13 Mink Street

Chapter 2 The Death Care Company

"Wow..."

Zhou Xun picked up a handful of water and slapped it on his face.

Shaoqing,

He lifted his wet face to the mirror.

What appeared in the mirror was the face of a fifteen-year-old young man.

two weeks

Zhou Xun is still not used to seeing his brand-new face. Every time he looks in the mirror, he will pause subconsciously as a psychological preparation.

reach out,

pinch your face,

Pulled outward,

let go again

There were two red marks on his face.

It would be great if I could tear off this mask, and everything in front of me, everything around me, and everything in this half month would be turned into glass shards, like waking up from a big dream.

Of course, Zhou Xun also knew that this was impossible.

"Snapped!"

Zhou Xun slapped himself in the face.

Even if this face looks a lot like Leonardo when he was young,

But when Zhou Xun smoked, he still showed no mercy, and even felt a little joy because of it?

The slap was not naive to wake up the dream, but to wake himself up and let the dream go on.

Since it has come, let it be safe.

Zhou Xun could only comfort himself in this way.

"Boom boom boom... boom boom boom..."

There was a knock on the bathroom door, and Mina cried out in concern:

"Brother Karen, brother Karen, are you okay?"

Mina is his cousin, the daughter of his uncle Mason.

And Zhou Xun's current body also has a name—Karen.

"I'm fine." Zhou Xun responded.

"Okay." Mina outside the door let out a long sigh of relief, and asked again, "I'll bring breakfast to my brother later, and bring it to your room."

"No need, 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 flushed face.

He was originally a psychiatrist with his own private clinic in Jinling City and a part-time police counselor.

In a hostage kidnapping case, he was negotiating with the robbers as a negotiator, but an accident occurred halfway, and the robbers planned to push the little girl hostage out of the roof. He quickly stepped forward and dragged the girl back, but He fell down and lost consciousness immediately.

It seems to have been 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 oldest person is his grandfather——Dis Inmeles.

He was his eldest grandson, and when he saw himself waking up, there was relief in his eyes... At the same time, there was an inexplicable meaning.

An uncle who is over forty years old - Mason, he is happy.

Aunt Mary, Mason's wife, laughed first, then her face darkened, and then she laughed again.

Another older woman, my aunt Winnie, wept with joy.

There are also three children, the children of my uncle and aunt are my 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 was Karen herself, whose parents passed away a few years ago.

The members of this family are like this.

Zhou Xun changed the hot towel again and covered his face again. After a long time, he shook off the towel.

In the half month after waking up, he spent more than half of his time lying on the bed. On the one hand, his body was really weak, and on the other hand, he needed to digest the memory of this "Karen".

Digesting memory is amazing, but it didn't cause conflict and confusion between myself and the original owner's memory. 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 about it a little bit, like "searching", and he will be able to quickly retrieve the memory belonging to "Karen".

In short,

Now that this is the case,

Then face life bravely.

Zhou Xun has already prepared his psychological construction and is ready to face his second life with a positive attitude.

Pushing open the door of the bathroom, a black cat named "Pall" raised at home was lazily lying on the window sill basking in the sun. After seeing Karen, it turned its head out of the window naturally, His demeanor was filled with the arrogance of a cat owner.

Zhou Xun paused,

take a deep breath,

muttered:

"From today on, I'm Karen."

...

Karen walked down the stairs and went from the third floor where her room was to the second floor.

Inmoles' family lives at No. 13 Minke Street, West District, Luojia City. It is a single-family villa with a large garden.

According to the cognition of previous life, even if Minke Street does not belong to the core area of Luojia City, it is still within the second ring road.

Just imagine, owning a detached villa in a non-suburban second-tier city in later generations...

In her previous life, Karen only dared to think about rowing, and couldn't even reach double fight.

This is also what he is very lucky about now, time travel... the family conditions he travels to are better, and he can feel much more comfortable;

If you time yourself into a little boy selling matches,

Oh my God, that would be real suffering.

The kitchen and dining room of the Inmeles family are on the second floor, and the first floor is the working area.

