Chapter 40: Ghost Stories

"Haunted?" I was surprised. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info I already know that there are no ghosts in this world, although I also hope that ghosts can come to the world once in a while so that I can see them.

It's just a pity that that's not possible.

"How could it be...... What about haunting? But you don't seem to be afraid. I asked, surprised. I didn't know what he meant by ghosts, and I was a little surprised that such a young boy would talk so calmly about hauntings.

"I'm not scared, because I don't know why I have the feeling that this ghost doesn't seem to hurt me."

There is no one else in Ah Chu's house, and the furniture is very simple and old, which should be a rather poor family. He didn't even have tea at home, so he just brought a big iron kettle and poured me some water in a porcelain bowl with a small mouth missing.

I was also a little thirsty from walking, so I sat down in a rough wooden chair, drank water, and listened to him tell a story about "hauntings."

Ah Chu's father died of illness before he could remember, and Ah Chu could barely remember what his father looked like. Three years ago, after his mother also died, Ah Chu, who was only 14 years old at the time, had no other relatives, so he lived alone and worked hard to live.

I was surprised before, how could a boy who was only sixteen or seventeen years old, who had not yet become an adult, and was spoiled by his family, be able to do it to such an extent?

It turned out that he had such an unfortunate and difficult experience, which made me feel a sense of sympathy for him.

Because he has been dependent on his mother since he was a child, Ah Chu has been helping his mother work in and out of the house since he was a child, and he is sensible very early. Even so, his mother died young, leaving him alone in the world.

By now, it has been almost three years, and he has gradually become accustomed to the life of a man. You have to support yourself on your own, and you have to fulfill your mother's wish, go to school, and be a literate person, which is really hard for a teenager. The neighbors around him saw that he was pitiful and gave him a lot of care, but time still passed quickly in hardships, and it was today in a blink of an eye.

Every morning, Ah Chu wakes up early, feeds the family's livestock, and then goes to the field to take care of the crops and vegetables. After doing farm work, he would climb over a mountain, go to school in the town on the other side of the mountain, come back from school in the afternoon, and work in the fields for a while, then finish the day's work and go home to cook. After eating, he would read a book for a while before going to bed.

It's a bit monotonous, but it's full every day. Learning something new every day, self-sufficiency with the fruits of one's own labor, the whole person is like a spring tree, growing towards the sky.

But these days, things seem to have suddenly gone wrong.

I don't remember exactly what day it started, but in short, in the past week, the daily routine is still those daily routines, and nothing has changed, but I just feel that something is different.

It was as if in the dark, there was a pair of eyes staring at him all the time.

In the morning, he got up at dawn and went to work in the fields by the glimmer of the morning light. From the time of the sting, spring ploughing began, but at this time, the day was not early enough, and the wind was still quite cold.

The surroundings are very quiet, only the occasional chirping of birds. Unlike Ah Chu, people who work in the countryside still need to go to class after finishing their work quickly in the morning, so few people come out to work so early. With the arrival of the sting, not only the insects and snakes began to move, but also the orioles began to chirp. The early morning bird calls are very good, and they have always been a good friend of Ah Chu who squatted in the fields and worked in the fields.

However, in the past two days, while working in the fields, there are always birds that are suddenly startled and flutter away, as if they have been frightened by something. And in the woods and grass beside the fields, there was always a sudden "rustling" sound, as if some man or beast was quickly crawling through.

Ah Chu picked up the hoe and carefully went to the place where the sound came from, but there was nothing, not even a shadow could be seen.

At first, Ah Chu didn't care about it, but later similar things appeared in life one after another.

Every morning, Ah Chu passed by Granny Zhu's shop before going to school, and always went in to buy a carton of fresh milk. There is only one small shop in the village, and Granny Zhu's son drives far away to buy goods, sells some daily necessities that are not available in the village and cannot produce them themselves, and transports the things produced by the people in the village to the outside to hand over to the merchants who buy agricultural products. There are no cows in the village, so milk can only be bought in boxes in small shops.

Even if life is relatively hard, buying a carton of milk every day is a habit of Ah Chu. He planned the output of his labor, tried to produce a little more, and maintained the habit.

Because this habit was developed when his mother was there, and it continued from a very young age.

"A carton of milk a day can make Ah Chu grow into a strong young man!"

Mother's sweet smile has always remained in my mind, and I have never left. She was a beautiful woman who came to this isolated village from out of town twenty years ago, married her father, and settled down. She is knowledgeable, but she does not like the hustle and bustle of the city, and is willing to live quietly here with her father. Ah Chu didn't know how his mother came to this village, first because of his father, or because he simply liked this kind of life?

Even if she lives here in peace, the mother still wants her son to be a knowledgeable person, fully understand the world, and have the ability to make his own choices at the crossroads of fate - what kind of life he wants.

So, even though his mother is gone, Ah Chu retains the habit of buying a carton of milk every day. If she had a spirit in the sky, she would be very happy to see it, right?

But a few days ago, after buying milk, as usual, I stood next to the garbage can in front of the small shop and drank the milk in my hand. After drinking, before I could habitually throw the milk carton into the garbage can, I heard the garbage can "bang", and the rotating lid on the top turned on its own as if it had been slapped by something.

Ah Chu was startled, instinctively took a few steps back, and the lid of the trash can spun on its own for a while, and its strength failed, and it gradually stopped.

Ah Chu calmed his heartbeat and walked around the garbage can twice, and the garbage can stood quietly, returning to its original state, no longer making strange sounds.

There was no one around, no wind, no rats, no birds, and just now, if I hadn't seen it wrong, it was a strange thing that shouldn't have happened.

Originally, Ah Chu thought that he hadn't slept well and was confused, but when the same situation happened on the second and third days, at the same time, in the same place, and in the same situation, he could no longer convince himself that he was dazzled or misunderstood.