Paper Maker

Chapter 35 The Grinning Paper Doll

To make this paper figurine, Boss Bai used his housekeeping skills to make the work as delicate as possible.Let's describe it this way, if you put this paper figure side by side with Boss Bai himself, if you look at it from twenty steps away, you will feel that there are two Boss Bai.

After the paper figurine was finished, Boss Bai walked around it again and again, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that the paper figurine was a bit popular.

Why are paper figurines so popular?Boss Bai felt that this absurd idea was funny.

Just like that, Boss Bai placed the paper figurine at the door of the paper-making shop, just like a living signboard.Every time anyone enters the store, they will stop and watch this paper man who looks exactly like Boss Bai. At the same time, they can't help but marvel at Boss Bai's exquisite craftsmanship. The boss's twin brothers!

However, this paper man still has a defect, that is, the paper man does not have eyes painted on it.Ever since, a customer said, you are so good at crafting, and the paper man looks so similar, but why don't you paint the eyes, wouldn't the effect be better?

When Boss Bai heard it, he immediately felt that it made sense.However, he also knows the rule passed down by his father, that is, paper dolls are not allowed to draw eyes, but at this time, Boss Bai has long felt that the rules passed down by his fathers are a piece of shit. It is impossible for the store to do so well.

Still the same sentence, only by innovation can we grow bigger.

So, after Boss Bai closed the door that night, he painted the eyes of the paper man.In other words, once the paper doll's eyes were drawn, Boss Bai looked at the paper doll and felt incredible, because the paper doll was made exactly like himself, and if the eyes were drawn, even the expression would be different. Similar to yourself.Boss Bai felt that he could talk to the other party. If he stared at the paper figurine for a few more times, he would even have the illusion that the other party was grinning at him...

Boss Bai shuddered immediately, he didn't dare to look at it too much, he hurriedly moved the paper figurine to the door of the store, and then fell asleep early.

But after that, something strange happened in the store.First of all, that night, Boss Bai slept in the back room of the shop, how could he hear all kinds of movements in the shop, for a while it was the sound of "popping" footsteps when walking, and for a while it was like someone was pricking paper in the shop The sound of "squeaking", and sometimes even the sound of people sighing...

Boss Bai was curious, so he got up and ran to the store to have a look, but there was nothing in the store, only a paper doll who looked like him staring at him strangely.When Boss Bai looked at the paper figurine he made, he felt chills and shivered, thinking that his mother's paper figurine was so evil, it almost looked like a human being.He didn't dare to stay longer, and hurried back to the room.

But after returning to the room, the previous noise came from the shop again, and it was even more noisy than before.

How dare Boss Bai go out to look again, because he went out to look before, and there was obviously nothing there.Now he started to get scared, wondering if something dirty got into the shop?
At this time, he also remembered the various rules passed down by his fathers, such as the paper man and paper horse in the paper shop, and the ghost sedan chair in the spirit house is for the dead, so ghosts usually come to ask for paper figures and paper horses; It is said that the paper figurines in the paper shop are all psychic and spiritual, so the paper figurines must not be painted with eyeballs before they are burned.Because, if the eyeballs are put on before burning, then the paper man will have a soul, and he will not want to be burned, so he will become a spirit and become a monster.

Thinking of the rules in the paper-making business that the older generation had said, and listening to the movement in the shop, Boss Bai only felt his scalp tighten and he was sweating coldly.He spent the whole night in this state of nervousness and fear, and the voice didn't stop until it was almost dawn.

In the early morning of the next day, Boss Bai went out in a panic and went to a gentleman’s house to ask for an amulet, but when he arrived at the gentleman’s house, the husband saw it and told him that it was useless for you to wear the amulet like this, everything was too late , I can't help you.

Boss Bai panicked when he heard that, so he asked the gentleman, why did he say that?
The gentleman pointed to Boss Bai's feet and said, look at yourself, even your shadow is gone now!
When Boss Bai heard this, he hurriedly looked at his feet, and was so frightened that he almost passed out. He saw that there was really no shadow under his feet, but the shadow of the gentleman opposite was so obvious.

In fact, there is no shadow here, but his soul is gone, because his soul was snatched away by the paper man in the shop.

Boss Bai was so frightened that half of his life died, he hurried back to the shop, thinking that he must burn the paper figurine quickly, and he couldn't keep it.

But when he came to the store, the door was wide open, and then someone grabbed Boss Bai, saying that he was playing tricks and demanding that he lose money.

Boss Bai was completely taken aback, and asked the other party why did I play tricks on you?

The other party said, I just ordered a paper doll in your store, but the change you gave was fake, it turned out to be Ming coins, do you think you are going too far?

Saying this, the other party took out a few coins from his pocket and handed them over.Boss Bai said, I went out early this morning, and I haven't done any business yet. How could you come to my shop to order paper figurines, let alone charge you.

The man said, obviously you were in the store early in the morning, and the neighbors can also testify.At this time, some onlookers said, since this morning, you have indeed opened a store to do business, and you have been busy, making many paper figurines.I asked you if your business was good, but you ignored us.

Hearing this, Boss Bai felt chills all over his body, took out 100 yuan to compensate the other party, and rushed into the shop by himself.

When I entered the store, I was immediately dumbfounded. I saw that the store was full of tied paper figurines and horses.Looking at the newly pierced things in front of him, Boss Bai couldn't believe his eyes, because there were not so many things in the store before he left, and he knew very well how many paper figurines and paper horses there were in his store. of.But, who made these?

At this time, he remembered what those people said before, and thought to himself, could there really be another self who made paper figurines in the shop?Thinking of this, he started to doubt the paper man who looked exactly like himself, so he looked at the paper man, and saw that this man was still standing motionless by the store door, not making any movement.

Although the paper figurine in front of him was still a paper figurine, Boss Bai already knew the evil nature of the paper figurine, so he hurried to the paper figurine, and was about to throw it outside with his arms, intending to burn it.But something strange happened...

When Boss Bai touched the paper figurine with his hand, the paper figurine suddenly came alive, he grinned, and said to Boss Bai angrily, "You think I'll burn it?"

Boss Bai was so frightened by this blow that he fell to the ground, looking at the grinning paper man in front of him, he was so terrified that he couldn't even speak.

Seeing that Boss Bai was so frightened, the paper man had a sly smile on his pale face, as if he was very happy.

Boss Bai thought he was dazzled, so he wiped his eyes in fright, and then saw the paper figurine in front of him walking around the room, because the paper figurine was supported by a bamboo frame, and the paper figurine walked The appearance is very strange, like a robot. The most terrifying thing is that the black eyes on the flat face of the paper man seem to be able to move. It was originally a smiling face painted on it, which looks abnormal. It's weird!
In the end, when someone noticed the anomaly and called the neighbors over, he saw that Boss Bai was lying motionless on the ground.

His corpse was wearing a paper dress, holding a paper lantern in his hand, and a bamboo frame went directly from her stomach, from bottom to top, and directly into her mouth, staring at a pair of terrified eyes. The death of the pupils of the eyes is extremely terrifying, just like a paper man made of paper!
Speaking of this, the old man sighed and said, this is all retribution, Boss Bai made so many paper figurines of living people, but now he has become paper figurines, it is really sad!As the saying goes, whatever cause you plant, you will get what kind of fruit, and karma will be repaid sooner or later.

This story made my scalp tingle and I was very shocked, but I thought that Boss Bai is dead now, but is that paper man still there?So I asked the old man: "Where is that paper figurine? Is it still in the store?"

(End of this chapter)