The resort is very large, with the hotel in the middle. There are many places to visit around it. Because it has already opened, many people have come. There are already many people on the beach in the safe sea area. Lin Shuyue and the others did not join in the fun, but went down to the foot of the mountain instead.
At the foot of the mountain, there is a row of single-family Chinese-style courtyards with rows of red lanterns hung at the entrance of the courtyards. Because there were many people coming back this time, the leaders all lived in this side of the courtyard.
There is a pond of lotus in front and behind the courtyard. The blooming season has passed, so the lotus flowers cannot be seen, but the endless green lotus leaves can be seen. A wooden bridge spans the center of the pond, and at the end is a pavilion. Standing in the pavilion, you can reach out and touch the lotus leaves. Holding the railing and looking down, you can see fat koi playing among the lotus leaves. When a breeze blows, the lotus leaves slap each other, and the wind also carries a unique sweet fragrance of lotus leaves.
There are a total of eighteen girls in Lin Shuyue's company, including the finance staff. Except for the directors and key members of each department, the remaining twelve people were all here.
Lin Shuyue stood in the wooden corridor outside the pavilion, looking at Li Mingfang. She came to play this time wearing a pink chiffon dress.
She sat sideways in the antique pavilion, against the backdrop of the green behind her, and with today's gloomy weather, she looked particularly elegant. Lin Shuyue raised her camera and took a photo of Li Mingfang.
Li Mingfang heard the shutter sound and looked over. Lin Shuyue handed her the camera and let her see the photos she had just taken.
Upon seeing this, Li Mingfang was stunned. She could not believe that the slim and elegant person in Lin Shuyue's camera was herself.
"Ah Yue, tell me, what else can't you do? This photo is so beautiful! It's much more beautiful than those taken in the photo studios outside!" Artistic photos have become popular nowadays. But even more popular than artistic photos are headshots.
It's the kind that comes with its own background, you only need to take a half-body photo of a person, and then you can print it out right after taking it, and it also comes with its own adhesive.
This type of photo booth machine has been popular around the world since it came out last year because of its low price and fast output speed. Now many domestic boutiques have stocked this type of machine, and there are more and more photo backgrounds.
Bai Pingping and Zeng Xiaoyi would take a few photos every once in a while. The backgrounds they chose were very distinctive. What impressed Lin Shuyue the most was the purple Ferris wheel or the "burying love" speech written in capital letters under the sky.
Li Mingfang also loves taking photos. Her profile pictures are still posted on her workstation. After falling in love with her, Li Weisheng's originally empty workstation has become more populated with things, including a lot of couple profile pictures. Now, when you pass by his workstation, you can see the photo of the two of them with their heads close together, grinning with their big teeth showing under the purple Eiffel Tower.
Lin Shuyue had taken this kind of photo in her previous life, but she was already in elementary school at that time. The non-mainstream backgrounds that are popular now were no longer popular at that time. They became landscape photos or sky photos.
Li Mingfang looked at the photo and couldn't let it go. She said with a sigh, "I have been to many places with Ah Sheng recently, and he has taken many photos for me, but the photos he takes are really bad. Last time we went to the beach, I asked him to take a photo of me with the sea breeze blowing. I wanted to show the messy beauty, but he ended up taking a landscape photo. Even if you enlarge it ten times, you may not be able to see my face clearly."
Li Mingfang was very angry when she talked about her boyfriend taking photos. Her topic expressed the feelings of many women with partners, and many people immediately agreed with her.
Lin Shuyue was listening on the side and laughed. She felt that whether in the future or now, women's complaints about their partners not being able to take photos were really similar.
In her previous life, when Lin Shuyue went out to play with classmates who had relationships, she always heard such complaints.
"I'll help you take the photos." Lin Shuyue learned a lot of makeup skills on the Internet in her previous life, and then learned a lot of photo poses and techniques. Apart from anything else, the photography technology of later generations would definitely beat the current professional photo studios.
Now not only Li Mingfang is happy, but also other colleagues who come to play are happy. The cost of the resort is not low, and the hotel alone costs more than 200 yuan a night. If the company does not organize them to play, they really will not come.
It was such a pity that they didn't have some beautiful photos after having such a hard time coming here. So they kept calling her "Ah Yue" and "thank you" one after another, with sweet words and pleasant voices. Lin Shuyue was surrounded by them, and her smile was much bigger than usual.
