A twelve-year-old homeless boy starved to death at a Qinling railway station in 1973.
Before he died, an old peddler gave him a bowl of hot congee.
From then on, Shitou had a pair of “ghost hands”:
Touch a bronze incense burner, and his heart burns. Touch an ancient jade cicada, and a chill runs down his spine. Touch a golden dragon in flight, and a bloody scene of grave robbing explodes in his mind.
The old peddler said, “It's called ‘knowing fate through touch.’ Only one person like you appears in the underworld every thousand years.”
When someone uses the four classic swindles of honey, hemp, swallow, and sparrow to trap him, he turns the tables and leaves them bankrupt.
When someone tells him he's an abandoned orphan, he smiles and takes out a jade pendant. The remnant soul inside tells him that the secret of his birth is the greatest mystery hidden deep in the Qinling Mountains.
He battles for supremacy in ghost markets, seals dragons in ruined temples, finds gold mines in coffin shops, and unearths imperial tombs beneath old mansions.
In this life, he doesn't care about staying alive. He only wants the truth.
Very exciting!
Wonderful, worth seeing
The narrator is too unnatural and has traces of deliberate contrition. It's uncomfortable, and there are many typos and wrong pronunciations.
Okay, very nice
Grinding and chirping are all repeated words.