I was so frightened that I couldn't speak, but Mr. Wang had quick eyes and quick feet. He directly raised his foot and crushed the paper man's head in two or two strokes. While stamping, he yelled and said, "What dog?" When the sun goes down, ghosts steal even my life. Are there dead people in your house? !
The so-called Shenglian is a dialect in our area. It refers to the thank you gift given by the family of the deceased after the dojo master has done the dojo for someone and sent the deceased to the mountain. In our place, it is usually a pig's head with a stripe. pork hock.
The animal in the cage that Mr. Wang carried on his back should have been given by the village chief after he completed the dojo for Chen Guzi. After all, Chen Guzi's family members have left, and the rules must not be broken. The village chief can only bear this responsibility.
And because these two things are linked to funerals, few people would think twice about these things. This is why Mr. Wang scolded them so much.
Although Mr. Wang cursed fiercely, I saw that his face had turned pale. Not only that, the leg he was stepping on the paper man's head was also shaking uncontrollably. I don’t know if he stepped too hard and shook his legs, or if he was afraid.
I have also seen Mr. Wang panic, and even saw him running away, but I have never seen him look like this. He is not only confused, but also at a loss.
I asked Mr. Wang, what is going on?
I saw him look at me blankly at first, and then his eyes gradually regained their focus, and then he calmed down the emotions on his face, and then told me angrily, Haneng was doing something wrong and was intercepted halfway. Replace Laozi's dripping with paper-tying dripping.
I already know this result, and what I'm asking is why it happens like this. You are one of the four outstanding carpenters. Didn't you notice when they tampered with you?
Mr. Wang looked at me without blinking and said, "It's just because I didn't notice it that I'm so scared to death now!"
I see, I said that Mr. Wang has always been as steady as an old dog, why did he scare him like this this time? It turns out that he encountered a method that even he couldn't detect.
People are always afraid of the unknown, I know this very well.
But why did the other party replace Mr. Wang's clothes with paper ones?
Mr. Wang said angrily, "You ask me, which one should I ask?"
I glanced sideways at the room where my grandfather lived and wanted to ask Wu Tinghan, but when I saw that there was no movement in the room, I gave up the idea.
But what makes me panic now is, why did the paper man's eyes turn around and stare at me? I remember when it first smiled at me, its eyes were not slanted!
Not only that, I also have a very strange feeling in my heart, that is, the smile on the corner of this head's mouth, I seem to have seen it somewhere.
I racked my brains and thought about it, and finally I suddenly realized that this smile was the smile on the face of the paper man that Wu Tinghan and I met on the way back. !
It's just that the smile on the paper man's head just now had a wider arc and a weirder smile than the paper man I met on the road!
I told Mr. Wang about this, but he just said impatiently that I was blind and told me not to scare myself.
After he finished speaking, he picked up the paper man's head from the ground, crumpled it into a ball, stuffed it into the cage with the leg, and hurriedly walked out of the yard.
I asked him what he was doing, and he said he wanted to find a place to burn the paper man.
Let me tell you, there is not enough space in the yard for you to burn, so you have to go outside?
He said that if you don’t know shit and you dare to talk nonsense, you will die without even knowing it!
After saying this, he left the yard without looking back.
I walked to the entrance of the courtyard and took a look, and found that he was walking towards the river at the entrance of the village.
Since there is no meat, I can only stir-fry some side dishes. Fortunately, there are vegetables growing in the back of my yard, so I can barely make ends meet.
After the meal was ready, I asked Wu Tinghan to go out for dinner. Mr. Wang also happened to come back from outside, and then he consciously picked up the bowl of rice on the threshold of the hall and sat down to eat with us.
I asked Mr. Wang, has the paper head been processed?
Before he opened his mouth, Wu Tinghan frowned and asked me, what kind of paper head?
So I told her roughly what happened before. After she listened, she immediately frowned and asked me, are you sure you saw the eyes of the paper man's head staring at you?
I nodded and said, although Mr. Wang said that I was blind, I am sure that I really saw it.
I saw Wu Tinghan frowning even more deeply after hearing this. She first glanced at Mr. Wang. After seeing Mr. Wang shake his head slightly, she looked at me and said, "You must be dazzled."
Damn, I saw it with my own eyes, and you still said I was blind.
And it’s too obvious that you two are colluding, isn’t it? It's happening right under my nose. Do you really think I'm blind and can't see it?
They must have discovered something, but for whatever reason they just wouldn't tell me. What annoys me the most is their see-through-but-not-tell-explaining style of doing things, which can drive people crazy.
