Chapter 3 Third Uncle's Corpse
The fat man chased us and the three of us sat on the flower bed in the yard. I took off Jin Wantang's shoes, tied the shoelaces together, and hung them around my neck. The old man's soles were thin, so he wouldn't run away barefoot. He snatched his feet in a grievance and said to me: "Mr. Third Master, is this the most? We have been in love for many years, and we can be said to be deeply and similar in friendship, but the poetic rhyme is not as good as jade..."
"Get out, I'm a turbid person. It's not the first time I've been a husky. Please explain." I glanced at Jin Wantang with the land deed I got in the museum, "Why are you selling my land in the name of my third uncle?"
Jin Wantang's eyes rolled, and just as he was about to speak, the fat man said to the side: "Old Jin, we have known this long ago. You are a bastard, but you are a bastard, but you can clearly distinguish between big and small things. I appreciate this. Let me tell you, in this matter, cheating money is small, but if you don't explain it clearly, it will delay our naive and serious business. That is a big deal. Why do you think about it? I don't want to beat your shit out for so many years."
Jin Wantang smiled and nodded: "Pang Ye, what you said is that I have counts, I have counts." He took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to Fatty and me.
As soon as he looked at his expression, he knew that what the fat man said was about to be overwhelmed by his mind. When he lit the cigarette for us, I saw that he had made up his mind. He looked up at the sky and said leisurely: "This happened more than ten years ago."
"I'll finish saying three words." I got annoyed and thought that I was in my twenties and liked to listen to you talk about the old calendar. I have a car of my own old calendar, and I have nothing in my heart, so I don't lack this thing.
"This land was bought by your uncle. He was very enthusiastic about meteorology and said that there was something he wanted to check in the weather station." Jin Wantang said. I asked what it was, and he shook his head: "Your uncle disappeared after the procedures were completed. My money was not given to me. Although it was not expensive at the time, I was not happy after the money was over for so long, so I wanted to sell it. But after the procedures were completed, I was not a landlord and could not sell it, so I made up my mind and pretended to be your uncle." I turned around and frowned and said to me, "This part is not important, the key point is not this. After listening to me, you have to clear the abandoned building first. I brought people to clear the yard and found that there was indeed a strange thing in that building. I don't know if it was your uncle who was looking for it at that time."
“What is it?”
Jin Wantang saw that I was interested and breathed a sigh of relief. He said, "It's too troublesome to say, but that thing is in the ruins above. Why don't you go and see it yourself?"
I thought to myself, I wouldn't say whether the cause he said was true, but I admit that my third uncle asked someone to do something and didn't pay it. Not to mention that the money from outsiders was not given, I would pay for it when I went to the Qixinglu Palace. In addition, Jin Wantang is indeed an old bastard, so there is no need to care about this. Anyway, he was determined to sell the land.
So I returned the shoes. The fat man lifted him up and walked back. On the way, Jin Wantang roughly explained the details of the matter.
The old building is an old archive of the weather station. There was no computer in the 1980s and 1990s, and so many meteorological data charts were all paper. A large part of these archives have been electronicized. In addition, this is a regional weather station, and the data records will be summarized at the Nanjing weather station every year, so the chart archives left here are actually waste paper. Most of these large batches of archives are still left in the archive cabinet of this old building, squeezed for decades of gray and moisture. In the words of Jin Wantang, they are covered with mushrooms.
The first step he did to clean up was to move all these file cabinets out. He was guilty and planned to make a quick decision on this matter, but he never thought of any accident. As a result, on the first day of the cleaning, the workers reported something strange.
The building has six floors. When they moved a row of cabinets against the wall on the first floor, they found that behind a cabinet, there was a strange door hidden.
To be strange, it is actually an ordinary wooden door, painted with sky blue paint, and the paint peeled off very much, and the door frame has expanded and deformed due to the moisture. The strange thing is that there are no two floors to sixth floors, only the first floor has this door, and it is completely blocked by the filing cabinet, which seems to be artificially trying to hide it.
The worker pried open the door and found that it turned out to be a simple living room inside. The desk was rotten and moldy, the single bed, the thermos were covered with spider webs, and the putty on the ceiling was swelling and falling off, covering the ground.
When we came to the door, I had a clearer understanding of this strange thing, because I studied architecture and I knew at a glance that the door was not a special design in that place, but it was actually the door of the communication room.
On the wall next to the door, you can see the traces of brickwork later. I immediately understood that someone changed the location of the main door of this building. The entrance we entered was opened later. The original door was here, and this hidden room was just an ordinary communication room before.
Jin Wantang has a high Feng Shui attainment, so he won’t be unable to see this, so he said something strangely, not only is the door hidden.
The interior of the building was very cold. After walking into this communication room, I felt a little creepy. I hadn't entered this environment for a long time. After I went in, I took my phone and flashlight and understood what Jin Wantang said, "I can't explain clearly."
I saw a mummy sitting on a chair in the middle of the room. The whole body collapsed on the chair and was almost completely drying, and the jacket on her body was stuck to the body.
I looked at the jacket, my mind buzzed, and my throat suddenly became numb. I recognized the style of the jacket.
That is the jacket my third uncle often wears.
My mind hasn't started to think of any information, but my body has begun to tremble instinctively. Without any signs, I dare not take a step forward.
The fat man took a photo with his cell phone and my entire hair exploded. Although the appearance of the corpse had rotten, I had a strong feeling that this corpse was my third uncle.
I looked back at Jin Wantang. He looked at me silently from the side, his expression not as smooth as before, as if waiting for me to draw a conclusion.
To be honest, no matter what, I was not ready to face my third uncle's body so quickly. After forcing myself to face all difficulties for so many years, I fled for the first time.
Almost at the same time, the text message ringtone on my phone rang.
Chapter completed!