The essence of good and evil is the same, and it is nothing more than the actions of human beings to make up for their own shortcomings. - Eight generations of learning

This is a remote mountain village at the beginning of the XXI century.

The village is in a dilapidated state, with dozens of families scattered around.

At the entrance of the village, there is a towering ancient tree with very exaggerated growth, the lush branches and leaves are dense, almost covering a radius of dozens of meters, and it is no exaggeration to describe it as covering the sky and the sun.

It's summer at this time, and the branches and leaves of the ancient trees are densely crawled with many cicadas, and occasionally the sunlight passes through the gaps in the branches and leaves, leaving small yellow dots on the ground.

It was the shadow of summer.

Out of nowhere, there were bursts of summer cicadas, "squeaky ......", which was very annoying.

Cicadas are amazing creatures, they live underground for several years or even more than ten years, just to crawl out of the dark underground and survive for dozens of days.

So in this short time, it chirped desperately, just to bloom the most gorgeous moment of life.

It's just that in the eyes of humans, the sound doesn't seem so good.

There are a few worn-out wooden benches randomly placed under the ancient trees, which seem to be some years old, and it feels as if they will fall apart directly with a little more force.

At this moment, on one of the wooden benches with a backrest, a little boy was lying leisurely.

The little boy looked like he was eleven or twelve years old, with his hands on the handle of the wooden stool, his legs crossed, his mouth humming an unknown little song, and his little feet were shaking. From time to time, he also picked up the tea jar with the paint off beside him, took two sips of wolfberry tea beautifully, and made a "purring" sound, and did not forget to chirp twice after drinking.

At the age of eleven or twelve, he was stunned to live out the feeling of an eighty-one or twelve-year-old cadre!

"Li-Da-Fu!! you are secretly drinking your father's wolfberry tea again!"

Daifuku was frightened, and the stool that was already swaying was so swaying that he fell apart directly, and then he sat on the ground.

I saw a woman in her thirties walking from a distance, her face was gloomy and vigorous, although the corners of her eyes were a little wrinkled, but her skin was well maintained, she looked like a little girl in her twenties, and it could be seen that she must have been a beauty who harmed the party when she was young.

Daifuku was still rubbing his sore buttocks, so he was grabbed by the ears and picked up, like a rabbit with his ears pinched.

"It hurts, it hurts, Mom, you light!" Dafuku's buttocks were still hot and painful, and after being pulled like this, his ears hurt more than his buttocks, and he didn't know whether to cover his ears or his buttocks for a while.

"Let you steal your dad's wolfberry tea, that's for your dad to replenish his body!"

"Yo! Meiling, I feel so sorry for your wood, I drink wolfberry tea every day. What's the matter? I want to make a second blessing brother for your family's big fortune!"

"Hahaha......"

Several middle-aged women next to them burst into laughter instantly.

The woman's full name is Zhang Meiling, Li Dafu's mother, and the 'wood' in their mouths is actually her husband Li Mutou, a carpenter in the village.

Because of his good carpentry work, the people in the village gave him such a nickname, and as for Li Mutou's real name, everyone has long forgotten it.

When Meiling heard the ridicule of these people, she instantly blushed, and her beautiful face added a little shyness, which looked particularly moving.

Daifuku took the opportunity to escape from his mother's 'clutches', hiding behind the woman who had just spoken, and did not forget to make a face at his mother.

The woman who spoke just now is called Xiuli, everyone calls her Aunt Li, this Aunt Li is the loudspeaker in the village, basically a little trivial thing happens in someone's family, as long as she knows, the next day will become a gossip that everyone talks about.

At this time, Aunt Li suddenly lowered her voice and said mysteriously to the people around her:

"I don't know if you've heard of it? Some strange things happened in our village before, a few young people went out to catch cicada chrysalis, but they disappeared after they went out, and never came back!"

When everyone heard this, they all gathered around, and Daifuku was also attracted by Aunt Li's words, he has been interested in this strange thing since he was a child.

