Living Paper

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Sun Xianniang is over 60 after all, and it takes a lot of energy to invite the people below to come up every time, even if she is not a big customer, she can't be invited.For the sake of money, she invited the ghost to come up for Su Yin, but she didn't know what went wrong, the ghost went into a rage and overturned her table and chairs.

Sun Xianniang was so old that she couldn't stand this kind of torment, she lay in bed all day and couldn't get up.

The door knocked twice, and Sun Xianniang lay silent.

"Is Sun Xianniang here?"

The soft voice sounded like the fat sheep. Sun Xianniang got up with support, opened a crack in the door, and saw that frustrated little girl standing at the door.

She hurriedly opened her mouth: "Let's go, hurry up, I won't take your business."

Su Yin didn't speak, she opened her handbag, revealing the rolls of money inside.

It was only then that Sun Xianniang looked at her again. When this girl came back for the first time, she was confused, but today she seemed to be a different person. Sun Xianniang grinned her toothless mouth and said, "Come in."

Su Yin sat down on the chair: "Please come up Zhan Shaotang, I have something to burn for him."

Sun Xianniang glanced at her: "What is it? Don't play tricks on my old woman again, I'm still dizzy and dizzy from what happened yesterday."

Ask Mi Po only by their surnames, and respectfully call them Xianniang. Sun Xianniang is the most famous in this area, and also the one who asks for the most ruthless price.

Most of the other fairies invite people to come up because their customers miss their loved ones underground, or they cannot make a decision. Only she does other things besides invite people up.

Only then did Su Yin find her: "Birth date."

Sun Xianniang narrowed her eyes, looked at her with raised eyebrows, took the yellow paper she had pressed under the rice plate, took a look at it and said, "Have you figured it out? If you really burned the horoscope, you can't go back on your word."

"Think about it." Apart from this, she had no other choice.

Sun Xianniang opened the altar again in accordance with the law, swaying her body to invite Zhan Shaotang to go up, singing a curse-like tune again, her body froze suddenly, and her whole posture changed.

"Did it come?" It was that male-female voice again.

Sun Xianniang's room was filled with red light, the candle flame was shaking slightly, not even a ray of sunlight came in, Su Yin looked at Zhan Shaotang through Sun Xianniang.

The smoker grinned at her with his yellow teeth showing.

Su Yin squeezed her handbag tightly: "You get what you want, so don't pester me again."

"Sun Xianniang" groaned twice, holding the piece of yellow paper and lighting it on the candle, and when the yellow paper was burnt to ashes, Sun Xianniang came back to her senses trembling.

Su Yin took out a roll of money and placed it on the table.

Sun Xianniang was counting the money, and hurriedly used the money to buy a pipe. After taking a puff, the pain in her bones could be relieved: "Little girl, if you come again later, I will give you a better deal."

"No, I won't come again."

Sun Xianniang smiled and looked at her back while counting the money. Once you have tasted the sweetness of this kind of thing, you can't stop.

"That female doll has a good horoscope at first glance, and it's not easy to leave. You might as well beat her villain, anyway, she already has a horoscope. If you beat her for a month, if you beat her for a year, you will be promoted step by step after beating the villain."

Su Yin stood in the small room, her eyes were red, dazzled her, and Sun Xianniang's voice pierced into her heart.

"You should think about it. Today is the sixteenth. If you miss this day, you will not be able to play until the twenty-sixth. There will be long nights and dreams."

Su Yin took out the money again, turned around and left after her, and strode out the door. She will never, never come again!

As soon as it got dark, Tao Yonghua felt drowsy. She usually had to read and write articles for the school newspaper, but today she was so tired that she fell asleep as soon as she touched the pillow.

In a trance, the sound of gongs and drums sounded in her ears. Someone was holding a wedding beside her, and "Congratulations", "Hundred Years of Love" and "Early Marriage" came from afar.

