Chapter 8
When Su Yun came out of the room, the clothes she bought for the employees had just been delivered. She asked everyone to divide them according to their body shapes, and then went to eat together.
The sexy ghost and the ghost bride have already put on their newly acquired jumpsuits. Today their clothes are just ordinary casual wear. If they are not going to a party, there is no need to dress so formally. Only two masters want to go to the gambling stone market today, so they are still dressed quite formally.
"Director, I heard that the Su family's children were taken away. Did you know about that?" The sexy ghost showed a gossipy look, as if to ask me.
"I know, because I was the one who spread the rumor and made them leave. Otherwise, if they had stayed here, we wouldn't have had any fun." Su Yun said calmly.
She is just like this. She never swallows her anger and will not give a chance to forgive just because it is the first or second time. Since the other party has done it, he should be prepared for her revenge.
In fact, when this rumor spread, not many people would believe it, including the Su family. But they had to send Su Yun away, because as long as Su Yun was around, people would remember this joke, which would affect Su Lin's external image.
It’s impossible that every time Su Lin attends a public occasion, the first thing people say is “I heard that you have a very good relationship with your sister”?
No matter how much the Su family loves their youngest daughter, and even prepared a substitute for her to escape the disaster, she has to give in in front of Su Lin. She is the daughter who has lived outside for twenty years without much affection, and Su Lin is the heir of the Su family. The Su family can clearly distinguish what is more important.
Su Yun didn't want to go so far, so at first he just recorded Su Lin's words and posted them in the gossip group and circle of friends.
After all, Su Yun has never taken advantage of her, but Su Yun shouldn't pop up like a fly again and again. Since Su Yun hates that she can't live a rich life in the Su family for so many years and blames Su Yun, then Su Yun will let her experience what it means to be really sent away.
Now that the person has really been sent away, Su Yun feels that the world is peaceful. He no longer has to worry about having a good time and then having his mood ruined by some idiot who suddenly shows up.
The ghost employees packed up the clothes that Su Yun brought for them and set out together for morning tea. On the way, Su Yun glanced at the group again. They were all lamenting that the Su family's newly adopted little daughter had such a bad fate. She was left in an ordinary family to suffer in the past, and was sent away again not long after being brought back, as if she had no fate with the Su family.
Su Yun raised her eyebrows when she heard this. She thought for a while and called Lin Lang over: "Lin Lang, come here."
Lin Lang came over and bowed his head slightly: "Director, what's the matter?"
"Let me ask you, looking at Su Yun's face, is she destined to be with the Su family?" Su Yun asked curiously.
When Su Yun asked this question, the other ghost employees also came over.
Lin Lang felt that he was being squeezed tightly, and spoke reluctantly: "Just from her face, she is actually destined to be alone. She is destined to be without a father, mother, husband, or children, but she can live to be a hundred years old. It's very strange."
After hearing this, Yan Gui curled her lips and said, "It's not surprising that this kind of fate is like this. Some people think that it's better to live a miserable life than to die. They want to live a miserable life even if it means destroying the fortune of their family and the lives of their relatives."
If you meet more people in this world, you will understand that no one cannot survive. If someone is afraid of living, he is a coward and death is his escape. But as long as a person is still afraid of death, he can keep alive.
Su Yun silently repeated Lin Lang's comments and said, "She has no relatives or connections, so why would the Su family save her?"
Since she has no father or mother, most people would first suspect that she is doomed to be alone. Even if she wants to change her fate, she would change the doomed fate. Why would she find Su Yun as a shield to let Su Yun survive?
Only the Su family knew what happened in the past. Su Yun couldn't figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it and went for morning tea with the ghost employee.
They arrived just in time. After finishing this round of eating, they went out to play for a while and then continued to have lunch.
Without any strangers around, everyone was more focused on eating. Even when they were leaving, I heard that Wu Yu was taken away by his elder brother in public. However, Wu Yu was always caught and taught a lesson by his elder brother, so everyone treated it as a joke and sighed that the second young master of the Wu family was really hopeless.
Listening to other people's gossip, after the people walked away, Lin Lang suddenly said: "In fact, Wu Yu is not a hopeless case, he is just influenced."
Hearing this, Su Yun and the ghost employee turned their heads to look at him. Everyone was confused as to why he would say such a thing. It was obviously not his character.
Lin Lang paused and continued, "There is no one around him who can help him, so he can only be like a small tree that is clinging to dodder. Before he grows up, he is almost dead."
Life depends on your breath. How long you can keep this breath will determine how you live.
To give a simple example, when Bigan's heart was dug out, he firmly believed that he could survive because he used this breath to block his heart. As long as this breath was there, he could hold on. But if someone told him that this breath did not exist, he would die.
