Chapter 46: Xiaocui's tragedy is narrated
Xiao Cui knew that going with the old man was her own destination, and in this way, she was taken to the underworld by the old man's ghost and began a long and endless life in the underworld.
I suddenly interjected, did you come by ghost bus?
Xiao Cui shook her head, saying that she had just changed from a white paper in the yang world to a paper figure with life in the underworld, and her head was still dizzy. But even so, she clearly remembered that the old ghost man had led her down a path full of thorns and gloomy gray, and the terrible sound of ghosts crying wolves was heard from both sides from time to time.
The road was long, long, and she and the old man walked for several days before they found an exit to the underworld.
I understand, ghosts near Panshan Road, you can spend money to buy a ticket to take the ghost bus to the underworld for the first seven nights. And the ghosts who are far away from the ghost bus stop will go to the passage of other places to the underworld.
These are not my concerns, and I continue to listen to her.
Xiaocui said that the old man and she were both coming to the underworld for the first time, and they were a little afraid of being unfamiliar with life, but after a few days they slowly got used to it. The old man put away the paper villa that his son burned, put all the household appliances and furnishings, and the paper car was parked in the open space outside the villa, and a ghost and a paper man settled here.
But a few days later, one night just after about eleven o'clock, suddenly the door of the villa was kicked fiercely. When the old man opened the door, he saw that a tall, foul-smelling, charred ghost had knocked the old man down, and went into the house and put everything he could take into the sackcloth pocket on his back. And then......
Cui paused, as if remembering the painful events that had happened that night months ago.
Then the sackhead saw me, and he rushed over and carried me up. The old man tried his best to save me, but the evil ghost was so powerful that he almost beat the old man half to death, and carried me into the darkness ahead.
After Xiao Cui finished speaking, she lowered her head in pain.
I don't feel good when I hear it, and it's hard to ask. A beautiful female paper figure, a filthy and foul-smelling sackhead, what will happen to a man and a woman in the dark night, a fool can also figure it out.
"No, it's not what you think!" Xiao Cui suddenly spoke.
It's a ghost, and I'm just a paper man. We are different things and nothing can happen. The ghost carried me for several days until I came to a place I didn't recognize. It put me down and told me that this was its home in the underworld, and that there were many changes of clothes for me to wash. Then the ghost took out a chain and tied it to my foot.
After more than half a month, one day, the evil spirit said that it was going to go to the sun, grab something and come back, so that I could wash my clothes honestly at home. It said that the hiding place it had chosen was remote and uninhabited, and that no one would save me even if I shouted at the top of my voice, and then it left.
I cried so hard that day, and I was afraid that I would be trapped here forever and ever, working as a servant for the evil spirit, and washing its clothes. But the next day, things took a turn for the better, and I saw a few white things faintly approaching in the distance. When they got closer, I could see that they were paper figures just like me.
I stopped them and told them what had happened to me, and the paper figurines and sisters found something and took half a day to break the chains on my feet. They asked me where I wanted to go and if I wanted to go back to the old man. I said that I had been carried by a ghost for several days, and I couldn't find my way back for a long time.
Sister Paper Man said to me, why don't I go with them, walk to the border of the underworld to see if I can find a safe place to settle down. And so, we walked for a month to get here and settle down in this village.
"That's right, Xiao Cui and those paper figures came a month ago." The head of the paper man lying in Xie Shanlin's arms also said with certainty.
After listening to Xiaocui's story, I am sure that she is the paper man that Lao Guo said. I didn't expect to be so coincidental that I ran into her here.
"Let me ask you, who did the massacre of the village?" Xie Shanlin stood up holding the head of the paper man.
"Brother Xie, don't ask about this matter. We are just a bunch of fleshless things, and in the underworld we are marginal beings. A few die, a few disappear and no one cares. Leave it alone, go. ”
The paper man's head obviously didn't want me and Lao Xie to ask more, it didn't want us to be involved, for our good. And although I don't know what the relationship between Lao Xie and the paper people in the paper man village is, and what the relationship is, but from the grief it shows now, I know that the result of the slaughter of hundreds of paper people in the entire paper man village completely shocked Lao Xie.
