For a while, I didn't even know whether I was dead or alive, until I heard light footsteps coming from the other end of the stairs. Someone was coming downstairs.
"Why don't you get up? How long are you going to pretend to be dead on the ground?" It was the voice of that dead woman Qingzi.
I moved my eyelids and slowly opened my eyes. At first, everything was blurry, but gradually it became clearer and I saw Qingzi's fair and beautiful face. This woman is pretty, but her heart is too vicious.
I sat up from the ground trembling, sweating too much, and feeling a little dehydrated. I looked around and found that my eyes were not blind, which was really great. This woman is really not to be messed with. I just violated the rules she set once, and I got treated so badly!
If I had known this, even if Boss Ma knelt down and begged me one day, I would not dare to stay in the funeral home! Fortunately, this nightmare is finally over. I have to be careful in the future and never provoke this woman again.
"That's all for today." The woman said , her pink and white skirt swayed beside me, and she turned and walked upstairs. I was just breathing a sigh of relief when I heard the woman's voice coming faintly from the stairs, "From today on, apply the medicine once every night."
"If I find out that you dare to play tricks, you will be in trouble!"
When I heard this, I couldn't believe my ears. My eyes went dark and I fell to the ground with a thud. The next day when I went to the funeral home, Yan Zi asked me curiously, "Why is your voice hoarse? Did you drink soju secretly?"
What else can I say? It will only bring tears if I say too much.
Since that night, my biggest fear every day has been to see the sun set, because that means I have to go back home and suffer the nightmare again. The pain in other parts of the body, such as the arms or thighs, may be bearable if you get used to it, but the severe pain in the eyes is unbearable no matter how many times it hurts.
Every time I rolled on the ground, it was so painful. One time I couldn't stand it anymore, so I cooked a big table of delicious food. While Qingzi was in a good mood, I lowered my head and begged for mercy, begging her to be magnanimous and stop being angry with me. I swore that I would never dare to disobey her again.
"Who has time to be angry with you?" Qingzi picked up a piece of potato chip and put it in the bowl without even looking at me.
I said with a sad face: "If you don't want to be angry with me, then don't punish me anymore." As I said this, my voice was a little choked up. It's not that I'm too soft, it's just that this torture is so fucking terrible!
Qingzi asked, "Why should I punish you?"
I almost burst into tears: "I didn't listen to you, I didn't go home on time, I deserve to die!"
Qingzi glanced at me and said, "Will you dare not disobey me in the future?"
When I heard that the woman's tone seemed to be softening, I was overjoyed and hurriedly shook my head, saying, "I dare not, I dare not, I absolutely dare not! From now on, if Qingzi tells me to go east, I will never dare to go west! Whatever Qingzi tells me to do, I will do it!"
Qingzi hummed and stretched out her chopsticks to pick up some food. I saw that she liked the potato chips today, so I quickly stood up and brought the bowl to her.
"Don't stop taking the medicine every night."
I shuddered and almost dropped my chopsticks on the ground.
"Why, you don't listen to me?"
I felt aggrieved and speechless for a moment. Qingzi said without even raising his eyelids, "This medicine is the first step to open the night vision. You just need to endure for 49 days."
When I heard this, I was startled and my mind suddenly became clear.
"Open night vision? What is that?" From the ancient tombs in southern Xinjiang to now, I have heard the word "night vision" many times, but I have never understood what night vision is.
Qingzi ignored me and just ate. I pondered for a while, remembering that when I was in the ancient tomb in southern Xinjiang, the tomb was pitch black, and I couldn't see anything, but it didn't hinder Qingzi's movements.
Later, I went to the funeral home. The dressing room had no windows and was always dark. There was not even a light on in the room. But Second Granny was sewing and dressing up the dead in such an environment all year round. There was only one possibility!
"If I turn on my night vision, can I see things clearly at night?" I asked, suppressing my inner nervousness.
Qingzi ignored me and went back upstairs after dinner. I continued to ponder while eating the rice in my bowl. Although Qingzi ignored me in the end, if she didn't deny it, it was a confirmation. This Night Eye must be what I understand!
What I have known since childhood is that the human eye can only see things in the presence of light. When I suddenly heard that I could see things at night after opening the night vision function, I couldn't help but feel both curious and excited.
Although the eye pain was still unbearable after applying the medicine, I felt much better. Later, I was a little confused, so I asked Qingzi: "The first step of opening the night vision is really too difficult, how many people can bear it?"
Qingzi said coldly: "There is more than one way to open the night vision. There are at least nine ways."
I got anxious and said, "Then why don't we use other methods?" This method of using medicine to refine the eyes is really terrible!
Qingzi said calmly: "This method saves me the most effort."
I was completely speechless. This method really saved her a lot of effort. I bought the medicine and boiled it myself, and then I rubbed it on my own eyes, and tortured myself to the point of screaming.
In such a miserable time, more than ten days passed quickly. These days, Mr. Liang and Jiang Chuhong came to visit again, but they did not bring the pretty boy surnamed Pang, nor did they see the inexplicable idiot. Boss Ma stepped in to help, and there were no major mistakes.
I was busy in the corpse dressing room that day. Lionhead had just received a job yesterday, which was a woman whose belly was cut open. Fatty said that this was a pregnant woman who was cut open alive three days ago and the baby in her belly was taken out.
It was easy to deal with a corpse like this, as long as the stitches were done. But the woman's death was a little weird. Who had such a big grudge that he would take out the baby in her belly?
I specifically asked Lionhead about this, and the fat guy said mysteriously, "It may not be because of any great hatred, but someone wants the fetus in her belly, which is very useful."
Seeing that I was a little confused, the fat man leaned close to my ear and said in a low voice: "It is used to refine little ghosts. However, this is also one of the methods of refining little ghosts. Of course, there are other methods."
I asked him where he heard all this. The fat man said, "My old man told me."
I laughed and said, "Your master really knows a lot. He must be an expert. Why didn't you learn any of his skills?"
The fat man smiled and said, "My skills lie in other areas."
While we were talking and laughing, the muscular man hurried in to find me and said that the boss asked me to go over. I had just finished the work at hand, so I took off my gloves and went to wash my hands.
"Pick up your little freak." The muscular man pointed at the iron cage where I hung under the mulberry tree.
I took the cage down with some doubts and followed the muscular man out. The lion head had nothing to do, so he followed. Halfway through the journey, the little freak who was sleeping after eating and drinking was woken up by my shaking. He raised his head and looked outside the cage for a few times.
After the incident at the Fire Bureau, the skin around the eye sockets of this little freak had broken open, revealing two tiny eyes. They were called eyes, but in fact, they looked more like two small green beads, rolling around.
However, after a period of time, the beads became more and more like two human eyes, and the original emerald green color became lighter and lighter, and now it was light green. The facial features also gradually became clearer, and it looked more and more like a young human face.
Thinking about it carefully, I suddenly realized that the one-month deadline set by Boss Ma had come. Sure enough, when I arrived at the front hall, everyone except the second mother-in-law had already arrived. Boss Ma said, "The one-month deadline has come, we have to deal with this half-human, half-snake thing."