The day after the birth of the boy of Zheng Wendao.

The old lady of the Zheng family, Zheng Guangcheng, who had long been beaten as a landlord and an old wealth, received a notice that he could take off his hat, that is, he would no longer have to be criticized.

Seeing that he was wearing a high hat and being criticized was used to Zheng Guangcheng, and he was stunned for a while.

The happiest thing in the old lady's life is this, he has always been very superstitious, and he suddenly thought of a possibility.

hurriedly came to his wife, who was teasing his grandson, and hugged the newborn baby.

After looking at it, he said: "It is you who have brought me good luck, and I also hope that my grandson will have a good future, such as the morning sun out of the clouds, grandpa named you Zheng Yunsheng." ”

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"Shengwa・・・・・・ came back for dinner. "This is my mother calling Zheng Yunsheng.

Zheng Yunsheng was 5 years old, and he went to the mud and water one day, and grabbed a bathing place with a buffalo.

Go down to the field to catch yellow eels, go up the mountain to dig birds' nests, go into the water to chase loaches, go up trees to poke honeycombs, and turn over the nests of neighboring chickens when they have nothing to do

The activities that the peasant baby can have, it seems that he is indispensable.

Yunsheng's aunt secretly married to the county seat shortly after Yunsheng was born, why did she say secretly?

Or because of the landlord composition, two or three pieces of wooden furniture were quietly carried out by walking 15 kilometers of mountain roads overnight under the cover of leaves. Alas!

When he was 6 years old, he and his grandmother went to his aunt's house in a small county town, and for the first time he took a car, the first time he saw electric lights, the first time he saw a cement high-rise building, the first time he heard people in the county town speak with a different accent from him, and the first time he smelled gasoline.

It tastes pretty good

After coming back, he showed off with those friends for a month, which made people ignore him for a long time.

Because his mother beats someone as soon as he does something bad, Zheng Yunsheng drills into the arms of his grandfather and grandmother as soon as he is beaten, and the days of such naughty mischief will soon reach the age of going to school under the care of grandpa and grandma.

"Haha, Yunsheng, I'm going to study, the teacher is going to put your nose up, now it's okay, no one is messing around"

The angry Yunsheng passed over with a Scud, and his cousin grinned and turned around to dodge.

Because the place is relatively remote, the school age is relatively old, Zheng Yunsheng is 7 years old before entering the first grade of primary school, and there is absolutely no chance of going to kindergarten.

When he got home after school, Zheng Yunsheng, who was about to take out a new book to read fresh, was called by his grandfather.

"Shengwa, you go to school, you are a big baby, you have to listen to the teacher in school and study hard, and you will have a chance in the future. Grandpa said to him.

"What's the interest, grandpa, I don't want to be interested, I have to go to the county seat when I grow up. Yunsheng protested self-righteously.

Grandpa touched Yunsheng's little head: "Okay, then you study hard, go to the county seat when you grow up, and marry grandpa to a granddaughter-in-law in the county seat." ”

"Oh, okay, go to school and marry a county daughter-in-law. Yun Sheng screamed and ran away.

After a while, Yunsheng drove his family's big cattle out of the door, and he has always done more cattle herding.

Because of the remote location, there are still many places to graze cattle, but you must watch at any time and don't eat other people's crops.

Soon he was at the place he used to be, which was a place called by the locals as the two-story rock, with a cliff on the inside and a cliff on the outside, and a gentle slope to the north.

He really liked to come to this place, which was about ten acres of land, because as long as he guarded the northern exit, he was not afraid that the oxen would go out and harm the crops.

Another reason why he didn't want to tell anyone was that when he was looking for wild fruits, he climbed to the cliff inside, and there was a small mountain spring about three adults high from the ground, and a few miscellaneous trees grew sparsely nearby.

Mountain springs, there are more of them here, and they are still the kind of high-quality spring water that is warm in winter and cool in summer.

However, since he drank it once a few months ago, he knew that this mountain spring was different from the others, and he couldn't tell how it was different.

This water is not only sweet, but also very comfortable and refreshing after drinking, and the brain is very clear.

So whenever he had the chance, he would come here alone and take a few sips.

There wasn't much spring water, so he didn't tell anyone else, even his two playmates, Yun Sheng and Yun Xiang, who were one year younger than him, didn't say anything.

It wasn't until it was almost dark that Yunsheng followed the cow's ass and walked home slowly.

That is, in the year when Yunsheng went to school, his family built a corner building on the basis of the original three main houses, that is, the stilted building of the Tujia family.

