On the way to Shangguanyang's house, Wang Junhui suddenly talked about our situation in Miao Village, and he asked me: "On the first day of junior high school, why did you say that the great wizard had to wait for us in Miao Village for fifteen days before telling us about this case, the information in his hand was only those three photos." Give it to us early in the morning, and give it the same effect as fifteen days later, right? ”

Indeed, I can't figure this out, and in the half a month that Wang Junhui and I stayed in Miao Village, I didn't see King Miao and the Miao prince named Yanglu.

Where did they go?

It's just that we have now arrived in the north, and we are about to arrive at the door of Shangguanyang's house, and it will be a little late to think about these things.

The courtyard wall of Shangguan Yang's house is very high, and a pair of white marble lions stand at the door.

When I walked to the door, I knocked on the iron door a few times, and after a while, a little girl of seventeen or eighteen years old came out.

I know this person, it is the granddaughter who lives with Shangguan Yang, Shangguan Qin.

However, this Shangguan Qin is not Shangguan Yang's biological daughter, but one he adopted from an orphanage more than ten years ago. It is said that after he saw Shangguanqin for the first time, he thought she was a paper-binding genius, so he adopted her and taught her the ability to tie paper.

I remember that when I came here with my grandfather to buy goods, many of the goods were made by Shangguanqin, and my grandfather also bought it.

Shangguanqin was also stunned for a long time after seeing me. Then he said: "Brother Junior, I haven't seen you for a long time, since I heard last year that you closed the shroud shop and changed to fortune telling, we haven't been in touch again, right?" "Intoxicated chapter, saving billions of stalks

I scratched my head and said, "It's all over. By the way, what about your grandfather, how are you doing? ”

Shangguan Qin said: "It's okay, why are you looking for my grandfather too?" ”

Looking for it too? Could it be that someone had already looked for Shangguan Yang before, I hurriedly asked Shangguan Qin for details, she invited us to enter the door, and said: "I don't know a few people who came, but it looks like the ability is not small, then again, junior high brother, you look much more powerful than when you were in this county last year, and you have begun to concentrate on cultivating the ability of the physiognomy?" ”

This little girl knows a lot.

Then Shangguan Qin looked at the rabbit and little fox that Wang Junhui and I were holding in our hands and said, "These things you raise are also very rare, and the things in your schoolbag can be sold for a lot of money, right?" ”

When it comes to money, I think of when I worked with Shangguan Qin before. The two of us haggled over the price of the paper figures.

We are both extremely money-sensitive people.

As we spoke, Shangguanqin led us to a room with a lot of bamboo, paper and paint, which should be their paper making workshop.

And in this workshop there is an old man with reading glasses and an apron, sitting on a maza, and he is concentrating on a paper figure, I can see a frame, but judging by the movement of the paper figure, it should be a boy.

When he entered the workshop, Shangguanqin said, "Grandpa, who do you see coming?" ”

Shangguan Yang didn't look at me either, and said casually while fiddling with the frame in his hand: "Anyway, it's not someone who is here to do business, pour them a cup of tea, let them go to the back room and wait, I want to finish the work at hand first." ”

Shangguan Qin said "oh" and asked us to go to the back room. I said, "No need, it's been a long time since I've seen Grandpa Shangguan's paper man, so I'll appreciate it again today." ”

As soon as I said this, Shangguan Yang helped his presbyopia, and then smiled at me and said, "Your tone of voice is very similar to your grandfather, tell me, what is the matter with me!" ”

I thought about it for a moment and said, "Lijiang Old Town Case!" ”

"Click!"

After I finished saying those words, the wooden frame in Shangguan Yang's hand was broken at once, as if a cut had been made on his finger.

Shangguan Qin let out an "oops", and then ran back to the house to get something to bandage Shangguan Yang.

Shangguan Yang will have such a reaction, which means that the case touched him a lot.

So before Shangguan Yang spoke again, I didn't speak.

After a while, I heard Shangguan Yang say slowly: "After so many years, it seems that I still have to face it, let's say, did your grandfather ask you to come to me?" ”

I shook my head and said, "No, it's the people from Xianle Miao Village, and they gave me these three photos." ”

After speaking, I took out the three photos, and then handed them to Shangguan Yang, seeing these three photos, Shangguan Yang showed a smile on his face, but behind that smile was a great sadness.

It's probably because of the death of the bones.

Then Shangguan Yang did not continue to tie the paper man, but let us follow him to the living room, Shangguan Qin poured us a few cups of tea, Shangguan Yang asked us: "Tell us what the great wizard of Xianle Miao Village told you, and the process of dragging you to handle the case." ”

I didn't want to be lazy, so I told him the whole thing as it was.

