Summer is hot, especially tonight is unusually muggy. There were few pedestrians on the streets, and the inn was deserted early. So they also closed earlier than usual, and at this moment Cai Wei was sitting under the dim candle light with the soles of her shoes, there was not a trace of wind outside the window, sitting there motionless, the sweat on her head running down her cheeks, and a fire burning in her chest. Linlang sat at the table and chair writing in big characters, but she was very irritable in her heart. She finally couldn't bear it anymore, threw down the brush, ran to the well in the courtyard, fetched a basin of cold water, and splashed the water on her face with both hands, only to feel a little cooler. Back in the house, Xiao Lianzi came in with a pot of mung bean soup and filled a bowl for Linlang, she drank it in one go, and lay on the bamboo bed with her eyes closed. After a while, there was a gust of wind outside, and Xiao Lianzi went to close the window, stood in front of the window and sighed and said, "Look, it's going to rain this day." ”

Cai Wei took the soles of her shoes and said without raising her head: "It's so hot, it has to rain heavily." ”

Linlang opened her eyes and looked out through the window, and sure enough, the dark clouds in the sky were overwhelming, the wind was blowing, the trees outside the window were blown to the ground, and the dust on the ground was flying, so that people could hardly break away from their eyes. Suddenly, a lightning bolt crossed the sky, and the roaring thunder seemed to explode in the ears, and I don't know whose dog barked wildly, making people panic.

After only a moment's effort, raindrops the size of beans fell from the sky, and Xiao Lianzi hurried back to the house, probably the window in his room was not closed. Cai Wei packed up the tools for doing the work and told Linlang to go back to the house to sleep.

Linlang used to go to the toilet before going to bed, so she went to the toilet in the yard in the dark. As soon as she entered the backyard, a lightning bolt lit up the entire courtyard, and there was a black figure standing in front of her, holding a knife with a cold light in her hand, and the knife was drenched in blood, which was particularly infiltrating in such a stormy night. Linlang ran into the house with her skirt in her throat. Ran too fast and fell into the mud while going upstairs. At this time, Caiwei's room fell into darkness, and the candles were probably blown out by the wind. Linlang screamed to her mother, and after a while, Cai Wei lit a candle and came out of the house with a candle. Xiao Lianzi also ran out of the other room and exclaimed, "What's the matter? But something evil has come. ”

Xiao Lianzi saw Linlang lying on the ground on all fours, and hurriedly dragged her up. Her mouth smelled fishy sweet, and she spat on the ground, and she spat out red blood and a white granular thing. Cai Wei went over to pick it up and looked at it, and it turned out to be a tooth that had been knocked out.

Linlang wiped her mouth with her hand, her hands were full of blood, and she cried. Cai Wei gave her a glass of water, asked her to rinse her mouth first, and counted her down, saying that she was a girl's family, and she was not stable at all, and she could fall like this when she walked.

She spit out the blood in her mouth, and then said to Cai Wei with a trembling voice, "There are people in the yard." ”

Xiao Lianzi sat down on the ground in fright, and muttered blankly with his eyes: "I say, there are unclean things here." ”

Cai Wei didn't believe it, and pulled her to go to the yard to have a look, but Linlang refused to go. Cai Wei snorted: "The house is darkly lit, you wait here, I'll take a look." ”

Linlang looked at the room and couldn't see her fingers, and the black one was even more terrifying. So she closed her eyes and gritted her teeth, and grabbed Cai Wei's arm tightly to follow her. When passing by the kitchen, she also went in and got a knife that Xiao Lianzi used to chop wood in the past day. If there are really any bad people, it is good to defend yourself. Cai Wei held a lantern in her hand, which was blown by the wind and rain, and was almost extinguished. Cai Wei walked around the courtyard, Linlang lowered her head and closed her eyes, not daring to look. Cai Wei patted her on the arm, and said angrily: "How can anyone, there is not even a ghost, I will scare myself"

"Oh, mother, don't talk about ghosts." Linlang slowly raised her head and half-squinted her eyes to take a look, it was really nothing, she was dazzled just now?

Back inside, it was already crackling and raining outside. Linlang lay on the bed tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, the dark shadow just now made her still palpitate. Outside, lightning and thunder mingled with torrential rain, and the wind made the doors and windows clang. The windows in the house didn't seem to be closed tightly, and the creaking of the windows was even more annoying. She got off the bed, walked to the window, pulled it down with her hand, sure enough, it was not closed properly, and there was a gap, she closed the window, and just as she was about to turn around, there was a lightning bolt, and a person stood outside the window, with a blue and purple face, reddish-brown lips, and dark eyes looking directly at her. She sat down on the ground in fright, this was the second floor, how could that thing be outside the window. After the lightning, there was darkness all around. She slowed down for a long time before she thought about getting up from the ground, and a lightning bolt came again, but there was nothing. Linlang trembled and crawled to the side of the bed, wrapped in the quilt and ran to Cai Wei's room. Cai Wei hadn't slept yet, lighting candles and sewing clothes. Linlang climbed into bed, lay there stunned, and said to Cai Wei: "Mother, I'm afraid, I want to sleep with you." ”

Cai Wei smiled and said: "If you hit a thunderstorm, you will be scared like this, where is the strength that is usually not afraid of heaven and earth?" ”

Linlang got up from the bed, looked around cautiously and said, "Mother, I'm not afraid of thunder, there are people outside my window, no, no, no, it may be a ghost." ”

Cai Wei looked at her nervous appearance, patted her head and said, "Okay, you little brat, you know what a ghost is, scare yourself, hurry up and sleep, don't be afraid, I'm here to guard you." ”

She lay on the bed again, Cai Wei gently patted her shoulder with her hand like when she was a child, and she instantly felt relieved and slowly fell asleep.

