Tomb Keeper

Chapter 27 The Missing Urn (2)
I laughed.Brother, let me teach you something, this is a long and fat cauliflower snake, look at its head on the ground, it is round, isn’t it?The poisonous snake has a triangular head and usually has red or purple patterns on its body.

The younger brother looked at me in awe and said, "It's not poisonous, and I dare not take it. Look, it's still moving."

So, I looked at the clothes scattered on the ground and said, then you have to do something, take these dirty clothes down and wash them.

The younger brother quickly packed up the clothes on the floor and went downstairs as if he was saved.I was about to take the snake downstairs when I suddenly thought why not take the time when Ye Zi was on the cemetery and look at the things in her house.I casually hung the snake around my neck, and the first thing that caught my attention was the scarlet pajamas on the bed.When I picked it up, my hands felt silky smooth.This is the first time I have touched this pajamas with my hands. Its authenticity is unquestionable, including its intoxicating scarlet color. It is unreasonable for Poet Feng to say that it will turn black in another space.After I gently put the pajamas back on the bed, I turned to look in her drawer.However, the desk and nightstand drawers were locked, which disappointed me.So, I casually flipped through the books on the table, which gave me an unexpected harvest.In a book, there was a page with only the beginning of the letter, and I read it like a treasure--

Mom and Dad, I miss you very much.I'm fine, and the place I live is safe, so don't worry.I look forward to the day I see you all.These days, I've grown up and I can handle anything...

Reading these words, my heart beats very fast.It is a pity that this letter has just begun, and I have not been able to capture the information in it for a while.According to Ye Zi's own account, it seems normal for her to write letters to her family like this.

I was about to flip through another book, but my younger brother came upstairs, and he screamed when he entered the door. I knew it was the snake I hung around my neck that frightened him.I said, what is it called, coward, what are you doing here again?He said to find some washing powder, I said don't rummage around in this room, washing powder is in Mama Zhou's kitchen.

In order to avoid suspicion, I went out with my younger brother, closed Ye Zi's door, and went downstairs with him.I think that if Ye Zi has any doubts about me in the future, my younger brother will be the witness that I did not stay in her room.

For dinner this day, after leaving the Special Forces for many years, I ate snake meat and drank delicious snake soup.However, no one at the dinner table responded to this dish.As usual, the little brother went to the yard with his rice bowl, but Zhou's mother and Ye Zi resolutely refused to eat it.Poet Feng was moved by my instigation, but stopped as soon as he picked up the chopsticks.He said, it is better not to eat, snakes are spiritual things.In the end, only the mute responded to my call. After spitting out a piece of snake bone from his mouth, he gave me a thumbs up.I also compared my thumbs to him, which means that a dumb person is very good, and those who dare to eat snakes are brave people.

Because of this snake, something changed in my relationship with Leaf, and that's when she started asking me for help.In the evening, she took the initiative to knock on the door of my room. She said that she was always worried that there would be snakes, and asked me to go to her room to have a look.This time she took the initiative to invite me to her place, and I proudly went up to the attic.After entering her room, I looked at several corners of the room first, and then went to the terrace with a flashlight.I shot my flashlight at the tree branch in mid-air and said, did you see it? The snake probably fell from the tree branch today. When it climbed so high, the snake would sometimes stumble. Otherwise, I will help you get it tomorrow. These overhanging branches were cut down.

Ye Zi hurriedly thanked her repeatedly, and then said worriedly, you can help me look around, in case there are still snakes hiding.I checked inside and out with a flashlight, and then said, there are absolutely no snakes now, so you can rest assured to sleep.She said, don't worry, my bed, pajamas, and desk seem to smell like snakes.

I froze for a moment, remembering the scene when I hung the snake around my neck and turned things around in her room. Could it be that the breath of the snake was all on these things? Ye Zi's nose is so clever.

I said, I don't think there is any smell in this room, you are scared, it's a psychological effect.She said timidly, psychological effect?may be.

Ye Zi seemed to have calmed down a bit. She asked me if I drank water, and I said I was not thirsty.She also said, you did something wrong today, those dropped clothes, bras and so on inside, you shouldn't ask the younger brother to wash them.He has been afraid to look up at me tonight, and I think something is wrong.

I was suddenly a little embarrassed.I hurriedly said, I didn't think of this at all at the time, really.If you want to think about it, I will wash it for you.

I was anxious and said the wrong thing again, she said, you are not allowed to do this kind of thing, it will be over if I don't do it when I come back.

I kept saying, good, good.It was the first time I felt embarrassed in front of her.Of course, I also noticed that it was Ye Zi who was more shy. When she mentioned that there were bras in her clothes, she not only avoided my gaze, but even blushed for a while.Although shyness is one of the common natures of girls, it is the first time I have seen it appear on Ye Zi.When I was studying in college, I once read that normal emotions are based on normal rationality. Reminiscent of Ye Zi’s family affection expressed in that family letter, these sound emotions and rationality may indicate that she was not haunted by ghosts or evil spirits. controlled by the technique.

