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Chapter 118 The Story of Cuilan

Xiao Chunsheng suddenly realized.

That's right, isn't mending corpses all about having excellent needlework skills?

There's nothing wrong with that.

"Cuilan, you can work here then. I'll be leaving now." Xu Qingling had other things to do and didn't plan to stay any longer. After dropping off this person who had asked for leave—no, this ghost who had asked for leave—at her workplace, she prepared to leave.

"Respectfully seeing off Director Xu." Cuilan bowed again, her eyes full of respect, and only slowly stood up after Xu Qingling left.

Xiao Chunsheng and others who witnessed this scene thought: ...This Ms. Cuilan truly has etiquette ingrained in her bones.

Of course, Xiao Chunsheng was also very respectful to Xu Qingling because of the instructions from his superiors, but he was definitely not as respectful as Cuilan.

And what is this director position? I've never heard of it.

"Director Xiao, are there any corpses that need stitching up right now?" Cuilan didn't intend to linger. After seeing Xu Qingling off, she was ready to get to work.

Xiao Chunsheng: !! He immediately started working as soon as he arrived. That's an attitude I appreciate.

“Yes, yes, Cuilan…” Zhang Ruli immediately replied, but she didn’t know how to address Cuilan.

“I am fifty-two years old this year, you can call me Aunt Cuilan.”

"What? You're fifty-two? I thought you were forty." Xiao Chunsheng was shocked.

“Yes, yes, Aunt Cuilan, you take such good care of yourself! Your skin is so good, you hardly have any wrinkles, and you have such a great temperament…” Zhang Ruli was a chatterbox and a natural at making friends.

"Aunt Cuilan, you've come just in time. We have a body here that needs stitching up, but we're all too scared to do it ourselves. We'll have to rely on you."

"Then take me there."

Xiao Chunsheng hesitated for a moment, "Cuilan, are you sure? That person died in a car accident and was run over. The scene might be a bit..."

Xiao Chun was afraid that Cui Lan, who was so gentle and delicate, would not be able to bear seeing that scene.

Zhang Ruli and the other two: ...Director, you're being hypocritical here. When you wanted us to get stitches done, did you ever consider whether we were scared?

We're still babies younger than Aunt Cuilan!

"It's alright, take me there."

Cuilan spoke with certainty, and Xiao Chunsheng had no choice but to take her there.

The young man named Xiao Xu was found dead in a freezer in another room.

"You should prepare yourself mentally."

After Cuilan nodded, Xiao Chunsheng lifted the cloth.

Xiao Chunsheng also saw them. To be honest, having been the director of the funeral home for many years, Xiao Chunsheng had seen all kinds of corpses.

But every time he saw him, he still couldn't calm down.

Because that means a life was lost in such a tragic way.

Xiao Chunsheng turned to look at Cuilan, expecting to see her pale face, or that she would start vomiting, run away, or faint.

But no, there was nothing at all.

Cuilan's facial expression was calm, without the slightest fluctuation, as if she had become accustomed to all of this.

Cuilan: Thank you for the invitation.

In the underworld, she has stitched up the souls of many ghosts with her needlework skills. Since she herself is a ghost, how could she be afraid of corpses?

only……

Cuilan's gaze fell to the side of the freezer, where a fragmented soul was floating.

The spirit seemed to notice Cuilan's gaze and looked somewhat puzzled.

Cuilan knew that the soul was the young man in front of her.

She came to the funeral home not only to sew up the body, but also to sew up the soul along with it, so that the person could be reincarnated completely.

"can we start?"

Xiao Chunsheng felt that perhaps one really couldn't judge a book by its cover; Cuilan's mental fortitude was too strong, even he couldn't match it.

"Yes, yes, here are the tools, you can begin."

"Then I'll leave now. I won't bother you anymore, and I won't let anyone else bother you either." "Thank you. Please close the door when you leave."

The moment Xiao Chunsheng closed the door, he saw Cuilan slowly sit down, looking calm and composed, as if she knew the place well.

He was eager to see how Cuilan would stitch the body back together in the end.

As the door slowly closed, Cuilan began stitching up the corpse.

This was a piece of cake for her.

She was already intimately familiar with the different parts of the human body.

Even for those places that can no longer be found, she has a special way to repair them one by one.

She held a special thread in her hand, threading the needle with incredible speed, so fast that it was almost impossible to see any afterimage.

Time passed little by little as Cuilan sewed the needle.

……

At this moment, Xu Qingling, who had returned to the general store, was also recalling the matter of Cuilan, who had been asking for leave.

Since Chai Jianguo and his daughter earned money by delivering food in the human world, they not only bought a coffin and repaired a grave, but were also reincarnated.

More and more ghosts are begging Xu Qingling to help them find jobs and earn money in the human world.

There's no way around it; the underworld is just too chaotic, with so many ghosts that many are struggling to keep up.

Cuilan is the ghost who submitted a leave application earlier, and she has two obsessions...

Xu Qingling recalled Cuilan standing in front of her, dressed in an ancient nanny's uniform, recounting her life story.

Cuilan is not a modern person, but comes from an ancient country called the Sui Dynasty.

“From a young age, my family was poor. My parents couldn’t afford to raise so many of us brothers and sisters. As the eldest sister, I was sold to the Marquis’s mansion to be a maid for Miss Qin Mingyu, the second young lady of the Qin family.”

“I have a great talent for needlework. Miss Qin really liked the clothes and embroidery I made for her. Later, Qin Mingyu entered the palace and became a beauty. I followed her into the palace and became her head maid.”

Qin Mingyu treated her well, and Qin Mingyu herself was also a good person.

But the palace is a place that devours people without spitting out their bones.

Within a few years, the unfavored Qin Mingyu became embroiled in the power struggle between Consort Shu and Consort Gui, and became Consort Shu's scapegoat.

Qin Mingyu was given a white silk ribbon and died.

Although Cuilan and the other palace maids survived, their lives were not easy after being banished to the Xin Zhe Ku (a place for palace women to work in).

"It was around that time that I met Cao Yuan by chance."

Cao Yuan was a minor eunuch in the imperial kitchen, and he didn't actually have much power.

“He was very good to me. He always helped me, brought me food, secretly sold my embroidery to raise money, and when I was dying, he knelt for several hours to beg for medicine for me.”

Cuilan could tell that Cao Yuan liked her.

But Cao Yuan never revealed it.

They maintained this friendship for ten years.

Ten years is enough time for Cuilan to fall in love with the gentle and considerate Cao Yuan.

The two secretly kept each other company in the palace, relying on each other for survival.

"At that time, I thought that if I could follow Cao Yuan and live the rest of my life like this, it would be quite happy."

pity……

The two had only been in a relationship for less than two years when Cao Yuan died.

Consort Shu!

"Following Qin Mingyu, the innocent Cao Yuan was also implicated. Just as I made him a set of clothes, intending to give them to him when he returned."

But he didn't come back.

"Cao Yuan was beaten to death, and his body was thrown into a mass grave."

"That day was his birthday. I spent two months making that outfit to give him as a birthday gift."

(End of this chapter)