What I remember most vividly is this straight connecting road, and at the very front, almost to the part of the road outside, there are pairs of stone lions.

It's not like a stone lion, but I haven't figured out what it is. Because this pair of stone carvings is very weathered, the lines on the surface are almost polished, and there is a faint appearance of a stone lion squatting, so let's take it as a stone lion.

This pair of stone lions are separated from each other on both sides of the road, as if guarding this road into the mountain. And this pair of stone lions was also my sister, cousin, and sister's favorite toys at that time.

Of course, that Li Bei often competes with us for the right to mount this pair of stone lions.

I remember it was the last day of my parents' shack, and my cousin and I hated that the games played by my sister and cousin were too boring, so we walked out and rode on the stone lion to think about what game to play.

It was summer vacation at that time, and the weather was scorching, only the stone lion was cool. Because next to the stone lion, there is a huge banyan tree, which is not smaller than the longan tree next to my aunt's house.

Speaking of which, there was also a small hill temple under this banyan tree at that time, which was built by later residents.

The people there liked to worship these, so the mountain temple existed, and the gifts of worship also existed. Fruits and herbs are often available, and there is even money thrown in front of the statue of the mountain god.

The function is just like the wishing pool in some tourist areas now, throwing money is used to make a wish.

The economy of that era was not good, and the families were not very wealthy. And at that time, it was still very popular to split votes, so the vows were usually made in two cents, with banknotes and coins.

The first time I saw these wishing money, I couldn't have been happier. In front of his cousins, he went in and picked it up.

My mom believes in these things like the locals, and my dad has a little bit of it. But my sister and I didn't pay much attention to it, and we didn't feel much about it.

So I picked up the money, which surprised them, and they even pointed at me and scolded me, and said that they were going to sue.

But I bought the sour powder in the store, which was the kind of white sweet powder snack with a lollipop, and when I gave it to them, they didn't talk about me taking the temple money.

And later, they came to collect money more often than I did. Incidentally, Li Bei's group also joined in, and they looted every once in a while.

When doing this kind of thing, both parties are very conscious, never let the adults find out, and no one reports it. In those days, it was refreshing.

When my cousin and I came here that day, the first thing we did was to check the mountain temple. There is no money in it, and it is estimated that today's harvest will be taken away by Li Bei and them first.

However, in front of the statue of the mountain god, there are a few mangoes. My cousin and I picked it up unceremoniously, rode on the stone lion and started eating.

Mango's hands are slimy after eating, so I naturally want to wipe it clean.

My cousin wiped his clothes with his hands, and I, who prefer to be clean, lay on the stone lion, holding the stone lion's stomach with both hands and rubbing it.

The stone lion was slippery, this action made the arm very comfortable, I subconsciously hugged the lion tightly, turned my face sideways, stuck to the lion's neck, and rubbed it hard.

But suddenly, the two sides of the stone lion's belly, that is, the two sides that I touched with my hands, suddenly caved in.

I was in shock, and before I could make a cry, the stone lion suddenly collapsed again, and in an instant it fell under the ground.

Fortunately, I hugged the stone lion tightly and was not injured by the force of the fall.

However, I was stunned by the sudden moment, and stared blankly at the smooth and suddenly appearing wall in front of me. And this wall is actually a pit under the constellation of Stone Leo, but it is a pit with a smooth trim.

Before I could scream, my cousin screamed first.

I was almost jumped up in shock, but as soon as I let go of the stone lion's belly with both hands, the stone lion actually clicked, clicked, and quickly rose again. I'm back on the ground, too.

In just a moment, I experienced two distinct locations above ground and underground, and I was confused.

The stone lion returned to the ground, and there were no traces of the potholes around it, and I don't know how this fit so well.

But it's obviously not that that, it's the direction behind me.

The cousin sat on the back of the stone lion, facing the direction of the three mountains, looking stunned. Didn't pay any attention to my situation here, let alone the fact that I was descending and ascending in a stone lion in a few moments.

The nature of children is curiosity, and I was immediately attracted by my cousin's stunned appearance, and I couldn't help but look back.

This time, I was also stunned. Behind, in the middle of the mountain guarded by the stone lions, the house of the defense force over there actually collapsed. In the valley, the smoke was billowing and the mess was unbearable.

I instantly forgot about the stone lion going down, and I pulled my cousin and ran back. Because there, the inhabitants of the neighborhood have begun to gather.

It is also the nature of children to watch the excitement. Except for me and my cousin, my sister and two cousins, Li Bei and his sister, and his group of children, all ran outside the iron gate of the border station to watch.

