Don't talk to strangers.

I don't know what the custom is in your area. Anyway, there is a saying in the surrounding area of our hometown that you should never whistle when you are walking at night, because it is easy to attract wild ghosts. In addition, there is a saying here that if you hear a strange voice calling your name when you are walking at night, you must never turn back, let alone promise casually, because it is not a person who calls you, but a lonely soul.

That ghost called your name for no other purpose, because they (or call them again? Or them? I don't understand) and I'm eager to be reborn. Once you say yes, they'll pull you up and reincarnate.

I remember that when I was a child, I was very naughty, especially in summer. I liked to catch fireflies with my children at night, because the flying appearance of fireflies was very mysterious and weird, and it was also a bit spooky, and I liked to play tricks on others.

At that time, Xiao Pang was my best friend.

Xiao Pang also likes to catch fireflies, and he is especially devoted to them every time. Fireflies are the easiest to catch when they fly to morning glory or pumpkin flowers, because flowers are covered with pollen, and the pollen is sticky, so it is easy for fireflies to stick to it and fly.

Fireflies are the souls of the dead. Adults used to scare us like this, but children have great courage. As a saying goes, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, but they will become less courageous when they grow up. They are not scared by adults.

what adults mean is that although fireflies can shine, the light fire is too weak, just like the weak soul of the dead.

I'll never forget that night when Xiao Pang was catching a firefly stuck to the morning glory. I suddenly called his name: "Wu Haibo"!

"yes." Xiao pang suddenly looked back and gave me a look, and replied clearly.

"Look at me now, I am a ghost!" So I opened my eyes to the limit with my fingers, trying to make faces to scare him.

"Come on, just like you." Xiao pang shrugged. "I'm not scared."

At that time, Xiao Pang was only seven or eight years old. He even said that he was "not scared", as if he was already seventy or eighty years old. His words beyond his age gave me a faint sense of foreboding.

"Wu Haibo!" Suddenly there came a strange voice behind me. The timbre of that voice was never heard before, and it seemed to come from a recording tape.

"Yes, I told you I wasn't afraid!" Xiao pang looked back at me again, but found that I didn't call him because I was eating sugar in my mouth!

"who is calling me?" Xiao Pang is still not timid, and as if to declare his courage to me, he whistled "Let's paddle".

At that time, I knew that something had happened, something serious had happened, and what made my feet become flaccid was that when Xiao Pang came home, his walking posture began to become extremely stiff, and the jerky way made people unable to tell whether he was moving forward or backward, just like the slow motion on TV.

The next morning, I got a bad news. Xiao Pang was killed by an oncoming motorcycle when he came home last night.

The motorcycle driver who killed Xiao Pang was in a hurry to go home because he was drunk. By the time he saw Xiao Pang trying to brake, it was already too late.

This incident has made me feel guilty all my life. I regret that I shouldn't have called Xiao Pang by his real name at the beginning. If only I had called him by his nickname, then the wild ghost hiding in the dark and trying to kill him wouldn't know his name.

You know, Xiao Pang was my best friend in my childhood. Now I'm in my twenties. I still haven't found such a good friend in my life. I mean psychologically.

I shouldn't even make faces to scare him. Although he was not frightened by me on the surface, maybe he already had fear in his heart, but he just didn't say it.

But then my grandmother comforted me and said, silly child, you can only blame the wild ghost. He made up his mind to take one of you away. If Xiao Pang didn't die, you would be the one who left.

My conscience is only slightly comforted.

Grandma also told the story of an ancient scholar about whistling and being called names.

This story is very interesting. It goes like this-

In ancient times, there was a scholar who was still a youngster after repeated examinations, and he didn't even touch a scholar.

At that time, scholars hardly took part in productive labor, otherwise they would have no time to study hard, because everyone is working hard, but you are cultivating crops, and you will definitely lose at the starting line.

If you don't work, you will basically have no fixed financial resources, and a man without financial resources will live without dignity.

This scholar (let's call him Xiaoliu) is over 3. He married a daughter-in-law but didn't have children. People in ancient times were also under financial pressure and were afraid of being a child slave.

