"The Church on Mingke Street;
Dis handed a wooden box to a man in a black windbreaker standing in front of him.
The man opened the box and glanced at the copper coins sealed in glass inside.
"Judge, is this the replica of the source of sin?"
"Yes."
"I see, I will send it to the district management office."
The man closed the wooden box and affixed a seal on it, which read:
Source of Sin (Imitation);
Do not touch.
"Oh, about the search warrant issued by the district two months ago."
Dis glanced at him and replied, "I submitted the reply to the search warrant a month ago."
"Yes, the district has seen it, but you know, this matter is not trivial, and they will certainly take it seriously. Therefore, they have ordered all districts, especially the Rulian District, to conduct a new large-scale search."
"But I don't even have a search list at hand, and I only know that there was a god-summoning ceremony held by unidentified individuals in Bellwin City. Although I can judge from the district's reaction that the level of this god-summoning ceremony should not be low."
"Judge Dis, I am only conveying the district's instructions. I don't know what you don't know, but please make another investigation report."
"Okay."
"The Light of Order forever shines."
After the man saluted, he took the box and walked out of the church.
Dis stood in place, sorting out things on the table.
Halfway through, the man suddenly stopped and said:
"Judge Dis, there is another thing I heard."
"Speak."
"High Priest Rasma has come from the headquarters to Rulian, and he will be responsible for the second investigation of the Bellwin incident."
"Why are you telling me this?"
"Because I heard from the district guardian that you have a deep relationship with High Priest Rasma."
"And then?"
"If possible, the district guardian hopes that you can speak well of the Bellwin incident in front of High Priest Rasma. If the Bellwin incident continues to be unclear, many people in the Rulian District are worried about being blamed by the headquarters."
"I am just a judge. The affairs of the high-ranking officials should be resolved by themselves."
Dis finished packing and walked to the door. When he reached the man, he stopped:
"Are you a divine herald?"
"No, I am a divine servant."
Dis smiled, "You're pretending, not very convincing."
The Order Church takes guarding the order of the light as its responsibility, and the existence of respecting the order is becoming more and more important. Therefore, there is a very powerful department within the Order Church that is responsible for supervising the church itself, called the "Whip of Order".
It's a bit like the gendarmerie of each country.
The man lowered his head and made a respectful gesture.
Dis didn't say anything else and walked out of the church.
The man lifted his head,
stroking the wooden box in his hand and whispered:
"In fact, Judge Dis, you're pretending too."
...
"It's really a deposit that's so rich it's suffocating."
Uncle Mason held the agreement contract and the thick stack of tall money next to it, feeling very emotional.
But then, the vigilance of a former financial industry practitioner immediately made Mason suspicious:
A quick look at "pawread dot com" will leave you more fulfilled.
"A deposit of 100,000 Lu coins, and it's not a check, but cash?"
"Is cash not good?" Aunt Mary said, "It also saves us from going to the bank to check for authenticity."
"Dear, except for a few who really like to save and use cash, most of the people who use large amounts of cash do it to avoid being traced."
At this point,
Uncle Mason deliberately glanced at Karun sitting across from him,
asking:"Karun, do you think there's anything wrong with the other party?"
Karun shook his head.
Uncle Mason breathed a sigh of relief, but Karun's next words left him stunned.
"It's not a small problem. I think it's a big problem."
"A big problem?" Uncle Mason asked in confusion.
"A funeral for multiple people, and you have to make an appointment in advance, as if they are certain that the whole family will die at the same time."
"I can explain that," Aunt Mary said. "Some families have special family or religious traditions and will seal the body of the deceased until the entire generation passes away before holding a joint funeral. It means they can hold hands and enter heaven or a similar place together."
"Oh, I see. That makes sense. The gentleman said that family was very close," Uncle Mason laughed. "It doesn't matter anyway. The tax bureau won't find us here."
As if to boost his own morale, Uncle Mason added, "The funeral of the tax bureau director's first and second wives was held at our house, and we didn't charge a penny."
