Chapter 8: Falling Star Gully Falling Star View
"I saw the power of the Paper Man last night, so I won't hide it from Granny, I really want to learn." Meng Fan said with a sincere expression.
Granny Zhang glared at her black and white eyeballs and said blandly, "It's right that you want to learn, don't you want to make money? Don't put your eyes on this poor mountain village, this is more needed in the big city, I have a senior brother who hangs out in the city, a paper man can be sold for thousands of dollars, living in a big house and driving a luxury car, don't you want to live like this?"
"It's really quite impressive." Meng Fan licked his lips, very moved, but his father obviously wanted him to follow in his father's footsteps and let him be a village doctor.
After contemplating for a moment, Meng Fan finally made up his mind, "Granny, how many days can I learn how to tie paper people?"
The corner of Granny Zhang's mouth hooked, revealing a rare smile, and without answering, she stretched out her hand towards Meng Fan: "Bring it."
"Bring what?" Meng Fan looked at Granny Zhang's hand and his heart thumped.
"Tuition." Two words popped out of Granny Zhang's mouth, spoken naturally.
"Granny, you know, I only have two hundred dollars left, any more and I'll have to ask my parents." Meng Fan's face reddened, "But it's only right that the tuition is more expensive, I might have to owe it first."
"Take two hundred first." Granny Zhang said indifferently.
Meng Fan hurriedly placed two hundred dollars into Granny Zhang's hands, "Thank you, Granny!"
"However, it's not for the old body to teach you." Granny Zhang took away Meng Fan's money with a sharp hand, verified the authenticity as usual, and her expression instantly turned into a deep and sinister look, "I'm just pointing you to a path, as for what to learn, I don't worry about that."
"Pointing the way fee?" Meng Fan was somewhat baffled.
"You go to the Falling Star Gully and look for the Falling Star Taoist Temple!"
When Granny Zhang said this, her expression suddenly became incomparably solemn, and even her voice lowered, "Meng Fan, there is my Immortal Master's place of returning to the ruins, whether or not there is any chance, whether or not you can find the creation depends on your kid's life, even if you have nothing to show for it, you won't be able to die there, and you won't lose out on the two hundred dollars for the guiding fee that you're spending!"
"Oh ……"
Meng Fan is sick and desperate, has no way, think of the Zhang granny's magical paper man magic, a little contemplation: "Falling star gully I know, just behind your home, but have not been there, there is a Taoist temple?"
"I don't know the true face of Mount Lushan, I'm only here in the mountain." Granny Zhang mysteriously pointed in the direction behind her, "Follow the Lok Sing Gully all the way in, you'll see a stone man, where the stone man is pointing to, that's the Lok Sing Guan!"
"Granny …… "Meng Fan pondered for a moment, still a little worried and asked, "You said that your Immortal Master has returned to the ruins, returning to the ruins means that the person is no longer there, right, how can someone who is not there teach me? I'm a little confused."
"Heavenly secrets cannot be divulged."
Zhang granny said and closed her eyes to meditate, let Meng Fan how to inquire, no longer say a word more.
"Then …… I'll make a run for it!"
Meng Fan took a look at Granny Zhang, and very apprehensively turned to leave.
"Grandma, is it really appropriate for you to do this?"
Meng Fan had just left, when a pretty figure on crutches, from behind a pile of paper figures, came out in full force, looking at the doorway in thought, her beautiful eyes showing concern.
"Silly girl, are you worried about him?" Granny Zhang opened her eyes and took a look at the girl's beautiful jade-like face, her gaze soft.
"Grandma didn't expect the situation in Meng's house to be so serious, the strength of that evil spirit is beyond my expectation, the spell I attached to the paper man didn't even exterminate it, but instead, he himself has suffered a backlash, if Meng Fan wants to live, the only way to do so is to go to that place."
With that, Granny Zhang coughed twice, very weakly, "Daughter, my immortal master is very powerful, even if he dies, he still has residual power, you don't have to worry about it."
"Grandma." The girl sat down on her knees, and obediently relied on Granny Zhang's shoulder, stroking Granny Zhang's back, her tone of voice softly kneading "If you can help, you still have to help a little."
"Silly daughter!" Zhang's bark-like face revealed a warm smile, reaching out to gently caress Liu Xiaoxi's long hair, "Fancy that silly boy? At that time in school, he was always chasing after you, he should also be looking at you."
"Grandma ah ……," Liu Xiaoxi pursed her lips and smiled, "people will not look on …… a cripple."
The girl's gaze is warm, her cheeks are slightly red, and she seems to be caught up in memories, back in the classroom, a boy named Meng Fan holding a textbook, lying on her desk, smiling brightly at her, "Xiaoxi, Xiaoxi, how do you solve this problem? Teach me ah ……"
In the evening, the setting sun, accompanied by the gorgeous evening sun, was falling, Meng Fan, carrying a parcel on his back and holding a scythe in his hand, was marching along a lengthy valley through thorns and thistles.
Sweat flowed from his forehead to his mouth, it was bitter, he wiped the sweat, and couldn't help but pooh-pooh two mouthfuls, Falling Star Gully is a valley, it looks short and shallow, but it's scary deep, it's even more full of thorns and thorns, it's hard to take a step, after half a day's walking, he's only gone half the distance, and his clothes have been scraped, his appearance is very lousy.
At the same time, Zhang granny's house, the backyard.
"Darkness is approaching, that silly boy should already be on his way."
Granny Zhang stood in the courtyard, looking at the sky, beside her stood a paper horse, the paper horse was about a meter tall, it had long since painted its eyes, its appearance was divine, while Liu Xiaoxi stood behind Granny Zhang, with an anxious face.
Soon, the night falls, the fog rises, a piece if black cloud suddenly appeared in the sky above Mengjiazhuang, wandering from time to time, seems to be looking for something.
After a quarter of an hour, the black cloud seemed to have gained something and suddenly drifted towards the valley where Meng Fan was!
"Did you find it so quickly?"
Granny Zhang looked at the black cloud and her expression became grave as she took out a silver needle, stabbed herself in the center of her eyebrow, took out a drop of blood, and suddenly pressed it onto the forehead of the paper horse, her mouth reciting the words-
"Soul blood into the body, God's most spiritual, ascending to heaven and reaching the earth, out of the ghost into the underworld, an instant of a thousand miles, shall not stay and stop, go!"
"Ta-da, ta-da!"
Strangely enough, when Zhang's words just fell, the paper horse even turned around, circled around Zhang, made a long neigh at the sky, and then raised its hooves, and in the sound of da, leaped over the stone courtyard wall, and galloped towards the Falling Star Ditch at a very high speed. ……
If the world saw this scene, they would be incredulous and dumbfounded!
"Meng Fan, I can only help you here, whether it's a blessing or a curse depends on fate!"
Zhang granny in the LiuXiaoXi support, hobbling back to the house, sitting on her knees, hands knotting strange hand seals, constantly changing, face more and more pale up, looks like casting this kind of magic, on her body's consumption is very great!
The paper horse, however, is running faster and faster.