Chapter 586: Funeral Car Driver

I told him that the Buddha card is not like a mobile phone, you can buy one for a few thousand dollars, and you can use it. After all, the Buddha card is blessed by the high monk of the Buddha card, and there is mana in it, and the worshipper must be sincere and cannot lie, otherwise it will be troublesome in the future.

Mr. Wu said, "Oh, that's the case...... What do you have to say about this, alas, but it's upset! "The more he talked about it, the happier I became, because it meant that there was business coming to my door.

According to his self-report, this Mr. Wu has been driving a funeral car for four or five years, which sounds unlucky in this industry. The timid may also be afraid, saying that this is no different from a hearse, and there is often a cold corpse lying in the back of the car, who can stand it. After all, China has a history of thousands of years of feudal society, and most of them are taboo about this kind of thing. So ordinary people really can't drive this kind of car, there are only two kinds of people who can drive, one is bold, the other is nervous, it doesn't matter, Mr. Wu belongs to the latter.

He is usually more aggressive, but he can't be said to be the kind of person who is not afraid of ghosts and gods by nature. He usually never says anything disrespectful to ghosts and gods, after all, he is in a special industry, but his psychological tolerance in this regard is stronger than that of ordinary people. There are actually a lot of such people, after all, there are many related industries that have to be done by someone. If you count it, there must be hundreds of thousands of people working in funeral parlors, hospital morgues, funeral bands and paper shops in China alone.

Mr. Wu's job seems to be unlucky and even terrible in the eyes of others. No matter what kind of person dies, you have to be on call, and you have to help the deceased change their clothes and carry them into the coffin. If you change to the cowardly, you can't do it once. Sometimes the deceased is in great pain when he dies, his eyes are wide open, and his mouth is wide open, especially the kind of old man, who looks particularly scary. But in order to make money, you also have to serve.

There are several funeral parlors in Shenyang, and the one with the highest usage rate is the one in the north. Sometimes the family of the deceased will sit in the passenger seat and follow the driver to the funeral home, but there are also many family members of the deceased who have their own car and drive directly to the funeral home, and then meet at the funeral home. In this case, the driver will have to drive back to the funeral home alone.

This distance is long and short, Shenyang is not as big as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, but the suburbs are not small, as long as they belong to the seven major districts, they must go to this funeral home, and sometimes it takes forty or fifty minutes on the road. When Mr. Wu went to the funeral home with the family of the deceased, he drove quietly, but if no one was following him and the distance was long, he would turn on the radio and listen to the commentary. In the early hours of the night, the radio station was already closed, and Mr. Wu connected the MP3 to the dashboard, which contained a lot of downloaded Northeast duo turns.

The reason why he had to listen to something was because someone had said it to Mr. Wu. The soul of the deceased is the most unstable at this time, so there are always rumors that the soul of the deceased will be attached to a cat, a black dog, or even a child or a family member of the deceased when he dies.

Several of Mr. Wu's colleagues are very experienced. They say that when the deceased is just put into a paper coffin and sent to the funeral home, some of them die unclear, or they have something to do, and they may have corpses in the paper coffins, which is also called "corpse change" or jumping tendons in the old society. In most cases, it is just the displacement of the joints of the corpse during the muscle stiffening, as if the dead person is alive again. Lying in a paper coffin, it makes a sound when jumping tendons, sometimes quite loudly. People who drive funeral cars are inevitably frightened, so it's best to listen to some music or storytelling. In order to mask the sound that may be made, as long as the ears can't hear it, you won't be so scared.

That night, Mr. Wu received a phone call from someone who lived in a village in the north of Shenyang City called 96144 to say that someone had died at home, and when he arrived, he saw that the deceased was an old lady, skinny and skinny, only about 1.5 meters long, and it was estimated that her weight would not exceed 70 pounds. The eyes are closed, but the mouth is wide open. The family of the deceased asked Mr. Wu if he could find a way to make the old lady shut her mouth, and Mr. Wu asked how long she had been dead, and the family said that it would be less than two hours. After ten minutes, he was able to close his mouth, but now two hours have passed, his muscles are stiff, and he is useless, and the family has to give up when they hear it.

