Copper Coins

Chapter 59 Intraosseous Filament (4)

After asking this question, Shitou Zhang felt a little regretful, because he noticed Xuan Min's movement, and his brows were deeply furrowed.

Shitou Zhang: "..." I was just asking casually, I really don't need to think about it so carefully, master...

He turned his head silently, exchanged a glance with Jiang Shining who was huddled by the hearth watching the fire, and asked with his mouth, "What should I do, I'm so panicked."

Jiang Shining shrugged: I asked for it.

When Shitou Zhang turned his head again, Xuan Min had withdrawn his hand, and was frowning at the pigskin glue in the pot, looking thoughtful.To be honest, his monk clothes didn't seem to be stained with dust, but it really didn't match the smoke and fire in the stove. When he stood by the hearth, even the fire shrank a little bit.

Shitou Zhang couldn't imagine what Xuan Min was thinking about, but just judging from his expression, it shouldn't be such a pleasant thing.So he didn't dare to disturb him here, and politely invited the great god out, so he and Jiang Shining could only wait with wide-eyed eyes.

Fortunately, although Xuan Min was sometimes unreasonable, he was much better than Xue Xian's temperament of deliberately looking for fun.The pigskin glue in the pot was boiled until it made a gurgling sound, which brought Xuan Min back to his senses.He didn't say any more, just glanced at the hearth again, and said, "The fire is too small."

After finishing speaking, without looking at Shitou Zhang and Jiang Shining, he stepped out of the kitchen.

The hem of the snow-white monk's robe swept past the door and disappeared.

Shi Zhang let out a long breath: "I'm suffocating, I'm old, I really can't stand the fright, my heart beats so fast..."

Jiang Shining secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and added grass to the hearth without saying a word.

"But this master is indeed powerful, why can he know everything?" Shitou Zhang was still a little surprised when he thought of this, "It's like this thing——"

He pouted at the pigskin glue in the pot, "It's just this kind of mask, no one in our area thinks about it. I was brought to Liangzhou area by an old man and I saw it by chance. Near the pass, there are a lot of people and chores. Some people have to learn this kind of handwork in order to save their lives. With these things, I can't save them with years and experience. I'm not saying... this master is young, so he can do it Big, at this age, the people he meets in the places he travels to are limited, how did he save all his stuff?"

In fact, not to mention Shitou Zhang, Jiang Shining sometimes feels the same emotion, always feeling that Xuan Min's insight and calmness have far exceeded what he should be at his age...

This middle-aged man, Shitou Zhang, has no other fun. Talking about this kind of experience of visiting people is quite exciting. He looked into the yard with his head, and said in a low voice: "The ancestor surnamed Xue, When meeting this master, sometimes he still has the upper hand inexplicably, just like today, I think the ancestor seems to be walking around the master. Hey, think about it, a man who is twenty years old can control a real dragon? Dragon, how old is that!"

This broken mouth babbled endlessly, like a bald sparrow with eight mouths open, he said so, and muttered again, "Oh, by the way, how old was the ancestor?"

Jiang Shining rubbed his buzzing ears, and said angrily, "No ghost knows."

Although Shizhang didn't understand why Xuanmin knew how to make this kind of mask, he still strictly followed what he said, heated up the fire a bit, and waited for another moment.

He fished out the glue, ran into the yard with a snort when he touched the hot bowl, put the bowl on the table with a "boom", pinched his ears and jumped, "Okay, okay, what about the other materials?"

Fang Cheng put all the odds and ends that he had found in advance on the table. He chopped what needed to be chopped, and what needed to be ground for juice.

Shi Zhang didn't delay, and got busy on the spot.

The others were a little curious about this, but it was a delicate job after all, and they were afraid of disturbing Shitou Zhang, so most of them stood not too far away, didn't discuss or ask too many questions, just watched in silence.

Xue Xian thought this was quite interesting. He had never heard of the so-called human skin mask before, but this was the first time he saw someone make it by himself.But because of some inconvenient things, he always sits for a while——

Every time he saw Xuan Min, he rolled the chair and ran away, sometimes he went to the front hall to find trouble for the twin brothers, sometimes he went to harass the beggars.So much so that while avoiding people cowardly, he still sneered in his heart: I can't feel at ease watching the excitement!

After running around like this, he naturally didn't see the whole process of making the human skin mask. When he came back after making a big circle, Shi Zhang had already completed more than half of it, and only the mold was missing.The little beggar was still sick on the bed, and half of his face was still described as terrifying, so it was inconvenient to touch.

At this time, Shitou Zhang's strengths as a craftsman became apparent.He walked in and stared at the little beggar's intact half of his face for a long time, as if he had memorized every detail of her cheek, and then he stared at the ruined half of his face and made vain gestures.

When he came out again, he had already adjusted the mold with confidence...

This is probably the most labor-intensive and time-consuming process.

After a long time, Shitou Zhang revealed the finished product, but the finished product was different from Xue Xian's imagination.He thought it should be a complete piece, but unexpectedly, it was two separate pieces, one piece was slightly thicker with some curvature, and the other piece was as thin as a cicada's wing.

"Why are there two pieces?" Xue Xian couldn't help but stop the chair and asked aloud.

