"Do you have any ideas? What should we do next?" I asked Yi Ba.
“Let’s take it one step at a time!” Yi Ba said.
During the whole day, Yi Ba locked himself in the room, looking at him like he was thinking about something. Yi Ba is busy, so naturally I can't disturb him!
Time passed by in the evening, and Yi Ba walked out of the bedroom.
"Lock yourself in the room for a day. What did you do?" I asked Yi Ba curiously.
"Nothing done." Yi Ba replied to me, and then said: "Let's go have dinner quickly, and then set off!"
"Tonight we have to stay in the yard like last night. One night?" I asked Yi Ba.
“Let’s take a look at the situation first before talking.” Yi Ba said.
Since Yi Ba didn’t think about it himself, I didn’t bother to ask any more questions. After dinner, Yi Ba asked me to get the beetle shell in case of emergency.
This night, the villagers were as obedient as last night, and they all stayed in the yard at the entrance of the ancestral hall. The night passed peacefully without any incident.
In the next few days, Yiba and I would go to Yinmagou every night. After struggling for several days, the villagers were obviously tired.
This evening, the villagers no longer gathered in the yard as they had done the previous few days. Some villagers went back to their homes. Days and nights like this are okay for a few days, but no one can bear it after a long time.
"What should I do?" I looked at Yi Ba worriedly and said, "My eyelids were twitching so much tonight, I always felt like something was going to happen."
"After so many days of peace, it's time for something to happen." Yi Ba said.
"Tonight, even if the matter cannot be completely solved, there should still be some progress." I said.
"Yeah!" Yi Ba nodded and said, "The only thing I'm worried about now is whether there will be another life tonight."
Yi Ba took a small piece of paper from his green cloth pocket After the man came out and recited the scriptures for a while, the little paper man climbed into the coffin with his calves, lay on the body, and smelled it.
After smelling all eight corpses, the little paper man became a little dark.
"What are you doing?" I asked Yi Ba curiously.
“I’ve been sitting around for so many days, but things haven’t made any progress at all.” Yi Ba paused and said, “We can’t solve the problem by waiting, so I want to take the initiative and take a gamble. Take it!”
"Okay!" I took over the words and said, "I've been so angry for waiting so dryly every day."
"This little paper man smelled those eight It’s a corpse, let’s follow it and see if we can find the eight human skins,” Yi Ba said.
The eight human skins were peeled off from these eight corpses. The little paper man smelled the smell of these eight corpses, so naturally he could also smell the smell of the eight human skins!
The direction the little paper man took us looked like we were heading towards Xie Sifen’s house! My judgment was correct. The little paper man Yi Ba released actually stopped at the door of Xie Sifen's house.
“Is it really Xie Sifen?” I looked at Yi Ba with doubtful eyes.
"It's hard to say now. We have to go in and take a look to find out." Yi Badao said.
The gate of the courtyard is ajar, not tightly closed. I stretched out my hand and was about to push the door open, but Yi Ba gave me a look and stopped me.
"Creak..."
When I retracted my hand, the ajar door actually opened by itself.
There was a person in the yard, disheveled Xie Sifen. She was sitting on a small bench, holding a rag doll in her hand, giggling crazily.
"My man is back, he's going to skin you, skin you!"
As Xie Sifen said this, she pulled the doll with her hands. Accompanied by the "clattering" sound, Xie Sifen tore off the rag doll's dough, exposing the cotton inside, and a lot of it was scattered on the ground.
Although Xie Sifen is a lively person, the scene in front of her still looks a bit eye-catching.
"Xie Sifen, what are you doing?" I shouted to Xie Sifen.
“Skin, I’m going to skin you!” Xie Sifen replied to me, but she didn’t turn her head around and continued to tear the doll apart.
"Crash...crash..."
Accompanied by the harsh sound of the cloth being torn, the rag doll in Xie Sifen's hand was torn to pieces. Cotton was scattered all over the floor, in clumps here and there.
“Why do you want to peel off our skin?” Yi Ba asked.
"You deserve to die! You all deserve to die!" Xie Sifen turned her head around, grinned at us.
Yi Ba squatted down and drew pictures on the little paper figure with his fingers. After finishing the drawing, Yi Ba muttered a scripture.
The little paper man walked towards Xie Sifen with his calves.
As soon as she saw the little paper man approaching, Xie Sifen was so frightened that she stood up and took a few steps back.
"Go away! Go away!" Judging from the way Xie Sifen looked at the little paper man, it seemed that she was a little afraid of this little thing!
"Didn't you say that we all deserve to die? Aren't you going to peel off our skins? You should call your man out and let him peel off our skins!" Yi Ba is forcing Xie Sifen Take action?
"You guys leave quickly, otherwise my man will come back soon and none of you will be able to escape." Xie Sifen said.
"We can go find him without him coming back. You just need to tell us where he is." Yi Badao said.
“I won’t tell you, my man will skin you.”
This Xie Sifen, is she really crazy or pretending to be crazy? While saying that her man would skin us, she refused to tell us, where is her man?
“Go!” Yi Ba gave the order to the little paper man.
After receiving the order, the little paper man jumped on Xie Sifen's body with a little jump of its little feet. Xie Sifen was probably frightened by the little paper man. As soon as the little paper man jumped on her, she screamed.
As for the little paper man, he was not affected by Xie Sifen, but was there smelling her scent.
After smelling it for a while, the little paper man jumped off her body. Xie Sifen was so frightened that she went back to the house and closed the door with a bang.
"What's going on with Xie Sifen? Why is she so afraid of this little paper man?" I asked Yi Ba.
“This is my secret.” Yi Ba was so shameless that he actually betrayed me.
"What should we do next?" I asked Yi Ba.
"Follow this little paper man." Yi Ba paused and said, "If that man Xie Sifen really comes back, the little paper man will definitely be able to find him."
Yi Ba took it from the green cloth pocket. He took out a talisman from inside, lit it, and gave the little paper man a sniff of the green smoke from the talisman. This little paper man is really interesting. After smelling the green smoke, it immediately moved out of the yard with its calves, as if it had been injected with chicken blood.
"Why did it run so fast all of a sudden?" I pointed at the little paper man and asked Yi Ba with a puzzled look on his face.
"If you eat and run away, you will naturally run faster!" Yi Ba said with a smile.
“You mean, it eats talismans?” I asked.
"Yeah!" Yi Ba nodded and said: "This little paper man doesn't eat anything else but fu cigarettes. After eating fu cigarettes, it immediately became energetic."
Not to mention , that little paper man who ate the fu cigarette ran really fast. Yi Ba and I still couldn't catch up with it while walking, so we had to run.
The little paper man took us to the back mountain and got into a bamboo forest.
Generally speaking, the Bamboo Forest has good Feng Shui and is very suitable for building a shady house. But there is something strange about this bamboo forest. Yi Ba and I have been walking around with the little paper figures for a long time, but we haven't even seen a tomb.
“Don’t you think it’s strange that you didn’t see the grave?” I asked Yi Ba. Yi Ba stopped, glanced around with his eyes, and said: "Judging from the terrain, even if this place is not a geomantic treasure, it should at least be a good piece of land! It would be a pretty good place to bury the grave here." There is no choice, there is no grave, which is indeed strange.”