no puppet

At that time in early autumn, the mountain road was soft, wet and muddy, a group of stonemasons were clamoring and crowding together in the damp grass behind the forest, and Xie Hengyan and Brother Liu were walking side by side at the end of the crowd, talking one after another.

"What would Brother Liu want to tell me?" Xie Hengyan looked back to the other side, Yin Chun was still walking up and down impatiently in front of the ancestral hall, as if he was signaling him to go back quickly.

"You don't plan to go with us?" Liu Gexian saw this in his eyes, but didn't say much. As usual, he just lit a stick of dry tobacco and put it in his mouth to swallow the clouds. I didn't come here as a joke, and it wouldn't be too much to take you with me. What's more, there are fellow villagers here, and we can take care of each other on the road together in the future."

Xie Hengyan smiled and said, "It's not that I don't want to leave, it's just that I... really can't get away."

Brother Liu asked: "Why can't you get rid of it, aren't you free?"

"No." Xie Hengyan said, "I settled here purely to find someone."

"Who are you looking for?"

Xie Hengyan raised his head sensitively, and Brother Liu realized that he was asking too much, so he waved his hand and said casually: "Forget it, it must be your personal matter, and I shouldn't have come in to get involved."

Xie Hengyan did not speak.After a while, brother Liu was suddenly heard saying: "You have a very good relationship with him."

"Hmm...who?" Xie Hengyan suddenly tilted her head, as if she was a little stunned by the question.

In fact, Xie Hengyan didn't understand what Brother Liu wanted to express.Zuo was just a chance encounter, he took money to do things, and left after finishing the work, so he didn't have many worries or thoughts.

At that time, the stonemason seemed to have other thoughts. He was looking into Xie Hengyan's eyes while speaking, but his eyes gradually drifted to the deserted and quiet ancestral hall on the top of the mountain, and an increasingly distant and faint road beyond the stone steps of the promenade. silhouette.

Xie Hengyan said, "What did you come to me for?"

"...He is not Cheng Daofeng's follower." Brother Liu smoked his pipe, although his mouth was vague, but his words were clearly discernible, "His appearance does not look like Cheng Daofeng's ordinary follower."

Xie Hengyan immediately realized that Brother Liu meant Yin Chun.

But what else can Yin Chun think about?Whether he is Cheng Daofeng's follower or apprentice, to stonemasons like them, it has no real stake at all.

Xie Hengyan suddenly became a little vigilant: "... so what if you're not a follower?"

When the old Bao from the same village heard this, he pinched his face and laughed out loud, which made people's hair stand on end.

"What are you laughing at?" Xie Hengyan was confused, "What's so ridiculous?"

Brother Liu shook his head, just opened his mouth to blow out smoke, and didn't speak aloud.

At this time, the mountains were thickly foggy, Xie Hengyan and the stonemasons were walking in the uneven mud grass at the edge of the mountain road, and before they knew it, they were already far away from the ancestral hall on the top of the mountain.

Xie Hengyan felt a little uneasy, and stopped after walking for a long time, and said firmly: "I won't say much else, I'll go back to the ancestral hall to find Yinzhu... Take care, everyone, we will meet later."

Just when he turned around to leave, Brother Liu sighed in vain afterwards: "...Young Master Xie, don't rush back, there are still a few important items here, which have not yet been handed over to you."

"What object?" Xie Hengyan asked suspiciously, "Don't keep trying to shut me up, if you have anything to say, just speak up...Why do you have to act like you don't want to say it?"

When the words came out, I saw Lao Bao on the side, carefully picking out two smaller and rough packages from the sundries on his back.

Xie Hengyan looked very strange at a glance, and was about to reach out to snatch it, but Laobao shook his arms slightly, and spread the two small parcels outwards, only to hear a few muffled rustling sounds for a moment, and a series of A few familiar objects were poured out—the first thing to bear the brunt was the thickened coat that Yinpo had prepared for him in the town before!

"This...is my package!" Xie Hengyan changed color suddenly, "Why did it appear in your hands... Hey, bring it! Give it back to me!"

Before the words were finished, black smoke suddenly rose up in front of my eyes, and the parcel fell to the ground and was instantly shattered into countless dusts, splashing into the mud everywhere, and then disappeared without a trace in front of my eyes.

Xie Hengyan raised his eyes suddenly, and wanted to stop him, but it was too late.

The two parcels in Laobao's hand did not know where they came from, and everything in them was sent by Yinzhu.

——Clothes for winter, a few new strings of candied haws, and some exquisite snacks wrapped in paper, which I didn’t even bother to open.Now it was thrown out in one breath, and before it touched the ground, it was already torn apart in front of people, and turned into nothingness in an instant.

And what's even more strange is that it even includes the green umbrella with the demon-suppressing charm painted on it!

why?

Xie Hengyan had 1 questions in his heart.They were obviously just a group of ordinary stonemasons from outside the town, and they only paid 50 taels of silver for their wages!

...he always thought so.

But now it seems like someone is watching him, every move can't escape a pair of closely following eyes.

"It's extremely difficult for everyone to get to know each other. But the person you meet, Young Master, is not a good person. Today you get such benefits from him, but in the future you will be in a desperate situation. I think you must repay it with your life." Brother Liu cupped his hands slightly, He said, "Furthermore, the body is hair and skin, which is the responsibility of the parents. The puppet's body is easy to work and damage, unless it is desperate, don't exchange it for anything outside of the body..."