Yes, this is a "company", or "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 "Inmerais Care for the Dead".

Grandpa is the boss, and in the family life and the operation of the "company", he is always a promise. At the same time, grandpa also works part-time as the priest of the small church at the end of Minke Street.

Uncle Mason used to work in the Stock Exchange, and Aunt Mary was a fairly well-known makeup artist in the circle at first, specializing in makeup for stars, and she also played a few marginal roles in small movies.

Their life should be at the level of the small middle class, and they have already moved out and lived alone.

But because of the failure of Uncle Mason's investment, 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 it.

but,

He quickly found a reason to fire the original driver and the mortician.

In the words of grandpa, it is: the Inmeles family does not support idlers.

Uncle Mason is now in charge of driving, um, driving the family's hearse, taking his buddies Paul and Ron to pick up and drop off the "VIP".

Aunt Mary continued to speak professionally,

Still give people makeup,

And I no longer have to worry about encountering bad-tempered celebrities deliberately finding fault, and I don’t have to worry about receiving complaint letters.

Their children, Mina and Lunt, are in middle school.

Aunt Winnie used to be an accountant in a small garment factory. After she and her husband divorced, Aunt Winnie brought her daughter Chrissy back home.

Fortunately, the house of the Inmeles family is big, even if the basement is occupied by "VIPs" and the first floor is a "mourning place", but there are so many rooms on the second and third floors, it is enough for the family to live in.

Karen and his cousin Lent originally lived in the same room. Since Karen fell ill, Lent went to sleep with his grandfather on the third floor. In addition, there is another room on the third floor that is his office.

There are also three rooms on the second floor, one for my uncle and aunt, one for my aunt Winnie, and one for my two cousins.

The atmosphere at home is actually pretty good, because grandpa is very dignified, and no one dares to make any conflicts under his nose.

When she came to the dining table on the second floor, Mina was helping her mother set the plate.

Aunt Mary saw Karen coming down,

Deliberately sarcastically said:

"Young master of our family, you can finally go downstairs to have breakfast by yourself, don't your loyal maid aunt bring it up for you?"

Aunt Mary is such a person, she has a poisonous mouth and likes to sarcasm;

At home, except for her grandfather, she did not dare to offend. The rest, her husband, her children, and her sister-in-law, including Karen, were all the targets of her mouth.

A warm smile appeared on Karen's face,

Very sincerely:

"Thanks to my aunt for taking care of me these days, I was able to recover so quickly."

In "Karen"'s memory, although the aunt's mouth was a bit damaged, she always took care of herself as if she were her two biological children.

"Forehead……"

Unexpectedly, the eldest nephew, who has always been dull and withdrawn, could speak so fluently. Aunt Mary really didn't know how to respond for a while, so she could only curl her lips and said:

"Let's eat."

"good."

Karen sat down at the table.

Breakfast is sandwiches, fried eggs and milk, and some small sausages.

took a bite of the sandwich,

chew slowly,

Although I have only been here for half a month,

But Karen has begun to miss the duck blood vermicelli soup with three spoonfuls of chili.

At this time,

A car horn sounded outside.

"Your father is back."

Aunt Mary went to the sink to wash her hands first, then untied her apron,

"You keep eating, I'll go see if your father brought me any 'surprise'."

When other husbands come back from the house, they will bring a ring or a brand-name bag if they are extravagant, or bring a bouquet of flowers to give their wives a little surprise;

Uncle Mason brought back the "remains" for his wife.

For Aunt Mary, the body that died of normal illness was considered a "surprise". She hated those who died abnormally, and it was very troublesome to deal with.

Karen put down his fork. Subconsciously, he thought that he was an adult. When there was something to do at home, it was naturally impossible for him to sit at the table and continue eating like the children, so he also followed Aunt Mary downstairs.

The first floor has a large space, and there is a small platform with three steps in the southeast corner, which is the "mortuary platform" for placing coffins.

At this time,

The two family members Paul and Ron came in pushing a stretcher covered with a white cloth.

Uncle Mason didn't come down, he had some self-esteem. Although under his father's majesty, he had to participate in work, he was only responsible for driving and rarely touched the remains.

