In the early years, corpse retrieval was a very popular occupation.
Just dealing with the dead, the yin energy is too strong, and the torture will overwhelm the wife and children, so most of the people who fish for corpses will never succeed!
My dad is a striking example!
He killed two wives and scared away one.
In a blink of an eye, he was in his forties, and even the widow did not dare to follow him.
In later generations, professional corpse collectors almost disappeared, and many of the rules in the water were also lost!
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I am my father's adopted son.
Because I was born during the winter solstice when yin and yang alternate, he named me Li Yin Yang.
My father treated me as his own. Not only did he teach me the art of collecting corpses, but he also taught me how to take care of him until I die.
But people in the village always say that I came from the wrong way and that I was destined to offend the river god!
Sooner or later you will die in the river!
My father was so angry that he yelled and cursed at the entrance of the village again and again.
He told the villagers not to die in the water!
Otherwise, if the corpse is soaked to death, he will never go to retrieve it!
Our village is close to a hanging river, and fishermen often drown.
Despite my father's cruel words, if someone was really killed, he would immediately go into the water and would not let the body stay in the water overnight!
If the deceased's family was in difficulty, he would still pay for funeral arrangements!
Our family was so poor that we couldn’t open the pot, so we tightened our belts and starved!
I think my dad is too kind.
But he taught me that this is called accumulating virtue and blessing.
The villagers didn’t think so! My father repaid them with kindness, and they often said that my father was a short-lived ghost!
I am a plague of bad luck, and I will die sooner or later!
Over the years, we, father and son, have been poked in the back...
I'm confused, why do the villagers hate me so much? !
My dad always kept his mouth shut.
It wasn’t until I was in my twenties that he said that he fished me out of the water!
My mother drowned in the Xuanhe River a long time ago, and her body was not found.
There is a saying among people who drink water, life is on the river, death is on the river, and the king of hell cannot make a living.
If a baby is born in the water, the baby will definitely die in a short time!
He took great pains to find someone to resuscitate my life.
The villagers think I am an ominous person! All the bad things in the village were blamed on me.
After knowing this, my heart has been filled with panic.
Inexplicably, I often have nightmares at night!
A woman with disheveled hair knelt beside my bed...
She was wet and ghastly, with shocking scars on her abdomen, and half her body was covered in blood!
She even whispered in a low voice that she came to see me...
I'm always scared to wake up in the middle of the night!
During that time, I suffered from hysteria.
When it gets dark, my father and I are the only two people in the house.
I still feel that there is a woman stuck in the beams, under the bed, or even behind the window...
My health began to deteriorate rapidly. I looked like a tuberculosis man who had taken too much Fu Shou cream. My whole body was listless and my face was sallow and my muscles were thin.
My father was very worried and looked for remedies everywhere...
When the people in the village heard about this, a group of people carried the mourning hall to the door of my house and found a group of blue-butt dolls to mourn for me!
This almost made my father angry.
I feel extremely aggrieved because my father repays evil with kindness.
We, father and son, have never done anything to feel sorry for the village. Do they really want me to die early? !
This kind of day has lasted for almost three months, and in two days, the winter solstice will come.
I started to feel light when I walked, feeling like I might not be able to hold on at any moment...
At this moment, an old lady came to the house!
She was at least seventy or eighty years old, with very few hairs falling out, and the skinfolds on her face could trap a fly!
The old lady was wearing a black leather jacket and a pair of off-white gloves on her hands. Her eyelids were drooped, covering half of her eyes.
What's even weirder is that she is carrying a large, dark wooden box on her back, which makes her look sinister.
When we entered my house, the old lady said something.
"It's getting cold, and the winter solstice is coming again."
My dad’s face turned pale at that time!
He decisively asked me to kneel down and kowtow to the old lady, promising to provide for her until the end of her life.
I was completely dizzy and without thinking much, I knelt down.
My father kept begging the old lady in a low voice, saying to Luo Yinpo, you can't just die without saving her.
I knew at that time that I was not having a nightmare, I was probably experiencing a ghost...
My dad must know something, he didn’t tell me!
But I don't know who this old lady is. Can she save me?
Luo Yinpo lowered her eyes for a long time before she said something: "From today onwards, I will keep vigil for this child."
My dad was so excited that he hurried to the kitchen to boil eggs and steamed a plate of bacon.
While waiting to eat, my hands were too weak to hold the chopsticks.
But Luo Yinpo took out a rooster with bright hair from the big black wooden box on her back!
She made me take my cock in my arms!
Oddly enough, after I did this, I felt a lot warmer and my spirits improved!
I subconsciously lowered my head and looked at the rooster. It was quite old!
There is an inverted claw on the ankle, which is as long as the little finger and is as sharp as an iron hook!
The cockscomb was also red and purple, and a pair of scarlet eyes looked at me as if they were a human being.
I only took one look and didn't dare to look more.
After finishing the meal, Luo Yin Po asked my father to fetch a bowl of water, and then asked me to put a chopstick into the bowl to see if it could stand upright.
I was confused at the time, how could I stand up chopsticks in the water?
I did as Luo Yinpo said and inserted a chopstick upright into the water bowl.
A strange scene happened.
The bamboo chopsticks stood firmly in the bowl, showing no signs of falling down.
Dark red oozed from the chopsticks, spreading like blood in the water. It was extremely scary!
Watching this scene, my hands were shaking.
But Luo Yinpo turned her head, stared at the door, and said abruptly: "You taught us to take the baby away, and now you want to take it back."
"How can I let you take my life that is so good?"
There was no one outside the door. It was already dark now, so how could anyone be there? !
