Paper Maker

Chapter 21

I thought to myself, the purpose of my visit this time is to find Duanyang, and then persuade her to let go of Wang Qingshan's daughter and terminate the ghost marriage contract.Just right, the Duanyang in front of me is kind and friendly, so I don't need to be forceful, so I took a step forward and said with a smile: "So this is Mr. Duanyang, right?"

Duanyang took a look at me, then stretched out his hand to greet me politely, and at the same time turned his head to ask Wang Qingshan, who am I?
As soon as I shook hands with Wang Qingshan, I frowned, thinking that the villagers were right, there must be something wrong with Duanyang in front of me, because when I shook hands with him, it was cold to the bone, without any warmth, obviously not a stranger.

Wang Qingshan saw that I took the initiative to say hello to Duanyang, and obviously understood my intention, so he quickly put away his sad face, stepped forward and introduced, I am Qianqian's cousin, named Pan Shenbao, and this time I came here specially to accompany me Yes, keep me company.

The Qianqian mentioned by Wang Qingshan is actually his daughter.

After listening to Wang Qingshan's introduction, Duanyang smiled and said politely: "So it's Qianqian's cousin, hehe, come here, please come in..."

After entering the house, Duanyang turned on the lights, and saw that the living room was indeed as Wang Qingshan said, the decoration was extremely high-grade, although some furniture was a bit old, it did not look outdated in this living room.

However, even though the lights were turned on at this time, the room was brightened up, but I could still feel the dark wind in the room, and it seemed to be filled with some vague mist, and it felt a bit foggy under the light.

Duanyang was still so enthusiastic. After inviting us to sit down, he served us tea and water, and asked Wang Qingshan to be a parent, which made me have an illusion, as if the person in front of me was not dead at all.He asked Wang Qingshan, why didn't Qianqian come with her, or should he send someone to pick her up?

Wang Qingshan said that Qianqian had some physical problems recently, so she couldn't come.

Hearing this, Duanyang seemed a little worried and anxious, and said that he would go to see Qianqian as soon as possible, which shocked Wang Qingshan, and hurriedly said no, changing his words and saying that Qianqian was fine.

I asked Duanyang, don't you know why Qianqian has physical problems?
Duanyang shook his head and said that Qianqian hadn't told him. He went to Qianqian's house every night a few days ago.

Hearing this, I thought to myself, doesn't this Duanyang know that he has harmed Qianqian?Or is he deliberately playing tricks on us here?He still wants to lie to us, but he is not a stranger, we already knew it early on.

At this time, I remembered the white shadow I saw on the second floor outside the villa just now, so I asked him, are you the only one in your family? Where are your parents?

Duanyang said that his parents were also at home.Wang Qingshan was stunned, and asked him why he didn't see them coming out?
Duanyang said, his parents haven't woken up yet, why don't I tell them to get up quickly, you can stay here for dinner tonight!
After finishing speaking, he turned around and went up to the second floor to call his parents, and then told us to wait.

Seeing Duanyang left, Wang Qingshan asked me in a panic what should I do next?
I said, don't worry, let's see what tricks they want to play first. After his parents come down, let's talk to him about the dissolution of the engagement. If they don't agree, then we can only turn our faces.

In fact, I still have a doubt in my heart. If Duanyang is not deliberately fooling us, then how could he not know that Qianqian was harmed by him?
It is said that we sat in the living room and waited, but we never saw Duanyang and his parents coming down, so we started to murmur in our hearts, wondering why it took so long for him to wake his parents up.
After waiting for another dozen or ten minutes, I finally couldn't sit still, so I asked Wang Qingshan to wait here, and I went upstairs to have a look.

Wang Qingshan said, how dare he sit here alone, so he wants to go upstairs with me.I'm right when I think about it, not only Duanyang's family died in this haunted house, but also other tenants died. Wang Qingshan was left alone in the living room. Walk up the stairs carefully...

There were several rooms on the second floor, but none of them had their lights turned on. Even one room that had been turned on before had already turned off the lights, so the entire second floor was completely dark.

