As soon as this dragon was well drawn, it immediately attracted many people to watch, and they all praised it for being well drawn, so realistic, it was simply amazing.

However, when people look closer, they will find that the fly in the ointment is that the dragon has no eyes, and a good dragon has a lot less vitality because it has no eyes.

Everyone begged him to put the dragon's eyes on it, but Zhang Shengqian explained: "It's not difficult to put eyes on the dragon, but if you put the eyes on it, the dragon will break through the wall and fly away." ”

After hearing this, no one believed it, thinking that his explanation was ridiculous, how could the dragon on the wall fly away? As the days went by, many people thought he was lying.

In the end, Zhang Seng Miao was forced to have no choice, so he had to agree to give the dragon the finishing touch, and in front of everyone, he lifted the paintbrush and gently put the dragon's eyes on it.

Then a strange thing happened, he had just put his eyes on the dragon, and suddenly the sky was full of dark clouds, and the wind was blowing, and thunder and lightning flashed, and in the midst of the thunder and lightning, people saw the dragon break through the wall, rise in the air, and fly into the sky with its teeth and claws.

People were stunned by the scene in front of them, and they couldn't say a word as they looked at the dragon soaring in the sky.

Like the finishing touch of the story, the same is true for the paper man's eyes, but the reason why the paper man's eyes can come to life is not that the paper man itself will live, but that there will be some lonely souls and wild ghosts who will take advantage of the void and attach themselves to the paper man, so that the paper man will come alive.

Like the current countryside, this habit is generally retained, for example, when the old man dies, he often ties some chariots, horses and cows, golden boys and girls as funeral supplies, and chariots, horses and cows are the means of transportation for the soul to go to the underworld.

The golden boy and the girl are because of the filial piety of the children, and they are afraid that the old man will be lonely and miserable below, and no one will serve them, so they will burn a pair of virgins to accompany it and use it to take care of the old man's daily life.

Often on the day of the funeral, before the burning of the carriages, horses, cattle and people, there will be someone with a brush to the paper people and paper horses to put their eyes on the eyes, and lean over their ears to say a few good words, the purpose is to let them take good care of the old people along the way, not to make a mess, and then do not dare to stop for a while, immediately set fire to the paper people and paper horses, to prevent some passing lonely ghosts from taking the opportunity to enter, what evil and scary things happen.

Well, without further ado, when everything was ready, the old man told my mother to find nine porcelain bowls, and each bowl contained a third of millet, and then he sat cross-legged on the ground, placed the bowls around his body, and wrapped them with a red rope to form a single one.

The red rope just presented a red circle, surrounding his body, and then the old man picked up three pillars of sandalwood and lit them, put them on top of his head, bowed a few times, and inserted them in each bowl in turn, a total of three nine twenty-seven pillars of incense.

After a short time the sandalwood was lit, the room was filled with smoke and white, and the figure of the old man became faintly separated.

After doing this, the old man couldn't wait to tell my mother to quickly put the paper figures and paper sedan chairs into the iron basin prepared in advance and light them.

But when my mother picked up the match and struck it and sent it to the paper man, I didn't expect that strange things would happen.

I saw a sudden gust of wind blowing in from the window, and in an instant, the match in my mother's hand was instantly extinguished by the wind.

My mother hesitated a little, and wanted to draw one again, to her surprise, no matter how she struck, the match just couldn't hit, and for a while, she was sweating profusely and at a loss.

"No need to scratch!" The old man called out to my mother to tell her to stop, then stared at one of the four paper figures, and said lightly: "I didn't expect that as soon as I clicked my eyes, you got in, do you get out by yourself, or let me beat you away?" ”

After speaking, the old man's right hand was raised in front of his chest, his ring finger and little finger were bent, his thumb was pressed on the nail of his second finger, and his index finger and middle finger were stretched together to form a hand duel, which was called the sword finger, which had the effect of warding off evil spirits and killing ghosts, and could also protect himself from evil spirits.

As soon as the old man's sword fingers were formed, one of the paper figures made a salsa sound, and his body suddenly moved.

It actually raised its head and begged for mercy: "The Taoist is angry, I have no malice, I am a lonely ghost, passing by here, smelling the smell of incense, so I attached the body of the paper man, I want to ask for some money to spend, and please have mercy on me, when the paper man burns, bring me some paper money by the way." ”

After speaking, the paper man kept throwing his hand at the old man, and the eldest who looked at my parents with staring eyes, when had they ever seen such a strange thing, they each looked at each other, and their lips trembled and they couldn't speak.

"It turned out to be a poor ghost, you will find an opportunity to take advantage of the situation, I promise you, but only this once, not for example!" The old man smiled dumbly, scattered his sword fingers, and then told my mother to find some paper money, burn it, and send it away.

My mother hurriedly answered, ran into the side room to get back a wad of paper money, squatted by the brazier, trembling and striking matches, and burned the paper money.

When the paper money burned to ashes, suddenly a gust of wind rolled up in the brazier out of thin air, and the paper ash swirled along the window and flew outward, and then the paper man's head was crooked, and he stood motionless.

"Okay, let this poor ghost delay some time, hurry up and burn the paper man paper sedan chair, don't be taken advantage of by other passing wild ghosts, and then you will have to spend a lot of time to send them away." The old man urged my parents.

With the episode of the poor ghost, my parents didn't dare to slack off, for fear that the paper man would be possessed and come back to life, so they threw all the paper people and paper sedan chairs into the brazier and lit a fire.

When the paper sedan chair burned out and was full of black ash, the old man said to my parents with a solemn face: "After I leave for a while, don't touch my body, so as not to break my spell, and the sandalwood in this porcelain bowl is life-sustaining incense, which represents my life, and must not be destroyed!" If you find signs of extinguishment, replace one in the shortest possible time, remember, remember! ”

My parents nodded heavily after hearing this, although the two of them didn't know what this life-sustaining incense was, but seeing the old man's caution, they didn't dare to have the slightest carelessness.

Seeing this, the old man took a deep breath, put his hands on his knees and made a decision, and then closed his eyes and fell silent.

The moment the old man closed his eyes, my parents saw the millet in the nine porcelain bowls make a rattling sound, and suddenly all of them jumped, and the red rope made a piercing buzzing sound, and it trembled violently, as if playing a pipa.

According to my parents' memories at the time, every time the red rope shook, my house shook for a while, which shows the strength of the red rope.

However, what puzzled them was that the red rope was connected with the nine porcelain bowls, and it stands to reason that with such a great force, the porcelain bowls should have been blown away a long time ago, but what is strange is that the nine porcelain bowls are as if they have taken root on the ground, no matter how big the red line beats, it still does not move, which is really amazing.