Three Sticks of Incense

On the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, stove fires in sixty households in Chengjiagou were extinguished at the same time. The animals ran away all night, and people walking at night heard someone calling their name from behind, and when they heard it, they rushed out of the village like crazy. In the main room of the Cheng family's old house, no one lit the three sticks of yellow incense, so they burned it themselves. The smoke column went straight up without bending and burned all night. This was the third day after Cheng Jiugu died. Xiantang, which had been closed for twenty years, is alive. But only four of the Five Immortals came. The Hui family didn't go to the hall - it didn't dare to enter the hall. It had to guard outside the village, carrying the invisible border for everyone. Twenty years ago, a squirrel spirit squatted alone under an old elm tree. The walls of its nest were covered with tracks it had scratched out by itself. Cheng Jiugu's granddaughter Cheng Yan has returned to the village. She was not of the Cheng family, so the seal in her hand could not be opened. After three days, everything that had been suppressed under the village would come out. By then, not only Chengjiagou but also the surrounding villages will be unable to escape. She had only one way: to go into the old forest alone at 30 degrees below zero and bring back the Hui family that had been guarding it for twenty years and refused to look back after being beaten to death. Three sticks of incense. One stick prolongs life, one stick asks for directions, one stick breaks cause and effect. The rules of the horse fairy from the Northeast: if the incense ashes continue, the fairy family will not disperse; if the incense ashes are broken, cause and effect will appear immediately.