Chapter 60 The Owner of the Wooden Puppet Shop

  After the phone was connected, I heard a lot of noise on the other end, especially the noise that came through made me feel annoyed.

  What's going on? Didn't Lu Yifeng and the others go to an abandoned base? Why does it look like they've entered a battlefield instead?

  I was about to fall asleep, but now I'm wide awake, and quickly got up to ask what's going on.

  Lu Yifeng seemed quite calm and replied, "Come quickly to the hospital's emergency room."

  My heart skipped a beat, and I didn't say anything else. I hung up the phone and called out to Panzi to hurry up and leave.

  Moss Town is a small place, with only one public hospital. We didn't worry about getting lost and drove there in a black sedan. When we arrived at the emergency room door, I found that only Lu Yifeng was sitting in the waiting area.

  His whole body was still dirty, his clothes were tattered and torn, and there were many scratches on his face and arms.

  This scene left me somewhat puzzled, the goods came out, just now on the phone so messy, must be medical staff pushing the injured into the emergency room, but why didn't Ah Feng look for Yu Jinghang? After all, Yu Jinghang is a local snake, it's easy to do things with familiar people, and he himself was also injured, let Yu Jinghang come over, he can also find a place to rest.

  Look at me and Panzi coming, Lu Yifeng smiled wryly and gestured for us to sit beside him.

  It's no use asking him, he just explains anyway.

  This time, Huo led the way, with a total of four people on the mission. Unexpectedly, the abandoned military base was in a valley, where it was infested with venomous snakes and insects. They were accidentally attacked by these poisonous creatures, and in the end, Huo was bitten by a green-headed snake while trying to save A Feng, causing him to lose consciousness.

  Lu Yufeng brought the captive fox back, and while the fox was being rescued, he also found Yu Jinghang to let the police handle the aftermath of abandoning the base.

  Although the whole thing was settled in just a few sentences, I can imagine how dangerous the scene was at that time. The four of them only had Lu Yifeng and Qiu Hu alive.

  Also, I thought of something else. Earlier, the captive fox didn't let the police intervene, and the four of them secretly broke into the base. There must be more to this story. They went to retrieve something, and only after they got it did they let the police "wipe their butts".

  I guess this thing is still on Lu Yifeng's body, but I couldn't flip his pocket, so I had to suppress my curiosity.

  I'm too lazy to continue thinking about abandoning the base, looking at Ah Feng's state, I care about asking him, "Is there still an empty bed in this hospital? If I stay here with Panzi, you can go find a place to sleep?"

  Lu Yifeng shook his head and refused my kindness, but then he patted his belly and said, "I'm hungry, Xiaobai, help me buy something to eat."

  A Feng is a very honest person. He can only say that he's hungry, but the actual situation might be even more severe. Maybe he hasn't eaten anything for a day or several days.

  I hastily agreed and let Pan Zi accompany Lu Yu Feng well, I went downstairs by myself.

  This hospital has a special feature, there is a supermarket inside the first floor, I guess the owner of this supermarket has connections to occupy such a good location, and things in this kind of supermarket are generally expensive.

  But it was late at night and I didn't want to go outside the hospital either. I thought, "It's expensive, so be it," and went in anyway.

  The supermarket is not big, with only two rows of shelves. There's a table in front of the door and the owner is sitting there watching the entrance, whittling on a wooden puppet. Seeing me come in, he didn't even lift his head.

  Whittling wood is a rare hobby, in my impression, only those who are familiar with knives do this, such as butchers, carpenters, or fruit vendors, because some fruit vendors like to whittle fruit peels and are also familiar with carving knives.

  I don't know what the shop owner used to do either, but he didn't stop me, so I just walked in and picked out something to eat.

  I figured Lu Yifeng must be thirsty, so I bought a bowl of instant noodles. This thing is quite tasty to eat, and after drinking a few more sips of soup, it's pretty satisfying. Of course, I also bought two sausages as an accompaniment.

  When it was time to settle the bill, the shop owner put down the wooden puppet, looked up at me and said, "That's a total of 10 yuan."

  It wasn't until then that I saw his real face, but as soon as we met face-to-face, I was stunned.

  The shop owner doesn't look particularly unusual, with a square face and regular features, but his eyes reveal a deep sense of melancholy.

  I really can't understand why the owner of a supermarket is so melancholy, and even more deeply, when I look at this face, I also have a sense of familiarity.

  I'm sure I've never met him before, so why does he seem so "familiar", it's quite astonishing.

  He looked at me without any change, took the money and pointed to the instant noodles saying, "The hospital only has one hot water dispenser, if you want to get hot water you still have to line up. I just so happen to have a thermos of hot water here, do you want me to directly cook the noodles for you?"

  I'll just think about it for a while, otherwise I'd still have to line up myself.

  He saw me nodding and agreeing, and he even helped me tear open the seasoning packet. I didn't intervene, just stood by silently watching, and also took a glance at the wooden puppet.

  Just now I didn't notice, but taking a closer look, the wooden puppet is carved quite realistically, especially the nose, eyes and mouth, which all have a vivid and lifelike feel.

  I'm not flattering either, I sincerely saved a sentence.

  The shop owner first soaked the noodles well and then smiled at me, saying, "This wooden puppet is not carved yet. If it were dressed up, it would look more realistic."

