C33 (1/2)

Jin Dian Branch: Yin length seven feet nine centimeters, width one minute two centimeters, White Tiger slant one inch

Northern Song Dynasty, the Zhou Residence in the Witch Lane of the Sword of Fujian Province.

There were 411 bronze canteens in the room. The largest one was over 10 meters in diameter, while the smallest one was only the size of a wine cup. These copper pots were placed on wooden shelves in various parts of the room. Every copper pot had a different appearance, but each copper pot had a small hole at the bottom, and the size of the hole was also different. Ministry Councillor Huang could see very clearly that this was a water leak, a tool used to measure time in the world. However, with so many copper pots of different sizes piled up in one room, it made Ministry Councillor Huang's heart turn cold, and the tinkling sound of water dripping, which could captivate a person's soul, caused Ministry Councillor Huang to involuntarily take a step back and crash into Mage Zhou behind him.

Mage Zhou smiled, ”It's just a household chore, there's no need to mind it too much.”

Ministry Councillor Huang also nodded: ”I'm here.”

”Got it.” Mage Zhou waved his hand.

Ministry Councillor Huang came to find Mage Zhou for the sake of his son Huang Chang. When he was born, he was worshiped by a hundred ghosts, his son Huang Chang. He told Mage Zhou the purpose of his visit.

After his son was born. Ministry Councillor Huang insisted on naming his son ”Huang Chang”. The Madam couldn't stop him.

However, it was difficult for Huang Chang to give birth when he was born, and it took too long for him to do so in his stomach. His head was squeezed by the birth canal, and he always had a long head.

The villagers were all discussing in private that the son of the Ministry Councillor Huang was a monster. The day he was born, a hundred ghosts paid their respects. After surrounding the house for several miles, they were all lonely ghosts. Old Madam Huang had said that it had rained heavily the day Ministry Councillor Huang's son was born. Those wild ghosts had crawled over from all directions to the entrance of the residence and knelt down. Ministry Councillor Huang had been standing at the entrance at that time. The wild ghosts remained motionless until Ministry Councillor Huang's son cried his first cry. The ghosts were frightened and slowly retreated.

The villagers all believed that Old Madam Huang's words were not a false alarm, because on that night, everyone who had children in their house stayed up all night, because all the children said that there were ghosts in the house and more outside. They cried for the whole night. Moreover, that night, all the livestock in the village panicked. When they woke up in the morning, several families' livestock had all given birth to young animals. However, the babies they gave birth to were all weirdly shaped, such as lambs with six legs, or piglets with two heads. There was even a female cow who gave birth to a monster with a human body. After saying that, he immediately died, just like the other monsters.

As expected, the year Ministry Councillor Huang's son was born, his year of maturity was extremely bad. Summer was not hot, and winter was not cold either. As a result, the insects were rampant, the farmland was not thriving, and the tea trees withered. There was not enough food, so the villagers' rations became a problem. The second year, the harvest was slightly better, and the villagers were barely able to make it through. Everyone said that the son of the Ministry Councillor Huang was an ominous person.

Five years passed in a flash.

The son of the Ministry Councillor Huang, Huang Chang, had never spoken a word ever since he was born and his legs were crooked as he walked. Besides the Ministry Councillor Huang, everyone thought that he was a fool.

Madam Huang felt very guilty towards the Ministry Councillor Huang. She was already old, and could not bear children in place of others outside the courtyard. His son, Huang Chang, was already five years old and could not even speak like a normal child. All day long, he would run around the house with his long head on, and almost every time Ministry Councillor Huang saw his son, it was him who fell to the ground and crawled back up. Madam had been out of the courtyard many times, and she had intended to choose a suitable servant girl to be her concubine and inherit her son. However, every time, she would be rejected by the people outside, ”My son will become an important person, you don't have to worry.”

”Why do you have to believe the words of a priest of unknown origin?” The Missus could not understand the insistence on the outside.

”Not only that Taoist,” the Ministry Councillor Huang explained to his wife, ”On the night my son was born, I really saw countless ghosts kneeling to me.”

”Do you really believe what the old woman at the village entrance is saying?”

”I really saw it.” The Ministry Councillor Huang persisted.

The Lady stopped arguing.

He searched through all the teachers nearby, and after seeing Huang Chang, they all expressed that he was unable to treat Huang Chang's illness. He had rested his breath for too long when he was born, and had actually already died halfway.

Every teacher had this explanation, advising Ministry Councillor Huang to look for another doctor. Ministry Councillor Huang asked his husband if there was any way to save his son's soul.