After all, the working environment in their company is really very good, and there is really no intrigue in their company. No matter which department they are from, they are all friendly, and sometimes they even make appointments to go shopping together. Usually in the company, Lin Shuyue rarely hears people gossiping about others.
Lin Shuyue went to the company three days to work and two days to rest, but they always had a good relationship with her. If anyone had anything delicious or useful, they would save it for her.
Because they get along well, Lin Shuyue is willing to be their exclusive camera.
They gathered in groups of three or four, found the scenery they wanted to photograph, and sat or stood. Lin Shuyue would adjust their poses according to the scenery they wanted to photograph. The photos ranged from the lotus pond to the rockery beside the courtyard, and to the wall outside the courtyard that separated the resort from the mountain.
The wall was covered with wild roses, the pink flowers changed from the lightest pink/white to the darkest rose pink, so beautiful that it took more than an hour to take pictures. While taking pictures of others, Lin Shuyue did not forget herself. She took several selfies of herself, set up the camera, and let Li Mingfang be the only one who could take pictures. The pictures turned out very well.
Wang Mingzheng called in the group chat to invite them to eat, and a group of women walked outside while talking. Among them was Wang Fayun from the administrative department. She was 32 years old, married and had children. As they walked, she suddenly lowered her voice and asked everyone, "Have you heard about the story of Baixun Funeral Home?"
Before this resort was built into a resort, it belonged to Baixun Village. The Baixun Funeral Home has existed for many years. There is a mountain behind the funeral home, and on the mountain is the cemetery. Therefore, most of the dead in Pengcheng are sent to the Baixun Funeral Home for cremation.
Lin Shuyue and the others really didn't know about the funeral home that Wang Fayun mentioned. Everyone looked at Wang Fayun with eyes full of expectation.
Wang Fayun's husband's family lives near Baixun Village. When she is not working on Sundays, she often follows her husband back to the village. Over time, she heard about some supernatural stories at Baixun Funeral Home.
After all, a funeral home is a place where the dead are cremated. Just like the charity cemeteries in ancient times, this place is full of unspeakable magical legends.
It was already past ten o'clock in the morning, the middle of the day, and no demons or monsters could get close to them at this time. Therefore, no one was afraid when they heard what Wang Fayun said.
Li Mingfang asked immediately after she finished speaking: "What happened? What happened? Tell me quickly."
Wang Fayun was very excited: "I heard it from my mother-in-law. My mother-in-law said that two weeks ago, a man from the village went to work in the city and came back late. There were no buses, so he walked back at night. When he was about to reach the funeral home, he saw a woman wearing a white dress, long hair and red lips standing at the door of the funeral home."
"The tongue was almost spitting out on the ground. He was so scared that when he blinked and looked again, the white shadow disappeared. He didn't dare to look and ran away quickly."
Li Mingfang didn't think it was that scary: "Maybe he was drunk and saw it wrongly?"
"I don't know, but my mother-in-law said that besides him, two other people saw that shadow in front of the funeral home at different times. Now the news has spread to several villages near Baixun, and everyone says that the place is haunted." Wang Fayun looked certain.
"Some people also said that they heard shrill cries at night, which sounded like both a woman and a man."
If only one person saw this, it could be said that it was due to blurry eyes, but if two or three people saw it, it was a bit supernatural. Li Mingfang and the others looked at each other in bewilderment, and the timid ones could not help but touch their arms.
Baixun Funeral Home is not far from here, and it takes less than ten minutes to walk there. The other side of the mountain behind the Chinese courtyard is the cemetery of Baixun Funeral Home. People whose rooms face the mountain are already beginning to get scared.
Lin Shuyue was quite courageous. She asked, "Could it be that someone is playing a prank?"
There are many people who eat too much these days, and it is not ruled out that some people are so full that they go to the door of the funeral home to scare people.
Wang Fayun thought that no one would be so bored: "The funeral home is not particularly big, and I haven't heard of any bad things happening in recent years. How could someone do such a thing?"
"You never know. There was a guy in my hometown who was so bored that he went to the cemetery at night wearing a red sheet to scare passers-by. When people found him, he was beaten up. When asked why he did that, he said he was just bored and wanted to have some fun!" The person who said this was Xiao He, the front desk clerk.
