I didn't expect to encounter such a thing. I regretted it back then. I shouldn't have forced him to drink, even though it was only one glass, but I did it.
"I'm sorry, I've always felt guilty about what happened back then."
"Actually, I never blamed you at all. We are friends, so I never looked for you."
"I'm so sorry."
"Well, don't worry about it. We will still be friends in the next life. Buddy, you owe me a drink."
I turned and left. I couldn't do this. When I think about what happened back then, I feel stupid. After he fell, we ran downstairs and stood beside him. He was motionless, without any blood. He lay there quietly, as if he was asleep. Thinking about it, I feel cold all over. After so many years, he hasn't reincarnated yet. It seems he is too attached to this world. That year, he was only seventeen years old, seventeen years old, a young boy. I have cried so many times for this.
When I came out, the director and Bu Lele came to greet me.
"How about it?"
The director asked.
"I can't do it."
"My diamond ring."
Bu Lele grabbed me and asked me to find the diamond ring. I struggled for a while and then left.
Bu Lele actually started cursing at me, so I walked back and slapped her twice, then turned and left. When I went downstairs, I heard Bu Lele crying loudly.
I went home that day and sat at home in a daze. Liu Yang asked me what was wrong and I said nothing was wrong.
Seeing that I was unhappy, Li Xiaohuan didn't say much. She chatted with Liu Yang and took care of Liu Yang.
"Is it that serious? I'll let you take care of it now."
I was a little angry, and after I said that I went out. Liu Yang and Li Xiaohuan were both stunned.
I sat in a restaurant on the side of the road and drank. Every time I thought of this incident, it hurt me the most.
That day, when I was drunk and my eyes were a little blurry, Qian Xiaoqian came in and sat opposite me. He actually came to the city.
"What a coincidence."
I ignored him.
"Ke Mingzhe, I know you don't like me, but I like you very much."
I didn't say anything, not wanting to offend such a person. I turned around and left the restaurant and sat by the river. I knew that my father always liked to come here. Could the flowing river be what my father saw? I don't think so. Just like life, once you have walked past it, there is no turning back and it will not be repeated.
The next day, I went to the Zhafang. The director called me and I said he was at the Zhafang in Chixian. The director came by himself and brought some wine and food.
The director said as we drank.
"Xiaozhe, you must help with this matter."
"You probably don't know what happened. It's not that I won't help you, I really can't help you. You can find other people, other masters, it will be the same."
"If it's OK, why would I still be here arguing with you?"
The director was a little angry.
"That ghost is my classmate."
I told the director what happened and he was stunned for a long time.
"I don't believe it. I just saw something weird. The door was open, but no one was seen. That was just weird. I don't really believe in ghosts. It's just evil. You have a way, He Dana has a way. Now the people in the crematorium are not good. After the old master retired, he never went to the crematorium again. Forever, he was called Yin Pen to wash his hands and stay away from this business. So it's difficult for me to deal with it."
"Then will it be easy for me? You can think about it. There must be other people. I can't tell you."
"Xiaozhe, it's just a ghost. If you say it exists, it must be a dead person."
"Director, you don't know that there are many worlds outside our world, where people live just like us. Ghosts are another kind of existence. To be honest, they are the same as us humans. Killing a ghost is the same as killing a person, but there is no law in this regard."
"I don't understand."
The director doesn't understand, and I don't want to say any more. You said that my classmate died because of me. Should I kill him again? That's impossible.
"Don't talk about this anymore."
"Then help Bu Lele find the diamond ring."
I hesitated for a moment, I couldn't just refuse to agree to something.
The next day after dark, I went to the crematorium and Bu Lele and the director were still there.
I entered the specimen room and saw my classmate squatting against the wall. This is the most comfortable posture for ghosts, and it is always different from that of humans.
"You're here again? To arrest me?"
"No, I won't arrest you or harm you, but you have to be careful. They might look for someone else. Just give me the diamond ring."
"Well, there's nothing I can do here. They want to make me into a specimen. My bones are right there, but two pieces are missing. They can put them together."
"Back then you..."
"My father became insane because of my death that year, and his body has been kept in the morgue of the crematorium. Until now, it seems to have been completely forgotten. My father was later hit by a car and died. I saw it with my own eyes. My mother married someone else and I stayed in that cold place."
"Don't be afraid. I will help you find the bones and take them away. Find a place you like and leave here."
"Xiaozhe, we will always be brothers."
My tears fell, and I knew the pain.
I found the diamond ring that day. He still likes to hide other people's things like when we were together. He is happy to see others get anxious.
The diamond ring was in Bu Lele's water cup. She had three or four water cups, but only one was used. I poured the diamond ring out, and Bu Lele was very happy. The diamond ring was big enough. Maybe it wasn't about money, but something meaningful.
"Ke Mingzhe, kill that thing for me."
"Bu Lele, don't be shameless."
I turned and left. After leaving the crematorium that day, I came back again in the second half of the night.
