Chapter 58 Colleagues' Sale
Ten years ago, it was the coldest and harshest winter, and it snowed heavily.
The wind and snow covered Qingji Mountain, covering all the green with a thick layer of desperate white.
When Shi Gui was alive, he was a left-behind child in a village at the foot of Qingji Mountain.
The economy of the city where Qingji Mountain is located is not very developed and the average salary is not high. Therefore, most men and women choose to leave their hometowns and go to economically developed cities to work for the sake of their children and the elderly.
Naturally, only the elderly and children were left in the village.
In villages with many left-behind children, it is natural for various chains of contempt to emerge - for example, you are a child that your parents don't want, and your parents don't want you anymore.
This is particularly evident in the stone ghost.
Because Shigui has no grandparents at home, he lives alone. His parents left home when he was twelve years old and never came back for many years.
They really didn't want him.
The stone ghost knew this.
He suffers from a mild communication disorder. When his parents, relatives or neighbors talk to him, he rarely answers and rarely looks people in the eye. He hates making eye contact with others.
His symptoms weren't actually serious, but his parents felt like the sky was falling and that they had given birth to a defective child.
They were from the village and had never heard of such a foreign disease.
rule? That's unaffordable.
But after all, he was their own son, so his parents gritted their teeth and raised him until he was twelve years old. The little bit of conscience they had left was finally extinguished when a wave of migrant workers started in the village.
They left without hesitation.
Before leaving, Mother touched Shigui's head and told him that she would come back when the ginkgo tree in the yard bore fruit again.
Shi Gui just can't express himself, not that he has no feelings. The first thing he does after school every day is to water and fertilize the ginkgo tree, hoping that the tree will bloom and bear fruit soon.
This way, parents can go home earlier.
But as the years went by, from spring to winter, from cold to summer, he waited from the time the ginkgo tree grew leaves and bore fruit until the time the ginkgo fruits fell into the mud, and he never saw his parents again.
He only received a call from a public phone in the convenience store. On the phone, his parents told him that they could not come back and sent him some money for tuition amid the sound of fireworks celebrating the New Year in a big city.
But Shi Gui clearly heard the clear cry of a baby amidst the sound of the phone call.
Shi Gui hung up the phone, as if he had lost his soul.
The shop owner watched him go away, hesitated for a moment, took a piece of the rare and precious braised pork from the plate on the table and put it on the plate, and also picked up some steamed bun ingredients: "Come on, it's New Year's Eve, there are no adults at home, so there must be no delicious food. Take these and eat them."
Shi Gui stared at the greasy braised pork and the family members sitting around the table in the store and started crying.
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One year, two years, three years...
Everyone in the village knew that Shigui’s parents disliked him and didn’t want him anymore.
Gradually, bullying happened naturally.
The leader among children of the same age would always try his best to force the stone ghost to speak, and would not let him leave if he didn't speak.
Every time, the stone ghost was very angry. But he was malnourished and short, so there was no way he could beat the leader of the kids. If he dared to attack the leader of the kids, he would be asking for a beating.
Occasionally, an adult in the village would see this situation and offer some symbolic advice, but most of the time there would be no such thing.
After all, they are not our own children. We have farm work to do at home and we are busy. We don’t have time to meddle in other people’s affairs.
Later, the stone ghost learned to be smart. Whenever he heard the noisy voices of the group of children from afar, he would immediately take a detour.
But this is not a long-term solution. The child king soon discovered this and blocked the door of Shi Gui's house.
Later, one day when Shi Gui was 18 years old and about to take the college entrance examination, the boy leader who had dropped out of school a long time ago and was now idle and acting like a gangster saw an educational program on the only TV in the village. The program was about protecting eggs in various ways and dropping them from a high altitude to see which protection method could best keep the eggs safe.
The child king suddenly had an idea for a better way to torture the stone ghost.
He said that he thought carrying an umbrella would be the best way to protect the eggs, and he found the stone ghost and asked him to jump from the second floor with an umbrella to try it out.
The stone ghost just turned into his egg.
At that time, all the houses in the village were bungalows, and the tallest house was Shi Gui's, which had two floors.
The stone ghost had no choice but to jump down from the second floor with an umbrella.
Fortunately, I was lucky and didn't get hurt anywhere. Or maybe it was just bad luck and I didn't get hurt anywhere.
If he had really fallen and injured himself at that time, what happened afterwards might not have happened.
The King of Children was very proud at the moment. He thought that those well-educated and well-off people on TV were so stupid that they couldn’t even think of such a simple solution. They were not as good as him!
However... the second floor is still too low and cannot reflect the superiority of his method.
As the King of Children thought so, his eyes looked at the Qingji Mountain behind the village, which was sparkling in the snow and the setting sun.
By the way, there is also Qingji Mountain.
"You, come with me up the mountain." The child king's dark eyes were full of cruelty.
"I won't go... This umbrella can't bear my weight. As we learned in science class, I will fall to death." Shi Gui said anxiously.
But when the children's king heard this, he just felt that it was a mockery of him.
He mocked him for his poor science grades!
