Zhang Laosan Tells Stories

Name: Zhang Laosan Tells Stories
Author: Little Pear Blossom O

张老三讲故事

by Little Pear Blossom O (小梨花O)

Status: Completed
Length: 1.4M Words
Genre: Mystery
Subgenre: Mystery & Supernatural
Updated: 10mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Long, long ago, a strange calamity struck Kaoshan Village, deep in the old forests of Northeast China. Hunter Li Dashan kept watch over a coffin on a snowy night and encountered a weasel spirit that spoke like a human, asking him to give it a title. One careless remark from him exposed a bloody secret from twenty years earlier. When the statue of the Yellow Immortal on the ancestral hall’s altar split with bloody cracks on the night of a lunar eclipse, when a golden-haired weasel burst from a peddler’s belly, and when the mountain god’s pact turned into man-eating parasites, the whole village finally realized that the debts of sin pinned inside coffins with black donkey hooves would have to be repaid in full on a night of blizzards.

The shaman’s drum breaks, spectral soldiers march through, and candles for the dead illuminate a village full of demons and ghosts. A female Yellow Immortal disemboweled alive, a bronze coffin embedded in lightning-struck wood, chains around the mountain carved with the birth dates of the dead... Every corpse that met a violent end bears a prophecy in the snow. And the golden pill shared among seven hunters all those years ago turns out to be a treasured relic the mountain god used to hold the earth’s veins in check. When the candle for the dead burns down to the third watch, what will emerge from behind the curtain of snow: a soul-guiding banner, or a long-awaited feast of vengeance by spirits who have waited a hundred years?

This uncanny chain of cause and effect, spanning two generations, will finally face its bloodiest reckoning on the night of the full moon. Will the whole village be sacrificed to restore the mountain god, or will the pact be burned, sending countless Yellow Immortals plunging into the deepest hell? Changbai Mountain stands silent beneath the blizzard, a mystery without an answer. Only the bronze bell at the old shaman’s waist still rings in the wind and snow, sounding the soul-summoning tune passed down by the ancestors...

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