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It gets dark early in winter, and after evening self-study, the whole sky is a deep black, like knocking over an ink bottle.Yu Qiuliang stepped on the curb and swayed around, complaining about the exam questions to Yu Xiasheng.If the person who made the test heard his evaluation of this test, he would probably be so angry that his seven orifices would smoke. Yu Qiuliang was conceited and conceited. Basically, every time he took the test, he would pick out the problem of the person who took the test.

He is not good at math and can't find faults in the math papers, so he swears at people.

Yu Xiasheng held back his laughter all the way, and was about to say a few words to let Yu Qiuliang calm down for a while, but the child suddenly stopped talking and stood there motionless.Yu Xiasheng felt strange, and looked up, but saw a person standing under the streetlight in front of him, holding a black umbrella in his hand, it was Lu Huaiming.

Lu Huaiming didn't mean that Qiuliang finished school here, his eyes were always fixed on the half-old small building not far away, which was where his daughter lived now.Yu Qiuliang stuck out his tongue, trying to drag Yu Xiasheng away, but Lu Huaiming suddenly turned his head at this moment.

Yu Qiuliang let out an "uh", feeling extremely embarrassed.The surrounding area was flat and open, and he and Yu Xiasheng happened to be standing in a bright place, so it was difficult not to be noticed by Lu Huaiming.In fact, he wanted to see Lu Huaiming, but he was embarrassed to tell Lu Huaiming about the thoughts that had been lingering in his mind these years.He looked at his uncle and couldn't help but fell silent.

He didn't speak, but Lu Huaiming spoke first: "School is over?"

A familiar voice, a familiar accent.Yu Qiuliang seemed to be in seven years ago, when he was still in elementary school, Lu Huaiming came to pick him up, and he followed his uncle through the earth wall full of flowers.Later, the earthen wall was demolished, Lu Huaiming was gone, and he was the only one left alive.Later, even he died.

"Just after school." Yu Qiuliang moved his eyes down, looking at the big black umbrella in Lu Huaiming's hand, "We got our grades today."

Lu Huaiming didn't know what test Yu Qiuliang took, but when Yu Qiuliang mentioned it, he still nodded his head, indicating that he already understood.After Yu Qiuliang finished speaking, he suddenly got stuck again. There was really nothing to talk about between him and Lu Huaiming.

"You... are you back?" Yu Qiuliang said again, "We moved to a new house, why haven't you visited?"

"I'm not coming back." Lu Huaiming opened his umbrella, which covered the light of the street lamp.He left four brief words and disappeared with his black umbrella. He didn't even answer Yu Qiuliang's other question.Yu Qiuliang was left out and felt very wronged, but he could understand Lu Huaiming's feelings.He couldn't help but rejoice that Lu Huaiming didn't come back. If Lu Huaiming saw the new home decorated for others, he might be so sad.

Yu Qiuliang suddenly remembered something that had been sealed away for a long time.It was the summer vacation of the first year of high school. He was playing at Song Ciran's house. Song Ciran was so bold that he turned off the lights at night and took him to the rooftop to play with the pen fairy.Yu Qiuliang followed Song Ciran suspiciously, and Song Ciran talked wildly, as if all kinds of ghosts and gods could be invited, but the only dead person that Yu Qiuliang could think of was Lu Huaiming.He asked a few questions at that time, which were nothing more than "whether he will return or not", and the slowly moving pen was circling on the negative answer.

Yu Qiuliang used to be a staunch atheist, so he thought it was Song Ciran's little trick, but now when he thinks about it again, he doubts that he really invited Lu Huaiming that night.It has been two years now, and Lu Huaiming's answer has not changed, it seems that he has made up his mind not to come back.If it was Yu Qiuliang, he probably wouldn't want to come back.

"Hey... Let me tell you, let's call the person who made the question today..." After a short silence, Yu Qiuliang laughed again. His smile blocked all Yu Xiasheng's comforting words.Yu Xiasheng blinked, unable to remember what he was going to say, so he stopped thinking about it and let Qiuliang tell jokes.

