Awakening Day Collection

Chapter 17 Bloody Birthday (2)
Zhai Jianguo's expression changed drastically.He stood where he was, his wrinkled cheeks twitched a few times, his eyes were full of pain and fear, as if recalling some extremely unpleasant past events.Feng Si didn't dare to disturb him, so he stood quietly by the door and waited.About a minute later, Zhai Jianguo suddenly yelled, "I don't know what happened 1 years ago, and I don't know about the interrogation! Get lost!"

He grabbed Fons by the collar of his coat with both hands and pushed him out forcefully.The trembling hands didn't have much strength, but Feng Si had no way to wrestle with such an aging old man, so he could only step back step by step with the opponent's pushing and shoving.

"Mr. Zhai, I know that may be an uncomfortable memory, but I beg you to help me," he said while stepping back, "This matter is very important to me, and for it I have..."

He couldn't finish the sentence, because Zhai Jianguo suddenly let go of his hand and covered his heart, his face was full of pain, his body was already shaking, and he was about to fall down.Feng Si hurriedly supported him, helped him into the room and laid him flat on the sofa, and then looked around for medicine.

There were no valuable items in the house, and the only 18-inch color TV was estimated to be older than Fons, and it was broadcasting local news in distorted colors.Low-wattage energy-saving lamps emit pale and dim light, illuminating the room full of sundries and rubbish. Dust covers almost every corner, and cobwebs in the corners are piled up in layers.But Feng Si noticed that there was one place that was cleaned very cleanly.

It was a wooden altar.The Buddhist altar and the Guanyin statue placed in the altar have been wiped spotless, and the three sticks of incense in front of them have just been half burned.The sandalwood smell is very strange mixed with the musty smell that fills the room.

When Feng Si searched for medicine, he also noticed that there were many statues of gods on the wall of this room: Pixiu, Qin Qiong, Yuchi Gong, Zhong Kui, Tibetan Living Buddha, and even portraits of the founding leaders of our country.In addition, Taoist talismans to ward off evil spirits and all kinds of messy amulets can also be seen everywhere, and Feng Si has long been familiar with these things in the hands of his liar father.

This Zhai Jianguo is really in a hurry to go to the doctor, Feng Si thought, what is it that makes him so afraid, wishing to pile up all the patron saints from ancient and modern China and foreign countries at home?
He finally found a bottle of nitroglycerin in the drawer of the bedroom, and stuffed several tablets into Zhai Jianguo's mouth no matter what.After a while, Zhai Jianguo's rapid breathing gradually calmed down, and he finally opened his eyes.

"Do you need to call 120?" Feng Si asked.

"No need, just lie down for a while," Zhai Jianguo waved his hand, "I can't afford 120."

Feng Si poured him a cup of hot water, Zhai Jianguo drank the water slowly, and his face turned slightly bloody.He looked at Feng Si, his lips moved, as if he wanted to speak, but he didn't say it.

"You don't have to feel guilty," Feng Si said. "It's the duty of a human being to feed you medicine. It's too disgusting to threaten you with kindness. If you really don't want to mention the past, just forget it. I'll go again Find a way."

He took out another pillow from the bedroom, put it on Zhai Jianguo's back, and walked towards the door.Just as he put his hand on the door lock, Zhai Jianguo suddenly said behind him, "Wait a minute!"

Feng Si, who turned his back to Zhai Jianguo, showed a gleam of joy on his face. It seems that all kinds of trash movies and TV dramas are not just deceiving people. He thought that the trick of playing hard to get really worked.

When he walked back to Zhai Jianguo, Zhai Jianguo widened his eyes, looked him up and down carefully, and suddenly said something unbelievable.

"Take off your pants." Zhai Jianguo said three words in total.

No way, at such an age you just had a heart attack, how could you have such a hobby?Feng Si's poisonous tongue was about to start, but suddenly, a flash of light flashed in his mind, and he understood what Zhai Jianguo meant by saying this.

"You don't need to take it off, I know what you want to ask," Feng Si said, "On the inner side of my right leg, on the thigh skin near the knee joint, there is a dark red birthmark, which looks a bit like a starfish."

Zhai Jianguo let out a long breath, and the fearful light from before appeared in his eyes again.After a while, he stood up slowly with the help of the sofa, walked to the Guanyin statue, and knelt down with difficulty.

"Bodhisattva bless... gods bless... the evil spirits will be dispersed..." he muttered a prayer.

three

19 years ago.

The hands of the wall clock pointed to the scale of 05:30, and it was time to get off work.

Zhai Jianguo sighed, packed up the things in front of him, took off the white coat he had been wearing all day, and put on casual clothes.The snow outside the window is getting bigger and bigger, and it is estimated that the road has already formed black ice, which is solid and slippery. After a while, I can only push the bicycle and walk home slowly.What was more gloomy than the gray sky was his mood. Business had been bleak for a month in a row, and today he sat for a whole day without a single patient coming to his door.There is no way, with the little money in my pocket, I am still reluctant to buy meat, so I can only go home and stew the potatoes and cabbage that I have stored in winter.

