Although children are very afraid of ghosts, because of the simplicity of life, it is often easy for everyone to forget the negativity brought by these fears.

Summer always starts at that unnoticeable time, and by the time people react, it has gradually started to heat up.

In my memory, the countryside of my childhood has four distinct seasons. However, as I grew up, my years in the countryside became less and less clear, probably because people were growing up and the things I focused on gradually became different.

As an adult, the seasons of life became more and more abnormal. Whenever I recall the years when I was young, there will always be a lot of emotion and memories in my heart.

At that time, although the traffic was not convenient, it was extremely difficult to walk through the village and call friends. Because in the era when there were no highways, not only were there few cars on the road, but even the main roads were not found everywhere.

If you want to get rich, you need to build roads! At that time, it was not popular, but everyone knew the benefits of having a big road.

Because there is no road, many people have naturally never seen the world. But simple children are very happy.

I still remember that because the only national highway in the province passed through this small village. At that time, although everyone could not have a lot of cars every day, and even saw some shuttle buses driving by, compared to some ravines and ravines, the small village has been the envy of many people.

Of course, at that time, the most on the road were still diesel-burning tractors, there were large, small, hand-walked, anyway, all kinds of tractors. If you see some liberation trucks, or some jeeps driving by, everyone will be amazed to see how far away.

Compared to later times, the road was still a road, and even though it was asphalted, it felt clean and not dangerous.

Although the road surface is not the later sand road and cement road, the road will rarely have potholes, or a large pothole and a small pothole. Although the asphalt on those roads is annoying, it will soften when the sun is shining, and even damage the skin, but at least everyone will be happy to see clean and convenient roads.

It is said that because of the crossing of this road, the young men in the village marry wives and girls find more partners than in other villages.

In my memory, it was the verdant along the road, with big trees on both sides of the road, and big trees that were more than adults hugging, and of course the most poplar trees. When it was summer on the road, people walked on the side of the road, but because of the big trees along the road, it was extremely cool and comfortable.

Later, the times progressed, everyone became rich, and the road surface became cement and fried sand, but they could no longer see the greenery they saw when they were children.

At that time, I remember that although I saw caterpillars falling from trees everywhere on the road from time to time, and even many male classmates secretly hid caterpillars to scare female classmates, everyone had deep memories and felt that their noses were full of fresh air.

I grew up in this environment, and the village was as calm as ever, and it made everyone feel like it should be every day.

Although there will be noise in the village from time to time, those trivial things, either the eggs laid by the hen of the owner are missing, pointing to Sang scolding Huai for the west. Either that, it means that the men of the family are slow to work, and the yield of the people in the fields this year is higher than that of their own family, and they are counted down by the women.

But everyone is actually kind and comfortable with the living environment. Because everyone's concept of money is not too strong, in everyone's life, as long as you can eat safely, it is a peaceful thing in the world.

Of course, if someone's child goes to high school, it is also an extremely honorable thing, and if someone in any village is admitted to university, it must be a matter of honoring the ancestors.

At that time, the most parents taught their children was to study hard, and if they could be admitted to university, it would be a big event in the family. When I was a child, I knew that because I had an older brother who had already been admitted to university, and my father was a worker, my task was to go to school.

I could feel the change in the atmosphere in the village, because the death of the thin feet caused the tension and anxiety of the adults. Especially what Uncle Luo said in Zhuo's house, it really made people feel uneasy. Some people scoffed, but many more chose to remain silent.

I heard that Uncle Luo didn't go back to the provincial capital right away, because it was just the weekend and he hadn't been back for a while, and his family must have wanted to keep him for two more days.

Originally, I studied honestly, although I was as timid as a mouse, but because of my young age, the matter of thin feet did not cause me any trouble. But all I've heard in the past few days is about Uncle Luo.

It turned out that there were several women in the village who were weak and had been sick. The family is worried that because they are weak, their yang energy is too low, and they will invite disaster. Indeed, the direction in which their family lives is really the direction that Uncle Luo said.

The women and the old people in the courtyard talked the most about who Uncle Luo went to today, and who did he go to at night. Everyone understands that this is to eliminate disasters and avoid difficulties, but when it comes to mystery, everyone still talks about it with relish.

It seems that it is everyone's honor to be able to exorcise some mysteries by Uncle Luo, or to be caught by him one or two ghosts. I was not afraid of them talking like this, and I listened to them with relish, as if I was a little far away from myself.