The entire building of the border post collapsed, and a huge crater was exposed in the ground.

Thankfully, during this time, all the soldiers were practicing in the playground, and no one was in the building, so there were basically no injuries and no deaths.

However, the losses were huge, and many equipment and even firearms were smashed inside.

The local residents began to organize rescue excavations on their own, and the soldiers did not refuse to do so, so they opened the gates and let some people in.

My dad was a mason, and at that time, it was still a scarce skilled job. So, my dad also participated in the rescue excavation of the border station, and even participated in the reconstruction work afterwards.

The collapse of the border station became a topic of conversation after tea and dinner for a while, and even we children were curious and gathered together every day to discuss it.

Because my father was a mason, he also participated in the work of cleaning bricks and tiles in the pit. As a result, I also got more information to be able to brag about in front of my friends.

According to my dad, the crater in the building collapsed was not surrounded by dirt, but rows of cyan masonry, stacked neatly. The masonry forms a huge square crater, on which the building is built.

After excavation, it was found that in addition to the surrounding masonry structure, even the bottom surface was covered with cyan masonry. The whole shape is like a swimming pool.

It's just that this pool is almost four meters deep.

It's a very strange hole, and it seems that someone has been studying it later. The study was stopped that day, so my dad didn't know what the results were.

And not long after, in the same place, a new building was built.

This incident did not circulate for a long time, and was gradually forgotten by everyone. My family also lived in a newly built shack.

The day after we moved in, Li Bei's family actually followed my parents' example and built a shack opposite my shack, thus giving up the wooden house in the water depression.

What the reason for this was, I didn't know at the time. Later, when I was older, I realized that the house built in the water depression was not theirs, and the house had fallen into disrepair and had long since been corroded.

Over the next two years, the wooden house gradually collapsed.

In a new environment, my parents also started a new industry.

My dad took a fancy to the tricycle industry at that time, bought a second-hand tricycle, and went to the street to solicit customers.

Don't get me wrong, he just made the legendary motorcycle driver.

My mother went to work as a cleaning lady in a hotel on the street, collecting bed sheets and quilts in each room every day and washing them.

And my sister and I, because we are neighbors with Li Bei's family, start to hate each other as soon as we have a holiday break. Li Bei bullied me, my sister flattened him, and his sister would protect me.

After going back and forth, my sister played with his sister, and it didn't matter whether I lived or died with him.

Speaking of which, I didn't start growing until junior high school, so I was very skinny at the time. Because of this, I can't fight back when I am bullied, which is why Li Bei often bullies me.

I remember to die that I was six years old and on summer vacation. My mother and I went back to Shangshi to visit my grandmother, who was seriously ill. When I came back, at the market in Pingxiang, my mother bought a hydrogen balloon for me, who was depressed because my grandmother was seriously ill.

I was in a better mood playing with balloons, and my mother took me to the market to buy some food.

There were a lot of people in the market, and my mother couldn't take care of me, so she put me at the grocery stall opened by Li Bei's family in the market, and let Li Bei's mother, my mother's classmates, take care of me.

Li Bei's mother also had to take care of the business, so she didn't have much time to watch me, so she asked his son Li Bei to play with me.

Li Bei, the grandson, was jealous of my hydrogen balloon, and when his mother was not paying attention, he pulled down my balloon and shot it directly.

I was so weak that I immediately cried in fright, who knew that this Li Bei actually scared me, saying, if you cry again, you will slap your head.

How can I stand this stimulation? I cried even harder. His mother was shocked, and I thought his mother was going to teach him a lesson. But I thought about it too much, after all, they are mother and son, and his mother is completely protecting Li Bei.

Even though she knew that Li Bei had broken my balloon and bullied me, she didn't reprimand me, but scolded me in a reproachful tone, asking me not to make trouble and affect her business.

Later, when my mother came back and saw the balloon that had burst, she immediately understood what had happened. But Li Bei's mother quibbled that I broke it myself, and she was crying, which affected her business, and even said that Li Bei was slapped twice by me when she persuaded me not to cry.

I've never seen such a despicable and shameless person, but I didn't know how to defend myself at that time, I only knew how to cry vigorously.

And my mother, she knew that I couldn't do that kind of thing, I was a more introverted person since I was a child, and I was a bit of a girl when I was a child, and it was impossible for me to do anything with people, and it was impossible for me to destroy my own things.

Although my mother knew the reason, she didn't say it clearly. She just picked me up, said thank you to her old classmates, had a casual conversation, and then took me to buy a new balloon.