Copper Coins

Jiang Shijing suddenly lost his voice.

Her fingers holding Xingzi trembled, and just hearing the word "sister", her eyes turned red, a thick layer of mist filled her eyes, and her vision instantly blurred.Her mind was at a loss, and she didn't even realize why there was such a blur in front of her eyes for a while, she just tried to open her eyes wide, and searched around in a disorganized manner.

"A-Ning? Is that you, A-Ning?" Jiang Shijing turned her eyes, and two huge teardrops fell from her eyes, "You, don't hide, my sister can't see you..."

However, before the line of sight was clear, another mist of water came up again.

"I'm afraid that standing directly in front of you will startle you." Jiang Shining quietly followed everyone into the house, and stood in an inconspicuous corner, hidden behind the bedpost.

"How could it be..." Jiang Shijing burst into tears, and choked up heavily just after finishing a few words, "How could you startle me, no matter what you look like, you won't startle me, sister, don't be afraid, you Come out, don't hide..."

As soon as she said this, before the mist in her eyes blinked, she felt that she was being hugged into someone's arms.

The person hugging her was thin and thin, and the embrace was not so generous and firm, but she was familiar with it since she was a child.She has been wronged and suffered since she was a child, and this brother who is three years younger than her will come to accompany her, telling some anecdotes from books, talking about the embarrassing things she did, until she couldn't help laughing.From a young age, he could only hold her arms until he was a head taller than her, enough to hold her whole in his arms.

It's just that Jiang Shining's embrace was warm in the past, but now there is not even a trace of warmth, and it is shockingly cold.

Jiang Shining hugged subconsciously for a while, and felt his sister's body tremble, and then suddenly realized that he had lost the body temperature of a living person, and hugging someone in the freezing cold would only make people colder.So he let go of his hand awkwardly, and took a step back, so as not to freeze his sister in the cold air.

"Why are you so cold?" Jiang Shijing whimpered, and insisted on grabbing his hand to keep him from walking away.She rubbed Jiang Shining's ten fingers with both hands, took another breath, and covered it for a long time, but found that she couldn't cover the heat at all, and the tears fell even more fiercely.

Jiang Shining raised his head and blinked his eyes. After a while, he lowered his gaze to look at her again: "Sister, don't cover me, I'm not cold."

Jiang Shijing's tears seemed to be endless, and big drops fell on Jiang Shining's hands. While covering him, she shook her fingers to wipe it off, but found that the water stains had already soaked in before she wiped it off. In Jiang Shining's skin.

When it is difficult to control emotions, the strength in the hand is often insignificant.

Jiang Shining's hands were wet from his sister's tears, and they were already a little fragile, but after being rubbed so hard, the bases of his fingers were already obviously torn.But he didn't want to pull his hand back so quickly, he wanted his sister to cry out the emotions that had been suppressed all these years, even if she tore off some fingers, it didn't matter.

But he really fell and was afraid of scaring Jiang Shijing, so he looked at his sister with some reluctance, blinked away the mist in his eyes, raised his eyes and said to Fang Cheng: "Brother-in-law, sister is crying enough to wash my robe, you Stop her a bit."

When seeing Jiang Shining, Fang Cheng was indeed taken aback, and then he was filled with emotion.Although he didn't watch Jiang Shining grow up like his wife did, he also took care of this younger brother for a few days when he was a child. When he was young, he and Jiang Shining went to the mountains to collect medicinal materials. When they got married, Jiang Shining was still carrying his A Ying on the sedan chair... …

I never thought that when we meet again, we will be separated by yin and yang.

He could understand his wife's mood so well, so he kept watching quietly from the side without stepping forward to disturb her.It wasn't until Jiang Shining opened his mouth to him that he nodded at Jiang Shining with red eyes, hugged Jiang Shijing and comforted him: "You always drag him to cry like this, he can't speak anymore."

"Yes, sister, I am able to come here to see you this time, thanks to the help of noble people." Jiang Shining was afraid that his sister would cry out her eyes if she kept crying like this, so she immediately winked at Fang Cheng and changed the topic .

It's the same as when he sang with Fang Cheng and coaxed Jiang Shijing to be happy when he was young.

"Great man?" Fang Cheng put his arms around his wife and gently shook him from side to side, "Where is the noble man you mentioned, Aning? Your sister and I have to thank him very much."

Xue Xian, who was listening to the whole crying scene in the corner, laughed dryly, and said without moving, "Thank you, no need, just help me take off this torn paper."

Jiang Shining: "..." I almost forgot that a certain nobleman was being punished to face the wall.

Fang Cheng and Jiang Shijing looked in Xue Xian's direction blankly, and then at Jiang Shining, their minds were confused and they couldn't figure out what was going on.

"Why did you provoke Master..." Jiang Shining walked towards him helplessly, "If I take this paper talisman, will I be imprisoned?"

Xue Xian sneered at the wall, "I don't know how the bald donkey treats you after you picked it up, but if you just watch the fun and don't do it, I promise you will regret it for eight lifetimes by hugging my leg."

Jiang Shijing and Fang Cheng: "..."

This is the first time I saw a gentleman with this style...

Jiang Shining gave an expressionless "Oh" and said, "If you say that, then I won't dare to reach out to pick it up, after all you can move once you pick it up."

Xue Xian: "... you nerd, are you going to rebel?"

But talk is talk, jokes are jokes.After all, Jiang Shining was soft-tempered, so he wouldn't really do nothing to watch the fun.He admired the honest appearance of this ancestor from all angles, and finally stretched out his hand to pinch the paper talisman on Xue Xian's forehead.

