surname teacher

Chapter 157

"Brother, did you see the old man named Shi from the Sichuan Opera Troupe today?"

"Old Shi? Which Lao Shi are you two trying to inquire about? There are quite a lot of people with the surname Shi here."

"...It's Shi Musheng, the one who plays the shadow puppet."

"Oh! Oh... that, that old lunatic, I saw him enter through the back door wearing that weird rooster mask before dawn today... not long ago, there seemed to be a little girl smiling I twisted my waist and went in to look for him and then left... That little girl has a really nice face, but she's a bit fierce, and it's scary when she walks from the side with her eyes and wrists... You two, why don't you go find it yourself ,He must still be at the banquet right now, he must not have left, I saw him just now..."

Rakshasa Leopard Girl's warning gradually disappeared on the beams along with the noisy voices outside the stage. At this moment, at the door of the old birthday star who was blowing and blowing, the two people that Gong Jilang had been deliberately avoiding for the past few days really came all the way. .

The two knew it without asking, and naturally they were Jin Suoyang and Qin Gentian who were collecting clues near the Sichuan Opera Troupe, and then came along with A Niang's father's car.

The so-called clues mainly come from the incomplete program list, the shadow puppet crying in the troupe late at night, and all the members of the Bazhongchuan troupe who have been missing for many days because of a conflict with Shi Musheng that A Niang said.

These few clues, either hidden in the dark or tending to the light, look like red spider webs densely covering the top of Dongshan County, as Ji Lang himself, who made the spider webs many years ago, is exposed to the light little by little. , It also guides the people under the spider web to reveal a corner of the truth of the year little by little.

And to trace the original source of the incident, in fact, it originally came from the enmity between chickens and human offspring that happened more than 20 years ago, and no one knew the details.

At least based on the scattered circumstances that Jin and Qin have found so far, the seven people who died in Dongshan that year may have died physically early.

But shadows, or something close to ghosts, have been trapped in another form of punishment imposed on them by the rooster man, so that for many years these dead shadows could not escape from Dongshan successfully, and were trapped In the shadow puppetry, it is torture that is performed by people all the year round.

【Rooster man, want to kill a chicken】

【Seven chickens locked in a cage】

【There is only one chicken left outside the cage】

【Now also in the cage】

Now it seems that the "cage" in the ballad should refer to the Sichuan opera troupe, and the quarrel between Shi Musheng and the troupe leader a few days ago is probably the reason why they escaped from the opera troupe. The opportunity of the Sichuan Opera Troupe.

This guess is of course not groundless, but based on the program list that Jin Suoyang and Qin Geng discovered together and posted on the small blackboard at the entrance of the Sichuan Opera Troupe. It looks incomplete but actually contains many clues.

And in his mind, he recalled the strange behavior of the white-haired young man just circled the "three", "husband and wife" and "Saturday" on the blackboard separately. When he and Jin Suoyang came here together, Qin Gentiana I have already helped to analyze from my own thinking angle,

"Seven plays a week, if it was the seven people who fell into here with your mother from your time, and were caught and killed by the rooster man, it would be just right. The skins were peeled off at the beginning, whether it was donkey skin or dog skin. It has to be raised with human oil, so this just explains why Shi Musheng is going to use the iron pot to preserve the oil squeezed out of these old children..."

"..."

"But judging from the actual situation of the number of people corresponding to the track, "The Strong Man Returns Home" should indeed be the first deceased. This is an adult male, and the local Dongshan regards adult men between the ages of 30 and [-] as strong men. , anyone can see the word that was torn off. Zhou, the word three should be the next three victims. Combined with the point of three, this same scene should have been performed for three days, it should be Tuesday ,Wednesday Thursday……"

"..."

"The two words after husband and wife are blurred in this dead couple, so in terms of time, it is Friday and Saturday, and "Old Xiangong" is an old man, plus the head of the team and Shi Musheng that A Niang mentioned before. Contradictions, then... On the day when there was a fight in the troupe, maybe the seven shadows of the dead had a chance to escape from the male chicken man, and each fled from the Sichuan troupe to the county seat in a hurry. It's easy to lack yang energy if you are rashly caught by a shadow, that's why the firecracker boy just wrapped around Mrs. Zhang, who has an extra shadow behind her, and took the opportunity to threaten to ask for money... Shouldn't this be correct?"

"...There are two more points."

"Oh? What are the other two points?"

"Cock Lang has been hiding his head and showing his tail for many days. The reason why he chose to appear today is because his main purpose of going to the birthday banquet today is to catch the "Old Xiangong" who escaped at that time, and "Old Xiangong" is likely to be It was the last Mr. Shen who was victimized by my mother, and as for the play that Miss A Niang mentioned that the eighth had never acted in public, it should be my mother and I who escaped by chance."

