C28 All Kinds of Things Happened

Old Immortal Chen's wife saw that Old Immortal Chen went out with the employer in the morning, but he didn't come back. She couldn't help but worry. She waited anxiously in the house.

However, she didn't come back no matter how much she waited. In fact, Old Immortal Chen had done this kind of thing before. At that time, Old Immortal Chen's wife didn't care too much about it! But tonight, she didn't know what was going on. She always felt scared! It was as if a needle had fallen on the ground, and she would be startled! Even she didn't know what was going on.

In short, she was very uneasy now! She waited until around eleven o'clock, and he finally stopped waiting. So, he locked the door and turned off the lights to sleep.

He didn't know how long he had slept, but he vaguely heard someone knocking on the door. However, the voice was very soft. If it was not in the deep night, no one would have heard it.

When Old Immortal Chen's wife heard this voice, the first thing she felt was that Old Immortal Chen had returned. She hurriedly got down from the ground and opened the door. She was about to complain about how Old Immortal Chen had come back when she found that there was no one outside. The entire courtyard was pitch black, and it was very empty and gloomy!

As the cold wind blew past, Old Immortal Chen's wife couldn't help but shiver. Her heart skipped a beat! It was as if she had sensed something strange.

Therefore, she quickly closed the door and climbed onto the bed, curling up in a corner.

She was very scared now! The main reason was that when she opened the door, she saw a row of heads on the top of their house. However, because it was dark, she couldn't see clearly. Because of her fear, he didn't have the guts to count the number of heads. However, she felt that those heads didn't seem real, but more like the heads of paper man. Because she had been in contact with these things for a long time, she was very familiar with the heads of paper man.

However, she didn't know why so many paper man heads would appear on the wall in the middle of the night. She didn't dare to think about it either.

Just like that, Old Immortal Chen's wife didn't dare to sleep anymore. She could only curl up there, intending to stay there until the sun rose.

However, not long after, there was a light knock on the door.

This time, Old Immortal Chen's wife didn't dare open the door. She only nervously wrapped her body with the blanket. However, the knocking outside didn't stop because of this. Instead, it kept on knocking.

Although the voice was not loud, it was like a hammer that struck Old Immortal Chen's wife's heart with every blow.

Just as Old Immortal Chen's wife felt her heart stop beating, the knocking sound suddenly disappeared! The surroundings instantly became abnormally quiet, so quiet that Old Immortal Chen's wife was a little unaccustomed.

Just as she was about to heave a sigh of relief, she suddenly heard a knock on the door.

This time, the sound was completely different from before! The sound just now was like a wooden door being slapped by a tree branch, but this time, it was like a tree trunk being slammed against the door.

Old Immortal Chen's wife, who was already very nervous, could not help but scream! Unfortunately, her family lived in the last row of houses in the village. There were basically no residents here, so even if she screamed, no one would hear it.

At this moment, Old Immortal Chen's wife only felt that something was about to break through the door!

Then, she heard the sound of knocking on the door, followed by the sound of the door being slammed open.

Old Immortal Chen's wife knew that something must have entered. With the bright moonlight outside, she saw some figures staggering in from outside.

At this moment, Old Immortal Chen's wife's heart was already in her throat. At this moment, she wanted to scream, but her throat seemed to have been bet on by something, and she couldn't make any sound at all. So, she could only watch helplessly as those twisted shadows outside got closer and closer to her house.

In the end, Old Immortal Chen's wife directly covered herself with a blanket …

As time passed by little by little, Old Immortal Chen's wife found that nothing had happened. Moreover, she didn't hear any sound from the surroundings.

What was going on? Could it be that those things had already left and were no longer here?

With such a trace of hope, Old Immortal Chen's wife couldn't help but pick up the blanket that was covering her head and secretly look outside.

However, when she looked, she immediately saw the most terrifying scene that she had never seen in her life!

