Chapter 25 postscript

Fifty years have passed since that strange year, and I am already eighty years old. I have changed from a young doctor to a silent old man with gray beard and hair.Sometimes I think about it, I have lived for too long, if there are any knots in this life, I have to mention those things that I have only half understood. I still remember that we drifted to the seaside in a daze, maybe it is true that if you survive a catastrophe, you will have a future blessing. With the connections and operation of Brother Seven, we reopened a medical clinic. The name is still called Quanyongtang. I went to see him to purchase The medicinal materials helped each other to survive in that foreign country, and finally each had a pair of children, and now they are four generations living under the same roof.

And the terrible scene that day still lingers in my mind. I never imagined that I would experience such a terrible thing after getting on the dragon boat.The strange altar, the evil Niao Diao Bodhisattva, Adi who disappeared into the deep sea, everything is beyond my imagination. I will never forget the extremely sad look in Adi's big eyes. Why is she looking at me like that?Why are Heipicai and Quanshu engulfed by salt spots, but I am safe?Even those crazy schools of fish and sea snakes seem to be conscious and not hurt me? If those horrible things are controlled by her, what made her spare me?Is it just because of my treatment of her?

Adi's identity made me guess again and again, and overthrow it again and again.I don't want Adi to be born from the body of Lord Jiao, as Uncle Quan said, which means that she is indeed the daughter of the Nanyang evil god, or the legendary sea god.I would rather she is just an ordinary girl, temporarily cursed and uncontrollably connected to the sea, and when the wish is fulfilled, everything will disappear. But what I saw on the dragon boat did not allow me to make these assumptions. There is no doubt that Lord Jiao has deceived us.He only told me part of the truth. Those of us who are fleeing are the best sacrifices, even if we disappear inexplicably, we won't have too much trouble.It's just that Lord Jiao never imagined that the voyage to Nanyang was so dangerous. After many storms, he encountered Japanese gunboats.

Maybe it's because people don't count.Maybe it must be that people are not as good as God. Later, I also asked many people about the Nanyang evil god, but I only got some extremely fragmented information from the mouths of some old people.I roughly pieced it together, and realized that maybe a thousand years ago, the Niao Diao Bodhisattva suddenly appeared. If there are enough 1,200 people, they will sink to the bottom of the sea and hibernate, and they will reappear after 50 years, and so on. What makes me feel even more creepy is that those old people said that Niao Diao Bodhisattva has powerful evil power. If people who are deceived by it and lost at sea want to survive, then the only way to survive is to make a wish for it to possess their children, so that It experiences fireworks in the world, and after fifteen years, it will bring one hundred people back to the dragon boat to worship and fulfill their vows.

The old people's knowledge of Niao Diao Bodhisattva is only limited to legends, and it is inevitable that there are some funny and gossiping meanings when talking about it, but as a person who experienced it, I can only smile secretly. But I should also be thankful that my life was considered healthy and I did not suffer from a curse. Some answers can only be chewed over and over again in my heart, and cannot be explained to the outside world. They have become the secret past that Brother Seven and I share. (End of the book)