Chapter 4 Chapter 3 Uncle

Due to the special location of our city, it is warm like spring all year round. Although it is the end of December, it is not too cold. There are many birds in the park.At this time, the sky was slightly bright, and I looked at myself and my surroundings. I saw that we were sitting on a big rock outside the rockery. The surrounding scenery had returned to normal, and the puppet had disappeared. I pushed Qin Hai beside me to wake up, he seemed to be mentally prepared for this.After waking up, he jumped off the rock, walked to the place where Huang Ziwen buried the puppet last time, and dug the soil with a stick. After a while, he vaguely saw the shroud exposed.Qin Hai immediately dug out the puppet and smashed off its head and limbs.I said smartly: "It's useless even if you smash this puppet, he will change it."

"It must be smashed. Huang Ziwen dare not come back here in the short term. If someone breaks in by mistake during this period, people who don't know the way will definitely be hurt." I didn't go home all night, and the adults in the family didn't know what would happen, so they didn't dare to stay any longer. After saying hello to Qin Hai, they prepared to leave.Before leaving, he warned: "Huang Ziwen hasn't disappeared yet, you have to pay attention to safety these few days. I will definitely protect you secretly, but you have to be careful yourself."

I agreed to him and left the bamboo forest immediately.At this time, the park has not yet opened to welcome visitors, so I climbed out from the wall. As expected, after returning home, grandpa, grandma and mother didn't sleep. The three of them sat together on the sofa in the living room, all frowning, and the ashtray in front of grandpa was full of cigarette butts.As soon as I opened the door, the three of them jumped up like an electric shock. Mom and grandma rushed up immediately. Grandpa seemed to be going to take a step, but he stopped and stood where he was, the wrinkles on his face were obviously relieved. up.

"Where have you been?" Mom cried slightly, and slapped me on the head. "Why are you still playing with the child? It's God's blessing that he can come back." Grandma's hands were trembling, which showed how worried she was. I knew that I had done something wrong, so I lowered my head and said, "Grandpa, grandma, mom, I was wrong. However, I really encountered a special situation yesterday, so I didn't go home all night." "What's the situation, tell grandma." Grandma pulled me to sit on the sofa and asked with concern.Suddenly, I remembered something again, turned my head and said to my mother, "You don't hurry up and cook food for the child, you must be starving after this night." My mother was also very worried and wanted to hear my explanation, but she still went to the house helplessly. out of the kitchen.

I told the whole story of the weird things that happened at night. I didn't expect them to believe me, and I was going to continue explaining. Unexpectedly, my grandpa, who was listening to me with a stern face, suddenly raised his hand and gave me a slap on the ear, hitting me right in front of my eyes. Straight to the little stars. "Old man, who told you to beat your grandson." Grandma yelled at grandpa with a loud voice.I don't understand either, even if you haven't returned all night, you can't just say something with a big mouth, it's too violent. Although grandpa is a serious and rigid person, before this, he had never lifted a finger from me. Who knew that the first time he did it, his big mouth was drawn.I was completely stunned, feeling aggrieved in my heart, suppressed sobbing, and covered my mouth tightly with my hands, but tears flowed out involuntarily.Grandma panicked, and quickly comforted her: "Don't cry, baby, don't be with your grandpa..."

Unexpectedly, Grandpa shouted like a thunderstorm, "Shut your mouth, there is no place for you to talk nonsense here." Grandpa kept saying the same thing at home, but this time he was furious again. Grandma held me in her arms but dared not say a word.At this moment, Grandpa's driver pushed the door open and entered: "Old Commander, news from Xiaobing..." Seeing me, he was stunned, then saw Grandpa's expression in the blink of an eye, and immediately said: "I'll go tell them You have already gone home." After saying that, he closed the door and ran away.

