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When the school came down, there was a mountain rushing on the side of the village. That Chong is full of towering ancient trees, but where there is a little open space, it is also densely covered with bamboo.

A long time ago, there was a huge chestnut tree in Shanchong, and a very small chestnut fell, and the particles were ten times larger than the rice grain, and the people of Wendouzhai called it "rice chestnut".

When I was a child, we would pass by there after school, and we would often take out the books and stationery boxes in our schoolbags and put them on the side of the road, and then run into the row and pick up half of the schoolbags full of spiky rice chestnut balls. Then they rushed back to the side of the road, poured out the rice chestnut balls, and put the books back in them. Find another stone, crack open the rice chestnut ball, take out the rice chestnut, and put it in your pocket.

The rice chestnut particles are very small, but they are bitten open and peeled with your teeth, and they are very fragrant to eat, and you can eat them all the way home.

In my impression, the sun does not shine in that place all year round, it is gloomy and quite crazy, and you must wait for a lot of people before you dare to go together.

The place was too humid, and the bamboo forest was too dense, and the ants crawled along the bamboo trees all over the chestnut trees. Over the years, the chestnut tree has been hollowed out. Then, on a thunderstorm night, the chestnut tree collapsed. Since then, very few people have gone there again.

Later, the fifth brother cut down a bamboo forest under the chestnut tree, dug up a piece of flat land, and built a wooden building on stilts. However, I have never been. Every time my father asked me to go to my fifth brother's house for dinner, I would find an excuse to slip away when I remembered that there were many ants and mosquitoes in the bamboo forest.

When the fifth sister-in-law first married from a village deep in the mountains, she was as beautiful as a flower. With a beautiful dream, she and her fifth brother lived a poor life in the bamboo forest. At that time, her face was ruddy and ruddy, and she went down to do farm work all day long, went up the mountain to chop wood and beat pigweed, and always smiled happily when she met people.

Half a year later, she became pregnant with a child. However, when she gave birth in October, the baby was stillborn.

The second child could not escape the fate of premature death.

The fifth brother pinned their hopes on the third child, but they didn't expect the third child to die young.

That morning, the weather was a little cold, and I heard a desolate cry from the bamboo forest, and I felt a sad and helpless atmosphere in the village quietly throughout the morning, which made people a little suffocated.

The fifth brother was angry, so he went to the outside of the mountain to work part-time.

After the fifth brother left, the fifth sister-in-law went crazy. She was often heard crying and shouting hoarsely in the middle of the night, and the wooden building was tossed to a "bang". Sometimes, I'm even worried that she will set the wooden building on fire.

The bamboo forest is not suitable for living in that place, how to go to that place to build a house. People passing by on the village said.

The life of the fifth sister-in-law is really more bitter than the bitter cauliflower!

Later, someone from the fifth sister-in-law's family came and took her back.

I heard that soon after her return, her madness was much better. There happened to be a middle-aged man in his 37 or 8th year in the neighboring village who lost his wife, and the fifth sister-in-law went to fill in the house. Since then, our two families have broken off their relationship.

In that rush, there are owls moving all year round, and from time to time I hear a strange call. In the summer, there are swarms of mosquitoes buzzing around the bamboo forest unscrupulously.

Every time I pass by that bamboo forest, I am reminded of the dreams of two young people that once withered in the bamboo forest.

Later, after the fifth brother came back from other places, he demolished and sold the house. Many years later, a bamboo forest was restored, but it is still terrifying.