Chapter 265: Paper Man
Xiao He obviously walked in time, and when he came to us, he was already sweating profusely, and when he put the paper figure down, he gasped for breath.
I took the paper figure and asked him to go to Xiao Li's house to help me get another piece of clothing that he usually wears. Although Xiao He didn't know why he wanted Xiao Li's clothes, he still nodded and went out again, rushing towards Xiao Li's house.
I, on the other hand, began to do something about this paper figure.
This paper figure is as tall as a real person, wearing a red coat (red paper) on the upper body, black pants (black paper) on the bottom, and a Tang hat on his head. The pale face was painted with two pieces of blush with red ink, and the small lips were also painted bright red, which looked a little panicked.
The color of the paper figures is very particular, after all, this thing is generally burned for the dead, and it cannot be as casual as the things used by ordinary people. Therefore, if the paper figure is a man, it must be red, and the woman must use green, which is the so-called red man and green woman.
Moreover, if the paper figure is tied, it cannot draw eyes, because if you draw eyes, it will come back to life. Some people may ask, how can the paper man come back to life, this is too **, right? In fact, when I say come to life, I don't mean that the paper man itself will live, but that there will be lonely souls and wild ghosts who will take advantage of the void and attach themselves to the paper man, so that the paper man will come alive.
Of course, many paper shops don't understand these rules anymore. Paper people can draw eyes, after all, people nowadays don't know much about the rules, but they just use paper as a tool to make money to support their families.
And the reason why I asked them to help me tie a paper figure back this time is naturally to bring it back to life. Anyone who is really in the yin and yang industry knows that the paper figure is very famous, it is not only burned to the deceased and used as a servant for boys and girls, but also can make it psychic as a stand-in, and can also be used to guide the way in the underworld to prevent the invasion of lonely souls and wild ghosts. In short, the purpose of the paper figurine is not just as simple as worshipping the spirits in front of the mourning hall!
The paper man in front of him, at first glance, is a person who understands the rules, not only has good craftsmanship, but also is vivid, like a real person, and the most important thing is that he did not draw eyes on the paper man.
I first folded the dozen or so demon-slaying runes that I had spent half an afternoon drawing, and then wrapped them in red paper to make the shape of a "heart". Then he used a knife to cut a hole in the paper man's chest, and tied the "heart" shaped red paper bag with more than a dozen spirit runes to the bamboo scorn on the paper man's chest with red thread.
Re-paste the paper on the outside of the paper figure, so that there is an extra heart in the paper figure's chest. It's just that this heart is made of more than a dozen spirit runes, and as long as the black snake spirit eats this heart, it will definitely be able to lower it.
After doing this, Xiao He also came back from Xiao Li's house, holding a gray coat of Xiao Li in his hand.
I put Xiao Li's coat directly on the paper man's body, and then wrote Xiao Li's name on the paper man's back. When everything is done, the next thing is to wait for dark......
Xiao He was also left by Lao Liu Tou for dinner, and during the meal, he stared at the strange paper figure in Xiao Li's clothes and placed in the living room, and asked curiously, asking me if I could make the black snake spirit think it was Xiao Li?
Old Liu Tou also looked at me curiously. I smiled and didn't explain, just pretended to be mysterious, and you'll know then.
In this way, after dinner, the sky was dark, and at this time, the villagers who had dispersed in the afternoon gathered here again to Lao Liu Tou, all with a stick in their hands, some with a long knife, and some with a hoe, everyone asked me when I planned to leave for Shizhuang, and at the same time kept looking at the paper man in the living room, with the same expression on his face, that is, curiosity!
I told them that it was still early, and that it would be later.
Everyone asked the same question like Xiao He, worried that this paper man would not be able to fool the black snake spirit. However, I always tell them that I have my own way when the time comes.
I waited until more than nine o'clock in the evening, when I got up and said to everyone, carrying the paper man, let's go!
In this way, a group of more than a dozen people left the village again and set off towards Shizhuang, seven or eight miles away......
This night, it was a dark and windy night, with a hairy moon on the head, the children in the village were already asleep, everyone was carrying a dead wind lamp in their hands, carrying the paper man straight to the stone village.
After walking for more than half an hour, we came to the stone village.
At night, the stone village is more bleak and gloomy than during the day. The pile of mass graves at the entrance of the deserted village is the corpses of the villagers of Liujiagou who used to do good deeds and specially collected the corpses of the plague in Shizhuang and buried them collectively, so the mass graves at the entrance of the village are full of mounds, and the ancient trees cover the sky, it seems that this area is particularly heavy, and there are often ghosts and monsters in the wild graves, and the timid people have to be scared half to death from here during the day, let alone in the middle of the night?
