After Xiao Zhao said this, he raised his head and looked at my face.

After Lin Zhao and I looked at each other, the latter immediately walked out. Then I nodded and said, "You continue talking."

Xiao Zhao said: "What Lao Suntou said in front of me made my heart tremble! How could I dare to listen any more? I told him, stop talking, I can't do this.

Doesn’t the recruitment process just ask you to look at the front door? How come you’re washing the face of a dead person?”

Lao Suntou said to me: If you hadn't washed the faces of dead people, who would have given you such a high salary? Go out and ask yourself. If you go out to work at your age, the boss who gives you two thousand must be related to you.

If you are not allowed to wash the faces of dead people, why should I give you a salary of 5,000 a week?

I was really scared at the time: I told Lao Suntou that I couldn't do this job. I quit.

Just as I was about to leave, Lao Suntou said: "When you were three years old, you almost fell into a basin and drowned, right?"

I was so frightened that no one except my family knew about it.

Lao Suntou said a few more things. He told me everything about my past accurately. There were some things that even my parents didn't know, but he seemed to have seen them. What he said was accurate.

When Lao Suntou saw that I wasn't leaving, he said, "You are destined to be a boy."

"You were originally a boy from the City God's Temple. When you followed the City God to the underworld to do errands, you secretly reincarnated. If a boy reincarnates without permission, he will definitely be taken back."

"Three years old, twelve years old, and twenty-four years old all have a hard time. After that, you can live. If you can't get over it, the city god will take you in."

"If you leave, you won't be able to survive this year."

When I heard Lao Suntou say this, I felt even more scared.

Ever since I was a child, I have always felt if something good or bad happened to me. This year, after the Chinese New Year, I have been feeling bad!

When he said this, I started to murmur in my heart.

Seeing that I wasn't leaving, Lao Suntou said: "You can help me stay here for a month. Maybe I can come back in less than a month. When I come back, I can help you save the boy's life, and you can also

It’ll be fine.”

I thought about it for a long time, then gritted my teeth and agreed.

Old Suntou then said: "Remember, you don't just have to wash a dead person's face once. How many times you wash it depends on how many red ropes are tied to the bed. You can wash it according to the number of ropes, but it can't be washed more than three times at most.

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"Use a bucket of water for one wash. Never use a bucket of water to wash a dead person's face twice."

"When you carry water back to the yard, the first thing is not to look into the bucket. The second thing is to walk slowly so that the water doesn't spill out. If the water falls to the ground, quickly dip it in with yellow paper. Never do it.

Let the water seep into the ground.”

"When you pour water the next day, first stand in the distance and look into the water. Just turn your head sideways and see the water. If the water is red, don't touch the bucket and continue to bask in the sun. When will the water

It’s getting dark, when did you pour the water out?”

Lao Suntou told me all these things, and I remembered them all.

Before he left, Lao Suntou took me to wash the dead man's face twice, saying he was teaching me how to work.

When Lao Suntou taught me to work, I discovered that there were five buckets behind the door. At that time, I asked him: How many red ropes can be tied to the bedside at most? There are five buckets behind your door.

, can the red rope tie five pieces?

Lao Suntou said to me: "You can't encounter five ropes. I have worked all my life and only encountered five ropes once. If you have that kind of luck, you can make a fortune just by buying lottery tickets."

Later, I chased Lao Suntou and asked: "What if the water never turns black?"

Lao Suntou got impatient with me at that time and said: "Why do you always ask those irrelevant things? Just do what you have to do!" and then sent me away.

While Xiao Zhao was talking, I was also thinking about the origin of this old man.

According to Lao Suntou's abilities, he should be an undertaker.

According to current parlance: the mortician is also called a mortician, and what he does is to restore the deceased to his pre-death state. This includes renovating the face and body, which can also be called putting makeup on the deceased, and trying to restore the complete face and body as much as possible.

There is a saying that embalmers were introduced to China from the East. In fact, this statement is incorrect.

There have long been embalmers in China. However, the embalmer is not one person, but has different divisions of labor. From dressing the deceased, consecrating the light, carrying the body into the coffin, and sending the body home, there are dedicated people to complete it.

Moreover, the previous process will never touch the work of the next person.

Until modern times, when funeral parlors gradually emerged and funerals were no longer allowed at home, these things were gradually simplified and integrated into one, and were completed by the undertakers themselves.

What Lao Suntou did was just one of the processes, which was to resolve the grievances of the deceased, so that the people behind could smoothly sort out the deceased's remains. Moreover, he only cared about the corpses that died in accidents, and did not care about anything else.
Chapter completed!