But he was careless for a while, and used the hand that was soaked in Jiang Shijing's tears.And Xuan Min's paper talisman is unusual, not so easy to pick.

So, I saw Jiang Shining pinching the paper talisman and pulling it down——

His half-wet hand... broke.

Xue Xian: "..."

Jiang Shining: "..."

"A'Ning, why are you standing there motionless?" Jiang Shijing, who was behind him, asked.

Jiang Shining was shocked immediately, suppressed the toothache expression on his face, turned around and put his severed hand on his back, and smiled at Jiang Shijing with a green face: "It's okay, I just—"

Before he could finish his sentence, the door of the east room was pushed open with a "bang", not polite at all.

The conversation in the room was interrupted by the sound of the door being pushed. Except for Xue Xian who was facing the wall, everyone looked up and stared blankly at the crowd of people pouring in from the door.The leader had three long scars on his face, tall and strong, and looked more like a bandit than the beggars on the ground.

They are none other than that troupe.

The last one to enter was Xuan Min who had gone out earlier. After entering the room, he closed the door behind his back and blocked Mr. Xu Dashan and those guests from the room.

The greetings and chatter in the hall came faintly into the room, which somehow seemed a little far away, as if covered in many layers of fog and separated by several streets and alleys, it was particularly unreal, and inexplicably made people feel chilly on the neck.

Obviously, Xuan Min brought them into this room because he wanted to ask questions.But before Xuan Min opened his mouth, the scar-faced man opened his mouth like a cannonball: "Do you know what this place is? Why are you so ignorant that you stay here?"

His eyes fell on the casserole surrounded by the beggars, and he frowned and said, "There are many places to shelter from the wind and rain. There are so many abandoned temples these days. You can just find one. You have to choose this place. act recklessly!"

"Hey... There are old and young, and they are all seriously ill. They really can't walk, let alone go up the mountain." One of the beggars said helplessly.

"Aren't you locals? Haven't you heard of Wencun?" The scar-faced man was angry, but he knew to lower his voice when he spoke, "I don't know that this place has been deserted for many years? There is not even a living person. Where did you come from?" Don’t you have the guts to rest here? Besides, you don’t come sooner or later, and you come at this time! Do you know? There’s no one in the room outside!”

The expressions of Jiang Shining and Lu Nianqi became a little complicated in an instant. After all, this scene is like a ghost warning you to be careful of the other ghost, which is really strange.

But there were only a few of them who knew about it in this room, and the others didn't understand at all, and they praised the scar-faced man very much.

"I know, not only do I know, but I have also heard many rumors that there are voices here every year at the end of winter months, talking and coughing, and singing—" The beggar was halfway through speaking when he suddenly saw the scar-faced man behind him. A man was holding several costumes and a long beard in his hands.

"It's a play..." The beggar finished the second half of the sentence without any ups and downs, his face turned green.

Seeing the expressions on everyone's faces, the scar-faced man shook his head helplessly and said, "It's true that we sang the show, but it's different..."

He glanced at the wooden door, as if looking at the people outside through the wooden door, sighed, and said: "We are originally from this village. We grew up eating the rice here and drinking the water here. Xu Da The good man is kind to us, without him, everyone in our theater troupe, old and young, would have passed their rounds."

"We always want to repay something every day, but he doesn't lack anything. He just likes to listen to operas. Our opera troupe travels all over the world on weekdays, and our home is all over the world, but every winter, we will rush here to catch up with the audience." Singing to him on Xu Dashan's birthday, and making him smile, it's a small gesture, I've been singing like this for ten years..."

"Ten years?" said an elderly beggar, "It's all right for you to come and sing when this great good man is alive, but why do you still sing every year when all the people are dead?"

"I agreed." An old lady in the troupe smiled gently, "I agreed back then. As long as he comes to listen, we will sing. He is here every year. Why can't we get along?"

"We are used to it, and we are all voluntary. But you are different. People here don't recognize you, and they don't know if they will collide. Anyway, Yin and Yang are different. If there is a collision, there may be trouble. Human life is not guaranteed." The scar-faced man frowned and looked at the crowd, and said, "I will find a way to talk to Xu Dashan later, let them believe that you entered by mistake, and there are other things involved, It’s not easy to stay, let them let you go willingly.”

When he said this, Xuan Min had been standing by the window, looking out through the torn window paper. After the man with the scarred face spoke, he frowned and said, "This Wen village is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the wind gathers on one side. The bright hall welcomes the sun, it is a situation of taking advantage of the qi, how could there be an earth-bound spirit..."

It's still a village's earth-bound spirit.Even if everyone in this village has become an earth-bound spirit, given the conditions of this village, they can be raised for at most three or two years.But right now, neither Xu Dashan nor his neighbors seem to be dissipating. On the contrary, they seem to be alive as if they have just been "renewed". There is only one possibility... there is something hidden Something in the dark changed the situation.

Xuan Min glanced at the back of Xue Xian's head from the corner of his eye, turned around and said to the scar-faced man, "Since you were born here, have you ever seen anything weird in this village?"

He thought about it for a while, and felt that Xue Xian had to say what kind of weirdness it was, so he walked to the corner, intending to take off the paper talisman on Xue Xian's forehead for a while.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he lowered his eyes, he met Xue Xian's expressionless and insensitive face——

There is not only a paper talisman stuck on the forehead of this wicked person, but also an extra hand.

Xuan Min: "..." I have never seen such an effect in my life.