Lin Dan was staring at the two red "pills" in his palm, lost in thought. It seemed like a long time had passed, yet it seemed like just a moment, and she had changed her place and body, but she had no idea where she came from or who she was.
She subconsciously sorted out the memories in her mind and finally understood her situation. This body is also called Lin Dan. Her father is unknown and her mother died young. She relied on government scholarships to barely graduate from the third year of junior high school, but because of her unsatisfactory grades, she failed to be admitted to the only high school in the town and has now been out of school for a year.
She lives in an ethnic minority settlement called Ali Township. Most of the villagers are Miao people, and there are also some Tujia people. They have relied on farming for generations. Because the mountain roads are steep and the area is remote, they rarely communicate with the outside world. If children in the countryside want to go to school, they have to get up early and travel a long way to the only school in the town. Due to poor teaching staff, few can be admitted to university. Most of them only graduate from high school and then go out to work, trying to escape the fate of poverty. Gradually, this small mountain village, which was not very lively to begin with, became more and more deserted. All the young people left, and only some old people and children were left.
The original owner also planned to leave, but picked up a seriously injured teenager on the road, which delayed his journey. The boy was very taciturn and rarely took the initiative to communicate with her. He fiddled with his mobile phone in the sun during the day and went to bed early at night. Even so, the original owner became more and more interested in him. Firstly, it was because he was handsome and had a unique temperament. Secondly, it was because she lacked love so much and was extremely eager for someone to accompany her.
The boy’s name is Zhou Nan, he is from Haicheng, and he is the same age as the original owner. If the original owner had not dropped out of school, he would probably be a sophomore in high school this year, just like him. Zhou Nan took advantage of the summer vacation to travel, but because he was not familiar with the mountain road, he fell off a cliff and injured his leg. If he hadn't been lucky enough to meet the original owner, he wouldn't know what would happen now, because this piece of forest was too remote and his cell phone couldn't get any signal.
After learning about the original owner's experiences in recent years, Lin Dan looked at the thing in his hand again, his expression was indescribable. It turned out that these were not pills at all, but two love insects, the big one was the mother insect and the small one was the son insect. If Lin Danwan had come a little later, the original owner would have taken the mother Gu herself and then planted the son Gu into Zhou Nan's body. I don't know when this child fell deeply in love with Zhou Nan. Seeing that he was always cold and indifferent to her, she actually had such evil thoughts.
Even though Lin Dan was indifferent by nature, he understood the most basic truth - a forced melon is not sweet. What kind of love is it if it is obtained through these despicable tricks? It's just a means of self-deception.
Thinking of this, she put the two love poisons back into the camphor wood box left by the original owner's mother and sighed silently.
The stilt house where the original owner lived was built on the outermost edge of the small mountain village, almost blending in with the dense forest where wild beasts frequently roamed, while the stilt houses of other villagers were scattered in an orderly manner in the valleys. Looking down from a high altitude, one can see that the original owner's home has been separated by them. Although they are on the same plane, they seem to be two worlds of their own.
The Miao people have always been very united. When one family is in trouble, everyone is happy to help. The original owner became an orphan at a very young age, and was almost frozen to death or starved to death, but the villagers never cared and just left her to fend for herself. In the end, it was the original owner’s teacher who couldn’t bear it anymore and applied for a grant for her, which allowed her to survive.
The original owner didn't know the reason and didn't dare to explore it, because whenever she appeared in the Miao village, she would be insulted and driven away by the villagers, leaving her covered in bruises. They looked at her with disgust, as if she were a stink bug that deserved to live only in the shadows.
Over time, the original owner no longer stayed close to that small mountain village, and no longer expected to get warmth from others. But the appearance of Zhou Nan broke her defenses and made her fall completely. The boy just said "thank you" to her in a low voice and smiled at her. She was like a grass seed hidden in the cracks of the rocks, taking root and sprouting madly, trying to get out of the dark prison.
Zhou Nan is her light, her warmth, and the nobility and yearning in her humble life. But at the same time, she also realized more clearly that he would leave here sooner or later. Then she thought of the relic her mother left her, the mysterious camphorwood box that emitted a strange smell. Before her death, her mother said to her, "Lin Dan, if one day you are bullied or feel that you can't live anymore, just open this box and take a look."
The original owner couldn't survive without Zhou Nan, so she opened the box and found the pair of love poisons.
Now that Lin Dan has replaced the original owner, she naturally wants to find out the secret of this box. There was only a small light bulb in the stilt house, and the light was very dim, but this did not hinder Lin Dan's vision. She found a stack of notes, a sheepskin bag, a small copper stove, and a long wooden box.
The Miao people are a mysterious and ancient ethnic group with a rich and diverse language, but no written language has been passed down. The note that Lin Dan found was written in a language similar to oracle bone script, which she should not be able to understand. However, when she held it in her hand, the words seemed to come alive and rushed into her mind.
