Tomb Keeper

Chapter 48
In the middle of the night, I came to the grave of the eight-year-old boy alone.That night, the mute was supposed to watch the night with me, but from the moment he walked out of the courtyard, I noticed that he was shivering, as if he was afraid of the cold.I gestured and asked him, what's wrong with you?He gestured and replied, I, after seeing the hanged person, always think about his face, eyes, and tongue, I am afraid.After the mute finished speaking, his body trembled even more.Several days have passed since that incident, and the mute who is used to the graveyard is still so afraid. I think it was the scene of taking Brother Luo down from the tree that day that stimulated him. He was standing very close to the corpse at that time. I saw him When he looked up, the horror in his eyes was indescribable.

So, I didn't let the mute go to the graveyard with me to watch the night.After all, he was still a child, so he couldn't stand this kind of stimulation.I gestured him to go back to sleep, and he ran back to the small building without hesitation.

This night watch has become more and more a formality, Yang Huzi said, it is enough to flash the flashlight everywhere.And after the cemetery is expanded in the next step, professional security guards will be hired, and those of us only need to manage it.Yang Huzi thought that I would wait until that day, but in fact I was eager to end my unannounced visit.Yesterday, Bai Mei called her again as a cousin. She first talked about being dumb. It has been a few days since the family search advertisement was published, and no one has contacted the newspaper.In addition, she told me that the leader of the newspaper office was finally asking where I was going, and she said that I had to go back as soon as possible.

In this way, I had to simplify what I was about to do.Ye Zi's suspicious identity and what she was going to do in the cemetery, because I have fallen into the land of tenderness, I decided to give up exploring her.May the chief of the Special Forces unit who raised me forgive the stupidity of a retired scout.In this way, I simplified the task to be completed to one point, which is to quickly decipher the truth that Yang Huzi is afraid of little ghosts and women.Perhaps, this is the biggest secret in the cemetery.

Just at this moment, my younger brother told me that when he was scrubbing the tombstone, he found another ivy growing beside the child's grave. The vine grew out of some weeds and climbed to the side of the tombstone, as if still It's as if you want to climb to the tombstone.

I remembered what I said to this kid’s grave while burning paper at night in the middle of July. At that time, I said in my heart, if you really have wronged, then grow another ivy to show me.

Whether there is a hidden arrangement for the coincidences in the world is beyond human intelligence. Taking advantage of the night watch, I sent the dumb man back to sleep, and then went straight to the kid's grave on the cemetery.I used the flashlight to shine on the tombstone, and I saw a green vine winding under the tombstone.

I was stunned, and when I was about to follow the path of the vine with my flashlight and turn to the side of the grave to have a look, I suddenly saw a figure standing not far behind the grave.I instinctively asked, who is there?

At this time, a strong flashlight shot at me from that direction, and when I covered my eyes with my hand, I heard Yang Huzi's voice, "What night are you patrolling, don't go anywhere, just guard this tomb.

Unexpectedly, Yang Huzi was following me.I immediately pretended to be very casual, and said to him who came forward, look, there are ivy growing again.Yang Huzi obviously knew about it a long time ago, without looking at the vine, he said, what's the matter, everything grows in the wild, don't make a fuss.

Yang Huzi walked towards the path while talking, obviously, he didn't dare to stay by the grave, he was just trying to get closer.He called me to the path between the cemeteries and said, "Be careful. If you go to the cemetery, you will either look at the tomb or go to the side of the yin house. If you do things here without peace of mind, there will be no good results."

He is threatening me.His gaffe made me happy, because it showed that I was getting right into his secret.However, I still have to play dumb at the moment, so I asked, what does it mean that there is no good result?
He hummed and said, the relationship between you and Ye Zi, I have seen some tricks, that hanged ghost likes Ye Zi, if you mess around on this graveyard, that ghost will hang you to a tree.