However, in the afternoon of the next day, the villagers were once again fermented because of the thin feet.

Something happened to the nineteenth master Yuewen's family, it is said that the nineteenth mother got into trouble with unclean things, the doors of his house were closed, and the windows were closed tightly.

His house is next to the mansion opposite the compound where I live, and at the door of the famous grain warehouse in the township, which is the main intersection of the village streets. Our village is very close to the market, and this is also the closest to the market, which belongs to a small two-story brick house newly built by itself.

This is one of the newest houses in the village, built next to the blue brick mansion opposite. The blue brick mansion, like the compound on my side, is full of people who were assigned a house in the first place. His family was able to occupy land and build a house here, because the Nineteenth Master was also one of the owners of the mansion.

It's not that he has lived in a house in the mansion before, he is a descendant of the owner of the mansion. Although there is no right to inherit in this era, everyone in the township understands that no one will interfere with his construction.

I don't know much about these things, but the reason I went to see them was because of my neighbor, Xiaohua, who was also my childhood friend. He was considered my classmate, but not in the second half of the term, because the teacher said that his grades were too poor and asked him to stay one level.

Xiaohua is not good at studying, but he is a head taller than me, and he is very sturdy. The reason why he wanted to go to the nineteenth master's house was because his father was terminally ill. To be honest, I don't even remember his father, because he had been in bed for four or five years.

Although it was a neighbor, his adobe house was built on the right hand side of the compound, next to what used to be a utility room. It's because of his father that I have never dared to enter their house, and if we usually play with Xiaohua, we also go in front of the steps of the compound, or behind the compound.

What was wrong with his father, I didn't know until I was older. But when Xiaohua and I went to the Nineteenth Master's house that day, we actually saw the ashes burned by the thin feet again, and they were still black and pressed on the edge of the field next to his house.

We walked around the pile of ashes, because we heard the adults say that they were burned for the dead, and although it was a pile of black ashes, it was inexplicably frightening.

In my impression, Xiaohua was a little big when he was a child, but when he saw the pile of black ashes, he was actually a little scared, and dragged me around the side path in a hurry. Later, I learned that because he was taller, he often played with Slender Feet, and for a period of time after Slender Feet died, he was really scared for a while.

I saw that the door of the grain warehouse was also tightly closed, and the big red star on the door was already a little dark. On both sides are the words of blessing the original leader, and there are also some words of suppression of cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods.

Every time I pass by, I look at the tall door, especially the huge solid wood beam on the door.

It is said that this huge door beam has a lot of origins, and it originally belonged to the compound where I lived. At that time, there was a memorial arch at the gate of the compound, with the name of the courtyard written on it, which was very majestic. In the era of local tyrants dividing real estate, the archway was destroyed, and the main beam was used to build the warehouse gate.

As a descendant of the owner of the compound, I heard my grandfather mention it to me at the beginning, and he pointed to this main beam and told me that this is the main beam of the archway of the compound. Although the tone was a little helpless, I could hear that there was some pride in this main beam.

It is said that the material of this main beam comes from the Miaojia Forest in the west of Xiangchu, and it is carved from a huge ancient cypress main pole. The main beams carved from trees also weigh an astonishing 2,000 catties. There are many patterns of flowers and plants on it, which are exquisite and make people feel the craftsmanship of the year.

Speaking of this main beam, it is said to be related to one of Niu Ye's cousins. Because this master was originally the master of our compound, he was powerful and loyal. There has always been a legend in the village that he also worked as a devil before liberation.

Because he knew the origin of this main beam, he let the village keep it after destroying the torii.

Later, when the warehouse was built, the main beam was used to make the girder of the warehouse door. However, the tools were limited back then, and when the beams were placed, because the main beams were too heavy to be lifted, some people suggested sawing them into two pieces.

Pidi Ye objected with all his might, and did something that was difficult for later generations to imagine, he actually let some laborers lift their heads, and he lifted them by himself, and placed the main beam on the door of the warehouse.

It is difficult for us to imagine that one person can lift a thousand catties of weight, but many of the people who participated in that year are still alive, and there will be no fake. So when I heard about it, every time I came here, I would watch it quietly for a while.

The nineteenth master Yuewen's house was at the door, and when we arrived, we saw that the doors and windows were tightly closed, thinking that there was no one in his house. But I faintly heard movement in the house, and Xiaohua and I looked at each other for a while, and our hearts were a little nervous.