Chapter 11
Because Su Yun's expression was too serious, for a moment people present couldn't tell whether she was joking or really meant it.
No one in the Wu family wanted to care about the father and son on such an important day for Aunt Wu. They left with peace of mind knowing that the fat son did not have an accident but left on his own. If he left on his own, they would not be able to blackmail them later. Even if he still had the intention to commit a crime in the future, there would be surveillance footage to prove it.
Seeing that everyone was there, Su Yun directly said that he wanted to send Aunt Wu back to the funeral home, and it would be best if Wu Jin and Wu Yu stayed behind at night, as the road would definitely be difficult and unsafe to travel after dark.
"I have to stay in the funeral home tonight? Why?" Wu Jin was very surprised. According to the process he knew, he should stay in the funeral home for a day to prepare the body, and then they can go to the funeral.
"I have already told Auntie about the matter. You can discuss it on the way. The weather is hot and the air conditioning in the car is not cold enough. It is not good for Aunt Wu's health. We still have to send her to the morgue as soon as possible." Su Yun did not directly answer Wu Jin's question. He said hello to them and prepared to get in the car to go back.
It is summer now, and pork will go bad if left for an hour, not to mention that Aunt Wu has been waiting for almost a whole day.
Considering that the weather was indeed hot, Wu Jin did not insist on getting an answer now, but got into the Wu family's car, in which was Wu Yu, who was holding the tablet with a stiff body.
Over there, Wu's mother will explain everything to Wu Jin and Wu's father. She is a reliable mother and will discuss everything with them.
As for Su Yun, they changed their seats after getting in the car, so that Su Yun sat next to Aunt Wu's body. The fire-making master drove the car as usual. This kind of car with more than four wheels must be driven by a Class B or above driver's license. Now there are only two masters in the funeral home who have Class A driver's licenses.
After Su Yun got into the car, he put Aunt Wu's arm away. He did not lift the white cloth to check, but instead lit three new incense sticks and put them in the incense burner. This time, they did not break.
The car drove slowly and soon reached the highway. The hospital was not very far from the funeral home, but because both places were on the outskirts of the city, if they didn't take the highway, they could only take the small road, which was so bumpy that it could shake the corpse apart.
On the rest of the journey, there were no further problems with the corpse, and the incense burned safely all the way to the funeral home without breaking or going out.
It was already past five in the afternoon when we returned to the funeral home. The days are long in the summer and it was still bright at five in the afternoon. The golden sunlight shining on my body made me feel very safe.
Two cars arrived one after another. It was the first time for Wu's father and mother to come to Xicheng Funeral Home. They only knew that funeral homes would occupy a large area, but they never thought that Su Yun actually inherited such a large funeral home, because they had heard before that her funeral home did not have much business.
What's more, most people in Bincheng only know about the Bincheng Funeral Home and have no idea that there is a Xicheng Funeral Home. Probably only the older generation still remember this funeral home, so Wu's father and mother thought that such an unknown funeral home should be very small and ordinary, like a small charity cemetery in ancient times.
There were only a few people in the funeral home, and the fire-maker had to drive back to the garage, so Su Yun arranged for the cook to wait in advance. Lin Lang didn't know whether the coffin was ready or not, but no one was there to greet him at the door anyway.
Su Yun called the cook to come over and carry the stretcher, and at the same time went to check the tablet that Wu Yu was holding, and asked him directly: "Wu Yu, you didn't let go and change people on the way, did you?"
Wu Yu's hands were almost stiff from carrying it all the way. He quickly said, "No, I was holding it all the way and never put it down."
"That's good. Now we are going to put Aunt Wu into the coffin and then take her to the morgue. She didn't die of old age, so the coffin has to be kept for three days. During these three days, our undertaker will apply preservatives to her and bury her. The funeral will be held in three days. Is this arrangement acceptable?" Su Yun briefly explained the process.
"Are we keeping the coffin for three days to help her get rid of her resentment?" Father Wu asked in a deep voice.
On the way, Mother Wu had already told them that Aunt Wu did not want to leave directly, and she promised Su Yun that she would not care and let Aunt Wu do whatever she wanted.
Su Yun nodded: "About the same. Usually, the fastest burial will take one to two days. I have already delayed the time because of the hot weather. If there is nothing wrong with Aunt Wu, then the funeral will be held normally."
In the hospital, the fat man pushed down Aunt Wu's tablet with his own hands. It was obvious that he was using Aunt Wu as a tool. In addition, Aunt Wu said herself that she was picked up and had her hands and feet broken and was locked up for such a long time. They could understand that she was so angry that she didn't want to reincarnate.
