After I worshipped Bodhi, I was invincible

Chapter 20 The Paper Maker

The moment the girl's body disappeared, a memory flooded into Ao Qing's mind.

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600 years ago.

Liu Qiaoer is a native of Pingyue County, North Jiangcheng. His family has made a living with paper puppets for generations.

Dolls are folded, paper pictures are tied, and ghost paper is buried to sacrifice Yin and Yang.

The seventh tune in the variety is about paper maker, paper maker is a craft, but it is also an errand for begging for money from the mouths of the dead.

This kind of yin business is mostly shunned by the world. Liu Qiaoer, who grew up near the coffin shop of the paper-making shop, naturally became an ominous thing in the eyes of everyone.

Liu Qiaoer was alone since she was a child. She grew up among paper dolls, living in a cold environment, day and night.

At night, Liu Qiaoer rested her chin and watched her father making paper figurines. When the oil lamp was lit, a square paper face came to life, but she had no eyes, only a pair of empty eye sockets could be seen.

Don't use a puppet for mourning during the day, and don't mention ghosts at night.

This is the rule of the Liu family.

There are many taboos about making money from dead people, and most paper maker have three taboos:
One is not to tie a shrew who is entangled endlessly, so as not to leave her soul with endless grievances; the second is not to tie a pregnant woman, one corpse and two lives may be a bad omen;

According to the group training of the Liu family, wandering between the yin and yang realms, it is inevitable to get into trouble with unclean things.

One day, on the night of the wedding, the old lady of the rich family relapsed and died tragically in the wedding room. Her body was sent to the coffin shop for temporary storage.

Liu Qiaoer and Mr. Liu carried the oil lamp to the coffin shop next door.

Carrying a basket of paper binding tools, when he was about to leave, the owner of the coffin shop said that the dead bride was still pregnant with a fetus.

It is a taboo to die while pregnant!
Mr. Liu is naturally unwilling to accept this business. How can a thousand taels of gold and silver be worth a fortune?What's more, the paper tie is fierce, and the strange illness is minor. If luck is almost cursed, the more serious ones will be difficult to get rid of from generation to generation.

But the bride's parents' family is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and they have never tabooed strange powers and chaos in their hearts.

The rich family is so domineering and domineering. Hearing that the paper maker refused to tie the funeral dolls, he became annoyed at once, and led a group of servants with sticks in their hands to block the door of Liu's shop.

According to them, the funeral doll is not the key, the key is that the Liu family should beat them if they don't show face.

The man's father is the local county magistrate, and he is used to calling the wind and calling the rain on weekdays, so he is naturally unwilling to be the one to be called "the son and the mother are fierce".

In desperation, Mr. Liu had no choice but to light a lamp and tie paper, and became a bride with trepidation.

A bereaved puppet, and a blood-red wedding dress.

After the paper figurine was completed, the Liu family knelt down and kowtowed a few times, just for the bride to go on the road to Huangquan, don't look back.

The puppet was handed over to the other party, and the matter was considered to be over. The sound of the suona sounded, the coffin was buried in the ground, and the puppet was completely burned.

However, a few months later, a plague broke out in Pingyue County, North Jiangcheng. The plague sufferers developed red rashes and coughed continuously until blood came out of their mouths, so they had to discuss and prepare for the funeral.

The number of plague-infected people is increasing day by day, and it is useless to pray to gods and Buddhas.

The imperial court blamed it, and pushed the plague disaster to the county magistrate, saying that the source of the disaster could not be found, so the county magistrate was thrown into prison and sent to the northern wasteland.

Seeing that he was about to lose himself, the county magistrate was so anxious that he made a plan and sued the Liu family's father and daughter to the court, falsifying and reorganizing the arrangement, saying that the paper maker did not care about taboos, and tied up a pregnant woman who died violently for a few taels of silver.

As soon as the murder of the son and mother came out, the grievances lingered, and Beijiangcheng gave birth to the epidemic under the shroud of evil.

