Volume 1 The Year of Confusion Chapter 13 Learn English, meet a bosom friend, and don't do a proper job
At the end of a busy week, Xiaofeng didn't have time to catch his breath, so he began to prepare to tutor English again.
Since Xiaofeng was a temporary student, the class of the same age was full, so the teacher arranged a class one level lower in the course for him. Since everything he has learned has been learned, Xiaofeng has relaxed his attitude towards learning, and he hangs out with Lin Ying in the same class every day.
It stands to reason that Xiaofeng is a grade higher than them, and there should be no communication points with these classmates, but Xiaofeng and Lin Ying have the same hobby - watching ghost movies. And both of them are obsessed with Lin Zhengying's ghost movies and zombie movies, and at the same time, they deeply believe that the spells of Maoshan Taoist priests are real, but science has not yet confirmed them.
The two relied on a little "spell" they learned by watching TV, and they were "demons" in the classroom all day long. Not only that, but the two "Taoist friends" also often exchange experiences and learn new ways to draw and seal them. In this way, the two of them knew about "spells", and they spread all over the classroom, not only the students knew, but now the teachers also knew.
The teacher interviewed them separately, and the teacher asked Xiaofeng, "Where did you learn this so-called spell?" "Teacher Liu, I can only tell you about Maoshan Taoism, I can't tell you too much about it, revealing the secret is to be punished by God" Xiaofeng was stunned, he brought Lin Zhengying's set on the screen to reality, "Okay, since this is the case, the teacher will not listen to you now, I will only say one word to you, it's okay to treat this as an amateur game, don't take it as a fundamental, do you hear?" You're still young! Teacher Liu looked at Xiaofeng earnestly.
These words don't have much effect on the current Xiaofeng and Lin Ying at all. It's like playing a game, you know he's fake, but because you like it, in order to play rank, you still play it. You'll only give up if you really don't want to play anymore, don't like it, or if there's something else more important than that.
As soon as Xiaofeng arrived at the classroom that day, Lin Ying mysteriously dragged him outside the classroom, "Xiaofeng, let me tell you something, I found a haunted place. Lin Ying looked at Xiaofeng with some mysterious and fearful eyes.
"Really? Where is it? Xiaofeng was instantly interested.
"My family doesn't live on the north gate! It's in the unfinished building next to the vegetable market at the north gate," Lin Ying said.
"Tell me about it? How did you find out about being haunted? Xiaofeng was still a little puzzled, haunting was really rare now.
"Listen to my mother-in-law's pendulum for me, there have been people who died there before"
"Male or female," Xiaofeng interjected.
"It's a woman, and when I heard my mother-in-law say that it seemed like a quarrel between two people, the woman jumped off the stairs. It stands to reason that jumping off the 3rd floor is a cripple at most, but when she jumped down, she fell onto the flower platform and broke her neck," Lin Ying said and stared at Xiaofeng. At this moment, Xiaofeng was making up that picture in his mind, and a chilling feeling was spreading in him.
"Go on."
"One night, when I was sleeping, I heard a cry in the building over there, and the screaming was very miserable, just like the cry of a ghost in Lin Zhengying's zombie movie. At that time, I thought of you, and I thought that since we know a little, it is better to go in and have a look, if there is a ghost, I will take the talisman, if not, it will be a practice of courage. After the holiday, I went to step on the spot, and there was no one to manage outside the unfinished building, so if we went in, there should be no one to stop us. Do you dare to go? Lin Ying looked expectant.
"If you go, you must dare to go, the key is that we have to prepare something! Like peach wood swords, glutinous rice, chicken blood, yellow charms, red ropes, etc., we haven't prepared yet. If it's really not clean, won't we? "What Xiaofeng said is not unreasonable, since ancient times, there have been generals who do not fight unprepared battles!
"That's it, there is still class tomorrow Sunday afternoon, let's go back today to prepare these things, and we'll talk on QQ if we don't!" In the end, the two agreed to act the next day.
After returning home, Xiaofeng rummaged through boxes and cabinets to find things to use tomorrow. His parents were puzzled and asked him what was going on, and Xiaofeng passed it perfunctorily. When it came to it, Xiaofeng and Lin Ying combined, there was still one thing missing, and the most difficult to find was the peachwood sword. Lin Ying temporarily thought that the copper coin sword in the movie seemed to be more powerful than the peach wood sword, and she happened to buy it when she was visiting the exhibition, so she could use this instead, and the two hit it off.
