Chapter 64: The Legend of Paper-Tieting
Wang Feiyang nodded and said yes, and then he also got up from the stool and said I plan to go to the triangular monument to find Yan Fei today, when are you going to go back to school?
I thought about it for a moment, and I didn't want to stay in this sad place, saying that I would come with you first, and when you settled down, it would not be too late for me to go back to school, anyway, it was not the Spring Festival yet, and it was still early for school.
Wang Feiyang did not refuse, at noon that day, the two of us took a car to the city together, and then at about two o'clock in the afternoon, we found the paper shop called "General Fei" on the triangular monument.
I grew up on White Street. Almost half of our white street is for white business, and to be honest, this is the first time I've seen a white business name with such a personality.
But considering that the owner of this paper-binding shop is called Yan Fei, it won't seem too unusual for him to choose this name.
Wang Feiyang seemed to see what I was thinking, and then said: "This paper shop." The reason why it is called "General Fei" is not because the name of the owner of this shop is Yan Fei. “
"What's that?" I asked, confused.
Wang Feiyang replied: "When I was very young, I heard my grandmother say that this General Fei is a paper shop, and Yan Fei is a strange person in our paper making shop, known as the first papermaker in Bashu. And about his family's paper shop, as early as twenty years ago, there was a very strange story.
I hurriedly asked what the story was.
Wang Feiyang replied that this story is related to the origin of the name of "General Fei Tie Paper Shop", but it is not about Yan Fei, but about his father Yan Yong.
Twenty years ago. Although the name of Yan Yong, a papermaker, is not as loud as Yan Fei today, it is definitely a must in this ten miles and eight towns, and it is said that the paper man and paper horse he tied out are lifelike, just like the real one.
The nineties were an era of economic recovery. And at that time, with the advent of television and radio, people with a rich life also began to follow the trend, and don't look at this Yan Yong is just a papermaker, and he is already in his fifties, but he is very trendy, and he is quite economically minded, and directly applies this trend to the paper binding industry.
At that time, the traditional paper shop was still a paper horse in the Lingfang or something, and this Yan Yong had begun to tie all kinds of TVs, tape recorders and even big brothers, and for a while, Yan Yong's practice made his paper shop business extremely hot, at this time, other paper shops also looked red-eyed, and involuntarily kept up with the trend.
However, Yan Yong's paper-making skills are very good, and the business is still very hot. But a piece of bread has many people, even if Yan Yong divides the largest piece, he still can't be satisfied, so he came up with a strange trick to tie people alive.
As long as you provide a photo of a living person, whether it is a star or an ordinary person, he will give you a paper person according to the appearance on the film.
You say that people who are alive are pierced into paper figures and burned to the dead, not because they lack virtue.
Neighbors all said that Yan Yong was disrespectful and would be punished. But at that time, Yan Yong was blinded by money, he didn't care whether he lacked virtue or not, retribution or not, as long as you paid enough money, he would work according to your requirements.
In this way, Yan Yong has been alive for about half a year and has made a lot of money.
Until that night, a man in black wearing a Mao suit with a pale face came to his paper shop, and the man entered the paper shop without speaking, but just handed Yan Yong an envelope.
I don't know why, Yan Yong couldn't help but feel a little furious in his heart. He didn't want to take the business, but when he saw the thickness of the envelope in the man's hand, he silently took it.
After the man left, Yan Yong opened the envelope and found that there were more than a dozen sheets of great unity inside, and he was still happy, but after seeing the photo in the envelope. He froze.
Because the person in the photo turned out to be himself!
Although the man only left money and photos, he did not say the date of pickup or anything. But at that time, Yan Yong could guess in his heart that this business was for himself at all, and it was estimated that he had to do it if he wanted to, and he had to do it if he didn't want to.
So on the second day, Yan Yong pierced himself, his craftsmanship was still superb, and the paper figure that was pierced out was exactly the same as him?
