"I don't play with cowards either!"

"Me too!"

"..."

Gong Yiyu looked at me worriedly, stepped in front of me in two or three steps, pursed his lips and spoke for me: "Don't scare Ari!"

Gong Yiyu was a head shorter than me. She had her arms raised to the sky, her pink cheeks were wrinkled, and she looked angry.

My heart moved, and I looked up at her back. I felt that at this moment, she had a soft light on her body, which was very beautiful.

However, what she got in return for standing up for me was louder sarcasm and ridicule.

"Doolhead Rui still needs a girl to protect him. He is not only a coward, but also a weakling!"

The big head pointed at me, and the snot flowed to my lips, and he licked it away.

"Weak chicken, weak chicken, weak chicken!"

The ridicules made me feel very embarrassed. I bit my lips, reached out and pushed Gong Yiyu aside, and shouted loudly: "You don't have to worry about it!"

Gong Yiyu staggered when I pushed him. He was stunned for a moment, and then he cried angrily.

Gong Yiyu's pretty cheeks became wrinkled, and there were tears in her big eyes. She pinched her waist with both hands: "Zhao Rui, I won't be with you anymore!"

After Gong Yiyu finished speaking, he ran away crying.

I looked at her back and felt extremely regretful. I didn't mean it, I...

However, this regret was soon replaced by shame and anger.

Because of Big Head, they started laughing at me again.

"Oh! Dudou Rui dares to bully a girl. He is a coward. He will definitely become a bachelor in the future and become old and ugly like Old Monster Huang!"

"Coward! Coward!"

I was so angry that I was shaking all over and my face was red. I shouted loudly: "I am not a coward! Don't call me a coward!"

As I said this, I stretched out my hand and grabbed Big Tou's neck collar, intending to hit him.

The children around me rushed up to me, but I couldn't beat them and was pushed to the ground.

Countless fists and kicks hit me.

"coward!"

"Coward!"

"Rely on the little girl's big turtle!"

I cried out in pain, my voice was drowned in the fists, kicks and insults, and only stirred up countless dust.

Finally, they got tired and stopped.

I still screamed: "I'm not a coward!"

I moved my body, grabbed Big Tou's trousers tightly, raised my head and looked at him fiercely.

Datou was startled by my eyes, took two steps back, and then said angrily: "You are even afraid of insects, how dare you say you are not a coward?!"

He pointed to the crawling caterpillars on the ground.

Caterpillars are also called woolly caterpillars in the village. Once stung, a big bump will appear on the body, which is painful and itchy and will not go away for a long time.

What I'm afraid of is not wool thorns, but fear of being stung.

I raised my head and looked at the mocking faces, and my heart boiled with anger. I thought that I would rather be stung or suffer unbearable pain than be called a coward.

So, I reached out my hand, grabbed the wool rasper, balled it up and stuffed it into my mouth.

"Creak, creak" I chewed up and down with my teeth, the bloody but sweet taste fermented in my mouth, and green mucus flowed down the corners of my mouth. I just felt like I had swallowed a thousand needles, and my tongue and mouth were densely pierced.

There was pain and itching.

Uncomfortable, but... delicious.

I actually think the ugly and horrible woolen eggs are more delicious than eggs.

I licked my lips to clean the juice from the corner of my mouth, and then opened my mouth to everyone, indicating that I would swallow the wool.

Everyone was stunned, including Datou.

The way they looked at me changed from contempt to disgust.

"Eh - why does he eat woolen ham? It's so disgusting..."

"He won't turn into a bastard, will he?"

"..."

My mouth hurt so much, but I still forced myself to smile and said in a flattering way: "I dare to eat woolly ham, I'm not a coward!"

When I was a child, I was always an outlier. Almost no one wanted to play with me except Gong Yiyu, but Gong Yiyu was a girl.

I desperately want to fit into the boy's circle.

Da Tou came back to his senses and rolled his eyes: "Oh! What's the point of eating bugs? If you have the ability, you can go and stay in a ghost temple for one night, and I won't care if you call me a coward!"

I loosened my grip on his trousers and lowered my head.

The Ghost Temple is a temple directly below the village. There is a huge sculpture enshrined in it, with a snake tail and two hands raised upward. I don’t know what it is.

Because the sculpture has no head.

It is said that the ghost temple has existed since my grandfather's grandfather was born, and the sculptures at that time had no heads.

No one knows where the sculpture's head went or what it should have looked like originally.

When the spring breeze of "Destroying the Four Olds" blew in, a group of young people in the village took shovels and shovels to smash the sculptures and demolish the ghost temple.

However, in the end, nothing happened, and no one knew what happened.

But at that time, the young people who went to demolish the temple and make a fool of themselves all got strange diseases one after another, and soon they all died.

There were rumors in the village that they had offended ghosts and gods and were retaliated against.

It's funny to say, theoretically speaking, ghosts are ghosts and gods are gods. When two completely opposite terms are fused together, no one can tell clearly whether the person worshiped in the temple is a ghost or a god.

In short, after the death of young people, no one dares to go to the ghost temple anymore. There is no worship, and there is no incense.

The temple fell into disrepair, leaving only a solitary sculpture sitting on the altar, surrounded by spiders, cockroaches and rats all day long.

Now, it is said that some villagers passing by heard the sound of ghosts crying and wolf howling coming from the ruined temple every midnight. It was so miserable that it made people's scalp numb.

My parents told me several times not to go near the ghost temple. If I go in, I will never be able to return home.

There was a drum in my heart, and I was a little scared.

Actually, I have no idea about ghost temples. I just thought that if my parents knew that I secretly went to the ghost temple, they might get angry and beat me up.

My dad beats people and it hurts a lot.

But I don't want to be looked down upon by the big head.

I gritted my teeth and said, "Just go, what's so scary?"

I stood up and dusted myself off. My face was bruised and purple, and one eye was swollen and a little blurry.

I walked towards the ghost temple, and the boss led a group of children behind me.

At this time, the sun was gradually going down, the cool breeze was blowing into the bones, and unknown birds and beasts were standing on the trees, staring at us curiously.

There is a tree at the entrance of the ghost temple, an old locust tree.

The tree trunk, hugged by ten people, and the tangled branches are tall and tall, reaching into the sky. The crown of the tree is like a huge umbrella cap, and the green leaves are crowded with each other, blocking all the sunlight.

It's so dark and cold under the trees.

This tree is so extraordinary that it is called Mother Old Tree by the villagers. It is said that it has existed longer than the ghost temple.
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