"Royal, nobles, dukes, luxurious, noble, generous...golden coffins."

"Elegant, restrained, calm, wise, wise, calm... light wind coffin."

In the living room,

Karen is sitting on the small sofa reading the coffin color book at home.

What he read were the two most expensive coffins on the color book. The adjectives in front of them were added one after another into a series, and the prices were 2.25 million rupees and 2.5 million rupees respectively.

Why is the Breeze Coffin more expensive than the Gold Coffin? Probably, this is the price of "elegance".

Uncle Mason told himself that the price on the color book was reduced by five times, which is the cost of the purchase, but this is the case. One 550,000 rupees and one 500,000 rupees are also a huge number.

If Karen remembers correctly, 500,000 rupees is enough to buy a three-bedroom, one-bedroom property in a good location in the city;

Alas, in the world of the really rich, this is really a coffin worth a suite.

"coffee."

"Thank you aunt."

Aunt Winnie put the coffee on the coffee table and sat on the sofa opposite.

"Have you been free these days?" Aunt Winnie asked.

"Well." Karen nodded. Mina and the others all need to go to school, but he doesn't. Therefore, he has been in charge of cooking for the past few days, which has refreshed the family's cognition of food.

The day before yesterday, he also specially cooked a "boiled beef". The family's acceptance of spicy food is actually quite acceptable, especially Uncle Mason was very happy to eat it. As a result, Uncle Mason walked lame the next day.

Hemorrhoids committed.

Besides cooking, he doesn't really have anything else to do.

Although grandpa didn't help him recover his school status, he got him a set of high school textbooks and tutoring books.

Except for the history book Karen occasionally flips through, the rest of the books are really of little value to him.

"It should be busy in a while. Two more elderly people in the Huashuiwan Sanatorium are unwell. In the two nearby hospitals that we cooperate with, there are several critically ill patients;

In the church, there is also a believer who is dying at home.

At that time, I will recommend your psychological counseling to their families. "

"Thank you aunt."

"Doing things for your own company, say thank you, drink coffee, I added sugar to you."

"OK."

Karen clenched her left hand slightly,

Obviously the coffee was on the left side, but he still used his right hand to pick up the coffee and took a sip.

At this moment, the phone rang.

Aunt Winnie got up and went to answer the phone:

"Hey... um... um... Got it."

"Snapped."

The sound of hanging up the phone is a little heavy,

Next, even heavier, was Aunt Winnie's cry:

"Mason, Mason!"

Uncle Mason, who was drinking black tea and reading the financial newspaper upstairs, immediately dropped everything and quickly stepped down the stairs while wearing his coat.

Aunt Winnie said, "The stage at the Crown Ballroom collapsed, and the casualties were huge."

"Oh, the Crown Ballroom." Mason nodded immediately.

"Where is the Crown Ballroom?" Aunt Mary's voice came from the stairs.

Mason immediately wondered: "Yeah, where is the Crown Ballroom?"

"I know, Mr. Mason, it's an old ballroom on Hill Street," Ron replied.

Before, he and Paul were actually basking in the sun on the garden chairs, and when they were not working, they often rested all day long.

But this is the way of it. Even if you know there is no work, you have to reserve the workers and other workers. After all, it is easy to find a waiter when something happens, and it is difficult to find a corpse worker;

Can't ask the neighbors next door to come and help?

Aunt Mary hadn't given her the money Mrs. Mark had paid for her complaint last time.

"Oh, on Hill Street." Uncle Mason turned his head and looked at Aunt Mary, who was standing at the top of the stairs. "My dear, you are also ready. I will try to pick up the guests directly, if there are any guests."

"Okay, dear." Aunt Mary nodded.

Karen, who was sitting on the sofa next to him, didn't feel a little funny when he saw this scene. What he didn't know, he thought he was driving "120" and needed to be dispatched urgently.

