Tomb Keeper

Chapter 33 Yang Huzi's Past (2)
So, I also pretended to be drunk, spoke recklessly, and mentioned murder.I said that in ancient times, there were people who killed children to drink.After saying this, I stared at Yang Huzi's face closely, but I didn't see any panicked expression on his face.He said, never heard of it, yes, there is such a thing.There are children who cut off the flesh of their bodies to honor their parents.Alas, I can't be filial in this life.

I took advantage of the opportunity to talk about his mother holding him and jumping off a cliff, and he said that it was unclear.When I was 16 years old, I asked Dean Yang of the orphanage. She said that there were many orphans sent in at that time, but I couldn't remember who was the baby picked up under the cliff.

When Yang Huzi said these words, his expression was blank, without any hint of sadness, as if he was talking about other people's affairs.

My heart moved a bit, I picked up the wine glass and took a serious sip, and then said, why don't you find a woman?I heard that the plums that were here before were pretty good-looking.

Although I was moved, I still did not forget my mission when I spoke.

Yang Huzi sighed and said, forget it, can a person like me marry a wife?When you talk about Meizi, this is even more so. The woman on the graveyard, let alone marrying her, is not allowed even if she wants to take advantage of it.And, to tell you the truth, for me, the way Lord Yan wants to take me away is, let me see, see women...

At this moment, Zhou's mother came into the kitchen. She walked to the dining table and took a look and said, do these dishes need to be reheated?Yang Huzi shouted immediately, what kind of food is hot, go out!Who told you to come in?Da Xu and I are talking about work.

I've never seen Yang Huzi be so domineering, Zhou's mother left the door very bored.

Yang Huzi went on to talk about the way Lord Yan wanted to take his life.He said that during his trip to the south this time, a group of people went to the bathing place to have fun. He was taken into a single room with a large bathtub, and then a young woman came in and stripped naked in front of him.Yang Huzi immediately felt that the house was spinning, his body shook and he passed out.This incident frightened the bathhouse, and sent someone to send him to the hospital, where he regained consciousness after an infusion.The people in the same company later said that this was caused by his excessive excitement because he had never had a woman in his life.But Yang Huzi knew that it was not excitement, because before he passed out, he felt chills and fear, as if he had seen the most terrifying ghost.

Yang Huzi asked me after talking about this, you used to work in the hospital, tell me, what is wrong with me?
I shook my head and said half-jokingly, this problem is a medical problem.You have guarded the graveyard for so many years, haven't you seen a female ghost without clothes before?

Yang Huzi said seriously, no.Except for the kid, I really haven't seen any other ghosts.

When Yang Huzi was talking here, the light suddenly went out, and the kitchen was dark.Yang Huzi panicked and said, what's going on?In the darkness, I heard the sound of the wine glass being smashed when he hit the ground.

In this world, when a person reveals his privacy to you, you may become his friend; but it may also be the opposite, and you become the object he guards against.Yang Huzi belongs to the latter situation for me.After I drank with him, when I woke up the next morning, he spoke to me stiffly.He also called me outside the courtyard gate and said sternly, I can't remember what I said while drinking last night.You can't take it seriously when you're drunk, especially about me passing out in the bathing place. If you want to tell the story, don't do things here.Originally, you also wanted to become a monk, didn't you?I hurriedly declared that I would not speak a word to the outside world, and that I was used to working in the graveyard.

Of course, Yang Huzi's promise to entrust me with important tasks can't be taken seriously.I didn't even get the key to the private house at the wine table last night.It can be seen from this that in Yang Huzi's eyes, Ye Zi is still more trustworthy than me.

The sun has risen so high, Ye Zi sitting by the phone table said to me, what are you still doing standing at the door?It's time to go to the cemetery. Poet Feng and the others have been going up the mountain for a long time.

I'm not happy.Listening to Ye Zi's tone, it seems that she is still exercising temporary duties.I said, of course I have to go to the cemetery, I just want to ask you first, what happened to the sudden power failure last night?