This made me feel even more wrong, because Duanyang said that he came up to call their parents, but the second floor was dark and desolate, and there was no one at all.I seemed to listen to the movement, but there was no conversation.So I went directly to the first room on the left on the second floor. According to my memory, when I saw the lights on downstairs and someone watching us from the window, it was the first room on the left.

I first walked to the door lightly, then put my ear close to the door and listened for a while, and found that there was no movement inside, so I held my hand on the doorknob and turned it lightly, only to find that the door was unlocked. So I slowly pushed the door open.

With a "squeak", the door was opened by me, but it was completely dark at this time, and the room was so dark that I couldn't see anything. At that time, I only felt a gust of wind blowing through the moment the door was opened.

Wang Qingshan first took out his mobile phone, and then turned on the mobile phone to find whether there was a light switch by the door. Soon, we finally found the switch, and then turned on the light. The scene in front of us really surprised us, even though We have long been prepared.

I saw that this room is very big, it can be regarded as the master's room, the room is very empty, there is nothing, no wardrobe, no bed, no desk, but there are two big coffins in the middle of the house!
What's even more weird is that these two large coffins are actually white, or in other words, these two large coffins are paper coffins pasted with white paper, which is very scary.On one end of the two paper coffins, a large "Yin" character was written in black ink, which looked extremely strange.

Seeing such a weird scene, both Wang Qingshan and I gasped.Wang Qingshan asked me, what's going on, why are there two paper coffins here?

Coffin, also known as Shoufang, old coffin, Shou coffin, old house, four and a half yuan, Shoufang, coffin is also commonly known as "ten-page tile" and "ten-block" in rural areas, generally made of ten-page wood, but It is also made of twelve pages of wood, which is commonly known as "12 yuan".It is made of ten pages of wood, of which the cover (top cover) is three pages, the bottom (bottom) is three pages, the bang (both sides) are two pages each, and the shelves (front and back) are 5-11 pieces of other precious wood.

Farmers make coffins, usually around the age of sixty, and select wood to make, ready to be used after death.There is a slang saying: "Thirty pay boards (referring to the coffin), I see you are so bold."The implication is that when people arrive at Huasi, they have to prepare the longevity tree. If they are not prepared, they will be caught off guard in case something goes wrong.Therefore, Hakka people usually make coffins when they are alive, which are called "shoumu" or "shouqi", which means longevity and blessing.It is also because of this that after the Shoumu is finished, the painter from a good family will ask the painter to wash the oiled knees in time, write "Fu" on the top of the big head, write "Shou" on the small head at the front end, and write "Fu Ru Donghai" on the coffin lid. ", "Shoubi Nanshan".It means good fortune and longevity.

But have you ever seen the word "Yin" written on the front of the coffin?And the coffins are all made of wood, how can anyone use paper paste to make a coffin?

I'm sure, on the other side of the paper coffin, there must be a word "Tibetan" written in ink!

I didn't immediately answer Wang Qingshan's doubts, so I quickly walked towards the other end of the paper coffin, and then I saw the other end of the coffin, with a big "Tibetan" written in black ink.So I couldn't help but exclaimed: "Hiding the soul and sealing the ghost coffin?"

Wang Qingshan heard what I said, so he asked me what is hiding the soul and sealing the ghost coffin.So I told him that the so-called hiding the soul and sealing the ghost coffin means that the soul can be hidden in this kind of coffin without being discovered. This is a very ancient sorcery, and few people know it now, let alone use it.

You must know that coffins are originally made of wood, but the coffin in front of you is made of paper. As the saying goes, the wood is filled with yang.And the paper-made things are used to burn to ghosts, and they are Yin objects. Therefore, it is impossible for a coffin made of paper to hold people, but to hold ghosts.

Some people, in order not to go to the underworld after death, and to avoid being detained by ghosts, they will tie a paper coffin, and then cast a spell on both ends of the coffin to write the words "Tibetan" and "Yin", and then lie down on the paper coffin.In this way, when they die, their souls will not be able to escape from the paper coffin. Even if his name is crossed in the book of life and death in the case of Hades, and he is sent to search for souls and arrest his life, he cannot be found. , because his yin and yang are hidden in the paper coffin.

