Tomb Keeper

Chapter 40
That night, I told Ye Zi about this, and she laughed too.She said, would you dare to throw Suying's child eight feet away?I said, coax Yang Huzi.No matter how old a person grows, he is still a child in some respects, and he is happy when he is coaxed.Ye Zi said, oh, you are also coaxing me sometimes.I hasten to declare, who can coax you? Just because you have read so many books, I can only be considered a primary school student in front of you. Have you ever heard of students coaxing teachers?Ye Zi said, look, this is not the beginning to coax me.

Ye Zi and I both laughed at the same time.We were sitting on the terrace at this time, and the night was very dark, but we could still distinguish the cemetery on the right and the dirt road from the cemetery on the left.On the far side of the road, a car light came on for a while and then went off. I guess it was in the direction of the village chief's house.So I asked Ye Zidao, Lianzi came to you, what book did she borrow and leave.She said that she actually came to chat with me.She tours my house and spends a long time on the patio.I said, sorry, I asked you about a woman, is Lianzi pregnant?Ye Zi said, why do you care about this matter? Lianzi told me a lot, but I won’t tell you. It’s just that if Lianzi wants to have a child, there may be no hope.

At this time, the wind suddenly blew up, and the clothes on the clothesline on the terrace fluttered.Ye Zi stood up and said while collecting clothes, I always forget to collect clothes... Hey, why did a bra hang here disappear, maybe it was blown to the bottom of the terrace by the wind.

I suddenly wanted to earn a performance, so I said to Ye Zi, give me the flashlight, I will go down to have a look, and I will definitely find it for you.

I took the flashlight and went downstairs, walked out of the courtyard gate, and walked around the back of the house against the fence.The small building we lived in was surrounded by walls on three sides, and behind it was the slope leading to the cemetery.After I got to the building, there were many trees here, and I searched under these trees with a flashlight.At this time, I heard Ye Zi shouting on the edge of the terrace, did you find it?I raised my head, looked up through the thick trees, and cried, Wait a minute, I'm looking.

As a result, I didn't earn the performance I wanted to earn. All I got was a sock with a musty smell. It must have been blown down by the wind for a long time.

After going upstairs and back to the terrace, Ye Zi analyzed that it might have been taken away by the black cat after falling down.The cat was very bad. Earlier, she had a silk scarf hanging here and it was blown down. She didn't notice that day, but a few days later, she saw the black cat dragging the silk scarf outside the courtyard gate. Play.I said, hum, teach that cat a lesson someday.Ye Zi smiled, look at you, why are you angry with the cat.

At this moment, Yang Huzi suddenly heard shouting from downstairs, Da Xu, answer the phone!
I was taken aback.No one was looking for me when I was here, not to mention it was late at night.This can only be from Zihua.But the previous two times were in the middle of the night, and it's not yet midnight today, maybe she really wants to talk to me.

The leaves also judged that it was a purple flower.But her expression was more nervous than mine.Her state infected me, so that when I went downstairs in the dark, every step I took felt unsteady under my feet.

In the afternoon, a small car drove to the cemetery.I went out of the courtyard and saw a man in his 30s getting out of the car.The moment he took off his sunglasses, I was startled. Isn't this just Master Diao?But I calmed down quickly because he never knew me despite his brief driving at the newspaper.Besides, I haven't shaved in a long time, and I feel a little strange to myself when I look in the mirror.According to Ms. Yuan, Master Diao is now driving the two elderly people she is serving. Maybe he came here to buy a cemetery.

I went up and greeted him as I would any guest.He said, is Yang Huzi here?Get him out quickly, I'm going to see the cemetery.I said, Yang Huzi went out to run some errands, you want to buy a cemetery, I can take you up the mountain to see it.He said, what to buy, the one you bought earlier, the biggest one on the back mountain.

It turned out that the owner of the big yin house sent a driver to check it out.I said embarrassingly, you want to see the locked tomb on the courtyard wall, I don't have a key here, you come and sit with us first, I will send someone to call Yang Huzi back immediately.

Yang Huzi took Ye Zi to the village chief's house today, saying that he was studying the construction plan of the gate of the tomb.I brought Ye Zi to let her do paper work, and the written materials should be reported to the company headquarters.

Master Diao followed me up the stone steps leading to the courtyard gate. After stepping into the courtyard gate, he suddenly stopped, looked at the courtyard and the small building and said, forget it, I’d better wait in the car, hurry up Just ask Yang Huzi to come back.

I had to let my younger brother go to the village head's house.The little brother is not familiar with the way, so I took him outside the gate of the courtyard, pointed and talked to the distance, and then he said, okay, let me try to find it.

The reason why I didn't go to Yang Huzi myself was because I wanted to stay here and chat more with Master Diao.This is a rare opportunity, and it would be useful for me to know something about this haunted house.

