Tomb Keeper

Chapter 26 The Missing Urn (1)
On the way back to the cemetery, I was grateful to Ye Zi.Before thinking of this, I thought that Ye Zi was guarding me against me, and even pretended to be a drum-eyed ghost to follow me on the graveyard.Now it seems that this is all my villainous heart.I stopped, looked at her and said, you followed me in the middle of the night, but nothing happened, I'm sorry.She said, oh, I didn't expect you to go to the village chief's house.

My heart suddenly became cold.Is this what my allies and my assistants say?She didn't believe that I would go to the village chief's house, so she came out with me.This kind of close monitoring made me feel a sense of loss while being vigilant.

On the next road, Ye Zi and I stopped talking.Unknowingly, I quickened my pace and left her behind me.As I walked, I listened to the footsteps behind me, wondering why Ye Zi was so wary of me.If she really came to the cemetery to do something to save her father, then there's no need for her to treat me like this.Logically, the fact that she's going out of her way to me can only mean that my presence gets in the way of what she's going to do.

As I walked and thought, I suddenly realized that the footsteps behind me disappeared.I turned around and looked back, but there was no one on the road.Where did she go?I'm a little creepy.I thought that she might be a plum, and Feng Poet said that the red clothes and black clothes are all the same color, but it is still hard for me to really believe these things from the bottom of my heart.At this moment, she disappeared from behind me, and I was afraid of her again.

For courage, I sang a song and strode back to the cemetery.When I looked up and saw the courtyard gate, I saw Ye Zi stepping into the gate at the same time.I called her, and she stopped at the door, and when I approached, she said, you ignore me, leave me like a trot, but what?I'm still ahead of you.

She had a smile on her face when she spoke, but I felt cold.

She said proudly, I am much more familiar with the trails here than you are.

It suddenly dawned on me that she had taken a detour.But I immediately reminded myself, don't listen to her.You didn't see the gesture of her stepping into the courtyard door just now, like floating.

I went upstairs with the leaves.When I got to the second floor, I didn't go back to the room immediately, but stopped at the stairs and watched her go to the attic.She seemed to have eyes behind her back. She turned around after going up a few stairs, looked at me who was standing there without any surprise, and said, there will be a phone downstairs before dawn, so I don’t need to answer it, it’s so annoying.

I thought, she followed me for nothing, she didn't see anything wrong with the village chief's house, and she didn't find any flaws in me, so of course she was upset.But I am a little happy, she will gradually believe me if she can't find my flaws.Because to be honest, the male protagonist always hopes to have a beautiful female assistant.Although it is much more difficult to do this in reality than in the movies, I still have the luxury.

When I opened the door to enter the house, a black figure suddenly jumped out and ran away from my feet.I was startled, but then realized it was the black cat.I saw that my window was half open, and the ability of this cat to fly over walls is really better than that of me who was a special soldier.

My playful thoughts about the cat, however, changed once I was in bed.The last time this cat was on my windowsill was the horror of my encounter with Plum in the attic.It jumped into my room again tonight, is there anything terrible going to happen?
I lie in the darkness of my bed.There was no sound in the corridor outside the door, and there was no movement in the attic.There is wind outside, with the cool breath of the graveyard, making some small noises on my window.

I suddenly remembered my dream, Meizi was sitting on the stairs in the attic wearing dark shoes.When I thought of this scene, I wanted to go outside the door like a demon, but I still held back the idea because I didn't want to cause any trouble again.

Three days have passed, and nothing seems to have happened to the village chief's house, and Lianzi has not called. I really don't know when the pair of women's dark shoes bought by the village chief will be used.And the shoes I bought for Meizi, I respectfully returned them to her.The yard was very quiet when I delivered the shoes. Although it was morning, the light was very dim, as if it was going to rain.Ye Zi took people to the cemetery, and the younger brother was cleaning the doors and windows of the main room.I lit the scented wax facing the small building in the yard. Mother Zhou brought some firewood from the kitchen. I put the shoes on the firewood and lit it. At first there was an unpleasant smell of burning, but as the fire became brighter, the smell of burning Disappeared.This was a small cremation. I bowed to the firelight, and Zhou's mother said, "Okay, let's go."

Zhou's mother didn't think that the Ming shoes that appeared in my room had anything to do with Meizi, because she believed Yang Huzi's words that Meizi had gone to work in the city.She just thinks that the ghost shoes are related to other ghosts.So I still have to make a wish to the ghost.And when I bowed to the firelight, I said to Meizi in my heart, please accept this shoe or something like that.Especially after getting in touch with Lianzi, I believed even more that Meizi went to the city and that it was a lie fabricated by Yang Huzi and the company.Now, I believe that Yang Huzi owed at least two and a half lives in the cemetery.One is plums, people don’t hang themselves for no reason, Yang Huzi must have some sort of crime in this matter; the other is the eight-year-old boy buried in the back mountain, although the child’s mother said the child died of leukemia, but When I mentioned Yang Huzi to her, she could only whimper again on the phone.From the principle of reconnaissance, when the person involved avoids talking about someone, that person must be suspected of committing the crime. Therefore, the dead person in the tomb of the little ghost that Yang Huzi was extremely afraid of must be related to him.This is two lives.The other half of life is Ye Zi.Ye Zi's life experience is still confusing. Among the various possibilities, the possibility of Ye Zi being controlled by Yang Huzi's magic cannot be ruled out.Even the villagers around the cemetery were surprised that Ye Zi was guarding the tomb here.If it is superstitious to say that the leaves are plums, then Yang Huzi is even more suspected of mischief.

