Chapter 54: The Ritual
"That's all for today's class, goodbye classmates, Daguigui students stay for a while, the students on duty must work hard, and the teacher will come back to check later. Big bun classmates, come here, the teacher has something to do with you, let's go out and talk. Zhao Yan hammered his head with his fist, the day's class was finally over, but there were still two important things, one was to go to the cemetery to summon the child's spirit, and the other was to deal with the matter of Teacher Xiong in the morning, and he always had to give an explanation to the teacher.
Before class, he asked about the incident, and knew that it was a conflict between the student nicknamed Da Baozi and Teacher Xiong, to put it bluntly, it was not a big deal, so after school, find a place where no one was there to talk to him first, open the child's heart knot, and then apologize. Although he doesn't like Mr. Xiong very much, he can't be at his own expense.
The kid called Da Baozi was following Zhao Yan at this time, and the two of them were walking towards the * field, with a chubby body, a round face, and a small height, so that he really looked like a bun. Zhao Yan turned his head and smiled.
"Teacher, what are you laughing at?" The child followed behind in a very stiff tone, and he was very unconvinced with his hands in his pocket.
Zhao Yan also thought that this would be the case, after all, the score of the high school entrance examination was not high, and it was basically a scrapped product, and he may never have put any teacher in his eyes before, Zhao Yan did not think of suppressing the child in the name of the teacher, because he knew that in addition to increasing the confrontation between each other, the child would only be unconvinced, and the consequences would not solve any problems.
Zhao Yan turned his head, the sun was setting, the remnant sun was like blood, there were fewer and fewer people on campus, and the figures of the two people were stretched for a long time. Zhao Yan stopped and looked up at the burning clouds in the sky, then lowered his head and asked softly: "I quarreled with Teacher Xiong today, right, I know you are also disgusted with me now, but just treat me as a bystander and talk to me, I will judge the reason, and see who is right and who is wrong, okay?" Zhao Yan asked as he walked slowly.
"What's right or wrong, anyway, in the eyes of your teachers, aren't they all students, what's the use of saying that, you are the class teacher, you just say how you want to deal with it." The big bun didn't raise his head behind him, and he didn't seem to buy it.
Zhao Yan didn't take it to heart, smiled and said: "That's not necessarily, you talk about it, just get to know me, if you feel that I am the same as others, then next time you are not doing well with me." After speaking, Zhao Yan laughed twice.
Da Baozi looked up at Zhao Yan's back with a slightly different look and said excitedly: "He is a shortage, today's class, originally I liked this subject very much, don't look at my initial grades are not very good, but I like history very much, she talked about herself there as soon as she was in class, and she didn't look at us, and then from time to time she said that we were garbage, what taught us to be really unlucky or something, I was very angry, but he asked a question, I didn't understand and asked below I wanted her to talk again, But she just pretended not to hear, I called a few times and my classmates heard it, but she still pretended not to hear, and I slapped the book on the table in anger. As a result, she came to the incident, and scolded me, and scolded me before she gave a lecture in the second half of the class, if it weren't for the fact that she was a woman, I really wanted to her, is there such a teacher, do you think I'm wrong? Da Baozi clenched his fists, and his whole body was shaking.
Zhao Yan was snickering in his heart, because he felt that the child in front of him was very cute, and the situation was similar to his general understanding, the child didn't add oil and vinegar to it, it was not bad, Zhao Yan turned around and pulled the child to sit down, then smiled and said: "In all fairness, I think you're right, you don't have to look at me like that, I'm telling the truth that you're really not wrong, if it were me, I'll be very angry, do you know why I became a teacher, let me tell you something, it was a history lesson when I was in elementary school, the fourth period in the morning, Why do I remember it so clearly, I have always been in school to be better than liberal arts, especially Chinese and history, that class is an open class, our teacher asked a lot of questions in class, and there were few raised hands in the class, because everyone found it difficult, but I would, I usually like to read books, I know these things, but the teacher has never asked me, just called the boy in my class who studied best, but the boy didn't, just before the end of class, I raised my hand too many times before asking me to answer a question, I still remember this very well today, and if I said that it was because of this that I would become a teacher, would you believe it? Yes, my heart is not very big, and I thought that I would be a teacher in the future, and I would not look at every student with colored glasses, so I understand how you feel today. ”
Zhao Yan patted Da Baozi's shoulder as he spoke, and then continued: "But today I stepped onto the podium, and many of my thoughts have changed to tell the truth. You listen to me, if you think what I say is right, you listen to me, if not, don't listen? ”
Zhao Yan saw that the child was no longer very disgusted with Zhao Yan's words, and he was very happy, it seemed that the emotional offensive was still right, and then continued: "The teacher is also a person, she is not much older than you, and she will also be in a bad mood, and there will be many things that upset him, maybe she happened to have something in her today, maybe she really didn't listen to the sermon, maybe she did it on purpose, but no matter what, there is a kind of love between us called 'teacher-student love', which is different from family affection, different from friendship, and more different from love." This kind of love is a kind of love that can only exist between teachers and students between you and me. Understand each other, if you go to the office to find Mr. Xiong and ask if you didn't interrupt his class, the result will be different. There is no one right or wrong in this matter, you are a child, this time you use your childlike innocence to tolerate a teacher, instead of thinking about a problem like me, wouldn't it be better? ”
Zhao Yan let out a long sigh after speaking, and he also felt these words.
