Yan ghost

The emperor said that starting from this year, August [-]th is no longer the Mid-Autumn Festival.These hundreds of years of festivals have changed as they say.

Qing Huai turned her head to the side, and a ghost sat beside her, staring at the opposite mountain.Under the full moon, a group of people went up the mountain with lanterns.They were wearing crimson half-arms, and every time they walked, one person was left behind, and the lights illuminated the surrounding wooden armor.Those wooden armors have different styles, there are ancient spirit beasts with a height of four or five people, and there are also water pavilions suspended in the air.Qing Huai appreciated them one by one, and felt that they were quite tasteful.When everyone put down their lanterns, there were hundreds of them.

The ceremony was about to begin, and the people sitting on the top of the mountain stood up one after another.The ghost also raised his head, revealing the scar on his neck. Blood dripped down his neck, staining red the only coat he was wearing when he died.

A pair of dolls and Yanshi walked to Qinghuai arm in arm.The puppet looked at the wooden armor covering the mountains, and said that it seemed to come just in time.

Yanshi sat down on the spot.Qing Huai lowered her cloak to cover her face, and moved closer to the ghost.The ghost didn't seem to like him approaching, glanced at him, but was embarrassed to say anything.

The puppet whispered: "The person in front is too tall, you should sit over there." Yanshi said: "There is someone next to you." The puppet looked at it and said: "Isn't there still a seat on his right hand?" , let him put away his clothes."

The puppet only saw the soap-colored coat lying on the ground next to Qinghuai, but did not see the ghost.It is said that people who can see ghosts, if they are not acquaintances in the past, then the ghosts are meeting each other on purpose.

Yanshi patted Qinghuai's shoulder and asked, "Is there someone next to you who wants to come?"

Qing Huai shook her head, not wanting to make trouble.He looked eagerly at the ghost, and slowly stretched out his hand to take the coat sitting under the ghost.

The ghost turned his face away, white and clean, with a very intelligent appearance.Originally he didn't want Qinghuai to touch the clothes, but when he saw a wooden hand sticking out from under the cloak, he said, "Come here."

"I'm rude, I'm rude." Qing Huai picked up his coat, moved it a little to the side, and gently passed through the ghost's body.Suddenly, he noticed that the ghost's trousers matched the coat in his hand.He quietly turned down the skirt of his shirt, but there was no trace of blood, wondering if the ghost deliberately took off his coat before he died, so as not to get it dirty.

The puppet and Yanshi apologized when Qing Huai gave up their seat, and went on talking again.

The ghost lowered his head, looking at his shoulders overlapped with others, feeling a little uncomfortable.

Qinghuai noticed it, so he said: "I haven't introduced you yet, I'm going to Qinghuai." He wrote his name in his palm and lifted his cloak to show half of his face to show his trust.The ghost was really curious and glanced at it.

Qing Huai understood that his face under the cloak looked very perfunctory, like a potato being peeled with a few knives.He reckoned that the puppet he possessed was a novice's practice work.Three holes were dug on one surface to make a mouth that can speak and eyes that can see things.Grabbing things with one hand depends on luck.Escaping fashion on two legs is enough, not the fastest, nor the last one to be caught.In short, from head to toe, it can only be described as practical.

Responding to the ghost, Qinghuai said to himself again: "I lost the memory of my life, I only know that I wore a Tsing Yi when I died, and possessed a puppet after death, so I chose this name casually. What about you?"

The ghost hesitated for a while, then spit out the word "Fengzhu".Qinghuai didn't know if this was the ghost's real name, anyway, he had wandered around the capital for five years after his death, and he had never heard of this name.

"These wooden armors are amazing!" the puppet excitedly said, "When will you be able to make me look better like others?"

Yanshi said: "Young lady, you are joking. These are the best hundred wooden armors selected in the whole country. I can't compare with them. Besides, I made your face rough, but your figure is still good." The puppet glared at Yanshi and asked, "Where is it?" Yanshi said to the puppet's chest, "You used to be like this?"

It turns out that this puppet is a woman, but Qinghuai really can't tell.He thought that this woman, like himself, was made by laymen according to the popular "Five-Day Quick Adult Doll Handbook".If I put on my makeup properly and exchanged outfits with this woman, she would definitely be indistinguishable from her man.

