Chapter 2 Care Company for the Dead(1/3)
"Wow..."
Zhou Xun picked up a handful of water and slapped it on his face.
A few moments,
He raised his wet face and faced the mirror.
What appeared in the mirror was the face of a fifteen-year-old young man.
It's been two weeks,
Zhou Xun was still not used to looking at his brand new face. Every time he looked in the mirror, he would subconsciously pause to prepare his mind.
reach out,
pinch your own cheek,
Pulled outward,
loosen it again,
There were two red marks on his face.
It would be great if I could tear this piece of dough apart and everything in front of me, everything around me, everything in these half months, turn into glass fragments, like waking up from a big dream.
Of course, Zhou Xun also knew that this was impossible.
"Crack!"
Zhou Xun slapped himself in the face.
Even though this face looks a lot like Leonardo in his youth,
But when Zhou Xun started to smoke, he still showed no mercy, and even felt a little happy because of it?
This slap was not innocently intended to wake me up from the dream, but to make myself sober enough to continue the dream.
Now that it's here, let's make peace with it.
Zhou Xun could only comfort himself in this way.
"Dong dong dong...dong dong dong..."
There was a knock on the bathroom door, and at the same time Mina shouted with concern:
"Brother Karen, brother Karen, are you okay?"
Mina is her cousin, the daughter of her uncle Mason.
And Zhou Xun's current body also has a name - Karen.
"I'm fine." Zhou Xun responded.
"Okay." Mina outside the door breathed a long sigh of relief and asked again, "I will bring breakfast to my brother later and you can bring it into the room."
"No, Mina, I'll go down to eat later."
Mina outside the door was a little surprised, but immediately said:
"Okay, brother."
Zhou Xun continued to stare at himself in the mirror, picked up a cold towel, and covered his red face.
He was originally a psychiatrist who had his own private clinic in Jinling City and worked part-time as a police psychological consultant.
In a hostage kidnapping case, as a negotiator, he went to negotiate with the robbers, but something happened midway. The robbers planned to push the little girl as a hostage off the rooftop. He quickly stepped forward and pulled the girl back, but
He fell down and lost consciousness immediately.
It seems that I have had a strange dream for a long time,
When he slowly woke up and opened his eyes, Zhou Xun was shocked to find that he was not lying in the ICU ward of the hospital, and the people around his bed were not doctors, but a group of... "foreign friends".
The eldest person is his grandfather—Diss Immelais.
He was his eldest grandson. When he saw him waking up, there was relief in his eyes... but at the same time there was an indescribable meaning.
An uncle who is over forty years old, Mason, is happy.
Aunt Mary, Mason's wife, smiled first, then her face darkened again, and then she smiled again.
Another older woman, her aunt Winnie, cried with joy.
There are also three children, the children of his uncle and aunt are his cousins, fourteen-year-old Mina and thirteen-year-old Lunt, and the other is Aunt Winnie's daughter, thirteen-year-old Chrissy.
And Zhou Xun... no, it's Karen herself, whose parents passed away a few years ago.
This is the situation of the members of this family.
Zhou Xun changed the hot towel and covered his face again. After a long time, he threw off the towel.
In the past half month after waking up, he spent more than half of the time lying in bed. On the one hand, his body was indeed very weak, and on the other hand, he needed to digest the memory of this "Karen".
The thing of digesting memory is very strange, but it does not conflict or confuse the memory of the original owner. To Zhou Xun, the original owner's memory is more like a file stored in a bookcase or a computer file;
He is still Zhou Xun, but when necessary, he can think carefully, like a "search", and he can quickly retrieve the memories belonging to "Karen".
In short,
Now that this is the case,
Then we must face life bravely.
Zhou Xun has already completed his psychological construction and is ready to face his second life with a positive attitude.
Pushing open the bathroom door, a black cat named "Pall" raised in the family was lying lazily on the window sill, basking in the sun. After seeing Karen, it naturally turned its head to the window.
His behavior was filled with the arrogance of a cat owner.
Zhou Xun paused for a moment,
Take a deep breath,
murmured:
"From today on, I am Karen."
…
Karen walked down the stairs from the third floor where his room was to the second floor.
The Immeles family lives at No. 13 Minke Street, West District, Luojia City. It is a single-family villa with a large garden.
If we look at it according to the previous life's knowledge, even if Mink Street is not part of the core area of Luojia City, it is still within the second ring road.
Just imagine owning a single-family villa in a non-suburban second-tier city in the future...
In his previous life, Karen only dared to think about tandem, but couldn't even reach double battle.
This is what he is very fortunate about now. After time travel... the family conditions he traveled to are better, and he can be much more comfortable;
If you could travel through time and become a little match boy,
Oh, my God, that's what real suffering is.
The kitchen and dining room of Immelais' house are on the second floor, and the first floor is the work area.
Yes, this is a "company", or a "family workshop". This villa is not only the place where the family lives, but also one of the means of production.
This family is in the "funeral" business, and the name on the sign is "Immelais Death Care Company".
Grandpa is the boss, and he always sticks to his word in family life and the operation of the "company". At the same time, grandpa also works part-time as the priest of the small church at the end of Mink Street.
Uncle Mason used to work at the stock exchange, and Aunt Mary was a relatively well-known makeup artist in the industry at first, specializing in makeup for celebrities. She also appeared in several small movies with marginal roles.
Their life should have been at the level of the small middle class, and they had already moved out and lived alone.
But because Uncle Mason's investment failed, they not only lost their savings, but also lost their property, and seemed to be in debt. In the end, Uncle Mason could only take his wife and a pair of children home to be filial to his father...
Grandpa didn't say anything about this.
but,
He quickly found a reason to fire the original driver and undertaker.
In my grandfather's words, the Immelais family does not raise idlers.
Uncle Mason is now responsible for driving, um, driving the family's hearse, and taking his assistants Paul and Ron to pick up and drop off the "distinguished guests".
Aunt Mary continued to talk professionally,
I still put makeup on people,
And you no longer have to worry about encountering celebrities with bad tempers who are deliberately looking for trouble, nor do you have to worry about receiving complaint letters.
Their children, Mina and Lent, are in middle school.
Aunt Winnie used to be an accountant in a small clothing factory. After she and her husband got divorced, Aunt Winnie returned home with her daughter Chris.
Fortunately, the Immelais' house is large. Even if the basement is occupied by "distinguished guests" and the first floor is the "mourning ground," there are so many rooms on the second and third floors that it is enough for the family.
Karen and her cousin Lunt originally lived in the same room. Since Karen fell ill, Lunt went to sleep with his grandfather on the third floor. In addition, there is a room on the third floor that is his grandfather's office.
There are also three rooms on the second floor. My uncle and aunt live in one room, Aunt Winnie lives in one room, and my two cousins live in one room.
To be continued...