Northeast: My Absurd Woman

Chapter 132 Sleeping with a Dead Man

Zhai Qing glanced at Wang Ga, understanding. "Are you sure you can trust me with this?"

The two disliked each other and went into the air-raid shelter one after the other.

Zhang Changyao followed behind the two men and picked up a wooden stick from the ground.

The air-raid shelter became wider and wider as we walked, and the light gradually dimmed.

The group of children grew up playing in air-raid shelters and knew their structure very well.

I just don't know where Qi San died.

"Brother Ga Zi, I have a stick here, use it to pry open this part."

Zhang Changyao stretched out the stick and waved it, intending to pass it to Wang Ga in front of him.

"Changyao, give this to me. I don't know where Wang Ga has run off to."

Zhang Changyao felt something soft against his skin; it turned out to be Zhai Qingming's buttocks.

"Qingming, slow down, I can't see you two."

Zhang Changyao handed the stick to Zhai Qingming, then slowed his pace, leaving his hands empty.

"Who came in? Did they come to chat with me?"

"You young men are so filial, knowing that this old man is lonely here all by himself."

A somber, hoarse old man's voice came from deep within the air-raid shelter.

"Changyao... Changyao... Where are you? It's Qi San's voice. I remember he speaks with this kind of sound."

"Brother Ga Zi... Brother Ga Zi... Is that you? Don't scare us."

Zhang Changyao pressed his body against the wall of the air-raid shelter, his legs refusing to obey his commands.

Zhai Qingming, who was walking in front, stepped back to Zhang Changyao's side, and the two hugged each other.

"Changyao... Qingming... I'm in front of you, keep moving forward!"

Wang Ga's voice came from in front of the two people.

"Brother Ga Zi, we heard Qi San's voice, didn't you hear it?" Zhang Changyao asked, following the direction of the sound.

"You two cowards, you must be hallucinating from fright."

Qi San wasn't very capable when he was alive, how could he become powerful after he died?

Hurry up and move forward. If you dawdle any longer, I'll carry Qi San out myself.

I'll take the lion's share, a hundred dollars.

Judging from his tone, Wang Ga wasn't lying, and Zhang Changyao and Zhai Qingming also suspected that there was something wrong with their ears.

The two walked hand in hand this time, each extending one arm.

"Qingming, there's something soft under my feet," Zhang Changyao said, his voice trembling with tears.

"Changyao, don't move! Wang Ga, where the hell have you been?"

"Qi San is right under our feet, you better get over here right now!" Zhai Qingming shouted into the cave.

"Zhai Qingming, are you stupid? Dead people aren't limp."

The thing under my feet started moving, and I could hear Wang Ga's voice.

"Ah...ah...!"

Speaking from beneath their feet startled Zhang Changyao and Zhai Qingming so much that they jumped up and hugged each other.

"Wang Ga, you just wait, I'll settle accounts with you after we get out of here."

Zhai Qingming patted his chest and said angrily to Wang Ga.

"Zhai Qingming, if you say that, I won't let you leave."

"I'll chop you to death in a bit and bury you with Qi San."

Wang Ga, not to be outdone, taunted Zhai Qingming in the darkness.

He misjudged the direction and punched Zhai Qingming in the mouth.

Zhai Qingming opened his mouth and bit him. Wang Ga winced in pain and pulled his hand back with a hiss.

"Brother Ga Zi, Qing Ming, can't you two know what's important and what's urgent?"

"If you want to cause trouble, go home first. This place is too gloomy to stay in for long."

Zhang Changyao was frightened and grabbed Wang Ga's clothes, pushing him forward.

"Changyao, I remember there's a kang (heated brick bed) up ahead, I guess it's on the kang."

Wang Ga stopped talking and groped his way forward, while Zhang Changyao held onto the back of his shirt tightly, not daring to let go.

Zhai Qingming held Zhang Changyao's hand and followed him step by step.

"Here it is, that's right. I have two matches. I'll light them. Watch Qi San's position."

Wang Ga stopped when his toes hit the edge of the earthen bed to the side, and began rummaging in his shirt pocket.

Zhang Changyao and Zhai Qingming stared wide-eyed, trying hard to see something.

The sound of a match being struck is famous, and its faint light illuminates the cave.

Zhang Changyao nervously closed his eyes, while Zhai Qingming slowly opened them and looked around.

"Changyao, open your eyes. It's alright, you're covered by the blanket."

Zhai Qingming nudged Zhang Changyao, urging him to open his eyes.

"Even the dead are afraid of a bear egg bun. If he were capable, he wouldn't be dead."

Wang Ga turned around and glared at Zhai Qingming and Zhang Changyao.

"Wang Ga, if you're not afraid, why don't you come in yourself?"

With someone keeping you company, you're all strutting around like a baby. Zhai Qingming didn't give him a single word.

"If you ask me, I should thank Changyao's sister-in-law and Guan Shu."

If those two hadn't spread the blanket over Qi San, do you think we wouldn't be scared when we saw this?

It's just bad luck for those two; of all places to talk nonsense, they had to go into that damn air-raid shelter.

"This tree and corn, it's a close call that they almost slept with the dead." Wang Ga threw away the burnt matchstick in his hand.

"Wang Ga, you're wrong. I think going into an air-raid shelter is the best option."

Think about it, where is there a safe place in the wild? If you start gathering autumn crops right away, there will be people everywhere.

It was this Qi San who was so ignorant and, of all people, ended up lying in this very spot.

Otherwise, this cave would be such a wonderful place for secret trysts.

Zhai Qingming and Wang Ga were chatting enthusiastically, forgetting that Zhang Changyao was right next to them.

"Are you two ever going to stop? Do you think this is your own home? If you don't leave, I'm taking the money and going home!"

Zhang Changyao made a move to leave in displeasure, but Zhai Qingming grabbed him and pulled him back.

"Let's go, we'll leave right away." Wang Ga struck another match.

Having identified the exact location, he waved his hand and stood in position with Zhai Qingming.

The match went out, and the two of them crouched down together, wrapped the already thin Qi San tightly in the blanket, and lifted him up.

"Changyao, you go first, the two of us will follow you."

You could tell that Zhai Qingming was scared; his voice was trembling violently.

"Hey! Wang Ga, how did you know it was Qi San? Don't get it wrong." The more frightened Zhai Qingming became, the more he talked.

"It seems the police station came and confirmed it was a natural death, so they don't care."

Wang Ga's voice didn't tremble, but his breathing became much more rapid.

"Brother Ga Zi, Qingming, it's getting light." Zhang Changyao walked ahead, not daring to look back.

"They're out. Those guys really made that 150 yuan."

Hou Da paced back and forth, his eyes bulging with anger, muttering to himself.

"Big eyes, what are you so jealous about? You were here first, why don't you dare go in?"

Wang Fenjiang protected Wang Ga and the others, straightening up from his crouched position to look at Hou Da's eyes.

"Hmph! I only got to go because I didn't have anyone to go with. Otherwise, how could it have fallen to them?"

Hou Da Yanjing, unconvinced, pushed through the crowd and went home.

"Make way...make way...respect for the dead, keep the living away..."

As soon as Wang Ga emerged from the cave, he immediately began shouting at the top of his lungs.

"Where to bury him?" Zhang Changyao asked Qi San's nephew.

"If you don't have children, you can't be buried in the ancestral graveyard, so just bury you anywhere?"

Qi San's nephew pinched his nose, waved his hand, and told them to make the arrangements.

"You unfilial son, how come I, Qi San, have no children?"

I raised you two sisters, aren't you my children?