One afternoon in 1998, in a school in a small township in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Several children in kindergarten after school are playing happily on the lawn of the school, and they all live near the school.

Because there are many places to play in the school, and the environment is good, I usually like to play in my spare time after school.

The school is located at the foot of the mountain, the mountains are full of clouds and mist, all peach and bamboo, and the school's houses are in a gossip layout, surrounded by a circle but not connected to each other.

The front and back of the house are planted with sycamore wood, which is higher than the two-story teaching building, and should have been planted at the beginning of the building.

The playground in front of the house is covered with verdant grass and wildflowers of various colors.

In the middle of the playground there is a huge plane tree, lush, more than ten feet high, look at that year I am afraid that there are thousands of years of years.

The whole school is centered on this tree, and there is a pond next to the playground, and the fish are very lively, but the whole thing is indescribably comfortable when looking down from the sky.

The children were playing on the embankment between the playground and the pond.

Ancient books record: the mythical bird phoenix, born in the South China Sea, and fly in the North Sea, not more than the sycamore, not bamboo fruit does not eat, but this place is both, may be the ancient period of the phoenix habitat!

"Ni Song Kai, Mu Song Kai" A child in front of him screamed and ran, and a child in the back laughed and chased after him, and it turned out that the child in the back was holding a "Eight Huo Lian" in his hand to scare his companion in front.

The object was turquoise, with poisonous thorns and a few small black bags on its body, and was still struggling with the child's hands. This small insect grows specifically on the sycamore tree, feeds on the sycamore leaves, and when it touches the skin, it will swell up a poisonous bag, which is painful and itchy, the same as being stung by a caterpillar, but the toxicity is superior.

Strangely enough, several small plane trees have this insect on them, but the largest one never grows.

Suddenly, the sky darkened, as fast as the cloth on the table had been torn off, revealing a dark tabletop.

Immediately after, a purple lightning bolt pierced the sky! It slammed down to the ground, and when it landed, it turned out to be the ancient plane tree in the middle of the playground!

At the moment when the lightning touched the canopy, every leaf of the ancient tree glowed with a brilliant green light, as if to compete with the lightning, and the castration of the lightning was stagnant, and it actually stayed for a moment!

However, it only stayed for a moment. In the next moment, the lightning was still slashing downward, and from the canopy of the tree, the ancient tree knots were broken inch by inch!

The slag was burned red and carried high into the air, and the lightning trend continued unabated, until it reached the root of the tree, and it seemed that it was trying to root the ancient tree!

However, at the base of the tree, the menacing lightning came to an abrupt halt, and the sky became clearer, with only the body of the vanished sycamore tree and the sparks flying in the sky proving that lightning had existed.

The children more than ten meters away were already stunned by the sudden darkening of the sky and the loud sound of lightning splitting, and one by one they ran to their homes crying and shouting, "The tree has become a spirit!

Only one bold one was left in the same place, and he looked at the running friends, and then walked towards the plane tree in the middle of the playground, this child, named Wang Jian!

The ashes of the burning ancient trees in the sky slowly drifted down at this time, and there were some reddish charcoal scattered on the playground, and they were still burning.

Fortunately, the lightning was so powerful that it split the ancient tree into pieces less than the size of a thumb, and most of them were carried into the air by the impact, so that the children could survive.

Wang Jian carefully avoided the charcoal that was still burning on the ground, and came to the bottom of the big tree, which was originally tall, but now only a small piece of charred black wooden stake remained, only as high as Wang Jian's calf.

Wang Jian looked at the stake, it should be a very hot wound, at this time there was still a feeling of wetness, Wang Jian touched the wound of the tree like a chestnut in the fire, and sure enough, there was no trace of heat, just like touching the section of a normally broken tree.

At this time, Wang Jian saw that there seemed to be a faint fluorescence flickering in the middle of the stump hugged by about ten people, and the milky white fluorescence looked very abrupt on the charred black stump.

Wang Jian jumped on the stump of the tree curiously and ran over, squatted down to pick it up, and saw that the fluorescent object was something very much like a tortoise shell, and there were some strange characters of unknown reason around the side.

Wang Jian looked at it for a while, but didn't understand what he had picked up, so he casually put it in his pocket and went home. No one knows that the future fruit has already planted the cause at this time.

The next day, the 98 flood that shocked the world swept through Wang Jian's village!

In the afternoon, after Wang Jian went back, he felt dizzy and sat on the stool without saying a word.

Wang Jian's mother didn't notice Wang Jian's abnormality when she was in the kitchen for dinner, but Wang Jian's father shouted when he came back from farming: "the child! Lao Zhang, Lao Li's child came back like a lost soul, and he didn't know what was going on!"

Turning his head to see that his baby was also sitting there in a daze, and his heart suddenly cooled, and then he walked to Wang Jian's side quietly and said softly: "Little cub, what are you in a daze, your face is full of ashes, go wash and prepare for dinner!"

"If you want it, you have to get it," Wang Jian responded, but did not move, "If you want it, why don't you go quickly, you want a woman at such a young age?" Wang Jian heard this, her face turned red, and she stood up and went to clean. The royal father felt a lot of peace in his heart.

