Sitting in the car, I had a hallucinatory feeling, and I also had some doubts about my cheap master.
"Master, why can they get such a car for us to ride in?"
"Nothing, they are officials, and I have helped their leader catch ghosts before." Old Man Jiang's answer seemed to have no problem.
I was young at the time, so I didn’t think much about it. Whatever he said was all that mattered, and even the little doubt I had was gone.
"Sanwa'er." Old Man Jiang suddenly called me.
"Um?"
"Don't tell your family when you go back that we took this car, and don't tell us that we went to town."
"Why?"
"For no reason, if you want to ride in the car next time, just keep it a secret! Also, I am your master, and whatever the master says will be whatever you say. Do you understand that you respect your master?" Old Man Jiang threatened me with inducements and threats. This doll is only 7 years old.
"Okay." I simply said, I don't know how to respect teachers, I just know that I really want to take this car again.
When we got home, it was already around 8 pm. After all, the car only took us to the entrance of the Xiangchang dirt road, and we had to walk the rest of the way back by ourselves.
I was tired when I got home. I snored and lay on the bed after dinner, but my cheap master didn't even bother to eat.
I lay on the bed for a while, feeling comfortable, and wanted to see what Old Man Jiang was doing. During this period, my parents came in to see me several times, and went out without hesitating to talk several times, which made me a little bit Puzzled.
Thinking about it now, they probably wanted to ask what Old Man Jiang took me to do that day, but they felt it was inappropriate. After all, they had given their son to someone else as their apprentice. As long as Old Man Jiang took me out, Then being able to bring it back safely is the greatest peace of mind.
When I got to the yard, I found that Old Man Jiang had lit an oil lamp in the yard, and he was carefully pasting paper on the light.
I ran over and took a look. It turned out that he had made a shelf with bamboo pieces and was now pasting paper on the shelf. Looking at the outline of the shelf, I could tell at a glance that it was a person!
"Master, what are you doing?" I asked curiously.
"Can't you see? Here's the paper man." Old Man Jiang worked very carefully. While gluing the paper, he also used a strange-colored ink to write on the bamboo frame. I couldn't understand it anyway. .
I squatted next to Old Man Jiang and watched him tie up the paper figurine seriously. After a while, I got bored and found two pieces of paper on the stone table next to me. I grabbed it out of curiosity and found that among them One piece of paper has something written on it, such as year and month. Anyway, I can’t recognize it at my second grade level. The other piece of paper is a photo of a person. It looks like a photo, but it’s on paper. I know this. , it’s printed, isn’t that what textbooks are like
I looked at this portrait carefully (let's call it a portrait). It showed a woman, very beautiful, with two eyebrows flying into the temples, a pair of narrow eyes with flowing eyes, a high nose, and small and thin lips.
Looking like this, she looks like both a good-looking woman and a handsome man. I am not stupid, so I guessed it right away and said to Old Man Jiang: "Master, is this Yu Xiaohong? You take her What are the photos for?”
"Not only the photos, but also her birthday and horoscope are coming. I want to be a stand-in doll. I can't do it without these two things." Old Man Jiang finished pasting up the last piece of paper and answered me in detail.
"Stand-in doll?" I was a little confused.
"What is Li Fengxian's biggest wish? To stay with Yu Xiaohong until old age. To resolve her resentment, the only way is to untie the knot in her heart. This stand-in doll is meant to replace Yu Xiaohong. It can also be regarded as Yu Xiaohong, go and accompany Li Fengxian."
"Can a paper doll replace it?" I scratched my head, confused.
"Of course you can't do it with a paper doll. It's not easy to make a stand-in doll! For example, the bamboo pieces for the skeleton must be made according to the proportion of Yu Xiaohong's bone weight. The bone weight is not the weight of the skull, but the weight of the horoscope bones. Weight, and the skeleton must be written with the incarnation pattern, a special transformation rune. In ancient legends, the powerful incarnation pattern can temporarily turn decay into magic. For example, if you fold a bird and draw the incarnation Pattern, add your own skills, and the bird can fly for a while. There are also many things to pay attention to, but it's troublesome anyway." Old Man Jiang explained to me patiently.
While explaining, he had already picked up a pen and started to draw on the rough embryo that had been pasted with paper. It seemed that he was preparing to draw a person's face.
