Luo Zhiyong had once been Chen Miao's classmate, but as for their relationship... Chen Miao felt they were only classmates, not friends.
Luo Zhiyong had barely made his presence felt in their old class. So little, in fact, that when the "Complete Funeral Services" group was created, its owner had forgotten about him.
Even now, most people in the group had forgotten there was someone named Luo Zhiyong.
If Luo Zhiyong hadn't contacted him, Chen Miao would have assumed his old classmate had already changed professions.
That made him curious about what his old classmate had been doing in the two and a half years since graduation, and why he had come to Tianmen County.
After they chatted over dinner about amusing things from their school days, Chen Miao asked him.
The reason Luo Zhiyong gave left Chen Miao feeling rather sheepish.
After graduation, Luo Zhiyong had returned to his hometown and become an apprentice Master of Ceremonies at the local funeral home.
But he wasn't good with words. Even after a full year as an apprentice, a poorly written eulogy had given a client an excuse to kick up a fuss.
After the boss smoothed things over, he used the incident as a reason to let Luo Zhiyong go.
Luo Zhiyong had said nothing about it.
After leaving the town's funeral home, Luo Zhiyong had no other particular skills to fall back on. Through introductions from his family, he had some business cards printed and distributed them to the Funeral Goods Shops in the surrounding villages.
Unlike funeral homes, those village Funeral Goods Shops only gathered the people they needed when a funeral came up, paying them by the job.
At first, Luo Zhiyong could only earn five hundred per funeral. Even that was because a Funeral Goods Shop