Tomb Keeper

Chapter 36

I finally entered the big yin house in the middle of the night.When climbing up the fence, the hard glazed tiles broke a little skin on my leg, and there may be some blood, but when I jumped into the dark courtyard, I thought that there is nothing wrong with a little blood on my leg, blood can ward off ghosts, If there is a ghost here.

Before this, I was very sure that Ye Zi would bring me here, because the relationship between me and her has entered the best period in history.To my surprise, she still insisted on not taking me in until she was cleaning.She said that Yang Huzi was very strict and could not let other people in.If she opened the courtyard door privately and was discovered by Yang Huzi, and Yang Huzi asked her to leave in a rage, then the matter would be serious.Besides, the matter of transferring her to the company headquarters is still pending.Her caution makes sense.She said that this is what she is worried about now. When Yang Huzi talked to her again last night, he said that the company had called and in principle did not agree to the transfer of Ye Zi, because the company's headquarters is now full of people, the important thing now is Strengthen grassroots forces.And Xitu Cemetery is on the eve of great development, so the personnel can only be strengthened and not weakened.Ye Zi was overjoyed after hearing this, so she didn't need to talk about her own experience.However, Yang Huzi left a tail on this matter. He said that the company did not say that it disagreed but that it disagreed in principle, which shows that this matter is not without variables. Of course, in my experience, the final disagreement may be Older, you can work with peace of mind and watch.

That being the case, I don’t want to embarrass Ye Zi any more. That night, the mute and I were watching the night. When we reached the back hill, I gestured to the mute, “You, go back first and go to bed. I, I want to walk a little longer.The mute blinked his eyes in confusion, but he still obeyed my order, turned around and walked back.

I climbed the hill on the back hill and climbed up the corner of the wall that I had scouted during the day.When I jumped into the wall, I didn't turn on the flashlight immediately, because the flashlight allowed me to see what was in front of me, but it also exposed me as an intruder.I landed on toe first when I jumped into the wall, which made my landing almost silent.

After landing, I squatted motionless for a while, and at the same time quickly listened to the surroundings with my ears, in order to determine whether there were any reactive sounds caused by my entry.The courtyard was dark and silent. In the shadow of a large grave and trees, the singing of insects was very rare in the middle of the night, and there were no more than three insects that continued to sing in the cracks in the grass and rocks.

After my eyes had adjusted to the darkness, I started to move.I first walked around the big tomb and found that it occupies most of the courtyard.The tomb is surrounded by thick trees, apparently transplanted from the outside when the tomb was built.It is relatively open from the courtyard gate to the tomb, and the ground is covered with floor tiles.On the front of the tomb stands a tombstone as high as two people, with a vaulted top and cornices on the tombstone, making the tombstone look like an arch.The tombstone is made of white marble, and I turned on the flashlight to shine on it. There is no writing on the tombstone, which shows that this is indeed an empty tomb.On the left side from the courtyard gate, there is a small pavilion, and there is a corridor several meters long outside the pavilion.Under the light of my flashlight, the pavilions and corridors are very clean, and there is no moss growing on the stone railings. I think this is due to regular cleaning.

I turned off the flashlight and sat down on the stone pillar in the corridor.I think that after people are buried in this tomb, this pavilion and corridor should be a place for the dead to rest and walk.But now, apart from the stones, soil, trees and weeds everywhere, the ashes and souls of people are still far away from here. This is a place without mystery.Yang Huzi regarded the key of the courtyard gate so important, maybe he just obeyed the request of the owner of the tomb.

At this time, I felt a chill on my face, and the wind picked up.When the wind blows in the middle of the night, it always seems sudden, just like when you are sitting in the house in bad weather, someone suddenly knocks the door open.The wind blew over, and I instinctively wrapped my coat in the sudden cool air.The surrounding trees are not quiet anymore, and I feel for no reason that it is time to leave here as soon as possible.When I walked out of the corridor, I was hit by something on the back of my shoulder. I turned around quickly and saw a piece of dead branch hitting me and then falling to the ground.At the same time, before I had time to feel relieved, I saw a figure flash behind a tree.The vellus hair on my body stood up, and I instinctively backed away, backed up again, all the way back past the pavilion to the other side of the tomb.

