Tomb Keeper

Chapter 9 Leaf's Room (2)
The layout of Poet Feng's room is similar to that of my room.After I entered the door, I noticed a framed photo on the table next to the wall, and in the frame was a smiling woman.Poet Feng followed behind me and said, what's the matter?I turned around and looked at him and said, I heard you crying, what happened?There was an instant apology on his tired, weeping face.Excuse me, he said, I can't help it.After dinner, I went to the cemetery to see her again. Before I got to her grave, I suddenly saw her standing there.She was wearing a white shirt and blue overalls with suspenders.She saw me and waved to me.But when I walked over, I saw only a pile of graves.I thought, I should still die, she was too lonely in the grave alone.

As Poet Feng spoke, he sat on the edge of the bed with weak legs, buried his head and sobbed again.His hair had grown to cover his collar, and the stubble of his beard formed a black patch around his lips and chin.

I comforted him and said, don't be too sad, she is already very satisfied to be here with her, and most people can't be so infatuated.

He raised his head and asked like a helpless child, is she really satisfied?

I nod affirmatively.At this time, he suddenly turned his face and looked out of the open door, and said pleasantly, you go quickly, she is here, and I saw her flashing outside the door.

I went back to my room because I couldn't bother him any more.There is nothing wrong with letting him meet her in a hallucination.

I turn off the lights again and go to bed.There was an aroma of talking in the room, which came from the little yellow flower sent by the mute.After I put it in a bottle of water, the fragrance came out in bursts.The life of a flower is the same as that of a human being, it can be revived after being broken.I woke up suddenly again, it was past midnight, and I heard chattering voices, very low and indistinct, just like the chattering voices from the room where the ashes were stored in the main room I heard the night before.I couldn't help but go out again, and heard the whisper coming from Feng Shi's room.I tried to distinguish whether there was a woman's voice in the voice, but the chaotic whispers made it impossible for me to distinguish.I walked over and put my ear on the door of Poet Feng's room, and suddenly I heard a woman's voice whispering, it's almost dawn, and I'm leaving.

I took a step back in horror, and hurried back to my room, otherwise, the woman would meet me face to face when she opened the door.Before that, I understood what Poet Feng said as hallucinations, and the voice I heard just now proved that I knew very little about this world.

For the first time since I came to the cemetery, there were people to be buried.Many cars and people came, and my body and mind, which had been closed for many days, became alive again.

There was a lot of fog this morning, and the light has been very dark.At 9 o'clock in the morning, Yang Huzi said that the people who came to the burial were coming soon, and everyone went outside and waited.We went out of the courtyard gate, walked down the long stone steps, and stopped on the wasteland for parking.This place doesn't seem to park very often, and in some places weeds have grown more than two feet high.

After a while, the sound of a car came from somewhere invisible in the fog.For a while, the car honked its horn continuously, and the driver didn't know what it meant by honking.Soon, cars appeared, the leader was a black car, and the car was driving towards us with the wind, and there was the sound of gravel being crushed under the wheels.

Suddenly, the leaf standing beside me grabbed my hand.Her hands were cold and trembling.I looked at her sideways, and she was biting her lip, looking very nervous.Soon, about seven or eight vehicles had stopped in the open space, and the people in the vehicles came out one after another, forming a long line behind a person holding the portrait of the deceased.They all wore black gauze and white flowers, which enveloped the team in a solemn atmosphere. Only then did Ye Zi's hands stop shaking, and the expression on his face returned to normal.

According to the division of labor, Yang Huzi and the others took the group to the cemetery on the mountain, and Ye Zi and I took the family members of the deceased to the house to collect the ashes stored here.Following us was a middle-aged woman and a man who looked like a driver.After entering the main room, I poured tea for them, and Ye Zi went into the inner room to get the ashes.The man pushed the teacup aside, as if unwilling to drink.He looked around and said to me, there's something wrong with your cemetery.When the car was approaching here just now, there were two people who kept walking in front of my car at the turning and refused to give way.From the fog, it looks like a woman is holding a small child.It was useless for me to honk my horn desperately, so I had to stop the car and go down to look, but there was no one on the road again.

At this time, Ye Zi had already brought out the ashes. When she heard this, she didn't say anything, so she asked them to sign to collect the ashes.After those two people left, I said to Ye Zi, what the driver said was really strange.Leaf said, nothing strange.People who come here for the first time will be surprised.After staying here for a long time like ours, everything is taken for granted.

Ye Zi's explanation in the tone of a person who has experienced it does not convince me.I said, then, why were you so nervous when you saw the car coming?Leaf said, I'm nervous, isn't it?I do not know why either.Maybe it was because the car was driving so fast that I was afraid it would hit me; maybe it was because I was afraid of the smell of gasoline, which made me allergic.

