Chapter 15: Gossip
Familiar scenes, familiar footholds, Zhu Qiu is full of interest in the furnishings and pendants in this ancient tavern!
"Hmm...... there are quite a lot of songs!, then order a song from my brother's "When Love Is a Thing of the Past"!" Zhu Qiu fiddled with the song orderer on the side of the bar, and turned down the volume a little, for fear of disturbing the rest of the other ghosts!
The music sounded slowly, and the beginning of the scene was Zhu Qiu's favorite, so I listened very carefully, the most important thing was because I couldn't sing, and when my brother's lyrics came out, she also hummed along!
Don't talk about the past
Life has been stormy
Even if the memory can't be erased
Love and hate are still in my heart
It's really going to be broken
Let it continue tomorrow
"Master, you don't need to make such a small noise, except in the tavern, the ghosts outside can't hear the sound!"
"There's also this function, then it's a little bigger!" Zhu Qiu pressed the pause, turned up the volume a little and continued to hum along with the music
Don't bother asking me about it
Loving it is a problem
It's dizzying
Forget about the pain, maybe it's okay
It's not easy to forget about you
You've never really left
You are always in my heart
I still have love for you
There's nothing I can do about myself
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When I was wishing Qiu to sing more devotedly, the wind chimes rang!
Bell...... Bell......!
Zhu Qiu listened to the wind chimes and felt a little unhappy in his heart, but he still reached out and took out a pot of wine with blue light from the cabinet under the counter and put it on the right hand side of the bar, stood up straight, and smiled very charmingly!
"Leslie Cheung's love is a thing of the past! I haven't heard it for more than ten years" The visitor was a little old man in his fifties and sixties, wearing a pair of glasses, and he looked quite kind!
"Welcome to the Forgotten Tavern!"
The little old man walked to the bar and sat on a chair, looking at the jug of wine in front of him!
Zhu Qiu chose a pure music suitable for people to tell stories!
The little old man glanced at Zhu Qiu and smiled, picked up the wine jug and took a sip!
"I've been here for five years, and I can't stay in support of the exchange to continue looking for her!" the little old man looked at the wine jug in his hand and said slowly!
"She's my student's name is Fang Ying!" the old man said, and took out a crumpled one-inch bareheaded photo from his coat pocket, on which was a very quiet-looking girl!
"Because of me, she committed suicide under the pressure of school gossip!" The old man's face was full of remorse and sadness! His hands began to tremble, and he took a big sip of the flask!
"This child is more introverted and unsociable, there is only one mother left in the family, and life is very hard! I am also more studious myself! As her homeroom teacher, I am also in a heart of pity, and I pay more attention to her, as a teacher, I am not qualified, I have not done justice to every student!" The old man paused, took another sip of wine, and removed the glasses he wore on his eyes!
In order to reduce the burden on her family, I left her a place for grants and scholarships! In order to get her admitted to a good university, I would leave her after school to help him with homework! Gradually, the students in the class began to reject her and bully her! No matter how much I warned the students in the class that they could not bully their classmates! Later, when she came to school, I found that there was a deep scar on her face, and I was very angry, a girl is very concerned about her appearance, but no matter how I asked, she would not say who the person who scratched her face was! After that, in order to avoid violence, I began to send her home! I don't know when the school spread the words of students and teachers who were in agreement! The old man smiled bitterly! He looked at the wine jug in his hand and didn't drink it!
"The rumors are spreading, I didn't stop it, I'm not afraid of the shadow, I didn't do anything wrong, I have a clear conscience, I also comforted her like this, thinking that in two more years she will be admitted to the university and leave here, and those gossips will be broken by herself! But the school principal couldn't bear the pressure and transferred the child to another class! Although it wasn't my own student, it didn't matter, I usually guided her to study when I was free! Until one day she ran to the office crying and hugged me, heh! I didn't react at the time, I was a little confused, and then I asked her what happened, and she told me that her mother had died! When I heard this, I let her hold her, comforting her!
"It was because of those photos that I was forced to transfer out of the school, even though the school knew the truth, but they couldn't suppress the rumors on the Internet about the keyboard warriors and the filth and filth on campus! I was transferred to another school, she was persuaded to drop out of school, I couldn't bear to bear so much for such a lonely child, so I was ready to take her to other cities to support her to study hard, and the result was ...... But I saw her body at the school gate!" The old man shed muddy tears, picked up the wine jug with trembling hands, and took a few sips! Then he smiled bitterly: "If I had kept the teaching fairness at that time, if I had not left her alone and kept a few more students, if there had been inappropriate rumors at that time, and if I had stopped her inappropriate behavior in time, would she not have died, would she have been able to fulfill her dream and be admitted to the university she wanted to be admitted to...... Pity...... There is no if, in that society with a developed network at that time, how many ignorant people forced how many innocent lives to die!
For the old man's words, Zhu Qiu deeply agreed!
"I don't have much time, I'm worried that she's too lonely, I want to look for her here, but I haven't found it, you have this thing, if you see her one day, please give this to her!" The old man handed Zhu Qiu a pen, picked up the glasses and put them on his eyes, nodded to Zhu Qiu, and turned to leave!
Zhu Qiu looked at the fountain pen in her hand, and then looked at the black water droplets in the wine jug! Zhu Qiu sighed deeply, shook her head, cleaned up the wine jug, sealed it, and hung the pen on the wine jug! Her mood was a little heavy, and the idea of checking the tavern ornaments was gone, so she looked at the wine jug with black water droplets like that, as if she was recalling her school life, sometimes smiling and sometimes shaking her head, I don't know what she remembered, which made her face have a painful look!
Seeing this, the wallaby hurriedly interjected and took Zhu Qiu to the ghost market!