Chapter 001: Strange Things from the Past
Let me introduce myself first, my surname is Li, and my name is Miao.
The first time I heard this name, everyone thought it was a woman's name, and many people didn't know that word, so they simply called me Li Shui, and after a long time, I had the title of Lao Shui.
As for my identity, you should know it when you see the title of the book, Yin and Yang Merchant, this is a more elegant name for my business, because everyone does not have a general name for our business, so I have to name it.
As for what the Yin and Yang merchant industry does, this will be talked about next time, as the so-called everything has cause and effect, now I will first briefly explain to you the causes and consequences of how I entered this business.
The name Li Miao was not chosen casually.
Because when I was born, I was different from ordinary people.
When I was born, I just caught up with family planning, and I already had an older brother at home, and my mother had been afraid to speak out in bed in order to hide people's eyes, and it was not until I was about to give birth that I dared to invite my aunt to be a midwife.
My aunt has been a midwife in the village for ten years, especially in those years when family planning was strict, and the business was even better, and the aunt relied on the money earned from delivering babies to raise the three children in the family to be college students, which is very rare in our poor mountain village.
My father had already greeted my aunt a few months in advance, and my own relatives and aunts naturally would not slack off.
The day I was born coincided with a thunderstorm in the middle of the night, and my dad said that he had never seen such a heavy rain in the mountains for decades.
People say that nobles attract wind and rain, and the family thinks this is not a bad sign.
Fortunately, my aunt is also in a village, not far away, and my father braved the rain to invite my aunt over.
The process of production is quite smooth, although the aunt is also born in the wild road and has not undergone formal health school education, but only learned from an old midwife in the village, but after these years of actual combat, she has also accumulated a lot of experience, and the general production problems can be fully coped.
It only took half an hour for the delivery to be completed.
My aunt picked me up as she fell to the ground, and she thought it was all done.
However, just as she was about to hand me to my father, an accident happened.
In my aunt's hand, I was like a charcoal fire, and it burned violently when I encountered the wind!
In an instant, the aunt's whole body was ignited, it was summer, the aunt was not wearing too many clothes, and her upper body was immediately wrapped in a raging flame.
I think that if I were an ordinary person, I would have panicked and thrown me away in a hurry when I encountered this kind of thing.
But my aunt didn't, she turned out to be a ninja burn and put me on the ground steadily, so she dared to lie down on the ground and roll out the flames on her body. I think this may be because of family affection, which made my aunt make such a righteous move.
At that time, fortunately, the elder brother on the side quickly picked up the basin used to deliver the baby and poured it on the aunt who was full of flames, and the aunt picked up a life.
However, the aunt's chest and arms were still burned to varying degrees, especially on her hands, and even the white bones could be seen in serious places, which looked very terrifying.
Since then, my aunt has struggled to even carry things, let alone deliver babies, and her family's livelihood has been cut off.
Years later, when my father talked about the night I was born, he still looked like he was still in a state of reluctance, and the look of horror was evident on his face, and he couldn't hide it at all.
My father said that he saw the fire burning on my body as real, it was a green fire, like a ghost fire that often haunts the graveyard.
After my aunt put me down, the fire on my body continued to burn for five or six minutes before it gradually went out. What's even more strange is that I, who was wrapped in flames, was unscathed, and there was no trace of burns on my body.
This kind of thing is really weird, my aunt said that she has been delivering babies for so many years, and she has never seen such a weird thing.
My dad once thought I was a freak or something, and he burned my aunt to a serious injury as soon as I was born, and most of them were a disaster.
Since then, however, I haven't shown anything unusual about a normal child, so no one has ever mentioned anything about my birth.
My family thought that this was the end of the matter, but they didn't expect that when I was seven years old, the same thing would happen again.
It was also one night, during the autumn harvest season, and my brother led me into the wheat field to catch voles, which were so rampant at that time that they were so large that they could almost catch up with a child of one or two years old.
We finally found a vole hole, and were about to poke it with a stick, but after two times of poking, we saw a very large vole with a bloody face burrowing out of the hole, and pounced on us.