Her temples were throbbing with pain, but she didn't even groan. About ten minutes later, she loosened her teeth and let out a breath. It was not until this time that she understood why the villagers avoided the original owner like the plague. It turned out that the original owner had the blood of a sorcerer flowing in his body, and was the existence that the Miao people feared the most.
The sheepskin bag contained the poisonous insect eggs passed down from the ancestors of the Lin family. They were all sealed in small porcelain bottles. Some were labeled with their names and functions, while others had no labels at all, and no one knew what kind they were. If Lin Dan had the talent of a sorcerer, she would naturally know how to cultivate her own poisonous insects the moment she got the notebook. Otherwise, the Lin family's inheritance would be cut off in her generation.
The blood of the sorcerers is extremely powerful and mysterious, but with the passage of time and intermarriage with foreign races, their blood has become increasingly thinner and has completely lost its former power. The original owner's mother suffered from ostracism and oppression from the villagers and passed away at a young age, leaving the original owner alone to face the cruelty of life. If Lin Dan hadn't come, she might have followed her mother's old path, using the love poison to keep her beloved, but ending up with nothing because of the backlash.
Lin Dan shook his head, his heart full of sighs. She went on to look at the remaining two items. The bronze stove has an exquisite shape and is very old. It should be an antique. If it were sold outside, it might fetch a good price. But according to the records in the notebook, it is not used for burning incense, but for breeding poisonous insects. If it falls into the hands of people who don't know how to use it, it will only bring disaster.
Lin Dan put down the copper stove, opened the wooden box, and found a necklace inside. The necklace has a simple shape, a black bead strung together by a red silk thread. The surface of the bead has slight textures, and it looks like both wood and jade. There was a letter at the bottom of the wooden box, left by the original owner's mother, repeatedly admonishing the original owner to keep the necklace well and pass it on to the next generation.
"…This is the Lin family's treasure, and it must be passed down from generation to generation. If you are like mother, and have not inherited the talent of a sorcerer, place the necklace in the box and do not touch it easily. If you are lucky enough to have the talent of a sorcerer, then wear it. When you are at a dead end, it may help you. After I leave, you study hard, try to get into college, and go out to see the world. Mother, please stay."
The letter was very short, ending in only two or three lines, but it was not difficult to see that the original owner's mother loved the original owner very much. Lin Dan gently stroked the letter paper, his expression seemed calm, but a soft light flashed in his eyes. She put on the necklace as she was told, then put the rest of the things back into the box and locked it.
The sound of roosters crowing outside reminded her that it was getting dark and it was time to cook dinner. She immediately stood up and wanted to pick some vegetables from the vegetable garden, but a fish-shaped jade pendant fell out of her pocket with a slight crisp sound. Lin Dan picked up the jade pendant, looked at it, and searched her memory for a moment. Only then did she realize that the jade pendant belonged to Zhou Nan. The reason it was in the original owner's pocket was because she wanted to keep a memory of it.
Before the original owner found the love Gu, he thought Zhou Nan would definitely leave, so he took his personal belongings.
Lin Dan put the jade pendant back into his pocket, walked to the room with the brightest light and the best ventilation, and knocked on the door.
"Come in." A very magnetic voice came from inside.
Lin Dan pushed the door open and walked in, and found Zhou Nan lying on the bed fiddling with his cell phone. His swollen foot was tied with a wooden board but not in a cast. The original owner had no money and couldn't find an adult to help, so he could only use this most crude method to treat him. He just turned seventeen this year, but he has grown very tall and straight. He is over 180 cm tall, and lying on a wooden bed that is less than 1.6 meters tall, he looks a little aggrieved.
"Did you borrow the phone to help me make the call?" he asked.
“I couldn’t borrow it. People in the village won’t lend me a cell phone. I’ll go to the town to find my teacher tomorrow and ask him to notify your family.” Lin Dan was not the original owner, so he naturally wouldn’t force Zhou Nan to stay here.
The moment she saw the young man, she finally understood why the original owner had fallen so completely. Completely different from the villagers with weathered faces, the boy's facial features seemed to be carved out of jade, extremely delicate and gorgeous, with sword-like eyebrows slanting into his temples, narrow and clear eyes, and a somewhat cold and distant temperament all over his body, making people dare not approach him, but unable to help being attracted to him. There is a teardrop mole under the corner of his eye, which makes him look even more melancholy.
Not to mention that a young girl like the original owner who had never seen the world would fall for him, even if a mature woman who had experienced many things came, she would find it difficult to escape the temptation of beauty.
But Lin Dan didn't even look at him, he just walked over and carefully examined his broken leg.
Zhou Nan couldn't help but feel relieved when he saw that the girl no longer used various excuses to shirk her responsibility of helping him contact the outside world as she did in the past. His cell phone seemed to be broken and there was no signal. His legs could not walk. If he wanted to leave here, he could only rely on Lin Dan.
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