"No, tell me, even if I don't care about it, I want to know what the hell is done. Who burned you so ruthlessly? ”
"It was the Wang family who did it!" Xiaocui didn't wait for the paper man's head to speak, and opened her mouth to speak.
"The Wang family? Is that the ghost who got married today ten miles away? I said in unison with Xie Shanlin again.
"Yes, it's them." Xiaocui said.
"I listened to the old paper people about the Wang family's information, but it was true and credible. The Wang family has been operating in the underworld for fifteen years, and the family is rich and rich. But the old man and the young master of the Wang family are pleasant on the surface, but secretly they are extremely sinister villains. The ghost maids in their homes are often beaten for no reason, and some ghost maids are hung up and thrown into the ghost refining cauldron to fry them just because they have dropped a cup. Moreover, they bullied men and women, and this massacre in the village was created by the Wang family. ”
"Hey......" The white paper head sighed in Xie Shanlin's arms, it was just a head now, and it had no ability to stop Xiao Cui from telling us about it.
"It turns out that the ghost servants in the Wang family are as few as eighty and as many as more than a hundred. But under the difficulties of the old man and the young master of the Wang family, the number of ghost maids has decreased month by month, and now there are less than forty ghost maids left in its house. Its family's reputation in this area is extremely poor, and no ghost is willing to do errands for its family. It was the wedding of the young master of the Wang family, and on that day, the old man Wang rushed here in a sedan chair with several ghost maids, found the eldest paper man, and without discussion, he directly opened his mouth and asked our village to find fifty young paper people to go to his house as servants. ”
"We paper figurines are all free and have our own lives. The lord of the Wang family came with a group of evil spirits, and actually asked us to do things for it in a commanding tone. We refused at the time. The old man of the Wang family asked us three times, and we unanimously refused. When it saw that the paper people in our village refused in unison, it turned around and said a cruel sentence when it turned around and went back, the day its son got married, it was the time when we destroyed the village. ”
"Then, just yesterday, the night before the young master of the Wang family got married. Nearly thirty ghost servants came to the village with torches in their hands, and they drove all the paper figures together. If the paper figure resists, it will tear its head off its body alive. If a paper figure escapes on horseback, it will be hooked back by the ghost maid with an iron monkey, and the paper horse will be torn to pieces and then burned. ”
"And I, yesterday, when the ghost maids entered the village to look for someone, I was hidden in a secret passage by an old paper man. In the whole village, I was the only one who survived. "Cui told us about the massacre that took place in this village last night.
"!"
Two lines of black ghost tears burst out of Xie Shanlin's face. After listening to this, my eyes turned red all of a sudden. God, I really can't imagine that this underworld of the jungle is ......
I thought of Liu Xin again, I really don't know what she has been through in the past few days when she was captured by the dead snakes.
"What shall we do?" I asked Xie Shanlin.
I am saddened and indignant by the massacre that has been inflicted on Paper Man Village, and similarly, I am also worried about Liu Xin's safety.
"Brother, things are a little tricky."
Xie Shanlin said that there are paper horses running within a radius of dozens of miles, and only here is it. If I want to go 300 miles in the shortest time, there is only one way to do it on horseback. But what is fatal now is that the paper horse and the paper man were all burned by the group of evil ghosts of the Wang family, and there was no horse left.
That's the trouble.
I asked Xie Shanlin if he wanted to report such a big tragedy to the official. It shook its head and sighed, saying that this is the underworld, and that it is only the paper people who exist on the edge that are burned to death, although the Wang family lives in a remote place on the edge of the underworld, its family is also a wealthy family. Even if you go to sue them, those officials and ghosts are all raccoon dogs. Those who kill don't have to pay for their lives, but we, powerless imps, will inevitably lose a layer of skin.
"Then, we can't avenge the paper people, and there is no place to buy horses?" I asked eagerly.
"It's not hard to do a horse, just steal one." Xie Shanlin said.
"Steal?" I asked, puzzled.
"That's right. Although the paper horses in this village are gone, there must be good paper horses in the stables of the palace mansion. Brother, you have to ride a horse to get to Netherworld, and now the only place you can get, no, the only place you can steal a horse! Xie Shanlin looked at me mysteriously.
"You mean to go to the royal mansion...... Stealing horses? ”
"Hehe," Xie Shanlin nodded, "That's right, do you dare to go!" ”