In 1986, as soon as I graduated from XX University's normal major, I was assigned to Linxian No. 3 Middle School in a remote area of Yunnan Province to teach Chinese.

Linxian No. 3 Middle School is a well-known peasant middle school in the county, mainly recruiting some nearby rural children to study, basically do not go to junior high school, go home to farm, three classes in junior high school, only one class in high school, only more than 30 people, see that none of them can be admitted to university this year, at most they take care of one or two teachers and college escort students or something, there is no promotion rate, and there is no greater future and development space.

Almost no one here wants to come, and they are all divided into a few who don't have to go through the back door. There are seven people in total, a principal and foreign language teacher and the director of the party branch, a vice principal and head of the teaching and research group, and two other female teachers, the rest are me and Wu Jun, and an old normal student in the 50s who has not yet fully turned into a regular teacher.

The school is a bit far from the city, and the students go back to the mountain villages on all sides in the evening. There are six small bungalows in a row of newly built, but only Wu Jun and I live.

This school is backed by the mountain, during the day it looks like a piece of green shade, but at night it is different, always feel very gloomy, as soon as the sky gets dark, the back mountain will suddenly become black and very scary, especially there are all kinds of insects to make their own cries and the sound of the night wind mixed together, so that people dare not listen to the back mountain to take a step closer.

There are several tombs on the mountain, and tomb robbery was prevalent in those years, and the tombs behind the mountain were not spared, especially one of the old tombs, which was dug up so that even the coffin and the white bones inside were exposed.

Because the simple toilet in the school is too low, the taller people will show the upper half of their heads when they stand in, so I was in a hurry to urinate that day, so I slipped into the back mountain from the trail to make it convenient, for fear of being seen by the students, I slipped away a little farther, and happened to be in front of the old grave.

Out of curiosity, I went closer to take a look after peeing, but I was horrified to see that the tomb that was not so good not long ago had been excavated, and because of the low level, the whole raised tomb was concave.

Probably due to the hurry, even the soil was not well covered, only hastily covered, so due to the rain during this time, the coffin that was not rotten was exposed alive, and the most terrifying thing was the half of the white leg bones exposed in the coffin.

Even though it was broad daylight, I shuddered in the tropical woods, and I slipped back quickly, and I had been distracted in class many times that day, and I had read the wrong text, because my mind was full of the old grave and the half-cut white leg bone in the coffin.

It was an old grave with no owner and no monument, and no one went to report the crime.

But something strange happened, three months later, one evening, when it was about to get dark.

It was March 25th, and I was correcting students' essays at my desk, but the power went out suddenly, and Wu Junming was listening to music with a tape recorder next to me, and it was suddenly interrupted, so he came out to take a look, and it turned out that the whole row of houses had stopped. It was already dark, and although the whole row of houses could accommodate six people, only two people actually lived, and the other four rooms were piled with some sports goods and miscellaneous items. In other words, there are only two young teachers in the whole small school now.

When I opened the door and went out to look, I saw Wu Junming stepping on a stool to check the insurance, and then he turned his head and told me that the fuse was burned.

What to do, there's no fuse here. It seems that I can only go down the mountain to the Wujiaohua store in the county to buy it, I have a broken bicycle, so I went, because I was also in a hurry, I have a composition class tomorrow, although it is okay to light candles, but it hurts my eyes too much, and Wu Jun still wants to listen to music, he just bought a few boxes of nice tapes.

So I rode down the uneven mountain road. At this time, it is the time when the sun sets, and if you hurry up, you can rush back in half an hour, that is, before it is completely dark.

But I didn't expect that day was unexpected, first down the mountain when the car was tied by a small stone, I fell, and then rushed to the county Wujiaohua store, but there was no fuse inside, and finally I said that the old master saw that I was a teacher, and there was an emergency, a ruthless pull off a safe box in his store to me, and confiscated the money, when I said thank you, he only said that I want to teach well, I agreed casually.

But the worse thing was still to come, I got down and pushed my bicycle on the mountain road back to school, but even so, the wheel still didn't know what to puncture, I couldn't figure it out. It was tortured like this, and by the time I arrived at the school, it was completely dark.

Just as I was about to arrive at the dormitory, I suddenly heard a clear singing voice coming from Wu Junming's dormitory. It was the song that was popular at the time.

"My house is on the high slope of the loess, and the wind is chaotic from the slope, whether it is the northwest wind or the southeast wind, it is my song ........." I thought to myself, Wu Junming, this kid has been repaired.

But why don't you turn on the lights yet? Because I found that the row of bungalows was still dark. Just as I parked my bike and walked past, the singing stopped.

When I walked over, I saw Wu Junming waiting for me with an anxious face, and when he saw me coming, he said loudly, hurry up, why is it so long. I wonder what this kid is pretending to be. So, I fell, and the fuse was sold out, and I searched for a long time to find it. Oh, he said that's good, put it on, and reached out to me. I said I'm going to settle it, did you just replace it with wire, don't burn it.

He looked at me puzzled, what did he say? I thought this kid was still pretending, so I said to him, don't pretend, I heard your song playing on the tape recorder just now at the bottom of the mountain.

No, Wu Junming looked at me with a surprised face and said, I went to the toilet just now. Not in the house at all. Besides, I hear some singing, don't you? I thought to myself, maybe I misheard, it was the sound of the wind coming up from somewhere down the mountain. So I used a flashlight to light it up, and when I looked at the meter, I saw that the fuse was on it. couldn't help but get angry, turned around and shouted to Wu Junming, hey, what are you doing, make fun of me, this is a joke. I have class tomorrow.

What, Wu Junming stood below and said, why am I kidding you. Come and see for yourself, I got off the stool and said to him angrily, the fuse is good, you must have pulled the brake knife down and used me to open it. Impossible, Wu Junming climbed up and took a look for himself. And then there were no words. Then he muttered to himself, I can't believe it, it was obviously broken just now.