Seeing the driver leaving, grandpa pointed at me and said, "You know what is ancient formation, you know what is witchcraft, you know what is cheating corpses? You don't care about these things when you are young. of?" I lowered my head and couldn't utter a word. My grandma also touched my head and said, "My son, don't blame your grandpa for getting angry. He is also suffering and can't tell." Grandpa said: "Go and lock the door, don't let people in. Huizhen, don't cook, come out." Mom and grandma did as grandpa said.Afterwards, our family sat around on the sofa, and grandpa said with a livid face, "Do you know why grandpa got so angry?"

I lowered my head and whispered, "I don't know." Grandma said softly: "Don't be afraid, grandpa is not blaming you, because we don't want you to continue to follow the path of your father and brother." Grandpa sternly said: "And your uncle. The people in our family are all crazy and crazy because of these inexplicable bullshit, and there is no normal person. You... you actually got involved again, I can't figure it out, Is God going to destroy our He family? Why is it like this?" The more he talked, the more excited he became, the grandma said anxiously: "The child just happened to encounter this incident, and you have high blood pressure, and you are so angry, why?"

Grandpa pointed at me and said, "Ever since he saw those things when he was nine years old, I knew that our family was all right, it was true, it was true." After that, he sat down on the sofa, seemingly extremely tired. I was too scared to breathe.It was unexpected for me to make grandpa angry like this. Under the coordination of grandma, I sincerely admitted my mistake to grandpa.After a long time, grandpa got up and said to me: "Perhaps you think I'm making a fuss out of a molehill. I'll take you to meet your uncle today. It's been so many years, and you should meet him too." After all, no Waiting for our reply, he put on his military uniform on his own.Grandma was stunned for a moment, Grandpa's decision was beyond her expectation, she quickly pushed me, her voice trembling: "Hurry up and change into new clothes, that's your dear uncle."

I actually have an uncle, who has never heard of it from my family before, and it just popped up out of nowhere. When I changed my clothes, the car had been waiting outside the house for a long time.After getting in the car, Grandpa said to the driver in a low voice, "Go to Jianguo." The driver immediately drove out of the military area and headed west. After driving for a long time, gradually the surrounding area became sparsely populated, but my mind was full of guessing what the uncle did?Why did grandpa never mention him to me? Could it be that he is doing a highly confidential job?

