Chapter 9: The Mutilated Diary
"Brother Guang, what's wrong with my mouth, why does it always have a sour taste? It's also a little salty, and it's worse than eating half-ripe fruit. Before I had taken a few steps, Niu Dan said to me with a bitter face.
Something is wrong!
I was afraid that telling him the truth would make me jump, so I immediately snorted and diverted the topic: "I can see clearly that old man who repairs bicycles, he is the one who used to ring the school bell." ”
So I told Niu Dan everything the old man had explained, and planned what to do next.
Niu Dan was also scared at first, he didn't expect to really run into a ghost, but he was born with a little big and soon had no fear, but had some excitement and anticipation, in his words, catching ghosts is exciting, more exciting than secretly going to see the women's toilet!
After a long time, the two of them came to a conclusion, first go to the old men who often play chess on the street and ask, these old guys have nothing to do for a day, except for playing chess, they just pay attention to the big and small gossip in the whole town, maybe they will know some news about the small iron house.
After all, the small iron house is also a big object, and when it is impossible to be dealt with by the school, it can be completely hidden, and we plan to go to those old men who play chess early tomorrow morning to find out.
Niu Dan still wanted to sleep with me at night, but I went up and kicked this thing, I was fed up with his smell of urine, not to mention the cow-like movement when sleeping, Niu Dan had to go back to his own house to sleep, in fact, I know, Niu Dan is still a little scared in his heart, and he doesn't dare to sleep alone.
After each of them returned home, I thought carefully about what the ghost old man said to me, and listened to the meaning of his words, as if he had known me for a long time, as if these ghosts were very familiar with my identity, and the two water ghosts before, why were they afraid of me, and why did the ghost old man say that the evil ghost who killed his daughter also had something to do with me?
These questions make me toss and turn and can't sleep, and, to find those evil ghosts, why did the ghost old man let me bring cow eggs, as if cow eggs can help me a lot, cow eggs, in addition to a little more urine, smell a little more than others, I really can't think of anything else outstanding about him.
The more I thought about it, the more confused I became, and before I knew it, I fell asleep.
The next morning, when I got up, I went to look for the cow eggs, and went on the street to search for the old men who had gotten up early for a walk, but I asked eight old men in a row, and they all said that they had not seen the little iron house.
I didn't hear any news, I and Niu Dan were a little discouraged, let alone three days, even three months, I couldn't hear any news, besides, there are not many old men in the town who often play chess on the street, if they don't know, I'm afraid no one can know about it.
"Brother Guang, what should I do, I've asked eight old men, and I haven't found out any news yet, it's a bit unreliable." Niu Dan wiped his sweat and said with some disappointment.
"I don't believe it, such a big iron house, no one will see it, and it can disappear out of thin air!" I'm also a little discouraged, but it's impossible for no one to notice that such a big object, unless it's deliberately concealed when the school handles it.
Deliberately concealed!?
It occurred to me that if that was the case, it would make sense for those old men to say that they had never seen such a thing as a small iron house.
Could it be that the school threw the little iron house in that place? And it's only when it's put in that place that no one pays attention to it.
"Niu Dan, follow me to the garbage ditch!" Thinking of this, I hurriedly pulled up the cow egg and ran towards the garbage ditch.
The garbage ditch is the place where the garbage is discarded throughout the town, about 20 miles from the street, where it is said to be a large crater that was blown up during the war, and where decades have passed, and there is still no grass.
The town saw that this place could not be used, so it had to expand the big pit again, specially used to dump garbage, the garbage pit was expanded to the size of about a few miles, and extremely deep, up to now, the garbage in the pit is less than one-fifth, you can imagine how big the garbage pit is, really to throw the small iron house into it, it is really not easy to find.
"Ah, what are you going to do in that smelly place, besides, we're going to go to class soon, and we'll go back after school." Niu Dan was puzzled.
"In ball class, is it important to live or to go to class?" I stared at me and said angrily.
I had a strong hunch that the little iron house must be in the garbage ditch, and that there must be something important in the little iron house.
Niu Dan saw that I was a little anxious, so he didn't say anything more at the moment.
It took nearly two hours for the two of them to reach the location of the garbage ditch.
At this time, in the summer, the smell of the garbage ditch is not to mention, compared with the smell here, the smell of cow eggs can be regarded as perfume, and the buzzing flies in the sky, disgusting and frightening.
"Get into the pit!"
However, thinking that the little iron house was likely to be here, I gritted my teeth and covered my nose and gestured to the cow egg.
Niu Dan had a bitter face, waved his hand extremely reluctantly, drove away the flies in front of him, and slowly followed after seeing me jump into the garbage pit.
"Brother Guang, look, there doesn't seem to be a single fly over there, it's too strange."
Soon after jumping into the garbage pit, I and the cow egg searched around one after another, and the cow egg seemed to have found something and immediately shouted at me.
Looking in the direction of the cow egg's finger, I also noticed this strange scene in a corner, where flies were flying everywhere, and there was really not a single fly in that corner.
"Let's go, let's see."
I hurriedly crawled over with Niu Dan, intending to find out.
