Two years after Grandma migrated to the village, a little girl who looked to be only five or six years old came to the village.

The little girl, dressed in rags and with a timid expression on her face, stood at the entrance of the village and watched the crowd of people coming and going in the village.

The little girl behaved rather strangely, and she seemed to be extremely envious of the kind of children who stayed with their parents. Whenever a child of her age appeared in her field of vision with her parents, she would always follow closely, but she would not come closer, and her eyes were full of strong yearning.

The villagers in Qingfeng Village looked at the girl as pitiful, and several families tried to adopt the child. But the girl deliberately kept her distance from everyone, and after a few attempts, the idea of adopting her was abandoned, and the little girl was left to roam the village.

But the little girl didn't suffer any grievances. Because the girl was born unusually cute, her eyes were clear and pure, and she was wary and humble to all people with a hint of respect, so the people in the village liked her very much.

In a remote corner of Qingfeng Village, there used to be a small bungalow, which had been abandoned and unused. So some villagers spontaneously reclaimed this low bungalow and used it as a place for the girl to live and rest. This time, the girl did not refuse, and generously took up residence in the bungalow. This stay is a full five years.

In the past five years, the little girl has survived on the food and clothes of the residents of the village. She would often be seen very quietly on the edge of the village's farmland, watching the children run happily to the shouts of their parents. Sometimes, she would play with the children and even help the adults with things, but the girl would never speak—people would always sigh that such a nice little girl was a mute. I don't know what happened to my family and I ended up here.

Gradually, however, attitudes towards the girl began to change.

In the past five years, the boys in the village have begun to grow into men who have begun to take shape, and the girls who used to wear their brother's clothes as boys have also begun to become smart and know how to dress themselves. But this little girl has not changed at all, she still looks like she is five or six years old.

If this situation were to be put to this day, most people would probably say: dwarfism, or brain tissue lesions, inhibit the growth of girls. But at that time, in Qingfeng Village, where scientific development was backward, education level was low, and even a little ignorant, all people could think of was demons or ominous people.

People began to deliberately alienate girls. The food that the girl couldn't eat in her room gradually ran out, and the children in the village began to deliberately avoid the little girl when they met her.

The girl's eyes were full of confusion and confusion as she looked at the villagers. She really couldn't understand why people started to hate her when she didn't do anything.

Although the people only alienated the girl, did not make any other radical moves, and no one offered to evict the girl from the village, the girl's life was not easy.

Girls have little ability to take care of themselves. When the villagers began to stop taking care of her, the girl regained the dirty dress and lack of food when she first arrived in Qingfeng Village—of course, there were some villagers who couldn't stand it and would give the girl a little leftover from time to time, but it still couldn't change the situation that the girl needed to dig the garbage heap to satisfy her hunger.

The hardships of life are secondary, and the inner torment and loneliness are the most unbearable pains.

The girl would still sit quietly in the field, watching the children run around the adults, with a look of admiration and a happy smile from the bottom of her heart—as if the children were running like herself. But people no longer allow her to come close.

Human beings, by nature, are extremely easy creatures to conform to the herd. When some of the people in the village began to call the girl "demon", the panic and discrimination quickly spread like a plague to the vast majority of the population, including the innocent children.

Someone once said that teenagers are the most destructive group of people, they have a certain amount of destructive power, but they do not have the corresponding restraint. The children who used to play, grow and laugh with little girls when they were five or six years old are now the girls' biggest nightmares.

They began to bully and insult the girl, calling her the devil and telling her to get out of the village. The girl endured all this silently - even if her face was full of tears at the time, but when she was alone, the girl would still quietly look at the warm and harmonious figure of the family under the lights of thousands of homes in the village, showing a look of yearning and joy.

Later, the girl's bullying began to become more and more excessive, but she never left Qingfeng Village.

In this case, the girl exhibited another behavior that was extremely abnormal in the eyes of others: the girl began to play frequently with the stray cats and dogs around the village.

Perhaps this in itself is an act of helplessness. Under the bullying of the villagers, only these stray cats and dogs can treat the girl gently, and the girl also regards the cat and dog as her closest friends.

The number of stray cats and dogs around the girl began to increase. The girl was rarely seen in the fields of the village, mingling with the cats and dogs all day long, and her delicate little face began to show a sunny smile for the first time in a long time.

The cats and dogs would gather in the girl's small bungalow during the rainstorm and play with each other in great harmony, and would also find some relatively fresh and clean food before taking it to the girl's door. Some stray cats will even catch some small fish in the stream at the entrance of the village and gently place them in the girl's window.

Accompanied by these stray cats and dogs, the girl seems to have returned to the beautiful and unforgettable life trajectory of the previous period. At the same time, because the girl's hut is relatively remote, and she rarely sets foot in the village with her cats and dogs, people have gradually reduced the number of times she is bullied.

But this peaceful life lasted less than half a year before it was shattered again.

There are more and more cats and dogs around the girl, and it seems that not only Qingfeng Village, but also stray cats and dogs around nearby villages have gathered. More and more stray cats and dogs have brought a series of chain reactions, such as food being stolen in the village, things being destroyed, children being chased and bitten by stray dogs, etc., and even at midnight, the heart-rending whimper of stray cats and the vigilant roar of stray dogs have seriously affected the rest of the villagers.

Some villagers began to go around the girl's small house to drive away stray cats and dogs. Every now and then, the little girl would squat in the corner of the wall aggrievedly, staring at the visitor with big bulging eyes. Generally, as long as they don't provoke girls, those cats and dogs are obedient, and they run away casually. But if someone tried to spread their anger on the girl, the cats and dogs would be like dragons that had been touched against the scales, and they were angry, baring their fangs and lowering their front paws, as if they were fighting for their lives.

Later, something happened that almost upended the entire Qingfeng Village.

A pregnant woman was accidentally bitten by a domestic dog in the village when she went out, but the pregnant woman insisted that she was bitten by a stray dog, and asked her man to let him kill all the stray cats and dogs.

The man was honest, and went out with a hoe on his back. It's just that the man met an old man in the village at the entrance of the village, and after the old man asked the man's purpose, he advised the man to be cautious, he said that cats and dogs have spirituality, so many cats and dogs gathered together, there must be a mystery in it. What's more, a man's wife is still pregnant, so he should be a virtue for his children, and he should not hurt those cats and dogs.

The man tilted his head and thought about it carefully, then listened to the old man's words, sat outside for a while, and went home the same way.

When he got home, he told his wife that the cats and dogs were so fast that he had only killed one or two and the others had fled.

The man's wife scolded the man with disdain and said "no use", and then stopped mentioning the matter.