The tenth day of the tenth month of the Xinwei year.
The fighting in the Northeast is getting more and more serious.
I asked someone to inquire about Goujia Village, but the village was already empty, and the entire village had disappeared.
The thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month in the Xinwei year.
I succeeded.
I couldn't draw the facial makeup, but I drew the lines.
My first work was a facial makeup of Monkey King, and I saved it.
The sixteenth day of the twelfth lunar month in the Xinwei year.
The Northeast is gone.
The Japanese devils will not die well.
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The twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in the year Xinwei.
I want to join the army, but my children are still young. If I leave, the mother and son will have nowhere to go, and I feel worried.
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The twelfth day of the first lunar month of the Renshen year.
Some people in the town went to join the army, but most of them, like me, took their families and ran south.
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September 12th, Renshen year.
The situation is getting more and more serious, and the Japanese's ambitions are well known to everyone, but the government still takes no action.
I drew more facial makeup, but I don't know why, only a few people could understand what I drew.
Unable to be widely accepted, this kind of facial makeup is destined not to be on the stage.
Why.
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As time went on, the recorded words about facial makeup became increasingly sparse. Until after a paragraph, the diary stopped completely.
Liang Sheng died on the battlefield to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea. He cried to death. Now, An Shi and I are the only ones left.
Turning back further, there was nothing, until at the end of the note, there were a few pages of pictures and words, which looked very obscure, as if they were Taoist Qi refining formulas.
The man didn't believe it, but he carefully packed the items in the box and took them away. From then on, the door to the house was never opened again.
The Taoist qi training formula seems to be really useful. After practicing according to the pictures and characters, the man feels that his energy and spirit are getting stronger and stronger. Along with this, his performance in the drama has also improved by leaps and bounds.
He met many people who were famous in the theater world like him. Among them, the one who had the most profound impact on him was an actor named Xia.
Although it was just a one-time encounter, those eyes were really unforgettable, and I never saw him again.
As time passed, the man also had his own family.
But trivial family matters did not stop him from moving forward on the road of art. He embarked on the road of a master, but he was never able to bring the Monkey King to perform a play of his own.
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In Zhang An's family home, Jiang Xin saw the objects left by the old man.
With just one glance, Jiang Xin could see the clues in the facial makeup of the Monkey King. Although the lines were outlined with the most basic ordinary paint, there was a bright color in them.
Because of the Qi, the symbolic meaning of this mask goes beyond ordinary facial makeup. People who are not Qi practitioners will definitely not be able to see the meaning of the lines, and naturally they will not be able to perceive the spirit within it.
As for the two books, one is just an ordinary notepad, and although the facial makeup on the other is interesting, it is actually the repeated use of lines. This technique cannot compare with the facial makeup painting method in Jiang Xin's hand.
There are not too many facial masks recorded in the Facebook book, but they are not too few either. Each facial mask has a different number of lines, but even the one with the most lines is far inferior to that of the Monkey King.
There is no face painting of the Monkey King in the book, presumably because the old man can no longer draw another one.
Following the rule that aliens are not allowed to reveal the existence of aliens to ordinary people, Jiang Xin ultimately did not answer some questions for Master Zhang, but briefly chatted for a few words before turning around and leaving. (Note 1)
Jiang Xin didn't know how the Zhang family obtained this Qi refining method, but one thing that was obvious was that the Zhang family was not suitable for entering the alien world.
After all, he can be regarded as a strange person. The first time Jiang Xin saw the Qi refining method, he knew that this Qi refining method can make people become strange people. However, this Master Zhang has stayed at the stage of cultivating Qi for decades without getting started.
, obviously not suitable for entering the alien world.
Rather than being a stranger and getting caught up in the trend, being a member of the theater industry would be more suitable for Master Zhang.
When an old man is over fifty, he should enjoy his old age, so why should he live in a dangerous place?
As for those items, Jiang Xin did not take them away and kept them as heirlooms for the Zhang family.
There are two people with Qi in the third generation of the Zhang family. Maybe someone will be able to cultivate abilities based on the Qi refining method in the future. He has already memorized the content, so there is no point in taking it away.
Watching Jiang Xin leave, Master Zhang sighed and stared at the Monkey King for a long time, his hands trembling slightly as he tried to bring it to his face.
But in the end, the facial makeup and other objects were put back into the box.
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Looking up at the sun, Jiang Xin let out a long sigh of relief: "At least we have gained something. It took more than four months to return to Taiyuan from that Goujia Village. I'm afraid the distance is not close."
"However, you can't believe all the words above. The village chief has never mentioned the name of the village. The so-called name of Goujia Village is just his own wishful thinking. If you really look for it according to this name, you may not be able to find it."
"But this person is also the same. If he only writes about his experiences in Goujia Village without writing about the road to get there, wouldn't this be cutting off the way for future generations to find opportunities?"
"I guess he himself should have noticed some anomalies in the village. After all, he himself can be considered a Qi practitioner."
The description of the year in the diary is a bit vague, but we can still tell that the year was 1929. The main means of transportation in that era were boats, people, cars, bicycles, trains and cars, and only those with a little money would take them.
Affordable.
But considering that people at that time may have believed in keeping wealth hidden, even if the old man was rich, his seat might not be very big.
But even so, four months is enough time for him to travel an unknown distance, which still makes people wonder: "Is it possible that this old man has been to other places along the way?"
Jiang Xin felt strange, but the person was gone, and there was no relevant description in the notes. It was really difficult to recreate it. Jiang Xin seemed to have obtained a lot of information, but in fact he was still confused.
"Most of them are villages with the surname Gou. They left during the Dragon Boat Festival and had activities in the evening. In 1932, the whole village disappeared, leaving only the ruins of the village and the mysterious facial makeup. No matter how you think about it, you know that this village is related to the ghost facial makeup, but there are no clues to continue to pursue it."
There were no more clues in Taiyuan City, so Jiang Xin decided to follow the driver's suggestion and go to the Taihang Mountains to look for possible clues.
In the afternoon, Jiang Xin got on the bus to Changzhi City.
A few hours later, in Huguan County, Changzhi City, Jiang Xin once again set out on the road to find the mystery of facial makeup.
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In Tianhe Company, his eyes calmly passed over the stranger with a broken heart. The old Tianshi looked at the man aside: "Bihua, help me tell your boss."
"From today on, I, Zhang Zhiwei, will kill everyone I see!"