Karun laughed, "So our family has never paid taxes, right?"
"We do pay taxes. I pay the monthly environmental protection fee and funeral business license maintenance fee on time, and as for the tax revenue...Winnie," Uncle Mason called out to Aunt Winnie, who was responsible for accounting.
Aunt Winnie happened to be walking over with coffee and continued, "Because our business has been in a state of loss, we have been relying on government welfare to survive. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to continue operating."
Karun nodded and said, "I understand."
In fact, he had just received his salary and bonus for last month yesterday. His salary was a base salary plus a commission for psychological counseling, and the base salary was 3,000 lu coins, which was almost the same as Ron's. When there weren't enough people, Karun had to help transport the bodies, which was like being the third body mover on the team.
The commission was a split of two psychological counseling fees, and he took 50% and submitted 50%, which was 2,000 lu coins.
So his salary was 5,000 lu coins, but as a member of the family, he received a bonus of 30,000 lu coins.
The bonus was an exaggerated figure, mainly supported by Mrs. Simor's order. The price of the coffin she selected for Mr. Simor was as high as 200,000 lu coins. With just that one coffin, the Inmores family could directly take 100,000 lu coins in profit.
So it's no wonder Aunt Mary gets excited every time she hears about the "B-level package."
In fact, if it weren't for the loss-making business of the previous girl's order, last month's bonus could have been even more staggering.
In other words, Karun's income last month was already higher than that of an ordinary worker's annual income.
It's no wonder Nurse Maisie didn't mind Karun's family business. In the face of such huge bonus income, those bodies, oh no, those customers, could also become friendly and amiable.
And the one with the highest actual income in the family is Aunt Mary, because Aunt Mary holds the "technical high ground."
Excellent body movers, salesmen, and well-presented priests are not difficult to find, but excellent embalmers are really hard to find. The more willing a customer is to spend money, the higher their demands for the embalmer, so Aunt Mary's income is the highest in the family.
However, B-level packages are hard to come by, and high bonuses and income are not possible every month. But even in the off-season, bonuses can still be around 5,000 lu coins."By the way, I found out the lowest price for the Xiusi Crematorium. Including the land, factory, equipment, and business license, it's 500,000 Lu coins." Uncle Mason spread his hands. "It's a very favorable price, with the main cost being the land and business license."
Aunt Mary snorted. "The land price is fake."
The Xiusi Crematorium is not yet at the stage where it needs residential development, and there is not that much population pressure in Roja City, so the land can only be used for factories. It's basically impossible to sell at a high price if you want to make money by selling the land.
"But that's the price listed on it. In addition, the business license is the hardest to obtain. I think the price is quite reasonable. The idea is that if our family can directly pay this money, the Xiusi Crematorium can become the Inmoleis Crematorium directly."
Aunt Winnie reminded them, "There isn't that much money in the public account. It's distributed as dividends every month."
Dis is not a miser, and the family is distributed dividends every month, so there is only basic operating costs in the public account.
"So, if we want to acquire the Xiusi Crematorium, we need our family to return the savings to the public account, and then use the overall profit of the funeral home and crematorium as compensation."
Most importantly, the operating condition of the Xiusi Crematorium was only at the maintenance stage, and the profit was not very high, much lower than theirs.
Even if they merged with the funeral home, the increase in profit would be limited because most of the wealthy clients would choose burial.
It's not possible to let customers who can't afford it add a low-priced funeral, which would affect their original business.
Most importantly, Mrs. Xiusi became a fugitive killer, Mr. Darcy also died, and the original two employees had long since quit, so they needed to recruit new employees.
Who would be responsible for managing that area?
"Mason, are you going?"
"Or Karun?"
"You both have things to do at home."
"Mrs. Winnie." At this time, Paul's voice came from outside, and he walked in, looking a little shy. "I was sitting outside just now and heard your conversation. Ron heard it too."
To show that he didn't eavesdrop on purpose, Paul brought Ron in.
"Uh-huh."
Ron poked his head out and nodded.
