I rode my bike to the neighboring village of Mazhuang.

The two villages were not far apart, and with a little inquiry, I found Li Laosan's house.

As soon as I entered, I saw him tuning his radio at the table.

I was about to speak, but Li Laosan waved his hand, indicating to keep quiet as he was listening to the radio.

From the radio came Teresa Teng's song "Romance in the Village."

At that time, Teresa Teng's songs were considered frivolous and provocative, not something you would hear on normal radio stations.

It wasn't until I went to college that I heard it from someone else.

I didn't expect that there would be someone in the village who modified their radio to secretly listen to Teresa Teng.

In the past, Li Laosan's behavior could have been seen as listening to enemy stations, but at that time, people didn't really care about such things anymore.

I sat down next to him and listened to the entire song of "Romance in the Village" with him.

After the song ended, the radio started broadcasting something else, and Li Laosan turned it off, feeling unsatisfied, and said to me:

"Who is this Taiwanese singer, actually she's our fellow villager, I even know her aunt."

I didn't have time to talk about this, so I just said:

"Uncle Li, last time we met, my attitude wasn't very good, please don't take offense."

Li Laosan looked at me and asked:

"What's wrong? Are you in such a hurry to see my niece?"

"No, no, I just wanted to ask, that day you said there was someone with me, who was it?"

Li Laosan smiled and said, "A ghost."

I grew up in the village and heard a lot of ghost stories, but they were always considered to be made up by people, or a trick, or self-deception.

But the things I encountered now couldn't be explained with previous methods.

So I asked him:

"What exactly is a ghost?"

Li Laosan laughed.

"This matter is complicated to talk about, since you are a college student, I'll tell you in terms that a college student can accept: Spirits are born from the human heart. When the heart has respect, it is ancestral spirits and deities, when the heart has fear, it is evil spirits and monsters."

I thought about it and asked, "Can grudges be considered evil?"

"Of course, and the most feared thing is grudges, all haunting ghosts survive on this resentment."

I asked him:

"Can you help me communicate with spirits?"

"What are you trying to do?"

"I want to see Qiuguo."

Li Laosan laughed.

"Ordinary people, when afflicted by evil, think of ways to avoid it, but you want to actively meet?"

"I simply do not believe that Qiuguo would become like this after death, I want to ask her face to face."

Li Laosan hesitated for a moment and said:

"I advise you not to see her, some things are too curious and not good, how about this, I'll help you out, guarantee that she won't bother you anymore, and you don't have to see her, how about that?"

I said no.

Li Laosan then said:

"I don't understand, she's already dead, what can you do even if you see her again?"

"At least I can be at peace."

Just as we were talking, a girl walked out, looked at me, and asked Li Laosan.

"Uncle Li, who is this?"

Just as she finished asking, she suddenly blushed.

I figured out who she was, and I guess she figured out who I was too.

The girl looked at Li Laosan.

Staring eagerly.

Li Laosan pretended not to see, after a while, he surrendered and looked at me helplessly.

"Hey, trying to communicate with spirits in broad daylight, this is a first for me."