Old Man Guo's assistant brought a lot of fruits and snacks.
I didn't eat breakfast, and I was really hungry and weak at this time.
So I unceremoniously opened the bag of potato chips and started devouring them.
Old Man Guo looked at me while smoking a cigarette and said, "Don't argue with me, I know my body best."
"Even if I don't help you make the Ten Thousand Souls Umbrella, I won't live for three years."
I comforted him softly: "Grandpa Guo, you can't say that. You look like you can live for more than ten years at least, at least ninety years old."
"You kid..." Old Man Guo was amused by me. He moved the ashtray and said, "Your grandfather and your father were so dull. How come you have completely changed."
I took a sip of water and replied with a smile: "Grandpa and my dad have never read books or been outside. They have been guarding the three-acre land in Taoshan Village for their entire lives. Can't we be more honest?"
"It makes sense." Old Man Guo agreed: "So people still have to walk around. The more places they travel and the wider their knowledge, the greater the change in their character and vision."
"It's just like me. Before I came here, I was a mess."
"You need culture but not culture, you need ability but not ability."
"Now, hey, I'm running a paper-making factory, I look like a dog, and I'm being shouted at by boss Guo."
"Thirty years ago, I would never have imagined that I would have achieved what I have today even if I had killed myself."
"With a net worth of over 100 million, I don't have to worry about food and drink."
"Grow flowers and entertain birds..."
Old Man Guo suddenly stopped while he was talking, and said with a sad look on his face: "Your grandfather broke the rules of the pig butcher's trade and died an unexpected death. And although I am still alive, I am no better than him."
"How is that possible?" I asked puzzledly: "You haven't broken the rules of the papermaker's profession."
"I'm not broken, but someone is." Old Man Guo turned to look at the 21-inch photo frame on the wall and whispered: "Guo Chengyun, my only son, is forty-eight years old this year."
"Chengyunzha Paper Factory is named after him."
"Four years ago, this bastard left a good family behind and raised a woman outside."
"After a banquet, my son drank too much and took the woman to the papermaking factory."
"Maybe it was to show off, or maybe it was the paralysis of alcohol that caused him to lose his normal mind."
"In the warehouse of the papermaking factory, he dotted the eyes of one hundred and thirty-six paper figures, and animated them mouth to mouth."
"Suning, papermakers have rules. Those rules are no less strict than those of a pig butcher."
"The two most important ones are: tie the paper without dotting the eyes, and dot the eyes without blowing."
"Do you know what it means?"
With his hunched body, Old Man Guo took out a mini paper figure from his desk drawer and placed it in front of me. He said in a deep voice: "The eyes are the first of the facial features and contain the strongest energy of the human body."
"The paper man is a dead thing. Once you add eyes to it, it means that the paper maker has given it intelligence."
"As for dotting the eyes but not blowing air, well, even if the paper man's eyes are dotted, he is still made of paper and his body is stiff and unable to move."
"Once it is brought to life by a living person's mouth to mouth, it can move freely."
"To put it simply, the paper figures at that time were no longer paper figures."
Old Man Guo said with anger and hatred: "I have kept the rules all my life and taught him the rules all my life, but in the end, they were broken in his hands."
"This idiot, I really want to slap him to death."
Old Man Guo spat in anger and said, "It's not enough to light up the paper man's eyes to revive him. That beast used the power of alcohol to engage in casual affairs with women in the warehouse."
"This is great. The paper man who had awakened as a spirit absorbed the yin and yang energy of men and women. He turned into a paper zombie and ran away from the warehouse."
"puff."
I was drinking water, and after listening to Old Man Guo's explanation, I sprayed it out on the spot, and said in disbelief: "What are you talking about? The paper man ran away?"
