Chapter 34 Death Chapter Returns
Chapter 34 Return of Death
Ning Zhe walked into the house and didn't see his grandparents.
He turned on his phone and checked the time:
2018年06月06日，农历四月廿二，早晨07:27。
At this time, grandpa should have gone to the reservoir outside the town to fish, and grandma was probably selling vegetables at a stall on the old street in Gubei Town. There was no one in the old house.
Ning Zhe came to the old camphor tree, brushed away the fallen leaves on the wooden bench, sat on it and looked at himself. He found that his clothes were very clean, without any dust or bloodstains. The injuries he had suffered in Hejia Village were gone, and his physical condition was as usual.
Just like before entering Hejia Village.
If he could not still easily transform into a magpie and fly onto a tree branch, he would even think that his previous experience was a dream.
"By the way, Auntie...she should not be dead." Ning Zhe picked up the phone, unlocked the screen, clicked on the address book and scrolled to the bottom, but did not see the contact with the note 'Feng Yusu'.
"Is that so?" Ning Zhe frowned slightly. He seemed to understand the logic behind it.
Unlike Ning Zhe who entered the strange place early in the morning, Feng Yusu was dragged into Hejia Village around 7 o'clock in the evening. At that time, she was about to deliver a cup of coffee to her husband's room. After opening the door, she entered there.
"If the time of returning to reality coincides with the time of leaving reality, then it means that Feng Yushu has not yet entered Hejia Village. She will return from that broken world the moment she opens the door of her hotel room after 7 o'clock tonight."
So an idea came to Ning Zhe's mind: "Does this mean that if I go to the village clinic now, I can see Gu Yunqing and Ye Miaozhu who are not dead?"
And Zhang Yangxu, he entered Hejia Village later than himself, he and Xie Si Ning might still be alive in the real world...
Thinking of this, Ning Zhe stood up, walked quickly through the yard piled with fallen leaves, left his old house, and walked onto the streets of Gubei Town.
Gubei Town is Ningzhe's hometown, a backward rural town with no pillar industries. Everything in the countryside seems quiet and peaceful. There are few people on the streets in the early morning. Only a few students who have just finished their morning self-study are sitting in a few breakfast shops that opened early, and hot steam floats into the sky.
The owner and his wife of the breakfast shop were both acquaintances of Ning Zhe. Before he even got close, he heard the woman in a plaid apron holding a strainer and shouting enthusiastically: "Azhe, when did you come back? Is the school on vacation? My daughter didn't even tell me..."
"No, I asked for leave to come back. The town is going to demolish houses recently, so my land was taken away. But there is no one in my family who can read, so I had to come back to take a look." Ning Zhe answered casually.
Ning Zhe used Alipay to pay 2.5 yuan to the breakfast shop and received three steaming sauerkraut buns and a cup of soy milk from the proprietress.
While walking on the street and eating a bun, Ning Zhe took out his cell phone and entered Feng Yusu's number from memory.
After a while, the call was connected, and a calm and gentle female voice came from the speaker: "Who is it..."
"Hello, my name is Ning Zhe."
"Ningzhe? Do I know you?" Feng Yuxu's voice sounded doubtful. There was a slight whirring sound coming from her end. She must have answered the call in a car or in an open place like a gas station.
"Maybe I called the wrong number. Sorry, sorry." Ning Zhe took a sip of soy milk and said, "But we will meet again in another place in the future."
"What are you talking about..." Feng Yushu was full of doubts, but Ning Zhe had already hung up the phone. Ning Zhe ate the bun in his hand in two or three bites, and threw the plastic bag and soybean milk cup into the sanitation bucket on the roadside.
While there was no one around, he walked into a hidden alley, and then a black and white magpie flew out from the alley.
Gu Yunqing and Ye Miaozhu's internship place is the village clinic in Gubei Town, a designated medical insurance unit, located across the street from the Dragon King Temple by the bridge. Ning Zhe stretched out his wings and flew across the town in the early morning. The warm sunlight fell, and the gentle breeze passed through the gaps between the feathers, which was very comfortable.
Soon, Ning Zhe arrived above the village clinic.
He landed as nonchalantly as the sparrows landing on the electric wires nearby, and stood on a potted money tree in front of the clinic, quietly watching the scene inside the clinic.
The clinic, like the barber shop and breakfast shop, is a shop that opens very early. It is not even eight o'clock in the morning, but there are already patients waiting for treatment in the clinic. A woman holding a child is sitting on a bamboo chair, looking at the child's red face with concern. It seems that the child has had a fever in the middle of the night, so she has come to see a doctor so early.
When Ning Zhe was a child, he was also brought here by his grandmother early in the morning.
Soon, Dr. Lin from the village clinic came out after washing his face and brushing his teeth. After briefly asking about the symptoms, he inserted a mercury thermometer into the child's armpit.
"Let me take your temperature first. Please sit for a while. I'll go buy some breakfast and be back in a few minutes." After Doctor Lin said this, he walked out of the clinic. At the same time, he also saw Ning Zhe who was standing quietly on the money tree.
The worry on the face of the woman holding the child faded a little, and she smiled and said, "The magpie is standing on the money tree. Doctor Lin, you will get rich."
"It's not a good thing for a doctor to get rich." Doctor Lin teased the magpie on the money tree with a smile, and found that Ning Zhe did not fly away, so he smiled even more brightly and strolled out of the door.
Ning Zhe waited patiently until Dr. Lin came home with breakfast and finished diagnosing the child's condition. Then the two young men and women, who could be described as a perfect match, came to the clinic to work together.
It was Gu Yunqing and Ye Miaozhu.
For modern young people, as long as they can get up before 9 o'clock, it is considered as getting up early.
Gu Yunqing and Ye Miaozhu arrived at the right time. Doctor Lin had just finished giving the child an injection, so he asked Ye Miaozhu to go to the pharmacy to get the medicine according to the prescription. Gu Yunqing then consciously came to the door of the clinic and pushed open the door which was only half open.
Then, there was a thud in the pharmacy, and Ye Miaozhu, who had just pushed open the door of the pharmacy, fell in front of everyone.
Ning Zhe watched all this silently. Inside the clinic, Dr. Lin who was having breakfast and a woman holding a child were both startled by Ye Miaozhu's sudden fall. At the door of the clinic, Gu Yunqing's body leaned weakly against the door that had just been opened, and he slowly slid to the ground and stopped breathing.
They are both dead.
"Is it true..." Some things in Ning Zhe's mind were confirmed.
Just now, the time came and Gu Yunqing and Ye Miaozhu from Hejia Village returned one after another.
But what came back were two dead men.
I don’t know whether Feng Yusu will be alive or dead when she returns from Hejia Village at seven o’clock in the evening?
(End of this chapter)