Although there were more than a dozen of us in our group, it could be seen from everyone's expressions that they were all a little scared and seemed a little cringe.
Passing through the mass graveyard and into the ruins of the village, among the broken walls and ruins, there were ghost fires, and I don't know if it was phosphorus fire or the eyes of wild beasts and animals were shining.
We stopped more than ten meters away from the entrance of the black snake spirit cave, I told everyone to pick it down, don't make a sound, and then carried the paper man over, I took out the pen black, and gave the paper man the eye.
The so-called finishing touch is to draw a pair of eyes on the paper figure, because only the paper figure with the eyes can be psychic.
The paper man finished his eyes, and then I began to recite the spirit mantra, and as soon as the spell was finished, the pen and ink were placed on the paper man's forehead, and the paper man moved.
Yes, the paper figure came to life on its own, and his eyes blinked.
Everyone was shocked when they saw this scene, and their mouths were about to fall to the ground. If it weren't for me, knowing that it was my spell, they would have been so frightened that they would have cried and screamed for their mother's despair and fled.
I whispered "Go"! The paper man turned around and walked towards the hole more than ten meters in front of him.
Don't say it, this paper figure was originally vivid, and he was wearing Xiao Li's clothes, but now he is psychic and alive, and he really thinks that this is a living person if he doesn't know it in this night.
Of course, if someone comes forward to say hello at this time, and when they see it, they find that it is a paper figure, and they will scare the soul.
Watching the paper man swaying towards the front, after a moment of shock, everyone slowly recovered from the surprise, and then someone asked me: "Sir, can this paper man really fool the black snake spirit?" I watched that although this paper figure came back to life and could walk, after all, his appearance was very different from Xiao Li! ”
I said, "Yes, as long as the black snake spirit is in the cave, it will be accurate to think that the paper man is Xiao Li." ”
Yes, I didn't lie to them, although the paper man and Xiao Li look different, but this is the method of the Yin and Yang line. The paper man is just a prop, the important thing is Xiao Li's clothes, that dress is what Xiao Li often wears, with Xiao Li's anger, and now it is worn on the paper man, after performing the technique of stand-in, although the living person can still see that it is a paper man, but in the eyes of the yin soul or animal fairy, it is already Xiao Li.
The paper man soon reached the entrance of the black snake spirit's hole, then stopped, and began to stomp back and forth.
We all began to shut our mouths and stop talking.
Under the hairy moon, the yin wind was blowing, there were pieces of phosphorus fire floating in the grave, and from time to time there were a few squeaky strange bird calls, and the wind lamp in his hand flickered and dimmed, and it seemed that it could be extinguished at any time.
Everyone waited quietly, waiting for the appearance of the black snake spirit. The wait lasted for more than an hour, and it was about midnight when there was finally movement at the entrance of the cave.
I saw that a yin wind began to blow at the entrance of the cave, and the gusts of yin wind blew the hay dust on the ground everywhere, and when we saw this, we all became vigilant, knowing that the black snake spirit might be about to come out.
Sure enough, after the yin wind rose, a triangular head appeared at the entrance of the cave, and at first glance, this was not the head of a big snake!
The big snake saw the paper man wearing Xiao Li's clothes two meters in front of the cave at a glance, and then the big black snake slipped out of the hole, extremely fast, and rushed up at the paper man......
The paper man also found the big snake at this time, showing a frightened look, and kept retreating, but the big snake had already rushed in front of the paper man, and the snake tail flung over, and a roll, directly rolled the paper man in the snake's body, and was lifted in the air.
The big black snake seemed a little impatient, and seemed very excited, perhaps thinking that the revenge had finally been avenged. So he opened his bloody mouth and bit down on the paper man's chest!
A big hole was suddenly torn open in the paper man's chest, and then look at the mouth of the big snake, biting a pile of paper scraps, strips of cloth, slices, and a red paper bag, yes, the red paper bag is the charm bag I hid in the paper man's chest.
As soon as the serpent tilted his head, he swallowed the shredded paper in his mouth......
Seeing this, I was immediately overjoyed, knowing that the black snake spirit was indeed fooled.
And at this moment, the big black snake really let out a strange scream, and the paper man also changed back to the original form of the paper man because of the broken law, the big black snake knew that he had been fooled, and immediately tore the paper man to pieces, and then twisted it on the ground, like a twisted flower, making a piercing strange scream, how miserable and miserable.
Seeing this, I was so relieved that I got up from the ground and ran towards the black snake that was struggling in pain......