So Wu's father and mother agreed. They had to take care of the Wu family's company during these three days and could not come over for the time being, so they left Wu Jin and Wu Yu to take care of the funeral home. Besides, Su Yun originally wanted them to stay.
After agreeing, Su Yun lit the incense again and led the way, followed by Wu Yu holding the tablet, then the stretcher, and finally the other members of the Wu family.
After entering the funeral home, it suddenly became cooler. The high temperature outside, which was over 30 degrees and close to 40 degrees, had no effect on the inside of the funeral home at all. The room was so cool that it seemed as if the air conditioner was turned on at 26 degrees. It was so cool that it was a bit chilly.
Soon, the Wu family discovered that there were few people in the funeral home. Although every corridor and passage was designed to be wide enough for a coffin to pass through, there was not a single living person in the huge funeral home except them, which made people feel inexplicably creepy.
In front, Su Yun and the ghost employees were still walking with the corpse seriously. The Wu family had no way to ask what was going on at this time, so they had to follow closely to avoid being distracted and falling behind and losing the way.
After walking out of the entrance building, they finally came to a sunny courtyard and felt the temperature difference of ten degrees. It was so cold inside the house that made people feel like catching a cold, and it was so hot outside that made people feel like they would have heatstroke.
After crossing the yard, Su Yun stopped in front of a small building that looked a little old. The door of the building was wide open, and he could see haphazardly placed wooden boards and sawdust on the ground inside.
Su Yun signaled to the people behind her to wait outside, and she walked in holding the incense burner.
There was an altar in front of the wall facing the house, on which Hou Tu Niangniang was enshrined. The incense in the incense burner had not yet burned out, and the candle was still flapping tenaciously, and could not be extinguished no matter how strong the wind blew.
A newly assembled coffin was placed in the center of the altar, and a bench was used to raise it so that the coffin would not fall to the ground.
Su Yun placed the incense burner in front of Hou Tu Niangniang and added three more sticks of incense before going to look for Lin Lang. When he found that he was not there, he shouted loudly: "Lin Lang? Where are you?"
"Director." Lin Lang responded from upstairs and hurried downstairs with Ding Lan ruler and hand chisel in his hands.
"What's going on? Is it not done yet?" Su Yun frowned slightly. She knew that time was really tight, but with so many ghosts joining in, it didn't make sense that it wouldn't be done yet.
After Lin Lang went downstairs, he walked straight to Su Yun. He saw the people outside from the corner of his eye, so he had to lower his voice and whisper in Su Yun's ear: "Director, there is no problem with the coffin body, but the coffin lid has been cracked since you left, no matter what I do. If I want it to stop cracking, I can only change the wood."
Coffins made of different woods have different effects on the corpse. If ordinary people are not particular, then just make any casual one. If you want something fancy, then use nanmu, which is not easy to rot underground.
Of course, if you want to stop the corpse from making trouble, you can use peach wood to suppress the ghost and the corpse directly in the coffin. Unless it is an evil ghost that is not afraid of peach wood at all, you can live in peace for many years.
Now the coffin lid has been cracked, which means that the body that is about to lie in is unwilling to close its eyes, so it does not allow the coffin to be closed.
Su Yun shook his head in disapproval: "How can that be possible? Aunt Wu was unlucky enough, how can we let her suffer this kind of pain after her death?"
Lin Lang was helpless about this: "But without a coffin lid, the corpse will easily rise at night."
Especially for someone like Aunt Wu who died in unclear circumstances and had her tablet smashed right after she died, her resentment is extremely heavy.
Su Yun looked at the stretcher and then at Hou Tu Niangniang in a tangled manner, and gritted his teeth: "This person sent me this person, this person is my client, everything is based on the client, you will take turns to keep watch these few days, anyway, just get through these three days and you will be fine."
Things have come to this point, since the curator insisted on giving Aunt Wu some respect, Lin Lang couldn't say much and could only nod.
Then Su Yun waved his hand and asked the ghost employees to carry Aunt Wu's body in. When the body is kept, it cannot touch the ground like the coffin. If it absorbs the earth's energy, it will easily rise from the dead. It may not reach the level of a zombie, but it will be very troublesome, and the subsequent handling may be disrespectful to the customers.
The cook and the ghost catcher Ah Xiu lowered the stretcher so that the beautiful ghost and the ghost bride could carry the corpse and put it into the coffin. At this time, Wu Jin saw that they were two girls and wanted to lend a hand, but was stopped by Lin Lang.
