Tsing Yi was looked at by those eyes, and when he landed, he felt the straight hair on his back. She didn't dare to look at the weird doll anymore, and quickly turned her head to look at the old man next to her.

After hanging the monkey upside down on the rope, the old man grimaced and began to polish the blade of the scimitar again and again.

The dwarf servant took a few wide-mouthed wooden basins from the cage and arranged them neatly under the seven ropes. Then, without waiting for the old man's command, he spontaneously and automatically leaned over and hung the stunned monkeys on the ground upside down to the rope one by one.

The rope of the fallen monkey swayed in mid-air, and the servant stood there holding on to the hind legs of the last monkey.

There are no more ropes left to hang this monkey.

The old man who had finished wiping the knife handed the knife to the servant and ordered, "Do it!" ”

The servant clumsily put the monkey back on the ground, and then reached out and took the knife.

Under the old man's gaze, he grabbed the back of the neck of the monkey beside him with his other hand. When the sharp blade slashed through the monkey's yellow-haired neck, a stream of hot blood rushed out.

When the blood flowed into the tub, there was a crisp thumping sound. As the servants moved slowly, the sound of blood falling into the basin echoed throughout the room.

For a while, the blood in the room was surging to the sky, and the Tsing Yi on the beams of the house was almost disgusted. She had to raise her sleeves to cover her mouth and nose before she felt better.

The old woman singing a lullaby suddenly stopped. In the sound of the dripping water, she finally put down the doll in her arms.

The doll lay on her back on the cold ground, staring at her blank eyes and staring straight at the roof. When the bloodstained clothes were ripped off by the old woman, what was revealed in front of everyone was a small body wrapped in bandages.

The snow-white bandages had long been soaked in sticky blood, and whenever the old woman used her hand full of brown spots to uncover the layers of bandages, Tsing Yi, who was standing on the beam of the room with Kurosaburo, seemed to hear the sticky and dull sound of flesh peeling off.

She couldn't help but lean on Kurosaburo, although she was a little nervous and scared, she still insisted on watching.

Sensing Tsing Yi's reaction, Hei Saburo curled the corners of his mouth slightly, and then tightened his arms quietly.

The moment the bandage was completely removed, Tsing Yi seemed to see a broken doll.

She lay there dirty, her broken limbs as if they had been forcibly ripped off by a bad boy, and they were scattered miserably around the side in the form of a few shapeless pieces of flesh.

"It's not okay to always do this." Watching the old woman trembling and wiping the doll's body, the old man standing on the side sighed and said, "Every time the wound is torn without waiting for it to heal, she will be completely broken if it goes on." ”

"It's okay to be in charge." The old woman didn't listen to the old man's words at all, she carefully turned the doll over and wiped her back, and finally touched the doll's expressionless face and smiled lovingly, "The doll will definitely be fine!" Old woman, I know, the doll will definitely be fine. ”

The old man knew that he couldn't change the old woman's mind, so he had to give up when he heard the words. While the old woman was still there wiping the doll's body up and down, he raised his hand and pulled out two gold needles from the placket of his clothes.

Against the bright lantern, he squinted his eyes and threaded a piece of translucent silk thread through the tiny pinhole.

The translucent silk thread refracted a little light pink in the light, and when the old man pinched the silk thread with his thumb and forefinger and pulled it out, Tsing Yi could see that the other end of the silk thread was tied to his wrist.

It was like a thread pulled out of himself.

Without waiting for Tsing Yi to think about what was so strange about the silk thread, the old man who had already pulled out a large section of silk thread suddenly leaned over and picked up the doll's broken arm and squatted beside the doll.

He first scratched his fingertips along the jagged fracture, then he only moved his fingers slightly, and then began the sewing motion with a super-fast motion that was too fast for the eye to catch, and in a matter of hours, he sewed the severed arm back onto the doll.

After cutting the silk thread with his fingertips, he sewed back the leg that had been broken into three or four pieces.

"That's the lifeline." Surprised, Tsing Yi heard Hei Saburo whisper in her ear, "That old man is using his own yang shou to make a puppet!" ”

"Yangshou?" Tsing Yi was very puzzled and asked, "Aren't they mortals, where did they learn the method of drawing lifelines?" ”

"I guess I learned it from a wandering Taoist priest." Hei Saburo glanced at the old man carefully, and then chuckled, "But the lifeline is not something that ordinary people can draw, I see that he is already well versed in it, if he is not a natural genius, practice makes perfect!" ”

Tsing Yi chewed Hei Saburo's words repeatedly, and he was a little shocked at the moment. To make practice perfect, how can the old man need to count the exercises on ten fingers?

Thinking like this, she looked at the old man's attentive face and became more and more gloomy and terrifying.

In Tsing Yi's panic, the old man had already repaired the doll's body.

In the bright candlelight, the doll's body was full of shiny silk threads, and the joints of her limbs were particularly intertwined, and at first glance she really looked like a humanoid doll made of wood.

Tsing Yi's gaze unconsciously wandered on the doll's face again, and looking at the doll's empty eyes that were not shiny, she sounded Hei Saburo again, this female doll has long been dead.

