Chapter 1 Kowloon wrapped coffin

I was born in the Year of the Snake. I was born with an incomplete soul and suffered from a strange disease. I developed a dense circle of herpes all over my body.

Everyone in the village said I couldn't survive. My grandfather got the folk remedy from somewhere, which was to use the gall of a century-old snake. In order to save me, he killed a snake as thick as the mouth of a bowl in the Panlong Mountain behind the village. It looked like a snake and had four sides.

A strange snake with legs and a bulge on its head.

But after he came back, grandpa went crazy. He talked crazy all day long, and his whole body was itchy. He scratched his body day and night until his skin was scratched.

But the skin was in one piece, just like shed snake skin, and it didn't take long for him to die.

On the night my grandfather died, nine snakes appeared in the house and wrapped themselves around his coffin.

The family was very frightened, but Xiangpo who came to find her said that it was a good thing to wrap a coffin in Kowloon, but my grandma didn't seem to think so.

Grandma saw the snake, silently returned to her room, took out a strangely painted tablet, and kept burning incense to worship...

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My name is Bai Yao. I have been dependent on my grandma since I was a child, but my grandma has a strange rule. She makes me drink a bowl of black talisman water every night before going to bed.

The mixed smell of incense ash was very unpleasant to drink. Every time I lost my temper and refused to drink it, my grandma would scare me and say that if I didn't drink it, a ghost would come into the house at night and take me away.

The night I turned eighteen, my grandma caught a rooster and rubbed it on her neck. She mixed the rooster's blood with ashes and asked me to drink it.

The rich smell of blood and paste made me gag. When grandma wasn't paying attention, I poured out the bowl of scarlet ash water.

Unexpectedly, that night I dreamed of a man with the body of a snake and a snake's tail. His snake's tail was tightly wrapped around me, and his scales were glowing with cold light, exuding a cold air.

The sharp and thin tail snaked all the way up the calf, and a huge snake shadow enveloped me.

"Finally see you!"

His breath was wet and cold, and the crimson snakes slid past my lips.

Even though he was very close, his face seemed to be covered with a layer of fog, and his facial features could not be distinguished.

I could feel his rough black scales constantly tightening my body, and his pair of dark green vertical pupils staring at me with a cold light.

"I should swallow you, and then melt your muscles and skin bit by bit from head to toe." His voice sounded like it came from hell, and a cold snake enveloped my earlobes.

When I woke up from my dream, the sweat on my forehead was very uncomfortable.

Early the next morning, I told my grandma that I dreamed about a man with a body and a snake's tail last night. After hearing this, my grandma's face changed drastically.

She told me not to leave home easily, and then she walked into the ancestral hall of her ancestors not far away with a cane.

It wasn't until about eight o'clock in the evening that grandma came out of the ancestral hall. When I came in holding the doorstep, I saw that grandma's face was very pale.

After I came back, in addition to letting me drink incense ash, a red ribbon was tied around my wrist so that I couldn't take it off at night.

Late that night, I heard a noise and thought it was my grandma getting up to go to the bathroom, so I didn't pay much attention to it. However, a short while later I saw a fire in the yard through the window, accompanied by a strange sound.

I got up in a daze and saw my grandma, hunched over, lying on the ground in an extremely exaggerated manner in the yard, with a yellow cloth bag beside her, as if she was worshiping something.

There was a strange oval tablet placed in front of her, one foot long and five inches wide, with only a pattern drawn in ink on it.

The pattern is actually a black python.

Grandma lit the joss sticks and seemed to be praying constantly. The sounds I heard in the room came from her mouth.

It's just that grandma's voice had an evil quality to it. Sometimes it was her own voice, and sometimes it was another weird voice.

But the strange thing is that no matter what, I can't hear what she said clearly.

Grandma felt like she was possessed by a demon.

I was very scared, and it took me a long time to see grandma clearing everything on the floor from the window. Then she stood up, turned around and walked out.

Apparently grandma has behaved in such weird ways more than once.

I was very strange and wanted to know where grandma was going so late, but it was so late at night that it made my hair stand on end.

In the end, I still didn't follow.

Full of doubts, I stayed up until dawn. When I saw my grandma early in the morning, I asked about the strange behavior last night.

Grandma was exhausted and sat on the chair by the door. She couldn't do anything because I was pestering her. She sighed and said, "Tonight, you come with me to the riverside."

I tilted my head and asked in confusion: "Why are you going to the riverside?"

Grandma's eyes revealed melancholy, but she answered simply: "Go and worship!"

Go to the riverside to worship, but who to worship? Grandpa?

On both sides of the Yuanjiang River, except for the barren slopes of the river beach, there are dense citrus forests.

Every night, the orange forest becomes gloomy, dark and quiet, making people feel chills on their backs.

Carrying seven pieces of paper money and seven sticks of incense, I followed my grandma to the riverside.

Tonight is a full moon night, a full moon in the sky illuminates the river bank clearly.

The river flows slowly down, and the lights on the other side are reflected in the center of the river, making the waves sparkle, distant and blurry.

On the surface of the river, there is a thick mist, and the water mist flowing down the river is like a dream, making it look extremely mysterious.

The wind blowing from the river was a bit cold, and as the night got darker, the mist on the river became thicker and thicker.

I walked with my grandma to the river bank not far from the river. Grandma put down the things in her hands and said to me: "Take everything out!"

Grandma knelt down and started to pile stones. I took out the chicken blood rice and pig head meat from the bamboo basket, and lined up the incense paper money.

After grandma piled up the stones, she placed the incense sticks one by one on the beach by the river. Then I followed grandma and knelt in front of the pile of stones.

"Close your eyes and don't open them no matter what sound you hear."

I have been dependent on my grandma since I was a child, and I have special feelings for her. I obey everything she says.

After I closed my eyes, grandma started chanting, and her voice was exactly the same as what I heard last night.

Following grandma's voice, a strong wind began to blow by the river, and the sound of rushing water and a tearing sound came to my ears.

Moreover, this sound is slowly approaching, becoming more and more clear, accompanied by an unspeakable fishy smell, and an increasingly clear hissing sound in the ears.

My heart was beating wildly and I could hardly help but open my eyes.

Grandma reached out and patted me on the back, and I couldn't hold back.

It took about two or three minutes before the hissing sound completely disappeared, and then I heard the sound of something entering the water.

"Okay, you can open your eyes now." Grandma said with relief.

But when I opened my eyes and took a look, I was shocked. All the tributes in front of me were gone, and there was a wet water mark trailing on the river beach in front of me.

The surface of the river was still rippling uneasily, with many bubbles emerging.

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