This is the last story that Ye Mu experienced.

When I was twenty years old, I finally ate the Tai Sui plant left by my ancestors because of famine and greed.

It was the third year after the emperor's abdication, and a drought swept across northern China, followed by famine and starvation. The baby's weak cry was desolate, like a broken blower pulled out one by one. The cloudy yellow eyes under people's old cotton jackets were full of numbness and helplessness.

There is a stench in the air in Wei County, it turns out that people eat people, and they really eat red eyes. But it's not a turnip, it's not a green onion, I really can't open my mouth.

I'm just a clay figure master, and I don't have the money to go to the Met. I am afraid that before I arrive, I will be killed by the hungry people along the road.

After eating the bark and loess for several days in a row, I finally couldn't stand the pain anymore. I used to be the one who liked mud the most, and they can change in my hands. But when I put it in my mouth, I realized that that kind of heaviness and discomfort are really not human life.

"Don't, don't eat that Tai Sui." Otherwise, otherwise there would be terrible... Before he died, Old Han grabbed my hand and instructed me repeatedly. But I'm really anxious, so I might as well be a full ghost.

There were snowflakes that day, and how nice it would be if they were white-faced, my eyes were fighting up and down. Too much bark and Guanyin soil made it impossible for me to move. I'm still young and I don't want to die.

I ate the Tai Sui, it was so small, with blue tentacles and a translucent body. I had planned to exchange it for silver to marry a daughter-in-law.

I thought of the smell of roast goose on the street, sugar gourd and twist flowers, and put that Tai Sui in my mouth.

What a taste it was, it was like a living thing, moving around in my mouth. One by one, the tentacles slowly began to stretch, suffocating me.

I used all my strength to bite with my teeth. Its taste is not fishy, there is a lot of juice, but it is like the sweetness of mint water.

I remember that the war went on for a long time, until I swallowed the Tai Sui and passed out.

''Wake up, wake up.'' ''The carriage was wobbly and woke me up.

In front of him was a thin old face, with a goatee, a melon-skin hat, and a fashionable dress of a landlord and gentleman.

''This is, where is this?'' I opened my eyes and looked at it with some confusion. I obviously ate that Tai Sui, half alive and half dead. Now I don't have that uncomfortable feeling, as if nothing has happened.

"You kid is lucky, if it weren't for the fact that the owner found you still angry when we passed by, you would have frozen to death in the ditch." Outside the curtain of the carriage was a rough man's voice, and when he opened the curtain, it was a big man with a beard.

''Thank you, thank you both.'' It's hard to repay in the next place. I gratefully shook it, revealing the holes in the cuffs of my old padded jacket. There was no cotton wool in it anymore, and I had eaten it.

''Healers should be benevolent.'' Little brother, what about your parents?''

''Parents?'' I shook my head after thinking about it. I was found by the clay figure master, so what parents are there?

''Either way, it seems to be a lonely person.'' Wei County has caused such a big disaster, and you are still alive. This country is full of warriors fighting every year, and I don't know when it will get better. The old doctor stroked his beard and sighed.

''Husband, where are you going?''

''Go to Jinmen. ’’

''Can you take me for a while?'' I said a little embarrassed. The county can't stay, and there will be a big epidemic after the disaster. Besides, I really don't dare to stay in the madness of catching Ding.

I just don't know if people will take me in if I take a carriage along the way, after all, I have an extra mouth to eat.

They still took me in, the melon skin hat was the old man Zhang, and the one who drove the car was his groom. They were medicine dealers, coming back from outside the river.

"Little brother, your life is really big, Wei County has caused a disaster this time, and the corpses are full of bones." It is also thanks to your life that we can save you. The old man looked at me with a blazing gaze.

''Well, I didn't expect this famine to come so quickly.'' Originally, I was going to go to Jinmen.,But,But.。。 Tears poured down my face, no matter how ambitious I was, I was still a young man after all. The famine depressed people not like individuals, some people boiled and ate all the children, and some sold their property in exchange for a full meal and then committed suicide in a drunken dream. Such a miserable pain, I close my eyes and dream about it.

