(Related to Chapter 115)

Zhang Liguo's experience in keeping the tomb made me feel "exciting", and I really want to try the "sweet and bitterness" of the "grave guardian". Mo Xiaolan on the side repeatedly dissuaded me. But I seemed determined and expressed my intention to give up the "grave guardian" in front of Mo Xiaolan. By sending Zhang Liguo out of the office, I begged Zhang Liguo if he could give up his two-day grave guardian.

Zhang Liguo thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "I am going to take a break for two days to take care of my daughter. If you really want to try it, then you will take advantage of me for two days."

Seeing that Zhang Liguo agreed, I was very pleased and asked how to "go to work". Zhang Liguo shook his head and said, "There are many rules for the gravekeeper to work, and it is not a problem to say that it is not a problem. If you have time tonight, you can go with me one night. I will spend one night telling you some rules and work content of the gravekeeper."

Seeing that Zhang Liguo could take me like this, of course he was very eager to do so! So he agreed to meet directly at Hongshen Cemetery in the evening.

As for my job, I found a reason to take annual leave. Mo Xiaolan should have noticed it, but can I stop it? I said I would go to guard the tomb with me, but I refused. Mo Xiaolan had no choice but to remind me to be careful.

At 9 o'clock in the evening, I drove to Hongshen Cemetery. After all, I had to be bored all night, so I took my laptop. Zhang Liguo arrived at the tomb guard room of Hongshen Cemetery early. When I saw me carrying my laptop, I shook my head and said, "There is no electricity on the cemetery, so the tomb guard room, including the tomb guard room, and I don't have electricity. I used candles for lighting. I used lanterns at first, but later it became popular, and I used flashlights. I could bring my phone with me, but I had to turn off the ringtone."

I nodded, listened to the teachings, and made it clear that I would not wear a laptop tomorrow! Zhang Liguo added: "If you are really afraid of boredom, bring two books to read, and the night will pass soon."

While chatting with Zhang Liguo, I carefully observed the tomb guard room. The tomb guard room is not big, less than 20 square meters. There is a single bed, a single sofa, and an office desk. Since there is no electricity, there is only a stove that relies on burning coal. If you want to drink hot water, keep heating, etc., all rely on the stove. The brightness generated by the stove is OK, so there is no need to light a candle to illuminate it. There are doors and windows in the tomb guard room. Since there are no valuables in the tomb guard room, the doors and windows are damaged. Zhang Liguo did not actively repair it, but instead pasted newspapers in the damaged area. There may be too many damaged areas, and the good doors and windows were pasted by the newspaper layer after layer.

The four walls of the tomb guarding room were dark, especially the opposite door and the opposite window walls, and some talismans and a small mirror were pasted on them. At first I thought it was used to ward off evil spirits. Later, Zhang Liguo told me that the evil spirit in the cemetery was too heavy. Unless there were temples and pavilions, pavilions could be suppressed, and the talismans and mirrors could not avoid evil spirits at all. The reason why I had to stick to the windows and doors was to prevent the tomb guarding people from escaping from running away when they needed to escape. The window doors were not opened because of the evil spirits, and they were trapped in the tomb guarding room!

In addition to talismans and mirrors on the walls of the tomb guard room, there is another thing that makes me feel very interesting: a gourd was hung on the wall, a gourd that had been hung for a long time. With the light of fire, you can vaguely see that the gourd has a deep layer of gray. Zhang Liguo explained to me that the gourd is a magical object that can swallow evil and collect demons. Every time the tomb guardian comes back after searching for the tomb, no matter how careful it is, it will always be contaminated with some evil spirits. Over time, the evil spirits in the tomb guard room will accumulate more and more. With this gourd, you don’t have to worry about the evil spirits in the tomb guard room hurting people.

After talking about the relevant "facilities", Zhang Liguo will explain to me the work of the gravekeeper.

