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Three Days

Three days passed by.

During these three days, Bai Wei was like a busy spinning top, spinning around non-stop.

He also fully experienced the inconvenience of not having instant communication tools. At that time, Yingzhou people were not too rigid, and fax machines and e-mails were still relatively advanced in the middle of the twentieth century, but even so could not satisfy Bai. Dimensional requirements for work efficiency.

He began to be in charge of preparing for Akira Sakurai’s funeral. Even if there were no worshipers, the basic rituals would be done, and then the mourning hall layout, corpse cremation, and tombstone placement would all be customized by temples and funeral parlors.

Bai Wei did not choose the too expensive professional service of black coffin-carrying, but only chose a relatively cheap package. The tombstone was also bought near the Yoshino family. There are a lot of vacancies, if there is any need in the future, they can be arranged here… When the Qingming Festival comes to offer incense, they will be called one by one, just like the roll call in class.

It took a day to prepare, and a day to hold the funeral, plus I went to the hospital to pick up Sakurai Si from the hospital, take her to the funeral site, and find some people I knew to pay their respects to fill the scene, make it lively, and dilute the sad atmosphere.

The steps are very cumbersome. It is very complicated to listen to monks chanting scriptures and family members to answer the salute.

Thinking about it this way is still convenient for the Ming Dynasty. Once the song is played and the cloth is changed, the whole village is waiting for the food to be served, crying and crying, and carrying it, followed by a piece of white. Once the coffin is covered and the soil is buried, the world will never come back. .

It’s better to open the banquet directly, find some suona players and gongs and drums, and play together outside the door, so that people can be blown away safely and happily.

It’s a pity that there is no one-stop service from the Pastoral Hall here. It’s a pity that this business can’t be done overseas. Music can’t be played in the mourning hall, and gongs and drums can’t be played.

Sakurai Si was the only one with the most upright attitude throughout the entire funeral process. Bai Wei was an outsider during the entire funeral process. Only the little girl thanked a group of guests who didn’t know her father at all with tears in her eyes… Maybe it was more routine, but it was also very important to her.

The funeral is not for the dead, but for the living.

After the night ended and everything was over, Bai Wei sent Sakurai Si back to the hospital, and then took out all the savings on hand to make up the medical expenses for this month, and also for the next month’s medical expenses by the way.

Because next month is December, which is the peak period for blood moon disease. It is not clear what the scarlet curse will be like at that time. Let her stay in the hospital for observation for a month, and the attending doctor, Heise, will return to the hospital in a week.

At this point, all the bonuses snatched from the mercenaries are useless.

He even paid back tens of thousands of yen.

Bai Wei touched his pockets and found that the deposits earned from part-time jobs plus the lucky money and pocket money over the years were already stretched.

Exhaust the lake and fish, sit and eat the mountains and the sky.

Bai Wei, who has not been troubled by money for several lifetimes, even cared about food expenses. He made up his mind that when he was free, he would hurry up and find that Dragon Cherry Club to see if there was a suitable job.

On the third day, Bai Wei went to the Metropolitan Police Department. The Takagi Police Department introduced acquaintances to help go through the process of Sakurai Si’s adoption procedures. Even if the work efficiency is faster, because he is from the Ming Dynasty, he needs to confirm with the embassy. It takes more than half a month to go through the process, so there is no rush.

Then I went to the embassy, ​​ran to the government affairs office, and went through complicated matters, and the whole day passed.

In three days, I was entangled in foreign affairs, but I finally finished all the work that should be done.

On the way back in the evening, he passed by the Hanafan Shrine in Hanagi Town. He stopped and walked up to the shrine, wanting to pet the cat for a while. Sucking a cat is really decompressing, just like looking at pandas.

In the past, when I came to the shrine, I would be surrounded by a group of cats who were not afraid of strangers, but this time I didn’t see any cats.

Only Daju squatted on the stone seat beside the torii, lazily licking the hair on his paws.

“Where are people?” Bai Wei asked.

“Meow.” Daju replied.

Bai Wei couldn’t understand what it said, through itThe facial expressions and body language guessed probably.

The shrine is closed for worship recently, and the cats are forced to take a holiday, so they don’t come here to work part-time, and stay at home.

Go home… part-time job… vacation?

Bai Wei suddenly thought of a gossip in Huashan Town before, that the cats in the shrine are actually here to eat, drink and play. About 70% to 80% of these cats are raised by a family, and the remaining 20-30% have more than one family. keep.

Some cats are also Neptunes. Their beauty can be given to several families at the same time. Time management is a matter of control.

The shrine has been closed recently, so naturally no one came except Daju.

“What about you? You won’t just be so hungry, will you?”

