My master is the coffin

Chapter 41 The Paper Man
A few of us stopped around the dug hole.

The abbot and I touched the stone box with a shovel: "It seems to be made of cement. The quality of this urn is not very good."

Li's mother looked at the pit, and said with some doubts: "It's not right. If this is an urn, it will be buried too shallow. It is safe to be buried in the ground. It is safe to be buried in the ground. This depth is not considered buried at all. It is simply placed in the ground." on the ground, and then piled up a little soil."

The abbot sniffed: "In the middle of the night, let's stop studying this. It's a mule or a horse. Pull it out for a walk. Don't you know if you open the urn?"

This urn is different from the others, there is no opening to open at all, the abbot tried a bit, and then started to smash it with a shovel. The shovel hit the urn, and a crisp sound was heard in the night, which made people teeth acid.

Li Xiaoxing couldn't help but said: "Don't smash it, it's in the middle of the night, it's too infiltrating."

The abbot didn't listen, and continued to smash it, with sparks flying wildly.Suddenly, with a muffled sound, the urn split into several pieces.

Immediately afterwards, a gust of cold wind blew out from inside, and a large cloud of dust was blown out, covering us there.

We all covered our noses and mouths and fled in all directions.

Li Xiaoxing looked at me and the abbot with lingering fear in his heart: "You two are too courageous, isn't this a setback?"

I slapped the ashes on my body while enduring my nausea.After cleaning it up a bit, he said to the abbot, "Go and see what's going on."

The ashes had already settled, we walked slowly and saw the urn lying on the ground, except for the smashed cement, there was a small paper doll inside.

Nose and eyes are drawn on this paper figurine, and the artist is not very good.But I can tell at a glance that it has the charm of a three-bed old man.

Apparently, the abbot also noticed it, and said to me: "This paper figure is a bit like an old man with three beds."

I turned the paper figurine over and saw his birthday written on his back.If I didn't guess wrong, it should be the old man's horoscope.

The abbot asked me, "What should we do?"

I shook my head: "This paper man must have something to do with that old man. We have to find a way to find him."

Li Ma sighed: "Okay, we've finished burning the paper, let's go back early. It's scary to stay in the cemetery in the middle of the night."

I held the paper figurine in my hand, and started walking back with the shovel on my shoulder.

Just as he turned around, he suddenly saw a figure flashing out of the darkness in front of him.The man bent his back, but he tried his best to lift his head upwards.It was the grave watcher I met before.

The abbot looked at the hunchback and laughed: "Your speed is too slow, you came here after we finished our work. Are we playing the tortoise and the hare?"

The hunchback ignored the abbot, walked slowly through the crowd, walked up to me, and said in a low voice, "Give me the paper man."

I was a little surprised: "How do you know that I got a paper doll just now?"

The hunchbacked voice was a little impatient: "This paper man is the one I took care of, of course I know."

Now it was my turn to be surprised: "You put it in? Do you know the old man with three beds?"

Li Ma was also a little surprised: "Second uncle, haven't you never heard of this man named Wu Tianzheng?"

The hunchback sneered and said, "Who said I haven't heard of it?" Then, I saw him straighten up slowly.

Li Ma exclaimed: "Second uncle, is your hunchback healed?"

We didn't feel anything when we bent over before the hunchback.Now that he stood up straight, I suddenly found that he was very tall and tall, a head taller than me and the abbot.

Then, he said to me coldly: "Give me the paper man."

I was taken aback by this aura, so I gathered myself together, held the paper figurine and asked, "Tell me first, where is the old man with three beds? What is his relationship with this Wu Tianzheng?"

The hunchback suddenly let out a long laugh, looking very strange in the night wind.He suddenly widened his eyes, looked at me and said, "The old man with the third bed? Wu Tianzheng? Both of them are me."

I was a little surprised: "You are an old man with three beds? It's not like that."

Li Xiaoxing, who was standing behind me, tugged on my clothes: "Xu You, the upper body of the ghost."

One sentence reminded me, and I suddenly realized that yes, the hunchback was possessed by a ghost.

At this moment, the hunchback suddenly yelled at me: "Are you masters and apprentices planning to drive me out? I have already given up the blood contract by myself, my vitality was severely injured, and I almost died. I have been resting for more than a month before I barely recovered. .What else do you want? Return the paper figurine to me."

I was a little scared, but I held the paper figurine and didn't let go: "Let me give you the paper figurine, but you have to promise me one condition, my master..."

Before I could finish my sentence, a gust of wind rushed towards me, and I choked on the second half of my sentence.Before I could react, I felt the hunchback grab my collar and throw me out.

My body hit a tombstone, and there was a sharp pain in my waist, which almost broke me.

