Chapter 72: The Man Who Loves Puppets
Soon after returning home, Xiao Zhi heard a quick knock on the door, and it turned out to be Jimmy coming to the door. After only two or three days of not seeing him, Jimmy became even more emaciated than before......
Like an acquaintance, he walked into the room by himself and found a chair to sit down: "Xiao Zhi, I heard that you have been to my father's house?" ”
Xiao Zhi poured him a glass of boiled water: "Your father has been seriously ill for so long, as a person from the same town, it is necessary for me to visit his old man, you won't blame me." ”
Jimmy took a sip of boiling water and let out a sigh: "Damn, I was going to destroy that puppet doll Billy, but I was followed by a police detective from my new home, who suspected that I killed Lisa, and destroying the puppet was destroying some kind of evidence." Now that puppet is in his hands, and what's worse, he's still a neighbor in my new home! I've got to find a chance to steal the puppet back. ”
Xiao Zhi sat on the chair and stretched: "I don't dare to steal a detective's things, you have to do it yourself." ”
Jimmy scratched his hair vigorously with both hands: "Of course I didn't ask you to steal, but you said the day before yesterday that you wanted to seek revenge on Mary Shaw, I just came to tell you that Mary Shaw is more terrible than I imagined, she came to me the night I went back to my new home, but the light seems to have an expulsion effect, and after turning on the light, she disappeared......"
Can Light Banish Mary Shaw?
Xiao Zhi smiled and said nothing, Edward Anson's little wife Ella was still walking around in the middle of the day......
Jimmy saw that Xiao Zhi didn't believe it, and his voice was a little anxious: "I went to the Grand Theater where Mary Shaw performed and found a handwritten booklet that studied 'perfect dolls', and according to the above records, I can be very sure that Mary Shaw did doll experiments with living people back then......"
The bell of the bicycle rings outside the door.
Because the door is open, you can see the scene of people coming and going on the street when you look up.
A middle-aged man in a brown-and-gray jacket rode a bicycle slowly, with a brand new shovel on the back seat. Jimmy stood up suddenly: "He's the detective who pestered me, since he appears in the town now, it means that there is no one in his house for the time being, I have to take this opportunity to get back the puppet Billy, and Henry Walker of the funeral home also seems to have a lot of information about Mary Shaw......"
In the movie, it was the unfortunate thing who stole the puppet Billy from the detective's house and took him directly to Henry Walker's house, only to have Mary Shaw follow the puppet and kill the poor old man.
Xiao Zhi reached out and grabbed Jimmy's shoulder: "Puppets are very evil things, you can burn them directly after you find them, don't take them to other people's funeral homes, old Henry and Marianne are innocent." ”
Jimmy was stunned for a moment, and he nodded, "I see." ”
Standing at the door and looking at Jimmy who left in a hurry, Xiao Zhi shook his head slightly, let this guy jump first.
The next day, Xiao Zhi knocked on the door of Edward Anson's house with a huge backpack on his back.
It was Ella who opened the door, but it was also, after all, there were only two dolls living in the big house, she and Edward Anson, and Edward couldn't move, so she had to come......
Xiao Zhi showed his intention, and Ella took him to the back garden very enthusiastically, this garden seemed to have been untended for a long time, and the flowers and plants grew a little messy. Ella walked over to a round stone table to clean it up, and said, "Edward's personality is still a little impulsive, and he won't hear it when we're here." ”
Xiao Zhi pushed the big backpack over: "Ms. Ella...... No, Mr. Ella, do you look at the tools and materials here? ”
Teacher?
Ai's outstretched hand hesitated.
But she still pretended to be casual and opened the backpack, and took out a large number of tools such as wire, sticks of various diameters, wood, scissors, saws, etc., and she glanced at this young man with some surprise, to judge how much a person loves puppets, and how many puppets he has collected are the most superficial judgments, but to see how much he knows about the puppets themselves.
Although Xiao Zhi has always said that he knows a little, these tools are quite complete, at least it is enough to make a small puppet that is not so fine......
How can people who don't love puppets know what tools they need?
Ella picked up a piece of delicate wood, and felt okay, without too much nonsense, and directly started with the most basic human body structure.
Puppets are also puppets, with human characteristics, such as facial features, four hands and feet, and if you want to be realistic enough, you must know enough about human beings themselves! But what Ella didn't expect was that Xiao Zhi's understanding of the structure of the human body seemed to be better than her, and he could even draw delicate and accurate limbs with a pencil on paper with a pencil in his hand......
Xiao Zhi saw her surprised appearance, no wonder, in the era when she was still alive, learning to paint was very expensive. There are simply not many people who have the opportunity to learn this kind of money-burning skill.
However, he loves painting, whether it is a student or a working period after graduation, he will always go to the studio from time to time to practice his painting skills to avoid being a student. I didn't expect it to come in handy here......
With such a solid foundation, Ella briefly explained the principle of the puppet's mechanical mechanism, and took the blade to cut the wood into joints and connect them with mechanisms.
She made the puppet's head first, although it was not painted, but she could already see that it was a little boy's face, and as her fingers gently pulled the thin line, the little boy's jaw moved and his eyes slowly rotated......
Ella taught very seriously and quickly, using the limited wood brought by Xiao Zhi to make an exquisite pure primary color puppet.
She looked at Xiao Zhi's expression full of admiration, and a trace of strangeness welled up in her heart......
Xiao Zhi took the puppet and gently stroked its cheeks, his eyelashes drooped, and he said as if unintentionally: "The teacher can make such a fine puppet, if Mary Xiao is still here, she must be very happy to see you." Alas, I was too young to be so far away from Mary Shaw's time, and she was no longer there when I was born, so I wondered what she really was. ”
Ella, who originally had a smile on her face, stiffened, and her eyes showed a trace of confusion and pain, she stared straight at Xiao Zhi's face for a while and didn't find anything abnormal. She hesitated: "Mary Shaw, I've heard some rumors about her life, and I don't know if it's true or not......
Your shell contains Mary Shaw herself, of course it's true.
Xiao Zhi showed a surprised expression: "Yes, that's really good, please tell me about it." Even with the protection of the Silent Elf, he didn't dare to die to expose Ella's lie that she was an outsider who had only been here for a few days, how could she know the life of the cursed characters of this town long ago......