It had rained all night, and when I woke up in the morning, it was still drizzling outside. The weather is bad, so you don't have to go to school. For breakfast, Linlang came to the window of her room with an oil-paper umbrella, except for the branches and leaves blown by the wind, there was nothing, there was no trace of footprints, it was not a person, it must be a ghost, a ghost would float, there must be no footprints. She was sad and scared, she didn't do anything bad, why did she come to her. Tell Cai Wei that she doesn't believe it, it's really a headache.

She walked around the yard with an umbrella for a long time, but she didn't find anything suspicious, so she had to give up. She went upstairs to change into a neat men's clothes, ready to go out to play, but before she stepped out of the door, she was pulled into the house by Cai Wei's ears. She cried out, "Mother, what are you doing? ”

Cai Wei crossed her waist, nodded her head and said, "It's raining, stay at home honestly, don't go anywhere, play in muddy water, and have to wash you." You said that you are a girl, how can you be so wild. ”

She pouted unhappily: "I don't go out to play, I'm so boring at home." ”

"Isn't it more fun to go upstairs to endorse, or write, than if you go out and play crazy?"

"I finished writing it yesterday, and I memorized the book, and you checked it."

"Then write it again, memorize it again." After Cai Wei finished speaking, she went to the kitchen to have lunch.

She went upstairs sullenly, took out a pen and paper, spread it on the table, and wrote and drew on the paper boringly. After a while, Xiao Lianzi came in with a bowl, she raised her eyelids carelessly, and said weakly, "What's the matter with you?" ”

Xiao Lianzi smiled, put the bowl in his hand on the table, and said flatteringly, "Taste it, it's just steamed." ”

Linlang looked at the green like vegetables in the bowl, but couldn't tell what kind of vegetables it was, and asked, "What is this?" ”

Xiao Lianzi took the chopsticks and handed them to her, saying, "Steamed wild vegetables, poured garlic juice, vinegar and chili oil, mix well and eat again." ”

When Linlang heard him say this, she couldn't help but drool in her mouth. This season, the wild vegetables in the field grow just right, the fresh wild vegetables picked from the ground, choose to wash and control the water, put in salt and an appropriate amount of flour, stir well, put it in the steamer to steam, after steaming, pour garlic vinegar and chili oil, absolutely sour and spicy, very appetizing. Or sit in a pot to heat oil, add chopped green onions and stir-fry until fragrant, and then put the steamed wild vegetables into the pot and stir-fry, the taste is another taste.

She hurriedly put away the pen and paper, held the bowl and enjoyed the food, while eating, pondering in her heart, thinking for a while, and finally asked Xiao Lianzi: "Do you believe that there are ghosts in this world?" ”

Xiao Lianzi was startled, his face turned pale, and he hurriedly asked in a low voice, "Did you see anything last night?" Otherwise you wouldn't be scared like that. ”

Linlang was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "How can I see anything, last night's lightning and thunder, I was dazzled." I'm just asking, don't take it seriously. ”

"However, I think there are ghosts in this world." Xiao Lianzi said in fear.

Cai Wei came in at some point, and asked them with a smile what they were talking about.

Linlang hesitated for a moment and asked, "Mother, do you believe that there are ghosts in this world?" ”

Cai Wei suddenly put away her smile and muttered, "If you believe it, you will have it." If you don't believe, you don't. ”

I didn't understand what Cai Wei meant, so I asked again, "Mother, are you afraid of ghosts?" ”

"I don't do anything bad in my life, and I'm not afraid of ghosts calling the door in the middle of the night." Cai Wei said.

Alas, what can she do as a girl's family, why do strange things always appear. Is it a loss to fight? Does not study hard? She couldn't figure it out, and she didn't ask anymore, so she lowered her head and continued to eat wild vegetables. After eating, Xiao Lianzi took the bowl and went back with heavy steps.

Cai Wei continued to make lunch, and when it was ready, she told her to go to the kitchen to eat. Looking at the noodles made by Cai Wei, she didn't have any appetite. She picked up a noodle, lacked interest, put it in her mouth and chewed it twice, and said to Cai Wei depressedly: "Mother, the noodles you make look very unpalatable, and the taste is even more unpalatable." ”

As soon as she finished speaking, a pair of chopsticks hit her head, "How unpalatable, don't you like to eat it the most on weekdays?" Can I still poison you? ”

She stood up indignantly and said, "Yes." ”

Cai Wei knocked over with another chopstick: "Ouch, didn't you kick your nose in the face?" Whoever gave you the courage to pick and choose here, if it is unpalatable or not, you will starve to death. ”

Linlang grinned: "Hehe, I'm not hungry, didn't you just ask Xiao Lianzi to send a bowl of steamed wild vegetables?" The taste is superb. ”

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The heavy rain fell for another day and night, and finally stopped in the morning, and Linlang finished eating and was about to go out to the school, when the street suddenly became chaotic, and some officials were beating gongs and drums, as if there was something important to announce. She stood at the door and listened, and it turned out that this heavy rain was once in a hundred years, and the river outside the city was washed away, and the flood had reached the city gate. The county government issued a notice that no one should go out of the city, lest disaster be heard.