Volume 1: Die with Unclosed Eyes Chapter 2. Living Grave
I'm a decorator, so of course I understand that no building would have another wall added to the exterior wall. No matter if it's for reinforcement or for any other reason, no architectural engineer would design this kind of construction method.
Thinking of this, I asked, "Brother, we're here to solve the mall's odor problem, but we're tearing down people's walls. Isn't that a bit weird?"
"It's not surprising at all. If you believe me, just do as I say."
"But how can I convince the mall manager? I can't possibly demolish the medical school wall without their coordination. They need an explanation, right?"
Luo Tianbao didn't say anything. He picked up the screwdriver next to the gear lever and said, "Follow me. I'll give you an explanation."
After we got off the car, we walked all the way to the extra wall of the medical school. He squatted on the ground and poked the wall with a screwdriver.
Unexpectedly, he pierced through the "concrete" wall in one go. After pulling out the screwdriver, I saw a sticky dark green pus flowing out of the hole. A foul smell hit my nose, which made me feel nauseous and almost vomited.
I covered my nose and quickly pushed a few steps away. Luo Tianbao pointed at the wall and said, "Now you know the reason. Go find the person responsible, otherwise this store will get worse and worse."
After knowing this reason, I felt relieved and immediately looked at this short and fat guy with admiration. He really had a "big shot" in his eyes. No wonder my father asked him to help. He is really an expert.
After entering the medical school, I told the guard to help contact the dean. The old man said, "You need to make an appointment."
"I don't need an appointment. Just say I'm a wall repairman and I found something inside. The dean will see me immediately."
The old man looked at me suspiciously but still made the call. After a while, the message came back saying that the dean agreed to see me.
The security guard then took me to the dean's office on the top floor. There, I saw a well-mannered middle-aged man in his fifties sitting in a chair. When he saw me, he immediately stood up and greeted me, "Hello, I'm the dean. How can I help you?"
"Dean, there's too much dirt in the wall of your house . I'm here on behalf of the mall and hope you can clean it up."
The dean sighed and said, "Young man, to be honest, I'm at my wit's end. I've been trying to solve this problem since the first day I was transferred here, but I've never been able to come up with an effective solution, so this matter has been dragging on day by day."
"What's going on?" I asked.
Later, from the dean's narration, I learned the whole story. It turned out that this wall was built when the medical building was first established. Its main function sounds horrifying, which is to discard dead bodies .
The first animals discarded were the "surgical dogs" used by surgical interns to practice. Stray dogs would be dumped into this deep pit after surgery. Because the hospital was worried about being criticized by animal protection organizations, the more covert the methods used to deal with these dog corpses, the better. Later, some experimental mice and some artificially cultivated waste tissues were also thrown into this man-made deep pit that was comparable to a grave .
Various bacteria were cultivated in the bodies of some mice. These bacteria multiplied wildly in the pile of corpses and consumed the bodies . Soon the bodies of these animals turned into a pile of rotten pus. The unpleasant smell can be imagined. The people in the medical school could not break down the wall and could only seal the roof. The new dean wanted to deal with it but could not pry open the wall first because it was estimated that the "vertical pipe"-like wall was at least one-third full of corpse fluid.
He cannot bear the social impact that may be caused if this news is leaked. The corpse fluid cannot circulate for a long time and will naturally seep slowly along the surface. There are heating pipes underground. After these corpse fluids corrode the steel pipes, as long as a little bit of it flows into the pipe wall, the stench will be "long-lasting", and this is the source of the stench in the mall.
After learning about the trouble caused to the shopping mall, the dean apologized repeatedly and said that they would deal with the matter as soon as possible. It was Luo Tianbao who came up with an idea. Late at night, he used a sewage truck to poke a hole in the wall and sucked out most of the corpse fluid. He covered the leaked corpse fluid with soil and cleaned away the soil that was filled with corpse fluid. All the problems were solved.
After that, the mall hired someone to clean the underground heating pipes and the stench in the mall disappeared.
This made me completely impressed by this "country bumpkin" who ate bread with garlic. I asked him curiously, "Second brother, how did you know there was something wrong with the wall of the medical school at first glance?"
"The reason is very simple. It would be weird if there was no problem with an extra wall appearing out of nowhere . Moreover, there is a lot of dirt piled up under the wall, which means that cleaners are unwilling to work here. The reason can only be that they will smell a bad odor here. This smell is not only in the mall, but also in the area near the wall. So the reason is not complicated." He said with a smile.
It seems like a simple truth, but why didn't so many people realize it before? I'm so screwed.
After sending Luo Tianbao away, my father asked me, "You grew up in the city, pampered, and enjoyed the best resources, but compared with these rural relatives, do you think you are better than them?"
"I don't know about other people, but I'm definitely not as good as Luo Tianbao." I said convincedly.
Dad laughed and said, "Luo Tianbao is probably just a second-rate person among these people."
I gasped when I heard this and said, "Could it be that all of our relatives are gods?"
"They may not be gods, but they are all capable people, much stronger than you and me."
"I used to really look down on them, but now I'm really convinced."
Dad hummed and said, "It's good that you have this understanding. It shows that you are at least not a blindly confident person. Let me give you an opportunity to make friends with an expert. The fifth old man in the village is about to celebrate his eightieth birthday. You can take people to renovate his house. It can be regarded as your filial piety."
The old grandfather had five sons in total, and my grandfather was the third. However, four of the five have died now, leaving only the youngest, the fifth old grandfather. Although I know of such a person, I have never seen him, and Luo Tianbao is his great-grandson.
Our family is very strange. Each of the five branches has a different surname, but my grandfather's branch took his father's surname. I don't know why.
With Luo Tianbao's help, I naturally had to return the favor, so I took six or seven workers and drove two Jinbei trucks full of materials to Longhua Village in Zhejiang Province.
This was the first time in my life that I went back to my hometown . After arriving, I realized that I was ignorant. Although Longhua is a rural area, many people there are richer than in our area. Every household has a three-story villa, and every family has several cars.
The Fifth Old Master had a gaunt face and a full head of silver beard, looking like a great man. When he heard that I was coming to build his house for his birthday, he smiled so hard that his mouth couldn't stop and said, "You are such a good boy."
So a group of people rolled up their sleeves and started working on the new house construction. I was bored so I wandered around the village. I saw villas built among green grass and blue water, which was refreshing. On that day, almost everyone in the village was busy preparing for the fifth old man's birthday, so there were few people around.
I walked down along the beautiful scenery. Later, the terrain gradually rose up, and I saw a lush and green field of evergreens, pines and cypresses not far away.
I walked into the woods and was about to continue enjoying the beautiful scenery, but unexpectedly, I saw a tombstone with three extremely eye-catching words engraved on it...Yu Rulong.
This is my father's name. Could it be that the dead person in this grave has the same name and surname as my father?
However, when I saw the graves on the left and right, I knew that they were not the same name, because my name was engraved on the tombstone on the left, and my mother's name was engraved on the tombstone on the right.
Smoke was curling up from the three graves, and various offerings were placed in front of the graves, including my father's favorite Fenjiu, my favorite Huangjinshan, and even my mother's favorite French active peptide silk mask.
Although it is possible for a dead person to have the same name as a living person under extreme coincidence, these three items did not appear out of thin air. If the three of us were not extremely familiar with them, we would never have known about these three items, especially the last one, the French facial mask, which is not sold on the market yet. These are products that my mother's best friend brought to her after traveling abroad.
Am I actually dead, but I don't even know it?