Sometimes he would secretly regret that he should not have resigned from the public office and jumped out to start a private clinic. The work in the health station of the plastic factory is hard and tiring, and he has to pretend to be a grandson, and he is looked down upon by serious doctors, but at least every month There is an iron rice bowl for someone to pay wages, and the poor will not be hungry.But now the surface is glamorous, but the reality is precarious. Why bother?

Zhai Jianguo turned off the lights in the clinic—in fact, there were only a few lights in total—and turned off the lights one by one. He was about to lock the door, and then went to the car storage in the shopping mall next door to pick up his bicycle, but he was stopped by someone as soon as he reached the door.

He raised his head in surprise and looked at the tall and strong man in front of him. He roughly estimated that this man was 1.9 meters tall, and one arm was almost thicker than his thigh.Before he could react, the other party pushed him into the clinic and closed the door behind him.

"Brother, if you want to rob, I'm afraid you're in the wrong place." Zhai Jianguo didn't panic, "I have a total of 8 yuan and 6 cents, and there are a bunch of Chinese medicinal materials and a few stethoscopes in this clinic. Thermometers, sphygmomanometers, nothing else."

The big man didn't seem to care about what he said, he lifted his body like a chicken, carried him into the consulting room, put him on the chair he usually sat on, and then waited by the side with his hands clasped without saying a word, although he didn't say anything. He didn't hurt him, but as soon as Zhai Jianguo tried to stand up, he would push him back on the chair unceremoniously.Zhai Jianguo murmured inwardly, not understanding what the other party wanted to do, could it be a family member seeking revenge for a medical accident?But think about it carefully, since I opened the clinic for half a year, I have not treated many patients, and most of them are common diseases such as headache and brain fever that can be cured with a few doses of medicine. There should not be any patients who were delayed by me and then came to revenge what.

Zhai Jianguo tried to talk to the big man, but the big man ignored him at all. Seeing that the sky was getting darker and darker, he was very helpless.However, when the clock pointed to eight o'clock, the door of the clinic was finally opened again. This time, a total of seven people came in, six men and one woman.

A middle-aged man with a thin face and a hooked nose came to Zhai Jianguo and said in a polite but condescending tone: "Doctor Zhai, I'm sorry to keep you here, but I need your help tonight." , I hope you can cooperate."

"Do I dare to say that I don't cooperate?" Zhai Jianguo smiled wryly, "However, I am such a top-notch doctor, so I don't know how I can help you."

"I need you to deliver her baby." The other party replied.

"This, it's not that I don't want to help, but that I don't have the ability," Zhai Jianguo scratched his scalp, "I only run a Chinese medicine clinic, and the conditions are very poor, and there is no equipment for delivering babies at all..."

Before Zhai Jianguo finished speaking, the middle-aged man waved his hand, and behind him a short, stocky bald man stepped forward, put down a large box in front of him, and opened the box.Zhai Jianguo took a look inside and found that hemostats, forceps, scalpels, needles, medical cotton swabs, cotton gauze and other instruments and medicines were all in place, and there were even meperidine, morphine and epinephrine.

"It's really well prepared." Zhai Jianguo murmured.He is a smart person, and he can guess without asking too much. The reason why these people don't send the pregnant woman to a modern hospital must be because the childbirth cannot be known to outsiders.And he was the only one in his small clinic, so it was easier for him to keep it a secret afterwards, even...

Cold sweat broke out on his forehead, but facing these ferocious people in front of him, he had neither the possibility of resistance nor the chance of escaping, so he could only take one step at a time.Thinking of this, he sighed softly: "Well, anyway, there is no room for me to say no. But I have to look through the book now. To be honest, I have only learned the knowledge of obstetrics and gynecology, and I have never practiced it. "

"Then consider it your first practice," the middle-aged man said unhurriedly, "it's just a practice that cannot be failed."

Zhai Jianguo's cold sweat suddenly dried up.

Fortunately, the process of delivering the baby went so smoothly, Zhai Jianguo even felt that he was of no help at all.The body of the parturient woman is very thin, but very strong, and even the cry has been suppressed, which saved him a lot of trouble.In the end, the umbilical cord was cut and the child was swaddled safely, but Zhai Jianguo did not feel relieved at all.While washing his hands in the toilet, he thought frightenedly, what methods would this group of strangers who looked like gangsters use to keep themselves secret?

In addition, the man with the hooked nose looked vaguely familiar, he should have seen it somewhere.Just now, he had put all his energy into the operation and had no time for him. Now that he thinks about it carefully, the more he thinks about it, the more he feels that he must have seen this face before.

By the way, I remembered!Zhai Jianguo finally realized that this man had been on TV before.Two months ago, there was a very touching piece of news about a Taoist priest in a valley who adopted a baby whose parents died and took good care of it for more than a year, so the TV station went to shoot a special report, the eagle on the Taoist priest’s face The hooked nose is quite eye-catching.

——The middle-aged man is that Taoist priest!But now, he was dressed in casual clothes, had his hair cut short, and exuded the creepy aura of a gangster in a TV series, which was completely different from the shy Taoist priest on TV.