In a blink of an eye, Yunsheng is nine years old, and he is also in the third grade, rural children walk a lot of mountain roads, and they eat whole grains, not to mention Yunsheng, the water he drinks is really special, so he has almost no time to really work, but he also grows very strong.

After school that day, because he was naughty, he was left by the teacher to teach for half an hour, and when he walked out of the school gate with his schoolbag on his back, he couldn't see the shadow of other classmates.

There were several paths from the school to his home, one through a cemetery, another through a dark wood, and the last one was a stone staircase at least 500 meters long.

Now he's left alone, no way, take the stone stairs.

In fact, there are woods next to the stone ladder, but one side is the woods, the other side is the yellow mud ground, at this time there is a tile kiln burning tiles in the yellow mud field, Yunsheng climbed to the tile kiln when he heard someone arguing.

"My old man can't drink saliva, and you're too inauthentic. ”

An old man in a blue robe with a scruffy beard, a black stick almost as tall as a man, and a small bag on his back, was looking at the young man on the kiln and roaring.

The young man did not show weakness, "I'm in a bad mood today, old man, I'm sorry." ”

After saying that, he ignored him.

Yunsheng was a little overwhelmed, although he was naughty and mischievous, but his heart was not bad.

So Yunsheng walked over, "Old man, go drink a little ahead, bear with it first, turn over this pass, and there will be water to drink." ”

At the same time, he pointed to the top of the stone staircase.

The old man snorted, looked at Yun Sheng, then at the young man on the tile kiln, turned around and followed Yun Sheng away.

But Yun Sheng noticed that the old man would stick a leaf in his stick with every step he took, and in a moment the stick would carry a large stack of dead leaves.

Yunsheng didn't know what to do, and he didn't ask, so he walked with his head down.

The two of them walked relatively fast with their heads bored, and after climbing the steep slope, Yunsheng found that the old man's face was not red and he was not panting, and he couldn't help but secretly exclaim, adults can walk.

Looking at the panting Yunsheng, the old man smiled and said, "Young man, you need to exercise more." ”

Yunsheng said with a smile: "The old man is in good health." With that, he turned around and walked forward.

It's basically all flat roads, not so tired, about 300 meters ahead is a place called Shuijing Bay.

Yunsheng watched the old man drink water, and said to him: "My home is in the village above here, I'm going home, old man, you go slowly." ”

Yunsheng's house is in a small village about fifty meters away from the well, surrounded by green trees on all sides, there are more than a dozen families in the middle, Yunsheng's house is on the ridge inside, the view will not be blocked by the big trees outside, in the local area, the geographical location is not bad.

Anyway, it wasn't far from home, and Yunsheng was not in a hurry, he ran a few steps up, and hid in the cracks of the leaves to peek out to see how the old man walked.

I didn't want the old man to take the main road, but he walked directly down the field path, and after walking the field path that was similar to terraces, the place called the quarry fort by the locals was below.

Under the quarry fort, go out to the left is the main road, and you can go down to the Bishui River to go along the river to Shuanghe Town, or you can cross the river to go to other places.

Yunsheng watched him get off the quarry fort and was about to go home, hey, no, he saw the old man going to the right, there was a diving cave below, and there were several large and small caves, but there was no one there, what was he doing there?

Yunsheng decided to see what was going on, so he walked back for a while, leaned against a cypress tree to look over, and took out a fruit candy peeled candy paper and fed it to his mouth.

Until his eyes are numb, and he doesn't come out, he won't just live inside, how can it?

What the hell in broad daylight?

Thinking of this, Zheng Yunsheng's back couldn't help but feel a chill, he had heard a lot of ghost stories, this couldn't be a ghost story he had personally experienced, right?

Without saying a word, I turned around and went home.

After a while, I saw my grandmother looking at the path in the Nanzhu forest in the courtyard, and to the left of Zheng Yunsheng's house was a Nanzhu forest, although it was not big, it grew densely.

"Shengwa'er is back, come on, the rice is hot in the pot. Grandma took Yunsheng's schoolbag dotingly, Yunsheng didn't say much, and went into the kitchen as soon as he smoked.

His three-year-old sister Hongyun was in the kitchen, and when she saw her brother's mouth moving, as if she was eating, she asked crisply, "What is my brother eating?" ”

Yunsheng spit out the candy in his mouth and stuffed it into his sister's mouth.

"It's so sweet," the little sister said indistinctly as she jumped out to play.

At this time, it was almost dark, and there was no need to let the cow go, and the grandfather saw that he had not come back, so he had already led the cow out.

