In the summer of 1993, a woman, Qiu Guixiang, took her five-year-old son Shanwa back to the man Sang Shigen's hometown - an isolated northern mountain village "Sangjia Ge Lao" to escape the summer heat.
The old ancestral water tank in the yard has been there since she married. However, this time, Shanwa always pointed to the vat and said, "There is a little brother inside who is smiling at me."
At first, Guixiang was just a child's joke. It wasn't until midnight that a "gurgling" sound like drowning came from the tank, and small wet handprints appeared on the edge of the tank for no reason... Under Guixiang's questioning, her mother-in-law Sang Zhao trembled and told a story that had been deliberately buried: Thirty years ago, Shi Gen's cousin, nine-year-old Sang Musuo, drowned in this tank.
The calm was completely broken. The mountain baby began to have a high fever and kept talking nonsense, and the "being" in the tank became more and more rampant. Guixiang is determined to uncover the truth, but she doesn't know that this old vat has swallowed more than one innocent soul; it is connected to the bottomless dark past of the entire Sang family. The eyes at the bottom of the tank are looking coldly at all living people through the water...
Reader comments
Very interesting, I read more than 30 chapters in one go
Very interesting, I read more than 30 chapters in one go