My name is Tang Ning and I was born on Jingzhe Day.
We have a custom here. On the Day of Waking of Insects, we sacrifice white tigers and beat villains. It has the meaning of driving away bad luck and not being troubled by villains.
A big paper tiger will be stuck in the village. Get four men born in the year of the dragon to carry the white tiger god made of paper and go door to door knocking on the door. Each family of the villagers has to offer a pound of raw pork as an offering.
Finally, the White Tiger God was carried to the entrance of the village and burned together with the collected raw pork. The ceremony of sacrificing the white tiger is over.
That year, a sacrificial procession knocked on my door.
My mother had a big belly and was holding raw pork in both hands. When she was about to kneel down and worship, a spring thunder suddenly fell from the sky that had been gloomy all day.
Thunder struck the White Tiger God, and the paper-made divine tiger immediately burst into flames.
The villagers carrying the altar were frightened and quickly threw the burning altar to the ground. My mother was also frightened and sat down on the ground. At that time, the amniotic fluid broke.
When I was born, nine thunderbolts fell from the sky, one of which struck my house. The house instantly burst into flames. The fire spread violently and the smoke was thick.
The people in the house had no choice but to escape in order to survive. In the end, only my mother was left in the house, unable to move due to childbirth!
My dad noticed that my mom was still in the house and cried like crazy, trying to rush in to save my mom.
My grandparents are the only son of my father. Two old people stopped my father and told him that this was my mother’s life...
Just when everyone thought my mother would be burned alive, one body and two lives, a heavy rain suddenly poured down and extinguished the fire.
When the fire was extinguished, the baby's cry came - I was born.
My dad ran into the house in a hurry. As soon as he ran into the room, my dad was completely frightened.
The furniture in the house was all charred, and the ground was covered with black ashes. Only the bed where my mother and I were sitting was unharmed, with no trace of fire at all, as if the bed was separated from the outside world.
My mother was so tired that she passed out. As a newborn, I lay next to my mother and cried loudly. And next to me, coiled up was a black snake as thick as a child's arm!
My dad was worried that the black snake would hurt me and my mother, so he didn't care anymore. He strode up, grabbed the black snake, threw it to the ground, picked up the hot scissors from the table, and pointed it directly at the black snake's head. He stabbed it down within seven inches, then pulled down hard and skinned the black snake on the spot.
When my grandfather entered the house, the black snake was already dead.
When he saw the tragically dead snake, my grandfather said, "Oh no!" he turned around and ran out. After a while, he led a famous Feng Shui master from all over the country to my house.
As soon as the Feng Shui master entered my courtyard, he was shocked and told my grandfather that he had no control over this matter.
After hearing this, my grandfather immediately knelt down and kowtowed with bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang his head, begging the Feng Shui master to show the way for the family to survive.
The Feng Shui master sighed, took out an amulet and handed it to my grandfather, telling me that I should wear the amulet personally until I reach adulthood. On the day when you come of age, take off the possessing charm and burn it.
My grandfather expressed his gratitude and gave Mr. Feng Shui a big red envelope.
Mr. Feng Shui confiscated it, leaving only the words "Death to repay kindness, good fortune and misfortune are unpredictable" and left.
I was born with a vision, and the White Tiger God refused to accept my worship. The people in the village thought that I was unlucky, saying that I was a scourge with bad luck in my life and would kill the whole family.
But after I was born, my family's life got better and better.
My dad is a wine wholesaler. After I was born, his business met with noble people every year, and big customers came to him to order wine every year. My family built the first two-story building in our village and became the first family in the village to drive a car.
My father always praises me for my good fortune and prosperity for the whole family when he meets everyone. There are fewer and fewer gossips about me in the village.
I lived a peaceful and happy life until I was twelve years old.
In the early morning of the night of my twelfth birthday, just after twelve o'clock, my dad's cell phone rang.
It was the Feng Shui gentleman who gave me the amulet.
On the phone, Mr. Feng Shui's voice was hoarse and unpleasant, as if there was cotton stuffed in his throat, and he spoke haltingly, like a malfunctioning robot.
"Go to...Xiaba Village...to find Granny Long...go quickly! If it's too late, it'll be too late. The whole family will die. He...he's here for revenge! Tang Jun, take your daughter to Granny Long...go! "
My dad was asleep and asked the Feng Shui master, "Master, who will take revenge? Who is Granny Long?"
"I...I can't say any more, because...because the dead cannot speak..."
As soon as the words fell, the phone was hung up.
My dad finally came to his senses and thought things were strange.
Mr. Feng Shui's surname is Ma. He is very famous in our area. Whenever there is a sacrificial activity in any village in the ten miles and eight villages, he will be asked to host it. He can be regarded as a highly respected person. He would never call someone in the middle of the night to scare someone.
My dad quickly called back, but the number was empty!
My dad was scared at the time and quickly woke up my mom and asked her to wake me up.
He told my mother the content of the phone call, and said that he would go to Mr. Feng Shui’s house to check first. If something happened to Mr. Feng Shui, he would come back and take me to Xiaba Village to find Granny Long. Ask my mother to wake me up, put on my clothes and wait for him.
My mother was worried and grabbed my father, "Didn't Master Ma tell you to take Xiao Ning and leave quickly? If you run to his house, won't this waste time?"
"I'll drive faster. It only takes about ten minutes. It won't take long." My dad got dressed and went out.
My mother came to my room and woke me up.
I got dressed and followed my mother to the living room to wait for my dad. But my dad didn’t come back until dawn!
My mother panicked and took me to my grandpa’s house. My mother told my grandfather everything.
After hearing this, my grandfather stamped his feet anxiously, "Confused! I told you to leave immediately, why are you disobedient! Don't delay any more, go to Xiaba Village as soon as possible!"
Xiaba Village is the village next to us. Grandpa drove my mother and me in a tricycle and set off.
On the way, I developed a high fever. I was in a daze, half asleep and half awake, when I saw hundreds of little snakes appearing behind the tricycle!
The snake body can be black and white, striped or brightly colored. These snakes twisted their bodies and chased after them quickly. A pair of cold vertical eyes stared at me, and the snake's belly made a rustling sound as it swam on the ground.
These rustling sounds come together, as if they are a ecstasy that comes to take people's lives!
I was so frightened that I shrank into my mother's arms and said tremblingly, "Mom, there are so many snakes..."
My mother glanced behind the car, and then said worriedly to my grandfather, "Dad, let's go to the clinic first? This kid has a fever."
My grandfather ignored my mother and just drove the tricycle very fast.
When we arrived at Xiaba Village, an old lady was waiting at the entrance of the village. Seeing grandpa driving over, the old lady stood up, raised her hand, and threw a handful of rice over.
The uncooked rice hit me, making a sizzling and burning sound, and then rolled to the ground. The rice grains turned black as if fished out of ink.
I felt like I had been hit by a stone, my whole body hurt, and I cried out in pain.
Grandpa quickly stopped the car, but before he could say anything, the old lady took out another yellow talisman and waved it in the air a few times. The yellow talisman spontaneously ignited. Then, she threw the yellow talisman behind the tricycle, and the air behind the tricycle seemed to be sprinkled with gasoline, and a fire ignited with a bang.
There are concave marks on the ground burned by the fire, as if a group of snakes had just crawled through here!
My mother immediately turned pale.
The old lady said, "The black snake your family killed twelve years ago has come to seek revenge on your family. If you want to survive, come with me, listen to me, and don't ask any more questions!"
