Paper Maker

Chapter 100

Early the next morning, I couldn't hold back my curiosity, and ran back to Qianjing Village to find Old Zhao's home.Before anyone could enter the door, they saw a white couplet pasted on the front of the Zhao family's gate, a banner hanging at the door, and a white flower wreath of paper figurines and horses placed in front of the house. died.

So I went up to ask a villager, what happened to Lao Zhao's house?The villagers told me that Lao Zhao was suddenly struck to death by lightning while sleeping on the bed last night. Alas, it was so tragic that his whole body was burnt to charcoal.After Lao Zhao left like this, there was only such a daughter-in-law left in the family. It's a pity that this beautiful daughter-in-law will become a widow.

Hearing this, I couldn't help but smiled wryly, it seemed that I was not wrong, I did too many evils, and I was punished by Tian Lei.

However, what surprised me was that when Lao Zhao begged me to save him, he didn't tell me how pitiful he was. There was an 80-year-old mother on top, a baby who was waiting to be fed, and a frail and sick wife in the middle.But why did the villager say that there was only one wife left in the family?So I asked the villagers, did Lao Zhao have no parents and sons?
The villagers said that Lao Zhao's parents had passed away a long time ago, and Lao Zhao was mad at him. He just found a daughter-in-law this year.
Hearing these words, I couldn't help sighing, it seems that this old Zhao really was not righteous until his death, and even lied to me.However, this villain who was so deceitful and deceitful that even his parents would be mad at him seems to have deserved his death.

At the moment, I didn't stay any longer, I didn't even go in for a scent, I just turned around and left, and went back to the city...

In fact, there are many examples of being punished by Tianlei. I once heard one from my grandfather. It is said that there was a man named Zhang Jibao in the time of Song Renzong.His original surname was Xue, but he was separated from his biological parents when he was in turmoil when he was young.Fortunately, there was a Zhang Yuanxiu who took pity on his loneliness and adopted him as an adopted son. This child was originally a child of Xue's family, and his surname was changed to Zhang from then on.Because Zhang Yuanxiu and his wife had no biological children, they treated their adopted son Jibao very dearly, as if they were their own sons, they worked hard to raise him, and extended his studies with teachers to cultivate him into a very learned person.

One day, when Jibao went out to play, he happened to meet his biological mother on the way. He forgot the kindness of his adoptive parents and left without saying goodbye.Zhang Yuanxiu and his wife lost their son, and they were very sad. They were looking forward to Jibao's return at home all day long, but they couldn't see Ai'er. Disappointed, the old couple wept unceasingly.

Later, the family fell into poverty, and the old couple became starving people. Therefore, they were even more eager for Jibao's whereabouts, so they went around and asked everyone.A few years later, it was learned that Jibao had won the No. [-] Scholar in the examination in Beijing and became a high-ranking official. When the old couple heard the news, they were overjoyed.

It was not easy to see his son who had been away for many years, but Jibao saw that the two old people were dressed in rags, as if he had lost his face, he completely forgot the kindness of raising him, not only refused to recognize each other, but also ordered his subordinates to expel them.The old couple was so angry that they hit their heads against the wall and died.After a while, the sky was filled with haze and thunder and lightning. With a bang of thunder, Zhang Jibao was killed by the thunder.

Regardless of whether Tianlei really has eyes or not, as a human being, if you do too many evil things, you will always get retribution.

Closer to home, after returning to the city, there was nothing else to do.I may not be able to take time off. If I have something to do, I can talk about it. When I am free, I will think wildly and feel that life is difficult.

I wonder why Senior Brother Cao Qilong hasn't come back yet. After all, more than a month has passed in the blink of an eye. In this more than a month, I almost ruined Ma Zhenren's business.There are quite a few people who came to seek fortune-telling and disaster relief, but most of them were rejected by me. I did it for their own good and didn't want to cheat them of money, but they all had to curse a few words before leaving, obviously to see me I'm angry if I don't help.

Once I come and go, the reputation of my shop is not good. Everyone thinks that I have a weird personality and a bad temper. Whether I can help depends on my mood.As a result, the business is naturally not good, even if the business of buying paper figures and horses is less.When business lessened, I became more idle, and I couldn't help but think of Lin Xiaoqi, who was suffering in Wangchuanhe in the underworld, and I felt very depressed.

