Doomed Destiny - C38
Mother handed over her cellphone, and I dialed Lao Chang’s number. The phone call connected, and Lao Chang’s voice came out: “Hello, Jin Shi!”
“What’s going on? The last time I called you, why couldn’t I get through?” I asked.
Lao Chang said: “Did you not receive the text message I sent you using another number? Someone leaked it out!”
“I met the police, but they didn’t arrest me!”
“Jin Shi, where are you now?” Lao Chang asked.
“I’m at home! “What about you?” I asked.
“I haven’t left. I’m living in your county now. I’ve been waiting for you to call me!” Lao Chang said.
“Then come find me at my place!”
“Jin Shi, it’s already so late…” Lao Chang who was on the other end of the phone was hesitating.
“It’s alright, there are some things that are suitable for me to do at night!” “No,” I said.
“Okay, then wait for me at home! I’ll go over right now! ”
After hanging up, I heaved a sigh of relief. Mother asked nervously, “How is it? Are you done? ” I nodded and frowned. “The items I bought are all in the west room, including the refrigerator! Now that the west house has been taken over by someone, where are we going to kill chickens and ducks? ”
Mother said, “Can’t you do it in the kitchen?”
I rolled my eyes at her and said, Now move the fridge into the kitchen.
His mother said that he probably didn’t need the refrigerator anymore. She cut it off and let Lao Chang take it away.
After nearly four hours, Lao Chang drove over to my house. Seeing me, he immediately said: “Jin Shi, you’re wrapped in gauze like this, is it convenient to move around?”
I kicked my legs and stretched my arms. I bent down and said it was okay. Lao Chang asked where the goods were. I told my mother to go and see if Yang Dabao and Zhao Xinxin, as well as my eldest sister and Little Sister were all asleep or not. His mother, who was standing in front of East Room’s window, called out a few times, but no one answered. He went to the window of the west room and shouted a few words, but there was still no response. That all four of them were fast asleep.
So I brought Lao Chang to the southwest corner of the courtyard and tore down the simple shed made of wood and oil paper. I took off the basket and pointed to the plastic pipe, saying, “This pipe connects to a cabinet below, so that the goods inside won’t be suffocated to death.” Lao Chang kicked the soft soil, saying that there was nothing to write or write about, quickly dig.
The mother, with a shovel in her hand, began to dig into the earth. Lao Chang said that he would give me a shovel and let me dig too. He handed him the shovel and found another.
Together, the two of them quickly dug through the pile of dirt and revealed the cabinet. He took off the adhesive tape on the cabinet, opened the cabinet door and took a look. The person inside had a withered and yellow appearance, and his eye sockets were sunken. He was completely motionless. When he looked at her nose again, she was already on the verge of death.
“She’s starving!” Mother said.
“Take her to my car!” Lao Chang said.
The car that Lao Chang was driving was a goods vehicle. I learned later that his car was much more advanced than the crates. It was a Mercedes, worth millions. He converted the van into an operating room. His mother and Lao Chang carried Zhao Xinxin into the carriage and placed him on a bed wrapped in leather. The mother looked around and muttered, “Isn’t there everything!”
I can’t use anything I buy in town. Lao Chang had a thinner and sharper scalpel. There were also several pairs of very thin and tough gloves. Even the sponges were ready for the blood.
After taking off Zhao Xinxin’s clothes, Lao Chang opened her eyes to take a look. I asked what he was looking at. He said that the yellow of the eye is not yellow, if the yellow of the eye is liver disease. I asked Huang Buhuang. He said no, it was normal. If I say you don’t trust me, I’m afraid I’ll get you a patient. Lao Chang said that what kind of person was this woman and why did he want to kill him? I said don’t ask so much.
Lao Chang handed me the scalpel and gloves and said: “Let’s begin!”
I said, “Look at me, I’m so wrapped up in gauze, it’s not convenient for me to move around either. Besides, I’ve never dissected a human before, why don’t you do it! ”
Lao Chang shook his head, and said with a smile: “Jin Shi, I only take organs, and not kill!”
I looked at my mother and said, Mom, why don’t you come.
Mother quickly wrapped her arms around her and hid her hands in her armpits. She shook her head and said I didn’t dare.
Looking at the white carcass on the bed, I gritted my teeth, put on the gloves, held onto the scalpel, stepped forward, and with a chi la sound, a neat big hole opened up on Zhao Xinxin’s flat belly. Blood immediately gushed out, and some of the green-gray intestines were revealed.
