Muppet shop, to be honest, this is not a very common shop, for the people of this year, although life is not difficult, but few people will spend dozens of dollars or a few taels of silver to buy a puppet.

Because of the way they are made, the cost of the puppets is relatively high, so in this year, the puppets are definitely quite expensive.

There is a big difference between the puppets in this world and the puppets in Li Si's previous life, and if you really want to say it, it should be said that they are more suitable to be called puppets.

White lacquered wood is the main material of the doll, which is finely carved, sanded and designed to create movable limbs, dries and facial features. Then use the eyebrows painted with colored lacquer and the clothes woven with brocade to achieve a vivid appearance and a variety of postures.

Common dolls can basically be divided into two types, one is cloth sleeve and the other is wire-pulled. The cloth doll is relatively simple to make, it does not need a torso and limbs, and only needs a cloth cover to complete the movement with a human hand. The wire-drawn puppet is more complex, requiring not only a sufficiently flexible body, but also the position of the wiring, the technique of the wire, the opening and closing of the mechanism, and so on.

As for why Li Si knew so much about this thing, it was because when he lived in Jinshan Temple as a child, a friend of the old monk would often visit him. Although the old monk hid from the world and told the friend many times that he would not let him come to the temple, the man still came from time to time, and the old monk couldn't stop it, so he gradually stopped caring about it.

After that person got to know Li Si, he would often bring him some puppet figures, which made Li Si's childhood toys seem quite extravagant, although he usually didn't play much with them.

Obviously, both the materials required to make a doll and the skills required to make it are destined to make a doll at a low price. This also makes it out of the category that ordinary children's children can play, in addition to the corresponding practitioners, generally only rich and noble families will buy one or two, for children to play with as toys.

There are not many wealthy families in Mingzhou City, and it is obviously not a wise choice to open a puppet shop here.

In addition, there was a person in Mingzhou City some time ago, and he likes to fiddle with dolls very much, so it is difficult for people not to associate this suddenly appeared puppet shop with him.

Strange old man······

Li Si silently recited the name in his heart, and slowly closed his eyes.

In fact, he was very familiar with this person, because this person was the old monk friend who liked to bring him puppets back then.

Even now, he still remembers the first time the two met, because that scene was really impressive.

It was one night, Li Si couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, got up and went out to wander around the temple. As he walked around, he suddenly saw a figure around the corner of the Buddhist hall. The figure was fluttering, and it seemed that it also noticed Li Si, and with a light gust of wind, it retreated into the shadows of the corner.

Li Si noticed the abnormality, picked up a broom on the side of the hall to defend himself, and at the same time prepared to retreat to the backyard to call the old monk to get up.

But the next moment, he felt something stop behind him. Subconsciously looking back, he saw a young man in an off-white robe, wearing a black high cloth hat, standing there expressionlessly.

The man's face was painted with something unusual, and in the moonlight, his whole face was an eerie pale, with a little blood red on his lips, slender eyes, and an equally pale puppet in his hand, and a smiling gesture.

In the middle of the night, the empty building of the ancient temple, such a man appeared coldly, Li Si, who had been to the underworld, thought that he had seen Bai Wuchang again, raised the broom in his hand and hit it, and shouted in his mouth at the same time.

"Ah, what kind of demon dares to disturb the purity of Buddhism, and he doesn't show up quickly!"

He shouted this to wake up the old monk, and to scare the other party.

Unexpectedly, the other party seemed to be really frightened, and was knocked to the ground by Li Si's broom, and then was greeted by a wave of punches and kicks. But he remained motionless, holding his puppet and shrinking, without fighting back or resisting.

(Later, Li Si learned that he was afraid of hurting Li Si, after all, Li Si was still young at that time, and his kung fu was not deep.) However, his way is indeed clumsy enough, listening to the old monk, it is because he is not good at dealing with children. ）

When the old monk arrived, the strange old man had been beaten by Li Si and his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and the old monk punished the two of them for kneeling on the Buddhist hall for a night, so that they could introspect.

Li Si felt wronged, how did he know that the old monk would have friends as a murderous monk, and he also pretended to be like this, a person would be scared to do it in the middle of the night.

But it was strange that the old man was beaten, but he didn't seem to be angry, and when he knelt on the Buddhist hall, he still held a puppet to make Li Si happy. His puppets are always able to pose in a variety of ways, and some can even move on their own, which makes Li Si feel quite novel, and gradually forgets about his unhappiness.

Later, the strange old man still often came to the temple as a guest, but the old monk did not entertain him, so Li Si was responsible for entertaining, and the two became acquainted with each other.

Li Si knew that he couldn't speak, and since he lost his wife at an early age, he couldn't make expressions on his face, and could only use the puppet in his hand to express his thoughts.

His puppets are always delicate and capable of making all kinds of expressions, happy or sad, sad or happy. But he rarely gets angry, he is one of the best-tempered people Li Si has ever seen, and it seems that he can never see anger in the puppet in his hand.

He told Li Si that he and his wife had wanted a child very much, but unfortunately they couldn't have a child before they could have it, and his wife left. So he started making puppets, and he made them his own children, teaching them to laugh and to cry, but he didn't want to teach them to be angry. Because he doesn't want his anger to be inflicted on his own children to express it.

Maybe it's because of the sympathy for the same disease, Li Si can feel it, and the strange old man's heart is always very uncalm, at least not as calm as he seems. It's just that he has so few ways of expressing himself that he can only make some superficial expressions. After all, he couldn't talk, he couldn't laugh, he couldn't cry.

He may need some other expressions······

It should be on a whim that Li Si made a flute for the strange old man and taught him how to use it.

The strange old man seemed to be pleasantly surprised by this way of pronunciation, which he had not tried before, and played with it all day, until the old monk felt that he was annoyed, and threw a wooden fish from the Buddhist hall and smashed it on his head, and then he touched his head and stopped.

It was also that day that the strange old man gave Li Si his first puppet, a smiling villain. That puppet was put in his room in Jinshan Temple by Li Si, and now when he occasionally lives there, he will take it out and fiddle with it.

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What is this man going to do when he comes to Mingzhou City?

Li Si, who was sitting at the table, rubbed his brows in distress, although he had a good relationship with the strange old man, but I had to admit that this person's personality was definitely quite troublesome.

Not so much to others, but to him.