Wu Jin was puzzled: "Isn't it too heavy for two girls to carry?"
"You are Ms. Wu's current relatives. It is best not to touch her body from now until the funeral." Lin Lang explained in a serious manner.
"What's the reason?" Wu Jin couldn't understand. He didn't know these things. He didn't expect that when he came to Su Yun to hold a funeral, he would see so many rules.
While the ghost and the ghost bride were cleaning up Aunt Wu's body, Su Yun drew a talisman beside the spirit platform and pasted it directly on the head of the coffin. She walked over and said, "It's a taboo in our profession. If a corpse dies unjustly and the resentment is not dissipated, it is easy to turn into a zombie. After turning into a zombie, they will first attack people they are familiar with, such as relatives, lovers, and very good friends."
After hearing what Su Yun said, the Wu family felt that compared to their previous speculation, turning into zombies was too outrageous, like a movie plot.
Knowing that ordinary people would not believe him, Su Yun did not ask the Wu family to believe him in everything. As long as they knew what not to do, it would be fine. "These uncles and aunts, you should listen to the rules of the industry, just like you have to burn incense to Guan Gong when shooting a horror movie, just for psychological comfort."
Having said that, if he didn't listen, he would be courting death, so Wu Jin took a step back on his own initiative and no longer mentioned helping Yan Gui and the others.
The sexy ghost and the ghost bride were both skilled workers. They quickly prepared Aunt Wu's body and let her lie peacefully in the coffin. She looked almost asleep, as if she would wake up after a good sleep.
After the body is placed in the coffin, the person holding the tablet can put it down and accept temporary incense offerings.
Su Yun lit some incense and distributed it to the Wu family, and all the ghost employees spontaneously retreated to a distance.
"The body will be kept for three days. Uncle and aunt, please burn some incense for Aunt Wu, as well as Brother Wu Jin and Wu Yu. I won't burn any as I'm there to lead the way, so it's not convenient for me to burn incense." After Su Yun distributed the incense to them, he consciously retreated to a distance.
Father and Mother Wu held incense and talked to Aunt Wu for a long time. They had not seen each other for many years. They used to be a good family, but because of the old man's change of mind, their farewell was a farewell of death. Now it would be hard to say anything, but if they didn't say anything, they couldn't give up this friendship.
Human beings are too helpless and fragile in the face of death, especially people of Wu's father and mother's age. They know that the more you see people in the world, the less you will see them. After this farewell, they will see each other again at the funeral, and from then on they will only see each other through photos. It's sad to think about it.
The road was difficult to travel at night, so Wu Jin persuaded his parents to leave before dark. Su Yun originally wanted to keep them for a simple meal, but Wu Jin said let's do it next time. It was really too late today. There was a cemetery nearby. Even if a highway was built back to the city, they would still pass by a large area of wasteland. Things in the world are unpredictable, and Wu Jin did not dare to let his parents take risks at this time.
Su Yun thought so too. Even if he wanted to treat them to a simple meal, he could wait until after the funeral. There was no rush and he could just ask the fireman to give them a ride. Even if there was a driver, he insisted on having the fireman take them there, saying that the road was difficult to drive on at night and the driver would easily get lost if he was not familiar with the area.
The daily meals at the funeral home are prepared by the cook. He usually prepares the amount of food for one living person plus five ghosts. Later, Lin Lang came along. He is a monk and he would not starve to death whether he eats or not, so he did not increase the daily food intake much.
Now that Wu Jin and Wu Yu were added, the cook came to Su Yun with a big spoon and asked how to prepare dinner and midnight snacks - the funeral home had very good welfare, and the day's meals were prepared according to breakfast, lunch, dinner, and morning, afternoon, and evening tea.
Su Yun thought for a moment and said, "Go ask them yourself. Tell them that we don't have many people here, so we will cook as much as we can eat. Tell them not to waste anything."
It is shameful to waste food. Whether it was Su Yiling and Ji Weitong who managed the funeral home in the past or Su Yun now, they never wasted food.
After the cook left, Su Yun went to his small warehouse, found a lotus lamp on the shelf, filled it with lamp oil and took it to the small building where coffins were made. The building had a refrigeration system and could be used as a temporary morgue.
This small building is nicknamed the Coffin Building. It is usually used to make various coffins and funeral supplies. Newly made coffins are also placed here to dry and paint. Over time, it came to be called the Coffin Building.