Tao Yonghua opened his eyes, whose family is it?It's so late, are you still playing the gong for a wedding?

When she opened her eyes, her eyes were red, the room was still hers, but there were many people walking in and out of the room, all of whom she didn't know.

Wearing old-fashioned maid clothes, all of them are smiling, all wearing red clothes and green trousers, and all of them have a pair of small feet.

They put up window grilles with Chinese characters "Hi" on the window, and stretched out their hands to help Tao Yonghua sit in front of the mirror, combed her hair, and took out a pair of dragon and phoenix shoes with gold and beads, and bent down to change them for her.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?" Tao Yonghua felt that something was wrong, she kicked off the dragon and phoenix shoes, and those girls pushed her against the dressing table with great strength.

Tao Yonghua glanced at the mirror while struggling, his body went limp in fright.

The maids and mothers in the mirror are all made of paper. They are pale, with two blushes on their cheeks, eyebrows, eyes, and even their smiles are exactly the same.

Two paper figurines came towards Tao Yonghua with a big red paper dress, trying to put the paper dress on her body. The paper figurines did not move their mouths, but they made a sound: "Bride, quickly change into the wedding clothes, the people who get on the sedan chair The hour is coming."

Tao Yonghua suddenly understood that Yinyin was having this dream.

She wanted to struggle and run out, but just as she pushed the paper figurine away, it felt as if she had been hit by a heavy nail on the head, her headache was splitting, and she managed to recover, but there was another blow on her stomach.

Sun Xianniang lit the incense, and there was an incense burner in front of her, five pieces of yellow paper were pressed under the burner, and a knife of raw pork was placed in front of her.

In her hand, she was holding a yellow paper figure with Tao Yonghua's birth date written on it. She hit the paper figure on the head with the sole of her shoe and muttered something.

"Slapping your little head will make it difficult for you to lift your head forever. Slapping your little feet will make you have nowhere to go."

Tao Yonghua was writhing on the bed in pain, those paper figurines took her by the hands and feet, and put the paper clothes and shoes on her body.

As soon as she put on the paper clothes, Tao Yonghua became drowsy. She saw herself being carried into the sedan chair, and then watched the paper figurines carry her to a paper house.

"The bride gets off the sedan chair." The paper-stitched matchmaker stuffed the red silk into Tao Yonghua's hand, and led her into the wedding room.

The paper house was obviously small, but the closer she got, the bigger the door of the paper house became. She walked in unsteadily, and the place was already full of guests, everyone was waiting for the bride to come in.

"I'm not a bride! I'm not a bride!" Tao Yonghua was pressed by both sides to worship, she wanted to scream, but no sound came out of her throat, the man at the wedding table turned around and stretched out his hand to her.

Tao Yonghua refused to pass her hand over, she stared at the man's face, trying to see his appearance clearly.

But the man's face seemed to be covered with a layer of black veil, Tao Yonghua couldn't see his appearance clearly, she asked for help with her eyes, looking for a place to escape.

There were two plaques on the wedding table, one was engraved with her name "Tao Yonghua" and the other was engraved with the groom's name. She was just about to see it when she was woken up.

Mrs. Tao sat beside her daughter's bed: "Ninny, what's the matter? Are you having a nightmare?"

She was wearing a brocade cheongsam, with a jade chain on her chest, and a jade Guanyin on the chain. Under the dim light, the jade statue of Guanyin glowed moistly.

Mrs. Tao just came back from playing mahjong. She heard that her daughter had fallen asleep early in the morning, so she was worried and came to take a look. She saw her struggling desperately on the bed, sweating, and quickly patted her awake.

Tao Yonghua took a deep breath, and it took her a long time to recover. Her mother rubbed her chest and belly for her: "What's the matter? What's the dream that made such a big commotion?"

Tao Yonghua leaned her face against her mother, she understood something, she trembled her lips and wanted to ask Su Yin if she was engaged, but before she could open her mouth, she saw a corner of her nightgown peeking out from the door of the room.

