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Hearing Tao Mengyan's question, Lin Wu suddenly felt his heart skip a beat. It seemed that he hadn't read the book just now, but was only focusing on the oiled paper umbrella.

But at the next moment, Lin Wu had an idea, and said: "You may not know, I once entered the backstage of a real troupe, where there were shadow puppet shows and puppet shows, and every newcomer to the troupe will be told many, many precautions, Including this so-called ghost show. In fact, in the early days, shadow puppets and puppet shows were called ghost shows, including on the day of July and a half, the troupe would hold a show, but this one was not for people to watch , so I also know a little bit about these things. Of course, every theater troupe has the book Ghost Opera backstage, and the content inside is exactly the same. So it seems that I haven’t read this book, but in fact I have read it a long time ago. "

Hearing this, Tao Mengyan still had an expression of disbelief, and said, "Do you believe this kind of statement?"

Lin Wu shook his head helplessly, and said: "Perhaps the statement is a little nonsense, but it is a fact. I have indeed been in the backstage of a certain troupe. Opera is a folk art, and the troupe at the beginning actually belonged to Baoyi. Many of them would choose to travel around after a hungry meal, in order to maintain their expenses. Naturally, different places have different customs. Therefore, in order to avoid some troubles, or to avoid provoking unclean things, many troupes have their own rules."

Hearing this, Tao Mengyan looked at Lin Wu with suspicion, and said suspiciously: "Really?"

Lin Wu nodded with a serious face, and said: "Of course, everything is true, truer than real gold."

Tao Mengyan snorted and said, "So according to the book, what should we do now?"

Lin Wu pondered for a while, and said: "The current situation should be to write a word 'seal' on the forehead of the puppet in order to seal the unclean things. But if writing the word 'seal' is useless, then We can only settle for the next best thing and write the word 'drive'."

Tao Mengyan looked at the book and nodded, and said, "You are right, but there is no record of writing the word 'drive' in this book."

Hearing this, Lin Wu thought to himself: Of course, because I made this up.

Nine started laughing again.

Lin Wu said: "That should also have something to do with the fact that this troupe enshrines the Duowen Heavenly King."

Tao Mengyan was a little surprised, and said, "Could it be that other theater troupes enshrine other gods?"

Lin Wu nodded and said: "Theatrical troupes in different places enshrine different gods. Some are dedicated to the patriarch of Liyuan——Tang Minghuang, some are dedicated to the opera god, and some even worship the emperor of exorcism—Zhong Kui. Like this If the troupe specializes in performing ghost shows, there is nothing wrong with enshrining Duowen Heavenly King."

Hearing this, Tao Mengyan was stunned, and said, "Now I start to believe what you said before."

Lin Wu secretly heaved a sigh of relief. He still knew about which gods the theater troupe enshrined. After all, he liked operas and storytelling cultures very much before time travel. Likes like a 70-[-]-year-old man.

Afterwards, Tao Mengyan continued: "Don't move, give me the pen, and I will write the word 'seal'."

Lin Wu reluctantly handed over the pen to Tao Mengyan.

Returning to the shadow puppet workshop, she dipped the pen in red paint. After finishing all this, Tao Mengyan returned to the stage and carefully wrote the word 'seal' on the puppet's forehead.

The next moment, the puppet's staring eyes disappeared instantly, replaced by two empty eye sockets.

Afterwards, Lin Wu said, "Now you can take the whip."

Tao Mengyan reached out to take off the whip, this time the puppet didn't reach out to snatch it either.

After taking down the whip, Tao Mengyan was a little surprised, and asked, "What is this thing used for?"

Lin Wu looked at Tao Mengyan helplessly, and said, "You don't even know what this thing is for, so you just grab it?"

Tao Mengyan nodded innocently.

Lin Wu sighed, and said: "Forget it, I don't know what to do with the horsewhip used in opera except for singing. Let's go to the backstage first, maybe I can find some clues."