From the perspective of Taoist metaphysics, the great way comes from the heart, and what is cultivated is the innate qi and the acquired qi. The innate qi is often shown in the chaotic period when the baby is just born. After the baby becomes sensible, the innate qi is gone, and the acquired qi needs to be cultivated.
As most people grow older and gain more experience, they slowly develop acquired energy that can sustain them for a lifetime. This energy is exchanged for a lot of intangible things such as emotions, love, knowledge, etc. If you give this energy to others or if others take away your energy, you will be trapped to death.
Some ascetics call this "borrowing luck", which means borrowing someone else's fortune and subsidizing one's own, thereby achieving the purpose of curing illness and disaster and getting rich.
But borrowing luck is actually a very troublesome thing. If you use the borrowed luck and the other party is tough, you have to return it.
Borrowing someone's acquired energy is much simpler. You can even just ask the other person to say "yes" or "I love you," and their energy will dissipate, because they have said it and promised to deliver some of their acquired energy to you.
Acquired energy and fortune are things that you should never talk about to others casually. At the very least, it will bring bad luck, and at worst, it will damage your destiny.
Wu Yu is like a person whose acquired energy has been borrowed by different people since childhood. They use his name to do bad things and take advantage of his innocence and straightforwardness to achieve their own goals. Such a person is easy to use, and it is also the easiest for him to dissipate his acquired energy completely. It is difficult to preserve his acquired energy by any means.
Wu Jin is a person who never gives in. He goes his own way and no one can influence him. Even if others want to give in, they can't. Such people often retain a little bit of innate energy and can easily succeed in everything they do. If they have a rich and noble destiny, their lives will be smooth sailing.
Lin Lang said it casually. He felt that among those people, Wu Yu was the most pitiful one. All of them were vaguely devouring the acquired energy in his body, although it was weak, and some people even absorbed it unconsciously. But with so many people, it was enough to suck Wu Yu away as if he had a missing brain stem.
Su Yun was silent for a while, and said, "Don't say this again in the future. What we do is to cut off the cause and effect, so if we can avoid it, we should avoid it."
"...But, Director, you just asked me to read your face." Lin Lang muttered softly. He thought this was part of his job responsibilities.
"The face I asked you to see may not be Su Yun's real face." Su Yun left this sentence without further explanation. He went back to his room and did not come out at noon.
The three-day holiday passed quickly. The ghost employees had a lot of fun in Qingyun Villa. Only Su Yun hid in his room to sleep every day and only came out for a while at night, like a wandering soul.
The second living person, Lin Lang, was similar, but he would exercise in Qingyun Villa during the day so he could get some sunlight.
On the day of his return, Su Yun checked out and received a small gift. They said that they did not know that Su Yun was a VIP customer at first and treated him poorly.
Since Su Yiling has applied for a membership card, there will definitely be nothing missed. Su Yun himself won the half-price coupon, and thinking of not wasting it, he brought his employees here. Unexpectedly, he was ridiculed by Wu Yu and met Su Yun and others.
But it's okay to encounter it. If you solve the problem once and for all, it won't bother her anymore in the future.
After another half day's drive back to the funeral home, everyone felt like they were back home. Although the presidential suite was nice, it was not their own home after all, and they did not feel as comfortable as at home.
However, when they came back from their trip, the funeral home still had no business.
As the fifteenth day of the lunar month is approaching, the ghost employees are busy folding paper money. On the fifteenth day, they burn incense and paper to the ancestors, the underworld, the heaven and the earth, the remaining wronged souls, the spirit babies and other objects.
When Su Yun is not sleeping, he will help fold paper money, but most of the time he just sleeps.
On the third day after returning home, Wu Yu suddenly came to the door.
At that time, there was no one at the door of the funeral home. Everyone was busy folding paper money in the yard. Wu Yu shouted for a long time before Lin Lang heard him. He hurried out to greet them - he was now Su Yun's bodyguard in name, but in fact he was just a handyman and had to do everything.
Lin Lang went out to ask Wu Yu if he wanted to place an order, but Wu Yu refused to say anything and insisted on seeing Su Yun. The two were in a stalemate. Wu Yu had no patience to wait, so he called Su Yun directly and said that Lin Lang was stopping him from entering.
After Su Yun answered the phone and listened to his beeping, he said directly: "If you have something to say, just say it. If not, get out. I don't want to play house with you."
After saying that, Su Yun was ready to hang up the phone.
Wu Yu was worried that Su Yun would hang up, so she said hurriedly, "No, no, no, don't hang up. I really have something to talk to you about. Is that okay?"
Then Su Yun hung up the phone directly, making his attitude clear.