"It's okay, I'm just dreaming, a weird dream."

Mrs. Tao touched her daughter: "You, there are so many activities in school, and you have to take care of your cousin. You must not have a good rest to have nightmares. Let Zhou Mama stew some bird's nest in sugar water for you tomorrow."

The nightdress was wet with sweat, it took Tao Yonghua a long time to calm down, he never dared to close his eyes, sat on the bed and waited for Dongfang to turn pale.

She had already washed and went downstairs early in the morning, and Su Yin also got up early in the morning. Seeing her go downstairs, she smiled and asked her: "Cousin, are you awake?"

"Well, I'm awake." Tao Yonghua's face was very ugly, and his tone was also light.

Su Yin still smiled: "I stewed bird's nest, cousin, would you like to try it?"

"No need, I'm rushing to school today, you can eat by yourself." Tao Yonghua still had a few books in his hand, and stopped a rickshaw without a driver, "Go to St. John's University."

Su Yin watched Tao Yonghua get into the car, heard her name the school, and then went back.

Tao Yonghua waited for the car to cross a street, then looked back at the door of the house, saw that Su Yin was no longer there, and then said to the rickshaw driver, "Please, I'll go to Yuqingli."

The coachman changed the direction, pulled the cart to the old city, and stopped at the entrance of Yuqingli alley.

If Tao Yonghua still can't guess what Su Yin is doing at this time, then she doesn't have to study for so many years, she just doesn't believe that there is a better way, why did her cousin push her out?

No wonder she stopped having nightmares.

Tao Yonghua didn't even dare to think, if her mother didn't wake her up last night, would she have died silently on the bed, leaving her parents and Su Yin behind.

As long as she thought of this, she would feel a chill in her heart standing under the sun.

Tao Yonghua asked the owner of the Tobacco Hotel and knew that Huo Zhenye lived in the two-story building at the bottom of the alley. She stood in front of the counter and wanted to buy something to visit Huo Zhenye.

The owner of the tobacco shop is very good at it: "Here, Mr. Huo buys Sullivan's candies every day. He likes this kind of milk chocolate very much."

The people in Yu Qingli didn't know that Huo Zhenye bought these for Boss Bai, and they all thought that Mr. Huo bought these for himself, or else he was coaxing Axiu.

"Then trouble you, pack more for me."

"Okay, okay, anyway, only Mr. Huo buys it, and the goods I buy are all for him." The boss wrapped a large bag of candies and chocolates, Tao Yonghua held it in his hand, and walked to the small building of the Bai family.

She knocked on the door lightly: "Excuse me, is Mr. Huo there?"

Huo Zhenye had just woken up and was brushing his teeth when he heard someone knock on the door. He opened the door and was a little surprised to see Miss Tao. He had originally planned to go to Tao's house to find her today.

Before he could open his mouth, he smelled a bloody smell.

He turned to the door, spit out the toothpaste foam in the patio, and took out the copper coin. The hole of the copper coin was aimed at Tao Yonghua, from head to toe.

Huo Zhenye frowned, and the pair of dragon and phoenix satin shoes were replaced by Miss Tao's feet.

Tao Yonghua was carrying a bag of snacks, standing in the middle of the room full of paper ties, the shadows left by those paper ties yesterday were too deep for her, she was too frightened to take a step in.

"Mr. Huo, where is it?"

"This is my master's house." Huo Zhenye cleared his throat, "I'm learning a craft from him."

Tao Yonghua understood as soon as he heard it, Mr. Huo must have found out that he was yin and yang because of the Huaguo case, so he worshiped the master.

"I... I had a dream yesterday." Whenever Tao Yonghua thought of that dream, his whole body would tremble.

As soon as Bai Zhun came out of the room, he frowned: "Did the paper figurine dress you?"

Tao Yonghua shook: "Master, please help me."