From Jiu Shu's world

The old man sighed, and then said: "First it was dead human skin, and later he found that dead human skin is not durable, easy to break, and difficult to clean up. He spent a lot of money to buy live human skin in the countryside, and male horns bought male skin. Girls are the ones who buy female roles, and in those days, many people starved to death, and if they had money to save their lives, many people sold that piece of skin.”

"There are more and more roles, the plays are getting better and better, and the name of Fengxialou is getting louder and louder, but the things made of human skin have spirituality, but the evil nature is even more powerful. Suddenly one day, finally it is still problem occurs."

Chapter 2 Shadow Puppet Mutations

When the old man talked about the accident, his voice stopped, and he showed a frightened expression. Obviously, he had 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, Fengxialou was already a well-known big troupe. Although it was a big reunion 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 was singing. "

"Everyone saw that something was wrong with him. When he turned around, we all saw shadow puppet figures attached to his back. Their hands and feet moved together, as if they were controlling 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 said he was alive, and some even had cold hatred in their eyes, scary, scary. "

Old man Jia trembled slightly as he spoke, obviously he was really frightened at that time.

Henry Zhang glanced at him and said: "Huh, things made of human skin are evil in the first place, and you even use them to play shadow puppets for people to see. It's strange to be infected with popularity every day, or if it doesn't make a difference. I'm afraid it's 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 of Feng going downstairs to haunt the 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 the people in the rivers and lakes cast aside 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 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. , 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. Phantom puppets flying all over the sky rushed into the village, and when they saw people, they stuck to them, submerged into our house, and then They began to control 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 Saner is not attached, but Crazy and 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 this young man in Fengxia Village, it was all the previous generation’s 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, I have more or less known that there is such a thing.

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

Chapter 2

Old man Jia looked at the ruins and the villagers who were silently cleaning up, but said nothing, sighed, and walked out of the village with Henry Zhang. At this time, the matter should be over after all.

Old man Jia walked in front, Henry Zhang followed, maybe because the evil spirit attached to him was gone, his hands and feet were much slower at this meeting, and his movements were slow, like an ordinary old man.

The two walked into the peach grove, and within a few steps, the morning mist began to fill up. This time, old man Jia was not that evil, and there was no way to dispel the strange mist.

"Sir, the fog is too thick. I'm afraid that if I go in, I won't be able to get out, and I won't be able to find the place."

It is true that old man Jia is worried, he has been unfamiliar with the place where the shadow puppets are buried for a long time.Coupled with the fact that the place is filled with fog, it is already very depressing to look at, and it is naturally even more terrifying to enter.

Henry Zhangdao: "You retreat one after another, and I will deal with it."

Henry Zhang obviously had experience in dispelling the fog. Before the battle of the demon tree, he used the method of deflagration to disperse the mist that the demon aura turned into.

But this place is obviously not suitable, the forests all over the mountain, I am afraid it will be a disaster if the fire burns, let alone go in and catch those shadow puppet evil spirits.

I saw Henry Zhang looking at the nearby peach trees, and as soon as the black-bone dagger came out, he chopped off the several peach branches, one by one, and the row of peach trees on the edge was chopped off, and the cut peach trees The branches are piled up into a small pile of wood half a person's height.

Although the flowers and leaves of these peach trees are withered, they are not dead yet, and the spirit of the branches is still there, which can be used to exorcise evil spirits and suppress evil spirits.

After Henry Zhang piled the cut peachwood branches into a pile, he took out several spiritual fire talismans, ignited them with spiritual power, and then threw them into the peachwood pile, and the flames burned with a bang.

I don’t know if it’s because Henry Zhang put an exorcism talisman in the yellow talisman or if there is something special about the mahogany branch under the burning of the spirit fire talisman, there is a hint of blue in the flame.

The mahogany branches have not dried up to death, and there is a lot of water, but the burning smoke is billowing.

When Henry Zhang waited for the smoke to reach the height of a person, he took out three blank yellow talismans and threw them in front of them, hanging in the air, and drew a vermilion spell on the yellow talismans with a cinnabar pen in his right hand.

In an instant, the spell was drawn, and the yellow talisman glowed slightly. Henry Zhang made a formula with his hands, and with a wave of his sword, the three talismans moved by themselves, stacked into the shape of a thousand paper cranes.

Turning to the billowing smoke of the mahogany fire and flying, the three connected end to end, flying in a circle above the flames at a distance, it seems to have drawn an invisible dome, these smokes are gathered out of thin air, Can't dissipate half a point.

Detaining the thick smoke, Henry Zhang took out the Lieyang Talisman. This time he took out the Talisman, but he used a clever method to catch the fire, not to detonate the Talisman.

I saw a swipe of his finger from top to bottom, and the blazing sun talisman was brilliant, but it was divided into two, and an orange flame ignited at Henry Zhang's fingertips. The temperature was so high that the flames above the flame The air burns and deforms faintly.

With a wave of Henry Zhang’s fingertips, this flame immediately spread out, first turning into countless threads, and then turning into sporadic fire, flying towards the fire.

These fires quickly merged into the fire below, but rushed towards the smoke above. In a blink of an eye, the fire was like smoke, and it was perfectly integrated into the smoke, giving it a hint of orange light.

Everything was ready, Henry Zhang waved his finger, and said in his mouth: "The spirit crane is the guide, the fire and smoke continue, drive away the fog, go!"

He made a formula with his hand, and pointed towards the peach forest in front of him, and saw three cranes made of yellow talismans fly out, and then brought a billowing orange-red smoke, and began to fly towards the misty peach forest. .

Of the three paper cranes, one was in the center, and two flew to the left and right, and the smoke behind them was like a curtain, colliding with the mist.