The King of Children was furious. "If I remember correctly, you care a lot about the ginkgo tree in your house? If you don't go, I will burn it so that it will never bear fruit again."
The stone ghost's struggle slowed down.
A group of energetic children were looking for a place of suitable height while climbing the mountain. Finally, they came to a canyon. The canyon was located on the hillside of Qingji Mountain. The height difference was about ten meters, which met the needs of the king of children.
The wind mixed with the broken snow hit the children's faces. The stone ghost's lips turned pale. "Do you really want to jump?"
"Boss... this is really a bit high, why don't we just forget it..."
"yes."
The child king pulled his face and sneered: "What do you mean, do you think my method doesn't work?"
"Whoever says one more word will be asked to dance in his place."
The younger brothers didn't dare to persuade him anymore and shut their mouths.
When the stone ghost jumped down, the brothers took a deep breath, and then heard a dull sound coming from the snow below.
Just as Shigui said, the umbrella flipped over and lost its cushioning ability.
With a thud, the stone ghost's head hit the gravel hidden under the snow. Skull fragments flew everywhere and blood dyed the white snow red.
"Boss...someone's dead..."
The younger brothers looked panicked and ran down to check.
The child king's face was distorted: "Quick, cover him with stones, otherwise he will be doomed if he is discovered!"
The other brothers were already frightened and immediately ran away after hearing this.
The child king gritted his teeth and went to move the stones himself.
The stone ghost's flesh and blood merged with the stone wall. He regained consciousness in the midst of overwhelming hatred, and controlled the rubble to make it wriggle, pinning down the child king who was still moving stones to press down his body.
As for the other children who were running down the mountain, the stone ghost did not go looking for them.
He knew that the reason those children followed the leader was because they were afraid of becoming the next him.
They just... spoke for him.
After that, the stone ghost lived in the stone wall.
The snow is melting, dripping.
A tender new bud bloomed between the cracks in the rocks.
The earless ghost appeared on that day. He floated up the mountain stealthily and looked for a place to shelter from the wind and rain where he planned to live for a long time.
Then, we discovered a canyon. The top of the canyon expanded outward, while the bottom of the valley was just protected from rain, making it a good place to live.
So the earless ghost immediately sat down next to the stone wall, leaning his back... just right against the stone surface of the stone ghost who came out to see how the sprouts were growing.
Stone Ghost: “…”
He poked the back gently with his stone fingers, but the earless ghost was completely unaware.
The stone ghost poked it again, but the earless ghost touched his face and said, "What's so disgusting?"
It can be said to be extremely insensitive.
Shi Gui couldn't stand it any longer: "Let it go."
Hoarse voice.
But the earless ghost remained indifferent.
The stone ghost then directly stretched his stone head out of the stone wall from the side of the earless ghost and directly in front of the earless ghost.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh there is a ghost!" The earless ghost screamed miserably.
His whole body bounced and launched, almost flying straight up.
"Aren't you a ghost too?" The stone ghost was speechless.
The earless ghost saw his stone mouth opening and closing, and pointed to his cheek and said, "I don't have ears, brother, I can't hear you."
Stone Ghost: “…”
He lowered his eyes and resigned himself to writing on a small piece of snow that had not yet completely melted.
The earless ghost smiled and said, "Your handwriting is pretty good. You must have done very well, right? I just died not long ago and I'm not used to my identity as a ghost yet."
Shi Gui wrote: You talk a lot.
"You're the first ghost I've met in all these days. We haven't talked for a long time. I really can't help it. Please bear with me. In return, I'll tell you a good place to eat and drink." The earless ghost smiled at him, looked at his upper body sticking out of the stone wall with a friendly look, and sighed, "You look so handsome. I'm so envious. If a good ghost looks like me, I won't be scary at all. I can't even scare my unscrupulous boss."
The two ghosts lived together like this. Later, the snow melted completely. The area near the stone wall was covered with hard rocks, making it inconvenient to write. The Stone Ghost found a sign language book from somewhere and forced the Earless Ghost to learn it with him.
The earless ghost is a chatterbox, while the stone ghost is a talkative person. But the stone ghost never lets the earless ghost's words fall to the ground and always responds.
The Stone Ghost never told the Earless Ghost that he was very happy to meet him.
The earless ghost is the tender bud that grows on his cold heart.
Later, the Wish Ghost invaded Qingji Mountain and forced all the ghosts on the mountain to become his followers.
Qi Gu saw through the cause and effect of the stone ghost and just said, "Everything has its cause. I won't kill you. Follow me."
Shi Gui nodded slightly: "Thank you."
Seeing that the Stone Ghost and Qi Gu were still communicating, the Earless Ghost curiously leaned over the Stone Ghost's shoulder and poked his head out: "What are you still talking about?"
Stone Ghost Sign Language: It’s okay, I’m thanking him.
“Oh!” The earless ghost bowed with both hands and kept bowing to Qi Gu. “Thank you, Master. I also know the ghost above. I’ll give you a spoiler now!”
The first time is new, the second time is familiar.
The earless ghost sells at a low price and has no psychological burden at all.
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