Quickly finish dinner, set up the bench and do homework, right or wrong is secondary, just finish it.

Three times five divided by two, done, let out a shout, and rushed to the yard below to find the friends to play cockfighting.

Cockfighting is actually a physical work, you have to stand firm on one foot, hold the calf of the other foot with both hands, and fight with others with your knees.

Yunsheng, who came home from a sweat, finished taking a shower under the supervision of his mother and was ready to sneak back to his small room.

But my mother accidentally twisted her ears and asked why she came back so late today.

It's hard to say that it's naughty to blame, so I said that the text was not memorized well, and he had to memorize it before he could come back.

My mother, a typical rural woman, also believed that there was such a thing as a ghost, so she told Yunsheng not to be too late and be careful to be scared.

Yunsheng lay on the bed thinking about the old man during the day, thinking about it, and there was a chill on his back.

No, how can you sleep, ghosts can't go out in broad daylight, maybe it's not ghosts, he comforted himself like this.

In a daze, the black figure who had turned right in the quarry castle suddenly turned around, with black hole holes, a wide open mouth, and blood dripping from its long teeth.

"Mom" Yunsheng woke up with a scream, only to feel that his whole body was wet.

Turning his head, the night wind outside the wooden window blew the low whirring sound of bamboo leaves, and in Yunsheng's ears at this moment, it was like a ghost crying wolf, and the ghost stories he heard when he was a child flowed in his heart like a movie.

Yun Sheng got into the quilt and adjusted it, only revealing his nostrils.

It was a little better now, and in a daze, he fell asleep again.

Zheng Yunsheng was frightened for several days today, and then he didn't see the old man again, so he wasn't so afraid, after all, he was a teenager, and when he played with his friends, he forgot all his troubles.

It's another Saturday, and today is only half a day of class, and I can go home after cleaning in the afternoon. A few classmates together, they had to go home through that big stone staircase, Yunsheng walked with them, and went to the tile kiln, and some classmates were thirsty to drink water, Yun

Sheng Sheng was afraid that the young man would not be allowed to drink when he came out that day, and the classmate would not see the person come out after drinking the water, probably if he was not there.

As everyone was about to leave, a classmate named Gangneung shouted: "Come and see, everyone, how did this tile burn, and why is there a hole in the middle of each tile?" ”

"Will this tile still work? ”

"Strange, how do you burn such tiles?"

The classmates chattered their questions, only Yunsheng stared at the large pile of tiles with a hole in the middle of each piece in a daze, as if there was a burst of thunder in his head, and he didn't hear what the classmates were saying.

Yunsheng remembered the old man who begged for water and drank from that time, and the stack of dead leaves on the black stick.

"What did I meet, what did I meet?" Yunsheng muttered as he followed his classmates up the stone stairs.

Soon, when he arrived at Shuijing Bay again, Yunsheng looked at the bottom of the quarry castle in a daze, as if he saw the figure turning right again

Yunsheng returned home listlessly, and when he saw that there was no one at home, he sat in the stilted building and started to stay again, and the black shadow that he was about to forget about returned to his mind clearly.

"It's certain, it's not a ghost. Yunsheng made a conclusion about the events of that day very firmly.

"But what is he?" another, more complicated question arose.

And woo and woo and woo

A sound of blowing short horns sounded on the side of Nanzhulin, pulling Yunsheng back from his state of distraction, and the gelding man came.

This person's surname is Ran, and he is a person who goes to the countryside to specialize in gelding and gelding, and has a cheerful personality. Sometimes he would hold me and prick Yunsheng's face with his stiff beard.

The man walked through the bamboo forest and really came to Yunsheng's house.

"Little doll, do you have a pig to be gelding?" said as he walked into the yard.

"I don't know, you can go to the pigsty. "When people ask, Yunsheng can't pretend to be dumb, and Yunsheng still has a good impression of this person.

The man went straight to the pigsty downstairs on stilts, and Yunsheng also got up and followed to take a look.

"Uncle Ran, you have seen a lot of things when you go to the countryside, I want to ask you a question, okay?" Yun Sheng asked for help, and his mouth became sweet.

"Okay, just ask, uncle will tell you if he knows. The man took Yunsheng's hand and walked towards the courtyard, answering as he went.

"Are there ghosts and gods in this world?" Yunsheng asked solemnly, raising his little head.

"Well, it's really hard for my uncle to answer, my uncle can only sue you, you can believe it, and if you don't believe it, you can do it. The man's face was grim.

In his case, Yun Sheng didn't ask for any conviction.

"Then what the hell am I seeing," Yunsheng muttered to another person.