Folk customs begin with the entire funeral procession

Chapter 136 The Massacre of an Entire Family: Tianmen Funeral Home (Bonus Chapter 47 for Monthly Tickets)

Luo Zhiyong was Chen Miao's former classmate, but their relationship... Chen Miao felt that they could only be considered classmates, not friends.

Because Luo Zhiyong had a very low profile in his former class, so low that when the "Funeral Services" group was created, the group owner forgot about Luo Zhiyong.

Even now, most people in that group have forgotten that there was such a person as Luo Zhiyong.

If Luo Zhiyong hadn't contacted Chen Miao, Chen Miao would have thought that his old classmate had changed careers.

So he was very curious about what his old classmate had been doing for the past two and a half years since graduation, and why he had come to Tianmen County.

At the dinner table, after chatting about interesting things that happened in school for a while, Chen Miao asked this question.

The reason Luo Zhiyong gave made Chen Miao feel ashamed.

After graduating, Luo Zhiyong returned to his town and became an apprentice emcee at the local funeral home.

However, because Luo Zhiyong was not good at writing, after working as an apprentice for a full year, he still caused trouble for a client because he did not write a good eulogy.

After the boss calmed things down, he used this incident as an excuse to let Luo Zhiyong go.

Luo Zhiyong said nothing about this.

After leaving the town's funeral home, Luo Zhiyong didn't have any other special skills. With the introduction of his family, he printed some business cards and distributed them to funeral shops in various villages.

Unlike funeral homes, the village's funeral service shops only gather people when there is a need, and then pay them on a per-event basis.

At first, Luo Zhiyong could only earn five hundred yuan at a time. It was only because a funeral shop in the same village gave his family face that they allowed him to give it a try.

Rural funerals are not as elaborate as those at funeral homes, so Luo Zhiyong did not write his own eulogy, but instead copied the eulogies of other rural funeral officiants.

With the right words, Luo Zhiyong's advantage as a professionally trained musician became apparent in rural funeral arrangements.

After that, the funeral director from the same village called him almost every time he went to the funeral.

Because he has little money and little trouble.

After a full six months, as people from other villages gradually started asking Luo Zhiyong to host events, the competition became more intense, and Luo Zhiyong's appearance fee slowly increased from five hundred to one thousand.

In this way, he can earn over 100,000 yuan a year, which is much more than when he was an apprentice at the funeral home.

In the last six months, Luo Zhiyong has even started thinking about setting up his own funeral service shop.

It wasn't until he saw Chen Miao recruiting emcees twice in the group that he suppressed his entrepreneurial ideas and came to Chen Miao's company.

Upon hearing this, Chen Miao smiled somewhat awkwardly: "If you were to work on your own, you'd make at least 200,000 a year, right? You probably wouldn't earn that much here."

Luo Zhiyong smiled.

"Some things can't be calculated that way."

"Just like back then, if it weren't for your guidance, I probably wouldn't have gotten that certificate, and without that certificate, I probably wouldn't have entered this industry."

Chen Miao was stunned for a moment.

He realized what Luo Zhiyong was talking about.

That was the last academic year, and Luo Zhiyong failed two exams in a row because of his poor writing skills.

Because he was quiet and had no friends, and never asked for help, he only knew how to bury himself in his studies after failing a course.

Chen Miao happened to come across a short video at that time, which said, "Hardworking people should not be let down."

So he spoke.

The two studied together for a while, but despite this, Luo Zhiyong and Chen Miao rarely talked.

This is why Chen Miao felt that he and Luo Zhiyong were just classmates, not friends.

What Chen Miao didn't expect was that Luo Zhiyong was both a classmate and a friend.

After this conversation, Chen Miao and Luo Zhiyong became closer.

After that, with Luo Zhiyong joining the team, Chen Miao's life became much easier, even more so than when Cui Xing was in the past.

This sense of relief doesn't mean not having to work anymore, but rather a psychological sense of relief.

Because Chen Miao knew that the situation at Tianmen Funeral Home had stabilized for the time being.

Those who remain are unlikely to be taken away. As long as this situation is stabilized, Tianmen County will definitely have a place in Tianmen Funeral Home.

As for what will happen in the future, we'll see.

The funeral home issue was resolved, but there was still one thing that was troubling Chen Miao.

There's been no news from Zhong Cai for eight days. Even if the mountains are high and the roads are long, eight days should be enough.

Xiao Bai's eyes recovered on the fourth day. For the first two days after recovery, he was in a good mood, spending his days either with Chen Miao or Li Fu.

But afterwards, Xiaobai's mood became lower and lower each day.

Chen Miao knew it was because of Zhong Cai.

That day, after handing Xiaobai over to Li Fu, Chen Miao made a phone call to Zhong Cai outside the cold storage.

Chen Miao had already sent a text message before this, but had not received a reply.

The phone rang seven or eight times, and just when Chen Miao thought the call wouldn't go through, the ringing stopped.

"Hey bro, where are you? I haven't heard from you in so long!"

"..."

"Brother?"

"..."

Chen Miao frowned and looked at his phone. The call had indeed been connected, but why wasn't the other person speaking?

No signal?
"Brother, if you can hear me on your end, call me back in a bit."

Just as Chen Miao was about to hang up, a soft click came from the receiver.

Just as Chen Miao was about to continue speaking, the phone was hung up.

After that, Chen Miao didn't receive a call from Zhong Cai. When she tried to call back, the call wouldn't go through.

"Has something happened?"

Chen Miao frowned.

"Maybe I'm just overthinking it. It's normal to have no signal in the mountains."

Chen Miao walked back to his office.

There wasn't much to do today. After writing the eulogy for the next two days and posting it in a shared document that he and Luo Zhiyong could both see, Chen Miao began drawing talismans.

Chen Miao has not relaxed these days either.

Because he remembered his deal with Zhong Cai, Chen Miao put a lot of effort into making the spirit-suppressing talisman and the yin-dispelling talisman.

With Cui Xing's 'help', Chen Miao had plenty of time over eight days and drew a total of twelve talismans!
Among them are six spirit-suppressing talismans, three yin-dispelling talismans, two blood-light talismans, and one yin-gathering talisman.

The reserve of talismans has also jumped to over thirty!

Originally, Chen Miao was waiting to trade with Zhong Cai again, since he had only received one talisman from Zhong Cai before, and he was reluctant to part with it even if he wanted to test its effects.

But now, Zhong Cairen can no longer be contacted.

Thinking of this, Chen Miao's movements became slightly off.

Chen Miao stopped writing and threw the discarded talisman into the trash can.

After calming down, I started drawing talismans again.

He drew for two hours and only stopped after obtaining two spirit-suppressing talismans.

During his break, he casually opened a book.

While drawing the talisman, he suddenly felt much smoother and wanted to see if his talisman-drawing skills had improved.

But as soon as he opened the book, he saw a new chapter.

Startled, Chen Miao quickly tried to recall if the funeral home had received any inappropriate people that day, but found nothing.

Today, there wasn't a single corpse, not even a single cremation.

So what exactly triggered this new chapter?

Chen Miao opened the book and saw the new chapter. He read it little by little, and when he got to the ending, Chen Miao's face turned very ugly.

In this ending, he wasn't the only one who died.

The entire Tianmen Funeral Home was wiped out!

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