Chapter 480: Digging a Grave
Mrs. Luo pressed the car window: "Uncle Liu, it's me."
"Ah, Yuzhi, why are you here?" Seeing it was her, Uncle Liu's turbid eyes flashed with surprise.
"I just came back from the hospital to buy medicine, but my husband is missing again..." Lin Yuzhi's voice trembled, "I heard they went back to their hometown. I was so worried that I rushed over..."
"Why is this still blocked?"
Uncle Liu sighed, "Well, you know, it's that strange disease again. The village chief has filed a report and suspects it's an infectious disease. To be on the safe side, it's better to seal it off first."
"Oh, it's really weird. I heard that other villages were fine, but our village was hit hard. Almost half of the village was infected. It was really scary when it broke out."
"Back then, there was an epidemic in the village as well. Was it because the medical conditions back then weren't very good and the disease wasn't completely cured?"
Uncle Liu frowned and shook his head: "Yuzhi, let's forget about it. The situation is different now. Listen to Uncle Liu's advice and go back first. If you want to worry about your man, just call him every day to ask about him."
"But we're already here?" Jiang Xu looked at Lin Yuzhi.
Uncle Liu's gaze shifted to Jiang Xu.
"Yuzhi, these two are..."
"Ah, does my husband have a strange sore? This is a very good old Chinese doctor recommended by my best friend. I finally invited them here. Uncle Liu, I'm really worried about them. Just let us in." Lin Yuzhi sobbed and tears fell one by one.
"If they get any worse, I really don't know how I'm going to live."
Seeing her crying so sadly, Uncle Liu couldn't stop her anymore.
"Hey... then you should go in quickly. However, several people have died in the village. Once you go in, don't move around."
As I entered the village, I was overwhelmed by an inexplicable feeling of oppression.
Even Tu Xiaoxiang noticed it: "Master, there is something strange about this village."
Lin Yuzhi's expression also changed.
When the villagers who were familiar with them saw them, they either looked surprised and avoided looking at them, or walked away quickly without even saying hello.
Seeing this scene, my heart, which had been hanging in the air all the way, seemed to be grabbed by an invisible hand and sank heavily.
In the past, when I returned to the village, the villagers were all very welcoming.
But this time, the whole village seemed to have become particularly strange.
What did my husband and his friends, or rather, the villagers, do?
When she returned to the old house, only her mother-in-law was at home. Seeing Lin Yuzhi, the old lady was also surprised: "Yuzhi, why are you here?"
"Who are they?"
Lin Yuzhi explained it again according to her previous statement. The old lady looked at Jiang Xu and nodded doubtfully.
Jiang Xu took the initiative to step forward and took her pulse.
After a while, he frowned slightly and said, "Can you let me see the sores on your body?"
The old lady hesitated for a moment, then slowly rolled up her shirt, exposing her belly.
Lin Yuzhi thought of what the nurse had said before, held her breath, bit her lower lip tightly, and prepared herself mentally.
But the situation before her surprised her.
"This is……"
It's not what the nurse said at all.
No face.
Even those horrific abscesses had mostly subsided. Although there were still some, they were no longer as horrifying as before.
No wonder she felt that her mother-in-law looked much better just now.
Jiang Xu's eyes were deep.
Lin Yuzhi looked up in surprise and asked, "Mom, are you guys okay now? How did you get better..."
Didn’t Master Jiang say it was a curse?
Who is so capable that he can cure them all?
Hearing this, the mother-in-law suddenly grinned, revealing her yellowed teeth: "Our village chief found a folk remedy that works very well."
"But we still have to stay in the village for ten days or half a month. Yuzhi, this place is not clean after all. What if you get infected? You should go back early tomorrow morning."
For some reason, this smile made Lin Yuzhi feel a chill on her back, and the mother-in-law in front of her seemed like a different person.
"Where are Zixin and Dad?" she changed the subject.
"Ah, they have something to do and are out on business."
The mother-in-law turned and walked towards the kitchen: "Are you tired from the journey? Mom will make you some tea."
Lin Yuzhi felt mixed emotions.
Her mother-in-law and her family are really good to her, but...
She subconsciously picked up the teacup and was about to put it to her mouth when someone suddenly touched her toes lightly.
Jiang Xu came over and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "There's something added to the tea, don't drink it."
Ten minutes later, Mrs. Luo looked at the three unconscious people, tiptoed out and closed the door.
When the footsteps completely disappeared into the air, the three people who were pretending to be asleep opened their eyes at the same time.
The three of them quietly followed the old lady to an old house and lay by the window, holding their breath.
Through the window, the room was dim.
Some old people in the village sat together, and the flickering candlelight cast strange shadows on everyone's gloomy, wrinkled faces.
"Village chief, do you have any antidote?" an old woman rushed in. "My husband is dying!"
The village chief shook his head: "I gave the last bit yesterday to..." The village chief did not finish his words, but just glanced in the direction of Mrs. Luo.
"But what about my husband?" the old woman cried.
"There's nothing we can do. The situation outside is tense right now, and we don't know when the next batch of antidote will arrive."
The air was heavy with silence.
Just then, a phone rang.
"Found it! Found the antidote!"
Hearing this, everyone in the room grinned.
This should have been a happy thing, but Lin Yuzhi felt that these faces were extremely creepy.
Jiang Xu frowned, turned around quietly and walked out, throwing out a piece of talisman paper for sending a message.
"Master Jiang, where are we going?"
"Dig a grave." Jiang Xu looked up at the moon, which was about to be covered by dark clouds. "It's a dark and windy time, a perfect time to dig a grave."
Lin Yuzhi trembled all over!
She hadn't recovered from the true appearance of her husband's family yet, and now she had to dig up someone else's grave.
Isn’t this a bit too exciting every day?
She is just a housewife!
There had just been a funeral in the village, and following the traces of firecrackers and paper money, the three of them came to several new mounds of earth.
It was almost pitch black all around, with only a faint moonlight shining through, making the grave mound in front of them look particularly eerie and terrifying.
Lin Yuzhi felt a chill on her back.
"These new graves don't even have names written on them!" Tu Xiaoxiang stepped forward and took a look.
Isn't it said that people who died in the village? Rural areas should pay the most attention to funerals.
Although according to them, these people may have died of infectious diseases, there shouldn't be no tombstones, right?
It's so weird.
It seems that if you want to know the truth, you can only do it yourself and have enough food and clothing.
Tu Xiaoxiang took out the shovel he had picked up on the road and threw it to Lin Yuzhi.
“Let’s get started!”
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