Coffins need to be dried in the shade for a period of time. Su Yiling added a cold air system to the coffin building in his early years. Later, he found that some corpses needed to be kept and it was unsafe to move them around, so he increased the power. Now the whole building is fully enclosed and the corpses can be frozen directly.
Su Yun walked into the coffin building carrying a lotus lamp filled with oil. After the Wu family's worship, the cooling system had been turned on. Now the temperature in the coffin building was only three or four degrees above zero, which was exactly the temperature of the morgue.
As if he didn't feel the cold, Su Yun walked to the altar and lit the lotus lamp. He then whispered to Hou Tu Niangniang for a while, asking her to bless the smooth burial of the body. He said that every grievance has its perpetrator and every debt has its creditor. If there was any problem, he should go find the person involved and not to raise the body in the funeral home.
After finishing his chatter, Su Yun turned around to prepare to eat and found that Lin Lang had just brought over a lotus lantern.
"Ah... so you have one too?" Su Yun glanced at Lin Lang's and felt that his own was more expensive.
Lin Lang hesitated for a moment, but still lit up his own lotus lantern: "After all, I am a Taoist priest, so I still have this basic tool. It's not as good as yours, but it's okay for daily use."
Su Yun yawned: "With your level of cultivation, it's good enough that you can use it."
Dinner was eaten in the yard. Su Yiling had specially laid electric wires in the yard so that her daughter could watch the moon in the yard when she came back. As long as Su Yun wanted, she could eat and watch the moon in the yard at any time.
This was the first time for Wu Jin and Wu Yu to come here. They were not shy people as they had plenty of business and social events. Even though Su Yun was the only familiar person among these people, they were not nervous at all.
The chef is a good cook and can estimate the amount of rice very accurately, so that everyone is just 70% full. After the meal, there is fruit and a midnight snack later.
Normally, the cook and the fire-maker would not participate in things like night watch. They both did physical work in the funeral home, and it would be unreasonable for them to stay up late at night. Even if they were ghosts, they could not really treat the other party like a donkey of the production team.
Su Yun was enjoying the cool in the courtyard, drinking a sip of tea and said, "You only have two jobs tonight. Clean the room for the guests, and then pick someone to keep watch. You can discuss it among yourselves or draw lots. It's up to you guys to decide."
Since Wu Jin and Wu Yu didn't want to sleep in the same room, two rooms had to be prepared for them. That meant that three people had to work tonight and the rest could rest.
Finally, the beautiful ghost proposed a game of rock-paper-scissors. After one round, the ghost messengers Ah Xiu and Lin Lang cleaned the room, and the ghost bride kept watch. The beautiful ghost happily prepared to have a good sleep and prepare for tomorrow's burial.
After all the employees went to work, Su Yun, Wu Jin and Wu Yu were left in the yard.
Perhaps because of its remote location, one can hear the chirping of many insects in the funeral home at night. There is a kind of white noise that can only be found in places with good rural environments, which makes people drowsy.
Wu Jin drank tea with him for a while and asked Su Yun, "Su Yun, are there only these many people in your funeral home?"
It was only during dinner time that Wu Jin finally recognized everyone. Apart from the fire-maker who sent Wu's father and mother home, there were only five employees left in the entire funeral home. It seemed that they were stretched thin even to take care of Su Yun alone. It was hard to imagine how they could take care of such a large funeral home.
Before, Wu Jin thought that Xicheng Funeral Home was very small, so when he heard Wu Yu talk about Su Yun’s employees, he thought that they hired a lot of people. But after coming to take a look, he found that Xicheng Funeral Home was very large. Even if it was sold at the price of land in the urban village, a funeral home covering such a large area would cost a huge amount of money.
Therefore, it seemed that Su Yun's six employees were too few people, as one person had to do the work of seven or eight people, which was very hard work. The most important thing was that Su Yun was usually like a mascot and seemed to never do heavy work.
Su Yun knew what Wu Jin wanted to say, and replied: "This number of people is enough. Don't be fooled by the size of this funeral home. In fact, we don't get any business at all, so everyone has no work to do. There is no need to worry about being exhausted."
"...Then how do you pay them normally?" Wu Jin couldn't understand. Su Yun obviously couldn't even open the business, but he hadn't even thought about how to make money. Instead, he took his employees to high-end places to play!
"As for the salary, it's very cheap. The money you spend on a funeral is enough to pay them two months' salary." Su Yun said happily, as if he had reached the peak of his life.
Wu Yu, who had been silent, asked quietly, "How much do they get paid every month?"
