I Don't Know How to Read, but Idioms Protect My Body

Chen Dan is illiterate. As long as he can remember, he has had a piece of cloth wrapped around his neck. There is an old mark under the cloth, as if someone dipped it in water and wrote half a word but didn't finish it. When he arrived at Kushui Village, the water in the well had just gone dark and the chickens had just died. The villagers said that the disaster was caused by outsiders. He wanted to find a part-time worker to earn a living, working for a day, eating two meals, and then leaving. But the rules in this village are wrong—— If you don't say all the words, if you don't write all the words, you will have to swallow the auspicious words halfway. On the red paper on the lintel, every word is missing a pen or a stroke, as if something has been chewed. Until that day, someone grabbed his neck and tried to push him to death. He couldn't scream, and the old mark under the cloth suddenly felt hot. Four words floated up from his throat, word by word, blocking the fatal blow for him. Chen Dan is still illiterate. But he slowly discovered that there are some words in this world that don't need to be written on paper. It is engraved in your bones and carried on your body, protecting you from disasters and paying off your debts. ——You can't read, but I can read you.