In the impression of "Karen", although Uncle Mason is unreliable in investment and can be regarded as a prodigal, but in life, he is a very funny and humorous person, and he is very kind to his family.

Aunt Mary stepped forward, took a look at the white cloth, and then let out a long sigh of relief.

The body was that of a young man, and the state of his death was not frightening, except that although the body was lying flat, his face was turned at 90 degrees to the right.

"Frozen to death?" Aunt Mary asked again, "Welfare bill?"

Although winter has just entered and it is not really cold yet, it has happened from time to time that drunks or homeless people freeze to death on the side of the road.

As for the welfare bill... it is a special fund office established by the city government, churches, charitable organizations, etc., to give decent funerals to those who have no relatives and friends...that is, no one can pay for the funeral.

Welfare bills require multiple funeral homes to take the initiative to fight for them. Basically, they are divided into photo areas and exploited layer by layer. The profits that really fall into the hands of funeral homes are so thin that they are almost negligible, but they can guarantee the operation of funeral homes. After all, even if they don’t You have to still pay your family buddy when you start work, don't you?

Correspondingly, it is easier to deal with the welfare bill, because there are few relatives and friends to supervise and find fault;

The body was simply processed, and then placed in the coffin. The grandfather in a priest's robe stood beside the body, and the people sent by the relevant government department took a few photos for record registration, and the end of waiting for the appropriation at the end of the month was over.

"Yes, ma'am, I know him, his name is Jeff, an unlucky guy who always loses at cards. Well, I'm even more unlucky. Every time he goes to the tavern to play cards, I'm not there," said Ron.

"Ma'am, there is another order. We have to go to Huashuiwan Nursing Home." Paul said.

Aunt Mary immediately reminded loudly: "Let the nurses in the nursing home take a bath first, otherwise don't pull him back. The old man's feces that were pulled back from there last time are all scabbed on his body."

"Yes, I understand." Paul immediately assured.

After speaking, he and Ron exchanged for an empty cart and returned to the hearse.

"Toot..."

Uncle Mason, who was sitting in the car with a cigarette in his hand, honked the horn twice again,

He first yelled to Karen:

"My little Karen, it seems that your body is recovering well."

"Yes, Uncle," Karen responded.

"Haha, that's great." Immediately, he looked at his wife again and shouted to her, "Honey, I come back at noon and want to eat your meat pie, that is the only delicacy I love in this life! "

"Go to the toilet to eat, I don't have time!"

Uncle Mason shrugged.

He continued to smile facelessly and said:

"Oh, that's another favorite of mine!"

Aunt Mary's face couldn't be tense anymore, she turned her head, and the corners of her mouth trembled.

"Go, honey!"

Mason started the car and left.

Aunt Mary took two deep breaths and reached out to push the stretcher cart.

Karen naturally leaned over to help;

Aunt Mary glanced at Karen, but did not move;

Karen looked at her suspiciously.

"Karen, you seem to be a little different from before."

"maybe."

Karen didn't bother to cover up the matter of "time travel". In fact, as a "time traveler", the last thing to worry about is this. People around you, who would think that your soul has been replaced?

Go crazy!

"Go to the basement."

"Okay, Auntie."

The aunt and nephew pushed the stretcher cart with the dead body through the corner of the hall on the first floor, and then down.

There is a slope leading to the basement, with a flat transition in the middle.

When pushing down, you have to control the speed to prevent the corpse from slipping.

"It would be great if we could install an elevator." Karen said when he got to the basement, he was holding the hand of the stretcher with a little difficulty.

"The kind in a department store?" Aunt Mary sneered, "Crazy, how expensive are those!"

The basement has only one floor and is divided into three rooms, or functional areas.

A grocery room...in fact, it can't be called a grocery store. There are a lot of items needed by the funeral home, which are neatly stacked.

One was a morgue, and there were no dead bodies in it, and Karen didn't see a freezer in it either.

Karen didn't ask why he didn't buy a freezer, because Aunt Mary would reply, "Crazy, how expensive that is!"

