For many days after that, the relationship between Meng Dongxue and me has always stayed at the stage of looking at each other and smiling. It wasn't much different from before, but because I had a brief intimacy with her in the cabin on the cowshed that night, maybe that's why I was at a loss.

I'm a person who knows little about women, so I can't guess what Meng Dongxue thinks in her heart. At least for myself, I'm conflicted. Since Ji Youan and her roommate went back, I still slept in the hall every day, and every time Meng Dongxue went out early and returned late, although I didn't want her to notice my concern and attention, I still couldn't help but look at the way she left or went home from time to time.

I thought that if I could just pierce this layer of paper, I wouldn't have to guess all day. But I didn't have the courage to say it, and I finally realized that I wasn't afraid to say it to her, but I was afraid of being rejected if I said it. Under the same roof, it will be even more embarrassing when the time comes.

I thought about it for many days, and my spirit was greatly reduced. After Ji Youan was rescued by me, he naturally inevitably talked more about my luxury in front of others. As a result, I noticed that many young people looked at me differently, and their attitudes gradually changed. Yes, in such a village, even if people like me belong to an alternative existence, they can still gradually be respected by everyone.

Finally, one day, the captain of the production team came to me and said that his little nephew seemed to have bumped into something unclean and asked me to help. I didn't hesitate to say yes when I didn't know anything about it.

Because I need a reason to stop thinking about it for a while, or even to get out of here for a while.

Maybe I promised it well, which made the production team leader a little surprised. His family lives in the village, and his nephew who had an accident this time is the child of his sister's family, and his sister married into another village, which is about half a day's journey from us. So I now not only had a reason to divert my attention, but also a reason to leave the village for a while.

I agreed without even asking about the matter, and made an appointment to wait for him at their house in the village the next morning.

I didn't even say anything about Aunt Xu, I just told her that I had to go out. The next day, when the day was just starting to polish, I left Aunt Xu's house lightly. This short journey of more than a mile actually gave me a feeling of escaping from the torment, and it was extremely easy to walk.

The production captain's surname is Li, and the people in the village call him "Captain Li". Unlike the village chief, the village chief is responsible for managing the idle affairs of the village and coordinating the shortcomings of the villagers' parents. The production team leader is only responsible for farming and harvesting. In those days, each household was required to pay a certain share of grain to the state every month or quarter, according to the capitation and political composition, and in return, in the form of accumulating "work points", each person was assessed for their monthly work. Those who are qualified can get some grain that they have not grown at home, as well as meat, wine, cloth, etc., and not only that, but also money.

It sounds very good, but in fact, it is still the things that the landlord did back then.

On the way to another village, Captain Li told me about this incident.

His 8-year-old nephew was sent to the town's central primary school in September because of his late start to school in the countryside. The previous month was peaceful, and the children worked hard in school. The village is not far from the town, so the children go to school in the morning and come home after school in the afternoon to help with the chores they can. Eight-year-olds can't do much, so they can only help cut the pigweed or feed the poultry and livestock, and only after that's done can they start their homework.

Captain Li said that just a week ago, the child came home from school as usual and helped the family go to the back mountain to cut bamboo, but this time he didn't go home overnight. When the family waited until the evening dinner was served, they saw that the child had not returned, so they were very anxious, and the whole family mobilized and pulled the nearby villagers to look for the child all over the mountains, but they never found it. The next day, I continued to look for it during the day, thinking that I might be able to see more clearly if there was light, but I still couldn't find it.

Captain Li told me that the countryside is small, and there is a little bit of sesame mung beans, and soon the whole village will know about it. Although everyone is worried about the safety of their children, there will inevitably be some wild speculation. It is said that the child was taken away by a wolf, or that he encountered a poisonous insect and poisonous snake and fell to the bottom of the mountain, and some people even said that he was deceived by a stranger with candy.

In just one day, speculation and rumors were circulating everywhere. This is a very big blow to his sister's family, although people's speculations have not been confirmed, but those situations are exactly what they are worried about. I interrupted Captain Li and said, didn't you report the child when he got lost? Captain Li said, of course, the case was reported, and the police comrades came, but my sister's village, because it is close to the town, so the scope of the village is quite large, and the people in the neighboring village are somewhat unfamiliar, and they don't know if they went to the neighboring village to play or something, such a large area, most of them are wild land and farmland, and it is very difficult to find an eight-year-old child.

