I don't know if it's because the two are neighbors, or because when they first met, Zhou Shan's mother told him to take good care of this new sister, and Mrs. felt that Zhou Shan treated herself much better than other playmates.

For example, every day after school, no matter how early or late class ends, Zhou Shan will always wait at the school gate to go home together, sometimes in rainy weather, Mrs. forgot to bring an umbrella, Zhou Shan will always stuff his umbrella into Mrs. 's hand, and then run home with a smile. When she encountered this situation for the second time, Mrs. couldn't help but say, "Brother, in fact, we can go home with an umbrella." But Zhou Shan shook his head while smiling innocently, and he told his wife that the rain was too heavy, and if the two of them played an umbrella together, their wife would also get wet.

Another time, Mrs. was playing with other female classmates in the school playground, and accidentally collided with a boy who rushed over, and Mrs. fell to the ground unsteadily, and her knee was red and swollen by the grass. This matter somehow reached Zhou Shan's ears, and the process also evolved into that Mrs. was deliberately pushed down by the other party, not an accidental collision. The angry Zhou Shan didn't ask his wife to understand, so he immediately rushed to the classmate's classroom, and punched the other party in the face with a fist, and the boy unfortunately sprayed a nosebleed, and one of his front teeth in the middle was also knocked out.

Afterwards, Zhou Shan was given a major demerit by the school, and even his mother was called to the school to educate together. Mrs. was very upset, she told Zhou Shan that even if she was really bullied by her classmates, the teachers at school and her father would help her solve it, and she wouldn't do such stupid things in the future. But Zhou Shan stubbornly said that if someone really bullied Madame, he must tell him as soon as possible, and he would let that kid go around without eating.

The news soon spread throughout the school, and Madame felt that there were obvious people secretly watching her on the road, and sometimes she could hear the subtle discussion behind her, and as long as she passed by, strange classmates would take the initiative to give way to her, as if she was afraid of annoying her and bringing disaster to herself.

The funniest thing is that a few days later, Mrs. ran into the boy who had been beaten on the playground again, and the boy was still playing a game of chase with his other friends, and just as he was running desperately in the direction of the corner of the playground, the boy suddenly found that it was the girl who couldn't be messed with standing in front of him.

The originally joyful expression on his face changed suddenly, as if he had seen the strictest headmaster, and he quickly made a 180-degree turn, and actually ran back in the direction that his companion was chasing. Of course, this action caused the boy to be caught by his partner at once, and the lady heard the other party say with an obvious leaky mouth, "I lost, I lost, let's go over there to play, this side, it's too dangerous!"

Madame covered her mouth behind the boy's back and laughed, it seemed that the brother's punch had caused a lot of shadow on the other party, and the front tooth that was knocked out must not have grown out yet.

Madame experienced the feeling of being taken care of by a man who was not her father and was not related to her by blood. Madame gradually felt that her vision of Zhou Shan was a little different, and she didn't know what this different feeling was when she was young.

The days passed, and before I knew it, Madame was about to enter high school, and she was just sixteen years old that year.

Zhou Shan was two years older than her, so by the time his wife was in his first year of high school, Zhou Shan was already in his third year of high school. Entering high school, the school began to become nervous, and Mrs. and Zhou Shan did not see each other so often, but because they lived in the same mountain village, they would often make an appointment to go home together, and then return to the high school campus with a few cans of delicious food prepared by their parents.

The accident happened on this year's National Day, and finally there were a few days of long vacation, and both Mrs. and Zhou Shan could take a breath from the tense high school life. That afternoon, Zhou Shan said to his wife mysteriously, "I recently discovered a place that is particularly beautiful, do you want to go and see it with me?"

Madame felt that the holiday was a little boring, so she agreed without hesitation, and the two of them came to a dam in the depths of the mountain village, which was actually a dammed lake surrounded by mounds of earth. But for the village, the dam plays an important role, and when the dry season hits, the entire village's rice fields depend on the water from the dam to water it.

Many of the village's mischievous boys would swim in the dam in the summer, but these casual boys will always hear a legend from the village elders that just a dozen years ago, a boy drowned in the dam, and his body has not been found. It is said that the boy has turned into a water ghost in the dam, and if he finds him swimming in it, he will pull the feet of a living person and drag him to the bottom of the water...

The veracity of this legend is impossible to verify, but at least the boys stayed away from the dam when they heard such words, and even if there were a few daring ones or two, they would swim a short distance from the shore and then climb up, for fear that their movements would really attract the attention of the water ghosts.

But among all the boys, Zhou Shan is a special existence, he never believed that there are any water ghosts in this world, every summer vacation, in the hottest period of the afternoon, Zhou Shan will secretly avoid the eyes of adults, sneak to the corner of the dam, and plunge into the cool river.

In the long run, Zhou Shan has practiced a very good water nature, and once he deliberately dived to the bottom of the water, and actually found a carp weighing more than two catties from a crack in the rock.

"Brother, is this the place you are talking about?" Madame frowned when she saw the dam in front of her, of course, the dam was not a beautiful place in her eyes, and she was even more afraid of the river in front of her because of the legend in the mouth of the elders.

Zhou Shan showed an indifferent smile, "It's not here, that place is in the depths of the dam, and we have to hold the bamboo raft over." Zhou Shan pointed to a bamboo raft dragged on the shore in front of him, I don't know if it was prepared by the villagers or Zhou Shan deliberately left here, the bamboo raft looked very simple, just tied together with a few bamboos cut from the mountain, giving the lady a feeling that it might fall apart at any time.

"But the adults say there's a water ghost in the dam," said the lady's eyes, with obvious fear.