Tomb Keeper

Chapter 47 Who's in the Leaf Room (2)
I sent the leaves to Shuiyan's house.The light is on in the kitchen, it must be Shuiyan who is making dinner.Her mother-in-law was sitting on the steps outside the door looking at the dark clouds in the sky, her white hair shone a little in the gloom.Maybe because she heard someone coming, Shuiyan came out of the kitchen, saw Ye Zi, and took her hand and said, should I live here tonight?Sit down quickly, I will change you a clean quilt later.It seems that Shui Yan is used to Ye Zi living here.But Ye Zi still explained, saying that there are guests in the cemetery, and some rooms have to be made available for the guests.After we sat down, we didn't hear the baby's cry, so we asked about Shuiyan. She said that she had taken the baby to the provincial capital to see a doctor, and she felt better after taking the medicine.But the doctor said that the child had a congenital heart problem, and he needed an operation to cure it, but he had to pay 5 yuan for the operation.God, where are we going to find this money?Shuiyan wiped her tears while speaking, which made Ye Zi and I feel a little uncomfortable.

It was completely dark when I returned to the cemetery, and the rain had not yet fallen, but the black clouds over the graveyard were overwhelming.Yang Huzi asked the younger brother to close the gate of the courtyard tightly, and said that he would not watch the night tonight.He stood in the yard looking at the sky, and when he turned around, he said again, the clouds are like wolves, and the rain is pouring down.

The proverb Yang Huzi said is correct, after the rain, the sky and the earth seem to disappear.The thunder gradually faded away after a few bangs, but the rain intensified instead.The glass on my window seemed to be broken by raindrops, and there was no other sound in this world except the roaring rain in my ears.This should be the biggest rainstorm this summer.It will make the gravestones lined with grave mounds cleaner, which is what the dead love.

And I have been distinguishing suspicious movements from the sound of rain.Difficult though it was, my trained ear picked up everything from the yard door to the staircase to the attic.I have no way of knowing what Lianzi said was going to happen, but obviously it was aimed at Ye Zi.Ye Zi has avoided it, which makes me feel at ease, and at the same time very excited, because I no longer have to worry about the future, and any perpetrators who show their teeth and claws will be defeated by my hands.

Suddenly, there was a dull bang downstairs. I jumped out of bed and reached out to turn on the light, only to find that the power had been cut off.I grabbed the flashlight and rushed out the door. Yang Huzi, Dumb and the younger brother all came out.Everyone ran downstairs shaking their flashlights and saw that the tool shed in the corner of the courtyard had collapsed in the heavy rain.That house was originally built sloppily, if it doesn't fall down this time, it will fall down next time.After a false alarm, I whistled to the yard, indicating that nothing happened.

What Lianzi said "something will happen" didn't happen, and I passed out in sleepiness after midnight.I woke up with a slight noise.To be honest, if it weren't for the training of special forces, such a small sound would not wake people up in a deep sleep.

I sat up in the dark and turned on the light again, but there was still no power. It seemed that the heavy rain had completely cut off the circuit.I could tell that the slight sound was coming from the top of the building, which was Ye Zi's room, and my heart jumped up.

I opened the door in the dark and walked lightly to the attic.I didn't turn on the flashlight. I know that when the real situation arises, the person who turns on the flashlight is a self-exposing idiot.The rain, which had stopped for a while in the middle of the night, was now falling heavily, and it had the advantage of completely drowning out the sound of my footsteps going upstairs.

When I arrived at the door of Ye Zi's room, amidst the sound of rain, I could easily hear the sound inside the house.After hearing these sounds, I was stunned. Isn't this the sound of doing things between men and women?The heavy breathing of the man and the vague moaning of the woman were mixed with the sound of the rain outside the building, which made me feel creepy about the empty room tonight.I don't know if there are ghosts entering people's rooms to have sex. In the book "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio", such things mostly happen in the ruined walls outside the temple.