That night, I couldn't sleep, so I left the store alone and started wandering the streets.Before I knew it, I came to a bridge on the edge of the city.

During the day, the bridge has a lot of traffic, but at night it is very quiet and there are not many people.The boats that were mining sand in the river during the day also stopped at night.

Looking at the turbulent river, and blowing the river wind with a bit of ape smell, it may be emotional, looking at the big river under the feet, I thought of the Wangchuan River in the underworld, so I was alone in a daze.

I don't know if it was my bad luck or who I offended, but when I was in a daze, someone suddenly ran over and kicked me on the back, and sent me flying to the ground with one kick. Under the bridge, it fell directly into the river!

You must know that it is a bridge more than ten meters high. How much hatred is it to be kicked down by someone without any reason?Immediately I screamed in fright. Fortunately, the river was very deep. After falling into the river, I was almost fine and swam up.I kept cursing in my heart which bastard grandson was so vicious, to sneak up on me like this, this is fucking murder!
When I swam to the river, a middle-aged man ran over and pulled me up.Seeing that there are still kind-hearted people in the world, I went ashore, took a breath, and was ready to thank them.But the other party looked apologetic and said, "What, I'm really sorry, I kicked you down just now."

As soon as I heard it, I was almost annoyed by him, and I thought, it turned out that it was you, a shriveled grandson, who kicked me off the bridge!I don't know this person at all, and he has neither far nor near, so why did you kick me off the bridge for no reason?This is murder!
When I was about to get angry, the other party hurriedly explained to me.It turned out that this place has always been haunted by ghosts, and people often fell into the water from the bridge. Some people said that there were water ghosts in the river and asked someone to escape.

Just last night, when this old man was passing by the bridge, he suddenly saw a person standing where I was standing today. The person was wearing white clothes, standing motionless with his back facing the river and facing the bridge.This old man was kind-hearted, seeing that it was already midnight and water ghosts often killed him in this place, so he planned to go up to the man in white to persuade him to go back early and not to stay on the bridge if he had nothing to do.

But when the old man walked behind the man in white to persuade him to go back earlier, the other party ignored him.So he asked the man in white why he ignored him and if he heard him speak.

But the man in white still ignored him. Seeing this, the kind old man took a step forward, wanting to see why the man in white ignored him.However, when he moved his neck close to the left side of the man in white, the man in white turned his face to the right, and when he moved his neck close to the right side of the man in white, the man in white turned his face to the left. Just don't let the old man see his face.

Now that old man felt strange, thinking that this guy was too weird, so he got a little angry, patted the man in white on the shoulder, and shouted: "Hey, why are you so impolite? "

After being photographed by him like this, the man in white really turned his head back, but the old man was terrified when he turned around, because when the man in white turned his head, he saw that it was not a face of a living person. Ah, because he doesn't have any facial features, just like a flat piece of white paper, so indifferent!
At that moment, the elder brother yelled in fright, "Oh my god, ghost!"Then he ran all the way home.After returning home, he was told that the man in white he met on the bridge must be a ghost.

After listening to him, I was puzzled, and I said: "You met a ghost, what does this have to do with me, why did you kick me into the river?"

The old man said embarrassingly: "Well, I passed by here just now, I saw you standing here, and called you a few times, but you didn't answer me, so I thought I met that ghost again. I was so scared by him last night, so I was angry, so... I ran over and kicked you down..."

Hearing this, I looked at my clothes, all in white.Immediately there was a feeling of being struck by lightning, and I thought that I was really unlucky today, wearing white clothes.

But I also know that the reason why the other party kicked me was because I was fascinated by the river under the bridge and thinking of Lin Xiaoqi in my heart, so I didn't hear that old brother calling me before.

At this time, the old man said: "I didn't feel that you were alive until you were kicked off by me, but at that time you had already kicked off the bridge..."

At the moment, I couldn't help crying and laughing, and said to myself, brother, can we not bring such a fun thing?How dare you kick it!

This is really not to blame him, after all, people have called me a few times before, but I didn't answer.Fortunately, I know how to swim, and nothing major happened, but I was quite frightened. Standing on the bridge to relax, it feels uncomfortable to be kicked off the bridge suddenly from behind.Immediately, I accepted the other party's apology and went back to the store.

However, what I didn't expect was that because of falling off the bridge, I actually attracted a water ghost!
(End of this chapter)