Chapter Thirty-Five: The Person Without Relatives

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  Upon learning that the other party was a Night Watchman of Dusk Village, Laga put his hand down from the hilt of his sword.

  "I am... a guest of the Minas' household."

  "Oh?"

  The watchman's eyes flickered, he didn't wear shiny leather armor like Meena's father, but only wore a heavy brown cloak with stains and worn edges, looking quite miserable. He also didn't hold any weapons, just an ordinary iron shovel.

  He stood the shovel upright on the ground, one hand leaning against the handle of the shovel, and the other hand dug into his nostrils without any shyness.

  "So you're that young noble master?"

  Lei Ga couldn't help but furrow his brow. Meina's father had promised Xu Lingtian to keep a low profile, but the result was that even the night watchman guarding the tomb already knew about it in just one night. Although he wasn't really a noble, being easily sold out still made him somewhat angry.

  "What did Meena's father tell you?"

  The night watchman at the cemetery smiled slyly, "He told Lu Qi, and Lu Qi told me. You know, many earth-shaking famous sayings originated from the beds of prostitutes."

  Prostitute? Lei Ga looked at him with puzzlement.

  The night watchman at the cemetery said in surprise: "You don't know Rou Qi? Didn't Meina's father bring you to her bed?"

  "Last night I slept in Meena's attic. I don't even know what a Rokey is."

  It seems that Minna's father wanted to arrange such an entertainment last night, but ultimately didn't dare say it out loud. Fortunately, he didn't say it, Rega thought coldly, if he dared to mention it, he would definitely twist his arm off, regardless of whether Minna saw it or not.

  "Oh, I see, you're a noble, and it wouldn't be good for your reputation if it got out that you slept with a village prostitute."

  The cemetery night watchman smiled slyly, "But you have to admit that Lu Qi is really great, with red hair and the fur below is also red, soft and wet, just a slight touch and it's all water, twisting and turning like a yellow weasel..."

  "That's enough."

  Lei Ga said with a straight face: "I'm not interested in hearing about the romantic affairs between you three, I just came to visit and pay respects at the cemetery."

  "That would be unfortunate."

  The night watchman of the cemetery shook his head helplessly, "According to the rules of Dusk Village, anyone with an unknown identity is not allowed to enter the cemetery. Did you see that yellow bell in my small wooden hut? If I ring it, all the villagers will rush over with their weapons."

  "Meina and her family can vouch for my identity." Rega said with his head held high.

  "You'll need them to escort you, then, if you want to get into the cemetery." The night watchman at the cemetery shrugged.

  Going back to ask Meena's mother for help is not impossible, but coming and going would waste a lot of time, and with many people it wouldn't be easy to find an opportunity to dig up the grave moss. Leiga's heart skipped a beat as she tentatively asked: "Shouldn't there be another way?"

  He had a coin on him, but that was given to him by Shep for emergency use only and absolutely could not be spent. Apart from this, he also had two bright red apples, a herbal medicine spade, and a bag of dried meat rations. He immediately took out the dried meat rations prepared for him by Meena's mother, "These food items are worth at least twenty or thirty silver coins."

  The night watchman in the cemetery smiled and said, "You're really a young noble after all."

  He stretched out his hand that had just dug into his nostrils, took the bag with residual warmth, lowered his head to take a look, sucked in some saliva, but didn't rush to eat.

  "Lu Qi will like it, we can eat while doing it. She eats meat, I eat her black grapes."

  Lei Ga helplessly sighed, the man in front of him was beyond salvation, completely enthralled by women, no wonder his life was so bleak, even being arranged to take care of a cemetery.

  "Can I move freely now?"

  "Of course, of course."

  The night watchman at the cemetery nodded repeatedly, "Young master, even if you want to sleep in the cemetery, I won't drive you away. However, there are many tombstones here and some places are more sensitive, please allow me to introduce them briefly."

  The night watchman of the cemetery had a hint in his words, and Leiga immediately associated it with Yelisha's tomb.

  The cemetery caretaker smiled dryly and pointed to the group of tombstones in the center, "These are the burial grounds for the relatives of Dusk Village. Without exception, all villagers of Dusk Village will be buried here after death. Each tombstone has the identity, birth and death dates, as well as a self-evaluation epitaph of the deceased."

  Lega followed the night watchman's finger, and saw that the central tomb group was dense and continuous, with the tombstones extending all the way into the fog. Lega walked up to the nearest tombstone and saw that it clearly recorded the life of its owner, but the original epitaph had been scraped off and replaced with a simple sentence: "He died and was eaten."

  "How many tombs like this?"

  Lei Ga wanted to know how many corpses Yín Lì Shā had eaten after her resurrection, which still made the villagers angry until today.

