Volume 1 Chapter 063 White-haired man
Yan Zi frowned and said, "Boss, it's really hard to recruit the right people here. I think this little brother is good. Why don't you just make the decision to hire him? If you let my second sister come, I'm afraid..."
As she spoke, a bit of worry appeared on her face. I became even more suspicious, wondering who this "Second Sister" was. Yan Zi looked fearless, but when it came to this Second Sister, she was actually as quiet as a cicada.
The black-haired man chuckled a few times and said, "Aren't you optimistic about this little devil? What are you afraid of?"
Yan Zi retorted, "Who on earth is so arrogant on weekdays, but becomes as obedient as a chicken when he sees my second sister?"
Heimao said angrily, "You are the same, aren't you? Except for the eldest brother, who here behaves like a chicken when seeing the second sister?"
The Ma boss waved his hands and said, "Okay, stop arguing! The second brother's request is indeed too high, but she has always been in charge of the corpse dressing room, so it would be bad if we don't get her consent."
The corpse dressing room that Ma Lao Da mentioned is actually the dressing room that we often talk about. I heard them talking to each other, and they seemed to be very afraid of the second sister. I became even more curious and just wanted to meet that person as soon as possible.
Finally, it was the muscular man who suggested, "I think this child is good. Why don't you take him to meet your second sister? Maybe she will think he is good too." Then he smiled at me innocently.
I had a very good impression of this man and smiled back at him.
So, Boss Ma gave an order, and several people took me out of the morgue, turned a corner, and walked west. I had walked around here a few times before, but I didn't see it.
Generally speaking, the dressing room and the mortuary are not far away, because it is convenient to push the corpse over to dress it up. But this place is a little different. I walked with a few people for a long time, turned around a few bungalows, and saw a few big locust trees with lush branches and leaves in front of me. The treetops were stretched out, completely blocking the scorching sun outside.
In the shadow of the locust tree, there was a small one-story bungalow with sparse moss on the wall. Looking closer , the wooden door was made of original wood and was not painted. It looked very rough. There was a small wooden sign hanging on the door with three small red characters: "Corpse Makeup Room".
I paid special attention to those small characters. Although they were a striking red, they were not written with cinnabar. Perhaps they were some special ink.
When they reached the door, Ma Lao Da didn't say anything. Yan Zi and Heimao both stood aside with their heads down. The skinny guy still looked dumbfounded. Finally, the muscular man came forward and knocked on the door a few times, calling softly, "Second sister, are you there?"
After a while, seeing that no one answered, she raised her voice again: "Second sister, someone is here to apply for the job."
I found it interesting and thought these people were funny. They were so old, what kind of monster was living inside them that scared them so much?
The muscular man shouted several times, but there was still no response. Just as he was about to knock again, he heard a voice from inside the house: "The door is not locked, come in." The voice was not loud, but it was quite clear.
The muscular man's face lit up with joy and he agreed, "Second sister, let's come in." He carefully pushed the door open and stepped in, trying not to make too much noise.
Boss Ma stood still and said, "You go in first."
Yan Zi and Hei Mao looked at each other, pulled the thin bamboo pole, let him go in front, and then the two of them went in one after another. Finally, Ma Lao Da waved at me and said, "Let's go in too."
I nodded and followed him in. As soon as I entered the room, I found it was pitch black and gloomy. After my eyes had finally adjusted, I could see that the room was about 20 square meters. The objects placed inside were very simple. There were a few wooden beds placed in the inner part. These were dressing tables used for corpse makeup.
Besides that, there was a row of wooden shelves against the wall, filled with things, but it was too dark to see what they were. There was also a wooden table and several wooden chairs, which were probably used for sitting and resting. There was also a rattan lounge chair, and someone was lying there with his back to us. The room was very dark, without even a window, and no lights were on. Only by the light coming in from the door could we vaguely make out that it was a woman. The hair sticking out of the chair was gray, and she seemed to be an old woman of considerable age.
I looked around the house again, feeling strange. I clearly heard a woman talking outside the house just now, and judging from her voice, she should be quite young, at most about the same age as Yan Zi. But I looked around the house a few times and didn't see anyone else.
The muscular man walked to the old woman and whispered, "Second sister, we are here."
It turned out that the old woman was their second sister. Judging from her hair, she was about the same age as the old man surnamed Ma. Since the moment Swallow and Heimao entered the room, they lowered their heads and huddled to one side, like two quails, not daring to breathe. Ma Lao Da stood to one side, his eyes watching his nose, his nose watching his heart, without moving.
I found it a little funny. She was just an old woman, but these people were so scared.
After a long while, the old woman said "hmm", "What's the matter?" Although the voice was not loud and a little weak, it was quite clear and pleasant, and there was also a hint of tenderness.
If I hadn't heard it with my own ears coming from an old woman, I would have thought it was a young woman speaking.
The muscular man immediately said, "Someone came to apply for the job. We brought him here for you to see."
The old woman said, "If there are more people like the ones before, throw them out to feed the dogs as soon as possible and don't bother me." Although the old woman spoke weakly, her words were frightening.
The muscular man bent his waist and smiled innocently: "We all think this one is good, so we brought it to Second Sister for review."
"Oh? Even the boss thinks it's good?" The old woman seemed to be interested.
Boss Ma had been standing aside with his eyes closed, and when he heard the old woman calling him, he quickly responded, saying, "I think it's good, too."
"Then I'd like to meet you." The woman stretched out a hand from the rattan chair. I noticed that this hand was wearing a glove. It was not the common glove used to wrap corpses in the corpse dressing room, but a woolen glove made of green wool. It was really strange. In the middle of summer, there are still people who wear a pair of woolen gloves on their hands. Don't they feel too hot?
The muscular man immediately went up to support the old woman and helped her up from the recliner. The woman coughed slightly and turned around holding the muscular man's arm.
I took a look and was stunned. Although the woman had a head full of white hair, her face was very young. She looked no more than forty years old, which was very inconsistent with the white hair. Her facial features were not bad, but her face was extremely pale, her eyes were quite narrow and tilted upwards, and there were a few crow's feet on both sides of her eyes, which added a bit of vicissitudes of life.
I was looking at her and she happened to look over at me, and my eyes met hers. I was startled at once, and felt that although those eyes did not have much spirit, they seemed to be able to see deep into I hurriedly avoided her gaze and lowered my head.
It took me a long time to come back to my senses. I thought she was just a woman, what was there to be afraid of? Then I raised my head and continued to look at her.
"Is it this child?" the woman said, her voice weak and emotionless.
The muscular man hurriedly said, "Second sister, it's him. Although this kid is young, he has very good qualifications."
The woman helped the muscular man walk a few steps. It was obvious that her legs were not in good condition, as if she had some leg disease. She asked the muscular man to help her sit down on the chair next to her. She didn't say anything, nor did she look at me again. I don't know what she was thinking.
The old man Ma finally stopped standing still and said, "Second brother, this kid is really not bad. Yanzi, tell your second sister what happened before."
Yan Zi probably didn't expect that Boss Ma would suddenly point at her. She was confused for a moment, then she said "Oh" and told him everything that had happened in the morgue before.
But her words were totally different from her previous cheerful appearance in the mortuary. Yan Zi was like a gourd with its mouth sawed off, she was trembling with fear even when speaking, let alone smiling.
It seems that this second sister has probably cast a huge shadow on her. Standing in front of her, several people dare not even breathe.
