We didn't take the road through the city. Although the refinery was covered with black cloth, I was still afraid of something going wrong.
On the way to the crematorium, I was completely relaxed. But I didn't expect that when there were still five or six hundred meters to the crematorium, the crane behind us actually hit the car in front of us. The car ran off the road, plunged into the ditch and overturned. Fortunately, the people on the car were fine and climbed out. I was also scared, and the crane driver was also dumbfounded.
"What's going on?"
The other driver almost slapped him.
"I was still more than 200 meters away, but, but..."
I knew it wasn't the driver's fault.
"It's okay. As long as you're not injured, it's okay. Go back to the site and find Master Zhang Wen and ask him to find a car."
I stood there, knowing that this was a very troublesome matter. We were so close to the site and something had happened. It seemed that there were too many ghosts in the crematorium. Some of them were not from here. If you pulled the refining furnace in, they would have to escape. They were blocking the crane driver and gave him hallucinations.
I saw Li Xiaohuan, standing motionless at the door of the crematorium, dressed in white, and she wouldn't let me in.
Zhang Wen came and was on the phone.
"Master Zhang, thank you for your hard work."
"I asked Liu Shougui and Gao Hua to come over."
"Liu Shougui will not agree."
"At this point, there is nothing we can do. He is your father-in-law."
Liu Shougui opposed it, and of course he had his reasons for doing so, but he was unable to stop Xiaozhe.
Gao Hua arrived with a trailer. He pulled the vehicle up, hoisted the refining furnace onto the vehicle, and parked it aside. He did not dare to start it again, even though it was only four or five hundred meters away.
Li Xiaohuan was no longer at the entrance of the crematorium. No one knew where he had gone.
Liu Shougui came, took a look and said.
"Find Cheng Baibu Meng, don't move now, move during the day."
Two drivers were waiting here, and we went back to the crematorium. I opened the cabinet, which contained wine and some food.
"Eat something. We'll be busy from dawn on, and we don't know when we'll get to eat."
"Xiaozhe, you are as stubborn as your dead father, just like a donkey. Your father has a nickname that few people know, called Zuolu."
I glared at him, and he actually smiled happily. He was ugly to begin with, and this smile could scare ghosts. No wonder he was not troubled by ghosts.
Xiaozhe didn't say anything. I guess he was unhappy when others talked about me. But since it was my father-in-law who said it, he couldn't say anything.
When it was daybreak, we went out. Zhang Wen walked ahead of us and stopped at the door.
Liu Shougui said.
"If we forcefully pull it in now, something might happen. I'll go upstairs. The red lacquer coffin is there. We can't keep it like this. Let's let it do something today."
I glanced at Liu Shougui, but Zhang Wen seemed to have not heard anything and was looking into the distance. He seemed to have seen something.
Liu Shougui went to the lacquered coffin on the roof. He wanted that ghost to suppress the other ghosts. As long as the white line of the refining furnace entered the yard, all the problems would be solved.
Liu Shougui came down half an hour later, his face looking pale.
"This thing won't obey unless it is punished. It thinks it is the boss here."
Liu Shougui muttered.
"Okay, let the driver drive in, slowly."
The two cars moved slowly, very slowly, and we stood and watched.
It was a little after five in the morning and there weren't many people around, but looking at the refining furnace covered with white cloth did give one a sense of awe.
I felt the wind blowing, a cold wind blowing everywhere, I thought those ghosts that were not from here must have escaped, although they were unwilling to do so.
The car ran over the white line. Just as I breathed a sigh of relief, the driver jumped out of the car and ran a long way away. The car caught fire in an instant.
We called the fire department and they put out the fire in half an hour.
The next step is to lift the refining furnace, put it in position, and then cover it with white cloth again to make it firm.
At seven o'clock, everything was ready. The employees who came for the early shift only saw a big thing covered with a white cloth.
I was sitting in the office, watching the surveillance video. The employees who came in just took a quick look. No one stood there watching, and no one said anything. They probably sensed that the atmosphere was not the usual one.
Li Xiaohuan's substitute came in.
