I lay on the bed in horror, my bones falling apart.

My mind was full of the scene just now, and the girl's desperate look lingered in my mind. I don't know if she ran away... She's tied up sturdily, and there's probably not much hope...

The next day, someone dug up a female corpse in the ground, naked and covered with blood, and the village was in an uproar, but I didn't know who the murderer was...

When I heard the news, I felt a little guilty that I couldn't save her when I watched her be defiled...

What makes me even more trembling is that I always feel a pair of resentful eyes behind my back. Look at me...

What to do? Tell the people in the village about it? No, first, it will startle the snake, and second, it will definitely be retaliated against.... Should I call the police? Kindness... Right! Alarm! At this time, in this poor and remote place, mobile phones are even more impossible, and my only way is to go to the police station in the city. So decided! Go in the afternoon!

Is that ghost in the poplar forest my delusion? That strange old man must know something...

I looked at the blackboard with empty eyes, trying to write something, but I didn't know how to write, and I couldn't help but become flustered.

"Teacher..."

I woke up to find the children looking at me suspiciously, and suddenly found that I had written the words "Curtain Poplar Forest" on the blackboard!

Back in the office, the female teacher Gu Ping was correcting her homework there, and she and I were the only two teachers in this school.

"Teacher Chen, you seem to be a little absent-minded, are you sick?" Gu Ping asked with her big eyes.

"Oh... It's fine, it's just that I didn't sleep well. I smiled embarrassedly and opened the lesson plan in front of the table, "By the way, Teacher Gu, you came to Muyang Village earlier than me, do you know anything about Muyang Forest?" ”

"Curtain Poplar Forest.... It seems to be a rather strange forest, which is rarely talked about by people in the village. Gu Ping said.

I said, "Then do you know if there is an old man in the village who has a crooked back and is fierce." ”

"Old man?"

"It's near the Poplar Forest." I added.

Gu Ping said: "Hmm.. You may be talking about the forest ranger, and the villagers call him Camel Lao Li. ”

I said, "Why haven't I seen him in the village on weekdays?" ”

Gu Ping's expression suddenly became unnatural, and her expression was a little nervous. I realized that this may not be easy.

Gu Ping lowered his voice and said: "The people in the village say that this camel Lao Li is very strange, when he was young, his daughter-in-law ran away with other men, he became crazy and wandered around, and suddenly disappeared one day, Uncle Wang of the village said that when he went home at night, he saw the camel Lao Li hanging himself in the curtain poplar forest, and people thought that the camel Lao Li was dead, but after a year, he actually came back again, became silent, and took the initiative to ask to be a forest ranger in that terrible forest..."

I was a little surprised: "And this kind of thing? Could it be that Uncle Wang is mistaken?"

"That's what the people in the village said the same thing, because he was drunk that day and was full of gibberish." Gu Ping said again, "This camel Lao Li seems to have a son, and I don't know..."

I listened with interest, and was about to write with a pen, "Oops! My face turned pale in an instant, and I bounced up from my seat and looked around in a panic.

"What's wrong! Mr. Chen! Gu Ping was frightened.

"Pen! The pen is gone! I said in alarm.

"So what?"

My heart hit rock bottom all at once, and it's over! I ran too fast last night and knocked the pen off?! What should I do if I am picked up by a big cow or a second cow? That way they know for sure that I'm a teacher at this school... A little more conjecture.... No way! I should have called the police now! Now it's about three hours by bicycle to the police station in the city.

I rushed out of the office at once, "Teacher Gu, I'll hand over the children to you first!" I'll be back in the afternoon! ”

I pedaled my bike out of school, the parts of my bike rattling along the rugged mountain road, the cold wind whistling in my ears, "Bastard! Wait to be brought to justice! "My heart was pounding, and my cheeks were burning from the madness.

Dark clouds unconsciously gathered above Muyang Village, and black clouds rolled over my head.

A bolt of lightning pierced the dim sky.

Rumbling thunder rings in my ears, is it going to rain? What bad luck! No matter!

I was driving fast on my bicycle, and there were green cornfields on both sides of the road, and the green street sign at the entrance of the village caught my eye. It's almost out of the village!

I was mechanically pedaling, and suddenly a black shadow jumped out of the side of the road and knocked me to the ground, and I flew off the bike and fell to the ground. Erniu, who had been waiting for an opportunity to ambush in the roadside trench, didn't say a word, and punched me in the face.

My eyes were full of gold stars, my head was buzzing, and the big bull and the second ox dragged me to the cornfield, and the big bull pinned me to the ground.

"Oh, I'll go, isn't this Mr. Chen? What are you doing in a hurry out of the village? ”

"Teacher Chen, aren't we used to staying in this village?"

