The oil drum can no longer be used, Niu Baiye hurriedly ordered a taller, thickened stainless steel oil drum from the hardware and grocery store on the commercial street.

He had just finished cleaning the kitchen in the back. The aprons on his body were covered with black and gray oil.

Niu Baiye wiped the fine sweat on his forehead and kept panting.

"Grandma's, I'm tired to death. I haven't done such a big project in years.

Even if there is a customer in the dumpling restaurant tonight, the soul of our wax dumplings is gone. I think I can just give them two candles on the family, and it will save trouble, anyway, we can't spend the paper money they give. ”

I'm really curious, too. Huangquan Dumpling Restaurant is open every night. Although there are not many ghost customers who come here every day, we have to work hard to make wax dumplings for them, so that they can have their last full meal and walk on Huangquan Road.

It's just that this job has no income at all. It even has to be upside down. Listen to Niu Baiye. In the back kitchen, there is a large bucket of fragrant ash oil wax soup, which is the unique secret recipe of Old Man Su's family, which contains dozens of traditional Chinese medicines.

There's some gastrodia musk in it. That's all precious. A kilogram costs tens of thousands of yuan.

Big Wave is engaged in this business at home. Only the burned paper of the dead is collected. There are even lonely ghosts that no one can manage. There is not even a piece of burning paper on his body, let alone a new style of paper money, a dark coin. Big waves face such lonely ghosts, and they don't let us charge. One is to provide them with plenty of wax dumplings.

Every night, I received paper money. The board is placed squarely in the counter drawer.

One day, I saw it with my own eyes. Big Wave took the paper money, didn't count it, and threw it directly into the trash can at the door.

It's a thankless thing like this to lose money and make money. Why has Huangquan Dumpling Restaurant been insisting on it? Could it be that it is for charity?

I was still thinking about it, and I accidentally raised my eyelids.

"Huh, where's the big wave?"

The whole Huangquan dumpling restaurant. I didn't even see him.

Niu Baiye said to me.

"It seems that someone was found, and the funeral home is not a place where anyone can enter, especially the cremation of the body of this kind of homicide case in the Public Security Bureau, which is not something that anyone can visit. ”

I couldn't help but sigh.

"There are really people in the DPRK who are easy to do! Don't say it, the big waves in Penang can be regarded as a hand-eye. There are relatives of his family in the transfer center. The chairman of the Wang Quan Ding Teng Hall is still his master!

What kind of person is it, what kind of circle is it? A small creature like ours doesn't know the powerful or the leader. Anything you do, you have to hit the back of the head with your foot. ”

From time to time, a silver-gray Wrangler stopped at the door.

The big waves ran back to the dumpling restaurant on the heavy car with bumps.

"Stinky brother, take them to the car. I've already arranged it at the funeral home. ”

I walked out of the dumpling restaurant with three female ghosts. Just opened the car door. I saw a middle-aged woman in her early 40s sitting in the driver's seat.

This woman is quite temperamental. Wearing a red suit, the smell of perfume in the car is also very strong.

Big waves sit in the co-pilot. I squeezed into the back seat with three female ghosts.

The woman in the co-pilot should also be an ordinary person without yin and yang eyes.

Otherwise, if he could see these three female ghosts. You will definitely be surprised by their dignity.

Big Wave pointed to a middle-aged woman in a red blazer and introduced it to me.

"This is Sister An, a good friend of my father. He is now the director of the Hama City Funeral Parlor. ”

I nodded my head in good faith.

"Hello Director An, you really look like a temperament. ”

Sister An smiled at me in the rearview mirror. Then he turned to the big wave and said.

"It's still early. I'll take you into the funeral home in advance. An undertaker was putting makeup on the three female corpses. I don't know if you're scared. ”

Big Wave smiled.

"Sister An, don't you know me? I haven't seen it on any occasion? Not to mention putting on makeup on a corpse, it's just sleeping on the bed with a corpse. I won't have the slightest ripple in my heart. ”

My heart was beating a little suddenly. I couldn't stop biting my lip.

