Chapter 16 The table is empty in the middle of the night
"Aren't you afraid of me?"
The voice of the red-clothed paper man was extremely distant, his mouth painted with inferior cinnabar was slightly open and closed, and his red gauze was fluttering in the wind, swaying unsteadily on the branches.
"Forget it. Uh...what do you think I should be afraid of?"
Jiang Wen put the eggs back into his pocket and said confidently.
"Is it the camouflage of switching red gauze to green gauze and stealing faces from Sichuan opera to make yourself invisible? Is it the shadow puppetry technique of using a roller skating set and cotton thread to control a paper kite from a distance? Or is it hiding glass in the canopy and relying on echo sound transmission to create Dolby
Special effects?”
After finishing speaking, Jiang Wen said with some regret: "Girl, I have a middle school physics textbook here. If you are willing to become my teacher, I can teach you the principles..."
The paper man in red didn't seem to understand, and he didn't have any emotional fluctuations when he was caught. Instead, he was troubled by another problem.
"Why did you call me a girl?"
Jiang Wen took off the dodder from his clothes and said absently: "When you go out and walk in the world, someone who can speak in such an indistinguishable voice must be afraid of being recognized as a woman."
"Interesting, what if I speak in a male voice?"
Youyuan's voice suddenly became rough and hoarse, and there was endless talk of conflict.
"Then it must be a woman! She really looks like Zhong Kui and still needs to hide? This kind of person can only cover up and cannot deceive others."
"According to you, do men always speak in a female voice?"
The paper man's voice became soft and gentle, scratching the listener's heartstrings.
"Then it's even more certain that it's a woman. Even if he is a man, he wants to be a woman. Tell yourself, who is a serious man who would study this useless skill?"
The paper figure in red floated around, seemingly determined to take this issue seriously.
"Anyway, you say you are a woman, so tell me, how can you speak like a man?"
Jiang Wen thought about it for a long time and said tentatively.
"How about... try to bark like a dog later?"
A strong wind suddenly rose, causing the tall citron tree to sway violently. Countless branches and leaves fell from the sky, falling like a violent storm. It seemed that the whole world was angry because of his frivolity and rudeness.
The fake face of the paper man in red began to fade and deform, turning into a sinister shape with green face and fangs, glaring at Jiang Wen angrily.
"Nonsense! I used a blinding spell to prevent you from rushing into the underworld, but your friends are still in the village. They have already encountered the night ghosts carrying the coffin, and if they wait any longer, they will die together..."
Jiang Wen, however, did not waver at all. He only looked at the paper figure in red with his eyes without blinking, pointing to the things between the tombs and saying.
"I can go, at least tell me what it is?"
The paper man in red gradually stopped wandering and returned to his original complaining voice, with waves of sound rising and falling one after another.
"Sanliting suddenly encountered a disaster that year, and the resentment has not disappeared. This place eventually turned into a ghost land. People died as ghosts, and ghosts died as ghosts. Ghosts are afraid of ghosts, just like people are afraid of ghosts. I am using the ghosts turned into stubborn evil thoughts to suppress
I also invited the evil ghosts in the tomb and the night ghosts in the village to carry the coffins, hoping to send them back to the underworld..."
"If this was really effective, you wouldn't stay here chatting with me anymore."
Jiang Wen, however, continued to ask reluctantly: "Besides, since the country was in turmoil and the Tartars invaded the south, there have been many victims of tragic disasters in the world. Why don't you see these dead souls turn into evil ghosts and seek justice from the murderers?"
The paper man was stunned by these upright words, and it took him a long time to answer.
"When an ordinary person dies, things will naturally fade away as time goes by, and there will be no more miraculous effects to be found. But the people in Sanliting are not from the Han Dynasty, but from the Wuyi Mountains. Their ancestors are not the people of Sanmiao and Jiuli, but Guo Pu
The extinct giants of Jiangxi mentioned in the Classic of Mountains and Seas..."
Gan giant?
What Jiang Wen immediately thought of was the record in the "Book of Mountains and Seas" written from the Warring States Period to the early Han Dynasty: "There is a Gan giant in the south, with a human face and long arms, a black body with hair, and turned back heels. He laughs when everyone smiles, and his face is covered with lips.
, because he just ran away."
But it is generally believed that the Gan giant is a strange beast like the Sasquatch. How can it be related by blood to humans?
"If this is not the case, girl, you first become my teacher, and I will buy one and get one free, and then I will give you a middle school biology book. What do you think?"
