When Liu Xiangdong saw that Song Lina did not treat him well, he smiled sarcastically and questioned, “The chairman has just pa*sed away, his bones are not yet cold, why are you in a hurry to have his body pushed off to be cremated?”
“This is my business, it seems to have nothing to do with you, right?” Song Lina was indeed angry and confused by this guy, but not wanting to get angry with him in front of so many employees and next to her father’s corpse, she said in a cold voice, “You don’t think I got someone to kill my own father, do you?”
“Of course not,” Liu Xiangdong explained with an awkward smile, “I was trying to organise a farewell ceremony for Song Dong’s body, so that he could leave in style.”
“There’s no need for that,” Song Lina said, waving her hand at him when she saw Li Gang standing by her side, hesitating, “Go and get the staff here.”
Liu Xiangdong saw that Song Lina had already made her decision and was not in a position to say anything else.
The staff, seeing Miss Song and the deputy general manager bickering in front of the chairman’s corpse, exchanged words and some began to worry about the future of the company, and their future.
Soon after Li had left, a group of staff members walked in.
Song Lina swept a glance at the crowd and said loudly, “Everyone say goodbye to my father’s body now!”
The entire funeral hall was solemn!
All the staff present wore a sorrowful heart and after observing three minutes of silence for this respected Chairman Song Mingyuan, they lined up in a long line to bid farewell to his body in turn.
After the simple farewell ceremony, Song Linna had the staff push her father’s body into the cremation room and send it to the crematorium.
As Song Mingyuan’s body burned in the crematorium, making beeping sounds, Song Lina’s heart felt like it was being cut by countless knives, and like she was being thrown into a frying pan, boiling over.
Two hours later, Song Mingyuan’s ashes were pushed out of the cremator and the staff put them into an exquisite urn.
“Dad, I’m sorry, I caused you to die, now let me give you one more ride, have a good trip!” Song Lina held her father’s urn with both hands and said silently in her heart.
With heavy steps, she walked step by step towards the outside of the cremation room, with Sun Li and Xiao Qin following her every inch of the way.
For her protection, Hou Yong, Li Gang and a few security guards from the company followed her around, keeping a close eye on the movements around her.
“Dad, open your eyes and look at me, I am Song Lina, your daughter, I have come to see you off ……” Song Lina hugged her father’s urn for a few steps and finally couldn’t help herself.
She squatted on the ground and cried hysterically and painfully. At this moment, her heart was like a knife and she was in pain, her cries were heartbreaking and moving.
The staff, looking at this scene of separation, remembered how good Song Mingyuan had been to them in her lifetime, and thought of the pain and could not help but wipe their tears together with her.
“Miss, don’t cry, don’t cry and ruin your health,” someone consoled: “The chairman doesn’t want to see you like this, come and take charge of our company, the company needs you, we can’t live without you, let the chairman’s old man be buried in peace!”
……
Song Mingyuan’s memorial service was held at the funeral hall and was hosted by Sun Li, secretary to the general manager of the Mingyuan Group of Companies.
The memorial service was attended by industry colleagues, partners, company employees, as well as some leaders from the municipal party committee and government. Everyone laid a wreath for this entrepreneur who had made outstanding contributions to Yanjing City.
The memorial service was very grand, and Li Chengyun, Vice Mayor of Yanjing, also delivered a personal eulogy. After the memorial service, a convoy of limousines drove into the Longjing Cemetery in a grand manner.
The Longjing Cemetery is located in the southern suburbs of Yanjing City, with beautiful scenery, elegant surroundings, tranquil blue waves, and a bell-ringing yu xiu xiu, and has traditionally been hailed as a unique feng shui treasure.
When the Longjing Cemetery arrived, Song Lina jumped out of the car and personally chose a grave for her father and Lei Ming in the relaxingly bad winding, stone-lined cemetery.
The burial ceremony for Song Mingyuan and Lei Ming took place amidst the rumbling of firecrackers.
Incense wax and paper money were burning, and in a puff of smoke, Song Lina, with sadness and anger, placed her father’s urn in the cemetery.
“Dad, rest in peace, my daughter will never let you down and will definitely manage the company for you and will never let it fall into the hands of those with ulterior motives ……” Song Lina said silently in her heart.
At this point, her tears had dried up and her voice had become hoarse, and she would have fainted again if someone hadn’t been there to hold her up.
After the burial ceremony, the city leaders, family and friends, unit employees and partners who came to bid farewell to Song Mingyuan left in droves.
……
After dealing with her father’s affairs, Song Linna immediately went to the old man Song’s house in the military compound. Seeing her grandfather and grandmother sitting on the sofa in the living room, their temples white, old tears streaming down their faces, a haggard look, her heart was a stabbing pain.
She went to the old couple and sat down beside them, and said with relief, “Grandpa and Grandma, don’t worry, although my father is gone, there is still me, and I will definitely be filial to you.”
“Lina, I don’t need you to be filial, I just hope you can take over the chairmanship of the Mingyuan Group of Companies and take care of your father’s company, that is your father’s life’s work, alas ……” the elder Song sighed and said sorrowfully. “Your father was just too trusting, that’s why he was betrayed by people around him and eventually died in their hands, I don’t want him to fall into the hands of those with ulterior motives after his death ……”
“Will it be okay for me to take over as the chairman of the Mingyuan Group of Companies?” Song Lina asked uncertainly.
Old Mrs. Song wiped a tear from her eye with her hand and agreed, “Lina, you can do it, your grandfather and I both support you!”
“Grandpa, I’ll listen to you,” Song Lina nodded and said, “However, my father’s company is a joint-stock enterprise, so I can’t take over the chairmanship of the company like this without my father’s will and without going through the legal process, and even if I reluctantly take up the post, the company’s employees won’t necessarily be convinced that I ……”
“I’ve already communicated with Lawyer Li, the legal advisor of the Mingyuan Group of Companies, about this matter,” Elder Song took out a burst of business cards and said, “Here is Lawyer Li’s contact information, you go and find him.”
“Okay, I’ll call him now.” Song Linna took the business card in her grandfather’s hand, swept a glance at it, picked up the landline microphone sitting on the coffee table, and dialed out the number on the card.
As soon as it rang, the other party picked up the phone.
“Hello?” Lawyer Li’s voice came through the receiver.
“Lawyer Li, this is Song Lina.”
“Oh, so it’s Miss Song,” once he heard Song Lina’s voice, Lawyer Li asked eagerly, “I heard that Song Dong was killed, how are his affairs being handled?”
“Thank you for your concern, my father’s body has been cremated and buried, I came to call you ……” said Song Linna eagerly.
“Here’s the thing,” before Song Lina could finish her words, Lawyer Li interrupted her and said, “Your father had a will written during his lifetime here with me, I’ve sorted it out, I can send it to Missy whenever I need it… …”
“Thank you so much,” replied Song Linna, “You can deliver the will to my father’s chairman’s office tomorrow morning around 8:30 a.m. I’ll read the contents of the will and then discuss the details with you.”
“Okay, see you tomorrow!”
“See you tomorrow.”
After the two of them finished their polite conversation, Song Lina put the microphone down.
