Tomb Keeper

Chapter 20 Who Speaks the Truth? (1)

This morning, Manager Xue from the funeral service company drove to the cemetery again.This time she brought another woman, a little younger than herself, maybe fifty.Manager Xue introduced to me that this woman's surname is Zheng, so you can call her Aunt Zheng.I let them sit down in the main room, and when I served tea, I asked, Aunt Zheng is also engaged in funerals?She said, well, similar to you, they all sell houses, but I sell houses for living people.After listening to her talk, I cursed in my heart, what are you selling, you are just a real estate developer, you are showing off.

Manager Xue asked, why, are you alone?What about the rest?I said that Yang Huzi went to the south for investigation, and the others were on the graveyard.She said, go and call the mute here, Aunt Zheng wants to see the child.

I don't know what kind of medicine these two women sell in their gourds.After I went to the mountain to call the mute back, Aunt Zheng didn't speak, but just stared at the mute for a while, and then asked a lot of questions to the mute.As she asked the question, she said dumb words with her hands, where are you from?how old are you?Where is your home?What are the parents' names?The mute answered her with gestures. She sighed and told Manager Xue that he didn't know anything except that he was 16 years old.

I stood by the door, and the bewildered mute looked at me sideways from time to time in the main room, as if asking what they were going to do.After the two women murmured for a while, Manager Xue came over and said to me, go outside for a walk, Aunt Zheng has something to talk to the mute, and she closed the door as she spoke.

I stepped back down the steps and stood in the yard.This incident made me feel strange, as if the real estate woman had something to do with the mute.All of a sudden, I heard the dumb man screaming "Yah Ya Ya Ya Ya Ya Ya Ya Ya Yah!", as if someone was beating him to kill him.I didn't care about that much anymore, I ran over and opened the door with a "bang". I was shocked by the scene in the room——Mute's trousers had been taken off to the crook of his legs, and two women were bending over to look at him. his ass.

What is this for?My shout made the two women very embarrassed, and when they straightened up and looked at me, they were speechless for a while.Taking advantage of the situation, the mute tied up his pants and ran out from me.

So far, the woman surnamed Zheng has no choice but to tell me the truth.She has a deaf-mute son who was kidnapped when he was 7 years old.The other party called and asked for a ransom of 300 million yuan.She and her husband were in a hurry. Although the child was deaf and dumb, he was still the lifeblood of his parents.She called the police, and then dealt with the kidnappers according to the police's instructions, saying that she couldn't raise as much money for a while, and although we were in real estate, we didn't have much cash on hand.In this way, the other party agreed to give her three days to collect enough money.Three days later, it was agreed on a place to exchange money, and the police also set up an ambush, but the other party temporarily changed several meeting places, but in the end they did not show up.After that, there were no more calls for ransom, and the kidnapper seemed to have disappeared.But the child has never been heard from since then.Nine years have passed by now, and if the child is still alive, he will be exactly 16 years old.During this period, she and her husband have slowly accepted the fact that the child has already been torn up by the kidnappers.A few days ago, she heard Manager Xue talk about the mute guarding the tomb here, and she had a glimmer of hope again.The age of the mute was consistent with her child's, and the face shape was also similar, but the facial features did not match. More importantly, her child had a birthmark on the buttocks, but the mute did not.

The woman's narration made me sigh.I said, Aunt Zheng, since this is the case, you should say it clearly from the beginning, so as not to make me suspicious.She said, before people recognize it clearly, what do you ask me to say.

At this time, Manager Xue interjected, "Okay, okay, since this dumb man is not Aunt Zheng's child, I want to take him in and take him away today."Unfortunately, Yang Huzi is out, but it's not a big problem. With my cooperative relationship with him, he won't hold me back.Daxu, when Yang Huzi comes back, you just tell him to contact me.

This happened even more suddenly, I said, I can't decide this, at least I have to wait for Ye Zi to come down the mountain, and you tell her.Because it is a big deal for you to take a mute as a child.

Manager Xue smiled, I am old, what do I need children for?My children are all grown up, and they are abroad.Having said that, she turned to Aunt Zheng and said that it is safe to send the child abroad, right?After saying this, she turned her head and said to me, when I came here last time, I found that the mute is smart, hardworking, and loyal, and I lack such employees.

I realized right away, you want the mute to guard the morgue, don't you?You contracted the mortuary at the hospital in the city, but it is difficult to find someone to guard it, so you took a fancy to the mute, am I right?

Manager Xue was stunned by my blunt words, and it took him a while to realize, what is the difference between guarding the morgue and guarding the tomb?You man, make a fuss, as if the dumb man were your brother.

At this moment, Mother Zhou had entered the courtyard with a vegetable basket, and Ye Zi and Poet Feng came back shortly after.I breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that there are still a lot of people here, and you, a woman, don't want to sneak away the mute.

Ye Zi warmly greeted Manager Xue, and then, as an acting supervisor, told Zhou's mother to prepare some delicious dishes for the guests.Manager Xue said, we don't have dinner anymore, we have to go back to the city and we have something to do.After speaking.She sat down opposite Ye Zi in the main room, and I knew she was going to bring up the matter of taking the mute away, so I stood aside and kept winking at Ye Zi, reminding her to be vigilant about the next thing.

