Cao'er had long heard about the rumors in her school.

The school was formerly a temple, but it was abandoned for a period of time after liberation. After the reform and opening up, compulsory education was popularized and local education was developed, and this long-abandoned temple was changed into the current town center primary school.

I heard that before it was converted into an elementary school, there were often some supernatural events here. For example, if someone plays cards, somehow there is an extra pair of hands with cards, or for example...... Wait, there are a lot of horrors.

Cao'er listened to her classmates and teachers, the more she didn't want to go to her heart, but the more she was firmly remembered, during the day, she was afraid that she would not do well in the work assigned by her parents, and at night she was so frightened by these supernatural rumors that her classmates and teachers said that she often couldn't sleep.

Cao'er's family lives in a classroom dormitory building in the school, on the second floor, with one living room and two rooms.

In front of the teacher's building is the playground and a large open space, on the left of the open space is the school's men's and women's toilets, next to the principal's wife is the commissary, next to the commissary is the school's large kitchen, and further on is the student dormitory building, and the 400-meter playground in front of the student dormitory.

Behind the teacher's building is a meadow fenced with flowers and plants, and a viewing pond with goldfish, and beyond it is the school building, behind which is the school's flag-raising platform and gate.

The teachers all live in the school, and no less than 6 or 700 students from the mountainous areas or from other village elementary schools also live in the school. These students and teachers have to pass through the passage of the classroom dormitory building where Cao'er's family lives day and night, which can be described as bustling.

Her parents' room was next to hers, separated by a wall.

But in the evenings, her parents often went to the teacher's house on the first floor to watch TV, leaving her alone at home to do her homework.

She was always frightened, some light yellow and dark gray marks on the walls looked like various shapes of eyes on her, winking at her, and she turned off the lights and was even more frightened, so she had to endure it, read after finishing her homework, and divert her attention until she fell asleep. Her parents came back to see her close the door and turn on the light, and fell asleep on the homework book on the desk, not waking her up, and her father quietly carried her onto the bed and covered the quilt, turned off the light and closed the door.

Sometimes she will feel her father carrying her to bed in the haze, so she deliberately does not open her eyes, sometimes she falls asleep in the middle of the night and falls out of bed, the cold floor makes her feel strange, she reaches out and finds that she is lying on the floor, and quickly wraps herself in the quilt and climbs into bed, covers her head and continues to force herself to sleep, in the process, she is so frightened that she does not even dare to turn on the light.

In one corner of her room were stacked with wooden planks and some rats hidden. In the middle of the night, she would feel rats crawling on the quilt over her head-covered head, or crawling at her feet. She was so frightened that she didn't dare to move, and she didn't dare to turn on the light even more tremblingly, so she wrapped herself in the quilt and bent over until dawn.

Occasionally, she heard that a baby was barking in the middle of the night, and she told herself not to wake up in the middle of the night before going to bed. But I didn't expect to wake up, and sure enough, I heard a baby-like cry outside the room, she was so frightened that she turned on the light, and she could still hear it, and she was still trembling with fear under the quilt.

I really had no choice but to knock on the wall and shout:

"Dad! Father! ”

"Dad! Get up, I hear a cry! I'm scared—"

When my father got up and listened to her, he looked inside and out of the balcony with a flashlight, but when he didn't see anything, he went back to sleep.

The next day, everyone brought up the matter to discuss, and the final conclusion was that the cat meowed, and her father specially told her that it was a cat, don't be afraid.

But then she heard the teachers who came to the house say that there would be some inexplicable noises in the middle of the night in the school kitchen, and after listening to it, she told herself not to wake up in the middle of the night, but she didn't want to wake up in the middle of the night.

At about three o'clock in the middle of the night, I heard the sound of uneven wooden planks knocking one after another from the large kitchen two or three hundred meters away from my house.

She slept under the window at home, and immediately pulled the quilt to cover her head, covering her sweat in the summer, her hair was soaked, and she didn't dare to get out of it. With my eyes closed, I still can't sleep.

It wasn't until five or six o'clock in the morning that the big banyan tree next to the school playground began to gather birds flying around, and there were long and short bird calls with different timbres, that she poked her head out, looked at the whitish window, and began to enjoy the peace of this short morning like a moment, the relaxation and happy time without fear, which was so precious!

Alas, poor grass, as in a fable, a man with long hair walked at night, and suddenly saw a black shadow under the moonlight running after him, and he was so frightened that he ran for his life, but the black shadow still followed him. He was so frightened that he finally ran himself to death in the darkness of the night in his fright. Fortunately, although he was scared half to death every night, when he got up in the morning, he was not only alive, but also full of energy.

Cao'er's extreme fear of darkness since she was a child is difficult to understand, and it can only be said that it may be brought about by the lack of emotion - without maternal love, father's love is also alienated, and there is no courage.

To find her courage, in fact, she only needs to be able to experience the people and things she fears with full emotions, and it will be much better, but this is how difficult it is for Cao'er, who is estranged from her parents.

It is precisely because of this estrangement from her parents that Cao'er is also very self-sustaining at home. She never enters her parents' room unless they explicitly ask her to go in and get something. As long as her parents didn't tell her that the food was for her, she would never take it at will. As for what other people's things are, she sees them, no matter how delicious and fun they are, she is not moved, let alone cared.

Compared with the luxuriant material desires of adults, her heart was as clean as a pool of pure water, like the well at the door of the living room of her hometown, which was cleaned by her uncles, and the clear water that had just gushed out of the ground was so pure that her parents could not believe it.

Her parents once intentionally or unintentionally scattered some change in the living room where the grass could be reached, but the grass was never moved, and she would not even touch it, if the school had to pay any fees or buy the necessities of study and life, she had the courage to tell her parents in her heart, and she would never think of saying that she would take the family's money by herself - the money was earned by her parents themselves, and it had nothing to do with herself.

But because of this, Cao'er's passivity towards her own things also brings her passivity in behavior. The school organizes an autumn outing, and before that, Cao'er Niang will prepare a rice bowl and rice for her. But this time, Cao'er Niang probably forgot, and somehow didn't prepare it for her.

Before leaving the house the next day, Cao'er was still wondering what about her rice bowl and rice? But he didn't dare to ask, and he didn't dare to take it himself, so he followed empty-handed. Fortunately, her classmates liked her very much, and everyone gave her their lunch boxes and shared rice with her.

However, the biggest advantage of this is that the parents are quite reassuring about her character, and even if they can't find the change at home, the parents will only check themselves to see if they have accidentally put it in the wrong place, or if another person has something to use, and will never have any suspicion about their daughter's behavior.

It seems that fear is also an important condition for shaping a teenager's good character? Perhaps, Cao'er is inherently indifferent to material desires.

Or, thanks to her relatives, although the family conditions are poor, but she has never had to worry about eating and drinking, so she naturally has a good character. However, on the contrary, will she ask for a lot of emotions?