The Trick of Longevity, Paper-cutting Becomes a Spirit

Chapter 164 Illusion and Reality (Two in One)

In the ear, there is the sound of pattering rain.

When Lu Qian opened his eyes, he saw a gray sky.

Underfoot is damp ground.

Overhead, is a canopy.

But in front of him was a tall paving that reached the tip of his nose.

Across the pavement, on the opposite side of the shop, stood a little girl who looked only seven or eight years old.

This little girl is actually half a head taller than him!
When Lu Qian saw this little girl's face, he immediately had a strange feeling, as if it was vaguely familiar.

The little girl standing opposite didn't look at him, but looked at his side.

Lu Qian turned his head and saw a tall old man standing next to him.

She stood side by side with him, but the top of her head could only reach the height of his thighs, not even his waist.

Lu Qian blinked, the scene in front of him made him a little confused.

However, soon, he reacted.

At this moment, he is at a market.Moreover, he is very familiar with this market.

It looks like the market in Wangjiaying.

The pavement in front of him was also familiar.

Especially behind the paving, there is a small house.

At the door of the small house, a half curtain is hung.

Outside the curtain, on the door, there is still a string of wind chimes hanging.

Seeing this familiar scene, Lu Qian was taken aback, turned his head again, and looked at the little girl opposite.

He finally understood why he looked at her so familiarly.

Because between her eyebrows, it looks like a person.

Lu Qian opened his mouth, looked at the little girl, and tried to shout:

"Wang Zirong?"

As soon as he made a sound, he startled himself first.

this sound...

The milky voice is not his own voice at all, but more like...

The childish voice of a little boy.

The little girl on the opposite side, when she heard his cry, turned her head unhappily, glanced at him, and said, "If you want to call me Miss Rong Rong, children are not polite at all."

It's really Wang Zirong!

But why does she look like a child?
And myself...

Lu Qian lowered his head and looked at his pair of chubby little hands.

In one of his hands, he was holding a rattle.

These are clearly a pair of children's hands!
It's only about five or six years old, or even younger.

Looking at the rattle in his hand, Lu Qian subconsciously shook it.

dong dong dong...

With the rotation of the rattle, there is a thumping sound.

When the little girl Wang Zirong saw this scene, she rolled her eyes with disdain, stopped looking at him, and turned her head to look at the tall old man standing beside him.

Little Wang Zirong looked up at him and said, "Grandpa Lu, what are you buying human skin for?"

The old man smiled and didn't speak.

Xiao Wang Zirong rolled her eyes nimbly, clapped her hands suddenly, and said with a smile: "I see, Grandpa Lu must have a new bride, so I want to buy a human skin for her to wear, right?"

The old man smiled and nodded.

Little Wang Zirong looked at the old man and smiled "hee hee", not sure if she knew what she was laughing at.

Lu Qian also turned his head and looked at the old man standing beside him.

There was a sudden movement in his heart, as if he understood something.

Lu Qian opened his mouth and said, "Grandpa... Grandpa?"

The old man turned his head and looked down at Lu Qian.

With a kind look on his face.

Lu Qian suddenly discovered that he was actually not considered old, he looked no more than 50 or [-] years old, but he was a bit vicissitudes.

However, he guessed right.

This old man is the grandfather of "Lu Qian"!

Lu Qian looked up at him, swallowed, and asked, "Grandpa, why did you wear human skin for the paper bride?"

The old man smiled and did not answer.

On the contrary, Xiao Wang Zirong snickered and rushed to say, "You little Lu Qian, why don't you understand anything? Putting on the human skin, the bride will not be afraid of the day and the scorching sun, and can go out for activities during the day. "

When Lu Qian heard the words, his heart moved, and he thought to himself: "Is what she said true...?"

Xiao Wang Zirong looked down on Lu Qian again, and then seemed to think of something suddenly, and the innocence and innocence on her face disappeared. She stretched out her little hand, held her chin, and thought like an adult.

She thought for a while, then looked up at the old man, and asked, "Grandpa Lu, you said, is the place where people go after death really that scary?"

The old man nodded, still smiling.

Seeing Xiao Wang Zirong, she immediately frowned and became unhappy.

