Chapter 21: Kindness and Vengeance
Seeing the group of paper figures gradually gathering around me, I hurriedly prepared the talisman in my backpack.
Lu Changjian shouted in a low voice at this time: "Upstairs, there are no paper figures upstairs."
I glanced at it and nodded: "Let's go! Follow me here."
Lu Changjian rushed out without waiting for me to finish.
"Fuck, don't run so fast, you..."
Before he finished speaking, he had already rushed to the stairs. Although he made no sound, the group of paper figures rushed towards him.
"Help...help! Uh! Uh..."
It sounded like something had been stuffed into his mouth, and I didn't have time to see it. Now was the best time to go upstairs.
"Put your brother on your back! Go upstairs from there!"
Lu Changfu immediately set off and carried Lu Changye on his shoulders, and we quickly climbed upstairs from the stairs on the other side.
After going upstairs, I discovered that the group of paper figures were all holding things in their hands. They were all paper bowls, chopsticks, white rice and the like. Moreover, all the paper figures had similar shapes, like those of rural aunts.
Floral clothes.
They all held Lu Changjian down and stuffed the pieces of paper into his mouth like an assembly line.
Lu Changfu looked like a big man, but actually he didn't have much physical strength. He couldn't walk just by moving Lu Changye upstairs.
Now that Lu Changjian had passed out and did not know whether to live or die, the paper figures dispersed.
I tiptoed to him and dragged him up.
After checking his pulse, he found that he was still alive. Looking at the "spiritual talisman" tightly clutched in his hand, it seemed that the talisman on his body saved his life.
"Come here quickly and clean up all these things." I waved to Lu Changfu who was standing aside.
He gasped for air, left the unconscious Lu Changye and walked over.
When he saw Lu Changjian's appearance, he was so frightened that he almost cried.
I gave him a sideways look: "Big man, why are you crying all day long? Do it quickly!"
It took us a while to clean up the pieces of paper stuck in Lu Changjian's mouth, ears and nose.
Now Lu Changjian has also fainted, leaving only Lu Changfu and me who can continue to move forward.
Looking at his timid look, I thought it would be safer to go alone.
"Hey! Master, where are you going?" He stopped me, looking flustered and embarrassed.
"Get out, don't you see the traces going outside?"
Lu Changfu was obviously very uneasy after hearing this: "No, I have to follow you, something might happen here."
I was a little helpless, but I couldn't stop him. In the end, the two of us could only quietly go downstairs, and then walked to the backyard through the back door.
It's actually dark now.
No one has been to the backyard for an unknown amount of time. It is full of spider webs and overgrown weeds, the tallest of which is above my head.
"Where are you going now?"
The backyard was not a paved road, it was all muddy, and there were no traces of blood left, so we had to find our own way.
"Shh." From the corner of my eye, I saw something staring at us under the outdoor night light not far away, so I quickly asked him to keep his voice down.
That thing noticed that I had discovered it and hid immediately.
Lu Changfu came close to me, and I could feel that he was even shivering now.
It seems that there are some things that I don't know about wandering around in this backyard, so it's better to be careful.
The old people have this saying that when walking at night, it is best not to be alone, but to walk and talk with another person, and do not stop talking. If you stop, something that may be following you will get on you.
"Let's go, lead the way to the locust tree, and talk to me as you go. You can say whatever you want, but you can't stop."
I found a shovel everywhere and handed it to Lu Changfu, asking him to at least struggle if he encountered something.
"Say...what are you talking about?" Lu Changfu swallowed, obviously nervous and stuttering.
"You can say whatever you want, just talk about the paper figures in the mourning hall just now."
Lu Changfu was stunned: "How did you know about this?"
Of course I was guessing.
According to the experience in the toilet, this thing is probably trying to retaliate against the bullying it suffered. It stands to reason that these things with the same shape and that are particularly sensitive to Lu Changjian must be related to him.
"You go ahead and talk. Time is running out now. If you wait any longer, someone will die."
Lu Changfu still refused to leave, so I simply took out another charm from my bag and said, "Here, just give me 100,000 when it's over."
Lu Changfu immediately took it and carefully put it in his clothes.
"Those paper figures look like our mothers."
He followed my instructions and said as he walked: "When I was a child, my mother loved my eldest brother the most, and she would be the first to give him anything delicious."
I wondered: "But why are those paper figures feeding Lu Changjian just plain rice?"
"Oh, that's where my eldest brother was wrong. My mother died of illness in the end. She couldn't move and needed our care until she died. So my eldest brother took the brunt of this work."
"But he didn't care at all. He always did this in everything he did. He said he would find me a wife, but he ended up finding an ugly woman. Later I said he was not satisfied and he never took care of me again.
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"He hired someone to help take care of my mother, and then he ignored her after visiting her twice."
When I said this, I saw a familiar expression on his face. I have to say that they are indeed brothers. When they detail the crimes of others, they all have the same expression. It has nothing to do with themselves.
"And the old woman who is responsible for taking care of her is not a good person. She likes to be lazy and take advantage of her all day long. My mother is seriously ill. She only feeds my mother white rice every day. Vegetables rarely appear. She insists on taking the food given to her by her elder brother.
He squandered the money for himself, and also took home a lot of *** sent by other relatives."
I almost know the ending: "So your father blames him, thinking that he was the one who indirectly killed your mother in the end, that paper man..."
"Yes, that paper figure is our mother. Those eyebrows and the mole under the mouth are definitely her..."
At this point, he was speechless and began to sob quietly.
Although this guy looks like a fool, he seems to be the most conscientious among these people. No wonder he is the only one who has not been embarrassed by the old man so far.
Suddenly, there was a chill behind me, as if something was following me, and I could vaguely hear footsteps.
I quickly said: "Don't cry, don't cry. Don't stop talking. Keep talking about something else. If you want to scold your brother and them, that's fine. Don't stop."
He obviously felt what was behind him, and he was so frightened that he couldn't speak. He burst into tears: "It's really my fault... If it weren't for me, my father wouldn't have died. Dad, please don't come to me.
I will definitely burn incense and offer it to you to apologize..."
Chapter completed!