When I heard the news, I was very surprised. Because everyone knows that the hair on the puppet's head is mostly made of animal hair or artificial hair, and is not even real hair, so how can you grow your own hair? So after meeting Mr. Xia, I didn't even have time to ask him about other incredible things he had encountered at home, so I asked him to take me to see the puppet.
This is a puppet wearing armor, but judging from the makeup, it is female. Mr. Xia told me that this doll is Mu Guiying.
Mu Guiying, of course I know that the female generals of the Yang family are all loyal and loyal when they go into battle. I have grown up listening to these plays, but this is the first time I have seen the puppet version of Mu Guiying. It's a little different from what I imagined, because when I saw Mu Guiying who played the female role on the stage, they all had phoenix crown hats on their heads and flags on their backs, but this puppet Mu Guiying's whole hat was raised. The high ground was raised, and some black thread-like objects came out from under the brim of the hat.
Mr. Xia suddenly lifted up "Mu Guiying's" hat, but I was shocked. It turned out that the reason why the hat was lifted up was because the hair originally tied inside had grown a lot longer. Mr. Xia smiled bitterly and said that he had played with puppets all his life and had seen all kinds of puppets, but he had never seen a puppet that could grow its own hair.
I got close to the head of "Mu Guiying" and took a look. Originally, "Mu Guiying" had to wear a hat when she was on stage, so there was only a thin layer of fake hair on her head, and it was a black animal. The hair felt very soft, but within it, hairs as thick as a beard actually grew. I reached out and touched it. The hardness was very different from the surrounding animal hair. It was obviously much harder, but it was not like human hair. Human hair is softer due to the nourishment of blood, and this " Mu Guiying's "new hair" is more like the feeling when I don't shave for a year.
I took my hand back and looked at my fingers carefully, and found that the two fingers I touched my hair just now were stained with a little black color to varying degrees. After twisting it for a while, it quickly dispersed, and it felt a bit like graphite. I brought it up to my nose and smelled it. Apart from the smell, there was nothing unusual about it. So I put my nose to the head of "Mu Guiying" and smelled it, and it still smelled like this. It's a bit like the fishy smell of ink that hasn't completely dried after applying it.
So I asked Mr. Xia, when did you first notice that this puppet started to grow hair? Mr. Xia said that the real discovery was in the past half month, but he was not sure how long his hair had grown before he discovered it. He did not deliberately remove his hair to measure it because strange things have been happening at home recently. He didn't dare to act rashly. I asked again, when did strange things start happening in your family? Mr. Xia said that it must have been about a month. If the estimation is not wrong, the puppet's hair should have started to grow from that time.
I nodded, thinking that it might make sense. Generally speaking, when some abnormal phenomena appear, it is often when ghosts start to act. It’s just that I don’t understand that if something strange happens in his family, how can he so accurately attribute the cause to the puppet in front of him? So I asked Mr. Xia to recall as much as possible, starting from the first strange thing he encountered.
Mr. Xia said that almost a month ago, his wife suddenly and inexplicably fell ill. Although it is not a serious illness, it is just a simple fever and sweating, but after taking medicine for a long time, it still does not feel better. Mr. Xia said that his wife has always been in better health than he is. He studies puppetry skills by himself, so he has less to worry about at home. Therefore, his wife has always taken care of all the big and small things at home.
At first, I thought that even a common illness was no big deal, so I went to Dr. Mo's place to grab some Chinese medicine and fry it. Dr. Mo was well-known for his medical skills. While diagnosing the pulse of his wife and children, he also felt the bones. But when I touched the bones, I said that my wife will face a big disaster in the near future this year. If we can get over it, we will have at least 15 years of life left, but if we can't get over it, it may just be gone.
Originally, although Dr. Mo was famous for his medical skills, it was well known that he was also a god. So Mr. Xia didn't take this sentence to heart at that time, but he still felt a little anxious when he saw that his wife's illness had not improved for many days. And generally people who have a fever are in low spirits and confused at best, but my wife actually started talking nonsense, and she said it seriously.
I asked him what he meant by serious nonsense. Mr. Xia said, you know how drunk people talk nonsense, right? I said I knew it, even though I had never experienced it myself, but I had seen it happen. Mr. Xia said that when drunk people talk nonsense, their words are often unclear and they look drowsy. But this is not the case with my wife. She will suddenly sit up from the bed and point in front of her. , his expression seemed very angry, and then he was pointing and cursing. But I couldn't understand a word of what she said.
