Paper man

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Wang Tianfu opened a medicine shop in Tianwang Town. After a few years of marriage, his wife Xiuyu had never been pregnant. Wang Tianfu took her all over the place to seek medical treatment and medicine, but in the end it was fruitless. It became a heart problem for him.

That autumn, Daoling Heavenly Master of Qingshan Taoist Academy passed by the door and entered the house to ask for water. Wang Tianfu took the opportunity to ask him for advice. The Daoling Heavenly Master smiled "hehe" and said, "How difficult is this!" He went to the bag he was carrying to pick it up. After searching for a long time, he found a small person with paper scissors, who looked like a 28-year-old woman, holding a half-open lotus flower in her hand, covering her face with shame. Daoling Heavenly Master frowned and said to Wang Tianfu, "It was you who hit no children, but this stunner was the only one left. He handed the paper man over to Wang Tianfu and made a detailed explanation. Finally, he said, "If there is a mistake, I will come again!" Wang Tianfu carefully collected the paper man with suspicion.

Who knew that soon after Ling Tianshi left, Xiuyu became pregnant, and Wang Tianfu was overjoyed. In the middle of the next summer, his daughter was born. Seeing the lotus blossoms in the pond in the backyard budding, Wang Tianfu named his daughter Qinghe.

Who knew that this green lotus had been sick since childhood, and weak willows helped the wind. It had been stumbling all the way for more than ten years, but it was very charming. Wang Tianfu said to Xiuyu behind his back, "Why do I feel that I have seen this girl somewhere?" Xiuyu said, "The blood is connected, and it is in the bones!" Wang Tianfu shook his head and said, "No!" Suddenly thinking of the paper figure sent by the Daoling Heavenly Master back then, he said, "Qinghe grew just like that!" Looking for the paper figure again, he had long since disappeared.

Soon after being brokered by someone, Qing He and Shuqu, the second son of Dongxiang salt merchant Lu Gongdao, married. On the day of the big wedding, the Wang family was busy, and a servant came to report that an old beggar outside the door asked for happy money, but he gave it and did not leave, only saying that he wanted to see the master. Wang Tianfu was entangled in all things and was in a hurry. He just said to give him a few more money and sent him to leave quickly. Before the servant and maid left, he saw an old beggar in ragged clothes shouting all the way over. Wang Tianfu stopped him and said, "The little girl got married today, and she has already given happy money, how can she still be entangled?" The old beggar said, "It turns out that she is in charge of the family. The disaster is coming, and you don't even know it. Are you really not afraid of retribution?"

Wang Tianfu sneered and said, "I didn't do anything evil, so what kind of retribution can I get?" The old beggar said, "After a few decades of life, who can stop one thought from time to time? For example, if you open a pharmacy, you can guarantee that it is genuine and fair? But there is a bias, and the pen is in the account. Over time, the minor ailments have become serious. You dare to say no?" Wang Tianfu looked embarrassed, pondered for a moment, and said, "In your opinion, how should I avoid disaster today?" The old beggar said, "How difficult is this? You only need to donate half of my family's wealth, and you can wash away your sins!"

Wang Tianfu got angry for a while and said, "I think you are poor and crazy!" He let the old beggar out. As soon as he turned around, he felt that there was something in his hand, and when he opened it, he saw that it was a small paper figure. Looking closer, it was exactly the same as the gift given by Daoling Heavenly Master back then. Just as he was wondering, firecrackers sounded, Shuqu rode a tall horse and brought a sedan chair to pick up his relatives. After the banquet, Qing He said goodbye to his parents and went with Shuqu. Wang Tianfu suddenly thought of the old beggar's matter and felt that today's matter was strange. He was not at ease for a while, so he asked Lao Qin, who was doing errands in the medicine shop, to go to Dongxiang with his relatives, saying that if something happened, it was easy to get along.

It was nearly three o'clock, and Wang Tianfu had already fallen asleep. Old Qin came back in a hurry to call the door, saying something big had happened. Wang Tianfu was shocked when he heard this, and quickly got up to ask questions. Old Qin took a deep breath before telling the whole story.

It turned out that not long after the sedan chair left Tianwang Town in the afternoon, it rained in the sky. It was muddy all the way, so it was naturally slow. When they arrived at the peach blossom pavilion, the rain gradually increased, and Qing He called Shuqu from the sedan chair, probably in a hurry. Shuqu asked the sedan chair to stay in the sedan chair, and led Qing He to the depths of the grass behind the pavilion for convenience. After waiting for a long time, Shuqu helped Qing He out. Old Qin Tou said that at that time, he found that Qing He was untidy and had a strange expression. When Qing He got into the sedan chair, Shuqu urged him to leave. Who knew that the sedan chairs had been supporting for a long time, and the sedan chair could not move as if it had taken root. The sedan chair pulled Shuqu aside and said, "This matter is strange, it must be a ghost blocking the way, so hurry up Shuqu was in a hurry, so he had to go to the roadside grocery store to buy paper candles and burn them, and let go of a string of firecrackers. After letting everyone get up the palanquin, it was as easy as usual. But in a moment, the bride had been brought home.

Old Qin said that when the newlyweds gave a big gift, they didn't see anything unusual, and they both entered the bridal chamber. When the wedding banquet started, the newlyweds refused to come out. Let's beat the door, but they shouldn't. Lu Gongdao was furious and asked someone to use a crowbar to pry the door. Who knew that the man walked to the door and inserted the sled into the crack of the door. As soon as he tried hard, he lost two front teeth with the crowbar, his mouth was full of blood, and he suddenly shouted for help. Old Qin saw that something was wrong and hurried to stop it. Lu Gongdao had to give up and open the banquet to entertain the guests.

