Standing at the front of all the villagers was a Taoist priest in a gray robe, who looked a little familiar, and I remembered that this guy had come to my house before, and before he even entered the door, he was scared and urinated, and then he ran away.

The group of people walked to the door of my house, and the Taoist priest took a step forward, with heavy makeup on his face and a peachwood sword in his hand, and asked me in a low voice: "Are you Qin Xiong's son?" ”

The Taoist priest's appearance was indeed quite scary, I nodded.

"You come with me."

"I'm not leaving," I refused directly, and Qin Sanye told me to stay at home and not go anywhere: "My mother is still in the house." ”

"I was invited by your grandfather," the Taoist priest hurriedly said: "I came here to exorcise evil spirits in your village, I need your help with something now, if you help me, your mother will be fine tomorrow." ”

When I heard this, I was a little excited: "What about my father?" ”

The Taoist priest's face turned white: "Your father will be fine." ”

So I followed the priest, who walked in a strange way, and a group of villagers walked crookedly behind him.

It didn't take long for the villagers to flock to the ancestral hall.

The Taoist priest took me into the ancestral hall.

The ancestral hall is a place where you must come every year when you worship your ancestors, and there are two or three hundred tablets of the ancestors of the Qin family. It is also cleaned and guarded on weekdays.

Now, in the ancestral hall, there are paper dolls of the same height as me, densely packed, with miserable white faces and two red blushes. But what makes me wonder is that these paper dolls don't have eyes.

"Why don't they have eyes?" I asked curiously. Because I've never seen it.

The Taoist priest said to me, "This is the rule of our profession, if you have eyes, these paper dolls will run away with long legs." ”

The Taoist priest's tone was obviously teasing to the child, and this statement was so convincing that I could. I asked curiously, "Then what do you mean by helping?" ”

The Taoist priest smiled: "Your grandfather said that the previous stand-in didn't work, and now I'll make a new one for you, just yours, so I must have a reference." ”

"Do you only do mine and not anyone else's?" I asked curiously.

"This is what your grandfather specially explained."

Qin Sanye went out to look for a whole day and didn't find my grandfather, where did this Taoist priest find it?

I have 100 questions in my mind.

The Taoist priest said: "It was your grandfather who came to me, and when I told me about the situation of your family, I volunteered to come, don't worry, you will be fine, isn't it just a little snake?" It's not as mysterious as Qin Sanye said, he's just a Chinese medicine doctor, what do you know? ”

As he spoke, the Taoist priest began to make paper figures, which were about the same size as me, and the clothes he wore were exactly the same as those I was wearing.

I have to say that this Taoist priest still has two brushes. Compared to the way I was scared before I didn't enter my house, it was much more interesting.

It took less than two or three hours for the paper figure to be ready, and then the Taoist priest turned around and took a handful of my hair and a few drops of blood, and put them all on the paper figure.

The paper figure was about the same size as me, and the clothes on his body were exactly the same as mine, and from a distance, I guess I couldn't tell who was who.

The paper made by the Taoist priest is the same as the one I saw before, and it has no eyes.

When the Taoist priest had done this, he smiled at me, picked up a pen, handed it to me, and said, "Take this pen and give this man two eyes." ”

"Didn't you say you couldn't get your eyes struck?" I said curiously: "If you click on your eyes, this paper figure will run away." ”

"But we need him to run now," the Taoist priest smiled at me, "can you help me with this?" ”

I shook my head: "I'm afraid I'm ugly." ”

"It's fine. You can only help me with this. The Taoist priest touched my head: "Are you willing to help me?" ”

Seeing that the Taoist priest didn't look like a fake, and before, he also said that he had seen my grandfather, and it was at the request of my grandfather that he came to help.

So I nodded, and picked up the pen, I was a little scared, for fear that I would accidentally destroy this paper figure.

My hands kept shaking, and after a long time, I finally made up my mind, and I drew two ugly eyes on the paper man's face.

I immediately felt guilty that I had drawn so ugly.

