winter past

After hanging up the hotline, more than 20 minutes later, when Lin Midong drove into the urban area, the host An An played the songs and blessings he ordered, and she said in a soft tone: "Next, let us On this full moon night, enjoy this song "Flowers Are Beautiful and Full Moon Night"."

Lin Midong drove on the ring road around the city, smiled embarrassedly, and said softly: "It's not this song..."

The female singer began to sing.He turned up the volume on the car stereo and tried humming along.

He listened to the radio all the way, and drove all the way north. When he arrived in Fubei District, he found an empty construction site. Seeing no one around, he stopped the car and took out the tool box with Plastic bag with bloody gloves.He stuffed the two scalpels in the box, the used cannula roll, and the used disposable gloves into this plastic bag.

He returned to the car with the plastic bag, threw the bag on the passenger seat, and drove away.

"Music Accompanying Me" ended, and the radio station began to sell health care products that protect the liver and kidney. When the car arrived at the gate of the No. The body guard greeted him.The doorman opened the door for him with a smile: "It's time to go to work."

Lin Midong smiled and nodded.

Now that the night had fallen and the cicadas were hissing in the funeral home, he found a parking space in the employee parking lot and parked the car, rolled up the plastic bag on the passenger seat, squeezed out all the air inside, and stuffed it into the He checked his trouser pockets, turned on the interior lights, checked the clothes on his lower body, between the fingers of his hands, his hair, and his ears, and got out of the car.

A car was about to reverse into the space next to him.The driver honked the horn.Lin Midong took a look and waved his hand towards the driver: "It's Xu Tian."

He stood beside his car, watched Xu Tian park the car, and watched him get out of the car.After Xu Tian got out of the car, he came to give him cigarettes.Both of them lit a cigarette and stood under a street lamp to smoke.

Xu Tian asked him, "Have you eaten?"

"Eat, tomato scrambled eggs, fish-flavored shredded pork."

"self-made?"

"correct."

"Brother, do you eat salty or sweet scrambled eggs with tomatoes?"

"I made something sweet today." Lin Midong said.

Xu Tian pointed to a row of empty parking spaces nearby, his eyes drifted, and he said softly: "Have you heard that? Lao Meng was transferred to the city bureau, and he divorced his wife."

"For his daughter?" Lin Midong asked.

Xu Tian shook his head, sighed, and spit on the ground: "That's right, Lao Meng is also stubborn. You said, wouldn't it be good to leave a whole body for your own child? You must believe this evil, or you must be accused of being raped." It was murdered by someone, and the result was that the belly was disembowelled, and the meal was bloody and muddy, so it didn't result in a suicide."

"His daughter is not very old..." Lin Mindong shook the cigarette ash, looked at Xu Tian, ​​"Your mother made you pig's trotters again today?"

Xu Tian raised his eyes and gave a thumbs up cheerfully: "Your nose is really speechless."

He slapped his forehead: "That's right! My mother asked me to bring you some. Let me tell you that even though you are an unmarried single man, you are old at crafts and know how to enjoy life. It's not troublesome to be alone. Cook and eat by yourself, you can do everything..." He walked towards the car he drove, walked to the side of the trunk, unlocked it, took out a fresh-keeping box from it, and looked at Lin Min Dong's car: "May I put it in your car?"

Lin Midong said: "It's hot, put it in the refrigerator in the office."

Xu Tian nodded, closed the trunk, and sighed again: "Children are impulsive, want to die regardless, and think death is no big deal. You said that at my age, there are old ones and young ones below. I want to die, and I have to live for them for a few more years."

Lin Midong took a puff of cigarette, looked at a building not far away with yellow light, and said, "Let's go."

He and Xu Tian walked towards the building side by side.This is a three-story low building, with a signboard of "Funeral Parlor Office" hanging in front of the door, and a notice posted on the door: Please go to the service hall for cremation certificates, an important office area, and idlers are not allowed to enter!

When the two entered the office, the two security guards sitting in the lobby greeted them: "Xiao Lin, Xiao Xu, come, come, register."

The two wrote their names on the entry and exit register, swiped their work cards on the card reader, and turned into a deep corridor.

Behind them, a security guard made a coughing sound.The whole aisle was filled with this thunderous echo.

When passing by the antiseptic and plastic surgery room, a man and a woman came out wearing white coats and masks.The four looked at each other, and Lin Midong greeted first: "Xiao Zhen, Teacher Liu."