Last night, when Yang Huzi and I were drinking, the electricity suddenly cut off. After Poet Feng checked everywhere with a flashlight, he found that the switch under the stairs had been pulled down.I asked Poet Feng if this was tripping, and Poet Feng said that this gate is not a leakage switch, and it will not fall if no one pulls it.I thought for no reason at the time that it was the dried leaves.Because Yang Huzi and I drank in the kitchen for so long and talked secretly, and Yang Huzi forbade other people to go in, this made Ye Zi feel uneasy.

At this moment, facing my inquiry, Ye Zi said, from your tone, it seems that I caused the power outage, can I do it?It's none of your business if you drink until dawn, am I afraid that you will say something about me?
I said, we are really chatting, Yang Huzi said at most that you and the little brother are afraid of strangers...

Ye Zi immediately interrupted me and said, I am afraid that what will happen to strangers, people have their own personalities.

I said, yes, and Yang Huzi didn't say there was anything wrong with it.In fact, we talked more about the development of the graveyard.

Ye Zi said, yo, it seems that Yang Huzi wants you to be his successor.

I said, I solemnly tell you that if you want to take over, that person will be you.But because we have been colleagues, don't be too strict with me then.

This made Ye Zi laugh, she said, go, go up the mountain to see the tomb.I will never take this class in eight lifetimes.Let's leave it to you to wait for good things.

I went up to the cemetery, thinking all the way about drinking with Yang Huzi last night, there were gains and losses.It's just that I didn't expect that this would make Ye Zi more wary of me, so, will she still take me into that yin house to see?Although she promised me, if she wants to go back on her word now, she will say that the yin house is cleaned every two weeks, and you have to wait until the next time I clean it before going in.And my feeling is that the sooner this matter is done, the better, perhaps, there are keys to unlock some secrets hidden in it.

I was walking in the cemetery, but I didn’t see Poet Feng and the mute who had gone up the mountain before. I saw a large canopy of trees that was blown off by the wind covering half of the top of the grave, so I walked over and pulled the trees away. At the same time, By the way, I took a look at the tombstone of this grave. There was a word "tree" in the name of the deceased, which reminded me that people are not as good as trees. A tree can still live when it is broken, but a person's life is broken when it is broken.

After entering the back mountain, I suddenly saw a person in the graveyard, it was my younger brother who was cleaning the tombstone.I walked over, sat under a tree to rest my feet, and watched my younger brother do things at the same time.He squatted next to a tombstone, first brushed off the dust with a brush, and then twisted a rag from the bucket to scrub the writing on the tombstone.When drinking last night, Yang Huzi mentioned twice that I used to work in the hospital, which shows that Manager Xue's doubts about me either didn't reach his ears, or he didn't take it seriously.In short, the doubt that this little brother was sent by Manager Xue to fight against me can be completely dispelled.

At this time, I suddenly discovered that not far from the place where my younger brother scrubbed the tombstone was the grave of the eight-year-old boy.I said to my younger brother, you have to wipe the tombstone of that grave over there.The younger brother said he didn't know which grave I was referring to, so I took him there.The younger brother looked at the grave and the tombstone and said, no, the maintenance fee for this grave has not been paid, so it should not be scrubbed.

I said, I told you to wipe it and you wipe it!As soon as the words came out, I realized that my voice was high and angry.The younger brother was so frightened that his body shrank a little. He quickly squatted down and wiped the tombstone, muttering in his mouth, just wipe it.

After my younger brother scrubbed it, the words on the tombstone became more conspicuous.Although there are many painful words carved on the tombstones in this tombstone, the words "mother Yuan Yanjie mourns Li" on the child's tombstone always make me feel a twinge in my heart.

My eyes fixed on the tombstone, and slowly moved to my younger brother's hand which was scrubbing the tombstone.This hand, like his face, was very white, and even under the sun's rays, it did not turn black but red.If this kind of kid enters the army, it is a dream to be a special soldier. At most, he will be assigned to be a medical soldier, and it may be suitable to be with girls.

