Chapter 55 Chapter 55 Something Happened at the Su Family Factory
After hearing this, Wu Yu felt that Su Yun was right, but the two children had already gone to choose the urns, so it would probably take another hundred years to see the result.
"Life and death are determined by fate. Besides, life is so long. They may regret what they have decided after a few decades. If you come back then, won't you be able to make some money again?" Wu Yu has a businessman's mindset and said to Su Yun as a joke.
Su Yun pulled his face and said, "Marriage is the most difficult thing to deal with. Do you know why the old saying goes, 'It is better to destroy ten temples than to break up a marriage'?"
Wu Yu shook his head: "I don't know."
"Because the karma of a ruined marriage usually backfires on the person who ruined the marriage, so, whether it's persuading them to reconcile or break up, it's best not to do so. I hope they will consider it more, but if the decision has already been made, I still won't persuade them any more." Su Yun said this to comfort himself.
Wu Yu then quickly took the contract and told Su Yun that they planned to sponsor some equipment, including cosmetics, trolleys, morgue cabinets, etc. for the funeral home. Wu Yu made a list of all the items that he had seen in the funeral home before and thought were a bit old. As long as Su Yun nodded, they would be delivered in a few years.
The list was quite long, and Su Yun felt that he could give the entire funeral home a new look: "Isn't it too much? It's not necessary to give such a big gift during the New Year. Or are you like those two children and have something to ask of me?"
Wu Yu waved her hands hurriedly, "Really? My brother said that you helped a lot this year. Whether it was my aunt's matter or my grandfather's funeral, the matter was not very glorious to begin with, but you helped deal with it. Remuneration is one thing, and thank-you gift is another. You must give it to me."
"In that case, I'd be honored to refuse. Would you like to stay for lunch today?" Su Yun asked as he signed his name.
"I can't stay. Our family is busier during the Chinese New Year than usual. Otherwise it wouldn't be my turn to come and deliver the gift list. I have a social event for lunch later, and a family dinner in the evening. I can't stop for a moment..." Wu Yu complained unhappily, muttering to herself.
Su Yun quickly signed the contract in triplicate and returned two of them to Wu Yu: "Don't complain. It only happens once a year, and who doesn't want to make a fortune? Since you don't want to stay, leave early, or you will run into a traffic jam on the highway and you won't be able to escape this meal tonight."
There is always traffic jam on New Year's Eve every year. Wu Yu was reminded of this and quickly checked the time. It was already past ten o'clock. He screamed, grabbed the contract and ran away, forgetting even to say goodbye.
The ghost bride had changed back into her staff uniform. She ran over with snacks in her hand and said, "Director, do we need new paper money? The paper money we stockpiled last year is old and a little dusty."
Su Yun thought about the funeral home's paper money inventory and said helplessly, "There's not much left, but this is not a good gift. Why would anyone give this to someone during the New Year? Just burn all the paper money during the New Year, and then buy new ones after the 15th."
The paper money should have been bought new before the New Year, and on New Year's Eve, all the old ones should have been burned at once, and then some new ones could be bought. Unfortunately, there were too many emergencies, and Su Yun forgot to approve the order for this thing. Everyone was too busy to think about it, and now they can only rely on the stock after the New Year.
Xun Xiaoran and Fang Dengdeng selected many things at one time, including tombstones, cemetery decorations, incense burners and funerary objects. The cemetery Xun Xiaoran chose for Fang Dengdeng was a large one. Unlike ordinary small cemeteries that can only hold one urn, the size of a large cemetery is actually similar to the old burial ground.
According to their wishes, they wanted to be buried together and even bought a couple's grave package.
After everything was decided, Xun Xiaoran paid the extra money. Before leaving, he reminded Su Yun again to remember to sign a contract with the cemetery owner, and to keep the land in his own hands no matter what and not sell it directly.
Merchants value profit, and people from a family like Xun Xiaoran understand human nature the best, but he trusts Su Yun, who is willing to go through the underworld in the flesh and bring back his lover's soul. What's there to not trust in a good person who doesn't even want to take money but still helps?
Therefore, it was agreed that only Su Yun could come, and no matter whether she would regret it in the future, as long as the land was in Su Yun's hands, she could be found if there were any changes, without any worries.
After seeing off Xun Xiaoran and Fang Dengdeng, Su Yun checked his phone and orders. After making sure that they had all been processed, he waved his hand and said, "Closing time. It's our turn to work."
Everyone cheered, some closed their doors, some unplugged their phones, it was their turn to celebrate the New Year.