After a simple ceremony. Put the old lady with her mouth open into the car, it was already two o'clock in the morning, and the family of the deceased drove the van, because there are rules in the northeast, the speed of the funeral car cannot exceed 40 kilometers per hour, so as not to disturb the deceased too fast, so Mr. Wu let the family's car go first, and he drove slowly behind.

People who die at home have to go to the hospital to get a death certificate first, and the road from the town to the hospital near the funeral home is not highway, but can only be driven along the road, which takes more than an hour. Mr. Wu wanted to do the old routine again, but it was Tuesday, and the radio station had been closed since the afternoon. He was in a hurry and forgot to bring the MP3 out, so he had to drive bored.

When driving to the edge of the fourth ring road, the road surface is flat and the car drives steadily. Suddenly, there was a sound from the back of the car. At first, Mr. Wu thought he had misheard. But the sound sounded a few more times, something like the friction between the lid of a paper coffin and the coffin. Mr. Wu drove a funeral car for several years, and every time he left the car, he had to help carry the deceased into the paper coffin, and he was all too familiar with this sound.

He turned around, and a plastic sheet separated the back compartment of the paper coffin from the cab. There is a small window on it that can be pulled horizontally, and there is a hook on one side of the cab that can be locked. Mr. Wu saw from the rearview mirror in the car that the iron sliding door of the small window behind him was shaking continuously, and it seemed that a hand was pulling the small window from the back compartment. But it's locked by the hook and can't be opened.

Mr. Wu suddenly raised his heart to his throat, and he hurriedly turned around and looked nervously at the iron sliding door. Because of the distraction, when I turned my head back again. He hurriedly hit the steering wheel back, but he was still a step too late, and the right front wheel rolled over the curb, and the body jolted violently. Mr. Wu could hear the sound of the paper coffin in the rear compartment hitting the side panel of the car, and he hurriedly double-flashed the car and got out of the car and walked to the rear of the car.

Mr. Wu had never encountered this kind of thing before, and he was a little scared, thinking to himself what this meant. I've been driving a funeral truck for four or five years, why did this happen tonight? The highway is brightly lit, and there are cars coming and going from time to time, which makes Mr. Wu somewhat bold, he opened the back compartment with the key, lifted the compartment lid, and saw that the paper coffin inside had been displaced, and the coffin lid was also reversed just now, and it was placed diagonally on the paper coffin.

He exhaled a few times and bent down into the back of the car. Reaching out to put the lid back on the paper coffin, Mr. Wu saw that the mouth of the old lady's body lying inside was still wide open, but his eyes were also open.

Mr. Wu was really frightened this time, he remembered very well at that time, when she was at the old lady's house, her eyes were closed, only her mouth was open, but now why are these eyes open? I have only heard of the deceased's eyes being opened, which was later eliminated due to corpse stiffness. I was still able to close slowly, but I never heard that my closed eyes could open on my own.

Seeing this, Mr. Wu felt that his legs were weak, and he squatted in the back compartment for a long time before he covered the paper coffin. Quickly get out of the rear compartment and lock the compartment board, and then enter the cab to drive. Now Mr. Wu's mood is different, his hands holding the steering wheel are shaking, his eyes are always staring at the rearview mirror, and he always feels that the iron sliding door of the small window is ringing again.

Nervousness is nervousness. Fortunately, there was nothing abnormal, Mr. Wu drove the car to a hospital near the funeral home, and quickly got out of the car to open the rear compartment cover, and someone from the hospital came to carry the paper coffin, Mr. Wu breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was finally okay for me. After entering the consultation room, as soon as the old lady was carried out of the paper coffin, the family of the deceased approached Mr. Wu and asked why the old lady's eyes were open.

Of course, Mr. Wu pretended not to know, saying that it had nothing to do with me, I just drove the car. The family members of the deceased quit and blamed each other in the consultation room, saying that the deceased's eyes changed from closed to open, and there must be something unresolved or resentment in his heart. You say I'm not filial, and I say you didn't serve well. The doctor next to him had to persuade him, saying that it might be a coincidence, such as the stiffening of the deceased's skin and muscles after death, causing the eyelids to be pulled apart and look like they were open, and it was fine.