However, how could this white and shy boy have been guarding the mortuary for a year before this.I think that the diversion of trees and rivers is also caused by external forces, and since his behavior is abnormal, the reason is definitely not that he just found a job without getting into college.

I said to my younger brother, sit down and rest for a while too. Brother Xu chatted with you today, so he sat timidly by the tombstone, looking at the ground.

I said, tell me about your work in the morgue.Your big brother Xu has never been there, so he is a little curious.

He said, no, nothing to talk about.As for the mortuary, that’s how the dead came, registered, numbered, and then opened the drawer-style mortuary box, put the dead inside, pushed the box back on and it was over.Within days, the dead man was transported to the funeral home.However, Manager Xue wants us to stay in the mortuary for one more thing, which is to secure a full set of funeral business in the first place, and at the same time, recommend the cemetery to the family of the deceased.

I asked, are you afraid of guarding the dead every day?

He said, don't be afraid.You just have to think, the dead person who pushed here was alive half an hour ago, and if you saw him half an hour ago, would you be afraid?It's the same.

The younger brother said "this is the same" with ease and naturalness, which made me discover for the first time that there is still something I admire in him.I said casually, you are not afraid of the dead, you must have been with the dead since childhood.

He said no.

I knew his parents were still alive, so I said, think about it, grandpa, grandma, or some other relative, lay on the bed after death, and you guarded him for a long time.

He said, no, my grandparents are fine now.

The younger brother's denial made me feel that my analysis ability was too poor, which made me a little angry.So, I yelled as if unwilling to admit defeat, think again, think about it, is there any time to stay with the dead.Am I wrong about these things?

I spoke loudly and vigorously, which made my younger brother very excited.He lowered his head, looked at the ground, and stopped talking.

After a while, when I was about to stand up and leave in boredom, my younger brother suddenly raised his head and said with bright eyes, I remembered, I remembered, there was such a thing.

The younger brother’s story brought me back to when he was seven years old, the big brothers and sisters in the yard took him to swim in the wild river in the suburbs.Of course, his task is just to keep the clothes for the big brothers and sisters on the shore.Near dusk, a big sister was washed away by the river. Some of the companions were so frightened that they squatted by the river and cried, and some went along the river to look for it.When it was dark, the eldest sister was fished out. Someone pulled her swimsuit back to her waist and put her hands on her chest to give her artificial respiration.Later, everyone around said, dead, dead.The younger brother felt that everyone was trembling with fear, and someone said to him, younger brother, you will guard her by the river, and we will go back and call her parents.After speaking, these people left.At this time, it was completely dark, and the younger brother had been guarding the elder sister. At least two hours later, her parents rushed to the river in the suburbs crying.

The younger brother seemed a little excited after talking about it.He said, How could I have completely forgotten this matter?Just suddenly, all of a sudden, I remembered it.

So, I said triumphantly, well, I said you've been with dead people, haven't you?You elder brother Xu is very predictable, not because I yelled at you just now, you still can't open your mind.

The younger brother nodded, his face flushed red, as if the half-naked elder sister was still lying on the ground at this moment.In a panic, he picked up the bucket and continued to scrub the tombstone.

I believe that the dead affect the living more than the living affect the living.I was walking among the graves in the back mountain, and the scene of the air crash many years ago appeared before my eyes.I picked up the girl, and as I put her in the body bag, I couldn't help but straighten her long, messy hair.

Before I knew it, I had arrived at the door of the big yin house.In fact, in my unclear consciousness, as soon as I entered the back mountain, my footsteps were heading towards this high hill.I suddenly felt that Meizi's body might be hidden in this empty tomb.The dead affect the living.Meizi died, first let the village head marry a wife according to her standards, and then let the village head's son fall in love with the new female grave guard, this is the power of the dead.

(End of this chapter)