From Jiu Shu's world

Chapter 216 Shadow puppet mutation
When the old man talked about the accident, his voice stopped, and he showed a frightened expression. Obviously, he had personally experienced the incident he was talking about, and he was quite frightened.

He continued: "It was a performance on New Year's Eve. At that time, Wind Downstairs was already a well-known big troupe. Although it was a big reunion day on New Year's Eve, someone still invited us to perform. It started off very smoothly, with lots of applause, but in the second half of the performance, something happened suddenly.

The shadow puppet show was performed just right, and the audience was mesmerized, but suddenly my father yelled and fell to the ground.Then he jumped up suddenly, smashed through the curtain where the shadow puppets were placed, and jumped to the front of the stage.He looked terrified, but his hands and feet moved involuntarily, the movements were exactly the same as the original shadow puppet, and he sang opera. "

"Everyone saw that something was wrong with him. When he turned around, we all saw shadow puppets attached to his back. Their hands and feet moved together, as if they were manipulating my father.

We were terrified, and the audience was also terrified. Suddenly, the shadow puppets that were supposed to be in the box flew out, men, women, and strange animals, mountain paintings, and tree paintings all flew out. In the team, on and off the stage, if you find one, you will be attached to it.One giggled and said, "I'm alive, I'm alive." Some even had cold hatred in their eyes, scary, scary. "

As Old Man Jia spoke, his body trembled slightly, apparently he was really frightened at that time.

Henry Zhang glanced at him, and said: "Huh, things made of human skin are inherently evil, and you even use them to play shadow puppets for people to see. It's strange to be infected with popularity every day, or it won't be strange. I'm afraid not Just let the shadow puppets come alive."

Old man Jia knew that Henry Zhang was capable, and seeing through the key at this glance, he couldn't help but sighed bitterly and said: "Later, we found out that the price of human skin my father charged was too high, so some people became evil and killed people to get the skin and sell it to me. Father, some of them couldn’t survive by themselves, so they skinned themselves or those of family members and sold them to my father, but once the skin was peeled, some people disappeared within a short time. Contaminated with human life, this is what caused the Hundred Ghosts Garden."

Hearing this, Henry Zhang couldn't help snorting coldly: "Hmph, you only found out later, but is it possible that your father didn't know that every human skin he collected might be contaminated with human life?"

Henry Zhang is not a fool, if he accepts human skin, he doesn’t need to kill himself, but this shadow puppet is about the size of a human head, how big do you think it is when you cut and cut such a skin?

If one person cut such a piece of skin, was there still work in that era?It's not that old man Jia's father didn't know, he was just pretending to be confused, so that he could feel at ease, but the skin was infected and turned into a shadow puppet.

"This"

Old man Jia wanted to refute, but he couldn't say a word when the words came to his mouth. He is no longer the child at his age, how could he not guess that his father must have known that this human skin might be fatal? ?

It's just that he can survive in this era, all thanks to his father's business, and he has a share in all kinds of sins, so he can't complain, it's all the fault of Fengxia.

He smiled wryly: "Oh, I was wrong, I was wrong, those who came out to mess around in the rivers and lakes will have to pay back in the end."

Henry Zhang asked: “Who saved you that night?”

The old man said: "Where can someone save me? When the sky is about to dawn, those shadow puppets somehow fell off and turned back to their original appearance. People are temporarily fine. But the news about Feng going downstairs to be haunted by ghosts spread like this. Somehow, the story of our Feng Xialou using human skin to make shadow puppets has gradually spread. The common people hate it, and people in the Jianghu despise it. It’s time to ruin the craftsmanship of our ancestors!”

After the old man spoke, he spat on the ground, full of self-deprecation and unspeakable sadness.

"Later, you came here?"

"Feng Xia's reputation is so bad that he and all the theater troupe who knew about it couldn't get along anymore. The family ran here from the north, got into a deep mountain depression, and hid.

His father also regretted it, he had an evil heart, and after doing such a thing, he was ashamed to face others, so he simply settled here, changed his name to Fengxia Village, and lived in seclusion.Later, some refugees escaped one after another, and it became what it is now. "

Henry Zhang looked at the old man who shook his head and smiled wryly, and asked, "Where are those shadow puppets? Have you all stayed?"

"Keep it? How dare you keep those things? When my father arrived here, he found a hillside, dug a big hole, threw all his belongings into it, and burned it up. Later, my father was still worried that this thing was evil. Xing, I don't know if it can be burned to death, and I planted peach trees all over the mountain, hoping that the peach trees will drive away evil spirits and subdue this evil thing.

It's just that you, sir, have also seen that the peach trees outside have grown into such a shape, I'm afraid they can't hold back the things there.It was fine in the past, although it couldn't be suppressed, but it was just that every morning and evening and when the moon was bright, a thick fog would rise, confusing people who entered the woods for one night.Besides, there are occasional sounds of playing in the peach forest, and it is not seen that they can come out to harm people.

But later, most of the leaves on the peach tree were bald overnight, and it was too late when we realized something was wrong. Shadow puppets flying all over the sky rushed into the village, and when they saw people, they stuck to them, submerged into our bodies, and then They began to manipulate us, doing laundry, cooking, and farming.

For more than half a year, we watched them live like human beings, but they couldn't speak or move, just like shadow puppets in their hands.That is to say, Crazy San'er is not attached to his body, but Crazy Crazy Shasha is free. "

Speaking of this, the old man stopped, and Henry Zhang knew what happened next, and it was really people who did evil, ghosts, this senior, or for the young people in Fengxia Village, it was all the seniors’ business, Now it's time to pay off the debt, and I don't know whether to say that he deserves it or that he is innocent.

Henry Zhang didn’t comment too much on this matter, but what he thought about was the shadow puppets and things. I’m afraid those things haven’t been completely separated, otherwise the peach forest would have died long ago, and there would be no need for a soul-binding The rope is tied to the ankle.So Henry Zhang asked: "Old man, do you remember where your father buried this shadow puppet?"

The old man knew that Henry Zhang seemed to be here for this matter, and he didn’t hide it, and said, “It’s just to the east of the peach forest in Xiaotaoshan.”

Henry Zhangdao: "So, please ask the old man to take me there, so that I can subdue these things, so as not to come out again and cause trouble."

Old man Jia nodded again and again, his eyes showed gratitude and said: "Thank you, sir, thank you, sir."

While the two were chatting, the crying had gradually stopped. Although there were still people crying silently, some people had already entered the ruins to search for useful things. Most of them were descendants of that Feng who went downstairs. I don't necessarily know everything about it, but in the past six months of being possessed, I have more or less known about it.

Now the mood is complicated, some are complaining, some are silent, but they heard that Henry Zhang is going to subdue those things, they can’t help showing hope in their eyes, if they are subdued, the peach trees all over the mountain should be alive, and Fengxia Village should also be at that time Live it.

(End of this chapter)