Xiaoliu's daughter-in-law has always been in poor health. Although the scholar has no extra money to treat his daughter-in-law, deep down, he really hopes to gain fame through his own efforts, so that his daughter-in-law can not only cure her illness, but also lead a happy life.

But contrary to expectations, Xiaoliu's daughter-in-law died of illness, which happened in winter.

After the death of his daughter-in-law, Xiaoliu felt very guilty and blamed herself. He knew that her daughter-in-law was not seriously ill, and she left so early, for one thing, because she was not cured in time and dragged on for too long, for another, because her wife's life pressure was too great, and her heart disease and physical illness were superimposed, and for the third, because of long-term malnutrition, her life was irregular.

When the daughter-in-law died, Xiaoliu didn't even have the money to buy a coffin to bury her, so she had to take a door panel from home and finish the ritual in a hurry, which made Xiaoliu's heart even more restless.

Xiaoliu knows that there is ink in his stomach, and he is also waiting for an opportunity to change the curve of his destiny. Although he does not want to be successful in official career, he should at least have food and clothing to shine.

Fate can sometimes play tricks on people. When Xiaoliu's daughter-in-law was seriously ill and her family was too poor to open the pot, Xiaoliu fell out of Sun Shan every time she went to take the exam. In the autumn after Xiaoliu's daughter-in-law had just arrived, Xiaoliu was admitted to Juren, and three years later, she was admitted to Jinshi. In the fourth year, he was appointed as the magistrate of a place in Jiangsu by the court.

When she became a magistrate, Xiaoliu naturally stopped worrying about her life.

In fact, he had deep feelings for his dead daughter-in-law, but after all, he couldn't stand his parents' soft grinding and hard foam, and he married the daughter of a wealthy businessman in Beijing as a second wife.

This undoubtedly made him richer economically.

In ancient times, you were not allowed to be an official in your domicile. This is called the avoidance system, because the imperial court was also afraid that you were in your local bending the law, but after being an official, you were allowed to return to your hometown.

When Xiaoliu rode a burly horse, dressed in silks and satins, and brought his wife back to his hometown of Changsha, the local county magistrate personally led his men out of the city to meet him, because Xiaoliu was the pride of his hometown.

Everyone watching along the way envies all that Xiaoliu has now. This is simply a vivid lesson plan to educate her children!

"In fact, I have long seen that this child is promising," a local rich man said in the crowd. "Unexpectedly, my prediction really came true."

When Xiaoliu heard this, she almost gave him a bite.

Xiaoliu will never forget that when her daughter-in-law was ill, she wanted to borrow an old hen from the old rich man so that her daughter-in-law could mend her body, but the old rich man was worried that Xiaoliu would not be able to pay it back in the future and refused to lend it to him.

But Xiaoliu has developed now, and everyone who knows him wants to flatter him. Some people want to be greedy and cheap, some people just want to get addicted to words, and some people want to show off to others in the future.

But Xiaoliu's heart is actually not very happy, because he knows that the woman who loves herself the most in the world has left forever and ever. In his memory, the best and happiest days are all left when he spent time with his little wife.

when I return to my former residence again, Xiaoliu sees things and thinks about people, and there are even more chaotic ripples in her heart.

why does the woman I love the most mess up when she needs her success the most? Now that I have the ability to give her happiness and health, she is gone.

I wish there was some way to bring her back to life, even if it was only for a few minutes. He just wanted her to know that she was finally getting ahead, and she also wanted her to know that she had a good eye for her trust and was wrong about others.

But how can people be resurrected after death?

hey, let's not daydream!

And Xiaoliu's new wife obviously saw her husband's unhappiness, so she tried to ask, "Xianggong, why are you unhappy when you come home? You will make me feel sad with you. Can you tell me what the reason is?"

Xiaoliu saw that her new wife was virtuous and virtuous, so she told her the story of herself and her original daughter-in-law, and at the same time revealed her heart disease one by one.

After listening to her husband's story, the wife not only didn't feel jealous and angry, but also admired and worshipped such a great man as her husband.

