Mao Xiaoli took a look and said, I'm not very happy. Maybe I have too many things to do, but I have done too little for her.
"This matter is not over yet. Sergeant Lin certainly got a great deal by picking up two big ghosts, but we have incurred a vengeance, and this is the final price we have to pay. This is a matter of the past. Also, seal the coffin hole and don't let other people know. This powder pie incident was just an accident, or a trigger. Even if this incident didn't happen, it would have been caused by other things."
"Why would they do that?"
"These two are a couple of ghosts. When they entered your family, they urinated on their graves, so this happened. This is retribution. When we were alive, we believed in retribution. If you don't get retribution in this life, you will get retribution in the next life. This is true, because retribution exists. If you do something wrong, there will always be punishment. It's just a matter of time. Now you two have to be careful. Zhang Xiaoxue will go to work tomorrow. No matter what you see, don't think it's too strange."
After Mao Xiaoli finished speaking, she handed me the small box.
"Take it and put it somewhere in your home where no one knows about it, and everything will be fine."
I thought to myself, Mao Xiaoli, you don't have to be so anxious for a day or two, right? I don't want anyone to know what's going on between us.
"By the way, you have to go to work this afternoon. A friend's child needs to have makeup done, so you should put it on properly and arrive around three o'clock. I will be there by then."
I glared at Mao Xiaoli and left, of course without letting Zhang Xiaoxue see it.
Zhang Xiaoxue went to bed early after returning home. It was because she was too tired. I didn't sleep at all. I sat in the living room watching TV, smoking, and thinking until almost dawn.
The next day, Zhang Xiaoxue and I went to work together. The manager asked Zhang Xiaoxue if she was okay. Zhang Xiaoxue nodded, no problem, she went into the refining room, I went to the dressing room, Master Zhao Juan looked at me without saying anything, Zheng Jun took a cup of soy milk.
"Mingzhe, it's hot, drink it!"
"I'm not thirsty."
"Virtue."
Zheng Jun picked up the soy milk and threw it into the trash can.
"Xiaojun makes the soy milk himself in the morning."
After Master Zhao Juan finished speaking, she went into the dressing room. Zheng Jun smiled at me and followed me in. I stood there in a daze. What did Master Zhao Juan mean? I couldn't figure it out.
When I entered the dressing room, Master Zhao Juan and the other two had already pushed the deceased onto the dressing bed.
"There's a lot of work to do today, so hurry up."
Yesterday afternoon, I put makeup on a girl, and she had a circumcision. I felt it was a pity for another beautiful girl. It is not easy to meet such a beautiful, young girl. Therefore, Mao Xiaoli would never miss such an opportunity.
I was busy until around three in the afternoon.
Master Zhao Juan left first. Zheng Jun and I were resting in the office. I had a quick meal at noon, but it wasn’t good. My stomach felt uncomfortable.
"By the way, this is a letter from Master Zhao to you."
After Zheng Jun finished speaking, he looked at me and smiled, then left. Zheng Jun's smile is beautiful, and I like it, but I have Zhang Xiaoxue, who will never leave me, and that is my only choice.
After changing my clothes, I went to Zhang Xiaoxue's house. She was watching TV at home and asked me why I was so late today. I said I had a lot of work to do.
Zhang Xiaoxue's parents also accepted me and this time asked me when I would get married.
"You decide."
Zhang Xiaoxue's parents glanced at Zhang Xiaoxue.
"You guys just worry about it, this is my business."
Zhang Xiaoxue's words are final at home, so her parents don't say anything anymore.
When I got home, Zhang Xiaoxue didn't bother me. The loneliness at home could never get rid of me. I sat on the sofa and turned on the TV. This has become my habit. Because the home is too lonely, I really can't stand it. Making some noise seems to make a difference.
I opened the letter from Master Zhao Juan.
Mingzhe:
Hello, you are my last disciple. I wanted to follow you to the end, but I have worked in the crematorium all my life. I wanted to change jobs. This has been my lifelong wish. Now it has come true. I will go to work somewhere else tomorrow. Although I still have two years left to work, I have left the crematorium after all. Maybe you don’t understand, so I won’t say more.