These two bastards have been ambushing here for a long time! I struggled to spit out the dirt in my mouth, "Get out... Buy a few boxes of chalk. ”

Da Niu slapped his thigh and smiled hideously, "Haha, no, shouldn't you go buy a fountain pen?" ”

"You were the one who saw us that night!" A sharp object stabbed me in the thigh, "Aren't you able to run?" Run again! ”

The cold voice reached my ears, and I gritted my teeth and said, "You killed that girl, do you want to kill me?!" ”

"Damn!" Erniu punched me hard in the back, "We didn't want to kill her at all!" She had already committed suicide by the time we went back! ”

Da Niu's face showed a fierce light, "You kid won't go to the police station to call the police." ”

"We didn't kill it! How dare you call the police! Erniu shouted, but there was a hint of panic in his expression.

I thought to myself, make sure I'm safe first, and then I'll talk to them later, "I really didn't want to call the police." I squeezed out a smile, "I'm just going to the city to buy some chalk." Since you didn't kill people, it has nothing to do with the two of you. ”

Da Niu and Er Niu glanced at each other, let go and helped me up, "Oh, do you see!" People are cultured, people are sensible! ”

Only then did I realize that the two of them had such heavy dark circles under their eyes, their eyeballs were bloodshot, and their faces were gray, didn't they sleep well?

"Don't worry, I won't say anything about it, I'll rot in my stomach about it." I said with a solemn face.

Er Niu pulled the big cow aside, and the two of them muttered quietly, and the two of them frowned for a while, and looked at me fiercely for a while.

"Boom!" A thunderclap exploded in the air, and small drops of rain fell on my glasses, and my vision became a little hazy.

After about five or six minutes, Erniu "Huh! He pulled a dagger from his waist and walked towards me with a blank face.

My heart suddenly lifted, I guess I'm going to die here today!

Erniu shook the dagger in front of my eyes: "Boy, if you dare to call the police, I will cut off your tongue, and then die with you!" ”

"Don't worry, I will never say it! I swear! ”

Da Niu came over and patted me on the shoulder: "Teacher Chen, we know that you are a person who understands, my donkey brother is rude, don't care." You must not call the police, I also have an eighty-year-old mother, I am going to prison, and she will not survive! If you call the police, you will kill my old mother! ”

This hypocritical fellow..."I see. I said sincerely.

"Okay, it's raining this day, and you can't get sick in the rain, so you can go back to school first. You can't buy chalk. I'll buy it for you tomorrow and send it to you. Da Niu said.

"Okay." I followed in their footsteps, limping to the side of the road with my thighs clutched.

"See what Mr. Chen's stab looks like?" Da Niu slapped the back of Er Niu's head, "Teacher Chen, can you still ride, or I'll drive you?"

Looking at the smile that the big cow couldn't fake anymore, I hurriedly waved my hand: "Don't get in the way, don't get in the way." ”

I simply tied my thighs and rode my bike to school in pain.

..........

The rain came and went as fast as I could, and by the time I got off work, the rain had stopped.

A day without danger was over.

The quiet night blackened the sky, and the moon hung alone in an eerie arc.

I was lying on the old wooden bed, breathing in the dampness, and the wound on my thigh was still aching... Did that poor girl die so innocently, and the person who harmed her is still at large, and what can I do?! I suddenly realized that the world, this society, and even this village are so incomprehensible... Hard to see...

"Knock knock!"

The loud knock on the door made the room tremble, and my heart trembled with it, and I came back to my senses at once. It's so late, who is it?

I sat up and asked aloud, "Who?"

The sound seemed to shake the knock on the door, and everything fell silent again...

Cats? Forget it, go to sleep. The back just hit the bed...

"Knock knock!" There was a louder knock on the door than last time! It shook my eardrums.

I'm a little scared, it can't be a big cow, right? Do they regret it, and now they are coming to kill me again?

"Anyone?" I asked boldly.

It's dead silence again.

"Knock knock!"

The knock on the door rang again, no more, no less, exactly three times, like a bell from hell... But it seems to be mixed with some other sounds... It's like a woman's voice!

That's right! It's the faint sobbing of a woman!

An inexplicable attraction magnified my curiosity, and I finally couldn't sit still, and I was going to be driven crazy if I continued like this! Instead of fidgeting here, let's take a look. I got out of bed, lit the kerosene lamp, put on my coat and went to the door.

Turning the key, I opened the door a thin slit, and I couldn't see anything outside the black rumbling dong, and in an instant, a strong wind pulled the door open!

"Bang!" The kerosene lamp fell to the ground, and the dim light reflected my pale face.

Outside the door stood a naked, bloodied girl, with long black hair in the air with teeth and claws...

Blood gushed out of the hole in my head, my scarlet lips twisted in an exaggerated arc on my white face, and my white eyes stared at me dullly....

What made me despair the most was that she was standing straight on her tiptoes!

The mournful cry slowly echoed in my ears:

"Help... Me... Why don't you save me?"