After a while, the phone rang again. The ghost bride looked over and said to Su Yun, "Director, it's him again."
"You take it. If it's not an order, tell him to get lost." Su Yun turned over and answered.
"Oh." The ghost bride picked up the phone, but before she could say anything, she heard Wu Yu say that he wanted to place an order.
Since the other party was ready to place an order, Su Yun naturally agreed to let him in and asked Yan Gui to serve him boiled water.
After receiving the news, Lin Lang finally agreed to take Wu Yu to the backyard of the funeral home. After entering, Wu Yu found that the funeral home was very large and the road in front was winding. After entering the yard, he could not remember the way, as if his memory had been deleted.
When Wu Yu came to the cool place in the yard, he saw Su Yun lying sleepily on a recliner. The employees next to him were wearing the same funeral home uniform and were trying hard to fold paper money. They had already folded two boxes.
Su Yun reluctantly sat up and let Wu Yu sit on the vacant stool: "What order do you want to place? We accept both weddings and funerals."
Just then the ghost bride poured Wu Yu some boiled water. Wu Yu was stunned for a moment: "Aren't you a funeral home? Do you accept weddings? Who would place an order with you?"
"Oh, this means ghost marriage, do you want to get married?" Su Yun asked calmly.
"No, no..." Wu Yu waved his hands in fear.
Su Yun looked at him like this and felt that he was not here to discuss business but to find trouble: "What's your matter? If you have something to say, just say it directly. If I don't, I will tell your brother."
Wu Yu exploded when she heard this: "Su Yun! Can you be a little more creative? What else can you do besides suing my brother since you were a child?"
However, Su Yun ignored him: "The trick is not new, as long as it works, do you want to tell me?"
Others might have just threatened to sue Wu Jin, but Su Yun was really going. Wu Yu could only sit back in frustration and groaned, "My brother asked me to come. He heard about Qingyun Villa and wanted to ask you for a favor."
"Show the guests away--" Su Yun simply waved his hand and asked Lin Lang to prepare to drag the people away.
"No, no, no, it's an order! An order!" When Wu Yu was picked up by Lin Lang, his brain barely worked for a moment, and he realized that with his relationship with Su Yun, it was good enough that they didn't fight, so how could he help? He had to say it was an order.
This time Su Yun was satisfied and asked Lin Lang to put him down: "Okay, we can continue after placing the order."
Wu Yu sat back down in frustration: "It's like this, do you remember that my brother and I had an aunt who ran away from home? The one who ran away with a man when she was very young."
Speaking of the past, Su Yun also reacted: "Your aunt... I remember it was your grandfather who wanted to find a date for your aunt at your sixth birthday party, but your aunt made a scene and ruined the birthday party. She also made your grandfather so angry that he was sent to the hospital?"
Seeing that Su Yun still remembered, Wu Yu nodded vigorously, "Yes, yes, that's her. When I was a child, I thought my aunt was ignorant. If she didn't want to get married, then she didn't get married. How could she make grandpa so angry? She even ran away. But I heard from my brother a few days ago that my aunt didn't run away at first, but she was sent to the bed of the marriage partner by my grandfather, and my aunt was beaten up."
Su Yun grabbed a handful of melon seeds handed to him by the ghost bride: "And then?"
Wu Yu looked at the group of people who suddenly started eating melon seeds and wanted to get angry, but thinking about Wu Jin, she endured it again: "Then my aunt went home to ask my grandfather for help. When my grandfather heard that she had beaten someone up, he asked her to apologize to the person."
"Wow, your grandfather is really not a human being." The ghost spat on a melon seed shell.
"...If you curse my grandfather in front of me, saying he is not a human being, then what will happen to me? Don't curse me like that!" Wu Yu hesitated for a moment before he puffed up in anger like a puffer fish. He probably thought his grandfather was not a human being after hearing about this, but he was his biological grandfather after all.
Su Yun said directly: "Ayan, don't interrupt, let him continue, it's quite interesting, snap, snap..."
Wu Yu couldn't help but snatch a handful of melon seeds from Yan Gui, saying, "My aunt was so spoiled that she refused. The family started to quarrel again. My grandfather sent a bunch of bodyguards to force my aunt to apologize. On the way, my aunt jumped out of the car and ran away. It was really embarrassing. In order to avoid blame, my grandfather said to the public that my aunt ran away with a strange man and had nothing to do with our family."
The whole story makes people so angry that they don't know where to put their anger. Blame the old man of the Wu family. He is already an old man with half of his legs in the ground. There is really nothing much to say. You will have to bear the consequences of your own actions in the future.
Su Yun took a sip of tea and said, "So you are here to see me at your brother's request, because your aunt passed away and you need a funeral that no one knows about?"
