Treatment and recovery took time. In this regard, Zhou Ze was actually fine. After all, he had experience.
In the past, he remembered that it was the time when he fought with the Goddess in Green.
He fell from the rooftop and smashed into the garbage pile below. He was dragged into its nest by the little monkey and a group of wild cats and dogs. From then on, it was as if he had opened the door to a new world.
He also gradually began to accept the fact that there was actually another person living in his body. Moreover, strictly speaking..,
He, Zhou Ze..,
Was just a doorkeeper.
Thanks to him, this body had been tempered a few times. Although it was not as abnormal as a real zombie, like Yingying and the little boy, which could not be chewed to pieces, the potential that had been stimulated was still much stronger than that of an ordinary person.
On the third day after being hospitalized, Zhou Ze was able to put on normal clothes. He smoked a cigarette in the small pavilion downstairs of the hospital and let go of his life.
Lawyer An was in more pain and tormented a little. The effects of the food poisoning were indeed about to pass, but he found gallstones again.
Originally, Lawyer An wanted to return to Tongcheng as soon as possible and find the little black girl. However, Old Zhang sent news that he had found her.
The old Daoist carried her to a plantation to pick the fruits of the spider lilies. The little black girl's legs could not move, so the old Daoist carried her on his back. In the end, when she was picking, the old Daoist was confused by the things inside.
Old Zhang found the car through the surveillance video and then found the little monkey beside the car. Under the little monkey's lead, he entered the garden and carried the old Daoist and the little black girl out.
This could only be considered a small episode,
A close shave but not a dangerous episode.
The little black girl had a place, and so did the spider lilies.
Under Zhou Ze's suggestion, Lawyer An simply performed a gallstone surgery in this hospital. It was a small surgery, and the problem was not very serious.
However, Zhou Ze was a little puzzled. Could it be that Lawyer An drank too much expired coffee and drank it?
He bit the cigarette in his mouth,
Looking at the people coming and going from time to time,
Actually..,
There were still many patients in this hospital, but they were all small fights. From a doctor's point of view, it was not challenging, and there was not much sense of professional accomplishment.
The overall atmosphere of this hospital also gave people a lifeless feeling, very similar to this small county.
Young people, people with brains, and those who could leave had all left. There were only a few people left.
This was a microcosm of China. Sometimes, Zhou Ze thought about it. When he was in school, he often talked about the reform or the 1990s. It was an era of waves and excitement.
But in fact,
From an ordinary person's point of view,
He might not be aware of his current position, but he was still in the midst of the waves.
Boss Zhou was not a thinker, nor was he a philosopher. It was purely because he was lazy. He did not do much and had enough free time to think blindly.
There was another reason.
It was just that the nurses in this hospital were mostly old. There were a few young ones, but they were all very flat.
After a man stopped thinking about that, his state of mind would suddenly improve.
Especially after smoking, it was as if fame, wealth, the secular world, the workplace, and everything else had become light and breezy.
He threw away the cigarette butt and stepped on it.
The little zombie sitting in front of Zhou Ze turned around.
He watched Zhou Ze take out another cigarette and lit it up.
Then he drew his head back again.
Zhou Ze was sitting in the pavilion.
He was sitting on the steps of the pavilion.
From afar, they looked like father and son. This was because the father and son were dressed shabbily and mismatched.
The father had a cigarette in his mouth. He looked like a standard lazy man.
When many people passed by and saw this scene, they felt sorry for such a cute child. Why did he have such a father?
He didn't change his clothes. His original clothes were a little tattered, so he let Yingying wash them and wear them.
Boss Zhou was used to being poor. He knew that the clothes Yingying bought for him were very expensive. It was just a little torn and wrinkled. It didn't matter.
The little boy's clothes could not be washed and continued to be worn. Because they were too tattered, Zhou Ze asked Yingying to go to the clothes stall at the entrance of the hospital to buy a set of children's clothes.
It was a little old-fashioned and a little silly.
The little boy made do with it.
This child was not picky.
Zhou Ze was very satisfied.
"Hey!"
Lawyer an also walked down.
He seemed to be in good spirits after the surgery.
The hospital gown was a little too big, and Lawyer an had lost a lot of weight recently. His loose clothes kept blowing in the afternoon wind. He looked like a scarecrow that a farmer had placed in the field to scare the crows.
However, the scarecrow did not have the awareness of being a scarecrow. Zhou Ze knew that he had been very close to a female director of the hospital recently. According to An Caoren's theory, he did not plan to eat anymore, but it was still possible to chat with someone who had been through it to relieve his fatigue.
Old An was like this. He heard from Feng Si'er that he used to have a woman he liked, and he loved her very deeply. He loved her so much that even Feng Si didn't want her.
However, Lawyer an's image did not match the setting of a Casanova.
He ate, drank, and played to his heart's content. He did not feel guilty. It was as if he had really let it go.
On the other hand, the little kid sitting on the steps in front of him.
He was filled with melancholy and sadness.
It made Zhou Ze want to kick him a few times.
Lawyer an sat in the pavilion. Yingying was not there. She went out to buy vegetables. At night, she was going to cook chicken soup.
