Dreaming of 1988, I have the ability to see ghosts and ghosts

"Now, let me arrange the seating."

Teacher Huang remained calm and continued.

So Teacher Huang read out the students' names in order and arranged their seats.

"Liu Feng, Wang Fang, second group, second row."

Teacher Huang called out my name and Wang Fang’s name. Maybe this is fate.

Wang Fang was the first person who took the initiative to say hello to me after I entered junior high school, and she even became my deskmate.

We packed our things, sat down, and smiled at each other.

In this way, we began our junior high school study career. According to school rules, we had to go to the classroom to take a nap after lunch.

But the school conditions at that time were like that. We, the first-year students, had no dormitories, no beds, no sheets or quilts, and could only sleep on the tables.

I don’t have the habit of taking a nap. Besides, it’s really uncomfortable to sleep on the hard table. My hands will become numb after just a few minutes.

Even the next day, my grandmother made me a pillow out of old cloth and put some cotton grown at home in it, but I still couldn't sleep for several days.

Wang Fang next to me might have felt the same as I did. During the one-hour lunch break at noon, we kept changing the positions of our bodies while lying on the table.

Because class leaders take turns on duty during lunch break, even if you can't sleep, you have to lie on the table, otherwise you will be punished.

There was no other way, so we both endured it helplessly for several days.

At noon on the fifth day, after sleeping for 10 minutes, we lay facing each other and opened our eyes at the same time and looked at each other.

"Liu Feng, can't you sleep either?"

Wang Fang asked me by lip movements.

I blinked and replied to her.

She pursed at me and motioned for me to look up. When I looked up, I saw that Zeng Fanli, the study committee member on duty, was sitting on the table on the podium and had fallen asleep.

When I looked at Wang Fang again, she shook her head at me and said in a low voice.

"Come on, since we can't sleep anyway, let's go play outside."

My eyes lit up and I nodded, and the two of them quietly got up and walked out of the classroom.

After leaving the classroom, the entire campus was quiet. The teacher on duty was resting in the office. There was no one walking around on campus, except for the two of us, of course.

We walked out of the campus through the big iron gate.

"Finally I'm free. I lay on the table, but I can't fall asleep. I feel so uncomfortable."

After leaving the school gate, Wang Fang immediately released her nature, jumping and skipping, and pulling me towards the river.

"Yeah, I can't sleep either. What are we going to do now?"

"Let's go to the river. There is a lotus forest there. There should be lotus pods. Let's pick some!" said Wang Fang.

I looked in the direction of his finger and really saw a lotus forest.

Because it is already September, there are only dots of red in between, and the breeze blows gently, stirring up a green wave, which looks very beautiful.

We ran happily for five or six minutes and arrived at the river.

Wang Fang rolled up her trouser legs and was about to walk into the river. She must have picked lotus flowers and lotus pods in the river many times.

"Liu Feng, come down!"

She took a few steps and called me when she saw that I didn't move.

"It's not deep here, don't be afraid. You can't pick lotus pods at the edge. You have to walk a little to the middle to pick them."

"Okay!" I took off my plastic sandals, rolled up my trouser legs, and followed her step by step.

Because it was noon, the water in the river was not cold. We walked around in the lotus forest for a long time before we picked two or three lotus pods.

However, we were both very happy with such a gain and were smiling from ear to ear.

Wang Fang wanted to continue walking towards the middle, but I stopped her and said

"I'm afraid we can't go any further into the middle. The water is getting deeper and deeper."

"Don't be afraid, it's not too deep, I can swim." Wang Fang said with a smile.

"But, but I can't swim."

My face turned red with shame. We live in a land of fish and rice with vast waters. There are only a handful of people who can't swim. Most children start splashing in the river at the age of three or four.

The children in the village all grew up in the water. In those days, they rarely had money to buy snacks, so the river was a natural place for snacks. The children had delicious food as soon as summer came.

Everyone would go to the lake to dig lotus stems, pick lotus pods, pick water chestnuts, and pick egg buns (written as "芡实"), which are all the children's favorite to eat.

Because I was afraid of water, my grandmother would keep a close eye on me whenever I went to the river. She would never let me go into the water, let alone learn to swim.

When I was young, I fell into the water several times and almost drowned. If it weren’t for Xiao Hei who saved me, I’m afraid I wouldn’t be alive today. Today, I mustered up a lot of courage to go into the water.

"It's okay. Just stand here and wait for me. I'll pick a few more and come back."

After Wang Fang finished speaking, she pushed aside the dense lotus leaves and moved forward.

I was embarrassed to let her take the risk alone, so I followed her and walked forward slowly.

Suddenly, I saw a pointed head popping out from under the lotus leaf, and it slowly swam towards us. It was a colorful snake with circles of patterns on its body.

My grandmother told me that the brighter the color of a snake, the more poisonous it is.

I have seen this kind of snake, commonly known as the nine-ring snake, which means it has nine ring-shaped patterns of different colors on its body.

I was startled and screamed.

"Wang Fang, be careful of snakes."

"What happened?"

When Wang Fang heard my cry, she quickly turned around and looked towards me.

As I watched the snake getting closer and closer to me, I was so scared that I didn’t know what to do.

With a cry of horror, he stood there motionless, clutching the three lotus pods tightly in his hands.

I saw the colorful snake spitting out its tongue at me and opening its mouth.

I was so scared that my face turned pale. I was done for. If I was bitten by such a poisonous snake and didn't seek medical treatment in time, I would die.

Suddenly, the beads on my chest felt hot, and a dark shadow suddenly appeared from nowhere and rushed towards the colorful snake.

Xiao Hei, it’s my Xiao Hei. It is much bigger than the flower snake. Seeing that the situation was not good, the flower snake turned around and ran away.

"Liu Feng, are you okay? Where is the snake?"

At this time, Wang Fang had already walked to my side, and it seemed that she was also very frightened when she heard my scream.

"No, it's okay. It's already swam away."

I touched my chest and breathed a long sigh of relief. It was Xiao Hei who saved me again today.

But doesn’t Xiao Hei only move around around my home?

It's probably about fifty or sixty kilometers from my home to here by water. When did it swim here?

And it appeared so timely.

Also, I clearly felt just now that the temperature of the bead on my chest suddenly rose.

And after I was out of danger, its temperature slowly dropped again.

"Ah! It's a black snake."

I was thinking about the problem when Wang Fang suddenly yelled again, which scared me.

It turned out that when she walked over, she just happened to see Xiao Hei's tail, which quickly disappeared into the forest.

"It's okay, it's gone. That kind of black snake shouldn't be poisonous."

After coming to my senses, I comforted Wang Fang.