Chapter 3: The Lost Grave

Two days later, one evening, Fang Qian was sitting in Shu Yao's office, looking at Shu Yao with a nervous expression, while Shu Yao regained his cold demeanor and looked at Fang Qian.

"Now, you can tell me your story," Shu Yao's voice was so calm that it didn't fluctuate.

"So, layman, are you really willing to help me?" Fang Qian asked.

"I think it's better for you to change your name" Shu Yao said with a smile, as a guardian, everyone naturally has their own title, which is also the law of the guardian world, but Shu Yao doesn't like it, she is not very old this year, unlike the mysterious master, she refuses to accept others to call herself like that.

"Okay, miss, I mean, are you really willing to help me?" Fang Qian continued.

"Why are you so troublesome, if you don't get down to business, I'm going to change my mind" Shu Yao looked annoyed, if it wasn't for Huang Jun's request, she would never care about this matter, in her opinion, no matter how difficult Fang Qian felt his matter was, but in Shu Yao's opinion, it might just be a monotonous and boring story, but she believed in Huang Jun and believed in the young man who came out alive from the Jedi.

"Please don't be angry, miss, I'm just, I'm so happy, I found a lot of people, they don't believe me, they say I'm crazy, I'm just too excited" Fang Qian said curtly.

"So, can you start your narrative now?" Shu Yao tried her best to restrain herself, but Fang Qian naturally saw that her patience was really at the limit.

"Okay, let's start with my father. As mentioned earlier, I inherited a large amount of property, and those were my father's, my father only gave birth to me, and I was also his only child, he gave birth to me when he was sixty years old, and five years ago, my father and mother both died," Fang Qian recalled.

"Gave birth to you at the age of sixty? This is rare", Shu Yao was a little incredulous, you know, although people get married very late now, they don't say that they don't have children until they are sixty years old, and before liberation, this situation is even more unlikely to appear, and even many people are married and have children before the age of twenty.

"Naturally, my father is different from others, how to say, for a long time, he was a Taoist priest, actually my grandfather was a Taoist priest, he also gave birth to my father when he was very old, and my father also gave birth to me when he was sixty years old, and before that, they were uncertain and wandered around, and it was not until after I was born that my father began to settle down and raised me carefully. Originally, everything was normal, although he used to be a Taoist priest, almost no one in our village knew about it, and it didn't affect me, and since I was born, my father has never been engaged in those strange trades again."

When Fang Qian talked about the strange industry, Shu Yao couldn't help frowning, and the sensitive Fang Qian naturally knew Shu Yao's unhappiness immediately.

"Miss, I definitely didn't mean you, I didn't mean that," Fang Qian hurriedly said.

"It's okay, even if it is, it doesn't matter" Shu Yao smiled bitterly, to be honest, if it wasn't for meeting her mysterious master, I'm afraid she would have felt very strange with her current self.

"Oh, that's good, that's good, the strange thing mainly happened half a month ago, that day was Qingming, I went to my father's grave, for five years, I've always done this, I have to go once a year. However, things were a little different that day, and when I found the location of my father's grave, I found that my father's grave was gone, and in its original location was the name of a man I did not know, and there were several strangers standing there, who were burying the new grave. Speaking of this, Fang Qian still had an indignant face.

"Maybe you're in the wrong place?" Shu Yao said strangely.

"No, I'm absolutely not mistaken, that place was personally chosen by me when my father died, and I have been going to the grave every year for the past five years, how can I remember the wrong location?"

"Then they must have found the wrong place" Shu Yao said strangely, obviously, she herself felt that this was unlikely, who would remember the location of their ancestors' graves wrongly?

"That's what I thought at the time, so I got very angry and asked them why they had moved my father's grave, but the family insisted that it was their grave and told me that their ancestors had been buried there for more than 20 years."

"So, what are the facts?" If it was a little careless at first, now Shu Yao is finally a little interested.

"Of course I didn't believe their nonsense, we had an argument at the time, and I couldn't tolerate that happening, but it turned out that the family was telling the truth."

"Oh? It turns out that you do have a memory disorder? Shu Yao originally thought that he had encountered something interesting, but when he heard this, he couldn't help but feel excited, and even had a feeling that he was being teased.