Zhao Xinxin who had been unconscious all this time suddenly woke up at this moment. Her eyelids opened, and tears began to flow down her cheeks. Her face was distorted, and the voice that came out of her mouth was weak and hoarse: “Jin Shi, what are you doing?” Gritting my teeth, I stared at her for a moment, then suddenly swung the scalpel, thin as a cicada’s wing, and cut open her neck.
I heard a hissing sound from her broken windpipe. The gash in her throat was like a gaping mouth that kept spitting blood.
After a while, Zhao Xinxin died. His eyes were wide open, unable to close his eyes even after death.
Blood splashed into my eyes, and I saw something blood-red. I blinked my eyes and asked Lao Chang: “What organs do you want?”
“Two kidneys. A liver, a heart, and a pair of eyeballs. I want these! ” Lao Chang said.
“Cut it off and put it away?” I asked again.
Lao Chang pointed to the row of glass containers placed on the table, and said: “Put everything into a container!”
I lowered my head and moved the scalpel in my hand. He first cut off a kidney and asked Lao Chang if it was good. Lao Chang nodded his head and also put on a pair of gloves. He removed the stopper on the glass container and let me throw my kidney into the light blue solution.
Finally, when I tried to dig out the dead man’s eyeballs, I felt a little apprehensive, saying that I could not take them anymore. There was hatred in them, and it was impossible to see them.
“Don’t do this to me. If you don’t want my eyeballs, I’ll give you one hundred thousand less! ” Lao Chang said.
His mother anxiously said, “You’ve already dug up my organs. What are you afraid of, you pair of eyeballs? Hurry up and dig them out. One hundred thousand is not a small amount!”
I also gouged out the eyes, leaving two bloody holes in her face. Lao Chang covered the corpse’s body with a white cloth. He said that it was pitiful to find a place to bury her. My mother asked me where I was buried. I said bury our land. Mother said she wouldn’t bury someone else’s land.
I said it was easier to bury someone else’s land than to let them dig it out. Who would have thought that they would see the soil under their feet? If it weren’t for the hole left in the ground, they would have been able to guess that something was buried here. Rural people abstain from being randomly buried in their own fields.
So Lao Chang drove us to my house. His mother was still working hard, so he had to dig the pit by himself. Lao Chang and I stood at the side.
Lao Chang gave me a cigarette. I didn’t accept it and said that I didn’t know how to smoke. But when I smelled the aroma of the cigarette, I wanted to smoke it, so I asked Lao Chang for one. The cigarette he offered was thicker than usual, a cigar. It smelled very good. Just enough to cover the blood on me.
Mother suddenly cried out and threw down her shovel and jumped high. Lao Chang and I were both shocked. He looked around and didn’t find anything out of the ordinary. I asked my mother what was wrong. She came closer, trembling, and said, “I just saw a kid coming! like Jin Faliang! ”
Lao Chang asked Jin Faliang who he was. My dead brother, I said, was buried in this field. Mother began to sob. I said, you’re seeing things. Hurry up and dig the pit, bury it and go home to sleep. My mother walked over, picked up the shovel, and began to dig into the hole that had just reached the level of her ankle.
While digging, she stopped and turned to me. “Shier, I really wasn’t seeing things just now. I have indeed seen Jin Faliang! ”
I said impatiently, “How come you saw it? Why didn’t the two of us see it? It’s not like we’re blind.” Hurry up and dig! It’s already dawn! ”
After burying Zhao Xinxin’s body, Lao Chang gave us a big box of money. Just as he was about to get on the car and leave, he suddenly stopped and said to me: “Jin Shi, I used a different number to send a message to you earlier, saying that someone had snitched on you. Actually, it isn’t to inform the police!” I was startled for a moment before I asked, “Then who do you mean to inform?”
Lao Chang stared at me for a full minute before raising his hand and pointing towards the sky. I didn’t utter another word, I stood there unmoving as I watched Lao Chang drive away.
Mother and I carried a box of money into the courtyard. Mother said, “Strange, why didn’t the dogs of our house bark when Lao Chang came to our house? This is the first time he’s come to our house! ”
I asked if the dog was dead.
“Woof …!” The iron chains clanged, and the wolfhound leapt out of the path, crazily biting into the metal.
His mother said anxiously, “Something has entered the house!”