Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 48: Weddings and Funerals

In one’s life, one can never escape the words red and white. The first is red for wedding, the second is white for funeral.

In the Xuan people, these are the two most important times in a person's life. Even if you can escape one, you cannot avoid the other.

It's just that in the past two years, foreign culture has invaded seriously. The originally festive red flowers have turned into white flowers, and the gorgeous and dignified phoenix coronet and bridal robe have turned into a pure white wedding dress. In this upside-down world, who can tell the difference?

Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer vendors specializing in wedding and funeral business, so it is hard for Lin Beixuan to imagine that he has seen a street specializing in funeral supplies in modern times.

From his angle, he could see vendors selling paper figures, funeral clothes, hats and other funeral supplies everywhere, and there was quite a lot of traffic inside.

Lin Beixuan smacked his lips and walked in. He had just visited the Antique Street yesterday and today he went to the Funeral Street again. He wondered if he would have to go to the temple to burn incense tomorrow.

Never mind, just go with the flow~~
After passing through many funeral shops, Lin Beixuan arrived at the place where he had agreed to meet with Liu Fei. But when he took a closer look, he saw that Teacher Maru ran the largest shop on the street and was sitting outside with his legs crossed in the sun.

"Yo, you're here."

Mr. Maru pushed his sunglasses up to his forehead and smiled.

"you……"

Lin Beixuan was stunned for a long while, and there was something he couldn't help saying: "Aren't you in the antique business?"

"Oh, the country doesn't stipulate that businessmen can only engage in one industry. Boss Ren Lei has started selling cars."

"Come in, Xiao Fei is waiting for you inside."

Lin Beixuan nodded stiffly and walked into this luxurious funeral shop.

Basically, he could buy any funeral supplies he saw on this street, and they were more realistic.

There were lanterns with the word "祭" (sacrifice) hanging high above his head and a bunch of drawn paper figures in the corner. If Lin Beixuan had not known about it in advance, he would have really thought that there was a group of people in the corner staring at him with their eyes open.

The paper figures don't have eyes on them, so even though they're lifelike, they're still recognizable. Stacks of paper money are placed on the table, with layers of couplets on both sides.

Things like the soul rides on a crane to leave, righteousness comes on the wind, inheriting the wisdom, praising the name of the ancestors, etc.

It was not until he walked inside that Lin Beixuan saw Liu Fei crouching in front of the counter.

"You're here, very punctual." Liu Fei looked at the time and nodded with satisfaction.

"Your family business is quite big." Lin Beixuan couldn't help but admire while sitting on a small stool nearby.

All the weddings and funerals are here!

There was some tentative meaning in this sentence. After all, for Liu Fei and the other old generation of worldly people, he had only entered the world for a few days and did not understand many things.

"It's quite big. Our Liu family is a supplier to many vendors. We mainly deal in these things. On the other side of Luocheng, we also opened a wedding street."

Liu Fei was not stupid, so she naturally understood the meaning of the words. She smiled and focused her eyes on Lin Beixuan's face.

"We are now in a cooperative relationship. You can ask me any questions you have and I will do my best to answer them for you."

Lin Beixuan didn't pretend and directly expressed his doubts: "I want to know your motive for approaching me. Is it really as simple as just helping you pick up the goods?"

After discovering his new identity, Liu Fei deliberately approached him and released a message with no follow-up. He asked online and soon Teacher Maru appeared to answer him, which led to his trip to Antique Street.

It was during this trip that I met Sensei Maru and fell into the trap he set.

If you say that Liu Fei has nothing to do with this matter, he won't believe it at all.

Liu Fei was silent for a while, then slowly said, "You have joined the communication group, so you must know something about the current situation. Now the old batch of secular children are at risk of losing control, and the major organizations are thinking of absorbing new members to replace the old ones."

"However, nowadays, many stable transit points are either controlled by the government or monopolized by a few big forces. There are very few newcomers circulating on the surface, which makes it difficult to find newcomers."

As she spoke, Liu Fei's eyes lit up slightly and she looked at Lin Beixuan. "I approached you because I hope to absorb you into the Liu family."

"Sure enough!" Lin Beixuan shook his head and sighed: "So my last meeting with you was also arranged?"

"That's not the case. Meeting you yesterday was purely a coincidence. I was originally going to look for my second uncle and never thought I would run into you."

Lin Beixuan remained silent, which was considered as his agreement with Liu Fei's answer.

"In fact, for a newcomer like you, joining a certain force is a very good choice."

"It is very difficult for newcomers to survive in the secular world. They basically gain experience from death. Only when they learn some tricks and successfully light the soul-exorcising incense can they gain a firm foothold in the secular world."

Lin Beixuan raised his eyebrows slightly. According to Liu Fei, he has already established a firm foothold in the secular world?

"I guess you must have died more than ten times since you entered the secular world." Liu Fei did not notice the expression on Lin Beixuan's face and said confidently.

Lin Beixuan snapped his fingers and nodded without hesitation.

"Well, I died thirteen times."

Although he only died three times, he might as well add one more in front of it.

Liu Fei looked as if she understood: "This is what I told you about the benefit of joining a force."

"If you join the Liu family, not only will you receive a considerable salary every month in this world, but the Liu family will also provide you with three soul-chasing incense sticks every week for free in the secular world, and teach you the ways of cultivation. If you have outstanding talents, they will even send someone to protect your safety."

"Apart from the official forces, what other forces are there in this world?" Lin Beixuan suddenly asked.

Liu Fei did not hide it and continued directly: "There are currently ten major forces officially recognized by the Xuan Kingdom, namely one mountain, two temples and seven halls. The rest of the small forces basically make a living under these few."

"One mountain, two temples and seven halls?" Lin Beixuan pondered this sentence carefully.

“This is a more popular saying. The first mountain is Longhu Mountain, a Taoist holy place. In the secular world, it is also one of the seven main branches of Taoism, and its influence is extremely huge.

The two temples are the Bodhi Temple and the Shaosi Temple, which are filled with bald monks. They don't get along well with either the secular or the Longhu Mountain people, and the two gangs often fight and neither of them will submit to the other.

You don’t need to worry about these two temples on this mountain, because they are basically not our kind. Unless you want to be a monk or a Taoist priest, you don’t have to consider them. ”

Liu Fei could tell at a glance that Lin Beixuan was using the excuse of questioning to get a clearer view of the various forces so that he could make a better choice.

But this is also human nature. Everyone hopes to have a strong backer who can help them out in case something goes wrong.

"So what comes next is the key point." Lin Beixuan narrowed his eyes.

Liu Fei nodded in appreciation: "Yes, the next seven halls are in charge of the connection between the secular world in the north and south of Xuan Kingdom and the civilian forces responsible for dispatching escorts across the border and exchanging secular goods."

"It is divided into the market, the rivers and lakes, the high priest, the master's orders, going out on horseback, witchcraft, dragons and snakes, chivalrous and martial arts, and life and death."

"These seven halls basically cover most of the professions in the secular world, and can truly connect the secular world with the real world, so that they are no longer just a single state."

"So your Liu family belongs to... a gang in the city?" Lin Beixuan understood immediately and quickly made the connection.

Things like weddings and funerals should belong to the category of the urban world.

As expected, Liu Fei nodded and took out a wooden plaque in the shape of an incense burner. The front side had "city life" written on it, and the back side had "weddings and funerals" written on it.

"So our Liu family is not some evil sect, you can rest assured about that."

Liu Fei looked at Lin Beixuan with burning eyes, as if in her opinion, Lin Beixuan joining the Liu family was a foregone conclusion.

(End of this chapter)