they fell to the ground.

Two people were alright, they just fell on their butts, two people fell backwards, and one fell forward and just collapsed to the ground, then blood gushed from his mouth and nose.

The Huang family members rushed to help the fallen people up and found that they were bleeding from their mouths and noses. A string in their hearts snapped.

Such a phenomenon could be either a stroke or a hemophilia attack.

They have experienced far too many scenes like this.

With their ancestral graves destroyed and a member of the clan falling ill, the Huang family was filled with extreme grief.

"Hurry down the mountain."

"Call an ambulance."

At this moment, the Huang clan members could no longer care about their grief. They looked after the living, with the young carrying the sick on their backs or helping each other down the mountain.

The Huang family made a phone call, and the ambulance arrived at the foot of the cemetery first.

After the rain, going down the mountain is harder than going up.

The Huang family members walked slowly, and the time it took them to go down the mountain was about the same as the time it took to go up the mountain.

Upon reaching the foot of the mountain, the Huang family members put the sick clansman into an ambulance. Several people rode in the ambulance to help take care of their clansman, while the others followed in their cars.

The paramedics in the ambulance asked the family about the patient's medical history, learned of the family history of hemophilia, and notified the hospital in advance to take appropriate treatment measures.

The ambulance returned to the hospital, where waiting medical staff transferred the patient off the ambulance and immediately took him to the emergency room.

After initial treatment, two people were out of danger and were sent for further examination.

The other person was still unconscious and bleeding from his mouth and nose, and was sent to the intensive care unit for emergency treatment.