Chapter 17 Primer

In the late 1980s, in the middle of July in the lunar calendar, it was a midsummer night. The bright moonlight in July and a half falls on the dense pine forest, forming mottled tree shadows, and countless pine trees and tree shadows interweave into a strange and inexplicable picture.In this picture, there is a simple and simple log cabin, which looks very lonely in the cool summer night.And the young man lying alone in the wooden house couldn't sleep all night in loneliness. The young man was named Xiwen, a poor, unmarried boy.This wooden house is not his home. Although he is poor, he is not enough to live in this ghostly place where no one will come after dark.In this day and age, the land in this poor village is worthless at all. As long as the village head nods, a house can be built anywhere.

This wooden house is for the forest guards to rest, and the only forest guard tonight is Xiwen.Although this is a poor place where birds don't lay eggs, there is a pine forest here, a pine forest that produces rosin.In order to prevent someone from stealing and cutting the rosin, when the harvest season comes, everyone will take turns to live in this wooden house and watch the night.Uncle Quan and Xiwen were supposed to watch the night together tonight, but sister-in-law Quan is about to give birth. Although it is her second child, she gave birth to a daughter before, so Uncle Quan has no reason to be in a hurry.So when he said he wanted to go back to see Mrs. Quan, Xiwen didn't say a word.

The pine forest at night is a daunting place, because there are many graves here, and there is a new grave less than a hundred meters away from the wooden house.Lying in the new grave is Xiulan, Xiwen's childhood playmate, Xiwen only had her wedding wine three months ago. The hot summer night makes people toss and turn, although there is occasional cool wind blowing in from the window, but it can't relieve the heat of the body, but it seems to blow into the heart, making Xiwen feel an inexplicable chill in his heart.And there are annoying mosquitoes, how can I sleep peacefully.Mosquitoes whine like bombers, hovering over the blood-boiling body, waiting for a feast.There was a chill in my heart, but my body was sweating profusely. The more I wanted to fall asleep early, the harder it was to fall asleep.Time passed in torment, and before I knew it, it was already the middle of the night.Xiwen was not asleep yet.

The pine trees at midnight were so still, so quiet that it was frightening.In such a quiet environment, any slight sound can make Xiwen frightened, such as the sound of digging from the new grave at this moment.The digging sound was so small that he wouldn't have noticed it during the day, but in the silence, the sound was so loud that he could hear the other party digging with bare hands, and he could even clearly hear how many times the other party dug. "Tomb robbery?" This thought flashed through Xiwen's mind, but it was immediately rejected.In such a poor and remote place, there is no tomb worthy of tomb robbers, and everyone can only eat their stomachs, so who would give valuable things to be buried with them.If it was someone else's tomb, he would have pretended he didn't hear anything, and continued to lie on the bed waiting for dawn, but it was Xiulan's tomb.An inexplicable courage suddenly surged in his heart, making him get up from the bed, walk out of the wooden house, and approach the new grave quietly...

In late summer and early autumn, in the lush pine forest, there is a young girl hiding behind a tall pine tree. The shadow of the tree completely engulfs her graceful body. Under the dim moonlight, she looks like a ghost wandering in the world. Her name is Hua Zidie, and she lives up to her name, like a purple butterfly flying among flowers, noble and mysterious.However, the beautiful purple butterfly appears in the pine forest full of graves, but it has an indescribable mystery, just like the gorgeous rose born among the bones. It was not the first night for her to appear here. Since the gravekeeper left, she would come here every night in the middle of the night, hiding in the shadow of the pine trees, silently watching a new grave not far away.Lying in this new tomb is a young woman who died of illness. She had nothing to do with the other party, and she didn't even have a relationship with the other party, but she had been waiting for the other party's grave for several nights.

It's already the fifth night, and the mountain ghost I was expecting hasn't appeared yet, but it did, what should I do?She didn't know, she didn't even know why she was so persistent.Isn't it just a few words of scolding from my father, why make myself suffer so much?Thinking of this, the idea of ​​giving up appeared in my mind.However, at this moment there was movement in the distance. A human figure appeared under the hazy moonlight, with its limbs touching the ground, half crawling and half running quickly approaching the tomb.She knew that the mountain ghost she had been waiting for for five nights appeared, but what should she do now?She doesn't know.She didn't even dare to move a step, because she was afraid, afraid that the mountain ghost would discover her existence.

The sight in front of her made her nauseous and wanted to scream with fear, but she didn't dare to make any sound or even move her fingers.Time passed by every minute and every second, and the mountain ghosts finally left.Only then did she dare to spit out the acidic liquid that had been stuck in her throat, and it took several minutes to stop. However, the mountain ghost that had gone away suddenly reappeared, running like a wild dog, crossing the messy tomb, and ran towards her in the torn mourning clothes, with a smell of corruption. She realizes that the other party has found herself, what should she do?Escape, the only thing to do now is to escape!