"The adults in the village discovered that since some time ago, the children not only like to play during the day, but also like to sneak out to play at night."
"And he likes to run out of the village and play in the mountains."
Qin Ye said this, looked up at the starry sky, and smiled.
"You know, the mountains are definitely dangerous. It's dangerous even in modern times, let alone in ancient times. After all, wasn't there a news story in the Northeast a few days ago about two Siberian tigers running into a rural area, and an old man's door was smashed down by the tigers?"
"I heard there was even an old man whose hand was bitten off."
"In ancient times, there were many wolves, tigers and leopards in the mountains, especially at night, when these animals hunt. So villagers generally didn't allow their children to go out to play at night, let alone leave the village."
"But the children wouldn't listen. They insisted on running out to play, even if we preached to them."
"This makes the villagers feel very strange."
"I've always told the kids to stay out at night, but they haven't listened lately. What do you think is the reason?"
Guan Xinghe was stunned.
Qin Ye asked him unexpectedly, but he was intrigued by the story and still answered.
"Bewitched?"
He said and then laughed.
"Unlike modern times, there were many wild spirits and monsters in the mountains in ancient times. They were uncontrolled and often ate people, especially children. Were those children bewitched by the spirits?"
"You guessed it right, but not completely."
Qin Ye lowered his head and played the game without keeping anyone in suspense.
"It's true that there were mountain spirits and wild monsters bewitching the children, but they were about to be rescued, so they continued to go up the mountain at night to play with their saviors."
"Play? Play so late at night?"
"Yes, we just play. Let's play bird egg hunting and see who can collect more herbs."
"Who saved them?" Guan Xinghe's interest was piqued, and he subconsciously asked, "Are they also children?"
"It's a child, but it needs a prefix."
"What prefix?"
"ghost"
"ghost?"
"Yes, a ghost child. To be more specific, it's a ghost child who's wandering around like a ghost."
As Qin Ye said this.
Guan Xinghe's heart skipped a beat, and his curious expression gradually changed. He vaguely realized that Qin Ye's story seemed a little familiar.
But compared to before, I didn’t think of the Heavenly Prison.
This time when I was looking at the starry sky, I quickly remembered why it felt familiar.
He subconsciously touched the pendant beads.
This story... sounds so much like the story his parents told him about his ancestors, or perhaps it should be said that it was the story of how his ancestors got the pendant beads.
The ancestor met the benefactor who gave him the pendant beads in a village in the mountains.
At that time.
The ancestor was just a lonely ghost child.
Thinking in my heart.
One can't help but marvel at the starry sky.
"What happened next?"
"Later... the villagers realized something was wrong with the children. After all, they were usually well-behaved, so why were they being disobedient now? Things in ancient times were very different from modern times."
Qin Ye was playing the game seriously.
"Modern people are less superstitious, but in ancient times, superstition was widespread. People were more or less aware of some folk customs and taboos, so some older villagers suspected that the children were possessed by evil spirits or bewitched by mountain spirits."
"So after discussing it with the villagers, they decided to send three strong male villagers to follow the children at night to see what they were doing outside the village."
"And that night they saw a scene they would never forget."
"The children in the village played with a ghost child in the mountains late at night. The children took the ghost child to collect bird eggs and catch fireflies. The ghost child also took them to touch tiger butts and other things that children wanted to do."
When he said this, Qin Ye stopped talking and asked with a smile.
"What do you think will happen next after this story ends?"
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