Near midnight, Lu Gongdao was not at ease when he went to the banquet, so he went to knock on the door again. He only heard from the inside: "If you have something to say, just knock on the door, what do you do?" Hearing that, it was actually a female voice mixed with a male accent, and it was unclear whether it was Shuqu or Qinghe. He only heard the inside say: "Just send some food and put it outside the door, don't come again~!" When everyone heard it, they were very frightened and scattered. Old Qin Tou also took the opportunity to come back to report his order.

Until dawn, Wang Tianfu never slept again.

Early the next morning, the Wang family was busy, ready to welcome a couple of newcomers back at the door. At noon, old Qin said, "Come! Coming!" Wang Tianfu hurriedly went out to welcome Shuqu, but he saw that Shuqu's face was pale, his eyes were dull, and he didn't respond to the greeting. Qing He still covered his face, but he didn't see his face. Wang Tianfu was wondering when a deacon's mother-in-law saw it and said, "How can there be newcomers who still wear their heads when they return to the door?" He reached out and was about to take it off, but Qing He stretched out two slender fingers, and with just a force, he heard a "click" sound. The mother-in-law's wrist had already been broken, and he ran away wailing all the way. Everyone screamed in shock and gave way one after another. Qing He introduced Shuqu into the old boudoir, and could not leave the door No matter how his family shouted, they ignored him.

Besides, when Lu Gongdao saw a couple of newcomers behaving erratically, he was afraid that there would be another mistake in the Wang family, so he sent someone to report the news behind him. After hearing this, Wang Tianfu was exactly the same as what Old Qin said at night, and he couldn't help but feel suspicious and afraid. He went to ask Old Qin and said, "It seems that I am afraid that I have contracted an evil disease, what should I do?Old Qin thought for a while and said, "Don't panic, sir. From what I can see, this Qing He has always been weak, and now I don't know which immortal he collided with, and the evil demon invaded his body, and it also caused disaster to Shuqu. Sir, do you still remember the time when the Heavenly Master of Daoling entered the door to ask for water?Wang Tianfu said, "Why don't you remember? Qing He is a gift from the Heavenly Master!Old Qin Tou said, "Back then, when Daoling Heavenly Master left Qing He behind, he said that if something goes wrong in the future, he would come back. Now we have to ask him to settle this matter!"

As soon as he was reminded, Wang Tianfu remembered that Daoling Tianshi had said this back then. He also remembered that the old beggar came to entangle him yesterday and asked for half of the family's assets. The old beggar just left, and the paper man immediately reappeared. Could it be that there was a connection in the first place? Wang Tianfu thought for a while, asked Old Qin Tou to come over and explain, and ordered him to go to Qingshan Taoist Academy immediately and invite Daoling Tianshi to come and capture the monster.

Old Qin Tou rushed to the Qingshan Taoist Academy, and the Taoist boy said that the Heavenly Master went to the mansion yesterday and was thrown out, so why did he come to entangle today? Old Qin Tou knew in his heart that the Heavenly Master of Daoling must have obtained the art of disguise, so he turned into an old beggar. He quickly smiled with him, saying only that the master explained that he was willing to donate half of the family funds to the Taoist Academy, help the poor and help the poor, and form a good relationship. The Taoist boy "chuckled" and said, "You go back, the Heavenly Master is already in the mansion!"

In the evening, Old Qin hurried back. As expected, Heavenly Master Dao Ling set up an altar in the backyard to hunt ghosts. After a while, he heard a man moaning in the green lotus room, followed by a wailing, which was not the sound of Shuqu at all. Everyone was listening, and suddenly saw the door opening, and the green lotus rushed out, rushing towards the rushing river in front of the door. Everyone couldn't stop it, and had already thrown into the river with a "plop" sound. Seeing Wang Tianfu, he shouted to save people, and everyone rushed forward and went down the river to look for it. Wang Tianfu hurried into the room to read the book canal, and the person was already cold. Trying to feel his pulse, he had been dead for at least two days.

Wang Tianfu followed him to the riverside and saw that the man in the green lotus wedding dress was actually a male corpse, and he couldn't help but be shocked. Then he saw that the man described it as déjà vu. Some of the onlookers saw the flaw and said that it wasn't Niu Er who was killed last year and was buried behind the peach blossom pavilion. It was still a headless case, how did the body end up here instead?

Soon the case was solved, and this Niu Er was actually murdered by Wang Tianfu.

It turned out that Niu Er was a scoundrel who ran amok in the countryside. That year, Wang Tianfu lost his life because he mistakenly sold medicine to the patient. Although this was covered up by him, Niu Er somehow found out about it, so he repeatedly came to blackmail him. Wang Tianfu began to be afraid and dealt with it somewhat. Until one day, Niu Er came to the door after drinking and said that he wanted to marry Qing He as his wife. After a hundred years, he would inherit all the property of the Wang family and ask Wang Tianfu to sign the painting, otherwise he would go to the official. Only then did Wang Tianfu realize that he couldn't avoid it, so he simply didn't do it, and he bought someone to do him. Wang Tianfu just never understood how the dead ghost Niu Er appeared in Qing He's wedding dress.

The next year, during the autumn harvest, Wang Tianfu died in prison. On the day of the burial, everyone was burning paper candles in front of the tomb when they saw a woman wailing all the way and crying in front of the tomb. Some people were surprised and said why did it look like a green lotus? At this moment, a gust of wind blew up on the ground, and the burning paper money immediately wrapped the woman into a burning man. Everyone was shocked and hurried to put out the fire to save people. When the fire was extinguished, where was the woman still standing? Everyone was stunned, pointing to the sky and saying, "Look at that paper man!" Everyone looked up and saw a paper man was swaying and flying out of the sky.