Chapter 67: The Strange Tale of the Paper Man
Today, the streets are lit up with lights, which looks like a festival, but in fact, it is celebrated because there is one less snake in the ground.
Zhang Zhouyun avoided the crowds and walked along the streets in search of dirty beggars. In the past, if you asked where the dirty beggar was, then no one would pay attention to you, but today is different, it is rumored on the street that Wang Bald offended the ugly beggar that day, and then hanged himself in the middle of the night.
Because of this statement, the government was also looking for ugly beggars, but they still saw it in the morning, but the officers and soldiers searched along the street and did not find even a single piece of dirty hair. The lively people are not afraid of big things, they also want to see if the officers and soldiers can catch the ugly beggars, as long as they see dirty beggars, no matter who comes to inquire, they will tell them, and then they have to follow to see the excitement.
Zhang Zhouyun asked an old man who was setting up a stall selling vegetables on the street and asked him if he saw the dirty beggar. The old man who sold vegetables asked him with his mouth shut, "I saw the ugly beggar, the same I saw just now." When Zhang Zhouyun heard this, he quickly squatted down and asked where did he see it? Where are you going?
The old man who sold vegetables suddenly smiled and said, "If you want to know, then buy me and order food, and I'll tell you when I'm done." ”
The old man who looks like a farmer is quite a ghost, and he is very anxious to see that Zhang Zhouyun, as if he was blackmailing him for some money. Zhang Zhouyun had no choice but to grab a handful of green onions, but the old man held his hand and said, "No, no, this green onion has to be sold in bundles, not only for sale, if you want to buy it, you have to buy a bundle." ”
Zhang Zhouyun's teeth hurt, and he covered his cheeks and said, "I said uncle? I don't run a restaurant, there are only two people in the family, isn't it, one person, buy a big bundle of green onions? If you don't just give you some money, you can tell me. ”
The old man who sold vegetables was not happy, so he pulled back the green onions and said, "Hey? Ay? What do you think of me, old man? Think I'm lying to you? Go, go, I won't tell you. But Zhang Zhouyun squatted there and didn't leave, and said to the old man.
When the old man saw that he was on the road, he smiled and said, "I see that you really don't want to buy green onions, and I am also a warm-hearted person, so I can't embarrass you, so let's do it, the one who sells bread across the street is my daughter-in-law, you give me the money for green onions, you go and get half a piece of bread and then I will tell you, how about it?" ”
Hearing the old man say half a piece of bread, Zhang Zhouyun was very shocked, when he was in the tavern a few days ago, the dirty beggar said that taking half a piece of cake could save his life, but seeing the appearance of the old man who sells vegetables, he just wanted to pit himself for some money, and he said it unintentionally, is this dirty beggar really so powerful?
I was delayed by the old man for a lot of time, and after buying the cake, I wrapped it in oiled paper, and when I returned to the old man, I learned that the dirty beggar was in the old place, where? It is the door of Quanjude.
With half a piece of bread, he ran all the way to Quanjude, but he didn't see the dirty beggar, Zhang Zhouyun put his head on his head in frustration and was about to turn around and leave. But suddenly he smelled a foul smell behind him, and he coughed, and then remembered that it was a dirty beggar, so he quickly turned around.
The dirty beggar had a thin bone in his mouth, and as soon as he pouted at Zhang Zhouyun, he walked towards the small alley next to Quanjude with his hands behind his back. Seeing this, Zhang Zhouyun hurriedly followed, and after the dirty beggar walked to a secluded place and stood still, he hurriedly handed over half a piece of bread and said, "I said okay last time, take half a piece of cake and you will save my life." ”
The dirty beggar sat on the ground, looked up at Zhang Zhouyun with his face up, and then said with a smile: "Oh, sir, what did you say this?" How much more than half a loaf of bread is your precious life? Aren't you degrading yourself? ”
Zhang Zhouyun was angry when he heard this, and thought: Okay, you stinky Huazi, you mean to find you with half a piece of cake, but now it hurts me, sincerely, right?
The dirty beggar seemed to know what he was thinking, and said with the bones in his mouth in his mouth: "It's not too late for you to come and save you, and the way to save you is very simple, but I'm afraid, you can't bear it, right?" After speaking, he raised his eyes and looked at Zhang Zhouyun.
This is indeed true, Zhang Zhouyun actually felt that something was wrong with Xizi, but he was thirty years old before he finally had a daughter-in-law, although he was very frightened in his heart, but he was very unwilling to believe all this, and he was always entangled.
But in the end, he made a choice between his own little life and a fake daughter-in-law, and handed the half of the cake to the dirty beggar with his head down.
The dirty beggar laughed and took the cake, opened the oiled paper bag, put half of the cake in his dirty hand and kneaded it into a pile of black slag, and then wrapped it in paper and handed it back to Zhang Zhouyun, telling him to find a way to let Xizi eat the cake crumbs before the sun goes down today.
