lost soul

Duan Baopu and Pei Ci walked out of the room to a long corridor, and found that the room they were in just now was just one of them. There was no end to the corridor, only white light emerged, like sunlight gathering, but it was milky white It's hard to see in the world, and it's a little mysterious.

"So what to do now? There's no one around—"

Pei Ci swallowed the word "person" because something came out of the white light.

The reason why it is said to be a thing is because the thing is indeed in the shape of a human being, but its feet do not touch the ground when it walks, and its body is light and floating.This has to make Pei Ci think of "ghosts" in film and television dramas.

Duan Baopu narrowed his eyes slightly, and he took two steps forward calmly, protecting Pei Ci behind him.

The thing was getting closer and closer, and at this moment it could be seen that it did not come empty-handed, it was carrying a wooden tray with a red hijab on it.

Pei Ci still felt something choked in his throat, a little uncomfortable, and even nauseated to the point of vomiting.

"Is Ah Ci okay? If you can't stand the shape of paper figurines, just cover your eyes." Duan Baopu patted Pei Ci's shoulder lightly with his right hand, trying to ease his discomfort.

"Well, it's fine."

Pei Ci don't start, don't look at the pale face, and the empty and completely lifeless eyes.

Paper figurine, slowly drifting over is a person made of paper, whose height is no different from that of an ordinary person, but the whole body still looks like a piece of white paper.

As for its face, it should have been intentionally done by the chemist. The facial features that were touched with a Chinese ink brush were squeezed into a ball, the hollowed out eye sockets, and the lips curled up to the corners of the eyes, all revealing the evil taste of the chemist.

The paper figurine didn't seem to know how disgusting its appearance was, it stopped two steps away from Duan Baopu and Pei Ci, and a smell of damp paper spread out.

Pei Ci frowned like a hill, and quickly covered his nose with his hands.

Duan Baopu tilted his head and glanced at Pei Ci, then raised his hand and brushed past him lightly, then looked at the paper figurine and said with a smile: "It seems that your master is very unfriendly to you."

Following Duan Baopu's appearance, the paper man tilted his head to look at Pei Ci, and raised his hand made of paper to pass in front of Pei Ci.

Pei Ci: "..."

Duan Baopu hurriedly protected Pei Ci behind his back, frowned at the paper figurine and said, "You can't move this person."

The paper figurine nodded half-understood, it patted the edge of the tray lightly, the red hijab jumped up, then flew around Pei Ci and Duan Baopu twice in the air, and finally landed on Pei Ci's head.

Pei Ci choked, touched the red hijab and muttered, "So even paper figurines can pick soft persimmons?"

"Think about it again, lady, maybe you are so beautiful that even paper figurines recognize you."

"That's really thankful for it."

The paper figurine didn't understand the communication between the two of them. It stretched out its hand with only two fingers. After tugging at the corner of Duan Baopu's clothes, it pointed to the white light at the end of the corridor.

Duan Baopu translated: "Here it is, it wants us to follow it into the white light."

The paper figurine nodded, turned around, and slowly floated towards the white light with the tray on its head.

The red hijab blocked Pei Ci's sight, and he could only walk forward under the guidance of Duan Baopu.

"I didn't expect you to know the language of the paper doll? It looks like it can understand what you say."

"Actually, it can understand what you say. In fact, these little things are quite cute."

Pei Ci pondered for a while and asked, "What kind of trick is this?"

"Paper medium technique can turn paper into human beings. It is usually used to beat people. There are also people who summon paper figurines with extremely high attack power, and they can be used to kill people. Of course, there are also people who are not willing to be lonely and use paper to distract their lives."

"Thinking about it, these paper figurines are still a bit pitiful."

"Who knows. I've also heard that someone enlightened a paper doll, making the paper doll have intelligence, can speak human language and think. That person even wanted to find a way to make the paper doll have emotions, but... "

"No success? Or did he give up? After all, it's not easy in your circle, right?"

"No." Duan Baopu shook his head and said, "I heard that that person was killed by his enemy, just before he succeeded. The paper figurine is also missing. It is said that he went to guard the grave of that person."

Hearing this, Duan Baopu and Pei Ci both felt a little bit embarrassed. What that person pursued in his life may be considered a success after his death.

"By the way." Seeing that Pei Ci liked these stories, Duan Baopu happened to think of another story: "There is another story related to paper dolls. In the past, not many people used paper media because of its complicated techniques. The steps are also difficult to follow. Fortunately, there were two people who improved the paper media technique, allowing..."