Of course, those who can do this are all capable people who knew yin and yang before they were alive, because they can count their own fate, and when they know that their yang life is about to expire, they will sleep in a paper coffin and wait for their lives to die , so as to successfully hide from ghosts and arrest souls.Otherwise, you don't know when your lifespan will be exhausted, who would let yourself die before the time limit?And if you hide in late, before you have time to enter the coffin, your soul will be taken away by ghost messengers, so for this kind of people, others will not put them into the paper coffin on purpose, but lie in it before you die. , and then sealed the paper coffin and suffocated himself to death.

Some people may ask, why do they still refuse to go to the underworld after death, and have to sleep in this kind of coffin to hide?

Yes, not everyone is willing to go to hell and be reincarnated.For example, some people who do a lot of evil, such as some people who are unwilling to leave the mortal world, such people dare not go to the underworld. Unable to be reincarnated, they have to be punished by the endless whipping and frying hell, so they will think of ways to avoid ghosts and soul arrests.

I once heard such a story from my grandfather. It is said that at the beginning of liberation, there was a butcher who went to someone’s house to kill a pig that day. After dinner, it was already late, so he carried the guy who killed the pig out into the night. On the way home.He had to pass through a broken stone pavilion to go home. It is said that when he passed the stone pavilion that night, he heard the sound of people talking in the stone pavilion.

He thought to himself, who is in the pavilion in the wilderness in the middle of the night.He guessed in his heart that the people in the pavilion might be trying to do something bad, so he sneaked closer to Shiting, but when he saw the people in the pavilion, he was startled.

I saw these two were two or three meters tall, one was dressed in white and the other was in black, both dressed in ancient costumes, wearing tall hats, holding soul chains and white mourning sticks in their hands, A long red tongue hangs down below the mouth, very scary.

At that time, the butcher was very frightened, knowing that he had encountered black and white impermanence, and he wanted to run at that time, but his feet were trembling with fright and he couldn't run at all.

At this time, he heard two ghost messengers talking inside again, the one in white said, why hasn't Butcher Zhang come yet, the time is almost here.

The man in black said, don't worry, he will come, he goes to other people's house to butcher pigs, and he has to pass here when he returns home, so we just wait here.

It is said that the butcher who eavesdropped screamed out in fright, because the butcher Zhang mentioned by the two people in the pavilion was referring to him, because he was the only butcher in this place.

At this time, he saw the man in the white clothes in the pavilion suddenly pick up a book, flip it up, and said to the man in the black clothes, "This butcher Zhang is a very evil person. He has followed his father since he was 14 years old." Learning to butcher pigs, he has been killing pigs for a full 40 years. Originally, his life expectancy was 57 to [-], but now he has reduced his lifespan to [-].

After hearing this, the man in black went on to say, this is all retribution. For a person like this who kills all the year round, it is his good fortune to allow him to live for four or fifty years in the world. His good feelings, skin peeling, scalding and frying, snake bites and dismemberment of corpses, each of which made him suffer for hundreds of years, and made him understand what it feels like to be killed.

As soon as he heard this, Zhang Butcher, who was eavesdropping, dared not listen anymore. He turned around and ran away in fright, and then ran directly to the home of a familiar warlock, begging him for help.

The sorcerer finally told him that if he wanted to avoid the punishment of hell, he had to hide.So he told Butcher Zhang that he could escape the punishment of hell by sealing the ghost coffin with the hidden soul, but he must die tonight.Butcher Zhang was afraid of the hell punishment that black and white impermanence said, so he made up his mind to do as the warlock did.

Finally, the sorcerer made a paper coffin for him and let him lie in it.In the end, the butcher Zhang suffocated to death in the paper coffin. In short, he died, but his soul was not detained in the underworld, and kept going in and out of the paper coffin.

Of course, the warlock in the end didn't end well, interfering in the way of yin and yang, and finally suffered retribution, and spent the rest of his life blind and handicapped.

(End of this chapter)