"Ke Mingzhe, I have loved you in vain. Although I am not from this world, I gave up because of love. If I don't give up, I think several people will die. I am leaving. I hope that when you go to the funeral room next time, you can put flowers in my room. My body is in the box in my room. The box is under the bed. Don't move it. This is my only request. That way I can still feel the feeling of being with you."
I covered my face.
"Okay, I'll do it. I'm sorry, but I can't help it."
"I understand."
The rich lady's replacement has passed away, I think she has been reincarnated.
Li Xiaohuan called me an hour after she passed away.
"Master, I'm out."
"You go home and rest first. I have something to do here and I can't leave."
Liu Shougui, Gao Hua and Zhang Wen were all resting in the room. They all fell asleep, feeling nervous after tossing and turning all night.
Opening the furnace and lifting the cloth is also a troublesome matter. It is hard to say whether everything here can be suppressed. I don't know what kind of weirdness this ancient refining furnace has. I can't explain it clearly. I am somewhat regretful. If I get this thing here and can't settle it, the first one to bear the brunt will be me, the field manager. With such a big weirdness, I will be skinned alive if I don't die.
They got up at noon and I took them out to eat. When we passed Xilai Building, it was still the same, a haunted building with dark windows like open mouths.
Entered the restaurant, ordered food and drank.
"Xiaozhe, let's lift the cloth tomorrow."
Liu Shougui said.
I think I'll get it done today.
"Why?"
"Do you know what the refining furnace is for?"
"A corpse, what else could it be? There are bones in there, and those that have not been fully refined have been poured out, leaving an empty furnace."
"That's just a surface phenomenon. It's not a refined corpse. I already knew that. You were right to get this refining furnace. Did you read all the words on it?"
"I can't understand the circular text. I don't know what it means?"
"Even if you ask an expert to understand these words, they can't be understood. They are not the words of some ethnic minority, but the words of another world. He Dana can understand them. Of course, he is dead now. He has never spoken those words. It seems that there are many things he is unwilling to say."
"What is that text?"
"The ghost wrote the words. The upper part is all people's names, and the lower part contains some records about the refining furnace."
I don't know. I have pondered those words many times, but I didn't understand them clearly. I thought they were just some marking symbols, the ancient people's records, like knot records. It turned out not to be like that. This is something I didn't expect.
"Can you understand?"
I asked Liu Shougui, and he looked at me for a long time and said.
"He Dana understands. I found a diary of his that records the corresponding information, so I know what those words mean."
He Dana’s diary should not be the diary in Room 18, as Liu Shougui never went near any of the rooms in Room 18.
"The diary is under He Dana's pillow."
"So tell us, what does that mean?"
"It's very simple. It can be explained in just a few words. This furnace is used to refine ghosts."
I shuddered, and Zhang Wen and Gao Hua also shuddered.
Ghosts are things from another world, and they also exist in our world. How should we refine ghosts? I don’t know.
"What will happen then?"
"After the cloth is lifted, the evil ghosts will run away. They are afraid of being refined. When the ghosts are refined, the refining furnace will emit light, flickering, and it will be brighter at night."
"We don't refine ghosts, it's just a town there."
"This refining furnace has a self-refining function. Some ghosts will be tortured if they have done too much evil. Those who cannot bear it will enter the furnace. Once they enter the furnace, it will light up on its own, usually at night."
"What will happen then?"
"Ghosts can curse, and that's what people are most worried about. Do you know what they curse? Who do they curse?"
My palms are all sweaty, so it turns out that getting this thing has actually caused me a lot of trouble.
"What should we do then?"
"There is nothing I can do now. I can't do anything with ancient things like this. I can only look at them and see what the situation is. Don't move them yet. I mean don't lift the cloth. Just leave it there. Those ghosts will be scared away."
It seems that this is what Liu Shougui meant by not letting me do it.
"I don't think there should be any problem. It's the same whether it's placed in Bone Village or here."
After Zhang Wen finished speaking, he looked at Liu Shougui.
"You are right, but don't forget, how many people have entered the Bone Village? Xiaozhe was able to enter because he had a badge, and you know this best. How many of the others who entered survived? That is a curse."
"There should be two people living in Bone Village."
"If there is a village, there will be people. What kind of people are they? You may not know better than me."
I know that there are two people living there in the village and they are fine, but the curse that Liu Shougui talked about also scares me. Anyone who enters the village will die. It's really strange. There is still no explanation as to what the reason is.
