My name is Gu Zhengqi, and I really can't figure out how my parents got lost and gave me such an annoying name.

Regardless, the meaning of the name is good...... Fight for ...... But the fact is that I am such an uncompetitive master, and the whole life can be summed up by the word blood.

On my seventh birthday, my parents drove me to a hotel to celebrate in a car accident and passed away, leaving me alone. Relatives and friends thought I was unlucky, and no one wanted to adopt me, so I lived in a welfare home ever since, and completed a third-rate university with my parents' meager inheritance.

When I graduated, it was the day of the breakup, such unreliable rumors also came true to me, and my girlfriend, who had been talking for four years, found a good job after graduation with the help of her family, and decisively dumped me.

Disheartened, I had no support, and with the mentality of playing soy sauce, I took a public institution exam and applied for a position in a crematorium with very few competitors, but I didn't expect to be successfully admitted.

I really don't know whether to laugh or cry, it stands to reason that there is such a job in the establishment that many people can't ask for, but it's a crematorium, and I just want to feel the atmosphere of the public examination when I report, and I don't want to be admitted.

Just when I was hesitating whether to report or not, a good friend who grew up together in the welfare home appeared, boasting about the benefits of the crematorium, saying that the annual income of just a makeup artist would be more than 200,000 yuan, and all kinds of gray income were countless, and he didn't even have to buy cigarettes and alcohol himself.

Well, I was really short of money, I checked the information about crematoriums on the Internet, and learned that most crematoriums in the country are already high-tech, very formal, and not as terrifying as I imagined......

As a result, I know that I don't have such a good life, and I can take any exam...... The crematorium in front of me is not at all what I saw on the Internet, the outside of the site is overgrown with weeds, deserted, without a trace of popularity, the building seems to be some years old, the walls are mottled, the doors are a little rusty, obviously it is still noon, I will inexplicably feel a little cold, which makes me goosebumps.

The weirdest thing is that I vaguely remember that I seemed to have been to this place, but when I think about it, I can't remember when I came......

I stood outside the gate with the report leaflet, neither entering nor leaving, I couldn't tear this report to pieces, leave, and shout, "Go to your mother's crematorium, Lao Tzu is not rare." ”

But I can't, with a diploma like mine, how can any decent company want me, it's easy to pat my ass and walk away now, and the days of not being able to eat are still ahead.

I gritted my teeth and mustered up the courage to take a few steps forward, preparing to report to the supervisor first, and then change jobs later.

As soon as my hand touched the rusty iron door, a hand came to my shoulder from behind, and a hoarse old voice suddenly appeared from behind me, "Young man......"

What kind of place is this? Crematorium...... As soon as I made such a fuss for no reason, my whole person was not good, so frightened, I quickly turned around, trembled and looked at the person who came with my back against the iron door, and shouted, "Damn, what the hell?"

When I turned around, I saw that on my shoulders was a short old man, with a fairly strong body, gray hair, wearing a black Tang suit sweatshirt, trousers, a bronzed face with deep wrinkles, deep sunken eye sockets, cloudy but very powerful.

"It's not allowed to make loud noises here...... the old man frowned unhappily, reprimanded in a low voice, and after seeing the report sheet in my hand, his cloudy eyes flashed with a hint of interest, and he asked curiously, "Are you here to report?"

I clutched the report sheet tightly in my hand and replied, "Yes...... I'm sorry...... Uncle...... I'm here to report...... Are you a member of the staff here?"

The old man patted me on the shoulder soothingly, pulled the report sheet out of my hand, looked at it seriously, looked at me mockingly, and said, "I'll take a look...... Hehe...... Gu Zhengqi, a good name, a young man from engineering...... You have thought about it, this crematorium is the boundary of Lord Yama, it is easy to get in, and you want to go out...... It's hard. ”

Lao Tzu is a new youth in the 21st century, an atheist...... This old man is so blatantly laughing at me, can I still call him a joke? There is a taboo here, yes, but I have never seen such a thing as a ghost, and I am not afraid to lose the face of a man.

I straightened my chest and said, "Uncle, do you think I look like a scared person?"

The corner of the old man's mouth showed a smile that had succeeded in his treacherous scheme, and he bowed his head with satisfaction, "It's good if you're not afraid, don't be afraid to follow me to burn the corpse in the future." ”

I knew that the crematorium would definitely be inseparable from dealing with corpses, but I didn't expect that they would arrange for me to burn the corpse as a college student, this is a deliberate bullying of me, right?