In front of Yu Xiasheng, Yu Qiuliang's personality is not boring, but Yu Xiasheng heard from Gu Jia that this kid doesn't talk much at school.The weather has been surprisingly cold recently, Yu Qiuliang's deskmate is haunted by a bad cold, and doesn't come to school often, Yu Qiuliang has no playmates, and even skipping classes can't arouse his interest.According to Gu Jia, Yu Qiuliang spent the whole day at school either sleeping or reading, and he never left his seat except to meet his physical needs.

Running is required in school, even in the third year of high school.However, Yu Qiuliang didn't know what tricks he played, every time Gu Jia looked down from upstairs to look for him in the queue of their class, he couldn't see his shadow.

This kid is a ghost, who knows how he causes troubles in school every day.

Gu Jia has calmed down recently, and she concentrates on guarding her future mother every day, not even taking care of her old enemies.Seeing that she didn't care about the plastic bottle, Yu Qiuliang stuffed the bottle in his schoolbag and brought it back on his own initiative, preparing to study the structure of the ghost body.He didn't intend to let Yu Xiasheng know about this, but just when he thought Yu Xiasheng was still kept in the dark, Yu Xiasheng had already smelled the breath of the female ghost. This eerie ghostly aura naturally came from the bear child bag.

"You bring a ghost by your side, be careful to provoke other ghosts." Yu Xiasheng unzipped his schoolbag and looked inside by the light.Sure enough, the female ghost was sticking to the inner wall of the plastic bottle, grinning at him, with bloodshot gaps between her teeth, as if a beast had just gnawed on the meat.

Yu Qiuliang did well in the comprehensive essay test this time, and he was in a good mood. He walked in front, humming along.Hearing Yu Xiasheng's question, he started to play dumb: "What the hell? Are you talking about yourself?"

"What I'm talking about, you know in your heart." Yu Xiasheng swiped the zipper and then closed it, the face of the female ghost suddenly disappeared into the darkness, "I will send this thing back to Gu Jia tomorrow, I don't mind keeping it unlucky."

Yu Qiuliang heard the sound of the zipper, and knew that the matter had been revealed.He felt that he was in the wrong, so he just turned around and whistled at Yu Xiasheng, but didn't answer his words.

A pair of red shoes followed behind Yu Xiasheng, walking and stopping with them.Suddenly, at a corner with no street lights, the pair of red shoes disappeared in an instant, and after a while, the gorgeous red appeared in the grass beside Yu Qiuliang.Yu Xiasheng lit a cigarette, strode after Yu Qiuliang, the bear boy turned his head abruptly, coughed and choked on the smoke, complained while jumping, but under the cover of the smoke, the red leather shoes flinched.

A big bird flew up from the bare tree, screaming strangely and slowly flew away.Yu Qiuliang let out a "huh" in surprise, as if wondering what kind of bird it was.He vaguely remembered that he had seen a woodpecker in the park south of the community, but he had never heard the sound of a woodpecker, and besides, the only time he had seen each other was eight or nine years ago.In the past, the environment in this area was good, and there were often large groups of magpies landing on the telephone poles. They were not afraid of people, and they didn't panic when they saw people coming. They just paced slowly, like a king inspecting his territory.

Up to now, the winter here is getting less and less interesting, only the sparrows are still willing to visit.Snowflakes haven't appeared for a long time, and they refused to show their face, so they came here to say hello to people.Yu Qiuliang pushed Yu Xiasheng and asked, "Have you ever seen snow when you were young? Did it snow heavily before?"

"There must be heavy snow, but it doesn't snow in my hometown." Yu Xiasheng said, "I saw it when I joined the army, but at that time no one wanted to encounter snow."

"Cold?" Yu Qiuliang asked again,

"Cold." Yu Xiasheng let out a sigh of relief, and sprayed a puff of smoke on his face, "I heard from Gu Jia that after the first snow falls, you guys will stop running and fucking?"

