I'm confused, I can't think of what the coffin Li is going to do, and he won't let me pick the leaves on the branches, fry the celery, and give it to Fa Dian to drink, right?

While I was picking leaves, the coffin Li was not idle, he took out a black box from the house, and moved the previous offering table to the courtyard, and saw the golden scissors on the offering table again and the incense burner without a trace of ashes, my curiosity came out again, so I asked the coffin Li:

"Uncle Li, why are you putting scissors as a tribute, Huang Xiang...... Yellow incense doesn't light ...... either"

The coffin Li replied casually while fiddling with it: "This is the rule of the paper-cutting door, the paper is the most afraid of fire, so the yellow incense can't be lit, as for the scissors - this is the object we eat, shouldn't we worship it!" ”

Coffin Li took out a small box of ink, two brushes, and a pile of yellow paper from the black box, and almost as soon as he finished drumming it, I also plucked the leaves from the twenty peach branches and twenty willow branches, and carefully put all the leaves into a stainless steel basin.

"Uncle Li, do you use these leaves as tea leaves and boil them for the monks to drink?" I asked self-righteously.

The coffin Li glanced at me and looked at me with a stupid look: "Leaves? Who told you to ask for leaves? ”

I was already confused, and at this time, the second monk was even more confused: "You...... What are you asking me to do with the leaves carefully! ”

"Fool - leave the leaves aside, what you need is branches."

Yes!

The coffin Li placed forty branches in front of the offering table, and then knelt in front of him very respectfully, and kowtowed several times.

When you get up, you pick up the branches and knead them very skillfully.

Basket weaving?

I remember when I was very young, there were still small baskets made from willow branches in the village, and the baskets were woven for their own use, but now few people will also do this craft, and it is estimated that they are all handicrafts now, which are specially sold to office workers with a good family in big cities, or foreign tourists, and it is said that they can make a lot of money by this!

I stood aside and watched, but I saw that the willow and peach branches in the coffin Li Li's hand were quickly woven into a strange shape, definitely not a small basket or something like that, but the shape of a person.

Is he making up villains?

Sure enough! Ten minutes later, a vivid villain appeared in front of my eyes.

Coffin Li put the villain in front of the offering table, then took two steps back, bowed, picked up the yellow paper on his side, and pasted it very lightly, and after seven or eight minutes, a villain wrapped in yellow paper took shape, and the coffin Li did not stop, and then took a brush dipped in ink, painted the facial features of the villain, and sketched a few times on the body.

I was stunned by the whole scene!

I didn't expect Fa to be so skillful, and it is estimated that it is much more awesome than ordinary art students.

When everything is done, it will be dark.

The coffin Li wiped the sweat from his forehead, seemed to be very happy, asked me to go to the supermarket to buy some side dishes, and said that he would drink a pot with me in the evening, which made me a little overwhelmed.

It's a peach branch, it's a willow branch, and I worked hard to find a dry peach pit, didn't do all this to save the law, how to do the villain, and then broke up! I'm not in the mood to drink......

But thinking about it again, he spent so much effort, there must be his purpose, most of the masters do things like this, besides, no one else can do anything, only he can cure, it must be a secret that is not passed on, and it is natural to do strange things.

Forget it! I'd better cooperate!

Cooperate! Cooperate! I just need to remember those two words.

I bought a few packs of peanuts from the supermarket, a few packs of boss vegetables, a few ham sausages, and vacuum-packed roast chicken and duck, but the small supermarket in the village did not have them, and I also bought two bottles of 52 degrees in the Yellow River Region.

Back at the coffin Li's house, it was already early eight o'clock, and the coffin Li glanced at the wine in my hand and smiled slightly.

"Drink my bar!"

As he spoke, he took out a black jar from the back room, and the mouth of the jar was still pasted with yellowed paper, and he knew that it had been some years at a glance. People with a little common sense know that the longer the time of China's grain liquor, the better and more mellow it is fermented.

It is said that in the 60s, Chinese archaeologists dug out a noble tomb in the Warring States period in Ningxia, which has two jars of wine that are still well sealed.

This person has three hobbies.

The first is that he is good, and he has married several ladies in his life, including a woman.

The second is a lover of literature, and he can also write modernist poetry, what "I'm a tengu!" I ate the moon, I ate the sun......"

The third is a hobby of antique artifacts, and is said to have made a great contribution to the decipherment of oracle bone inscriptions.

When Guo Moruo organized archaeologists to excavate this ancient tomb of the Warring States Period, he personally tasted the ancient wine that had just been unearthed, as for what it tasted, this is not known to outsiders.

