This time in the middle of the night, it was so scary that it cost me my life!
There are two thumb-sized holes on the paper where the eyes are, and you can see the dark eyes of the paper figure below.
"Are you awake?" A faint voice came from under the paper face.
I don’t know if it was because I was too tired yesterday and didn’t pay close attention to Paper Man Xu’s voice, or because Paper Man Xu is different now than before.
His tone was not only high-pitched, but also somewhat erratic.
He was obviously speaking in front of me, but the voice seemed to come from behind.
"Wake up... wake up..." Sweat broke out on my forehead and I subconsciously took half a step back.
Suddenly, I heard a little laughter in my ears.
The laughter was thinner and more abrupt. There were only two paper figures in the shop, me and Xu. Who was laughing if it wasn't him?
"You want to see the paper, right? Sit down." Paperman Xu raised his finger and pointed to a chair next to him.
I sat on the chair next to the table by accident.
The paper man Xu turned around and continued making paper.
"Your second uncle told me that you still have urgent matters to attend to." Paperman Xu said in a casual tone.
"Yes..." I nodded.
Now I wasn't so afraid of the paper man Xu, and I looked at the half-folded paper bundle in his hand seriously.
"The Yin-born child is best suited to eat the food of the dead. When your old man Liu Shuigui adopted you, I went to see you. You are a good seedling."
"It's a pity that you old man is stingy. I wanted to accept you as my apprentice, but he refused." The paper man Xu said, his body twitched suddenly, and he let out a weird laugh.
I was startled again.
Not only the movements and reactions of the paper man Xu, but also the words he said.
Accept me as your apprentice?
For a moment I didn’t know how to answer the question.
"You are carrying the wooden box to carry Yin Po. I asked your second uncle, you are carrying Yin Po's rice bowl. Are you interested in learning paper tying?" Xu You, the paper man, said quietly.
I was even more stunned.
The paper man Xu's hands were particularly nimble, and in a blink of an eye, he made another paper bundle and placed it on the ground next to him.
A gust of cold wind blew into the shop, and the paper bundle moved strangely, and turned around, just so that its face was facing mine.
"Why are these paper bundles different from those displayed in other shops?" I took a deep breath and asked in a low voice.
Xu, the paper man, picked up a new piece of white paper and said quietly: "The paper they make is burned paper, and what I make is the skin of a dead person. Of course it is different." But I only understood it half-understood.
But the words "dead man's skin" always make my skin feel numb and itchy, as if something is drilling underneath.
Only then did I realize that the yellowed boy paper tie that I had placed in the shop was missing.
At this moment, the paper man Xu turned to look at me again and said, "Aren't you interested? I see that you are very interested in money. If you learn how to tie paper, you can make more money than you can by fishing for corpses. You are digging in the water every day." , or go to deliver babies to the dead, where is the dignity of making paper ties?"
"I don't have too many skills to overwhelm myself, I..."
"It's a big deal if you don't have too many skills. I promise, don't fool Yin and Yang. If he doesn't engage in your grave-digging business, he will be knocked out of the sky one day." A rough voice suddenly came from behind.
I quickly turned around and saw my second uncle walking out of the next door.
He had obviously just woken up, and there were many marks on his face.
However, his eyes were very sharp, and he glared at the paper man Xu, and his voice was full of rejection.
The paper man Xu stopped talking, smiled again, and then continued to make paper knots.
I was about to say hello to my second uncle, when suddenly, a thin and thin man with the same and even more nervous expression came running in front of the shop.
The man was still looking around. When he got outside the shop, he turned around and looked inside.
He was suddenly frightened, and then his eyes became filled with surprise.
"Old man Liu! Sure enough, you are here!" An excited voice came from the man's mouth.
He was wearing a shabby cloth with many patches on it. I recognized him at a glance. Isn't this the young boy Huang Qi who was being ordered around by his second uncle? !
Huang Qi hurriedly lifted his legs and walked into the shop.
As a result, as soon as he stepped up the steps, he let out a huff, and a black paper-shaped figure fell down from the eaves.
This time, Huang Qihun was so frightened that he flew into the sky, and his scream almost penetrated the entire street.
I was immediately frightened and grabbed the hem of my clothes with both hands.
The second uncle glared at Xu, the paper man, and said, "Don't do anything weird... He's scary, he's scary to death."
The paper man didn't move at all, and he didn't say anything at the moment, keeping his head lowered.
The dark paper made people tremble, and then it swung up to the eaves.
I felt like my heart was going to jump out of my throat.
As for Huang Qi, he rolled and crawled to the middle of the road. His body was like chaff, his legs were bent and he stepped back, and his crotch seemed to be wet.
The second uncle walked out of the shop and helped Huang Qi up.
I also quickly ran to them.
Huang Qi was so frightened that he almost went crazy. He grabbed his second uncle's wrist tightly and said there was a ghost...
The second uncle frowned and told him not to be so cowardly, he was just a piece of paper. Then he asked Huang Qi why he came to see him.
Huang Qi didn't react for a while, still trembling.
The second uncle took out a big piece of money and waved it in front of his eyes.
