During the Yongjia period, Hu horses trampled the Central Plains to pieces, and the troubled times of white bones and flowers concealed the curse of Lu Yue's lineage. When Gu Xiaohua dragged her sick bones riddled with disease and picked up dead people's fingernails among the homeless, she always remembered the day her mother's coffin was buried - the green snake emerging from the rotten soil was entangled with half of a gold hairpin, which was very similar to the blue scale birthmark on the back of her neck.
The wealthy businessman held a brave man carved from the leg bone of his late father. Three days later, the warehouse was filled with pus-filled five-baht coins. The widow held a jade cicada carved from the ribs of her young son. That night, the enemy's door was crawling with flesh-eating maggots. The wine merchant's mother pulled out the scalp of the tenant farmer's daughter and embroidered a prayer flag. Gu Xiaohua took the girl The shop owner's teeth were carved into finely crafted balls. Seven days later, the shopkeeper's daughter-in-law gave birth, and her black hair peeled off like boiling pig skin, revealing a scaly scalp dripping with pus; On the night of the deed, the young master of the third room fell into the ink vat. When he was fished out, his body was wrinkled like soaked deed paper, and half a bloody copper key was still stuck in the crack of his throat. The salt owl cut the flesh of the dead female slave into pancake jelly, and begged the governor's wife to admire it. The peony carved from the ribs was As soon as the lantern was lit, the old lady's jasper nails suddenly peeled off like petals of withered flowers... When the green scales on the knuckles had climbed up the back of Gu Xiaohua's hand, the dying old eunuch brought the final sale - to take the jade seal made from the afterbirth of the concubine who was seven months pregnant.
Troubled times are like a furnace. Some people forge swords, while others turn them into ashes. Gu Xiaohua held the carving knife tightly, and amid the whine of the bell on her brother's wrist, she heard the roar of the plague flower blooming from deep within her bones.
2025.03.05
Intention: Heaven moves vigorously, self-improvement continues