Paper Deed to Calm the Soul

The thing Cheng Du regrets most in his life is that he didn't learn how to make paper figurines from his father when he was a child. He was the fourth generation to have the craft of papermaking, and it was completely discontinued by him. The "Cheng Ji Paper Store" in Laohuaishu Lane has been closed for almost ten years, and the paint on the plaque has fallen off, leaving only the word "Cheng". He now makes a living as a folklore consultant for the branch. Occasionally he is called "Master Cheng" at the scene of a crime, and he feels that he does not live up to his name. Until five skeletons were unearthed from the demolition site in the west of the city. In the old blue brick wall, the bones are arranged according to the direction of the Big Dipper, with copper coins from the "Yin Bank" in their mouths. The sixth body was buried under the old building opposite. There was a letter in the pottery jar next to it, written to Cheng Du by name: "I have tied up the paper figurine for you, but there is one eyeliner missing. You have seven of the Cheng family's soul-drawing threads. Replace the thread before dawn, otherwise the contract will be destroyed - the Cheng family will die." Cheng Du pried open the ancestral floor tiles and found a secret that the Cheng family had kept for three hundred years - a thousand-year land deed. His ancestor Cheng Zhenhe used a "paper-tied living contract" to suppress Qisha under the soil veins in the west of the city, and the contract lasted for a thousand years. Now that the contract has been moved in advance, it is not a natural "walking contract", but a "calling contract" - someone wants to restart this contract and let the Seven Evils see the light of day again. To complete this "calling contract", the last step is for Cheng Du to personally thread a soul-inducing thread into the chest of a faceless paper man. Cheng Du decided not to continue the line. He pierced a door-sealing talisman overnight, hoping to seal the paper man back together with the thing that had been "called" back. But when he opened the paper man's chest, he found a slightly beating heart sewn inside -