The most important task that the tomb guards needs to do is to patrol the tomb three times a night. The time for these three tombs is fixed, namely, at midnight, 2 am and 4 am. Why are these three times? Zhang Liguo's explanation is: these three times are the peak time when the tomb starts, tombs rise, and tomb collection...

The so-called tomb rise means that the human world begins to recuperate, and at this time the underworld begins to "resurrect all things" and get up to "do things to play"; the so-called tomb rise means that everything is already quiet in the world, which is also the peak period of activities in the underworld; the so-called tomb collection means that all things to resurrect all things in the human world, and at this time it is the darkest moment. At this time, the ghosts who come out of the underworld come to "do things to play" should return to the tomb and not disturb the human world.

I will explain the reason why I chose these three times to patrol the tombs.

When patrolling the tomb, it would be a complete one walk around the cemetery. Zhang Liguo took out a list, which marked the total number of tombs in the entire Hongshen Cemetery, including eight large tombs and thirty-three small tombs.

The so-called large tombs are tombs with corpses directly placed in coffins and without cremation. Since my country implemented the cremation system after the founding of the People's Republic of China, most of these large tombs existed before the founding of the People's Republic of China and had a certain era. According to Zhang Liguo, most of the strange things happened, and most of them came from these large tombs.

The so-called small tomb is to cremate the corpse, put the ashes into the urn, and then put them in the tomb and erect the monument. This method of burial is the most common at present.

Zhang Liguo took the list and took me to patrol the tombs. While patrolling the tombs, he had to count the number of tombs. This surprised me very much. Isn’t the number of tombs ready-made? Eight large tombs and thirty-three small tombs, why do I still need to count one side?

Zhang Liguo ignored my doubts and took me to patrol the tombs and count them.

Since Hongshen Cemetery is a private cemetery, it is not large in size, just halfway up the mountain, covering an area of ​​​​area, I really can't say. According to Zhang Liguo's tone, it seems that the cemetery can still be expanded, and I guess it is only about 200 acres. The forty-one cemeteries are not as I imagined, horizontally and vertically, neatly arranged, but one in the east and one in the west. If Zhang Liguo had not taken them, I would not be able to find the specific location of these forty-one cemeteries at all.

After a round of patrols, it took about forty minutes. Zhang Liguo said to himself with a pale face: "Thirty-nine places, two are missing."

When Zhang Liguo said this, I thought he didn't point it clearly, so I murmured from the side: "Why don't you click it again?" Zhang Liguo tilted his head and said: "No need! This is a normal scene. As long as you get all the tombs in place, it's fine! Otherwise there will be a problem."

"Will there be fewer tombs?" I asked in disbelief:

Zhang Liguo said firmly: "Not only a few, sometimes there are more. Many people think that this tomb is the home of the deceased. In fact, it is not. Fundamentally, the tomb is the means of transportation for the deceased. Wherever it wants to wander, the tomb it is located will follow."

"How come this phenomenon? I haven't heard of it at all." I said with some disbelief:

Seeing that I didn't believe it, Zhang Liguo took me to an open space, then pointed to the open space under his feet and said to me: "You make a mark here. When you come to patrol the tomb when the tomb is in full swing or when the tomb is collected, let's see what changes will happen."

I was curious about picking up several stones in the open space referred to by Zhang Liguo, and then arranged the stones into a "mouth". Seeing that I had made a mark, Zhang Liguo took me back to the tomb guarding room.

Because the tomb was raised, the interval between tomb Xing and tomb collection was short. After the inspection, it was not long before the next inspection was started. Zhang Liguo took me with me. When Tomb Xing was inspecting, he took me to the open space where I marked it. When I walked into the open space with a flashlight, I saw that the word "叶" with the mark was still there, but there was an additional cemetery next to the word "叶". I looked at Zhang Liguo in surprise. Zhang Liguo shrugged his shoulder and said to me, "Did you believe it?"

"I believe it!" I nodded slowly and said:
Chapter completed!