Chapter 2
For a moment, Su Yun didn't know whether his brain was eaten by a ghost or the man in front of him had his brain eaten by a zombie. In short, there must be some problem between the two of them that led to such a conversation.
Su Yun closed his eyes and took a deep breath: "Okay, do you have a resume?"
"Yes." The man solemnly took out a resume from his arms and respectfully placed it on Su Yun's desk.
The man looked a little dull, but his resume was well-written. Su Yun picked it up and took a look. To sum it up, he was the abbot of a nameless Taoist temple. He inherited the temple after his master's death, then went down the mountain to travel. He found that he had no money, so he looked for a job everywhere, but was rejected one by one. Finally, he counted with his fingers and found that the funeral home would accept him.
Su Yun looked up at the content of a resume and glanced at the man named Lin Lang, wanting to say something but stopping himself. Seeing the three ghosts outside the door shaking their heads frantically, he immediately decided: "...Okay, it's you. You will start today. Your main job is... to protect me."
Lin Lang was about to agree when he realized something was wrong. He pulled out the red job notice from his sleeve, which clearly stated: We are hiring funeral home handymen. Applicants must be adults, self-care capable, neat and tidy, efficient, courageous, and able to fold paper money and cut funeral clothes.
These contents are completely different from the protection that Su Yun just mentioned. Lin Lang pointed at the recruitment notice and said, "But, I'm here to apply for a handyman position."
"Yes, if you were an ordinary person, you would be a handyman, and your main job would be to maintain the stability of the funeral. Now that you are here in this outfit, it would be too unfair for you to be a handyman." Su Yun said righteously, and took a sip of the sugar water in the thermos.
Lin Lang frowned: "But what do you need me to protect you from?"
Su Yun smiled and said, "You will soon find out. People of my level are easily lurked on the street. People outside are either after my beauty or my property. The world is really too dangerous."
After hearing this, Lin Lang hesitated for a moment, stretched out his hand and wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Su Yun: "The funeral home has always provided food and accommodation. I will give you a basic salary of 3,000 per month, and there will be bonuses at the end of the year if you do a good job. Considering that your industry does not pay attention to five insurances and one fund, I will give you other things in cash, okay?"
Lin Lang, who was about to refuse, nodded immediately: "Sure, no problem, Director, I can definitely do this job."
Su Yun nodded in satisfaction and knocked on the table with his folding fan: "Those people outside, come in."
As there was a Taoist priest in purple robe standing in the house, the three ghosts moved in hesitantly, sticking to the wall, as slow as a snail.
Seeing their useless looks, Su Yun got angry and said to Ah Xiu directly, "Ah Xiu, you are a ghost messenger, why are you hiding from the Taoist priest? Take this... Lin, Lin Lang to the staff dormitory, open the best single room for him, and then get him staff clothes. My funeral home does not allow clothes that are more conspicuous than mine."
Ah Xiu glanced at Lin Lang's purple robe and said reluctantly, "Oh."
Lin Lang bowed to Su Yun before leaving with Ah Xiu, being very polite.
After they walked away, Su Yun looked at the two who were still clinging to the wall and said, "Look at them and then look at you. After all, you are all famous. What are you doing? It will be embarrassing if others tell others about it."
Xin Xin came over and said, "Director, that's not the case. We are afraid of the Taoist priest. He is so fierce and evil, it's hard for us not to be afraid."
The ghost nodded vigorously: "Yes, yes, what if he gets unhappy one day and grabs us to make soup?"
"Why did he capture you and make soup with you? He is a Taoist priest, not a starving ghost. Also, Xinxin, when you say ugly, do you mean that they look ferocious to you?" Su Yun was too tired to complain. She thought she would see a face that would make her eyes go dark.
"But he just looks scary. Curator, you can secretly open your third eye and take a look. He is the kind that is covered in purple light. Otherwise, how could we be afraid of a little Taoist priest?" Xinxin suddenly stood up in shock.
Su Yun looked at them speechlessly, trying to comfort himself. After all, he was an old ghost in the funeral home and couldn't do anything. "I won't open it. If you ask me to open it, I will open it. How embarrassing would that be? It's settled. Tonight, I will treat everyone to a banquet to celebrate the arrival of a new employee in our funeral home. And, I have been in office for three months, and finally, it's open!"
The opening was actually for a bill that had half of the money refunded three days ago, but Su Yun was stingy and didn't want to celebrate at all. Now that he had found a purple-robed master back, it was worth celebrating together.
The sexy ghost and the ghost bride looked at each other hesitantly. Neither of them felt that it counted as opening the business, after all, half of the money was returned.
So the ghost whispered, "Director, our order is half-price. We don't have much money to begin with, and we're still going to have a feast?"
"Originally, we could have had this meal at someone else's funeral, but now that I'm the curator, I have to pay for it myself. Are you proud of it?" Su Yun showed a deathly smile.
"...No, I dare not be proud."
"Then eat it or not." Su Yun snorted coldly, holding her folding fan and walked to the yard. She wanted to continue to enjoy the cool air.
The funeral home has had no business for a long time. Usually, except for the cook, the fire-maker and a few paper figures, the entire funeral home is deserted. Even the wreaths provided to the guests have to be made by themselves. A few days ago, it was paper figures that carried the coffins for the guests. Fortunately, the family members were too angry to notice.
