"I don't play with cowards either!"

"Me too!"

“……”

Gong Yiyu looked at me worriedly, stepped in front of me in two or three steps, and pouted to speak for me: "You must not scare Ari!" ”

Gong Yiyu is a head shorter than me, she is tied with two pinching in the sky, her puffy cheeks are wrinkled, and she looks angry.

My heart moved, I looked up at her back, and I only felt that she had a soft light on her body at this moment, which was very beautiful.

However, she stood up for me in exchange for louder ridicule and ridicule.

"Dumb Rui also needs the protection of the girl, not only a coward, but also a weak chicken!"

The big head pointed at me, and the snot ran down his lips, and he licked it again.

"Weak chicken, weak chicken, weak chicken!"

The ridicule made me feel very embarrassed, I bit my lip, reached out and pushed Gong Yiyu aside, and yelled, "Don't worry about it!" ”

Gong Yiyu was pushed by me, and the whole person was stunned for a moment, and then cried angrily.

Gong Yiyu's good-looking cheeks became wrinkled, tears hung in his big eyes, and he pinched his waist with both hands: "Zhao Rui, I'm not okay with you!" ”

After saying a word, Gong ran away crying.

I looked at her back and regretted it in my heart, I didn't mean to, I ......

However, this regret was soon replaced by shame.

Because of the big heads, they started laughing at me again.

"Oh! Stupid Rui dares to bully the girl, he is a cowardly coward, and he will definitely beat a bachelor in the future, like Huang Laowei, he will become old and ugly! ”

"Coward! Coward! ”

I was trembling with anger and my face was red, and I shouted, "I'm not a coward!" Don't call me a coward! ”

As I spoke, I reached out and grabbed the big man by the collar and tried to hit him.

The children around me rushed up, and I couldn't beat them, and I was pinned to the ground.

Countless punches and kicks hit me.

"Coward!"

"Whitch!"

"The big turtle that depends on the girl!"

I cried out in pain, my voice drowned out in punches and insults, and only stirred up countless dust.

Eventually, they got tired and stopped.

I still screamed, "I'm not a coward! ”

I shifted my body, grabbed the big man's trouser legs, and looked up at him fiercely.

The big head was shocked by my eyes, took two steps back, and then said angrily: "Even insects are afraid, you dare to say that you are not a coward?!" ”

He pointed to the wriggling caterpillar on the ground.

The caterpillar is also called wool in the village, and if it is stung, it will have a big bag on its body, which will hurt and itch for a long time.

I'm not afraid of wool, I'm afraid of being stung.

I looked up at the mocking faces, and my heart was full of anger, and I thought that I would rather be stung, and I would rather not be able to stand the pain, than be called a coward.

So, I reached out and grabbed the wool slab, clumped it up, and stuffed it into my mouth.

"Squeak, squeak" my teeth chewed up and down, the bloody but sweet taste fermented in my mouth, the green mucus flowed down the corners of my mouth, I only felt as if I had swallowed a thousand needles, and my tongue and mouth were densely itched.

Uncomfortable, but ...... Delicious.

I actually thought that the ugly wool was better than the eggs.

I licked my lips and the juice from the corners of my mouth, then opened my mouth to everyone and motioned for me to swallow the wool.

Everyone was stunned, including the big head.

Their eyes turned from disdain to disgust.

"Huh-how does he eat wool stalks, it's too disgusting......"

"He's not going to turn into a wool, is he?"

“……”

My mouth hurt terribly, but I still forced a smile and said flatteringly: "I dare to eat wool, I'm not a coward!" ”

When I was a child, I was always an outlier, and almost no one wanted to play with me except Gong Yiyu, but Gong Yiyu was a girl.

I desperately wanted to fit in with the boys.

The big head who came back to his senses rolled his eyes: "Cut!" What is the ability to eat bugs? If you have the ability to go and live in a ghost temple for one night, I don't care if you are called a coward! ”

I let go of my grip on his trouser leg and hung my head.

The Ghost Temple is a temple directly below the village, which enshrines a huge sculpture with a snake tail and two hands raised upwards, I don't know what it came from.

Because, the sculpture has no head.

It is said that the ghost temple has existed since my grandfather's grandfather was born, and the sculptures at that time were headless.

No one knows where the head of the sculpture has gone or what it should have looked like.

When the spring breeze of 'breaking the four olds' blew in, a group of young people in the village took shovels and shovels to smash the sculpture and tear down the ghost temple.

However, in the end, it was gone, and no one knew what was going on.

It's just that the young people who went to demolish the temple and smash the photos at that time all got strange diseases one after another, and they all died soon.

There are rumors in the village that they have collided with the ghosts and have been retaliated against.

It's also funny, theoretically speaking, ghosts are ghosts, gods are gods, and when two completely opposite words are fused together, no one can tell whether the temple worships ghosts or gods.

In short, since the death of young people, no one dares to go to the ghost temple, there is no worship, and there is no incense.

The temple was dilapidated, and only a lone sculpture sat on the altar, spending its days in the company of spiders, cockroaches and mice.

Now, it is said that some villagers passing by heard the sound of ghosts crying and howling wolves in the ruined temple every midnight, which was so miserable that it made people's scalps tingle.

My parents told me several times that I couldn't go near the ghost temple and that I would never be able to return home if I went in.

I was drumming in my heart, a little scared.

Actually, I didn't have any concept of ghost temples, just thinking that if my parents knew that I secretly went to the ghost temple, they might get angry and beat me up.

My dad hit someone, and it hurt.

But I don't want the big heads to look down on.

I gritted my teeth and said, "Just go, what's so scary?" ”

I stood up and patted the dust off my body, my face was blue and purple, and one eye was swollen and a little blurry.

I walked towards the temple of ghosts, and the big boss followed me with a group of children.

At this time, the sun was gradually setting, and the cool breeze was drilling into the cracks of the bones, and unknown birds and beasts stood on the trees, staring at us curiously.

There is a tree at the entrance of the ghost temple, the old locust tree.

The trunk of the tree hugged by ten people, with its intertwined branches, stood tall and towering, reaching into the sky, the crown of the tree was like a huge umbrella cap, and the turquoise leaves crowded with each other, blocking all the sunlight.

It's so dark under the trees, so cold.

This tree is amazing, and it is called the old tree mother by the people of the village, and it is said to have existed longer than the ghost temple.

I looked up at the tree and it always felt familiar, as if I had seen it somewhere.