Tomorrow is the time for Master to refine the incense, and I will do the refining for him. But I didn't expect that on that night, the eternal lamp on Master's desk suddenly went out. I was startled and tried to light it immediately, but it just wouldn't light up, even with a box of matches. It was really strange. I changed the oil, but it still didn't work.
I felt something was wrong and was about to go find He Dana when he came.
"Don't light it. I feel something is wrong. There is a ghost guarding the eternal lamp. He won't let you light it."
"I didn't see it."
"What you saw was just an ordinary little ghost. Go to the morgue of the crematorium now, and come back immediately, no matter what happens."
I ran to the morgue of the crematorium, and my master's body was inside. I went in and lifted the shroud, and oh my god, it was empty. The quilt that was there was gone, but my master's body was gone.
My soul almost flew away. I staggered a few times and stopped, then ran back and whispered to He Dana. I didn't want other people to know. He Dana was stunned and didn't say anything. I was anxious. It was dawn and I had to refine it.
Master Yunzheng's body was lost. This was definitely something I had never expected. Could it be Lin Shu? I thought he would never dare to do that again. The master's body was lost just like that.
He Dana seemed to be at a loss for a moment, and no one knew what he was thinking about.
He Dana called me aside and spoke in a low voice.
"Once the mourning shed is removed, the body will not be found for a while."
I was dumbfounded. If a person does not refine within three days, it is very unlucky. If it exceeds three days, the next reincarnation will be full of bad luck until death, and it will be painful for the rest of your life. I don't want my master to be like this, but there is no other way.
I had to tell Yun Bai. After she heard it, she was stunned for a long time, then she covered her mouth and cried.
I followed He Dana back. I was in my room and he was in his room. Who stole the master's body? What's the use? Anyway, I can't think of it. Of course, in the early days of the crematorium, a body was lost once. It was a ghost marriage and a ghost burial. It was a woman's body that was finally dug out from the grave. After that, the management was very strict. But this time, when Master Yunzheng died, the people who were doing the cremation came, so the body was lost.
After a sleepless night, I went to knock on He Dana's door and he said, "Come in."
I went in and didn't say anything. Even without me saying anything, He Dana knew what I was going to say.
"In fact, I knew when the body was lost that it was a corpse, not stolen."
I don't understand what Li Shi is.
"What is that?"
"Leaving a corpse means to do something. He has something in his heart that he has not completed, so he goes to do it. Of course, ordinary people can't do it, but your master can. He has been burning dead people all his life and has done countless good deeds. Those ghosts help him fulfill his wishes and form a corpse. It means he leaves on his own."
"What's your wish?"
He Dana shook his head. Of course he didn’t know. We could only guess. I couldn’t imagine what wish the master had left unfulfilled.
"What does it take to come back?"
"Whether the corpse returns depends on the situation. It's hard to say how long it has been. The longest one has been away from the corpse for three years. When it returns, it is just a skeleton. Clean up your master's morgue tomorrow. Don't put any dead people in it. Keep it like that. Open the door three inches, fix it, and hang a black cloth strip inside the door. Remember to check it every day. If the door is closed and the black cloth strip is gone, and your master can't be found, then he is a wild ghost. There is no one to lead the way back, so you must remember it."
I didn't know when the master would come back. Mao Gang was very angry about the lost body. Such a thing happened right away and had a very bad impact. The director of the Cultural Bureau and a deputy mayor came, and Mao Gang was punished.
This matter passed slowly like this. I would go to the morgue several times a day because I was worried that something might go wrong and the master wouldn't be able to come back. I would really be sorry for the master.
Chi Qing has been living in my house, but we can't get married. This is really making me angry. It seems that Yun Bai is destined to screw me over for the rest of my life.
The father came out and held a wedding without going through the formalities, and asked Yunbai if he agreed.
I went to ask Yun Bai, and she actually took out a hundred yuan and gave it to me, telling me and congratulating me.
"No need. Xiaozhe still needs money. I'll take out half of my salary for living expenses and send it to him every month."
In fact, I feel very sad too. I really don’t understand Yun Bai’s behavior. I feel hatred, but also love.
Chi Qing and I had our wedding with only three tables, which was considered as giving Chi Qing some status. This was really the only solution we had.
My father moved back to the old house, which is an old building next to his unit. It is very dilapidated and the room is only 30 square meters. I didn't let him go, but he insisted on going, saying that he was free. I asked him to find a partner, but he shook his head and said that he was used to everything and that it was good this way. When you and Chi Qing have a child, you can take care of the child. Xiaozhe was only taken care of for two days and his family didn't let him. If I want to bring him back, we have to discuss it for a long time.
My father sighed and said that Yun Bai didn’t let him pick up the child because I smelled like a dead person. She also said that the smell was getting stronger and stronger. She knew it was me without even looking at me when she was a hundred meters away from me because she could smell the odor on me.
Logically speaking, my master is dead and his body has been lost, so I shouldn't do this. But He Dana said that I must do this. Once a teacher, you are a father for life. My master was burned to death, so I must get married within 20 days, otherwise there will be bloodshed.
It has been twenty-four days since the master's body was lost, and there is still no news. The site has compensated the master's wife, but there is really nothing we can do. The master's wife insisted on making an empty grave, but I disagreed. She said she would put the body there after she came back. I asked He Dana, and he said it was no big deal.
