After school, Qinqin and I often go to an old woman's house.

It was a small lonely courtyard, located at the end of the village, with a row of earthen walls and black tiles, half surrounded by a dense bamboo forest from behind, and a few benches placed under the eaves, as if waiting for guests.

We often listen to stories, the old woman from the snake spirit to the tree spirit, from the fairy to the evil ghost, we don't know where she got so many stories, and the characters in each story are not the same.

The old woman was very willing for us to go to her house, because she lived alone, and her children went out to work and settled outside, and the grandchildren would not come back. The old woman said that she didn't want to live with her son, and that she didn't get along well with her daughter-in-law, so she might as well live comfortably in her hometown, but it could be seen that she was very lonely, otherwise she wouldn't make up stories to tell us.

It is said that raising children to prevent old age, the old woman has her own children, but she is not around, what if she is sick and can't get out of bed one day?

There is something that many people don't believe.

One day, Qinqin and I made an appointment with two friends to play backgammon in my yard, and there was a pepper tree on the edge of our yard, and Qinqin caught a big butterfly on the pepper tree.

"Xiaoxiao, look, this butterfly is so big." Qin Qin said as she handed over the butterfly.

A grandfather's face appeared in front of me, and I was almost scared to tears.

Qinqin should be invisible, she has never seen my grandfather.

I can never remember my grandfather again.

I was scared for a while, and my mother told me that my grandfather had come to see me, and that he would protect me where I couldn't see.

One day Qinqin told me that she had seen a guide ghost.

The night before, she saw a young man in the village spinning in circles on the barn floor, for a long time, her mother said that it was led by a guide ghost, she didn't know, but today she ran to ask, the person really didn't know about it.

Since then, Qinqin has not dared to go out at night alone.

However, I am not afraid of the dark, and it is okay to walk at night, because I firmly believe that my grandfather will protect me.

Summer vacation is fun.

Qinqin and I watched "The Legend of the New White Lady" in front of the TV at noon every day, and we didn't get tired of it, and not a single episode would fall, and I felt that Bai Suzhen was more popular than Guanyin Bodhisattva, beautiful, kind, and very high in spells.

We often ask our friends to play the role of Bai Suzhen in turn, fantasizing that one day we will meet a white snake in the grass, hoping that she can have a spell and become as beautiful as her.

We would catch frogs with the older kids in the village, and we had to go at night to catch a lot of them, but we couldn't participate because our parents didn't allow it.

The frogs that were caught would be taken home by them to make a delicacy, and we could only listen to the description and drool because we had no credit.

When we go to the lotus root field, we have to pick the lotus flowers quietly, so that the adults can't find out, because they say that if we go down to the field, we will trample the lotus root under the mud.

The fresh lotus seeds were delicious, crunchy, and sweet, but the lotus leaf pulp ruined several of our dresses, because the pulp would turn brown on the clothes and would not wash off.

Catching dragonflies, butterflies are our strengths, and the secret weapon is the spider web, we use a slender branch to stir the spider web at one end, once the small insect sticks to it, it can't run away.

There is a lot of rain in summer, and after the rain, we will take the net to the field ditch to find the loach, we will connect the net to the bottom of the ditch, and the water in the field above will go directly to the net with the loaches, which is the method that Qinqin's father taught us.

We like to roast the loaches we catch on the fire, and we don't need to add any seasonings, but they are still very fragrant.

On summer nights, someone would carry a simple electric shock device to catch eels in a paddy field, only to see one transmitter put into the water, and another long clip would put the corona eel into the basket.

This is professional equipment, it is said that you can catch dozens of catties in one night, and you can sell it in the market the next day, which is also a livelihood.

Sometimes people will gather under the yellow horn tree to chat, just like in previous years, everyone blows all over the world, and we children are also listening, sometimes we will say a few words, I feel that I have grown up a lot.

When I was 7 years old, I was finally able to go to elementary school.