When I was 13 years old, due to the change of my parents’ work, I was sent to my grandmother in the country to study and live there.

It was difficult to adapt to a new environment, let alone being rejected and hostile by my classmates. After trying to blend in with my classmates to no avail, I started playing truant.

It was under this situation that Xiaoling and I met. That day, I skipped class to Houshan and fell asleep under a cedar tree. Just as I was drowsy, a ball hit my head lightly.

I opened my eyes and saw a girl my age, wearing a pink dress with neatly cut bangs, looking guiltily at the bright eyes Me, she is Xiaoling.

“Sorry, I hit you.”

“Nothing.”

“You can Do you play ball with me?”

“Okay.”

That afternoon, I played ball with her all afternoon and told each other Each other’s names. While watching the sunset with her, I asked her where she lives. She pointed to the largest and tallest house next to the school and said, “It’s right there.”

I know that house, When my grandmother sent me to school, she used to chat with me in front of the house. The owner of this big house was named Li, a big family in the town. It turns out that Xiaoling’s full name is Li Xiaoling. She was also the first friend I met in this small town.

Her appearance gave me a glimmer of sunshine in my gloomy school life, and it also contributed to my truancy. Whenever I saw the opportunity, I ran to the back mountain, and Xiao Ling basically went to the back mountain every day, sometimes holding a ball and sometimes holding a doll.

After Xiaoling knew that I was a transfer student from the city, he often asked me to talk about the city. It took me a few days to explain everything in the city clearly.

After hearing this, Xiao Ling often looked longing, but when I said that I would go to the city to play together, she became silent again, and then shook her head.
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As time goes by, I have also wondered why Xiaoling often appears in the back mountains? Why doesn’t she go to school? These doubts were forcibly explained in my mind: after all, they are children of large families, and of course they are different from others.

That day was my birthday, and it happened to be the weekend. Grandma gave fifty yuan of pocket money to buy my favorite birthday present.

I happily took the money, ran to the back mountain, and found the boring little spirit sitting under the tree in a daze.

I took her hand up: “Xiaoling, let’s go to town to play, and I will take you to eat delicious food.”

Unexpectedly, Xiao Ling panicked when he heard it: “I can’t go to crowded places. I am different from the people in the town.”

I was puzzled:” What’s the difference?”

Xiao Ling shook his head: “This is what my mother said, and I don’t know.”

Xiao Ling in the end who is it? Why can’t she go to town? Why can’t she go to a crowded place?

I thought about it for a long time, but I didn’t understand it.

For a long time, Xiao Ling suddenly said, “Actually, today is my birthday.” Seeing my doubts, she added it again. This is pure coincidence, not a lie.

I was stunned for a while, and then ran down the mountain in one breath. After a while, I was breathless holding a beautiful bell and tied it to her hand. I was surprised to see her Quickly explained: “This bell is for you as a birthday present.”
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Xiao Ling was very moved, and said with red eyes, “Now I have no money. I can’t give you a gift. I’m sorry.”

But the good times didn’t last long, and my long-term truancy finally reached my grandmother’s ears. That day, several uncles who came here at the order of my parents, He beat me up and forced me to write down a letter of guarantee so that I could not skip class in the future.

In the evening, I limped up to the back mountain, crying and said to Xiao Ling: “In the future, we can’t play together often.”

< br/> Xiao Ling was a little surprised, and then nodded as if understanding: “It’s okay, you can still play together on Saturday and Sunday.”

But after that, we didn’t play together again. Ball, chat together, watch the sunset together. Either she missed me, or I missed her. The days seem to be gloomy again.

One day, God finally followed, and we finally ran into it after dusk. At that time, because of the long separation and the excitement, we couldn’t say anything. We stayed on the mountain and watched the scenery until the moon rose.

It was getting dark, I was a little worried, and tried to say: “Or, let’s go home.”

Xiao Ling suddenly said: “Are you willing to live with a puppet forever?”

Seeing my astonishment, she repeated: “Will you or not?”

I shook my head desperately: “I don’t like puppets. I have watched a horror movie about puppets in Hong Kong, and I am very afraid of these strange things.”

She looked a little disappointed. , Never spoke again.

When I turned around, she disappeared. I called her a few words, but no one responded.

That night, I had a strange dream. I dreamed that Xiaoling and I would go to town to play together. But when I got to the town, everyone was looking at me with strange eyes.

There was a passer-by who kept splashing water at us, saying that we are not humans, but ghosts. I wanted to hold Xiao Ling’s hand in fear, but found that it was not Xiao Ling next to me, but a huge puppet. The puppet’s head turned to me, and the eyes drawn with ink and pen were staring at me.

After waking up, I was scared into a cold sweat.

I slapped myself severely to remind myself, how could such a cute girl as Xiao Ling be a puppet?