"It's really worthless." The puppet said angrily, "I heard that the puppet Xiang Yan made in the past is all outstanding. Even if a man goes to the battlefield, the enemy is not willing to kill him."

Qinghuai covered her mouth and laughed.I really hope that my husband will become a dragon, who can compare to Xiang Yan.She was born with absolute color accuracy, a pair of hands held by gods.At the age of seven, he made wooden armored spirit beasts for the emperor to hunt. At the age of nine, he designed the four-season execution platform for Qiuguan.

At this moment, he noticed that the corner of Fengzhu's mouth curled up.

Yan Shi said: "Then Xiangyan is a man, so it's easy to be a man. Now that you are dead, if I want to make a doll, I have to find a woman to study it. Oops——"

"How dare you!" The puppet twisted Yanshi's arm.

"Okay, okay, if you don't look for it, don't look for it." Yanshi patted the doll's head and coaxed, "Actually, I have already planned it. As long as we save enough money, I will customize a high-end doll for you, as good as it is. When the time comes, Yanshi can engrave my name on your body."

"Do you know how much it costs? The most lucrative occupation right now is Yanshi, and if you can't do it well, you will be able to save enough. Maybe that day will come, and you will be old, so I will pay more. What are you doing so beautiful..." The puppet became sad as it said.

Yanshi didn't know how to comfort her, instead he teased her and said, "It's not bad to be an old man and a young wife." In a fit of anger, the puppet pushed Yanshi.

Yanshi couldn't sit still, bumped into Qinghuai, and was turning around to apologize, when he suddenly found himself supported by a crudely made wooden arm.

"Why is it a puppet!"

"Isn't your wife also..." Qinghuai tried to break free, but Yanshi grabbed her wrist and wouldn't let go.

Yanshi asked: "Where is your master?" Today, the emperor ordered to destroy the wooden armor without Yanshi, and a thing like Qinghuai is still alone, and it is likely that there is no owner.

Qinghuai said: "He'll be back in a while." Yanshi didn't believe it: "But you said just now that no one is coming." Qinghuai laughed and said, "I'm lying, look, this clothes belong to my master."

He turned to Feng Zhu for help.Feng Zhu spread his arms, expressing that he couldn't help.

Yanshi pulled Qinghuai up and said, "Stop cheating. Ma'am, let's hand him over to the officials. This unowned thing can be exchanged for 99 gold."

"You got it wrong, how much am I worth?"

Once reported and turned in these days, they will be thrown into the waste armor pit outside the city.When a pool of puppets is filled in the pit, they will be crushed into powder.Just thinking about the scene of strands of grievances overflowing from the pit makes my flesh hurt.

Qinghuai's heart turned sideways, and she turned her wrist, the strings broke one by one, and a golden cicada came out of its shell.Unexpectedly, Yanshi's other hand suddenly grabbed his neck.

"Want to escape? How about we try here and see if it's so easy to break?"

"Don't, don't, don't! I have a way. I will guarantee you to earn enough money to customize dolls for your wife." This aroused Yanshi's interest, and Qing Huai hurriedly said, "If we can really exchange money, we can join hands. You first put I hand it over to make a fortune, and then bring me back with my soul. Then you make a puppet, I have a soul, and you hand me over to collect money, and so on..."

"Are you laughing at the low-level puppet I made!" Yan Shi tightened his palms, and now Qing Huai couldn't say a word.

At this moment, the puppet stepped forward and grabbed Yanshi's arm.

Yanshi Nahan said, "Lady, what are you stopping me for?"

"It's not me, it's someone inside me..." But seeing the puppet's face change, he said in a deep voice, "Let go." After saying that, his palms tightened.

Yanshi was in pain, and let go with a wow.Seeing that Qinghuai escaped, he couldn't be more reconciled, and shouted: "Come here, there are dolls without an owner!"

The officials who maintained the Yujia Festival heard the sound and gathered from all directions.Qinghuai broke her hand and was alone again, clearly visible in the crowd.

"Boom—" The first flames lit up on the mountain.The wooden armors were ignited one by one, and burned into a fire dragon along the ridge.

