Chapter 0488: Three or Four People
The book bag zipper was halfway unzipped, and the student looked very nervous, his hand gripping something, except he didn’t take it out of his book bag.
”Fruit knife?” Xiao Gu vaguely saw something reflective through the opening slit, not knowing if it was a mirror, or a knife.
The bus had already started, Xiao Gu returned to his original seat and sat down, his eyelids fluttering, a little uneasy.
Outside the window, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and it was no longer possible to see the buildings outside through the glass.
The bus was quiet, no one opened their mouths to speak, the atmosphere was very depressing.
”The people in this car are so strange.”
Xiao Gu’s body leaned against the car window, and the doctor who was separated from him by an aisle would from time to time look towards him, with an inexplicable smile on his face, as if he had found an exquisite work of art, his expression was very strange.
Taking out his cell phone, Xiao Gu slid the screen and tapped on the selfie option.
He lifted the phone up and looked through the screen at the male student sitting in the last row.
The boy seemed to be a bit seasick, placing his school bag on his knees, his expression grew paler and paler, and his forehead was still seeping cold sweat outwards, but since the beginning, his hand was placed in his school bag and didn’t take it out.
”Not feeling well?” Xiao Gu was a bit worried about the kid, but before he could stand up, the student sitting in the last row noticed Xiao Gu peeking at him through his cell phone.
The kid seemed to be unwilling to be photographed as he blocked his face with his hand and quietly pointed at the doctor in a white coat next to Xiao Gu before gently waving his hand.
”Is he tipping me off? Something wrong with the doctor?”
The student lowered his head after the gesture, clutching his book bag and not saying a word.
Xiao Gu put down his phone and glanced at the doctor next to him with his afterglow, and he suddenly remembered a news story he’d seen before he got on the bus-an update on the Central Hospital body theft case, where the surveillance camera had captured the crawling figure.
Clicking on the webpage, that story was accompanied by a very blurry picture that was suspected to have been captured by the hospital’s surveillance.
There was a person clad in a white coat on all fours, crawling quickly on the ground and burrowing into the middle of the morgue.
”White coat?” Xiao Gu enlarged that picture, the light inside the car was very dim, he was fully concentrated on that photo: “The face can’t be seen clearly, but this body type is a bit like it.”
Inside the car suddenly rang the cell phone ringtone, highly concentrated Xiao Gu was startled, he covered his cell phone and raised his head.
The ringtone was from the bag of the woman in professional attire in front of Xiao Gu, the woman took out her cell phone and looked at the caller ID, she seemed to be in an instantly bad mood.
Answering the call, a man’s anxious voice came from the other side of the phone: ”Huang Ling, where are you? Still working overtime? I see that all the lights in your company building are out.”
”I came out long ago, where are you? I said I would come to pick me up, I waited for you for half an hour and didn’t see you!” Huang Ling is also very aggrieved, it is raining, he worked overtime until so late, exhausted to guard the company door until now.
”You came out? How come I didn’t see you?”
”Don’t pretend, this isn’t the first time you’re late, you’ve never kept your promise with me, I’m really fed up with you!”
”I know I did not do well in the past, but this time I really wasn’t late, I was at the entrance of your company at six o’clock, and watched all the lights in the whole building slowly go out, but I didn’t see you come out ah?” The tone of the man on the other side of the cell phone is getting more and more anxious: “Where are you? I heard your voice is not quite right, is that old dog again difficult for you?”
”He didn’t give me a hard time, I just feel tired.” Huang Ling’s speech slowed down as she looked out the window at the city shrouded in heavy rain, “Jia Ming, I’m not afraid of living a bitter and tiring life every day, but at the very least you have to give me a run for my money. I’m going to be thirty soon, and I don’t want to work until seven or eight o’clock in the evening every day, and then take the last train that only has three or four people on it, and go back to the rented house to cook for you.”
”Xiaoling, I’ve found a way to get rich. The two of us came to Jiujiang together from our hometown, and we’ve survived all these years, so give me some more time.”
Huang Ling looked at the heavy rain outside the window, her eyes somewhat numb: “Okay.”
”Where are you? I’m going to pick you up now ……”
The man didn’t finish his sentence, but Huang Ling hung up the phone, and she stuffed the phone into her backpack.
”Every family has its own problems.” Xiao Gu sighed in his heart, he just saw Huang Ling dressed in fashion, thinking that the other party was a rich person, only to realize that the other party wore mostly cheap cottage goods, only because the temperament was better, so it appeared very beautiful.
”Ding! Hong’s Restaurant has arrived, passengers getting off the bus please bring your belongings and get off from the back door.”
The bus unconsciously drove to the next stop and the front and rear doors opened.
No one got on the bus this time, Xiao Gu glanced through the window towards the outside of the stop, that crazy woman in the red raincoat was indeed still on the platform, and she seemed to be a little closer to the bus.
”What a hell.” Xiao Gu was panicked in his heart, he was sitting close to the back door, if that red raincoat got on the bus, the first person he saw would be him, “This woman wouldn’t be following me home all the time, would she? Showing up at every station, so will she end up waiting for me at the terminal?”
The front and back doors of the bus began to close, and as the back doors were about to close on them, a child’s cough came from the middle of the bus.
The middle-aged woman who was holding the child, gently patted the child’s back, but to no avail, the child’s coughing got worse.
”It seems like a fever, will you take care of the child, there is a big difference in temperature between day and night, why did you just give the child a single coat?” Huang Ling was a little annoyed when she heard the child coughing.
”I am helping a relative to bring a child ……” The middle-aged woman’s voice is very thick, sounds like a man, she squeezed out an ugly smile, did not feed the child medicine, drink water, only know to gently pat the child’s back.
The child’s coughing was getting worse and worse, and his body was trembling gently.
”It’s better to send this situation directly to the hospital.” Xiao Gu stood up, took off his jacket and handed it to the middle-aged woman, “Wrap the child first.”
”Good.” The middle-aged woman hesitantly took the clothes and covered the child, but the child was still coughing.
Xiao Gu took his cell phone and the seventeen dollars he pulled out of his coat pocket and walked towards his seat.
The door was already closed, and just as he was about to reach his seat, there was a “pop” sound from the rear door, and a thin man’s hand was pressed against the door.
”The vehicle is starting, please sit firmly and hold on well, welcome to take the unmanned ticket bus No. 104, passengers on board, please move to the rear door, the next stop Liwan Shopping Center.”
The electronic synthesized sound started, the bus started, and the hand quickly disappeared.
”Can’t anyone else see the woman in the raincoat?” Xiao Gu sat back to his seat, he looked back to the platform, the red figure was gradually becoming blurred.