Chapter 7: The Cursed Doll
I walked to the stall and looked down, and saw some strange little dolls on the stall, some naked, some wearing grass skirts, black and brown, fat and thin, male and female, which was indeed very eye-catching. I just looked at it, but I didn't find the mask.
"Boss, I remember you were selling masks here!" I asked, "Why not?" ”
There was only a small red light on the ground in the whole stall that shone on the goods, and the boss who buried himself in the dark did not look up when he heard my question: "Mask? What mask do you want? ”
I crouched down and said, "What mask do you have here?" ”
"There are no masks, just them." The boss lowered his head and pointed to the things on the stall and said.
I frowned, feeling that the male boss's voice was somewhat familiar, as if I had heard it somewhere. Although he spoke Mandarin, he still had a slight accent and sounded like a southerner, with a slightly crooked tongue.
Instead of asking about the mask, I picked up a palm-sized black hula doll: it felt nice to the touch, it had an indescribable feeling, it was soft, but it felt firm. The craftsmanship is exquisite, and although the expression of the doll is a little exaggerated, it is not vain and looks very real.
"Boss, how much does this doll cost?" I asked.
"Do you buy it?" The boss asked rhetorically.
"Buy! Buy it at the right price. I laughed.
"The price is not right." The boss said seriously.
I was stunned, there is still such a business?!
"How can you still make money in this business!" I pinched the doll's body: "You say how much money is unbelievable!" ”
"Two hundred." The boss said.
A doll with a big palm is not a brand, and it costs two hundred to open its mouth, which is really inappropriate.
I thought about it, leaned forward and asked, "Boss, why is it so expensive?" ”
"Because it's easy to use." The boss's words made me scratch my head.
"Easy? How to use it? I flipped the doll over and over and looked at it a few times: "There's nothing special about it, it's not beautiful to say it's beautiful, but the craftsmanship is not bad." What can be done with it? ”
"Use it to make your wish come true!" The boss slowly raised his head and looked at me as he spoke.
When I saw the face of my boss, I couldn't help but shudder: the boss was wearing a white mask, and only the eye area was exposed. But just by looking at the eyes, you will find that this boss's face is too white, and at first glance, it looks like he is wearing the kind of miserable white mask that Ah Ye wore when he died!
The most terrifying thing is the eyes. I can see that the boss's eyes are a pair of real human eyes, but under the reflection of the little red light, these eyes are still gray and colorless, just like the eyes on the white mask - it reminds me of the colorless dead eyes of Han Yushan when he was dying!
"Oh......" I was stunned for a moment before I came back to my senses: "What wish can this doll fulfill?" ”
The boss lowered his head again: "Curse." You can use it to curse a person and make that person unlucky, even dead, every day. ”
The cold wind by the river blew me, and there were few people on the bank in the dark, and I squatted in front of the stall, listening to the boss's words, and I felt a chill on my body.
I simply took out the black mask on my body and placed it on the stall: "Boss, I want a mask, not a doll." ”
The boss glanced at the mask: "This is a toy mask, six yuan a side, fake." ”
I was stunned: "Fake? Really? ”
"Not really."
"What does a real mask look like?" I asked, "Is it white?" ”
When the boss heard me ask, he looked up at me: "How do you know it's white?" ”
I scratched my head: "You said that the black is fake, then it is really white, is it hard to guess?" ”
The boss laughed: "Heh, whether it's real or fake, black or white, it's all gone anyway." ”
I laughed: "Hey, boss, you say, you doll, how can you curse people?" ”
"You want to know?" The boss looked up at me again.
I nodded, "Of course." ”
"I'm sorry, I'm not selling." The boss said that he was going to close the stall.
I squatted to the side and was stunned: what kind of character is this boss, how can he look more and more like a schizophrenic!
"What's your name, boss?" I stood up and watched him slowly close the stall: "It's good to make a friend, I usually like to collect these things." ”
"Do you like it?" The boss paused: "Then do you know the origin of these dolls?" ”
Burst! I almost vomited blood, and I meant to put it mildly, how could I like this mess, and besides, even if I did, it was the first time I had seen such a doll, how could I know where it came from.
"This thing has been lost for more than a thousand years! However, I will still make it! ”
The boss suddenly raised his head and looked at me, his voice was cold and low, and his gray eyes were particularly dazzling against the background of the miserable white skin around me, which made me involuntarily twitch the muscles on my face.
"It's been more than a thousand years......" I grinned, "It's amazing, but look at it?" ”
As I spoke, I pulled out my phone and flipped to the photo of the white mask and put it in front of my boss's eyes.
The gray eyes looked at the white mask on the photo, and froze for a moment, and then the boss reached out and took off his mask.
I saw a face that looked exactly like the white mask! It's just that this face is not a mask, but a real human face, less than two feet away from me, looking at me fixedly.
"Huh!" I took a step back: "Boss, what's your name?" Are you a local? ”
"My name is Zhang Wuji, and I'm not a local, but I've been here for more than ten years." The boss said that he had cleaned up the stall, put on his mask, and turned to leave.
"Zhang Wuji......" I took a sip: "Then I am Zhang Cuishan!" ”
It seems that I have found the right person, but this person said that the mask is gone, I don't know what it means, and the doll of the cursed man, I don't know if it's true or not.
I turned around and went to the bridge to leave, and after thinking about it, I still called Chu Ying: "Hey, help me check someone." ”
"Who?" Chu Ying's tone was still very sad, and it seemed that she couldn't get out of Ah Ye's death.
"Zhang Wuji!" I said, "Outsiders, I've been here for more than ten years, and I look at my face, I should be around thirty-five years old, male." ”
Chu Ying was silent for a while, I knew that she thought I was making her happy, and sighed lightly: "Girl, don't you know me yet?" I'm not smart, but I'm definitely not stupid, so how could I call you and make such a joke at this time. ”
"Well, got it, I'll check it out." After Chu Ying finished speaking, she hung up the phone.
I shrugged, tightened my coat, and walked toward the bridge.
Because it was getting late, the night markets in this small city were almost gone, and there were fewer and fewer people on the shore. When I walked to the middle of the bridge, I suddenly felt that a figure standing by the bridge not far away was very familiar.
I walked over slowly, and when I saw the man's face, I was stunned.