Chapter 1: The corpse knocks at the door in the middle of the night
Today is my first night at the funeral home, and my job is to keep vigil, commonly known as the gatekeeper.
Master Zhao told me that unless there is a car in the middle of the night to send people off, no matter what sound you hear at night, don't go out to see it.
I don't believe that there are ghosts in this world, so I'm not afraid of ghosts, lying in bed and watching the live broadcast of beautiful women until the second half of the night, I saw that my mouth was dry, and I picked up the cup and found that there was no water, so I staggered to the water room to get hot water.
Halfway through the hot water, there was a sudden bang on the other side of the morgue, as if something had slammed into it.
At first, I thought I had misheard, but when I saw the female colleague who had rushed to the door of the water room, I realized that I had heard it correctly, and that there was indeed movement in the morgue.
My female colleague was a young lady a year older than me, named Jiang Xiaohan, who had worked in the crematorium for several years, working during the day.
Because the previous night watchman quit, Jiang Xiaohan was pulled over to make up the numbers temporarily, and after tonight's handover, the night watchman will become me alone.
Jiang Xiaohan is beautiful and belongs to the kind of girl who makes people feel excited at first sight.
She has short and neat hair, is tall, looks cold, doesn't like to laugh much, has a sullen temperament, and often doesn't reply to me when I say ten sentences.
I wondered how such a good-looking young lady couldn't think of working in a funeral home? Unconsciously staring at her face, Jiang Xiaohan stood in front of me and asked me in a cold voice, "Why did you run out?" ”
I shook the kettle and told her that I was out to get the hot water, and Jiang Xiaohan told me to go back quickly and try not to come out at night in the future.
I asked her if she heard the voice just now, and Jiang Xiaohan asked me rhetorically, "What did you hear?" ”
"Didn't you hear that loud in the morgue?"
"I didn't hear you, I came out looking for you."
She looked serious, not like she was lying, was it only me who heard it? I felt a chill in my back, so I quickly finished the water and went back with her.
The funeral parlor is a large flat floor, and there is only one room that can accommodate people, which is the mailroom. The mailroom room is quite large, with two beds, a TV, air conditioner, and a refrigerator, which is better than the kennel I rented.
I slept on the bed on the left, and Jiang Xiaohan slept on the right.
As soon as it was dark, she got into the bed, always with her back to me, I thought she was already asleep, but I didn't expect her to keep an eye on my side, she knew as soon as I went out.
Thinking about it this way, Jiang Xiaohan is a girl, could it be that she is afraid? Shivering under the covers? As soon as I leave, she won't dare to stay in the mailroom alone? This aroused my desire to protect.
"Ahem, Jiang Xiaohan, don't be afraid, if something really happens, I will protect you."
I thought that this would increase her good impression of me, but when Jiang Xiaohan heard this, her brows furrowed tightly, and she pointed to the big-character poster hanging on the wall behind me, which read the code of conduct for funeral home employees.
During the entry assessment, Master Zhao asked me to recite the full text, I remember the above content clearly, I don't need to read it to know, the first is a statement: There are no ghosts in this world at all, don't scare yourself.
"Qin Tian, if you are looking for death, get outside, don't pull me, I don't want to die."
Although Jiang Xiaohan's attitude towards me has always been very cold, she has never been so angry, and when I saw that she was really angry, I stopped talking and went back to my bed and lay down honestly.
I put my phone aside to charge it, and my eyes were fixed on the big-character poster on the wall, in which the sixth article of the employee code reads: Please confirm that the colleagues around you are real people.
I was quite puzzled by this, thinking that there are no ghosts in this world, what can a colleague around me be if he is not a real person?
At this moment, the bed frame under me suddenly loosened, and the entire iron frame bed collapsed, the wooden planks were broken in two, and two yellow talismans fell from the mezzanine, on which were drawn words and pictures that I could not read, and I only focused on my old waist and almost did not break.
"Damn! What a quality! ”
I quickly got up from the ground and faced Jiang Xiaohan's frightened expression, that look was something I had never seen before, and now I don't know that it is extremely unlucky for the bed to collapse during the vigil.
There are only two single iron frame beds in the house, my bed collapsed, I can't sleep with Jiang Xiaohan, even if I want to, she won't agree.
So I took the initiative to propose that I lay the floor for one night, but Jiang Xiaohan didn't do it.
"No! You have to sleep in bed! ”
Article 5 of the Code of Conduct for Funeral Home Staff: The night watchman must sleep in bed all night without opening his eyes.
Master Zhao's admonition came to my mind, having said that, we also have to pay attention to the difference between men and women, in case something happens after sleeping overnight, who can tell?
For example, the bed is so small, it is inevitable that I accidentally touch her body...... I was about to make a three-chapter agreement with Jiang Xiaohan when there was a sudden sound of clear and heavy footsteps in the corridor outside the door, accompanied by a sharp cat meow.
Before I could react, Jiang Xiaohan dragged me onto her bed and covered the heads of the two of us with a fragrant quilt.
"Turn off the lights! Don't talk! ”
The two of us were huddled together on a small bed, the quilt barely covered our bodies, and her quilt was full of the scent of her body, which made me, an innocent big boy, blush.
I felt a little unpleasant breathing, so I stuck my head out and gasped, but as soon as I poked out a pair of eyes, I met a burnt woman's face.