Fortunately, Ye Zi flatly refused after listening to her words.Ye Zi said that the mute was brought back by Yang Huzi when he was begging in a restaurant in Xihe Town.Now that Yang Huzi is not around, no one can make the decision.Besides, since the mute first appeared in Xihe Town, it means that he may be from this area.It wasn't far from town, and if his parents were looking, they'd be easy to find.Wouldn't it be harder to find his parents if he was taken to the city?

What Ye Zi said was reasonable and restrained, but Manager Xue was speechless.She gave me an annoyed look, as if she believed that Ye Zi's attitude had something to do with my winking.She was silent for a while, then changed the subject and said, Daxu, the tumor hospital you worked in before asked you to contact the director for me, but you failed, but I did it later, and I also contracted the mortuary, how about it?
I said, Manager Xue still has a solution.

She said again, but, I asked the dean, and you didn't contact him last time.

I said, how is that possible.

Her eyes suddenly became a little bit aggressive. Not only did you never contact her, but the director said that there was no one like you in the hospital.Your name is Xu Yong, right? You said you used to work in the hospital office, right? But the dean said, where did this person come from? It's complete nonsense.

There was a "buzz" in my head, everything happened so suddenly, and I, an unannounced reporter who had been a special soldier, fell into a predicament immediately.I instinctively glanced around, and saw Ye Zi in the room, Poet Feng and Mother Zhou standing at the door all looked surprised at me.I have no way out, I have to block this woman's attack.

I immediately burst out laughing, laughing until Manager Xue was taken aback, and then I said, there is no one like me in the hospital?It's hilarious.Of course, I left my job, and it was right to say that the hospital does not have me now, but if I want to say that there has never been me, that would be the dean's angry words.I can say anything in a hurry, but I still don't know the dean's temper?
After saying this, I laughed again, and kept laughing as I walked out the door and stood in the yard.I did this to prevent the woman from counterattacking, such as asking me the names of some hospital-related personnel, etc., which was difficult for me to deal with.

Soon Manager Xue and the woman surnamed Zheng came out of the house carrying their bags and walked straight to the gate of the courtyard. Ye Zi said from behind that they should leave after eating, but the two women did not answer.After a while, there was the sound of a car starting outside, and I let out a long sigh of relief in my heart.

That night, the mute brought another flower to my room, but this time it was not the little yellow flower Poet Feng planted in front of the grave, but a wild peony in the mountains. I like the red petals.The mute is really smart, he seems to understand everything that happened today.Picking this flower is to express my gratitude to me.

I stroked the mute's head and said, just stay here.If you still have parents, it doesn't matter how long it takes them to find you.They'll take you home and sleep in the same bed you've slept in since childhood.Maybe you have a lot of flowers outside your home, which made you love these colorful flowers since you were a child.

The mute looked up at me, his eyes were smiling, I thought he might have understood me.

After the mute left, Ye Zi came to my room.She handed me a flashlight and said, I picked it up on the back mountain. There was a lot of mud on it. I cleaned it for you and replaced it with a new battery.I took the flashlight and said, I lost it when I met a ghost on the back mountain last time. Do you believe that thing is real now?Whether it was true or not, she said, the night watch seemed unnecessary.You see, we haven't been to the cemetery for several nights, and nothing happened.

I agree with Leaf.Moreover, we are all much more relaxed if we don’t watch the night.But Ye Zi went on to say, however, last night I saw a figure on the graveyard from the platform.You know there was a moon last night, I saw that figure walking around among the tombs, and circling around a grave, I was hesitating whether to ask everyone to go up the mountain, but the figure disappeared, and there was no more Appear.Today I took Poet Feng and Dumb up the mountain to inspect the tombs in that area, and found nothing unusual.So I feel more at ease.With such a large cemetery, who can guarantee that there will be no ghosts at night, as long as we don't destroy it, we can rest assured that it's okay to sleep.

Ye Zi finally said to me to have a good rest and left, which means that we can continue not to watch the night.While I was happy, I felt uneasy when Ye Zi came to me and kept silent about the fact that Manager Xue was here during the day.Ye Zi heard Manager Xue’s denial of my work experience in the hospital. Although I gave an explanation in a counterattack, I don’t know what Ye Ye thinks about it.What's more, she didn't talk about it when she came to my room, which may show that her doubts and guard against me have deepened.

I discovered Ye Zi had doubts about me the night before.As I said, I went up to her garret that night with a feeling of blissful dizziness, and now that I think about it, it was this feeling that led me down the wrong path.After I went upstairs, I sat with her on the platform outside the house as usual. There were stars in the night sky, and her eyes were twinkling.I said emotionally, Ye Zi, you will stay here for more than a year, and I am willing to be with you all the time.She said, oh, how long are you going to stay here if it wasn't for me?
My expression is ambiguous.I hastily explained that I was planning to be a tomb keeper here for a long time, but after hearing what you told me about your experience, my mind changed a bit.I want to go out with you after the three-year period of guarding the tomb with you expires.I will go home with you to see your father first. I think his illness will be completely cured by then.Then, we go to live in a new place together.

I was really dizzy that night.Love makes people stupid, and I, who was a special soldier, also forgot the code and discipline in the execution of the mission.After I made a passionate confession, Ye Zi said unmoved, what about your girlfriend, are you not accompanying her spirit in heaven?Because of this, you lost your job in the hospital in the city and went to find a temple. You wanted to be a family member. It was purely accidental that you stayed here to guard the tomb, wasn't it?I think, even if you leave here, the place you want to go should still be a monastery, am I right?

(End of this chapter)