After thinking for a while, she suddenly raised her head again, and said seriously, "Grandpa Lu, if I die in the future, can you make me your paper bride too?"

The old man shook his head.

Lu Qian thought to himself: "At his age, of course he won't live to that time."

Seeing this, Xiao Wang Zirong had a delicate little face, and her brows frowned even deeper.

In Lu Qian's impression, Wang Zirong was always smiling, as if she had never seen her worry.

The first time he saw it now was when she was "little".

Unexpectedly, this little Wang Zirong was already a beauty.Qi Mei's thoughtful appearance was really strange.

All this is clearly a dream.

But why did Lu Qian have such a dream?

He felt a little strange.

He had never seen the appearance of "Grandpa" and Xiao Wang's appearance. How could their appearance be so clear in his dream?

According to common sense, it is difficult for something that has never been seen to be so concrete in a dream.

However, it is difficult to say about the dream.And although he hadn't seen it, of course he had seen his original body.

At this time, Xiao Wang Zirong seemed to have figured out something suddenly, she raised her head and looked at Lu Qian.

She looked at Lu Qian, seemingly reluctant, but still asked seriously: "Little Lu Qian, can you live until your sister dies? When the time comes, you..."

Lu Qian nodded and said, "Yes, you will be my paper bride when the time comes."

After hearing this, Xiao Wang Zirong relaxed her frown a little, as if she had a happy look.

However, there was still a hint of doubt on her face.

She looked at Lu Qian, and asked with some uncertainty: "But, can you find me a human skin? There is no human skin to wear, and I will not be your paper bride."

While speaking, she glanced at Lu Qian's side, which seemed to mean: "Look, your grandpa can get human skin."

Lu Qian was startled when he heard the words, and secretly said: "Is human skin difficult to deal with? The world is full of people..."

At this moment, a gust of wind chimes suddenly sounded.

Lu Qian looked up, and saw that in the small house opposite, the curtain was suddenly lifted, and a beautiful woman came out from inside.

She is 24 years old and has a beautiful face.

When Wang Zirong grew up, she could already be said to be a country-beating figure, at least among all the women Lu Qian had ever met, almost no one could match her.

Only the junior sister from Youshuishan, who was shocked at the beginning, might be comparable to her.

However, compared with the woman in front of her, she is definitely inferior.

She bent down, walked out of the small door, and activated the wind chime hanging on the door, making a crisp sound.

Between looking and looking, it is swaying and dazzling.

On her arm, there is also a...

A complete piece of human skin is like wearing a human fur coat.

It's just that a human face hangs upside down on the head of the human skin, swaying with her steps.

It looks a little scary!
The beautiful woman, with a human skin in her arm, walked to the booth, looked at the old man, and said apologetically, "Uncle Lu, I still have some stock here, but it's a pity that a thief was recruited at home last night, and all of them were stolen." Robbed."

As he spoke, he put the human skin in his arms on the pavement and spread it out flat.

It's like a thin paper man lying on it.

The woman said apologetically, "I searched for a long time, but only found this one."

The old man looked at the human skin on the table and frowned, obviously dissatisfied.

He couldn't be satisfied either, because what was put on the case was a man's human skin.

And he bought this human skin to wear it for the paper bride.

Can't use it.

The old man raised his head and looked at her.

A look of embarrassment suddenly appeared on the face of the stunningly beautiful woman.

After embarrassment, it turned into fear.

After being stared at by the old man for a long time, the woman sighed softly: "That's fine."

After that, she reached out to undress her clothes.

Take off all your clothes first.

Then, her hands stretched out to the back of her head, to the position of the back of her head.

As soon as the hands were torn apart, the skin there was torn apart.

Take off the head first, then the arms, then the body, and finally the legs.

Like undressing, she took off the skin on her body.

She picked up the skin she just took off with both hands, and handed it to the old man.

Only then did the old man nod in satisfaction, took the beautiful skin with both hands, rolled it up, put it under his armpit, and turned to leave.

The body of the peeled woman looks a little weird.

Her appearance is exactly the same as before, but...

Her body turned into a flat piece.

It's like a paper man who can stand and walk while having an expressive face.