The man and the woman took off their masks, and the woman——Xiao Zhen glanced at the crisper in Xu Tian's hand and asked, "Haven't you eaten dinner yet?"

The man—Ms. Liu said with a smile: "Your mother made the sauced pig's trotters?"

Xu Tian stuffed the fresh-keeping box to Lin Midong, looked at the two of them, and cupped his hands together: "We all have families and people, and we are all taken care of by others. Brother Lin is a widow, so my mother shouldn't worry too much about it." Him some?"

Lin Midong said: "Let's eat together?"

Xiao Zhen smiled wryly and waved her hands again and again: "I really don't have such an appetite today."

She then walked towards the "antiseptic and plastic surgery office" diagonally opposite the door.

Teacher Liu signaled Xu Tian and Lin Midong to get closer, and the three of them gathered together. Teacher Liu pointed to the plastic surgery room and said in a low voice, "Biao Zhen, the recurrence of breast cancer is gone."

The three of them fell silent, lowered their eyes, and entered the office silently.

Lin Midong put the crisper in the refrigerator, and Xu Tian said, "Xiao Zhen, next time...you can switch shifts with us...my senior brother and I are always on call."

Teacher Liu took off his white coat, glared at Xu Tian and scolded: "How are you talking? Do you expect this kind of thing to happen again?"

Xu Tian hurriedly said to Xiao Zhen: "That's not what I meant..."

There are also some apples, peaches, a few mini-packs of chocolates, Snickers bars, and two cans of yogurt in the fridge.Lin Midong took a piece of chocolate and handed it to Xiao Zhen.Xiao Zhen took it, tore open the package, and looked at Xu Tian with a smile: "Like your elder brother, talk less and do more."

She ate the chocolate, took off her white coat, put on her purse, and said, "In half an hour, two people will be sent over from the No. [-] Hospital in Gaocheng District, one big and one small."

Xu Tian put on his white coat, was hanging his work card around his neck, and said, "Okay, let's go get ready first."

He smiled at Xiao Zhen: "If you learn from my senior brother, you will still be a bachelor?"

Xiao Zhen snorted and stuffed the chair under the table.Teacher Liu untied a large bunch of keys buckled around his waist, gave them to Lin Midong, and left with Xiao Zhen.

Lin Midong took two masks from the paper box on the desk and gave Xu Tian one.The two put on their masks, patted their white coats, and went to the plastic surgery room.As soon as the door was opened, the smell of formalin rushed straight to the forehead. The lights in the room were dazzling, like daytime. The six metal beds lined up in a row reflected cold light, and there was a whole row of wooden cabinets in the room, with two double doors. A large refrigerator, next to the refrigerator is a long sink.There are two antiseptic solution injection machines on a wooden table.

There are no windows, and the central air conditioner blows out the wind, and the air conditioner is very strong.

Xu Tian rubbed his arms and said, "I'll go get the embalming solution out."

Lin Midong gave him the large bunch of keys and said, "Then I'll brush the floor again."

"There seems to be some blood," he said, pointing to the underside of a metal bed.

Xu Tian shook the bunch of keys and walked towards the row of cabinets, complaining: "You said the police did this, now we use an embalming solution in our own funeral parlor, and we have to use a key to get it, and we have to register the amount, and we need two Individuals testify against each other."

Lin Midong then sighed: "Yeah, I don't know how long it will take."

He took out a mop from a cabinet, walked to the sink, connected a long water pipe, turned on the faucet, and rinsed the tiled floor with the water pipe.Xu Tian opened a cabinet with a key and took out several barrels of blue embalming liquid.He turned his back to Lin Midong.Lin Midong bent down and carefully washed the ground under the metal bed.

His thigh arched against the scalpel in his pants pocket.There was the sound of water swishing, and the plastic bags made a slight rubbing sound.

Lin Midong quietly rinsed the ground with a hose and mopped it with a mop.Suddenly, Xu Tian coughed twice and said, "I'll put on another mask, the smell is really strong today."

He walked out quickly.

The door opened.

The door closed again.

Lin Midong took out the plastic bag in his pocket, took out the two scalpels, and threw the bag containing the gloves and sleeves into a trash can next to a metal bed.Then he cleaned the scalpels and put them in the cabinet above the sink.

Xu Tian came back with a three-layer mask on his face.

Lin Midong looked at him dumbfounded, and said, "I'm going to throw out the trash."

He packed up the garbage bags in all three trash cans in the embalming room, and carried them to the incineration center behind the office.

He threw all the garbage bags into the incinerator.