Also, I have taught Zheng Jun everything I need to teach. You learn from her. Although we don't form a master-disciple relationship, you should treat her as your master. She is very smart and has learned everything from me. If you don't understand something, you two can come and ask me.
The most important point is that you and Zhang Xiaoxue are not suitable. If you leave Zhang Xiaoxue, Master Zhou says that you are suitable. In fact, she has selfish motives. There are many conflicts here, about Yinyan and others. So you have to leave Zhang Xiaoxue and marry Zheng Jun, you are the most suitable. I have calculated your Yin marriage. You can live together for a lifetime, maybe there will be small quarrels, and you and other people will not be together for a lifetime. Either you die or she dies. Everything about you is incompatible. If you get married, it will only be five years, and in the end it will be a miserable life...
Master Zhao Juan's letter left me dumbfounded. She actually left the crematorium. Moreover, she didn't say these words to my face, and she wrote them in the form of a letter, which I'm afraid is difficult to say out loud.
I didn't expect this to happen. What should I do? I was confused. I opened the liquor my father had saved and drank it slowly. Drinking made my mind active. When my father was alive, he liked to drink a little and then look at me from a distance. That distance was given by my mother. The two of us men could never cross it unless my mother died. But my mother lived well, and my father died. I don't know if anyone can understand this pain.
I drank until midnight, my head was clear and I had thought most of what was going on.
I got up in the morning and went to the crematorium, and the director asked me to go to his office.
"Mingzhe, your master has been transferred. You will follow Zheng Jun from now on. We will not form a master-apprentice relationship, but you will learn from her. You will have a separate dressing room, which is Master Zhao's dressing room. The door is newly opened from another place, separating it from that dressing room. This was instructed by Master Zhao when he left, and it was completed yesterday."
I didn't say anything. I knew all this. I was about to leave, but the manager stopped me.
"Mingzhe, are you okay?"
"Oh, Captain, I knew it yesterday."
When I entered the office, Zheng Jun was already there.
“This office is ours.”
There are two pots of blooming flowers on the desk, and the rest of the place has also been tidied up, making it much more beautiful, and there is also a painting.
"How about it?"
“It’s very warm, I like it.”
"It's rare that you haven't said something awkward to me once."
Zheng Jun changed his clothes in front of me.
"Hey, have some self-respect."
"Okay, you go out."
I'll go, I'll go out, there's a changing room, please let me go out.
I'll go out and change my clothes and come back, Zheng Jun said.
"From now on, I have the final say here. You are not my apprentice according to the contract, but you are my apprentice in fact."
I won't say anything. You can say whatever you want. I didn't put my heart into learning makeup, but now it seems I have to put my heart into it. If I want to go back to the refining room, I'm afraid I'll have to wait for an opportunity.
We don't have much work to do, with only four deaths a day. This is what Master Zhao Juan instructed, and she told the site manager. But the work is very troublesome, which means it's difficult and can't be done quickly.
Zheng Jun really thought of himself as a master. He was not afraid anymore. He became calm and directed me how to do this job and how to do that job. It took us until noon to finish the job. Usually, one of us might have to do the makeup of three people, and it would take two of us until noon to finish the job.
"You have to treat me to a meal today. I am your master."
I looked at Zheng Jun, and she suddenly couldn't stop laughing, and she bent over with laughter.
"You have to be careful when you laugh like this in the dressing room. It's not a big deal, but the master said that if you can avoid laughing here, don't laugh."
Zheng Jun covered his mouth and ran away. I like Zheng Jun’s liveliness, but Zhang Xiaoxue’s liveliness seems to be of another kind.
We had lunch together at noon, and then I went to Master Zhou's house. This was what I had arranged yesterday.
When I entered Master Zhou's house, she was sitting there in a daze. Master Zhou has always been like this these days. Her eyesight is a little blurry, not like before, since Yinyan's death.
"Is Mingzhe here?"
"Grandma, I want to tell you something."
"Speak!"
"Xiaoxue and I..."
Master Zhou waved his hand.
"Help me to the yard."
Master Zhou has aged so much all of a sudden. She used to go up the mountain every day, but now she needs my support when she goes to the yard. It shows how important a person's mentality is. Master Zhou's mentality must have changed greatly.
