Chapter 2 Reproducing paper puppets being monitored
Heteropupils?
I looked in the direction where the girl left, and in the midst of the traffic, she was long gone, and there were other students passing me, with the school logo printed on the chest and the Chengshui No. 4 Middle School written underneath.
Because of this, we didn't stay outside for long in the end, Chengshui City is not a small place like Dongyan Town that can be walked on one pair of legs, so we decided to wait for Tang Jiao to come back and ask him about that person.
When it was almost seven o'clock, Tang Jiao called and asked his mother to stay overnight, and asked Pan Miao to bring some food.
The city is also noisy at night, with neon lights always lit up outside the window, giving an unstoppable sense of intrusion even when the curtains are drawn.
I lay on the bed, blindfolded, and in my mind, the person was still moving forward, trying to find clues to something from the darkness.
The creatures of heaven and earth are good and hidden, and the four eyes are connected to distinguish yin and yang.
Devil May Cry and Crane Fall wildly, blocking the ice and falling rain and snow in the dark sky.
Woohoo, the blind and reckless are unbearable, and the long road is difficult.
I could imagine what Master would have been like writing down these words word by word, but I couldn't grasp what his state of mind was like at that time, and I couldn't understand the meaning.
The four eyes are connected to distinguish yin and yang, does it mean me and Jiang Xun? And what about the drunken capital? And what do you mean?
If the person I want to protect is really Jiang Xun, what kind of secrets are worth guarding in him?
I took away the strip of cloth that covered my eyes, tossed and turned, couldn't sleep, got out of bed, took out the tablet of my master, put it on the table, and saluted respectfully.
When the child was over, I couldn't rest assured, I wanted to see if he was asleep, and I was worried that I would wake him up. I lay in bed for a long time, groggy and light sleep for a while, stayed up until the morning, pushed the door open, walked out a few steps, and stood in the corner of the living room.
The curtain in front of the floor-to-ceiling window was half opened, and a large expanse of morning sun poured into him, draping over him, drowning his face and becoming extremely blurred.
He stood there with his arms crossed, leaning on one side of his body on the glass that did not give people a sense of security, and put on another coat in addition to his long sleeves, his face was more and more pale than when he was in Muzhang County, his eyes were looking at a certain place outside the tall building, he was not focused, and his mind was not in front of him, and he looked much haggard.
The string of ochre-colored Buddha beads was still wrapped around his wrist, lining the white jade whiter, and the blood lines inside were more distinct.
However, after a few days, the wound on his hand that was corroded by the venom of the cockroach has completely healed, and there is no scar at all. It's just that I don't know if it's my delusion, but the Buddhist beads on his wrist seem to be a little looser than the last time.
"I haven't seen you for so many days, standing there stupidly, don't you want to say hello to me?"
Jiang Xun rolled his eyes, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.
I thought he hadn't noticed me, so I looked at him, his face turned pale, and he coughed lightly, "Morning." ”
He smiled, "Early." ”
I felt uncomfortable, I had nowhere to put my hands and feet, so I pulled my hair together, "I'll go wash first." ”
"Okay." He replied, smiling with a hint of banter.
I was annoyed by his smile and rushed into the face, feeling that I was really inexplicable.
The daily necessities in Tang Jia's guest room were fully prepared, and when I packed up and changed my clothes and went out, Ziwei had already gotten up, and sat far away from Jiang Xun, neither of whom said a word to each other.
"Huh? You're here. Tang Jiao came in from outside, carrying a few bags in his hand, and greeted us: "It's just awake, come on, I bought breakfast, let's eat it while it's hot." ”
I helped take the dishes and chopsticks, sat down, and listened to Tang Jiao ask, "How did you rest last night?" If there's anything missing, just tell me Don. ”
"Good." I said, "Thank you." ”
"Shopkeeper Shen, you are polite again, we are all brothers who have passed our lives, what else do you say thank you."
"Oh yes, I have something for you."
Tang Jiao took out two boxes from the paper bag behind him, put them in front of me and Ziwei respectively, and said: "You will definitely need a communication tool to stay here in the future, I went to buy two mobile phones yesterday, and I don't know what kind of mobile phone you like, so I chose a black and a white, I will put it on first, and then change it later." I've got all the cards for you, and I have my number stored in them, as well as Fengxian Pavilion and the landline at home. ”
I just wanted to refuse, but Tang Jiao hurriedly said: "This is also to facilitate our contact, don't shirk it, shopkeeper Shen, I will be anxious if I have Jiang Xun who disappears every day, and you two can't be like that." ”
I looked at Jiang Xun, and he smiled helplessly and didn't speak.
After breakfast, Tang Jiao demonstrated all the commonly used functions to us, downloaded some life software on it, and cached the traffic map of Chengshui City.
The routes are dense, winding and intertwined, I really can't tell the different colors they use to distinguish, Tang Jiao said that he had a headache, excused himself to pour a glass of water and avoided it, and only came back after they finished speaking, seeing that Jiang Xun didn't know when he left, he thought about it, and when Ziwei was still looking at those maps, he called Tang Jiao to his side and said to him: "When I left Muzhang County this time, I always felt uneasy, and I wanted to find someone to see where it started, the old man you said to write a sign for you last time, can you tell me where he is?" ”
"Huh?" Tang Jiao was stunned, "That person, he...... Uh......"