"Okay, I'll apologize to Teacher Xiong tomorrow, will she forgive me?" The child asked, looking up.
"Yes, of course, you will apologize tomorrow, and then I will also persuade Mr. Xiong, don't worry!" Zhao Yan stood up and patted the soil on his body, and said with a smile.
Seeing the child leave happily, Zhao Yan was also very happy in his heart, after all, things were developing for the better, but for some reason there was still an uneasy restlessness in his heart, and suddenly a thought popped up, "What if Teacher Xiong doesn't accept the apology?" ”
"Then let her die," suddenly an eerie, poignant voice said viciously.
In an instant, Zhao Yan's whole body was cold, and his body froze there, it was the voice of the girl who appeared in the dream. What's going on with this, just when Zhao Yan was stunned, Da Guigui ran over with his mobile phone, and it turned out that he put his mobile phone on the podium table when he came out just now. Zhao Yan calmed down, calmed down, and took the phone and sent Xiao Ming's voice.
Xiao Ming had already taken a taxi to the cemetery and asked them how they were and when they would come. Zhao Yan put down the phone, his heart was still beating wildly, and asked about the duty of Daguigui's class, and the child said that everything was over.
Two people dared to go to the graveyard.
The sky was already a little dark, and the afterglow of the setting sun could only be seen at the edge of the mountain. After getting out of the car, I saw that Xiao Ming had already stood on the side of the road, and the two of them walked towards Xiao Ming, and the whole cemetery was gloomy, and the tombstones stood gloomily on the mountainside, and a crow cry came from a distance, and then a large group of crows flew up from the cemetery, swept over the heads of the three people and flew forward. Looking at the tragic white photos on the tombstones, the eyes of those dead seem to still be looking at the world before death.
Coming to the foot of the mountain, Xiao Ming stopped, today he carried a big bag, which seemed to contain a lot of things, he first drew a white circle with lime powder on the ground, and then let Daguigui sit cross-legged inside, put his hands flat on his knees, and then wrapped a few circles around him with a red rope, and finally took out seven Qianlong big coins and placed them in front of the child according to the square of the Big Dipper. After that, he took out a big incense stick that was three and half a meter long, lit it and inserted it in the back of the child.
Zhao Yan didn't understand what he was doing, he only heard Xiao Ming say: "Have you seen the talisman in Journey to the West, as long as you don't go out of this circle to keep you safe, you remember that no matter what happens, you can't go out, if you go out, then the gods can't save you." You don't underestimate the Big Dipper in the sky, it is equivalent to a portal, all the gods have to pass through these seven stars to get to the South Heavenly Gate, and put it here to correspond to the seven stars in the sky, that is, let the gods in the sky take care of here, and no demons and monsters will approach. This incense is for incense, put it in front of the temple Buddha for seven seven hundred and forty-nine days before it is easy to use, put it behind his back so that he has the Buddha's light to protect the body, and the Buddha's door will not hurt the ghosts of the past, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble, and the ghost sees the Buddha's incense and thinks that the god and Buddha will not approach, and it is also a means of protection, so that he can temporarily cover his breath. We'll go to the girl's grave for a ceremony in a while, and today I pierced a stand-in, and the female ghost will think that the stand-in is him, so it's easy to do things. After saying that, I looked at my watch, and when the time was almost up, let's go up.
"Ah, I'm scared to put me here alone." Daguigui was about to cry.
"That's no way, if you stay away, the ghost will feel that this is fake, or will he go to you, even the gods can't save you at that time, as long as you don't get out of this circle, nothing will happen, don't worry, it'll be fine for a while." After saying that, he walked up the mountain.
Zhao Yan looked at Da Guigui, he was not at ease when he put the child here, not to mention that it was going to get dark, even the atmosphere in broad daylight was quite human. But Xiao Ming still asked him for help, and finally said to his heart: "Don't worry, it's only a few dozen steps away from here, we can see you, if you're afraid, close your eyes, the teacher will come back in a while, the boy should be strong." After speaking, he ran quickly towards Xiao Ming.
Zhao Yan's heart was trembling as he ran, and he always felt that there seemed to be countless eyes looking at him in the wind around him.