Uncle Li said that when he picked me up, I was already frozen.
Seeing how pitiful I was, he took me home, wrapped me in animal skins, and sent me to a mass grave in the mountains. Otherwise, I wouldn't even have a chance to become a living dead.
Some people may ask, what is this living dead? How is it different from ordinary people?
My answer is, there is no difference, both externally and internally.
The only difference is that the living dead have no souls, and the world and the earth will not tolerate them after death, and the six paths will not accept them.
But these are things that are invisible and intangible, at least, to ordinary people.
Uncle Li's real name is Li Jiangshui. He is a pig butcher in the village and works part-time as a duan.
On weekdays, he would be asked to help with weddings and weddings in the village.
It can be said that Uncle Li's status in the village is second only to the village chief.
But such a man has been a bachelor all his life.
I asked about the reason, and Uncle Li said that he had five disadvantages and three deficiencies in his life, and he could only live alone in this life.
So, even though he adopted me, he only asked me to call him uncle, not dad.
Uncle Li has treated me very well since I was a child, and he gave me the best conditions he could.
When I reached school age, Uncle Li spent a lot of money to send me to the best primary school in the county.
However, on the first day of school, I was summoned as a parent because I got into a fight with a classmate.
The reason is very simple. Those children didn't know where they heard it from, saying that I was a lone star in the sky who was born to kill their parents. Anyone who gets too close to me will be killed by me.
I couldn't get angry, so I started to fight with them, but after all, it was difficult for me to fight with two fists.
Several children worked together to knock me down, and one of them, a little fat boy, sat on my back and rode me like a horse.
I was so angry that I opened my mouth and bit off a piece of meat from the little fat man's leg.
Because of this incident, I was expelled from school.
Uncle Li even paid the little fat man's family a huge amount of medical expenses.
But when I got home, Uncle Li didn't blame me.
He led me to the backyard, threw me a boning knife, pointed at the fattest pig in the pig pen and said.
"You go and stab it to death, and we will eat its flesh tonight!"
I was scared in my heart, that pig was three or four bigger than me.
But I didn't dare to disobey Uncle Li and walk into the pigsty with my knife.
After a while, I was thrust out by the pig, and my body was covered with pig feces.
I glanced at Uncle Li. His expression was cold, and I choked back the words that came to his lips.
I raised the knife and went back and forth four times. Every time I was exposed by the pig, I was covered in bruises and bruises.
When I was about to go in for the fifth time, Uncle Li stopped me.
"Okay, you can't kill it!"
Turning around, Uncle Li took out a piglet that had not yet been weaned from the pigpen.
"Kill it!"
I hesitated for a moment, then stabbed him with the knife.
After a shrill pig cry, my face was splattered with blood.
"Do you know why you can kill this pig but can't kill the fattest one?" Uncle Li asked me.
"Because it's not fat enough?" I replied weakly.
Uncle Li shook his head: "Because it is weak!"
"And you are stronger than him, so you can kill it!"
"This world has always been about the weak and the strong. If you are weak, you deserve to be beaten!"
"I don't blame you for what happened today, but I am happy for you!"
"Because you didn't give in when you were bullied. If others dared to hurt you, you dared to let them bleed!"
"You are ruthless in what you do, just like me!" After saying that, Uncle Li picked up the little pig and turned to leave.
That night, Uncle Li threw me a yellowed, tattered book.
He told me that I didn’t need to learn anymore, so I would learn the craft from him in the future.
The knowledge in the book is all related to Yin and Yang magic and Feng Shui.
Uncle Li asked me to study by myself. If I didn’t understand something, I would look it up in the dictionary. If I really didn’t understand it, I would ask him again.
From that day on, I followed Uncle Li to kill pigs and set up a stall during the day, and went back to my room alone at night to study the contents of the book.
Time passed by and I was twelve years old. One afternoon, Uncle Li suddenly asked me, how was my knowledge about the extremely underworld going?
I said: "There are many places in the extremely yin place where the Kun position in the Bagua is the place where yin accumulates and evil spirits gather. Ghosts are buried but not people. Uncle Li, why do you ask this?"
Uncle Li didn't answer. He closed up the shop and led me to the halfway point of the back mountain.
Here, there is a small Jishui Pond facing the southwest. This is a very shady place.
There were overgrown weeds on both sides of the Jishui Pond, and there was an animal carcass similar to a cat or dog floating in the pond.
Uncle Li stepped forward and took out the body. Only then did I see clearly that it was not a body at all, but an animal skin!
Suddenly, I remembered that Uncle Li wrapped me in an animal skin and buried me in a mass grave, and then he brought me back to life and became a living dead.
Seeing my surprised look, Uncle Li said, "Did you see it? This extremely gloomy place is where I buried you!"
"This animal skin is actually the skin of a weasel. It is also the main medium for why I can save you and make you a living dead!"
"Media?" I didn't understand.
Uncle Li nodded: "Although you are a living dead, the life you have is actually borrowed from me."
"Borrowed?" I was a little shocked: "So, do I still have to borrow it?"
“Originally I had to pay it back, but now I don’t have to!”
"Why?"
"The immortal who lent you your longevity died last night!"
"His younger brother Ma was also hacked to death on the street!"
"At the beginning, I borrowed eighteen years of life from that immortal family. I wanted to keep you until you were eighteen, and after you passed through the tribulation of reincarnation, you could live in the world like a normal person, and even have a longer lifespan than them.
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"But now, there are still six full years left, and the Immortal family has died. Without the protection of the Immortal family, these six years of longevity on your body will definitely attract the attention of other evil spirits."
I was a little panicked: "Then what should I do?"
Uncle Li said that on the 15th of every month, I must come to this extremely gloomy place and wrap myself in animal skins and stay there from dusk to dawn.
As for the rest of the time, as long as it gets dark, I have to stay in my room and not go out for even a step.
I agreed one by one, and after returning home, I began to implement this rule that night.
For the past six years, I have been following Uncle Li's words and I dare not slack off in the slightest.
In this way, time passed, and as I grew up day by day, Uncle Li also visibly aged.
A person who is obviously under fifty years old kills pigs every day and trains himself to make shanks.
But he has silver hair and dense wrinkles, and he looks like he is seventy or eighty years old.
On the eve of my eighteenth birthday, Uncle Li vomited blood and fell ill and was bedridden.