It's just that why did this old couple make this female doll a doll? She can neither perform nor work, she can only be protected by them day and night, as long as she is not careful, her soul will run back and scream to go home.

Why, exactly?

Tsing Yi looked at the doll's face blankly, his mind turned a thousand times, who knew that at this moment, the doll that was motionless suddenly stood up, and the stunned Tsing Yi was so frightened that his heart jumped, and his body was busy retreating, almost screaming! Thanks to Kurosaburo's quick eyes, he reached out to cover her mouth, and her screams were forcibly swallowed.

"What are you afraid of!" Hei Saburo let go of his hand and laughed sullenly, "Look carefully, it's that old man who is manipulating her!" ”

Tsing Yi, who was almost frightened, swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, and then carefully probed to look underneath.

I saw that behind the doll who was gently shaking his limbs, the old man was holding his hands high and moving his ten fingers with sweat. When his ten fingers moved flexibly, more than a dozen translucent silk threads loomed on the limbs and neck of the doll.

Following the old man's every move, those silk threads were sometimes tight and sometimes loose, driving the lifeless doll to move slowly.

After confirming that it was not the doll that moved on its own, Tsing Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

The monkey whose throat was slit has been drained of blood. The dwarf servant carried the bloody wooden basin to the old man's side.

The old woman, who had nothing to do, skillfully made a small hole in the doll's neck with a sharp awl, and when the servant picked up the tub, she inserted the thin mouth funnel into the small hole in the doll's neck.

The servant dutifully tilted the mouth of the wooden basin slightly, and the viscous blood water was like a thick soup that had been boiled for many days, and like an extremely fragrant sesame oil, it turned into a thin red thread, which continued to flow down from the heights.

The doll passively shook her limbs, and when the basins of monkey blood flowed into her body little by little, her body slowly recovered.

"My doll." The old woman lovingly touched the doll's blue face, and muttered, "Mother-in-law will definitely cure you and will never let you leave me." ”

The expressionless doll blinked slowly, her head tilted, unable to move.

At this moment, the doll's body is like a wine glass, and while the old couple is trying their best to pour life into it, she can't accept their expectations because she is too small. Just as the servant began to pour out the fourth basin of blood, cracks appeared in the doll's body again.

The old woman's eyes widened and she looked at the doll's body in disbelief. At first it was just a little red blood, then a red line, then a dripping drop of blood, and finally, as if the levee was on the verge of bursting, and suddenly the blood began to flow out.

"No, no, no—" The old woman reached out in horror to plug the bleeding joints, but there were too many cracks on the doll's body, and she blocked this side, but not the other.

"What's wrong with the house-head-head-doll?" The old woman pushed away the bloody servant who was still doing her duty, and then held the doll in her arms, her cloudy eyes full of horror, "Doll-doll-don't scare your mother-in-law! ”

"Alas-" The old man helplessly lowered his shoulders, and after thinking about it for a long time, he said to the old woman weakly, "Old woman, our doll has been repaired many times, and it has reached the point where it is difficult to repair......

"You talk nonsense!" Before the old man finished speaking, the old woman suddenly made a hideous face and shouted hysterically, "My doll is fine, she was just injured by the collapsed roof ridge and injured her arms, legs and feet, as long as you connect the bones, it will be all right to recuperate!" Doll-doll-doll-do you say what your mother-in-law said is right? ”

The bloodied doll drooped her head, looking like she had no breath of life, she rolled her eyes and passed the crazy face of the old woman, she stared blankly at the door, her mouth opened and closed, but she was always speechless.

"Doll—do you want to hang out?" Seeing that the doll was always looking at the door, the old woman quickly put on a loving smile and said very obediently, "Oh, oh, let's go out to play, my mother-in-law will no longer just take care of business and lock you in the house." Where do you want to go? Sue sù mother-in-law, where mother-in-law will take you to ......"

As she spoke, she hugged the doll and ran out of the door.

"I can't help it—" The old man was so shocked that he quickly twisted the threads and hurried after the old woman, who at last stopped her at the moment when she pushed the door.

At the same time, the door that should have been pushed open by the old woman suddenly opened, and before the old couple could react, a light blue figure suddenly pounced forward, snatched the doll's body and stumbled away.

"Ahhh I tore your hair and cut off your hands, and I told you to abduct your children and tell you to be a flower child! ”

"Hey, hey-help--" The snatcher who was twisted twisted his body to avoid the beating of the old woman, but in despair he found that he had no way to hide, and in panic he had to shout for help, "Xiaosheng is not a flower child, you are-ah-kill Xiaosheng-"

Tsing Yi, who ran out with Hei Saburo, discovered the identity of the other party at a glance, and who is the person hiding around the wolf bèi who is not a nerd?

The old and frail old woman was like a mighty young man at this time, she twisted Fei Shusheng's hair and beat his head, face and back desperately, with a fierce face as if she wanted to beat Fei Shusheng to death.

The scene was chaotic.

Tsing Yi looked at Fei Shusheng's beaten face, and was just about to step forward to stop him, but was pulled by Hei Saburo.