However, it can also be seen that the business of the Inmeles family is actually not big, and there is no need to "press goods".

But from another angle, it can be seen that regardless of the era, regardless of the cultural background, the dead man's business... is really profitable.

The last room is Aunt Mary's workshop, where she needs to "beautify" the body.

No matter how good-looking a person was in life, after death, they will become very... average.

Not to mention that there are still many unnatural deaths, and the workload is even greater.

For general welfare bills, you only need to take care of your face, no family members will care about other things, and for big bills, it is the kind of family members who are willing to spend money to make it more delicate. The whole body needs to be cleaned, even the nails have to be trimmed, and then After that, whether it's the coffin or the clothes, including the priest's prayer or even the layout of the mourning meeting, etc., you can be graded.

Karen helped Aunt Mary push the stretcher into the workshop,

Aunt Mary pulled up a chair and sat in it, and put an ashtray on the stretcher, almost in Jeff's face.

"Snapped……"

Aunt Mary lit a cigarette, took a drag, and let it out slowly.

Excluding the shortcoming of being "bitter and mean", Aunt Mary is indeed very good-looking, although she is getting older now, she is also very charming;

Of course, no matter how good a lady is, if her uncle tricks her into doing this job, it will be difficult for her to be dignified and generous.

Karen stared at the cigarette in Aunt Mary's hand,

Aunt Mary noticed,

smile slightly,

Pushed the cigarette case towards Karen.

Karen reached out, took it, pulled out one, and picked up the lighter.

ignite,

Take a breath.

"Cough cough...cough cough...vomit..."

A strong sense of nausea emerged, and Karen clutched his chest and began to cough violently.

"Hehehe, hahaha..."

Aunt Mary laughed and burst into tears.

This scene was not deliberately pretended by Karen. He was a smoker in his previous life, but this body has never been poisoned by nicotine. Both the body and the brain are very resistant at this time. warn.

Aunt Mary put out her cigarette,

After checking Jeff's body and confirming that there were no other injuries, she tried to straighten Jeff's face.

You only need to put some makeup on him and you are done. After the guys come back, put Jeff on the clothes and pull them up. In this weather, even the anti-corrosion process can be lazy.

"Um?"

Aunt Mary let go of her hand and said to Karen:

"Come and break it, I can't break it."

"okay."

Karen put out the cigarette, stretched out her hand, put one hand on Jeff's neck, and held Jeff's right cheek with the other hand.

work hard,

work hard……

Jeff's face began to slowly return to normal.

But to Karen's astonishment, to be exact, what Aunt Mary standing beside couldn't see was that when she exerted force to break the timing, she clearly noticed that Jeff's body was exerting force to the right...

You don't seem to be breaking the face of a dead person, but more like wrestling with a living person!

This discovery made Karen's heart sink slightly. However, just as he was about to let go, he suddenly found that the force that wrestled with him suddenly disappeared. No... it was after he let go, Jeff's head,

"Squeak..."

He corrected himself!

Jeff's eyes,

snapped open,

staring at Karen,

His mouth began to squirm crazily, making a sound like a group of mice gnawing on a wooden board.

Karen subconsciously took two steps back and leaned his back against the wall.

Immediately afterwards,

"Bang" sound,

It was as if someone hit the back of the head heavily with a shovel.

Karen curled up,

Vision also becomes blurred.

But he is very resistant to losing control of his surroundings in this situation,

Immediately resisting the severe pain in the back of the head, he raised his head,

in view,

is red,

Karen staggered back,

Along with retreating, his field of vision began to further increase,

I found that the red I saw was a high-heeled shoe. Above the high-heeled shoe was a very tall leg and a white leg. On the opposite side, there was the same huge high-heeled shoe and the leg on it...

Own,

Like a little mouse, standing at a person's feet.

"Plop..."

Karen lost her balance and fell to the ground.

He didn't know if it was a dream, or he had hallucinations due to his insanity...

until,

"Batt..."

A puddle of thick liquid fell on his body, completely wetting his upper body.

Karen slowly raised her head,

he saw

above yourself,

Between those gigantic legs,