Su Yun said directly: "Oh, three thousand yuan per person per month. Since the funeral home provides food and accommodation, the price is not high. Sorry for the joke."
For a moment, Wu Jin and Wu Yu didn't know what to say. The salary was too low to tell others. Bincheng was a coastal city with a very good economic development. It was probably impossible to survive on 3,000 yuan in this city.
After a long while, Wu Jin asked politely, "So, are you also using your own money to pay for the funeral home's daily expenses?"
Su Yun glanced at Wu Jin and said, "Yes, don't look like that. I have a lot of private money, enough to support this funeral home until the day I die."
As people who have been trained to inherit the family business since childhood, Wu Jin and Wu Yu cannot understand Su Yun's lazy mentality, but if this is what Su Yun pursues, then they have nothing to say.
A little later, the chef brought over midnight snacks. We were really busy tonight, so he prepared charcoal barbecue and some pudding-like desserts, which are what young people like and won’t lose sleep after eating.
At about ten o'clock in the evening, Su Yun urged Wu Jin and Wu Yu to go back to bed, saying that eleven o'clock was the midnight hour, when the yin energy was the heaviest. They just couldn't sleep, so it was best for them not to go out.
The one keeping watch tonight is the ghost bride. She went to the coffin building groaning. Su Yun knew that she was timid when he was not the curator yet. When she saw a passing zombie, she ran away faster than a rabbit. She was not like the famous ghost bride at all.
The ghost bride also had her reasons, and she said stubbornly: "Who says ghosts can't be timid? People can scare people to death, so ghosts scaring ghosts is also scary!"
After Su Yun finished her midnight snack, her biological clock had run out. Before she went back to bed, she told the ghost bride, "Just rest assured that you will be on guard tonight. Just make sure that the two lotus lanterns in front of Hou Tu Niangniang do not go out. Isn't that simple?"
"What if it goes out?" the ghost bride asked anxiously.
"Then just run. Do you need me to teach you how to escape?" Su Yun said unhappily.
It can only be said that like generals, like soldiers. Su Yun only tells people to run, so when they encounter ghosts, the ghost employees will naturally run away.
Su Yun returned to his room, took a shower, changed out of the funeral home uniform that was so tight that it forced him to stand straight, put on his comfortable pajamas, and felt like he was finally alive. He then threw himself onto the bed full of dolls, ready to fall asleep peacefully.
During the twenty years she lived in the Su family, Su Yiling and Ji Weitong imagined what kind of life they should give her if she came back, at least it should not be worse than when she was in the Su family.
So, when Su Yun woke up for the first time after her death and found herself in an antique room filled with all kinds of girly items, she was stunned for a long time - the Su family never bought her dolls, and after she was past the age of girlishness, Su Yun no longer needed to hold a doll to sleep.
But when she woke up again and saw Su Yiling and Ji Weitang trying hard to buy a lot of dolls to make her happy, Su Yun realized that this is what biological parents who love their children are like.
Su Yun turned over and put the folding fan next to the pillow. Then she found her favorite little yellow chicken from a pile of dolls and hugged it in her arms. This yellow and plump little yellow chicken was her favorite. She usually had to hold it while sleeping to fall asleep comfortably.
However, tonight is probably destined to be a sleepless night.
Not long after Meimei fell asleep, Su Yun heard a cry for help. She poked her head out from among the dolls, reached for her cell phone, and saw with bleary eyes that it was one o'clock in the morning and she had just fallen asleep.
The downstairs was still shouting. Su Yun closed his eyes and called Lin Lang directly. Lin Lang's voice was clear and he was very sober when he heard it: "Director, what's wrong?"
"Tie up the one shouting for help. She woke me up even though I was sleeping soundly!" Su Yun said in a bad mood when he woke up.
"No, Director, the corpse has risen! The ghost bride is running for her life." Lin Lang answered honestly.
Su Yun held the little yellow chicken in his arms, looking very dazed: "I told you again and again not to let the lotus lamp go out, but it can still be resurrected. Is it here to piss me off?"
Lin Lang didn't dare to speak loudly, and could only whisper: "...Sometimes, you will wake up when you need to."
There was no way out, Su Yun resigned himself to getting up, putting on a robe, and walking out angrily holding his folding fan. The ghost bride just happened to run over here, and she threw herself on Su Yun and cried loudly.
Su Yun sighed tiredly: "Didn't I tell you to watch carefully? Why is the corpse still resurrected?"
The ghost bride felt very aggrieved: "I saw that the lotus lamp was not extinguished! But Ms. Wu sat up by herself! Then I wanted to push her back, but I found that she was getting bigger little by little."