"Huh? This is our family business. You are also a member of our company, so you don't need to avoid us." Uncle Mason said.
"Thank you, sir." Paul took a breath and said, "Sir, Madam, Young Master, if possible, I would like to invest my savings into the Xiusi Crematorium, and I can also be responsible for the operation over there."
"Are you crazy, Paul? What money do you have to invest?" Ron laughed.
"I have 100,000 Lu coins."
"Just 100... thousand Lu coins!!!" Ron exclaimed, "My goodness, how can you have so much money!"
Ron and Paul have been working as corpse movers in the Inmoleis family for some years. However, Ron has always been living paycheck to paycheck and occasionally borrows money to spend, while Paul has been saving up.
Aunt Winnie said, "It's not impossible, but I need to re-draft the specific shareholding."
"Okay, Madam."
Aunt Mary smiled and asked, "It seems that Paul has succeeded in courting the moon?"
Paul blushed and nodded, "Yes, so I hope to do something on my own and give her a better life."
Ron said sourly, "Why is it her and not him (me)?"
Uncle Mason raised his hand and said, "If we want to proceed with this matter in this way, do we need to recruit another assistant?"Aunt Mary stretched lazily and reminded them, "It's better to have two people, because I still need a female assistant. Mina and Lunt are going to high school and can't help out at home if there's something going on, unless they inherit the family business now."
Obviously, Aunt Mary didn't want Mina and Lunt to be stuck in a fixed life, even if they had to come back after failing outside like their father, at least they had seen the outside world.
"Well, what about Paul?" Uncle Mason asked, "The crematorium also needs employees. Which account should we use? Do we need to recruit together?"
Paul immediately said, "My mother can do odd jobs. In addition, my fiancée and her parents can all come to the crematorium to work. I can also drive, no problem."
Uncle Mason joked, "Wow, you're bringing your wife's whole family into the crematorium."
Aunt Winnie raised the account book and looked at everyone present, "Father has always been indifferent to this matter, so if no one objects, I will go make a plan. Then, everyone please keep your own private money safe and get ready to hand it in."
The family meeting ended.
The next day, Uncle Mason posted a job advertisement at the door.
On the third day, Aunt Winnie came up with the acquisition plan and share plan.
The purchase price was 500,000 Lu coins, plus all the necessary new equipment, a total of 700,000 Lu coins was needed for the crematorium.
After deducting Paul's investment of 100,000 Lu coins, 600,000 Lu coins still needed to be raised, including 120,000 Lu coins to be contributed by the five family members, including Karun.
Karun contributed 60,000 Lu coins, adding the remaining "Karun" private money and Piajie consulting fees from last month's income, and the remaining 60,000 Lu coins were evenly split between Uncle, Aunt, and Grandpa. Then, this "debt" would be deducted from Karun's monthly dividends in proportion.
Another reason for the budget being so large was that the old hearse of the Inmoleis family was counted as the Inmoleis family's share investment in the crematorium and was handed over to the crematorium for Paul to use.
At home, they needed to buy a new hearse, not a "shell" converted car, but a hearse produced by a car company.
It was very expensive, costing 160,000 Lu coins.
Uncle Mason went to pick up the hearse with great joy, but because the student demonstration parade blocked the traffic, he didn't get home until the middle of the night.
After coming home, exhausted Uncle Mason scolded the students and Lunt during dinner.
The next day, Uncle Mason was blocked by the protesting workers on his way back with the money. He didn't get home until the middle of the night again. During dinner, he scolded Lunt again.
In short, the Inmoleis family was very busy these days, and Roja City was even busier.
When Karun read the newspaper during breakfast every day, he could smell the impending storm.
The editor-in-chief, Humir, of the Roja Daily subscribed by the family, was too obvious in his editorial on the front page, as if he was sure that the old mayor would definitely lose the election and had already taken a stand in the new team.
"It seems that the old mayor is in trouble this time," Karun said while drinking milk.
Uncle Mason didn't think so, "It's impossible. The old mayor has the support of the industrial district's ironclad vote, and he hasn't done a bad job as mayor. Didn't he disperse the worker's parade yesterday?"
