A horse that will never die?

I looked at it with suspicion, although Xie Shanlin's old fritter was not bad, but I found that it was greedy for money, is this guy beating my gold ingots again?

"Hey, don't get me wrong, I mean it." Xie Shanlin put the loot in his hand in a cloth bag and packed it.

"When you say a horse that can't run, is it a dead horse?" I asked.

Xie Shanlin listened to the music and waved at me.

"How do you ride a dead horse? The dead horses are rotten, the intestines and stomach maggots are all smelly, and you will vomit to death after five minutes of riding! I'm talking about a horse that can never run away, it's a paper horse! Xie Shanlin said.

"Paper horses?" I feel like my brain cells are a little insufficient, how to ride a paper horse, I don't sit flat when I ride it. I asked it directly.

"Listen to me." Xie Shanlin explained: "The underworld is where ghosts live, but in addition to the living who become ghosts and come to the underworld after they die, pigs, dogs, cows and sheep, tigers, leopards, jackals, turtles, snakes, whales, and sharks in the yang world will also come to the underworld to live with ghosts after they die." ”

"You newcomer would never have imagined that in addition to humans and animals coming to the underworld after death, there is another thing, something that is completely lifeless, and has come to the underworld with some ghosts. They have a place on the edge of the underworld. Xie Shanlin said.

I didn't understand it, it said that there was something inanimate that followed some ghosts from the sun. I turned my head to look at the trees and flowers in the underworld around me, Xie Shanlin was referring to them?

It found out that I was looking at flowers and plants, and directly denied my thoughts: "The mountains, rivers, trees, flowers and plants here are originally the underworld, and they have nothing to do with the yang!" The lifeless people I am talking about but who come to the underworld with the ghosts are paper men and paper horses! ”

"Paper people and paper horses?" I was surprised.

"That's right, in order for the deceased relatives to live a good life in the underworld, the people of the yang world will burn sacrifices on the night of the first seven days of the deceased. The sacrifices include cigarettes and alcohol, and the women burn beautiful clothes and cosmetics, all of which are things that the ghosts liked before they died. And some people will go to the paper shop to find a husband to tie paper, tie the white paper figure, and burn it with those sacrifices, and it will become something that the ghost can touch. On the first seven nights, the ghost got the sacrifices, went home and looked at his parents, wives and children, and then walked all the way through the Yin and Yang Dao without looking back, and took those sacrifices to the underworld. Xie Shanlin said.

Speaking of paper figures, I remembered that Brother Guo took me to the paper figure Zhang's shop to tie a female paper figure to let the old ghost possess me, and when we went that day, there were still seven or eight paper figures waiting to be sold in the paper figure Zhang's shop. Xie Shanlin is right, even now, there are still many people who will burn the paper people for their deceased relatives, hoping that the paper people can serve their relatives forever in the underworld.

However, now is the modern society, I understand the paper maids who tie the deceased, the paper cars, the paper villas, the paper appliances, and even the handsome paper guys. However, in this day and age, who will tie paper horses to the dead in the underworld?

I asked Xie Shanlin this question.

"Giggle...... "It giggled giggled in a ghostly voice, "I didn't say those paper horses were made by modern people......"

"Huh?" I was shocked, it meant to take me to buy a paper horse that was burned to the underworld by the living people of the previous dynasty a hundred years ago!

"Let's go, why do you ask so much. I'll take you to a village, about ten miles from here, and we'll be there in an hour. It was a village that had escaped from countless ghosts and gathered together, and was inhabited by many paper people and paper horses—Paper Man Village! Brother, brother, I can only help you so much. In the underworld cars, planes, trains are absolutely none, and if you want to go to the Netherworld, you can only ride a horse. ”

"Paper Man Village!"

Oh my God, when I heard the name of Paper Man Village, my scalp tingled. Suddenly, a terrifying image appeared in my mind: in the gray night of the underworld, Xie Shanlin and I came to a village inhabited only by paper figures. Before I entered the village, I saw countless white people in the distance outside the village, making a "bang, bang, bang" sound when walking, and people tied with white paper slowly fluttering in the village. Their faces were expressionless, and their faces were immobile facial features painted in black ink.

