"My father was only seven years old when he died!"
If someone told you that he could bring a dead person back to life, would you believe it?
My name is Long Chengfeng, and I shouldn't have appeared in this world, just because my father is a dead man!
People in the village often say: "The boy from the Long family died when he was seven years old! I don't know what evil method his father, Long Changming, used to bring him back to life, and also found him a beautiful and immortal wife... …”
The story has to start with the severe drought fifty years ago!
That summer, the sun was blazing and the entire southwest region was severely short of water. Palm-sized cracks appeared in the farmland, not to mention the crops, and even the villagers' daily drinking water became a problem.
As a result, superstition prevailed, and rainmakers were everywhere praying for rain.
Some villages are so crazy that they dig up people's ancestral graves, drag out the mummies from the graves and beat them with willow sticks.
People say that this is a fight against drought!
The strange thing is that, also in the southwest, our village not only did not suffer from drought, but even floods occurred.
Twelve dragon ponds of different sizes in the village all spout water together.
Not only water, but also fish!
It happened that at that time, my grandfather went out to teach people about Feng Shui, and my grandmother died young, leaving my father alone in the family. Seeing the children in the village picking up a lot of fish near Longtan, the seven-year-old father followed him out of curiosity.
I don’t know what happened after that. My father, who was picking up fish by the Longtan, suddenly fell into the bottomless Longtan and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"It's not good! It's not good!"
"The boy from the Long family fell into the Longtan!"
After the villagers learned about the incident, they immediately organized people to go out to salvage. They fished for three days in a row, but they still could not fish out the father.
In those days, my grandfather's eyelids were twitching violently. He calculated on his fingers that something big was going to happen at home, so he immediately rode his flying dragon horse and hurried back overnight. At that time, four days had passed since my father disappeared.
When he returned to the village, grandpa immediately fetched a bushel of glutinous rice, three sticks of incense, twenty-seven pieces of paper money, a bowl of braised pork and a bowl of dumpling rice, his favorite food, and hurried to the edge of Longtan.
For a time, Longtan was crowded with people. Hundreds of villagers gathered around and talked about it.
"Long Changming usually looks arrogant and is looked down upon by everyone. Now it's great. Let's see what magic he uses to get his son up. I heard that there are all large and small caves down here. There were monks who were in charge of this place. My name is Seventy-two Dongtian..."
"It's true that Long Changming has magic! Back then, a woman in the next village died in childbirth. She had been dead for seven days, but Long Changming rescued her. Now she is a grandmother."
"Do you believe this kind of thing? That's just someone else bragging!"
"Hearing is false, seeing is believing. If Long Changming can't save his son this time, who will ask him for Feng Shui?"
"Haha! What a feng shui king, it's just a false name. He doesn't even know that his son fell into the water..."
"Shh! Stop talking, Long Changming is starting to do it!"
All the villagers are looking forward to it.
At this time, I saw grandpa placing the bucket with glutinous rice on the edge of the dragon pool, holding incense with both hands, and respectfully placing the lit incense in the glutinous rice. Next, he picked up some dumpling rice and braised pork with his fingers and sprinkled them into the dragon pool.
"Dragon King, I am ignorant. I have no intention of offending the Dragon King. Please be merciful to the Dragon King and give me a way to live!"
After that, he burned the paper money first, then took out a piece of yellow paper, bit his finger, drew a blood talisman, and threw it into the water.
"The dragon cries, and the blood is the contract. If the Dragon King is merciful and lets the child go, I, Long, will be willing to obey the Dragon King's orders and do things for the Dragon King for the rest of my life. If anyone dares to offend the Dragon King, Long will not spare him!"
After that, he knelt down heavily towards Longtan and kowtowed three times in a row!
"When did Long Changming start? He's so nagging!"
"If I can't find my son, shouldn't I go to the province to find a diver? Why are you still superstitious here?"
"That's right! This Longtan is unfathomable. Who dares to go down except for professional divers?"
"Diver? That's easy to say!"
"Do you know how deep the Longtan in our village is? When the educated youth went to the countryside, an educated youth from Shanghai drove a tractor over and fell from this place. That was a tractor!"
"Do you know how many tractors there were in the country at that time? Who wouldn't be anxious if a baby like that fell off?"
"What's the use?"
"The county staff came down and borrowed all the cattle ropes in the village, formed a 300-meter-long rope, tied it to a stone, and threw it into the pond."
"What did you guess next? All the three hundred meters of rope sank, and they haven't reached the bottom yet!"
"I think the Long family's child will float up on his own after the body is swollen!"
As soon as the villagers said this, they suddenly heard a loud roar coming from under Longtan.
"Hum!"
Its voice is like an ox, and its sound is as loud as a bell.
Then fog began to form on the water, and bursts of cold wind blew from inside Longtan to the outside.
"Hum! Hum!"
There were two more strange screams, causing the mud on the edge of Longtan to splash down.
Now everyone was frightened.
"There's a dragon down there, it's going to collapse! Run!" someone shouted.
In the blink of an eye, all the hundreds of villagers who were watching were gone. Only grandpa was still standing by the Longtan.
At this time, I saw him unhurriedly taking off a unicorn whip from his waist and lashing it twice against the water.
Silvery waves suddenly appeared on the water...
Grandpa later refused to tell what happened at Longtan that night, and the villagers didn't know either.
People only knew that three days later, Grandpa held a simple sacrifice at the edge of Longtan.
During the sacrifice, my grandfather killed a pig and three sheep with his own hands.
The pigs and sheep were dehaired, washed and shaved, then their four feet were tied with red cloth, and their heads were covered with silk satin, which was carved with dragons and phoenixes.
Then the pigs and sheep were tied to stone rollers and sunk into the dragon pool.
Strangely enough, at noon that day, my father's "corpse" floated up from the bottom of Longtan.
"The baby's face was pale, her body was swollen, and she already had corpse spots."
"By the way, there is still a lot of mud in the nose! It feels cold and hard, and it looks like a dead person!"
"But how did he survive?"
"What spell did Long Changming use? This is so weird!"
"Spells? That's witchcraft!"
…
From then on, our family was completely isolated in Longtan Village.
Especially my father, after returning from Longtan, he lay at home for three full months. Although the person has recovered, he seems to have lost his soul and is completely unconscious. So some people say that what comes back is just the corpse, and the soul has not come back yet!
Some people also say that this is called borrowing a corpse to bring back the soul!
"Lai Shun is no longer the same Lai Shun! There must be something dirty living in the body! Otherwise, why would this happen?"
"That's right! This child looks weird..." At this point, the villagers all looked frightened and hesitated to speak.
"Dad! What is resurrecting a corpse? Why do the villagers say I'm dead and that I'm a water ghost!"
"By the way, they say you are a bad person! You know evil magic!"
Grandpa reached out and touched his father's head, and said with a smile: "Don't care what others say, just live your own life. By the way, dad has arranged a marriage for you, the girl is so beautiful!"
