He was tall and thin, and looked like firewood.

"Are you the girl brought by the Yang family?" He asked me softly, and my whole body was shivering because of the fear and cold.

The man spoke softly, although he had a dark face, but he looked elegant.

When he saw that I was afraid to speak, he identified himself, and said that I had been to his house, and that he was the papermaker.

"Don't be afraid, I'm not from the Yang family, so I won't send you to the ancestral hall." The papermaker said softly, he pointed to the way I wanted to escape, and said that at twelve o'clock in the night, the door of the underworld would open, and then the ghost would go.

My body will be divided and eaten by the ghosts, and my soul will be imprisoned and become a slave to the ghosts.

"Why are you helping me?" I was stunned and looked at the man.

He said maybe it was a little mercy for the outsider, and the man laughed self-deprecatingly, and he said wait a little longer and let me follow him home.

"What's your name?" The man asked me softly, saying that we would be able to go down after waiting for the spark in the wild temple to fall.

In this village, there are many rules and taboos, and if you are not careful, you will die.

I said my name is Qi Xiaochuan, the man said softly, it is a good name, I followed his gaze, fell on the wild temple, and when the spark fell, he reached out and pulled me up from the ground.

I followed him to the deep courtyard, he said that his name was Gu Xuanwu, and the people in the village called him Mr. Gu, and after a long time, he almost forgot what his name was.

He brought me clean clothes, but my stomach screamed and gurgled at an inopportune time, and my hungry chest was pressed against the back of my belly, but I was like a dumb person who did not dare to speak, and did not even know what to say.

He brought me a bowl of white rice and scrambled eggs with green peppers, and said that there were no extra ingredients today, so I would eat them for the time being.

The moment I picked up the chopsticks, the tip of my nose was sore, and I held back my tears and pulled the rice in the bowl, and the aroma of scrambled eggs came to my face, mixed with tears and swallowed together.

I gobbled it up, and quickly eliminated the two large bowls of rice, Gu Xuanwu looked at me, his eyes were gentle, and he said to eat slowly.

The eyes I just dried out were moist again, I held the quilt Gu Xuanwu gave me, and sat in the room for a night, I didn't dare to close my eyes, or even lie down, I was afraid that if I closed my eyes, I would be sent to where I would be sent after I woke up.

Gu Xuanwu said that it was safe for the time being, and told me to have a good rest, but I was very stubborn, straightened my waist, hugged the quilt, and sat like that all night.

He came to see me twice, pointed to the room across the door, and said it was for me, and I shook my head.

At three or four o'clock in the morning, Gu Xuanwu had already gotten up, he traced the facial features of those paper people on the paper, he changed into a white gown, and looked at the book more and more angry.

He didn't care about me, as if he was settled, he sat there, his pen was full of flowers, and the people he painted were like the real thing.

He said that if he didn't have this ability, Yangjia Village would have kicked him out a long time ago, Gu Xuanwu pointed to the bamboo not far away, and asked me to hand him two over, I sat a little numb, and stood up busily, dizzy for a while.

Gu Xuanwu laughed at me for my own sin, I didn't speak, handed him two bamboos, he laughed and said that Yangjia Village was the most xenophobic, but unfortunately he was unlucky.

"I was born in Yangjia Village, but I am a foreign surname, my mother strayed into Yangjia Village, and she was already pregnant with me in her belly at that time." Gu Xuanwu seemed to recall the past, and there was a trace of sadness in his eyes.