death office

On a rare sunny weekend, the office had nothing to do, Mu Lan said hello to Lu Xuan and ran out to play, leaving Lian Jia and Lu Xuan staring at each other in the room.

"It's a child after all!" Lian Jia couldn't help sighing.

Lu Xuan glanced at him, and retorted blankly: "She's older than you."

"I knew you were going to say that!" Lian Jia looked at Lu Xuan's serious expression, a little speechless, "Can you stop living such a tiring life, always serious, your life is very boring!"

Lu Xuanmu remained silent.

"Honestly, Ah Xuan, a boring person like you is also boring in sex life?" Lian Jia approached him with a smirk on his face, and bumped his shoulder with his own, "You alone How many times a week do you fly?"

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"Tch, do you think I won't know if you don't speak?" Lian Jia didn't care, with a sly smile on his face, then stretched out an index finger in front of Lu Xuan, and shook it proudly.

Lu Xuan's eyes flashed, he stared at his proud face, and said, "Are you free?"

Lian Jia's expression remained unchanged: "Yes, it's quite free."

Lu Xuan heard other meanings in his words, but didn't say anything. He got up and walked to the door, saying as he walked, "If you're free, find something to do."

After finishing speaking, without looking at Lian Jia's reaction, he went straight to the rooftop.

Lian Jia watched his leaving back from behind him, and the smile on his mouth gradually faded away. He sat on the sofa and looked around. It is outdated, and the long-lasting sense of time is everywhere.

If Mu Lan could see the world in Lian Jia's eyes, she would be very surprised. The office that Lian Jia saw was exactly the same as what she saw!

Too bad she couldn't see it.

Lian Jia's eyes fell out of the window. There was no sea there, which was completely different from the blue world in his memory. He did not lie to Mulan. He used to live in a villa by the sea, just like a caged Like a canary, the only sky you can see is that narrow box.

But now, the box is smaller than ever before.

His gaze fell to an unknown place, and he murmured into the air: "Lu Xuan, don't you know what I want to do?"

Lu Xuan went back to the small room on the roof, habitually sat behind that table, took out the black book and flipped through it, but felt that the words that could make him concentrate on weekdays felt irritated no matter how he looked at them.It was plain black and white, but what he saw between the lines was Lian Jia's half-smile face.

He knew what Lian Jia wanted, but he clenched his hand on the table into a fist with such force that even his joints turned white.

A voice in my heart gradually became clear: I can't.

Can't promise him.

He took a deep breath, closed his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose to calm down his fluctuating mood, then opened his eyes again and focused on the notebook in front of him.

As a special existence between this shore and the other shore, the work of the death office is nothing more than the extradition of the dead, bringing the living souls left on this shore back to the other shore, allowing them to enter reincarnation and rebirth.

The history of the death office has been so long that its origin cannot be traced. There have been countless extraditables who were the bosses of the firm. However, in ancient times, the names of the extradited persons were more often replaced by "black and white impermanence".

So in fact, the folklore is not completely unbelievable. After all, you have never died, so how would you know?

The small black book that Lu Xuan often reads can be called the book of life and death. It simply records the soul's name, gender, age and cause of death at the time of death.Whenever the soul is brought to the office, it is necessary to read the information in the book to them in front of the soul. Although this is of no use, after all, the soul has no memory, but as a rule, this has become a rule. It is a process that the firm must go through.

If the soul is not brought to the office, but is directly extradited, then a symbol needs to be added after the name to indicate the record.

Lu Xuan looked at the two names "Lu Qing and Duan Zhu" on the notebook, and put a cross behind their names respectively.

——"Lu Qing, female, 25 years old, cause of death: Injured by a sharp object."

—— "Duan Zhu, female, 22 years old, cause of death: suicide."

In just a few words, it is a lifetime...

There is a saying that the walking speed of pedestrians on the street is related to the degree of development of the city. The more hurried the walk, the more developed the city is. After all, people always have to learn to adapt to an increasingly fast-paced lifestyle. But City C, which is the capital of leisure, is just the opposite.Although there are many vehicles coming and going on the street, there are few people in a hurry on the sidewalk. Most people take advantage of the rare good weather to go out for a walk or walk their dogs.

Mu Lan was walking on the street, although her childish face was pretending to be mature, but her black and white eyes betrayed her inner curiosity.She didn't know if she had seen such a bustling place before, at least she didn't have it in her poor memory now, including the street where she had a car accident, and it wasn't as lively as here.

