In the duty room, Lao Cai was wearing reading glasses and was sitting at the table concentrating on checking the register.

When he saw that only Ding Ling and I were coming in, he glanced at the quartz clock on the wall and said:

"Fugui, Dog, and Guo Hao?

I smiled and said, "Goutou and Guo Hao have something at home, so I entrust me to ask them for a leave of absence from you."

Rich, it will be there in a while.

Lao Cai, casually handed me the sign-in book and said, "En,,, then you and Ling sign in first, and sign the names of the two of them!"

This year is approaching, Lao Liu just came over to explain that the grandson sitting in the office may come to check the post, and I will cover for him at that time.

I held the pen heavily, I knew that the dog head, and Guo Hao might not come to work again. Should I find out directly to the people in the group, or should I hide it for a while?

Lao Cai saw me in a daze and asked:

"Can't write their names?

I quickly wrote the names of the dog head and Guo Hao, handed the pen to Ding Ling, turned around and walked to the cabinet to change my coat, and after changing the white coat, Wang Feixiang came out of the curtain in the inner room and just finished changing clothes.

He came up to me, touched my tweed coat, and said:

"It's a nice dress! How much did you buy it?

I smoothed out my wrinkled overalls and said:

"It's not expensive for only 120 yuan, buy one and get socks?

Wang Feixiang looked at me stunned and asked, "How much?" Where did you buy it, and is there anything else?

I smiled and said, "Matun Wholesale Market, stalls, buy one and get two pairs of cotton socks for free."

Wang Feixiang took out the coat I had just bought from the cabinet, put it on his body and tried it out, saying:

"Not bad! This version! It's very comfortable to wear! Bingbing. Count me on your cheapness and give you 150 yuan. You sell me this garment.

As soon as Wang Feixiang's words came out, I couldn't hold back anymore. Pooft laughed.

Wang Feixiang realized that I was playing with him, and reached out to pull my ears and flatten me.

I don't know when, my father actually entered the duty room, he saw me and Wang Feixiang were making a fuss, and said with a stiff face:

"Fly? Bingbing, what are you doing?

Fugui, Lao Zhang, Tian Feng, they are busy, you are good. Still have time for cats to play around in the duty room?

Lao Cai looked up at my father, and said in a tone of pointing at Sang and scolding Huai:

"Jianguo, what do you care about him, Wang Feixiang is a driver, and he does technical work.

It's not that you don't know him, what else can he do besides driving?

Wang Feixiang let go of me, he didn't dare to talk back to my father, but it was different for Lao Cai.

Wang Feixiang just wanted to fight back. My father walked in, handed a blue slip to Wang Feixiang and said, "You go to the old rubber factory and come back with the body."

After my father finished speaking, he left the duty room.

Wait until I get my shoes back on. Wang Feixiang put his arm around me and said:

"Come out with me.

Lao Cai glanced at Wang Feixiang and said, "You can't go by yourself, what are you shouting Bingbing?"

Wang Feixiang snorted and said, "Can you manage it?"

Then I followed Wang Feixiang out of the duty room.

At the door of the duty room. The crowds of mourning processions cried all over the world.

At that moment, I finally understood why my father kept his face tight. People sometimes face these sad things all day long, and it is inevitable that their emotions will be affected.

Moreover, the funeral home also has a clear prohibition rule. The staff frolicked and laughed in the museum.

I don't know what kind of fart rule this is, but Wang Feixiang explained that this is the humanized management of the funeral home!

I shook my head with a wry smile and followed Wang Feixiang to the parking lot.

When I came to the funeral car, Wang Feixiang handed me the car key and asked me to drive it.

He opened the passenger door by himself, sat down, and looked at me like an uncle starting the car. I asked Wang Feixiang where he was going, and Wang Feixiang took out the list in his pocket and said:

"Go to the old dormitory 205 of Yangdong Rubber Factory. After he finished speaking, he carefully looked at the specific address on the list and asked:

"Is this the West Side, or the East Side? Don't write it clearly?

I looked into the reversing mirror and said:

"It doesn't matter if it's the East District or the West District, let's go over and talk about it first.

Wang Feixiang glanced at me and said:

"You know what a fart, the rubber factory used to be a large state-owned enterprise, and there were two in the family area alone, although the rubber factory closed down, and now the people who live in it are all difficult elderly people.

You drive the funeral car early in the morning, once you go to the wrong area, those old men and old ladies have to scold you for smoking from the ancestral tomb, and people are taboo about this. Don't give it to me, can you find trouble?

Wait a minute, I'll ask in the reception hall earlier.

After Wang Feixiang finished speaking, he pulled the car door and got out of the car and ran to the reception hall.

About a few minutes later, Wang Feixiang came out with a bun in his hand.

When he got into the car, his greasy hand wiped his white coat and said:

"Let's go, there are 205 households in the west area of the rubber factory, and the deceased is an old lady who died normally.

On the way, Wang Feixiang kept telling me about the funeral home warehouse and the new female college students.

As soon as he opened his mouth, I knew what he meant, he must have come to act as a lobbyist for my mother?

Ding Ling told me some time ago, my mother has taken a fancy to that girl, what else do you say?

