Tomb Keeper

Chapter 12 Returning to the Cemetery (1)
One day, an old woman came to the cemetery.I heard she was an old woman on the phone, but when she got here, she didn't look as old as I thought.Although she is nearly sixty years old, she walks and talks very energetically.

She came by herself in a small car.As soon as he entered the courtyard, he repeatedly praised the environment here, as if he was eager to move here.Yang Huzi received her cheerfully, and after making tea, he made an exception and told Zhou Ma to go to the town to buy vegetables.The old woman waved her hand and said, you're welcome, just eat with your tea.But Yang Huzi said, how can that work?It's your first time here, so you need to be treated well.The old lady said, eating is a trivial matter, let's go up the mountain to have a look.Yang Huzi replied repeatedly, "Okay," and walked out of the courtyard with her.

Zhou's mother came out of the kitchen with a vegetable basket, and found that Ye Zi and I were both incomprehensible to this woman, so she came over and whispered, "She is our big customer, and she has contracted several hospitals in the provincial capital." In the mortuary, after the patient died, the family members listened to her wherever they were buried.

After Yang Huzi accompanied the old lady to the cemetery, he didn't come back for a long time. It is estimated that they discussed many things besides viewing the entire cemetery.It wasn't until the lunch table that Yang Huzi introduced this woman to everyone. This is Manager Xue from the funeral company. When Manager Xue's business came, everyone had to give priority to it.Manager Xue immediately said, everyone should cooperate more. In short, we are all dead.As soon as she finished speaking, I saw Ye Zi push away the rice bowl and turned around and vomited, and I also felt my stomach turn.Poet Feng, who seldom spoke at the dinner table, spoke up. He said that Manager Xue couldn’t say that. Everyone is going to die, so what should we do?Yang Huzi immediately glared at Poet Feng and said, Manager Xue is right, no one is dead, don't we all have to go hungry?
After the meal, Yang Huzi called me to a place where there was no one else and said, wait a while, you and Manager Xue will go back to the provincial capital to do some errands, and in a few days, she will send a car to take you back after finishing the errands.

This happened suddenly, and I asked, what should I do?Yang Huzi said, she will tell you in the car.

I just got into Manager Xue's car in a daze.She was driving, not talking about things to do, but gossiping.First of all, let me praise that I have a vision in choosing this career, and that I am young and promising, and I am likely to be a supervisor here in the future.Then he asked me about the dumb situation, where did I come from?Where is your home?Is there anyone else in the family?Of course I don't know anything about this.She said, it's strange, Yang Huzi is also confused about him.When I came here, I noticed this dumb kid, who was a bit like... well, let's not talk about him, let's get down to business.

She only started talking about the business after the car had driven onto the expressway to the provincial capital, which gave me a feeling that I could only get this matter done and not turn back.But can I do it?She asked me to ask the director of the cancer hospital out for dinner after I returned to the city. The reason was that a relative of mine named Xue had a blue and white porcelain vase from the Qing Dynasty. She kept it at home for fear of being stolen. The room is supposed to be very safe.

I said, I'm afraid I can't do this.

She said, didn't you work in this hospital before?It's not from the office, you go to ask the dean as I said, he will come out for this meal.As long as he comes out, you'll be fine, how about it?
Seeing that I didn't answer, she thought for a while and then said, I know that your wages in the cemetery are low. After this matter is completed, I will pay you 2000 yuan, or I will give you the money now.

I hastily said no.At this time, the car had already driven onto the overpass into the city, and I suddenly had an idea and said, I will try my best to do it, and I will call you back in two days, but you have to be prepared that it will not be possible.

She gave me her business card with a confident "hmm" and said, keep in touch.

The story I made up at the cemetery of working in a cancer hospital got me into this big trouble.The old lady who wanted to come to this hospital who specialized in contracting the mortuary had already coveted the hospital with the highest death rate.I can't help her, but now that I have returned to the city, it suddenly occurred to me that I could take the opportunity to do an important thing.

I walked in the bustling city again.The high-rise buildings and the dazzling billboards that go straight into the sky make me feel like a world away.Hurrying men and colorful women are intertwined with the traffic. Although these people are destined to fall into the desolation of the death cemetery, if I dare to shout to them at this moment, I will definitely be regarded as crazy by the people on the street .Therefore, I can only keep silent like a wise man.

I didn't report back to the agency to show up, but called the female reporter Bai Mei at night to have coffee.I haven't forgotten that people living like to drink coffee to kill some time.

Here comes Baimei, with a fresh breath, and the lower part of the V-neck is a little charming.It seems that the horror she felt when she interviewed the cemetery last time has dissipated.Sorry, but I'm still talking about the cemetery.I briefly told her about my initial experience at the cemetery and made her swear to secrecy.Then, I took out a "Missing Person Notice" that had been drafted long ago, and asked her to handle the matter of publishing it in this newspaper on my behalf, and I would pay for it.

The content of the missing person notice is as follows——

Looking for Yuan Yanjie, relatives who have been lost for many years are looking for you.Please call 139******** after reading the newspaper.

After reading the "notice", Bai Mei asked suspiciously, Yuan Yanjie, who is this?

I said, when you interviewed the cemetery, didn’t you hear Yang Huzi say that it’s terrible to be in charge of a little ghost? This person is the mother of the little ghost. I saw it on the tombstone. and said that her relatives would contact her directly.After you tell me her phone number, it's none of your business.After finishing speaking, I gave Bai Mei the phone number of the cemetery, and said that if someone else answers the call, you can say you are my cousin.

