Chapter 32 undertaker

My manager passed away. She is Ms. Nahomi Yoshida.Over the past thirty years, we have experienced all kinds of things together, but the humiliation, the shame and the dishonor have all been borne by Ms. Yoshida, and she has helped me deal with it all without letting me see it. arrive.She always says to me: "Please do your own work freely and play the style of Hei Liu!" Her face was as beautiful as her heart.But now she died suddenly, so suddenly, at the age of sixty-one. It can be said that Ms. Yoshida has just passed her first summer vacation.She and her beloved grandson, a boy in the third grade of elementary school, traveled to Kyushu together, which was a trip she had been looking forward to for a long time.But on the second day after arriving in Kyushu, Ms. Yoshida died of a heart attack in the swimming pool.

Our shock and grief cannot be overstated.At the last moment of Ms. Yoshida's funeral, something happened. If Ms. Yoshida saw it, she would definitely say, "It is indeed Kuroyanagi's style." We have gone through the vigil before the spirit, the secret burial, going to the crematorium, and the subsequent sacrifice... The sacrifice has also been completed for seven days.I tried not to cry, but I couldn't stop the tears.Many famous actors came that day, so Ms. Yoshida's door was full of cameras and crowds of people.When my father passed away, I was still working in Kobe. On the day of my father's funeral, I was also unable to attend because of the live broadcast of "Tetsuko's Cabin", so this funeral can almost be said to be the first time I attended the funeral of a relative or friend.

When everything was over, and everyone was about to go back, someone said: "The food has been prepared, please eat your chopsticks! Those who have passed away will also be relieved." At some point, chairs and a dining table had been set up under the tent in the yard, with takeaway bento placed on it.Let's go and sit down.As soon as I heard the word "xiazhu", I felt that I had to finish eating quickly, so I opened the lid of the lunch box without saying a word.It was a large Shokado Bento, with various dishes in the box. "I used to eat various dishes with Ms. Yoshida..."

My tears welled up again. I thought sadly, every time I encounter such a scene in the future, I will cry, right?I quickly ate sashimi and fish mixed with vinegar, and suddenly remembered something, so I said a word to Honano Kuriko and Matsubara Chieko next to me, and Sawada Ayako and Godaijiko on the opposite side.Ms. Yoshida has been the manager of these actresses. I say: "Hey, we ate so many raw things here. If we break our stomachs, we must not tell others that we ate them here. Just go to the hospital quietly. Because the newspaper just reported that the manager died in the water , It would be too bad if food poisoning happened to all relatives and friends at the funeral.”

As I said that, I ate fried shrimp and stew in a hurry.Inadvertently, I looked to the side, and found that a few people away, the undertaker was also eating with us in a white shirt.Ms. Yoshida's husband is a reporter, so most of her friends are journalists or people related to the theater, and I am familiar with them, and the undertaker eats among these people.I said to Kuriko next to me: "It's not bad that the undertaker also came to eat. However, I didn't know that the undertaker would also eat together at this time." Kuriko pretended to straighten the collar of her mourning dress, glanced at the man, and covered her face with her handkerchief.I thought she was crying, and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter with you? What's the matter with you?" while patting her on the back.Kuriko took away the handkerchief, looked at me with eyes swollen from crying, laughed loudly, and said to everyone:

"Hey, Hei Liu thinks Mr. Watanabe is the undertaker!" Everyone suddenly "coaxed—" laughed loudly. "What's wrong?" I asked. A reporter diagonally in front of me told me: "Mr. Watanabe is a big shot at Toho (the famous Toho Film Company in Japan). He is not only a producer, but also a great writer who has won a literary award, and he is also a university professor." Someone went on to say: "It's true that Mr. Watanabe organized the funeral by himself. He arranged it so well that even the undertaker can't beat himself. But Mr. Watanabe is not a undertaker after all. Ms. Kuroyanagi, don't you know Mr. Watanabe? "

Later, everyone called Mr. Watanabe "mortician, mortician", and laughed happily.I was very ashamed and apologized to Mr. Watanabe, but thinking that such a big man would do his best to organize the funeral for Ms. Yoshida, and even made me mistake him for the undertaker, Ms. Yoshida would probably be very sorry if she knew about it. I will be very grateful too! At this moment, someone who did not know said in a low voice: "Hei Liu is really interesting! At this time, she can think of food poisoning for everyone. It's incredible. But Mr. Watanabe, who everyone knows, she thought it was the undertaker..."

At this time, my bento box was empty. "Oh, I've already eaten it all. I heard that we were asked to eat chopsticks, so I hurriedly finished eating..." Everyone laughed again, and everyone's bento didn't move much.someone told me: "The word 'Xiazhu' doesn't mean to eat quickly!" For the first time since last night's vigil, everyone laughed.At this time, I accidentally glanced at the road over there, and found that the camera lens of the TV station on the low wall had been shooting this way. Everyone had been vigilant about the direction of the camera before, and was relieved just now, and was taken advantage of.

I was in despair. When I first came to the vigil, when I went to the crematorium, and when I came back with the ashes, I kept running around with a large handkerchief wiping my tears. When many microphones were facing me and asked me "Ms. Heiliu, how are you feeling now", I silently pushed away the microphones and got in and out of the car. But when I arrived at Ms. Yoshida's house, I ate something quickly and joked with everyone... "what to do……" A theater critic reassured me: "It doesn't matter, the TV will only show the mourning scenes of everyone at the funeral, because this is not Itami-kun's "Funeral"."

I finally feel relieved. After saying goodbye to everyone, I walked out of Yoshida's house, and a funeral director in a black suit stood at the door, nodding and saying "thank you" to me.It seems that this is the real undertaker.