"Maybe," Karun said.Karun flipped through another page of the newspaper, which had a photo of Daisy on it.
Hmm, she's so mature-looking for someone so young.
How could Trent like her?
But then again, Puerh mentioned that Trent had already used his hands on her secretly, so it makes sense.
For the past two days, Trent has been getting scolded by Mason during breakfast, which led to Trent waking up early today and eating while heading to school.
"Oh, by the way, Karun, I'm going out for a bit. I have to go back to the crematorium for follow-up procedures. Two employees are coming for an interview at noon, and I've already interviewed them and set their basic salary. You can review it later."
"If it's already set, why do I need to review it?"
"Hmph, I didn't tell them directly, did I? You can use this opportunity to instill our Inmolei's funeral culture into them."
"Oh, okay." Karun nodded, hesitating for a moment before asking his uncle what our family's corporate culture is.
"Is it the 14th today?"
"Yes, they reserved for four days, and today is the first day."
Mason smiled and said, "I hope they can hold out for four days."
It's comfortable to earn a deposit while lying down.
After finishing breakfast, Mason drove the new hearse out.
Karun was reading in his bedroom study, and he asked Tomina to borrow many books about "religion" from the city library.
Since waking up in this world, he hasn't used much math, physics, or chemistry, but there are books on "theology" everywhere.
Even if he didn't encounter those strange things and his grandfather Dis was just a normal old priest, he would still have to deal with customers of various beliefs.
Karun took notes while reading.
Until he heard a "dog barking" coming from the yard downstairs. Well, it's normal to hear a dog barking. That silly dog likes to bark for no reason.
Mr. Hoffmann, who was originally dying and was rescued but is now struggling with death, is still fighting hard and can't let go. So the golden retriever has been staying at Inmolei's house.
But in addition to "dog barking," Karun also heard a cat meowing. Did Puerh also meow?
Karun pushed open the window and saw a man and a woman standing in front of the gate. They should be the new employees who came to apply today.
Karun walked out of the bedroom and downstairs, still thinking about our family's corporate culture. How should he create it?
Until Karun walked out of the living room on the first floor.
In an instant,
His footsteps froze.
The woman wearing a black hat lifted her head as Karun walked over.
Nurse...
This face, this nurse wearing a nurse uniform, almost killed him and Puerh that night.
After a brief shock, Karun remembered who took away Nurse's body.
So, the woman in front of him is...Lady Molly?
Then, the man next to Nurse is...
The man took off his hat,
Smiling at Karun,
Alfred!
Karun turned around and walked back to the living room, sitting on the sofa.
Alfred and Lady Molly pushed open the unlocked gate and followed him into the living room.
Looking at Lady Molly, who had become "Nurse," Karun suddenly felt uncomfortable. Perhaps it was because Lady Molly's original image was too deeply ingrained in his mind.
As for Alfred, even if he wasn't wearing a suit today and was wearing traditional casual clothes, he still couldn't hide his exquisite and tidy feeling.
Sitting on the sofa, Karun looked at them and asked:"You are here..."
Alfred and Lady Molly knelt down in front of Karun and said in unison:
"When the great you need us, we should obey your call!"
At this moment, Aunt Mary, who was organizing tools in the basement, heard the noise from the first floor. She remembered her husband saying that two new employees would come during the day, and one of them was her female assistant.
In addition, her husband also said that Karun should go and promote the corporate culture of the Inmoleis family to them. She asked her husband what their corporate culture was, and Mason's answer was, "I don't know, but I believe Karun can make it up."
Finally, Mason joked that since Karun could provide psychological counseling, he could definitely make the new employees happy and willing to work for them for free.
Aunt Mary curiously walked up the slope and wanted to eavesdrop on the "corporate culture". But as soon as she reached the living room, she saw two new employees, a man and a woman, kneeling in front of her nephew Karun.
Aunt Mary was so scared that she covered her mouth and thought, "Oh my god, is our corporate culture so powerful?"