Chapter XXXVIII. The corner at the end of the classroom
The next day, according to the time that Hu Zongren and I had agreed with us in advance, we met from Jiangbei District and Nan'an District respectively at Yangjiaping Pedestrian Street, and Hu Zongren said that he had made an appointment with his client, that is, the grade director. said that his family lives near the Yangjiaping business district, so he will make an appointment to understand the situation first, and then we will go to school together.
When I met this teacher, I always felt very familiar, and maybe it was because I looked at each teacher with a similar relationship. The teacher's surname was Huang, and Mr. Huang told me that he had been teaching mathematics for more than 30 years and had been teaching at that school. Over the past few decades, although there have been frequent rumors of similar hauntings in the school, which have been so loud that even some teachers are afraid, no one has ever actually witnessed it. Mr. Huang told us that the rumors in the past were quite fresh at first, but then they began to feel boring, and they were all these old-fashioned stories. Until I saw it with my own eyes a while ago.
Mr. Huang explained that in fact, he does not believe in these, the people in his family are more traditional, and the old mother is over 80 years old and also believes in Buddhism, so he has always had an attitude towards another world, that is, he would rather believe in it than believe it, but he has not encountered it before that day, so there has been no reason to convince himself. I interjected and asked Mr. Huang, weren't you scared after you met him that day?
Because I thought to myself, even a male teacher with a lot of life experience can't be afraid when he suddenly witnesses a supernatural scene, right? Hu Zongren and I have been exposed to a lot of haunted campuses before, but those teachers are more vulnerable, either too scared to fall ill or beaten to death without saying anything. But Mr. Huang in front of him, although he felt a little incredible, he didn't feel much afraid. Teacher Huang replied to me that I would be a little scared, but it was useless, besides, I have been frank and honest all my life, and I have never done anything wrong, even if there is a ghost, it should not come to me, even if it comes to me, then I will not be afraid of it.
Hu Zongren asked Mr. Huang, how long had this rumor been circulating in the school before that day when you locked the door that night? Teacher Huang said that it didn't take long, just over a week. After the exam, although the student decided to repeat the study, he still took a vacation of about a month. There wasn't much time to go back to school. Hu Zongren then asked Mr. Huang, when you locked the door, did you inadvertently notice it, or did you subconsciously see it? Teacher Huang said that it was not inadvertent, because the incident was too fierce among the students, so when I turned off the lights and locked the door, I still looked into the corner where they said that there was a figure. Hu Zongren said again, do you remember what the figure you saw at that time was like? For example, what kind of clothes to wear, whether it is a man or a woman, etc.
Mr. Huang pushed his glasses with his fingers, thought for a moment, and then said to us, I saw that shadow for a very short time, and it was only a blink of an eye. There was a lightning bolt at the time, do you know how short the light is? I saw a person who was not very tall, about 1.6 meters tall, standing there, and I couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman, because it was too fast. I asked Mr. Huang, how much can you remember about the characteristics of this figure? Teacher Huang said that I only remember that it stood upright, and its face was not facing the position where I locked the door, but towards the direction of the blackboard. The neck is stretched forward, but the face is not buried because of the neck stretching, but looking at the blackboard. So it looks a little weird, like a hunchback, but it's the neck that is crooked.
Is that so? Hu Zongren suddenly put on a posture of stretching his neck in front of everyone, as if he was dancing Indian songs and dances. Teacher Huang said, yes, that's pretty much what you do. Hu Zongren retracted his neck, rubbed his hand and said, this action is quite tiring. Mr. Huang said that because the only light in the classroom at that time was the electric light of lightning in a few tenths of a second, he could not see what kind of clothes the figure was wearing, or what color of clothes. When the lightning flashed again, Mr. Huang was frightened, but when he wanted to see if he was dazzled, he found that the figure disappeared with the lightning.
I asked Mr. Huang what made you sure that you were not dazzled, but really seen. Teacher Huang said that he didn't know what the Tao was for, but he believed it in his heart. Because in that flash, the impression was too deep.
After chatting for a while, at noon, Mr. Huang drove us towards the school, and we ate hoof flower soup near the school. This is probably the sharpest hoof soup I've ever tasted, the skin of the pig's trotters is chewy, but the meat is almost melt-in-your-mouth, and with soybeans and lotus root, it already makes my mouth water as soon as it is served on the table. So we had a full meal and then went to school.
