As the saying goes, a paper man doesn’t have his eyes, and a paper horse doesn’t have its mane.
Paper figures and horses are originally dead objects, but once their eyes are lit, they can come alive.
Of course, living here is not living in the true sense, but refers to being possessed by a ghost.
When ordinary people are possessed by ghosts, they either have low fortune or weak Yang and Fire. The dotted paper man fits these two points exactly.
Thinking this, I frowned and grabbed the woman's collar.
She wanted to shout, but I covered her mouth and threatened: "If you dare to scream, I will kill you!"
Perhaps because of my ferocious expression, the woman's body trembled and she became as quiet as a chicken.
"Let me ask you, do you want to leave here?" I asked straight to the point.
The woman looked hesitant. She didn't answer immediately, so I asked again.
"I can help you leave, and I can even send you to reincarnation."
"But you have to get me something first!"
"What do you want to take?" the woman asked.
What she said made me stunned.
It was a rough man's voice, with a strong rustic flavor and a strong local accent.
"Are you a man?" I asked in surprise.
"Yeah." He nodded.
"What are you doing inside the paper girl's body?"
"How did I know? These paper figures all look the same. I finally found one with some eyes, but I got in without even looking. Who knew it was a woman?"
I was about to speak when a man's footsteps came from the backyard.
My scalp went numb, and I quickly lowered my voice and said, "You can find a way to get my bag, and I can take you out!"
"Okay, I'll try." Just as he was about to leave, I grabbed his arm and threatened him again.
"If you dare to betray me, I will support you even if I die, remember?"
"Yeah." The woman gave me a weak look, turned around, and faced the man coming towards her.
The woman whispered, and I was so nervous that I didn't dare to breathe. I thought, could this damn thing just sell me?
Fortunately, after listening to what he said, the man just waved his hand in disgust and told him to go back quickly.
Then, the man came to me and told me that I was ready and the wedding could begin.
According to the man's wishes, I took Zhixi and went to the backyard.
There are only simple decorations here, a few red lanterns, a table, and two wooden plaques on the table, respectively engraved with the birth dates of me and Zhixi.
The moonlight was dim, and four red candles stood at the four corners of the table. The night wind blew by, and the candlelight swayed, flickering brightly and dimly.
The man came to the Taishi chair behind the desk and sat down. I looked around and asked, knowingly: "Uncle, is there just one chair? Where's Auntie's?"
"Lao Li said that women are too sinister to be present, so I didn't prepare a chair for her."
I sneered in my heart, he didn’t even need to find any excuses, he just said what Lao Li said and all the problems could be solved. It was really convenient.
Afterwards, there is a tedious wedding process, including offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, worshiping parents, worshiping mountain gods, burning paper money, slaughtering roosters, and counting blood money.
After all this was done, the man mixed the paper ash turned into by burning the blood money into a bowl of chicken blood and asked me to drink it.
After one gulp, the strong fishy smell lingered in my mouth and nose, almost making me spit it out.
At this point, the wedding process is basically over, and all that's left is to enter the bridal chamber.
When I returned to the villa, there was no woman around me, so I couldn't help but be curious, so I asked: "Uncle, where is auntie?"
The man glanced at me and asked, "You have something to do with her."
"I just feel that on your wedding day, uncle, you are the only one, and I always feel like something is missing."
The man smiled and nodded, saying: "That's right, then I'll bring her out."
The man returned to the house, and after a while, I heard a rustling sound.
It was the sound of a heavy object being dragged along the ground.
Just as I was wondering about the origin of the sound, a man walked out of the room.
He still had that amiable smile of an elder on his face.
However, behind him, a bloody corpse was being dragged!
Scarlet blood flowed all the way, leaving a trail of blood on the ground.
My eyelids twitched and I felt terrible, the matter was exposed!
The man threw the woman's body in front of me and said with a smile: "Now everyone is here."
I held on to my last glimmer of hope and continued to act stupid.
"Uncle, auntie, what's wrong with her?"
"She betrayed me." The man came to the sofa and sat down.
He patted the seat next to him and said, "Come on, kid, sit here!"
I didn't dare to disobey, so I walked over and sat down. On the outside, I looked calm, but inside I was already in a mess.
"My child, tell me, I saved her back then, but in the end, she betrayed me. Should I kill her?"
I followed the man's wishes and nodded heavily: "Yes!"
The man rubbed my head with satisfaction: "You are very smart."
I didn't like his action very much, it felt like he was petting a puppy, but I didn't dare to show any dissatisfaction.
"Other people say that I am a bit chauvinistic, and I admit it."
"So, I don't want to see anything in my house that makes me unhappy."
"You will accompany Zhixi back to the house later. Remember, you two must consummate your marriage before midnight. There are still two hours left, so go ahead."
The man patted my shoulder. The force was not strong, but it made me feel a mountain of pressure!
The woman is dead, or in other words, the soul inside the paper man is dead.
The man already knew everything, but he deliberately refused to pierce the last layer of window paper.
I know that he is determined that I can't escape, and similarly, there is really nothing I can do.
Afterwards, the man led Zhixi and I into the carefully decorated wedding room.
The house is decorated with red curtains, carved beams and painted pillars, and is full of wedding joy.
But I know that all this is an illusion.
Once the blindness is gone, I will probably be faced with just a pile of tombstones and tombstones.
Before going out, the man said meaningfully: "I like obedient children, I hope you understand."
After he left, I pointed my middle finger at the closed door.
For more than half an hour after this, I was anxiously circling back and forth in the room.
A man even came up once and asked how we were doing.
I excused myself because I was shy.
After the man left, I cast my eyes on Zhixi.
She sat there quietly, wearing a red dress as beautiful as the one in the painting.
I sighed and came to sit next to her.
"It's a pity. I originally wanted to rescue you."
"Now it seems that we will both end up here tonight."
"But don't worry, I'm a serious person and I won't take advantage of others."
"He wants us to consummate our marriage, but I don't agree with him."
I seemed to have talked a lot with Zhixi in order to express my inner depression.
She is a good listener and neither noisy nor fussy, although of course she wouldn't want to be like this if she could help it.
Speaking of the latter part, I sighed again: "Actually, if I die, I will die. Anyway, it's not like I haven't died before."
"I just pity you. You said you are so beautiful and you are still alive, but you were brought to such a ghost place..."
Halfway through my words, I suddenly raised my eyebrows and thought of something.
Living people!
Yes, Zhixi is a living person!
My blood cannot break through the blindness because I am a living dead and have no yang energy in my body.
But Zhixi is a living person. Although women generally have a strong yin energy, as long as they are not menstruating for a few days, it is enough to remove the obstacles!