Tomb Keeper

Chapter 42 Poet Feng's Night Vision Device (1)

In the afternoon, the number of people sweeping the grave gradually decreased.We all breathed a sigh of relief when we came down from the mountain.When I got back to the yard, I first went upstairs to see the leaves.She was sick today, and her face was pale when she got up in the morning. She said she had chest tightness and pain.Yang Huzi asked her to go to Xihe Town to see a doctor, she said no need, she had backup medicine, maybe she would get better after taking the medicine and sleeping.

I went up to the attic.Ye Zi asked me to sit on the terrace with her, but her complexion was still not good, I said it’s not good for you to sit here with the wind blowing, she said that it’s more stuffy to sleep indoors, and it’s better to sit here.I asked her what was going on with her illness, and she said that she had a dream last night and felt chest tightness and pain after waking up.

Ye Zi's dream is a bit strange.She dreamed that her bra was snatched off by someone. The man couldn't see clearly. After grabbing off her bra, she pricked her chest with a steel needle. She felt a sharp pain and woke up.After waking up, I really felt chest tightness, chest pain, and shortness of breath, and it didn't get better in the morning.

I thought about it for a while and said, your dream is nothing, your bra was blown off by the wind on the balcony, the bra might be fine, you feel a little heartbroken, so you had this dream.

Ye Zi said, it's not that simple.No matter how painful it is to drop something, it will not reach the level of being pricked by a steel needle.Also, people are sick.

Leaf's words make sense.Her bra was not blown off by the wind, but was stolen, which was a kind of violation to her, so she reacted strongly in the dream.

After I told her this meaning, she was a little surprised.She asked, who stole it?I said, brother.Because when I told him about it yesterday, his face turned red all of a sudden.Although he used to be shy and blushed, he has gotten better recently. Why he blushes when he mentions bras is a sign of his guilty conscience.

Ye Zi asked again, how did he come to the terrace?

I stood up and went to the edge of the terrace to have a closer look.There are many trees downstairs, most of which grow taller than the terrace and are separated from the terrace by a certain distance.However, one of the trees was bent like a bow, and a thick branch just touched the lower edge of the terrace.Climbing up that tree is very easy. After climbing on the tree branch, straighten your waist and put your hands on it, which is the railing of the terrace.Climbing up to the terrace in this way is easy for anyone.

I pointed out the tree branch to Ye Zi, and she said "oh", as if she didn't want to admit it, and said, my little brother wouldn't do such a bad thing.

I said, what he did was neither bad nor bad.So, I told Ye Zi about his experience when he was seven years old. A big sister next door was drowned, her swimsuit was pulled back to her waist, and he stood by for two hours. Do not form a hazy but strong stimulus to him.

Ye Zi thought for a while and said, what should I do about this matter?
I said, it's very simple, let him hand over the bra, and teach him a lesson.

Ye Zi said, don't, don't, little brother is actually quite pitiful.And, no matter what, this matter is still your conjecture, and there is no evidence.

I said, let's wait a while.But I'll find proof.

Talking may really be healing.I was chatting with Ye Zi, and she suddenly said that she felt much better, and her chest tightness and pain were gone.At this time, it was already evening, and looking out from the terrace, there was no one on the graveyard.I said let's go downstairs to have dinner. After dark, we have to burn incense and paper outside the wall of the big yin house.Master Diao left three big boxes of incense wax paper money and firecrackers here, and entrusted us to burn paper for them to send ghosts on the night of July and a half.

At night, after it got dark for a long time, Yang Huzi said that the time had come.So, a group of us carried three large cardboard boxes to the cemetery.When we passed the grave of Yang Huzi's parents, we stopped and waited for him to burn incense paper money in front of the grave and kowtow three times before we continued on our way.The cemetery tonight is different from usual. Although the grave-sweepers who were all over the mountain during the day have disappeared, the smell of smoke and fire is still floating in the air.Some of the candles in front of the graves still have faint flames.It seems to be illuminating the way for the traveling soul.

After climbing up the hill of the back mountain, we first lit the incense paper money in front of the courtyard gate of the yin house.Then, Yang Huzi asked us to burn all the way along the courtyard wall.He said that it is actually more difficult to take care of the empty tomb. If the lonely and wild ghosts who gathered around are not entertained tonight, they will get into the wall and hang on.At that time, if there are rumors of ghosts inside, customers will doubt us and say, you say that this graveyard is a treasure land of geomantic omen, which is auspicious and protects future generations, so how can it be haunted?
In order to burn incense paper money on all sides of the wall, the full-time workers were divided into three groups, and Ye Zi and I were in charge of the section from the courtyard gate to the west side of the wall.While the paper was being burned, Yang Huzi came to visit again. He asked me, when Master Diao came from the town this morning, he looked unhappy. Did he have a big opinion on us?

I laughed and told Yang Huzi while burning the paper that he was not unhappy, but that he was scared out of his soul when he lived in the town last night.

Last night, Master Diao and I had just slept for a while when someone knocked on the door suddenly.Although Master Diao was drunk, he sat up from the bed when he heard the knock on the door.I turned on the light, and when I opened the door, I saw purple flowers.She stood at the door and said to me, I'm here to tell you that there will be breakfast downstairs tomorrow morning, and it's free.

Zihua turned around and left after saying this.I closed the door and turned around, and saw Master Diao sitting on the head of the bed with dazed eyes.I asked him what was wrong, and he said that the woman smiled at me when she spoke, but her face was stiff when she smiled, just like a dead man smiling after plastic surgery.

Master Diao's description gave me a chill too.But I didn't notice whether Zihua laughed just now.I comforted him and said, it's okay, this woman is our acquaintance, so you can rest assured to sleep.