But since they didn’t tell me, I was sensible and didn’t ask any questions. After all, through these days of dealing with each other, I’ve come to understand that whatever they don’t want to tell you, no matter how hard you try, you can’t pry it out. their mouths.
After eating, Wu Tinghan went back to his room as before. Mr. Wang said that she was recharging her energy in preparation for lighting the sky lanterns at night. What I am more worried about is the injury on her back. Although the bleeding has stopped, after all, a piece of skin can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause.
Throughout the afternoon, Mr. Wang and I sat on the steps at the door of the hall and chatted.
I asked him about the situation of the Eight Immortals carrying the coffin, and he said that just like before, they would go to the grave pit to kowtow every night. He had tried many ways to stop it, but all failed without exception. He also said that now that the Baili Corpse Monument has resurfaced, he really doesn't know what to do.
Let me tell you, with Wu Tinghan here, there should be no problem.
He glanced sideways at the closed door, sighed, said "I hope so," then closed his eyes and took a nap.
I pointed to the coffin behind me and asked him, "Aren't you going to sleep in it?"
He didn't even open his eyes, but he said, "What will you do if I hide in there?" Give someone a headache?
Hearing the words "gift someone's head", I became even more certain that Mr. Wang must have been an Internet addict when he was in town, and he was still a technical thief, but a big talker.
After Mr. Wang's breathing became even, I leaned back on the chair and looked at the sunlight falling in the yard, feeling inexplicably melancholy.
After graduating from college, I thought I could find a job in a big city and live a nine-to-five life. I could also take my grandpa to the big city so that he could experience the modern lifestyle.
But I never expected that everything was developing in the opposite direction. Nothing was in my expectation. There are even many things that I still can't understand. It feels like there is a layer of cloth in front of my eyes. , I can’t see the truth clearly.
The most annoying thing is that there are obviously knowledgeable people around me, and they can see everything clearly, but they hide it and refuse to tell me what happened.
After I sighed, my eyelids became heavier and heavier. The fatigue of the past few days swept over me instantly, and I slowly fell asleep.
I was woken up by Mr. Wang's kick. As soon as I opened my eyes, I heard him say, "Hey, why don't you go cook, are you going to starve us two to death?"
I hurriedly looked towards the yard and realized that the sun had already set, so I hurried to the kitchen to prepare dinner.
After dinner, Wu Tinghan took us to Chen Guzi's house. I met some fellow villagers along the way, and they all greeted Mr. Wang warmly.
Looking at these fellow villagers and thinking about the scene of them kneeling in the room at noon, I felt a sense of stuffiness in my heart. I couldn't help but take a few steps forward, walking side by side with Wu Tinghan, and asked her if they would be fine after lighting the sky lanterns.
Wu Tinghan shook his head directly and said, first, I may not be able to light the sky lantern; second, even if it is lit, if the reason why Chen Guzi's portrait is crying is not found, it will only delay time.
The reason why Chen Guzi's portrait shed tears was because he wanted to activate the Baili Corpse Monument. But according to what Mr. Wang said, as long as his body is recovered and buried smoothly, the Baili Corpse Monument will naturally be cracked. Why is his portrait still weeping until now?
Wu Tinghan shook his head again and said that there is no point in discussing this now. Let's light up the sky lantern first.
Indeed, the water in the four wells will overflow soon. Unless the reason for the tears of the portrait can be found immediately and solved in a very short time, otherwise, the 'well water' will overflow, and the villagers, including Mr. Wu Tinghan and I will both die here.
When Mr. Wang opened the door of Chen Guzi's house, I just took a look inside, and my eyes instantly widened.
The originally clean yard was now densely covered with corpses, rats, cockroaches, earthworms... almost all the common small animals in the countryside could be found!
Not only that, among these piles of corpses, you can also see some paper figures with severed arms and legs. Due to the color of the sky, if you don't look carefully, you would think that what is lying on the ground is a corpse, which is particularly scary.
And the strangest thing is that all these corpses are only in the outside half of the yard. The inside half of the yard is still as clean as before, as if there is a natural barrier in the middle of the yard, keeping these rats and cockroaches away. , shield them all.
This damn thing is a bit too magical, right?
No wonder Wu Tinghan dared to put all the things he had prepared in the main room without looking at them all afternoon. It turned out that he was confident!
I was very excited and asked Wu Tinghan, is this also a border painting world?
Wu Tinghan shook his head and said, this is called 'Nine Infants Chaodian'!