At this time, the Queen Mother heard what the royal father said, put down what she was busy with, and walked out of the kitchen, "What's the matter, did you fall into the pond (pond)?"

There is a superstitious saying that if a child falls into the pond and is frightened, he will throw a soul into the water, so it is necessary for an adult to take the child to the place where he fell into the water, use a bamboo basket or fishing net and other things to catch water, and shout again and again: "Come back! Go home!"

The royal father turned his head and looked at the queen mother: "Then there won't be a few people falling into the pond together, right?

Wang Jian wiped his face with water and felt a lot more comfortable, and then when he was eating, he told him what happened in the afternoon, and his parents were dumbfounded.

Adults will be shocked when they encounter such a thing, not to mention a group of children, their own children are bold, and he dares to take a look at other people's children when they run away. I wanted to reprimand Wang Jian, but I thought that my child had been frightened a lot, and it was not appropriate to educate him, so I didn't say anything.

Immediately, the royal father thought of Wang Jian's saying that he had picked up a tortoise shell, so he asked, "What does that shell you said look like, take it out and give me a look."

Wang Jian immediately took out the tortoise shell from his pocket, and the royal father took it and looked at it carefully: "This thing does look like a tortoise shell, but it feels like a stone" and then said with a smile: "I have heard that people get stones, animals get stones, you say that this thing is not a stone of that tree!"

The Queen Mother said, "As far as you like to think, I see, it was the thunder that struck the root of the tree, and there was exactly one such stone at the root, which Jane picked up." ”

The royal father thought about it like this, it is indeed more reasonable, there are quite a lot of trees with their roots exposed, it may really be lightning to the roots, the royal father picked up the tortoise shell and scratched it on the glass on the window, and a scratch appeared on the glass, "Yo, it's quite hard, it's the same as the jade pendant, this thing is also very beautiful, just forget about the jade wear, the trees that have been struck by lightning can ward off evil spirits! This thing should also be able to be struck by lightning!"

Then I picked up the tortoise shell and looked at the light, and was surprised to find that the center line of the tortoise shell was on the top of the light, like a small hole.

The royal father immediately took the tortoise shell to his mouth, aimed at the position of the hole and blew two breaths, and then looked at the light, the hole was bigger, it turned out that there was indeed a hole, but it was blocked by the charcoal ash of the trees, the royal father blew out, the charcoal ash was blown out, and the original appearance of the hole was exposed, the size was about the same as the hole on the market for hanging ornaments and threading, so the queen mother found a red head rope to wear the tortoise shell and put it on Wang Jian's neck.

After eating and washing, Wang Jian went to sleep.

There was nothing to say all night, and because of the fright, Wang Jian slept very deeply.

When he woke up, he found himself in his father's arms, and his mother was squatting aside to wipe her tears.

The whole family is on the top of the mountain, halfway up the mountain, there is already an ocean, there are about 40 people on the mountain, those who are close to the mountain are lucky, and those who are far away from the mountain are lucky!

Wang Jian looked down the mountain, and saw that there were many people standing in the taller houses, and in the yellow-brown ocean, they were so inconspicuous and so small! Suddenly, a wave of water slapped over, and a lower house was no longer visible in an instant, and the people on the house seemed to have never appeared.

Wang Jian hadn't woken up yet, and after seeing this scene, he closed his eyes in a daze and fell asleep, and the flood took a long time before it receded.

Wang Jian can't remember how long it was, but the scene of the flood engulfing the house has been deeply embedded in Wang Jian's memory.

After that, there were no special circumstances, Wang Jian went to school like other ordinary children, elementary school, junior high school, high school, college entrance examination, university, and was about to enter the society.

Wang Jian, who is now a junior, is interning in a factory, Wang Jian's university is a key university, and it is also what people call "a book" Because of Wang Jian's excellent grades, there are already many companies in the school to poach people, and the company he interned at is a biotechnology research company that he is willing to work in here, engaged in a research engineer position, and his university choice of major is just the right one.

Wang Jian touched the tortoise shell hanging on his chest, and couldn't help but recall the flood fifteen years ago. "Alas, this tortoise shell can't have anything to do with the flood of '98, how can there be such a coincidence, just encountered a thunderbolt that struck that tree, and in a blink of an eye, there was a flood" Then he laughed at himself again, sighing that he was thinking too much,

In fact, it is not surprising that Wang Jian has such an idea, anyone who just sees lightning killing something not far from him, and what happened the next day, will involuntarily associate it together.

After all, humans are in awe of lightning.

Since ancient times, in the process of confrontation between human beings and nature, lightning is often accompanied by heavy rain or various disasters, for the ancestors who were not yet civilized at that time, the strong light of lightning and the loud sound brought by it are even more terrifying, and the fear of lightning has been written into the genes of human beings!

It is precisely because I am afraid that to a certain extent, and I think that it is the embodiment of righteousness between heaven and earth, and it is used by God to eliminate demons and punish evil!

And Wang Jian's family is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the impact on his soul is greater when the flood occurs once in a century~