He lay down, but he murmured, what good are your acquaintances? You are guarding the grave, and your acquaintances...

Before he finished speaking, he had already fallen asleep drunk.I turned off the light again and went to bed. Just about to fall asleep, I suddenly heard a "wow" on the opposite bed. I turned on the light and jumped out of bed, and saw him lying on the bedside vomiting.Drunk vomiting is nothing serious, but this time he was different, he threw back after throwing up, and he didn't respond when I called him again.His eyes rolled a few times and then closed tightly, apparently in a coma.I touched his chest, my heart was still beating, so I opened the door and called for someone to come.

The only small hospital in Xihe Town does not have an emergency department at night.After I knocked on the door with Zihua and her sister-in-law, fortunately a doctor who lived inside came to open the door.After the doctor's examination, he said that he had a poisoning reaction, so he quickly infused him with fluid.Half an hour later, the doctor said that there was no danger, and it could be stabilized after another bottle of fluid was infused.So, Zihua and her sister-in-law went back to rest, and I stayed by the hospital bed to watch him transfuse.

After a while, he opened his eyes and asked in a soft voice, where is this?I said in the hospital.He said, you lied to me.This is, in the house next to your grave, isn't it?I know, you, you want to keep me, I agree, I won't leave here...

After saying these words, he closed his eyes and became dazed again.I stood by and watched the liquid drop by drop in the infusion tube. I suddenly had a terrible feeling. Master Diao had agreed to stay in the cemetery just now. How could this poisoning reaction make people like this?The doctor said in the analysis that it is the mixed effect of wild vegetables and alcohol. From this point of view, is the wild vegetables in this store intended to make people become stupid after eating, and then Zihua's sister-in-law introduces stupid people to be guardians? What about the tomb man?Introducing a person for [-] yuan is more profitable than selling food.

The more I think about it, the more frightened I become.Ye Zi lived here for three days before going to the cemetery, and then went straight to the cemetery. Could it be related to this wild vegetable?

Fortunately, my dire conjecture was not supported by valid evidence.Because Master Diao didn't mention staying in the cemetery after waking up from the infusion, but just said weakly, "It's so dangerous, I have been dealing with ghosts in your cemetery in a coma, and I almost couldn't come back."

Of course, when I was burning the paper, I didn't tell Yang Huzi the whole situation, but just said that Master Diao was drunk, slept in the store all night and dreamed of ghosts, and was very frightened.Yang Huzi laughed after hearing this, and he said, it deserves it.When he came here and saw the damage to the cornices, he almost scolded me. He is not the master, so why is he so fierce?Anyone who acts fiercely on the grave will be punished.

At this time, the piles of fires around the walls of the yin house were already burning brightly, and the ashes of paper money were flying in bursts, as if countless ghosts were catching it.Yang Huzi said, fire the cannon!So, we lit the firecrackers hanging on the tree.Amidst the deafening explosions, the yin house also seemed to shake a few times.So we went down the mountain.On the way, Yang Huzi told me that tonight, the owner of the private house gave [-] yuan as an agency fee for burning paper and firing cannons, and I will give everyone a bonus tomorrow.I immediately told this to Ye Zi who was walking behind, and she happily said that I can go to Xihe Town to buy books again.I am already very familiar with that bookstore, as long as you buy books that are not in the store, he can also transfer them for you from outside.I teased her and said, you are a real scholar.Because most of the authors of classic books have passed away, reading in a cemetery is really a unity of man and nature.She said, your ghost brain is turning fast enough, but if you turn it too fast, don't wrong the good people.I thought about it over and over again, and felt that my younger brother was unlikely to do such a thing.

She was still thinking about the missing bra.I think, if the younger brother stole it, the matter would be simple; if not, it might be more complicated.

Poet Feng told me to go to the graveyard tonight, but the condition is that I can only follow him.This night, I was watching the night with the mute, and Poet Feng avoided even the mute. On the one hand, it shows that he keeps the clairvoyance device he developed absolutely secret, and on the other hand, it shows that he already regards me as a confidant.So, after dark, I said to the mute, tonight, you, sleep, me, one, go up the mountain.obedient.And, no, follow, me.The mute blinked his eyes reluctantly.But he still gestured and said, I, listen to you.

Poet Feng and I went to the cemetery in the middle of the night.Poet Feng said that at this time, the effect of the spirit vision device is the best.He was carrying a bulging canvas satchel, and his hair was longer than his collar. He looked like a photographer who took death as his subject.We were walking among the graves, and it was so dark that no one could be seen two steps away.Poet Feng was very excited. He said don't turn on the flashlight, and keep this magnetic field undisturbed.

We stood down in the depths of the cemetery.Seeing Poet Feng opening his satchel, I got excited.Although I always think that his spiritual vision device is impossible to succeed, but things are imminent. If I use it to see people in another dimension all of a sudden, I am worried that I will faint.At this time, Poet Feng had put an instrument on my head, and my eyes were covered.I reached out and touched my head. There was a metal strip hanging from the top of my head. I thought I might look a bit like a radio operator.Since my eyes were tightly covered, I asked in a panic, why didn't I see anything?Poet Feng said in a low voice, why are you in a hurry, I haven't turned it on for you yet.After I finished speaking, I felt his hand move near my temple, maybe the switch or adjustment button of the instrument is in this position.

Soon, an incredible miraculous scene appeared before my eyes.At first it was a little blue light, the light spot was as small as the farthest star, and slowly, the light spot gradually expanded. In this dim blue light, I saw trees, graveyards and tombstones.However, these scenes are different from what I saw during the day. The edges of these objects have obvious lines, which are a bit like pictures from X-rays.

(End of this chapter)