My name is Li Shiyi, and I was born in a small village in a remote area of northwest China.
On the night I was born, it is said that a lot of things happened in the village. First, an owl came from nowhere and hovered on the roof of our house and screamed non-stop, like a ghost urging death.
Later, countless black snakes crawled into our yard. My mother almost fainted from the fright.
After I landed, my grandpa just looked at me and hugged me out the door.
It is said that because of this incident, my parents completely cut off contact with my grandfather.
The reason is that that night, my grandfather carried me to the ancestral hall alone and put me into the coffin enshrined in the ancestral hall.
After my grandfather came back, no matter how my parents pressed me, he never mentioned where he had put me. He only said that if I could survive tonight, he would return me. If I couldn't, he would let my parents have another baby.
My mother almost went crazy at that time, and even my father severed the father-son relationship with my grandfather on the spot.
Maybe it's because I was so desperate that I was put in a coffin for a night right after I was born, but I still survived.
I was always frail and sick and cried all the time. Everyone thought I might die young, but miraculously I survived.
However, my parents have hated my grandfather for many years because they always felt that it was my grandfather who caused me to be like this.
My grandfather's name is Li Duanshou, he is a Feng Shui master, and he inherited the Feng Shui lineage, which is the first of the five lines of Xuanmen.
Although this name is not very good, and as the name suggests, his grandfather is still disabled, but this name is well-known in the entire northern occult world.
Grandpa has visited numerous graves and tapped acupuncture points throughout his life. It is said that there has never been any problem with the acupoints he has tapped, and many people have prospered as a result.
So much so that later on, my grandfather’s treasure cave was almost worth a fortune. Unfortunately, he washed his hands in the golden basin at this time and completely withdrew from the Feng Shui world. Therefore, our family is not particularly wealthy. It can only be said to be an ordinary rural family. Life was okay.
After that incident, the relationship between my parents and my grandfather never eased, and they even separated. However, my grandfather still loved me very much. When I was very young, he always secretly cheated on me behind my parents’ back. Give me delicious food, and when I grow up, he will start to teach me some knowledge about Feng Shui and metaphysics.
Strange to say, I couldn't read well at that time, but I learned these things surprisingly quickly. Whether it was Feng Shui, mysticism, or divination, it was easy to get started. Therefore, my grandfather always praised me and said that I was A natural genius.
When I was thirteen years old, my grandfather called me to the ancestral hall and took out the Feng Shui compass from under the throne of my grandfather. It is something that our Li family has inherited from generation to generation, a symbol of Xuanmen Feng Shui. It has been passed down to my grandfather for the seventeenth generation!
This profession is similar to divination of yin and yang. There are five disadvantages and three deficiencies in life, many disabilities, and few people die well. My grandfather is the best example. Originally, he was going to end the inheritance in his own generation.
But at this moment, I was born!
My grandfather said that I was born with a bad destiny and was born to eat this bowl of rice. This was already destined the moment I was born, so he passed on his mantle to me from generation to generation.
From then on, my relationship with my grandfather became closer and closer, and he loved me more and more. However, one thing was that my grandfather would not let me play with the girls in the village, and he was determined not to.
I remember one time, I was hiding in a haystack playing games with the village chief’s daughter Li Xiaohua, and my grandfather caught me. He took me home and beat me up, and even locked me in the house for a whole day. They didn't even let me out.
My parents had a big fight with my grandfather again because of this matter.
Within two days, Li Xiaohua died suddenly. It was said that she was skinned alive and hung to death from a pomegranate tree behind their house.
That night, I even dreamed about Li Xiaohua. She was covered in blood and said she wanted to kill me.
When I woke up in the morning, I found my grandpa sitting beside the bed with a serious look on his face, and there was a red lantern hanging on the beam. The lantern seemed to be coated with a layer of blood, which looked quite strange.
My grandfather looked very scary at that time, so I didn’t dare to ask him.
Later, the lantern was hung on the beam of my house. Sometimes it would make a strange "creak" sound in the middle of the night. I wanted to throw it away, but my grandfather told me not to touch it.
From then on, I saw that all the girls in the village were hiding away. I had no choice but to leave a psychological shadow. My mother was very worried about this. She always felt that if I continued like this, it would be difficult to find a wife in the future.
In the blink of an eye, several years passed. That day, my grandfather suddenly came to me and said that he didn't have much time and wanted to tap the last acupuncture point before he died.
When I heard this, my nose felt sore on the spot, because I knew that people like my grandfather could indeed calculate their own destiny.
Grandpa filled a pot of dry cigarettes, and while smoking, he said with a complicated expression, "Either I will light this hole for myself, or I will light it for you."
"Give it to me?"
I was stunned for a moment and didn't react.
Grandpa went on to say, "Back then, I lived in the underworld to extend my life for you, and I came back with a life. But there are three iron thresholds in your life that are indispensable, and the one at the age of nineteen is especially important."
Of course I understand the three iron thresholds he mentioned. This is a catastrophe in fate. It is difficult for ordinary people to get through one of them. I didn't expect that there were three in my fate.
Judging from this, when I was just born, I should have hit the first iron threshold.
I also learned a lot from my grandfather about fortune-telling. However, you cannot tell your own fortune in this profession. This is a taboo. Unless you are like my grandfather when his time is approaching, you must not touch it, so I also There is no way to know your own destiny.
But since my grandfather said it, I think it must be true.
"Grandpa, you don't have to worry about my affairs. I've grown so big anyway, right? I'll leave the rest to fate!"
I said calmly.
Grandpa's death is approaching, and I don't want him to worry about me anymore!
"Then I'll take it as you made your choice."
Grandpa said as he raised his feet, knocked his pipe on the sole of his shoe, then got up and left!
"What did he tell you?"
As soon as my grandfather left, my mother ran out of the house.
"I didn't say anything. Mom, don't worry."
I smiled and did not tell my mother what my grandfather said, lest she hate my grandfather even more.
That night, my mother cooked a table full of delicious food, because today was my nineteenth birthday, but neither my mother nor my father mentioned it.
In fact, they have never mentioned my birthday over the years, maybe because they don’t want to mention the night I was born, but I can guess it because they cook me a lot of delicious food on this day every year. One day is my birthday.
On October 1st of the lunar calendar, rural people burn cold clothes for their dead relatives.
I'm thinking this is probably where my name comes from!
As soon as it gets dark, people are burning paper money and cold clothes everywhere in the village, and the smell of incense and candles fills the whole village.
I have experienced this kind of festival too many times and have long been accustomed to it, but that night, it always felt extra strange.
The owl that didn't know where it came from outside started to hoot again, and the "woo, woo" sounds came and went, much like the cry of a child.
I raised half of my body from the bed and listened for a while. I could probably tell that it was on the roof.
After a while, rustling sounds began to come from the yard. I didn't dare to go out to look, but I could guess that it was probably snakes and insects crawling.
It feels like I have returned to the night I was born nineteen years ago. These inexplicable and wonderful things are here again, and I know that they are coming for me.
I simply covered my head with the quilt and didn't listen to the weird noises outside.
But at this moment, the door suddenly opened, and the sound of "squeaking" went through my brain, and my scalp immediately exploded.
