My name is Jiang Jiu, and I was born at three o'clock in the afternoon on September 9th, the peak of the yang energy of the Double Ninth Festival.

But when I fell to the ground, the sun darkened, the dark clouds covered the sky, countless shadows appeared in the clouds, and everywhere I went, the green trees withered and the springs dried up, and all the miles were dead.

Fortunately, Grandpa had been prepared and had already moved to the halfway point of the mountain, so the matter did not spread to the village.

Only the dead wood in my house is in spring, and it is refreshing, and even the two walnuts that have been thickly pulped by my grandfather for 30 years have burst into new sprouts.

My mom and midwife were holding me in the room and shouting happily that I was a handle, and my dad and my grandfather were smoking cigarettes outside the door looking at the cloudy sky.

"Dad, you really got you right." My dad's face was darker than the sky: "It's not bad at all. ”

Grandpa sighed and said: "Our Jiang family has never miscalculated a hexagram since Taigong was born fishing and passed it on to my generation." My grandson Zi Weixing entered the palace of life, and his talent is the appearance of the emperor, if he grows up, his future is limitless. It's a pity ......"

It's a pity...... I was born with a fatal death.

Grandpa's face was grim, he took a step forward, and said coldly: "Devil and sneak! Since I came, why should I cower and dare to covet my grandson and dare not show my face! ”

The wind blew in gusts, bringing with it a ghostly cry in the boundless darkness, and several strange "things" emerged in the clouds.

One of the guys has no eyes except for the eye position, and the rest of his body is full of eyes: "Old thing, you have a hard mouth at this time." What about you guarding it? The emperor still has twenty-four years to go if he wants Dacheng, and we don't believe that you have been guarding your grandson for twenty-four years! ”

"That's right, old thing, there will always be times when you are absent in the past twenty-four years, we will always find a gap to eat your grandson!" The other guy looked like a human, had no flesh, and was covered in maggots wriggling up and down.

"The Emperor's Life...... As long as I eat the emperor's life before the emperor's life grows up, I will be able to take away his luck, and I will be the emperor when the time comes......"

The third "man" who spoke was normal-looking, but his face was crawling with thin black centipedes—no, they weren't centipedes, but scars that had been cut and sewn with needles and threads.

Looking at the scars on this guy's face, it's hard to imagine how many pieces this guy has been cut into before, and it's even harder to imagine who sewed this guy together.

And these three guys are just standing in the front of the "thing", behind them there are not only those whose facial features are covered in blood, but also those who exchange hands and feet under their heads, and those whose facial features are reversed and long in the abdomen......

As for those who disemboweled, disemboweled, gastrointestinal outflow, missing arms, legs, and blood gurgling, there are countless of them.

The midwife told me all these things, and she said that after she delivered the baby that day, she first heard the words before her, and when she opened the door and saw so many monsters, she immediately fainted with fright.

I don't know what happened after that, but I know that something seems to have happened to make my father and mother die at noon of the Double Ninth Festival, and the only ones who survived in the end were the fainting midwife and the grandfather who coughed often, and I didn't know anything in my swaddling clothes.

From the day I can remember, my grandfather never said anything about what happened that day, until my twelfth birthday......

Rural people's birthdays are based on the lunar calendar, and my birthday is the Double Ninth Festival in September, which is very easy to remember.

Because it was my 12th birthday, my grandfather said for the first time that he wanted to buy me a fried chicken burger.

At that time, a new fast food restaurant opened in the town, and my grandfather set off at noon on his bicycle, but because of the rugged and remote mountain road, he didn't come back after dark, and I was the only one at home.

In the countryside, children are bears, and I am not afraid of being alone at home even if it is a black light.

But I was terrified that night, because after the sun had set, snakes had streaked across the ground in twisted marks, from doorways, from walls, from windows......

In short, I crawled out of all kinds of places that I couldn't think of, green, red, purple, green......

I'm not afraid of a snake, even if it's a poisonous snake, it's not like I haven't played with it.

But hundreds of snakes surrounded me, gathered together and squirmed and crawled, and the scales rubbed against each other to make a cold "rustle" sound, which scared me to the point that I felt a chill down my spine.

The snakes tangled in front of me, and at last they formed a human form—he looked down at twelve-year-old me.

Even though this guy's body is made up of snakes and doesn't have any eyes and mouths, I just knew that this guy was looking at me.

When my scalp was numb when I was watched, this guy actually said: "What an emperor's life, I didn't have a chance to eat it twelve years ago, and now I finally found a chance!" ”

"As long as I eat the emperor's life and get the emperor's luck, I can get rid of this snake body and become a dragon!"

As he spoke, the group of snakes in the belly of this guy slowly unfolded, and a large mouth made of snakes was split in the abdomen, and his feet kept approaching me.

I tried to run away, but this guy stared at me so hard that I couldn't move.

Just as the big mouth between the man's chest and abdomen was about to swallow me, a thunderclap suddenly flashed outside, and in the flickering light, a strange big red luan appeared in the room, right next to me.

The entire big red luan car was covered by red veil, and dozens of paper people accompanied by it, and only a red-clothed bride with a phoenix crown sitting inside could be seen.

The guy who wanted to swallow me in one bite was startled by the sudden appearance of the big red luan, and the big mouth composed of snakes between his chest and abdomen opened and closed: "It's you?" The queen of drunken ghosts? You also have a crush on this kid? ”

I didn't see any movement of the red-clothed bride in Da Hongluan's car, but I only heard Qing Lian's voice coming from inside: "I received the dowry from his parents' longevity, and I have recruited him as my husband, and I have been protecting him for 24 years, and I will be my son-in-law after the age of 24." ”

"As for you...... Get lost! ”

This sound was like clear water in my ears, but the guy who wanted to swallow me suddenly trembled, as if hearing the thunder of the nine heavens, and the snakes that formed the body scattered in an instant as if they saw the sulfur, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

I finally regained the ability to control my body, and turned my head curiously to look at Da Hong Luan.

I couldn't see the details of the big red luanjia under the red veil, I could only see the red-clothed bride with a phoenix crown.

That is, the drunken ghost queen in the mouth of the group of snakes, the phoenix crown on her head swayed gently, and seemed to nod to me.

"Twelve years to go...... I'm waiting for you......"

As soon as the words fell, another thunderbolt flashed, and the big red luanjia and the accompanying paper man disappeared in an instant, and the house returned to the appearance of black lights and blind fire.

After a while, Grandpa finally rode his bicycle home, and walked back briskly with a fried chicken burger in his hand: "Xiao Jiu! Grandpa is late, you're ......"

"Grandpa!" I responded from the room.

Grandpa strode into the room, but after taking the first step, he stood abruptly, frowned, and sighed, "It's still here......"