Chapter 536: Cemetery Hill Night Watchman
That evening, the two locked the office as usual and went out to sweep the road, and when they saw Ah Wen burning talismans and saluting the tombstone, Mr. Liang asked helplessly: "I said Ah Wen, when will you get rid of this problem?" Cowardly as a mouse, but he wants to come to the cemetery to work, isn't it asking for his own hardship? β
While saluting the tombstone, Ah Wen cleaned up the messy offerings, paper ties, bouquets and other items placed in front of the tombstone, and said, "If you are timid, you have to make money, otherwise where will my little sister's college tuition come from?" β
It took more than two hours for the two of them to inspect and clean the dozen long graves one by one, and then they went back to the office. When walking back down the concrete stairs. Mr. Leung noticed a lot of offerings scattered in front of a tombstone near the stairs. He said curiously, "This place has just been cleared, how can the offerings be messed up like this?" β
"Is it blown by the wind?" Arwen asked, but the possibility was almost none, because it was the height of summer. The two of them wished for the wind, but there was not even a trace of it on the hot night. Puzzled, Mr. Leung walked over and picked up the offerings and set them up in front of the tombstone, and returned to his office.
The time in the office is hard, and there is nothing to see in the surveillance footage, but fortunately, no one cares. Ah Wen got an old color TV and played it with a PS game console, while Mr. Liang only listened to the radio in the office for the rest of the time, or when he was really bored, he walked out of the office and sat at the top of the stairs of the cemetery hill to drink beer.
Sometimes Mr. Liang goes out for an hour or two, and when he comes back. Arwen asked him where he had gone, and he said that he had nothing to do anyway, so he would be on patrol. This makes Arwen admire him very much, he is timid, sweeping the road and patrolling is work, he can't do it, but he never goes out of the office door when he has nothing to do. And Mr. Liang actually went out to inspect when he had nothing to do, which really made Ah Wen look at him differently.
At seven o'clock the next morning, the two were ready to come out and wait for the successor. Standing in front of the stairs, Arwen suddenly saw that there was nothing in front of several tombstones diagonally opposite. He walked over to see suspiciously, these tombstones are from the same family, and they are famous, so Ah Wen was very impressedβ He remembered clearly in the evening, these tombstones were full of offerings, wine, meat, fruits and cigarettes, all of which were left by the family of the deceased during the day yesterday when they came to worship, why are they all gone now?
Ah Wen asked Mr. Liang, "What's going on?" Mr. Liang looked at it and said that he would not be taken away by wild dogs. Arwen felt that the possibility was almost zero. It's okay for dogs to eat meat and fruits, but I haven't heard of dogs also drinking and smoking, animals have a keen sense of smell, and they will definitely not take these two things away.
A few days later. It was the turn of the two to work the night shift again, and the next morning, Ah Wen went to check the tombstones that had been sorted out before, and found that the offerings were gone, and some were still scattered in the tomb. At first, he suspected that someone was stealing, so he told Mr. Liang what to do. Mr. Liang also felt strange and said that next time he was on the night shift, he would pay more attention to the surveillance screen.
When Mr. Liang and Ah Wen were on duty again, Mr. Liang specially told Ah Wen when he went out to patrol that he would pay attention to the surveillance screen from time to time when playing games, and if he found anything, he would call him immediately. After Mr. Liang left. Arwen looked at the screen every ten minutes, but the nine sets of images that automatically switched on the screen were not unusual. An hour or two later, Mr. Liang came back and asked Ah Wen if he had found anything, and he said nothing.
The next day, the two came out and were surprised to see that a lot of the offerings had been lost. And some family members found out about the loss of offerings and found the person in charge of the cemetery to react. Under the scrutiny of their superiors, Mr. Liang and Ah Wen had no choice but to tell what they found on duty. The boss is very strange, why did you lose the offerings several times when you were on duty?
According to Mr. Liang's analysis, it is possible that Ah Wen often burned talisman paper when sweeping the road, which alarmed the deceased, so they came out to enjoy the offerings. Although the boss is in charge of the cemetery, he is skeptical. Arwen said: "Quite possibly! The kind of talisman paper I burned is a Taoist soul charm, and besides, isn't the offering for the deceased? β
This statement has been recognized by many family members of the deceased, and rumors are rife that the deceased in Chai Wan's cemetery hill often come out at night to enjoy offerings. The boss was suspicious, but nothing else happened, and since the family didn't make trouble, he didn't bother to investigate it, but just warned the people on the night shift to pay attention to safety.