"..."

"So I guess he probably also knows that I might find this place today, maybe I'm hiding somewhere near us and waiting for us now, if there is no accident, I will definitely meet that rooster man directly, but If you go a little later, that old Mr. Shen will probably... be taken back by him again."

Saying so, there was no obvious ups and downs in the cold tone, while walking briskly forward with him, he quickly rushed to him and lowered his voice to explain that Jin Suoyang had previously held that he was going to have a grudge with Gong Jilang. Thoroughly understand the idea.

Now that he has learned that his mother's benefactor may still have a chance of escape, and he is the only one who can change the fate of this disaster, naturally he will not be negligent in his attitude.

Sensing the rare urgency and irritability in his voice, Qin Gentian, who was walking with him at the moment, first squinted his eyes and then replied.

"Don't worry, take it step by step."

"..."

"Everything is not in a hurry, don't mess up your own steps first."

"……Um."

With Qin Gentiana's words, Jin Suoyang, whose face was not quite right afterwards, did not show his emotions on his face anymore, just frowning silently and rushed to the house of the birthday star with him as soon as possible.

But when he was leaning against A Niang's father's back seat alone on the road, Jin Suoyang, who closed his eyes expressionlessly and fell into deep thought, still felt many questions lingering in his heart.

For example, what happened to Xiaozhuang Village in 94 when the fire massacred the village? What method did Shi Musheng, who was locked in a chicken coop, achieve this? Was there someone hiding behind him who secretly helped him?

Another example is why Shi Musheng has been crazily stealing his cousin's name, and what is hidden in the name Shi Shuisheng itself.

Among them, Jin Suoyang himself is particularly concerned about whether Gong Jilang has an accomplice to help him. After all, it may directly affect whether he can successfully rescue the old Mr. Shen.

And even though there were still some unresolved mysteries in his heart, he and Qin Geng found the family who celebrated his birthday as quickly as possible as soon as they got off A Niang's father's car.

But I don't know if it's a coincidence, but when he and Qin Gentiana got off A Niang's father's car in a hurry, and headed towards the birthday party with the crowd in front of them, there was a person with a seedling on his ear. The silver earrings, the beautiful woman with delicate braids, suddenly fell from the side into the arms of Jin Suoyang, who was a few steps behind Qin Gentiana because of his slow walk.

And after subconsciously helping her, seeing the cat-eyed woman who smelled so pungent, she smiled seductively at herself, and Jin Suoyang, who didn't like too much contact with people, just turned cold and quickly avoided the woman. He approached politely, but the woman who behaved abnormally first forcibly held her hand and then covered her mouth delicately and made a joke.

"Why does such a handsome young man deliberately cover his face with something, because he is afraid that the girls will always stare at him when he walks on the road..."

"..."

"Yeah, but look at the time, the play is almost over, young man, go quickly, or you won't be able to catch up, and the actors will run away..."

"..."

"You have to be early to watch the play, otherwise the corpses hanging by ropes on the beams will be cold, but I have to thank you just now, I missed today's play, next time I will invite you to the sky to watch it in person Good show..."

The inexplicable words were finished, before Jin Suoyang grabbed her hand and grabbed the strange woman with a cold and grim face, the cat-faced woman who moved so quickly and almost looked like a cat, smiled and blinked into the room. The crowd ran away.

Jin Suoyang always cared about this little episode, although Qin Gentian soon turned around and asked what was wrong with him.

But Jin Suoyang, who had goosebumps all over his body after being touched by the cat-faced woman's hand, didn't say a word, but wiped his hand with a very ugly face and replied, it's okay, let's go quickly.

And when they turned their eyes back to the crowded and noisy birthday crowd, Jin and Qin, who cautiously mixed in with the birthday party, were also moving forward according to the clues they had obtained earlier, with different expressions. Constantly searching for people suspected of being from the Sichuan Opera Troupe.

They had already inquired about Shi Musheng's clues like some locals at the door, but no matter how they searched for the familiar face among the unfamiliar crowd, the cold-faced Jin Suoyang still couldn't feel that the rooster man was right next to them. nearby.

Sensing that there was something vaguely wrong with the aura around them, he tilted his head and keenly sniffed the various smells mixed together around the stage behind the temporary stage built by the family. There were faint green-gold dragons on the neck and forehead Qin Gentiana, whose patterns were undercurrents, narrowed his cold gray eyes and didn't say a word, then leaned against Jin Suoyang behind him and gently arched him with his arm.