  Then he opened the drawer and took out a set of travel clothes specially prepared for the wooden puppet.

  This is not only a flower cloth dress, but also comes with a headgear, which looks like it's made of leather. When worn on the wooden doll's head, it seems to have given it a face, except that this face has no facial features. Suddenly looking at it, it's so "realistic" that it's a bit scary.

  The owner actually appreciated the wooden puppet's appearance and even held up the puppet to ask me, "Don't you think it looks prettier now?"

  I don't know what he's thinking in his heart, but I'm a bit disgusted. I don't want to talk to him anymore, so I just greeted him politely and left with my bowl of noodles.

  After going back, I sat down next to Lu Yufeng and urged him to eat while it was hot. But Lu Yufeng had a strange habit, he liked to eat noodles that were slightly overcooked.

  I really can't understand what's good about a old face. But then Lu Yu Feng picked up the noodles again.

  I took advantage of the empty space and found that Panzi was gone, so I asked Afeng, "Where did the little beast go?"

  Lu Yifeng smiled and said that Pan Zihao couldn't bear the loneliness, so he wandered around everywhere.

  I'm speechless, thinking that Panzi is really something, even if he's bored, but at this gathering, he should at least pretend to be serious, how can he still have the leisure to slack off?

  I let Ah Feng sit for a while, and I went to find Panzi back.

  I turned around in a big circle and found Pan Zi standing in front of a propaganda column with his hands in his pockets, staring at it.

  This advertisement column is a small advertisement of a hospital. The top is written in red as "No Red Packet Hospital", and below is a list of personnel with photos.

  I walked over and was about to pull Pan away, but Pan said he would finish reading in a minute, asking me to wait another minute.

  I followed his gaze and saw that he had already reached the last row, so I decided to wait for him for another minute. Meanwhile, I also took a look at the propaganda column.

  I found this hospital is quite interesting, no red envelope means no red envelope, but why did the propaganda column hang up the information of the cleaning staff and supermarket owners? Are the aunties who sweep the floor also having a chance to receive red envelopes?

  And I just got in touch with the supermarket owner, so I want to take a look at the owner's information.

  Let me take a closer look, the photo on this advertisement board doesn't look like the owner at all, especially the eyes in the photo, so bright and radiant, not a hint of melancholy.

  Although photos can sometimes be misleading, I'm sure this is not a person.

  Perhaps it was just after finishing the Poison King case, my mind was sensitive, and I suddenly thought of a possibility. Could it be that the supermarket owner had a problem, was he a remnant of the Poison King? Was he taking advantage of us to harm us?

  And the more I think about it, the more I feel that the owner of that shop is like a master woodcarver, which shows how sharp his knife skills are.

  I scared myself and didn't care about Panzi anymore, after saying something wrong, I hurriedly rushed to Lu Yifeng's place.

  It just so happened that when I went back, Lu Yifeng was just opening the instant noodles and preparing to drink the soup.

  I shouted and waited, and in my anxiety I even pushed the instant noodles to the ground.

  The noodles were splashed onto the ground, looking quite disgusting. Lu Yifeng looked at me in confusion and asked what was going on.

  I didn't hide it either, I told Luyu Feng about the speculation, and also suggested that Afeng go down with me to take a look. He's good at judging people, and he can tell right away if there's anything wrong with the shop owner.

  At this time, Panzi rushed back and saw that we both looked serious. He also asked what was wrong.

  We didn't tell Panzi anything, just let him sit here and wait. If there's any news from the emergency room, give us a call, and Ahfeng and I will come downstairs.

  When we arrived at the supermarket entrance, we found that the door was open and the lights were on, but it was locked with an iron fence.

  This scene looks like the owner has left temporarily, I think he is more likely to go to the toilet.

  I went with Ah Feng to the first floor toilet and took a look.

  There are four squatting positions in this toilet. The first three are empty, and the one by the window has a half-locked door.

  It's called a half-lock because the handle on the squat toilet can be turned up and down, green represents no one, red represents someone, and near the window, the handle is half green and half red.

  Lu Yufeng made a hand gesture, and we both walked to the front of this squat toilet. I still knocked on the door first and asked if there was anyone inside?

  No one answered me. Actually, I was a bit worried after knocking on the door, thinking that this squat toilet was going to be asked about what's going on, how could I explain?

  Lu Yifeng didn't care about these things. He even opened the squatting toilet next to him, stepped on it and looked inside through the partition.

  I noticed Ah Feng's expression and found that he suddenly furrowed his brow.

  I don't understand what this means. Lu Yifeng didn't explain much either, and with a jump, he entered the locked cubicle and opened the door.

  I looked at the door handle and found it was very old, perhaps if someone pushed it hard, the door handle would shake and lock itself automatically, and there really wasn't anyone here.

  I thought to myself, could it be that this squat toilet was really locked by someone unintentionally? Was it just a coincidence? But as I looked closer, I found a discarded wooden puppet in the wastebasket.

  This wooden puppet should be the one I saw just now. It's been dressed up, with a hood on its head and especially, someone has deliberately dotted a black spot on its cheek.

  I suddenly felt a chill and got entangled again, perhaps there's indeed something to be said about this.