"Of course not, how can my memory be wrong, miss, we reporters have to go to many places every day, we have to remember a lot of things, I can't make such a mistake, the reason why I say this is because at that time I deliberately carefully observed the tomb they worshipped in order to explain that they occupied my father's grave."

"But what did you find?"

Fang Qian looked at Shu Yao with a strange expression, and suddenly sighed, "I don't know how to say it, you know, my observation ability is very strong since I was a child, and in the past few years as a reporter, I have also seen many strange things, so I am very confident in my judgment ability, at that time, I carefully observed the tomb, but found that the tomb itself is not a new tomb"

"What does it mean that it is not a new grave? What exactly are you trying to say? Shu Yao was very angry with Fang Qian's slow speaking rhythm.

"I mean, it's an old grave"

"Of course, it's not a new grave, of course it's an old grave, do you need to say that? ...... you say these are? Wait, what do you mean? Shu Yao suddenly thought of something, and couldn't help but feel creepy.

"You get the idea, don't you? My father was buried there, and for the past five years, I have been going to the grave there every year during Qingming, and I remember that location clearly, but now my father's grave has disappeared in this location, but an old grave has appeared, and according to them, the old tomb has been in this location for more than 20 years, but the tombstone is not engraved with my father's name, and another person I don't know at all, and there is another stranger who told me that they also come here every Qingming to worship, I still can't figure out how this matter came to be like this" Fang Qian shook his head painfully, and he could see that this matter had been bothering him for a long time.

"I think something must have gone wrong here" Shu Yao shook his head and smiled bitterly. This kind of thing is beyond her comprehension, her duty is to destroy the alien spirit, if a few alien spirits appear in that tomb, it is much simpler in Shu Yao's opinion, but this situation makes her helpless, you know, she can be sure that although the alien spirit is terrifying, it will never be able to do such a thing.

"That's what I thought at first, so when I came back, I thought about the cause and effect, but in the end I was sure of a few things: first, my father's grave must be in that location, because I was very impressed by it, and I have been going to worship every year for the past five years. Second, the new tomb was indeed an old tomb, and not a new one, for I had carefully observed at the time that it would not have been of this color if it had been a newly relocated tomb from the point of view of the soil. Thirdly, I can also be sure that those people are not lying, because after so many years of being a reporter, if they deliberately lied to me, the expressions on their faces would never be able to hide from me, and I still have this confidence. Fang Qian said strangely.

"However, this is impossible, you must have made something wrong" Shu Yao couldn't figure out why this was happening.

"I also know that logically it's impossible, but that's the way it is. In order to be sure, I also found the porter who helped my father bury at that time, and they carried my father's coffin back then, they should have an impression, but the result made me even more devastated"

"What happened?"

Fang Qian took a deep breath, the expression on his face was filled with deep despair, Shu Yao had never seen this kind of expression on a person's body, "They said, they said that they had never carried a coffin for my father, and they had no impression of that place, they said that I must have remembered it wrong......"

"Then it seems that you must be mistaken"

"Absolutely impossible, how could I be wrong about such an important matter! Later, I went to ask our playmates and relatives in the same village, but they said that they never knew anything about my father, but since my father brought me up in the village, they should not know my father, even if they don't know me."

"It stands to reason that yes," Shu Yao also frowned.

"No, you didn't hear me clearly, they said they didn't know anything about my father, they didn't know anything about my father as a person, they never had any information about my father, like, like my father never appeared in this world, you understand?"

"But you should always have a father, right? Do they know you? ”

"Nature is acquainted, not only knowing, but also familiar with each other"

"So your father left home when he was very young?"

"Of course it can't be, could I have misremembered this?" Fang Qian looked at Shu Yao angrily, Shu Yao also felt that this inference was not valid, unless Fang Qian was a fool, but it was obvious that he was an adult with normal intelligence and would not even be wrong about this.

"So, if they don't know who your father is, how did you grow up in the village?" Shu Yao asked curiously.

"That's the crux of the matter, I asked them the same at the time, but they said that I might have a father, and it seemed that my father should have grown up in the village, but they really didn't remember my father at all, and when I mentioned his name to them, they were all at a loss."