Chapter Seventy-Four: The Strange Paper Man
"Damn, what's going on here?"
Lao Tang's eyes widened in shock at the moment, no wonder he was surprised, and anyone who saw a big coffin at the door of his house would feel incredible. And there is incense on the coffin in front of it, and yellow paper money is burned, which looks like an evil nature.
Our first reaction was to find out what this coffin was for, and who put it here.
The two of us froze in place for a while, and at the same time looked left and right, and there was a dead silence on the deserted street, and there was no one to be seen, and we didn't know who had sent the coffin.
I asked Lao Tang, "Do you know what kind of trouble this is?" ”
"I don't know." Lao Tang shook his head, his expression was a little solemn, and then he turned his head and asked me, "Brother Chen can see the meaning?" ”
I also shook my head, to be honest, this is the first time I've heard of this practice of blocking the coffin in front of someone's house, and I really don't know what it means.
"You haven't done anything bad these days, have you?" I asked curiously.
Lao Tang was stunned for a moment and asked me why I asked him like this.
I said, "Normally, only the family of a person who has been killed or unjustly killed will carry the coffin to his door to ask for an explanation. You can't have used sorcery on anyone, have you? ”
When Lao Tang heard this, he immediately rolled his eyes, and said with a straight face: "Brother Chen, you have known me for some time, don't you know who my Lao Tang is, how could I do such a harmful thing!" To be honest, I'm dumbfounded now, who *** is so lacking in virtue and puts the coffin in front of my store. ”
Seeing Lao Tang say this, I also believe that what he said is true, after all, after knowing these days, I don't think Lao Tang is the kind of bad person who will harm people.
However, although we don't know what kind of trouble this is, we all have a vague feeling that there is a bad premonition that it is very likely that this thing is harmful.
Thinking of this, I asked Lao Tang: "Lao Tang, you can't offend anyone, right?" This thing looks weird here! ”
Lao Tang frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "Although Lao Tzu is greedy for some money, opening shops on weekdays to make a living, will make some 'blue road' methods to deceive gods and ghosts, but I also deceive some rich people and high-ranking officials, and if the other party really encounters something, I will also use real skills to solve the disaster for him, it can be said that I Tang Zhaofu is also a good person, how can someone want to harm me?" ”
Hearing this, I rolled my eyes, often playing tricks to deceive gods and ghosts, and he was embarrassed to call himself a good person, and to be honest, I despise this kind of "blue road" liar. However, people in these years are really more willing to believe in Lao Tang, because the set of tricks they said can coax the bitter master into a daze. If you tell the truth to the sufferers and tell them to go with the flow, often they will not believe you.
I said, "You can't have deceived anyone, you have been found out, so you have come to find a reason, right?" ”
Lao Tang said: "This is even more impossible, although I say that I open a shop to make a living, I often coax and cheat, it is just to let the other party buy an extra spirit rune by the way after calculating the eight characters, for the sake of a few hundred yuan of, who would be so boring to fix me like this." ”
Seeing that Lao Tang said that he had neither harmed nor enemies, I couldn't think of a reason to come, but looking at the weird big coffin in front of me, I always felt that Lao Tang might have encountered something big this time.
I pointed to the coffin and asked, "What now, should I just leave it aside and let it go, or should I chop it up for firewood?" ”
Lao Tang said: "Incense was put on the front of the coffin, paper money was burned, do you say that the inside of this coffin is empty, or is it filled with dead people?" ”
When he asked me this, I was stunned, yes, if this coffin is empty, it's okay to say, but if it is pretending to be dead, what should I do, do I throw the dead away?
"Or ...... Open it up and take a look? "While saying this, I actually have no confidence in my heart, this thing is placed at the door of the store, and the ghost knows what is inside. In case we are like the female corpse on Niutou Mountain, who has been tricked and lowered our heads, we will open the coffin like this, isn't this out of people's way.