"Xianggong, I'm not a narrow-minded woman," said the new wife. "How about this? Let's go to your old mother-in-law's house together tomorrow, shall we? After all, their daughter used to be your wife! "

Xiao Liu is very pleased to see his new wife is so reasonable, and he also thinks it is necessary for him to go to the old father-in-law's house. The two old people have no sons but only one daughter, and now they are really lonely and poor.

When my father-in-law saw that his son-in-law was so successful now, he was naturally very touched that he was able to bring his new wife to visit him. Anyway, he wanted them to stay at home for one night.

Although the old father-in-law doesn't even have a decent bed board at home, Xiaoliu's new wife, who has been pampered since childhood, agreed to spend the night here without frowning.

and this night, the new wife slept well in this creaking bed, and she didn't feel uncomfortable at all.

After the new wife fell asleep, Xiaoliu found it difficult to sleep. It's horrible cctop.

Now that I'm back in the place where my original daughter-in-law grew up and sleeping in the bed where she slept since she was a child, Xiaoliu's heart can't help feeling a thousand things again.

So he put on his coat and walked alone in the small courtyard of the old man's house.

His thoughts about his original daughter-in-law have been overwhelming.

Although his wife is fine now, it is the first time in his life that he and his kannika nimtragol love each other. They have suffered so much together and shed so many tears, which can't be described in any flowery language.

how he wishes he had a chance to show her who he is now! Not to show off anything to her, just to make up for her shame.

a strange and childish idea suddenly came into Xiao Liu's mind.

He remembered that when he was a child, adults told himself that whistling in the middle of the night would attract the attention of wild ghosts.

kannika nimtragol is undoubtedly a lonely soul now, because she didn't even have a coffin board when she died, and of course she didn't have a tombstone. Besides, kannika nimtragol said to herself before she died, "Don't worry, Xianggong, I won't go with anyone else when I get there. My life is yours, and my death is your ghost."

All these are consistent with the characteristics of a lonely soul and wild ghost.

Yes, she is in her hometown now. If she keeps whistling, will she really come and look for herself?

"Hush-hush-"he really blew with childlike innocence.

There was no reply, and the air was stifling quiet.

"hush-"he blew again.

There seems to be some movement in the corner. Is it really her return?

but he looked carefully and was disappointed to find that it wasn't-it was a few crows flapping their wings after being frightened.

"Shh, shh-"he blew tirelessly again.

"Liu Qingyue, Qingyue-"a voice suddenly cried in a low voice.

He didn't hear wrong this time. It's true that someone is calling his name!

Yes, how familiar and warm that voice is!

isn't that the original sound reproduction of kannika nimtragol?

"I am, I am, kannika nimtragol, is it really you?" Xiaoliu was so excited that it turned out that the words handed down by the old people were really effective!

"xianggong, it's really me," the voice replied. "I am your little wife."

"kannika nimtragol, why do I only hear your voice, but I can't see where you are?" Xiaoliu asked again.

"Xianggong, come here," the voice said. "I accidentally fell into the gutter. Come and give me a hand!"

"ok, I'll be right there." Xiaoliu knew that kannika nimtragol was sickly and fell in the gutter, so she might not be able to climb up.

Xiaoliu hurried to the stinking ditch in front of the old father-in-law's house, and she really saw the real kannika nimtragol!

"I haven't seen others before, and it's not the first time to see them," said the little daughter-in-law, a little shy. "Oh, it hurts me to death. Please help me up quickly!"

"oh." Xiaoliu admitted that she was really dumbfounded, so she reached out and helped Kannika nimtragol up.

"kannika nimtragol, aren't you dead? Why are you still ...?" After touching kannika nimtragol's body, Xiaoliu feels no different from a normal person, but also has a body temperature and flexibility.

"You bad egg, heart breaker!" After the kannika nimtragol was lifted up, she punched Xiaoliu with a soft fist. "I promised that it was your ghost when I died. How did you get in love with another woman?"

"I thought you died, so I just ..." Xiaoliu tried to explain something.

"Don't quibble," kannika nimtragol gave him another beating. "A change of heart means a change of heart."

"kannika nimtragol, in fact, I don't love her at all, because you are the only one in my heart.".