Tomb Keeper

Chapter 5 Night in the Cemetery (2)

After resolving the catastrophe in the middle of the night, I relaxed and felt sleepy.After confirming the locked door again, and looking at the red paper pasted behind the door, I fell asleep.Perhaps because the vigilance in my heart was still there, a very small voice still woke me up from my deep sleep.The sound came from above my ceiling, as if someone was walking gently.I know that my room is facing the attic above, and I haven't seen Ye Zi living in the attic since I got here. Zhou's mother said that she went to Xihe Town and will live in Zihua tonight.Could it be that this woman will come back after midnight?This is obviously unreasonable.

I glanced at the window, and the crescent moon in the night sky apparently came out again in the second half of the night, and it was very bright, making the window a little white.I suppressed my heartbeat and decided to go upstairs to have a look.I went up to inspect the attic before dark, and there was a second window in the door, from which the whole room must have been seen.

I didn't wear shoes, took the wooden bench in the house, went out barefoot lightly, and walked up the stairs leading to the attic. In front of the closed door, when I stood on the wooden bench Adjust my breathing first. In this silent night, the sound of breathing from my nostrils may also expose my target.

As I expected, I could see the whole room through the side window in the door.An empty bed, a simple wardrobe, a curtain on one window, and a large double door on the other side, the door is open, and you can see the moonlight on the terrace.A young woman sat by the open doorway, brushing her long hair.She was wearing a scarlet nightgown with wide sleeves. Every time she raised her hand to comb her hair, the wide sleeves fell to her shoulders, revealing a white jade-like arm.

My legs on the stool were already shaking.In order not to fall, I had to carefully get off the stool, squatting in the darkness outside this door, and let my legs slowly return to normal.

After stabilizing the panic in my heart, I stood on the stool again.A desk lamp was already lit in the room, but the lampshade was covered with something, and only a bunch of round lights shone on the tables.The woman was painting her eyebrows in front of the mirror on the table.She drew very slowly, stopping the eyebrow pencil in her hand from time to time, looking in the mirror, I looked at her delicate side profile, and thought for no reason of the girl who died in an air crash many years ago, if I wiped all her face Bloodstained, her face will be so delicate and beautiful.It's just that the woman in the room in front of her is even more gorgeous. Her scarlet pajamas can be felt to be embroidered with delicate lace, and there are silky light and shadow flickering in her every move.After finishing her eyebrows, she began to polish her nails with a long strip.She rubbed her fingers one by one, and then straightened five fingers to look at them in front of her eyes.Suddenly, her five fingers curled up, and she made a gesture of grabbing in the direction of the wall.

My scalp was numb and I was sweating coldly on my back.I have to leave quickly, otherwise, my bad luck tonight may start from here.

I almost fell when I went downstairs in a panic, which made my foot thud on the stairs.I didn't care about these anymore, I quickly slipped back into the room, and after closing the door, I felt that I was weak and had no strength left.

I lay on the bed with my eyes wide open, and my ears caught the sound upstairs, but there was no movement up there until dawn.

In the morning, I sat around the dinner table with the mute, Poet Feng, and Zhou Ma.Yang Huzi went downstairs last, stepped into the kitchen and shouted to me, Da Xu, how is your foot injury?I immediately replied, okay, everything is fine, that incense ash is really a magic medicine.After speaking, I stood up and jumped around the room a few times.Yang Huzi said, well, I'm sure you'll be fine this morning.

Everyone sat down to have breakfast, Yang Huzi suddenly stopped his chopsticks and said to me, my foot is healed, so I have to go to the temple again today?I said um.He said, I know how you feel. My girlfriend is dead, and all thoughts are lost. I want to leave the world of mortals and become a monk.However, there are many places to leave the world of mortals, how about staying with me?Green mountains and green waters, separated from the world and indifferent to the world, being a tomb guard and serving the souls of the mountains here is no worse than chanting scriptures and serving the Buddha.How about it?You stayed here for one night, don't you feel much better about this place?

Yang Huzi's retention was within my expectation.I immediately looked at him with a silly look, so that he would believe that the poison in the incense ash had already played a role in my body.I said, staying here is also separated from the world of mortals.However, I don't know how to do things here.Yang Huzi smiled, the things here are very simple, you can do it once you do it.How about this, first you and Ye Zi manage the ashes storage and funeral supplies, and at the same time receive the funeral family who come to bury, and also receive some people who come to book the cemetery.How about it?Of course, when you have nothing to do, you have to go to the cemetery with us. There are thousands of graves here, and you have to inspect them twice a day.This is a cemetery of the Bliss Tomb Company, but I have the final say on the management and recruitment of tomb guards.

Listening to Yang Huzi talking, I just looked at him stupidly.He said with satisfaction that it was settled.

At this time, there was a "dong dong" knock on the door outside the courtyard.I was startled, and Yang Huzi said to me, don't be afraid.I said that someone knocked on the door at night and couldn't open it. Now it's already dawn, so maybe you can open the door boldly.

I walked across the yard to open the door.When the door opened, a young woman stood in front of me, Ye Zi.Except for her pretty face, she was completely different from the woman in the attic last night.She was wearing the same blue floral shirt as the village girl, and a pair of blue cloth trousers underneath.Her long hair has been tied into a ponytail at the back, and her down-to-earth look is reminiscent of a woman picking mulberries and weaving cloth in the old days.She was slightly taken aback when she saw me who opened the door, and I immediately explained that my name is Da Xu and I am new here.

I went into the kitchen with her, Zhou Ma got up immediately and said, Ye Zi, I expected you to go to Xihe Town, why did you come back so early in the morning?She said that it was cool to walk in the morning on this hot day.Mother Zhou asked again, did you live at Zihua's place last night?Ye Zi said, yes, she has moved to a new house, but there are still a few rooms upstairs for guests.

My heart kept beating "thump-thump", and my back felt chills.Luckily, no one noticed my extreme panic with a goofy smile on my face.

(End of this chapter)