Chapter 160: The Headmaster's Concealment
The principal brought me a futon, and we lay down on the kang to get ready to rest.
The kang was so hard that I couldn't sleep tossing and turning, but I had to talk to the principal.
To be honest, when I saw this principal, I was somewhat surprised. I have the impression that the principal of this mountain school should be an old man in his sixties and seventies, how could he be willing to stay in the village at such a young age.
The growing poverty of this remote mountain village is largely due to a lack of strong labor. Most of the people in the village who can move around and work have gone to work in the city.
The children and the elderly were left behind, so that these mountain villages are getting poorer and poorer, so I was full of curiosity about this young principal, and after my inquiry, I learned the secret behind the principal.
These principals were from the village, and he had never seen his mother since he was born.
His mother was not from the village, and after giving birth to him, because the village was too poor, she left him in infancy and left.
So he was without his mother for the whole of his childhood, and later his father died when he drove a car down a ditch while working in the fields.
He was only 14 years old that year, and the villagers saw that the child was pitiful and helped him bury his father, so he grew up eating hundreds of family meals.
This school was established when he was a child, but there were still many people in the village at that time, so this school was also very lively.
He was studious and miserable, so the principal of this school cared about him. Later, he lived up to expectations and went to university, and after graduation, in order to repay the village, he returned to the school and became the principal.
I've heard stories like this on TV, but it's a taste of hearing them told by my own ears.
But compared to him, my experience is not much better, the only advantage is that I had an orphanage in my childhood.
The two of us talked until late at night, when it was two o'clock in the morning. I suddenly felt a cramping pain in my stomach and was ready to get up and go to the bathroom.
And just when I got up and was about to get off the kang, the principal grabbed his arm and asked, "What are you going to do?" ”
I shrugged my shoulders and smiled, "Maybe I drank too much water at night and went to the bathroom." ”
The headmaster pointed to the nightpot on the ground and said, "You can take care of him." ”
I looked at the pot that night and was a little embarrassed, and said, "I'd better go out, I have a bad stomach." ”
Actually, I had made it clear enough, but the headmaster insisted on not letting me go out.
I frowned slightly, and when I saw that his face was slightly yellow, I had some doubts in my heart. He was obviously hiding something from me, so I said directly, "Is there anything wrong with me going out?" ”
"This ...... This...... In fact, we have an unwritten tradition here that you can't go out at night. ”
"Can't go out at night? What is the rationale for this? ”
He shook his head and said, "This is our long-standing rule here, we can't go out at night. ”
I turned my head to look out the window, and it was pitch black.
"Is there anything out there?"
"I didn't ...... Not really. ”
I was a little dissatisfied at the time, and said angrily, "You must explain this matter to me clearly today, otherwise I will definitely not let these two girls stay." ”
When the headmaster saw that I was so resolute, he sighed heavily and said, "Well, it's not that I don't want to say it, I'm just worried...... I'm afraid you're scared and won't want to stay. ”
"What the hell is going on?"
"Alas...... There are ghosts in our village. ”
"Ghosts?"
At that time, I sighed in my heart, as the so-called temple little demon wind is a lot of idle people, the more remote and traditional the village, the more likely it is that those demons and monsters are abnormal.
"Have you seen it?"
He shook his head and said, "Since we were children, we have been instilled with the idea that we can't go out at night, otherwise there will be ghosts." ”
Just when I was about to be skeptical, I suddenly heard Siya's voice outside the window.
"It's so cold outside, it's already spring, why is it still so cold."
I saw that the principal's face suddenly turned pale, and he slowly turned his head to look at me.
"Oh no, I forgot to tell them about it."
Just when the two of us looked at each other, outside the house suddenly remembered Siya's screams again.
Siya's screams made me feel like I was all over my body, and I couldn't care about it so much at the time, so I rushed out directly.
Immediately afterward, the headmaster ran out with me. Siya's room was next to mine, and when I ran out of the room, I saw Siya squatting in the corner with a pale face.
"What's wrong, what's wrong?"
Siya squatted in the corner, she slowly raised her hand and pointed to the corner of the wall and said, "Yes...... There are rats. ”
Hearing him say this, I was somewhat relieved. I slowly lifted her up from the ground and said, "You can scare me to death at night." ”
And just as I helped her into the house, I suddenly felt a wave of cold clothes hit me.
I subconsciously turned around, but suddenly I felt a hand pushing my head, and I was forced to break it back.
I was stunned for a moment, and then the voice of the dark shadow came to mind again.
"Don't look at what you shouldn't."
I nodded slightly, and then slowly led Siya back to the house. When he returned to the house, the headmaster was still pale, as if he had experienced a great disaster.
Siya looked at me and said for a while, "I...... I'm fine, you can go back and rest. ”
I nodded slightly, turned to the headmaster and whispered, "As long as you don't look up, it's fine." ”
I went out of the room with the headmaster and bowed my head, and as soon as my eyes opened, I saw a pair of boots in front of me.
These boots look like calfskin boots, and the shape is more like the Yamen Catcher in the TV series.
We walked forward with our heads bowed, and our feet slowly retreated with our steps. I could clearly feel a murderous figure standing in front of me, and I didn't dare to look up at this person's face.
And just like that, the two of us returned to the house without any danger. I looked at the pale headmaster and said, "If this matter is not dealt with, I will never leave the two girls behind." ”
The headmaster didn't speak, but nodded slightly. He sat on the edge of the kang with his head on his back, sighing like a child who had done something wrong.
"I'm to blame for that...... It's all my fault. ”
I know the headmaster has good intentions, but I can't let two girls take risks.