The Taoist priest encouraged me beside me: "You are very good at drawing, don't do this." ”

The moment I put down the pen, I heard the sound of rustling around me, and when I turned around, I realized that the paper figure had really moved.

I was startled and thought I was wrong.

Squeak, squeak.

In my astonished gaze, I saw that the paper figure had indeed taken a step and staggered forward.

"It's really going to go!" I said in surprise.

The Taoist priest put his index finger to his lips and motioned to me to whisper, "Of course I will go, nothing strange." ”

"That's amazing." I was amazed.

I followed the paper man, and the Taoist priest did not stop me.

The paper figure walked forward as if it had a purpose.

At some point, a white fog rose in the village. Although it was a big night, the moonlight illuminated everything around it.

I felt that something was wrong when I followed, the wind was howling around me, I couldn't hear the voices of other people, and even the Taoist priest who had been following me was gone. And the speed of the paper man is getting faster and faster, almost riding the wind, if I hadn't trotted all the way to follow, I'm afraid this would have been gone a long time ago.

Panting and running all the way after the paper man, the guy actually stopped by the river.

And I also saw that there were many people standing by the river, all of them except this paper figure, all of them were from the village, but these people had a white paper bag on their heads, and they had three holes dug for their eyes and nose to breathe.

I was dumbfounded at the sight of so many people at night, and when I ran up to them, they automatically made a way, and in the moonlight, their faces could not be seen clearly, but I could feel the pity in everyone's eyes when they looked at me.

I was about to speak, but I couldn't speak, and I couldn't move my body, as if I was tied to something.

Just when I was wondering, I took a step, and the paper figure in front of me also took a step.

Now it looks like I'm tied to the paper man, we don't distinguish each other, he is me, I am him. Therefore, I will follow what the paper man does.

I couldn't control my body, and I saw the paper figure walking in the direction of the river, and I waded into the river.

The most strange thing is that the paper figure obviously can't get wet, but on the water surface is like walking on the ground, I followed the paper figure into the water in horror, although I kept struggling, my body couldn't move a bit.

On the contrary, it was as if a big stone was tied to his body, and he sank straight to the bottom of the water.

Just then, the paper figure walking in front of me suddenly turned his head and smiled at me, as if to laugh at my incompetence.

I slipped and fell into the middle of the river.

I grew up by the river and grew up swimming a lot. But this time, I was stiff and unable to move, like a weighing stone, falling straight to the bottom of the river.

When my mouth and nose were flooded with water, I suddenly realized that I could move.

I fluttered and shouted to the people on the shore to save me.

But standing on the banks of the river are the villagers who watched me grow up. But none of them moved, with disgust and pity in their eyes, and they stood quietly on the edge of the river, watching me fall towards the bottom of the river.

A faint voice came from the crowd: "It's all his fault, if it weren't for his family angering the dragon god, we wouldn't be like this." ”

"He deserves it, it's none of our business."

"The wrath of the dragon god is unstoppable, if you want to blame yourself."

I fell into the river, and under the water, the men standing on the shore had a twisted smile on their faces.

In the midst of my struggle, I suddenly saw a long, pitch-black thing in the water not far away, attacking me.

I thought it was a snake, and I struggled in fright, but my body sank very fast as if it had been filled with lead.

The breath in my mouth became less and less, and I couldn't hold it back, so I gave up completely, and my eyes were dark.

At this moment, a pair of long arms fished me out, and I choked on the water on the river bank for a long time, and finally saw that the person who rescued me was wearing a pair of black cloth shoes, and his shriveled and emaciated legs were standing beside me. I looked up and met the old face of Qin Sanye.

Qin Sanye doesn't know how old he has lived, even his eyebrows are white, and he can fish out a boy like me and a half from the river, it's really amazing.

It is said that the swimming competition held in the village was never lost when Qin Sanye participated in it.

I really believe it this time.

I gasped for breath for a long time before I came back to my senses. Qin Sanye asked me with a gloomy face, "What happened?" In the middle of the night, you don't want to stay at home properly, what are you doing running out? ”