The stale air coming out of the shop made people's chest stuffy. I stepped back and lit a cigarette, and asked, "Why is it so unpleasant? How long has it been useless?"
The landlord walked into the shop casually, turned on the light, and said, "It's not long, it's only half a year."
The shop is empty, except for the dust on the floor, there are also some spider webs in the corner of the roof, it doesn't look like half a year is useless.
Indifferently, I'm not saying that the landlord lied, because it doesn't make any sense for him to lie. There are businesses outside. Just ask them to know how long the room has been empty.
Followed the landlord up to the second floor, the second floor was also empty. The landlord said that we can make a partition according to our needs to separate the second floor.
"What business was the house used to do?" I asked.
"The coffin maker, whose name is Ma, is a southerner. He has the best business on the whole street. You can see that there is no Linji wreath shop next door. At that time, Ma's running water for a week can stand Linji for a month. "
"Then why didn't you do it later?"
"Something happened at home, so I went back to my hometown."
Looking at the shop as a whole, I was quite satisfied, so we signed a one-year lease with the landlord on the spot.
After signing the contract, the decoration will be arranged for the next few days.
In fact, the so-called decoration is whitewashing the wall, making a door, and buying some tables and chairs. Because we want to save money, we didn't have a partition on the second floor. We only bought two single beds in the second-hand market.
Counting the miscellaneous rent and miscellaneous things, it cost a total of 49 thousand, of which the door is a huge expense, which cost more than five thousand. If I want to paint on the original door, and then stain it with a few white characters, it will be easy to get it for 500 yuan, but Big Eyes firmly disagrees, saying that the door is the face of the shop, and it must be bold and eye-catching. Let people who pass by can see it at a glance.
Therefore, we decided to make a black frosted glass door head. Blind heads are not good enough to be eye-catching. We must have a good name. Big eyes and I held back for three days, and finally each took one of our names, called An Wei Funeral.
Although the name can't be said to be very grand, it immediately improved the style, and compared with names such as Wreath Shop, Shroud Shop, and Paper Man Square, it was simply outstanding. It sounds more like a company, at least taller than a coffin shop.
If someone asks me what job I do, and I say that I do funeral services, is it better than opening a coffin shop
In order to stand out from the others, we also posted advertisements on both sides of the door:
Provide one-stop funeral services to the satisfaction of people in both worlds.
Compared to the glamorous appearance, the store looks a bit shabby. The white crystal words on the front wall of the shop are: An Wei Funeral. Near the stairs is the invited Wu Caishen Guan Gong. There are four paper figures on the left wall, two mannequins in shrouds, and hanging on the right wall. Several batches of white cloth were added, and a row of urns were placed on the simple shelf. There is a simple table and three chairs in the middle of the shop, nothing else.
Oh, no, there is also a water dispenser.
Everything was ready, Big Eye chose auspicious days, then bought firecrackers for a thousand yuan, and officially opened at 12:08 noon.
We are involved in a wide range of businesses, as long as it is the sale of dead people, in addition to buying and selling funeral supplies, we also do feng shui, avoid misfortunes and exorcise evil, and choose names based on fortune-telling, and the latter is the main source of income.
On the opening day, although no relatives or friends came to congratulate, it was very lively. Because a motorcade to the crematorium stopped at Sanchakou, the deceased lived to be 108 years old. It was a funeral. In addition, because the family had money, he kept putting on two kicks for half an hour, and he also beat the gong. Drumming band.
It was really noisy with gongs and drums, firecrackers rang, white flags, crowds of cars!
Big Eye said, if we can pick up a job like this, it will be enough for us to eat for half a year. His words made me full of longing for our career, thinking that it would be better to worship the God of Wealth, and give us a big deal as soon as possible.
In the end, the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. We didn’t even sell an ashes after opening for a month, and the business was not good. The sisters in the store often poured dirty water at the door of our store to find bad luck. Obviously bullying. I wanted to find their theory, but when I saw the men of their sisters, who were as strong as cattle, I could only dare to be angry but didn't dare to speak.
Big Eye saw this very openly, and comforted me that he can't make a lot of money from selling funeral supplies, so don't care too much.
At about noon that day, the sisters in the shop were joking around choosing food at the entrance of the shop. A black car was parked on the side of the road. As a former truck driver, I saw that the car was very valuable at a glance.
The door opened, and a middle-aged man with a big back and sunglasses got out of the car.
The middle-aged man first stood on the side of the road and looked around for a while. He intuitively told me that this was a customer. I worshiped God of Wealth in my heart, hoping that the other person would come in and take a look.
May be really heart
Cheng Zeling, the middle-aged man walked straight to the store, I hurriedly stood up to prepare to meet, but when the other party walked to the door, I was stopped by the sisters who chose celery.
"Boss, what do you need?"
"Let me see." The middle-aged man replied.
The fat woman stood up holding the celery and said, "Come and see me, it's cheap."
The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment, then moved to the wreath shop. I gritted my teeth with hate. Although wreaths and shrouds are not profitable, no matter how small the mosquitoes are, they are still meat. This is clearly a business grab. About five or six minutes later, the middle-aged man followed the fat woman past the door of our shop, and then entered the thin woman's shroud shop.
After a while, the middle-aged man walked out of the shroud shop again, and walked directly down the steps to the car parked on the side of the road. After not walking a few steps, he turned his head and glanced, thought about it, and then returned.
When he walked to the door of our shop again, he was stopped by the sisters again.
"Boss, you can order ours."
"I'll come into this store to have a look."
The sisters took a look at the store, and when they saw me glaring at each other, they showed disdain, and then continued to sit on the steps to choose dishes.
The middle-aged man entered the store, and I nodded and smiled at her hurriedly, but he did not respond, but walked around the store first.
I asked: "What do you need?"
"Are you a funeral company?"
There is still a big difference between a company and a store. Simply put, a company must have an independent legal person and there are many procedures. Although the store also has a legal person, it only needs to be registered in the industry and commerce. But in order to support the appearance, I don't care about lying.
"Yes, the city company."
"What business do you have?"
"As long as it is related to the funeral and incarnation, we do it all."
"Where to move the grave?"
"No problem. And there will be masters who are knowledgeable, who will go to the grave according to the feng shui of the yin house, and let the future generations continue their prosperity.
"That's pretty good, you really have this kind of ability? Don't pick celery like the sisters outside, second B pulls the leaves."
I was taken aback for a moment, and my heart said it was a vulgar slogan!
"I definitely don't have one, but our company's master has. He is the seventh-generation heir of the Taoist people of Liujia. Looking for dragons and fixing acupoints and going to the grave to make matters are all trivial to him."
He asked: "Can you find the graveyard?"
I can’t deny it and say: “Of course it’s okay, this is the most basic way.”
He immediately added: "I mean, I don't know where the grave is, can you find it?"
What do you mean, is the other party a tomb robber
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