It's really strange, it's not appropriate for a Taoist priest to come here to force me to deliver the baby, why is that?Zhai Jianguo couldn't figure it out, and didn't have time to think about it. The most important thing now is to find a way to escape as soon as possible.

The temperature in the toilet is much lower than that in the consulting room, because the windows have some air leakage.He looked at the small glass window, roughly estimated his body shape, and felt that he could get out.The problem is that the strong man is guarding the door of the toilet. If he opens the window and jumps out of the window, it will definitely make a noise, so he will definitely not be able to escape.

Zhai Jianguo racked his brains to think about it, but he didn't know what to do, when there was a burst of panic shouts from the consulting room.The brawny man couldn't care less about monitoring Zhai Jianguo for a while, so he turned around and rushed over.Zhai Jianguo pricked up his ears, and vaguely heard the shouting, "Why did this happen? What should I do?" "Monster!" "Run away!"

monster?Zhai Jianguo's heart skipped a beat.How could there be monsters in my own clinic?Before he could think clearly, there were a few dull blunt noises in the consulting room, and then something flew out and landed right at his feet.He took a closer look and almost sat on the ground with his legs limp.

That's an arm!A thick, muscular arm with a tiger's head tattooed on it belonged to the strong man who was watching him half a minute ago.But now, this 1.9-meter-tall man was murdered for no reason.

Looking at the severed arm that was still gushing blood from the fracture, Zhai Jianguo couldn't bear it anymore, and let out a hysterical cry.But his screams didn't attract anyone, because the movement in the consulting room was louder than his, and besides the screams of people and the sound of objects colliding, he could still distinguish some kind of strange gasping sound.That voice sounded like a dying giant beast, with an indescribable deterrent force.But at best, there are some dried seahorses and cicada sloughs in my clinic. Where can I find any large animals.

Could it be that the baby is at fault?Zhai Jianguo's heart skipped a beat again, and he suddenly had this idea.This large group of people seemed to be rich and capable people, and instead of going to a good big hospital, they forced their half-hearted doctor to deliver that woman. Could it be because they knew that the baby they gave birth to was unusual?The "monster" they called just now was referring to the baby?

The baby I delivered with my own hands will be a murderous... monster?

Zhai Jianguo didn't have time to think about it, and he didn't even have the guts to see it with his own eyes.The consultation room was filled with the sounds of limbs being broken and torn, and the screams of dying people. There were also some weirder sounds, like ferocious beasts... nibbling and eating, and the strong smell of blood was already spreading. Where is he? Dare to approach?Taking advantage of no one watching, he struggled to get out of the toilet window, and ran to the distance desperately, slipping and falling on the icy ground along the way, but got up immediately every time, as if half a second Zhong didn't dare to stay longer.Behind him, the chaotic sounds of the small clinic sounded like hell.

four

When talking about this past, Zhai Jianguo was already very calm, perhaps it was comforted by the statues of gods all over the house.But after he finished speaking, he still showed a very tired expression. This is not just from physical exhaustion, but perhaps more from the high mental tension. 19 years later, this matter is still deeply rooted in his heart.

Feng Si sat on the sofa beside him, speechless for a long time.Although he had also guessed before that the case Zhai Jianguo was involved in was mostly bloody and horrifying, but he never expected that it also contained some supernatural things.He couldn't help but think of the brain-like giant in the black and white photo.

What the hell, Feng Si felt an unknown fire in his heart.Although his past life was also full of setbacks and ups and downs, his mother died young, and his relationship with his father was very tense, but no matter what, he was still in the category of "normal people".But from the night of his father's death, all kinds of bizarre events began to haunt him.If it is a "normal" event, he can calmly deal with it, whether it is roll call in class, lack of money to spend to earn money, quarreling with his father, or fighting with others, but if what he has to face from now on is something beyond daily cognition, What should I do by myself?

Feng Si took a deep breath, knowing that now is not the time to be worried, because worrying has never been of any help in solving problems.He paced around the room, seeming to be admiring Zhai Jianguo's portraits of immortals embodying the theme of great harmony among the world's religions. He didn't ask until his mind calmed down, "What happened later?"

"What could happen later? Of course, my crazy behavior attracted the police," Zhai Jianguo smiled wryly, "I told the police what happened before, and they hurriedly took me back to the clinic, where... …there……"

Feng Si saw that his emotions seemed to be getting agitated again, and hurriedly handed him the hot water cup, but Zhai Jianguo pushed the water cup away, grabbed a bottle of cheap liquor from the coffee table in front of him, and "gurgled" I took a few mouthfuls.Feng Si didn't stop him.After taking a few sips of spirits, his breathing gradually became even, and he continued: "As soon as we entered the clinic, we smelled a strong smell of blood that made people want to vomit. Walking into the consultation room, the six men were completely dead. Torn into pieces. Yes, pieces, the feeling is not only that they were eaten by a beast like a liger, but also like... like..."

Zhai Jianguo deliberated on his words for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "It seemed to be bitten by a beast first, and then stepped on by an elephant. It was very cold at that time, but there was heating in the room, and the blood had not completely condensed, and the splashing It covered the walls and ceiling, and there were viscera and bones scattered on the floor. No one who entered the consultation room did not vomit."

(End of this chapter)