At that time, Huang Qi was so excited that he raised his hand to take the money.
The second uncle had faster hands and put the money directly into his pocket.
Huang Qicai looked at his second uncle blankly, obviously coming back to his senses.
He pursed his lips and whispered, Wang Xue and his wife, Lu Xiaoqin, asked him to come...
After a pause, Huang Qi said carefully that Lu Xiaoqin probably meant that it was her fault this morning.
At that time, she was too uncomfortable and too anxious, so she spoke indiscriminately.
Now she wants to ask her second uncle to help her. She has prepared a lot of rewards and made good wine, which will definitely satisfy her second uncle...
My heart skipped a beat.
In fact, I was just guessing whether the Meng family went to find the second uncle, found Huang Qi, and then found the funeral street.
After all, we left Meng's house and it was already the second night.
Unexpectedly, it was Wang Xue and his wife who came to him first.
He looked at his second uncle hesitantly.
The second uncle seemed to have already guessed it. He squinted his eyes and said, "Oh? You figured it out pretty quickly, but the reward is a small matter. Have you prepared some good wine?" Huang Qi nodded repeatedly. He said that Lu Xiaoqin was timid. If you dare to enter the funeral street, people are waiting outside.
She was sincere, and she could still find him to lead the way. If it were anyone else, she would definitely not know where to find her second uncle.
The second uncle hummed, glanced at me, and asked me to take the box with me and let's go to work.
I immediately ran from the shop back to the yard at the back, entered the room, put the big black wooden box on my back, and then walked out of the shop.
Of course, before I left, I still asked the paper man Xu.
As for the second uncle, he also talked to the paper man Xu and said that he would come back for dinner next time.
The paper man Xu didn't pay attention to his second uncle. Instead, he smiled at me and took off the paper prick on his head.
Finally, he said something, asking me to consider what he said.
The second uncle glared at the paper man Xu again, pulled me and walked directly out of the funeral street.
Huang Qi followed us with staggering steps.
After walking for a while, my second uncle glanced at me and said solemnly, "Don't listen to the paper man's promises. I can't do what he does for a living."
I was about to ask my second uncle if there was anything mysterious about the paper-man Xu business.
But we have already reached the entrance of Funeral Street.
Under the old archway, Wang Xue's wife, Lu Xiaoqin, was standing.
At this time, she had changed her outfit, wearing a white linen mourning dress, with a mourning scarf on her head. She was holding a wine jar in one hand, and in the other hand she was holding two things wrapped in red cloth. It is as thick as a baby's forearm, about a palm long.
Just at this glance, my heart was agitated.
If my guess is correct, I'm afraid it's a lot of well-wrapped money. These two handfuls must cost at least one hundred and eighty yuan.
The cold moonlight shone on Lu Xiaoqin, making her shadow grow long.
Only then did I realize that her hair was wet and her entire face was frighteningly white, as if she had been soaked in water, with a feeling of swelling.
Huang Qi's feet moved faster. When he arrived in front of Lu Xiaoqin, he whispered a few words.
Lu Xiaoqin's face was panicked, and there was nothing like the sharpness and hysteria of this morning.
With a bang, Lu Xiaoqin immediately knelt down to her second uncle, trembling and said: "Liu...Liu Guishou...save my life..." The second uncle frowned, he raised his head and glanced at Huang Qi, Huang Qi said Hurry to help Lu Xiaoqin.
After Lu Xiaoqin stood up, she handed the thing to Huang Qi.
Huang Qi handed the wine jar and the two red cloth strips to his second uncle.
The second uncle motioned for me to take it.
Lu Xiaoqin looked obviously relieved, and his face was no longer so pale.
Then she sincerely apologized to her second uncle, saying that she shouldn't have talked nonsense that morning.
The second uncle remained silent at first.
When Lu Xiaoqin finished speaking, she asked her second uncle to save her again.
The second uncle then said: "Were you pulled through the water?"
I was stunned, pulled the water? Lu Xiaoqin pursed her lips and nodded with difficulty.
Then she said in a low and uneasy voice: "I found many people on the dock and asked them to help get my man up. Finally, a fisherman helped. After I brought the man back, I set up a mourning hall at home. I was draping mourning and arranging funeral arrangements, but somehow I fell asleep..."
"I woke up after being choked. When I broke away, my head was buried in a bucket of water... The bucket of water was placed in front of my man's coffin... I almost choked to death... …”
"And when I looked up, I saw a dead face in the basin. It was a woman! She was so scary! She was still smiling at me..."
I was extremely frightened when I heard this.
It was immediately clear why Lu Xiaoqin's hair was wet and her face was swollen.
Emotionally, she was soaked in a bucket of water.
But what makes my heart skip a beat is, is death so fierce?
Also, if Lu Xiaoqin randomly finds a fisherman to fish for her man, something big might happen...
The second uncle squinted his eyes and said, "Follow me to the pier. Ask Huang Qi to go to your house and call a few people to carry Wang Xue to the pier."
Lu Xiaoqin panicked and said uneasily: "Mr. Liu, my man has already been in the coffin... He can't be implicated in this matter, right? Just help and solve the problem, can't you?"