"Look behind the stage."

"what happened?"

"There is a smell of blood, and something seems wrong inside."

As soon as he heard the smell of blood, he naturally understood that the situation inside the family might really be wrong.

The two people who lowered their heads to cover up their movements also looked at each other tacitly, and then each of them lowered their faces and hurriedly took care of the surrounding crowd before quietly going behind the small stage.

During this process, they listened to some drunken local folks clapping their hands loudly and shouting loudly. Didn't they agree that there will be a play today? Then there was a burst of civil attack on the stage. the sound of music.

But the Gentiana Qin and Jin Suoyang just one after the other quickly sneaked into the back room of the birthday family step by step along the stage where the wood beneath was emitting a dark and rotten smell.

Qin Gentian, who was walking beside Jin Suoyang at the other end, keenly felt the Longhuitou bracelet on his hand ringing slightly.

And lowering his eyes coolly, he signaled Jin Suoyang beside him to silently look at the blood stain under his feet that was not completely dry, as if it had just fallen from the top of their heads.

Gentiana Qin, who crawled under the curtain to suppress the coldness in his eyes little by little, glanced up together with the white-haired young man beside him whose eyes were shocked and then turned cold and angry. Qin Gentiana looked up for a long time before frowning and looking again. He narrowed his eyes coldly while leaving the terrifying scene aside.

Is it... a step late.

And for a while, there was a loud sound of gongs and drums on the stage next to my ear, and then a straight and broken neck suddenly fell straight from the red curtain, with the corners of the mouth curled up exaggeratedly. Painful again, the corpse of an old man with his eyes wide open.

Then amidst the screams of fellow villagers around, ah, that's not the corpse of the old birthday star, there was also a shadow in the dim alley in the distance squatting on the ground and singing babbling.

*[Ye Mo Geng'er, the moon rises in the east and the shadow rises to the east]

[Zhang Junrui stamped his feet and beat his chest in the room]

【Think carefully and hate that old order】

【Changed the preface, call us brothers and sisters】

……

【Secondly, the shadow of the moon shines brightly】

[Thanks to the little matchmaker for passing the book and Jane]

【Think carefully about how kind Miss is to me】

[Admonish again and again, farewell to Shili Pavilion]

The play stopped abruptly in the middle of the song, accompanied by the strange movement of eager and loud swallowing in the sticky throat, and the 'red eyes' who squatted on the ground and pulled the two paper shadow puppets with the rope in their hands did not After a long time, he turned his bloodshot eyes to stare at the two shadow puppets he had newly drawn.

As far as the eye can see, one of the two shadow puppets tied to the rope is a handsome young man with white hair and white eyes, and the other is a half-dragon, half-human long-haired man with dragon horns on his head.

And from far away, he used his keen hearing to pay attention to those screams and rescue sounds in the distance, and the strangely trembling 'red eyes' also used the red eyes behind the rooster mask and the sarcoid under the mouth to express hatred and disgust on his wrists. He will never forget the glance of the two who turned into ashes.

After resting his venomous eyes on the face of 'Shadow Puppet Jin Suoyang' cursed by himself for a long time, the rooster man who was tortured by the hatred of the past day and night cast his eyes on the wall next to him. , the headless figure who had been tugging at his sleeves as if begging, smiled miserably with a mouthful of rotten teeth,

"Girl, don't cry... The husband's family... has long been unable to turn back in this life... Just let me finish singing the last play of today, let me kill this kid to avenge you ...Let me accompany you again, okay..."

"..."

"I can't help it... Really can't help it... Even if I don't do this today... That... That... Raksha Sea Lord... and the group of Leopards will not let our family go. ... Shuisheng... I know, it must be Shuisheng who blamed my brother for being mean-spirited in the ground, and I was sorry for him back then...that's why God has been taking revenge on us, right..."

"..."

"Mother, mother-in-law, don't be afraid... the baby is hungry, you go home quickly, don't stay here... the road is slippery on a rainy day... don't drop the baby... your husband's family will go home with you soon..."

The eerie, weird and out-of-tune ballad continued to sing softly, and the rooster man who was kneeling behind the red curtain and gently comforting his wife also hugged the strange headless shadow on the wall tremblingly and emotionally, and gradually merged into one .

……

【Ugly at the end of the day and at the beginning of the day, it's dawn】

[Zhang Junrui's cloak wakes up the little piano boy]

【You arrange the Qinjian bookcase】

[Pack up your bags and go to Shili Pavilion]

【choke!choke! !Bang, bang, bang!have to! 】