As soon as we looked, what kind of vole was there, and it was clearly a weasel!
In the mountains, the weasel is a very evil thing, known as Wong Tai Sin, which is said to possess people and control their minds.
There is even a Wong Tai Sin Temple in the mountain, which is dedicated to Wong Tai Sin, just to prevent them from coming out to harm people.
On weekdays, the people in the mountains are afraid to see this kind of thing, but we are fortunate to have poked him blind in one eye, and he will not let us go easily.
When my brother saw that the situation was not good, he ran away, and I quickly ran after him.
Because we were in a hurry, we ran away from the bottom of the wheat field.
That Wong Tai Sin was really rampant, and he actually chased us all the way, as if he wanted to settle accounts with us.
I was four years younger than my brother, so naturally I didn't run as fast as him, and I didn't run far, but I was bitten by the weasel on my calf, and I felt a sharp pain in my calf, and I desperately shook my leg to throw Wong Tai Sin off.
But that Wong Tai Sin bit so tightly that he couldn't shake it off.
It was at this time that I saw a flash of light in front of my eyes, and I didn't feel too much, but when I looked down again, I saw that the Wong Tai Sin on my calf was already burned, and the fur on his body was burned and splashed with oil, but even so, he didn't even have the slightest intention of relenting.
I was so frightened that I ran forward, calling my brother's name as I ran.
When I ran all the way home, I saw that my brother had already returned, and the Wong Tai Sin on my lap was basically burned black, and I couldn't even see my body clearly, and there was only a charred thing hanging there, like a rag.
My dad asked me what was going on, and I told him everything I knew.
When my father heard this, he stood there with a blank gaze like a thunderbolt from the sky.
I don't remember much about that time, but I only know that that night, dozens of acres of wheat fields that were about to be harvested were all swallowed up in fire overnight, but the people in the village did not know that the disaster was related to me.
But after this incident, my father and my mother were a little worried, this time fortunately did not hurt anyone, if because of my negligence, burned people to death, then the matter is big.
So, within a few days, my father and mother discussed it, and they were ready to take me to the Taoist temple on the mountain to find Lao Dao to calculate, maybe it could help me stop the weird things on my body.
The Taoist temple on this mountain is called the true one view, this Taoist temple is famous for its magic in a radius of a hundred miles, when it was eight or more years, if you want to ask the Taoist chief in the real one view to count a hexagram, you need ten yuan of incense money, ten yuan at that time is not a small amount, basically a family's ration for a month.
But for my sake, my father gritted his teeth and stomped his feet and handed over the ten yuan.
After paying the money and reporting the birthday, and then letting the old man see his face, the old man's eyebrows immediately wrinkled.
I remember that after the old Tao showed me his birthday and face, he said to himself for a while, "On the tenth day of October, your face is sharp and wide, your face is plump, your complexion is reddish, and you are ......" The more Lao Dao looked at it, the more frowning his brows became, and he turned to ask, "Is there anything different from ordinary children about this child?" ”
When my father heard this, he thought that most of the old Tao had seen something, so he hurriedly told the old Tao all the strange things that happened to me.
After hearing this, Lao Dao nodded, looking thoughtful, "That's it, that's it......"
When my father asked him what he was talking about, he put on an unfathomable look and said to my father: "This baby's life is a little strange, and I can't see it." In this way, I will write you a letter of recommendation, and you can take him to Jiangxi for a trip, and my senior brother may be able to give you some pointers. ”
Although I took the letter, Jiangxi was far away from our high mountains and roads, and the means of transportation were very underdeveloped at that time, and the family really couldn't come up with so much spare money, so the matter of going to Jiangxi was over.
My parents were actually lucky, thinking that as I got older, the strange things in me would disappear with them.
In fact, the result was similar to what they expected, from the time I was seven years old, until I graduated from high school and was admitted to the normal school, everything tended to be normal, and nothing unusual happened.
However, in the year when I was about to graduate from normal school, bad things still happened, and this time it happened as soon as it happened!