Chapter 3: Haunted Houses
When I was six years old, my little brother Xiaoyi was already the child king of the village at this time, and there was a little fat man named Ge Zhongxiong who was often with him, and both of them were the most noisy bear children in the village. Ge Zhong Xiong is very fat, and the children call him Bear Fat.
At that time, I liked to follow behind Brother Xiaoyi, and I was a veritable "follower". I am also friends with Ge Youmei from the village and Ge Ruozhu, the daughter of the village chief's family, who also like to follow behind Xiaoyi and Xiong Fatzi because of me.
Brother Xiaoyi and Fat Xiong are one of the few child kings in the village, and there are no children of the same age who do not listen to them. And the two of them ran all over the mountains every day, and we followed them to be scolded by the adults in the family.
But I like to follow Brother Xiaoyi, because he can always find me something to eat. Whether it is the wild fruits in the mountains or the melons and sweet potatoes grown in the village, he will always give me enough food before it is his turn. With him, I can enjoy the feeling of being held up like a princess.
And his love for me also led to the pampering of Fat Bear and a large group of boys, which also made Ge Youmei and Ge Ruozhu envious.
The fat bear is an idle master, and he has already been patronized by him inside and outside the Gejia Village. We are in the mountains to pile hay stacks, every autumn harvest, every household will dry the rice stalks, build up a stack of hay, and reserve them for cooking and fire.
Those haystacks have become a paradise for us children, and the fat bear's favorite thing to drill is the haystacks, and often the haystacks are drilled out of a big hole by him and collapse. At this time, the adults would run after him, and he would become the fastest runner among the children in the village.
One day, the fat bear was idle and bored, and came up with the idea that he was going to drill the haunted house, but he had already patronized the haystacks, and if he wanted to collapse the haystacks, he would be hung up and beaten by his father.
The haunted house is what the adults in our village call the old house on the back hillside. It was actually the residence of the earliest aborigines of Gejia Village, and later, for unknown reasons, the people of Gejia Village moved away from the hillside one after another and built houses in the col.
As a result, the houses there were all vacant, and the adults did not allow us children to go to the hillside to play on weekdays, and some even scared the children that it was haunted, and that if they entered, they would be caught and eaten by ghosts. Over time, it became a forbidden place for children, and the name of the haunted house spread.
But the bear fat man is different, he is not only an idle master, but also a troublemaker who is as bold as a blind bear. Brother Xiaoyi didn't agree at first, but then he couldn't stand it anymore before agreeing to go to the haunted house. The other boys were naturally happy to go, but we girls were too timid to go, but we were bewitched by the fat bear and the boys were eager to try, so we finally agreed to go.
Soon the bear fat man organized the children to act together, and our group of bear children followed him up the hillside in a mighty way.
The haunted house is actually not very large, and there are a few houses scattered on the hillside. Xu is in disrepair, and no one has lived in it for a long time, and it is less popular, and the sun and rain are dry, and the rest is already broken and ruined. The only thing that still looks like a house is the wooden building perched high on the hillside. The haunted house where the fat bear and the children want to drill is the wooden building.
The wooden building was crumbling due to the sun and rain, and the dilapidated wooden door was pushed open, and a group of us children cautiously stepped into the door. The old houses had few windows, and even during the day, the inside was pitch black.
A mountain wind blew, making the back of my neck cold, I shivered, and tightened my arm with fear at Ge Youmei.
"What's wrong, Banlei?" Youmei's voice came with some fear.
"Youmei, I'm afraid, let's not go in, right?" My courage was small at this moment, and I was too afraid to move forward.
Wakatake also tightened my hand, and I could feel the force of my hand hurting me, and the three girls almost shrank together.
"Don't be afraid, with my brother here, my brother will protect you!" At this time, the voice of the fat bear came from the front.
Brother Xiao Yi also walked to my side at this time and protected us behind him. Looking at his broad shoulders, I suddenly had the courage to adapt to the dark eyes, and it also made me see my surroundings a little more clearly, and I was no longer afraid.
