Chapter 4: Paper Ghosts
Paper ghosts have a long tradition in our country, mainly used in funeral ceremonies, and the folk use it more as a technique, the usage is extreme, the story of paper ghosts as slaves is the specific embodiment of 'serving gods and ghosts, paper-cutting to be driven by people and horses', and the most powerful way to use it is the use of paper paste ghosts.
Yuan people Tao Zongyi in the "Nancun Dropout Farming" record, volume 13 of the 'Chinese book ghost case' once recorded the witch Wang Wanli made the process of paper ghost servants, when dealing with the maid Yuexi, said that he 'used the Yuan with a fish knife, cut his forehead, tore off the hanging eyes, and cut off a strand of hair, with a paper figure and five-colored silk velvet thread into a piece, like a human shape, and then cut off the nose, lips, tongue, ears, ten fingers of the hands, ten fingers of the feet, but cut the chest and abdomen, before falling to the ground. He also cut a piece of heart, liver, and lungs, dried it and pounded it, and put it in a small gourd. ’
He only wrote about Wang Wanli's process of taking the objects on the living person's body for backup, and did not write about the specific process of casting the spell, because Tao Zongyi didn't know, and I didn't know, all I knew was the difference between him and the old man Huang's papier-mâché ghost-the witch Wang Wanli made an extremely ferocious papier-mâché ghost, and his ability was slightly better than that of a powerful ghost, but here it was a very simple papier-mâché ghost, whose purpose might be to be used by an errand officer, or to fall into a dream, or to detain the soul, which was not as complicated as his procedures.
However, one thing is certain, in order to make these papier-mâché ghosts, Old Man Huang must have killed many people, and only then did he take the flesh and skin of his chest to make and control these things.
I couldn't make a papier-mâché, but luckily I knew how to crack it, so I beckoned everyone to pick up the jar and sprinkle the red tide geranium into the depths of the mist. At this time, those security guards didn't care about being dirty and sloppy, they all used their hands and clothes dipped in white wine everywhere, and the white mist quickly subsided, and in less than a moment, the entire terrace was clearly revealed.
On the top of the terrace is a big sand pile, the height is high enough to be high, piled up like a grave, in the middle is vertically inserted a white paper archway more than one person high, the two sides are pasted with big red words, and there are two yellow table rune papers glued in the middle, a book of Huang Zhiwen, eight characters, birthday, and life, and the other is written with Meng Tiantian's name.
Below the archway is a case table, under Huang Zhiwen's yellow table corresponding to a small coffin, the length of the ruler, which should be Huang Zhiwen's bones or flesh and blood, and Meng Tiantian's yellow table below is a straw man, with a circle of black hair on his head, which was secretly cut off by the old man Huang in the wedding dress shop.
I was looking at the grave pile of sand when I suddenly heard the security captain shout, I looked up and found that there was a black thing on the opposite side of the roof that was slowly getting bigger and stretching, and I immediately raised my hand and shot it with a flashlight.
In the light, we could immediately see that the black thing was a man, facing each other with his back, but he was wearing a black robe, and he began to shrink into a ball and lie on the ground, so that it seemed small, and now he stood up and spread his hands, and stood up huge and hideous.
Everyone was taken aback, and the movements of their hands gradually slowed down...
"Old man Huang!" I shouted, bypassing the sand pile in the middle and approaching him, and the others were stunned for a moment before they hugged each other and followed: "What do you want..."Before the words were finished, someone next to him hurriedly rushed up two steps, raised his arm and pointed straight at him, and scolded: "Dead old man, you dare to harm my daughter!" ”
The person who rushed out was Boss Meng, his face was full of anger now, his face was red and hot as if he was drunk, his eyes were bloodshot, and he was holding a gun in his hand.
He dares, he really dares! And I'm too late to stop!
But what I never expected was that in the face of this scene, Old Man Huang actually rattled and laughed, his voice was like a duck choked by the throat, scraping people's eardrums painfully, and he slowly turned around with him...
The flashlight shone on his face.
Old man Huang is a typical image of an old man in the countryside, thin, dark, with obvious traces of time on his face, he wears a wide black robe, looks like a poncho used when riding a bicycle, his hands and body are hidden underneath, ready to move.
His gaze fell on Boss Meng, just a glance, and then slowly turned to me: "You are the savior found by the Meng family?" ”
"It's not a savior, it's just a businessman who takes people's money and people to eliminate disasters," I said in a deep voice: "******, according to the rules of the trade, since I found you, you should withdraw this matter, right?" ”
As I spoke, I slowly walked up a few steps, pulled the corner of Boss Lamon's coat, and motioned for him to put down the gun—he gasped for a few breaths of nervousness and hesitation, and then the fingers on the trigger relaxed, and then slowly drooped.
"Rules? Fart! ****** opened his big mouth, revealing his yellow teeth full of cigarette stains: "If my son wants to marry a daughter-in-law, I will marry him, and whoever my son likes, I will get it for him - if you have the ability, you will do it, give me less nonsense!" ”
I licked my lips, "You're really not going to think about it again?" ”
"Consider, what else do I have to consider?" The old man's voice was sharp and dry, and it reached everyone's ears very clearly in the night sky: "My Huang family is a single transmission for nine generations, if it weren't for this stinky girl to seduce, how could Zhiwen desperately make money?" And how can there be a car accident? Hey, hey, I've prepared a lot of money, and she and my son will be fine in the future..."
Meng Tiantian behind her was pale and pale, her body shook slightly, and she showed signs of fainting due to excessive panic, her mother immediately supported her, and I inadvertently patted Boss Meng at the same time, signaling him to come over to help.
