Chapter 24: The Resurrection of the Paper Piercing Man

When Ji Nian heard Uncle Ming say this, he inhaled a breath of cold air from between his teeth, was stunned for a moment, and felt that things were a little complicated, and said: "Uncle Ming, although my spells are limited, I have traveled from south to north and heard all kinds of strange spells on the rivers and lakes, but why have I never heard of this spell...... Who are you learning from? And the paper piercing people into living people, how does it sound a little infiltrating, and this also violates the way of yin and yang...... It can't be a witchcraft. ”

Ji Nian's words made Uncle Ming a little embarrassed, his expression was unnaturally stunned, and he replied: "What kind of teacher, you Uncle Ming and I, I have nothing to do, as for this method, I only saw it in ancient books, but of course I won't let them really turn into human form." ”

Something similar to the paper person becoming a living person has indeed happened, and this incident happened in the Cultural and Revolutionary eras, of course, this story is also what Uncle Ming often told me when I was a child.

In 1966 of the last century, a storm of the Cultural Revolution was set off across the country, and although it was a remote mountain village, social turmoil and changes had a huge impact on the village chief.

At that time, there was a man named Xiang Xiaoer, who had a daughter-in-law in his forties, and he thought that he was happily together, but after three years, his daughter-in-law didn't even have an egg, not only that, but a major event happened this year.

At that time, the village just encountered the "broken four olds", what dragon king temple old man temple Guanyin Temple clay sculptures were all smashed by the young people in the village, the wooden statues were concentrated in the courtyard of the "six theaters", with fire for three days and three nights.

After the sixth stage was burned down, Xiang Xiaoer's daughter-in-law once passed by the sixth stage, and was curious for a while, so she walked into the sixth stage to take a look, and found that there was a hat wearing flowers behind the stage.

Wearing a flowered hat is an official hat of the Qing Dynasty, like the shape of a hat, beanied, trumpet-style, but Xiang Xiaoer's daughter-in-law did not spread culture, thinking that this hat was just for singing, but she was not stupid, and saw a red nail bead at the top of the hat.

That is, a sparkling ruby, according to the etiquette of the Qing Dynasty, the first grade is ruby, the second grade is coral, and the third grade is sapphire......

When she saw this sparkling ruby, her eyes straightened, and she took the ruby directly from her hat, then took it home, threaded it with thread, and put it directly around her neck, and went out to show off.

This show off is terrible, Xiang Xiao's second daughter-in-law said to people that this ruby was handed down by her ancestors, but the people in the village didn't believe it at all, and wanted to Xiang Xiaoer's family was just a poor peasant, so what kind of ancestral heirloom came to Xiang's daughter-in-law, and directly arrested his daughter-in-law, and tortured him when he was caught, and the daughter-in-law was recruited at once, saying that she found it in the Six Theaters.

However, the Red Guards covered her with a capitalist ideology, became a rightist, stripped off her clothes every day, marched on the streets, and the villagers threw rotten eggs, so that Xiang Xiaoer's daughter-in-law suffered humiliation, and in less than a month, Xiang Xiaoer's daughter-in-law was tortured into skinny bones, although Xiang Xiaoer was distressed, but he couldn't even say a word, and if he wanted to say it, he would also arrest him directly.

As a result, one day, when the Red Guards were marching on the street against the second daughter-in-law, they found that their popularity was gone.

But when the person died, it was also a stench for 10,000 years, everyone carried the body of Xiang Xiaoer's daughter-in-law directly to the Six Theaters and burned it, along with the entire Six Theaters burned into a bare shelf, and Xiang Xiaoer watched his daughter-in-law's body burned to ashes, and he had to swallow tears in his stomach.

Because the people of that era were extremely distorted in their hearts, the walls had ears and the like were vividly interpreted, the people above, just buckle a hat for you, can kill your whole family, and the most inhumane thing is to let the son pick up the stone and smash Lao Tzu's head, and the old lady sewed pants for her son, and accidentally pinned the needle to the wall after sewing, the photo of Lao Mao hanging on the wall, the needle just pierced Mao's nose, he ran out and even sued his mother, and finally the old lady was beaten to death.

Moreover, after the Cultural Revolution was rehabilitated, the legal illiteracy would not bear any responsibility, and it was still chic.

After the daughter-in-law died, Xiang Xiaoer washed his face with tears every day, and he lost weight, even thinking about his daughter-in-law in his dreams, and he became a handful of skin and bones, and he was almost breathless.

Xiang Xiaoer felt that he had lived enough, one day, he hung a rope at home, wanted to hang himself, a thin old man passed by his house, wanted to beg for saliva to drink, saw Xiang Xiaoer hanged, rescued him, and asked the reason, Xiang Xiaoer told the thin old man about his daughter-in-law being beaten to death, and after the thin old man listened, he said: "You want a daughter-in-law, how about I give your daughter-in-law back." ”

At that time, Xiang Xiao Eryi got up from the bed, and couldn't believe the words of the thin old man, because this matter was too mysterious, and he was afraid that the wall would have ears.

The thin old man's whole person was full of mystery, so that when Xiang Xiaoer was about to get dark, he went to the street to buy some paper and came back, and when he came back, the thin old man took the lamp and tied a paper tie for him.

After the paper body was tied, it looked about 1.55 meters, about the same height as Xiang Xiaoer's daughter-in-law before his death, and then the old man said to him: "Bring the clothes that your daughter-in-law wrew." ”

Xiang Xiaoer took out his daughter-in-law's clothes before her death, and put them directly on the paper piercing person, and she looked decent, and after the old man painted the paper piercing person's eyebrows, it was more realistic for five points, but the paper piercing person was like a daughter-in-law, and it was only a paper piercing person, and it was impossible to come back to life.

But later, the old man instructed Xiang Xiaoer to put the paper on the bed and cover it with a quilt, so that the quilt could be lifted after three days, and her name should be called all the time during these three days.

Xiang Xiaoer was a little puzzled, and he also felt that the old man was a little weird, but he still did it.

Three days later, after Xiang Xiaoer lifted the quilt, he saw that the person in the quilt was his daughter-in-law before his death, who could say that he could move, which made Xiang Xiaoer cry excitedly, making him unable to believe that a person who was obviously dead could come back to life.

But the old man has commanded that your daughter-in-law has come to life through the body of a paper piercing man, so you can't let her see the light during the day, and she only comes out at night, and you can't let anyone find out.

Later, Xiang Xiaoer's daughter-in-law came to life, and the two moved directly into the mountains, and later heard that her daughter-in-law gave birth to a baby for him.

Of course, this is the story that Uncle Ming told me when I was a child, and it sounds very mysterious, but at that time, I was also thinking in my heart, if this thing is true, then what kind of master is the old man? To this day, this question still hovers in my mind