Tomb Keeper

Chapter 22 Who Speaks the Truth? (3)
Poet Feng and I walked down the cemetery.Sure enough, it was almost dawn, and when we walked into the courtyard gate, the rooster locked in the corner crowed loudly.After returning to the house, I lay on the bed and thought, that woman who brought the child to play outside the courtyard gate, I have to get in touch with her, and maybe I can find out why Ye Zi investigates her motives, so as to explore more things.

The next morning, the first thing Ye Zi asked when she saw me was, where did you go last night?I was taken aback, and considering that she might have asked Poet Feng first, I had to tell the truth that I went with Poet Feng to see his fiancée's tomb.Ye Zi also said, the phone in the main room kept ringing after midnight, I went downstairs to answer it, it was a woman looking for you.I recognized Zihua's voice on the phone, so I said Zihua, what are you looking for with Daxu, but she said she was not Zihua, and then the phone was disconnected.

This surprised me even more.I believe that Ye Zi is telling the truth, because I received a call from Zihua not long after I came here, and it was after midnight. At that time, I was so scared that I pressed the phone first. She denied it face to face.Last night, this call came again, and I was really a little creepy.

Seeing my frightened appearance, Ye Zi said, you have been here for so long, are you still afraid of ghosts?It's okay, next time I go to town, I'll ask Zihua what's going on for you.I think, this phone call is probably from another Zihua.There is also a woman named Zihua in the town who died of tuberculosis, you know?

I said, this is impossible.I never knew that Zihua, why did she still look for me after she died?
Ye Zi said, that's not necessarily true, maybe she was your sister in the previous life.

At this time, Zhou's mother called for breakfast, and Ye Zi stopped guessing about the phone.

Ye Zi still arranged for me to be on duty in the yard that day.After she took people up to the cemetery, I walked to the gate of the courtyard to look around from time to time, but I never saw the woman with the child appearing.I haven't finished eating the chocolates I bought in Xihe Town last time, and I've already put them in my pocket, planning to give them to my children to win the favor of women.I will subtly lead the topic to Ye Zi in my small talk with her.Since Ye Zi is investigating this ordinary peasant woman with a child, there must be hidden secrets in it.However, for some reason, the woman who usually brings her children here to play has not appeared today.

Back in the yard, I saw Zhou Ma sitting on the edge of the steps picking vegetables, so I had a brainstorm and chatted with her.I said that Yang Huzi is out, and Ye Zi is still very capable of managing here.Mother Zhou said, yes, she likes working here.This kind of woman is really rare.I said, how did she come here more than a year ago?Mother Zhou said, how did you come here?Come here.She heard from people in Xihe Town that they were recruiting people to work here, so she came here.I said, but I heard people say that she was found stealing the fruits of sacrifices on the graveyard, and Yang Huzi left her here to work.Zhou's mother smiled and said, I have heard of such things, and they are all made up by people around here.When Ye Zi first came, she said that she was thirsty on the mountain, so she would bring two fruits up the mountain from time to time. Maybe it was because she was seen while eating the fruit, so she misunderstood it.

Mother Zhou is a veteran here, and she is also the most normal person in my opinion.The only shortcoming of normal people is that they are not suspicious when they see things, and they are normal when they talk about everything. It seems that Zhou Mama is not very helpful to me in my investigative work.

But what about hanging a girl in the attic years ago?Mother Zhou was taken aback by my words, who said that?I said it was Ye Zi who told me that the girl hanged herself in the bathroom of the room where she lives now.Mother Zhou said with certainty, how could such a thing happen?When I first came here five years ago, there was a woman in her twenties working here. Her name was Meizi. She came out of the mountains.But within three months, the woman left.I didn’t see it when I left. A few days later, I asked Yang Huzi why I didn’t see the plum. Yang Huzi said that the people at the company’s headquarters took a fancy to her and transferred her to the city to work in an office. The plum is blessed.

I asked, what is Meizi's real name?Zhou's mother couldn't tell, she only knew that her surname was Wu.I think that's all right, make a phone call to the company's headquarters to find Meizi, and the matter will be clear.

But why did Ye Zi say that a girl was hanged in her room?Zhou's mother thought about it for a while and said, "I remember it. When Ye Zi first came, she was taking a bath in the house once and found something bumping on her head. When she looked up, she saw a rope coming from the roof. She became suspicious, and I heard her ask Yang Huzi what happened to the rope the next day, and Yang Huzi said that it might have been left there when the workers repaired the water pipe some time ago.

In Zhou's mother's memory, there are reasonable explanations for everything, but that's good, she finally provided me with a lot of information.I then asked Ye Zi the reason or motive for coming here, and Zhou Ma asked back in puzzlement, motive, what motive?It's not easy to work to earn money.It seems that Ye Zi's experience has only been told to me. I don't know if this is her trust in me or to dispel my suspicion of her.

At this time, the phone in the main room rang. I went in and picked up the phone. It was someone from the company headquarters who said he was the manager of the sales department and his surname was Jane.He informed us that someone will come to choose a cemetery tomorrow, a rich man from the provincial capital, and he wants to choose a high-quality cemetery.He asked us to make a better introduction when we were on site, so as not to dissatisfy this customer and choose another cemetery.

