Chapter 039 A Job Applicant Arrives
Lin Xi got off the bus. The driver was the only one left on the once-packed bus. He looked at Lin Xi's back with a pale face. He waved at him with a smile, "Master, remember to pick me up in a month."
She didn't let Chen Sangning eat the driver and the bus. After all, she would definitely come to the dungeon again in the future. What would she do if she went to those places if the bus was gone?
You can't just rely on your own legs and take bus No. 11 to get there.
Lin Xi generously allowed the driver and the bus to stay. She disembarked, her suitcase in hand, and the next moment, the driver sped off without a backward glance. Lin Xi tucked her blown hair behind her ears and sighed, "It seems the driver is really working hard, rushing to catch the next bus."
She stood on the bus platform, and the scene beyond it unfolded before Lin Xi. It felt a bit like reaching a save point in a game, and the surrounding map opened up. The Binjiang City Funeral Home sat atop a medium-high mountain—a small mound, to be more precise. Lin Xi estimated the mountain to be no more than 50 meters high, and the funeral home was perched midway up the mountain.
Next to the bus platform, there was a road leading up the mountain, with a sign next to it that read "Funeral Home →." The road was for cars, with a small non-motorized lane nearby. Lin Xi had no choice but to take this road, pulling her suitcase.
Fortunately, Lin Xi encountered a mysterious wall. She had seen the funeral home from the foot of the mountain and estimated that it would take about ten minutes to walk there. But it felt like thirty minutes had already passed, and Lin Xi was still spinning on the mountain road. She clearly remembered that she had passed this bend three times.
She hesitated. Lin Xi didn't want to call Chen Sang Ning out at this time. How could she eat the divine beast at the company gate on her first day at work? Besides, Lin Xi planned to be a little mouse for a while, and was very timid to experience the funeral home.
At least we have to find out about the colleagues and guests at the funeral home so that Shen Sangning can start eating. Lin Xi had a beautiful idea. She stopped and began to think about how to get out of the ghost wall. She stood there for a while, thinking, but with her brain, she probably couldn't think of it, so Lin Xi decided to pull the suitcase and continue walking forward.
She turned another corner and saw the "Funeral Home→" sign. This time, however, it was reversed, literally, like a mirror image, the entire word inverted. Lin Xi decided to try it out, too, and headed back, carrying her suitcase.
After walking for about another ten minutes, she actually arrived at the door of the funeral home.
Lin Xi sighed: "What? It's quite simple."
Funeral homes in China all look pretty much the same, especially those built into hillsides. Lin Xi had been there recently, so she knew it well. When Shen Sangning was cremated, the funeral home was quite crowded and busy, so Shen Sangning had to wait in line to get in.
However, the funeral home is located in the city, not in the suburbs, so it is natural that its business is good.
In comparison, this funeral home was completely deserted. Lin Xi stood outside and couldn't see a single person. Obviously, business wasn't very good. Lin Xi was a little discouraged. If business wasn't good, it meant that Shen Sang Ning wouldn't have anything to eat.
There is a large stone tablet at the entrance of the funeral home, which reads the name of the funeral home, "Binjiang No. 1 Funeral Home", which is simple and easy to understand. The door is also a regular electric retractable door. Probably because it is business hours, the retractable door is open and not closed.
There was a security booth nearby. When Lin Xi entered, she saw the security guard sitting inside. His hat was pulled down low, making it difficult to see his eyes, but Lin Xi estimated that he was a middle-aged man in his fifties. Lin Xi knocked on the window, and the security guard raised his head slightly. "What's up?"
The moment he saw Lin Xi clearly, even though she lowered her head, Lin Xi could feel his eyes brighten up.
—Ah, my charm that has nowhere to go.
Lin Xi thought somewhat narcissistically that these ghosts looked at him as if he were a big star, or as if they were a piece of braised pork that was already cooked without being dry or greasy.
Facing the security guard's questions, Lin Xi answered them in detail: "I'm here to apply for a job. I saw that the funeral home was recruiting night shift workers."
The security guard wasn't expecting this answer, or rather, he wasn't expecting Lin Xi to be so bold as a human being. He paused for a moment before saying, "Yes, we're hiring." Then his attitude softened considerably: "Come in and sit for a while. I'll call the boss and have him come in for an interview."
The tone and manner in which he spoke made Lin Xi feel as if he had tricked her into the security room with a wolf grandmother. It was obvious that there would be other rules in the security room. Lin Xi was not yet allowed to let Shen Sang Ning out, so she smiled and refused: "No, I'll just wait at the door."
Seeing that Lin Xi didn't move and had no intention of coming in, the security guard could only look away. The smile on his face disappeared and his attitude became bad again: "Okay, then you just stand there." He picked up the landline on the table and made an internal call.
