There were only two key points in Zach's call to Bishop's servant's family, which were basically the same thing - "I'm sorry, but please have my condolences. Burial or cremation? When will the funeral be held?"
Due to the special social structure of the West District, these relatives all knew each other, which made Zach's arrangements more convenient. Without much effort, all the funerals were arranged together into a 'mass' funeral. For Grande, it saves time and effort. Of course, the expenses reported to Bishop will not be any less and will be settled as a separate funeral.
While the 'general' was still holding his breath and trying to touch the smooth surface with one finger at an increasingly tricky angle (the sun was sinking, and the summer day sometimes turned into evening), Zach took the organized itinerary , after confirming that the 'General' would definitely not have the guts to try to cross the light surface for a while, he left the office.
"Louise, here are the funeral arrangements at Bishop Manor." Zach found Louise in the entertainment room who was watching the opening of the new Cook's Kitchen with Alice.
Louise took it and flipped through it quickly, "A mass funeral? Have we done it before? How many temporary workers will we need to hire? How will the specific process be arranged?"
Zach tilted his head to the side and raised his chin towards the old Hank who had just sat down on the sofa. Ah! Our vampire, the owner of this funeral home, is really, really, incompetent!
Louise blinked, hey, she really couldn't complain about her man, "Oh, then Hank, let's discuss it." After saying that, she stood up, patted the old Hank who had just sat down, and looked at him. Zach, "Then we need to discuss it in the office. Austin hasn't finished it yet."
Zach's face stiffened for a moment, "The 'General' is still in the office." Can you understand Zach's embarrassment at this time? It should be Louise from Toledo and the 'General' who shouldn't be Toledo. Zach messed up again when it came to his descendants! "I let him practice moving in the sun."
The corners of Louise's eyes twitched unnaturally, "Well, oh, okay, then go to my room."
"I don't go into women's rooms!" Old Hank didn't move on the sofa.
"Hank!" When he needs understanding from his 'family'. Zach was sad to find that no one was cooperating, but instead they were laughing.
"Then let's go to the restaurant." Louise lowered her head, pursed her lips and left first.
Old Hank stood up lazily, raised the corners of his mouth as he passed Zach, and gave a mocking "Humph!" '
By the way, Hank Sr.'s reaction to Grande having an extra vampire was, "I won't buy you a sheep!"
Zach shook his head helplessly and looked at Alice, the only person left in the room. Alice's face also looked a little sad. Next to Cook on the TV, the young and beautiful female host kept harassing him, "Can I try this? It looks so delicious..."
Zach couldn't comfort him, so he could only focus on his own affairs, "Alice, have you seen Brian?"
"He's in the south warehouse." Alice replied indifferently. "He has nothing to do. I asked him to sort out the clutter."
Zach nodded and left the recreation room. Get ready to find Brian.
As soon as he got off the back porch, he saw a dusty Brian coming out of the south warehouse. When he saw Zach from a distance, he immediately ran over here excitedly.
Zach's eyes twitched subconsciously, this job didn't make him any easier at all.
"Zach!" Brian gasped quickly and stood in front of Zach. He didn't realize that the dust on his body was polluting Zach's air. Uh, or maybe he was too clear about what Zach was and knew that the other party didn't care about air? “I found so much old furniture!”
Zach pursed his lips and looked at Brian. Brewing rhetoric.
"There are a lot of things in your warehouse!" Brian waved his hands excitedly, "I also found a few desks that are the same as the desk you gave me last time!"
Zach opened his mouth and threw away all the words he had prepared before, "Is that the table I sent to your house last time?" Zach nodded as if he was having a normal conversation, "Yes, we do have a lot of those. The table is something that used to be vacant in the room on the second floor of Grande. Part of it was sold last time."
To be precise, the one in Brian's house is Louise's desk, which Louise moved down from the original second floor. Speaking of which, Old Hank is really 'smart'. The furniture that Zach dragged to the North District for second-hand sale last time was part of the furniture that was repaired after being damaged after Grande was 'attacked'. The intact furniture was collected by Old Hank. Went to the warehouse.
"Empty? No one uses it?!" Brian seemed a little excited, "What a pity! They are all intact furniture!"
"Speaking of it." Zach started, "Last time I went to your house to deliver the table, your mother happened to go out to work. Do you know what kind of job it was?" Zach turned around and walked indoors. Brian would follow. Up.
