When I heard the news, I was shocked. Because everyone knows that most of the hair on the puppet's head is made of animal hair or artificial hair, or even real hair, how can it grow its own hair? So after meeting Mr. Xia, I didn't even have time to ask him about other incredible things that I had encountered at home, so I asked him to take me to see the puppet.

It is a puppet in armor, but judging by the makeup, it is a woman. Mr. Xia told me that this puppet is Mu Guiying.

Mu Guiying, of course I know, the female generals of the Yang Sect, who are in command of the battle, are all loyal martyrs. I grew up listening to these dramas since I was a child, but it was really the first time I saw the puppeteer version of Mu Guiying. And it's a little different from what I imagined, because I saw Mu Guiying playing those Danjiao on the stage, with phoenix crowns on their heads and flags on their backs, but this puppet's Mu Guiying, the whole hat was held high, and under the brim, some black filaments came out.

Mr. Xia coldly lifted the hat of "Mu Guiying", but I was startled in front of him, it turned out that the reason why the hat was lifted was because the hair that was originally coiled inside had grown a lot. Mr. Xia smiled bitterly and said that he had played with puppets all his life, and he had seen all kinds of puppets, but he had never seen a puppet that could grow its own hair.

I carefully leaned over to the head of "Mu Guiying" and took a look, originally because "Mu Guiying" must wear a hat on stage, so she only had a thin layer of wig on her head, and it was black animal hair, which was very soft to the touch, but in it, there was a beard-thick hair. I reached out and touched it, the hardness is very different from the animal hair around me, obviously a lot harder, but it is not like human hair, human hair will be softer because of the nourishment of blood, and this "Mu Guiying" "new hair" is more like the feeling I feel when I don't shave for a year.

I took my hand back, looked at my fingers carefully, and found that the two fingers I had touched my hair just now were dyed a little black to varying degrees. After twisting it, it quickly dissipates, and it feels a bit like graphite. I leaned over to my nose and sniffed it, but there was nothing unusual except that it smelled a little fishy. So I put my nose on the head of "Mu Guiying" and smelled it, and it still smelled like this. It's a bit like the fishy smell that hasn't completely dried after brushing the ink.

So I asked Mr. Xia, when did you start to notice that this puppet began to grow hair? Mr. Xia said that the real discovery was the last half a month, but he didn't know how long his hair had grown before he found out, and he didn't deliberately remove his hair and measure it, because strange things have been happening at home recently, and he didn't dare to act rashly. I asked again, when did strange things start happening in your family? Mr. Xia said that it would be almost a month, and if there was no miscalculation, the hair of this puppet should have started to grow from that time.

I nodded, thinking that maybe it made sense, but generally speaking, when some anomalies appear, it is often when ghosts start to move. It's just that I don't understand, something strange happened in his family, so how can I so accurately attribute the cause to the puppet in front of me? So I asked Mr. Xia to recall as much as possible, starting with the strange things he encountered at the beginning.

Mr. Xia said that almost a month ago, his wife suddenly fell ill inexplicably. Although it is not a serious illness, it is just a simple fever and sweating, but after taking medicine for a long time, it has never improved. Mr. Xia said that his wife's body has always been stronger than his own, and he studied puppet skills by himself, so he had less to worry about at home, so his wife has always been in charge of all the big and small things in the family.

Originally, I thought that even if I was an ordinary illness, it would not be a big deal, so I went to Mo Langzhong to grab some Chinese medicine and decoction it. Mo Langzhong's medical skills are well-known, and when he was diagnosing his wife's pulse, he also felt a bone by the way. But when he touched his bones, he said that his wife will have a big catastrophe in the near future this year, and if he passes, he will have at least 15 years of life, but if he can't do it, he may be gone.

Originally, although Mo Langzhong was famous for his medical skills, it was well known that this person was also a god. So at that time, Mr. Xia didn't have this sentence in his heart, but seeing that his wife's illness had not improved for many days, he was still a little anxious. And the average person with a fever is at most in poor spirits and confused, but his wife actually started talking nonsense, and he said it seriously.

I asked him what it meant to be serious nonsense. Mr. Xia said, you know how drunk people talk nonsense, right? I said I knew, though I hadn't done it myself, but I had seen it. Mr. Xia said that when drunk people talk nonsense, their tongues are often slurred, and they also look drowsy, but this is not the case with his wife, she will suddenly sit up from the bed, point to the front, her expression seems to be very angry, and then point while scolding. It's just that she couldn't understand a word of what she said.

