Chapter 20 It's my turn to catch you this time!
Boom, boom, boom!
A piece of piano music actually sounded in the theater. Ding Cheng turned around and found that the curtain of the stage behind him quietly opened, and four wooden boxes were neatly placed in the center of the stage.
What is this doing?
Ding Cheng took a flashlight and shined a light on the box on the table. At this time, he discovered that it was not a box, but four good coffins.
The coffins are exquisitely made, and the carvings on each board are different. If you look closely, you can see that there is a large photo frame behind each coffin board, with ribbons on both sides of the photo frame.
It's a posthumous photo and an elegiac couplet.
The black and white photo of the deceased had a special brilliance under the changing white and yellow light of the flashlight. Ding Cheng chose to look at it from the far left.
The one on the far left is an old man. His face is stern, his nasolabial folds are deep, and he is not kind.
The content of his elegiac couplet is as follows:
【Grandpa is gone】
[Mr. Lu Zhonglin has traveled well, I am deeply saddened, and I still remember my grandfather’s voice and smile]
【Your beloved granddaughter, Lu Xiaoming】
Ding Cheng looked at Mr. Lu Zhonglin's elegiac couplet with mixed emotions, feeling conflicted that it was a happy funeral.
This sense of conflict comes from the words on the elegiac couplet. The words are not the boldface letters commonly used in funerals, but are painted in colorful handwriting with crayons, and there are cute animal patterns behind the words.
[Grandpa is gone] There is also a huge smiley face drawn behind these four words.
It seems that the writer is happy that her grandfather is dead.
Ding Cheng continued to look aside.
The second one from the left is a fat middle-aged woman who looks well-maintained and has a professional fake smile on her face.
Her elegiac couplet reads:
【Stepmother is dead】
[Stepmother Ms. Yang Qing had a good life and her death was not unjust]
【Your beloved stepdaughter, Lu Xiaoming】
The elegiac couplet is still painted with crayons, but the color of the stepmother's is more festive than the previous one. At the same time, the background music of the theater has also been quietly changed to a happy disco.
The third posthumous photo is of a child who doesn't look very smart.
Elegiac couplet:
[My brother is gone]
[Congratulations to Zhigao C on his funeral]
【Love your stepsister, Xiao Ming】
The amount of information in the elegiac couplet is huge, but it is also expected. Ding Cheng nodded while reading. The 'stepmother', 'old man' and 'brother' in the lyrics all appeared one after another, so the last coffin should contain her
The biological father who brought his stepmother into his home?
Surprisingly, the fourth elegiac couplet is blank.
Ding Cheng threw the flashlight at the photo and was startled. This time he was really shocked.
The last photo is in color. The location was the intersection of Songshi Bay. The photo should have been taken not long ago.
The person on the right in the frame has been cut off with only half an arm left, while the person on the left is holding hands with a smile on his face.
The fourth photo is Ding Cheng himself.
The cheerful disco came to an abrupt end, the stage was raised, four coffins were neatly sent to the sky, and the fourth coffin pried open the coffin board.
Then, with a whoosh, he was carried away.
A new stage rose below the stage, the curtain quietly turned pale white, and this time the protagonist on the new stage became a puppet.
The puppet turned its back to Ding Cheng and read the dialogue.
"What a miserable time! Hell is empty and the devil is in the world!"
The puppet turns its head and stretches its arms:
"The protagonist of the story is Lu Xiaoming. She is the most innocent and lovely girl in the world, living a happy life..."
The puppet is darkened and the tone is lowered: "Until one day, an unwelcome woman came to the house."
Snapped!
A photo fell down, it was Lu Xiaoming's stepmother.
"Leading the unlucky child she gave birth to."
Snapped!
Another photo dropped, Lu Xiaoming’s younger brother.
"The two of them are colluding with that old immortal thing!"
"Snapped!"
Grandpa Lu Xiaoming’s photo fell down.