Aunt Li saw that everyone was around, waiting for her next step, and an inexplicable sense of pride rose in her heart.

So he said in a tricky way:

"I heard from the older generation in our village, it happened about a few decades ago! Everyone said that they were eaten by ghosts!"

The crowd shouted in surprise.

Aunt Li then said: "Since then, everyone has not dared to go out at night. But there are people who don't believe in evil and sneak out at night, and they actually come back, but guess what......"

"He's lost his soul! He's back, but he's crazy! It's the crazy son of the old Li Tou's family at the head of our village!"

The crowd of onlookers exploded in an instant, and there was a lot of discussion......

"I heard that the son of Lao Li Tou's family became demented because he had a high fever when he was a child and burned his brain. ”

Zhang Meiling saw that everyone began to discuss this matter frantically, and reminded loudly.

"Hahaha, now is a society under the rule of law, everything must pay attention to science, auntie, these are all crooked and heretical ways, they have long been explained in books, and losing souls or something are feudal superstitions!

Dafu saw that everyone was stunned by Aunt Li, and couldn't help laughing and laughed out loud.

"Yes, I've heard it too, it's not at all what Aunt Li said, you make a rumor about Lao Li Tou like this, be careful that he knocks on your widow's door in the middle of the night!

"Hahaha......"

Someone in the crowd said something, and everyone laughed.

Aunt Li's face turned blue and white, and she snorted coldly: "Hmph, believe it or not, the older generation can say it, ghosts and gods, you can not believe it, but you can't offend." If you do this, sooner or later, you will get the revenge of the ghosts and gods!"

After saying that, he shook his head and left in a huff.

Dafu grimaced at Aunt Li, who was leaving, slapped her buttocks, and caused everyone to laugh.

Meiling picked up the teapot with the paint off, smiled embarrassedly at everyone, said hello, and dragged Dafu home.

After the two left, the rest of the crowd began to talk again.

I only heard one of the aunts say, "Hey, don't believe it, I seem to have heard of what Aunt Li said before." It's just that I haven't heard of similar incidents in recent years, and everyone has slowly forgotten about it. At that time, the matter was quite big, the police came, but they didn't find it after investigating for a long time, and finally blocked the news, and the whole thing was over!"

Another lady also chimed in: "Anyway, I think it's quite reasonable for Aunt Li." You can not believe in ghosts and gods, but you can't offend, who knows if there are ghosts in this world? What if there are......

The people around her were a little hairy by what she said, but coincidentally, a cold wind suddenly blew in the summer, and everyone felt a chill behind them, goosebumps broke out all over their bodies, and they didn't dare to stay for a long time, and after greeting each other, they left one after another......

After everyone left, the branches and leaves of the ancient tree were blown by the wind, making a 'bang, bang, bang' sound.

Soon, a little girl jumped up from a distance, wearing cute pigtails, wearing a white dress, and holding a popsicle in her hand.

As she passed by the old tree, the little girl heard a strange sound......

"Quack quack...... Quack quack ......"

Someone is laughing?

The little girl stopped where she was, looked around, and saw that the sound seemed to be coming from the tree.

She scurried over and took a closer look at the tree.

When did you get a hole in this big tree? Not when I was playing here the other day!

The little girl looked strangely at the hole larger than her head, and put her head into it curiously......

It was a little dark in the hollow, and she couldn't see clearly, except that there seemed to be something at the bottom of the hole......

She cautiously reached into it, and suddenly felt a round thing, and took it out strangely to look at it......

It was actually a bloodshot eyeball!!

At this time, the eyeball was still slowly squirming and spinning around on the little girl's palm......

"Ah!!h

The little girl screamed in fright, threw her eyeballs directly to the ground, and turned around to run away!

Suddenly, a white arm reached out from the hollow of the tree, grabbed her clothes, and dragged her into it!

The screaming stopped abruptly!

Then, the hole in the ancient tree slowly closed, and finally, disappeared without a trace......

There was silence again, as if nothing had happened......

The only thing that is different is that there is an extra popsicle on the ground, which is slowly melting at this time......