Guo Donghai and his wife's eyes widened immediately, with expressions showing that they could hardly accept the fact.
Guo Donghai was holding the urn in his hand and was almost devastated.
"How could this box contain her ashes? This is my father's urn! You saw it just now, and I even got the deposit certificate. It clearly has my father's information written on it!"
Each urn in the columbarium is stored separately in a small compartment, and there are countless urns on each row of storage shelves, which are placed in the room like walls.
In order to distinguish whose ashes are contained in each urn, each small grid will have a fixed serial number, and the deceased's name and other information will be simply written on it. Even the urn will have a label.
The compartment that the staff just opened was where his father's urn was stored, and the label on the outside of the urn was also correct!
Everything was fine, but something in the urn was wrong!
Seeing this, Liu Guifen, who was standing by, quickly defended herself.
"I've already told you that it was you who was holding my ashes and offering sacrifices there. I didn't mean to pester you."
If Guo Donghai hadn't taken the initiative to pay homage to her, she wouldn't have recognized him as her junior!
It was precisely because Guo Donghai was her junior that she would visit him every night, and then stay at his house every night, treating it as her own home.
Now the facts were before her. Although she didn't know how her ashes ended up in the box belonging to Guo Donghai's father, she was certain of one thing: it was definitely not her doing.
The ashes were locked in the grid and there was no way they could have grown legs and run out. The only possibility was that they were replaced by someone.
Besides Guo Donghai, the only people who could personally touch the urn were the staff of the funeral home.
But the staff was very kind, so why would they replace Guo Donghai's father's ashes for no reason?
Lin Xi then asked Guo Donghai if he had ever had any disputes with the staff here, causing them to bear a grudge against him. Guo Donghai immediately shook his head.
"No, absolutely not!"
Every time he came, he followed the rules and left after paying homage to his father. During his visit, he was also very nice to the staff. There were no conflicts of interest between them, so it was impossible for him to anger them.
Since it wasn't done out of hatred, could it be that it was simply a mistake?
If this is true, it is too outrageous.
What kind of mistake would have to have occurred to have the ashes in the urn replaced without being discovered?
Guo Donghai thought about it and it seemed that this was the only guess that was more likely.
If this is true, he will definitely hold the funeral home accountable!
After confirming that the ashes in the urn were not his father's, Guo Donghai immediately found the staff member and told him the situation.
When he spoke, he couldn't suppress his anger and dissatisfaction.
The staff member was shocked by what he said, but his first reaction was not to believe it.
How is this possible?
Each of their urns is locked in a compartment. Except for descendants like Guo Donghai who come to take the urns, they usually don't open the compartments, let alone take out the urns.
Not to mention it's outrageous that he put his father's ashes in the wrong place!
No wonder Guo Donghai came here so late at night, maybe he came here on purpose to cause trouble!
The staff are also dissatisfied.
"Mr. Guo, you're being completely unreasonable! We've been doing urn storage for decades, and we've never encountered anything like what you're describing!"
"Also, what's your reason for saying your father's ashes are missing? As long as you can produce evidence, I will apologize to you immediately and help you solve the problem!"
When Guo Donghai heard this, he became angry and anxious.
evidence?
How can we produce evidence for this?
Everyone's ashes look the same after death. He couldn't possibly say that it was the ghost of Liu Guifen who came to find him, right?
Guo Donghai subconsciously looked to Lin Xi for help.
Lin Xi gave him a reassuring look, then said to the staff member.
"If the ghost in question tells you this in person, that counts as evidence."
Staff: “???”
The ghost in question?
What does that mean? Could she really find the ghost of Guo Donghai's deceased father?!
The staff were so frightened that their scalps went numb.
But he had already said that, it was impossible for him to take it back now.
The staff member swallowed fearfully and asked in a low voice, "Are you serious? Um, after the senior comes out, it won't have any impact on me, right?"
Lin Xi didn't say that Liu Guifen was right beside him.
Not only that, there are many ghosts wandering around in the funeral home.
If he could see it, he would be scared to death.
She finally said, "She won't have any influence on you."
Workers like them, who work in such an environment all year round, don't know how many ghosts they encounter every day.
If there really was an impact, something would have happened long ago. Liu Guifen's negative energy is not even enough to be seen in the entire funeral home.
The staff finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at Lin Xi nervously.
"Well, then you can start."
As soon as he finished speaking, he felt Lin Xi's hand sweeping across his eyes, and the next second, he noticed a figure appeared in front of him.
The moment he saw the female ghost, the crew member's body froze, and a scream was blocked in his throat.
Liu Guifen smiled at him and, in order to express her friendliness and tell him that she was a good ghost, she even took the initiative to say "Hello, comrade" to the staff.