In my process of burning incense and delivering shoes, I noticed two things.One is that the little brother was standing at the door of the main room with a rag in his hand, and he seemed to have a mocking expression on his face; the other was someone poking his head at the gate of the courtyard, and I found that it was the woman named Suying who appeared again with her five-year-old child .

After burning incense and delivering shoes, I went outside the gate to greet Suying and asked why the child came here again.Suying said, there is no way, I sent him to grandma's house, thinking that he would forget about this place, but after picking him up, he was clamoring all day long to come here to play.

Suying wore a black skirt today, but local peasant women rarely wear skirts.Moreover, this woman in her thirties not only wore a skirt, but her top was also curvy, and her face was radiant.This shows that after the child went to grandma's house, her cheating was more than the one I saw.Cheating makes a woman brilliant.The same is true of poisonous things, such as flowers and snakes, poisonous things are more beautiful.

At this time, the child suddenly ran over and said to me in a childish voice, uncle, take me to the mountain.The woman's face immediately changed, and she shouted at the child, Panpan, what did you say?The mountain is full of ghosts who will eat you.The woman became more and more angry, and even slapped the child.Then, he took the crying child away.

I went back to the courtyard and heard the phone ringing in the main room.I went into the room to pick up the phone, but I didn't expect it to be from Yang Huzi.He said he would be back in a few days.I said that your investigation is less than a month away.He said that the inspection was over ahead of schedule, because floods and mudslides occurred in several southern provinces, and all the cemeteries were busy with disaster prevention, so no one received us.He also asked about our situation, I said everything is normal, please rest assured the leader.Yang Huzi laughed and said, Da Xu, you have become able to talk.

When Yang Huzi said that I had changed, I was alerted.After he comes back, I have to play dumb, only in this way can I find the tail of this old fox.After I put down the phone, I found that my younger brother was still watching me while cleaning the window, so I shouted to him, what are you looking at!Unexpectedly, my voice made my little brother tremble, and the rag in his hand fell to the ground.He said timidly, I didn't, I didn't see anything.I shouted again, come and sit down.He hesitated for a moment, then obediently sat across from me.

I said, when I was burning things just now, you were laughing at me, weren't you?He lowered his head and said, no.I said, I know you think I am superstitious, so let me ask you, are there ghosts?He still bowed his head and said, no.I said, I heard that you stayed in the morgue for a year before you came here. Have you ever met a ghost?His answer was still one word, no.

I looked at him, his face was as white as if he had never been exposed to the sun, I don't know if this has something to do with him staying in the morgue.I said, judging by your age, you should go to university, why do you come out to do these things?He said he didn't get into college.But I hate reading to death. From elementary school to high school, my parents let me study every day and every night.I said, you choose to guard the mortuary, and then come to guard the cemetery, do your parents know?He said, don't know.I told the outside world that I was working in a service company.I asked again, there are many places to work, why did you choose this profession?He lowered his head and said nothing, and after a while he murmured that there was nothing wrong with this occupation.I said, it's hard to find a girlfriend in this profession, have you ever thought about it?Do you have a girlfriend?He blushed immediately, and the answer became one word again, no.

The bear look of my little brother reassures me, at least, he is not the person that Manager Xue sent to collect bad evidence from me in order to get revenge on me.Moreover, this little boy doesn't believe in ghosts or evil, so if he resumes night patrols at graveyards in the future, it would be most appropriate for him to go.And I prefer to do his work, go to the graveyard to wipe the tombstones in broad daylight, or clean the courtyard and this small building.Now each of our rooms is cleaned by him. If I win this job, I can take this opportunity to check the rooms of Yang Huzi and Ye Zi, and I believe that I will find something useful for deciphering the truth.

Unexpectedly, what I planned to do came sooner than expected.By the afternoon of this day, I went into Ye Zi's room.At that time, I was sitting in the main room, listening to the birds chirping in the empty courtyard, when my younger brother ran downstairs in shock and shouted, Brother Xu, there is a snake upstairs!I asked where it was, and he said it was on the terrace outside the leaf house.He said that he was about to clean the terrace, and when he opened the door, he saw a snake lying on the door, looking for an opportunity to enter the house.

Then I grabbed a grave-digging hoe and went upstairs.I went into Ye Zi’s room and looked, no, the snake had already run away.

Come in!It was coiled next to the bedside table, but its head and neck stood upright, as if it wanted to jump up.I approached it slowly with a hoe in my hand. Maybe it smelled the smell of me, a special soldier. It suddenly changed direction and jumped out of the patio door.I followed it out and it was coiled up under the clothesline on the patio.I looked at its head, and as soon as I went down with the hoe, it immediately separated from the head.It's just that my heavy hoe broke the clothesline in the air at the same time, and the clothes left to dry were scattered all over the ground.

The younger brother looked behind me dumbfounded.I thought to myself, whether you are afraid of ghosts or not, there must always be something that scares you.And I am not afraid of this thing. When I was a special soldier in the mountains, I saw a lot of snakes of all kinds.I grabbed the headless snake with my hands, and its body was still curling up.I said to my younger brother, take it downstairs and cook it tonight to improve the food.

The younger brother stepped back.I dare not take it, and I dare not eat it.He said, you have to be careful, this snake is poisonous.

(End of this chapter)