This is not impossible, especially for children from the military region like us, many relatives and friends in the family do work with a high level of confidentiality. Their discipline is that they must keep their work completely secret, and they must not reveal a word. Those who have to hide their work are different. We really know that such a person exists, and we know that his job is very mysterious, but we just don’t know what he does. From the analysis of the grandfather’s attitude of never mentioning it to the uncle, he should Is the kind of person who needs to keep his work extremely confidential.In fact, every teenager has a very strong curiosity, and I am of course no exception. For this meeting, I am really nervous and looking forward to this meeting. The car finally stopped in front of a pure white building with the sign "D City No. 2 Psychiatric Hospital" hanging on the gate.Could it be my great uncle? The doctors and nurses here knew my grandfather, and after going through the visit procedures, we entered the quarantine area.To be honest, it was not very different from a prison. The empty corridors were cold and gloomy, and the doors of the rooms on both sides were closed tightly. From time to time, there were hysterical shouts from patients when they had seizures, which made my heart tremble.From this point of view, my uncle must be a severely mentally ill patient, the kind who is treated in isolation. A strong nurse opened one of the room doors and turned to leave. A very thin middle-aged man came into my eyes.He was lying on the bed at this time, his face was pale, his eyes were staring blankly at the ceiling opposite the bed, motionless, from his thin facial features, he could vaguely see the outline similar to my father.Grandpa walked in quietly, sat beside him, took a deep breath, and said in a low tone: "Jianguo, your mother, your little nephew, and I all came to see you today." The uncle’s expression was still dull, but he slowly turned his face towards Grandpa, stared blankly at Grandpa for a long time, and then said: "Weird, murder..." Just repeating these four words mechanically, never Panic and fear could be heard in his tone.I couldn't help but wonder in my heart, he is insane, does he still know how to be afraid? Grandpa's expression became very sad, and he held his hand and said, "Dad knows, everyone knows, that bad guy has been caught, don't worry." The uncle didn't seem to hear what grandpa was saying at all, just repeated mechanically Those four words, and the speed of speaking is getting faster and faster, there are signs of illness.Grandpa's face was full of heartache, even his lips turned black, and he said: "Call the doctor quickly." Grandma hurried out and called the doctor.The fat middle-aged man in his forties was followed by four or five nurses, but he didn't enter the ward. When he saw the uncle's state, he said: "The patient's mood is not stable now, otherwise, Commander He wait a while Come visit again?" Grandpa sighed, with tears in his eyes, and led me out of the ward.I was behind my grandfather, and the moment I was about to follow the big iron gate of the ward, I suddenly felt that my shoulders tightened and I was actually locked.I immediately realized that I was in serious trouble, and sure enough, when I turned around, I saw the distorted face of my uncle, with a ferocious and terrifying expression, as if he was going to eat me. My uncle punched me hard on the head.I rushed forward involuntarily, just an inch, and just hit the door, and grandma's face changed from fright outside the door.My uncle beat me one after another. Fortunately, there were no hard objects in the ward. Otherwise, if he touched anything, I would be beaten to death.The nurse was in a hurry looking for the key all over his body, even if it was so, I couldn't bear it.Suddenly, I seized an opportunity to get rid of my uncle, and rushed to the door, but I didn't expect that my uncle's reaction speed was beyond ordinary, and I was pulled back by him again, and I lost my balance and fell down. On the ground, he was trampled crazily by his uncle. There was no way out now, I panicked and got under the bed, but my uncle immediately followed. In desperation, I kicked him with my legs, but he quickly grabbed one leg and dragged him away.I firmly grasped the iron bed fixed to the floor, and while struggling, I suddenly saw the words "Xiuxiling" written all over the wall under the bed.This time, I was quite surprised, but as soon as I lost my mind, I was dragged out by him.Fortunately, the nurse had already opened the door, and four or five people rushed in, pinned the uncle down on the bed, and injected him with a sedative.When I stood up, I just felt sore all over.Grandma rushed in immediately, hugged me and cried bitterly. I knew that she loved me as well as uncle, so I comforted her and said, "Grandma, I'm fine, you don't have to worry." Maybe it was my words that had an effect. Grandma's emotions gradually calmed down. She slowly stopped crying and walked to the uncle who was fixed on the bed.At this moment, the medicine took effect, and the uncle was already in a state of confusion, and completely quieted down.But I noticed that not only under the bed, but also on most of the walls around the room, the three characters "Xiuxiling" can be vaguely seen.Although the walls inside the house had been painted, the writing was legible. But how did the uncle know about Xiuxiling?Had he already been there before I was born?So, I'm not the first witness to the strange things that happened there? I was wondering in my heart when my grandfather said helplessly, "Let's go." On the