In the northeastern countryside of 2005, Zhang Tiegen was a famous "crazy boy" from all over the country. He fell into an old well at the west end of the village when he was three years old. When he was fished out, he became crazy. He squatted on the pile of firewood and chatted with the air all day long. He felt closer to the grave than to his biological father.
No one expected that on his eighteenth birthday, he suddenly slapped his thigh: "Huh? Why am I squatting here?"
The madness is cured, but strange things happen.
He saw a whining old man with a white beard hanging under the eaves of Wang Laowu's house, an old bachelor who froze to death here; he noticed that a girl in a red coat was always hanging around the tree on the crooked neck of the village, just to snatch the candied haws in the hands of the children; even the chickens lost in Erzhu's house could be pointed at the pig pen and said: "Here, I asked Huang Pizi to borrow it as a betrothal gift, and I will return it tomorrow."
From then on, the threshold of the Zhang family was leveled——
"Tie Gen, my cornfield is always haunted by ghosts and the walls are broken!"
"It was the late great-grandfather of the Liu family who got lost. I gave him directions and told him to go to a place that smelled of fertilizer."
"Tie Gen, I always hear someone tapping on the window in the second half of the night!"
"Don't panic, it's your deceased grandma who thinks you forgot to burn her smartphone and is asking for data from you."
Zhang Tiegen, who has been crazy for fifteen years, became the village's "yin and yang mediator." No matter whether you are a hanged ghost who is worried about the rope, or a fox fairy who wants to borrow a color TV to watch "Liu Laogen", he can always take out Erguotou and talk to him clearly.
After all, in this black land, ghosts and ghosts have to follow the rules of the Northeast - discuss things easily, and don't delay planting in the spring.
