[Journey to the West] Breaking into Modern Times with My Disciples

Everything in the house was burned to ashes by the fire, and Chen Manni who came back can be regarded as the comfort brought to Chen Songnian after this disaster.

At night, Chen Songnian lay tossing and turning in the room that Lingju's family had packed up for him, thinking about the previous scenes all the time.

His thoughts slowly drifted to the memory that was so far away that he had begun to blur.

Chen Songnian has lived most of his life, and he has experienced many ups and downs in the past few decades, which can be deeply remembered in his mind, and there are only a few things that he can recall repeatedly.

But these memories were gradually sealed in a corner by himself in the daily life of working hard to make money to support his family. When he finished his work and his life was stable, when he thought about it again, all the memories had become blurred.

People's life is like this, sometimes when you are busy, you don't have enough time to recall the past, and when you are free, you can't recall many memories of the past.But people's life is always moving forward. Even if there are many things that I can't think of, I will feel uncomfortable for a while, but in the end I will let go of everything before and continue to struggle to move forward in life.

Chen Songnian lived for decades and experienced turbulent times, and his family suffered a lot at that time.

The theater stage at home was smashed, and the carved shadow puppets were burned by those people.His father loved shadow puppets all his life, but he was angry that they burned many shadow puppets passed down from his ancestors, so he insisted on asking them for a theory.

How could those people argue with him!In the end, he went home with injuries all over his body.

This is considered trivial, and I don’t know who passed it on later, and their family still has the old things of their ancestors.That group of people came again and smashed the house into a mess.

Later, he really couldn't bear it anymore, and his father took the family of three and left Fugu County.The only thing they brought out of the house was the rummaging of the people who brought them to the house.

It was a gold carving knife, and it is also the one that Chen Songnian wears around his neck now.

All the shadow puppets were left in that house, but this golden carving knife was taken away by his father.At that time, Chen Songnian was still young, still crying why those shadow puppets were left behind?Why are the line drafts, color matching, and shadow puppets he designed by himself left here? !

When he saw that familiar face tonight, Chen Songnian suddenly remembered the sad and uncomfortable feeling at that time.

If you want to ask Chen Songnian what are the happiest things in his life, he will only say three things.

The first is that when he designed the first shadow puppet that really belonged to him, he was very proud of the sense of accomplishment; Marry his wife and son who was born soon; the third thing is naturally the birth of Chen Manni.

These three events were the happiest times in Chen Songnian's life.But with the passage of time, those people and things that made him happy disappeared from his world one after another.

Almost, almost today, the last Manny would disappear from her side, but luckily she was rescued by the shadow puppet he had created.

In fact, since he came out of Fugu County, Chen Songnian has never touched shadow puppetry again. In order to make money to support his family, he sells breakfast at the gate of the school in the morning, and sells some gadgets at the Town God’s Temple in the evening, until Chen Manni is missed by Huang Mulang. .

Because Huang Mulang has always wanted to marry Chen Manni, Chen Songnian found many ways and spent a lot of savings, but finally couldn't start carving shadow puppets to sell for money.

His craftsmanship is good, and those with vision will naturally buy it at a high price. The profit of a skin is much higher than those of the gadgets he sells.

Before today, and even when he started carving shadow puppets with a knife, he had already forgotten the memories of his childhood.Because of the urgent need to make money, he carved out the face that he had repeatedly carved countless times before with a knife, as if he had a memory. Clearly engraved on the leather.

At this moment, Chen Songnian's mind was in chaos.Since Chen Manni's accident, he has seen all kinds of supernatural events that he had never dared to think about before. This time, even if he sees a moving and talking shadow puppet, he no longer feels strange or afraid.

I heard from Tang Qi that he has been waiting for him in Fugu County. He has been away from home for decades. Has he, a thin shadow puppet, insisted on waiting for him in these decades?

Chen Songnian's chest was a little sore. He couldn't sleep, so he got up from the bed, took off the gold carving knife around his neck, lay down on the bedside table, and began to carve carefully one by one on a small piece of cowhide he salvaged from home.

A familiar face was quickly drawn, and Chen Songnian suddenly relaxed all his strength, and finally couldn't restrain the emotions he had been holding on in this dark and lonely night.

The hand holding the carving knife kept trembling, and a drop of tear ran down the corner of Chen Songnian's eye, across the weathered tail lines, and soon disappeared.

Back then, he carved him out one by one, and turned him into a human form. Now that he carves him out by himself, will he come back? !

Chen Songnian kept on carving all night, with a glimmer of light coming out of the window, his last stroke was completed.This time was the slowest time for him to carve the shadow puppet. Every time he dropped a knife, he had to think carefully for a long time, lest he carve a little bit of it.

Although all the belongings of Chen Songnian and Chen Manni's house were burned, they were only some furniture and electrical appliances.

As for the money left in the house, Chen Songnian had already been cheated out by those thugs in order to save Chen Manni's family's savings, so it wouldn't be too distressing to have the remaining thousands of dollars burnt.

Tang Qi and the others didn't stay here that night, but went directly to the old nest in the grassy beach.

Sure enough, he was afraid of retribution for doing bad things, so when Tang Qi and the three of them came to his lair, Huang Shuichen had already disappeared.

