Introduction to the work "Zhi Zha Yuan Yu"
The threshold of Zhizha Town is covered with peach branches, and no one dares to touch the paper man with a human face - this is a taboo engraved in the bones, stemming from the resentment of the paper man in the Chen family's old house that burned for eighty years.
On the twenty-ninth day of the seventh lunar month, retired teacher Chen Jingshan died in the main room of the Chen family's old house: a paper mannequin with a cinnabar drawing on his chest was pasted on his chest, the doors and windows were locked from the inside, and the dark red marks on his fingertips were exactly the same as the "Seven Meridians Curse" left by the head of the Chen family in the Republic of China. The townspeople were in an uproar: "It's the Chen family's paper figurines who are asking for their lives!"
Only the criminal investigation captain Li Yan stared at the cold touch of the paper man and frowned - he did not believe in ghosts and gods, he only believed in the old police badge left by his master fifteen years ago beside the paper-made grave, and in the living conspiracy hidden in this case.
A series of murders followed: the truck driver died in an abandoned paper factory, unemployed homeless people fell beside paper graves, and next to each deceased person was a paper man with a curse drawn on it. Li Yan followed the fragments of "Zhizhaoduhunlu" and discovered the origami knife hidden in the cloth bag of art student Su Ya. He also uncovered the greed of Zhao Huai, the owner of the papermaking shop, hidden behind the smiling face paper figurine.
Is it the backlash of the Chen family's secret technique? Or is it the blood debt of seven descendants? When the candles burned out, the paper ash seeping out of the wood grain of the Eight Immortals table finally revealed the truth: all "curses" are nothing but the evil caused by the human heart.
The peach branches in the paper town cannot stop the bleeding paper man, and the resentment in the Chen family's old house cannot burn away the sins hidden in human nature. Welcome to Tomato Novels to unlock this mystery where the weirdness of folklore and the detective's pursuit of the murderer are intertwined.
Reader comments
"When I finished typing the end of Chapter 99 of "Paper Wrapping Grudges", I stared at the sentence on the screen, 'The paper horse carried the remnant soul into the morning mist.' I suddenly felt that the half-year creation process was like sewing the weirdness and tenderness of the old alley paper shop into the paper figures. At first, I just wanted to write about the folk custom of 'Paper Wrapping Grudges', but as the protagonist squatted in the shop to make paper figurines and figure out the dark grid, I slowly wrote 'Grudge' into an unspoken word. For example, the paper figure sewn with seven red threads actually wanted to deliver the unsent letter to the girl from the previous year. Some readers said that the resentment scene in the middle was too "soft", but I always felt that no matter how cold the resentment was, no one would be willing to squat down and fold it into the warm paper. By the end of this story, even the scraps of paper in the corner seemed to be soaked with candle warmth. I hope you can feel the softness hidden in the mystery when you read it. "
"The night after I finished writing Chapter 47 of "The Paper Man Opens His Eyes" in "The Paper Man Opens His Eyes", I stared at the keyboard for half an hour - the 'half-sheet' that was originally buried in the secret compartment of the paper shop was finally revealed when the protagonist was dismantling the paper sedan, and this foreshadowing actually started in the first chapter. The "red paper stained with blood" is hidden. When we first designed the process of "overcoming resentment", we deliberately made each paper tie have a "flaw": the paper man sewn with seven red lines is missing a button, and the paper horse's hoof is missing a piece. These seemingly omitted details are all left by the resentful soul. A rescue signal. Some readers guessed that the "old shopkeeper" was the mastermind, but no one discovered that the half-piece of paper butterfly always hidden in his sleeve was actually related to the paper shop burning case thirty years ago. The resentment in this story never appeared suddenly, but was layered like a paper man. The layers of paste glue all the old accounts, lies and worries together. Those readers who think the grudge drama is "soft" may wish to turn to Chapter 72 and see the second paper man hidden in the paper sedan. That is the root of all the grudges and the reversal that I hide the most. "
"When I finished typing the end of Chapter 99 of "Paper Wrapping Grudges", I stared at the sentence on the screen, 'The paper horse carried the remnant soul into the morning mist.' I suddenly felt that the half-year creation process was like sewing the weirdness and tenderness of the old alley paper shop into the paper figures. At first, I just wanted to write about the folk custom of 'Paper Wrapping Grudges', but as the protagonist squatted in the shop to make paper figurines and figure out the dark grid, I slowly wrote 'Grudge' into an unspoken word. For example, the paper figure sewn with seven red threads actually wanted to deliver the unsent letter to the girl from the previous year. Some readers said that the resentment scene in the middle was too "soft", but I always felt that no matter how cold the resentment was, no one would be willing to squat down and fold it into the warm paper. By the end of this story, even the scraps of paper in the corner seemed to be soaked with candle warmth. I hope you can feel the softness hidden in the mystery when you read it. " "The night after I finished writing Chapter 47 of "The Paper Man Opens His Eyes" in "The Paper Man Opens His Eyes", I stared at the keyboard for half an hour - the 'half-sheet' that was originally buried in the secret compartment of the paper shop was finally revealed when the protagonist was dismantling the paper sedan, and this foreshadowing actually started in the first chapter. The "red paper stained with blood" is hidden. When we first designed the process of "overcoming resentment", we deliberately made each paper tie have a "flaw": the paper man sewn with seven red lines is missing a button, and the paper horse's hoof is missing a piece. These seemingly omitted details are all left by the resentful soul. A rescue signal. Some readers guessed that the "old shopkeeper" was the mastermind, but no one discovered that the half-piece of paper butterfly always hidden in his sleeve was actually related to the paper shop burning case thirty years ago. The resentment in this story never appeared suddenly, but was layered like a paper man. The layers of paste glue all the old accounts, lies and worries together. Those readers who think the grudge drama is "soft" may wish to turn to Chapter 72 and see the second paper man hidden in the paper sedan. That is the root of all the grudges and the reversal that I hide the most. "