The girl's family conditions are not bad, and she is a college student, gentle and virtuous, very sensible, and graduated from the funeral major, and I am a good match.

My mother was more confident in me, and she said to everyone in the funeral home that I had inherited all her advantages, but in fact? My father was recognized as a handsome old man in the funeral home, but no one who had seen a picture of my father when he was a soldier did not praise him.

I have been perfunctory about Wang Feixiang about that girl.

When Wang Feixiang saw that I was a bird, the sprinkler scolded me for pretending.

In fact, how did he know that my relationship with Xing Rui, after going through so many things, I will no longer be as rough as before, there is no such thing as nine out of ten, and I will definitely not show them my relationship with Xing Rui.

By the time we arrived at the rubber factory, the sun was already high, the snow was slowly melting, and the cold wind was like knives in the air.

As soon as the funeral truck entered the West District compound, the family members of the deceased began to set off firecrackers.

A middle-aged man in his forties, with five or six men, greeted him.

The man wore a white silk hat. Tie hemp rope around the waist, and at a glance you can know that it is the immediate family of the deceased.

The man was polite. Stuffed a white thing into Wang Feixiang's pocket and said:

"The master and the old lady have been leaders for a lifetime, and they have not suffered any crimes. Please be lighter with the old lady.

Wang Feixiang said tacitly:

"It's okay, brother, don't worry, I will.

Wang Feixiang finished speaking.

The middle-aged man led Wang Feixiang and me upstairs.

The western part of the rubber factory is an old building, almost all built in the eighties and nineties.

The area of the apartment is not large, but it is only about sixty or seventy square meters.

But in the 90s, this building was not for ordinary workers.

The room was full of family members of the deceased, and an old woman wearing a green shroud and a traditional Dongzi hat was lying on the bed in the bedroom on the west side.

At the head of the bed was a brazier burning with burning paper. The smell of smoke was pungent.

The whole room looked foggy.

The bedroom of the body is not big, only about a dozen square meters.

Wang Feixiang and I carried the stretcher cart, and as soon as we entered the bedroom, the family members of the deceased immediately began to cry from another room, the living room, around the bedside.

Wang Feixiang gave me a look and asked me to block the door and prevent the emotional family members from entering.

Wang Feixiang called the middle-aged man who gave him a red envelope into the bedroom. He lowered his voice and said:

"You can calm your family later, and we will send the old lady on the road later, so that they don't cause trouble. Just now when I was going upstairs, I noticed that you old house. The stairs are steep and narrow.

Once we carry the old lady out, your family will be emotional, don't be alarmed by the old lady.

Can you be this home?

The middle-aged man looked at his mother. The eyes were red and he said:

"Master, don't worry, I'll arrange it now.

I stood in the bedroom doorway. Blocking five or six middle-aged women with their bodies and not letting them in.

They were crying. While squeezing in, he cried and said:

"Mom! Why are you just leaving! ,,,,My dear mother! ,,,Grandma,,,, aunt,,,, mother, you have worked hard all your life, and you haven't enjoyed a day of children and grandchildren, you are leaving!

I can tell that they are relatives of the deceased.

When the middle-aged man came out of the bedroom, he said to his family:

"Okay, it's time for our mother to go on the road, the master of the funeral home, it's not easy to come all the way, don't affect people's work.

As soon as the middle-aged man said this, the group of family members seemed to listen to him very much and began to retreat.

When Wang Feixiang saw the middle-aged man, he did a good job of comforting his relatives, and shouted to me:

"Bingbing, you come here first.

In the crowd, a well-dressed girl looked at me in surprise for a long time.

I noticed that someone was looking at me strangely, so I casually glanced at the girl.

Suddenly, I looked at the girl dumbfounded, and a sense of shame and guilt jumped out of my heart.

With an expression of not knowing the girl, I hid in the deceased's bedroom.

I felt my face burning, the beads of sweat on my forehead, and all my sons came out.

Wang Feixiang was a little stunned when he saw me and said:

"What a daze, work.

I made up my mind and walked to the bed at the foot of the body.

Wang Feixiang glared at me and pushed the stretcher cart parallel to the bed.

He walked to the head of the bed, stretched out a white cloth, grabbed one end of the white cloth, and threw the other end to me.

The white cloth was instantly lifted in the bedroom, and Wang Feixiang and I put the white cloth on the body.

Wang Feixiang stood at the head of the body, he grabbed the bed sheet on which the deceased was lying flat with both hands, and used the sheet to buckle the collarbone of the deceased's head.

At this time, I was already familiar with the translation of the body, and the body was wearing a pair of black longevity pants and a pair of boat-shaped longevity shoes that looked like ancient times.

I held the ankles of the body with both hands, clasped the two feet together, and as Wang Feixiang, a thick nasal voice arose,,,

We put the bodies in parallel in the trolley.

Because the body was facing the door, Wang Feixiang and I walked out of the door with a small cart one after the other. As I passed by the girl, I could clearly feel that the girl was looking at me with an uncanny, or X-ray-like gaze.

I can smell her clearly, that special fragrance, I can remember it forever after smelling it once. (To be continued......)