After breakfast, Gao Yi did not go back to the pavilion to continue to recuperate, but began to get busy.

The first priority at the moment is naturally to let Lao Gao Yi be buried as soon as possible, and it is not a matter of having a corpse lying in the room all the time.

Therefore, the first thing he had to do was to apply for a free cemetery for Lao Gaoyi. His entire net worth has been folded in the six hundred oceans with interest, and now that he is poor, he may not be able to make up five yuan for his family, let alone buy a cemetery, and then even his own life is very problematic. Although I feel that this is quite unacceptable to Lao Gaoyi, and even after death, I can't give him a slightly better environment, but this is also a helpless thing.

Gao Yi asked the guy to help him go to the stable and call a rental carriage. The rental carriage rent is 6 corners per half a day, although it is much more expensive than the rickshaw, but the carriage has shock absorbers and spring sofas, which is much more comfortable to sit on than the rickshaw.

The Ministry of Industry Bureau's special agency for the management of cemeteries is the Cemetery Unit set up under the Ministry of Health, but Gao Yi did not go to the Health Department, but let the carriage turn in the direction of Hongkou.

There is a St. Andrew's Church on Broadway Road east of Hongqiao outside Hongkou Port, which is the first place Gao Yi will visit today.

St. Andrew's Church is affiliated with the Seamen's Evangelistic Society. The Seafarers' Evangelistic Society is a pan-denominational and transnational missionary organization, composed of missionaries from various countries and different denominations, which is specially composed of missionaries for seafarers, and it has a cemetery of about 30 acres in Lujiazui, Pudong, which is mainly used to bury dead seafarers.

Of course, Lao Gao Yi is not a seafarer, but the reason why Gao Yi listed this cemetery as the first choice is because although Lao Gao Yi has never been a seafarer, he happens to be the grave keeper of this seafarer's cemetery.

On May 1 last year, at a regular meeting of the board of directors of the Ministry of Industry, the conflict between the Pudong Cemetery of the Seamen's Evangelist and its next-door neighbor, the Yezon Shipyard, was discussed in the case of the Yeesson Shipyard encroaching on the cemetery's land by putting wood out of the border into the cemetery without authorization. The Board of Directors considered that the best way to deal with this was to build a cheap wall and hire a caretaker to look after the property.

Old Gao Yi is the grave keeper who was hired to look after the property.

Lao Gao Yi came to the Pudong Cemetery on May 6, and he was the only one in the cemetery, but this was not the main factor that bothered him, what bothered him was that he found that there was not even a cigarette shop around. When the stock was depleted on May 14, he had to smell all the way to find a place to sell cigarettes like an old dog. As a result, when he finally bought cigarettes, and finally found an empty melon shed on the bank of a small river where he could lie in it and enjoy himself, he suddenly saw a demon god with muscles and knots, a majestic body, and a bright glow all over the river—this demon god was Gao Yi, who was stepping on a half-sunken boat and drifted all the way there by moonlight.

Therefore, since Gao Yi crossed over, the word "fate" has always been in his heart.

If it weren't for the fact that old Gao Yi happened to come to this cemetery, if it weren't for the fact that he happened to be unfamiliar with his life and didn't find the tobacco shop until that day, if it weren't for the fact that he happened to have a smoking addiction and came to the melon shed by the river at that point in time, if it weren't for the fact that he happened to be delirious and took him in, if it weren't for the fact that this cemetery happened to be isolated from the world and gave him the necessary time to integrate into this era, Gao Yi believed that his journey through the world would never have come as uneventful as it is now—at least before yesterday-

There seems to be a will of its own that guides all this.

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What happened to happen next was unexpectedly smooth, and Gao Yi happened to meet the Rev. Aldrich at St. Andrew's Church, who was the specific person in charge of the Pudong cemetery and the only clergy Gao Yi knew in the seamen's evangelistic meeting, in fact, Gao Yi was going to go to him.

With Pastor Aldrich, Gao Yi was given a cemetery plot, an additional sponsorship for the coffin, and the priest promised to officiate the funeral himself.

Coming out of the church, Gao Yi went directly to the Catholic Church Street in the French Concession, which was later known as South Sichuan Road, and ordered a cheap coffin at Songmao Foreign Bank, which hosted the funeral, and made an appointment to go to the funeral in the afternoon. Then I went to Tianxiang Wharf and ordered a coal ship to cross the river tomorrow.

When he came back to Yaxian Ju in such a big circle, the time was only two hours, and he was even able to step on the meal.

Probably because she was disturbed by several patrols in the morning, the proprietress didn't have time to prepare lunch, but directly ordered noodles from a nearby noodle shop to be delivered.

As soon as Gao Yi stepped into the living room, he heard the proprietress shouting: "There is also a stewed meat noodle on this pair, who wants to eat it?" The last stewed meat. ”

"I want it!" Gao Yi saw that there were only smoked fish and kidney flower noodles left on the table, which he didn't like to eat very much, so he hurriedly answered. He turned around outside, exended a lot of physical strength, and was already so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back.

The two-finger-wide stewed pork with stir-fried vegetarian toppings is only four copper yuan, which is just enough for the lunch standard of Yaxian Ju.

The food standard of three meals a day in Yaxian Ju is distributed according to four, four and eight. Breakfast and lunch are four copper yuan, for example, Gao Yi ate the soup ball and small balls this morning, which are two copper yuan each. In fact, there are not many people staying in the store for lunch, so it is mainly a light meal, with a large meat, a small meat, a vegetarian and a soup. In this era, the price is very cheap, a piece of two taels of sauce pork only costs one copper yuan, and four copper yuan can eat these three dishes and one soup.

Dinner is everyone gathered together according to the table to eat, chicken, duck and fish when fresh vegetables, the proprietress will make every effort to change the recipe, the standard is eight copper yuan per person, a table of eight immortals six dimes of the dish, can already eat very rich. For those who don't eat lunch in the store, the hostess will also serve free drinks or send supper in the evening, so you won't lose money.

The total cost of three meals is sixteen copper dollars. However, at this time, the relationship between the copper dollar and the silver dollar is not a hundred-based system, but according to the rise and fall of the silver price and copper price on the market, and there will be a market price sign every day.

For example, according to the price listed in today's "Declaration", one silver dollar can be exchanged for 14 copper dollars, and 16 copper dollars are equal to one dime and four cents.

In other words, at least half of the accommodation fee collected by the proprietress will be spent on the food and drink of the guests. It can be seen that it is very affordable to live here, so the customers of this store are basically repeat customers, and it is difficult for ordinary strangers to care.

There are roughly two groups of regular customers in Yaxianju, one of which is engaged in the silk business. When the proprietress was young, she married a Huzhou silk merchant, and later the silk merchant died, and she had no way to make a living, so she opened this hotel. These silk merchants may have been the companions of the deceased husband of the proprietress and they usually lived for a long time, usually on a monthly basis.

There is also a group of Suzhou guests, are also old guests, know the details, love to eat Suzhou food, to Shanghai to have business to deal with, or when playing, will live here, but they are mostly short-term guests, at most a week.