Chapter 1 The White Paper Man
My grandfather’s name is Hu Guohua. The ancestors of the Hu family were famous big landowners from all over the country. During the most glorious period, they bought more than 40 houses connected by three alleys in the city. During this period, there were also some officials and businessmen.
The assistant who donated the grain to the Qing Dynasty.
There is a folk proverb that says: You can only be rich for three generations. This is very reasonable. Even if your family has gold and silver, it cannot withstand the squandering of the prodigal descendants.
During the Republic of China, my grandfather's generation began to experience family decline. First, the family was divided. Hu Guohua also received a lot of property, which was enough to live a life of food and clothing without worries. However, he refused to learn well. Of course, this was not the same as at that time.
It was related to the social environment. First he was addicted to gambling, and later he smoked Fushou pills, which destroyed all the wealth of Wan Guan's family.
When Hu Guohua was young, he was addicted to eating, drinking, prostitution, gambling and smoking. In the end, he was so poor that he didn't even have a fortune. If a person is addicted to smoking, it will be unbearable, but if you don't have money, who will let you smoke? In the past
When he was rich, the bosses and waiters in the opium den would treat him like Mr. Hu, and they would greet him attentively and considerately. But once you were penniless, they would treat you like a stinky beggar.
Even with coaxing and driving, they couldn't be driven away.
When people are poor and crazy, concepts such as integrity and morality are no longer important. Hu Guohua thought of a way to go to his uncle to cheat him out of some money. Hu Guohua's uncle knew that he was a prodigal and a heavy smoker, and usually refused to give him a penny, but this time
Hu Guohua lied to his uncle that he wanted to marry a wife and asked his uncle to raise some money.
When the uncle heard this, he was moved to tears. This unscrupulous nephew finally did something serious. If he married a virtuous wife and took good care of him and accepted his heart, maybe he could learn from it in the future.
So I gave him 20 yuan and told him to marry a wife and live a good life. Don't get contaminated by those blessings. In a few days, when I have free time, I will go to Hu Guohua's house to see my nephew and his wife in person.
Hu Guohua had the most evil ideas. In order to deal with his uncle, he returned home and went to the village to find a craftsman who made paper figures and horses, the kind that were burned to the dead. This paper-making master was very skilled in craftsmanship and could make anything you name.
He can do everything perfectly.
As requested, he made a paper woman for Hu Guohua and framed it with white paper. He also painted facial features, nose, clothes and head on the paper figure with watercolors. From a distance, he looked like a living person.
Hu Guohua brought the paper figurine home, placed it on the kang in the back room, and covered it with a quilt. He was thinking very well. When his uncle came a few days later, he said that his wife was sick and could not be seen in bed.
Guest, just let him take a look from a distance. Thinking of the happy place, I couldn't help humming a ditty and went into the city to smoke.
Within a few days, his uncle came to visit his nephew and daughter-in-law and bought some calico snacks and the like. Hu Guohua excused himself according to the pre-planned excuse, saying that his daughter-in-law was unwell and could not see guests, so he asked his uncle to tell them.
He opened the door and took one look at the curtain before lowering it.
My uncle doesn't want to, so I can't just deal with your own uncle like this. I have to meet my new wife today. If she is sick, I will pay for her to be treated by a doctor.
Hu Guohua kept trying to prevent him from seeing him. The more he blocked him, the more problematic he became. His uncle became more suspicious and started arguing. At this moment, the door curtain of the back room opened and a fair-looking woman with a big face came out.
Hu Guohua’s heart skipped a beat. Ouch, isn’t this the paper figurine I made? How is it alive?
The woman bowed to her uncle and said she had been in poor health recently. She didn't come out to greet him just now. Please forgive me for being rude. Now she suddenly feels better again. She will stay with uncle at home for a light meal today. After saying this, she turned around and went in to cook.
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Hu Guohua's uncle was overjoyed when he saw this. This nephew's wife is so virtuous and has a good appearance. My dead sister Quan Xia Youzhi must be happy to see his son marry such a good wife. The uncle was so happy that he gave
He paid Hu Guohua ten yuan.
Hu Guohua stayed on the spot, feeling flustered. He didn't know whether he should be grateful or afraid. Time passed quickly, and it was night in a blink of an eye. The man on the white paper cooked a table of food. His uncle was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, but Hu Guohua had no intention.
While eating and drinking, he looked at the woman sitting opposite him and felt as sick as if he had eaten a fly. Her face was very white, with no blood at all, and the rosiness on her face was all rouge.
The uncle's eyes were dim and he didn't think there was anything wrong with the woman. After seven or eight glasses of old wine, he became very drunk. Hu Guohua borrowed a donkey cart and took him home.
On the way back, the more I thought about it, the more scared I became, so I simply didn’t go home. I went to spend the night in Hualiu Alley in the city, where I used up all the ten oceans my uncle had just given me, including smoking and prostitution.
In the end, he was kicked out because he had no money to pay the bill. He had nowhere to go and had no choice but to go home. When he got home, he saw that the lights were dark in the house and the white paper man was lying motionless on his bed, covered with a quilt.
, as if everything that happened before had never happened.
Hu Guohua thought about what he would do if he kept her and turned her into a living person at night. Why don't I burn it clean? He pushed the white paper figure into the yard, took out the fire folding box, and wanted to burn the paper figure. At this time, the paper figure suddenly
Speak up: You are so heartless, I have good intentions to help you, but you want to burn me
Hu Guohua was startled. In the middle of the night, he only heard the blank woman continue to say: I feel sorry for you. Although you eat, drink, whore and gamble, you are not a bad person. I want to marry you, are you willing?
Hu Guohua shook his head desperately and asked the paper man whether you were a demon or a ghost. The white paper man said of course I am a ghost. I am only temporarily attached to this paper man. But you poor guy, don’t dislike me. I was very rich when I was alive. I will be buried with you.
Gold and silver ornaments are enough for you to smoke for ten lifetimes. Don't you know that a rich man is a hundred times better than a poor man?
When it comes to money, Hu Guohua gets a little excited, because he has been so poor recently that he even pawned off his clothes, but he doesn't want to have the life to get the money but not the life to spend it. He once heard the old people talk about the female ghost and the seductive man.
The things that happened over and over again sucked away the man's yang energy. Those men who were haunted by ghosts were left with only a skeleton wrapped in dry skin. So he said to the paper man: Even if you are really good to me,
I can't marry you either. After all, we are humans and ghosts, separated by yin and yang. Doing so is against the will of heaven.
The man on the white paper said that since you are so hard-hearted, I will not force you, but sooner or later there will be a day when you will regret it. Remember, if your life is really too poor to survive, you will be thirteen
I came to find me in the deserted grave in Lipu. In the middle of the cemetery is a lonely grave without a tombstone. The coffin inside is where my body is. There are gold, silver and jewelry in the coffin. As long as you dare to come, those belongings will be with you.
Use it as you wish.
After saying this, the white paper man became motionless. Hu Guohua took courage, lit a fire and burned the white paper man to ashes.
Later, there were times when he was so poor that he had no choice but to go to Shisanlipu to dig a grave, but in the end he resisted and borrowed money from here and there to get by. Two years later, he was desperate and finally went there.
A cemetery, but that’s a story for later, let’s not talk about it for now. Book Alliance
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