Birth, old age, sickness and death are fates that everyone cannot escape; Birth is conceived by parents, and children are always raised; Illness is treated by doctors, but death, but only a body remains, no matter how powerful you were in life or peerless, in the end you can only become a handful of ashes with oil fragrance.

My name is Zhou Lingfeng, I work in a local crematorium, and I have been a cremator in the crematorium for five years not long after my twenty-third birthday. Cremator is the official job title given to us by the Civil Affairs Bureau, and secretly, more people will directly call us stinky cremators.

When he was eighteen years old, his father, who was addicted to gambling, secretly borrowed a loan shark to gamble, but not only did he lose the money, but even he was beaten and sent to the hospital; I looked at my mother, who had been in tears all day, and the loan shark who was rolling in the interest rate, and finally resolutely applied to drop out of school, and then went to work in the only crematorium under the jurisdiction of the local civil affairs bureau with the help of a distant cousin.

The crematorium has a high salary, and there is a lot of oil and water, although in less than two years I have paid off the loan sharks owed by my family, but I have also taken root in the crematorium, and I have been working until now.

I still remember the kind smile on the first day I went to work in the crematorium, Zhao Wei, the director of the crematorium, who promoted me to work in the department with the highest oil and water in the crematorium, but I didn't expect that behind this promotion, it also left me a difficult road that no one had ever walked before......

Although the crematorium is also a public unit, the status of our crematoriums, to be honest, really no one can afford us.

And this line of work is too unstable, when there is no corpse, you can drink, smoke and sleep in it; But if there is a corpse to be burned, you will probably have to spend more than ten hours in the incineration room day and night to burn the corpse, and even eat in front of the corpse......

Since I was young and just started, Uncle Izumi, the only cremator in the crematorium, became my master; To say that when I saw Uncle Quan for the first time, I almost called him Grandpa Quan directly, but I didn't expect the white-haired Uncle Quan to make a straight face, and later under the reminder of the field director Zhao Wei, I learned that Uncle Quan was the oldest in the entire crematorium, and everyone in the field had to call him Uncle Quan.

"Uncle Quan, this is Xiao Zhou, I'll follow you in the future." Zhao Wei smiled and opened a pack of cigarettes and handed one to Uncle Quan, and took the initiative to light a fire for him.

Uncle Quan didn't even lift his head, he just took out a piece of red satin from his pocket and threw it into my arms, and then said lightly: "Put it in your pocket, remember, not only will people arrive at work in the future, but this thing must also be loaded on your body, otherwise, you will feel better." ”

Uncle Quan's words are not very swaying, but I am a little suspicious when I hear it, I have heard that you have to bring a work permit or something to work, but I have never seen one to bring red satin.

But who let us be newcomers, this time we have listened to Uncle Quan, I naturally have to nod and say yes, and then put the red satin in my pocket; From then on, as long as I came to work, there must be a little red satin in my pocket, and this was just a seemingly casual request from Uncle Quan, but it saved me a lot of evil and evil things in the future, of course, this is all later......

On the first day of work, Uncle Quan was familiar with the environment of the incineration room and the cremation machine on the surface, but in fact, Uncle Quan taught me to smoke and let me explore it by myself.

The incineration room was small, and there were two stoves in it, one of which had been converted from the same old stove that had been used for decades, like a large gourd, with a drawer in the middle, through which the corpse was pushed in, and under the stove was burned with wood and coal.

The other stove is equipped with a cremation machine, and the fire that burns the corpse is burned with diesel, Uncle Quan said that once it is burned, the temperature in the stove is as high as **100, and a 200-pound corpse can leave one or two catties of ashes after entering.

What surprised me even more was that Uncle Quan called the commonly used cremation machine stove an earth hearth, and basically burned corpses with a ground stove; And the other old stove, which was already covered with dust, was called the heavenly furnace by Uncle Quan.

I asked Uncle Quan why he had a heavenly stove that looked like an antique since he had such a good machine stove, but Uncle Quan was a strong smoker, and the birds didn't bird me......

After a leisurely day in the morning, I was taken out by Uncle Quan for some dinner, and when I came back at one o'clock in the afternoon, I saw several cars parked at the door of the crematorium.

"What are you doing? It's not my dead man. I wondered.

Uncle Quan just rolled his eyes angrily, "You stupid boy, you don't have a straight face, who of them will give you a red envelope?"

Saying that, Uncle Quan walked in with his head up, I followed behind, and I couldn't cry or laugh for a while, this Uncle Quan's salary is estimated to be not low, how can I still be greedy for that red envelope.

I hurriedly followed Uncle Quan's footsteps, to be honest, I just had a leisurely day in the morning and didn't see any corpses, and I wasn't afraid; But now that I have work to do, my heart is like playing the drum.

In front of the crematorium is a condolence hall, which is specially prepared for families to mourn the deceased, and it is also a place where families wait for the deceased to be turned into ashes from the corpse.

As soon as I walked into the condolence hall, I saw several people kneeling in a coffin and crying loudly; A few women fell directly to the ground in grief, and watching that scene made my heart feel heavy for a while......

A few minutes later, Uncle Quan glanced at the mourning crowd, and then said lightly to me, "I know what I told you in the morning." ”

I nodded, "Yes, send the dressing room first, and then go to the incineration room." ”

"Yes, then pull the coffin in." Uncle Quan said expressionlessly.

I said hello, our custom here is that coffins can't touch the ground, so coffins that enter the crematorium will be put into a cart with small wheels; In this way, not only does it follow customs, but it also makes it easier for our employees to behave.

As soon as the coffin was pulled by me to the dressing room, soon the mourners began to cry again; At that moment, a girl in the crowd walked up to me.

"Hello little master, can you help me with something?" The girl is about the same age as me, and the pear blossoms on her already delicate little face are raining at this time, which makes people feel pity at first sight.

"Uh, you call me?" I was a little stunned for a moment.

Seeing this, Uncle Quan on the side said expressionlessly: "Could it be that you think she is calling me?"

Seeing Uncle Quan's old face wrinkled like tree bark, I shook my head unconsciously as soon as my face was hot.

"Is there something wrong?" I said quickly.

The girl nodded and said, "Little master, I beg you to tell the makeup master, let her make my grandmother look better, grandma loved me the most when she was alive, I want her to go beautifully......"

"Uh, okay."

I also nodded blankly, this girl is very beautiful to be honest, and I am a little shy, and my face is red all of a sudden.

"Don't leave yet, do you want to leave a call?" Uncle Quan on the side couldn't help but whisper softly in my ear when he saw my stupid appearance.

As soon as I saw a beautiful girl, my face turned red, and now that Uncle Quan said this, I felt even more embarrassed.

I hurriedly pushed the coffin to the dressing room without raising my head, and then the girl's grateful voice came from behind me, "Little master, thank you......"