I lay on the ground and struggled for a while, unable to stand up at all.

I managed to pull out the mahogany sword. Fortunately, I don't know if it was because I fed it with blood every day or what happened. This sword is extremely strong.

I thought silently in my heart: "You are a ghost, it's just right for me to kill you with a mahogany sword."

However, I haven't waited for my hands yet.A huge shadow looms over me.

I looked up and saw the hunchback standing in front of me.He looked at me condescendingly, reached out and snatched away my mahogany sword.

The hunchback looked at the mahogany sword in my hand happily: "It's not bad, it's mine."

I was lying on the ground, at my wit's end, when I saw the abbot standing tremblingly behind the hunchback, and in his hand, he happened to be holding the master's daughter's mahogany sword.

I was overjoyed in my heart, as long as the abbot is willing to sneak attack and give him a fight, wouldn't we win?
However, the abbot was standing there, hesitated for a while, and hid the mahogany sword.He didn't even have the guts to attack.

The hunchback got my mahogany sword, and reached out to grab the paper figurine in my hand.

I held the paper figurine tightly and threatened him: "Be more polite, otherwise the paper figurine will be torn apart."

The hunchback was not threatened by me at all, and the mahogany sword touched my heart, and said lightly: "Did your master tell you what will happen if you die?"

I nodded blankly: "The soul flies away."

When the hunchback heard these four words, the corners of his mouth twitched visibly.Then he exerted force, and the tip of the sword pierced my clothes and touched my skin, causing a slight pain.

At this time, life-saving is the most important thing, I slowly handed out the paper figurine, and said cautiously: "Master, my master has something to ask, we..."

Before I could finish my sentence, I suddenly heard a muffled sound.Pain appeared on the hunchback's face, and then he fell down straight.

I looked at the abbot standing behind the hunchback holding a stone in surprise.

The abbot's face was full of pride: "How is it? How dare you threaten my buddies?"

Only then did I realize that the abbot put away the mahogany sword just now to pick up stones from the ground.In his opinion, the power of a stone is far greater than a thin mahogany sword.

I got up from the ground and told the abbot, "Tie him up."

There was no rope around at all, so we untied the belt and tied the hunchback tightly.During this period, Mama Li hesitated to speak, but in the end she remained silent.After seeing the thrilling scene just now, she also knew that her second uncle was a dangerous person.

After a few minutes, we woke up the hunchback.The kid looked around blankly, and suddenly howled like a pig: "What do you want? Are you going to deal with me?" Suddenly, he saw Li Ma, and said angrily: "You are not filial, You are with outsiders, tied up your second uncle..."

I sighed: "Abbot, let him go. The old man with three beds has already left."

While letting go of the hunchback, the abbot asked anxiously: "The old man is gone, what will your master do?"

I looked at the paper figure in my hand: "Although I don't know what use this paper figure is for him, I'm sure that as long as this paper figure is in our hands, he will definitely come back. Let's go back now. Dasheng Temple. It’s been a day and a night, and I don’t know what happened to Master.”

The four of us left, leaving the hunchback bent over there, struggling to fill the hole we dug with a shovel.In his words, this cemetery is the face of their old Li family.It can't be so undignified.

It was already midnight at this time, and there were no buses on the road.And here is very remote, and there are not many taxis.

The four of us waited for a long time by the side of the road. The abbot and I held a mahogany sword and looked around vigilantly, for fear that the old man with three beds would jump out of nowhere.

After tossing and tossing for several hours, Li Xiaoxing's family finally returned home, and the abbot and I also returned to the Dasheng Temple.

As soon as I got back to the temple, I ran to the toilet and shouted loudly: "Master, how are you?"

Fortunately, a gloomy voice came from the toilet: "I'm still here."

Then, I carefully brought out the basin of water and placed it safely on the hall.

The abbot and I stood far away.The ever-burning lights in the main hall were flickering, and Zhang Yuan's voice was also ethereal: "How is it? Have you found that old man?"

I nodded: "I found it, but he refused to come back with us."

Zhang Yuan pondered for a while, and said: "It's okay, I also expected it, it would be impossible to invite him back so smoothly. What did he say? Did he think the coffin shop was too dangerous and dare not go? Or was it because he hated us master and apprentice? Refuse to go?"

I shook my head: "No, I have no chance to talk about the coffin shop."

Speaking of which, let me tell you about the grave we found, how we found the paper figurine, and how the old man on the third bed got hunched over.I said it all over again.

Zhang Yuan said after hearing this: "This paper figure is very important to him. Since the paper figure is in our hands, he will definitely come to get it. You and the abbot make preparations."

(End of this chapter)