Lawyer An took the cigarette from Zhou Ze and lit it up. He didn't cherish this body very much. In fact, he just left everything to fate.
This was indeed the case.
Most young people and even middle-aged people in this world did not know how to cherish their bodies.
You can't expect a person to value a second-hand body anymore.
The two of them had only smoked half of their cigarettes.
A middle-aged man in a hospital gown ran out from outside the pavilion. He had an aluminum pot on his head and was shouting.
After a while, a few people ran out. It seemed that they were his family members. They were dragged back.
"There's something wrong with his brain. He came to the hospital for appendicitis," Lawyer an said.
"It seems that your lover chatted with you a lot."
"He just chatted and touched her hand. He didn't do anything else." Lawyer an shook his head and blew out a smoke ring.
"She doesn't want to?"
"I don't want to."
Lawyer an smiled and added, "Conserve your energy."
After a while,
The middle-aged man with the aluminum pot on his head ran over again and reprimanded Zhou Ze and the others who were sitting in the pavilion. It was as if he was a leader speaking. Oh, no, he was more imposing than a leader. He was like a god teaching the people of the world.
Then …
His family chased after him again. This time, they took a rope and tied him back.
"Addicted to Qigong, he went crazy. He's been crazy until now."
Lawyer an threw the cigarette butt on the ground and sighed. "Oh, right, you were still young at that time, so you probably didn't know."
Lawyer an was indeed dozens of years older than Zhou Ze.
"At that time, the whole country was Qigong hot. Qigong masters could enter the room and even enter the department's yamen as distinguished guests.
The commoners, the peddlers, the officials, and the nobles all believed this. Some people didn't believe it at first, but they couldn't stand the official propaganda and all believed it.
It was promoted on TV and in the newspapers all day.
"Heh, I remember that there were a lot of fantasy cultivation novels in your bookstore. I even flipped through them when I had nothing to do. Actually, the society at that time was even more fantasy than the fantasy novels."
Zhou Ze had never experienced that era, but he knew about the aluminum pot on his head. It seemed that he also practiced some kind of Qigong. Wearing an aluminum pot could receive information from aliens and so on.
Zhou Ze had seen a photo in the past.
In the photo, there was a hall full of people sitting in it.
Everyone was practicing Qigong with an aluminum pot on their heads.
It was hard to imagine that such a thing would happen in the 90s. The people of that era would actually become so ignorant all of a sudden.
"Actually, it's about the same. It's really about the same."
Lawyer an thought of something and suddenly sighed. He reached out to Zhou Ze for a cigarette. Zhou Ze threw the empty cigarette pack on the ground.
Lawyer an looked at the little boy and said, "Kid, go buy a pack of cigarettes."
The little boy glanced at Lawyer an with a cold gaze.
Lawyer an bit his lips.
Zhou Ze took out the money from his wallet and handed it to him. "Soft."
The little boy took the money and went.
"Pfft."
Lawyer an curled his lips.
Then, Lawyer an pointed at his head and said, "Do you think no one understood that this was all a joke?
Do you think everyone was a fool at that time?
Especially when the United States landed on the moon decades ago. Everyone still believed in Qigong? "
Zhou Ze shook his head.
"Actually, smart people are unwilling to speak up, nor do they dare to speak up. Because whoever speaks up will be washed away by the torrent.
"The biggest problem with smart people is that they cherish their lives.
The biggest advantage of smart people is that they know when to make themselves stupid.
Actually..,
It was very similar to the current situation in Hell. Many people actually knew about the problem with Yin Si. The ghost messengers below started to feel restless. They looked for backers and took on private jobs.
However, no one dared to say it out loud, nor did anyone dare to shout it out. Everyone stayed in this tall building, but everyone was waiting for this tall building to collapse.
On the day it collapsed, those who lived on the top floor with a garden balcony could fly away by helicopter.
"Most of the people in the building were going to die, but everyone chose to wait for death. They didn't want to be the one who was thrown out of the window and fell to his death before the building collapsed."
"Not a single person?" Zhou Ze was a little curious.
"Yes."
Lawyer an shook his head. Today, he was a little talkative. He even revealed some of the past that he was unwilling to talk about in the past. "Back then, I helped them send a message. That's why something happened."
Lawyer an pursed his lips,
"Yin Si is orderly, and the law of death is merciless."
He stood up and twisted his waist. Lawyer an sighed,
"I really like this sentence."
The little boy came back,
He had a cigarette and change in his hand.
Zhou Ze opened the cigarette and took out one for Lawyer an. He also took one for himself.
The two of them lit it one after another,
They took a puff,
Then..,
They put down the cigarette and looked at each other,
They threw the cigarettes in their hands on the ground.
The little boy pouted when he saw it.
He bought fake cigarettes.
"I'll go reason with him?" The little boy picked up the cigarette that Zhou Ze had thrown on the ground.
Zhou Ze taught him not to use violence often in the future. He had to learn to restrain himself.
When something happened..,
He had to be reasonable.
"Okay." Zhou Ze nodded, looking gratified that the child was worth teaching.
The little boy nodded and prepared to go.
"Wait," Zhou Ze shouted.
"Huh?"
The little boy stopped in his tracks.