After I told Manager Jian that I must do it, I took the opportunity to say, please call me Meizi, I have something to do with her.Manager Jian said, Meizi, who is Meizi?I said her surname is Wu, probably someone from the company office.Manager Jian said that there are only about [-] people in the company, and there is absolutely no such person you mentioned.Okay, my phone is ringing, so be it.

I listened to the sound of electricity after the phone was disconnected, and I was stunned for a while before putting down the phone. Who was telling the truth about Meizi, Ye Zi and Zhou Ma?
This day until the evening, the woman with the child I wanted to contact never appeared.I couldn't help but run through the detective movie scene where the detective is about to get in touch with some witness or informant, and that person either disappears or dies.When this thought came to me, I laughed at myself for being too sensitive. Even if Ye Zi knew that I was going to ask this woman for questioning, I don't think she is the person who can commit murderous things.But I think, if the woman doesn't show up after a few more days, I need to go to her house to see where she lives near here, I think I can ask Poet Feng.

Dusk fell, the lights came on in the kitchen, and the five of us at the cemetery sat around to eat dinner.However, I saw Ye Zi sitting at the dining table without moving my chopsticks, so I said, Ye Zi, what's wrong with you, want to learn Taoist bigu?She covered her stomach with one hand and said that she felt nauseous and couldn't eat anything.Mother Zhou said, what's going on, didn't you encounter anything on the graveyard today?Poet Feng said that nothing happened to us together.A tombstone that was broken before, the stonemason has replaced it with a new one today.

In the evening, I went to the attic to visit Ye Zi, and I gave her the few pieces of chocolate that I intended for the child.I said, if you don't eat when you are sick, you will get sicker.It is said that a small piece of chocolate is more nutritious than a bowl of rice. Eat a few pieces to supplement your energy.Leaf half lying on the bed said weakly, you treat me like a child.I said that once a person is sick, he is like a child.That being said, I thought to myself, it would be naive of me to treat you like a child, because you are a resourceful person.

Next, I am concerned about her medication.She said she took antibiotics, morphine and vitamin B6.I said that you still have all the commonly used medicines, and I think you will get better soon.Before leaving, she told me that tomorrow there will be customers coming to choose a tomb, so you and Poet Feng will have to take them up the mountain.Poet Feng is familiar with the situation on the mountain, you are more eloquent, and you will satisfy customers.I said you can rest assured to recover from your illness, this matter is on me and Poet Feng.

When I walked down the attic, I thought to myself, how can I impress Ye Zi as eloquent?It seems that I have to keep my mouth shut in the future. It is not a good thing to give people the impression of being too smart.

The next day, the people who looked at the cemetery came. There were three luxury cars and a group of people, which showed that the family attached great importance to choosing a cemetery.Poet Feng and I took them up the mountain.Knowing that they wanted to choose a high-quality cemetery, we took them to choose from several higher hillsides.I also tried my best to spread the word.You see, how good this location is, the sun shines here first when it comes out.The location is high, so the soil is also dry, and the tomb is most forbidden to be damp, as you know.As for the feng shui conditions, an insider will be satisfied at a glance.And the mountain in our Xitu cemetery, if you look at it from a few kilometers away from the southeast, the mountain looks like a sleeping Buddha, and those who are buried here will bring good luck to future generations.

This set of words is not my creation, but what I have heard from Yang Huzi before.Use it when you hear it, but I'm not smart at all.

The pedestrians gathered together to discuss for a while, and finally settled on the cemetery.However, a middle-aged woman said to me, can the price be lowered, more than [-] yuan, which is too expensive.I said, this matter is out of our control, you have to discuss it with the company headquarters.We are only responsible for burial and management.

Poet Feng and I accompanied the group down the mountain when a man suddenly walked up to me and said, I seem to have seen you somewhere.I was taken aback, thinking that I had traveled to many units during the interview at the newspaper office, and it was inevitable that someone would see me familiar.At this time, I had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, no, I have been working here.Seeing that the man wanted to say something, I immediately said it first, but it is also possible, because I sometimes go to the company headquarters to do business, so I will inevitably meet him somewhere in the city.

I deftly brushed off the matter.But I have decided not to shave from today on.The condition of the beard can change a man's face a lot, and I can no longer make people in the city feel familiar or even recognize me.

After seeing off the pedestrians, I stood outside the courtyard gate for a long time, waiting for the woman with the child to appear, but there was no one on the road leading here.Another day passed, and the woman was still nowhere to be seen.In my impression, she hardly comes here for more than three days without children.I was a little impatient, and after dinner this day, I walked out on the pretext of taking a walk.I have asked Poet Feng about the location and characteristics of her home, and I still have an impression of the area not far from Shui Yan's home.

It didn't take me much effort to find her home accurately. When I was about to knock on the door, I suddenly heard some voices from inside the closed door. He retreated under a big tree far from the house.I sat in the shade of the tree, looking at the house that was half covered by the night, not knowing whether to wait or leave.While I was hesitating, the door opened, and a man's figure stepped out, then turned the corner and disappeared from behind the house.I suddenly realized that I ran into an affair tonight.

(End of this chapter)