  "I understand what you're trying to ask, but no matter what eats it, a corpse will rot underground every day, we just can't see it."

  The cemetery watchman smiled meaningfully. He walked to the back of Laga, nodded his chin towards the depths of the fog, "Can you see the night rat in the distance?"

  The fog was very thick, and Lei Ga shook his head. "Can't see."

  "Me too."

  "The sly caretaker said, 'But I know that there are indeed night rats there. They're pitch black, quick-moving, sharp-toothed and clawed, and can dig open a coffin faster than a young man's first time. But people only saw Yelissa eating corpses, they cursed her as evil, but turned a blind eye to the behavior of the night rats.'"

  "So you sympathize with Yelissa?" Rega asked.

  "Sympathy?"

  The graveyard watchman burst out laughing, his shrill laughter adding a few touches of terror to the quiet cemetery.

  After laughing, the night watchman of the cemetery took a breath and continued to say in his oily tone: "I'm just telling the truth, if you want to talk about sympathy, it's better to say that I wanted to get on her. Oh my god, apple-flavored Yelissa, which man doesn't want to taste the flavor below? When I heard the news of her death - I mean the first time she died, you don't know how happy I was, I thought she could finally accompany me in this boring and cold place. Unfortunately, at the moment of burial, Xu Lingtian took her away like a madman. To be honest with you, my noble young master, I even had the idea of digging her up on the night of her burial and putting her on my bed. Of course, I just thought about it, but didn't actually sink to that level of shamelessness. As the old people say, the lower part of a corpse is cold and dry, like an ice cube, I still prefer the hot, wet, and accompanied by a woman's ** way."

  "Your thoughts are nauseating." Rega said coldly.

  "But I didn't do anything disgusting."

  The night watchman at the cemetery shrugged indifferently, "I just want to have sex with women, no woman loves me, so I go to prostitutes. At least this is much better than having a wife and still cheating outside."

  The night watchman of the cemetery may be referring to Mina's father, who is not as despicable as he seems. Moreover, the night watchman is not greedy and did not ask for more after receiving the dried meat, which makes him better than Mina's father in this regard.

  Lega shifted his disgusted gaze from the face of the night watchman in the cemetery and pointed to a group of graves on the left side of the central graveyard, asking: "What is buried there? Why is there only one tombstone?"

  "Wreckage."

  The cemetery night watchman said bluntly, "They are the skeletons of the corpses eaten by Yinniesa. Many, many skeletons were gathered together, and the families could no longer tell who was who, so they had to bury the skeletons together."

  "What about the right side?" Lai Ga noticed that the tombstones on the right side of the burial ground were tilted and in disarray.

  "There lie the nameless and the kinless."

  "The unknown person refers to travelers who died in the village of Dusk and whose names are not known to the villagers, so they can only be buried here. The unaffiliated person refers to those who have no one to sweep their graves or offer sacrifices, and they too are buried there."

  "Got it."

  Yin Lisha's grave should be on the right. Leiga waved his hand to the night watchman of the cemetery without making a sound, "You go and busy yourself, I want to wander around by myself."

  "As you wish, my young noble master."

  The cemetery watchman bowed exaggeratedly, then dragged his iron shovel and hugged the dried meat bag that Lei gave him, and walked back to the small wooden house with satisfaction.

  Lei Ga watched as the night watchman of the cemetery disappeared before turning around and heading towards the group of graves on the right side of the cemetery.

  The ground here is uneven and neglected, obviously lacking care and maintenance compared to other cemeteries. But thinking that the people buried here are those who have no one to worship them, Leiga can understand it.

  Tombstones are scattered all over the place, some have already fallen to the ground and become one with the weeds. Those that haven't fallen are covered in a thick layer of dust and rain stains, with no words on them.

  A gust of dark wind blew in, and the heavy fog swirled, shrouding this chaotic burial ground. Leika couldn't see the surrounding scenery clearly, and his heart felt as if it was being pressed down by a heavy object - it seemed that the tomb he was looking for was right here. He felt his body tensing up, and then relaxed his clenched fists.

  According to reason, Yin Lisha was not a nobody, nor was she without relatives. She had a legitimate husband and blood sisters, and should not have been buried in such a place. However, the actual cause of her second death was that she was nailed into a coffin by angry villagers who regarded her as an evil monster and left to suffocate to death. Her husband Xu Lingtian was prohibited from entering, while her sister was timid and weak, with unmentionable guilt in her heart, and did not dare to come to sweep the grave... Yin Lisha had become a true nobody.

  Lei Ga carefully looked around and finally found a lonely tombstone standing upright in the corner, so he stepped forward, stretched out his hand and wiped off the dust on the tombstone.

  A line of small words appeared.

  "Here lies the happiest woman in the world, for love she was turned into a man-eating monster by her own husband."