New Year's Eve is the last night at the end of the year, also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, etc. It is the last night at the end of the year and has special significance in the hearts of Chinese people.
Whenever this most important day comes at the end of the year, no matter how far away the wanderers are, they have to rush home to reunite with their families. On New Year's Eve, they bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year.
And today, Li Leping, a man with no one to hang out with, came to the Zhushan Cemetery in Dachuan City.
Zhushan Cemetery is located in the suburbs of Dachuan City, but it is not very far from the city.
After passing through the gate, I met Chen Zhong in the parking lot. After taking a large bag of memorial supplies from his hand, the two of them did not exchange too many words.
All the ashes are buried here, and the surroundings are very quiet. It is really difficult for them to communicate in such an environment.
Not to mention, the topic related to "ghosts" must be discussed as soon as I open my mouth.
Talking about ghosts in a cemetery is really exhausting.
Maybe on New Year's Eve in the countryside, people will go to the cemetery to visit the graves.
But this is a city, and most people don’t come to the cemetery to pay respects during the Chinese New Year. They basically burn three incense sticks in the incense burner at home, burn some paper money, and worship a few times.
That's about it.
Only during specific seasons like Qingming Festival, there will be some smoke and even the sound of firecrackers in the cemetery, giving people a pleasant send-off.
Walking on the cement road, the road here is clean and tidy, and the greening is also good. This is not the kind of mass graves in the past, and there will not be the weird situation of tombs standing randomly and full of solitary graves.
However, since the cemetery has not been in existence for a short period of time, walking in the deserted cemetery, you can see tombstones left in various periods along the way.
Some tombstones are tall, like half a door panel, and are made of granite or other materials. They look shiny and grand.
Some of them are just small tombstones. The material is probably made from some kind of gray stone. Compared with the bright granite, this kind of small tombstone looks much older.
However, no matter what material the tombstones are made of, at least all the tombstones have names and surnames on them, so that no one can even tell where their own grave is.
"Detective Li, I'm going over there first."
At the fork in the road, Chen Zhong said hello and said he was leaving Li Leping.
"good."
Li Leping nodded casually.
The person they want to worship is not the same person. In this place where the mountains are full of tombstones, it is normal for them to be separated.
Although it was his first time here, after looking at the sign and following the information He Xueyan sent to him, Li Leping soon came to a granite tombstone.
Since cremation is basically adopted in modern times, the land required to bury the deceased is now much smaller.
No grave mound is needed, no coffin is needed.
Just erect a monument, place the ashes of the deceased in the hole dug in front of the tombstone, and seal it with cement. This is a person's final residence after death.
There is very little text on the tombstone in front of me, only a name and the dates of birth and death.
As for the person who erected the monument, as well as the title of the deceased, there is no one.
the reason is simple.
Because Zhang Xiaoxiao has died.
Standing in front of the tombstone with Zhang Xiaoxiao's name engraved on it, Li Leping didn't say a word. He just followed the custom of lighting incense, burning money, and pouring wine.
Along the way, he also paid homage to Zhang Xiaoxiao's deceased parents, wife and children.
Li Leping didn't say a word during the whole process, he just repeated the gesture of worship in front of each tombstone.
Not far away, the aunt in charge of cleaning looked at the young man who came to worship with a strange expression.
"This person, even if he came alone, still has to visit the graves of six people at the same time?"
Ignoring the strange looks from others, Li Leping repeated those actions.
Burn a few sticks of incense and burn a wad of paper money.
After the worship was completed, he looked at the row of past tombstones with complicated eyes.
Six people, six lives, six monuments.
The paper money was still burning in the iron basin, and a few wisps of gray-black paper dust floated out from time to time, adding to the heavy atmosphere.
The aunt in charge of cleaning would never have thought that this row of past tombstones would be the tombstones of a family.
This shows that the families were buried on the same day.
There are six tombstones, four of which are engraved with names and dates of birth and death.
These four people are Zhang Xiaoxiao, Zhang Xiaoxiao's parents, and Zhang Xiaoxiao's wife.
There are two other tombstones, one has a name engraved on it, but the other one only has the word "loved son" engraved on it.
Neither of these two tombstones have the date of birth or death engraved on them, because people rarely write down the date of birth and death for people who died young, as if this is something that must be avoided.
These two tombstones belong to Zhang Xiaoxiao's two children.
One child was only four or five years old when he died, and the other was not born yet, and before he could see the beauty of the world, he first witnessed the most cruel side of the world.
Li Leping stood in front of Zhang Xiaoxiao's tomb without saying a word.
Zhang Xiaoxiao was the last to be buried, because the white ghost smoke he controlled was part of the puzzle of black ghost smoke, and Li Leping did not merge the white ghost smoke and black ghost smoke until the ghost borrowing incident, in order to deal with the borrowing ghost cloud.
, thus controlling stronger ghost smoke.
Zhang Xiaoxiao's body was also able to escape from the ghost smoke, and then rested here forever.
Even after experiencing so much and witnessing so many lives and deaths, Li Leping still felt sorry for Zhang Xiaoxiao's death, and even felt guilty for Zhang Xiaoxiao himself.
Li Leping treats the death of most people relatively indifferently.
Just like Jiang Cheng, he was a poor man who was involved in the ghost photo studio, but his death was also destined after entering the ghost photo studio.
Then there are official officials like Fang Jun and Tang Ziyi who are themselves involved in supernatural phenomena.
They had already been prepared to sacrifice. Such a great spirit is worthy of praise, but it is not enough to make Li Leping feel guilty.
Moreover, after their death, their families will receive preferential treatment from the country, and most importantly, many people will remember their sacrifice and feel sad for their departure.
Only when dealing with Zhang Xiaoxiao, Li Leping always felt guilty.
Zhang Xiaoxiao is just one of the many living beings. He has parents, a wife and children. His biggest wish after becoming a ghost controller is to earn enough money so that his family can live in this world without worries.
Children, husband, father.
In every capacity, he is up to standard and worthy of this responsibility.
At the same time, he is also a very loyal and brotherly person.
Because he felt a debt in his heart, and because he was already on his deathbed, he wanted to help Li Leping one more time even before he died.
He offered his assistance on his own initiative.
Maybe he wanted to return a favor to Li Leping, or maybe he had his own little calculation in mind, thinking that as long as he helped Li Leping once, even if he died, his wife and children would get an Interpol headquarters officer.
care.
All it takes is Li Leping's mention, and Zhang Xiaoxiao's family will enjoy high-quality treatment in Dajing City.
As for what Zhang Xiaoxiao planned, Li Leping didn't care anymore.
Speculating on a deceased person from the perspective of conspiracy theories is a dark thought in itself.
Li Leping didn't want to speculate too much on this groundless conspiracy theory. He had seen many dead people, but it didn't mean he didn't respect the dead.
He thought that Zhang Xiaoxiao really wanted to realize his heroic dream before he died.