According to Hei Mama, there is a big difference between the external Xiantang and the internal Xiantang when it comes to matters of support.
The Inner Five Immortals are a single Immortal family looking for a disciple, while the Outer Five Immortals rarely venture into the world of mortals. The five Immortals often share a disciple, which is the so-called "one horse supports five halls".
Hei Mama belongs to the "Hei Family (Bear)". Even if she agrees to take me in, I am afraid that Yin (Eagle), Wu (centipede), Lang (Wolf), and Spot (Tiger) may agree on the surface due to the face of the Chief Protector of Hei Mama, but they will not agree in their hearts. Will be dissatisfied.
Especially the Yin family, the Ban family, the tiger and the eagle are all immortal families with arrogant natures. Without their recognition, the identity of the disciples of the outer five immortals cannot be confirmed.
"Hei Mama, you are here, but you can't just watch this child die. Please be kind!"
Ding Jiugong said good things to Hei Mama and winked at my dad. My dad immediately kowtowed to Hei Mama.
Finally, Mother Hei thought about it and came up with a compromise: "The Lang family has always listened to me. I will ask their family to choose a girl to be engaged to your old Cheng family, so that the child can live under the protection of the Lang family." 'Children's Tribulation', when he turns eighteen and becomes an adult, the Yin family and the Ban family will test him. As long as he passes the test, he will be able to serve as a scapegoat for the Five Immortals, and all disasters in his life will be eliminated."
My dad was very grateful. When my mother learned that I didn’t have a name yet, she named me Cheng Yi, which means standing tall like a mountain.
On the third day after returning home, it was a night with a fluffy moon hanging over it.
People in the village are accustomed to going to bed early and getting up early. At around eight or nine o'clock, the villagers turn off the lights and go to bed. There is almost no light in the entire village.
My mother was sitting by the kang, breastfeeding me, and my father was putting on his clothes and was about to close the door and go to sleep. Suddenly, there was a burst of howling wolves outside, one after another, as if a large number of wild wolves had entered the village.
Before my dad could react, the howls of wolves came closer and closer, and under the hazy moonlight, hundreds of green light spots gathered outside my yard.
My dad was so scared that his hair stood on end because he knew that those green lights were the eyes of wild wolves.
"Ahem, please stay calm!" At this moment, two figures flashed past the door of the courtyard, scolding in a deep voice: "It's your first time at your in-laws' house, don't scare them."
As he spoke, the howling of the wolves suddenly stopped, and two figures walked into the yard openly.
The person leading the way was the slovenly and stooped Ding Jiugong, and behind him was a strange middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man is tall and slender, with a majestic appearance that exudes ruthlessness. He is wearing an old-fashioned wolf-skin jacket and has a cigarette pole slanted on his waist. He looks like a tourist walking through mountains and forests in the old society.
As soon as Ding Jiugong saw my father, he happily stepped forward to shake hands: "Brother, this is Lang Zhenxiong, the Lang family's fairy hall. Black mother arranged for a matchmaker and pulled fiber to facilitate the marriage between your two families. He came here specially to exchange for the Geng Tie."
My dad suddenly realized that it was the Wolf Immortal who came to get engaged!
My father did not dare to neglect, and quickly invited Lang Zhenxiong and Ding Jiugong into the house, handed them cigarettes and poured tea to entertain them, and asked my mother to carry me out to show the guests.
Lang Zhenxiong touched my cheek and nodded repeatedly: "Although this child has a weak horoscope, his good fortune is not shallow. He is a person who is favored by both Mr. Jiu and Mama Hei. What else can I, Lang, say?"
At this point, Lang Zhenxiong took out a big red Geng post from his arms: "My girl will shed her fur and become a human in three years. From now on, our two surnames, Lang and Cheng, will be one family! Eighteen years later, the Lang family will do its best to Help the Cheng family pass the tests of the Ban family and the Yin family!"
My dad also quickly took out my Geng Tie. After the two parties exchanged it, the marriage was officially concluded.
Later, according to Ding Jiugong's instructions, my parents burned the woman's Gengtie into ashes, mixed tea leaves, rice, and incense ash into a small sewn sachet, and carried it close to me every day as a talisman.
Sure enough, since then, I have been free from illness and disaster, and I grew up peacefully until I was ten years old.
There is a folk saying that for children who are destined to commit the "Tongzi Pass", the age of ten is a hurdle.
I was in the fifth grade of elementary school at that time. I was very naughty and mischievous. I would always go over and kick cats and dogs when I met them on the street. I had to shake the newly laid eggs in the henhouse to loosen their yellow color. I was a complete "naughty child".
Because I was naughty, the adults in the village wouldn't let their children play with me. I was bored on the weekends, so while my parents were working in the fields, I went fishing by myself to a reservoir not far from the village.
The sun was very bright that day, so I sat there for a long time, and finally caught a palm-sized crucian carp. Just when I put away my pole and fished, the crucian carp jumped off the hook and fell on the floating grass on the shore.
The hard-earned fruits of labor could not be let go easily. I threw the fishing rod, crept to the water's edge, and reached out to reach the crucian carp on the floating grass.
I was about to catch the crucian carp again, when a string of bubbles suddenly appeared next to the floating grass. When I looked into the water with my eyes wide open, I almost wet my pants!
Under the light green water, I saw a human face looking directly at me. This face was swollen and pale, like dead pork in a sac, and the messy long hair was floating up and down with the water waves!
I immediately screamed and hurriedly retreated to the shore. Who knew that in my panic, my feet suddenly slipped and I fell into the water with a "plop"!
In fact, at that time, I had already become somewhat hydrated. After falling into the water, I immediately held my breath and stepped on the water, desperately pushing my head toward the surface of the water.
But as soon as I emerged from the water, before I had time to take a breath, my legs and waist suddenly tightened, and then a huge force came, and my whole body was dragged into the water again!
I struggled desperately and turned my head to catch a glimpse of the bloated weirdo I had just seen grabbing my ankle with one hand and my waist with the other, showing a weird smile and dragging me down to the bottom of the dark water.
Extreme panic spread throughout my body, and I couldn't help but want to scream loudly, but as soon as I opened my mouth, the river water violently poured into my throat, squeezing out the only breath in my chest.
The feeling of suffocation quickly made my head dizzy, my arms and legs were unable to move, and I fell to the bottom of the water with the "weirdo" in a daze.
At this moment, the small sachet pinned to my clothes suddenly shook, a red light suddenly appeared, and a little girl of sixteen or seventeen years old suddenly appeared in the water!
She grabbed my arm, pulled out the bolas-shaped thing from her waist, and hit the weirdo on the head with all her strength.
The weirdo's facial features were distorted, and he immediately let go of me and rolled in the water. Finally, his body broke into countless pieces like pieces of paper and disappeared.
The girl dragged me ashore. I lay on the shore and spit several times, breathing in the fresh air greedily.
"Cheng Yi, you are in the wilderness, why are you wandering around in the reservoir alone?" The little girl shook the water drops on her head and stared at me condescendingly: "Do you know that many people drowned in this reservoir? The drowned ghost is looking forward to finding someone to take over as a substitute every day!!"