Jiang Wen looked at the paper man in front of him with caring eyes.
The paper man in red did not explain much, but simply said: "Since you went into the mountains to look for the Minyue treasure, you don't even know the allusion to the Monkey King? In the early Tang Dynasty, Ouyang Xun's mother was kidnapped by the white ape spirit, and his father Ouyang
He went into the mountain to kill a white ape, but his mother was pregnant and gave birth to him who looked like an ape—most of the Sanliting people are like this."
Jiang Wen laughed and said, "Of course I know that apes and monkeys in the Fujian and Yue lands robbed women and made them wives. There are many records in ancient books. Jiao Yanshou of the Han Dynasty annotated "Yilin Kun Zhipi" and said, 'The big beasts of Nanshan stole my beautiful concubines.' Later the Jin Dynasty people
Zhang Hua's "Natural History" describes it more specifically, but being kidnapped and having a child are two different things, and Ouyang Xun's case is just a slander."
The night wind was brisk, and no one could have imagined that in such a deserted village, there would be a man wearing tattered Taoist uniforms, talking with a red paper figure on the treetops, exchanging the most absurd rumors in the vast sea of classics.
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"Are you really not worried about your friend? It is not easy for a night ghost to carry a coffin and escape."
The paper man's voice contained a threat, but Jiang Wen didn't care.
"Speaking of danger, my friend is the most dangerous. To be honest, the room was dimly lit at the time. I missed two points when pricking the Tanzhong point. Once the needle tip shook, Hong Xiguan might wake up.
Got it!"
At this moment, the paper man shook suddenly, as if something was about to escape from his body.
Then in front of Jiang Wen, the paper figure in red clothes suddenly burst into flames at the corners of its red gauze skirt. In an instant, it turned into blazing flames and swallowed up everything. It was so fast that Jiang Wen didn't even have time to see clearly the intensity of the fire.
Spreading.
The tongues of fire licked the air, and the firelight also changed from bright yellow and red to indigo, illuminating the surroundings with a ghostly and terrifying atmosphere.
Just when the will-o'-the-wisp was floating, a pale white seed appeared on the paper man's heavenly spirit cover, bathed in flames, and a white lotus as white as jade actually grew out of it. With the dazzling fire light, it went straight to the sky!
"Humph, White Lotus Sect."
Jiang Wen muttered to himself, no wonder he used all kinds of illusions to appear as gods and ghosts from the moment they met, and his actions were unclear. Among the three religions and nine streams in the world, this group of people was the most mysterious.
The people from the White Lotus Sect should have been here for a long time, but they didn't expect the three of them to rush in, so they asked ghosts and gods to get them to retreat.
I just deliberately delayed the time and wanted to find out their details. The White Lotus Sect also responded hastily. Naturally, they also deliberately extended the time to make it easier to finish.
In the end, the trick of the Qingyang coming to the world and the White Lotus manifesting itself as a saint is the warning of the White Lotus Sect.
Those who can't see through it think that they will leave quickly if they encounter ghosts and gods. Those who understand the rules know that it is the White Lotus Sect, and generally they are not willing to have any further conflicts with this group of people.
"Fire paper coated with saltpeter? I really enjoy playing magic tricks. It's also good to join a sect and learn chemistry..."
The White Lotus Sect has lost its hand tonight.
Their biggest mistake, apart from encountering Jiang Wen, a salty fish who had received nine-year compulsory education, was to underestimate the killer Hong Xiguan.
In the Sanli Pavilion, Jiang Wen saw someone appearing in the distance.
Although the paper figures carrying the coffins in the village were strange and unpredictable, even if they tried all kinds of killing tricks, they were still shot by Hong Xiguan, who had broken off the silver needle, with a life-threatening chokehold, leaving them scattered on the ground.
Only a red lacquer coffin was left lying unattended.
When Jiang Wen came to the village, Hong Xiguan's remaining strength had been exhausted. He was holding on to his spear and relying on Hong Dou's support to prevent him from falling.
"I got the medicine back! Give it to him quickly!"
After everything was over, Jiang Wen took the time to look at the contents of the coffin. It was a piece of crystallized sandy gravel carved with Chongwenniao seals and jagged handwriting. Other than that, it was ordinary and nothing unusual.
Jiang Wen, however, put the stone away carefully. In this bizarre night, there was nothing unusual about this stone, and perhaps it was the biggest anomaly.