With that said, Lin Wu walked towards the backstage.

Tao Mengyan pouted and muttered: "Hey, I don't even know about it, but I have the nerve to say it about me."

Lin Wu ignored Tao Mengyan and walked towards the backstage on his own.

However, when passing through the backstage gate, Lin Wu didn't feel any resistance. He couldn't help being a little surprised, thinking: No, shouldn't there be five ghosts in costumes blocking here?Is it because it's not the protagonist who comes in, so they don't block it?

Thinking of this, Lin Wu decided to give it a try, so he shouted to Tao Mengyan: "Hey, stupid girl, come here."

Tao Mengyan walked to the backstage door with an angry face, and said, "What did you call me?"

Lin Wu smiled and said, "Stupid girl, what's the problem?"

Tao Mengyan snorted softly, and said, "You're a stupid girl! Your whole family are stupid girls!"

Lin Wu smiled helplessly, and said, "What are you still doing on stage? Are you not afraid of ghosts?"

Upon hearing this, Tao Mengyan immediately shrank her neck, and ran towards Lin Wu quickly.

However, when Tao Mengyan ran to the door, she was pushed back by some force.

Tao Mengyan couldn't help but looked up at Lin Wu, and said, "Why are you pushing me?"

Lin Wu said innocently: "When did I push you?"

Tao Mengyan frowned, and said: "You are the only one, you didn't push it, could it be a ghost?"

Lin Wu walked out of the backstage door step by step, stood behind Tao Mengyan, and said, "You go first, otherwise I will say I pushed you."

Afterwards, Tao Mengyan walked towards the backstage.

This time, she was still pushed back.

Tao Mengyan exclaimed in surprise: "Ah! What... what is it? There must be ghosts, right?"

Lin Wu spread his hands and said, "Take out your phone and take a picture, so you'll know?"

Hearing this, Tao Mengyan nodded and took out her phone.

However, when she looked at the backstage door, five figures with costumes painted on them flashed away, and then five phantoms appeared at the backstage door, and each phantom had a costume painted on its face in a different color.

Tao Mengyan was so frightened by this scene that she almost dropped her phone, and exclaimed, "What? Five...five?! They seem to be blocking the door, what should I do?"

Lin Wu pondered for a while, and said, "I remember that there seem to be five facial makeups in the Shadow Puppet Workshop. Is it related to this?"

When Tao Mengyan heard this, she immediately showed a delighted smile, and while walking towards the shadow puppet workshop, she said, "Let's go, go and have a look, maybe put the masks in the right order, and they won't block the door."

Lin Wu shook his head and said, "I don't think so, let's try it first."

After finishing speaking, Lin Wu also walked towards the Shadow Puppet Workshop.

The two came to the workshop and put the masks of each color in the correct position.

The next moment, a pair of eyes appeared on each face, staring straight ahead.

Tao Mengyan was startled again, and hid behind Lin Wu with a stride.

At the same time, a painting gradually emerged on the white paper pasted on the shelf where the Facebook makeup was placed.

The painting is an image of a shadow puppet, wearing a golden armor and holding a riding whip, looking like a general.

Wu Lin took off the painting and said, "It seems that the clue given by the face makeup is this thing."

Tao Mengyan also poked her head out to take a look.

However, when she saw the portrait on the paper clearly, she was a little surprised and said: "This portrait seems to be a bit like the unpainted shadow puppet on the table. Do you want us to color the shadow puppet according to this portrait? ?”

Lin Wu nodded and said: "It should be like this, but this shadow puppet seems to have no head, where is the head?"

Tao Mengyan said: "It was recorded in the ghost play book before that when the shadow puppet is not in use, it cannot be used as a head, otherwise it will attract ghosts. So do you need to find the head first?"

Lin Wu pondered for a while, and said: "It's fine, otherwise let's paint first. Anyway, I have a pen in my hand, so I can paint."

