Tomb Keeper

Chapter 18 Disaster (1)
My appearance made the leaves feel relieved.She stood up and said, Da Xu, you should be on duty here. I have a terrible headache and I have to go upstairs to rest for a while.After finishing speaking, he walked out the door.Unexpectedly, Second Brother Luo moved even faster, he had already stood at the door to block Ye Zi.He said, headache?what happened?I will take you to see a doctor in Xihe Town by car.

Seeing this, I hurried over and said, Brother Luo, her headache is not a problem, it may be that she got a little cold from going to the cemetery last night, I have cold medicine there, and it will be fine after taking it.After finishing speaking, I turned around and said to Ye Zi, you and I go upstairs to get the medicine, and when I reached the entrance of the building, I deliberately held Ye Zi's hand, I thought this would make that Luo vomit blood in anger.

I sent Ye Zi to the room upstairs, and when I turned around and went downstairs, Second Brother Luo had already left.Mother Zhou came over from the kitchen door and said to me, you have to be more careful in the future. Brother Luo asked me when he left, who would go to the mountain to visit the tomb tonight, and I said it was Da Xu's turn.He then said, this kid surnamed Xu is always playing tricks.Whether the little ghost on the graveyard last night has anything to do with him, I still have to investigate.

I feel a little messed up in my heart.I'm not afraid of this Luo's investigation, but I'm worried that he will disrupt the situation and affect my business of finding out the truth about this graveyard.

I still couldn't sleep at night, and even though I was embarrassed to continue complaining about my low back pain, Ye Zi still let me rest for another night, saying that Poet Feng would be willing to go up the mountain for me.I think it's mainly because I helped her out when Brother Luo was pestering Ye Zi this morning, and she must have shown me kindness in this way.

I tossed and turned in bed thinking about all the mysteries in this cemetery, people and ghosts mixed together, making it difficult for me to find the truth.Dimly, I heard the door of Poet Feng's and the dumb's room knocking, and then the sound of going downstairs. I knew it was them going up the mountain to visit the tomb.

I suddenly wanted to see Ye Zi, look at her, and listen to her talk.My impulse at this moment has nothing to do with the task of being an unannounced reporter. Although Ye Zi's life experience is blurred, and it is even difficult to distinguish between human beings and ghosts, I have no desire to explore her at this moment.All I wanted was to be with her on this lonely cemetery night, to see the way her eyes rolled when she spoke, and to breathe in the enchanting breath that radiated from her.

It was the middle of the night and I went up to the attic and, looking through the side window over the door, there was no light in the house, and the leaves were evidently asleep, much to my disappointment.I hesitated for a while in the darkness outside the door, and knocked on the door with my fingers.

Ye Zi didn't sleep deeply, or she slept very alertly, because when I knocked on the door for the first time, she asked, who is it?I said, it was me.She said, what's wrong?I faltered and said, nothing, nothing, I just want to chat with you.She yawned deeply and said, let's talk tomorrow.

Her yawn made me feel guilty, she was so sleepy, I really didn't think about other people's rest.However, hearing her voice, that sleepy and touching voice, I found that my heartbeat also quickened.

I said to the room through the door, how about this, you can sleep for a while, half an hour or an hour, I will stay outside this door, how about calling you up to chat then?
Unexpectedly, when I heard me say that, the lights in the room came on, and soon, Ye Zi came to open the door, and she said, I think there must be something wrong with you.

When I entered the room, I couldn't say anything for a moment.Because her breath came from two directions: her body close to me and the mosquito net on the bed, I was a little excited and dizzy.

Aware of my state, she said, it's too hot in the house, let's sit on the platform outside the house.

Sure enough, there was a cool breeze on the platform, and the cool breeze of summer night blowing from the graveyard made people's blood flow slowly.This is also good, after my thinking turns, it won't make me sit here like a dumb boy.

I said, it's cool to sit here.After I said it, I realized that it was nonsense, which shows that I was very confused when I saw her tonight.

Not just cool, she said.This place is facing the cemetery, and if there is any movement on the mountain, it can be heard here.

As soon as she finished her words, as if to prove it, there was a sudden "wow" sound from the depths of the dark cemetery, which was the strange cry of night birds that I dislike most.

I said, why are you not afraid of guarding this graveyard?
She remained silent for a long while, then she raised her head and said to me, Da Xu, let's open the skylight and speak plainly, I know, you have always had doubts about me guarding the tomb here, and even watched me secretly, didn't you? But it doesn't matter, I am doing things here, and people who don't understand the reason will have doubts.

Ye Zi spoke frankly about her experience.She is really a girl from the mountains, but her father is a middle school teacher in the countryside.Her father never let her go to school, but taught her alone at home.From reading and writing, to reading "The Book of Songs", "Historical Records" and Chinese and foreign classics, Ye Zi possessed as much knowledge as a college student at the age of 1.Unfortunately, when Ye Zi was 19 years old, her father suddenly contracted a disease and fell into a coma from time to time.She accompanied her father, and went to all the hospitals in the countryside, counties, and provinces. Her father's illness neither found the cause nor improved.