Tang Qi didn't know what method Jifeng used, but he saw that Jifeng suddenly sensed something and then disappeared for a while. When he came back, he had Huang Mulang who had just escaped from them in his hands.

After glancing at the dying Huang Mulang, Tang Qi asked, "Where is the yellow water sinking?"

The person who killed the shadow puppet is Huang Shuichen, we must not let him go so easily!

"Dead." Ji Feng threw Huang Mulang into the car casually.

Fu Duoduo walked up to Tang Qi and whispered: "The laws in our world of demons and ghosts are different from yours. You humans are sentenced according to the criminal law, so many murderers can be released after more than ten years in prison, but we are As long as you kill others, you will pay with your life, so that Shui Chen was killed by the boss!"

If in the past, as a human being, Tang Qi would probably have the heart of a virgin, but now Tang Qi almost wants to applaud Ji Feng.

Tang Qi took out the talisman from Xiaoyingyao's hand from his pocket, handed it to Fu Duoduo and asked, "What about him?"

The talisman was tied tightly with a red rope, and the beholder was trapped inside. He killed so many people with such cruel methods, he should have died a long time ago.

Fu Duoduo said: "He committed such a serious crime, how could he die so easily, let him stay in this talisman for a few more days, otherwise it will be too cheap for him!"

"You want the beholder to be like Wukong, who was imprisoned in the alchemy furnace by the Taishang Laojun for 49 days. Not only did he not die, but he was refined into a golden eye."

Fu Duoduo: "..."

Huang Shuichen was killed and Tang Qi didn't feel any compassion at all, which surprised Fu Duoduo. He didn't expect to ask the boss to solve the beholder directly.

Fu Duoduo felt that there was something wrong with his cognition, this Tang Seng was not the same person as that written in Journey to the West!

Back in the car, Tang Qi returned the talisman to the little shadow monster who was unhappy because it was taken away from the quilt. Tang Qi teased the little shadow monster for a while, and after a while he said sullenly: "The shadow puppets really disappeared completely. Yet?"

"do not know."

Ji Feng didn't say anything absolute, because he really didn't know.

He explained: "In this world, things in human form are the easiest to absorb the aura of heaven and earth and have spiritual wisdom. The reason why shadow puppets have their own thoughts and can move freely is because Chen Songnian put a lot of thought into creating him. All his attention in life at that time was on the shadow puppet, whose body carried his power of thought, and it was Chen Songnian's power of thought that made the shadow puppet form spiritual wisdom in a short period of time. It can also be said that the shadow puppet is It exists because of Chen Songnian."

Ji Feng paused and continued: "Actually, Chen Songnian has hardly touched shadow puppets since he left Fugu County. His love for shadow puppets has gradually changed and decreased with the passing of time when he was young. He forgot the original The shadow puppet that he carefully crafted. And the power of thought exerted by him on the shadow puppet has diminished invisibly. If the shadow puppet hadn’t stayed in that space all the time, he would have already turned into an ordinary shadow puppet. , he was able to persevere until he came out, and he was very lucky to find Chen Songnian."

"You mean that even if the shadow puppet was not burned for saving Chen Manni, he would soon turn into an ordinary shadow puppet? No thought? No action?"

Ji Feng nodded, "Yeah."

"However, Chen Songnian should be hit hard! After all, a shadow puppet who had been forgotten by them for many years and created by him suddenly appeared in front of him, and only one was burned to save his granddaughter. head."

"But also because of this, Chen Songnian will always remember him for the rest of his life. He should be very happy that the shadow puppet has been forgotten for so long."

Tang Qi nodded and did not speak again.

Because of an accidental encounter with Chen Songnian and a series of incidents involved, Ji Feng and the others were delayed here for a long time, and now they should leave after going back to say goodbye to Chen Songnian and the others.

It was dawn when Tang Qi and the others returned to Chen Songnian again. Chen Songnian came out from the neighbors early and discussed with several people about redecorating the house.

Seeing them coming back, Chen Songnian hurriedly greeted the surrounding people and walked towards them.

"Uncle Chen, the police station should contact you in a few days. The magic stick who cheated you has already spit out all the money, and it will be returned to you soon."

"Thank you." Chen Songnian thanked repeatedly.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Tang Qi turned around and was about to leave, but suddenly he stopped, and his eyes were set on a black mark on the ground.

The shadow puppet finished the last few words with Chen Songnian here last night, and finally turned into a speck of fly ash and landed here.The ashes were gone, and they should have been taken back by Chen Songnian, but Tang Qi took another look, and then withdrew his gaze to leave.

After walking a few steps, he stopped again, picked up something from the ground and left.

On the way to the outside of the pass, Tang Qi took out the shadow puppet that he bought from Chen Songnian from his pocket, looked at Fu Duoduo who was next to him for a while, and said, "This shadow puppet is really similar to that shadow puppet!"

Tang Qi gave a faint "hmm".

In fact, sometimes a person may forget some things that used to occupy a large proportion of his life in his heart and mind, but after many years, he will suddenly realize after repeating the same thing. Also did this.

Everyone was not in the mood to chat along the way. Tang Qi leaned on the back of the chair and closed his eyes to doze off. With one hand in his pocket, he touched the things he picked up from the ground just now and frowned.