He stumbled and stumbled, and couldn't say why.
I have time to wait, but I just looked at him and didn't urge, until he was defeated, and said, "I don't have a good memory, Shopkeeper Shen, you better go and ask Jiang Xun." ”
"Tang Kao." I took a breath, "Don't you want us to go to the grave with you?" ”
He choked in his throat, and I said, "That's why I'm so you?" Or does someone not let you tell me? ”
"This ......," he hesitated for a moment, as if he still had some concerns to hide, but said nevertheless, "we just found someone outside a temple." ”
"What temple?"
He said a name and general directions, and I found the specific route from the map Ziwei was looking at, and I couldn't wait to ask Ziwei to go out together.
The bus turned to two, adding up to a distance of more than a dozen stops, and the temple was a local attraction, and it was messy and unorthodox. When we arrived, there were a lot of people, and the high steps were full of stalls selling ornaments and food and drinks.
I was about to step forward, when I suddenly felt a pang behind me, and turned around sharply, only to see a stall selling all kinds of masks, and the pair of empty eyes were facing our direction, peering.
Covered in hair, I walked over and glanced around the masks, picked up one and checked it in reverse, it was just a normal toy.
"Girl, what are you buying?" The stall owner asked.
I shook my head, and was about to leave, when I caught a glimpse of a pair of eyes that were different from the others in an inconspicuous place in the corner of the stall, and I reached out to take them out from under the mask, and my breath was stagnant.
It's a paper puppet.
Those eyes were different from what I saw in Muzhang County, they were bright, looking straight into my eyes on my hands, the curvature of the mouth was huge, and a strange smile was raised.
"Boss, is this also your commodity?" I asked, holding back the shiver in my voice.
The boss took a look at it in a hurry, and said suspiciously: "No, I sell masks here, which guest landed here, there are too many people this day, and I didn't pay attention." ”
"Master." Zi Wei pointed in one direction with his eyes, I turned around and saw that on the other side of the ground, there was also an identical paper puppet standing on the ground, facing us, never being kicked down in the crowd, smiling, watching our every move.
"Let's go." I put down the paper puppet, pretended that nothing had happened, and walked quickly through the crowd to the location of the fortune-telling stall I had just seen, but in just a few minutes, the banner had disappeared, and the person was nowhere to be seen.
"Boss, did you see the fortune teller next to you just now?" Zi didn't ask the vendor on the side.
The peddler shook his head, "How can so many people notice him, let's close the stall, you want to come early tomorrow." ”
"Does he usually close the stall at this time?" I asked.
"It's only a few o'clock, usually I don't leave until there are fewer blacks, maybe something will happen today." The other side said: "There is no wind and no rain, who doesn't want to make more." ”
I said thank you and was about to leave, but before I turned around, I smelled a faint smell of agarwood.
"Why are you here?" I didn't look back.
"I knew you were coming." Jiang Xun replied, with a bit of positive color, it seemed that he also found the two paper puppets, and said to us: "It's not convenient to talk here, go back first." ”
He flagged down a taxi and on the way back was stuck in a jam and an ambulance passed us.
I sat in the back and suffered, avoiding a bad assumption and letting myself think about nothing. The car stopped at the door of Fengxian Pavilion, the three of us entered the inner hall, covered the door, and Jiang Xun said: "Someone has already set their eyes on us, you try not to go out alone these days, and keep in touch with each other at any time." ”
"No, we just came back, so what's going on?" Tang Jiao saw that we all looked grim, and he also became nervous.
"I don't know the details and purpose of the other party yet." Jiang Xun said, paused, and said, "But if it's a paper puppet, I have a suspicion. ”
"What?"
"The Southwest Situ family has a technique of controlling puppets and controlling spirits, which can infuse blood and qi into dead things and generate souls as puppets for their own use. The last time we saw the 'puppet' was created by their ancestors. Jiang Xun said: "It's just that the Situ family has lived in seclusion in Dongchuan for many years and is not involved in foreign affairs, so I can't think of any reason for them to do this." ”
As he was talking, the door was pushed open, and Pan Miao was startled when he saw that we were all looking at him with serious faces, and stammered, "Excuse me, did I disturb you?" ”
"Why are you so careless, kid." Tang Jiao reprimanded: "Next time, knock on the door first, don't come up and break in recklessly." ”
Pan Miao responded again and again, and said, "Boss Zhang brought two more pieces of jade and waited in the outer compartment, wanting you and Jiang Ye to give you a palm." ”
"That's fine." Tang Jiao said: "Xun'er, let's go and see first?" ”
Jiang Xun agreed, and when they went to appraise the treasure, I glanced out of the gate, and saw a few people hurrying by with their children, telling something, and someone else kept whispering, curiously asking, "Did something happen?" ”
"You said outside." Pan Miao made us tea and said, "I also heard that a girl in the fourth middle school went crazy and cut her pulse in the toilet, and when she was found, she had passed out, and the ambulance had just taken it away, and it was being dealt with over there." ”
"Four?"
"Ah...... It's near us, and you're just a little bit down the street. ”
Chengshui No. 4 Middle School.
Go bananas.
My mind flashed back to the girl that day, thinking of her pair of different eyes, I felt that something was not right, and I stood up and walked out, "I'll take a look." ”