"...If you mean becoming uglier and more ferocious, I can understand that, but what does becoming bigger mean?" Su Yun didn't react for a moment.
"She just transformed from a shrunken old lady into a plump and beautiful woman." The ghost bride tried to use her rich adjectives to describe the strange scene to Su Yun.
After hearing this, Su Yun suddenly realized, "Ah, now that you mention it, I suddenly remembered that Aunt Wu was really a tall and beautiful lady. When I asked Wu Jin about her size, I was moved. That fat man really hurt me. My beautiful aunt became short and small because of broken bones."
After saying that, the ghost bride suddenly asked in a trembling voice: "Director, is it... like that?"
Then Su Yun saw the ghost bride pointing her trembling finger behind her. Su Yun turned back calmly and saw a bright and beautiful face less than 20 centimeters away from hers.
She's actually really pretty, if her eyes weren't red.
Su Yun felt the ghost bride pulling at her clothes from behind. She gritted her teeth and smiled, "Xinxin, you brought this upon yourself, so you should handle it yourself."
"Director, how about we run away?" the ghost bride suggested in a low voice.
"Good idea--" Su Yun didn't even finish his words before he turned around and ran away, disappearing in the dark corridor without even leaving her a trace of his back.
The ghost bride suddenly met Aunt Wu's eyes. She continued to run forward, shouting for her life, with Aunt Wu chasing her from behind.
Soon, the ghost bride caught up with Su Yun. She stuck to Su Yun's back like a ghost: "Wuwuwu... The curator is chasing me, I'm so scared..."
Su Yun rolled his eyes at her and said, "Don't chase me. You are also a ghost. What are you afraid of? Go ahead!"
However, the ghost bride could only cry: "She just died, and she has so much resentment. How many years have I been dead? I can't beat her, I really can't beat her, wuwuwu..."
At this moment, Su Yun just wanted to curse "useless piece of trash".
After a while, Su Yun ran out of the small building where she lived. When passing by the yard, she saw Lin Lang wearing a Taoist robe. She quickly slid behind Lin Lang, and then pushed Lin Lang over with her backhand, almost coming face to face with Aunt Wu.
"I leave it to you! This is your specialty, you can definitely do it!" Su Yun ran away, but the voice was still there.
Lin Lang subconsciously raised his hand and made a seal, and his natal sword almost pierced Aunt Wu. He then remembered something, turned around and ran as well, shrinking the distance to an inch and coming directly to Su Yun, running with her.
Su Yun saw him following him and couldn't understand: "No, aren't you at the level of a ancestor? Why are you running away?"
In response, Lin Lang was silent for a while, and explained: "That is a client you know. If I strike her with my sword, she won't be able to reincarnate."
After hearing this, Su Yun staggered and nearly fell, but luckily the ghost bride quickly caught him.
"Why don't you just cast a talisman on her without using the sword?" Su Yun spread his hands, obviously not understanding why Lin Lang came to chase him instead of calming Aunt Wu down first.
"I didn't bring the talisman, only the sword. Director, you take the sword to protect yourself first, I'll go back and get it." Lin Lang handed the sword in his hand to Su Yun and disappeared without saying a word.
Su Yun stared at the sword in his hand with a dull look on his face. On the snow-white spine of the sword were engraved the words "Wen Qing". It was unclear whether it was Lin Lang's pen name or the name of the sword.
The ghost bride popped up at this time: "Director, this is the natal sword. Lin Lang gave his wife to you."
The sword in his hand seemed to still carry the pure aura of Lin Lang. Su Yun swung the sword in a flower shape and looked at the ghost bride speechlessly: "You should read less novels about cultivation. How many Taoists have you seen who really treat their swords as their wives? After all, how can a sword be as good as a real wife?"
Except for Quanzhen Sect and factions influenced by Buddhism, Taoists can get married. It is called Taoist couples. It is different from ordinary people's marriage in terms of laws. When Taoists get married, they take heaven and earth as witnesses and their Taoist heart as their oath. If they fail in this life, they will not die a good death.
The Taoist couples who betray each other repeatedly in novels would probably be hung up and beaten by their ancestors if they were put into reality.
When Su Yun was admonishing the Ghost Bride to read less online novels, Aunt Wu caught up with him. However, she seemed to be afraid of Lin Lang's Wenqing Sword and did not come over directly like she did before.
Su Yun looked at it for a while and felt strange: "Xinxin, did you really not do anything in the coffin building?"
