Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Gathering of the Underworld
Liu Shangang and I naturally followed to Nanshi Elementary School, which is the land of great murder in my master's mouth.
I also heard Liu Shangang say afterwards that Nanshi Elementary School seemed to be a swamp in its early years, and later because there were too many children going to school, the city filled in the swamp and built a primary school on it.
Before it became a swamp, it was a relatively large river in the county, called the Infant River, why is it called the Infant River, because at that time, if a child died, everyone would make a small boat, put the dead baby on the boat, and push the river into the river.
I don't know when this custom came into existence in our county, let alone when it disappeared. Liu Shangang also heard about the infant child river from his grandfather's mouth, and also said that sending the dead baby into this river means sending the dead baby to Huangquan Road, so that these children who died early before they opened their eyes can be reincarnated as soon as possible.
I think my master has probably heard the allusion to the baby river.
On the day I moved to the school, as soon as I entered the school gate of Nanshi Elementary School, I felt a heavy yin qi. In the past two years of learning art with Master, although I have not yet reached the realm of contemplation, my perception of the two breaths of yin and yang is more sensitive than before.
Although the yin qi in the school is thick, it is condensed but not gathered.
It is true that condensing but not gathering is just a general statement, after all, yin qi is something that cannot be seen or touched. Figuratively speaking, the yin qi is like a large black cloud, circling and flowing slowly in the sky of the school, and in the flow, it seems that it is still slowly gathering together, but whenever they are about to gather, there is an invisible force that breaks them down into small pieces and drives them farther away.
I know that the yin energy in this place must be suppressed by something.
Yin energy like this can't become a climate, and with the large number of people in the school and the heavy yang energy, it is even more unlikely that it will have any impact on ordinary people.
So I'm still the same as usual, in class and after school, I'm still in the original class, my tablemate, and the nagging Liu Shangang.
One thing I have to say is that in the two years from the age of eight to ten, Liu Shangang's appearance has changed a lot, I still remember that the master used to call him "Little Fat Dun", but now Liu Shangang has become very thin, probably because when he grows taller, his nutrition can't keep up, so that chubby little body is getting thinner and thinner.
But this is just my speculation, to this day, Liu Shangang is still very thin, he doesn't eat a lot, but no matter how much he eats, I haven't seen much meat on his body. In addition, Liu Shangang's appearance has also changed a little, I remember that he should have been a tiger when he was a child, and he looked very likable, but since then, I always feel that he has become a bit of a thief, with a pointed chin and small eyes, but he has a pair of large provocative ears, but he is a little hunchbacked.
Even the way he speaks, he always exudes a small family atmosphere, yes, to use a popular word in the past few years to describe Liu Shangang, it is obscene.
So much so that even now, acquaintances often ask me: "Why is your buddy so angry, he is obscene at first glance." ”
Lao Liu, don't blame me, I'm telling the truth, you should also know what others think of you, and I know you don't care about that.
It was during that time that I gave Liu Shangang a more vivid nickname: Thin Monkey, which has been used by me to this day.
The first two weeks after moving to the school were peaceful, until mid-August, when a rainstorm broke the calm over the school in the middle of summer.
It stands to reason that at this time, it was supposed to be a summer vacation, but that year the school built an Olympiad class to cultivate a group of top Olympiad students during the summer. Unfortunately, Liu Shangang and I were both selected, because of the master, I did very well in primary school, especially mathematics, and the master grasped my homework very hard, saying that if I learned mathematics well, it would be easier to learn small extrapolation arithmetic, although I still don't see the relationship between small extrapolation arithmetic and mathematics.
As for Liu Shangang, because I made a comparison, his father also began to fight with his test results, so Liu Shangang's results also soared in his father's various hard bubbles.
At that time, Liu Shangang and I were both naughty and stubborn students who were particularly difficult to control to the teacher, but the two of us were the best students in the class and the most stable students. So I always thought that the head teacher must have had a very complicated mood when he saw us at that time.
In fact, later facts proved that such a hard-boiled academic performance could not last long, and in junior high school, after the homework began to become difficult, Liu Shangang's academic performance gradually fell. But I don't, this is also something that can't be helped, my master is too violent, Liu Shangang and his father can't compare.
