16 Paper Man! 6yr

Translator: CatCyan_Editor: Zayn_, VirtualFrappe

Right in front of Su Bai and Childe Hai, the one cooking the body was not a person, but a…
…Paper man!
A paper man that was as tall as a real person!
The paper man was wearing a hat of a servant on its head, with slanted eyes and thick red color on its cheeks, and it was about 160 cm tall. It was holding a pair of scissors in one hand and carefully moving the flesh pieces in the boiler, to and fro, with a pair of chopsticks in its other hand.
It seemed to have noticed the visitors so it turned around its head gently, slanted a little and looked at Su Bai and Childe Hai as if it failed to force a smile.
Paper men were quite familiar to most Chinese people. Nowadays, traditional funerals were reducing but it hadn’t been long, so most people had seen a scene of burning paper men on funerals in the countryside. Even now, such a custom was still going on in most rural areas in China.
Paper men were made mostly into boys, girls, maids and servants; living people burned them for their kinsfolks who had passed away as a good wish that these paper men would go serve their kinsfolks.
Therefore, paper men were an image of taboo. Most people would feel uncomfortable if they saw a