Two years later, on a rush day, a Taoist priest set up a fortune-telling stall in a small town not far from her home, and Ye Zi went to tell her father's fortune. The Taoist priest asked her father's birth date and the location of her home, etc. After the situation, it is said that your house is built on the mouth of the mountain, and all the lonely and wild ghosts coming from the southeast direction along the valley will pass by your house.When your father was ugly, the five elements lacked fire, so he was most likely to be entangled by ghosts.Ye Zi asked why the ghost came from the southeast, and the Taoist pinched his fingers and said, within two hundred miles to the southeast, there must be a large cemetery.Ye Zi asked again, how can my father be saved?A Taoist said that loyalty can serve the country, and filial piety can support the family.Let your father's son go to that cemetery and serve the ghosts for three years, and your father will recover.Ye Zi said, my father has no son, only me, the only daughter.The Taoist pondered for a while and said, women and women, women can be children, and it is the same for you to serve ghosts.Ye Zi was not a superstitious person, but when she saw her dying father, she decided to try it in the cemetery.After tossing and turning to find this place, within half a year, someone brought a letter saying that her father had relieved a lot, which made Ye Zi strengthen her confidence to work here for three years.

Leaf's story moved me.However, when she arrived in Xihe Town more than a year ago, why didn't she come directly to the cemetery, but stayed at Zihua's for three days.At this moment, I was full of love and trust for Ye Zi, so I blurted out this question.

Leaf was obviously taken aback.Do you know Zihua?I said I met on the car to Xihe Town.She said in a hurry, staying for three days is nothing strange.The food there is delicious, especially a kind of wild vegetable called yellow mustard, which tastes surprisingly delicious, and makes people want to stay there for more meals.

Leaf's explanation is unconvincing.A person with the mission of saving his father will not stop on the road because of gluttony.It suddenly occurred to me that the poisonous wild vegetable would not kill a person if eaten, but would make him stupid.Could it be that Ye Zi, who was out on a trip, ate this food, and was foolishly introduced by Zihua to work here.Zihua said that for every tomb keeper introduced to Yang Huzi, she would get a referral fee of [-] yuan.

My heart is heavy.Poor Ye Zi, the life experience she just told must have been fabricated by Zihua for her. People who ate those poisonous wild vegetables may be so stupid that they will obey everything.

As soon as Ye Zi and I didn't talk, the sounds of insects in the field outside the platform became even more noisy, and the sound of strange birds deep in the graveyard came from time to time.Leaf suddenly laughed.She said, why, are you still doubting that I lived with Zihua for three days?It seems that you are a person with good intelligence.To tell you the truth, the reason why I lived there for three days was to wait for the date of the cemetery. The Taoist said that the date to go to the cemetery must be the first or fifteenth day of the lunar calendar.I arrived in Xihe Town on the twelfth day of the lunar calendar, so I had to wait for three days. I still remember that three days later, I went to the cemetery to live upstairs. At night, I walked to the platform and looked up to see a big, round moon. , I cried...

Ye Zi bowed her head and remained silent when she said this, because she was emotionally moved when talking about the past.I was suddenly a little angry with myself, why did I still doubt her whereabouts at this time?And Zihua is not like the kind of bad woman who harms people and seeks money, and Ye Zi's conversation and thinking, can you say it is stupid?
The way Ye Zi bowed her head and said nothing made me really want to stroke her head and stroke her long hair from the top of her head.However, I did not dare to do so.The only time I touched a girl's long hair in my life was at the scene of the plane crash. I smoothed her messy long hair when I put her in the body bag. I don't think she will blame me.

Ye Zi's life experience is already known, I really want to tell her, you still have more than a year here, and I am willing to be with you all the time.I also want to be as candid as she is about who I am and what I am here for.I thought it would be easier to unravel the other mysteries of the cemetery together with her.

That night, when I was about to open my mouth to explain myself to Ye Zi, it was the strange cry of the night bird on the graveyard that interrupted my train of thought.In this mournful cry, the rules and discipline of being a special soldier suddenly woke up in my heart.In any case, before the task is completed, revealing the identity will bring a fatal disaster to oneself, which is equally applicable to special forces or unannounced reporters.

Sure enough, as soon as my mind calmed down, another doubt arose in my heart, that is, on the day I arrived at the cemetery, Ye Zi didn't come downstairs for dinner, and Mother Zhou said she had gone to Xihe Town.But at night, I saw her dressing up in scarlet pajamas in the room through the side window on the door.However, at dawn, she knocked on the courtyard door and came in from the outside, claiming to have come back from the town.

This question is too important, should I ask her directly?While hesitating, Ye Zi raised her head and looked at me, her eyes were full of tears and honesty.So, before I had time to think more about it, I asked her this question.I look forward to a reasonable explanation for everything.Although this will make my longing for mystery unsatisfied in my bones, I still prefer to see a clear, peaceful and happy leaf.

However, Ye Zi's reaction was completely unexpected to me. She didn't even give any explanation for the matter, but she screamed and said, how could I be in the room?I stayed at Zihua in the town that night, and when I came back the next day, I found no signs of people living in the house.What you said is absolutely impossible.

In Ye Zi's words, apart from shock and confusion, there was no meaning of denial.I believed her, so I said, could that girl be a ghost?You said that a girl was hanged in this attic room.

Ye Zi's tone has calmed down, she said, if you see it with your own eyes, the girl can only be a ghost.But I'm not afraid, because I'm here to serve ghosts.

(End of this chapter)