This matter leaves it at that for now, since it has already been brought here.
I went back to the office and sat in front of the window looking at the refining furnace. To be honest, it really looked pleasing to the eye there. It seemed to make the crematorium full of vitality, but of course it also added a lot of weirdness.
When I got home that day, Liu Yang asked me that the crematorium had brought something back from the Bone Village, and also said there was a car overturn and a mess.
I gave a brief introduction and Liu Yang looked at me for a long time without saying anything.
"fine."
"Why don't you do your job as the manager? What are you doing with that thing? I can't control you. I have to go to work tomorrow. The babysitter will come tonight."
"good."
Liu Yang became more and more dissatisfied with me, and the reason was somewhat related to Li Xiaohuan. She didn't allow me to take this apprentice with me, but I didn't agree.
I left after Liu Yang left for work the next day.
When I entered the office, Li Xiaohuan came in, wearing makeup, which was really beautiful.
"Master, that ghost taught me how to put on makeup, but she asked me to promise her one condition, which is to take good care of you. I agreed."
I was stunned. If ghost makeup was like this, then the makeup was naturally much better than mine.
"Okay, okay, don't put on makeup in front of the mirror after dark."
"Yes, Master."
Li Xiaohuan entered dressing room No. 13, and I watched her put on makeup. I really fell in love with Li Xiaohuan and always liked watching her put on makeup.
I knew that I had emotional problems and I needed to talk to Liu Yang and get rid of this off-topic relationship as soon as possible, but I never did.
I had dinner with Li Xiaohuan in the evening. I called Liu Yang and told him that something happened at the venue and I would be back late.
I saw Li Xiaohuan's makeup and it was indeed different.
"When you put on makeup in the future, don't use ghost makeup. Unless it's necessary, just put on normal makeup."
"Yes, Master, I want to learn how to make paper-folding. I like that thing."
"Okay, let's talk about it after a while. Now that you have completed your apprenticeship, come and ask me if you don't understand something in the future. Under normal circumstances, you can put on your own makeup."
I want to have less contact with Li Xiaohuan.
That day, I went back to the weaving room, took the flowers and went into my daughter's room, put the flowers in a vase, then pulled out the box from under the bed, opened it, and found a corpse. The box was padded with yellow cloth. I covered it, pushed it in, and then locked the door of the room.
I know that the rich lady's corpse has been reincarnated and is of no use here, but out of respect for her, I still stay here.
The next day when I went to work, Liu Yang called me and was angry.
"You don't even go home now."
"I went to the weaving room. There was work to do."
"I think you should just be the manager and stop talking nonsense."
"You are a teacher, I hope you can be more careful with your words."
"I'm not good enough, so what?"
When a woman is unreasonable, she is really unreasonable. I know that there is no point in talking about reason between husband and wife. If it is made clear, the fate of the couple will be severed, so I don't want to reason with her.
When I go to work again, Zhang Wen will come to the office.
"Mingzhe, I am much younger than you, but there are some things I have to say. Li Xiaohuan likes you, and I can see that. You like her too, but you already have a wife and a son. Isn't this a bad idea?"
"I'm sorry, I don't want to talk about this, and I hope you won't mention me again. This is my family's business."
I was very angry, but I couldn't express it. I don't know why. If someone else had said this, I might have cursed Ba Daye. Ba Daye and I have been unlucky in this life. I curse him every day.
Zhang Wen shook his head, stood up and left.
Today is Saturday. There are no holidays at the crematorium, but we can take turns to rest.
Liu Yang came, furious. She first found Li Xiaohuan and slapped her in the face. Liu Yang was a smart woman, but she did such a stupid thing. It was really life-threatening.
"Liu Yang, this matter has nothing to do with Li Xiaohuan, why are you hitting him?"
"You feel bad, don't you? If she's not here, you won't like going home anymore?"
"It's not that I don't like going home, there's a lot of things to do in the field, and I also have to take care of the weaving room."
"You should take care of us, me and the children."
Liu Yang was very angry. I was particularly angry, so I called Liu Shougui and told him about it. Liu Shougui actually said, "Never mind."
I stabbed his uncle. (To be continued)