It's just that they probably didn't expect that they would wait until July.

July in the north is the hottest season. At present, this hill is verdant, and the fragrance of flowers is refreshing. The greenery swayed slightly in the wind, and the colorful wildflowers were in full bloom. The mountain grass also seemed to have all its strength, and it grew from a yellow and tender sprout to half a man's height in one breath, almost covering the grave.

In a flurry of acquaintances, the weeds rattled and then parted paths. A little girl in a light yellow dress stumbled over, her forehead covered with beads of sweat and blades of grass, looking embarrassed.

She had an anxious look on her face, as if some treasure had been left on this mountain, and she was anxious to see if it had been picked up.

She ran until she reached the grave, and with great effort she trampled down all the lush weeds to reveal the tombstones, and then she took a breath, and then looked around with a feeble look, and cried out, "Are you there, are you—still—in—in!" ”

There was no one around, only the madweeds rustling.

She had to shout again: "Are you there?" Are you still there? Are you there——————! This time, there was a bit of crying in his voice. A little girl of this age is also cute when she cries. Tears appeared on her pink face in a blink of an eye, and she wiped it with the back of her hand: "Mom sent me to my aunt's house in the county to go to school, and I'll come to you as soon as I come back!" ”

Still no one answered.

She squatted down, wiping her tears with her hands as she picked up the overgrown weeds, and after a while, there were a few long and short black marks on her face. Under the barren grass is black soil, but the black soil is still mixed with dead branches and rotten leaves, and it is extremely difficult to dig up the stumbling blocks. The six-year-old girl didn't have much strength, and after a few minutes she was out of breath, but only a shallow pit the size of a palm appeared in front of her.

She had to sit on the ground, crying and reading the words on the tombstone.

is a short line, but it is a limited number of Chinese characters she has learned in preschool -

The tomb of his beloved son Li Zhen.

Children in the countryside are not like children in the city, they are used to listening to the stories of the old people who tell them about the wild monsters, and they are always much bolder. However, Yu Qingqing's courage seems to have increased more than a little - after discovering the strange things that happened in this new tomb by chance, not only was she not scared to cry, but became a good friend with that "ghost brother".

This can be regarded as the only secret of this little girl, so at such an innocent age, that ghost brother has become a relative in her heart second only to her parents.

However, now that he has revisited the old place, he found that his brother who had been with him for a few months was gone, and suddenly remembered the sentence that the old people often talked about-

People die like lights go out, and if they are gone, they are really gone.

A strange and inexplicable sense of fear crept into her heart, and she stared at the few words she had just recognized on the tombstone with teary eyes, and couldn't help but cry out loud.

Maybe he's really like those people in other graves on the mountain, and he will never get out again. The little girl thought to herself.

The crying turned into a convulsion - she was tired of crying. However, he still refused to leave.

The sun was still blazing, and the grass was swaying in the wind. Yu Qingqing stopped and rested for a while, then looked at the tombstone reluctantly, and finally planned to leave this "sad place". However, just as she raised her feet and was about to leave, she suddenly heard another voice-

“…… Qingqing? Is that you? ”

The voice was hoarse and low, as if it were coming from beneath a thick layer of earth...... No-when Yu Qingqing held his breath and heard the voice again, he finally determined that it was coming from under the soil layer!

Her eyes widened, visibly startled. In any case, this voice is a little different from the "ghost brother" in my impression - shouldn't his voice be warm and glutinous, just like Dad?

She stayed for a while before she said timidly: "Brother ghost, is it you?" ”

Probably sensing the small fear in her voice, the voice paused for a moment before saying, "...... Scares you? to be able to speak just now...... It wasn't like this before. ”

But that's enough. Yu Qingqing suddenly lay on the ground, laughing with tears: "Is it really you?" Can you speak? I thought you were gone, why did you ignore me just now? ”

She asked three questions like fried beans, and the voice said after a long pause, "I...... I was sleeping just now. ”

"Ghosts sleep too?!" Qingqing took a breath in surprise.

This time the answer came more slowly, and it was only when Qingqing wanted to ask again that the voice replied: "Qingqing, I...... Not a ghost. I am human. ”

So at the hottest time of the day in Xia Yue, Yu Qingqing and her "ghost brother" - now it's time to call "Brother Li Zhen" - chatted for two hours across a thick layer of soil. But most of the time, the little girl was talking - talking about her aunt's house, about the new classmates in the class, about the stationery box she had just bought, and about the "Fuyu" brand ice cream that she wanted to eat again after eating it twice.

Finally, I talked about the problem of the last parting time. Yu Qingqing took out a neatly folded piece of paper from his pocket, and said as if offering a treasure: "Brother Li Zhen, I understood all the words you wrote last time - you asked me, 'What year is it', it's 2014...... Well, the teacher said that it was also 36 years of Chang Gung. ”

Li Zhen did not speak.

Yu Qingqing waited for a while, and seeing that he didn't react, he asked with great interest: "Brother Li Zhen, can you come out to meet me?" ”

"Not yet," said the voice from the ground, "in another month............ I'll probably be able to come out and see you. ”

"Then I'll trick my mother into killing a few more chickens so that you can grow faster!" Yu Qingqing squinted his eyes and laughed. She never asked Li Zhenwei why he was in this grave - even a six-year-old girl could find that when it came to this issue, her brother Li Zhen didn't like to talk. So she can only hide this "little" question in her heart.

Enough weird things anyway, isn't it? Not everyone can have a good friend who lives underground.

The reunion after a long absence, both left a surprise for each other. If this kind of rimmon continues, maybe more interesting things will happen. However, on the night of their reunion, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the northeastern part of the province — the epicenter of which was in the small mountain village where Yu Qingqing lived.

The earthquake displaced more than 80,000 people, landslides and rivers were diverted. The vast northern plains were filled with wailing overnight, and feelings of grief and despair nearly tore through the night sky. In such an atmosphere, the strange friendship between the two came to an abrupt end, becoming an inconspicuous wave among countless emotional cháos separated from life and death.

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