Chapter 2: An Unexpected Journey
Qin Xiao felt that the surrounding villagers were no wonder about this matter, after all, many people witnessed this fierce battle, which must have been very tragic. He saw the terrain around him, the peaks were high, and in some places, they were so abrupt that they could not climb at all. Fortunately, on the surface of the layers of shale, there is no way to go, some are eroded by the wind or water, the boulders of the entire mountain will be washed out of a very spacious passage, and then people according to the terrain, perennial rush repair, into a road with the outside world.
And the old man probably went to the market to sell his cattle, but because the price was not negotiable, he did not sell it. Qin Xiao could see that this old man was a good hand at walking mountain roads, Qin Xiao was carrying luggage, and sometimes he was even left behind by the old man.
But Qin Xiao is also a competitive person, he didn't feel very tired when he carried 30 kilograms and 10 kilometers off-road, but now he has to lose to an old man on dozens of miles of mountain roads, and he doesn't feel funny, so he sped up his pace, moved forward, and came together with the old man again.
In fact, the old man also deliberately quickened his pace to leave him behind, he felt that this young man from the city did not know how to respect the ghosts and gods, and staying awake with him would attract the dissatisfaction of the ghosts and gods, so he did this. But I didn't expect that my walking skills on mountain roads in the past few decades would be easily surpassed by a young man.
Qin Xiao also guessed a **, so he deliberately rushed to talk to the old man, at this time it was already more than five o'clock in the afternoon, Qin Xiao couldn't help but ask the old man:
"Uncle, how long is it from Makou Village?"
The old man said: "It's almost half, more than ten miles of mountain roads, young man estimates that you will have to walk at night by yourself." ”
Qin Xiao deliberately teased: "It's okay, I can catch ghosts myself, there's nothing to be afraid of." ”
When the old man heard this, he couldn't help but be a little skeptical, but thinking of Qin Xiaohun's frame just now that he didn't take this unjust soul seriously, he also believed it a little, so he said:
"So, you're here to find ghosts. However, I advise you to be careful, many people here have seen the ghosts of the G Army at night, and some are still starving ghosts, going everywhere in people's yards to find something to eat. Even the next morning, I found that my chickens and ducks were gone. ”
The more Qin Xiao listened, the more suspicious he became, he couldn't imagine how there could be ghosts in this world, he remembered that when he was in an anatomy class, he was facing corpses in the underground dissection room, and he didn't feel afraid. At that time, he himself woke up early in the morning. So he went to the dissection room early, but it happened that there was no classmate, only he guarded so many corpses, the basement was very dim, he didn't care, but he startled the classmates who came later, when he was sitting on a stool looking up at the ceiling, his classmates couldn't help but scream, but he laughed.
Thinking about this, he couldn't help but laugh. But the old man stopped doing it and motioned to Qin Xiao to be quiet.
Finally, the old man arrived at the entrance of the village first, which is the Heji Village he said, and he still has to walk a little way to get to Makou Village, at this time the sky is already dark, coupled with the green trees, the entire country road is covered and impermeable, and the mosquitoes are very powerful, and after a while, Qin Xiao has been bitten several pimples.
Qin Xiao walked on the mountain road by himself. I was not afraid, and there was no movement around me along the way, and I arrived at Makou Village after a while.
After entering the village, it was indeed empty. Of course. Qin Xiao understood that the villagers had closed their doors to rest, and on such an early summer night, he was curious why no one came out to cool off.
So he looked for the location of the school, and since no one attracted him, he spared the whole village. I finally found a school in the east of the village, but naturally it was empty.
Qin Xiao knocked on the door and entered, but as soon as he entered the campus, he saw a person wearing a shirt and a flashlight going out of the door, Qin Xiao immediately responded:
"Hello, I'm Qin Xiao who just came to report, I don't know what I call you."
The man didn't answer, but carefully shone Qin Xiao up and down with a flashlight, and saw that it was a young man with luggage, so he was relieved, so he replied: "I am the teacher here, you can call me Lao Ma." ”
Qin Xiao couldn't help but wonder and said, "Why is you the only one in this school?" What about students? ”
Lao Ma sighed and said, "How can there be students, the ghosts have been fierce recently, and the nearby villagers don't dare to let students come to school, so these days, there has been no class, and I have been watching the door here." ”
Qin Xiao couldn't help but feel a little ridiculous, since he was a child, he had heard of people who didn't come to school because of illness and bad weather, but he hadn't heard of people who didn't come to school because of "ghosts".
But Qin Xiao was not in a hurry to ask carefully, Lao Ma knew that it was a teacher just sent by the county, so he said respectfully: "I don't know what you call it?" ”
Qin Xiao replied: "My surname is Qin, my name is Qin Xiao, you can call me Xiao Qin." ”
Lao Ma laughed a few times and said: "Xiao Qin, the county has already told me that there is a young man who wants to teach and become a doctor, so I will work with the village party secretary to build a spacious house with you, and the clinic will be set up in the future, and it will be there." ”
As he spoke, Lao Ma used a flashlight to shine a stone house on the west side of the courtyard, and then pointed to the one next to him and said:
"The other one is your bedroom, I'll take you there, it's all cleaned."