Lao Tang was obviously a little worried, but after weighing the pros and cons, he finally decided: "Open it and take a look, Lao Tzu wants to see what tricks the other party is doing, he is numb, Ming'er let Lao Tzu know who put the coffin, you have to kill him, his uncle!" ”
Lao Tang angrily kicked the rice bowl with incense on the ground a few meters away, and then came to the coffin, one of us stood at the head of the coffin, the other stood at the end of the coffin, and together we lifted the coffin lid......
The coffin was easily opened, and then we saw that there was no dead man lying in the coffin. However, Lao Tang and I did not relax in the slightest, but frowned even deeper, and our faces were solemn, because although there were no dead people in the coffin, there were two paper figures!
Yes, two paper figures, a boy and a virgin, look colorful. The so-called red man and green woman are from this, the boy is tied with red paper, the virgin is tied with green paper, and the two paper figures lying in the coffin look very weird.
"How can there be two paper figures in this ***?" I was surprised, and the vaguely bad premonition before was even heavier, because everything in front of me was too weird.
Lao Tang's face also changed greatly, becoming very solemn, he pointed to these two paper figures, suddenly looked at me in a daze, and said coldly: "Why are these two paper figures so familiar?" ”
"Familiar?" I was stunned for a moment, and looked back at the two paper figures in the coffin, these two paper figures were wearing red and green paper clothes, and their faces made of white paper were originally pale and red, because they were coated with rouge, so they looked very unnatural. Not only was the face unnaturally red, but the little lips were also coated with rouge, and with the light of the small flashlight, shining on the ordinary faces of the two paper figures, the black eyes seemed to be able to move, and the smiling face that was originally painted looked unusually weird.
Seeing this, I felt a little panicked in my heart, it was not a question of whether I was afraid or not, but this feeling made people feel creepy.
I was surprised and asked Lao Tang, "Have you seen these two paper figures?" ”
Lao Tang was not sure, so he asked me: "Do you remember the two paper figures in Ma Yun's house last night?" ”
As soon as I heard this, I immediately reacted. The two paper figures in Ma Yun's house are really exactly the same as the two paper figures in front of them, and last night in Ma's house, the two paper figures disappeared inexplicably, I have always wondered where the two paper figures would run by themselves, did they run to the door of the old soup shop by themselves?
Thinking of this, I feel a little chill in my back, if these two paper figures are really the two missing ones in the Ma Family Lingtang, then this matter is really *** alive. How could the paper figure on the Ma Family Mourning Hall come here and still lie in the coffin? If it is said that the paper man can walk by himself, this is still in the past, but this coffin will never grow legs on its own to walk, right?
At this time, Lao Tang and I looked at each other, and we both had an incredible feeling.
"What now, burn them?" I looked at the old soup.
Lao Tang said, "If you don't burn them, do you keep them?" ”
We smiled bitterly, and then went to take out the two paper figures in the coffin, but when we were about to set fire to the paper figures, suddenly I glanced out of the corner of my eyes and saw three words written in black ink on the back of one of the paper figures, and I was immediately shocked when I saw these three words, because this is a person's name--- Tang Zhaofu!
As soon as I saw this name, I secretly screamed that it was not good, and then quickly stopped the old soup who was about to light the fire, and pointed to the three words on the back of the paper figure for him to see.
When Lao Tang saw his name written on the paper figure, the whole person was not good, and slowly looked up at me: "Oops, this is obviously someone trying to harm me!" Who could it be? ”
To be honest, when I saw Lao Tang's name written on the back of the paper figure, I was also shocked, and my heart was pinched. The paper figure has the name of a living person written on it, can this be okay?
I didn't answer Lao Tang's words, but I was very worried.
At this time, Lao Tang also hurriedly turned the paper figure in his hand around, and then he was also stunned, his expression was very ugly.
Seeing his expression, I didn't understand anything, he must have found something wrong again. So I quickly asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Lao Tang looked at me slowly and said, "This paper figure also has a name on its back. ”<