After entering the specimen room, I put the bones of my classmates into a black bag. After I picked them up, I found that two pieces were missing. I asked him to follow me and asked him where the two bones were. He said that someone had taken them away.
It was taken away by a morgue manager at the crematorium. What was he doing with it
To ordinary people, corpse bones are scary and evil, and no one wants to touch them. But in Yin science, human bones have different characteristics, different features, and different uses. Of course, if they are used correctly, it is right, but if they are used incorrectly, it is a big mistake.
My classmate's ghost took me to the administrator's house. I knocked on the door and he opened it after a long time. He seemed very angry and was stunned when he saw it was me.
"Director Ke?"
"Just call me Xiaozhe."
I went in and told him about it directly, and he looked at me blankly.
"How do you know? I have never done this before. This happened several years ago. I only did it once. Someone asked me to do it. I took the bones back, but the person didn't come to take them. A month later, I buried the bones in a corner of the yard. I know this is not good. Every New Year, I would burn some paper for him. I wanted to send it back, but it was discovered."
I found the two bones in the yard, put them in a bottle, and preserved them well. When I got everything together, at daybreak, I went directly to Ji Yihe's place, got a small coffin, put the bones in, and buried them.
My classmate cried, like a ghost crying, which is what I hate the most. It made my hair stand on end and it felt cold.
Bu Lele called me and said she wanted to treat me to a meal to thank me. I ignored her and hung up the phone.
I went to the paper-making house, which was open for business. Liu Yang and Li Xiaohuan still lived in the city, and I didn't let them come over because there was always a ghostly aura in the paper-making house, which was suitable for paper-making.
I went home less frequently these days and had more work to do. One day, someone came and asked me about makeup.
"There are makeup artists at the crematorium. Just go there."
"Private burial, ethnic minority."
Then I don’t understand.
"When will the funeral be?"
"Tomorrow morning, but there is one requirement. You have to put on your makeup in the coffin. You can only put on your makeup after the coffin is placed in the pit."
This is the first time I've met someone who made such a request. It's really strange.
I put down the work in my hands, lit a cigarette and asked.
"Why do you want to do this? It's very troublesome and inconvenient."
"This is a request from our family members. We will pay more money."
"It's not about money. Tell me the reason. I want to hear it."
"I'm sorry, there are some things our family members are unwilling to talk about."
I said after a moment's hesitation.
"Then I'll go there tomorrow. Give me a call and tell me the address."
The man left his phone number, address, told me the time and left.
I encountered another strange thing today. I have never encountered such a thing before, and Master Yunzheng has never told me about it. Does Liu Shougui know about it
I called Liu Shougui. He listened and spoke for a long time.
"You'd better not go."
"Why? I've already promised them."
"That's Yin makeup, it connects Yin and cuts off Yang. This is a very cunning way of doing things, and it's the worst for makeup artists. If you're not careful, you'll have half Yin and half Yang energy on your body, and you'll always feel cold and weak, especially at night when Yin energy is strong."
I didn't expect it to be like this.
"What should I do? But I promised them."
I'll come over in the evening and you prepare some wine and food.
I was busy until dark, and then he came over.
"Since you've agreed to this, let's do it. But having said that, problems are likely to arise. I'll help you, but you have to think about it. The chance of something going wrong is 50-50."
"Is it of such a large proportion?"
"Of course, not many makeup artists dare to do this kind of yin-yang makeup. I did it once, and only once. Fortunately, I got away with it."
I didn't expect this to happen and I broke out in a sweat.
Once you agree to do a shady job, you cannot go back on your word. It's like a contract. The soul of the dead person will know about it. Since you don't do it, then it's a debt.
People say it’s hard to make money from living people, but I think it’s not that easy to make money from dead people either.
The next morning, Liu Shougui tied a black cloth belt around Yao's waist, he said.
"It's the only way. It depends on your fate. Don't agree to any job you don't understand in the future. I think you should just do the tying job well in the future, and don't waste your time."
This was the first time Liu Shougui said this to me.
We drove to the family's ancestral tomb. The coffin was already in the pit. The pit was three meters and three meters deep, a depth where yin connected to yang. I glanced at Liu Shougui and I got nervous because I had never put on makeup in here before.
The rope was tied around my waist and slowly moved down. I was extremely nervous and felt like I would be buried at any time.
Liu Shougui stood aside, tied two high-intensity flashlights with ropes, moved them to the position, and stopped.
The body was a woman in her forties. As soon as I saw the way she died, I understood that she seemed to have died from a blow to the head.
There wasn't a big space down there. The makeup box was open, and I reached out my hand, but I got entangled in the woman's hair. I couldn't see clearly because of the light, and I didn't dare to pull her hair out. Pulling a dead person's hair out would mean breaking the circuit.
Liu Shougui felt something was wrong and asked me.
"What's wrong?"
"I got tangled up in my hair."
"Don't worry, don't worry, I'll go down."
Liu Shougui said don't worry, the voice has changed a little, it seems that the trouble is not just these. (To be continued)