As Ye Zi said, she scratched her face.Sure enough, two groups of reddish wheals appeared on her face.

She is really allergic.However, she was shaking like that with fear just now, which made me feel strange about her allergies.

At this moment, the phone on the desk rang.I picked up the phone and said professionally, Hello!West Cemetery.A man's voice asked, have all the people who came to the burial arrived?I said it.

The man said that I called several people who came here, why didn't they get through?I said "huh" and couldn't answer, so I motioned for Ye Zi to answer the phone.Ye Zi answered the phone, after listening for a while, she said, sorry, there is a frequency barrier here, and the mobile phone cannot receive a signal.Need to call them here to answer the phone?After Ye Zi finished speaking, she said "hmm" a few more times, and then put down the phone.

I said frequency barrier?I don't know this situation yet.Ye Zi said half-jokingly, otherwise, why is this place called a cemetery?Poet Feng and I both brought mobile phones when we came here, but it was useless.Now the TV is broken again, and I have contacted the maintenance station in the town. When people heard that it was a cemetery, they made excuses that they couldn't come because there were too many people.But this is also good, a paradise that is isolated from the world, that's why you are also attracted here.

Ye Zi spoke strangely, what does "attract me too" mean.I immediately countered and said, that's all I can do. I'm not as good as you. I came out of the mountains to work, and I still have a mobile phone.

Ye Zi might be surprised by this statement, she said in a little panic, if you come out of the mountains, you shouldn't have a mobile phone?Don't underestimate the people in the mountains.You, you look down on me, why are you borrowing books from me?
Ye Zi became anxious, and the child's temper also came out. I hurriedly said with a smile, I said too seriously, I didn't mean that.I stay here to do things because I regard you as a teacher.

Ye Zi laughed with a "puchi".What teacher?Ghost teacher.After she said this, she made a grimace. I saw that the wheals on her face had affected her beauty, and this face made me feel a little scared.

Funerals are shorter than other events.It didn't take long before there were noises of people outside and the sound of cars starting.Then, the car drove away, and everything near and far became silent.Even the sound of leaves falling in the yard can be heard.After people come and go, I have a strong sense of isolation from the world.There is no computer and the TV is broken.I once regretted not bringing my mobile phone out, but now it seems that it is useless to bring it.This is a place that is not even covered by electronic signals.

Leaf has been sitting there, propping her forehead with her hands.After a few more leaves fell in the yard, she said, no, my head is dizzy and my back is itchy. I have to go to the hospital in the town. I will trouble you to be on duty here today. , but it's okay to think about it.

Ye Zi is smarter than me, and if she is sick, she will go to the hospital.As for me, I listened to Yang Huzi's arrangement when I was injured or sick.However, I'm not pretending to be stupid, can Yang Huzi trust me?
Ye Zi went out for a while, and Zhou's mother came back.She said with great interest why you didn't go to the cemetery to watch the excitement, and a few bunches of firecrackers were set off.I said I have to stay here.To be honest, I also want to see the burial scene, but the division of labor here is different, so I have to listen to Yang Huzi.

Zhou's mother immediately went into the kitchen to make lunch after watching the excitement.I walked into the room and asked her, what about Yang Huzi and the others?Zhou's mother said that she was still wandering around the back mountain.Yang Huzi usually doesn't go there very much, but today, taking advantage of so many people coming and setting off firecrackers, and the yang energy is strong, he just wandered around the back mountain more.

I said, he is afraid of going to the back mountain, isn't he?

Zhou's mother said while washing the rice, she was not afraid, he had guarded the tomb for decades, why hadn't he seen it?However, people are getting old and cloudy, so it is better not to go there.

I saw Zhou's mother not pouring out the rice washing water, but putting it in a wooden basin and carefully placing it by the wall, so I asked, what's the use of keeping the water?

She glanced at me and said, "I don't understand this. I went to the cemetery and washed my feet with this water. If I walk at night, I won't encounter ghosts."

Later I learned that Mama Zhou has many tricks like this.I didn't believe it at all to half-believing, and I used some of her methods in the subsequent crisis.It's embarrassing to say, but people only know what is necessary when they are in my situation.

It is true that Ye Zi went to Xihe Town this time.Last time Zhou's mother said that she went to the town and stayed at Zihua's place for the night, but it turned out that she didn't leave that day, and she had already combed her hair and put on makeup in the room at night.It's just that in the morning she knocked on the courtyard door and came in again. No one knew about her strangeness except me.

This time, I guess she will really stay with Zihua overnight.Thinking of the scene where the two of them got together, I trembled with fear and completely lost my judgment on the authenticity of people.However, as if to clear my doubts, Ye Zi came back before the sun set that day. I took several medicines, and I took a look. Among them was "Pulmin". That's right, she really went Hospital.

(End of this chapter)