Seeing the jar of wine that Li moved out of the coffin, it can be judged from the white wax seal on the bottle mouth and the yellow paper pasted: it is a bottle of aged wine!

The two of them drank each other in the courtyard, and the red boy looked up at the sky on the side, and I couldn't help but ask him what he was doing, and he replied with a smile that he was counting the stars, and he thought that the stars in the night sky were very beautiful, and no matter how he looked at it, he couldn't see enough.

I also laughed at him, saying that the stars in the sky could not be counted at all, and there was a child named Zhang Heng who counted them in ancient times, and later became a Chinese astronomer.

The red boy smiled and continued to look up at the stars, looking very engaged and serious.

The two of them each drank a glass of wine, not to mention, this wine is really good, the entrance is sweet, it is very comfortable to drink in the stomach, and dizzy, the second cup I just took a sip, I felt dizzy, my eyes were dark, and everything around me disappeared.

When I opened my eyes in a daze, I found myself lying on the bed, with more than a dozen vivid paper-cut works posted on one wall.

I was drunk last night?

I'm also confused.

Since I ate the strange black things in the cracks in the underground of the Yellow River, I think that the amount of alcohol is good, and it is said that the liquor in the fifties is fine, and it is okay to drink a bottle, why only drink more than one glass and get drunk!

I sat up and tried it, neither dizzy nor uncomfortable, and when I sat up, I found that I was lying on the bed where Fa Dian was lying before.

What about Fa Ying?

Quickly put on my shoes and walked outside, as soon as I arrived in the living room, I heard the sound of talking in the yard, when I listened to the first sentence, I just felt that the voice was a little familiar, and after listening to the second sentence, I suddenly had a thrill.

Fa Ying? It was Fa Dian's voice, and he really woke up.

With a joy in my heart, I rushed out in two steps, and saw Fa Dian and Coffin Li sitting opposite each other chatting.

"Lao Dian, are you awake?"

Fa Dian smiled and nodded at me: "You kid is very righteous!" With that, he gave me a thumbs up.

"Uncle Li, I was drunk last night, I'm really embarrassed, I wanted to help......"

Coffin Li waved his hand: "I use the secret technique of paper-cutting, and outsiders can't help!" ”

After a few casual conversations, I found out that the red child was not there, and he was either surrounding me before, or following behind the coffin Li, what is wrong today.

Hurriedly asked the coffin Li: "What about the red boy!" ”

Coffin Li frowned: "Didn't I tell you that he went home!" ”

"Home? When will you go home? ”

"O—his family picked him up early this morning......"

"Who? His family, you...... You're not his family, are you? ”

"I ...... I'll count it too! But Red Boy has his own real family. ”

I didn't answer the preface and the afterword, I was confused, and I felt happy for the red boy, but I was a little reluctant. Hot search

"Old man, you...... Are you alright? Do you feel uncomfortable? ”

Fa Dian made a muscle-flexing gesture at me and smiled: "It's good! It's alive again! ”

I know that Fa Dian is so witty, but I still looked at him carefully, and he looked really energetic, so there should be nothing wrong.

Seeing that Fa Dian was fine, his heart finally fell into his stomach after two days of fighting, it seems that Coffin Li is still a little capable, why did he use a dummy to cure Fa Tuo?

It should be a secret art, not enough for outsiders!

No matter what happens, if the person is cured, nothing else matters.

Coffin Li seems to have something on his mind, always frowning, he should be reluctant to give up the red child! In fact, I was also very reluctant, I remember last night he was happy to count the stars.

"Uncle Li, where does the red boy's family live?" I couldn't help but ask Coffin Lee.

"His home! In short, it's far away, and you haven't heard of it, let alone go. ”

This makes me very unconvinced, what can I call it, today's world has developed science and technology, convenient transportation, not to mention the earth, the space and the moon are also smeared with traces of human beings!

At breakfast, Fa Dian and I were about to say goodbye, and as soon as the two of us walked to the gate, we heard the coffin call out to me: "Wait first!" ”

The two of them turned around, only to see that the coffin Li's eyes were red and swollen, and he took out a brown handkerchief from his pocket, gently lifted it, and took out a red paper-cut figure from it.

He walked up to me in a few steps and reached out and handed me the papercutter.

"Keep it as a souvenir!"

Reaching out and taking it, I saw that it was a red male doll, cut vividly, and I don't know what kind of paper it was cut from, the paper felt soft and slippery, like some kind of nylon cloth.