"Listen to her nonsense." Yu Qiuliang denied Gu Jia's statement without even thinking about it.He has stayed in this school for three years, and he has never heard of such a rule.Let's not worry about when the first snow will fall, even if it snows, the snow may not be too big.According to past practice, Yu Qiuliang and his school adhere to the principle of "light rain never happens, light snow can be ignored", as long as it is not pouring rain and knee-deep snow, it will not affect their recess exercises.

Of course, if you want to take a physical education class, it is "if there is rain in the forecast, you will not attend, and if there is no rain in the forecast, you will not attend"-there are many wonderful double standards in human society, and this is one of them.

Speaking of rain, Yu Qiuliang suddenly thought of his experience during military training in the first year of high school.He looked at Yu Xiasheng maliciously, reached out and tapped on Yu Xiasheng's chest.He didn't speak, Yu Xiasheng couldn't guess what he was thinking at all, but soon there was no need to guess.

"During our military training in the first year of high school, the instructor was in good shape." Yu Qiuliang jumped up the stairs and said to himself, "It rained heavily, and his clothes were wet, and the girls in our class were all staring at him—you guessed them? looking at what?"

"No guessing." Yu Xiasheng stubbed out the cigarette, and threw it into the trash can at the corner of the corridor, "When will your mouth be free for a while? We've been talking all the way, are you thirsty?"

Of course Yu Qiuliang is not thirsty, he takes pleasure in teasing Yu Xiasheng, as long as he can make Yu Xiasheng speechless, he will be happy.

Although the old ghost occasionally became angry and beat him up, as long as he was happy for a moment, Yu Qiuliang believed that he had won today.

The spiritual victory method is probably like this.

In the dead of night, Yu Xiasheng lay down to sleep, and Yu Qiuliang lay down with insomnia.He was afraid that he would wake Yu Xiasheng up, so he tried to breathe calmly, turned over quietly, and stared at the curtains in the bedroom.There must be a few houses with lights on in the residential building opposite, but the lights in their homes can't shine on Yu Qiuliang's side. At this time, the street lamps and moonlight outside are vaguely passing through the curtains.Perhaps in this light, street lamps account for more components. After all, the moon in the sky is too far away from the autumn window sill, no matter how bright and beautiful it is, it cannot match the long distance.Yu Qiuliang looked at the moon as a small point, but the moon looked at him as an even smaller point.

A shadow suddenly appeared on the curtain, and it approached, getting darker and darker.Yu Qiuliang opened his eyes wide in surprise and forgot to move for a moment.The Coke bottle he placed on the window sill seemed to be blown by the wind, and fell to the ground with a "snap", rolling on the floor, and it didn't take long for it to roll under the desk with the female ghost inside.

Yu Qiuliang originally planned to get up to pick it up, but he thought that Yu Xiasheng was still asleep, so he had no choice but to give up this idea.Anyway, the drink bottle was sealed, and the cap was screwed tightly, even if the female ghost in the bottle wanted to escape, she couldn't escape easily.He put all his attention on the strange shadow, and he felt that the shadow was watching him through the glass window.

Now that the weather is so cold, it is impossible for Yu Qiuliang to open the windows, even the windows of the living room are tightly closed by him, not a breath of wind can come in.Since he closed the window, the drink bottle on the window sill could never have fallen naturally. Yu Qiuliang was tense, after thinking and thinking, he still fumbled to push Yu Xiasheng, trying to wake Yu Xiasheng up and look at the window What the hell is out there.

Before he touched Yu Xiasheng, his hand was grabbed first.Yu Xia moved vividly, hugged him into his arms, and covered the lower half of his face with the quilt, only showing a pair of eyes.At the same time, the curtain moved slightly, and a strange-looking ghost entered the bedroom with a pair of red leather shoes on his feet.

Those who can wear red leather shoes are usually women, but this ghost has a burly body and seems to have a man's face.Yu Qiuliang was startled, he didn't expect to see a ghost among ghosts tonight.He does not discriminate against transvestites. What other people wear is other people's freedom and has nothing to do with him, but he still has the right to complain in his heart.

He really thought this ghost was ugly.

