After Zhao Shuihe connected the phone, she briefly talked about the situation with the other side, she put down the phone, and her expression immediately became solemn. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

I saw that she was not reacting normally, so I quickly asked, "What's wrong?" ”

She relented a bit, then raised her head and said to me with a slight trembling:

Zhao Haikun's phone ...... He said, the body of your master Zhao Haipeng has been found, and your comrades-in-arms and friends are all over there. ”

Listening to her words, I felt a burst of excitement in my heart, and said urgently: "Where is it?" ”

A trace of incomprehensible fear appeared on Zhao Shuihe's face, and then he quickly calmed down. She waved her hand and said, "Come with me, I'll take you." But you have to be prepared. The situation over there is not very good......"

His words were inexplicable, but I didn't ask them urgently.

After nodding, Zhao Shuihe took me and went straight to the north in the village, during which she did not speak much, and the scene was a little quiet.

And I, on the other hand, am constantly thinking, thinking about a series of questions and doubts that have come from the death of my old squad leader.

During the day, because I got Zhao Shuihe's promise to help us lift the white food Gu, my mood now is far less depressed and impulsive than when I first came to Zhao's house. But then the question is that I really want to unravel all the "cats" about the funeral of the old squad leader. I want to dig out the bastard who instructed Ren Huowei to make trouble again and again.

After the battle just now, I have come to understand that there is a "force" in this village that always wants to kill me. From the Heaven Breaker who pretended to be crazy and stupid, to Li Douniu who led me into the trap of the "cat array", from Uncle Lei Ren who spied on my old squad leader's ancestral kitchen knife, to the old lady in black who held a white-faced doll every day.

They're not good stuff at all! No, it's a gang.

But what is their purpose? I don't know, and I can't figure out why someone would kill me over and over again. I don't know of any of the core clues about the old squad leader's death, and I can't stop anyone from getting the old squad leader's relics.

In short, I feel like I'm just an outsider who has been involved for no reason.

Why would anyone be afraid of me as an "outsider"? Are you so afraid that you have to get rid of me?

At this time, I thought of the elusive old lady again, and under the curiosity in my heart, I still involuntarily asked Zhao Shuihe: "Shuihe?" Do you remember the old lady with a white-faced doll at the door? ”

When I asked about this old lady, Zhao Shuihe's face suddenly twitched slightly, and then she regained her composure and nodded at me, "Remember." What do you suspect? ”

I was afraid that she would misunderstand, so I just asked, "She...... Do you remember the method of snatching away the body of my old squad leader? Can you analyze it with me and see what you can find? ”

At that time, the old lady only shouted to my old squad leader, "Look at my daughter-in-law", and the black iron body of my old squad leader immediately laughed, and he not only laughed, but also followed the old lady out step by step. The weirdness of this is really confusing.

I couldn't figure it out, so I naturally wanted to ask.

Zhao Shuihe didn't answer me immediately after listening to my words, and after thinking carefully for a long time, her pace suddenly slowed down.

After deep thought, Zhao Shuihe said: "I can't tell which way this old lady is an immortal...... However, the noodle doll in her hand, I know. ”

I was happy to hear this.

From beginning to end, the old guy was holding a white-faced doll in her hand, and she called the white-faced doll her son, and made the white-faced doll laugh.

Anyway...... It's not normal.

Therefore, I eagerly asked Zhao Shuihe: "What is the origin of the white-faced doll?" ”

Zhao Shuihe told me: "The white-faced doll is called 'fruit food', and fruit food has two functions in the past, one is to eat, and the other is ...... Used to sacrifice the requiem! ”

"Requiem?!" I was stunned.

"Requiem!" Zhao Shuihe nodded. At the same time, he told me the history of this "fruit food".

"Fruit food" is actually the modern "dough molding", but unlike the modern dough sculpture that can only be used to see and pay more attention to appreciation, fruit food can be eaten. In many remote places in ancient and modern times, this kind of face-sculpted figures and animal images are also used for sacrifices, and even disgusted with victory and Gu.

The source of fruit food is steamed buns, according to legend, when the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Kongming captured Meng seven times, the victorious class returned to the dynasty, but when he asked to cross the Lushui River, he was blocked by strong winds, and he could not pass after seven days.

At the right time, the local people said that they were haunted by ghosts in the water, and they must kill, sacrifice grievances with human heads, and practice the law of disgust and victory, so as to return to the teacher safely.

Zhuge Liang was unwilling to sacrifice people and animals, so he came up with a clever plan to wrap pigs, cattle and mutton with dough, and depicted the shape of human faces on the dough, and used this "steamed bun" as a sacrificial tribute.

He first hated the method, and then threw this object into the Lushui to perform the sacrificial method, after which, the Lushui was really calm, and the army was able to return to the division safely. This white dough is called "steamed bread" because it resembles a human head, and later, it has developed into a steamed bread food that everyone knows and eats.

After the production of steamed bread, it was divided into two kinds of noodles in the Tang Dynasty, all the way is the "steamed bread" that we are familiar with, which focuses on eating and has the function of sacrifice. The production method is oriented towards simplicity. The eyebrows, eyes, and facial features on those people's minds are all omitted and not drawn.

Another way of making the method, that is, Zhao Shuihe's "fruit food" dough sculpture, it mainly inherits the steamed bun sacrifice, the religious function of the requiem, the edibility gradually degenerates, and now the fruit food is often a kind of "sacrifice" for religious rituals and other methods.

Speaking of this, Zhao Shuihe told me with the keen sense of smell of the white case cook: "The noodles in the hands of the old lady are vivid, and they come from everyone's hands at a glance." I'm afraid it's the craftsmanship of the 'abbot' in the white case cook. ”

I smiled bitterly and said, "Another enigmatic person." Why do the masters of Zhao Jialou love to pretend to be crazy and stupid......."

Zhao Shuihe shook her head slightly, obviously, she didn't know much about the purpose of this abrupt old lady.

I asked unwillingly, "You...... Can you see anything else from the face in her hand? ”

I asked, apparently to get more leads. And I feel that Zhao Shuihe is very keenly observant, she can judge my best dish from my knife skills, I am afraid that she also has a unique eye to see some clues from the old lady's hand.

Zhao Shuihe thought about it for a moment and told me, "I can only give a rough idea!" Accuracy is not guaranteed. ”

I nodded.

Subsequently, Zhao Shuihe told me that Chinese noodle molding originated in the Three Kingdoms, flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and was very regional, and the number of roads that could be counted was nothing more than the "south" and "north" factions. The northern style of dough sculpture is represented by Shanxi dough sculpture, mostly made of glutinous rice noodles, with exaggerated shapes, rich themes, good at expressing emotions, and not good at meticulous portrayal.

I thought back to the doll in the old lady's hand, and shook my head at the time: "It's definitely not this way, the white-faced doll is very well shaped, vivid, and skillful." ”

"That's the South Road!" Zhao Shuihe said.

She continued to tell me that the time for the south road to be molded was shorter than that of the north road, and it was developed from the north school in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China with the "Su Zizuo" to the south. It combines the principle of northern style dough molding, integrates the skills of Huaiyang pastry, pays attention to the clever shape and lifelikeness, and Zhenjiang and Shanghai noodles are the most representative.

"Zhenjiang! Shanghai, Su Zizuo! I looked at Zhao Shuihe with wide eyes and said, "Isn't that the territory of your Huaiyang Two Ancestral Temples?" Don't you have any impression of the old lady? ”

Zhao Shuihe's next answer made me feel strange.