"I swear on my ghost, I really was just sitting next to her and watching her. I didn't do anything, and the lotus lamp wasn't even turned off!" said the ghost bride, lying on Su Yun's shoulder.
"Then why does she only pursue you?" Su Yun couldn't understand.
The ghost bride was also confused: "It can't be that she came after me because I was on guard tonight?"
Something must be wrong when things are out of the ordinary. Su Yun communicated with Aunt Wu carefully: "Aunt, Aunt, let's talk it over. If you have any requests, you can ask for them. We will do our best to do what we can. What do you think?"
Aunt Wu seemed not to understand. She tilted her head with a ferocious look on her face and continued to pounce on Su Yun, but was forced back by the remaining purple light on the Wenqing sword.
Lin Lang just came back at this time. He threw a talisman on Aunt Wu's forehead. Aunt Wu screamed and her body shrank back to its size when she died little by little. Her skin quickly wrinkled and aged, and her long black hair turned white again.
"Director, are you okay?" Lin Lang asked as he landed beside Su Yun.
"It's okay. Your sword is so heavy. Don't let me take it next time." Su Yun threw the Wenqing Sword back to him. He walked to Aunt Wu's body and reached out to touch several large places on her body.
The ghost bride and Lin Lang came over at this time, waiting for Su Yun to make a decision.
There must be something wrong if a healthy corpse suddenly resurrected, especially since they had lit two lotus lanterns. The ghost bride insisted that the lotus lanterns were not extinguished and nothing special had happened. So it was very intriguing that Aunt Wu suddenly turned into a zombie.
Su Yun slowly stood up, took out a handkerchief and wiped his hands, and said: "Aunt Wu must have been tampered with before she died, and it was done very cleanly. Besides, she is not chasing us."
The ghost bride was still terrified: "What could have happened to make her like this? And she just kept chasing us."
At this time, Lin Lang denied the ghost bride's words: "No, she only chased you. After I was woken up, I immediately went to the coffin building. I followed you all the way, but she never looked back at me."
"But today..." The ghost bride was about to say that they didn't do anything today, but suddenly remembered that they only went to one place today, that is, the hospital, and came into contact with the Wu family.
Su Yun touched his chin and said, "Interesting. I told my uncle and aunt this afternoon that zombies will bite those they are close to first, because familiar smells can attract zombies. This happened at night. It happened that the rooms in the funeral home were isolated from the smell. Aunt Wu couldn't find her relatives, so she started with Xinxin and me."
If the Wu family hadn't asked her for help, Aunt Wu would have gone straight to the Wu family if she wasn't cremated on the first day of her death, and then devoured all of them. By then, when all the Wu family members were dead, who would have reaped the benefits?
The ghost bride frowned: "Director, are you saying that someone deliberately found Ms. Wu and made her resurrect after her death, just to let her kill the Wu family?"
Su Yun waved his folding fan. "It's almost certain. It's very common for wealthy families to fight for power. I was wondering how Aunt Wu escaped and returned to Bincheng. Now it seems that someone helped her come back."
"Then what should we do now? Aunt Wu is so pitiful." The ghost bride said with concern. She squatted down and tidied Aunt Wu's clothes.
"Let's put it back into the coffin first. The Wu family won't believe this kind of thing. It's only the first day." Su Yun could imagine how chaotic the next three days would be.
The two people and the ghost worked together to send Aunt Wu back to the coffin in the coffin building. The lotus lantern in front of Hou Tu Niangniang was indeed not extinguished, and the ghost bride did not lie.
Su Yun walked to the altar and checked the wick and oil of the lotus lamp, but found no problems.
Lin Lang came over at this time and whispered, "Director, from the look of Ms. Wu, I think she was made into a zombie right after she died but was still breathing. We can solve it."
This is basically the entry-level skill of a corpse driver. In the past, the corpse drivers were responsible for sending the bodies of people who died in a foreign land back to their hometowns. The families would often give the corpse drivers a sum of money as a thank you. At that time, people valued being buried in peace, so if a family member really died in another place and the body was difficult to transport, they could find a corpse driver, who would send the body back home safely.
Later, as Taoism split into factions, with the righteous and evil sects separating, corpse-driving also split.
Some people like Lin Lang and Su Yun still use lotus lanterns to attract corpses, while others turn corpses into zombies first and then drive them away. The former requires some skills. If the skills are not enough, even if the lotus lantern is lit, the corpse cannot be driven away. The latter depends on whether the person using it has other intentions.