On Saturdays, there weren't many people in the school, except for some boys playing basketball on the court. Teacher Huang told us that because it is a cram school, the school building is generally open during the day, and the doors are only locked at night. Because some students felt that they couldn't calm down while studying in the dormitory, some still came to the classroom. Hu Zongren asked Mr. Huang, what if there are students when we go to the classroom later? Teacher Huang said that if there is, I will just think of sending them away.
The haunted classroom was on the second floor, and sure enough, a few students were quietly reading in the classroom. So Hu Zongren and I consciously stood on the side of the corridor, and Mr. Huang walked into the classroom, I don't know what Lu Dao said, in short, a few minutes later, the students came out with books and laughing. Then Mr. Huang stood at the door of the classroom, leaned out half of his body and waved at us.
Hu Zongren and I walked into the classroom, and it was the first time that we could see the whole picture of the classroom. Like most high school classrooms you can imagine, desks are stacked with thick stacks of books, some as tall as half an arm's high. Although I am a person who has a headache when I see a book, I still envy the current students to have such equipment. Even though I had only been in high school for a short time, I thought that if I had such a thick book on my desk when I was in school, I would not have been caught by my teacher for dozing off. Another difference from my imagination of a high school classroom is that there seem to be too many desks and chairs in this class, and at a glance, there are probably sixty or seventy seats. I think when I was in school, there were only about 40 students in a class, which is quite a lot. It seems that there are many students who are not satisfied with their test results and want to take the exam for another year. At the back of the classroom is a large blackboard, which I originally had the impression that was used to enrich the after-school life of the students in the class, such as running blackboard newspapers, pasting newspaper clippings and so on. But on this blackboard, there is a table with numbers on the table, and the numbers correspond to a student's name and scores.
I asked Mr. Huang, is this the result of the students' failure in the college entrance examination? Teacher Huang said no, this is an exam test for students at the beginning of the cram school to check everyone's grades. He said that these rankings have changed, because there are a lot of exams in the revision class, although learning is for oneself and not competing with others, but without competition, there is no motivation, and if there is no motivation, it will be difficult to get a high score. Teacher Huang pointed to the names of the top few on the blackboard and said that there are traces of the blackboard erased there, which means that the ranking of the next exam has changed.
Hu Zongren said with a smile, this study is really boring, just learn some cultural knowledge, do you have to let you teachers give people a grade, who is first and who is second, it is like qualifying, F1? Teacher Huang choked on his words, so he smiled awkwardly. At the same time as Hu Zongren and Teacher Huang were standing, Teacher Huang said that the figure he saw that night was here, which was the opposite corner of the main entrance of the classroom, that is, the corner of the last row by the window. There was a water dispenser in the corner, and there was a pile of unopened drinking water on the floor. It can be seen that the school is really thoughtful in order to save the time of buying water for the students. It's just that I don't know if there is a charge for installing this water dispenser with the students. Since it is the second floor, you can see the tree trees directly from the window, and although the students on this side of the classroom are protected from being baked by the sun in the summer, the deafening sound of knowledge on the branches of the trees makes it difficult to calm down.
Hu Zongren took a step forward and said to me, you can test the agility here and see if there is one. So I took out the compass and began to look around carefully, there was agility, but according to the agility reaction, it seemed to be inconsistent with the rumors of my classmates and Mr. Huang's witnesses. Because whether it is rumors or Mr. Huang's claim that he saw it with his own eyes, their description is that the figure is standing in this position. But I found no trace of the soul in a meter square around where I was standing, but on the wall by the window, and in the seat and drawer in the corner of the back row.
It looked as if a ghost had been in this position for a long time. And at the moment, there is a problem that Hu Zongren and I don't know what the road is, that is, several rumors, including witnesses, claim that this ghost will only be seen during a thunderstorm, but for me and Hu Zongren, when it is not visible, it does not mean that it does not exist, maybe it just happens that the bone eye is not seen, we are in this line, I believe that coincidence is too necessary.
So I told Hu Zongren and Mr. Huang about my results, and Mr. Huang reacted a little bit because he probably thought that I was not believing him. I repeatedly stressed to him that there were indeed traces of ghosts here, and I personally checked the disc to prove it to him, but the message that the ghost returned on my compass was not just standing.
Mr. Huang asked me and Hu Zongren what to do now, Hu Zongren didn't answer him, but deliberately picked up his new mobile phone, pretended not to understand science and asked me, eh, you can help me check the weather, see what the weather is tonight, it's too high-end, I can't play.