Lu Qian looked at the paper man with a strange expression on his face.

He turned his head to look at Wang Zirong, pointed at the woman and asked, "This is..."

Xiao Wang Zirong said: "Of course it's my mother, can't you see that we look alike?"

Of course Lu Qian could see that the two of them looked a little imaginative.

However, her honor at this time is obviously not human.

"Whose paper bride is she?"

Xiao Wang Zirong rolled her eyes and said, "Who said she is a paper bride?"

Lu Qian was stunned when he heard the words.

He turned back and looked at the beautiful woman again——

At this time, she has become a paper figure, with a sad face, a very sad look, and she is about to cry.

Paper brides can wear human fur clothes, and so can ghosts.

It's just...why is she in the shape of a sheet of paper, like a paper bride that has just been unfolded and has not yet swelled up on the ground.

Lu Qian looked at her, and suddenly asked curiously, "Auntie, how did you die?"

After asking this sentence, Lu Qian was startled suddenly. He suddenly remembered that he knew very little about Wang Zirong.

I don't know anything about her appearance, voice, or experience when she was a child.

Not to mention her mother.

If it is said that Lu Qian is in his own dream.

So, where did the extra information in the dream come from?
The paper girl didn't answer him, instead she lowered her head and began to wipe her tears.

at this time.

Suddenly, a gust of wind rang.

Lu Qian looked up, and saw the small house in front of him, the half curtain hanging at the door was raised again.

A person came out from the door.

The body is graceful and swaying.

It is almost exactly the same as Xiao Wang Zirong's mother when she went out.

Lu Qian took a closer look, and when he saw her face clearly, he froze immediately.

It was actually Wang Zirong who came out of the door.

An adult Wang Zirong!

She stared at the scene in front of her with puzzled eyes.

It seems that she doesn't understand why she herself appears here.

Lu Qian turned his head and saw that Xiao Wang Zirong, who was still standing there just now, disappeared at some point.

Wang Zirong stood at the door of the tofu shop, finally saw Lu Qian, and asked in surprise, "Lu Qian?"

Ok?
She was only five or six years old at this time, how could she recognize herself at a glance...

Lu Qian just thought about it halfway, and suddenly stopped.

He found that he had grown taller suddenly without knowing when.

Already as tall as an adult.

Wang Zirong looked at Lu Qian, strode towards him, and asked, "Why did I come here all of a sudden?"

Lu Qian shrugged at her and said, "I'm dreaming."

Wang Zirong looked at him suspiciously, and asked, "Why are you dreaming of me?"

Lu Qian shook his head and said, "You came out by yourself, how do I know."

After finishing speaking, he continued: "I just dreamed of you when I was a child, and your young mother...Of course, I don't know if it is."

"my mother?"

Wang Zirong suddenly turned around, and looked at the paper man standing beside her.

She had actually seen it just now, but only in profile.

At this time, she was facing the paper figure, and finally saw her face.

Wang Zirong's complexion changed suddenly, and she exclaimed, "Mother?"

When the mother of the paper figure Wang Zirong heard her daughter's voice, she finally put away her grief, raised her head, and looked at her.

She looked Wang Zirong up and down carefully for a while, and a look of relief appeared on her face.

She held Wang Zirong's hand with a piece of paper, and said, "Rongrong, it's great to see you again."

Lu Qian glanced at them, turned his head, and looked at the street.

The rain, I don't know when it stopped, as if it had never rained.

The ground was still very dry, but pedestrians walked by without a speck of dust.

The pedestrians on the street suddenly gathered together.

Crowds of people who came out of nowhere suddenly poured into the street.

These people, male and female, have different appearances, but the vast majority of them are actually paper people.

Lu Qian looked into the distance and saw his "grandpa", with a piece of human skin under his arm, hurried away.

It seems to have completely forgotten, and his grandson was left here.

In a blink of an eye, he disappeared into the crowd and disappeared without a trace.

This long street seems to have infinite length.

Lu Qian looked far into the distance, but he couldn't see the end at all.

On both sides of the street, a stall will appear from time to time.

Lu Qian saw that these people who set up stalls only sold one kind of goods:
human skin.

Pedestrians on the street will naturally only buy one kind of product.