I carried a hot water bottle from the main room to the car.Master Diao said he was waiting in the car, but in fact he took the teacup out of the car and sat on the open space outside the car to smoke.After I added water to his teacup, he became more enthusiastic towards me. He first introduced himself as Diao, and then said that your management office is too old, and he felt like a ghost when he walked into the courtyard.I said yes, the yard of this house is quite old, but we are used to living here, so we don’t think there is anything dark about it.He said it was time to rebuild.Look at our tomb, it is more beautiful than the house you live in.I said, of course.You paid a lot of money to buy this tomb.He said, not too much, it cost more than 100 million yuan to buy land and build.

When he said "it cost more than 100 million yuan", he said with a relaxed tone, as if the money was a dime note taken out of his pocket.In fact, I know that he is just a coachman who is ordered to drive, and usually he might not dare to say a word in front of his master, but today he came to this remote place, and he just made himself proud by putting on airs.

Maybe he was tired from sitting, so he stood up from the ground, patted the grass clippings on his pants, and then did the exercise of raising his hands and stretching his waist.He asked without looking at me, are you new here?I came here half a year ago and never saw you.I said, I just came here not long ago.He stopped exercising, turned to stare at me and asked, is the salary high?I'm not saying it's high, more than 800 yuan a month.He kept saying that it was impossible, that a smart young man like you would not come to do this without a high salary.And your cemetery is getting more and more expensive, if the boss only gives you this little money, it would be too cruel.I said, can you be a boss if you are not ruthless?It seemed to touch him, he said, well said.But the boss is different from the boss. I first drove in a transportation company, and the boss was ruthless; later, I worked in a newspaper office, and the boss was a little better; now I drive for the chairman’s house, and life is really easy.His words were unintentionally revealing his identity. After he finished speaking, maybe he also felt that the distance between me and me had narrowed. He took out a cigarette and threw it to me and said, buddy, have one.

With this atmosphere, the conversation is easy.I was about to ask him if he found anything unusual when he visited the tomb before, but he turned around and went to the back of the car.He opened the trunk and said, come, let's move these things into the house together.

Soon, three boxes of incense paper money and firecrackers were moved into the main room.He clapped his hands, turned around and fled outside the courtyard gate again. I followed him out and walked to the parking lot with him, asking what he was doing with this thing since it was an empty grave.

He said, tomorrow is July and a half, don't you remember, as the saying goes, in July and a half, ghosts run around.Lord Yan gave the ghosts a holiday this day, and all the lonely ghosts and wild ghosts came out.So we have to burn incense paper money around the wall of the tomb to entertain the lonely and wild ghosts so that they won't come in and make trouble.It is said that five or six years ago, shortly after the tomb was built, it was haunted by ghosts...

He stopped when he said this, because Yang Huzi and Ye Zi were coming from the road.I'm sorry to be interrupted at a critical point, but it's nothing. After going up the mountain, there will always be a chance to ask him more details.

However, Yang Huzi didn't let me go up the mountain, he said, Daxu, you should go back to the house and watch the phone, Ye Zi and I will accompany Master Diao to see the tomb.

I had no choice but to go back to the door of the main room and sit down, looking bleakly at the yard slanted by the sun.The younger brother's task today is to tidy up the tool room in the corner, and shovel out the moss around the base of the wall. As outsiders say, the place is very cloudy, and the moss at the base of the wall grows as fast as the beard on a man's chin.

I looked at the courtyard and the courtyard gate, thinking about how to get the chance to chat with Master Diao after he went down the mountain.Five or six years ago, there were ghosts in the yin house, which coincided with the time of Meizi's death. It seems that my judgment is getting closer and closer to the truth.

The black cat had appeared in the yard at some point.It had a black thing in its mouth, put it on the ground, then jumped at it, then picked it up and put it on the ground again, it seemed that the cat was practicing catching mice.I walked over and saw clearly that this dark thing was a ghost shoe.I kicked it with my foot, then bent down to pick it up, and I was sure it was the ghost shoe that had appeared on my bed before.Then I threw it out of the leaf's door, and then it disappeared without a trace.It turned out that all of this was caused by the black cat. It brought this thing into my house from nowhere, and it scared me almost out of my wits.It also played with the leaf silk scarf outside the courtyard gate, and I thought what kind of horror it would be if it brought that silk scarf into my house.I took the ghost shoe that had been bitten badly by it, leaned over and said to it, you are a ghost cat.But it didn't care, it yelled "meow" twice at me, then turned around and shot towards the courtyard wall.

The younger brother came over and asked, what are you taking?I showed it to him, and he said, Ming Xie, my younger brother is certainly no stranger to such things.I stuffed the dreadful thing into the wood stove in the kitchen, added a handful of grass, lit it, and burned it.That's what Yang Huzi did when he burned the vines beside the grave. Fire can destroy everything.

I went to the yard, the younger brother said, I also saw that cat had a silk stocking in its mouth.I said that it was the leaves hanging on the terrace and being blown down by the wind.I also blew off a bra yesterday, please pay attention to see if the cat picks it out one day.

Maybe it's because I said this quickly, the younger brother didn't hear clearly, and he asked, what did you say blown away?I say, bra.The younger brother's face turned red, and he looked down at the ground, looking uneasy.Then, he said "oh", picked up the shovel and went to the wall to shovel the moss.

(End of this chapter)