After listening to me, Shangguan Yang smiled and said: "Let you live in Miao Village for fifteen days, just miss the last batch of people who came to me, such an arrangement is definitely not something that the wizards of Xianle Miao Village can calculate, I think there is a shadow of Li Yiren behind this matter." ”

Missed the last batch? Who? I hurriedly asked Shangguan Yang, he shook his head and said: "Since numerology arranges that you shouldn't meet them, why ask who they are, I probably know what you mean by coming this time, so that I can follow you to understand the case of the ancient city of Lijiang that was not completely concluded decades ago." ”

I said, I don't know if that's what I mean, because the great wizard just said let me come to him, and then said that inconsequential word.

Shangguan Yang continued: "In this way, if you want to leave for the southwest, I still need to make arrangements here, you stay here with me first, and we will go south in three days." ”

Wang Junhui and I also nodded at the same time.

Shangguan Yang said that what he wanted to arrange was actually to tie the paper man and complete all the next orders.

In three days, many people came to pick up the goods, and Shangguan Yang sold a total of 121 paper figures, large and small.

The people who come here to buy paper figures, in addition to some funeral shops in the county, are more so-called circle people, and most of them invite paper people to help people go to disasters and send ghosts.

Three days later, waiting for everything to be taken care of, we were ready to go south, and this time Shangguan Qin, the granddaughter of Shangguan Yang, who went south, was also going to follow us.

In Shangguan Yang's words, it's time to take Shangguan Qin to meet the world.

In the case of the ancient city of Lijiang, Shangguan Yang didn't talk to us in detail, we don't know what the specific matter is, so we can only passively listen to his arrangement now, and we naturally can't control what people he wants to bring.

On the way to Lijiang, I couldn't help but be curious, so I asked about the case of the old town of Lijiang.

Shangguan Yang was silent for a while and said, "If you want to hear that case, then you have to listen to me tell a story first." ”

I nodded and said, "Let's talk, we'll listen." ”

Then Shangguan Yang told us such a story.

Probably in the Ming Dynasty, in the mountains west of the old town of Lijiang, there is a village of Guiwaluo, the village is not big and there are few people, it is very remote, there is a family surnamed Bai in the village, who makes a living from farming.

This family surnamed Bai, the male owner is called Bai Silk, what is the name of the wife, unknown, only know that he died after giving birth to a son to Bai Silk, and then Bai Silk has never married, mainly because the family is poor, and he can't afford to marry a daughter-in-law anymore.

Bai Silk's son Bai Gu, the name is Bai Silk himself, the meaning of the name is very simple, because when Bai Gu was born, Bai Silk listened to his son's stomach "coo" a few times, so he took the sound as the name, and first called that.

But later, Bai Gu's mother died of illness soon after, and Bai Silk didn't have the heart to change Bai Gu's name again.

When Bai Gu was about five years old, Bai Silk took Bai Gu to herd the cow, and Bai Silk, who was very interested, put Bai Gu on the back of the cow and hummed a local mountain song.

But I don't know what's wrong, the cow was startled, and the cow ran into the mountain with Bai Gu in his hand, and it was strange to say that the cow was shaking badly, but it didn't throw Bai Gu off its back.

It's like a cow on its back.

Bai Silk was frightened at that time, but his speed couldn't catch up with the already startled cow at all, so he could only follow from a distance and watch, and at the same time shouted loudly, telling Bai Gu not to be afraid.

It's just that Bai Gu didn't cry, but laughed "haha" on the back of the cow, as if he was enjoying it.

Bai Silk chased after him for a while, and the cow ran into the mountains without a shadow.

Bai Silk searched for more than ten days in the mountains but did not find it, and then the people in the village told him not to look for it, maybe it had been eaten by the mountain god.

Bai Silk saw that the search was fruitless, so he gave up, but after more than a month, every day in the second half of the night in Guiwalo Village, he could hear the sound of wild cows running around and children laughing on the street.

It's just that when most people come out to look, they find that the streets are empty and they can't see anything.

But the next morning, they would find new cow hoof prints on the dirt road in the village.

So Bai Silk felt that his son was back, and one night, Bai Silk didn't sleep, so he squatted at the corner of the street, and he wanted to see his child come back with his own eyes.

And the people in the village were very scared, saying, even if he really came back, it would not be a human being, and the child could not be allowed to enter the village again, otherwise something would happen.

So one of the people in the village went to a temple near Lijiang and invited a monk to come back.

When the monk arrived at Guiwalo, he saw Bai Silk, who was waiting for his son at the entrance of the village, and recited Amitabha Buddha and directly told Bai Silk that his son was dead.

Hearing this, Bai Silk seemed to be crazy, and scolded the monk, and the monk was not angry, and when Bai Silk finished scolding, he said to Bai Silk: "If you want to see your son, I can help you, but you must promise me three conditions." ”