What you hear in your ears is the sound of whistles, dogs barking, people's conversations, and the sounds of children playing and crying; what you see in your eyes are couples holding hands, endless traffic, flashing and changing traffic lights, Huge LED billboards, towering skyscrapers

She casually followed the crowd to a square, found a bench and sat down.Not far in front, a group of children were laughing and joking around a sugar figurine master, but their eyes were always fixed on those exquisite little figures.She too stared intently.

Those children bought their favorite sugar figurines and left happily.She still watched.

The master saw it and asked with a smile: "Little girl, do you want to buy a sugar figurine?"

Mu Lan's eyes lit up, and she seemed to have reacted randomly, shaking her head in embarrassment.

She has no money.

The master smiled and didn't speak any more, and continued to lower his head and continue to be busy with the things in his hands.Mu Lan rested her elbows on her knees and propped her chin with her hands, but her eyes turned to the huge LED display in the center of the square.A popular idol drama is being played on it. The heroine in the drama has a weak face. At this time, she is crying like pear blossoms and raining, and the male protagonist comforts her distressedly.

Many people sitting and resting in the square were also watching more or less. Mu Lan hadn't read the beginning, so she was a little confused and confused at the moment.

Suddenly someone reached out and handed something in front of her. Mu Lan was startled. When she came back to her senses, she saw clearly that the master had taken a candy figurine and was holding it in front of her.

She was taken aback, and quickly waved her hand: "I, I don't buy it."

The master didn't let go of his hand, and looked at her with a smile: "Take it, uncle gave it to you."

She hesitated to take it, it was a white sheep, delicate and beautiful, she fell in love with it just by looking at it, held it in her hand, looked left and right, couldn't put it down, and couldn't bear to take a bite.

The master saw her fondness, and there was nostalgia in his eyes: "When my daughter was your age, she also liked the sugar figures I made. Every time I made them, she was reluctant to eat them. Sometimes the weather is too hot and the sugar melts." She is also reluctant to throw it away."

Mulan didn't tell him that her actual age was actually much older than she looked: "Does your daughter not like eating now?"

The master shook his head with a sad expression: "She ran away from home ten years ago and never came back."

Mu Lan was silent for a while, then asked again: "Then you haven't seen her for ten years?"

The master said: "I really didn't see it in the first few years, but now I can see it."

"She has come back?"

The master shook his head, pointed at the crying heroine on the screen: "There she is."

Mu Lan actually knew this actor. Although she didn't watch TV dramas very much, she was gossipy like many girls. When she had nothing to do in the office, she would watch some entertainment news on TV.I forgot to mention that Lian Jia has been complaining to Mulan all the time. What era is this? There is not even a computer in the office. The only electrical appliance is a TV. To make a biography record, you have to write it by hand. It is really out of date!

At that time, Mulan put on an old-fashioned face and said, "Actually, there are other electrical appliances, such as electric lights."

Lian Jia was so angry that his face was livid, and he didn't speak to her for three days.

This actress is called Yun Shen, and she is a floret who has risen rapidly in recent years.In fact, the speed is not appropriate. After all, she has been a role player in many TV dramas for several years. It was not until she was appreciated by a director and played the second female lead in a popular drama that she entered the audience's field of vision. .

Is Yun Shen the daughter of this master?Mu Lan was a little surprised. As far as she knew, Yun Shen was an orphan who stepped into the entertainment industry by chance.

"I come here every day to sell sugar figurines, because only here I can see her." The master looked a little sad when he said this.Mu Lan was silent, she decided to hide the fact that Yun Shen said that she was an orphan.

How sad would the man in front of him be if he knew what his daughter said.

"Very good," Mu Lan looked at the sugar figurine in her hand and whispered, "Maybe she will see you too."

The master smiled and didn't expose her white lie.

The two quietly watched the TV series on the screen together.

Before the TV series was finished, the master received a call. Mu Lan noticed that his mobile phone was not a popular touch-screen mobile phone, but a dilapidated old-fashioned key-press mobile phone with the paint leather on the top of the mobile phone case almost falling off. .The ringtone of the mobile phone is a very clear male voice: "Dad, answer the phone quickly! Dad, answer the phone quickly! Dad"

The man picked up the phone, the voice on the other end was a little noisy, she only heard a few words intermittently: "Suo Yu is in a coma at the hospital"

Seeing his face change suddenly, Mu Lan hung up the phone, and said to her apologetically, "Something happened to my son, I have to rush to the hospital."

It turned out that the master had a son.Mu Lan thought about it, and nodded at him: "Okay. Goodbye, uncle."

The master hurriedly tidied up his small stall, finally glanced at the big screen with a little regret, and left.