Chapter 1: Strange Things Come to the Door
My name is Gu Ziwen and I am 19 years old.
I also have two compatriots' elder brothers, the eldest brother Gu Zichen and the second brother Gu Zijun. We lived with my father in a rural village in the north.
My father is very famous in ten miles and eight towns, but whenever someone needs to see yin and yang feng shui, they will come to my father if they want to do things. Naturally, the three of us have learned a lot of skills.
I had a nickname when I was a child - "three troublemakers".
It's not that I'm naturally noisy. My birth seemed like a farce.
My father chose a good time for our three brothers to be born safely, and my two older brothers were born very well. However, by the time I was born, there was a great deal of change!
It is said that after the cloudless clear sky at that time split eight evil lightning bolts, the clouds were suddenly thick, and lightning and thunder roared.
The mother fainted in the last second, and then her lower body was bleeding.
My birth was accompanied by the tragic death of my mother. I heard in the gossip of the villagers that I had inexplicably slipped out of my mother's body, with the placenta attached to my body and my mother's internal organs.
No one knows how my mother gave birth to me, including my powerful father.
The only person who probably knew about it was the midwife who delivered my mother. I asked her twice about it, but she didn't say anything, and when I went to see her the third time, she disappeared.
I was born at an auspicious time, but I was born at a very dangerous time. Although my brothers and I were born on the same day, I was the weakest of my brothers.
I have been able to see different things since I was a child, and the villagers envy me for opening my eyes when I was a child.
However, only I know that this is an absolute nightmare for me! The so-called eye of heaven is to see some strange spirits.
Those translucent floaters, not even humanoids! It is common to miss arms and legs, or even half of your face and half of your body.
These are implicit. There are also some ...... that I can't describe. The white bones are half leaking, the body is half rotten, half black, green and crawling with maggots, and there are countless of them.
I was scared of that, but I thought everyone could see it, so I never said it.
It wasn't until I was three years old that I remember one night when I was outside the walls of my house when I bumped into a ghost bride with a pale face and bleeding from all her knots!
Then I was sick for three whole months. My father knew I could see these strange spirits. My nightmares, starting with my father giving me a stack of charms and a whip to beat ghosts, became less frequent.
The village I am in is called Mang Village, and it has always been peaceful. In the past two years, my father has also taken care of the feng shui affairs in the nearby villages. My father used to go out to do things, but I don't know when he started to go out more often.
This time, I didn't come back for two or three months.
It's weird, early this morning, I saw the second brother and Uncle Yu talking to each other. It seems that Uncle Yu should have asked my second brother, but my second brother rejected him.
Before Uncle Yu left dejectedly, he saw me eavesdropping by the door. He hugged my feet with a handful of snot and tears and cried, "Awen...... Please, go see my daughter. β
I have a sigh in my heart, Uncle Yu is a lot old, and the only only daughter is called Yu Xin.
Yu Xin...... Is something wrong? I took a breath and asked, "Your daughter...... What's wrong? β
Before I finished asking, Uncle Yu cried even more fiercely.
"I ...... My daughter...... I fell into the water this morning and drowned! β
My brain went blank when I heard it. Yu Xin, I'm too familiar! The most beautiful girl in the village is also the only daughter of Uncle Yu. On weekdays, I have a good relationship with Yu Xin, and a few days ago I made an appointment to wait for the weather to go out of the village to play.
Drowned!
In addition to grief and shock, I immediately decided, whether out of love or righteousness, I would mention the matter to Uncle Yu and give Yu Xin a ride.
"Uncle Yu, don't worry, your daughter's business will be on me."
Although I have a weak constitution, I have been sick since I was a child, and I am often haunted by feminine things. Because of the delay in my father's ability to teach, I am not as good as my two elder brothers in terms of skills, but this is the simplest excess, and it is definitely not a problem.
Uncle Yu kowtowed and gave gifts, and I sent him away from my house in a cold sweat.
If my second brother refused, I took it without permission, and I would definitely have a family motto.
"What are you doing?"
The second brother's cold and loud voice came from behind me, which made me tremble.
"No ......!"
The second brother was half-open in the door, the whole person was half leaning on the door frame, I couldn't see his expression clearly, I saw him shaking the folding fan, and said to me slowly: "I don't accept my reasons, and you also understand some family rules." β
"Hmm...... "My heart is furious, as Yu Xin's good friend, how can I not send her when she dies!"
I don't know how much he saw the second brother! He always looks cold and impersonal, and I don't know if he has any friends.
"Let's go back! This matter, listen to my brother, don't go! "The second brother closed the door, leaving me alone in the courtyard hesitating.
"Huh! Good! I replied aloud, but I was very resistant. I, although I am a little cowardly, have always paid attention to the word affection. I've really helped with this!
I counted the hour, and while the sun was still up, I quietly climbed up to the roof to take care of the guy I was hiding.
None of the rituals will be done when the sun is on its head, and at this time, the yang is in full swing and the yin is declining, and even if you go, it is useless. I thought to myself when I saw a puff of gray-black smoke rising from the lush bush in the distance.
The bush jungle, less than 200 meters away from my home, used to be Uncle Yu's home. I wiped my eyes, suspecting that I had seen it wrong, but I didn't expect the gray-black smoke to become thicker and darker!
I muttered to myself, wondering if there was a fire there. After all, after a person dies, his relatives will also burn paper in the place where he once lived to pay tribute.
After staring at it for a while, no red flames came out.
It doesn't seem to be on fire.
"What's this?"
I walked to the eaves to see more clearly, but I didn't expect the thick black smoke to fade away. Originally, it was just a mess of gas, but at this time, wisps of it formed a strange, unintelligible character in the air.
"Boy, I need to go see what it is."
I was going to go to Yuhina in the afternoon, and now I'm going to see what's in the bushes! With a sense of curiosity, I tiptoed out of the hospital with the food guy my dad had given me.
"Whewβ" I let out a long breath.
It feels so good to be free! I walked straight in the direction of the bushes I had just had.