"Your son's unrequited love, what does it have to do with other girls?" I sighed, "You... You can't ignore the cause and effect of heaven, right? ”
"Who the cares about this?" Old man Huang heheed twice, then laughed madly, and shouted in laughter: "My grandfather does good deeds and accumulates virtues, my Lao Tzu does good deeds and accumulates virtues, and I will also help people all my life... Until now, this bullshit God actually made my Huang family desperate, what kind of heavenly cause and effect is this, what kind of good and evil are rewarded..."
Actually, I knew very well in my heart that since Old Man Huang had chosen to use the trick of living people to marry him, it would be almost impossible to stop it, but I still had to talk to him—because when I was talking to him for the first time, I had already reached out and signaled behind my back to get ready for the few security guards I had begun to explain, and now the six of them had picked up the two ends of the nine-foot red respectively, and they were all behind me.
I can 100% conclude that Old Man Huang must have a lot of dissatisfaction and resentment to vomit in his heart, which gives us a chance.
Seeing Old Man Huang yelling like crazy, I didn't wait any longer, and with a wave of my hand, I rushed towards him with the security guard.
We were very fast, and we instantly surrounded Old Man Huang, his crazy screams suddenly stopped, looked around for a moment, and suddenly screamed and pounced on me!
"Spread out, hold the hexagonal, nine-foot encirclement!" I snorted, followed head-on, and took out a peach stick covered with rune paper from my bosom - the stick is two feet long and arm thick, the style is simple, and the color is bright red.
Old man Huang rushed closer, his hands spread out and pounced on me, I dodged it sideways, and followed the stick to hit him hard in the back, but what surprised me the most was that he was not knocked over by my stick, but only staggered and rushed forward two steps, turned around and pounced again.
I have practiced some boxing and kicking, although I am not as good as professionals, but it is still enough to deal with ordinary people, plus the old man Huang himself is old, his movements are slow, and he has no way to take me, the only thing that is strange is that his body seems to have changed a little, not only does it not hurt when he is beaten, but it doesn't even have much impact on his movements.
In just a few minutes, I had hit the old man in the head, chest, limbs and back in a row, but every time he was beaten, he pounced again and never gave up - in another front kick, when he fell to the ground backwards, I suddenly noticed a smile hanging on the corner of his mouth!
It's so wrong!
Originally, because Old Man Huang was still a person, I had the idea that I couldn't break the law, and I didn't dare to make too big a move, but now I can't take care of this... I slammed my feet forward, rushed forward two steps quickly, and smashed all my strength at him!
Click!
Old Man Huang's arm was directly discounted.
I didn't wait for him to stand up, and he slammed one after another, scrapping his other hand, and when Old Man Huang got up, his hands hung down softly under his robe, and it seemed that he couldn't lift it.
"Hey, hey, hey, you've finally found out..."Old man Huang was not angry but happy, and he didn't move anymore when he stood in the middle, "It's late!" It's late! It's too late now..."
"!" I rarely burst into a foul language, and I didn't care about what was going on, so I hurriedly beckoned: "Come on, tie him up!" ”
Six security guards with nine-foot red hurriedly ran by, although the action was a little flustered, but roughly tied him in a hexagonal shape, followed me to tell them to retract, nine-foot red trembled and pierced back, and soon tied him tightly and couldn't move.
Old man Huang didn't struggle to resist, he just kept laughing and roaring, laughing so much that my heart was furious, and the security guards and the Meng family next to him were even more frightened and at a loss, Boss Meng ran over boldly: "Mr. An, this, this..."
I took a deep breath and gritted my teeth fiercely: "Everything has me, you guys get out of the way!" ”
In the darkness of the night, a faint miasma of smoke began to appear, and unlike the fog that began to thicken, it looked like smoke, but more like some kind of black light shrouded it, making the light of the flashlight fainter and weaker and weaker - the darkness was like the sea, gradually drowning everyone in it.
In the darkness, the nine-foot red on Old Man Huang's body began to gradually become obvious, except for him, all around him was pitch black.
I beckoned everyone to come closer and hit, all gathered in front of the grave in the sand, the red tide sunflower wine was held by the security guards, and I held a large handful of peach talismans in my right hand, and pulled Meng Tiantian with my left hand, so that she could not leave my side for a moment.
In the wild laughter of Old Man Huang, a gloomy faint light suddenly appeared, and countless figures began to shake and moan softly, as if they appeared out of thin air, gradually approaching us.
Getting closer and closer, getting closer and closer, this singing voice gradually became clear:
The groom arrives, the groom arrives, and the sedan chair is picked up by Malaysia;
The rooster cries, the fat pig crows, and one by one comes to kill them.
The bride laughs, the bride laughs, the red makeup and red makeup are all ready;
Daddy cried, mother screamed, and all the beams were hanged.
……
With the ballad, a group of vague figures appeared on the rooftop. The sedan chair man in red clothes and green clothes, the **** white-faced boy, and the rouge red girl appeared in a big red sedan chair, followed by the groom on the big black horse.
Whether it is a sedan chair man or a child, a maid or a musician, they all have stiff, dull and expressionless faces, tightly pursed mouths and empty eyes, cheeks are carmine, and they are dressed in red, red, green and green clothes, although the singing is flickering far and near, but they always keep their mouths closed, and there is no joy, anger or sorrow on their pale faces—
Paper Man! These are paper figures!
The paper figure cut out is also a paper ghost under the impetus of evil magic!
The paper-tied sedan chair boy, the paper-tied red sedan chair and red clothes, the paper-tied high-headed horse, only the groom's face is gray, stiff and ugly, and the identity of the dead man has been unannounced.
Paper people greet their relatives, and dead ghosts marry wives!
My heart was beating wildly, my breath was short, and a voice shouted desperately in my head:
Why, why today? Seven days to welcome relatives, why did the sixth day arrive?!