I completely forgot what the old man had just reminded me not to make loud noises, and exclaimed, "...... Burn...... Burn...... Corpses?"

The old man, who was still pleasant just now, looked nervously at the row of small bungalows behind the iron gate, and said to me seriously, "Young man, don't blame the old man for not reminding you, the guys inside don't like to be too noisy!"

Is the guy in there? Is it the supervisor here? If the supervisor really doesn't dare to offend, I still expect to serve the supervisor well in the future and help me transfer an easy job, how can I offend his old man as soon as I come.

I quickly silenced him, approached the old man, and asked him in a low voice, "Isn't it a break today? Are there other staff members at work?"

"Over there, it's a morgue...... Take this with you, and if you lose it, you'll get into trouble. The old man looked at me and smiled mysteriously, threw me a brown wooden card, and responded to me softly, pushing open the door and walking in first, "Okay, the sun is enough, you can go in, so remember to bask in the sun here later, so as not to provoke a corpse and look like a dead person, I am the supervisor here, you can call me Uncle Liu, let's go, I will take you to visit first." ”

I looked at the wooden card that Uncle Liu threw to me, it was a two-centimeter-square wooden card engraved with quaint symbols, holding it in the palm of my hand with a slight warmth, not simple, why did I give this decently, the talisman, it means that the inside is not clean...... Rely on it...... I'm scared to death...... In the morgue, this old man is really good at bluffing, a group of dead people sleeping in the morgue, I will make a noise that they can know a fart, and he is talking as if it is true.

I put the wooden card in my pocket in disbelief, who called someone who is the person in charge here, even if I have more complaints in my heart, I don't dare to show it on my face, I can only play the spirit of a dog's legs, and follow Uncle Liu like a chicken pecking rice, nodding and agreeing, "...... Be...... It's ......"

As soon as my feet were raised, and before I stepped into the door, Uncle Liu suddenly turned around, looked at me with a serious face, and asked, "By the way, have you ever touched a cat, dog, cow, snake, or pig before you came?"

This time I was confused, what cats, dogs, cows, snakes, pigs, I shook my head inexplicably.

Uncle Liu nodded, turned around and continued to walk forward, "It's good that you haven't touched it, don't touch these things before you go out and come back in the future, you'd better remember everything I said, so as not to get into trouble." ”

Uncle Liu walked in front, took me to a ** office on the left, glanced at the window, and introduced to me, "This is the financial room, and the fat woman in it is Wu Cuihua, the accountant of our crematorium......"

I also followed Uncle Liu's gaze to take a look inside, and it was really a fat woman, holding a calculator with a fierce face, and her mouth was open and closed, muttering something.

"I think I have already done a little bit of understanding of the crematorium before coming here, this is the condolence hall, the place where the body is farewell, our unit is relatively small, there is only this one condolence hall...... This is the rest room, a place for the families of the deceased to rest...... This is the morgue, and all the bodies received should be stored in this place for preservation, and do not come here when you are fine...... This is the corpse refining furnace, the place responsible for burning the corpse, we have thirteen corpse refining furnaces, usually only use the first twelve, the thirteenth you remember not to approach, the door is not allowed to open! Also, this place, the ashes burned out are stored here, waiting for the family of the deceased to pick them up, don't put them too close, they don't like to crowd too ......"

Uncle Liu continued to take me to visit the other buildings of the crematorium in turn, maybe Uncle Liu just scared me that the guy in the morgue doesn't like to be too noisy, when passing by the morgue, I really felt a biting cold, I subconsciously lightened my pace, and I didn't even dare to breathe too loudly. Then there is the corpse furnace is a bit strange, each corpse furnace has the corresponding zodiac written on the outside, and it is just over the twelfth year, and it is all placed in the corpse refining room, and the thirteenth, that is, the one that Liu Bo specially instructed not to approach, is locked up by a glass wall alone, and the zodiac is not indicated.

Along the way, I've become more convinced that I've been to this place, but I can't remember exactly when it was.

Finally came to the main event, Uncle Liu took me to a row of bungalows, handed me a key, pointed to the third room and said, "This is the dormitory of the unit, you can go home to live when you are not on duty, your key I have prepared for you, you live in this room, usually stay here when you go to work, I will come back to call you when you have work, if the key lives in the dormitory, remember to stay in the house at night and don't run around." ”

Now renting a house is so expensive, and the unit has a dormitory, which is the biggest benefit for me...... I happily took the keys, and finally felt a little bit on the shore