While dusting himself on the back porch, Brian replied a little hastily, "I don't know!" He caught up with Zach in two steps, and his expression showed something else, "What's wrong? I'm here. Any news about mother?"
Zach went up the stairs without looking back, "Brian, let me ask you something." When he turned the corner of the stairs, Zach saw Brian staring at him and quickly turned away, "It has been a long time since your mother disappeared. Time, you don’t have any idea..." Zach paused, "Have you had a premonition?"
"What's the premonition?" Brian followed Zach up to the second floor.
"Worried or something like that." Zach turned to the office and shook his head.
"No." Brian's mind made him seem to have completely failed to predict the direction of Zach's conversation at this time. "You helped me let the police investigate and you have been taking care of me. What should I worry about?"
Zach pulled the corner of his mouth and pushed open the office door. The 'general' was still using his fingers to 'seduce', and the reddish sunlight began to glow.
Zach sat down behind the desk and picked up a piece of information. He did not give it to Brian first, but looked at the temporary employment contract in Bishop Manor written on the document. He thought for a moment, "The police haven't given us any information. I'm not sure. Your care is not that good either. Don’t you worry about it?" Of course, he had just forgotten Brian on the beach and was only brought back by the mermaid Moorman this morning. If this can be called care...
Brian circled the 'General' curiously and got distracted at an inappropriate place, "Uncle. What are you doing?"
The 'General''s finger flicked and touched the smooth surface, and bright red sparks suddenly burst out in front of his fingertips! The 'General' howled, turned into a gray shadow, and huddled under the workbench again.
"Haha!" Brian bent over and looked at the 'general' who was groaning with his black fingers under the table. "You're so funny!"
Before 'The General' glared at Brian, Zach frowned and slapped the table, "Brian, I'm talking to you!"
"Oh!" Brian left the 'General' with exposed teeth and claws, jumped to the desk, sat upright on the chair like a primary school student being talked to by the teacher, and looked at Zach sincerely, "Don't worry. , are you saying that I should be worried because I haven’t seen my mother for a long time?”
Zach said nothing. He wanted to hear Brian's reasons why he wasn't worried. Even if his mind was just that of a child, there had to be a reason that made sense.
"No." Brian shook his head, "When I was living in the nursing home, I only had the opportunity to visit once a month! I often used this opportunity to watch one more solo movie with Lip! So often I only see my mother two or three times a year."
Zach regretted it, not because Lip was mentioned in the conversation, but because he shouldn't have listened to this reason. Don't forget that Zach has a file on Brian, who spent more than a dozen years in that sanitarium. Even half of his life is the most important part in shaping his worldview and cognition.
This conversation was shrouded in a heavier atmosphere of tragedy.
Zach frowned. He realized that there was no way to whitewash the matter of Brian's mother, and the long-term pain was worse than the short-term pain. Zach pushed the contract in his hand in front of Brian, "There's nothing wrong with your ability."
"Absolutely." Brian means average at the level of a primary school student. Don't forget the letter he wrote to Zach. A bunch of typos. He opened the information.
Brian seemed to be struggling. The boring contract terms were too much of a burden for this person who only had the mind of an elementary school student. Zach said with a sullen face, "The last page."
"Oh." Brian seemed liberated and turned to the last page, immediately. He found the point, "Mother's signature!"
He turned to the first page again, "Is this mother's job?" He opened his eyes wide, "Bishop, that famous family?" He reacted and looked at Zach, "You found your mother!"
Zach said nothing again.
Brian became nervous, "Well, doesn't it mean that you want to send me back?"
Zach's eyebrows tightened and he stared at Brian, "Is this what you're thinking of? I'm going to send you back?" Zach's tone was incredible, but with Zach's ability to control emotions, this meaning was ignored. The expression was very reserved and the tone was very calm, "After such a long time, there is finally news about your mother. The first thing you can think of is that you can no longer stay in Grande."
Brian didn't seem to understand what Zach wanted to express, and blinked, "Did I say something wrong?"
"No." Zach shook his head. Facing such a person with the face of an adult but the mind of a child, Zach was inevitably confused. "I just expected other things, such as Ryan, to come to mind. You." Ke shook his head again, "Forget it."
It is not a kind act to bring up one person in front of another person. Before even Brian's mind could feel that he was being maliciously targeted and wanted to argue, Zach waved his hand, "Do you want to see your mother? She is in Grande."