On that day, I was still doing a Olympiad test in the classroom as usual, which was not only amazingly difficult, but also the stems of many questions were very distorted, and I had to read and figure out many times before I could fully understand the meaning of the questions.
It is undoubtedly a huge torment for me to do this exam question.
Just as I was painstakingly studying an exam question, thunder suddenly sounded in the sky above the school.
Bang –
The voice, muffled and deep, sounded less like thunder and more like something in the sky above our school, shattered by someone.
Immediately after the thunder, raindrops began to fall in the sky, and the rain came very quickly, and in just a few seconds, the small raindrops turned into a torrential rain, like a huge basin, constantly splashing water on the top floor of the school building, and the stirring water splashed the windows of the classroom into blurred.
And when the rain fell, my heart tightened suddenly.
The yin qi surrounding the school gathered together at a very fast speed, and drifted to the northwest corner of the school playground along the southeast wind that blew the raindrops.
Even I could realize that something big was going to happen!
I immediately stood up, pushed open the window and looked at the northwest corner of the playground, I couldn't see the yin qi, but I could feel it, I could feel it, after drifting to the northwest corner of the playground, the yin qi spread out at a very fast speed, and soon spread throughout the school.
This time, instead of being dispersed, the yin qi became thicker and thicker as it spread.
The rain splashed through the window into the classroom, and my clothes and the test papers on my desk were quickly drenched.
At that time, the teacher who gave us Olympiad tutoring was surnamed Zhai or surnamed Weilai, I can't remember, I only remember that his voice was very loud, and he was stunned when he saw me standing in front of the window, Teacher Zhai, let's call it Teacher Zhai, shouted at me: "Zuo Kang, what are you doing!" The windows are closed! ”
As soon as he finished shouting, the lights in the classroom suddenly flashed twice, and then went out.
This time, it frightened the female classmates in the class, and I heard someone screaming.
If it was an ordinary power outage, it would not have caused people to have this level of fear, and I believe that the other people in the class at that time should have also felt that kind of yin qi, although they would not be as direct as I felt, but they would have felt something after all.
At this time, Liu Shangang, who was sitting next to me, pushed me with his arm and said timidly: "Brother, why don't I feel that something is wrong." ”
Liu Shangang is also afraid, when he usually calls me, he always calls me "eh, hey, hey, who is that", and only when he is nervous, he will call me brother.
I closed the window and glanced at Mr. Liu, but did not respond to his words. At this time, I somewhat understood why Master always looked like a flickering statement when he said that he was stiff, and it was really difficult to explain things like this.
I stood by the window and looked at him, he stood on the podium and looked at me, we looked at each other silently, I felt that Mr. Zhai seemed to want to speak, but he just opened his mouth, and his usual loud voice was dumb at this time.
In the end, I said, "Teacher, let's get out of school." ”
Teacher Zhai was stunned for a moment, and then waved his hand to the classmates: "Get out of school, get out of school." ”
With his words, the students in the class immediately couldn't sit still, the classroom had two doors in the front and back, and everyone rushed out like frightened mice, and Teacher Zhai also left the classroom with us.
On that day, the weather forecast did not say that there would be heavy rain, and almost everyone did not bring rain gear, so everyone rushed to the school gate wet in the rain.
The gate of the experimental primary school is a very thick red iron door, which is usually open at this point in time, but on this day, the door was closed, not only closed, but also locked outside.
Teacher Zhai came to the door and pushed it twice, but the door shook lightly twice, and there was no movement. After that, Mr. Zhai ran to the security room to take a look, but there was no one.
Now in the whole school, only Teacher Zhai and our class of primary school students are left.
I remember that it was about 2,000 years ago that the walls of the experimental primary school were rebuilt into metal fences, but in 1997, the four walls of the school were still solid walls made of bricks and cement, and in order to prevent outsiders from climbing secretly, there were broken glass on top of the walls to prevent theft.
Such a fence and a large iron gate more than three meters high blocked us in the school.
Teacher Zhai tried to climb the school gate, but the gate of our school was bare, there was not even a place to borrow, and now it was rained again, and the whole door panel was very slippery.
I kept standing at the back of the crowd, and I saw the nervousness and anxiety of Mr. Zhai and the other classmates the whole time.
I could also feel that the yin qi in the northwest corner of the playground was getting thicker and thicker at a very fast pace.