Generally speaking, if you are not training zombies to do bad things, but simply driving corpses, then transforming the corpses into zombies before they get cold can make the corpses "live" for a longer period of time. This is what experts often say, zombies have one more breath than humans.
How long the breath can last, how long the corpse can "live", and it will be no different from an ordinary person.
After Su Yun first heard Wu Jin's story, she suspected that Aunt Wu had died a long time ago and that what came back was probably her soul. However, when they met in the hospital, she took Aunt Wu's pulse and found that although it was a death pulse, she was not dead yet. At that time, she couldn't figure out what was going on with Aunt Wu.
Now that Lin Lang reminded him, Su Yun suddenly remembered this corpse-driving technique that had not been used for a long time.
As far as he could remember, Su Yun had never seen a corpse driver using this method. He had only seen it in books. It was rumored that corpse drivers with lower skills could only let the corpse move on its own and only remember the thing the corpse was most obsessed with during its lifetime. If the thing that the corpse was most obsessed with happened to be going home, then the corpse driver could complete the order without much effort.
If the corpse driver is very skilled, the zombies they create will be no different from living people, because no matter how you examine them, they are almost the same as living people, so the corpse will go home on its own. As long as you leave some money to the corpse driver in advance, the corpse will go back to its hometown on its own to arrange its own funeral.
Aunt Wu's situation was similar to what was described in the book. She did return to the Wu family alone and stayed in the hospital until Su Yun went to her and asked her to sign a cremation consent form before she died. It seemed like a corpse driver felt sorry for her for her whole life, so he helped her.
Su Yun silently looked at Aunt Wu in the coffin, and told Lin Lang what he knew: "Do you think the method used on Aunt Wu's body was similar to that of a corpse driver?"
Lin Lang nodded slightly, then shook his head: "Similar, but there are some differences. I have seen this kind of corpse-driving people before. Their method essentially prolongs the preservation time of the corpse, but just now Ms. Wu turned back to her young appearance. Even if she is a zombie, at most she can maintain the appearance when she died. How can she become younger?"
Hearing this, Su Yun thought for a while, walked to the coffin, reached out and directly peeled off the yellow talisman, which immediately scared the ghost bride. She jumped away immediately and covered her mouth in horror.
Without the suppression of the yellow talisman, Aunt Wu in the coffin slowly turned back into her young appearance, as if time had gone back more than 20 years.
Aunt Wu's eyes suddenly opened, and she stared at Su Yun with bloodshot eyes. She stretched out her hand to strangle Su Yun's neck, and then Su Yun stuck the yellow talisman back to her. The next moment, Aunt Wu deflated.
Su Yun straightened up and repeated this action twice. She was sure that Aunt Wu would grow bigger. She said in amazement, "Interesting. Let's ask Wu Jin tomorrow to see if he wants a bigger aunt or this small one."
[End of this chapter]
Su Yun: In the future, Xicheng Funeral Home will add one more rule: no changing the size of the body anywhere:)
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Pre-collected article 2: "I'll Pick Up Garbage to Support You [1980s]"
Copywriting: The master predicted Liu Sheng Huai's fortune since she was a child, saying that she was born with the unlucky star of Hurting Officer and Seven Killings, and she would definitely die young, and would not live past the age of 30 and would be poor all her life.
Liu Sheng Huai, who didn't want to be a poor man, started to think of ways to change his fate in the second year after he started his apprenticeship. He joined the archaeological team with a huge fortune of two dollars and twenty-five cents that he had accumulated for twenty-five years, trying to borrow some luck from the thousand-year-old corpse to live longer.
As a result, an earthquake occurred and they were trapped in the main tomb. When Liu Sheng Huai decided to empty the tomb, the head in the coffin came to life and watched her tearing clothes off his body with his eyes open.
Liu Sheng Huai looked at the head silently, reached out to cover the head's eyes, and tried to hypnotize him: "You are awake, no one is digging your coffin, continue to sleep."
head:"……"
In order to survive, Liu Sheng Huai reluctantly stole the head. Before leaving, she patted her chest and promised: "Don't worry, I will take good care of you. Follow Sister Huai! You will be hungry for nine meals in three days! No, I will give you nine meals in three days."
head:"……"
When we got out of the mausoleum, the truth was this:
Liu Sheng Huai: "You know, I have no money since I was a child, and I left my mother. I can only pick up garbage to make a living... I have no money, but I have a life, and the main thing is a companion!"
Head: “.” So I still have to use my head to support you, right?
Yagyu Kai: “OvO”
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