That night, perhaps because I ate snake meat and drank snake soup, I felt dry and hot after sleeping on the bed.After I fell asleep, I dreamed of the laundry hanging on the terrace. The long clothesline was full of all kinds of bras and panties.Suddenly, the younger brother appeared under the clothesline, and tiptoed to a white bra with his lips.I rushed over and slapped him, but Ye Zi ran over and stopped me.She said that the younger brother is still young and ignorant.I said 19 years old is still young, he has been working in the morgue for a year.At this time, I heard the sound of the wheels of the trolley, and when I looked back, my younger brother was pushing a straight female corpse over. The female corpse had no clothes on, and there seemed to be two bright red dates embedded in the high chest...

I woke up in a panic and heard the windows being slammed by the violent night wind.I got up and closed the window securely, and saw it was pitch black outside.At that moment, I instinctively felt that something was going to happen tonight, but I couldn't think of what it would be, so I turned around and went to bed again.

This morning, the sun came out early.The strong wind last night blew the sky very clean and the air was very fresh.The black cat was already squatting in the first ray of sunlight in the yard, scratching its head and making a pose, and the big rooster in the corner no longer crowed, but clucked, which meant that it was time for Mama Zhou to feed it.The courtyard of the cemetery guard on the edge of the grave was peaceful and peaceful. We sat around and had breakfast, and when we were about to perform our duties, the phone rang in the main room.

I picked up the phone, and a man's voice said on the phone, we picked up an urn on the cemetery last night, if you want to take it back, hurry up and buy it with 50 yuan.Otherwise, we will call the family members of this grave, and you will be sued by the family members to the court.In the end, you lost money and reputation, and the cemetery could no longer be sold.Let's do the math, take 50 yuan to settle the matter.Don't gossip, get your money ready, I will call again.

After the man finished speaking quickly and clearly, he immediately hung up the phone.Maybe it was because I saw that my expression was wrong when I answered the phone, Ye Zi, who was standing aside, asked immediately after I put down the phone.When I said this, Ye Zi was shocked, grabbed my shoulder and said repeatedly, Da Xu, what should we do?what to do?I said don't worry, go to the cemetery first.

All of us, including Zhou's mother, went to the graveyard.On a small hill in the back mountain, a grave had been dug up, the bricks were broken deep in the pit, and the urn had disappeared.This is a first-class tomb covering an area of ​​[-] square meters, surrounded by pines and cypresses, it seems that the relatives of the deceased were quite powerful people.The tomb robbers chose this grave to attack, which shows that they have planned for a long time, and they will make the cemetery obediently obey.

When she returned to the courtyard, Ye Zi was already crying in fright.Because it was her idea to cancel the night tomb tour, it was a great responsibility.She said to me in a trembling voice, she thought there was nothing to steal from the graveyard, who would have thought that such a thing would happen?Daxu, what should I do?Let's call the police.

I bit my lip and said nothing.I already understand that what we are facing are not ordinary tomb robbers, because since the Qin and Han Dynasties, has there been such a tomb robber?No!This is not a tomb robbery, but a kidnapping in disguise, with the purpose of asking for a ransom.As for dealing with kidnappers, I, a former special soldier, have a deep understanding.

I told Ye Zi, don’t rush to call the police, because we still don’t know the details of this group of people. If there are any of them in the police, they will run away as soon as we call the police.So the most important thing for us now is to quickly understand the situation of this group of people, whether they are petty thieves or an organized gang, so that our response will not go wrong.The so-called know yourself and know the enemy, you will win every battle.

What I said made Ye Zi dumbfounded.I know that at this moment, I have become a hero in her eyes.She murmured, but, how to find out about the situation of that group of people?
I said there was a way. Judging from the situation at the scene, the group of people were familiar with the terrain and the level of the tomb, so they probably did not run around to commit crimes, but were committed by people within a hundred miles of this area.So, if you ask Second Brother Luo to help you inquire about it, there will be some clues.Because the second brother Luo is the director of the factory, the people who run the company not only have access to the officialdom, but also have people in the world.You can find clues if you go to him.

Although Ye Zi was very reluctant to go to that annoying guy, but when the big thing happened, she had no choice but to grit her teeth and agree to go to Brother Luo.After Ye Zi left, I immediately ordered everyone to keep their mouths shut and not to disclose anything to the outside world.At the same time, let Poet Feng take the mute and the younger brother up the mountain immediately to rebuild the dug grave, so that the nearby villagers will not notice anything strange.The purpose of my doing this is to block the news from the outside world, and not let the company headquarters know, let alone let the relatives of the deceased hear the rumors.Only in this way, Ye Zi and all of us will not be held accountable, and the operation of the graveyard will not be affected.

It took most of the day for the leaves to go out, and it was almost dark when they came back.Prior to this, the kidnapper who took the ashes as a hostage called to demand a ransom.The man said that if they didn't get the money before dark, they would call the relatives of the deceased.I said, we admit that this matter is unlucky, and we are willing to give money to settle the matter.But 50 is too much, 25 is okay?The man said, if you want to bargain with me again, I will raise the price to 100 million immediately.I pretended to be terrified and said "ah", and then said, if you must ask for 50 yuan, we also accepted it, but we have to give us at least three days to collect the money. You know that we are not printing money.The man gave a strange laugh and said, you can talk, see if you still have sincerity, then I will give you two days, but if you can't cash it then, don't blame us for not being friendly.

The book of war says that the tactic of delaying troops is the perfect strategy in times of crisis.Whether to give the money or not, give more and give less; whether to find someone to make peace or call the police to arrest people, the correct way will be found after time slows down.

(End of this chapter)