Look at the paper figure that looks exactly like yourself. Yan Yong was a little panicked at that time, and he prayed in his heart that the guest would come and take the paper figure away quickly.
But this Yan Yong waited for a month, and he didn't see the guest come to pick up the paper.
Yan Yong didn't dare to dismantle the paper figure, let alone burn it. On weekdays, he didn't even dare to approach the paper man. However, the customers who came to the store were often amazed by the paper figure, and some people often praised Yan Yong for his economic acumen, and he actually made himself a sample model.
Every time he faced this kind of praise, Yan Yong panicked in his heart, until the forty-ninth day after the paper figure was tied, when Yan Yong was working, his left foot stepped on a rusty nail, and he was immediately pierced with a small blood hole, he was unsteady on his feet and fell to the ground.
That same evening. Yan Yong, who was lying on the bed, began to have a fever and talk nonsense, he only said one sentence that people couldn't understand: "Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, heaven is good for reincarnation, if you don't believe it, look up, who will the sky spare?"
Yan Yong finally didn't see the sun the next day, and it wasn't until he died that he told his son Yan Fei that in order to make the paper figure he tied less like himself, he quietly lit a red mole on the center of the paper man's left foot with cinnabar after the paper figure was completed.
After listening to Wang Feiyang's story, I first felt a little cold in my heart, and then I was very puzzled, saying that this story just shows that the Yan family's paper-making skills are superb, and can even be fake. Then Yan Yong deserves it, but what does this have to do with General Fei?
Wang Feiyang replied, of course it has a relationship, Yan Fei's father lost his life because of a mole on the sole of his foot, and later Yan Fei's paper-binding technique cleared out a basket, so there is a legend that Yan Fei's paper man, as long as it is a real yin, must be three feet above the ground and can fly!
I gasped. Say so evil?
Wang Feiyang glanced at me with disdain, and said You have experienced so many things now, do you still think this is strange? This should be Yan Fei's warning to himself, he can't be confused by money like his father and follow him.
。 And as you know, the strongest paper-binding technique in our paper-binding line is origami into a soldier's technique, so paper-binding craftsmen are often called "paper generals". Therefore, this is the origin of the name of the shop of General Fei Tie Paper Shop, which has been around for a long time. Yan Fei is naturally also accustomed to being called General Fei by people who walk in the shadows.
I nodded, and began to be curious about the awesome paper-binding craftsman Yan Fei, and when the two of us came to the paper-binding shop, we saw a middle-aged man in his forties wearing a green military coat and liberation shoes sitting in the paper-binding shop. At this time, a three-story mourning room was being erected.
This kind of dress is completely the dress of a rural uncle going to the field, and it is really difficult for me to associate him with Yan Fei, the famous flying general of the Bashu generation.
"Excuse me, is it Yan Fei and Master Yan?" Wang Feiyang, who has always been cold to everyone, was actually very polite at this time, and asked the man in front of him respectfully.
The man put down the work in his hand, then looked up at us, and said with a smile: "I am, are you here to do the funeral room?" ”
Before I could reply, Wang Feiyang actually knelt on the ground with a pop, and then kowtowed to Yan Fei three times, his action directly startled me, Yan Fei over there also frowned, and the smile on his face also converged at this time.
"Young man, I, Yan Fei, haven't accepted apprentices for more than ten years, why do you want to give me such a big gift as soon as you come?" After speaking, Yan Fei directly ordered us to be evicted, saying that I, Yan Fei, had sworn that I would never accept apprentices again in this life, so let's go.
Wang Feiyang didn't get up, but I stood there in a daze. Soon, Wang Feiyang took out the origami into military skills in his arms and raised it above his head, and said: "Mr. Yan, my grandfather is Wang Bilin, he told me that as long as I come here to find you with this origami military technique, you will definitely make an exception to accept me!" ”
I wondered in my heart, I don't know when Wang Bilin said such a thing to him? Could it be that he was given a dream? But that Wang Bilin has already been scattered in the city of vain death.
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