But this is a "commercial network". It is not only related in places like hospitals and nursing homes, but also in many other places. There are also "eyeliners". When such things happen, someone will come to notify them.

Buying and selling is done in this way, and you have to take the initiative.

"Is there a lot of casualties?" Mason looked at Karen, "Karen, come with you too, one more helper."

"Okay, uncle."

Uncle Mason sat in the cab, while Cullen, Paul and Ron folded the stretcher and placed it in the carriage, took the body bag, etc., and then got into the carriage together.

Before the hearse started, Aunt Winnie threw a stack of brochures from Inmerles Care for the Dead into the car window.

"gone!"

Mason gave his sister and wife a firm look, like a general who went on an expedition.

And Aunt Winnie and Aunt Mary also looked serious, looking forward to the general's triumph.

...

The car goes fast.

Karen has seen Uncle Mason run through two traffic lights in a row. Fortunately, there is no electronic eye to take pictures. As long as the police are not lucky enough to stand by the side, there will be basically nothing;

Of course, car accidents are another matter.

"The stage collapse, will it be so serious?" Karen asked curiously.

Ron was about to answer,

Uncle Mason, who was driving, spoke first:

"The Crown Ballroom has its own stage, a tempered glass stage suspended at a height of nearly five meters. Dancers in skirts and miniskirts will dance on it, standing below, you can look up to your heart's content.

Of course, there will also be many guests who will choose to spend extra money to experience the excitement of this high-altitude dance.

So, if the stage collapses and there are people dancing above and below, it could easily have dire consequences. "

Ron echoed: "Yes, the price of asking a dancer to dance is 5 rupees, and the price of dancing on the glass is 50 rupees, which is too expensive."

Uncle Mason said: "Money is second, and the main Crown Ballroom is afraid that it will fall into disrepair.

I have seen a lot of how tragic the remains of those who died unexpectedly at home. "

"Does uncle go often?" Karen asked.

"I liked to go when I was young, but I didn't go there much after I married your aunt. A few years ago, when I went back to Luojia City to visit relatives, I went there two or three times when I was gathering with some former friends.

After I really went home, I never went there once, and I didn't contact my former friends anymore. "

It's not that friends dislike the poor and love the rich, it's purely because the former Uncle Mason was a financial person with little achievements, and now he is the manager of the family company. Although he does not lack friends and relationships, it is completely different circles.

This would never happen:

"Hey friend, knowing that your loved one passed away is very painful, why don't you dance with me? "

soon,

Hill Street is here.

Uncle Mason continued to step on the accelerator, then turned into a path that was only big enough for one car to pass, interspersed again, and quickly went from Front Street to Middle Street.

After exiting the alley, turn right and stop, it is clear that Uncle Mason is very familiar with this place.

There are cinema, gym and other signs hanging on the building in front, but the biggest one is still shining, the Crown Ballroom!

Phew, here it is.

At this time, there were many people gathered on the street at the entrance and exit. Many people had blood on their bodies, their heads were bleeding, and some were so scared that they were crying. In short, it was very noisy.

As soon as Karen and others got out of the car, a police car suddenly stopped beside him. In the passenger seat was a sheriff wearing a khaki windbreaker with a pipe in his mouth. Murray's hearse,

Shouted in astonishment:

"Damn, Mason, how did you guys get here faster than the cops and the ambulance!!!"

Apparently, the sheriff and Uncle Mason knew each other.

This is not surprising,

In addition to nursing homes, hospitals, and churches, the funeral service has several stable sources of customers. The next one is the police station.

It is common to come to the police morgue to pull the body.

Uncle Mason explained, "Sheriff Duke, it's a coincidence that we happen to be on Front Street."

"Huh." Sheriff Duke obviously didn't believe it.

However, due to the traffic jam at this time and the fact that the Luojia City Gymnasium is hosting a friendly football match for the national team today, a large number of police forces have been dispatched to be responsible for security, and the follow-up police force is not very good for a while.