The first few times, Mr. Xia thought it was his wife having a nightmare. At first, he thought it was very funny, but after doing this a few times, he couldn't laugh anymore. He told me that every time my wife sat up to curse, it was almost exactly at 3:15 in the middle of the night, and it lasted for about fifteen minutes each time, and after my wife sat up, the first time she cursed The first action must be to turn on the wall lamp next to the bed. The next few times, her glaring eyes showed severe congestion, not the kind of bloodshot eyes that appeared due to poor rest, but mottled, blood-red dots on the whites of her eyes.
After this continued for four or five days, my wife's fever went away. Mr. Xia thought that the previous situation was all caused by fever. Although he could not find the cause, if the fever subsided, the situation should be much better. Who knew that even after the fever subsided, he would still sit up on time at 3:15 every night, pointing to the side and yelling and cursing.
I asked Mr. Xia, will you be conscious after the fever subsides? He told me that my daily life was no different from normal, and my eyes looked healthy and normal, but I always felt listless, always yawning, and seemed very sleepy. My wife has been suffering from mild insomnia symptoms for many years. She would roll over in bed for more than half an hour before falling asleep. However, since she had a fever, she basically fell asleep without dreaming at all.
So Mr. Xia felt that this matter was a bit evil. He took a day and took his wife to visit Doctor Mo. He asked Doctor Mo to take his pulse again and briefly talked about the situation of the past few days. After taking the pulse, Mo Langzhong said that the pulse was very disordered and had two veins. Usually when doctors feel two pulses when taking their pulse, most of the time it happens when young girls are pregnant. However, Mr. Xia’s wife, who is almost 70 years old, had two pulses at this time. This is not a joke. ?
Doctor Mo also asked at the time, did his wife always point in the same direction every time she sat up to curse? Mr. Xia said yes, and then Mr. Mo asked again what was there in the direction he was pointing at.
I said to Mr. Xia, let me guess, the direction she pointed at should be where you put the puppets, right? Mr. Xia nodded and said yes. Langzhong Mo also told him at the time that he should go home and check the area carefully, but he found nothing except a bunch of puppets.
Mr. Xia said that since he was knocked down in 1966, these puppets have been placed at home and have never been moved again. It’s just that I love puppet shows so much, I still clean the dust regularly and do some maintenance. I basically don’t touch the rest. Except for the recent days when I have nothing to do, I play old tricks and amuse my wife. That’s all. Moreover, the puppets placed there were all made by myself and used for many years. I knew everything clearly. If my wife pointed to something else in this place, I would easily of discovery.
So it dragged on like this, until half a month ago, one night, my wife sat up and pointed at the puppets and cursed. But that night, the wooden shelves where the puppets were placed started to vibrate with a rumble. When Mr. Xia heard these sounds, he thought it was an earthquake, but found that only the wooden frame was shaking, but the bed was safe. He told me that the vibration was not very violent, but because of the movement, many of the puppets were knocked down.
Fifteen minutes later, my wife finished scolding her and gradually woke up as if nothing had happened. The blood-red spots in her eyes gradually disappeared. Only then did he get out of bed to check the puppets that had been knocked to the ground, and then he discovered a clue.
I asked him what the clues were, and Mr. Xia said that among the puppets that were shaken down, they were Zhang Dingjin, Geng Jinhua, Li Cuiping, Yelu Qiong'e, Luo Shinu, Princess Chai, Du Jinmo, Yang Yanqi, and Yang Yanying. Without exception, these people are all figures among the female generals of the Yang family. Mr. Xia told me that "Girls of the Yang Family" was his most classic piece when he first performed puppet shows. All the Yang family female generals fell face down, and the only ones who survived were She Saihua and Mu Guiying.
So in this way, I felt that the two people who had not fallen were abnormal, so I started to check. There was nothing unusual about She Saihua's puppet, except that the faucet stick in his hand fell on the partition of the wooden shelf, while Mu Guiying's original hat was pushed up for some reason.
So Mr. Xia reached out to press her hat, only to find that it bounced back quickly. He felt that there was something under the hat, so he opened it and found that the hair on Mu Guiying's head had grown inexplicably. A little longer.
