Tomb Keeper

Chapter 1 Prologue
The first time I fell in love with a girl was at the scene of a tragic air crash.I picked her up and couldn't help brushing her long messy hair as I put her in a body bag.My expression at the moment may not look like a soldier, so that one of my comrades came over and asked, what's the matter with you, you are here like a lost soul.

That year, when a plane floated down like a leaf, it happened to land in the mountain where our special forces unit was stationed.I cannot say anything about the miraculous nature of our army.I just want to say that for such an unexpected small task, we had already fanned out the scene in less than half an hour after receiving the order.I also used an instrument to quickly find the black box of the plane, and thus won a second-class merit.

It's just that all the resumes about me have been deleted from my file.My current identity is a newspaper reporter, 28 years old, unmarried.I had previously graduated from the Chinese Department of a third-rate university. After graduation, I relied on my father's relationship to work in a newspaper office.My file has been rewritten like this, and there's nothing I can do about it personally.Military secrets are above all else, and some things cannot appear in personal files.

I just had to accept reality and seek a breakthrough in my journalistic career.The so-called breakthrough is to do something important.Doing something that is not important to a person is simply a waste of work.I interviewed various government meetings. After the meeting, the secretariat of the meeting gave me a press release as usual, and I took it back and sorted it out before publishing it. In this way, what the reporter does is basically the job of the postman.I interviewed several business activities, and at the end of the interview, I would receive a red envelope containing a few hundred yuan, which was said to be transportation expenses or a pen fee.The interviewed companies did not have high requirements, they just wanted to publish a small piece of tofu in the newspaper.Everyone knows that this is much more cost-effective than spending money on advertising.

I miss my special forces career.Although I can't tell any of them in my life, I will only say that we often carry the most advanced weapons and equipment in the world, and we go out alone under the satellite navigation, and everyone can guess the excitement.And now, I can only spend the rest of my life in a dull and boring job, which is really hopeless.Next, for the first time, I rejected the assignment from the newspaper office.There is a family planning work conference in the province, but that is out of my control.The female reporter Bai Mei has been in charge of interviewing the family planning and funeral system, so it stands to reason that she should also be in charge this time.But the leader of the newspaper office said, Bai Mei is sick, you should give her a helping hand.No way, I had to go.I was a soldier, and I still remember that obeying orders is the bounden duty of a soldier.After the interview, I made a phone call to Bai Mei, firstly to care about her condition, and secondly to tell her that I completed a mission for her.Unexpectedly, Bai Mei's voice on the phone startled me - the voice was weak and thin like a gossamer, like a dying patient.I immediately said on the phone, I'm coming to see you.

Bai Mei is a lively girl in the newspaper office.Because she is in charge of interviews for the family planning and funeral system, colleagues say she manages people's life and death.She said that she got sick this time when she was interviewing a cemetery a few days ago.When I came back, I was frightened, insomnia, and unable to breathe out of my throat.

That place is more than 100 kilometers away from the city, and it is called Xitu Cemetery. Bai Mei, half lying on the bedside, told me with a pale face that the cemetery is huge, and the graves around the mountains and valleys seem to have no end.Except for Zhou Ma who is a local who cooks food, it is normal for the tomb guards. The surrounding villagers do not know the origin of the rest of them. Some people suspect that these people are all ghosts in the cemetery.This kind of statement can be said to be superstitious, but when I went to interview, I really felt strange when I met these people.The person in charge of the cemetery is an old man with a goatee. His surname is Yang, and he is known as Yang Beard.When I was interviewing him that day, he received a call to inquire about buying a cemetery, but he replied that there were no more cemeteries.Seeing my doubts, he said, a seven or eight-year-old child died, and I couldn't let him be buried here.Home Alone, you know what, it's amazing.Yang Huzi has three tomb guards under his command, two men and one woman.One of them is dumb, a 16-year-old boy.The nearby villagers said that why they guarded the tomb with mutes was because they couldn't tell the strange things they saw.The other tomb-keeper was a pale man named Feng, who spoke with a provincial accent. He was said to be able to write poetry, and he was known as Poet Feng.

It is true that this guy of unknown origin is a ghost from the cemetery.One morning a few years ago, when Yang Huzi was inspecting the cemetery, he found a dead man in front of a cemetery.Yang Huzi was terrified, and immediately ran to a distant house to call Zhou Mama and Dumb.When the group walked to the grave again, the sun had already risen, and the dead man had already come back to life half-sitting on the grave.After that, the person who claimed to be surnamed Feng stayed here voluntarily as a tomb keeper.Bai Mei said that I asked him about this experience during the interview, and he just stared at me blankly, neither explaining nor denying.Of course, apart from Poet Feng, another woman's tomb-keeper is even more frightening.This woman is in her 20s, her name is Liu Ye, and people call her Ye Zi.More than a month ago, the mute found a woman in the cemetery who was stealing fruit, which was a sacrifice left by others in front of the grave.Yang Huzi and others caught her, and for some reason, she stayed here to guard the tomb.Bai Mei said, during the interview, I found that the female tomb keeper's conversation and demeanor were not bad, like a city dweller with status.When asked why she was guarding the tomb here, she just smiled and said that she liked it.It was this smile showing white teeth that sent chills down Baimei's back, and she fell ill after returning from the interview.

I dare say that Bai Mei's interview is the most peculiar thing that our newspaper reporters have ever encountered. I also suffered from insomnia that night.Take out the map of the area to which the cemetery belongs, it is a hilly area.There is a river called Xihe, and a small town called Xihe Town.According to Bai Mei, the cemetery is a few miles away from Xihe Town.I decided to go there alone to make an unannounced visit, and I firmly believe that there must be some shocking secrets hidden among the vast cemetery and the strange cemetery guards.Since I entered the newspaper office, the only major thing I have accomplished is by unannounced visits.I disguised myself as a beggar and broke into the beggar gang, and wrote little-known social reports.When the leaders of the newspaper office praised me, I said, for someone who has been a special soldier, doing such a thing is a piece of cake.The leader immediately pretended to be puzzled and glared at me.I know that I have slipped my tongue, well, I will not talk about my past experiences, anyway, you have all seen what I have done successfully.

I made a complete unannounced visit plan overnight.In order not to leak any rumors, I did not tell the newspaper, but said that my grandfather in the country was sick and needed care, so I took a period of leave and went on the road alone.

(End of this chapter)