Twelve Popular Rumors

The Twelve Rumors are that when a family member dies in a rural area, a local storyteller is specially invited to pick up a copy of the legend from the elderly wake-up call in each county and tell the stories to the guests attending the funeral when they come out. Who wrote these 12 stories and when they were written are still unknown. The only strange thing is that people who have heard the stories only remember what happened after the funeral the next day. They can't tell exactly what the story is, and even the storyteller can't tell them all. There are twelve rumors that this room is called a ghost by the locals. Later, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, what the government called a "bad thing" was abolished. Following this, there were twelve rumors among the public that these twelve books had disappeared. Only the elderly in their 80s and 90s talked about this strange thing. After listening to the story told by his sometimes energetic, sometimes demented grandfather, Mu Ruyi quietly remembered the book he had picked up in the abandoned temple when he was a child, and the past events that had been dusty for many years slowly emerged in his mind. . . . This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.