He bought the abandoned garden and just wanted to grow lotuses until he grew old.
But at the bottom of the pond, a hundred dry bones were dug up.
And a ghost who has been waiting for forty years.
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In the fifth year of Qingli in the Northern Song Dynasty, Su Shunqin, who was demoted from the official position, went to Suzhou with 40,000 yuan and purchased the deserted garden in the south of the city. When the pond was dug to divert water, the remains of hundreds of soldiers emerged layer by layer in the mud. It turned out that this place was the site of the Five Dynasties Mutiny. The dead sank to the bottom of the pond without anyone collecting them.
The night the bones turned to ashes, the ghost of a young man appeared in front of him.
His name was Sun Zhao, and he died in battle at the age of eighteen. For forty years, he guarded this pool of turbid water, waiting for an answer: Why did they die? Why do the people they were loyal to never come back?
Su Shunqin didn't want to pay attention to world affairs, but he went through local chronicles and inscriptions for this young man.
The pursuit of the court is approaching, and the deadline for the soul to be exterminated is approaching. Man and ghost, life and death, spend the last full moon night together by this pool of Canglang Water.
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The cool breeze and the bright moon are priceless, and they are sentimental near the water and the mountains far away.
——But what if there are a hundred dead souls lying near the water that refuse to disperse?