Tao Mengyan smiled slightly, and then began to color the shadow puppet.

Not long after, several parts of the shadow puppet have been painted, except that there is no head, and other parts are exactly the same as in the portrait.

Lin Wu smiled slightly, glanced at the Heavenly King Duowen on the cabinet next to him, rolled his eyes, pretended to be surprised, and said, "Why is the Heavenly King Duowen obviously just a statue, but why does the umbrella in his hand seem to be made artificially? "

Hearing this, Tao Mengyan also looked at the statue and said, "From what you said, it seems to be true. Does it have any special meaning?"

Lin Wu nodded thoughtfully, and said, "I have an idea, and I need to verify it now."

After finishing speaking, Lin Wu turned and walked towards the stage.

After arriving on the stage, Wu Lin put the oil-paper umbrella that could not be opened in the puppet's hand, and adjusted the puppet's head and limbs so that the puppet's posture was the same as that of King Duowen.

The next moment, the oil-paper umbrella in the puppet's hand opened instantly.

Tao Mengyan, who had just walked to the edge of the stage, saw this scene, and said in surprise: "Hey, it's opened? Why?"

Lin Wu shook his head and said: "There are too many things that are unclear. Maybe it's because I arranged the puppet's movements to be the same as the Duowen Heavenly King, so the unclean things around will regard it as Duowen. Heavenly King, the best proof is that you lose when the oiled paper umbrella opens automatically. Now, see if those five are still blocking the door."

Tao Mengyan took out her mobile phone to take a photo, shook her head and said, "It's gone, this trick really works, how did you think of it?"

Lin Wu smiled slightly and said: "I just thought of a scene in a movie, a troupe went to a village to sing, but after the stage was built, the troupe manager could always hear movement on the stage at night, so I organized everyone to sing a ghost-hunting play to frighten the little ghosts around. I just had the mentality of trying it out, but I didn’t expect it to be really effective.”

After speaking, Lin Wu took the lead to enter the backstage.

Tao Mengyan followed closely behind.

Entering the backstage, there are two red curtains that catch the eye. Among them, there is a shadow on the red curtain facing the gate, which looks like a person posing for a debut.

Lin Wu stepped forward and opened the red curtain, but inside was just a costume, which was hung on a wooden frame.

Tao Mengyan sighed, and said, "It's just costumes, I know."

Lin Wu looked back at Tao Mengyan strangely, and said, "You know again?"

Tao Mengyan snorted and ignored Lin Wu.

Only then did Lin Wu look around.

There is a long table next to the costume, and on the long table are a white cup, a mirror, a small wooden box, a notebook, and half a candle.

The drawer under the long table was pulled open, and the things inside were very messy, as if it had recruited a thief.

There is a small wooden box in the corner facing the table. There is a layer of white cloth on the small wooden box, and there are heads of various shadow puppets inside.

Seeing this, Lin Wu smiled slightly, and reached out to take out one of the heads of many shadow puppets.

Tao Mengyan looked at the head in Lin Wu's hand, then at the portrait, and said, "It seems to be this, your eyes are really good."

Lin Wu smiled slightly and said, "Thank you, it's really not easy to hear compliments from you."

Tao Mengyan gave Lin Wu a blank look, picked up the notes on the table and looked at them.

Lin Wu put away the white cup on the table.

Afterwards, Lin Wu walked around the background again, and said, "There seems to be nothing useful here, let's go, go and put the shadow puppet's head on, maybe we can get some clues."

Hearing this, Tao Mengyan put down her notes and said, "The Six Burial Bodhisattvas were actually left by Xuanzang when he passed by here. I really didn't expect that."

Lin Wu said: "There is no way to verify this kind of thing. You say yes, I say no. This is just the guess of the two of us. The truth may no longer be known."

With that said, Lin Wu had already walked to the backstage door.

Tao Mengyan quickly followed.

However, just as the two were about to leave, there was an untitled landing sound behind them.