I can't explain why I didn't knock on the door and rush in.Perhaps, I have always interpreted "happening" as a violent incident, so I found this strange incident and found it in a dilemma; perhaps, I remembered the hallucination of seeing Meizi in black clothes here, so I am not sure whether the voice I heard at this moment is real fantasy.In short, it was difficult to explain my behavior, and after standing outside the door for a moment, I turned around and went downstairs to my room.

I went back to the room in the dark, and when I sat on the edge of the bed, I no longer heard any movement from upstairs.I am sure it was my hallucination just now, to be precise, it was an auditory hallucination.Fortunately, I didn't knock on the door just now, otherwise I can't explain why everyone was alarmed.

Before dawn, the rain stopped and the world was very peaceful.Thinking of the strange incident last night, I suddenly wanted to go to the back of the building to have a look.Because if someone or a ghost really entered the leaf room, the curved tree at the back of the building close to the balcony should be the only way to enter the leaf room when the courtyard door is closed.

I went downstairs, gently opened the courtyard door and walked out.It was not yet full light, but trees near and far could be seen in the misty air.I walked towards the back of the building along the courtyard wall, but at the corner of the wall, I almost collided with a person.That person called out, I never thought that this person was Lianzi.Her hair was disheveled, and the two buttons under her collar were still unbuttoned.She froze when she saw me.Her lips moved to say something, but before she could speak, she suddenly turned and ran away covering her face.I watched her run up the dirt road, toward her house.

There was a "hum" in my mind, and I understood most of the reasons for what happened last night.I quickly walked around to the back of the building, and it turned out that it took no effort to get up to the terrace from the bent tree.The door of the room leading to the terrace was ajar. Walking into the room, the bed had obviously been made up, but the quilt was folded into squares, which was obviously not Ye Zi's habit.Because every time I come here, the leaf quilt is laid flat on the bed, and sometimes a comforter is added.

The matter is mostly clear, but who is that man?When I thought it might be Brother Luo, I shivered in my heart.Lianzi is the village chief's wife, and he is the village chief's son. Is it possible?Absolutely impossible.Brother Luo is only obsessed with Ye Zi, and he doesn't even glance at any woman, including Lian Zi.Lianzi said that she stole Ye Zi's bra to seduce the village chief, but Second Brother Luo smelled it, so he followed her, but when she didn't wear the bra, Second Brother Luo never looked at her again. She glanced at it.All these things showed that apart from Ye Zi, it was impossible for Brother Luo to get close to other women, let alone go to bed.

However, apart from Brother Luo, I really can't think of any other man who would dare to enter this room from the balcony in the middle of the night.

I was thinking in circles in Ye Zi's room, and suddenly, the warm atmosphere in the room reminded me, yes, the atmosphere, the strong atmosphere in this room will drive Brother Luo crazy.And he came here premeditatedly, his blood burned in the dark rainy night, can he think that the woman on the bed is not Ye Zi?Yes, it would never have occurred to him that a man is mad when he makes the last stand of his life.And Lianzi must have known about Brother Luo's plan in advance, and she wanted to use this to realize her strong desire to have a child with the village chief, because only if this wish was fulfilled, would she have a way to survive in the village chief's house.

I went back downstairs from under the tree outside the terrace with mixed feelings.At this time, the sky was completely bright, and I followed the reconnaissance rules, looking under the tree to see if there was anything left by Brother Luo when he climbed the tree to the balcony.As a result, except for a glass button that might be a lotus seed, nothing else was found.

However, when I raised my head and inadvertently glanced at the cemetery not far away, I was horrified to find a figure hanging under a tree.I ran over with one foot high and one foot low, my God, it was Brother Luo who was hanging on the tree.I touched his stiff hands and feet, which were as cold as frost.I saw a few stones scattered under his dangling feet, presumably he squatted down while hanging himself.Among these stones I found a note, picked it up and saw it was his suicide note, which said, I have got the leaves, so I should go.