After everything was arranged, I praised myself in my heart.Tsk tsk, reporters from special forces are different.Who said that in this era, only the poor and the rich can produce heroes, but after I succeed in this unannounced visit and reveal a shocking secret to the world, everyone will know that heroes still exist.

At noon the next day, I called the old woman and said, Manager Xue, I'm really sorry, I've messed up this matter.As soon as I told the director after I met him, he looked at me suspiciously, as if I were an alien.He didn't take my words, but asked me why I left without reason, and said that I would be fired if I didn't write a review, which scared me and ran away.

Manager Xue was extremely disappointed by my fabricated remarks.She was silent for a while and said, well, that's the only way to go.I breathed a sigh of relief, and said, I'm going back to the cemetery after noon, so can you send me a car?She immediately said listlessly on the phone, alas, I am too busy these days, there may be no car to take you.I felt cold in my heart, but immediately said firmly, it's okay, I'll go to the station to take the bus right away, so as not to get dizzy when I take your little car.

I drove back to the cemetery, and the journey was smooth.On the bus to Xihe Town, there was a baby crying in the back row.When I looked back, a young peasant woman was anxiously holding a baby in her arms, and kept calling "Baby, baby", but the baby was still crying.Sitting next to her was a man with blue veins on his forehead, probably disturbed by the baby's crying, he turned his head to the other side.Halfway through the car, the man got out of the car, and the baby stopped crying all of a sudden.At this time, someone in the car said that the man who got out of the car was a butcher, a well-known pig butcher in this area, and it was the bloody smell on his body that scared the baby to cry.Someone retorted that the baby was so young that it was impossible to know that the man was a pig butcher.Besides, that man was clean, how could there be any bloody smell?Some people disagree with this statement, tsk tsk, don't think that babies are ignorant, the younger the child, the smarter he is, and he is much smarter than us adults.

On the car to Xihe Town, there are always some big and small mysterious things that make me dizzy.I thought of the woman named Zihua who sat next to me last time. If there was a baby in the car at that time, she would definitely cry and make everyone in the car feel restless.I also remembered that when I was a child, I used to cry in the middle of the night. When adults talked about it when I grew up, they never mentioned the reason for my crying. I don’t know if the adults really didn’t know or pretended not to know.

When the car arrived at Xihe Town, I didn't dare to enter the town, but turned straight to the dirt road leading to the cemetery.When I was approaching the cemetery, an oncoming black car stopped abruptly in front of me, the door opened, and it was Yang Huzi who got off.He asked me if the matter for Manager Xue was done, I said it was not done, and briefly explained the process of the matter.He said it doesn't matter, let's manage our own cemetery well.At this time, another man got out of the car. Yang Huzi introduced to me that this is Director Wang from the company headquarters.Director Wang looked at me and said, yes, among the three cemeteries our company belongs to, the managers of Xitu Cemetery have the highest cultural quality, young man, work hard.Yang Huzi also encouraged me a few words, and told me that the company headquarters organized people to go to the south to study the operation and management of the cemetery. It will take him a month to go out on this trip. During this period, Ye Zi will be in charge of the work of the cemetery. To listen to her arrangements.

This change came a bit suddenly. Looking at the little car leaving in the dust, I felt a rare sense of relief in my heart, as if the little ghosts could turn the world upside down after the Lord Hades left.

I turned and walked towards the cemetery.Perhaps, this month of deregulation will give me a breakthrough in my investigation of the various ghostly phenomena here.

In the cemetery in the middle of the night, the darkness is filled with the strange smell of moisture, green grass and burning incense paper money.The endless mounds and tombstones flickered in and out of my flashlight, as if magically jumping in and out of the darkness.Let me patrol the tomb alone in the middle of the night, this is Ye Zi's arrangement.When I heard that my head was growing big, I immediately said that the arrangement was unfair. Poet Feng and Dumb visited the tomb during the day, but I was allowed to come out alone at night. Wasn’t this intentional to scare me into something wrong?Ye Zi said that when visiting the tomb during the day, you have to do some maintenance work such as soil cultivation, while visiting the tomb at night is just a walk around, so one person is enough.What are you scared of?If you are afraid of ghosts, don't be a tomb guard.

Ye Zi, acting director, is much more powerful than Yang Huzi, which I never thought of.Before that, I thought Yang Huzi was gone, and everyone could relax.Of course, Ye Zi must have thought otherwise when treating me like this.When I returned to the cemetery yesterday afternoon, she was surprised. She thought I had left the cemetery to work with Manager Xue, but she didn't expect me to appear in the cemetery again.Now, she made this arrangement obviously to force me to resign and leave, which only shows that she has realized that I am approaching her and the various secrets here.Seeing through her scheming, I immediately accepted this arrangement, and just added in a playful manner, if the ghost captures me, you should burn some paper for me.

Now, my judgment on Ye Zi has gradually become clearer.In the attic of the gravekeeper, there lived two girls, one was Ye Zi, who had read many books but pretended to be a girl from the mountains to guard the tomb here; the other girl was a ghost, maybe Ye Zi's previous life.For those of you who haven't been here, please forgive me for this absurd idea.And, absurd is not absurd, I will prove it with facts.

(End of this chapter)