Paper horse incense shop

Chapter 58 Carpenter
  I swallowed hard the blood that was about to spurt out from my throat, tremblingly took out the pills I had prepared in my arms and swallowed them. After dozens of breaths, I managed to regain some clarity.

I thought back to the scene just now and the middle-aged man, and it was even harder to calm down the shock in my chest.

Although the middle-aged man's voice was hoarse, it was obvious that he had a southern accent and was not from his hometown.

And I have never seen this person in the village before, and I have never heard of this person from my second uncle!
  But that man was obviously an old acquaintance of his second uncle. Not only could he tell him his name, but he also knew his methods.
  No matter how stupid I am, I know that his appearance at this time is more or less related to the departure of my second uncle!

My second uncle's departure was obviously not as simple as he told me.
  Did this person come to look for his second uncle after he left Wanyao?
  Or was the second uncle forced to leave the village by this person?
  My thoughts were racing and the pain all over my body intensified. I couldn't help but think of the thing that recognized me.

It only took a few seconds, but it really made me remember something.

If I remember correctly, the heavy object thrown at me should be shoes, and it was——

A wooden shoe!
  Shoes, lost shoes
  Who could make such exquisite wooden shoes?

Maybe a job like carpenter?

Wait, think about it again, isn't the black silk rope blended with the darkness the ink line of the carpenter's ink fountain?
  The moment I cleared my mind, all the hairs on my body stood up.

I finally remembered what this sense of inconsistency was about. In the second half of my second uncle’s popular notebook, there was a mention of a carpenter losing his shoe!

As one of the three traditional professions that have existed since ancient times, the status of carpentry is far higher than most of the other professions!

In ancient times, when a house was built and the beams were installed and the roof was capped, there was a saying that carpenters would be hired to suppress evil spirits.

And the most famous carpenter is none other than the famous Lu Ban!

Lu Ban, also known as Gongshu Ban, is the author of the famous "Book of Lu Ban", also known as "Missing One Door". It is said that he can not only exorcise evil spirits and suppress evil spirits, but also has many unknown abilities to regulate pulse and stabilize the house.

The reason why it is called "The Missing One" is because it is rumored that those who practice it will definitely be subject to a kind of 'curse' of being widowed, widowed, lonely, alone, and disabled, so it has been listed as a "student" for a long time. For banned books.

After the second uncle recorded this, he also wrote down a shocking little story——

It happened more than 20 years ago in Wangcheng. A family wanted to demolish their old house and rebuild it, so they hired a fledgling carpenter to work on it.

Although the carpenter was young, he was not sloppy in his work, and he did it neatly and well. It only took him three months to finish all the various hanging beams and carvings needed for a magnificent house. He just waited. Assemble the upper beam.

The carpenter worked for three months and finally took a breath. At the urging of his mother-in-law, he wanted to ask the owner for wages so that he could go home and live a peaceful life with his mother-in-law.

Unexpectedly, the owner, who used to be kind and kind when working, suddenly turned against the carpenter when he asked for wages.

When he first asked for wages, the owner would complain and scold the carpenter for something he didn't do well.

The carpenter listened to everything in a muffled voice, then lowered his wages and made changes according to the owner's requirements.

But the owner was always dissatisfied, and in the end he even cursed the carpenter. Whenever he came to ask for wages, the whole family would throw a tantrum and beat the carpenter to death.

What does the carpenter still don't understand at this time?
  Isn’t this just because you don’t want to pay your wages? ! I am working for nothing!

Otherwise, the carpenter was a quiet and ruthless boss, and he never came to ask for wages after that.

The family was very happy when they saw the carpenter leaving, thinking that they had gotten a bargain. Unexpectedly, just a few days after being happy, the man who headed the household lost his shoes to the carpenter who had already ambushed him when he went out.

The man was so angry that he thought the carpenter wanted to fight, but the carpenter threw away his shoes and walked away.

When a man thinks, 'Anyway, I took advantage and got a wooden shoe smashed into my head. It doesn't hurt or itch, so what does it matter?' ’, and then he happily forgot about it.

But the carpenter's revenge had just begun.

The man had been possessed since that day, and he always felt that something was wrong all over his body, but he couldn't put it into words, and he became more and more depressed.

This family was stingy and felt that the man was making a fuss. They did not go to the hospital. They only went to the Barefoot Doctor to prescribe a few pills for the man to take and ignored him.

until--

Men can no longer look people in the eye.

This matter was discovered by the only daughter in the family besides the man.

My daughter was playing around at home that day, and she said something shocking:

"Dad, don't look at me. I'm a monster and scary."

The daughter-in-law was eating melon seeds, shook her clothes and cursed angrily:
  "Where is your father looking at you? You are playing with you!"

The daughter pointed at her father and shed tears of grievance. The daughter-in-law then glanced at her husband. It didn't matter at this glance, she was shocked!

The man's head was somehow lowered on his chest, with his chin firmly pressed against his collarbone.

The whole head and body were straight at 90 degrees, and he couldn't even speak!
  No wonder her daughter would say that her father looked at her with his head bowed like that, but he could only look at the ground! !

The daughter-in-law's eyes turned dark and she quickly called her family. Fortunately, the man learned a few words and wrote down everything about himself.

When the carpenter lost his shoe that day, it hit him in the back of the head. It hurt a little bit at the beginning. In the first two days, his head didn't hang too much. It only dropped one third of the amount every day. He thought it was a stiff neck. , but today they all drooped. After finally realizing something was wrong, I was completely speechless!
  After hearing this call, the family finally realized that they were frightened. They asked around for the carpenter's address and wanted to settle the wages to the carpenter.
  But obviously, it's too late!

On the fourth day after losing his shoes, the man was crushed to death with his spine broken!

And their family's suffering has just begun!
  First the daughter got sick, then the daughter-in-law, and both the old mothers went crazy and were possessed by evil spirits, fighting each other.
  Then one night, three people hanged themselves together. It all happened so fast, from beginning to end, it only took six or seven days!
  The second uncle passed by Wangcheng and heard someone talking about this matter. He became interested and went into the renovated house to take a closer look. Only then did he discover that three people had been hung on the beams of the family's house at some time. Hanged wooden doll!

Because of the money, this carpenter even spared a five or six-year-old girl!

The second uncle was young and energetic at the time. When he saw this scene, he couldn't help but feel angry. He tore down the three wooden dolls and used the paper method to find people, hoping to give the evil carpenter some color.

Nichengxiang's second uncle went to the carpenter's home and fought with the carpenter, but ended up disturbing the carpenter's pregnant wife, causing the carpenter's wife to miscarry, and thus forged a great feud.

With a complicated look on my face, I recalled what my second uncle had written down about the carpenter’s lost shoe, and then I recalled the last sentence my second uncle wrote:

"Wangcheng Gongshu's name is well-deserved."

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