The Chinese New Year requires thorough cleaning and preparations for ancestor worship.
The employees all went to prepare offerings and clean. For such a large funeral home, it was equivalent to each of them having to clean a building. Su Yun went directly to clean the mourning hall. This kind of important work had to be done by the boss.
Ji Weitong and Su Yiling had taught Su Yun before. At that time, Su Yun was still a mummy, sitting at the door watching them clean.
The mourning hall hadn't seen the sun for a whole year, and the dust inside was enough to bury a person. Su Yun carefully put on a mask, not using any magic, and wiped it bit by bit with a feather duster and bucket.
Gradually, the rich aroma of roasted suckling pig wafted from the kitchen of the funeral home, and you knew it was good suckling pig as soon as you smelled it.
Su Yun barely finished cleaning all the mourning halls that needed worship. When he walked into the yard, he saw tables filled with offerings on trays. The second chef checked them one by one, noting where to put lettuce, fruit, and sugar... Every tray was checked very precisely.
As the sky gradually darkened, the chef finally came out holding a bunch of chickens and said, "Director, this is the last batch. These are roosters. According to the quantity, there will be one for each funeral hall."
The number of offerings was correct. Su Yun turned around and called out, "Ayan, are the paper money and paper clothes ready? The offerings are ready."
Then the ghost, the ghost bride, and Mi Niang all came running over with small baskets on their backs, saying in unison, "All right!"
"Okay, let's start the worship. Queen Hou Tu will eat first!" Su Yun gave an order, and the roasted suckling pig along with other offerings were brought into the mourning hall of Queen Hou Tu.
After the offerings were ready, Su Yun lit the incense and candles himself and led all the employees to worship.
The process is similar in every mourning hall, but the infant spirits and the many tablets stored in the funeral home have different requirements, so they will be given some special offerings. For example, some people like to eat peaches, and some people like to eat water chestnuts. Many ghosts only have this one request when they come, and it must be satisfied.
After everything is put out there, you have to close the door because ghosts and gods will come to eat something and it’s not good for them to see each other.
The weather was good on New Year's Eve. It didn't rain or snow, and the wind had died down a lot. We could re-wire the yard and hang incandescent lamps for lighting. Everyone was busy all day preparing for the reunion dinner.
As for why Su Yun did not worship her ancestors, she heard it from her parents. Ji Weitang was an orphan, and Su Yiling had lost both parents and was abandoned by her family. In terms of fate and kinship, they had no family except each other, their daughter, and the employees of the funeral home, so there was no need to worship their ancestors.
Su Yun had previously asked Ji Weitang why his father said he was abandoned, but there was a piece of land left by his parents?
Ji Weitang explained that this piece of land was originally only as big as the middle of the yard. Su Yiling's parents bought it a long time ago with their own savings to build a house, but before the house was built, his parents died in an accident.
Because the land was bought in a remote area and no one thought about hoarding land at that time, no one cared about it. However, Su Yiling needed money to go to school, and his grandparents and uncles were not willing to do so because each family had their own children and who would be willing to support a nephew?
So Su Yiling finished college by earning his own money and begging. He always thought that his household registration was with his grandparents, and he always wrote "grandparents' home". Later, when he went to apply for an ID card, he found out that it was not the case and the address was wrong. After going through various procedures for almost a year, he finally figured out his identity, household registration, and his parents' inheritance.
In the past, no one was aware of the situation. Even if they knew what their relatives had left behind, they would just leave it alone if they thought it was useless. This allowed Su Yiling, who was educated and cultured, to easily hold his parents' inheritance in his hands.
Because he was ostracized by his relatives since childhood, Su Yiling values Ji Weitang more than anything else, because in his eyes, Ji Weitang is the family he has chosen, and he doesn't need to care about anyone else.
As for Ji Weitang, she is a real orphan. She has been in an orphanage since she can remember. Ji is not her surname but the year she was born. The orphanage gave names randomly for the sake of easy remembering. They did not give her a full name for fear that others would be unwilling to adopt her if she had a full name.
Coincidentally, Ji Weitang was sent to the door of the orphanage on the New Year's Eve of the Year of the Rooster. She was almost frozen to death, so the director casually named her Little Chicken.
No one adopted her afterwards, and when she reached the age to go to school, she was called Ji Mei. This name followed Ji Weitang for many years, and she was often humiliated by people using this name, but even if she was humiliated, she had to endure it because she had no one to support her.