Qin Xiao was very grateful, thinking that it seemed that Lao Ma was a kind person, and the only villagers he met along the way were the old man and him, but he could feel the simplicity and kindness of this kind of mountain people.
Although Qin Xiao had a long day's journey, he was strong and didn't feel very tired, so he took a bucket to the well at the school gate to get a bucket of water, and after washing, he came to Lao Ma's house.
When the old horse saw Qin Xiao coming, he hurriedly opened the door. So turn on the light, the light is dim, but it is enough to see each other clearly, and then the two sides can really know each other, after all, just now the flashlight is not clear to each other outside.
Lao Ma was a man in his forties and fifties, and after a few words of greeting, Qin Xiao learned that he was from his own village and had been responsible for the teaching of children in several nearby villages. But faced with the situation that there were no students when he first came to the school, Qin Xiao couldn't help but ask:
"I heard a fellow on the road say that the children from several nearby villages are afraid to come to school, why didn't this problem be reported to the top?"
Lao Ma couldn't help but say bitterly: "Why didn't you reciprocate, we reported upward, and the villagers in several villages also wanted to reflect, but the leaders above thought that it was out of nothing, and they scared themselves, even if a few people came, they just looked at it and left if they thought it was okay." ”
Qin Xiao said: "I heard from fellow villagers that many people have seen it, and even come back to the yard at night to find something to eat. ”
Lao Ma said: "No, it's the ghost of the G Army soldiers back then, because they are wearing tattered G Army uniforms." Anyone who has seen it says so, and it can't be wrong. ”
Qin Xiao couldn't help but ask Lao Ma curiously, "Brother Ma, do you believe that there are ghosts in this world?" ”
Lao Ma laughed a few times and said, "I have always disbelieved it, but in this case, you can't help but make people disbelieve it!" ”
Qin Xiao also knew that it was too difficult for him to ask him like this, after all, he was also a farmer, but he was also a teacher, so he couldn't be superstitious.
Qin Xiao already had a plan in his heart, so he said: "No matter what, we have to call the students back to school again, otherwise we can't always do this and do nothing." ”
Lao Ma said: "I have also invited several times, but the children from other villages are afraid to come, because they have to live in school for a week, and the parents are not at ease when they come home from school, and then the children from our own village do not dare to come." It's a panic now, didn't you see it when you came? In the evening, there was no one outside. ”
Qin Xiao naturally knew about this situation, so he said: "Then I will start to investigate this matter tomorrow, and strive to let the children resume classes as soon as possible." ”
Lao Ma couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Check, how to check?" It's all things that you can't see or touch, and there's nowhere to find them. ”
Qin Xiao couldn't help but laugh a few times, and said: "Brother Ma, you can naturally rest assured about this, my ancestors have people who can hunt ghosts, and my grandmother is in this business, just because my grandfather is a doctor, so I don't let my grandmother do it, but her old man secretly passed on the craft to me, I am both a doctor and a ghost hunter, don't worry." ”
Lao Ma listened to what he said, thinking that Qin Xiao could really do this, he couldn't help but smile, and his heart was also a lot of relief, after all, he left his wife and children at home, guarding the campus alone, he was very scared, and he was really overjoyed to come back with a live "Zhong Kui".
But Qin Xiao naturally coaxed him with this, how could he catch ghosts, but he firmly believed that there were no ghosts in this world. The purpose of saying this is also to let these people not hinder themselves even if they don't support themselves.
The next day, Lao Ma brought Liu Qingyuan, the village party secretary, to see Qin Xiao, the village party secretary was an extremely handsome person, when he saw Qin Xiao, he shook hands and didn't talk to Qin Xiao, so he said directly to Lao Ma:
"I always thought this college student was like, but that's what it is."
Qin Xiao couldn't help but laugh, so he said: "Liu Zhishu, college students are also people, and they are not Nezha with three heads and six arms." ”
Lao Ma interjected: "Branch secretary, you don't know, our Qin Xiao Qin Doctor can also hunt ghosts." ”
The village party secretary couldn't help but suspect that he was a party member, and although he also believed in ghosts, he couldn't say it openly, so he said:
"Nonsense, college students are all literate literary stars, how can they believe that there are ghosts."
When Qin Xiao heard this, he looked at the expression of the village party secretary, and it was obvious that Liu branch secretary was also insincere, so he said to him:
"Branch secretary, we don't believe in ghosts, but the villagers believe ah, we still have to use the method of catching ghosts, tell them that there are no ghosts, in fact, when my grandmother called me this method, I didn't know if it would work, but after trying it, it really worked, I realized that the method of the ancestors, although it is nameless, but it is absolutely effective, and then all the towns and villages came to me to summon spirits and exorcise evil spirits or something."
The village party secretary was already confused by Qin Xiao at this time, he didn't know whether Qin Xiao could do it or not, but he also felt that it was worth a try, after all, the college students outside were different from the people in the village, so he immediately anxious about the whole village and held a meeting to discuss three things:
First, welcome Qin Xiao's arrival and do his best to help set up a clinic to serve the villagers;
second, reconnect with the child and prepare for the start of school;
Third, the most urgent thing is that the villagers should assist Dr. Qin in catching ghosts and returning peace to the mountain village. (To be continued.) )