Master Zhang and Uncle Mafu could only sigh and comfort me with kind words. I never want to go back to Victoria County and see those sights.

Snow, misty snow. Wind, cold wind.

I love the weather, God helps people cover up all kinds of evils. The corpses in the ravine were covered with a thick layer of snow, and occasionally a corner of the corpse was exposed, and the blue and withered soles of the feet were exposed. The lonely wild dog was barking, eating too many people, and his eyes were red and bloodshot. The horrible, disgusting flies were gone, and the horrible buzzing sound was gone.

I started to lose myself as I am. After all, I broke my promise and ate the Tai Sui. I looked at my fingers and skin, and it seemed like a normal person. But I knew that the thing, it was actually eaten by me. I can't drive it away, and I can't kill it. What's next, leave it to fate.

Just as I was in a trance, a sharp gunshot rang out from outside the carriage, and the horses were frightened and raised their hooves.

''My lord, it's not good, I've been bandits.'' Uncle Mafu's face was a little tense, bandits, still carrying guns, this is a bit tricky. They were in a hurry this time, and they also prevented being targeted, and they brought very few people.

''What?''Bandits. Old Man Zhang was also a little flustered, all he brought were precious medicinal materials for winter, such as bear bile and ginseng, which cost most of his financial resources. If it was really robbed, it would be a disaster for his pharmacy.

''What are we going to do about that?'' Old man Zhang was a little flustered.

''Listen, people in the carriage, you are stepping on the way of the grandfathers.'' Hurry up and hand over the money to buy the road, or don't blame the guys' bullets for not having long eyes. Come out quickly. ’’

''Sir, you two hide behind me, be careful, they have guns.'' The groom lifted the curtain and whispered.

I also stepped out of the carriage, and it was four or five men wrapped in turbans. One of them had a big knife in his hand, some of them had a red tassel spear, and the other of them was holding an earthen spear, and his face was full of meat.

''We are just passing through, to visit relatives. I didn't expect my relatives to starve to death, we are all poor, this chivalrous man is convenient?'' The groom smiled all over his face, and took out some silver dollars from his clothes and handed them to the bandits.

''Ah, it's still very interesting. Okay, well, it's not difficult for you to be a few gentlemen today. Leave the carriage behind, and you can go. The eyes of the leading man flashed with a sly brilliance, and he seemed to be smiling. He waved his hand, and several helpers beside him walked towards the carriage.

It is still nearly a thousand miles away from Jinmen, and dragging our carriage away is tantamount to making us commit suicide. Even if these bandits let us go now, we won't survive the cold and the beasts.

''Get out of here!''' Uncle Mafu lowered his body, and the silver dollars slipped and scattered all over the ground, and his fist struck a nearby bandit like a straight line.

''Smack!'' The man couldn't stand the force and fell to the ground all at once. The groom's body was lowered, and then his hand twisted hard, and the sound of his neck bone breaking was very crisp. He grabbed the dead man's red tassel spear and stared at the bandits like a lone hungry wolf.

''Boss, it's a stubble, put a gun.'' The rest of the man with the shuttle dart stepped back cleverly and roared viciously. Those who did this, in fact, didn't think about letting go of the living mouth today.

''How this is good, how this is good.'' After all, Old Man Zhang is a Sven man, and his whole body is shaking.

''Fuck me, give me death.'' ''The earthen guns emitted black smoke, and the bullets rushed out with the pungent smell of gunpowder.

''Danger!'' I don't know what kind of strength it was, but there was a beating fire stirring my skin and heart, and it kept flowing in my blood. The bandits with their guns in front of me, they were a mass of flowing flesh and blood.

''Don, you're back!''' The groom was stunned for a moment, and saw me leap forward, like a ghost.

''Click.'' ''As if the trunk of a tree had been broken, I snatched the earthen spear and destroyed it in half. Bullets and knives passed me, but to no avail. A small green fire, slowly eroding it in front of me. I'm too fast for them to see clearly.

''You!''' The big brother with a full face was also afraid, and he suspected that what he was facing was not a mortal, but an evil ghost.

