Chapter 16: The Zashiki Boy

No. 113 Huixin Road is a kindergarten, and when we arrived, we were stopped by the security guard at the gate in front of the iron gate, and I said that we were here to find Master He.

The security guard looked impatient, "What Master He, I found the wrong person." โ€

What the heck! Could it be that this is another test, no way, I called Master He, God, it feels weird to call a woman like this.

"What's wrong again?" The tone on the phone was still not good.

"That, the big brother at the door won't let us in."

"Oh, you wait." After saying that, he hung up the phone.

After a while, a middle-aged woman appeared at the entrance of the kindergarten, wearing a brown dress, silver-rimmed glasses, and a hairstyle on her head that eight of ten middle-aged women would have, and trotted all the way to us.

Uh, is this Master He? How do you feel that you are not alone on the phone?

"I'm sorry, I've kept you two waiting, Xiao Liu, open the iron door." The voice is also the voice of a standard middle-aged woman, not the same as the one on the phone, and I am inexplicably relieved.

"Yes, Principal." The security guard, who was very arrogant just now, suddenly became as well-behaved as a sheep.

It turned out to be the principal of the kindergarten, Zhou Xiongbing and I followed behind the principal, and in the playground, we could still hear the sound of the students in the kindergarten reading nursery rhymes together.

Is Master He a kindergarten teacher, is this identity to hide his true identity? Or is it because the kindergarten is haunted?

"Did you two come to Master He and have any trouble?"

Also? Oh, it seems that the principal has answered my doubts, I scratched my nose, "Well, something strange happened, is your kindergarten too?" โ€

The principal nodded with some concern, "The parents of the students and most of the staff in the kindergarten don't know yet, we want to solve the matter secretly." โ€

No wonder the security guard at the door didn't know Master He, I was a little curious, "Can you reveal anything to us?" โ€

The principal seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, "It's not a terrible thing, and it's not impossible to tell you.

But you have to keep it a secret from us. โ€

I patted my chest, "Don't worry, you can tell you my strange things in a while, and you will keep it secret from me, so that we can enjoy each other's secrets." "And, mine is a terrible thing, I said with a wry smile to myself.

The principal smiled and told us what had been bothering her lately.

This kindergarten is called Grimm Kindergarten, the director said that the name is taken from Grimm's fairy tales, she hopes to create a fairy tale kindergarten, yes, the kindergarten decoration is very childlike and romantic.

The size of Green Kindergarten is considered medium in the city, with a total of 18 classes, large, medium and small classes, each with six.

Because it's still in the preschool stage, it's not easy to manage, so the number of people in each class is controlled within twenty, probably since last month, and strange things began to happen in the park.

At first, there was a kindergarten teacher who noticed that there was an extra student in their class, but they couldn't find out where they were.

On that day, it was the outdoor activity class of their class, because the children always like to run around, and the teacher was worried that something would happen, so every once in a while, he would count the number of people in his class to see if any children hid in which corner to play, worried that they would get hurt.

But I don't know which time, the teacher found that she had a majority, and there were eighteen people in their class, but the number she counted in the end was indeed nineteen?

At first, she didn't think much about it, thinking that she had made a mistake, and she laughed at herself that more was better than less, but when she counted it once, she found that there was still one more, which was a bit weird, so she gathered all the students and counted them one by one, and it turned out to be nineteen!

She was a little blind, so she asked the students to report their own counts, they were all in the middle class, and the students could count to 100, and each student passed the numbers with a childish children's voice, "1,2,3ยทยทยท 18ใ€‚ โ€

The teacher breathed a sigh of relief, but he always felt a little wrong in his heart, he was such a big person, how could he count the numbers within twenty wrong, and thought that there was something wrong with his brain, in that case, he was going to do a brain CT, it can be seen that this teacher is very materialistic...

As everyone can guess, she counted to nineteen again! How is it possible, this time she counted very carefully, there could be no mistake, could it be that there was something wrong with her spirit? From doubting his own brain to doubting his own spirit, this teacher is really very introspective.

Because he suspected that it was his fault, the teacher asked the students to do what to do, and sat alone and sad.

When she returned to the office and told her about it, it caught the attention of the other teachers, and soon someone speculated that something was dirty in the kindergarten.

Among them, there is a young trainee teacher who usually likes to watch anime, and she immediately thought of the legend of Zashiki Boy, who often appears in anime.

As the name suggests, Zashiki boy has always appeared as a child, and if you always feel that there is one more person among the children who play together, it means that there is a Zashiki boy.

But don't be afraid, the appearance of Zashiki boy can ensure the prosperity of the family and the wealth of wealth, which can be said to be a kind of good fortune.

Everyone quickly agreed with this statement, and they were very happy that such a lucky god appeared in their school.

Another week passed, and the teacher of another class also found out about the same situation, there was one more person in his class, but because he knew about Zashiki Boy, he didn't care, and just thought that Zashiki Boy was transferred to his own class.

So every week in the next week, there will be a situation where there will be one more classmate, even if Zashiki boy appears so frequently, everyone is not upset, but very happy, it seems that Zashiki boy likes this kindergarten very much.

The turning point of the matter came at a meeting, which was a weekly summary meeting with all the class teachers, because the number of teachers was not particularly large, so every teacher and the principal knew each other.

At this quarterly meeting, the principal found out that something was wrong, as if there was one more person among the teachers, and the principal muttered a little in his heart, could it be that the Zashiki boy turned into the image of a teacher and mixed it in? Doesn't it mean that Zashiki boys all appear as children?

The director quietly began to count the number of people, and sure enough, there was one more, but the director was just puzzled for a moment, and didn't take it seriously, thinking that maybe there would be an adult Zashiki boy.

Since that adult Zashiki boy appeared, every time in the future, the head of the small school will always count the number of teachers below.

But what the director never expected was that once when she was counting the number of people, she found that the number of people was one less...