Undertaker. This legendary profession requires the heaviest yang energy. I'm still a little scared.

But fortunately, I get along with these three female ghosts a lot on a daily basis. I'm already familiar with them.

So, I guess even if I saw their bodies lying there. I should be able to accept it in my heart.

Curator An said as he drove the car.

"That's good, the mortuary must first finish the makeup of the entity, and then officially open the museum. Only the family members of the deceased are allowed to enter.

Generally, before 12:00 noon, the body is directly pushed into the crematorium for cremation. ”

We nodded along with it. I asked.

"Chief An, will the families of the three deceased come over then?"

Curator An hesitated a little and shook his head with a smile.

"Not necessarily. Mostly. But there are also a small number of deceased because their families live too far away. Or the unaccompanied.

No one came to get acquainted. Our funeral home usually cremates the body directly, and then the ashes of the unclaimed body are all thrown into a pile and thrown into a large urn. Directly in the funeral home lobby. ”

When Chu Jinfeng heard this, he felt very uncomfortable.

Ma Simiao, who was sitting next to him, silently touched his hand.

Big Wave also asked questions one after another.

"The ashes of the unclaimed corpses are all put together! ”

The chief of security looked at the road ahead. Said leisurely.

"Well, that's all good. The corpses of these homicides sent by the Public Security Bureau, we still opened them one by one and cremated them one by one.

You don't know about the death row prisoners who were sent to be shot. We all used a large stove and burned it all to ashes.

Then the relatives of the condemned prisoner came to claim it. We don't care who is who. Just rub a bunch of them and let them take them away!"

Big Wave and I couldn't help but gasp.

In the past, ancient people paid attention to leaving a whole corpse when they died, which could be regarded as the last dignity for their own life.

Now society is progressing. In order to protect the environment, everyone is cremated after death.

When the bones were picked up, they all turned into a pile of ashes. If you are blown by the wind, you don't know what parts of your body are missing.

About half an hour passed. Sister An finally drove the car to the funeral home halfway up the mountain.

At this time, the museum has not yet opened, the door of the funeral home is locked, and Sister An knocks on the door.

Shout at the guards.

"Lao Zhang, it's me! ”

Suddenly, a middle-aged man in his early 40s came out of the porter.

He hurriedly opened the door.

There was a smile on his face. "Chief An, you're here so early. ”

I always thought of the funeral home keepers. Most of them are old men in their sixties and seventies.

Unexpectedly, the funeral home is now so modern. The staff are not very old.

The big waves seemed to see through my mind. Pat me on the shoulder.

"Stinky brother, do you see? This is also an iron rice bowl. It's no less than a civil servant!

No, civil servants are iron rice bowls. These people in the funeral are all golden jobs. ”

I smiled awkwardly.

"If the golden job is all this kind of work. Then I'd better not want to. ”

The chief of security turned to us and introduced us.

"Actually, the work of the funeral home is demonized by the people outside! Stable salary, five insurances and one housing fund, 9 to 5. There are a lot of holidays on weekdays.

Like our Penang City Funeral Parlor, there are less than 20 staff members in total. Most of them are young lads in your early 20s, and young girls.

Each one of them is motivated to work! Our food is also good! There are more than a dozen dishes in one meal.

It's noon today. You stay with me, and often have working meals in our funeral home!"

I couldn't stop feeling my scalp tingling. Eating next to the dead is truly an unprecedented experience.

Curator Ann walked into the lobby of the funeral home with Big Wave and I.

There are a number of urns stacked on the counter here.

The service staff in the lobby is really a little girl in her early 20s.

See Sister An. Hurriedly bowed and asked, "Hello curator!"

Sister An introduced to us.

"The counters here are all brand new urns. One is about two or three hundred yuan. There are also two or three thousand expensive ones. Generally, the family members of the deceased buy directly from us.