Master Zhou said after sitting down in the yard.
"Mingzhe, your Xiaoxue is not suitable. I have never told you this, and I have been trying to bring you two together. I have selfish motives. Xiaoyanzi died, and I was very sad. Although she was my least favorite granddaughter, my heart was still taken away. This child has suffered a lot in her life, but why didn't I like her? Now I regret it. I shouldn't have treated her like that."
Master Zhou's tears flowed, and I felt so sad.
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. You've done a lot for Xiaoxue, and Xiaoxue has done a lot for you. Let's call it even. You two can't be together."
"There has to be a reason, right?"
"You are a very yang person, Xiaoxue is a person of mixed yin and yang. You two will not be together for more than five years. You will definitely die. This is destiny. I have been in the crematorium for my whole life. I can see clearly, but ordinary people cannot see it. Some people have bad fates. Ordinary people just think that is fate. In fact, it is not suitable for you to be together. You and Xiaoxue should separate!"
"But I love Xiaoxue."
"If you love her, let go. Xiaoxue has a greater chance of dying."
"But… "
"I'll tell Xiaoxue. You don't have to worry about this matter. Just take care of myself and don't go looking for Xiaoxue."
Master Zhou waved his hand and asked me to go. I left and sat in the car, thinking about a lot of things. This car still belongs to Yinyan, and the things hanging on the car still belong to Xiaoxue. What's wrong with me
I drove home and sat at home. The TV volume was very loud and the old lady downstairs started smashing the shed. I ignored her. Finally, she knocked on the door, but I still ignored her. Finally, the police came, opened the door, and looked at me for a long time.
"You are disturbing the people."
"Oh, I'll turn it off right away."
I turned off the TV and the police warned me, and just this time, the old lady walked away mumbling.
When I got up in the morning, I didn't drive. As soon as I got in the car, I thought of Yinyan and Zhang Xiaoxue. I went into the dressing room and sat there in a daze. I went too early, and Zheng Jun came in and scared me.
"Are you okay? What are you doing sitting here so early? I thought something was wrong with you, and when I called your cell phone, it started ringing in the office."
"I think, it's either Xiaoxue or you. If I choose Xiaoxue, it will be five years, and I will kill her. If I choose you, we can live together for a lifetime, a lifetime of quarrels."
"Any fool would make a decision right away. I think you are mentally ill."
Zheng Jun went out and I pushed the body in. Zheng Jun came in after changing his clothes, pulled open the shroud and screamed. I was completely frightened out of my mind and jumped to the side. Fuck you, you have lost your head and you didn't even tell me in advance.
Zheng Jun went out, I covered the body with the shroud and followed him out. The family members were outside, and Zheng Jun called them over, and a lot of them came over.
"Just one, go to the office."
We entered the office and the family members were standing there.
"Your relatives, this makeup is difficult to apply, as you can see."
"Yes, you restored it to the same state as in the photo. We thank you."
The relative brought the photo to me and I saw that it was a very handsome man in his thirties.
"Car accident."
Zheng Jun put the photo down and looked at me. The family member immediately took out an envelope, put it on the table and left.
Zheng Jun looked at me.
“That’s so immoral.”
I said and looked at Zheng Jun.
"Yes, they are already suffering. I don't want their money, but the techniques I learned from my master are limited. I can only tell the family that I will do my best. I don't have any other intentions."
"Send it back."
"You are such an idiot. Didn't the master tell you? If you send the money back, I will wait until another person dies. Send it back? I will break your legs."
I have never received this kind of money before. Because of my master and Zheng Jun, I received it this time, but it was for Zheng Jun.
When I entered the dressing room again, Zheng Jun glanced at me.
"Remember this, next time you come."
That head looks a bit too miserable. I have never seen it before. It seems like I won’t have to eat for the next few days.
Zheng Jun's technique is indeed amazing. I never expected it. She came to the crematorium as a makeup artist. I am a refining master, so she came here earlier than me. Moreover, Zheng Jun was originally the last apprentice of Master Zhao. He accepted me as his apprentice because I am Ke Zuo's son. Master Zhao has a good relationship with my father.
Zheng Jun let out a soft cry, and then his hand stopped moving. I was startled. (To be continued)