What shocked me the most was the appearance of this paper-cutting fat doll, which was exactly the same as the red child, and even the two small dimples on the cheeks were faintly visible.

"Uncle Li, what is this?"

"Nothing, let's keep a souvenir! When Red Boy left, he told me that the two days that his eldest brother spent with him were the happiest times of his life, and he will always remember them. ”

I was both moved and uncomfortable by these words, and carefully put the paper-cutting man in my bag, thanked him, and followed Fa Dian out of Qilijing Village.

On the way, Fa Dian asked me, "You kid isn't drunk!" ”

"What? Not drunk! Then why did I fall unconscious last night! ”

"Because Lao Li put something in the wine you drank!"

"Oh? What's that! ”

"Drugged!"

I stopped all at once.

"What do you say? Coffin Lee stunned me with ecstasy? Why! ”

"To save me, to be exact, so that you don't see how he saved me!"

"What you said, saving people is not doing bad things, and you are afraid of people looking at you!"

Fa Dian smiled bitterly and shook his head: "There is a rule in the paper-cutting door, that is, while saving a person, you also have to kill a person, but it is a real person who is saved, and the key person can be replaced by a paper person, as far as I know, the deepest paper-cutting technique in the paper-cutting door can resurrect the paper man - but you have to use a special material of paper." ”

Resurrect the paper figures?

I felt that my body instantly passed through an electric current, and almost reflexively took out the red paper figure from my arms, because a very bizarre idea suddenly popped into my mind: could the red boy be the person who was resurrected by Coffin Li with this paper-cutting technique?

Back at the Donghu Village Branch, I felt unprecedentedly tired, so I simply said a few words to Wu Jinghan and lay down on the bed.

In a daze, I saw someone gently push open the door, and it turned out to be a red child.

I sat up with a "poof".

"You...... What are you doing here? ”

Red Boy smiled: "I think big brother, come and see you again!" ”

Seeing the two shallow dimples exposed by the red boy again, I was happy from the bottom of my heart, but then I thought about it, no! He left early this morning, and how can it be that it has been four hours now, and how can he turn back again! The point is that I didn't tell him where I lived, and how did he find here?

The more I thought about it, the more I felt that something was wrong, and I was about to ask the reason for the red boy, when I suddenly heard lightning and thunder outside, and it was raining, and an old voice shouted: "Red boy! Time's up! Red Boy! It's time! ”

The sound seemed to come out of hell, and I only felt creepy to hear it.

Red Boy smiled at me and waved his hand: "Big brother, I really have to leave this time, when you miss me in the future, I will come to play with you!" ”

After saying that, he turned around and ran out the door.

"Red Boy, ...... you wait"

I finished shouting and looked at the red boy again, and the others were gone, and it was pouring rain outside, as if it had been poured down from the sky.

"There's a fire! It's a fire! ”

In a daze, I heard someone shouting outside, the sound flickered far and near, I opened my eyes suddenly, only to find that I was still lying on the bed at this time, the sun was shining outside, and it was not raining.

It turned out to be a dream!

But this dream is too realistic, thinking of the red boy in my mind, I felt sad again, and subconsciously took out the paper-cut painting of the red boy from the coffin Li from the bag at the bedside, and looked at it, and was dumbfounded.

I remember that the red boy was just smiling before, but now he is smiling very brightly.

What's going on? Could it be that the red boy really came just now!

At this time, I heard shouts from far and near, and at this time, I could hear clearly that there were several people shouting, some far away from the village branch, and some close to each other, so it sounded far and near.

Fire?

I hurriedly put on my shoes and ran out into the street, where I saw a cloud of black smoke rising from the sky to the south, in the direction of Qilijing.

I happened to see a captain in the village passing by on a motorcycle, and I hurriedly stopped: "Uncle, where is the fire?" ”

"Seven Mile Well! It seems that the one who made the coffin and his neighbor ......" After speaking, he nodded at me and drove towards the entrance of the village.

Seven Mile Well? It can't be such a coincidence!

It happened that Li Bo and another villager were also driving by on a motorcycle, and I hurriedly stopped: "Brother Bo, are you going to Qilijing?" ”

Li Bo stopped the motorcycle: "Yes! The fire is so big, let's see if we can help! ”

"Oh! Take me there! ”

"Okay! Brothers, get in the car! ”

When the motorcycle drove to the embankment of the Yellow River, you could see the southern sky illuminated red from a distance, and black smoke billowing up, which made people feel chills when they saw it.

In less than ten minutes, when I arrived at the entrance of Qilijing Village, I only looked at it, and the pores all over my body exploded.