Episode 10 Chapter 100 Confusion
After Shi Hu burned the paper man, Sun Yao fainted. After he came back, he was sent to the hospital. He was not seriously injured and the hospital couldn't find anything after examination. They just said that it might be due to his weak body. He recovered quickly after he woke up.
Shi Hu and I went back to check the files, and Shi Hu did find the name Gong Dinghai in a file, and this file was the person he and Shan Lanjin found when they were investigating Old Man Liu. Because the files were confidential, even ordinary police officers did not have the authority to view them, let alone me. So Shi Hu did not show it to me, but only told me that Gong Dinghai was Old Man Liu's brother, but the two of them basically did not have any contact, and he only knew that there was such a person, but did not know where he was, because there was no clue to find this person.
Speaking of this, I have a question. Since Gong Dinghai and Old Man Liu are brothers, why is Old Man Liu's surname Liu, and his surname is Gong? Shi Hu said that they are said to be half-brothers. Old Man Liu's mother first gave birth to Old Man Liu, and later married someone else and gave birth to Gong Dinghai. So although they are brothers, they have different surnames.
So that's how it is. No wonder Shi Hu reacted so strongly. Shi Hu said that they still have to continue investigating Gong Dinghai's case. If his grave is there, there must be clues to follow. Who knows, maybe they can find out some unknown things about Old Man Liu from this clue.
Shan Lanjin came back by himself at night. The first thing he did when he came back was to call me and ask if I had returned. He was downstairs in my house. Shi Hu and I were at home at that time. When Shi Hu heard that Shan Lanjin had returned, he didn't react much, as if it was a matter of course. I still felt a little relieved. It was best that he was fine.
But after he came up, I felt that he looked a little different. His usual extreme indifference seemed to be gone, and instead he exuded a confused look, as if something was bothering him.
I asked him where he went after he left the courtyard gate, and I looked everywhere inside but couldn't find him. Shan Lanjin said that after he left the courtyard gate, he arrived at the terminus of bus No. 158, and there happened to be a bus parked on the side of the road. The driver was asking him if he wanted to get on the bus. He said that his head was suddenly confused and he couldn't react, so he got on the bus.
I looked at him in surprise and said that he had come back at that time. Shan Lanjin said that he seemed to be back, but also seemed not to be. When he said this, his puzzled expression became more serious, and he didn't say a word, as if he fell into deep thought again. Finally, Shi Hu called him back, and he suddenly came to his senses.
I had never seen Shan Ranjin like this before, and I asked him what happened, but he said he didn't know what happened. He just found that he had fallen asleep leaning on the seat of the bus when he woke up. When he woke up, the bus happened to stop near my house, so he got off and ended up at this point.
Listening to Shan Lanjin's fragmented description, I felt like there was a blank in his memory, as if the part during the day just disappeared, or maybe he didn't tell it completely. After that, he gradually came to his senses and asked me what happened there afterwards. I told him again, and it turned out to be a blessing in disguise that we found Gong Dinghai, which was also an important clue. Shan Lanjin and Shi Hu confirmed that it was the Gong Dinghai who had been missing. Shi Hu said it should be almost certain, and further confirmation would have to wait until the villages in that area confirmed it.
But when Shi Hu went to investigate, he was disappointed because no one in the nearby villages knew of such a person, and no one knew why his grave was there. More importantly, Gong Dinghai had never lived in that area, and the people there had never even heard of his name. Shi Hu and his team only had a name, not even a photo, so they couldn't find anything.
Of course, this is a later matter.
On Monday, I went back to work at the funeral home . After arriving at the funeral home, I went to see Director Gao first. Director Gao told me to come to the conference room on the fourth floor in an hour. They would be waiting for me there. I should go alone and not tell anyone.
Then I went back to the office. When Xu Nuoyi saw me coming back to work, he asked me, "I heard that you were in a car accident and hit your head. Are you okay?"
I said it was just a minor car accident, my head hit the pillar, it was nothing serious, the hospital staff made a big fuss. Xu Nuoyi then started talking, saying that the head is an important part of the body and so on. After saying a lot of nonsense, he suddenly asked me in a low voice, saying that I suddenly ran to the funeral home that night and wanted to jump off the building, is it true?
I didn't expect that the news had spread. I said I didn't jump off the building, I just saw someone jumping off the building and wanted to persuade them, but I almost fell down myself. Xu Nuoyi said that I was really brave, I dared to go there in such a situation, I knew it was a private person jumping off the building but I didn't avoid it, it was obvious that it was to take his life.
After hearing Xu Nuoyi say this, I asked him if this kind of thing happens often in the funeral home. Xu Nuoyi said that it can't be said to be often, but there are still dozens of cases a year. It has almost become a habit. People who work here are no longer afraid of it. As long as you don't pay attention when it jumps, nothing will happen. So the funeral home handles this matter internally, and I don't know whether the police will be notified.
He said that it was useless to report the matter to the police, as they couldn't find out anything and in the end, nothing was done about it. Are you really going to investigate a dead person? So in the end, the funeral home simply handled it themselves, and nothing would happen afterwards. Besides, those bodies were unclaimed, so at best they could just be cremated and put away.
When I heard Xu Nuoyi talk about these things, it was like he was just talking about family matters, without any emotion at all. I could tell that he was not lying to me. The people in the funeral home were used to it, but I was the only one who knew what happened that night. What did he want to tell me? I am still thinking about the meaning of the two questions he asked at the end. He asked me if I had played the game of ghost knocking on the door, and asked me if I knew why he jumped down.
Seeing that I was in a trance, Xu Nuoyi said that I must have felt it was incredible when I first arrived, and that it would be fine once I got used to it. He said that generally those who couldn't stand the fright had left, and those who stayed here had gotten used to it, and it seemed that after being frightened for a while, they were not so scared anymore, and instead felt that it was just a special phenomenon.
Seeing that it was almost half past nine, I said that Director Gao wanted to see me about something and I was going to go over. When Xu Nuoyi heard this, he reminded me to be careful when I spoke, as he might be asking me about the archives. I asked him what happened in the archives, and Xu Nuoyi said that I hadn't been to work in the past few days and he didn't know that some files were lost in the archives again. Director Gao was angry about this, and he might be looking for me about this. But I was not here for the past few days, so it must have nothing to do with me. He just wanted to get to know me to see if he had failed in his duty.
I understand what Xu Nuoyi means. Just tell him and he will rest assured . I won't say anything nonsense. Of course, I am the only one who knows that Director Gao didn't ask me to come for this matter. Since Old Man Nie took the initiative to meet me, is it because of what happened on the top floor that night? I feel a little uneasy. I think I am almost a three-faced person in the funeral home. I have been in contact with Old Man Nie without telling Shi Hu and Shan Lanjin. So far, neither of them knows that I am in contact with both sides. What they don't know is that I am still secretly in contact with another group of people lurking in the funeral home, although I don't know if it is a person, and every time he contacts me, I can't contact him.
I went to the conference room on the fourth floor. Old Man Nie was the only one in the conference room. No one else was there, including Director Gao and the bodyguards. None of them showed up.
After I went in, Old Man Nie asked me to sit down. He also knew that I had been in a car accident and asked me if I was feeling better. I nodded and said I was fine and that there was nothing wrong. He said that's good, and repeated it two or three times.
After that, he suddenly asked me if I knew why basically all the employees of the funeral home were not allowed to come to the fourth floor?
