Chapter 44. Start and finish
As soon as Mr. Luo finished saying this, Hu Zongren and I were surprised, for such a long time, we didn't even ask Mr. Huang who was sitting in that position, and even Mr. Huang himself didn't want to tell us that this position was actually Mr. Luo's position. So I spread my hands and asked Mr. Huang, why didn't you tell us the location of this classmate Luo? Teacher Huang reluctantly said that there were so many students in one class, and he couldn't remember more than one class.
Well, now, I can't blame anyone anymore. And these successive events are connected in series, which further confirms my previous speculation with Hu Zongren, and it really has something to do with the person named Luo Xiaoxue in front of me. Otherwise, how could it be that almost every clue that the two of us strangers encountered when investigating this matter was more or less related to her. Thinking of this, Hu Zongren took out his mobile phone that caused the screen to change color a little because of some water, and found the photo with a ghost we took in the classroom the night before, Hu Zongren tried to adjust it to a point where it was easier to see clearly, and then handed the phone to Luo, and then said to Luo, we think this ghost may have a certain connection with you, take a closer look, the ghost you saw the night you locked the door is the same as the one in the photo?
Luo turned her phone and looked at it carefully, and I noticed that her face and eyes changed from being overwhelmed at the beginning to panicking. Then she suddenly screamed like a frightened "ah~", covered her ears with her hands, got up from the bench, and hid to the side. And with the action of covering her ears, Hu Zongren's mobile phone fell to the ground again, the back cover fell off, and the battery also fell out.
Hu Zongren rolled his eyes, and could see that he was very unhappy. I hurriedly asked Mr. Luo, what is your situation, is it the same? Luo was shocked and said, this... This woman... I know, it's my sister!
I asked Luo suspiciously, your sister? Has your sister died? She said yes, she had been dead for several years. I said, are you sure this is your sister? How can your sister's ghost follow you? At the same time, my mind began to recall the ghost I saw briefly with Hu Zongren at the iron gate of the bathhouse the night before, and in terms of face and hairstyle, it was indeed a little similar to the classmate Luo in front of me. And I quickly figured out that when Luo was bullied by another female classmate, the ghost that scared the female classmate in the bathhouse was Luo's sister, and it was helping her sister take revenge on that girl.
It was all like a guide, first the ghost deliberately let his sister and teacher see it in the classroom, and then we helped to get to the bottom of it. So I hurriedly walked over to Ms. Luo, patted her on the shoulder, brought her back to the chair and sat down, calmed her down, and told me about her sister.
Luo told us that her sister was three years older than her, and when she was still in her third year of junior high school, she was already a senior in high school, a high school in the small town of their hometown. In that year, my mother's health suddenly became very bad because of overwork, and the family's economic conditions were not well-off, my father drove a motorcycle in the town to make a living, and my mother farmed and fed chickens and pigs at home before she fell ill, and after my mother fell, the family spent almost all the money in the family in order to treat her. At that time, my sister was preparing for the college entrance examination, and my sister was preparing for the high school entrance examination, which was a particularly stressful stage and the most expensive period. So Luo's sister told her family that her sister was still young, and the work at home couldn't help much. The tuition and fees in junior high school are much less than those in high school, and she herself has become the biggest financial burden for the family. And he has grown up, and he shouldn't only think about himself when there are difficulties in his family, so despite the opposition of the whole family, my sister resolutely decided to drop out of school and give up the exam in the year of the college entrance examination. For the rest of the family's own education, I can treat my mother's illness.
Luo said that the whole family did not agree at that time, but her sister insisted on it, so she could only go. After my sister dropped out of school, she didn't actually ease the family's financial burden, but when her mother couldn't work, she just replaced her mother. In order to live up to his sister's hard work, Luo studied hard and was admitted to a school in the main urban area of Chongqing.