It's a picture that my brain can imagine. Before I came to the underworld on the ghost bus, I thought that there were only walking ghosts in the underworld, who would have thought that there were still animals in the underworld after they died. And what is even more terrifying than these is that the paper people and paper horses that were burned from the yang world to serve the ghosts in the underworld have gathered villages in the underworld.

"Hey, what are you thinking. If you want to buy a horse, come with me! Xie Shanlin urged me to say.

This is the situation now, I want to go to the Ghost City three hundred miles away and there is no car with Ben. can only go to the paper man village to buy paper horses as Xie Shanlin said. I am not familiar with the underworld, and I can only listen to it.

"Okay, I'll go with you!" I put the backpack on the ground back on, picked up the blue school bag, and walked behind the thief Xie Shanlin towards the paper man village five kilometers away.

To be honest I was sleepy and I really wanted to sit down and rest. Even if it's only for an hour or a little while. But I can't stop, Liu Xin is still uncertain in the direction of Yin Soul City hundreds of kilometers away. I will at least go to the paper man village with Xie Shanlin, buy a good horse folded by paper, and then think about resting.

Five kilometers is really far, and I have such a big backpack on my back and a twenty-pound ingot. I'm tired from walking all the way. Xie Shanlin said to help me carry my bag, but I didn't agree. You can't have the heart to harm others, and you can't do without guarding against others. It has lived in the underworld for many years, and it is known better than me which way leads to where, and I am afraid that twenty pounds of gold and silver will be handed over to it, and the old ghost will run away with a cigarette. So I'd better carry it on my own.

Take a break along the way. An hour later, between half past three and four in the morning, Xie Shanlin led me through a wasteland. It stopped suddenly, pointed to the vague distance ahead, and said, "Look, the paper man's village is there." ”

"Huh? Where? I put down the blue schoolbag in my hand, stood on tiptoe and looked in the direction Xie Shanlin pointed out to me.

The direction it was pointing in was foggy and difficult to see. However, I could faintly see the outline of a village. I estimate that it will take another three to five minutes to reach the paper man village.

I proposed to rest for a minute before leaving, Xie Shanlin looked at me with a "giggle" grime: "I said help you carry it, if you don't do it, you're tired." Okay, hurry up, go to the village to choose a good horse, as long as you can carry the bumps in your butt, you can get to the Yin Soul City at noon. ”

The old ghost actually cheered me up, and I calculated that the time was about the same, and I would definitely part with the old ghost after buying the horse later. I'm not in a hurry to leave, just find a place to squint for a while to recuperate. Then I rode all the way west, according to the paper horse an hour to run fifty kilometers, I rested for two or three minutes in the middle, and then arrived a little later and later.

"Okay, let's go." I picked up my bag and walked behind the old ghost to the paper man village that was close by.

"Oops!" I walked ten miles with two heavy bags on my back, and my feet were smoking. The road was potholed and bumpy, and I stepped on a small dirt pit and lost my center of gravity and fell into the weeds on the side of the road.

"Huh!" My face was cut by the hard grass of the underworld, and I was about to climb up with my two forearms on the ground.

"I'm grass, Brother Xie, this ...... What the hell is this......"

Right in front of my eyes, among the stiff grass, a big white head torn into strips by hand lay quietly in front of my eyes with two eyes.

"What's wrong?" Xie Shanlin walked ahead of me, startled by my shouting, and hurriedly turned around and ran back.

"Bang bang bang bang ......" it squeezed through the hard grass behind me.

"I'll rub it, head!" It also saw the white, torn head in front of me.

"It doesn't seem like a ghost, it's a ......" I got up from the grass. The white head was torn apart, but its original shape could be discerned.

This is the head of a horse. To be exact, this is a horse's head folded out of white paper.

"It's weird." Xie Shanlin squatted down and pulled the horse's head that had been torn off from his body with his hands.

"What's strange?" I asked it.

"Hmm......" Xie Shanlin was silent, dragging his cheeks and thinking. Suddenly, its face changed: "Quick, carry something." Take a look into the village! ”