Staff: “…”
Who among his family members would understand? The female ghost greeted him!
Even though the staff had prepared themselves mentally in advance, they were still frightened by the scene before them.
Liu Guifen was speechless. Could she be so scary?
She was too lazy to talk nonsense with him anymore, so she told the staff about how she was inexplicably worshipped by Guo Donghai and then recognized as the wrong descendant.
"How could your funeral home make such a huge mistake, putting the ashes in the wrong box? How can other descendants worship? Every time they worship, they have to worship someone else's ancestors. This is too unreasonable."
The staff were still afraid at first, but after hearing Liu Guifen's situation, they realized the seriousness of the matter.
It seems that there really was something wrong with the storage of the ashes. This is a big deal!
He didn't care that it was late at night, so he could only quickly contact his superiors and tell them the situation.
When the superior heard this, he also found it unbelievable, but he trusted this staff member and knew that he would not lie about such a thing so late at night, so he told him to take Guo Donghai and the others to the lounge first, and he would be there soon.
The staff member quickly took them to the lounge. Knowing that he had misunderstood Guo Donghai just now, he poured water and served fruit plates, and his attitude was very attentive and considerate.
But no one in the room had the heart to drink tea or eat fruit. They were just waiting for the leader to come.
Lin Xi wanted to eat it, but when she saw an unconscious ghost passing through the fruit plate, she suddenly didn't want to eat it anymore.
Not long after, the leader of the funeral home arrived.
After arriving, he immediately asked about the situation. Lin Xi also asked him to meet Liu Guifen in person. The leader took a deep breath and then directly adjusted the surveillance without saying a word.
According to Guo Donghai's father, before the worship this month, his father's urn should have contained his father's ashes.
It was during the memorial service this month that I discovered that the ashes in the box had changed to Liu Guifen's. It might even have been earlier, but it was definitely not later than the day Guo Donghai came to pay homage last month.
So the leaders started looking after Guo Donghai left the funeral home last month.
There is a lot of content to watch, but fortunately, most of the time there are not many people in the area where Guo Donghai's father's urn is located, so many scenes are fast-forwarded.
It was not until the beginning of this month that a figure suddenly appeared in the video. Looking from the back, the person was indeed a staff member of their funeral home, because he was wearing the uniform of the funeral home and holding a rag in his hand.
The leader explained: "This is the monthly cleaning."
Guests like Guo Donghai deposit their family members' ashes with them and have to pay money every month or even every year.
They pay the money, and the funeral home will provide corresponding services. In addition to the basic care of the ashes, they will also regularly clean and inspect the surrounding environment, as well as provide daily safety protection.
In the picture, the operator first opened a small compartment, then put the rag in and wiped it, then locked the compartment and continued to open the second one.
After doing this a few times, he probably felt that it was annoying to have to take out the key all the time to open and close the door, so he simply opened all the small compartments on the shelf at once.
After opening it, you just need to wipe it directly. After you finish wiping one course, move on to the next one. After you finish wiping all of them, just lock them one by one.
Everything was fine at first, but when the staff member was wiping the grid of Guo Donghai's father, he suddenly shook as if he was frightened by something.
As a result, he was so frightened that he accidentally knocked the urn out of the compartment!
However, this is not the worst.
If it just fell on the ground, as long as the staff put the ashes on the ground back into the box as soon as possible and put it away, everything can be covered up quietly.
But the worst thing was that the urn fell directly into the bucket at his feet.
With a splash, the urn fell upside down on the water, and the brown-gray powder inside quickly spread in the water.
The group of people in front of the screen were simply stunned.
The leader and staff members' expressions changed drastically, they couldn't believe it.
How could someone cause such a huge mess!!!
Guo Donghai and his wife's expressions were even uglier and more frightening, as if they were about to explode in anger in the next second.
Judging from the surveillance video, the staff member was obviously frightened by the situation.
He didn't move at all for a full minute, probably trying to find a solution anxiously.
A minute later, the figure finally moved.
He bent down and picked up the urn from the bucket. He first wiped off most of the water stains with a rag, and then took out a tissue to wipe off the remaining water stains.
The funeral home leaders and staff felt a little more at ease when they saw that he was still trying hard to save the situation.
Most bone ashes are not in the form of white powder as portrayed in TV dramas. Real bone ashes are brown-gray particles or small pieces.
Of course, if you want to have the ashes in powder form, you can also do that. Just tell the funeral home staff and they will use special tools to grind the ashes into powder.
Unless otherwise specified, no special treatment will be done on the ashes.
However, the ashes of Guo Donghai's father had not been specially treated, so they were not in powder form, and the ashes were insoluble in water. It is not impossible to collect all the ashes scattered in the water and dry them, but it takes some time and effort.
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