Just after finishing speaking, suddenly a raccoon cat came out of the bushes, and put a plump herring tail in front of Daju.

The orange cat wagged its tail, and the civet cat received the instruction, then disappeared with a whoosh.

Bai Wei: “…”

Which capitalist did you learn this from?

Daju started to eat dinner, and Bai Wei didn’t enter the shrine either, and was thoughtful when he left.

The shrines here are small shrines, but the shrines all over the country, except for a small number of large-scale shrines, are generally managed by the shrines. They do not need to be responsible for their own profits and losses, and they also have corresponding establishments. Coming here is equivalent to working in the community.

When the community does not go to work on weekdays, it means that the manpower is temporarily transferred out. The manpower of the shrine has always been insufficient, and temporary transfers are not uncommon, but Bai Wei has not seen the witch here for almost a month. go to work.

Suddenly, he had some not-so-good thoughts, and Bai Wei quickly put these thoughts behind him. Thinking wildly was a waste of energy and internal friction.

…

Dinglingling – the phone rang, Liu Shengshuangyue turned off the tap, dried her hands and went to the entrance, picked up the receiver.

“Hey?”

“Hey, it’s me, Saki-chan is also—”

“Uh…” Liu Shengshuangyue was ready to hang up the phone.

“Wait, don’t hang up!” Jinguji Saki said hurriedly, “I’m not making a fuss, I just sneaked in to call because I really had something to do.”

“What’s the matter?” Liu Shengshuangyue said, “You have asked for leave for a week in advance. Didn’t you have a good time in Kyoto?”

“No way… I was temporarily recruited and called to work overtime. It’s tiring. You don’t know how excessive the overtime in the Jingu Temple is. I want to rest for a while. Instead, I will be reprimanded by the head priestess for ideological education, saying It’s okay to be tired. Comfort is reserved for losers. If you want to succeed, you must work hard overtime. You must get out of your comfort zone. Don’t be blinded by the fatigue and short-term desires in front of you… My God, I just want to rest Half an hour, a full twenty-eight hours without closing your eyes!” Jinguji complained on the other end of the phone.

Liu Shengshuangyue was not in the mood to listen to these complaints, she glanced at the soup pot that was still boiling.

“That’s all? I’m hanging up.”

“Come on, I haven’t finished yet!”

“Hurry up, you’ve wasted three minutes. If you were Altman, you’d already be beaten up by monsters in the arena! Your phone bill is free, and my electricity bill is even more!”

“It’s just… Didn’t I ask for leave?”

“Ok?”

“Class notes, and I don’t have time to write this week’s homework, can you help me…”

“Class notes are fine. I can teach you homework when you come back, but you have to write it yourself.”

“But I’m so tired.”

“Then you don’t have to write it, just say ‘too lazy to write’ and throw it in the professor’s face.”

“Then wait for the usual points to be deducted to zero?” Jingongsi whimpered: “You have no heart, Shuangyue.”

“Calling from such a distance, just for this matter? It seems that you are still quite free.” Liu Shengshuangyue paused here.

“…Why didn’t you say it all of a sudden?” An anxious voice came from the other end of the phone: “At this time in the past, you should have opened your mouth to hurt me. Why didn’t you say anything all of a sudden? Don’t be like this, I’m a little scared.”

“There’s something wrong with you. Are you expecting me to speak harshly to you?”

“How could it be?” Jinguji immediately denied, and then hehehe said: “But I am used to being insulted, and I feel a little uncomfortable not being scolded suddenly. It seems that there are cosmic supermen crawling all over my body.”

“Hiss… Fu…” Liu Sheng took a deep breath, “I’m not as relaxed as you, and I have some worries.”

“What’s bothering you? Ah, could it be that vixen from before?” Jinguji Saki noticed it suddenly, and even scolded herself: “There is nothing good about a vixen, you have to take good care of it for the sisters!”

“It’s not your turn to talk about it.” Liu Shengshuangyue leaned against the cabinet: “But what worries me is not this matter, but…”

A few minutes later, I don’t know what to say.

Jinguji Saki comforted: “The boat will go straight when it reaches the bridge. It’s a pity that I’m not by your side. I’m going to miss a good show.”

At this time, there was a calling voice from behind, and she pressed the receiver: “Then let’s do this…”

“What do you have to say that you want me to convey to your elder brother?” Liu Shengshuangyue was so generous once in a while.

“No need, if you have anything to say, I’ll talk about it when I get back.” Jinguji Saki smiled mischievously: “ciao—”

She walked out of the phone booth, looked at the dark clouds hovering on the mountain top in the distance, and slowly gathered up a long dress, her fingertips turned slightly white.