Paper horse incense shop

"Do you think now is a good time?"

Gong Shuji was a little helpless. In order to prevent others at the table from noticing that we were biting our ears, he stayed very close to me, his breath leaning against my ear.

My ears that he just touched were a little itchy, but I still answered honestly:

"No."

"People in the village are very positive now. If we tell them that we will forcefully open Longhu,"

If nothing else, the possibility of us being disliked is relatively small, and they might be in constant panic again.

Longhu Village has already gone through such great trauma, and it is not appropriate for us to say that we want to see the 'Immortal' ruins again.

Gong Shuji's thoughts were probably similar to mine. Until the two of us said goodbye to the teachers and students in the village and returned to the house prepared for us by Teacher Chen, we didn't think about how we should investigate Longhu, which had been razed to the ground.

Gongshu Ji quickly boiled water and washed himself, asking while doing so:
"Why don't you let Saburo Kinoshita come directly, and we will only provide clues? If he moves rocks to dig a lake, it has nothing to do with us?"

I also thought of this method, but then I thought of another point:
"I saw the real body of Saburo Kinoshita in Anfang that day. He has a physical form and is far away in Anfang."

But now we can only rely on a story to tie the threads together.

In our current situation, any disturbance is enough to overwhelm us.

I have some doubts:
"Gongshuji?"

Gong Shuji nodded, and the atmosphere became silent.

I held the paper figure and wanted to tell Gong Shuji, 'We'll go to Long Lake later when it gets dark and there's no one around.' But before the words came out, I turned my head slightly and saw that Gong Shuji was also distracted.

Several processes were completed in one go, and a vivid half-human tall paper man appeared in the room.

"This means that if we summon him thousands of miles away, it is very likely that he will not come in his true form."

It was because Gong Shuji was forcibly possessed by Saburo Kinoshita that he now needed to find the Soul-Calling Bell.

If there were no soul-catching bells under the Dragon Lake, 'being possessed again' would unintentionally make things worse for us.

Fold, cut, paste, seal.

By borrowing a body, the original owner will be left with increasingly painful headaches.

"It's okay without the body of the paper man. I feel like I'm in pretty good shape these days and don't have much headache. What Saburo Kinoshita said at the time was probably a bit alarmist and I can just let him possess my body."

I slowly put my feet into the basin. Gong Shuji tested the water temperature and asked softly:

Now if we are sure that there is a soul-catching bell under Long Lake, we can still try our best to get rid of the headache after borrowing the body.

I sat on the bed, his shoulder leaning against the window edge, and Mu Lianli's unchained hand unconsciously caressing a certain area on the ground, with an empty look on his face that I couldn't understand.

Gongshuji added some hot water:
"Maybe it's worth a try."

If I hadn't occasionally seen Gong Shuji covering his head, I probably would have believed this. I pulled my feet out of the basin, rummaged through my backpack for some unfinished paper, and started making paper figurines. :
"We talked to him when we summoned him. If he doesn't want to send someone in, then we won't talk to him about Longhu."

"If he didn't come in real form, he would most likely have to borrow a physical body."

"Does it fit?"

I didn't answer. I was distracted for a while and asked Gong Shuji:
"Tell me, I can use a paper man to possess a soul, and Kinoshita Saburo can use a paper man to possess a soul?"

Gongshuji came back to his senses:

"All right?"

"Then let's go to Longhu now. Don't wake up the neighbors here. It will be very bad if Saburo Kinoshita comes and possesses the wrong spirit or something."

It turned out that he had the same idea as me.

I nodded and handed the paper figurine to the other party. The moment I stood up, my eyes turned to the ground unintentionally, and a thought suddenly appeared in my mind——

I moved, and the area on the ground that Gong Shuji had just touched was gone. So, Gong Shuji, are you touching my shadow?

Doubts and confusion suddenly came to my mind.

I lagged a little behind, so Gong Shuji turned around and asked:

"Can you walk?"

"If you can't walk, I'll carry you. I don't have any other intention. What I think is that if you walk slowly, we will waste more time on the road, and we may be discovered by the villagers."

He was right, now was not the time to think about this.

I shook my head, motioned for the other party to go ahead, and quickened my pace.

Longhu Village was very quiet at night. We did not turn on the lights and let the stars in the sky guide our way. We arrived at the familiar reed marsh very quickly.

I placed the paper figure in the reed marsh, and began to build a small tribute table out of stones according to the method of inviting gods mentioned by Saburo Kinoshita before, lit three sticks of incense, and silently recited "Five Ridges Xantong" three times.

The night breeze blows gently, making people feel chilly.

The incense burns on and off on the altar table, and the smoke of smoke rises, but eventually dissipates on the earth.

The two of us stood and waited for a while, but there was no response.

Except for me, Yu Gongshuji, there is no trace of the existence of a third creature here.

Gong Shuji looked around, met my eyes, and shook his head:

"Maybe not."

I can’t tell whether it’s because of the wind that caused my headache, or because of the unreliable Saburo Kinoshita:
"He was the one who said he could be invited in this way!"

Feng opened his mouth and took a mouthful, which made him feel even more uncomfortable.

Gong Shuji shook his head:
"It's not like you don't know that what Saburo Kinoshita does is notoriously outrageous."

Out of line?

To say he went out of his way is a compliment.

I have never seen such a fun-loving, mischievous, and devoid of formal gods in my life.

Even the way to worship and worship is fake, so what else is true?

I was a little speechless. I was about to overturn the altar table, pick up the paper figurine and go back to the house to finish the work. When I turned my eyes, I found that the paper figurine had not moved in the strong wind.

This is a strong wind that almost blows people into the Golden Retriever Lion King.

I sighed a little and took another mouthful of wind:

"Senior Saburo Kinoshita, wake up, it's late at night, stop playing, we are in a hurry to go back to sleep."

Gong Shuji glanced at me in surprise, followed my line of sight, and fixed on the motionless paper man, his expression obviously helpless:
"Senior, is it your habit to hear others say bad things about you behind your back?"

Under the gaze of the two of us, the paper man finally had some reaction.

Saburo Kinoshita first put his paper hand on his face, making a gesture of 'beating the hat', and then slowly said:

"My old bones are just a little slow to react."

"Besides, don't you think it's interesting to suddenly interrupt when someone is saying bad things about you?"

Totally, I don’t find it very interesting.
Perhaps the silence between us made Kinoshita Saburo a little embarrassed. Kinoshita Saburo found a sheltered place to sit down and casually said:
"What do you want from me?"

"Is it possible that you have found my unfilial apprentice?" (End of Chapter)