Chapter 1: Swan Town
At the foot of Dahong Mountain, a famous mountain in central Hubei Province, there is a small village called Xiaojiawan, and there is a person named Xiao Kunshan in the village. Xiao Laosan was originally the son of a landlord, he studied medical school in Wuhan before liberation, and his family property was confiscated during the land reform, his parents were suppressed, and he was beaten into a landlord's dog, fighting to the death every day. That day, he was slapped to the back of his head with a stick from a descendant of the same clan in the village, and half of the back of his head collapsed, and the blood blisters only gushed out, and Xiao Laosan fell to the ground.
Because of his cheap status, a person like Xiao Laosan is not as good as a dog, so the villagers don't take it too seriously. Several armed militiamen dragged Xiao Laosan, who was killed, to the south mountain on the edge of the village, and threw him into a mass grave, and threw a few stones at him without even digging a pit, which was considered a burial.
In the middle of the night, the sky above Xiaojiawan was full of stars, a meteor crossed the sky, and fell on the Nanshan behind the village. Xiao Laosan told people that he was dragged out by wild dogs, took a few bites, and somehow came back to life. The villagers all said that he had a big life, so they didn't fight him again.
The old house of Xiao Laosan's family was requisitioned as the office of the brigade, and he ran to the foot of the south mountain of the village to build a thatched shed, surrounded a small courtyard, far away from Xiaojiawan, and lived in isolation. Not far from his residence is the cemetery in the village, and the villagers say that only people like Xiao Laosan dare to live in this place.
The place where Xiao Laosan lives is the only way for Xiaojiawan people to go to the town to catch the market, and after a while, they saw Xiao Laosan set up a pine table in the small courtyard of the grass hut, a few wicker chairs, a red clay teapot on the table, a few blue porcelain bowls, and a piece of paper pasted on the courtyard wall: Super Soul. The villagers knew that Xiao Laosan had become a god, and if someone died, he would also be invited to do the rituals.
The people who rushed to the market had a place to rest, and when they were tired, they stopped to drink tea. When the countrymen are sick, they all say that they are "evil", and it is inevitable that Xiao Laosan will be found to "drive away the evil". Xiao Laosan went, in addition to pasting a paper talisman and reciting a few spells, he usually used a few herbs on the mountain, most of the time it was a medicine to get sick, and it was very effective. Slowly, Xiao Laosan became more and more famous in the fifty miles of Fangyuan in Dahong Mountain.
Xiao Laosan usually goes up the mountain to dig some herbs, and treats people in the tea shed. At the same time, part-time singing scriptures to the dead to exorcise ghosts and watch feng shui, in short, such people have one in the countryside, although they are not welcome, but they are also rare.
Xiao Laosan has always been a lonely person, almost 60 years old and did not get a wife, Xiao Laosan has a characteristic, people who have no money do not charge money for medical treatment, sometimes Lao Xiao sees whose baby lacks food and clothing, and quietly stuffs some delicious food and drink into their pockets, and the children in a village like to run with him. Xiao Laosan never seemed to be short of money, and everyone speculated that his ancestors left a lot of treasures.