Chapter 171 Tall, short fat man!
The blood corpse in the underground palace was resolved, and the construction site of the orphanage was reopened.
Ku Junwei stayed, was responsible for being a supervisor, helped with management, and he would not leave until the orphanage was repaired.
Boss Lu said to me and Leizi: "After the orphanage is completed, you will definitely invite you to come back to attend the ribbon cutting ceremony!"
Yan Xiaoliu's body had been broken and turned into a broken corpse. It was impossible to drive the corpse away. He had no choice but to get a coffin and hand over the business of carrying the coffin to Lei Zi. Lei Zi had not started work for almost a month, so he was naturally very happy and called Lao Huang and the others to help carry Yan Xiaoliu's body back to the countryside.
I said goodbye to Leizi, went back to Shuiwa Village first, and arranged for opening a store.
Now that Chen Xiucai has left, only Lei Zi and I are left. Life has to continue. We still have to earn money to support our family, so we must not lose our business.
I am still very confident in our store. Professional corpse drivers and professional coffin carryrs join forces to bring the most professional funeral services to customers. Among our peers, we have a great advantage.
Secondly, I am currently in this village and have a certain popularity. Everyone trusts me very much. I have a good reputation among the villagers. I believe that I will find me if there are any big or small things.
Another point is that the brand effect. Although Chen Xiucai is gone, Chen Xiucai is the "brand logo" in the corpse driving industry. He has accumulated a lot of customer resources over the years and has a very high brand effect. He is a business card in the corpse driving industry. With the help of Chen Xiucai's fame, we believe that the business will not be too bad.
When I got home, my father and mother, I decided to set up the store in the mountain temple.
In fact, the biggest reason for doing this is a kind of remembrance, out of a kind of remembrance of Chen Xiucai.
From another perspective, my doing so is also increasing the incense of the mountain temple. I don’t want Chen Xiucai to leave the incense of the mountain temple to become deserted and become deserted. I hope more and more people will come to the mountain temple to make the incense of the mountain temple burn vigorously.
Our store does not have a store name or a storefront. Anyway, Leizi and I are in charge of the Shanshen Temple. If you have any business, just come to Shanshen Temple to find us.
I didn't promote anything in the early stage. Funeral matters are not a good thing to be happy about. There is no need to promote them with great fanfare. They all rely on word of mouth to pass on the villagers. I know that I have inherited Chen Xiucai's mantra and are now picking up corpses and carrying coffins, as well as other funeral businesses.
I did this to make a living for Lei Zi. In this way, Lei Zi and his coffin maker have a fixed source of business. Not to mention being rich and powerful, at least they don’t have to worry about life. We don’t usually ask for people. When we need personnel, we will ask Lao Huang and the others to come and help, which will save costs.
It can be said that Lei Zi and I had a funeral shop opened without spending a penny.
It was very simple when it opened, with no firecrackers or treats, only Leizi and I.
I bought some braised dishes, Leizi bought some soju. We closed the door and had a good drink in the mountain temple.
After drinking, Leizi and I each invited a stick of incense to the mountain god and kowtowed, and even if the ceremony was completed.
Doing this is to say hello to the mountain god. We are going to do business on your territory. You always protect us and take care of us in the troubled places. We will give you enough incense.
"Master Shan God, bless me, please bless me, Lei Zi, and you will be rich and rich in the future!" Lei Zi clasped his hands together, with a pious expression.
I laughed and scolded, "This is the Lord of the Mountain God, not the Lord of Wealth. You asked Lord of the Mountain God to bless you to make a fortune. Have you paid a visit to the wrong dock?"
Lei Zi called out: "It's all the same! They are all gods and they know each other, maybe they are relatives! Go back and say hello to the God of Wealth, maybe the God of Wealth will notice me?"
I smiled. Lei Zi opened his mouth and said crosstalk to lose talent.
Not to mention, since Lei Zi and I opened the shop, the number of pilgrims in the mountain temple has increased. The mountain temple, which was a little bleak in the past, has gradually become popular. Although it cannot keep up with the big temples that burn incense and worship Buddha, it is quite good in this countryside.
Later I realized that it was actually the villagers who missed Chen Xiucai.
Chen Xiucai has not appeared for a long time, and news of Chen Xiucai’s death has been circulated in the crowd.
The villagers were concerned about Chen Xiucai's merits, so they often came to visit the mountain temple, one was to commemorate Chen Xiucai, and the other was to donate some incense money. They did not want this mountain temple that carries countless winds and rains to close.
To put it more directly, the villagers put all their hopes on me. They want me to become the second Chen Xiucai to solve the problems of the neighbors in these villages.