Old Man Jiang is a really good painter. In just a short while, he took the photo and painted the person's eyebrows. Compared with the photo of Yu Xiaohong, they are 70 or 80% similar. Sometimes I really feel that I I can’t think of anything that my cheap master can’t do
After watching for a while, I felt sleepy. Sometimes I lay on Old Man Jiang, sometimes on the stone table, yawning non-stop.
"San baby, go take a nap. It will take me another hour to finish. After I finish, I will take you to do some errands." Old Man Jiang said casually, probably because he was impatient with me like a little monkey. Yeah, just walk around him and yawn.
I went in as I was told. Tomorrow is Sunday. Although I can legitimately not go to school, I can't help but feel sleepy after a long day.
Lying on the bed, I didn't even take off my clothes, and fell asleep within a minute. In my daze, I only remembered that my mother came to take off my clothes and covered me with a quilt.
I was woken up by my dad. After he woke me up, he whispered: "San baby, hurry up, your master is already waiting for you outside."
While talking, he wiped my face with cold water. As soon as I was stimulated by the cold water, I was completely awake. I still couldn't help but mutter that being a Taoist priest was quite hard. Not only did I run all day during the day, but I also had to do errands at night.
After getting dressed, I walked to the yard and sure enough I saw Old Man Jiang waiting for me.
"Master, how long have I been sleeping? What time is it now?" I stretched and asked.
"Not long after, about two hours. I tied up the paper figurine and went up the mountain to get something before I asked your mother to call you. It's still about 10 minutes until 11 o'clock." While speaking, Old Man Jiang looked at his wrist. , I immediately saw a big shiny steel watch.
"Master, you are really rich." A big steel watch is a rare thing, it is definitely a symbol of rich people, and my master's one is also different, but I didn't look carefully.
"Haha, you want it too, right?"
"Yeah, I do." I'm just an honest kid.
"Not for you!" Old Man Jiang raised his head proudly and left.
I'm so angry, doesn't this cheap master think it's boring to tease a 7-year-old child like this
I was led by Old Man Jiang on the road to the countryside. He held me in one hand and held a paper figure in the other. This paper figure was wearing a pink boy's opera robe and a boy's hat. It was lifelike. Miao Weiqiao, her face looks very much like Yu Xiaohong in the portrait.
"Master, will Li Fengxian come to see my sister tonight?" I was very worried about this.
"No, the three talismans have consumed at least half of her evil spirit. It will take at least two or three days to find your sister again. It's like a person staying up late to do something, and being very serious in the process, secondly Tian Shao has to rest for a long time. Otherwise, the spirit will be bad, which means that the spirit has been hurt and needs to be nourished. The same goes for ghosts."
"Oh, what about two or three days later?"
'Pa' was answered with a slap on the head. I innocently looked up at the owner of the slap - my cheap master, Old Man Jiang. I couldn't figure out why I was slapped, but I saw him yelling with wide eyes. : "Do I seem to be such an incompetent person? Don't say two or three days, I can get it done tonight."
In this way, Old Man Jiang and I rushed to the cemetery on the farm all night long. Perhaps because he thought I was walking too slowly, Old Man Jiang simply carried me on his back and strode forward.
I was lying on his back, and I couldn't feel how fast he was walking, but I felt that he could cover a long distance in a short time.
"Master, you walk very fast, don't you?" I was on his back, so comfortable that I almost fell asleep, and I didn't forget to mumble in a daze.
"Is this considered fast? You have never seen a truly capable warlock. They can fly thousands of miles." Old Man Jiang snorted disdainfully.
"You are promoting feudal superstition again, Master! Have you seen it before?" I was also disdainful.
"I've never seen it, but it's true. You can travel thousands of miles with your soul and move your physical body to a certain extent. It's just that those people are powerful people. I'm afraid they have become immortals and the world will not see them." Old Man Jiang thought for a while , answered me quite seriously.
"Hmph..." Even if I believe in ghosts, I definitely don't believe in God. I hummed to express my disdain for Old Man Jiang's words. As a result, Old Man Jiang pinched my butt so hard that I didn't dare to say anything. .
It's fast. It usually takes me an hour and a half to walk. Lying on Old Man Jiang's back, it only took me a moment to arrive. Old Man Jiang looked at his big steel watch proudly and smiled: "I've practiced quite well in my light body kung fu. It took less than an hour. Hehehehe..."
I curled my lips, thinking that I had not picked up food stamps, but I didn't dare to say it.