I hid behind a tree and sat down, listening for the sound of footsteps approaching me again.The surrounding trees reverberated in the wind, but my trained ears could still pick out any unusual sounds.It's like the average person can tell if someone is coughing in the noisy voice.After I heard that there was nothing unusual in the sound of the leaves, I felt a little more at ease. I was sure that the figure I saw just now was not a hallucination, because the man had distinct limbs, and he raised one hand when he dodged behind the tree.

After calming down, I blamed myself for the fear just now.I decided to attack again, and the route was to follow the counterclockwise direction of the grave to approach the place where the figure appeared just now.When I was about to stand up with my hands on the ground, the palm of my right hand touched something hard in the grass.I grabbed it and couldn't see what it was.I turned on the flashlight, and under the dazzling light, a woman's hairpin was pinched in my hand.It was a handsome barrette, in the shape of a butterfly, but the metal part was completely corroded, showing that it had been dropped here for a long time.My heart was beating "thump-thump", excitement and fear mixed together.I understood that the appearance of that figure was to force me here, to come here to see her hairpin.Ye Zi said that when she came here to clean up, she saw Mei Zi's figure flashing behind the tree and then disappearing. It seems that this empty graveyard is not without souls.

I immediately bent down where I found the hairpin, and after pulling out some weeds, I picked up the dirt with my hands.The soil is not soft, I think it is hardened after a long time.And it must have been fluffy in the first place.I suddenly thought of the dream that Baimei told on the phone. In a monastery-style courtyard, she pushed through layers of soft soil and saw the dead.It's just that the dead person she saw was me.When I thought of her dream, I suddenly felt horrified. After quickly putting the hairpin in my pocket, I didn’t dare to think or do anything here again. I turned on the bright flashlight and ran to the corner of the wall. When I climbed up the wall It's not as easy as coming in, maybe it's because my haste made my actions miss the point.Finally climbed up the wall, and then jumped out of the wall in a continuous motion.Just as he landed, he was suddenly hugged by a person.I couldn't help but let out a scream, which made me feel humiliated afterwards, because the guy who hugged me was dumb, and he just hugged me so that I wouldn't fall.After he broke up with me, he didn't go back to sleep, but turned around and followed me. When he saw me entering the yin house, he waited outside the wall again.He told me with gestures, I, want, protect you.I hugged his shoulder at once, the dumb is my good brother.

After returning to my place of residence, I lay in bed and couldn't fall asleep.I imagined what happened five years ago, after Meizi hanged herself in the attic, how Yang Huzi carried her body up the mountain in the dark night, and how she buried her body under the tree in the yin house.The process must have been so flustered that Meizi's hairpin fell by the grass where she was buried.Afterwards, rumors came out that Meizi had been transferred to the city.I thought of Manager Jian's answer to me on the phone from the sales department at the company's headquarters. There is no such person as Meizi in our company.

Towards dawn, a more terrifying association and speculation made me sit up on the bed in horror.Because Ye Zi is now encountering the possibility of being transferred to the company's headquarters.Next, if Ye Zi disappeared inexplicably one day, it would be very simple, no one would suspect that she was transferred to the city.My intuition left as a special soldier can always find signs of danger in the similarities between things.The most important thing now is that I must quickly tell Ye Zi about the discovery of the hairpin and let her know that she may be in danger.

However, it was not a coincidence.The next day, someone from the company headquarters came, which prevented me from being alone with Ye Zi.The person from the company is Director Wang who took Yang Huzi out for an inspection last time, and the other is the company's deputy general manager, surnamed Cui, and everyone calls him Mr. Cui.

The company's top executives came to discuss the development of the cemetery.The village head also came, and together with the whole team led by Yang Huzi, first accompanied the leader to visit the cemetery.A group of people first stood on the open space outside the courtyard gate, Mr. Cui looked around with his hands on his hips, the village chief and Yang Huzi were around him, pointing from time to time, I heard that they were discussing the construction of the mountain gate.Mr. Cui said that the gate should be built magnificently, solemnly and auspiciously.Let's make a big picture today, and then find someone who is engaged in design to come up with drawings.As for investment, I will discuss it with the village head after we come down.

Next, we accompanied President Cui and Director Wang to the cemetery.To my surprise, a person like Mr. Cui who lives in a bustling city and directs his work has no taboo or timidity towards this vast cemetery.He walked happily among the cemeteries, sometimes stopping to pat the tombstone in front of the tomb, saying that such stones will be eliminated in the future, and customers should be encouraged to use marble or even better stones, so that we can continuously improve the quality of our unit. profit margin.

(End of this chapter)