People stood up and raised their arms and shouted, blocking the view of the officials who came.The officials pushed aside the crowd and approached Qinghuai, but the puppets were enchanted and refused to move out of the way.With sharp eyes and quick hands, Qing Huai picked up the clothes on the ground and put them on her body, slipped into the crowd, and left quietly.

Qing Huai ran all the way and came to rest under a tree.At this time, Feng Zhu followed, Qinghuai gasped and said, "Just now...thank you..."

Feng Zhu lightly nodded, looking back at the opposite mountain.He touched the soles of his feet, floated to the tree, found a good seat, and ignored Qinghuai.

"It is indeed clear from above." Qing Huai waited all night, and was almost captured by the officials. Of course, he did not want to miss the ceremony.He read a sentence: "The wooden armor leaves the soul!" The fiery red runes lingered around his body.

Feng Zhu saw a soul floating up in front of his eyes, and landed on the same branch as him.He glanced at the motionless puppet under the tree, and then looked up, time seemed to stop suddenly.

Seeing Feng Zhu's surprised expression, Qinghuai proudly said: "I never thought I would be able to possess the soul-leaving art like this." Her eyes were clear, and she really didn't remember anything.

Feng Zhu came to his senses, coughed and said, "Didn't you say that you are called Qing Huai because you are dressed in Tsing Yi?"

"That's right." Qinghuai floated up and turned around, "There is green in the blue."

"This is clearly a bloody dress..." Red lapels and sleeves, black half sleeves.

"you sure?"

"Hehe, you really don't know the difference between red and green."

"Then you don't have to cry with joy..."

The Manshan wooden armor was burning like fireworks.The night sky is reflected in the color of Qian, and the full moon is like blood.Feng Zhu looked at Qinghuai, and Qinghuai looked at the burning wooden armor.

"I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to stay in the capital. Do you have any plans?"

"I'm going to leave tonight."

"Have you decided where to go?"

"Frontier." Qinghuai said, "Nowadays, it is illegal to go up and down the red railings and dolls without an owner. Yanfang Kingdom is ruled by high-level wooden armor, and only powerful Yanshi and high-level wooden armor can survive. All the people of Rouyi Kingdom Swearing to the death to resist the wooden armor is not enough. Only the Chilan border is more tolerant to the wooden armor, and many low trees have already defected to the past."

"Low wood" is the abbreviation of the low-grade wooden armor made by Yanshi, who became a monk halfway. The opposite is "high wood", which refers to the exquisitely designed wooden armor or dolls like living people.

"That's King Huai's territory..." Feng Zhu was thoughtful.

"Exactly. The dolls on the border don't need to be attached to Yanshi. They can be servants, counselors, businessmen, and performers. I want to earn enough money to hire a good Yanshi and be a high-level doll. Do you want Fengzhu?" go together?"

"As a high-level puppet, can I still make wooden armor?" Qing Huai couldn't answer Feng Zhu's question.

Fengzhu said: "I want to reincarnate... Only by reincarnating can I become a Yanshi, and if I don't reincarnate, I can only be a puppet." He lowered his voice, and said in a voice that he almost didn't want Qinghuai to hear: "I have nothing to miss in this life. gone."

The ceremony ended and the crowd dispersed.

Feng Zhu said: "You hurry up, the officers and soldiers will investigate soon."

Qinghuai nodded, ready to jump off.Suddenly, he remembered something, turned around and gave Feng Zhu a hug.When he thought of meeting the person in front of him just once, he couldn't help but feel melancholy.But Feng Zhu was startled, and cried on his back again.

Qing Huai went down to the ground to possess her soul.He found that he was still wearing Feng Zhu's coat, so he wanted to take it off.

"If you don't mind, just keep the clothes."

Qinghuai looks up at Fengzhu, and goes inside if she doesn't know.Isn't it extremely precious for a ghost to wear unwearable clothes after death?

Feng Zhu smiled softly: "I will go to reincarnate, but I can't take it with me." Qinghuai thought the same, so she accepted it happily.He waved his hand to say goodbye, and Feng Zhu bowed in return.

Qing Huai ran for a while, then turned her head, saw Feng Zhu was still floating on the treetops, and bowed deeply.