When Chi Qing and I got married, I went to find Mao Gang and asked him to transfer Chi Qing to another department. Otherwise, it would feel weird, a bit like a father-wife shop, which would be a deadly burnt crime.
Mao Gang also understood and asked Chi Qing to go to the dressing room to learn how to put on makeup. It was Master Hang Mei who took care of Chi Qing. Master Hang Mei was an old master and very low-key. I only spoke to her once, and that was when I had something to do. The rest of the time, she always kept her head down, going to and from get off work, and never went to other offices or other places. Everyone said that Master Hang Mei was very weird and didn't say a word all day.
I have assigned a skilled worker who used to work in the refining and chemical industry to my side. He is almost 60 years old. He had resigned and went home, but I recruited him back this time.
This person is also very quiet and doesn't talk much. After finishing his work, he packs up and leaves.
I went to the morgue and saw that the door was still a crack and the black cloth was still there, but I didn't see the master come back. Through the crack in the door, I could just see the morgue bed, which was empty.
I hoped that the master would be there one day, but he wasn't.
Chi Qing and I went home. She said that Master Hang was not talkative and only talked about makeup. He never talked about anything else. When asked, he just shook his head or nodded. He always liked to lower his head and didn't like to look at people. It was really a bit strange.
I also think that Master Hang is quite strange, but he is not talkative, meddlesome, annoying, or anything like that. When talking about Master Hang, I can only say that he is a very nice person and there is nothing else to say.
That day, Chi Qing came home and told me.
"Master Hang's dressing room is weird."
I was stunned. What was so strange about the dressing room
"Master Hang's dressing room is her own. She has been using it alone since she came here. It has never been changed, and no one else can use it. However, I found a problem. Master Hang's dressing room should be the same size as other dressing rooms, but hers is two meters smaller. Of course, this does not affect makeup, but how can it be two meters smaller? That is to say, there should be a partition or a dark room or something like that."
"Just know about this. Don't tell me, don't ask, and don't be curious."
I don't want to know other people's secrets. It's not good for anyone, nor for myself. Not every secret is useful. It just satisfies your curiosity and is really useless.
Chi Qing finally couldn't control her curiosity and really found the dark room and went in. After she finished looking around, she almost couldn't come out. She ran to my refining room and scared me.
"I, I..."
I thought to myself, something is wrong.
"What's wrong?"
“I saw Yun Zheng.”
I was stunned and shocked.
"Where?"
Chi Qing said, that was something I never expected, it actually happened in Master Hangmei’s dressing room.
How could this happen
"Did you see it clearly?"
"Absolutely. I always feel something is going on when I'm putting on makeup, so I just..."
"Okay, go back immediately and don't let Master Hang find out. I'll find a way."
I never expected that it would be Master Hang who stole the corpse. If that was the case, it shouldn't be a Li corpse. It's really weird.
After get off work, Chi Qing and I went to He Dana's place. He brought Chi Qing with him. He didn't say anything and let her in. I asked Chi Qing to call him godfather.
"Not bad, perfect. If someone dies, someone will burn him, and someone else will make him up."
He knows everything just by sitting at home, and I don't know how he knows it.
I told him about Master Yunzheng, and he was stunned for a long time.
"Impossible, that's a corpse. I must have seen it wrong. A corpse won't stay in one place for too long."
“I really saw it.”
Chi Qing is still nervous now.
He Dana was devastated.
"How is this possible?"
He frowned and kept silent. This was something I had not expected. It seemed that things were really becoming very troublesome. If it wasn't Li's corpse, then why did Master Hangmei steal Master Yunzheng's body
"Okay, take me there in the middle of the night. Xiao Zuo will take me there, and Chi Qing, you go home."
Chi Qing left, and I stayed to drink with him and chat about other things.
"These eighteen rooms..."
He Dana spoke before I finished speaking.
"You're itching, aren't you? Your curiosity is getting up again, aren't you? If you dare to go in, just go ahead. I want to see how brave you are."
He Dana said evilly, I really don’t dare to go in. Maybe I only know a little bit about He Dana and have only a little understanding of him.
In the middle of the night, He Dana and I went to the crematorium and entered the dressing room. It was strange that He Dana had the key.
"Don't be surprised. I've been eyeing Hang Mei for a long time. If a person doesn't like to talk, doesn't like to look people in the eye, keeps his head down all day, and is afraid to see people, then it means that he has some secrets that cannot be told, or something that cannot be seen in public, so he is like this."
"You're mistaken, aren't you? Master Hang has been like this his whole life. Maybe he's just that kind of person."
He Dana didn't argue with you.
We went in, and as Chi Qing said, the door of the dark room was pushed open. The whole wall actually moved, leaving a gap. We went in, turned on the light, and He Dana screamed, "Ah!" I was so scared that I held onto the wall. Master Yun Zheng was not standing opposite us, but smiling, motionless.
"Lao Yun, please stop fooling around. You might burst my blood vessels."
Master Yunzheng didn't say anything, just smiled like that.
"Master, it's me, I'm Xiao Zuo."
Still nothing happened. We heard some noise outside. He Dana gestured and we didn't say anything. After a while, the noise stopped.
"Leave first, I don't think something is right."
He Dana and I came out, and we both screamed again. There was actually someone sitting on the chair outside. (To be continued)