"Torturing the innocent and kind-hearted protagonist!"
The puppet stamps its feet angrily.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The three coffins spun around and fell, bang bang bang! The coffin boards were blown away together, and the ashes spiraled into the sky.
The dirty, curled powdery substance was scattered all over the floor. This thing was exactly the same as what Ding Cheng saw on the Ferris wheel.
Ding Cheng was silent.
It turned out that those were not nail clippings, but ashes.
"Everyone, get up and cheer!" Among the ashes in the sky, the puppet danced like no one else, and did not stop until the ashes slowly fell.
The doll pretended to be intoxicated, folding its arms and spinning around: "At this time, only the neighbor's big brother can give her some spiritual comfort~"
(′▽`)
"A cliched plot." Ding Cheng commented.
The puppet stopped performing and was stunned: "What did you say?"
"I said your plot was vulgar, embarrassing, and made people laugh," Ding Cheng said.
"Too much fun!"
The puppet exploded on the spot with a bang, and Lu Xiaoming appeared from the debris holding the little bear, with a pair of dead fish eyes staring at him.
"You can insult my plot, but you can't insult my brother!"
"Speechless." Ding Cheng folded his arms and looked down at her: "I'm talking to Lu Xiaoming, are you just trying to make me replace your brother?"
"You guessed it right." Lu Xiaoming lowered her head and touched the fur on the little bear's head to cover up her inadvertent timidity: "I do feel some inexplicable closeness when I see you."
Ding Cheng nodded, of course because his golden finger was right.
This golden finger sounds really good, but why didn't he do anything good when it was in his hands? Look what kind of ghosts it has attracted to him?
"So it was you who was following me at the entrance of Moon River Park, right? You've been targeting me since I entered the park?"
Lu Xiaoming smiled shyly and nodded.
"You are such a pervert." Ding Cheng said mockingly.
"What?" Lu Xiaoming opened his eyes wide.
"I said you were a pervert. Why should I be your brother? You should be a Pokémon. Lu Xiaoming, you acted like a ghost, destroyed public facilities, and made me jump into the river and walk around wet for a long time. You are unpardonable."
"Prepare to die." Ding Cheng took out the evil spirit ball from his backpack and faced Lu Xiaoming.
"How dare you?" Lu Xiaoming opened his eyes wide in disbelief, and the corners of his mouth trembled slightly.
"You want to say that you are so awesome, why am I not afraid? Because I suddenly understood a truth just now, you are an evil spirit with an ability value below B, and all evil spirits below B can be caught with the evil spirit ball. So I directly
Just arrest you and that’s it.”
Every time Ding Cheng said something, Lu Xiaoming's face turned whiter. By the end, her face was as white as her stepmother's photo.
"It's my turn to catch you this time!" Ding Cheng grabbed the ball and laughed, then pounced on Lu Xiaoming.
"Don't come over!" Lu Xiaoming hugged the little bear and turned around to run away from the stage.
As he ran, he took off his belongings and threw them behind him.
What is this doing?
Ding Cheng couldn't help being stunned and stopped in a funny way:
"Don't think that I will pity you if you do these things. Please stop your nonsensical behavior immediately!"
Lu Xiaoming seemed unaware and continued to go his own way.
"Lu Xiaoming, let me tell you, as a lolita, you must have a basic bottom line."
Lu Xiaoming didn't say a word, and her earrings, necklaces, bracelets, coats, and finally even the little bear toy she kept with her were thrown out.
Because the headlights were not turned on, many details were missed by the weak light source in the theater.
So Ding Cheng didn't notice that every time Lu Xiaoming threw away an item, her body seemed to get a little bigger.
Until Ding Cheng chased him to the entrance of the auditorium, the burgundy skylight illuminated the area clearly.
"Are you really that confident in your ball?"
Lu Xiaoming smiled strangely and turned around slowly at the door.
Ding Cheng was stunned.
Chapter completed!