That's it. Mr. Liang said: "Actually, I don't believe this explanation, there must be thieves, after all, there are only two people on the night shift, and the patrol time is short." The thieves took advantage of the fact that we were in the office to steal offerings, but strangely enough, the screen did not show several colleagues in the cemetery who had resigned en masse in recent months, and there were not enough people. There can only be one person on night duty at night. Arvin's guy is timid and doesn't dare to say anything at night, so I'll take over his night shift. Originally, I was not afraid, but every day I heard that the dead in the cemetery would come out in the middle of the night to collect offerings, and I began to beat the drum in my heart, so I wanted to ask for a Buddhist card. β
I thought to myself, I'm afraid it's not that simple, and said with a smile: "The places with the heaviest yin qi, the cemetery and the cemetery should belong to the top two. No matter how bold a person is, it is impossible to scare ghosts, so you still have to believe that there are ghosts and gods in the world. This Buddha card of the ghost king's head is blessed by the big temple Long Po, and the effect is good. As long as you don't do anything wrong, you can play a role in warding off evil spirits. Mr. Liang nodded repeatedly.
"You were in Cemetery Hill, and you didn't encounter anything other than throwing offerings? Be honest with me. I couldn't help but ask. The reason for this question is because Mr. Liang has repeatedly said that he is bold, and he thinks that the loss of offerings is done by thieves, and just based on the rumors of his colleagues, he is afraid that he is afraid and comes to ask for Buddhist cards, which may not be convincing.
Mr. Liang was surprised: "Why do you ask that, I still have to bump into a ghost to ask for a Buddhist card?" "I don't mean that, but you know, gods and ghosts can't be sloppy. You can't lie, otherwise you will be the one who suffers in the end, so I asked this more.
Hearing me say this, a hint of hesitation flashed in Mr. Liang's eyes. And then again, there really isn't. More than two years ago, I couldn't have noticed, but now it's different. The amulet card sells a lot, the customers see it widely, and I have developed a good ability to look at the eyes. So I told him, "Say it, or I won't be able to help you in the future." β
These words broke through Mr. Liang's psychological defense, and he said with a wry smile: "You are worthy of being a businessman who deals with ghosts and gods, okay." β
That night. Mr. Liang was alone in the duty room, he couldn't play game consoles, those were already rotten, and the Midnight Radio program was nothing new. Sometimes his girlfriend, Xiaofan's sister, is free at night and will come to accompany him on the night shift, but she is usually busy with work and has not many opportunities to accompany her.
Sitting in front of the computer, the sound of the radio station is like a lullaby. Let Mr. Liang fall asleep. The chair moved, and Mr. Liang was woken up, and when he moved his position to continue napping, he inadvertently glanced at the computer screen and saw that one of the nine screens seemed to have something moving in the lower left corner.
Mr. Liang stretched out his hand to operate the keyboard, enlarged the screen in the lower left corner and filled the screen, and suddenly felt refreshed. He straightened up and saw a figure on the screen, slowly walking through the tombway, a dozen steps later, then turning and walking back, and then bending over, as if looking for something.
Graveyard Hill's cameras all have night vision, and in infrared mode, the details of the picture are all bright blue. Mr. Liang turned to normal mode, the sky was too dark, and it was cloudy and there was no moon, so he couldn't see anything on the screen. I had to switch back to infrared mode, and I could see the figure looking for something in the tombway.
This made Mr. Liang's scalp tingle, he had never believed in ghosts and gods, and felt that someone must be doing ghosts, so when he heard that there was one, he had the courage to pick up a wooden stick and go to the tomb in the picture. In less than two minutes, the cemetery was empty and there was nothing, and Mr. Liang mustered up the courage to walk through the grave and return to his office.
Looking at the computer screen again, the picture in the lower left corner became normal, he let out a long breath, and just sat down, he found that a box of fried chicken wings on the table seemed to be missing a few. It was originally full, and I didn't have time to eat it, but now it's only half left.