I carried Wu Tinghan on my back and walked out, Mr. Wang's question echoing in my mind.
To be honest, I have never thought about his question, but now that I hear Mr. Wang say it, I feel that it really makes sense.
After all, if the craftsmen hiding in the dark dare not show up, they will not be able to break through the hidden knife door god that Mr. Wang has set up in front of the steps. Naturally, they will not be able to enter the main room to destroy the blue lantern that ascends to the sky.
Even if one or two fish slip through the net and run into the main room, there are still six reincarnations painted by Wu Tinghan waiting for them, and they still can't do any substantial damage to Qingdeng.
Therefore, unless those craftsmen showed up and destroyed it themselves, they would not be able to promote the smooth progress of the Baili Corpse Monument. And if they were asked to show up, they obviously didn't have the guts.
Therefore, as long as the green lanterns are kept burning, the villagers will be safe. Even after most of the well water is burned, the villagers will probably not have to kneel to the mountain behind at noon.
In this way, those craftsmen who have been hiding in the dark and have not taken any action against me, just waiting for me to get the luck of the Baili Corpse Monument before taking action, will naturally target them after seeing that the Baili Corpse Monument is hopeless. Quite me now.
Compared with Mr. Wang's worries, I felt a lot more relaxed after knowing the current situation.
From the beginning, I didn't care about my own luck. After so many things happened, I also took a dim view of my own life and death. As long as the folks and Mr. Wang, Wu Tinghan and others are fine, I can do anything.
But Mr. Wang snorted coldly and said, "Do you think that if you die, the rest of us will survive?"
I asked, isn't it Mai?
He said, don't forget, although your grandfather is the old carpenter's chess piece, he is also one of the layout people. If you die for no reason, do you think he will crawl out of the grave and kill all of us?
Let me tell you, it shouldn’t be possible, right? After all, when you buried 'me' alive, my grandfather didn't cause any trouble.
Mr. Wang said that it was because everything was going according to your grandfather's layout, so he naturally wouldn't have any objections. Besides, even if your grandfather doesn't come out, what about the old carpenter hiding in the dark? Do you think he will let go of the duck he already has?
Yes, why did I forget that old carpenter? Even if other craftsmen would let the villagers of our village go, the old carpenter would complete the hundred-mile corpse monument from beginning to end.
So if the old carpenter cannot be found, my death or not will not have much significance in saving the lives of the villagers - after all, even if I die, the old carpenter can completely replace my grandfather with another person. With his luck, he will still be the Baili Corpse Monument.
As for how he could replace someone to inherit my grandfather's luck, I think with his ability, it is not difficult to do this.
After thinking about this, I suddenly felt a little frustrated. I felt that even if I risked my life, I still couldn't save the current situation. This feeling of helplessness and powerlessness was really upsetting.
Mr. Wang stretched out his hand and patted me on the shoulder and said, "Young man, don't worry too much. Where have you been? Among us craftsmen, none of us have come from helplessness and despair?" What you are encountering now is nothing compared to what we had before!
I don’t know if Mr. Wang is telling the truth or if he said it deliberately to comfort me, but no matter which it is, I think it still has a certain effect.
After placing Wu Tinghan in the room where my grandfather lived, Mr. Wang called me out.
After he closed the door, he tore off the door god on the door, stuck three sticks of incense on the threshold, took out his ax and started slashing at the door panel in a dizzying manner.
I know that this is him using the craftsmanship of the Hidden Sword Door God, but what I don’t understand is why he wants to get a Hidden Sword Door God here. Is Wu Tinghan in danger?
Mr. Wang sighed and said, don’t ask too much, this is the fate of our craftsmen.
After it was done, Mr. Wang told me, you go to bed first, and I will go to Chen Guzi's house to refill the door god with three pillars of fragrance in a while. I will lock the courtyard door, but don't bolt it, so that when I come back I won't be able to knock on the door, but just unlock it and come in.
I nodded and gave Mr. Wang a thumbs up, indicating that Mr. Wang was thoughtful and even thought of knocking on the door at night.
Mr. Wang said, don't flatter me, or I'll sleep on you.
Looking at the wrinkles on Mr. Wang's face, I couldn't bear it and said, "Why don't you go to Chen Guzi's house at night to avoid problems with the Tianqing Lantern." If you run back and forth, you may not be able to sleep well all night.
He shook his head and said, one of you is fainting and the other is stupid. If I don't turn around to guard you, how can I be relieved? A little sleep won't kill anyone, but if they don't say hello well, not just one or two will die.
I……
I know what Mr. Wang said next is true, but I still want to curse people. After all, no one likes to be called stupid. But when I thought about Mr. Wang running back and forth all night, I held back.
So I suggested again, how about we all go to Chen Guzi’s house to sleep one night? This way you don't have to run back and forth.
