On the day Li Zhouyuan came back from Japan, he held a telegram in his hand: "Brother is dead, please come back soon."
His eldest brother Li Mingzhu died. He died in a locked room, the doors and windows were intact, and his body was missing. The only thing left was a piece of white paper with no words on it and only the smell of locust flowers.
The Li family is an old family in Peiping. Grandfather Li Yong left a message before his death:
"The most terrifying thing in the world is not ghosts, but hunger."
Li Zhouyuan can see ghosts. He's been seeing it since he was nine years old. He always thought it was an illness until he met Lin Shuo, a very strange and annoying person.
Lin Shuo said: What your Li family is guarding is not the ancestral home or the property, but a tree. If the thing buried under the tree wakes up, Peiping will not be Peiping, and people will not be people.
Four copper coins, four major families, four roots that are almost broken.
The Zhao family was wiped out, and the Lin family was left with only one lunatic. The Chen family hid in Jiangnan and did not dare to show their faces. The Li family - the only ferry guest of this generation of the Li family was Li Zhouyuan.
But he has a younger brother. Li Zhoulan, a sickly man, was as beautiful as paper, and his smile would send chills down the back. There's something on him. His father Li Songyuan conducted an experiment on him for forty years.
What he wanted was never to save anyone. What he wants is power itself.
And hunger is waiting under that locust tree.
It waited four hundred years. It knew Li Zhouyuan would come.
Because everyone is hungry—and so are you. Me too.
People are not human, ghosts are not ghosts.
The locust flowers are blooming, it's not the right time.
This is the Republic of China, but it is not just the Republic of China.
This is a story about "want".
What do you want? Do you dare to stand under that tree and admit that you are hungry too.
