Chapter 1: Humanskin Lanterns

After lunch at noon that day, I had nothing to do in the store, so I bought a bag of betel lang and chewed it. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info because of the hot weather, everyone is blowing up the air conditioner in each door, I wanted to save some electricity for Sister Iron, and then I thought that my sister is not bad money, so I got up and closed the glass door.

I found a beggar on the street, with fluffy hair and covered in black mud, and wearing a shabby military coat on a hot day, and flies and mosquitoes followed him, which was a bit wicked.

This beggar was carrying a big burden in his hand, and he walked around one storefront after another, and everyone was afraid that no one would take care of him, and he wouldn't even open the door, and some would simply scold him from afar. But this beggar was very persistent, and the shop did not fall behind, and walked to the door one by one, opened the baggage, and the result was that they were all closed.

After a while, I walked to the door of my store, I just couldn't get used to seeing people pitiful, so I hurriedly took out my wallet, ready to find some change for this person to ask for food. Oh my God, I'm going to break my fortune today, my wallet is full of red-faced grandpa!

I looked at the beggar in front of me, who was not tall, black and smelly, with no beard on his face, and was estimated to be fifteen or sixteen years old. The beggar didn't say a word, but bowed, and then peeked something out of the rag bag for me to see.

It looked a bit like a lantern, but the frame around it was made of bronze, and the lantern cover was a bit like a drum skin, and there was something printed on it, and I glanced at it, and the beggar saw that I didn't react, and bowed again, ready to move on to the next one. It turned out that it was not for food, but for business.

I suddenly remembered in my mind that Sister Yan once said that no matter which dynasty the lantern is, it is worth a few dollars, and if it doesn't work, I will be a good person and collect a broken thing.

I said, "Hey, little brother, I'll take you for this thing, and you can give me a price." ”

Although we also understand the rules of the game, I don't think it's necessary to play a lot of tricks on a beggar.

The beggar immediately turned around, rushed directly in front of me, and walked into the shop in two steps, and I hurriedly covered my mouth with my hand and said:

"I don't think it's easy for you to mix, give you a hundred, you can put this thing on the table."

The beggar stretched out two fingers, and I went, I don't know how much I can sell for this thing, no, this is not a cheat! Help people to the end, I took out two sheets from my wallet and handed them to him, the beggar confiscated the money first, first put the things in his hand on the table, then took the money with both hands, and then bowed deeply to me, and finally turned around with a slight smile. I found that the beggar's teeth were very white, and he really had good teeth that could not eat.

Whether this thing is worth anything or not, let's put it aside first, why regret it, I belong to the proletariat now, and I can buy a double Converse for 200 yuan, that's it, people are so pitiful or little beggars, I'll be merciful. I didn't bother to open it, so I sat back in my chair, turned on the computer and played Texas Hold'em, and after a while, I was a little sleepy, and I was confused on the sofa.

Before I knew it, my body was cold, and I opened my eyes suddenly, and I found myself standing in a dark clearing, carrying the lantern in my hand! The first reaction was that it must be a dream, I gave myself a big ear, and my face hurt when I slapped it, grandma's, what is the situation!

So I closed my eyes again and opened them again, but it was still pitch black in front of me, except for the lantern in my hand that glowed with a faint blue light. I am now holding a lamp in my left hand, wearing a yellow robe, and trying the lantern with my right hand, there is no temperature, is this a ghost fire! I wanted to throw away this lantern, but I was afraid that it would go out, so that I would have no light at all, in fact, I was really scared in my heart, could the dream be so real! I'm afraid this is looking for something!

Looking around, I found that there was only one way to go, so I took the plunge and walked this way. I didn't have any concept of time at this time, and after walking about a cigarette, I found that there was another blue light flashing in front of me, and I didn't care about 3721 and accelerated to catch up.

