Zhu Gui and I glanced at each other, he nodded slightly, and took the lead in the front.

In fact, what is there to be afraid of in such a situation, even if this is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, we have already stepped in, where is there a way back?

As Zhu Gui walked to the back of the screen, I was surprised to find that this house was hundreds of square meters in size, with wooden beds, wooden chairs and other simple furniture placed on one side, the style was very simple, and it did not look like a modern product at first glance.

In the dim light of the room, there were many miscellaneous white papers, all kinds of colors and shapes.

There are also some weird-looking paper figures, paper wheels, and many other things made of paper, including house furniture, which are basically all you can see in life. And it is done vividly and lifelikely, but the color is a little gaudy and unnatural.

We were all stunned on the spot, unable to say a word as we looked at the scene in front of us.

"You may be seated." The shadow old man raised his hand to the chair next to him.

After sitting down, the old man spoke: "Dare to ask where the two of you are from?" ”

I took a deep breath, tried to calm myself down, and said, "Old man, we are from Wuyang City. ”

The old man was obviously stunned, and then asked, "I've never heard of this place, oh, by the way, what age is it now?" ”

This question stunned me, he didn't know the current era? So when was he? Could it be that like me, I came from ancient times?

Zhu Gui gasped and suddenly interjected: "It's the twenty-first century, old man, you haven't said who you are, why did you become like this." ”

The old man was silent for a moment, seemed to be a little sad, sighed and said, "Alas! In fact, I see that you feel very kind, I don't know how many years I haven't seen a living person, maybe this is God's arrangement, it's really God's eye-opening. When the old man said this, he subconsciously looked up at the roof.

Why is it so awkward to listen to his tone, to see a living person? God is eye-opening? He can't be trying to eat us, is he?

I hurriedly asked, "Old man, who are you, don't be dumb with us." ”

"Alas!" He sighed again, "It's not a secret, I'm a member of the Republic of China, a papermaker, and my skills are quite acceptable, at least there is no one who doesn't know my name."

I have never married a wife in my life, I have no children or daughters, and although my life is not rich, I don't have to worry about eating and drinking with my craftsmanship. But then one day something strange happened, and my life changed drastically. ”

When the old man said this, he was silent for a long time, and seemed to be caught up in the memories of that time.

Zhu Gui and I were stunned for a moment, staring at him tightly, waiting to continue.

The atmosphere at the moment is very strange, in such a room full of paper figures with various expressions, the shadow of an old man is opposite, telling his sad past. Even though we have experienced a lot of bizarre things, we still can't help but feel hairy in our hearts.

But for the time being, this old man should be harmless to us.

After waiting for two minutes, the old man spoke: "One day, a large family in the next village died, and they ordered a batch of paper people, paper horses, as well as paper, gold, paper, silver, etc., and said that I must send them to my home after I finish them in two days."

Although the time was very tight, but because it was a big business, I still responded, hurrying and hurrying, this batch of work was finally completed by me within the specified time, but it was already the next night, the host said that it would be used that night, so I had to take advantage of the night to deliver to them.

My house is not far from the next village, it is less than half an hour away, I remember that day when the moon was in the sky, the surrounding things can be seen very clearly, I carried a horse lantern, with a flat shoulder carrying two large baskets of goods out of the village.

The journey was safe and sound, and soon arrived at the customer's home. I often walk around the nearby village, so although I don't know this family well, I know each other.

At this time, they were about to go out to find me, because today was the first three days of the deceased, and the night of the soul, the things they wanted had to be burned to him.

They were also very happy to see that I had arrived in time, and left me for dinner, and by the time I went back it was already late.

Somehow, when I came, it was a sunny day and a bright moon, but when I went back, it became a hairy moon.

At that time, there was such a saying, if there was a hairy moon, there must be ghosts, although I didn't believe in ghosts very much, but I couldn't help but be a little scared in my heart.

On the way back to the village, I had to cross a river, the river was very small, and the narrowest place could be crossed with one foot, but there was an accident that day, but I actually stepped into the water at a distance of three feet, and what surprised me even more was that my feet in the water were pulled out, as if they were nailed to the ground.

People of my age may not be very calm and sophisticated, but they will not panic too much when they encounter ordinary things, and I immediately expected that I must have encountered something unclean.

I've heard a few things about dealing with this kind of thing, it is said that people's middle finger has the most blood and yang energy, as long as you spray those things on your body, even if you can't destroy them, they won't dare to entangle you anymore.

I tried to bite my finger and flick it around several times, and it ......"

The old man was silent again, panting hard.

I said in my heart that this old man has a problem with Zhu Gui, and he always asks him what his surname is, maybe it is Zhu Gui's relatives.

After a while, the old man continued: "At that time, I saw many people around me, children, young girls, carriages and livestock, and many gold, silver and jewels on them.

I almost fainted when I saw this, because they were all paper figures that I had just sent, but now they were life-size, and they were all moving, still playing there, but there was no sound.

I thought I must have seen a ghost, and I desperately tried to run away, but the foot that stepped into the river couldn't be pulled out. I was so anxious that I was sweating profusely, in fact, I was more scared, and who wasn't afraid of such a strange thing.

Although those paper men and paper horses were terrible, they didn't seem to mean to hurt me, as if they didn't see me, they were making noise around one by one, but they didn't go away.

At this moment, an old man slowly walked out of the woods in the distance, this man was as skinny as wood, and it was not an exaggeration to say that he was skinny and boneless, and the whole image was like a dry corpse.

He walked up to me and looked up at me, his face had no flesh at all, his eye sockets were sunken, and he didn't look like a living person at all.