Facts About Folk Fortune-Telling Parlors

This is not a rumor, nor is it made up out of thin air. It is a real thing that I have seen and experienced with my own eyes. Even after many years, just thinking about it still makes my back feel cold and the hairs stand on end. The knock on the door at midnight, the old lady sitting quietly on the beam, the white snake dug out of the graveyard, the strange luminous words floating on the old wall, the little boy at the five-way intersection, the stone tablet in my dream, the white rooster at the crossroads, and who followed me home in the middle of the night... These bizarre scenes are frightening fragments engraved in my memory. The elders in the village passed down from generation to generation that in this world, "a substitute is caught every twelve years." The steamed buns disappeared, and the purple ghost handprints appeared on my shoulders, which could not be washed away. The talisman given by the goddess and the prophecy made by the fortune teller did not fail to happen. These things have been pressing in my heart for more than 20 years, and I dare not mention them to outsiders for fear of being regarded as crazy. Now that I have reached middle age, I want to take off this burden and slowly tell you these real experiences one by one in the most straightforward and practical terms...