Ask the Immortal

My name is Chen Shouyi and I was born in Yinshan County, northern Guangdong. When my mother was pregnant with me, she went to consult an immortal. The immortal said that the fetus was "borrowed from the underworld" and that if she wanted to keep it, she must give me as her son-in-law "over there". A hundred days after I was born, something strange happened in the village. I was adopted and given to the century-old banyan tree at the entrance of the village, which was locally known as the "She Gong". When I was seven years old, I accidentally broke into the "Mass Grave" in the forbidden area in the back mountain, saw something I shouldn't have seen, and suffered from a high fever that wouldn't go away for three days. Grandma Li, the "asking fairy woman" in the village, forcibly locked my three souls and seven souls back into my body. From then on, I could vaguely hear the whispers of the dead. This volume tells the story of my strange childhood in the countryside of northern Guangdong in the form of a unit drama, paving the way for the protagonist's "child life" physique and preliminary understanding of "asking for immortals". This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.