"Let him also have a long memory." Hei Saburo gloated and smiled, "It's a nosy thing at both ends of the day." ”

"This ......" Tsing Yi glanced at Fei Shusheng's already bruised and swollen face, and hesitated for a moment.

At this moment, a female doll's scolding voice suddenly came out: "Stop! ”

The old woman's body stiffened in vain when she heard this, she stopped shaking her hand, and squinted her eyes to look at the source of the voice.

The young Xiuxiu struggled to get out from under the arm of the little book, and suddenly rushed to the old woman, and accused righteously: "Why are you bullying nerds!" He is so stupid that he won't even fade his chicken feathers on weekdays, and he is not good at fighting, you look at you, you are about to beat him into a pig's head! ”

The saved Fei Shusheng suddenly twitched, and immediately crawled out from under the old woman in shame.

When the old woman saw Xiuxiu, the wrinkles on her face were stretched, she snatched the doll back from Fei Shusheng's arms, and then she smiled lovingly at Xiuxiu: "Good cub, my doll wants to come out to play, can you play with her?" ”

"I don't have time to play right now!" Xiuxiu was worried about going back to Ah Lang's room to search for dogs, she didn't have the heart to play at all, and looking at the naked and bloody doll, Rao was bold, she was also a little uneasy, she pointed at the doll, and whispered, "And the doll looks very sick, covered in blood!" Aren't you going to take her to the doctor? ”

The old woman who was laughing was stunned for a moment, and after standing for a while, she turned around and walked to the room in a daze with the doll, and muttered as she walked: "Yes, the doll is injured, and I have to find a doctor for treatment!" ”

Halfway through the muttering, he saw a scholar blocked in the middle of the road.

"We have very skilled doctors." Xiao Yan said respectfully to the old woman, "If you don't dislike it, please come with me!" ”

The old woman was full of only her doll, and when she heard the words, she followed Xiaoyan without hesitation.

When the old man who was short of breath chased after him, he could only see the old woman enter Ah Lang's door.

I can't hide from it now.

Recalling Ah Lang's inevitable eyes before, the old man who understood that he could only do what the other party wished, fell to his feet and sighed, and then followed with heavy steps.

Tsing Yi looked at Fei Shusheng's miserable appearance with a blue nose and swollen face speechlessly, and didn't know what to say to explain him.

However, Xiuxiu, who was unscrupulous, poked at Fei Shusheng's sore feet without scruples and said: "Nerd, you are so useless, even the old woman can't hide from it." If you run fast, she won't be able to catch you! ”

Fei Shusheng turned his head with grinning teeth, unspeakably ashamed.

"What are you doing robbing other people's female dolls?" Tsing Yi asked depressedly, "Otherwise, that mother-in-law wouldn't have chased you out and beaten you......"

Tsing Yi only said half of what she said, and according to what she had just seen, she could see that the old woman was ruthless and not a good person, but she was already a nerd who was beaten into a pig's head.

“…… They're shooting flowers! Fei Shusheng explained vaguely with a swollen face, "We have to hurry up and save that female doll." ”

"Oh?" Tsing Yi glanced at Hei Saburo for some reason, and saw that Hei Saburo was smiling and didn't make a sound, so he had to turn back to look at Fei Shusheng again, and asked strangely, "What?" Do you recognize the doll? ”

"It's more than acquaintance!" Fei Shusheng covered his cheeks and said with a sad face, "Her surname is Guo, her milk name is Yuanyuan, she is Xiaosheng's neighbor and student, before Xiaosheng left home, I heard that she was accidentally abducted by a photographed flower, and her family couldn't find her, and she didn't want Xiaosheng to meet here." Yuanyuan was made into a ghost by the pair of flowers, so how can Xiaosheng stand by and watch! ”

Saying that, Fei Shusheng struggled to stand up again, struggled to walk forward, and said indignantly as he walked: "Xiaosheng must rescue Yuanyuan this time!" ”

Tsing Yi and Xiuxiu looked at each other with a blank look, and after thinking about it, they followed behind him.

If you miss a chance, you won't have a second chance. When Tsing Yi and his party returned to the door of the old couple's room, the old couple had already disappeared with the dolls, only a bunch of delicate dolls were neatly placed on the bed, and a note was pressed underneath.

Taken aback, Fei Shusheng hurriedly opened the note and looked at it, only to see five crooked big characters: I would like to settle the bill here

"It's too late—they've taken Yuanyuan away again!" Fei Shusheng, who was full of regret, grabbed his hair and said bitterly, "It's all Xiaosheng's incompetence-Xiaosheng-I'm ashamed of Uncle Guo-"

Seeing that Fei Shusheng was so uncomfortable, Xiuxiu couldn't help but feel a little at a loss, she snuggled up to Tsing Yi uneasily, not knowing how to react.

Tsing Yi touched Xiuxiu's head, and then sighed deeply.

It's troublesome now, is it to tell the nerd the truth and watch him faint, or don't say anything and let him regret missing the opportunity to save people?

Looking at Fei Shusheng's remorseful appearance, Tsing Yi sighed again.

Let's tell him the truth.

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