As soon as she said this, the people who were frightened just now felt a little relieved in an instant. With Lin Shuyue included, everyone started talking about this matter. The more they talked, the more they felt it was fake, and they felt relieved.
In the blink of an eye, they arrived at the hotel restaurant. There were already many people in the restaurant, and everyone filled the restaurant. Lin Shuyue saw Xiang Bingbing and Sister Liu, who were sitting at the tables of their own companies and departments respectively.
Sister Liu and Xiang Bingbing also saw Lin Shuyue. Sister Liu smiled and nodded at Lin Shuyue, while Xiang Bingbing stretched out her hand and waved at Lin Shuyue, like a lucky cat. Lin Shuyue also waved back at her.
Not long after they sat down, someone came to serve the dishes. The first dish served was seafood porridge, which contained crabs, shrimps, scallops and other seafood. The porridge was thick and fresh, and sprinkled with coriander and chopped green onions, the taste was even better.
Before they had even taken two bites of the porridge, the dishes started to arrive. They were all seafood, all freshly caught from the sea. The main feature was their freshness.
After dinner, they went to the hotel room. The rooms were all standard rooms that could accommodate three people. Lin Shuyue, Li Mingfang, and Wang Fayun shared one room. The three of them each chose a bed to sleep in and drew the curtains. The whole room went dark in an instant. Lin Shuyue lay on the bed and had a good sleep. When she got up, Li Mingfang and Wang Fayun also got up.
Li Mingfang was going surfing with Li Weisheng. Wang Fayun's parents-in-law sent her daughter over, so she wanted to take her daughter out to play.
The two left one after another. Lin Shuyue took out the notebook from the suitcase, opened the curtains, and sat on the stool in the hotel room to play.
Now going online to see what's new on the Internet every day has become the first part of her life.
After browsing the Haijiao Forum, Lin Shuyue went into the local forum of Pengcheng, read all the posts on the homepage, and flipped through several pages. Then Lin Shuyue saw a post that was posted in the middle of the night two days ago.
What's particularly coincidental is that it also mentions the story of Baixun Funeral Home.
In his post, he also mentioned the white shadow at the door of the funeral home in the middle of the night. But in the previous few days, the forum was discussing the Daiyun incident, and the time when the original poster posted was in the middle of the night, so no one read it.
Lin Shuyue suddenly became interested in this funeral home.
When exiting the post, Lin Shuyue refreshed the homepage out of habit, and the post about Baixun Funeral Home that she had just read appeared on the homepage again.
Lin Shuyue clicked in to see the latest reply. The forum nickname of the latest reply was the poster. He said that there were several people who encountered the same situation as him, and they had decided to explore the mystery tonight.
Everyone in Pengcheng knows something about Baixun Funeral Home. Now that the DAIYUN incident has just calmed down, his post was seen by many people and everyone started discussing the matter. Within a few minutes, the building was completed.
Hang Jiabai called at this moment. During this period, Hang Jiabai would call Lin Shuyue whenever he was free. Sometimes it was just a simple greeting and he would have to go back to work. Sometimes he could talk to her for half an hour. Sometimes he would be busy while talking about something.
Hang Jiabai already knew last night that Lin Shuyue was going to a resort for vacation today. Before they had even spoken a few words on the phone, he asked Lin Shuyue about the scenery of the resort.
Lin Shuyue stood up, pushed open the floor-to-ceiling window of the room, and walked to the balcony. Looking out from the balcony, there was an endless sea. Closer was the beach, where many men and women in swimsuits were playing. Closer still was the scenery of the resort, with rows of coconut trees, flower beds under the coconut trees, beautiful flowers in bloom, and green grass.
"It's quite fun. In the morning, we played in the Chinese courtyard. There is a lotus pond over there. If the lotus flowers are in bloom in May or June, it will definitely be beautiful."
Hang Jiabai told Lin Shuyue to have fun and wanted to continue talking about his life, but Jiangzhou came running over: "Captain Hang, the Beijiao Police Station just called and said that someone died in the Baixun Village Funeral Home. The on-site investigation showed no signs of fighting or obvious injuries. The police station initially determined that it was sudden death, but according to the staff's response, a white figure often appeared in the funeral home these days. The police station hopes that we go over to take a look and confirm it."