I caught up, and by my faint blue light, I saw a man in front of me, like me, dressed in a yellow cloak, tightly covered from head to toe. I hurriedly asked, "Friend, where are you going?" ”

The man immediately stopped, stretched out a finger and pointed ahead, which meant that I was in a very dangerous situation now, this person may be a lifesaver, I am not a chatter, take a step at a time, and then quietly follow the man in yellow in front of me.

After a while, there were a lot of people carrying lanterns in front of us, all of them in yellow clothes and blue lanterns, and I hurriedly looked back and found that there was no complete darkness behind me. Now it's time to go west!

Walking and walking, I found that there is a huge city wall in front of me, the lights are bright, but the city wall has two gates, one left and one right, I want to laugh very much after seeing it, how can there be such a design, is there still so much effort to build two gates, unheard of.

The people in front of me all walked into the gate on the left, and I thought about this, let's go with the flow. So I entered the gate on the left, and there was an open space in the city, and an uncle in a black dragon robe was sitting in the center of the field, and there was an iron-masked master next to him who was reading a small notebook in his hand. Those of us with lanterns in pairs lined up, and I followed the man in yellow I had first seen.

Seeing that the black-robed uncle glanced at the iron-masked master, the master walked forward and said something I didn't understand. I observed, I stood on the far left, counting two people from the right, I was the tenth group, that is to say, there were a total of twenty people carrying lanterns, what is this for, giving out bonuses?

As soon as Master Iron-Masked stopped talking, a row of knife and axe hands appeared behind me, and I could see from the afterglow that the knife and axe hands behind me were all naked, with long pointed ears, blue eyebrows and black eyes, isn't this the evil ghost of hell?

I'm sweating out, this is to ask for a behead?

The first pair of people on the right took off their cloaks at the same time, a man and a woman, the woman in front and the man in the back, only to see the woman plunging a dagger into the man's heart, the man wanted to break free, but the knife and axe hand behind immediately raised the knife and fell, and blood splattered on the spot. The woman did not look back, and went out of the gate on the right side of the city wall. I'm a little scared, so I can't run.

He was just about to run, but he saw the man behind the second pair turn around and run towards the city gate, and there was another click, and the head fell to the ground. At this time, the strange thing was that the person in front of the second team was holding the corpse and crying loudly, it was a woman's cry, only to see the iron-masked master nod, and the knife and axe hand also cut off the woman's head.

I'll understand what the iron-masked master means by the bird language, it seems that one of the two people has to die, and they kill each other, and if they don't do it, they will have to be beheaded! In an instant, the remaining seven pairs of people all took off their yellow robes, all of them were a man and a woman, fighting each other, and it was miserable.

We can be regarded as having learned a few hands from my grandfather, and hurriedly took off our yellow robe and made a defensive posture, but the person in front of me never turned around, just stood silently.

In just a few minutes, the people in front of us should be damned, and the two of us were left. All the demons behind him were eager to cut us both down with swords and axes. As a pure master, at this critical moment, I have to think of a way, I pretended to be brave and walked straight to the master.

Walking into the black robe and master, it turned out to be my uncle and second uncle when I looked closely! I hurriedly shouted: "Uncle, second uncle, I'm a little stone!" I'm your own nephew! ”

The two of them didn't take me seriously at all, and at this moment, someone stabbed me in the back and directly inserted me to breathe! I gritted my teeth, turned around and wanted to lock my throat, and found that under the cloak it was my hot sister, how could my sister kill me? I was about to open my mouth when I felt tightness in my chest and I couldn't breathe.

Suddenly I was awake! Lying on the sofa in the store, Sister Yan and another man stood in front of me, four hands sealed my air holes, instinctively reacted to my struggle, this hand was finally released, I immediately stood up and gasped for a few breaths, thinking that this must be a nightmare, and hurriedly said:

"Sister, thanks to you for saving me, I was stunned just now, and I was going to die directly."