Xie Hengyan opened his eyes wide again, so that the wanton flood of scarlet in the pupils had nowhere to go, and gradually showed an uncontrollable twist.

However, the group of stonemasons at the other end didn't seem to care at all, and there was a hint of incomprehensible staring in their gazes.

Brother Liu bowed, and suddenly took out a brand-new and delicate wooden box from his sleeve, handed it to Xie Hengyan, and then said slowly: "What Liu said just now were all spoken by your father, there is absolutely no falsehood ——I will return this thing to its owner today, and I hope you will return it to the young master... you must think twice before doing anything."

Xie Hengyan's hands trembled uncontrollably, and finally moved his fingertips slightly, and opened a thin slit from the top of the wooden box.

——Then what appeared in front of him without exception was a fang he sold at Boss Lei's place a few days ago!

"My father sent you here!" Xie Hengyan's voice was trembling, "...where is my father? Why doesn't he want to come to see me by himself?"

Brother Liu's expression was gloomy and unclear, leaving only a pair of eyes squinting at him, and did not speak.

And the stonemasons behind, including Lao Bao and Xiao Zhang, also sneered.The laughter was terribly cold, it seemed to be mocking, and it seemed to be condemning, although it was only a few short ones, it was enough to pierce a person's heart.

"May I ask you something, where is Xie Cong?"

Xie Hengyan stepped forward suddenly, grabbed Brother Liu's arm, and even the corners of his eyes were blushing sharply: "...he didn't go far at all, did he?"

Brother Liu just said: "Don't you know everything?"

Xie Heng's face turned pale for a while: "How would I know where he is? Please speak clearly!"

Brother Liu took a step back, and said: "My father once said that you choose the road, and no matter who you meet or what happens on the way, it is up to you to choose."

Xie Hengyan panicked, "What do you mean!"

"But you have to remember one thing - your life was given by him... your body is also given by him." Brother Liu said indifferently, "... a puppet's fangs are very precious, and it is not for others to squander and give away at will. The objects, especially the object of your alms and relief, are still from the Biyu Mansion in Laifeng Town."

Xie Hengyan was very anxious immediately, and couldn't help asking him: "Does...know?"

Brother Liu still retreated, gradually disappearing into the crowd, and his voice was ethereal: "What are you doing that shouldn't be done, can he not know?"

"Since he knows, why won't he see me?" Xie Hengyan suddenly said angrily, "I wandered all the way from Tongjing Island to this place just to wait for him to play with me?"

Brother Liu did not speak again.The smog in the mountains was so deep that he stepped back only a few steps, and the expression on his entire face was already blurred.

Xie Hengyan still wanted to ask something, but when she stretched out her hand, the silhouettes of the people in front of her were silently shattered, disappearing in the mid-air in an instant like the white mist around her.

At that time, among the vast stretches of forest and sea that stretched on the mountain road, there was only one puppet left, holding the wooden box with fangs in its hand, in a daze.

The reunion at Fuze Mountain earlier could still be regarded as an unintentional coincidence.

Xie Hengyan's adoptive father, Xie Cong, is a paranoid man with weird thinking.According to the nature of a man, if he doesn't want to show his face to meet Xie Hengyan, then he will definitely not appear in front of him again—unless during this period, some of Xie Hengyan's actions have reached the point of extreme anger to the other party.

Among them, exchanging fangs for money in private is naturally the most serious one.

Xie Hengyan was lucky, thinking that his father would never know about this matter.He didn't want the fang to go around in a big circle, but returned to his own hand.

What's even more frightening is that he sent the stonemasons who repaired the statue.

The thief who stole the package in the ancestral hall that day was also among them.

And now those parcels containing brand-new food and clothing were destroyed by them to nothing, including the dangerous umbrella with the spell painted on it.

... The above is indeed Xie Cong's usual style.

He never liked to have any dealings with people around Cheng Daofeng, so that what Yin Chun sent to Xie Hengyan was likely to be completely destroyed by him directly or indirectly in the end.

Could it be that he secretly planned the destruction of the statue before?

But this truth does not make much sense.

Xie Cong believes in gods and Buddhas, and he usually treats solemn places such as ancestral halls and temples with a lot of respect.Furthermore, if he intends to throw any tricks behind the scenes, there is no need to send stonemasons to repair it afterwards.

But he has been frequenting around Fuze Mountain recently, what exactly is he running around for?

Xie Hengyan looked down at his wooden box, and was full of thoughts on the way back.

It wasn't until he reached the stone steps in front of the ancestral hall that he carefully put the wooden box into his sleeve. At this moment, Yin Chu was standing on the porch waiting for him. Seeing that the person finally walked back slowly, he couldn't help feeling suspicious. Asked: "What did they call you for, why did you go for so long?"

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——Your father spends a lot of money for you, but why do you run around with a poor boy?

Here is a sequence of events:

Xie Hengyan knew Yin Chun in infancy—Xie Hengyan was taken away by someone to give to Xie Cong, while Yin Chun was taken away by Cheng Daofeng as a disciple—the two met many years later, the puppet would not lose its memory, but Yin Chun forgot everything

If you look at it in this order, you will find a shocking secret...

That is……

Yinzhu is actually a...

Big……

Trotters.