The fat bear took out a box of matches and struck a match with a "snap". Suddenly the room lit up, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Fatty, why do you still have matches?" Brother Xiaoyi couldn't help but be curious when he saw the fat man take out a match.
"Hey, yes, I stole it out of my house in the morning." The fat bear smirked.
"It turns out that the fat brother has been prepared?" Youmei made a sudden realization.
With the matches in hand, we began to look for treasures in the wooden building, and several people scattered in all directions. But they didn't dare to go too far, after all, the range that matches can illuminate is very limited.
We walked around the house, the wooden building is divided into two floors, the first floor has the main hall of the hall, the wings on both sides, the back of the hall is the kitchen, the wings on both sides are the houses, and there are wooden beds in it. As for the second floor, when we tried to go up, we found that the stairs were too broken to leave.
We quickly walked through all the places on the ground floor and found nothing useful, and just as we were disappointed and wanted to go back, we heard someone shouting.
"Look at how there is a spiritual position here!"
We looked in the direction he was pointing, and there was a small square table in the corner of the right wing. There is a spiritual seat on the square table, and there is a small incense burner in front of the spiritual table, and half of the unburned incense is inserted in it. Behind the spiritual seat was a black-and-white picture frame, in which was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy.
The fat bear struck another match, and we saw that the young man had a beautiful eyebrow, and his eyes were blazing at everyone, as if he could come out of the picture frame alive at any moment. I even felt him smiling at me, and his smile felt very permeating, not at all like a living person's smile.
"Ah, there are ghosts!"
I don't know who suddenly shouted, and several children suddenly exploded and fled in all directions. I also panicked and turned around and ran, but I felt someone tripped over my foot and fell to the ground, and I suddenly felt a hot pain in the palm of my hand.
I was scared and in pain, and immediately I cried "wow". Brother Xiaoyi, who had already run far away, heard my cry and immediately turned back and pulled me up who had fallen to the ground.
"Girl, how are you, are you okay?"
He helped me out, and when there was light outside the wooden building, he stopped and looked at my injuries with concern.
I handed my hand to him, only to see that my little hand was scratched and slowly oozing blood.
"Sister, don't be afraid, if my brother blows it, it won't hurt!" Brother Yi lowered his head and gently blew on my wound.
At this point, I didn't feel any pain, but I always felt like there were a pair of eyes watching me from behind, and I even felt like the hairs on the back of my neck were standing on end.
Just as I was about to open my mouth to tell Brother Xiaoyi, the fat man ran back panting, saw that the two of us were still in place, and shouted anxiously: "Oh, Xiaoyi, why are you still here, run!" ”
As he spoke, he was going to pull Brother Xiaoyi, and Brother Xiaoyi came back to his senses and wanted to pull me, but I could still run, and I squatted on the ground with numb feet.
Brother Xiaoyi had no choice but to squat down and let me lie on his back, and he carried me down the mountain. The bear fat man didn't patronize himself at this time, and when he saw that the little brother was carrying me, he was on the side. As for the other children, they have long since run away.
I just felt that the eyes in the back were watching us leave, but I didn't look back, for fear that someone would chase us when I turned back.
At this time, the sky was gradually getting dark, and it was already dusk, and every household in the village had already begun to cook vegetables. The grown-ups didn't notice that we bear kids were running into a haunted house on the hillside. On the way back, we also agreed not to mention this matter again, for fear that the adults would beat us if they found out.
However, it soon became clear that when I went back, I had a high fever that night, and the fever was terrible. Since the old man burned the Juyang Fu for me, I have never had such a high fever again.
When the old man saw that I was sick again, he grabbed the little brother and tortured me and asked me where to play during the day. Brother Xiaoyi was also frightened, for fear that I would burn out my brain, so he hurriedly explained the events of the day to the old man.
After hearing this, the old man scolded the little brother again and again for being confused, and he shouldn't take me to run around. After that, he went out with a rag bag, and this time it was for the night, and before leaving, he told my mother to take good care of me, and kept me cool with cold water.
And I burned all night in a daze, and that night I had nightmares about a young man coming to play with me.