The year of 2,000 years is known as the millennium, and when I was 14 years old, Hetu had become a big man. The boy's talent for reading was far less than his mastery of Taoism, and he was seventeen years old.

Eighteen-year-old Hetu was already able to follow behind his master and do simple rituals, such as which child was frightened and which Yang's house door needed to be opened in what direction. Cha Wenbin has gradually stopped asking about these things, and he has begun to stay at home more and more, not going out of the door, and not stepping out of the second door.

And because of my studies, I began to go to my grandmother's place less and less, and at the age of fifteen, I had already started to live in junior high school.

Speaking of that junior high school, it has carried the prosperity of my father's generation, and now I have also stepped into the old school that has cultivated generations after generations: Yangcun Middle School.

This junior high school was the closest to my house at that time, and it was located halfway up the mountain, and to get to school, I had to go up a long slope, about 200 meters. At that time, everyone rode bicycles to school, and the young men often compared who could ride directly from the bottom of the slope to the school gate at the top of the slope, but until I graduated, no one could make it to the top, which shows how long and steep the slope is.

Every Sunday afternoon, I ride to school with vegetables and rice, go home on Wednesday evening to get vegetables and rice, and have a holiday on Friday evening. You can go home twice a week and live at the school the rest of the time.

Because the school is located in a rural area, there are not many students, one grade is divided into two classes, A and B, and the total number of teachers and staff in the three grades is less than 300. There is no special dormitory building, the old teaching building is renovated, the first floor is a men's dormitory, the second floor is a women's dormitory, and a large iron door is set up in the middle of the first floor leading to the second floor, which is managed by a special dormitory manager.

The conditions in the school were very difficult, and the twenty or so men lived in half a classroom in bunk beds, and there were several old desks piled up with basins and lunch boxes for vegetables. There is no bathroom in the dormitory, and there is no bathroom, so the boys are shirtless and flushed with cold water outside in the summer, and in the winter, they simply stay up for three days and go home once to wash again, because the terrain is too high, and the water is often cut off.

This two-story dormitory building was only lived in in the second year, and the first year was a one-story bungalow, which was also changed by the old teacher. This place is still the teacher where my father and their students studied, and you can imagine the dilapidated situation in it. But at that time, everyone had the same conditions, and they had never seen how the children in the city lived, and thought that the whole of China was like this, so no one complained.

In the first year of junior high school, my mother helped me lay the quilt and left with the other parents after leaving 20 yuan, I remember the first meal that night, because the water in the lunch box was less, the rice was raw, it was a good raw material for making the first meal, and I ate it with tears in my eyes.

The flat-story dormitory building was demolished the following year, why was it demolished? It's because there was a homicide in the dormitory.

A girl who was one year older than me committed suicide by drinking pesticides in the dormitory, and there were different opinions at the time about why she committed suicide. Some people say that she is under too much pressure to study, and some people say that she is in conflict with the teacher, but in fact, her grades are quite good, she is also beautiful, and she is a very sensible girl, her name is Yang Li.

At that time, we needed to study in the evening, from half past six to ten o'clock, because everyone lived on campus, so that the school could be managed in a unified manner, and there were no special circumstances, so we could not be absent. It was Sunday, and on the first night of school, Yang Li asked her teacher for leave, saying that she was not in good health and wanted to rest in the dormitory. The teacher naturally did not suspect that this good student with excellent character and learning would lie, and asked her classmates to send her back to the dormitory with concern, and after the evening self-study, the loud scream of the first girl to open the dormitory door spread almost throughout the entire campus, and I was frightened when I brushed my teeth at the door with a toothbrush.

The smell of pesticides in a bedroom is methamidophos, a pesticide that used to be common in rural areas, highly toxic! At that time, I also went to watch, Yang Li was neatly dressed and sat on the head of her own bed leaning on the lower bunk, her head tilted to the side, her mouth full of white foam was still sandwiched in blood, her nostrils were also full of foam, her hair covered half of her face, her hands were spread on both sides, and one of them was holding an empty bottle.

How much courage it is to drink a whole bottle of methamidophos, why this flowery girl would choose to embark on such a road of no return, no one can understand.

Her death completely shattered the tranquility of the school, and all the children did not dare to stay in the school anymore. It was too late for the school to let the rest of the students go home overnight, so we all gathered in our respective teachers and stayed up until daytime. That night, many girls were scared and cried, especially the girls in the dormitory with Yang Li, who said that they didn't dare to continue to stay in school, at that age, we couldn't accept the impact of death directly.

Yang Li's death had no warning, she didn't fall in love, she didn't have conflicts with anyone, her reading grades have always been among the best, she can go to a key high school stably, her family background is okay, and she has no difficulties in life. Later I learned that she was determined to die that night, because in addition to the bottle of pesticide, she had cut the veins with a razor blade, almost cutting off most of the wrist of her left hand, and turning the skin and flesh to both sides.

The biggest surprise was that she took a shower after returning to the dormitory, wiped herself with hot water, and changed into a brand new red dress, which was a birthday gift from her aunt, and that night was also her birthday. The label on the skirt was not torn off, it was that blood-red dress, her skin was very white, and she looked good and beautiful in this color......

The teachers forbade us to say anything about her death, and we stayed until dawn before rushing out of the schoolyard. The news of a student committing suicide at Yangcun Middle School spread all over the district because of us children, and we were all on vacation that week.

Because there is no evidence that this matter is related to the school, Yang Li's death can only be defined as suicide, so this murder case is over, and everyone thinks that she is under too much pressure, except for Yang Li's mother. This middle-aged rural woman still refused to believe that her daughter would choose such a path, so she made a decision: until the truth is found, Yang Li's body must not be buried! She rented an ice coffin and placed her daughter's body in it, just like that in the room where she had lived.

A week later, we resumed the school year, but no students dared to live on campus, so in desperation, the school decided to arrange a teacher to sleep with each dormitory, and sealed the room where Yang Li was alive with a wooden board.

During that time, some students often said that they heard someone crying in the dormitory area, and some students said that when they got up at night to go to the toilet, they saw a person in red clothes walking around in the playground, and some people said that they went back to the classroom to get things after the evening self-study and saw Yang Li appear in her original seat. I don't know if the students were playing a prank and deliberately spreading the falsehood, or if they really heard and saw it, but in short, the whole campus was in a panic, and even the teachers who slept with them began to be anxious and restless.

At the beginning, more and more parents asked the school to give up the boarding system, and in the face of strong pressure, the students who were close to the road were allowed to go home after evening self-study, and they were all picked up by their parents, otherwise no one would dare to walk down the long slope alone. But more people like me who are far away, at least 200 people, still have to choose to live on campus.

Some parents also suggested that someone who understood it would be a practitioner, but this is a school, a base for promoting atheism, so how could the school agree. As a result, the rumors of the haunting of the campus continued, and in the end, the number of teachers who slept with them increased to two, and all of them did not dare to get up again at night, and all of them prayed under the quilt to hurry up until dawn.

Except for me, during that time, I slept soundly, which had something to do with being bold since childhood. My bed was against the window, and I did seem to see a woman in red floating around outside the window when I was dazed, but she didn't come looking for me, so why should I pay attention to her?

In the spring of the following year, the new school building was completed, and we began to move to last year's school building, which was the two-story dormitory building, and the original row of bungalow dormitory buildings were all bulldozed by modern bulldozers in one day, and according to the plan, there will be a new auditorium and library on that site.

When they arrived in the new dormitory, everyone began to gradually forget about the murder case last year, because of a new environment, half a year has passed, and life and study have gradually started to get on the right track. It's just that when we first forgot her, she didn't forget us