Banyan Roots Twine Around the Moon

In Wuyin Town on the border of Yunnan, countless secrets are hidden in the aerial roots of thousand-year-old green banyan trees. The 12-year-old Aying always felt that the sticky sap in the tree hole was mixed not only with the smell of herbs, but also the smell of old blood - just like the legend told by the old man in the town that "the town was washed with blood on the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month". The folk songs that floated from Suolong Cave on full moon nights always penetrated into the cracks of people's bones. On the day when the black donkey was digging his hooves into the mountains, Aying picked up half a piece of rag embroidered with camellias under the roots of a banyan tree. Subsequently, the blood wooden box in the caravan, the recording tube in the night bird's nest, the domesticated leopard, the flower snake that can heal its wounds with resurrecting grass... More and more strange things have brought the legendary "money ghost", "gu insect" and "tree demon" into reality one by one. When her grandfather gave her the pine branch wood carving with the mechanism of locking the Dragon Cave before his death, Ah Ying finally understood: the banyan tree was not only entangled with its aerial roots, but also the hatred that had been covered up for three generations; the legendary "monsters" were never wild beasts, but the greed and prejudice in the hearts of people. And the "moon bud" jade pendant around her neck has long been destined to become the knife that reveals the truth - after all, the bones that have been entangled with banyan roots for thirty years must finally see the light. This is a story about the secret realm of southern Yunnan, national legends and the game of human nature. When the folk song sounds again, do you dare to follow Aying and find the tooth marks gnawed by time in the banyan tree cave?