"Come with me and help me maintain order."

"Yes!"

Uncle Mason stood still, and Ron and Paul next to him also stood up immediately. Karen was half a beat slower, but she also straightened her chest.

This scene was a bit funny, Sheriff Duke couldn't help laughing, but immediately realized that he couldn't lose his manners on this occasion, and then turned his head and told the police officer who was driving:

"Mick, turn on the siren, go ahead to clear the traffic, and let the ambulance come in."

"Yes, Sheriff."

Ron and Paul pushed the crowd away in front. Sheriff Duke glanced at the injured crowd on the side of the road. They should have run out of the dance hall after the stage collapsed. Although many people were injured, they were able to escape by themselves. , the problem should not be too big, they are also doing simple bandaging and hemostasis for each other.

"Anyone else inside?" Sheriff Duke asked.

"Is there anyone else inside?" Uncle Mason pulled over a person wearing a ballroom uniform.

"Yes... yes, yes."

"Come on, let's go in."

Sheriff Duke stepped in first, and when he was going up the stairs, he saw a few people with serious injuries either being assisted or being carried out, either with glass stabs in their legs or in their abdomens, unable to walk on their own.

Uncle Mason directly gave up the one with the glass stabbed in his leg, and instead held the young man dressed in hip-hop who had the glass stabbed in his abdomen:

"Are you okay, can you hold on?"

The young man thought it was the doctor coming, and immediately nodded, "I don't think it's a big problem, and I can hold on."

Uncle Mason's enthusiasm dissipated in an instant, and he also let go of his hand.

"Doctor?" the young man was still calling to Uncle Mason.

"Sorry, I'm going to find the more seriously injured people inside, they need me more now!"

The young man nodded and said, "I understand, I understand."

Sheriff Duke continued to walk inside with the Inmelles family;

On the way, Sheriff Duke teased Mason and said, "Just so impatiently hoping for a dead person?"

Uncle Mason replied, "It's been off season lately."

"Oh, off-season."

"You can catch marijuana dealers and unlicensed brothels in the off-season, but we can't kill people in the off-season, right?"

"I can warn you, if you find someone seriously injured later, you have to send them to the hospital first. If the ambulance hasn't come, they will be sent in your car, but don't... just pull you directly before someone is dead. home."

"How can it be."

While speaking, everyone finally entered the infield of the ballroom. There were not many people left in the infield. Most of them had already come out, but there were still more than ten people inside.

The ground is full of glass shards, large and small.

Just a few steps inside, I saw a person leaning on the deck.

When I got closer, I found that half of the head had been cut off;

Behind its deck, there is a large piece of glass with an area of ​​about three square meters.

With such a large piece of glass, smashing it directly, cutting off half of a person's head is almost as easy as cutting a watermelon.

The scene on the back of the deck is even more unsightly, with all kinds of colors, like opening a sauce shop.

Uncle Mason hurried forward, turned his head to look at Sheriff Duke, and asked anxiously:

"Sheriff, come and see, is this guy dead?"

Sheriff Duke went up and kicked Mason,

But taking into account the broken glass on the ground all around, the kick was taken back halfway, and he didn't really kick it.

It can be seen from this that the relationship between Uncle Mason and Sheriff Duke is really good.

Sheriff Duke's mother died three years ago at a funeral at the Immelis family. In the end, the family confiscated 1 rupee of funeral expenses.

"Karen" didn't know about this matter. After all, "Karen" was still an autistic teenager at that time.

"Ron, body bag," Uncle Mason ordered.

"Okay."

Ron took out the body bag and began to put it on the hapless gentleman, muttering as he put it on:

"The opening fee for this seat is not low. You are really unlucky."

There is a glass stage above the front, and sitting here can have the best head-up viewing angle.

Ron packs up quickly, and is not intimidated by the tragedy and other things. This is a profession, and it is also that Ron and Paul can get paid rest all day long and have a lot higher than ordinary workers. The reason for the salary.