When a person leaves for such a simple reason, I dare not underestimate this simplicity.Gosh, maybe only you can explain the vicissitudes of the human spirit.

I put this suicide note in my pocket.Please forgive my concealment, the deceased, because I love Ye Zi, and I cannot let her be hurt in this turmoil.

Brother Luo's funeral was very lively.Everyone in our cemetery went to the village chief's house and burned incense in front of his spirit.The village chief didn't cry, but received the guests outside the door with a pale face.Lianzi didn't cry, but her expression was dull, as if she hadn't woken up from a dream.Brother Luo's suicide was obviously unexpected to her, but the secret can be buried deeply from now on, and she can rest assured.If she had a baby in her belly, the village head would be overjoyed within two months.

Regarding Luo Erge's death, there are many rumors among the villagers around the graveyard, and Ye Zi is inevitably involved.Fortunately, I hid the suicide note, otherwise Ye Zi would not be able to stay here any longer.In this way, the rumors involving Ye Zi are just old-fashioned, saying that Ye Zi is a ghost, a vixen or something.These words, after the speaker's interest has passed, he himself will not really believe it.

However, the rumors about Ye Zi from the second brother Luo’s factory came alive, saying that everyone saw it. At that dance party, Ye Zi’s eyes blinked a few times, and the electricity in the surrounding area stopped. She is not a vixen or something. The cemetery asked her to continue guarding the tomb, and there will be no peace in this area.Having said that, the matter became serious. After thinking about it all night, I went to Brother Luo's factory alone, and told everyone how I destroyed the power distribution room during the dance.After I finished speaking, a few boys stood up, and I knew from their angry faces that they wanted to beat me up.So I took a step back and did a fighting preparatory pose. As soon as I took this very professional posture, the boys immediately softened. One of them said, just pull the switch, and smashed the power distribution room. pulpy.I snorted and left, thinking that if I don't smash it to pieces, if you pull up the brakes, you can dance again.

Yang Huzi was very calm about this incident.After all, it is the old gravekeeper, so it is not surprising that he lives and dies.He said that what a person should do is God's will.So there is nothing unusual in this world.However, he still took good care of his subordinates. He told Ye Zi not to go up the mountain to watch the night, but just to watch the phone in the courtyard.After hearing the arrangement, Ye Zi let out a "hmm" and didn't say a word of thanks to Yang Huzi.I noticed that she didn't say anything these days like she was dumb, so I couldn't help worrying about her.

That night, when I went to her room to talk about going to Brother Luo's factory, and when I almost got into a fight, she finally smiled and said, You are so kind.This sentence made me feel so comfortable to death, I think with this sentence, it would be worth it even if I was really beaten up by those boys.

At this time, I noticed that the quilt cover and sheets on the bed had been replaced with new ones, so I asked if the previous ones had been changed and washed, and she said, it was burnt.I was stunned for a moment, I hadn't thought of such a thorough solution.I said, burn well, fire can solve everything.Moreover, fire is an auspicious thing, and primitive people used it to roast meat to eat.

The leaf smiled again, this is the effect I want.I comforted her and said that Brother Luo's death had nothing to do with you at all.He died in his own mental illusion.

Unexpectedly, Ye Zi said, no, it has something to do with me, he wanted to harm me, if I lived in this room that night, maybe I was the one who hanged on the tree.Therefore, I am very grateful to Lianzi, she saved me.

Ye Zi's words, of course, are another kind of truth.But when she said, "I'll be the one hanging from the tree," it still gave me the chills.I immediately said, with me, you can rest assured that no one can hurt you.

After saying this, when I was waiting for her to say "you are so kind" again, she said, will you, will you hurt me?

I was taken aback for a moment, but immediately noticed that she was smiling when she said this.I cheered up, and for the first time in days she joked with me about how she had come out of the shadow of the incident.

(End of this chapter)