Chapter 289: Paper Figure Dot
Su Nuobai saw him mumbling to himself, and finally went to notify him.
After a while, the doorman came back and said, "Liu Yong said he didn't know you."
"Just say that Mr. Zhou, the boss of the paper-making shop in Beijing, asked us to come." Su Nuobai said.
"What a hassle." The doorman went to report again.
This time the doorman took them in. The entire Wang family was shrouded in a thick gloomy aura, which made people feel very uncomfortable.
The servants in the house also looked lifeless, as if their souls had been sucked out of them.
Liu Yong was in a dilapidated courtyard filled with various paper figures.
The doorman took them to the door but was unwilling to go in and asked them to go in by themselves.
Su Nuobai and the others walked into the yard, where there were many paper-made people, horses, houses, and everything else. It could be said that there was everything one could expect.
A man was making a paper figure with his back to them, his head down. His hair was a little messy and he was muttering to himself.
"Paper figurine eyes are meant to take someone's life."
"Liu Yong." Su Nuobai called out.
He turned around and looked at Su Nuobai: "Who are you?"
"You know that putting a dot on the paper man's eyes can kill people, so why do you still do it?" Su Nuobai frowned.
Liu Yong burst into tears: "I have no choice. They have arrested my family. If I don't do what they say, they will all die."
Su Nuobai walked to the stool next to him and sat down: "Because of your paper figurines, four concubines of the royal palace died this year."
"I know it shouldn't be like this, but I don't know what went wrong." Liu Yong regretted it very much now, but there was no way to make amends.
Once a paper man takes someone's life, a sacrifice must be made within three months, otherwise everyone in the mansion will die.
The Wang family is now extremely angry, but now that things have come to this, they can only sacrifice some unimportant people.
At this time, several people walked in from outside the yard: "Who are you?"
Su Nuobai looked at the man who came. He was about fifty years old and dressed in a silk robe. Even at his age, he could still be seen to be a handsome man when he was young.
"An old friend of Liu Yong."
"Boss Liu still has some unfinished business. We have a funeral at home, so it's not convenient for us to receive guests. Please leave. He will return tomorrow after he finishes his work."
Wang Qingquan began to rudely order them to leave.
"If we leave today, it won't be one person sacrificed every three months, but one every day." Su Nuobai looked at him and said.
"What nonsense are you talking about? I advise you to leave quickly." Wang Qingquan winked at the thugs behind him.
"Freeze!" Su Nuobai uttered a word, and everyone was unable to move.
"What kind of magic did you use on us?" Wang Qingquan wanted to break free, but he couldn't move at all after trying for a long time.
Su Nuobai walked up to him and said, "Why don't you listen to me first before deciding whether to take action."
"The person you want to save is your wife, the so-called princess of the previous dynasty."
"Those who died were all concubines you brought in within the last year. They were just maids who died in place of you."
"Your wife has had poor health since she was a child, so you don't have any children."
Wang Qingquan’s eyes widened, and the veins on his neck bulged.
"A year ago, her condition started to deteriorate, and you didn't want to see her go, so you started looking for various solutions."
"I don't know who I heard that adding eyes to a paper figure can make it die for a living person, so I started asking around for methods to add eyes to a paper figure."
"It turned out that the person you needed to find was in town, so you went to find Liu Yong."
"Liu Yong initially refused because his ancestors had gotten into trouble when their family was still in Shengjing for adding eyes to paper figurines."
"I had no choice but to sell my shop and property in Shengjing City and come to this remote town."
"When you saw that he refused to comply, you had his family arrested and used them as threats."
"Liu Yong had no choice but to agree to paint the eyes of the paper figurine and die for your wife."
Su Nuobai said this and looked at Liu Yong: "It's a pity that his family elders were afraid that the younger generation would make the same mistakes as before, so they didn't teach him the method of dotting the eyes."
"You forced him to do the eye-opening on the paper figurine. Initially, it did help prolong your wife's life, but in the following three months, her health deteriorated again."
"You forced Liu Yong to do the eye-opening again. That night, the first woman hanged from the beam appeared in the mansion. After her death, her body turned into paper."
"You lied and said this was your concubine. Am I right, Mr. Wang?"
Wang Qingquan stared at her, wishing he could peel her skin off and pull out her tendons: "Who are you?"
"I was asked by my old friend Liu Yong to help me solve the problem of adding eyes to this paper figurine." Su Nuobai smiled faintly.
"Also, let me tell you something. Your wife is about to turn into a paper doll. When she does, I'm afraid she'll kill everyone in the mansion."
"To be precise, no one in this town can escape, so whether you like it or not, I will not let her live."
Wang Qingquan's eyes were red: "You dare."
"Then see if I dare." Su Nuobai formed seals with his hands, covering the entire palace.
"Suzaku Burns the Sky!" She uttered three words.
"ah!!"
"Qingquan, it hurts so much! Save me!" A miserable female voice came from a house in the distance.
Wang Qingquan couldn't move at all: "Let me go, let me go."
Su Nuobai raised his hand and broke the spell that immobilized them.
He ran towards a yard like a madman, and when he got there he saw a woman standing in the fire.
The whole body was peeled off layer by layer by the flames just like this one.
Wang Qingquan didn't care whether the fire would burn him or not. He rushed towards the person in the fire, trying to put out the flames on her body.
The servants around were all terrified and ran away screaming.
Even if he wanted to find someone to help him get water to put out the fire, it was useless.
Su Nuobai walked slowly into the yard and looked at the two people wrapped in fire.
In the end, only a paper bamboo was left of the woman's body, and the skin on her face was burned away layer by layer: "Qingquan."
"I'm here, I'm here." Wang Qingquan tried hard to put out the fire on her body.
There was no possibility of extinguishing these fires, but there was no place on his body that was burned.
Tears flowed freely: "Mingxiu, don't go, don't leave me."
He hugged a pile of ashes and cried heartbreakingly: "Come back, don't leave."
"Feng Zhi, go notify the authorities to arrest him." Su Nuobai said as he turned around and was about to leave.
"Stop." Wang Qingquan stood up tremblingly: "Why are you doing this? I just want her to live."
Su Nuobai turned and looked at him: "What about the dead? Have you asked them if they want to live?"
"What does their death have to do with me? They are all lowly people. They should be happy to die for Mingxiu." Wang Qingquan yelled at her.
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