Holding the things given by the dirty beggar in his hand, he returned home dejectedly, and when he entered the door, he saw that Kiko was bending down to cook, so he hurriedly put away his emotions and went to the back room to pour the black cake crumbs given by the dirty beggar into the bowl. But the thought that it was a dirty beggar's hand made me feel disgusting, and when I got closer, I woke up to the smell. It is estimated that no one will eat it, but then I thought that I was going to buy Chinese medicine to replenish my body, so I poured hot water into the bowl, shook it evenly, and then took it out, looking like Chinese medicine.
I went to the outhouse and said to Xizi with a smile: "Xizi, don't be busy yet, I'm going to prescribe a pair of Chinese medicine for you today, come and drink it quickly." With that, he brought the bowl to Kiko.
Kiko looked at him expressionlessly and didn't take the bowl, completely different from the shy little daughter-in-law in the past. The atmosphere was a little tense, so Zhang Zhouyun didn't dare to come out, and his head began to sweat.
The two looked at each other for a long time before Kiko slowly reached out and held the bowl of water. Then Zhang Zhouyun watched Xizi drink a sip of black water, he was a little expectant that Xizi stuck out his tongue after drinking and said that it was not delicious, but after Xizi drank a sip, the whole person began to tremble, and as soon as his hand was released, the bowl fell to the ground and the pieces fell to the ground, and the black water in the bowl was also spilled everywhere.
This startled Zhang Zhouyun, and before he could react, his neck was choked by Xizi with one hand, and he almost fainted with such great strength that he was pinched. Both hands tried to break open and pinch their hands, and when they were wrestling, Kiko suddenly raised her head that had been lowered.
Kiko's facial features began to distort, her hair fell out, and with a piercing scream, a paper face emerged from under the cracked skin, Kiko's originally beautiful face was now a skin bag falling to the ground, Zhang Zhouyun's mouth couldn't close, and the feeling of being choked by the neck made him almost desperate.
Zhang Zhouyun had already been pinched by Xizi and rolled his eyes, waving his hands weakly, just when he felt that he was about to confess, a trace of spark suddenly flew in from the crack in the door and hit Xizi's back, the spark instantly ignited Xizi's clothes, and then the fire spread to Xizi's whole body.
Xizi, who was on fire all over her body, still tightly choked Zhang Zhouyun's neck, and the outer skin made of paper was burned black by the fire, and the temperature of the fire was very high, and Zhang Zhouyun's shirt and hair were on fire.
Just when Zhang Zhouyun was about to lose his breath, the outer door was kicked open violently, and a person rushed in, and kicked Xizi sideways, and directly kicked Xizi with fire directly to the wall next to him, because Xizi's hands were still on Zhang Zhouyun's neck, and he was also taken out far away. After both of them fell, the pair of hands like iron tongs finally let go, Zhang Zhouyun lay on his back on the ground panting, and only then did he see that it was the dirty beggar who saved him.
The dirty beggar leaned down and bared his teeth and smiled, "Is the master okay?" Did you flash to your waist? Zhang Zhouyun shook his head and just wanted to speak, but suddenly saw Xizi who fell on the side of the wall writhing his limbs, the original position of his eyes was burned through by the fire, turning into two black holes on fire, the scene of twisting his body with this fire is very terrifying, extremely like a living person about to be burned to death, but Zhang Zhouyun knows that this is what the paper man who was pierced out with his unique skill was burned by the fire, and it turned out that Xizi was the paper man he pierced.
The dirty beggar walked over, looked at the paper figure that was still writhing, and spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm on the paper figure, and suddenly the flame weakened a little, and then extinguished with a pop, and a burst of black smoke came out. The dirty beggar squatted down on the bamboo strips on the ground and rummaged through the paper man's burned body for something.
Zhang Zhouyun was already frightened by what had just happened and couldn't say a word, just when he was frightened, the dirty beggar came over and handed him a black thing, Zhang Zhouyun took it, he felt a little soft, wiped off the black ash on the surface, it turned out to be a burnt embroidered shoe, the same as the remaining half of the paper burner last time.
The dirty beggar took the half out of his bosom, and said with a smile: "This is its original form, a pair of embroidered shoes." Master, you are too careful to tie the paper man, and as a result, this pair of embroidered shoes has been targeted, and it is attached to the paper man to make a mistake, and it maintains the human form by sucking people's brains. After speaking, he took the embroidered shoes in Zhang Zhouyun's hand and threw them into the stove with his backhand, which burned to ashes after a while.
Seeing that the embroidered shoes had turned to ashes, and the dirty beggar turned around to leave, Zhang Zhouyun quickly sat up and asked him, "Who are you?" The dirty beggar didn't stop, and before he walked out the door, he smiled and left a sentence of "stinky Hanako." ”
Since then, Zhang Zhouyun has never seen that strange and ugly beggar, and he also relied on his own efforts to stand out among the paper-binding people, and later took his mother-in-law and had a lot of family wealth, bought a mansion and a subordinate, and really became a "master" for many years.
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