In front, a person is surrounded by several people;

There were several pieces of glass stuck in his body, and blood was constantly spilling out of his mouth.

Because the injury was too serious, and they didn't know whether it was his friend or an enthusiastic ballroom customer, they didn't dare to move him without authorization, for fear that if he was not careful, the person would be gone.

Uncle Mason stepped forward immediately, held his hand, and said:

"Hold on, hold on, please hold on!"

Having said that, he immediately shouted to Paul behind him:

"Stretcher, stretcher, quick!"

Paul, who was carrying the stretcher cart, immediately put down the stretcher cart, but did not put down the four wheels.

Uncle Mason told those around him:

"Be careful, everyone help lift a little, pay attention to stability, first take him out on a stretcher, the ambulance will be here soon, there is still hope for him, there is still hope! "

Everyone immediately began to help out according to Mason's orders.

Karen knew that the reason why Uncle Mason was so enthusiastic was because this person, if there was no miracle, should not be rescued.

However, Mason's choice is also correct. This is indeed the best for the injured, and it can also allow him to receive medical treatment faster.

And when the wounded was sent to the hospital and "nothing", Uncle Mason, who was familiar with him in advance, could naturally win the funeral order in front of a group of grateful family members.

Sheriff Duke watched from the side without disturbing Mason. He knew in his heart that although Mason wanted an order, he was not a messy person.

Karen wanted to go up to help, but the stretcher was so big that he had no place to interfere.

Just then, Karen heard Sheriff Duke make a "Huh?"

Looking at the sound, he found that Sheriff Duke had come to the center of the original stage.

The layout of the Crown Ballroom is that in the middle is a three-step-high, large wooden stage, and the glass stage is above the wooden stage.

After the glass stage was smashed down, several holes were also smashed into the center of the stage below.

At this time, Sheriff Duke was squatting beside a hole, reaching out and pulling out a few broken wooden boards next to him.

Karen came over, and then the whole person was stunned.

In this hole, there was a man's corpse lying impressively.

The male corpse was naked, his hands were spread out symmetrically to both sides at a forty-five-degree angle, the palms were upward, and the position of the middle finger was fixed by two iron nails, forming a posture of raising the middle finger in both directions;

in addition,

There is a white flower on the abdomen of the man's corpse, that is, at the navel, which should be... plastic.

There are traces of stitching up and down the belly button. It is very likely that this is not a flower, but... a pot of flowers.

The flower pot is in the belly of the male corpse;

In addition, the face of the male corpse was painted with heavy makeup.

The lipstick traces extend exaggeratedly from the corners of the male corpse's mouth, forming a visual illusion of "smile".

On the man's chest, there is a book with "Song of the Soul" written on the cover, which is the bible of the Berry religion.

He remember that Aunt Mary complained before that Mr. Mosan's children deliberately said that Mr. Mosan was a Berry believer in order to save money;

In the Berry teachings, the requirement is that the remains should be cremated after death and return to nature.

But in front of the male corpse on the stage, there are too many places where the body has been altered and arranged.

In addition, judging from the blue-black state of the corpse's skin, the death should have been quite long, although no obvious signs of decay were seen on the body.

However, it is impossible that the glass stage fell off and was crushed to death, and then someone around him took off his clothes and arranged it like this, right?

Sheriff Duke's eyes were solemn,

The previous incident in the dance hall was an accident, and the accident had nothing to do with him as a police officer. It would be good to maintain the rescue order, but now this corpse is different.

Sheriff Duke took a bite from the cigarette holder.

Said to himself:

"If it weren't for this accident, there's really no way to find out about this murder."

"I don't think...that's the case."

"Oh?"

Sheriff Duke turned his head and looked at the handsome young man standing beside him.

"Then what do you think?"

Karen pointed at the male corpse in the hole, said:

"The murderer deliberately created this accident in order to display his 'artwork'."