The advertisement on the sign was incredibly mysterious and high-end.
Driven by curiosity, Nie Yugang walked into the funeral company. Once inside, he discovered that it was not large at all, only a few dozen square meters.
The furnishings were rather old and shabby, and the environment was nowhere near as upscale as he had imagined. In fact, it seemed somewhat run-down, making him doubt the company.
Was the advertisement on the sign outside just deceptive wording?
Could they really create a mysterious and frightening past at his funeral?
Nie Yugang fell silent for a moment. This place did not look very reliable, and he had been planning to turn around and leave.
Just as his cane tapped out a step on the ground, Su Chen happened to walk out from inside the company and spot the elderly man who had entered.
Su Chen was somewhat surprised but also a little excited. He hurriedly asked,
"Sir, what service do you need?"
As he spoke, his hands did not remain idle either.
He warmly took Nie Yugang's hand, helped him over to the sofa, then served him tea and water!
Nie Yugang had originally intended to leave, but Su Chen's enthusiasm caught him off guard. He could only thank him repeatedly. Before he could react further, Su Chen took out a price list.
He handed it over directly.
It contained detailed descriptions and prices for every service offered by the company.
Su Chen began introducing them.
"Sir, you can first take a look at our company's professional service packages. We have a wide variety, affordable prices, and guaranteed satisfaction!"
Yet Nie Yugang's gaze remained fixed on the company's outward appearance. He felt that this company might not be very reliable. After all, the decor was so simple and somewhat worn-out that he could not help but wonder.
Was this company actually reliable?
Noticing Nie Yugang's gaze, Su Chen quickly added,
"Sir, don't judge our company by how simple it looks. Our services are absolutely professional, unique, and mysterious!"
As he spoke, he pointed at the price list in Nie Yugang's hand and continued his introduction.
"Sir, you can look at this service package: if you are willing to pay me ten thousand yuan, I will arrange for a black Maybach and one hundred men in black to appear at your funeral! An elderly man with a weathered face, dressed in a Zhongshan suit, will step out of the car, deeply bow before your tombstone, offer a bouquet of flowers, and leave solemnly."
Listening to Su Chen's introduction,
Nie Yugang's curiosity was piqued. Following Su Chen's finger, he looked at the price list and was immediately rather shocked!
Funerals these days could offer services like this?
The services here truly were not bad. The lowest price was ninety-nine yuan, while the highest reached hundreds of millions of yuan. They had packages at practically every price point!
After many years of saving, Nie Yugang had accumulated some money. On top of that, his child had already become successful and rarely asked him for money, so his savings were still sufficient. Even purchasing a one-hundred-thousand-yuan service was within what he could afford. However, if all he wanted was a sense of mystery, the ten-thousand-yuan service would be enough to satisfy him. Thinking of how his child had been clamoring these past few days to find his biological parents, he felt that when he left, there should at least be some mystery to it. His funeral could not be so plain and ordinary. After all, he had lived quietly all his life, raised this child to adulthood, and now he was about to leave.
Before leaving, he still wanted to make a bigger splash, so his child or younger generation would remember that there had once been someone like him in this world!
After seeing the various services listed on the price sheet, that thought in his heart grew even stronger.
Moreover, Su Chen's service attitude was genuinely excellent, which moved him somewhat as well.
If the scale of that ten-thousand-yuan service could truly appear at his funeral, the more he thought about it, the more appealing it seemed.
Seeing the hesitation in Nie Yugang's eyes, Su Chen quickly continued,
"If you don't believe us, we can sign a contract here as well!"
"Haha, signing a contract would ruin the fun. Come on, young man, I'll transfer the money to you!"
Nie Yugang laughed as he pulled out his phone. No longer doubtful, he scanned the code and transferred ten thousand yuan to Su Chen.
When Su Chen saw the message on his phone confirming the ten-thousand-yuan transfer, he smiled. Customers who came to the door really were easier to close!
He quickly handed over an information form.
"Please fill in your information, as well as the location where the funeral will be held!"
Nie Yugang picked up a pen and filled it out with a few hurried strokes. With every movement he made, the bell on his wrist gave off a crisp, pleasant sound.
This was the first order Su Chen had closed since opening for business without the system even providing the customer's information beforehand.
The entire process had gone exceptionally smoothly.
After Nie Yugang put down his pen,
the third order had been completed!
Su Chen finally let out a sigh of relief. It had not been easy to successfully sell a ten-thousand-yuan package.
If he could get this order rated perfect,
then the hundredfold increase would feel amazing. Ten thousand would directly become one million!
"May you enjoy the service!"
After respectfully seeing Nie Yugang out of the shop,
Su Chen had just returned inside and was about to prepare the information related to Nie Yugang when the landlady called. He answered casually.
A sultry voice came through the phone.
"Hello, brat, where have you been busy these past two days? You haven't even opened your shop!?"
"My dear sister, I've been busy earning your rent!"
Su Chen replied casually.
He had not expected this landlady to pay such close attention to his little shop.
If Su Chen put even a little thought into her, perhaps he would never have to work hard for the rest of his life. However, that was not Su Chen's style.
The landlady chuckled twice and continued asking,
"Hehe, looks like business is doing well. I wonder if I have the honor of being invited by you to visit Pingzhuang Public Cemetery together?"
"Pingzhuang Public Cemetery?"
Hearing that, Su Chen's movements froze. Wasn't that where Chu Guozhong was buried?
Meanwhile, Nie Yugang, having left Su's Funeral Company, was in no hurry to return.
Instead, leaning on his cane, he headed somewhere else.
Qingyang Development Zone had originally been the site of a large, run-down state-owned factory. Now, after investment and redevelopment, office buildings had risen from the ground one after another.
Tall buildings stood here, while broad, accessible roads crisscrossed around them.
Nie Yugang sat on a chair by the roadside, his cloudy eyes gazing around him as he felt somewhat lost and desolate.
The phantom of a factory gradually appeared before his eyes, and the sound of machinery running was so familiar~
Back then, the place where he sat had still been a patch of barren weeds.
One night, while returning home from overtime work, he passed by that patch of weeds and heard the faint cries of a baby. The night had been dim, the moonlight cold and bleak. When those eerie infant cries rang out in the wasteland, they nearly scared the soul out of him.
That had been a crucial period for promoting the overthrow of ghosts and monsters, so belief in ghosts and gods was absolutely unacceptable.
He gathered his courage and followed the sound. There, a child had been abandoned in the wild grass.
The child was tiny, crying out with all his strength, and Nie Yugang's heart ached terribly.
In a daze, he simply carried the child home.
In the blink of an eye,
more than twenty years had passed in an instant.
Looking back on it now, everything felt as though it had happened yesterday.
Only,
as skyscrapers rose one after another and broad streets were laid out,
the street he had walked for decades was no longer what it had once been.
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