Many pilgrims who came to invite the incense would ask me to tell their fortunes and give them guidance.
I can give them some tips on ordinary small things, but I politely declined the fortune telling. I am just a corpse-driver. Fortune-telling is not my profession, and I am not a living god. The villagers have deified me a little and think that I am Chen Xiucai's apprentice, so I can do everything.
Actually, I am just a poor boss who is engaged in a funeral business and has nothing to do.
On the evening of that day, when the last pilgrim was sent away, Lei Zi stretched and prepared to close the door.
These days, a lot of incense money is earned every day. Before we can actually start a business, we have made a lot of money. However, we are planning to use these incense money to repair the mountain temple. Without special circumstances, we will never touch it, let alone take it for ourselves.
It was already winter, the wind was shaking, and it was dark very early, and it was still evening, and it was already dark.
This winter is coming, and I rarely go home to live. After closing every day, Leizi and I live in the wing room behind the mountain temple, where there is a place to sleep and a kitchen for cooking, which are very convenient. I just go home every few days to have a meal with my father and mother and have some wine.
Lei Zi is considered a permanent mountain temple. He felt that he was so old and was embarrassed to spend time at my house all day. Now he has a place to stay, and he is already very satisfied.
Leizi moved the wooden pills on the door and said to me: "Hey, it's cold today. After closing the door, I went to Lao Yang's house at the end of the village to buy some mutton. How about we stew mutton soup tonight? Lao Yang's house is fed with earthy goats, pure natural green food, and the meat is fragrant!"
"Okay!" I sorted out my collar and sniffed into my palm: "I like drinking mutton soup, which can keep warm and nourish the kidneys, which is great! By the way, I bought a bottle of soju and came back. How could I eat mutton without wine?"
"Okay!"
Lei Zi responded and was about to close the door.
At this moment, a hand suddenly reached out from the crack of the door, which scared Lei Zi.
"Hey, don't close the door! Don't close the door!" the people outside shouted.
Lei Zi poked his head out: "It's getting late, I want to ask Xiang to get early tomorrow!"
The people outside said, "We are not here to invite the fragrance!"
Leizi asked: "Didn't you come to invite me? Then what are you here for?"
The person outside said, "May I ask... is Mr. Jiu here?"
"Jiuye" is a kind of respectful title given to me by neighbors from all villages. For those who do our business, no one will call us directly, nor will they call me "Xiao Jiu". They will add the word "Zhi" to express respect. My name is Xiao Jiu, so everyone calls me Jiu Master.
I heard this and was slightly stunned. Who was the person coming? Why did he come to me?
"Jiuyizi, I'm looking for you!" Leizi pushed open the temple gate and turned around and shouted at me.
Leizi and I are as close as brothers, so there are not so many honorific titles between us. He never calls me Jiuye, but Jiuyezi. If he calls me Jiuye, I will feel uncomfortable!
The temple gate opened and two people walked into the outside.
One tall and one short, the tall man was nearly 1.8 meters above sea level. He was definitely a big man in western Hunan. He was very thin and looked like a bamboo pole stuck on the ground. I was really afraid that the wind would blow him away. But in this way, he was wearing a black robe, like a clothes drying rack, supporting the black robe, which looked very strange.
The short man was probably only 1.6 meters tall, and he looked really "full and round", with a round belly and almost no waist. He looked like a big bucket, with two beards on his mouth, a happy smile on his face, and a round felt hat on his head, which made him look very funny.
When I saw the appearance and clothes of these two people, I felt that they were not ordinary people.
I went forward, held my fists and bowed, "I am Master Jiu, I don't know the two masters..."
"You don't have to know our name!" The tall man spoke coldly, and there was no expression on his face, just like a poker face, which made people feel very uncomfortable.
I nodded without any annoyance: "What are you asking me for, please?"
The short and fat man looked at me with a smile: "We heard that Master Jiu is very capable, so we came to my house to discuss business with Master Jiu!"
"Oh?" I raised my eyebrows slightly, and I was secretly happy in my heart: "It turned out to be a customer who came here. These days, I finally welcomed my first business, and I was a new customer. I attracted them purely by reputation. It's really good!"
I turned my body sideways and made a gesture of invitation: "It's cold outside, please sit inside!"
Then I said to Leizi: "Leizi, go and boil some water and make a pot of tea for the two distinguished guests!"
"No need!" The tall man had no expression on his face, like a wooden stake piercing at the door: "We are here to discuss business, not to drink tea!"
The tall man's attitude made Lei Zi a little unhappy. Lei Zi rolled his eyes: "It just so happens that I'm too lazy to waste tea!"
Chapter completed!