The next day, Long Songlin continued to recite the mantra under the supervision of his father, because he had eaten meat last night, he was in a good mood, and he was more attentive when reciting. In less than half an hour, Long Songlin felt unbearable abdominal pain, and his eyes were itchy, so he couldn't rub it, so he had to ask his father to rinse it with cold water. Suddenly, Long Song Lin vomited again. Under pressure from his father, he admitted that he had eaten meat, and his sister also admitted that he had stolen it from a neighbor's house.

Long Songlin's father asked, did your son let you steal it, or did you do it yourself, and the sister said that her brother didn't ask him, but she went to the neighbor's house to play, and when she saw that there was meat in the stove, she wanted to get a piece back to relieve her brother's hunger. Father Long nodded, this is miserable, Long Songlin was beaten the heaviest time in his life, he lay flat on the bench, took off his pants, and was spanked with a wooden stick. He cried so badly that the muscles of his ass went from bleeding to purple. Long Songlin couldn't cry anymore, he was in a semi-comatose state, and it was useless for his sister to kneel beside him.

Many villagers stood at the gate of the courtyard and watched, all with solemn expressions, but no one came in to plead. Long Songlin's sister ran out and begged her uncles and aunts to come in to help, but no one moved, only told her that there was no way to do it, and you will know later. Since then, Long Songlin's sister has become more resentful of the villagers.

Afterwards, Long Songlin lay in bed for two months, he was only more than seven years old, where had he ever been beaten like this? He often had a high fever, and he was beaten by his father in his dreams, and he woke up countless times. It was also his fate, and then he finally got better. That night, my father took him in his arms and told him that it was only the meat that my sister had stolen for you, and that if it had been your own idea, I would not have beaten you, but had to drive you out of the house, and you would have to wander around. Long Songlin couldn't figure out the reason, his father said that their family was a witch doctor for generations, this is a rule handed down from the ancestors, as long as you learn the witch spells in the book, you can't eat meat for the rest of your life, otherwise you will break the law and die. You've just started learning for a short time, and you're just vomiting, and it's not going to kill you. When you get older, you will get more mantras, and if you eat meat again, you won't just vomit. Long Songlin kept it in mind, not because he was afraid of breaking the law, but mainly because he was afraid of being beaten again, and he would never forget that beating, it hurt too much.

In order to supplement nutrition, his father would replace meat with mushrooms and various ingredients, so that Long Songlin's body would not be malnourished. In this way, Long Songlin began to recite mantras and abstain from meat at the age of five or six, and in the blink of an eye, ten years have passed, and he has really never eaten meat again. In the past ten years, Long Songlin has also grown from an ignorant child to a young man, and when he was sixteen years old, his father also told him the origin of the family. It turns out that the ancestor of Long Song Lin is the most famous local witch doctor, that is still the Ming Dynasty, the local people call it "Da Zhuyou", that is, the most powerful wizard, can use the witch mask and bronze knife to summon the ancestor of the Miao people, cure people and exorcise evil spirits, very respected. And add the surname of the wizard, such as the ancestor of Long Song Lin is called "Da Long Zhuyou".

In ancient times, the people of Miao were very in awe of the sorcerer, especially the status of the Great Zhu You was higher than the emperor, there were many places where the emperor was far away, located in the mountainous area, remote and backward, not to mention the emperor, even the officials of the local prefecture and county rarely went, basically belonged to the semi-isolated village, so the Miao people did not have the specific concept of the emperor in their eyes, only the Great Zhu You. Many wizards have great power, not to mention the power of life and death. Because they specialize in exorcism and healing, if they are dissatisfied with someone, they only need to say that they are the embodiment of evil spirits, or that they have been haunted by yin qi and cannot be cured, then the villagers will immediately rush to him, whether he is male or female, old or young, old or young in the family, all of them are useless, and they will be hacked to death.

Therefore, there are good and bad things in Da Zhuyou, and some of them are high and powerful, so they will naturally have evil thoughts in their hearts, and where do the villagers dare to say more, they are convinced that the ghosts and gods are in the sky, and the wizard is the messenger of the ghosts and gods in the world, of course, everything is right.

But Long Songlin's ancestors were very different, not only were they skilled in witchcraft and knew all kinds of herbal knowledge, but they were also good people and never abused their power, so they were extremely loved. Passed down from generation to generation, each generation of shamans has warned the next generation of successors to be merciful to others, and must not use witchcraft to cure diseases and collect half a penny, let alone use witchcraft to harm others, otherwise they will be punished by heaven, their wives will be separated, their families will be ruined, and future generations will be deprived of children and grandchildren.

It may be due to genes, every generation of witch doctors in the Long family is a good person, including Long Songlin's grandfather and father. However, in the process of witchcraft being passed down, the "Book of Prophecies" was weathered and moth-eaten because of its age, and some of its contents were inevitably missing, which had a great impact on the performance of witchcraft, and the spells of each generation of witch doctors gradually weakened. Even so, in Long Songlin's father's generation, there are many witchcraft that people think are very magical. For example, he can throw a long bamboo pole into the river, and the bamboo pole will stand upright on the surface of the water, and it will not sink for days and nights, until the dragon father stands on the shore and recites mantras facing the north, and the bamboo pole will quickly submerge into the water with only ten words. Every time Father Long cast this method, there were many villagers watching, naturally including Long Songlin and his sister, the two admired it very much, and Long Songlin also knew that he could do this after learning the spell, so he was very much looking forward to it. Long Songlin's sister often pestered her father to learn too, but her father said that women could not be witches, because the ancestors of the Miao people were men, and they could only attach their bodies to male wizards.

When Long Songlin was less than twenty years old, something happened at home.

At this time, Sister Long Songlin had already married into a neighboring village, and only their father and son were left in the family. On that day, the village chief came to Long's house to find Long Songlin's father and said that there was an emergency, and that a villager outside several villages in the south of the mountain suddenly fell ill with an emergency, and the local Miao medicine had not been cured of several kinds of herbs, so he had to send it to the village for Long Songlin's father to diagnose and treat. The villager's illness was very strange, and he kept bleeding from his mouth, nose, ears and eyes, and it was still black, and the smell was so fishy and smelly that not only people covered their noses, but even the chickens raised in the yard of the Long family were smoked and ran far away.

After a brief examination, the dragon father believed that it was some kind of evil disease. He first prepared two herbs, let Long Songlin mash them, and then gave them to the villager, and then began to use witchcraft to heal the disease. Strangely, after two spells, it was not cured, and the villager's black blood flowed even more, and he was in pain. Many people came to watch, and the village chief asked what was going on, and Father Long said, "This person is not a simple evil disease, but an evil spell that has been artificially cast." I haven't mastered the ancestral prophecy completely, and I'm afraid it will be difficult for one person to heal me. ”

The villager's family immediately knelt down and said that as long as Master Long could cure the person, the whole family could make cattle and horses for him. Father Long also said that there was nothing he could do, and under the questioning of the village chief, Father Long said that unless he let his son Long Songlin cast a spell together, there might be hope, but Long Songlin was only twenty years old and had not yet passed the ceremonial ceremony.

"And what about tonight?" suggested the village chief.