I immediately pretended to be a little scared and said, how could I mess around?You just have to rest assured to me, I didn't reveal a word of what you said to Meizi in the private house.

Yang Huzi snorted again, and then urged me to go down the mountain with him.

When I was thinking about how to break Yang Huzi's last line of defense, something unexpected happened.Early this morning, I left the courtyard and wanted to go for a walk outside to get some fresh air. When I first arrived at the open space, three men came out from nowhere. One of them asked me, there was a man named Rong Xiaodi Do people live in it?Somewhat startled, I replied yes.He said, take us in to find him.I brought them into the yard, just as Ye Zi came downstairs, I didn't have time to ask her why she got up early today, because these three men were urging me to go upstairs to my younger brother's room.I took them to the door of my younger brother's room, and after knocking on the door, my younger brother came to open the door.At this moment, the three men rushed forward, and the younger brother's wrists were immediately handcuffed.The younger brother immediately turned his lips white and his whole body trembled.At this time, Yang Huzi had already walked out of the room, and he just asked what he was doing, when two of the three men walked up to him and asked, your surname is Yang, are you the person in charge here?Yang Huzi said, yes, who are you?A man immediately took out a small notebook, shook Yang Huzi and said, police.Please come with us too.

The three men led the younger brother and Yang Huzi out of the courtyard.A police car had already stopped in the open space outside. After Xiaodi and Yang Huzi were pushed into the car, the door was closed and they drove away. Only the dust raised behind the car dispersed after a while.

All of us here ran out of the courtyard gate.Poet Feng didn't mind his own business, and his eyes widened at the gate of the courtyard today.However, when everyone returned to the yard after the car drove away, Poet Feng was the first one to go upstairs and back to his room.He didn't even say a word of surprise about it, and I really admire his concentration.In the cemetery, he was the most self-sufficient and peaceful man.

The people standing in the yard were a little dull for a while, only Zhou's mother kept talking, oh, what's going on?What law did my little brother break, why was Yang Huzi also taken away?

Standing between us, the mute looked at Zhou's mother in bewilderment, then at Ye Zi and me, as if eager to know the reason.

No one knows why.Ye Zi has not spoken, I think this matter will not be too big.Little brother, how much crime do you think he can commit?Unexpectedly, when I said this, Ye Zi ignored me, only gave me a cold look, then turned and went upstairs without saying a word.

I walked to the chair at the door of the main room and sat down. This happened so suddenly that I needed to think about it seriously.Generally speaking, the police come all the way to arrest people by name, and it is unlikely that they will make a wrong arrest. I remembered how my younger brother cried bitterly one night before, crying and saying that it was over, my whole life was over.Thinking about it now, there was a reason for him crying like this.In addition, he came here to guard the tomb suddenly, and was afraid that Yang Huzi would tell him to leave. It seems that he used the cemetery as a place of refuge.

In fact, I don't care too much about my younger brother. What is important to me is that Yang Huzi was also taken away. Although he was not handcuffed like my younger brother, he would not have been taken away by the police if he hadn't committed a crime.I am a little anxious and a little lost. If the things Yang Huzi committed just come to light, I think I will feel ashamed.As for the unannounced interviewing reporter who was a special soldier, it took so much time to find out the details of Yang Huzi, what a stupid pig.

I feel that my scouting performance is a bit worrying.Moreover, Ye Zi suddenly looked at me coldly, what does that mean?Thinking of this, I got up and went to the attic.I directly asked Ye Zi why she looked at me coldly.Yes, I don't have to go around in circles when talking to her.Unexpectedly, she said, I usually see that you are pretty good to my younger brother, why did you secretly harm him, and brought the police here early in the morning.

Ye Zi thought it was the police I called, which is really unfair.I told her what happened, but she said with half-belief, you met the police when you went out, is it such a coincidence?

I felt speechless, and at the same time saddened by Ye Zi's distrust of me.