The next day, Xiaofeng was anxiously waiting for the end of the class, so he didn't have the heart to listen to the class. Teacher Liu took advantage of the break to ask Xiaofeng if he had anything on his mind, Xiaofeng didn't want to answer, the more he was like this, the more Teacher Liu wanted to get an answer, but Xiaofeng just didn't say it, and in the end the two broke up unhappily.
Finally waited for the end of school, and Xiaofeng and Lin Ying's excited hands were a little shaky. The two got on their bikes and went straight to the unfinished building at the north gate.
Turn around the bustling pedestrian street and you're about to walk uphill.
This road has a long history. In the Republic of China, in order to prevent the surrounding bandits from wandering, the four major gates of the county were built according to the direction of the mountain and the river, and the north gate was just near the mountain, so it was built according to the mountain. In the seventies and eighties after the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to pave the way for the upcoming economic system reform, the county demolished the city gates, built roads, and established a basic market in the four major city gates (at that time, buying vegetables was called a market or a market). By now, the market has become a larger, more marketable market, and the dirt road has become an asphalt road, but the slope of the road has not changed.
After wasting all their strength, Xiaofeng and Lin Ying finally arrived at the North Gate vegetable market out of breath. Since it was about four o'clock in the afternoon, there were still a lot of people in the market, and if it passed by now, it might be discovered.
Lin Ying led the way in front, and Xiaofeng followed slowly behind to observe the surrounding situation. Because the unfinished building is behind the vegetable market, Xiaofeng and they must pass through the market if they want to enter, and it belongs to the renovation project, the gate of the unfinished building has long been blocked, which undoubtedly adds difficulties to Xiaofeng and their entry.
Walking through the market, Xiaofeng and Lin Ying wandered at the gate of the unfinished building, ready to find an opportunity to enter. Next to the main entrance, there is a soy sauce shop, and the owner sits on a deck chair and listens to semiconductors. Maybe it's the hallucination caused by the weakness of the heart, Xiaofeng always feels that the boss has been staring at him, so he feels uncomfortable.
In February and March, it was still dark in Sichuan, so Xiaofeng and Lin Ying gradually got dark, and the owner of the soy sauce shop began to close.
While the boss was not paying attention when he entered the store, Lin Ying gave Xiaofeng a look, and the two squeezed in along the gap in the fence.
In order to strengthen his courage, Lin Ying took out the copper coin sword, Xiaofeng also took out the yellow fu and glutinous rice, and the two of them walked close to each other and went deep inside. Passing through the gate, you are greeted by a large four-foot square flower platform, on which you can also see the decorative objects through the faint skylight. I think it used to be full of all kinds of plants, but now there are no flowers in it, and the only thing left is sparse weeds.
"Xiaofeng, this flower platform is the place where my grandmother said that people fell to death" Maybe it was because she was too nervous, Lin Ying's voice was a little hoarse. "Well, I'll sprinkle some glutinous rice here to ward off evil." Saying that, Xiaofeng raised the glutinous rice in his hand against the flower platform, and the glutinous rice was like a bead with a broken thread, running away.
The two cautiously walked towards the staircase, "Do you want to go in?" Lin Ying asked tentatively, "It's all here, it's a pity if you don't go in." Although Xiaofeng was a little afraid, he couldn't back down at the critical moment.
Mustering up enough courage, the two of them gently stepped up the steps, but as time went by, with each step, the two of them felt like their legs were filled with lead, getting heavier and heavier, and when they reached the second floor, Xiaofeng heard movement in a room, and he pushed Lin Ying with his elbow, signaling to be careful.
By this time it was getting dark, and the room was sheltered from the last bit of light by the walls.
Xiaofeng and Lin Ying slowly moved their steps to the door, and when they were about to enter the door, a black shadow flickered inside, "Ah~ah~ah" Lin Ying and Xiaofeng shouted at the same time, they threw the things in their hands towards the black shadow, and after throwing away the chicken blood bag in their hands, they threw out the chicken blood bag in their bags, and after throwing them away, the two of them ran away.
Squeezed through the fence gate, the two of them got on their bicycles and fled as if they were flying.
Later, Xiaofeng heard that a homeless man was kicked out of the vegetable market at the north gate, and then a ragged beggar often appeared in the county town. Xiaofeng didn't know if it was the shadow he saw that night, but no matter what, Xiaofeng blamed himself.
Since then, Xiaofeng no longer believes in ghost hunting.