At the beginning, Mr. Xia thought it was his wife's nightmare, and at first he thought it was very funny, but after making trouble like this a few times, he couldn't laugh anymore. He told me that every time his wife sat up and scolded, it was almost punctual at 3:15 in the second half of the night, and each time it would last for about 15 minutes, and after his wife sat up, the first action must be to pull on the wall lamp next to the bed. The next few times, there was serious congestion in her angry eyes, not the kind of bloodshot that appeared because of poor rest, but mottled spots of blood red on the white of her eyes.

After this lasted for four or five days, my wife's fever subsided. Mr. Xia thought that the previous situation was caused by a fever, although he couldn't find the cause, but if the fever subsided, the situation should be much better. Who knows that even if the fever subsides, he still sits up on time at 3:15 every night, pointing to the side and yelling and scolding.

I asked Mr. Xia, are you conscious after the fever subsides? He told me that daily life is no different from normal, no different at all, and his eyes look healthy and normal, but people always feel a little listless, always yawning, as if they are very sleepy. My wife has been suffering from mild insomnia for many years, and she has to roll over in bed for more than half an hour at night before falling asleep, but since the fever, she has basically fallen asleep upside down, and she can't dream at all.

So Mr. Xia felt that this matter was a bit evil, and after taking a day, he took his wife to visit Mo Langzhong, asked Mo Langzhong to call the pulse again, and briefly talked about the situation in the past few days. Mo Lang said that the pulse was very disordered, and there were two strands. Usually when Lang Zhong touches two pulses, most of them are like this when young girls are pregnant with children, but Mr. Xia's wife is almost 70 years old, and there are two pulses at this time, isn't this a joke?

Mo Langzhong also asked at the time, every time his wife sat up and scolded, did he point in the same direction? Mr. Xia said yes, and then Mo Langzhong asked again, what was there in the direction he was pointing to.

I said to Mr. Xia, let me guess, the direction she is pointing to should be the place where you put the puppeteers, right? Mr. Xia nodded and said yes. Mo Langzhong also told him at the time that he would go home and take a closer look at the area, but he found nothing but a pile of puppets.

Mr. Xia said that since he was knocked down once in 1966, the puppets have been placed at home and have never been touched. It's just that I love puppet shows too much, and I still clean up the dust regularly, and maintain it by the way, and basically don't touch the rest, except for the recent days when I'm idle, so I played the old trick and teased my wife. And the puppets placed there are all things that I have made by myself and have used for many years, and I know everything clearly, if my wife points to this place and there is something else, I will easily find it.

So it dragged on like this, until half a month ago, one night my wife sat up and pointed at the puppets and scolded, but that night, these wooden shelves where I placed the puppets began to rumble and shake, Mr. Xia heard these sounds at the time, and thought it was an earthquake, but found that only the wooden frame was shaking, but the bed was unharmed. He told me that the shaking wasn't very violent, but because of the movement, many of the puppets were still shaken down.

Fifteen minutes later, the wife finished scolding, and gradually came to her senses as if she was fine, and the blood-red spots in her eyes gradually disappeared. It was only when he got out of bed that he went to inspect the puppets that had been knocked to the ground, and then he found a clue.

I asked him what the clues were, and Mr. Xia said that among the puppets that were shaken down, they were Zhang Dingjin, Geng Jinhua, Li Cuiping, Yelu Qiong'e, Luo's Daughter, Lord Cheshire, Du Jinmo, Yang Yanqi, and Yang Yanying. Without exception, these people are all characters in the female generals of the Yang Sect. And Mr. Xia told me that the Yangmen female general was the most classic repertoire when she first performed a puppet show. And all the female generals of the Yang family fell face down, and the only ones who did not fall were She Saihua and Mu Guiying.

So in this way, I felt that the two who didn't fall were abnormal, so I began to check it. There was nothing abnormal about She Saihua's puppeteer, but the dragon head staff in his hand fell on the partition of the wooden shelf, and Mu Guiying's original hat was lifted up for some reason.

So Mr. Xia reached out to press her hat, but found that it quickly rebounded when he pressed it, and he felt that there was something under the hat, so he opened it and found that the hair on Mu Guiying's head had grown inexplicably.