When it was dark, Yang Huzi came back.Everyone immediately gathered around to inquire.Mother Zhou held a half-peeled vegetable head in her hand and didn't have time to put it down.Yang Huzi said, it's all right, my brother committed the crime in the city and has nothing to do with our cemetery.The police thought I had committed the crime of harboring, but after investigation, it proved that I did not know that I accepted him.It's just that Manager Xue will be in trouble.

It turned out that the younger brother insulted a female corpse while guarding the mortuary.The family members of the deceased noticed something strange while changing the clothes of the deceased and called the police.The younger brother was so frightened when he heard the news that he cried and told Manager Xue about it. Manager Xue was afraid that his arrest would affect the reputation of the company, so he sent him to the cemetery to hide.Yang Huzi said, the younger brother committed the crime of insulting a corpse, which is included in the criminal law.Therefore, our cemetery will also be managed according to the law in the future, and we must tell the outside world that anyone who dares to touch the grave is also breaking the law.

Yang Huzi felt like a blessing in disguise while talking.As if his false alarm today was worth it.In fact, I knew that he brought his words to this aspect to scare himself.I believe that when he was escorted into the police car, he must have been screaming in his heart like the younger brother cried, it's over.However, this result satisfied me. Generally speaking, the police would only accept reports to the police, and the suspense surrounding Yang Huzi would be difficult to decipher without someone like me.

The truth about my younger brother's arrest also resolved Ye Zi's misunderstanding of me.In the evening, when I went into her room, I said, now you see, I didn't bring the police, did I?Leaf smiled embarrassedly.But she still smiled reluctantly, because there was still panic in her eyes.I feel that today's incident does not seem to stimulate her any less than Brother Luo's suicide.In fact, what does this have to do with her? Maybe it's because a woman's heart is too soft.Because she sighed and said, the younger brother is quite pitiful.I said, if the law is pitiful, it is not called the law.She was taken aback when she heard what I said, as if she didn't want to hear me say that.So I added, do you think, if you were the relative of the dead woman, would you feel sorry for the younger brother?What I said made Ye Zi nod her head.

This night, I wanted to chat for a while in the leaf room, but before I said a few words, she said that she had a headache and wanted to rest.

When I came down from the attic, Yang Huzi was standing on the stairs below. He looked up at me as I walked down the stairs, but he didn’t speak until I met him. I felt that his staring at me was becoming more and more threatening. mean.In this way, when I passed him and walked to the door of my room, I did not enter the door, but turned around suddenly and looked directly at him who was standing not far away.He finally felt uncomfortable when I saw him. After coughing dryly, he turned and went downstairs.

What I do is called anti-suppression in the military, and it cannot give the opponent a sense of superiority.In this way, if Yang Huzi had any plans to strike me preemptively, he would timidly change this attack plan into a compromise plan.

I hadn't slept very well that night, so when Leaf uttered her first soft shriek in the attic, I was out the door.I entered Ye Zi's room, her face was pale, as if she had been seriously ill.She told me in horror that she woke up after a short sleep, always feeling as if someone was on the terrace outside.

I opened the door to the patio and it was pitch black outside.Standing on the terrace and looking out, the tomb hills are indistinctly revealing a very majestic appearance.I checked the terrace with a flashlight, but saw nothing suspicious.In the end, I walked to the terrace and shone a light on the curved tree that reached the terrace with a flashlight. I said to Leaf, this tree is no longer acceptable, and I will use a saw to cut it off tomorrow.

Ye Zi didn't answer me, turned around and entered the room.I followed in, closed the patio door and said, how about it, tomorrow I will saw the tree, this tree is enough for Zhou's mother to cook for two months.

Ye Zi said, forget it, let's keep it.

I asked inexplicably, why?The tree made it easy to come up on the terrace.

Ye Zi said, I don't think anyone comes up from there anymore.And if it's a ghost that comes up, what's the use of sawing the tree?

I have nothing to say.When a person is in a cemetery, it is difficult not to think of ghosts.

(End of this chapter)