His surprise didn't last long, and I grabbed the placket of his coat and pushed it all the way to an old tree. The green fire is arrogant, it shakes in the hearts of men, it is a tyrannical beast.

''Bump!' Bright red blood, something squirming in my fingertips, like tiny insects.

The commotion in my palms grew stronger and stronger, and I watched carefully. Green tentacles protruded from my palms, fluttering wildly across the blood. For human hands can be the same as the hair of grass and trees.

Bloodlust is an instinct, and why does it make me happy? I finally understood that the price of devouring came to me.

I don't know how long it took for me to stop the numb impact. Fortunately, the green tentacles in the palms of their hands had disappeared, and they found nothing abnormal.

''You, are you alright?'' Don Jr. ’’

''It's okay, it's okay. ''I forced a smile, it must have been ugly. I tore a little cloth from the dead man and wiped the blood from my palms.

"I really want to thank Brother Tang this time, otherwise, a few of us would have fallen into the hands of this group of bandits today." Old Man Zhang said gratefully, and there was still a color of fear in his eyes, I could see it.

I understand that I am not a human being, but more of a pure beast.

Uncle Mafu patted me on the shoulder and didn't say much. Everyone has something to look back on, and some secrets are better not to ask. For example, my madness, and his fist and foot kung fu.

We worked together to bury the bodies of these bandits in the soil slightly, and in this era, the dead people are so random. If I don't kill him, he will kill me. If I hadn't taken that medicine, I would have become a rotten corpse long ago.

What did Tai Sui bring me, was it life, or was it an evil instinct? I raised my palm in a daze, and the bitter old face of my adoptive father appeared in front of me. Don't touch that pill.

Only now, it's too late to say anything.

The carriage was driving on a cold night in the north, and there was me tossing and turning on it. Gyeonggi, I'm here.

On the seventh day of December, it was sunny.

We have arrived in Tianjin, a land of trade between China and foreign countries, a famous merchant in the north.

Mr. Zhang has a Chinese medicine shop, so I live with him and am regarded as a helper. Although there is not much money in the pharmacy, I like it very much. When I'm not working, I also go to the embassy district to try my luck somewhere. Sometimes I meet a wealthy foreigner who can buy my clay figurines at a good price.

I'm a man of secrets, even if I pretend to be nothing. But that elixir of life and death is a lingering nightmare for me and me.

"Old man, do you say that there is such a thing as Tai Sui in the world?" In the pharmacy, I also asked Mr. Zhang, intentionally or unintentionally, that he was an ancestral doctor after all.

''Tai Sui!''' Old Man Zhang's hands that were weighing medicine also paused, and his eyes flashed with a flickering light. ''I've never seen it in my life.' Ganoderma lucidum, ginseng, these things that nourish people are all worth 100 gold, not to mention Tai Sui, which teaches people to become immortals, is very suspenseful. I really want to see what this legendary thing is like. He sighed.

''Tai Sui, also known as meat Ganoderma lucidum, is non-toxic, tonifies the middle, benefits the essence, increases wisdom, treats the knot in the chest, and is light and immortal for a long time. This is the record of Tai Sui in Shennong's Materia Medica.

People often expect too much good from things they don't know. For example, Changsheng, and Tai Sui, everyone is not exempt from vulgarity.

The world only knows that Tai Sui is a priceless treasure, and who has really eaten it?

How can the legend be credible, the emperors are superstitious about immortality, devouring jade powder and gold pills, but none of them are immortal, and many of them are crazy with medicine.

Perhaps on a cold night, there were desperate people like me who took this medicine curiously. I don't know if anyone has swallowed Tai Sui, I thought to the devil in my heart, and my thoughts were flying.

Ever since I ate it, I've been having weird dreams for days, and the content of my dreams is surprisingly consistent. I was surrounded by green fire, and even my hair, eyes, and skin were all green, and my face had some blue tentacles. I don't look like a person anymore, peeling back the skin with cyan juice and flowing textures.

Hehehe, I don't know if I'm a human or a ghost.