As soon as I climbed to this corner, I suddenly felt that the temperature had dropped a lot, it was cold and cold, no wonder there was not a single fly flying here.
There are quirks!
When I was around the ghost old man, I felt this cold feeling, this slightly familiar aura, and I immediately realized that there must be something under the garbage in this corner.
In addition to the cold smell, I also smelled something different from the smell of garbage, I can't tell what it is, but it makes people feel a little uncomfortable and weird.
I took the wooden stick that I had prepared a long time ago, and motioned for the cow egg to pick up the garbage together to see if there was anything underneath.
As I peeled back the thick layer of garbage, the cold smell grew heavier and heavier, and I became more and more sure that there must be something underneath.
"Brother Guang!"
After the cow egg pulled down the garbage again, I saw a rusty iron plate, and I heard the sound and hurriedly helped the cow egg to pick up the garbage.
After a while, a whole piece of iron plate with brown rust appeared in front of me.
"It's a little iron house!"
I hurriedly slammed it a few more times, and the door of the small iron house was revealed.
There were faint traces of burnt marks on the cracks around the door, and there was a rusty iron lock on the door.
Seeing this, the cow egg turned out a stone from the garbage pile and smashed it towards the lock, which was so rusty that it was completely broken in half by the cow egg.
Looking at the locked iron door, Niu Dan and I glanced at each other, swallowing and foaming at the same time, and both of us became a little nervous.
I gritted my teeth again, walked over gently, grabbed the doorknob of the little iron house, and pulled hard.
"Squeak!"
The iron door, which had long been covered with rust, made an unpleasant harsh sound of metal rubbing.
The door of the little iron house was opened, and I looked in, and there was no sight of something terrible flying out of it.
It's just that the things in the small iron house are all black, as if they have been burned by fire, and you can see the wood that has not been burned, the deformed face or something, and the black slag on the ground, which should be some plastic residue.
Cow Dan and I boldly went in and began to search again.
Suddenly, I glanced at it and saw something under a large piece of black slag in the corner of the wall, I hurriedly walked over and picked up the black slag, and an iron box was revealed.
I took the iron box out with a wooden stick, and the iron lid on the box was quite thick, except that the paint on the surface was burned off a lot, and the box was not very deformed.
Syllable!
I pulled the lid of the box down, and I opened it, and when I saw that there was a half-burned diary and half a pipe inside!
"Brother Guang, what is this?"
Niu Dan also came up at this time, and said curiously when he saw the contents of the box in my hand.
"I don't know, let's see."
I gently took out the diary in the box and carefully flipped through it.
"On January 19th, the school built me and my dad a small iron house, and we were able to do some small business...
I really envy the students who can go to school now...
If only I had been born a few years later, I would have been able to live with..."
"On February 2nd, I went outside the classroom every day to eavesdrop on the teacher's lectures...
Seeing many students sleeping in class, I was in my heart..."
"On April 8th, I wanted to go out to work, but my father had no one to take care of me..."
"On June 1st, the children have a holiday today, and the popsicles are all sold out...
Dad asked me to go on a blind date, let me get married, so I don't have to go with him..."
"On June 8th, the students were in class, and the campus was so quiet...
Oh my God, that thing the principal and dean of students took from outside...
It looks like a child's arm...
It's scary..."
"On June 15th, how can the principal and the dean of students do this time every day...
How can they do this...
Shall I tell the police..."
"June 22nd, oh my God, how did the principal eat with the dean...
Those little ones seem to be from the hospital..."
"What should I do on the 8th of July, the headmaster seems to have found out about me...
I'm going to the police station and tell the police..."
"On July 15th, it's so hot that the popsicles are sold out...
The wholesale popsicles in town are out of stock...
After writing the diary, I went to Xiaochang Town to make popsicles..."
The last page of the diary rests on July 15, two years ago.
It is not difficult to see that this diary should have been written by the murdered daughter of the ghost old man.
After reading this incomplete diary, I broke out in a cold sweat, although most of the contents of the diary were burned by fire, but the remaining information almost made me understand a lot of things.
The contents of the diary about the principal and the dean of education must be the most important information, but what did the ghost old man's daughter see? Are they really eating... I almost threw up at the thought of that bloody and disgusting scene, and I didn't dare to think about it anymore.
"Niu Dan, let's go, let's go to school now!"
Seeing that the cow egg was still rummaging around in the small iron house, I shouted at him, and then looked down at the iron box, and found that the half of the pipe also had a strange smell, and after picking it up and observing it for a long time, I didn't find anything special, and then put the diary and pipe into the iron box again, ready to take them together.
"Brother Guang, what are you doing with this broken iron box." As soon as Niu Dan heard me speak, he immediately walked over with a smile, as if he wanted to leave for a long time, glanced at the iron box in my hand, and said with some puzzlement in his eyes.
"Don't ask so much, let's go." A feeling of uneasiness suddenly rose in my heart, and I said at the moment.
After I took the iron box, I quickly left the garbage ditch with the cow eggs.
Calculating the time, it was almost twelve o'clock in the afternoon when we returned to school, and it was the end of school in the morning, which was considered to have skipped a morning of school.