Chapter 6 Chapter 6: The Hair Between the Fingers

Gu Zhensheng couldn't listen anymore, he waved his hand roughly, and said, "Okay, okay, stop talking, nonsense, Nurse Xu, this is a hospital, and dead people often happen, which hospital doesn't kill people, it's no big deal, If you still want to continue working here, don’t go around talking nonsense and let other patients hear it, what are you talking about? There are many people who graduate from health school and want to enter our hospital, and Dean Wen worries about this every year. " Xu Chenchen nodded quickly, not daring to speak anymore, at this time Wu Xinyao had already returned, and after hearing the second half of Gu Zhensheng's words, she was secretly grateful for her cleverness and dexterity.She glanced at Xu Chenchen, then took a folder, and asked Gu Zhensheng, "Director Gu, how should Li Guifen's cause of death be written?"

Gu Zhensheng sighed softly and said: "Just write, the patient is old, and after the operation, he died suddenly due to heart failure. You fill out the death registration form, and I will sign it....Also, notify the patient's family immediately .” Wu Xinyao and Xu Chenchen looked at each other before they could speak.An old and low voice behind him said: "Rang Rang, Rang Rang, alas." Uncle Hong, who was in charge of the mortuary, was wearing a greasy white coat with a strange smile on his face and pushed the stretcher into the ward. His head was already bald. Most of it is also shining with oil.The two nurses quickly moved out of the way. Uncle Hong looked around the situation in the ward and asked, "Where are the family members?"

Wu Xinyao said: "Li Guifen has no relatives around her. Her husband passed away a few years ago, and their only daughter died long ago. There is only one younger brother who is overseas. According to her, he is a big boss who sends a thousand dollars a month to his sister for retirement. , who knows." Uncle Hong picked up the reading glasses hanging around his neck with a hemp rope and put them on the bridge of his nose. He looked carefully at the poor old lady on the hospital bed, and sighed, "It's another lonely soul." Afterwards, Uncle Hong quickly wrapped the deceased tightly with a sheet, and with the assistance of Xu Chenchen and Wu Xinyao, he put the body of Mrs. Li on the stretcher.Uncle Jinhong yelled in a low voice: "Let's go." He pushed the stretcher outside.

Gu Zhensheng hastily signed the death registration book, handed it to Xu Chenchen, then turned to Wu Xinyao and said, "Go and check the contact information of Li Guifen's relatives and friends, and let me know as soon as possible." Wu Xinyao nodded and said, "Okay." The stretcher cart rolled out of the ward and walked towards the elevator.Xu Chenchen and Wu Xinyao helped each other.Uncle Hong always kept a weird smile on his face, as if there was nothing more interesting in the world than what he was doing now.Gu Zhensheng was worried about Xia Xiaoyu, so he took a few steps away from them and walked towards the nurse's duty room alone.

The elevator was about to arrive, so Xu Chenchen pressed the down button first, Uncle Hong smiled and said, "Girl, I don't usually walk here." Wu Xinyao was a little impatient, and said, "I always go down wherever I go." Looking back, seeing that Gu Zhensheng had gone far, he unceremoniously pushed the stretcher into the elevator, and the stretcher hit the inner wall of the elevator, making a "clang" sound, and the corpse under the white cloth on the car also heaved due to the vibration. Uncle Hong gave Wu Xinyao a dissatisfied look, and said, "What are you doing, be gentle. The dead are people too." Xu Chenchen said apologetically, "I'm sorry, Uncle Hong, be careful. We won't go there." Uncle Hong He stopped talking, entered the elevator alone, clicked the button, and the elevator door closed.

The two nurses Wu Xinyao and Xu Chenchen walked back together. After a major matter was dealt with, the pressure in their hearts was relieved, and the two of them couldn't help yawning. Xu Chenchen said casually: "It's really unlucky. I encountered such a thing so early in the morning, hey? What kind of bad things did you do to attract such a big retribution, such a terrible death?" Wu Xinyao said coldly: "As I said earlier, this hospital is not clean. There are so many 'organs' on the twelfth floor. Do you know which ones were donated and which ones died unjustly? Just be careful, I see Xiao Yu It doesn't look like she's lying, she must have bumped into something."

Xu Chenchen couldn't help but widen his eyes when he heard this, and asked, "Really?" Wu Xinyao said, "You must have been frightened if you didn't see Xiao Yu like that." Xu Chenchen agreed: "Really, I don't dare to work the night shift alone in the future." Xu Chenchen yawned and said he wanted to go back to the dormitory to catch up on sleep, while Wu Xinyao had to go to the inpatient department to check the registration of Mrs. Li Guifen in order to find relatives who could come to collect her body.The two went their separate ways. On the basement floor, Uncle Hong from the balance room pushed the stretcher out of the elevator alone, and then walked along the corridor.I don't know if it was a deliberate arrangement, but the twelfth highest floor of the hospital is where many "living organs" are kept, while the basement floor at the lowest part of the hospital is the place where the scales don't see the light of day. It is as if the two poles of heaven and hell are facing each other.The lights in the corridors on the twelfth floor always give people a strangely pale and bright feeling, but the corridors on the basement floor are full of incandescent lamps shining dimly, which is chilly and creepy.Uncle Hong has been working here for more than ten years, and he has long been used to it. When he was young, Uncle Hong was captured by the Kuomintang during the Liberation War. He was sent to "clean up" the battlefield. To carry the corpse.After liberation, Uncle Hong was labeled as an enemy agent because he had sacrificed his life for the Kuomintang. He appeared as a counter-revolutionary and was criticized repeatedly. , so far it can be considered as a child, according to the words of the old people, this kind of person has the most yang energy and is the most able to restrain ghosts.Therefore, Uncle Hong was satisfied with the job of guarding the balance room, and even put half of his net worth in the balance room, where he spent his usual food and lodging.

When Uncle Hong came to the wide door of the mortuary, he still had a strange smile on his face. Amidst the creaking sound of the wheels of the stretcher truck crushing the concrete floor, he looked extremely eerie.Uncle Hong took out the key from his waist, unlocked a large lock on the door, pulled the latch, opened the door, and pushed the stretcher in with great effort. The mortuary of this hospital is like a large warehouse. The lights on the roof are shining light blue, which makes it look very cold. There are several rows of huge freezers on the three walls, and the row on the left is locked. The right side and the innermost row are only labeled with serial numbers.Uncle Hong pushed the stretcher trolley to the innermost row of refrigerated cabinets and stopped, then took a mortuary receipt in his hand to an old table, recorded it in a book with a ballpoint pen, and wrote it back with With a hoarse voice, he murmured to the old lady Li Guifen's corpse under the white cloth: "...Welcome to the world of peace, no matter whether you enjoyed or suffered in this world, whether you were noble or humble, now, you are all equal, so you can rest easy. Come on, you are the 2897th guest I have accepted here, and I, Old Hong, should retire when there are 3,000 people."

After Uncle Hong finished speaking, he stepped forward and opened a freezer to put the corpse.Suddenly the lights in the morgue flickered, and one of the corpse's hands slipped out from under the white cloth. It was an old dead hand, the nails had turned dark purple due to blood accumulation, and the fingers were shriveled like sticks. But there was a strand of long black hair floating out, floating higher and higher. Uncle Hong's old eyes were dim, and he didn't notice the black hair. He just stuffed the exposed hand back under the white cloth, pushed the body onto the baffle of the freezer, propped it up, and then pushed the handle in, and the freezer The door slammed shut.