The ghost, whose appearance did not match Yu Qiuliang's aesthetics, bent down and looked at Yu Qiuliang's face.Yu Qiuliang felt a strange smell entering his nostrils, and couldn't help shrinking back.God knows what Yu Xiasheng is waiting for, he is about to be molested by this monster in the ghost, and Yu Xiasheng still hasn't moved yet.

The male ghost stretched out his hand, and Yu Qiuliang's horrified gaze slowly slid his fingers down from his forehead, and he peeled off a thin piece of skin, revealing the bloody human figure inside.He opened his mouth to giggle, but it was a woman's voice.Yu Qiuliang's hair was about to explode, and he realized that this ghost wanted to peel his skin.

The smell of blood gradually became stronger, Yu Qiuliang closed his eyes in despair, hoping that he fell asleep unknowingly, all this before him was just a nightmare of his.

Suddenly, a white light flashed in front of my eyes, and the lights on the roof came on. The ghost screamed and quickly turned into a pool of blood, leaving only a pair of red leather shoes on the ground.Yu Qiuliang was still in shock, panting heavily, this was completely subconscious, he was already dead and didn't need to breathe.

"I told you not to get too close to ghosts. Is this the first female ghost to come to you? I don't think you will be able to go to the red light district in your life. Maybe some female ghosts are just like this and want to sleep on the bed. You eat." The light turned on for a while and then went off, the smell of blood began to fade, Yu Xiasheng leaned into Qiuliang's ear and spoke with a deep sense of tiredness in his voice.

"You fucking shut up, do you often go to the red light district?" Yu Qiuliang scolded, "I see you are very experienced, did you take my money to cook chicken?"

"Who did you learn from? This kind of talk is the same thing." Yu Xiasheng was kicked suddenly, and suddenly he lost all sleepiness, so he crawled out of the bed, turned on the light in the bedroom, and cleaned up the mess on the ground first.

It happened to be exactly twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, in other words, it was midnight.This week it was a big break in autumn, and there were no classes on Saturdays and Sundays, so he was confident, lying on the edge of the bed and started teasing Yu Xiasheng again.

Every child has heard some weird ghost stories when they were young, and Yu Qiuliang was no exception. The adults didn't tell him ghost stories, but he couldn't stop him from looking for ghost stories by himself.He often reads books that hunt for strange things, collects anecdotes and stories, and then tells them to his classmates when he arrives at school. Among the ghost stories he has read, the one that left the deepest impression on him is this saying: When sleeping at night, the slippers should not face the bed, otherwise the ghosts will climb into the bed and lie down with the person to sleep, and they cannot be driven away. ——The young Yu Qiuliang firmly believed in this. When he slept, the toes of his shoes were always pointing out of the bed. This habit lasted for ten years and has been preserved to this day.

Yu Qiuliang was lying on the bedside, watching Yu Xiasheng stuff the red leather shoes under the table and put them together with the plastic bottle containing the female ghost, he couldn't help but turn his eyes wildly, looking for his own slippers.His slippers were lying quietly on the ground at this moment, maintaining the posture of the toes facing outwards.Yu Qiuliang glanced at Yu Xiasheng, then suddenly grinned, reached out for the slippers, and made the toe of the shoes face his bed.

"What are you doing?" Yu Xiasheng was stunned.

Yu Qiuliang turned over and patted the bed on purpose: "Please come to sleep, don't get out of bed tonight."

Yu Xiasheng was speechless for a while.After a while, he gave Yu Qiuliang a strange look, picked up the quilt and pillow and left the bedroom, still muttering.Yu Qiuliang knew that the old ghost was about to be driven crazy, and he still won this round.

Before leaving, the old ghost turned off the light.Yu Qiuliang looked at the pair of red leather shoes under the desk with the faint light, and always felt that they were going to move again soon.With lingering fear in his heart, he jumped to the ground with bare feet, not even bothering to carry the pillow and quilt, and ran to the living room in a hurry to torture Yu Xiasheng again.

The female ghost in the plastic bottle opened her eyes and looked at the pair of red leather shoes thoughtfully, as if thinking of something.

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