I was eight years old when I left Elm's Nest.

That day, Grandma Li took me by the hand and carried me all the way to the mountain pass, sighing all the way.

Walking in front of me was a man who had known each other for less than two days, and he said, I should call him Dad.

Walking behind was a woman who had known each other for less than two days, and she said, I should call her Mom.

Yes, I am an orphan, a poor little who was thrown into the mountains waiting to be fed to the wolves.

"Nanxing, remember, the fox barks, the stove is around, either the beam of the house is off, or the evil ghost laughs. Run. ”

It's been ten years. Standing under the old elm tree in the mountain pass again, I suddenly remembered Grandma Li's words.

Yumuwo is a small mountain village, hidden deep in the mountains, twenty or thirty families, but a hundred people, farming for generations. On the south side, there is a mountain road leading to the outside world, and it takes three hours to reach another small village.

The layout of the village can still coincide with what it looks like in memory.

The car stopped at the entrance of the village, and immediately attracted the attention of the children in the village, and five or six ran to this side and stood by to watch.

At the base of the wall sat a couple of old men, who I couldn't remember, and they certainly didn't recognize me.

I stepped forward and asked, "Grandpa, I'm Nanxing, do you remember me?"

The old man was still smiling at first, and looked kind, but when he heard my name, he was stunned at first, looked at me carefully, and then all the people who were hula stood up and left in horror.

I didn't know what was going on, so I hurriedly chased after me and said, "I'm Nanxing, Little Star." ”

The old man who walked behind didn't look back and said, "Run......

The four or five little children, when they saw the old man shouting, ran away.

Brother Xu said with a surprised face: "What's the matter?"

I shook my head and said, "I don't know." Let's go see Grandma Li first. ”

Passing through a few houses, it is Grandma Li's house.

But what about Grandma Li? What happened to the house?

What caught my eye was a dilapidated thatched house, with a collapsed roof and a courtyard wall that had collapsed in half. The yard was overgrown with weeds, and clumps of shrubs had grown, and there was even a plane tree, standing in the doorway, which had grown to the thickness of the mouth of a bowl. What I can't understand even more is that there are many pieces of white cloth hanging on the trees, walls, and collapsed beams, and there is an open space in front of the house, where no grass grows, and it looks like a lot of paper money has been burned, leaving a layer of paper ash.

My heart sank, and I rushed to the front of the house. wanted to go in, but was pulled by Brother Xu.

I looked at the house that had long since collapsed, and there were tears in my eyes, but I couldn't get it out.

"Attention big guys, big guys pay attention, Nanxing is alive! Nanxing is alive!"

The loudspeakers in the village were noisy.

What does it mean that Nanxing is alive? Haven't I always lived well?

I wiped tears from the corners of my eyes, and just as I was about to get out of the yard, I caught a glimpse of what seemed to be moving on the stove out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head to see a white animal lying on it, staring at me with round eyes.

Brother Xu was puzzled: "Isn't that a fox?"

Fox, I've seen it on TV, and the one in front of me is a little different from the one on TV, with a snow-white body and a pair of small eyes looking straight at us. I didn't even recognize it as a fox for a while, and I thought whose white rabbit had come here. was reminded by Brother Xu, and only then did he recognize it.

The fox, seeing that we were all looking at it, seemed threatened, stood up, circled around the stove for the most part, and bowed over to look at us.

I saw that it was cute and took a step forward. Who knows, the fox rushed out of the stove, screamed in panic, ran out of the yard, turned the corner, and disappeared.

I was taken aback. Just when I was at a loss, there was a clutter of footsteps and shouts outside the yard. Through the collapsed courtyard wall, it can be seen that a group of people wielding sticks and hoes climbed over the courtyard wall and rushed over.

Brother Xu reacted quickly, grabbed me, and ran outside the yard. Out of the village, it was the road, and a group of people chased after us, throwing stones and sticks in their hands at us from time to time.

Crazy, the people in the village are crazy.

Running to the front of the car, Brother Xu opened the trunk, held a steel pipe in his hand, and pointed at the villagers at the other end and shouted, "Don't come here!"

The group of people, old and young, men and women, surrounded us in more than 20 people. I know these people. There is the aunt of the Cui family who once gave me corn porridge to drink, the second brother of the Li family who helped Grandma Li harvest sweet potatoes, and the second uncle Cui who once carried me for dozens of miles to send me to the hospital. But now, with crazy eyes, gritted teeth, and waved sticks, they surrounded me at the entrance of the village, and looked like they had eaten me alive.

I asked timidly, "Second Uncle Cui, what happened?"

Second Uncle Cui pointed at me with the stick in his hand and said: "Ghost baby, don't say anything about killing your Grandma Li, and dig the grave again and again, whose grave in the village has not been dug up by you? Unthankful, you will be punished and damned!"