A few paper men were standing on the ground in front of her. The two in the lead looked like guards riding on high horses, while the other four looked like palanquins. However, what was being carried in the middle of them was not a palanquin, but a blood-red coffin!

After seeing this scene, Old Immortal Chen's wife's first reaction was not to be afraid, but to not understand why the paper man would suddenly appear here. This was a paper man that her husband had personally made, so she naturally knew it.

However, she then realized that the paper man in front of her were no longer just paper man. She could clearly see that these paper men had their eyes opened. Moreover, they were all staring at her with a pair of strange eyes! Not only that, their faces were filled with a terrifying sneer …

"Ah!"

After seeing this, Old Immortal Chen's wife finally couldn't help but let out a heartbreaking scream. However, this was also the last scream in her life …

When Old Immortal Chen woke up the next morning and rushed back home with the oxcart, he saw his wife lying on the bed in a disheveled state, without any sound.

She was already dead! From the situation of her body, it seemed as if she had been violently torn apart by something before she died! Her eyes were wide open, and her eyes were filled with fear.

The old people in the village said that it was because the paper man and paper horse had been pricked out a long time ago and had not been sold. After living with Old Immortal Chen for a long time, they already had feelings for each other. Therefore, after their eyes were opened, the first thing they wanted to do was to leave with Old Immortal Chen. Fortunately, the ox in their family had a spirit, and refused to go home that night. Old Immortal Chen could only sleep outside. It was also because of this that he was able to escape the calamity! It was a pity that his wife was taken away by those paper men!

Old Immortal Chen could not let go of this matter. He always thought that he was the one who caused his wife's death. His own wife was a scapegoat for him! If he had rushed back that night, everything might not have been like this!

Later on, Old Immortal Chen made two decisions. The first was that he would never marry any other woman from now on. He would only live his life by guarding his wife's memorial tablet. The second was that he would never leave the paper man he made overnight. If no one bought them, then he would burn them all that night.

It was also because of that incident that Old Immortal Chen's personality became somewhat eccentric. He didn't like to communicate with others normally. So up until now, he didn't have a disciple!

I don't have any objections to taking Old Zhao as my master. After all, whether it was Old Immortal Chen or my dad, they were the kind of people who made money from the dead. I also like this kind of work.

Last time, he took Wang Sicheng as a Mountain Moving Craftsman and learned half of the skills and rules of the Mountain Moving Craftsman. No matter what, I must learn Old Immortal Chen's skills and techniques!

The next morning, I followed my dad to Old Immortal Chen's house to pay respects to the master.

Old Immortal Chen didn't say much. He just took out an old and yellowed portrait from a cabinet and hung it on the north wall of the hall. Then, he lit three incense sticks and handed them to me. He told me to kneel before the ancestral master!

Although I don't know who the ancestor of the Zhizha Craftsman is, I still took the incense from Old Immortal Chen and knelt down. Then, I respectfully kowtowed three times to the fragrance.

Old Immortal Chen then said to me, "In other people's eyes, we, the Zhizha Craftsman, are just some craftsmen who only know how to make paper man and paper horse. However, they don't know that we, the Zhizha Craftsmen, also have our own sect!"

When he said this, Old Zhao paused for a moment, then asked me, "Have you heard of a saying that goes like this?"

When I suddenly heard Old Zhao ask such a question, I couldn't help but feel a little stunned!

Seeing my expression, Old Immortal Chen explained, "This is actually a total of thirteen types of professions! The five types are gold chrysanthemum, a woman who sells flowers, wood cotton, a doctor who treats people on the street, water lilies, a singer in a restaurant, fire thorns, an artist who plays acrobatics, earth cowflower, a porter, a palanquin, and a porter! The eight types are — fortune teller, a fortune teller, a fortune teller, fortune teller, fortune teller, fortune telling, fortune telling, fortune telling, fortune telling! And we, the seventh type, are the ‘Biao Gate!'"