Li Xiaofeng followed the six sons out of the curator's office, and then came to the office at the entrance of the building, where a middle-aged man in his fifties was sitting, looked up at the two of them, and then turned his eyes to Li Xiaofeng, and asked in a deep voice: "You are the security guard who said on the phone that you want to apply for the job, right?" ”

It turned out that the person on the phone just now was the person in front of him, Li Xiaofeng couldn't help but want to express his gratitude to him, so he hurriedly stepped forward and replied: "Yes, thank you for letting me... ”

Before Li Xiaofeng finished speaking, the man straightened up and handed over a "Entry Registration Form", and continued to say in a low voice: "Fill in this form, start going to work today, and ask Liuzi if you don't understand something." With that, he sat back down and ignored the two of them.

Li Xiaofeng suddenly felt a little embarrassed, but he hurriedly took the form and filled it out carefully and handed it back, the man looked at it roughly, then waved his hand and said, "The formalities are completed, you go first." ”

After hearing this, the sixth son didn't wait for Li Xiaofeng to thank him again, so he hurriedly pulled Li Xiaofeng out of the office, downstairs, and walked towards the guard room. Except for the sixth son, the other two people Li Xiaofeng saw had this kind of cold attitude, Li Xiaofeng couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart, so he whispered to the sixth son: "Why are the people here so strange, they are all very indifferent, as if they don't want to say a word more." ”

Liuzi suddenly turned around, looked at Li Xiaofeng, and said with a serious expression: "Don't feel strange! You don't want to think about what kind of place this is? Some words will not only be heard, but will be ... Speaking of this, Liuzi suddenly stopped, looked left and right, and continued: "In short, try to talk as little as possible here, this is the first rule!" ”

Seeing that Liuzi was so serious, Li Xiaofeng nodded hurriedly, and just wanted to ask who else could be heard besides people, but when the words came to his mouth, he suddenly understood, so he forcibly swallowed the words again, and Liuzi saw that Li Xiaofeng was no longer talking, so he turned around and continued to lead the way.

The two of them came to the back room of the guard's room, and the six sons pointed to one of the beds and said, "You will sleep in this bed from now on!" The working hours are from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., two days of day shifts and two days of night shifts, and we rotate between them. Also, the last bus here is at 4 p.m., and there are cemeteries nearby, so don't run around if you have nothing to do, so as not to get lost. ”

Li Xiaofeng began to recall that on the road just now, there were sparsely populated, the mountains were full of cemeteries, and this was a funeral home, how could he run around without anything, so he nodded and began to make his bed.

After a while, the luggage and beds were all cleaned up, Li Xiaofeng sat on his bed to rest, handed a cigarette to Liuzi, and asked, "Sixth brother, how long have you been here, aren't you afraid to keep vigil alone?" ”

Liuzi took the cigarette, lit it, took a puff, and slowly replied, "It's been almost three years!" What is there to be afraid of? My family lives nearby, three miles away, and I grew up in a mound of graves since I was a child, and I have long been used to it. ”

I see, Li Xiaofeng thought secretly in his heart, so he continued to ask: "What about the security guard before?" ”

Liuzi sneered and replied: "There are a few people who have come in the past few days, but they are all cowards, and they are so scared that they don't even want their wages and leave after staying for less than a day or two." ”

"And before that?" Li Xiaofeng continued to ask curiously.

Liuzi took another deep puff of the cigarette in his hand and replied: "The previous security guard was called Lao Tang, and he had been here for more than 30 years, but half a month ago, he died... After that, Liuzi looked straight at Li Xiaofeng, pointed to the bed under him with his hand, and continued: "Just die on this bed!" ”

As soon as Liuzi's voice fell, Li Xiaofeng bounced up from the bed with a "bang", patted his chest, panted, and said to Liuzi in a panic: "Sixth brother, you... Don't scare me! ”

Liuzi looked at the frightened Li Xiaofeng, sneered, and continued: "What am I scaring you for? Old Tang was old, and he drank again that day, and he suffered a cardiac arrest and died in this bed... Don't be afraid, the old Tang people are good, they won't harm you, I can't imagine that you are so timid! ”

Li Xiaofeng heard the sixth son say that he was timid, so he quickly mustered up his courage and said calmly: "Sixth brother, you are wrong... Misunderstanding, I'm not afraid, it's just that you said it coldly, I... I was not prepared, how could I be afraid... Li Xiaofeng hurriedly explained that he was afraid that this job that he had found so hard would be dismissed because he was cowardly.

Liuzi didn't answer, just quietly finished the cigarette in his hand, then pinched the cigarette butt, got up and said, "Go!" I'll show you around and get acquainted with the environment. ”

Li Xiaofeng hurriedly extinguished the cigarette in his hand and replied, "Well... Good. So he followed the six sons out of the guard room.