After finally reaching adulthood with this disgusting name, she was able to move out of the orphanage. She immediately transferred to a collective household registration and spent almost two years changing her name everywhere to Ji Weitang.
She didn’t change her surname because the staff insisted that her surname couldn’t be changed unless her father turned up, citing the unknown father.
Ji Weitang knew that it was just that the irregularities in the early years caused some people to be too lazy to do such troublesome things. Even if she was willing to take the trouble to change a little bit, others would not be willing to do so. They would think that changing her name was good enough, so why change her surname? Besides, she was an orphan, so what name was wrong?
In the end, her name was chosen to be Ji Weitang, which certainly sounds nice, but it's a bit regrettable. Later, she met Su Yiling, and the two redeemed each other, which allowed her to look at the previous difficulties calmly.
However, because of this, the two of them used to celebrate the New Year by buying food and having a big meal, but after they had the funeral home, they changed to worshipping the heavens and the earth and various dead souls. They did not ask for blessings from the gods, but only for a good year and a smooth journey for their souls.
We had a great time eating the New Year's Eve dinner. Occasionally we could hear the noises of the infant spirits running and grabbing candies. The chef even roasted an extra suckling pig, and everyone was very satisfied with the meal.
After Su Yun was full, she cut a piece of ear meat and chewed it slowly to grind her teeth. She couldn't help but recall what it was like to celebrate the New Year at the Su family in the past.
It has only been a few years since she returned to her biological parents' home. She can hardly remember the details of her life in the Su family. It seems that she is similar to Wu Yu today. The Chinese New Year is not a New Year celebration, but a social event. As the daughter of the Su family, she has to act appropriately until the 15th.
It's not easy at all. Anyway, I can't be so lazy as to be in a daze with the pig ear in my mouth like now.
The regular activities at the funeral home are playing mahjong or cards, and eating. People stay up all night on New Year's Eve, and everyone eats in one go until 10 o'clock in the evening, finishing all the prepared meals. Only then will the chef take away all the food and replace it with snacks for the night watchers.
Before playing mahjong, Su Yun remembered that he should give red envelopes to everyone, so he urged the employees to take a shower. They didn't have to do any work tonight and everyone just wanted to have fun.
Su Yun also went back to take a shower, carefully re-combed her hair, and stuffed all the hundred-yuan bills into red envelopes. When they gathered in the yard again, she gave them to everyone one by one: "Thank you for your hard work last year. Next year, we will have more money and everyone won't have to work so hard."
Everyone was very happy. They stuffed the red envelopes into their pockets and said that if Nian came tonight, they would definitely beat him to a pulp.
One of the procedures during the Chinese New Year is to set off firecrackers, but the government doesn't allow it. As law-abiding citizens, we certainly can't set them off, so everyone can only play mahjong and watch Mi Niang light fireworks and run around.
Su Yun didn't know what was going on tonight, but his luck was particularly good. He got all the big four and thirteen jacks every time, which had never happened before.
Yan Gui almost vomited after losing: "No way? Nine Lotus Treasure Lantern? Director, we are just playing mahjong and we don't gamble, so there's no need to cheat, right?"
"When have I ever cheated? I never did that before, even when I won and lost. Why did I cheat tonight? How idle am I?" Su Yun was also very confused. How come all the good cards were in her hands?
"Don't accept it, come again! I don't believe it!" The sexy ghost pushed down the stacked mahjong tiles, and everyone reshuffled the cards.
After the cards were rearranged, Su Yun was the dealer and was the first to touch a card. After she touched the pattern, she frowned and did not move.
Yan Gui, Ah Xiu and Lin Lang on the table all looked up at Su Yun's hand at the same time, leaning back slightly, and Yan Gui stammered, "No way..."
Su Yun swallowed and spread out the cards in his hand: "All the cards are the same color."
Everyone gasped, and Yan Gui knocked her head directly on the mahjong table: "If this happened at the gambling table, I'm afraid I would lose everything I have tonight and it wouldn't be enough to pay for it, and I would have to leave one hand behind."
At this time, Lin Lang carefully looked at Su Yun's face, and he suddenly said: "Director, you have great fortune tonight, and your horoscope is bright, it seems..."
It seemed like something, Lin Lang didn't continue to say, and Su Yun lowered his head and counted with his fingers: "How strange, my current horoscope is almost the same as before my rebirth."
Hearing this, all the employees suddenly raised their heads and looked at Su Yun, and uttered, "Ah?"