Lin Xi, standing outside, couldn't hear the voice on the other end of the line, but he could see the security guard's fawning expression. He explained the situation and said bluntly, "There's a person at the front door, applying for the night shift." He emphasized the word "person," fearing the other party might not have heard clearly, and repeated, "Yes, yes, it's a person."
Soon after, the security guard hung up the phone and looked at Lin Xi with a smug and envious look in his eyes. It was as if he was looking at the fat meat that had slipped into his bowl. Lin Xi pretended not to notice anything and just smiled at him.
Lin Xi's acting skills weren't great, but she was adept at playing innocent. After all, she had a very smart lover, and it was easy for her to get caught if she accidentally did something wrong. In such cases, she could only play innocent and try to get away with it.
So Lin Xi is very good at pretending to be innocent.
The security guard across the street didn't notice anything was wrong, so he told Lin Xi to wait quietly. After a while, a man finally emerged from the funeral home. He was paunchy and balding, looking like a leader.
Lin Xi still found it a bit strange, because in the world of rule-based ghost stories, this was the first time she had seen such a fat person. Before, Lin Xi had never seen a fat person among the ghosts she had seen, whether in the community or on the bus. This person in front of her was truly the only one.
He must be very strong to be able to eat so well in the world of regular ghost stories.
As the pot-bellied man approached, the security guard called out, "Hello, Boss." Lin Xi understood that this was the owner of the funeral home, so she also obediently called out, "Hello, Boss."
The boss was clearly very pleased with Lin Xi, so pleased that his eyes, almost obscured by the fat, sparkled, the left eye reading "I'm so greedy," the right reading "I want to eat." If it weren't for the interview process, Lin Xi felt the boss would have decided to let him stay right then and there.
The boss nodded to Lin Xi and turned around first. Before turning around, he said to Lin Xi: "Follow me."
Lin Xi watched his trembling back as he walked, then followed, pulling her suitcase. They didn't enter the funeral home's main entrance, but instead took a side road into the administrative area. The boss took Lin Xi into an office and began the interview.
The first thing he said was, "How old are you, how much do you weigh, how tall are you?" When he heard Lin Xi's weight, he looked at Lin Xi with some disapproval, "You young girls just love to look pretty, and you're all so skinny."
Lin Xi was silent for a while. She was not light, at least more than 100 pounds, almost 110 pounds. Lin Xi also had muscles on her body, which made her much heavier than Shen Sang Ning. Compared with the current Shen Sang Ning, it was even more unclear how much heavier she was, because now Shen Sang Ning, including the box and the ash, did not exceed 10 pounds.
But the boss asked her age, height and weight not out of genuine concern for Lin Xi, nor did he intend to engage in workplace harassment. The tone of his voice when he asked these questions was a bit like someone picking and choosing a chicken to stew at the vegetable market.
Lin Xi was in charge of cooking, so she naturally had to go shopping for groceries. She didn't like bargaining, but she would see other aunties bargaining when buying groceries. When the aunt wanted to make chicken soup, she would argue with the vendor: "Hey, is this chicken an old hen? Is it a free-range chicken? How many pounds is it?"
The boss's tone at this time was not much different from that of the aunts. He was just estimating whether the meat on the chopping board was enough for his family to eat.
Faced with the boss's PUA, Lin Xi decided to accept it with a smile: "I also feel that I am a little thin, so I want to find a job with food and accommodation. If I eat more for two days, I will definitely gain weight."
Hearing Lin Xi say this, the boss's eyes lit up. It was obvious that he really wanted to eat meat.
The process seemed to be a must. Lin Xi guessed that there was probably a whole set of rules for recruiting workers, and as a ghost in a strange story, the boss had to abide by them.
So he asked a lot of questions, all of which were relatively routine, such as whether she could accept the night shift, the most important thing for this job was to be bold and careful, and he also said that she needed an employee who could endure hardships and stand hard work. Lin Xi wanted to join the company, so of course she smiled and agreed to all of them, promising that she was a good employee who could endure hardships and stand hard work.
One of the two parties wanted to join the company, and the other wanted her to join as soon as possible. They hit it off immediately. After asking a bunch of questions, the boss announced that Lin Xi had successfully joined the company and gave her an employee code of conduct.
The boss asked Lin Xi to go back and take a closer look, called an employee to come in, and took Lin Xi to the employee lounge.
Soon, a person of Lin Xi's aunt's generation came in from the outside and asked Lin Xi to follow her. After leaving the administrative area and arriving at the back, the aunt introduced that this was the staff dormitory building. Lin Xi took a look and found that the dormitory building was actually in good condition. There was a mountain behind it, and the mountain was densely packed with stone tablets. It was quite lively when sleeping at night.
But the aunt thought she was scared and quickly comforted her: "Don't worry, there are no ghosts in this world, and those stone tablets can't scare people. Just sleep peacefully during the day." When the aunt said this, there was a smile on her face.
There was hidden greed in the eyes looking at him.
It feels quite strange to hear a ghost say "there are no ghosts in this world".
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