The two came to the red brick building just now, but this time they didn't enter the building, and the sixth son pointed to the office on the second floor and introduced: "The first room is a comprehensive office, the person you saw just now is called Lao Li, the last room is the director's office, and the rest are the reference rooms... Li Xiaofeng remembered seriously, Liuzi paused, turned his head to look at Li Xiaofeng, and said solemnly: "Remember, you can't call anyone's name here, let alone pat someone on the shoulder with your hand, no matter what, remember!" That's the second rule! ”

Li Xiaofeng blurted out without thinking: "Sixth brother, why is this?" ”

Liuzi squinted at Li Xiaofeng and whispered: "When the deceased died, the last thing to die was the ear, if he had an unfulfilled wish and happened to hear someone's name again, then he would pester him and ask him to help settle it... ”

Before the sixth son's words were finished, Li Xiaofeng already felt a chill in his back, and couldn't help but tremble, he didn't dare to continue listening, so he quickly changed the topic, pointed to the first floor and asked, "Sixth brother, whose office is this floor?" ”

Liuzi replied in a low voice: "This is not an office, this is a morgue and a dressing room!" ”

When he heard the word morgue, Li Xiaofeng couldn't help but shudder again, no wonder he felt so cold when he entered this building just now, it turned out that the freezers containing the corpses were separated by a wall, and the freezers were containing corpses... Li Xiaofeng unconsciously looked towards the second floor, and thought in his heart that the curator and Lao Li used to sit on the corpse floor every day to work, no wonder they were depressed, and the tone of their speech, who it was, I am afraid it would be like this!

Li Xiaofeng couldn't hold back his curiosity, and continued to ask in a low voice: "There is a dressing room here, is it possible that the corpse still needs makeup?" ”

Liuzi sighed and replied in a low voice, "Of course! Who doesn't want to let the deceased walk decently! The old man who died of natural causes is fine, and it is easy to deal with it, as if he fell asleep on weekdays. But those corpses that died unnaturally are difficult to deal with, such as those who were burned by fire, stoned to death by heavy objects, and some of them didn't even have their heads when they were sent, and they also needed to help him make a fake head... It's like the corpse of the woman in the red dress sent some time ago, her body has rotted, and her mouth is crawling with maggots, can you not put makeup on her? ”

Liuzi said, Li Xiaofeng imagined the appearance of various corpses, and in the end, he couldn't control the female corpse in the red dress, and suddenly felt a surge in his stomach, and almost vomited out his breakfast, so he quickly covered his mouth, stabilized his emotions, and whispered: "Sixth brother, you better take me to see other places." ”

Liuzi glanced at Li Xiaofeng, shook his head slightly, and whispered, "It seems that you still have time to get used to... With that, he turned around and took Li Xiaofeng towards another red brick building.

In front of the red brick building, the two did not enter first, this building is a little different from the one just now, this is a house with a left and right structure, the one on the left is slightly larger, there are two huge chimneys stretching out from the house, at this time there is black smoke, Liuzi pointed and said: "This is a crematorium, there are two crematoriums in it, but generally only one is used, now in summer, there are few dead people, and there are only two or three sent here every day, and in winter it is the peak season of our crematorium, and the two stoves may not be busy at that time." ”

Liuzi's words aroused Li Xiaofeng's interest, and he asked repeatedly: "Is this still the off-peak season?" Why do so many people die in winter? ”

The sixth son glanced at Li Xiaofeng and replied, "Haven't you heard the saying that old cows and old horses are sad for winter?" In winter, the old man walks a little more. After that, the sixth son pointed to the right side of the red brick house and said, "This is the bone collection room and the shop, and the upper floor is the place where the ashes are stored." ”

Liuzi squinted at Li Xiaofeng and saw that he was at a loss, so he explained: "There are a lot of human bones burned out of the crematorium, and it is impossible to put all of them in the urn, so you can only pick up some of them here and put them in, so it is called the bone room, and this store does not sell things from the living, but all of them are sold to the dead, such as urns, paper ties, etc.; The burial is a good auspicious time, and some people will temporarily store the urn here after cremation, because they have not reached the good burial time, and then come to pick it up when they are about to be buried. ”

After the sixth son finished speaking, Li Xiaofeng finally nodded in understanding.

The funeral parlor is not big, there are no other buildings except these two buildings, and the sixth son led Li Xiaofeng to the back of the two buildings, here is an empty courtyard, not big, you can see it at a glance, there are low red brick walls around, the courtyard is overgrown with weeds, there are traces of wheels on the road, and there are a lot of gray-white things piled up in the courtyard, like sand, and like small stones.

Li Xiaofeng walked over and grabbed a handful, looked at it carefully, and asked Liuzi, "Sixth brother, what are these?" How to pile up here? ”

The sixth son glanced at Li Xiaofeng and replied coldly: "Those are all cleaned out of the crematorium... Ashes! ”