In fact, no one present knew what Su Yun's fate was before. They only knew that after her rebirth, she reversed the yin and yang because of the resurrection from the dead. As a punishment and price, except for the special body material that made her immune to all attacks, all her configurations were the same as those of ordinary people. She won and lost in bets, sometimes went smoothly and sometimes not, and had a very mediocre fortune.
In the past, Ji Weitang always told Su Yiling that the Su family stole Su Yun in order to borrow her fortune, but the employees didn’t know that for one person to be able to carry the fortune of the entire family, one must have a very strong fate.
The ghost was particularly surprised: "No... Director, you have won so much tonight, is your fate worse than before?"
The ghost bride came over holding a firework in her hand and asked: "Director, did you always pick up money when you walked on the street before?"
Su Yun shook his head helplessly: "How can it be so exaggerated? I borrowed most of my fortune from the Su family. Just look at how much money the Su family made in the past twenty years. Even with my fortune borrowed, I was able to have smooth sailing for twenty years. I really have a good fate. Why is it so strange tonight?"
The sudden improvement in luck seemed to be a breach of promise, so Su Yun worriedly tried to switch tables to play Landlord. As a result, she had at least two bombs in each hand, but she was not the one who shuffled the cards every time, so there was no way to cheat.
The ghost who was playing cards with him collapsed: "I can't do it anymore, I'm going to cheat, if I don't win this game I'll be so angry that I'll die tonight."
Su Yun still felt very strange. Why did his fortune suddenly become so good?
According to the horoscope prepared for her by Ji Weitang and Su Yiling, the fastest she could have a horoscope similar to the one before would be after her body was fully healed.
It is not necessarily a good thing if the horoscope suddenly becomes good looking.
After thinking about it for a long time, Su Yun felt uneasy, so she simply stopped playing and sat aside to watch. As a result, whoever she sat next to always won, as if her luck was passed on to the person next to her.
After abdicating, Su Yun sat next to Yan Gui. Yan Gui won back half of the snacks he had lost in one breath and was immediately very proud.
"It turns out that winning feels so happy, Director, I love you, I want to win all the time..." The sexy ghost hugged Su Yun's arm and rubbed it hard.
The ghost bride in the top position was unhappy. She also pulled Su Yun's sleeve and said, "Director, don't spoil her. Come to my side. I haven't won tonight..."
Su Yun couldn't stand it anymore and raised his hands in surrender: "Stop, I won't get involved. You guys fight, I want to pull the projector to watch the Spring Festival Gala."
The employees were speechless. They looked at Su Yun with disdain and ignored her.
The weather was indeed good tonight, so it was no problem to pull out the projection screen. After everything was set up, Su Yun turned on the remote control and listened to the program announcement: "The next program is - Unforgettable Tonight!"
Well, this is the last show, it’s past midnight and the new year has arrived.
Su Yun listened to the song that was so familiar to everyone, took out his mobile phone, and sent an announcement to everyone in the family group: Mom and Dad, Happy New Year, and all the best to you in the new year!
The software had a New Year matching emoticon package, and Su Yun clicked on two of them. Cute firecrackers and fireworks exploded in the group, but no one responded.
Then the people on the list kept sending Happy New Year messages to Su Yun. They were all old friends. When they knew Su Yun was back, no matter how many unpleasant things they had said to him in private before, they would now send a group message of Happy New Year to maintain the relationship.
After all, Su Yun is now working on the dead, and who doesn't die one day? There are only two funeral homes in Bincheng, and she might have to take care of it, so it's better not to offend them.
It was a calm night. Yan Gui and his friends didn't need to sleep at all. They played mahjong in the yard all night. After Su Yun finished watching the strange Spring Festival Gala program, she even went online to play games on her computer. She controlled the character in the game to pick up garbage everywhere until dawn.
The head chef went to prepare breakfast, the second chef went to check the situation in the mourning hall, and in the morning, Su Yun still had to go to burn incense.
The live chickens in the funeral home crowed. When Su Yun was concentrating on playing, her cell phone suddenly rang. She impatiently paused the game, picked up the phone and saw that it was Wu Jin, so she answered it: "Wu Jin? You are not going to say Happy New Year to me this early in the morning, are you?"
"No, I want to tell you that a factory owned by the Su family suddenly had an accident. I don't know what the specific incident was. It seems that the Su family quickly blocked the news, but I heard that most of the police were called to work overtime on New Year's Eve. You should be careful. Given your special identity, the police will definitely come to question you after the New Year." Wu Jin said seriously.
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