Captain Li went on to say that on the afternoon of the second day of his disappearance, news finally came that the child had been found in a bamboo forest about ten miles away from home, but when he was found, he was naked, lying on his side between several thick bamboos, with his hands on his knees, his head buried between his arms, and the whole person looked like a ball. And when I found it, the child didn't respond, I thought it was dead, but I soon woke up, and when people asked what was going on with the child, the child looked confused, as if he didn't know what had happened halfway.

Judging from what Captain Li told me, if a person walks in the mountains and suddenly disappears, and after being found, he has no memory of the memories in the mountains, such as how he got there, and why he didn't have clothes on his body, and other things, I preliminarily judge that there are two possibilities for the child. The first is that after all, he is young and his soul has not grown neatly, so it is easy to squeeze out some evil things wandering in the mountains, this method is the same as the child named Liao Yuxuan at the funeral scene of the Wang family in the village at the earliest. On the other hand, it is possible that the ghost is hitting the wall.

The so-called ghost hitting the wall, most of the time it refers to people going back and forth in one place, but they can't get out. It's like getting into a labyrinth, and what you see in front of you and what you actually walk under your feet are not the same path. Most of this situation occurs in rural areas and grave hills. In the past, the transportation was inconvenient, and after returning home from a busy day's work, many people had to pass by some scattered graves, and at this time, it was very likely that ghosts would hit the wall. However, ghosts hitting the wall are basically harmless to people, at most, they just feel strange, and they will not have any bad effects on people afterwards.

However, it is worth mentioning that ghosts hitting the wall, in rare cases, can also cause harm. It depends on the motives of the "ghost" who makes the ghost hit the wall. For example, some people walk at night, inexplicably get into the cemetery, and then have a blank memory halfway, and when they come back to their senses, it is already dawn, and they realize that I slept in the cemetery last night. This situation is similar to what Captain Li's nephew encountered. But there is another one that is more dangerous, the way the ghost hits the wall is the same, but the result is completely different. For example, if someone walks on the road in a good manner, he sees that there is a straight road in front of him, and when he steps over it, he realizes that it is a cliff or a river. As a result, most people will die. The initiators of this kind of ghost hitting the wall are mostly evil ghosts, and they have not appeared once, and the victims are either dead or injured.

Captain Li's nephew was not injured, but there was no way to guarantee whether the ghost he encountered was good or evil, because after all, he was naked, it was the end of the year, and the countryside was already colder, plus a place like the bamboo forest, it was relatively humid, and it was even more cold at night, so this child was naked all night, even if the person did not die, it was estimated that it would hurt his vitality.

But I didn't tell Captain Lee about these speculations, because at the moment I just think it may be, but it may not be. So I asked Captain Lee to follow up on what happened.

Captain Li told me that after the child was sent home, the parents cried and scolded at the same time, this child is more sensible, in the past, when he saw his parents sad, he would definitely comfort or cry together, but this time he did not react at all, his expression was sluggish, he could not concentrate, and he felt very numb to the things around him.

I asked, does he remember that this place is his home, and these two people are his parents? The reason why I ask this is because of the sudden change in temperament, and it may also be caused by a ghost. But Captain Li said, of course I know, after returning home, everything is the same as an ordinary child, three meals a day and night, play and sleep when you should play, but your parents are worried about his state, and temporarily ask for leave from the primary school in the town, so this week is in their own home.

Hearing him say that, I was a little confused. Originally, based on Captain Li's description, I had a preliminary judgment of the child's symptoms in my heart. But whenever my judgment first appeared, he refuted it with other facts. Captain Li said that although the child felt nothing else, as a family member who got along day and night, how could he not notice that the child suddenly seemed to have changed as if he had changed a person?

So the child's mother, hiding from the child's father, secretly went to find an 80-year-old "sesame oil woman" in the village, and asked the hemp oil woman to help see what happened to the child when he fell to the ground, but the hemp oil woman said that she saw that the child's hands, feet and waist were wrapped around thick ropes, and they were pulling into the distance, but the child did not notice that something was pulling him.

I was shocked in my heart, if the fantasy seen by the hemp oil woman was accurate, then the child might not be far from death.