I Cried at the Chairman's Funeral for Money novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: Nineteen Minutes
Shen Ke walked up the aisle with the tablet in his arms, and nobody stopped him.
The hotel manager started forward at the side door, took one look at the Old Madam walking beside the tablet, and stopped.
"The last lamp has been lit," said the Old Madam, to the room. "By the old rite, the tablet comes to see it."
She said it in a thin clear voice, and not one of the two hundred and twelve moved.
Shen Ke set the dark wooden tablet on the white cloth beside the lamp, and bowed to it three times.
Then he took the battered grey amplifier from the carrying box and put it on the table.
The old lawyer put a laptop beside it with shaking hands.
"This is the old master's troupe," said Shen Ke, to the manager's pale face. "It has played at forty-one funerals. It is part of the rite."
The manager said nothing at all.
The Second Uncle laughed, a short, easy laugh.
"A card from a tablet," he said. "How picturesque."
The Old Madam turned the foot of the tablet in her hands, and took out the small silk packet.
She placed it in the lawyer's palm.
"Play it," she said.
The lawyer fitted the card into the laptop, and turned the screen toward the front tables, and pressed a key.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of I Cried at the Chairman's Funeral for Money are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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