The dishes cooked by Mao Xiankang's wife are very delicious, not inferior to the level of the restaurant chef. During the meal, Mao Xiankang's daughter also appeared, the child looks very much like her mother, I think this is a good thing, if it is like Mao Xiankang, it is estimated that the girl herself will have to die of sorrow.

After dinner, Qiao Wei and I had tea at Mao Xiankang's house, chatted casually from all over the world, and when it was almost eight o'clock, we also said goodbye.

Mao Xiankang asked Qiao Wei and I very concerned if we had already arranged a place to stay, and he could help us arrange a hotel if needed.

I didn't think there was any need to trouble him with this kind of trivial matter, so I thanked him first and then excused myself, and then left Mao Xiankang's house to take a taxi back to the puppet workshop.

The time I agreed with Chen Jiawen was half past nine, but Qiao Wei and I still returned to the workshop an hour early.

We weren't idle for an hour, we first determined which items were on the yin qi in the workshop, and then gathered all these things in the outdoor courtyard.

Although the yin qi is everywhere in the house, if you look carefully, you can still find that these yin qi is basically collected on those puppets and wood, and there are also other places, but it should be caused by the yin qi on the puppets.

After gathering the puppets and wood, we sprinkled a circle of salt outside, sealed the things, and prepared tools to fight ghosts, as well as masks to prevent ghosts from spitting. Everything was ready, the time was 9:20, we waited for another five minutes, and Chen Jiawen came five minutes earlier than the agreed time.

Before starting to summon souls, Qiao Wei also told Chen Jiawen about the precautions, such as not being afraid of seeing anything, don't shout, and keep your mouth shut...... And so on and so forth.

When it was confirmed that Chen Jiawen was ready, Qiao Wei immediately began to summon souls.

The soul summoning technique is still the previous soul summoning technique, and the effect of soul summoning is also quickly revealed after Qiao Wei recited the spell.

The already warm courtyard suddenly became cold, and the breath that came out of our mouths turned into white mist. In a few moments, a cloud of pale blue, at the same time a little yellowish, rose from among the puppets and wood we had gathered together.

The smoke swirled over the puppets and wood, and soon a vague figure began to emerge in the smoke, and then became clearer and clearer—I recognized his bland face, it was Mao Xuansheng, and it could not be mistaken.

Chen Jiawen, who was behind me, also let out a low snort, because Qiao Wei had told her not to shout before, so she quickly covered her mouth after whispering.

Mao Xiansheng, who was in a state of revenant, looked very calm, there was no expression on his face, and nothing emotional was revealed, which was somewhat different from the situation I expected. Qiao Wei also seemed to feel that the soul summoning had not been completed, so he did not stop reciting the incantation.

After a while, Mao Xuansheng's revenant still didn't react, but the smoke around him became thicker and thicker, and then a vague figure loomed!

Soon, the figure became clear—it was another Mao instant!

It's the first time I've seen this happen, but it's not incomprehensible. The Mao Xiansheng that appears here should not be his real soul, but just the emotion he poured into it when creating these puppets, which is a reflection of the soul, and it should not be surprising that there are so many works here.

What I thought was quickly confirmed, as Qiao Wei continued to chant the spell to summon the soul, one after another Mao Xiansheng also continued to appear on the puppet pile, but their expressions were all uniform, and there was no emotion at all.

Finally, Qiao Wei stopped chanting the incantation, and there were already more than twenty hairy people standing on the puppet pile.

"What's going on now? It doesn't seem to be the same as the effect of using the Soul Summoning Technique on the oil painting before! I said to Qiao Wei.

"I'm wondering too." Qiao Wei frowned and said: "It is said that there should be a picture of Mao Xiansheng carving these puppets, no matter whether it is concentration, or whether it is talking or laughing, there should always be some action, what kind of work is this standing still?" Isn't that what he was like when he was a puppet? ”

I don't know if it's because these ghosts are gathering to make the air cold, and I can't help but shiver all over my body.

"Puppets...... I stared at the motionless Mao Xiansheng in front of me, and recalled the conversations I had just had at Mao Xiankang's house. Mao Xiankang said before that his biggest ideal is to lie still, and someone will do all the work for him, how will ordinary people react when they hear such words? If it were you, what would you do? I asked Qiao Wei.

Qiao Wei was stunned for a moment, and didn't seem to understand that I was going to ask such a sentence. He thought for a moment, then replied, "I don't think I think of a puppet, I guess I guess I laughed at him for having a super lazy ideal." But it seems right to say that the puppet is also right, the marionette doesn't have to do anything by himself, and everyone else does all the actions for him, Mao Xiansheng does this, he will think that the puppet is also normal. ”

"No, no, no! You don't get what I mean! I hurriedly waved my hand at Qiao Wei and said, "Look at that circle, now so many Mao Xiansheng are popping up at once, which is enough to prove that this is not his dead soul, just like the previous oil painting, so this should be the state of Mao Xiansheng when he made a puppet!" He doesn't do anything, he stands there like a puppet, and someone does everything for him! Think again about him weishenme to laugh? Think again! ”

"Laugh? weishenme？ Qiao Wei was puzzled.

"It's obvious! It is impossible for a person not to have friends, Mao Xiansheng has too few friends, it's not that he doesn't want friends, but he hasn't found the same kind! He has been nesting in this small workshop to make puppets, he likes this thing, but his brother doesn't do it, he gives up, he feels that he is abandoned, but he finds that his brother's ideals are the same as his, so he is happy from the bottom of his heart! He found out that his brother hadn't actually left him, and Mao Xiankang also wanted to live like a puppet! I explained in one breath.

"Okay, that sounds like it makes sense, but Mao Xiansheng just stood still, so how did the puppets in this room come from? And the goods he sold. Qiao Wei questioned.

"He has apprentices! What's it called, his apprentice, two-word ...... Yes, yes, Li Xiang! ”

"Li doesn't want to be a puppet." Chen Jiawen, who had been behind me, suddenly spoke.

Her words surprised me, and it was also obviously puzzled by Qiao Wei.

"You say Li wants to be a puppet?" I asked back.

Chen Jiawen nodded and said: "I heard Instant Sheng tell me that what Li Xiang learned from him was only the coloring of puppets and wearing clothes, and the usual work was mainly delivery and delivery and purchase of raw materials. Li Xiang also approached me for this matter, and wanted me to help talk to Instant, so that Instantsheng could teach him some real skills. ”

"What about you? Have you ever seen Mao Xiansheng as a puppet? I asked again.

"Haven't seen it, never seen it." Chen Jiawen said while shaking his head.

Now things are really getting very interesting, Chen Jiawen thinks that the Mao family has a living puppet, and Mao Xiansheng is in a stiff state when he is making a puppet, is there any connection between these two things? What does this have to do with Mao's instantaneous suicide?

My palms were already sweating from the excitement.