As a young man with a gangster atmosphere all over his body, Li Ang and another male passenger were assigned to the home of Shi Chengpeng, a villager in Dusheng Village.

Shi Chengpeng is an honest and sturdy man, but his son Shi Miao, who has just entered elementary school, is very active, pestering Li Ang in the guest room, wanting to get a smartphone from him to play two kings of glory.

"No signal, play with a hammer."

Li Ang said angrily: "What kind of mobile games do children play, do you do your homework obediently." ”

"I don't have homework."

Shi Miao buttoned his nose, "There are only four students and one teacher in our school. Now that Teacher Meng is gone, we have to go to another village to attend classes, where the classrooms are newer and the teachers assign less homework..."

As she spoke, Shi Miao's mood became depressed.

Dusheng Village is located in a remote area, the conditions are backward, some of the villagers went to the township and county to work, after having a certain economic ability, they moved out one after another, and many of the people left behind were elderly.

More than 10 or 20 years ago, school-age children from the surrounding villages would go to Dusheng Village to attend primary school, and at the most, there were more than 1,000 students

With the continuous advancement of the process of townshipization, the villages in the neighboring townships have been merged, and the teaching sites are placed in the townships.

The remote Dusheng Village Primary School is also gradually declining, with two double-storey teaching buildings, large and small, with more than 20 classrooms, but only four students remain. Two of the four students came from more remote villages.

Meng Qixi was originally just a volunteer teaching youth, but by accident he worked in Dusheng Village Primary School for ten years, from a substitute teacher, to a private teacher, and then to the only in-service teacher in the entire school.

Perseverance and dedication have become synonymous with him.

Half a year ago, he contracted a strange disease and died mysteriously, but the villagers found that they didn't even know where his ancestral home was, so they had to bury him on the back mountain.

Li Ang silently listened to Shi Miao's somewhat jumpy and chaotic narration, and pieced together the life of the middle-aged man Meng Qixi in his mind.

"Teacher Meng is kind to us, but he doesn't like to talk much, so he has been living alone in the school building and cooking by himself."

Shi Miao ate the gummies that Li Ang gave him, and said vaguely, "The people in the village don't call him when they play cards." ”

"Playing cards?" Li Ang raised his eyebrows, "Where to play cards?" ”

"The village chief's house."

Shi Miao chewed the candy, "In the past, the adults in the village often went to the village chief's house to play cards together, and a dozen was a whole night, but they never let women and children go with them.

My mom said my dad had been there once before and came back in the middle of the night. ”

"That's right."

Li Ang nodded noncommittally, and became a little more curious about the seemingly kind and kind old village chief Lu Gui.

The shielded cat's eye, the death of seven months ago, the village teacher who died of illness, the name of the mission under six feet....

The water in this village is very deep.

Villager Shi Chengpeng and his wife returned from repairing the fence in the backyard, stood outside the door and called their son out, telling him not to disturb the guests.

Shi Miao ran out of the house, Shi Chengpeng stood outside the door, glanced at Li Ang, who was dressed as a young man in the society, hesitated for a moment, and said in a dull voice: "Let's sleep first, you guys should go to bed early."

At night, there may be a noise outside, just leave it alone.

I nailed wooden planks to the doors and windows, so that the wild boars outside could not enter, and the security doors inside could not be opened.

The toilet is downstairs. ”

"Thank you." Li Ang nodded, and watched Shi Chengpeng's family go to the master bedroom.

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Shi Yuande, Yu Kui, and Niu Jian are three male college students, and because their school was released early, they went to Shi Yuande's rural hometown together.

Before I could reach my destination, I ran into a landslide and was trapped in the village.

The three of them stayed in the two-story bungalow of the same villager, and in the middle of the night, Shi Yuande, who was tossing and turning, sat up and shook his good friend who was sleeping next to him.

"Kuizi, Kuizi, wake up."

Yu Kui impatiently reached out and slapped Shi Yuande's arm away, his eyes didn't even open, "What are you doing?" ”

Shi Yuande continued to shake his good friend, "Accompany me to the toilet." ”

"Can't you find a bottle to solve it?"

"It's not a trumpet, it's a tuba."

Shi Yuande dragged Yu Kui, who was scolding, and Niu Jian, who was woken up, "It's okay for a while." ”

The trio turned on the lights in the bedroom and walked to the living room, where the toilet was located between the master bedroom and the side bedroom.

Shi Yuande hurriedly ran to the toilet and poured out a thousand miles, and Yu Kui and Niu Jian were bored playing with their mobile phones outside the toilet door.

Listening to the crackling sound inside, Yu Kui gently kicked the toilet door with his heel, "Okay, are you going to die in the toilet?" ”

"It's not okay to have diarrhea." Shi Yuande said weakly: "Wait a minute, it will be fine immediately." ”

Yu Kui and Niu Jian glanced at each other and shook their heads helplessly.

Tick.

The faint sound of water dripping on the ground came from the door of the master bedroom opposite the side bedroom.

Yu Kui looked up, the master bedroom was not lit, and there was a vague figure standing in the shadow at the door, as if it was Shi Derong, a villager who stayed with them.

"Haven't slept yet?"

Shi Derong's voice sounded in the darkness.

"Well, we'll accompany the school to the toilet." Yu Kui straightened up and said with some embarrassment: "He has a little discomfort in his stomach." ”

The figure didn't speak, just watched them quietly.

Tick, tick.

Shi Derong felt as if he had just been fished out of the pool, dripping water all over his body, forming a small stream on the floor at the door of the master bedroom.

Yu Kui took a half step back in shock, avoided the current, and raised his head, "Uncle, you..."

"Huh? What's wrong? ”

In the shadows, Shi Derong's figure tilted his head, and his neck leaning on his shoulder twisted nearly 90 degrees.

Yu Kui closed his mouth suddenly, stretched out his hand and twisted Niu Jian, who wanted to scream, his face was pale, and he smiled reluctantly, "It's okay, we'll sleep soon." ”

"Hmm. Go to bed early, something calls me. ”

Shi Derong's neck kept tilting, and his whole head was drooping in front of his chest, like a soft slug.

However, as if he hadn't noticed anything unusual, he turned around and entered the house normally, and closed the bedroom door casually.

Yu Kui and Niu Jian glanced at each other, hurriedly stabbed the door of the toilet, and softly urged Shi Yuande to come out quickly,

The latter lifted his pants and opened the door impatiently, and just as he wanted to speak, he was covered by Yu Kui and dragged him to hide on his side.

The three of them reached the door, and a moment later, dull footsteps sounded outside the door.

The footsteps were like a water-soaked rice bag smashing on the ground, heavy, sticky, and every time you stepped on it, it would make a "popping" sound of water.

The trio held their breath as they heard footsteps wandering outside for a while, slowly approaching their bedrooms.

The knock on the door was not crisp, but like someone banging on the door with their head.

"Classmate, open the door."

Shi Derong's indistinct voice came from outside the door, as if his mouth was filled with water, "My neck hurts a little, can you come out and help me?"

I think it's about to break..."

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