"You nonsense!" I retorted, "I haven't been back since I left here." ”

As I was talking, a cold wind blew, which made my ears hurt, and there was a feeling of swelling and pain in my ear holes. At the same time, a strange cry came from inside the village.

The others seemed to hear the voice, and they all turned their heads to look at the village. I don't know who shouted: "The old ghost is here again!"

A group of people hula, and they ran away without a trace in an instant.

Brother Xu was shocked and asked, "What was the sound just now?" ”

"It seems to have come from Grandma Li's house. ”

In the direction of Grandma Li's house, there are no other residents. In the past, it was a poplar forest outside the village, and there was a cemetery on the other side of the forest.

"Whoa"

A cry came from behind him, and when he turned his head, he saw that it was the white fox just now. It jumped over and ran down the road towards the village. When I got around the corner, he stopped to look at me.

Brother Xu screamed strangely: "It's strange, this fox is still human." Looks like we want to follow it. ”

I also think this fox is weird, there must be something wrong. He answered and followed. When the fox saw us coming, he turned around and ran, until he ran into Grandma Li's house, and slipped into the main house.

The house was crumbling and crumbling, with a beam perched against the gable, rotting.

I wanted to follow up, but I was pulled by Brother Xu. "You wait here, I'll go in and see. ”

As he spoke, he bent down and got in.

Just as he was about to remind him to be careful, there was a sudden click, and he saw the beam break from the middle and slammed down. Brother Xu just bent down and went in, but he didn't have time to dodge, and he was smashed on his back and fell to the ground.

I exclaimed, not thinking about anything else, so I went in and moved the beams out of the way. Fortunately, the beams in this room are not very thick, and they are already very brittle due to decay over time, except for startling Brother Xu, it just cut his shoulder, which is not a big deal.

Pulling us back into the courtyard, the white fox peeked out of the door, looked at us, and shrank back. Cooing and screaming, I don't know if I was disappointed that I didn't hurt us.

I glared at it fiercely. Suddenly, a chill ran down his spine, and the cold hairs on his body stood up.

"The fox barks, the stove goes around, either the beams of the house fall off, or the evil ghost laughs. Run. ”

Grandma Li's words appeared in my mind again.

The fox, the stove, and the beams of the house are all together, and only the evil spirits remain. Could it be that Grandma Li already knew what was going to happen today?

I looked around in fear, and finally stared at the stove in a daze, unable to take my eyes off it.

I don't know if I was dazzled and looked away, or if the stove was really moving.

I pulled Brother Xu's clothes and said, "Brother Xu, look at the stove...... The stove is turning. ”

Brother Xu was still patting the dust on his body, listening to me call him, he also turned his head to look at the stove.

"I didn't turn around. What's wrong?"

"The stove is really turning. Fox, that fox jumped over!"

When Brother Xu saw me like this, he pulled me abruptly and blocked me in front of me. I couldn't see the stove, and I woke up in a trance, and I was already in a cold sweat. Brother Xu said: "This village is so evil, let's go quickly." ”

After saying that, he pulled me and walked outside. But when he turned around, the white fox was sitting at the gate, and when he saw us turn around, he raised his butt and ran towards the poplar forest.

We chased out the door, but we only saw a figure. There is a poplar forest on the other side, and on the outside is a cemetery, and through the gaps in the trees, you can faintly see several new graves, floating some white silk.

Naturally, we didn't have the heart to chase this fox. Go straight out of the village, get into the car, and return the way you came. Through the glass, we could vaguely see a few villagers standing in front of their houses, watching us leave from a distance, and then turning around and closing the door.

Just when I was about to withdraw my gaze, I suddenly found that Grandma Li's house collapsed with a bang, and a large cloud of dust rose up. A vague shadow stood in the middle of the yard, waving at me.

My scalp immediately tingled, and I hurriedly shouted, "Brother Xu, stop, stop!"

Pull open the door and jump out of the car. From here, there is a shadow of a person somewhere. Only the fallen house still had a plane tree with the thick mouth of the bowl that had been overwhelmed.

Brother Xu was also taken aback by the scene in front of him, and he trembled when he spoke: "Nan Xing'er, what's going on?

How do I know what will be. The impression of Grandma Li has always been kind and smiling, whoever has a headache and brain fever, as long as it is not a major problem, she can cure it. At that time, everyone in the village respected her and liked me. But now, when the people in the village see me, it's like seeing a ghost. It can be seen from their tones that after Grandma Li died, she was not treated by them. What happened in this village?

Whoa. A shout came from the back seat of the car. I was shocked. Brother Xu was also startled and turned his head to look. A pointed face almost clubbed on Brother Xu's face. Brother Xu screamed in fright, and the car went down to the side of the road.

The fox, the snow-white fox, was lying quietly on the back of the saddle, staring at us with its head stunned......