Duan Baopu didn't finish his sentence, the paper figurine had brought them into the white light unknowingly, the brilliance was bright in an instant, swallowing all the sound and time.

However, in just an instant, the white light dissipated, and Duan Baopu saw another scene in front of him.

There are clusters of flowers, lakes and waters, green mountains and green bamboos, birds and cranes contending.

Ten steps away, there is a peach tree that several adults can't hug.

The branches and leaves are luxuriant, with red silks of different lengths hanging down;

"This..." Through the red hijab that was constantly lifted by the wind, Pei Ci could glimpse a small piece of scenery: "Is this entering the valley?"

Before Duan Baopu could respond, a group of people came out from behind the peach tree, and then many heads appeared from all directions, slowly approaching Duan Baopu and the others.

Some people in the crowd clapped their hands and laughed loudly: "Congratulations, we have a new couple in Chengshuanggu!"

There was a lot of response, and there was laughter all around, and a female voice said: "Hey, there are still two handsome guys!"

"What do you mean? Oh—"

"Wow, nice, nice, the new guy is nice, nice."

"It's delicious!"

……

Some of the visitors wore skirts and long gowns, some wore the costumes of the Republic of China, and some wore modern clothes.Those who don’t know must have thought that the cosplayer planned to shoot the scene.

Didn't feel the hostility of those people, but still felt a strange atmosphere pervading, Duan Baopu smiled slightly and said: "You are the seniors who settled in Chengshuang Valley, right?"

"Senior doesn't count, let alone settling down. It's just a long-term journey with no return."

When one of them came back like this, Pei Ci's brows hidden under the hijab deepened, and he hooked Gou Duan Bao Pu's fingers without a trace.

"Don't be afraid, take one step at a time."

Duan Baopu said in a low voice, pulling Pei Ci to take the initiative to walk towards the group of people.

Under the peach blossom tree, the petals fell to the ground, like a pink carpet.

The previously missing paper figurine appeared again, and it had another tray in its hand, which looked more delicate than the previous one.Among them are two wine glasses and a jug of wine.

An uncle took the tray of paper figurines, and Duan Baopu sensitively noticed that many people's eyes were fixed on the tray tightly, wishing to be engraved in their eyes.

The uncle raised his hand to press it down, coughed heavily, and hooked his fingers at a man and a woman beside him.

The happy expressions on the faces of men and women are even more serious than before. If it was pretending just now, it must be from the heart now.

Duan Baopu looked at the faces of other people, although he restrained himself a bit, he couldn't completely hide the deep disappointment and jealousy.

"Come on, the two newcomers, after drinking a cup of wine and getting married, you can enjoy the double valley."

The men and women each held a glass, filled it with wine, and handed it to Duan Baopu and Pei Ci.

Just at this time, a strong wind blew past, and the peach blossoms rustled down. The man and the woman avoided to avoid the peach petals from falling into the wine glass.

"There are peach blossoms falling."

Duan Baopu raised the corners of his mouth and smiled slightly.

He stretched out his hand that was tucked in his sleeve, and brushed it over the cup with his wide sleeve.

"Hey you kid—!"

Before the uncle had time to scold, Duan Baopu raised his hand, with a piece of peach blossom dipped in wine between his fingers.

Seeing that the uncle is not easy to pursue, he continued the so-called steps of getting married: "Come, drink the wine."

Duan Baopu and Pei Ci each held a glass of wine, their arms intertwined, and they fed each other wine.

Duan Baopu drank it down in one gulp, Pei Ci couldn't get used to the smell of the wine, but he finished it slowly.

"very good."

The uncle smiled, and he waved his hand and said: "I wish you...a happy marriage for a hundred years. You can visit the valley as you like. The rooms are also the two rooms where the wedding robes were changed before."

After speaking, the uncle took the man and the woman away, and the crowd also dispersed. Duan Baopu lifted Pei Ci's hijab, only to see that Pei Ci's cheeks were slightly flushed, whether it was because of alcohol or other reasons.

Duan Baopu smiled and said: "A moment in the spring night is worth a thousand gold, let's go to the bridal chamber first."

The author has something to say: "A moment of spring night is worth a thousand gold" quoted from "Spring Night" by Su Shi in the Northern Song Dynasty