At this time, a paper man suddenly rushed over.

He rushed to the booth where Lu Qian was, stood next to Lu Qian, stretched out a piece of paper finger, pointed at the piece of human skin placed on the booth, and asked anxiously:

"Do you want to sell your human skin?"

Wang Zirong's mother immediately let go of her daughter's hand, came to the booth, and said with a smile on her face, "Sell, naturally."

The paper man asked anxiously, "How much...how much?"

Wang Zirong's mother stretched out a palm and said, "Five...five coins."

When the paper man heard this, his tense face immediately relaxed.

He immediately spread his left hand, and in the palm of his hand were five black coins.

He put down the five coins, then grabbed the human skin on the case and put it on himself.

After he put the human skin on himself, his face changed immediately.

What changed with it was his body.

His body, as if inflated, suddenly swelled up and turned into a normal person.

He turned into a man with an ugly face and a rough description.

He put on someone else's human skin, and naturally became human skin.

only……

Looking at his ugly face, Lu Qian suddenly remembered something, and his expression changed drastically.

Although he had only seen this face once, because it was so ugly, he always remembered it.

Lu Qian's face was gloomy and terrifying. He slowly turned his head and looked at Wang Zirong.

Seeing Lu Qian's expression, Wang Zirong was slightly taken aback, feeling very strange.

Lu Qian pointed at the ugly man standing beside him, and asked Wang Zirong, "Look at him, does he look familiar?"

Wang Zirong turned her head to look at Lu Qian, the ugly man who had just put on human skin and turned into a human.

He appeared to be thirty-seven and eight years old, tall and strong, and ugly with bull's eyes.

Wang Zirong looked at him with some doubts.

Lu Qian reminded: "Do you remember that there was a rainy day, and an ugly man came to patronize your tofu stall. You wanted to sell him the tofu on the stall, but he refused to do it. Your tofu is soaring, and finally entered the tofu workshop with you..."

Lu Qian said, raised his head subconsciously, and glanced at the hut in front of him.

This hut is really similar to Wang Zirong's tofu shop in the Wangjiaying market.

It is almost the same door curtain, with the same wind chimes hanging.

Wang Zirong stared at the ugly man in front of her, and when she heard Lu Qian's words, her expression suddenly changed.

She finally remembered!
This is one of Wang Zirong's "guests".

On that day, Lu Qian also set up a stall in the Wangjiaying market, watched the ugly man with his own eyes, and followed Wang Zirong into the tofu shop.

At that time, Lu Qian had just mastered the first level of paper-cutting skills, and cut a paper-cut bunny.

Out of curiosity, he also put the little rabbit into the tofu workshop, and witnessed with his own eyes that Wang Zirong crushed the ugly man into a piece of human skin.

Seeing that Wang Zirong remembered, Lu Qian asked, "At that time, you crushed him into a piece of human skin. Where did that human skin go?"

Wang Zirong said in astonishment: "I... the human skin I crushed out, all... gave to the mountain god."

Given the human skin of the mountain god, how could it appear here?

Lu Qian suddenly turned his head, looked at Wang Zirong's mother, and asked, "Where is this?"

Wang Zirong's mother turned her head to look at Lu Qian, and said solemnly, "This is Liangyin Mountain."

After finishing speaking, she looked at Lu Qian, then at Wang Zirong, and said solemnly, "Xiao Qian, Rong Rong, you must all be ten thousand, don't come here."

Hearing the words "Liang Yinshan", Lu Qian and Wang Zirong's expressions changed drastically at the same time.

In the west of Wangjiaying, the big mountain in the depths is called Liangyin Mountain!

The two looked at each other in astonishment.

They looked at each other for a long time.

Suddenly, Wang Zirong lowered her head and looked at Lu Qian's chest.

Seeing that her expression was different, Lu Qian lowered his head and looked at his chest.

A bloodstain the size of a copper coin suddenly appeared on his chest.

This bloodstain spread rapidly, spreading to the entire chest.

Immediately, Lu Qian felt a tingling pain in his chest.

In his ear, as if in an extremely distant place, he could vaguely hear Xiaofeng's hysterical cry:
"Brother Qian!"

(End of this chapter)