At that time, most of the people in the city knew about the murder of the mother and child by the paper maker.

This is the business of scooping up the vagina, and in the eyes of the world, it is inferior.

Now that the catastrophe is happening and people are panicking, the phrase "the mother and son are tied with paper" has become a gap for venting. Under the instigation of the county magistrate, the Liu family's father and daughter were imprisoned.

Disaster fell from the sky, and Mr. Liu was beaten into a trick, and he raised his bloody hands to sign the pledge.

In the old house, Liu Qiaoer shook her bloody father, sobbing endlessly.

However, the evidence was completed. A few days later, the father and daughter of the Liu family were taken to Caishikou and beheaded. A half-human tall sword was cut off. Liu Qiaoer watched her father's head roll in the muddy ground. She couldn't close her eyes.

With monstrous resentment, Liu Qiaoer also died under the knife.

The resentment was hard to dissipate, Liu Qiaoer's mutilated corpse practiced underground and became a corpse demon.

What happened during her lifetime made Liu Qiaoer bloodthirsty. She skinned people to make paper figurines, watched the living people die in fear with joy, and filled the gap in her heart with the pain of others.

This is the only joy for her to become a demon queen——

Murder for fun!
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The memory ended here. After watching Liu Qiaoer's life, Ao Qing couldn't help but sigh with emotion. Humans have seven deadly sins: arrogance, jealousy, rage, laziness, greed, gluttony and lust.

The amplification of any kind of desire may produce evil things.

Evil comes from the heart, Liu Qiaoer turned into a demon out of resentment, and her death is precisely because of the "evil thing" in the hearts of the world.

In the end, there was an extra ancient book and a palm-sized puppet in Ao Qing's hand.

The ancient book is "Human Skin Puppet Art" edited by Liu Qiaoer. The paper of the book is yellowed, and the surface material is soft and delicate, but Ao Qing can clearly tell that the book cover is made of human skin.

But the puppet in his hand was exactly the same as what Ao Qing was wearing. The moment he held the puppet in his hand, Ao Qing knew everything about the purpose of the puppet.

The puppet can be fake, if you use the puppet in your hand to perform magic, the puppet will completely reproduce Ao Qing's body and aura.

"This puppet is a good object for death at critical moments." Ao Qing sighed.

Although there is no panacea for the reward this time, with these two evil things, it may come in handy at a critical moment.

After putting away the fairy sword and ancient puppet books, Ao Qing turned to look at the man inside the barrier.

The man's face was covered with cold sweat, and the blood on his face had clotted into clots. At this moment, he was curled up on the ground, half awake.

After removing the barrier around him, Ao Qing shook the man's shoulder: "Where do you live? Tell me, I'll find someone to take you back home?"

He opened his eyes in a daze, endured the severe pain, and told the location of his house.

Ao Qing nodded, and called a few strong men to carry the man back to the mansion, while he brushed off his achievements and fame, and walked along the mountain path to Dongting Lake.

There are some monsters who have just opened their minds in the mountains and fields. Ao Qing saw the monsters harming people, so he killed them.

But after three days, the strongest monster he encountered was only in the Qi refining period.

Accumulating small streams into rivers and rivers, although not as good as the previous monsters, but winning steadily, Ao Qing is much more proficient in the application of spells.

The "Human Skin Puppet Art" studied and practiced along the way is also counted in the doorway. Now even if you take a few leaves, you can fold out a small person who can run and jump.

The bones of the paper figurines are beyond the skin, and only when one can make paper figurines that look like real ones can one achieve a small achievement.

In about fifteen days, Ao Qing returned to Dongting Lake.

Looking up, the lake is rippling and the green willows are shaded.

"This is the first time I'm going home after my rebirth." Ao Qing looked at the surrounding scenery, and fragmentary memories emerged in his mind at the right time. After a moment of contemplation, Ao Qing turned into a streamer and dived into Dongting Lake.

(End of this chapter)