way, everyone was in a heavy mood, no one spoke, and we returned home silently. After entering the house, the first thing Grandpa said was: "Now you know why I object to your meddling in this kind of thing. Think about it, your uncle, your father, and your elder brother, one of them can do well Is it?" After saying this, Grandpa opened a bottle of Fenjiu and drank it down in one gulp. I can completely understand grandpa's mood at this time, but grandpa doesn't know my mood at this time.Perhaps he felt that my uncle's state should alert me, but there was one thing my grandfather didn't consider, and that was my attitude and understanding of this matter. First, I witnessed highly unusual phenomena at an early age.Second, my father and my eldest brother both suffered from that incident.In fact, the blood connection between relatives can sometimes overcome fear, and when I am fifteen or sixteen years old, I am a teenager. Go find something, that's the really weird thing.Moreover, it is impossible for me to believe such rumors about family curses, so I am doomed to live my life according to my grandfather's ideas. It was New Year's Day, and my grandfather asked for leave for me, and didn't let me participate in the performance organized by the school. After the New Year's Day holiday, I immediately called Qin Hai on the way to school.After he answered the call, before I could speak, he said impatiently, "Don't rush to talk about things. I'll wait for you at the school gate after school." After school, I hurried out of the school gate, and I saw Qin Hai.The two of us went to the small stall selling fried skewers next to the school, ordered some snacks and two bottles of soft drinks, and chatted while eating.I told him about my uncle's situation in detail, and Qin Hai took out a notebook from his body to record it, then frowned and said, "I think there must be a very scary thing about the phrase 'weird people kill people' that your uncle said. Condition." I blurted out: "There's something wrong with Xiuxiling." "What's so strange about this place name? I don't see it right now." Qin Hai was slightly thoughtful. "Because I am from Xiuxi Village next to Xiuxi Ridge. Very strange things happened there, and I guess this case is still unsolved." After that, I told Qin in detail what I saw when I was nine years old. ocean. After Qin Hai heard this, his eyebrows almost knit together: "So, basically all the men in your family are in that place?" I nodded: "You can say that." Qin Hai fell into deep thought and didn't speak for a long time.I waited impatiently: "What are you thinking? So long?" Qin Hai didn't seem to think it through clearly, so he said: "I'll go back first, and I'll come to you in two days. Huang Ziwen's trace hasn't been found yet, so you have to pay attention to safety." I don't know what Qin Hai was thinking, but before the third day, I knew his plan. Of course, I didn't get the news from him, but from my grandfather. I remember that on the second night after I parted from Qin Hai, my grandfather lost his temper again after school, almost knocking the table apart: "You boy, what do you want to do? You actually arranged for someone to secretly investigate your grandfather?" I was so scolded that I was confused, and this time even my grandma didn't speak for me, so I felt that something was wrong.Soon, I was taken to a mysterious place. This time my grandfather was not with me, but a regiment-level cadre took me there.We used to know each other, but this time he was serious, like a prisoner. We arrived at a heavily guarded compound at the military headquarters.The place where Qin Hai stayed was like an office, with armed soldiers guarding the door.Looking at his appearance, it seems that he has suffered a lot, and the whole person is also downcast. I really can't imagine what happened.The officer led me into the room, closed the door and said, "I will tell you, if He Bing is not the grandson of Commander He, you will be sentenced to heavy punishment, even death, for your actions, understand?" I don't understand what happened so far, but Qin Hai nodded palely, and said to me apologetically, "I didn't betray you, they investigated it themselves." As soon as this remark came out, the officer's attitude became more severe, and he scolded: "Where is this place? What is the position of Commander He? Can it be your turn to investigate behind the scenes? Do you think you should know a lot of things? What about, kid?" Qin Hai whispered: "I have no bad intentions." "What, speak louder, I'll listen." The officer roared in a stern voice. "I, I..." Qin Hai was speechless. The officer walked over and seemed to want to do something.At this moment, when the door opened, another middle-aged officer walked in, frowning, and said, "Old Zhao, do you have a better attitude? They are all comrades, what are you doing?" "Old Ma, you have to find out, do you know who this kid is investigating behind his back?" "I know. All right, you go out, I understand this myself." I know this person who came here. He is the father of Lao Tofu, a professional in charge of intelligence investigation and collection in a certain army.If Qin Hai is really investigating my grandfather behind his back, then the crime is really in his hands. Old Zhao gave Qin Hai a hard look, turned around and walked out without saying anything, and closed the door. Seeing an acquaintance coming, I quickly said: "Uncle Ma, it is impossible for us to investigate senior cadres in the army. I grew up here, and I know some rules by heart. What is the misunderstanding?" Lao Ma was indeed more polite than Lao Zhao. He smiled and said, "Maybe you should ask