The 'advantages' of being mentally immature - being easily distracted.
"She's there?!" Brian looked at Zach, but immediately looked around, "Where is she?"
"Morgue." Zach stopped making any packaging. "Many bad things happened in Bishop Manor. Your mother was unfortunately involved in them and became one of the victims. She is now morgueing in Grande..."
"Wait!" Brian stood up and looked at Zach, "Zach, what did you say?" What emotion was happening on his face.
Zach glanced at him, "A lot of bad things happened in Bishop Manor, and your mother was unfortunately involved..." Haha, Zach didn't even want to modify it at all, he repeated what he said before, word for word, and Finished what was interrupted, "... currently in Grande's morgue. Grande is currently handling the funerals of these people who were involved in the bad things for Bishop. I, as the owner of the funeral home , has the obligation to notify the family of the deceased and make funeral arrangements.”
Zach withdrew his gaze and said, "Your mother's family members are you."
The phone rang at this terrible moment, and Zach ignored it, waiting for Brian's response. Even the 'General' stopped coming out from under the table and looked at the silence, only the harsh ringtone of the phone.
The bell rang six times, and on the seventh, Brian moved.
The chair behind him was moved by the sudden turn of his body and tilted off the ground. Brian's body, clothes, and waving arms moved things on the desk - pen holders, small decorations, ink bottles, documents... Amidst the chaotic noise, he rushed to the side door and opened the door with a "Wow!" Slammed shut.
In the office, all that was left for Zach to respond was the mess on the desk that was messed up and the chair that finally overturned and fell to the floor. Brian ran away.
Zach frowned, placed the ink bottle before the ink in the bottle contaminated more things, and shook his head. What else can you expect? Brian is just a child. You can try telling a child that the mother who has been there since birth, has always been there, and will always be there in his heart, the news in the morgue, and see what happens. situation.
"Take care of this place." Zach gave the order to the 'General' who was hiding under the workbench, and answered the phone just as the seventh ring ended, "Grand Funeral Home..."
"Mr. Zachary Grande?" A familiar male voice on the receiver asked politely.
"It's me." Zach calmed down and waited for the other person to introduce himself.
"Zach, it's me, Jason. Do you remember me? Well, what happened with White and the club before..." (Volume 10, Fight Club, the person who brought the undercover Wes into the Fight Club in a nightclub.)
Zach remembered, Jason, Old Hank and Blake's 'same model', you know what I mean, "Remember." Zach raised his eyebrows, why would this guy look for him
"Oh, I'm sorry." The voice on the phone was apologetic, "Have you called before to inquire about the business content of xx Insurance Company? I am a salesperson here, um, the supervisor is Bob, you have also met , the middle-aged man in room 105, he noticed your reservation, so he arranged it for me."
"Uh..." Jason was right. Zach was doing some gray professional work in between his 'full-time' duties at the funeral home. "Yes." Zach tugged at the corner of his mouth. He knew everyone in this situation. People are also helpless.
"Yeah." The other party seemed a little embarrassed, in case everyone had forgotten, these people in the original Fight Club knew about vampires, but they were brainwashed by Ganggro's poor charm eyes and could not tell anyone...
Imagine Jason's embarrassment. A funeral home run by a vampire is actually consulting on insurance business. Do you know how ridiculous this seems
"Zach, Zach, do you have time? Now that your business has been assigned to me, we should make an appointment to talk and see what kind of insurance you want."
Zach suddenly had a 'bad' idea, "Do you have time tonight? I only have time outside of work hours recently, Grande is very busy." To be honest, a mass funeral, just arranged work. It’s just that Louise and Old Hank are busy. I won’t talk about Zach.
"Uh, yes, yes." Jason agreed, "Where is the location? Well, if you are buying corporate insurance for Grande, I need to review Grande's situation. If possible, make an appointment at Grande The best..." Please understand Jason's final hesitation, Grande, the vampire's home, is not a fun place. Jason works hard enough.
"No need for the moment." Zach waved his hand in the air, "You are waiting for me at a cafe called Time Elf in the back alley of Lister Street. I will go there in a while." James's house
"Oh, okay, okay." There was nothing unreasonable about discussing official business in the coffee shop, "I will prepare the information..."
"No." Zach raised the corner of his mouth, "Today is Wednesday, game night."
The Comic Con team is back, and Dungeons and Dragons Game Night, a regular event with Fitz's otaku friends, has started again. (..)