Sister Yan saw that I was fine, and said: "Stinky boy, thanks to your brother-in-law's idea, this trick is called the Seven Emperors to seal and seal your seven holes, I just slapped you and kicked you in the back, but I didn't even mean to wake up, thank you brother-in-law." ”

The man in front of me, of medium height, wearing an off-white casual suit, yellowed skin, short hair without sideburns, bright eyes, energetic, and handsome face, I hurriedly said: "Thank you brother-in-law for saving my life." ”

But I'm a little puzzled, isn't my sister claiming to be unnecessarily? How did a brother-in-law suddenly appear! This underground work is not leaky!

At this time, the man's expression was very serious, and he asked:

"Little brother, where did the lantern on this table come from?"

I also talked about it from beginning to end, including the things in my dreams.

Sister Yan got up and gave me a slap, pointed to my nose and said, "Are you showing off, you really dare to accept anything, this is a personal leather lantern!" Dedicated to leading the way for the dead! It's because we're worried that the store door won't be closed and come back to take a look, otherwise you will really go to Lord Yama for employment! It's twelve o'clock at night, and I see a blue light in the door of our store, and your brother-in-law takes off his clothes and covers it, otherwise you will be suffocated to death! I'm! also said that I stabbed you to death, and if I was a sister, I stabbed you to death, and I can't stab you to death! ”

Although my sister has a very quick temper, she has been very concerned about me since she was a child, and although she doesn't spare me in her mouth, her voice is a little choked.

Brother-in-law hurriedly came to the rescue and said: "Look at your sister's anger, but this human skin lantern is strange, the three of us have to study it, how does it emit blue light, is it poisonous smoke?" Otherwise, how could you sleep so deeply? ”

The three of us sat down around the human skin lantern, and it was only then that I was able to observe the lantern in its entirety. The lantern is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, with four inverted trapezoidal frames on all sides, with some ripples like fish scales, and four bronze chains with hooks at the top. Not to mention a bit of European style, but the lampshade around it does resemble human skin, I have goosebumps when I think about the word human skin, four pictures are drawn on each of the four sides, the content of the picture is very vague, so I asked my sister:

"Sister, are you sure this yellow paper is human skin?"

Sister Yan stared at the painting with her eyes and said:

"This is a bronze square conical soul-attracting lantern in the Western Zhou Dynasty, a rare thing specially hung in the tomb, look at this dragon scale pattern, it is definitely for the royal family. This human skin is also genuine. ”

I heard it was a real guy! Immediately excited! Ask:

"Sister, how much can this thing sell for? I'll do it in half. ”

My sister raised her hand and wanted to slap me in the face, but she was reluctant and said:

"If this thing fools the layman, it is estimated that it can sell for hundreds of thousands, and if the insider sees you bring this thing to someone's store, it will not kick you away. This lamp is specially for the ghost to guide the way, the funeral person carried this lamp to accompany the master into the tomb, and when he died, he hoped to use this lantern to follow the master to lead the way to the Yellow Spring, very evil, maybe the soul of the owner of this lamp is hidden in this lamp, just now in the dream may be looking for you to be reincarnated for the dead ghost! ”

After my sister said this, I really felt a little scared, if it wasn't for my sister and brother-in-law just now, if I slept to death, how embarrassing! I don't have a daughter-in-law yet!

The brother-in-law didn't make a sound, touched the scraps inside the lantern with his hand, then sniffed it, sneezed a few times, and said:

"I've been given ecstasy here, I'm afraid I won't sleep to death, and I have to become dementia if I smell too much, and this medicine is only available in modern times, I am sure that someone will combine the powder and white phosphorus to ignite it after you fall asleep, the low temperature of white phosphorus is not easy to be detected, the ghost is fake, and the harm is real!"

I wondered, I have only been back for a few days, who did I offend, and he was so ruthless that he wanted to kill me, could it be that little beggar?

Just thinking about it, my brother-in-law took out half of the candle from his small backpack, lit it and put it in the lantern, and the picture on the lantern skin actually changed!