your friends. Comrade Qin, would you mind introducing what happened yesterday?" Qin Hai's expression was very embarrassed, he glanced at me, but didn't speak.I was in a hurry, and said: "When is this? You still don't want to say it out. This matter is not a joke. As long as you don't have bad intentions, tell it clearly, otherwise, you will really be in trouble." Don't look at me as a half-grown child, but I know all about the taboos in the army.Hearing what I said, Qin Hai finally stopped hesitating and sighed: "Actually, after the two of us broke up that day, I had a feeling that, that is, that... To put it bluntly, I think Commander He might know Xiuxiling So, in order to prove this point, I relied on my relationship to investigate whether your grandfather had ever been to Xiuxi Ridge, and it turned out..." He glanced at the old horse at this point. After listening to him, I almost didn't laugh.This person who is five or six years older than me doesn't seem to be very reliable in his work, and I finally figured out why he investigated my grandfather.Uncle Ma nodded and said: "Very well, since you have admitted your motive, it will be much more convenient for us to investigate. Can I understand that you did not have any malicious intentions in investigating Commander He this time, and of course you have nothing to do with He Bing. It doesn't matter either?" I was about to speak when Uncle Ma raised his hand to stop me.Qin Hai didn't hesitate, and said, "Of course I don't mean anything malicious, and it's impossible for He Bing to ask me to investigate his grandfather." Uncle Ma seemed very satisfied with his reply and said: "Commander He issued a report, hoping to exempt Comrade Qin Hai from investigation and punishment. Judging from my many years of work experience, you should be fine. "After that, he put a piece of paper in front of Qin Hai with my grandfather's signature on it. Qin Hai just nodded dully and said, "Thank you Commander He for your magnanimity. I must realize my mistake and promise not to make it again in the future." Uncle Ma said: "Although you say that, whether you can be exempted from punishment depends on the opinions of the department in charge of this area. I can only say that Commander He's attitude is the most important reference for your future punishment. Therefore, in the past few days You can't leave for the time being. In addition, let's talk about a topic that does not belong to my work, and declare in advance that I will not take any legal responsibility. Comrade Qin Hai, it is said that your work unit is considering firing you, and it seems to have reached the final stage. So , you stand a good chance of losing your job." After hearing these words, Qin Hai was even more dejected, but he didn't express any opinion. Uncle Ma sorted out the materials, got up and said to me: "You guys have a good chat, my mission is over. Remember to go home early, don't always make Commander He angry, you are his only hope." Said Come on, pat me on the shoulder and leave the room. It should be said that Uncle Ma's last sentence gave me a hint.Judging from the current situation of our family, apart from me, there is no one who can continue the incense of the He family. Therefore, the expectations of my grandparents for me can be imagined without thinking. After being cold for a while, Qin Hai whispered, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have dragged you into the water." I was also a little helpless: "We can't blame each other for this matter. But, to be honest, I didn't expect you to investigate my grandpa. There's no need to make it so big, right?" "I'm not investigating your grandfather's details, I just want to know whether your grandfather has been to Xiuxiling back then." "Even if my grandfather has been to Xiuxiling, so what? He won't harm his descendants, right?" "You are too young, and some things are beyond your comprehension. For a person with such a high position and rank as your grandfather, if he goes to Xiuxiling, it will definitely not be a tourist, and if his two sons stay in Xiuxiling , it must show that there is a deep-seated reason. Of course, I don’t want to investigate this reason, I just want to know whether the strange things you saw in Xiuxiling have ever been recorded in this regard.” Knowing Qin Hai's intentions, I don't think it's unreasonable at all. In fact, I also want to know this, but he has put it into action, and I just think about it in my head.After a while, I asked, "What if you do get fired?" Qin Hai sighed: "Perhaps this is my fate. Back then, because of a strange incident, I changed from a criminal police officer to a police officer. This time, because of another strange incident, I will change from a policeman to a citizen. If so In the end, I don’t regret it, but I will not continue to investigate these things, because they have nothing to do with me.” Hearing what he said, I couldn't help but feel a little melancholy, but I also knew that if I continued to do these stupid things, sooner or later I would drive my grandfather to death, and letting go seemed to be the best choice.After thinking about this, Qin Hai and I chatted tacitly for a while, then got up and said goodbye.Immediately after I went out, a guard drove me out of the military area. At this moment, although the lights in the compound of the military region were brightly lit, there was no one in the courtyard.It's time for dinner in every household.I was about to go home when I suddenly heard a whistle. This is the way our playmates used to transmit signals. I subconsciously followed the sound and saw Lao Doufu turning out from behind a telegraph pole.