Chapter 387 Paper Shop

One week later, in the morning, inside the store.

A figure was busy.

Qingming Festival will be here soon, and there will be many people buying incense and candles at that time, so Su Chen bought a lot of goods in advance.

It’s a pity that Yun Yao was called back to the crew by the director a few days ago, otherwise there would be a free labor helper.

Just when he finished tidying up and was about to sit down to rest.

A man suddenly rushed in from outside the door and shouted for help. The man was none other than Gao Xiaoyu, the son of the owner of the wallpaper shop next door, who was only one year younger than Su Chen.

“Brother Chen, help, help!!!”

“What’s wrong? Did Uncle Gao scold you again?”

The two shops have been opened together for decades. Uncle Gao has taken good care of him and often introduces people to buy paper-made items next door, so the two families are very familiar with each other.

“No, not my dad.”

“Who is that? Could it be that you owe a loan shark and someone is chasing you for the debt?”

Gao Xiaoyu ran into the store using his hands and feet.

At first, Su Chen thought he was being chased by some bad guy.

When he came out, he saw clearly that the person chasing him was a paper man.

A paper man actually started walking.

The paper man’s limbs twisted in a strange arc as it took a few steps forward. When a normal person walks, their hands and feet would be bent, but the paper man’s limbs were stiff, and it stumbled towards them in an extremely strange posture.

Su Chen: “……???”

Seeing Gao Xiaoyu was extremely frightened, Su Chen quickly took out a piece of talisman paper. The talisman paper ignited without wind in his hand, turned into a ball of flame, and blew towards the paper man.

Paper figures are made of paper, so they are not afraid of other things. But no matter how powerful they are, they are still afraid of fire.

The fire fell on the paper man, and the paper man immediately screamed miserably.

Gao Xiaoyu sat down on the ground, gasping for breath.

He said to Su Chen in shock: “Thank you, Brother Chen~~”

The paper man has burned to ashes.

Su Chen frowned: “What’s going on?”

“I don’t know,” Gao Xiaoyu looked like he was about to cry out of fear. “My dad went out, so I wanted to help him draw the paper mannequin. After I finished, I went out to buy some food. But when I came back, I saw the paper mannequin come to life… Oh my god, it’s so scary!”

Su Chen: “Have you finished drawing everything?”

What is being burned now is just a paper figure.

Then those who stay in the paper-making shop…

Gao Xiaoyu also thought of this, his lips trembled, and he quickly ran towards his own shop.

As soon as he entered the door, Gao Xiaoyu was startled.

He saw seven or eight paper figures crowded at the door, smiling at him strangely, as if they would come to life in the next second and chase him like the paper figures that had been burned before.

Su Chen followed in: “What are you still standing there for? Burn them all!”

In addition to paper figurines, the shop also has various funeral supplies, which fill up the entire shop. There are boys and girls, hearses, and modern sports cars. The funeral shop is also keeping up with the times.

“All?” Gao Xiaoyu bled with heartache.

After all, it took him a lot of time to do all this. Now it’s not far from Qingming Festival. If he burns everything, he will be beaten to death by his father.

“If you don’t burn them, do you want to wait for them to come back to life?”

Su Chen only took a glance and knew where the problem lay.

Gao Xiaoyu actually drew eyes on all the paper figures! ! The eyes of the paper figures were drawn without adding finishing touches.

Moreover, there is another problem. Gao Xiaoyu draws too well and makes the paper figures look too much like real people.

It’s like a factory making toy dolls. They can be cartoon-like or anime-like, but if they look like real people but lack human aura, they can easily attract bad luck. Ordinary people should not buy human-shaped dolls to put at home.

In other industries, if the drawings are realistic, there is no problem, and it may even be a plus. But for paper figurines, if the drawings are too realistic, it will cause problems.

Places like paper-making shops are already full of negative energy, and if the paper figures are too similar to real people, they will attract dirty things.

After graduating from university, Gao Xiaoyu resigned because he was dissatisfied with the job and the low income.

After I came back, I played games every day.
Gao Yong is old and is unable to support the store by himself, so he was asked to look after the store and watch and learn from the side.

I just received a call from an old friend, and before leaving, I gave my son some reassuring advice.

“I’ll be back in a minute. Just stay in the store and don’t touch anything. Got it?”

Gao Xiaoyu: “Dad, I understand.”

After getting Gao Xiaoyu’s assurance, Gao Yong happily rode away on his motorcycle.

Gao Xiaoyu sat alone in the store, feeling bored.

He graduated from college and watched people around him find good jobs one after another, while he was stuck in the middle of nowhere. It would be a lie to say he wasn’t anxious.

But he really didn’t know what he could do.

I studied a crappy major, learned nothing, and have no skills. Now I can only help out in my own store temporarily.

Looking at the twisted paper figures on the ground, he took a deep breath.

He has been interested in animation since he was a child, but the cost of studying art is high, so he studied other majors.

He had seen the paper figures his father drew. The handwriting was crooked and crudely made, just like the drawings of an elementary school student.

With such skills… do you want to draw paper figures too?
You know, the so-called paper figures are burned for the dead. They are a good wish, so that the dead will no longer be lonely and have someone to accompany them in the world after death.

Would a dead person really be happy if he received such an ugly paper figure?

He felt that if he could draw well, he might be able to take his family’s paper-making business to the next level.

With this thought in mind, Gao Xiaoyu picked up the pen, dipped it in ink, and began to draw a face on the paper figure with trembling hands.

It only took an hour to finish painting the faces of all the paper figures.

Compared with his father’s paintings, his works are like works of art. They are lifelike, and their expressions and facial features are very human-like, as if they will come to life in the next second.

Gao Xiaoyu took a few steps back and looked at the paper man he had drawn for a while, but he always felt that something was wrong.

He finally knew what was wrong.

It turned out that he didn’t draw eyes on the paper figure.

Looking at the finished paper figures on the side, none of them had eyes. He couldn’t understand why they had to leave the eyes blank?

Without eyes, can we still be called “human”?

Gao Xiaoyu thought about it, picked up a pen, and drew eyes on all the paper figures.

When he was halfway through the painting, he didn’t know if it was his illusion, but he felt that the paper figure he was drawing seemed to roll its eyes.

……What??
Gao Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment and looked carefully.

The paper man was still a paper man, standing there silently, its eyes looking forward, completely like a dead object.

He was still laughing in his heart at himself for making a fuss.

It’s just a paper figure, how could it move? If you are so timid, how can you inherit the paper-making shop and lead it to the top?

(End of this chapter)