There are only two funeral homes in the entire Bincheng. One is the full-service funeral home that most people would choose, called Bincheng Funeral Home, and the other is the Xicheng Funeral Home under the name of Su Yun, which holds more Chinese-style funerals. Later, because the process was complicated and there were many rules, young people today are unwilling to come when the older generation passes away.
The matter of the Wu family was a scandal in the entire circle at that time. The old man of the Wu family wanted to arrange a marriage between his daughter and another family, but his daughter beat the man and then eloped with a strange man. If people now knew that his daughter died earlier than the old man, then the old man would probably lose his reputation in his later years.
The most important thing is that the old man might also be angry to death.
Therefore, if we don’t want this matter to get to the old man, it would be best to hold it in Su Yun’s deserted funeral home.
Wu Yu was a little embarrassed: "Yes, it was my aunt... Actually, she passed away in a very ugly way. If she hadn't had to, she wouldn't have contacted my brother. But my grandfather was admitted to a nursing home two years ago, and I didn't know... So my brother meant that you don't have much business, and usually no one comes. My aunt just... passed away quietly, which is also good."
"Are you sure you don't want to tell me? When a person dies, everything is gone. Are you sure you don't want to let the old man see him again?" Su Yun repeated to confirm. This was the procedure to let the family members understand that there is only one chance to say goodbye to death, and if you miss it, there will be no chance again.
"I, I can't make the decision either. It's my brother's idea." Wu Yu hesitated for a moment, then said helplessly.
Looking at Wu Yu's expression, Su Yun thought for a moment and said, "It doesn't count if I discuss it with you. So, when your brother is free, ask him to come and talk to me. This is a big deal. Generally speaking, if no direct relatives come to sign, the body cannot be put into the incinerator. Your father, your grandfather or your brother, any one of them, as long as they come to sign, then I will take the order."
In fact, only when all direct relatives have died will the nephew be asked to sign on behalf of the family. However, the Wu family is also a prominent family, and Wu Jin is the current head of the family. With the identities of the head of the family and the nephew, it is acceptable for him to sign.
Wu Yu didn't expect that they still couldn't reach an agreement. It was the first time he heard about the rules of cremation and he felt a little scared, so he agreed to go back and talk to Wu Jin.
Lin Lang sent the hurried Wu Yu away and came back to ask, "Director, should we prepare the coffin?"
Coffins are not like paper money and wreaths, which can be made after the body arrives. Coffins need to be made of custom-made wood, air-dried, painted, and carved. This set of processes will take more than a month to complete. Therefore, in ancient times, people either bought ready-made coffins or had to order one before someone died.
Su Yun thought about it and shook his head: "Don't worry, I guess the Wu family will just buy an urn and won't need a coffin."
"But we also need one for the auditorium." Lin Lang remembered the process written in the funeral home's manual. Guests attending funerals often need an independent coffin without a lid, and that coffin will be burned later.
This is a special service provided by the West City Funeral Home. They insist on preparing an extra coffin for the guests, saying that it is to give the deceased a resting place in the underground after death. However, most people think it is a waste of money and are naturally unwilling to come.
Su Yun counted the existing coffins in the funeral home and said, "I remember Aunt Wu Yu's height and build. There happens to be a similar one in the warehouse. Let's use that one. I don't think the Wu family will be willing to go through all the trouble. They would rather solve the problem quietly."
The next day, Wu Jin came over at noon, bringing Wu Yu with him. When they met, he apologized to Su Yun first, saying that Wu Yu was rude at Qingyun Villa. Wu Yu apologized obediently, saying that he didn't mean it at the time, he was just talking nonsense.
The brothers' attitudes were pretty good. Regardless of whether they were asking for help or not, at least they showed enough gesture.
"It doesn't matter. I don't take it too seriously. Wu Yu has never won an argument with me anyway." Su Yun said with a smile.
"You——" Wu Yu wanted to curse back, but Wu Jin glared at her. She lowered her head in grievance, "I'm sorry, I was wrong. I shouldn't have quarreled with you."
Su Yun waved his hand indifferently: "Generally speaking, people who say this are those who actively apologize, refuse to repent, and dare to do it again next time. I will not accept your apology, lest you take the highest moral ground and scold me back when I scold you next time."
Wu Yu was so angry that she couldn't shut up at all: "I've already apologized, why don't you accept it? If you don't accept it, where do you get the moral high ground?"
"Brother Wu, look at him. Am I being extremely accurate? He is not sincere." Su Yun complained skillfully, as if he had done it countless times.
So Wu Yu was beaten up again. After growing up for more than 20 years, he was still a bad little brother when he returned.
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