The face is covered with dust, the temples are like frost, and life and death are blurred in ten years.
At the moment we met, my mood was extremely complicated. There were so many things I wanted to say that came to my lips and automatically merged into one sentence.
"Where are eldest brother, third brother, and second brother? How have you been doing these past few years?"
"Hey...it's hard to describe in one sentence. There are good days and bad days. Yunfeng, let's talk about it upstairs."
The eldest brother hugged the Snake King's family with his hands, and Xiao Zhengxing downstairs immediately returned the gesture with his hands and fists.
It turns out that there is a small hidden attic on the third floor of the snake house. The attic door is blocked by the wardrobe, so you can't see it unless you look carefully.
The third brother moved the wardrobe, revealing a narrow wooden staircase.
The small attic was less than ten square meters in area. There were a lot of messy daily necessities piled on the floor. There was a wire bed and a broken wheelchair near the window. I couldn't be sure because the light was too dark, but I could vaguely see someone lying on the bed.
The eldest brother turned on the light. He walked to the bed and said in a hoarse voice: "Second brother, look who is here. It's Yunfeng. Second brother, do you remember Yunfeng?"
"Second brother! It's me! I'm Yunfeng!"
"Big brother! Second brother, he..."
In my impression, the second brother is a strong man about 1.75 meters tall with a free and unrestrained personality. But now, the man lying on the bed is only over 1.6 meters tall. He is covered with a thick quilt and has a smile on his face. Wearing a leather mask, he was unresponsive to the outside world and motionless. He didn't look like the second brother at all, and I couldn't see the ups and downs of his breathing.
The third brother lowered his head and said nothing. The eldest brother patted me on the shoulder and said, "Yunfeng, you read that right. The person in front of you is the second brother himself."
The eldest brother glanced at the bed and said with a sad expression: "The doctor has said that if bone calcium is lost over the years, the height will become shorter. As for the second child's face, Yunfeng, don't look at it. I'm afraid you won't be able to accept it in a short time. "
The eldest brother took a deep breath and continued: "I got that money without telling you back then. Then the third child and I took the second child all over the country. I don't know how many hospitals we went to! How many doctors we found! How many folk remedies we tried! In the end, nothing could stop the second son's condition from getting worse. About a year ago, we came to Nanping to look for the Snake King to see if he could save the second son. From then on, we lived in this attic."
I said anxiously: "Brother, what kind of disease is this that my second brother has!?"
He looked at me and shook his head, and said in a deep voice: "At first, we always thought that the reason why the second child was like this was because of the four-legged snake bite. After these years of seeking medical advice, I found that we were all wrong... ...This is not a disease at all, it is a thousand-year-old bacteria in the ancient tomb, Yunfeng, do you understand? The second child was infected with a certain bacteria in the ancient tomb and became what he is today."
"Bacteria in ancient tombs? Corpse poison?" I asked doubtfully.
"It's not corpse poison."
The third brother frowned and said, "If it was corpse poison, the second brother wouldn't be able to live for such a long time."
I suddenly felt confused!
There are deadly bacteria in ancient tombs. This statement was only heard abroad. In the 1980s, scientists confirmed it! There are thousands of years of bacterial spores in the large mummy tombs in AI. The names and categories of these bacterial spores are unknown, but one thing is certain! They are all asleep and still active!
There is a famous example abroad, that is Tutankhamun! In the seven years since the tomb was excavated, a total of 39 archaeological experts participated at the site, and all 37 of them died! The two survivors were protected as key research subjects by the medical community at that time. Even so, these two people died of illness after persisting for nine years!
In China, archeology has never been studied in this area. In all the years I have been working, except for my second brother, I have never heard of a second person being infected with bacteria from ancient tombs. I guess that maybe one day in the future, the archeology profession will have an additional classification study of "ancient tomb bacteriology."
"Yunfeng, don't blame the Snake King family. If they hadn't taken us in, we three brothers would still be wandering today."
"Brother, I still don't understand! Then why did you leave without saying goodbye all these years and never contact us! Even if you took the five million! As long as you say it was for the treatment of the second brother! The boss and I will forgive you !”
"Bai Tou...Is Bao Tou in good health?"
"Okay, very good! No illness or disaster!" I said.
"You can't go back, Yunfeng, you can never go back to the past."
"After that incident, we were too embarrassed to go back!"