Mr. Wang looked at me angrily and said, if you can sleep in his room, why did I just ask you to carry Senior Wu back? Is it fun to walk at night?
I asked, why can't I sleep in his room? With the Hidden Sword Door God and the Six Paths of Reincarnation guarding it, isn’t it safer than my home?
Mr. Wang snorted coldly and said, "When people sleep, their souls are most unstable. There are six paths of reincarnation in Chen Guzi's hall. Aren't you afraid that your soul will be sucked in accidentally when you doze off?"
When I thought about sleeping, no one would be around, I was so frightened that I couldn't help but shudder, and then told him that I didn't need to sleep.
Mr. Wang pointed to the room behind him and said, can she not sleep? You mean you have a way to wake her up?
Well, I have no choice but to accept the facts and shut up.
Mr. Wang sat with me for a while and listened at the door for a while. After making sure that Wu Tinghan hadn't woken up yet, he sent me to bed while he went out and walked to Chen Guzi's house.
I pushed open the door to my room and looked towards the end of the bed as a habit. After making sure no one was there, I walked in and lay down.
But for a while, I couldn't sleep at all. My mind was groggy with all the things that had happened during this period of time.
I don’t know when I fell asleep, or how long I slept. I only know that I was woken up by an intermittent knock on the door.
I subconsciously thought that Mr. Wang was back, and I was about to get up and open the door. But as soon as I sat up, I thought of what Mr. Wang said before leaving, and my heart suddenly thumped, and my brain suddenly sobered up.
Mr. Wang specifically told me that he didn’t need me to open the door, and he also said he wouldn’t knock on the door. So what was this knock on the door?
A ghost knocking on the door in the middle of the night? !
I subconsciously hid in the bed, afraid that I would make a sound.
But at this moment, Mr. Wang's voice came from outside the hospital. He said, I have lost my key. Come and open the door for me. I can't get in.
It is true that the voice is Mr. Wang’s, but I am not sure that the person who said this is Mr. Wang.
So I followed what Wu Tinghan taught me before and shouted "Who is it" outside the room?
Soon Mr. Wang's response came from outside. He said, you are a bitch, who else could you be except me? Hurry up and get the spare key and open the door for me!
After hearing this, I no longer had any doubts, got up and walked towards the yard - I felt that I had a masochistic tendency, and I had to be scolded a few times to feel comfortable.
As soon as I walked out of the room, I saw that the courtyard door was tightly closed. The moon in the sky was surprisingly bright. I could even see a reflection in the center of the courtyard shining into the main room. I didn't know who poured a puddle where. water.
I was in a hurry to open the door for Mr. Wang, so I stepped out of the hall door and walked towards the courtyard door.
But after taking a few steps, I was blinded by the reflection in the yard.
Only then did I suddenly realize that there could not be a mirror in the yard, and it was even less likely that there would be a beach in the summer. At least when Mr. Wang left, there was no reflection from this thing in the yard.
So what exactly is this thing?
I put my hand in front of my eyes, lowered my head slightly and walked toward the reflective surface. Before I got closer, I saw a round thing that looked like a mirror.
Just when I was confused, I took a few steps forward, and with just one glance, I was so frightened that I almost stopped breathing!
Under the bright moonlight, I clearly saw that the reflective round thing turned out to be a pale human face! When I looked over, it was looking at me sideways!
And there was a weird smile on the corner of its mouth!
Isn't this the paper head that Mr. Wang crushed? !
Hasn't it been taken away by Mr. Wang? Wasn't it already taken to the river and burned?
Why are you still in the yard?
Could it be... that the paper head came back on its own?
I feel like my mind has gone blank, and everything between heaven and earth has become quiet.
"Bang...bang...bang..."
There was a faint knock on the door, which made my brain recover.
Mr. Wang is outside the door!
As if I had grasped a life-saving straw, I bypassed the smiling paper face and ran frantically towards the courtyard door.
The locks on the gates of our village are all old-fashioned door locks. There is a copper ring on each side of the door, and then a lock is used to lock the two copper rings together. Just pull or push hard to straighten the copper ring. , leaving a big gap in the middle.
When I was a child, I could even slip in and out of this gap.
I thought that as long as I opened the courtyard door and handed the key to Mr. Wang, it would be over. After all, Mr. Wang must know what happened to the crushed paper head, and he must know how to deal with it.
But what I never expected was that when I opened the courtyard door and looked out from the middle of the door, the person standing at the door was not Mr. Wang at all, but a man with a pale face, blush on his cheeks, and a pair of staring eyes. The paper man looks at me with round eyes!
It stretched a hand through the crack in the door in front of me, with a strange arc at the corner of its mouth, and made a voice exactly like Mr. Wang: Gou Ri Di Chen Si Qing... open the door... it's me...