Shitou Zhang explained: "To make this kind of mask, it is better to increase rather than decrease, for example, to make the thin ones fatter, and the short nose bridge to be higher... The girl's face is too uneven, it needs to be filled up. Yes. The thicker one is to fill in what she lacks, and the thinner one is to connect the filled part with the rest of the skin. It’s like filling one piece and covering it with another.”

While listening to him, Xue Xian stared at the two masks in his hand, the color and texture of which had been polished by stone sheets in various ways. At first glance, they were almost the same as real human skin...

etc--

real human skin...

Xue Xian turned his head abruptly, rolled the chair to Xuan Min's side without saying a word, tugged Xuan Min's sleeve, and pulled him half-bent down: "Bulk, look at what Shi Zhang is holding in his hand. Do you remember it in Wencun last time? You said that in the scenes when you were a teenager, you twice held human skin in your hand, could it be this thing?"

Although he was asking a question, he was actually somewhat certain in his heart. After all, how could a young man in his teens, especially a young man with a temperament like Xuan Min, be able to hold the peeled human skin in his hands?As far as his fault of being dirty even with a little blood, is it possible?

But the human skin mask is not necessarily...

After he asked this question, he thought about it in his heart again, but he didn't hear Xuan Min's answer for a long time.When he raised his eyes again, he saw Xuan Min looking down at him, neither happy nor unhappy, similar to his usual indifferent look, but somewhat different.

What's the difference, Xue Xian couldn't tell for a while, but he just felt guilty for no reason after being watched lukewarmly for a while, and wanted to get off the wheel of the chair very much.

"Stop running?" Xuan Min answered irrelevantly, his tone...a bit salty.

Xue Xian: "..."

Asking this question, it seems that he is very cowardly.Xue Xian thought unhappily, but changed the subject again, "Is it really a human skin mask? You are not good at copying scriptures at such a young age, what kind of mask are you doing?"

"I don't remember." Xuan Min replied.

He didn't deny the previous sentence, which meant that he acquiesced to Xue Xian's conjecture, and felt that what he was pinching in his hand was part or all of the mask used.He's only thirteen or fourteen years old, why use such a thing?

Xue Xian squinted his eyes and was thinking about it, when he felt that the sleeve he was holding was pulled away, and then his jaw was pinched and he turned to the stone table surrounded by everyone, and then loosened.

Xuan Min's voice sounded beside him: "Go and do what you promised first."

Xue Xian was taken aback for a moment, and subconsciously raised his hand to touch his pinched chin. When he turned his head again, Xuan Min had already strode back to the house, and had no intention of continuing to watch here.I don't know if it's his illusion...

This bald donkey doesn't seem very happy?

With a decent substitute, Xue Xian worked hard on the two leathers without any effort.Jiang Shijing tried the method on the back of her own hand according to Xue Xian's method. Once the two pieces of skin were attached to the skin, they looked as if they really grew on them, no matter the texture or skin color, or even some natural skin. The tiny blemishes are indistinguishable from real skin.

"The little girl can give it to her after she wakes up. When her wound scabs, if she can bear it, then it's fine. If she can't bear it, just stick it to her face. There will be no flaws. As long as I don't If you die, the effect of this thing will not disappear." He explained casually.

This time, Kyoko's dark eyes, who were already longing for him, became brighter, and whenever she had free time, she just stared at him without blinking.Even Mrs. Chen glanced at him from time to time, and half-truthfully said to him: "Look, Young Master Xue, can I make a model of my face? Can I be twenty years younger?"

Uncle Chen silently turned his face away, grabbed Aunt Chen's hand and pulled her away.

People in the Fang family have different temperaments, but they all closed the door tacitly. Although they saw Xue Xian doing some tricks that ordinary people can do, no one asked more questions, which can be regarded as polite and caring. .

Just when everyone was clearing up a bunch of dishes, Lu Nianqi, who had been nestling in a corner, suddenly waved to Xue Xian.

"What? Do you have an idea?" Xue Xian asked.

Lu Nianqi nodded and said, "I'm not as good as Nineteen, I can't calculate the exact time, I can only say that at least from last night to this morning, the people who touched the black cloth are still at the place I calculated , As for whether he will leave tonight, it is uncertain."

"It's okay, let's go and have a look first. It's good to be able to catch him. If you can't catch him, at least you can be sure that he won't go far, and he will always leave some traces." Xue Xian raised his chin at him, "Said Well, roughly where it is."

Lu Nianqi said: "A mountain shaped like a dustpan."

"Like a dustpan?" Xue Xian didn't know much about the surrounding area, so he repeated in a daze.

"Dustpan Mountain!" Quiet Mimi, who was staring at him, raised her head from the side, and said, "I know, I know, here—go straight in that direction, go out of the main city gate and walk along the southwest mountain road, from the It can be reached by walking around the forest suburbs."

Seeing that the sun was approaching noon, Xue Xian didn't want to delay. Hearing this, he immediately made a decision to leave.From what Kyoko said, with their footsteps, it wouldn't take much effort to get there.

"It's almost here, it's almost time to go around the forest suburb." At the same time, at the end of the southwest mountain road, Tai Zhu, the leader of the Taichang Temple horse team, looked up at the mountain in front of him, and said so.

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