Now the ghost bride went to inform the two chefs who were cooking and stoking the fire that the director would treat them to a dinner tonight and they didn't need to cook, so everyone came to the yard to fold paper money and cut paper clothes. Even if they were not opening the shop, they still had to offer sacrifices on the first and fifteenth days of the lunar month, so these things were indispensable.
After a while, the ghost messenger Ah Xiu brought Lin Lang over. Lin Lang was wearing the same Ming-style round-necked robe as everyone else, and the uniformly distributed black cloth boots on his feet. If nothing else, standing together, Su Yun made him look extremely impressive.
Lin Lang noticed that there was a word on everyone's round-collar robe. The ghost messenger was called "甸", the ghost bride was called "喜", the beautiful ghost was called "欢", and the other two masters were called "厨" and "火" respectively. The meaning was clear at a glance.
Lin Lang's round-necked robe did not have a name on the chest yet. He looked down at his clothes, then looked at the others. He wanted to ask Su Yun but was worried about disturbing her sleep.
In this lush yard, all the other ghosts were working, only Su Yun was sleeping lazily, with a small fan blowing ice cubes beside him, feeling extremely comfortable.
Just when Lin Lang was struggling with how to start, Yan Gui noticed Lin Lang's eyes and shouted directly: "Director, you forgot to give the newcomer a name."
Su Yun slowly opened his eyes, glanced at Lin Lang, then closed his eyes again and said, "Then let's call him 'Lang'. The Lang in his name, Xinxin, you go and embroider it for him."
"Me?" The ghost bride was terrified. A ghost was embroidering clothes for the Taoist priest. Was she crazy or was the Taoist priest crazy?
"It's okay, I can do it myself." Lin Lang also quickly refused. He didn't really want the ghost to get close to him.
Since both parties were unwilling, Su Yun did not force it: "Okay, anyway, before we go out to dinner tonight, I want to see you all in uniform, at least to save my face."
Su Yun almost lay down in the afternoon, but she woke up in the middle to eat some fruit, then lay down again to continue sleeping. I don’t know if she fell asleep or not. Anyway, everyone else tried to keep the noise as low as possible.
Lin Lang herself does know how to embroider, but it was not easy to embroider a word. In the end, the ghost bride, who was worried about not being able to make it in time, took over and managed to finish it before leaving.
Su Yun woke up and saw that everyone was neat and tidy. He nodded in satisfaction and said, "That's right! A family should be neat and tidy. Pack up your things. We are going to have dinner at Qingyun Villa tonight. By the way, I, your lucky curator, won a half-price ticket, which allows me to play in the villa for three days and two nights."
The ghost employees' eyes all lit up, except Lin Lang, who looked confused.
Then the ghost was a little confused: "Wait, Director, although you won the lottery, you can only go alone, right? Isn't it inappropriate to take us with you?"
"It's written above that you can bring family members." Su Yun smiled slyly. The ghosts in the funeral home all have ID cards and their household registration is in the funeral home. Now the head of the household is Su Yun, so she can bring as many family members as she wants.
"Then what should I do?" Lin Lang suddenly spoke up. He knew that he was not Su Yun's relative, and it was not good to lie.
Su Yun glanced at him and said, "You can be my distant cousin. Let's go and drive."
The funeral home has several cars. Since this time they were going to Qingyun Villa, a famous amusement park for the rich in Bincheng, Su Yun chose a nanny car. No one usually drives that car. It was originally bought to transport the funeral team on outings. Later, the business was slow and it hadn't been driven for a long time.
The cook checked the parts and the fuel tank, filled them up with oil, and added four or five oil drums in the trunk before he let everyone get in the car.
Su Yun naturally wanted to sit in the best seat, and the others sat quietly in the back.
Looking at the nanny car that was still not full of people, Su Yun sighed. The business of this funeral home was getting worse day by day. It used to be crowded and the car could be full, but now it was too empty even for a few people to play mahjong in.
Qingyun Villa is quite far from the funeral home. It was already seven o'clock in the evening when we arrived. Halfway up the mountain, you could just see the red and purple sunset glow. The air in the mountains was good, and just a sniff of it made you feel refreshed both physically and mentally.
After the cook parked the car, a group of people marched into Qingyun Villa. Everyone was dressed like they were attending a funeral, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.
Su Yun led the people to the counter and handed over the half-price coupon and his card with a smile: "Please help us check in. The specifications and services should be based on the highest standard that the half-price coupon can discount."
After all, they are traveling together, and it is impossible for everyone to book a different room. Even if the employee himself does not mind, Su Yun does.
The ghost took the ghost bride's hand and came over: "Wait a minute, Miss, my sister and I can share a room. It's not safe to live separately at night."
Just as he finished speaking, a young man suddenly came over and said in a mocking tone, "Hey, isn't this Su Yun? After leaving the Su family, you are so poor that you even need a half-price coupon to come to Qingyun Villa? Your friend has to consider asking for one less room for you. Su Yun, do you want me to help you out?"
Su Yun smiled, clapped his hands, and instantly took back his half-price coupon and card from the counter lady: "Well said, then this time we will all spend money, and Mr. Wu will pay for it. Please."
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