Ghost Fire

Hayden hunts in the mountains when lost, looking at the darkening of the sky, growing up in the mountains Hayden knows that night and day in the mountains are completely two things. Daytime in the mountains, although the crisis, but for hunters, the forest in the daytime is their battlefield.

But the night is different, it is not only a lot of crisis but also the territory of the beasts, which accidentally will become their graveyard.

Hayden knew he had to find a light as soon as possible, at least to burn a fire in the forest, because the beasts are afraid to live, otherwise, he might be torn by the beasts in the mountains and devoured. Hayden collected a large pile of firewood, he thought it should be enough to burn on the night.

But the sky is unpredictable, in Hayden collected firewood after burning a small half, and the sky is raining. At first, it was just a light rain, but the rain got heavier and heavier and finally doused Hayden's fire. Hayden had no choice but to hide in the branches of the trees.

The rain did not stop at all the idea, Hayden in rain is difficult to open his eyes, look around, and see only darkness.

He quickly climbed down the tree and dashed to the light to run, do not know how many heels, running for how long, running how far, he finally saw a small hut. The original Hayden in the trees to see the light like a bean size is the light from the girl's small hut.

He couldn't wait to knock on the hut, to open the door to a beautiful eyebrow, back tied with a long ponytail, and his age is not similar to the girl. Hayden swooned at the girl, this is the grown-up to see the best-looking girl, the girl smiled and opened the door to invite Hayden into the house.

The small hut is dripping rain everywhere, but better than the outside, but there is light, although very dim, but the beast does not dare to come to rebellion.

Hayden shyly and the girl chatted up the day, when the girl learned that Hayden is under the mountain Nicole's village, she asked Hayden happily whether he knew Nicole's village Wu Changing.

Hayden shook his head, said do not know, Hayden can not bear to see the girl's face full of loss and wanted to change the subject. Hayden thought of himself and the girl talking for so long, do not know the girl's name, so smiled and asked: "what is your name?" The girl smiled and replied, "My name is Sofia,"

Hayden excitedly said: "Sofia, really nice. My name is Hayden, too."

Sofia covered her mouth and laughed, Hayden laughed awkwardly and scratched his head with his hand. Hayden looked around, from the time he entered the house until now, he had not seen anyone other than this pale girl! So Hayden asked, puzzled: "Girl, how can you live here alone? Where is your family?"

Sofia said with a bitter smile: "I was also living in a village at the foot of the mountain, my father picking herbs for a living. But my father went to the cliff to earn more money and fell off the cliff. After my father's death, my grandmother fell ill, so my mother took my brother and me to the mountains to dig herbs to live.

But not long after, my grandmother died, and my mother continued to take my brother and me to dig herbs in the mountains to live. Then one day, my mother built this thatched house for me in the mountains, and I haven't left here since."

Hearing Sofia's words, Hayden felt very sad, he did not understand how a mother could be so cruel, since she left her daughter alone in the middle of nowhere.

Hayden couldn't hide his heartache and asked, "How long have you been here?"

Sofia shook her head and said she didn't know, but she said with confidence and determination: "I won't stay here for too long, your village Carlos, and I fingerprinted, I'm here waiting for him to marry me. After you return to the village, if you meet Carlos, please help me tell him that I am waiting for him to marry me. I don't want any bride price, as long as he comes to marry me, I will marry him."

Hearing Sofia's firm tone, Hayden's heart was very hard because Hayden had fallen in love with this kind and simple girl.

Hayden thought if the kind Sofia, yesterday opened the door to invite in not himself, but a bad guy, then it would be bad, so Hayden said seriously to Sofia: "Here you live alone, you can not freely let people in ah. If the one who came in yesterday is not me, but a bad guy, you a girl home how to do it?"

Sofia said with a smile: "No, you won't be a bad person, you and the growth look so much like, you can't be a bad person."

Sofia's words brought tears to Hayden's eyes, he kept cursing the man called Carlos in his heart, he wanted to meet Carlos himself one day, he must scold him severely, to scold him awake. He didn't know what kind of man Carlos was, how could he be so cruel as to abandon Sofia, such a kind person, on the mountain?

Hayden dried his tears and said to Sofia with a smile on his face, "Come home with me!"

Sofia shook her head and said firmly: "No, I'm not going anywhere. I will wait for him here, I am sure he will come to marry me." Hayden fell into a deep sleep with his heart aching for Sofia.

The warm sun woke up the sleeping Hayden, who woke up to find himself lying on an overgrown and dilapidated earthen grave. This earthen grave in addition to a broken wooden tombstone, it is exactly like a small pile of slopes, it is not at all visible this is a grave.

Hayden looked around and quickly climbed up one of the highest trees here.

He looked around in the tree, but the mountain only has a few lonely graves, and there is no thatched hut, let alone a girl named Sofia.

Hayden had not returned all night, he was tired and hungry, and afraid that his parents and grandfather were worried, so he took one step back and went home reluctantly. After returning home, Hayden ignored his parents' worried faces, not to mention his own "grumbling" stomach and dirty clothes.

He went straight to his grandfather's room, wondering if anyone in the village named Carlos, would know. He told his grandfather what had happened last night and asked his grandfather who Carlos was, to which his parents, who had come in behind Hayden, scolded, "How can you call grandpa by his name?!"

Hayden was frozen in place, his eyes staring straight at his grandfather, who said with a grave look on his face: "Carlos is me, I named you Hayden, also because of the same name as Sofia. I'm sorry for her, back then, she was picking herbs in the mountains, and was bit by a poisonous snake, and died of poison. Then I married your grandmother, and she was still waiting for me." After saying these words, grandpa died with a smile on his face.

Hayden understood that the bean-like light he saw in the tree that day was not from the kerosene lamp, but from the ghost fire.