During the holiday after the exam, the two sisters chatted and said a lot of things about looking forward to the future. My sister told Luo that when she didn't drop out of school, her dream was to be admitted to a university in Beijing, because she had longed for a job in the media industry since she was a child, but now that she can't do it, she pinned this wish on her sister. She said to her sister, you are studying for me and fulfilling my dream for me, which is the greatest consolation for me to give up my studies.
Luo knew in her heart that her sister had given up the life she longed for for this family, so she has been working very hard. At home, the mother has lost the ability to work, and the father is responsible for making money to maintain the mother's medical expenses at home, and the sister is farming and feeding the pigs, while being able to increase some food and income to the family. But when Luo was in the second semester of his first year of high school, the pig's nest at home was not locked, and the pigs ran away to the mountains. That day, my sister braved the thunder and rain to go to the mountains to find the pig, because the pig could be sold for a lot of money, and the family could not afford this loss now. However, because of the rain and slippery roads, he fell off a cliff more than ten meters high.
Luo said that although the cliff is not very high, and it is a slope, generally speaking, falling down is nothing more than a little trauma, but unfortunately, when my sister fell, she fell impartially and fell onto a rising tree, which was more sharp, and directly stabbed my sister in the abdomen. Luo said that the place was not far from home, but my sister was seriously injured and bled a lot, so she fainted. By the time my father returned, the thunderstorm had stopped. Seeing that his daughter had not come back from looking for a pig, he took someone up the mountain with a flashlight to look for it, but what he found was already his daughter's corpse.
When Luo said this, he cried sadly, and it is not difficult to see that the relationship between these two sisters must be very good. Luo said that because she was studying in Chongqing at that time and was about to take the final exam, her family was worried that it would affect her schooling, so they temporarily hid it from her and did not tell her that she had buried the funeral in her rural hometown. When Luo finished the exam and happily went home to find her sister, she found that her healthy and cheerful sister when she left had become a small dirt bag with a tombstone when she came home.
Luo told us that she couldn't accept this at all, and even resented her parents, complaining that they didn't tell her the truth at the first time, so that she couldn't even see her sister's last side. She said that this is the biggest regret of her life so far. Because my sister died very suddenly, I didn't have any last words to confess. The family gave some of my sister's things before her death to classmate Luo. Luo felt uncomfortable when he saw his sister's clothes, so he didn't bring them to school, but he brought the stationery box and pens that his sister used to study.
Hu Zongren interjected and said, what age is this, and you are still using a fountain pen? Luo cried and said that it was my sister's thing, no matter what, I had been insisting on using it. But when I was in my third year of high school, the pen was gone. I suddenly thought of something, but I didn't say it, but asked Luo to continue. Luo said that after losing the fountain pen, he searched for a long time and did not find it, and there was no other way, and he was very nervous about studying, so he could only stop looking for it for the time being. And in the college entrance examination that year, after she finished the exam, she found that it was not as high as the level she usually played, which was an abnormal exam. After the transcript comes down, she will choose her choice according to her grades, although Luo knows that it is a little difficult for her score to apply for the university that her sister once dreamed of, but she still gave it a try.
Sure enough, the reality is still cruel, and because of Luo's insistence on this one volunteer, she fell off the list. Teacher Huang interjected and said that the teachers felt pity after she fell off the list, because she could have changed to another first-class university. However, Luo insisted on repeating the study for a year and retaking the exam. That's it, she is in her senior year of high school.
Hu Zongren said that he knew that his sister had been with his sister all the time, just to accompany his sister to take the exam and be admitted to the university of her dreams. My sister lost her first year, and she stayed. I also said to classmate Luo, if I guessed correctly, your sister died suddenly at that time, and in this family, in addition to caring for her elders, she also pinned her dreams on you, this sudden death may be very resentful, plus you were bullied before, your sister should be angry enough to help you scare the girl, but it caused her own resentment to be heavier. I smiled bitterly, pointed at Hu Zongren and said to classmate Luo, don't tell you little sister, this guy and I suffered from your sister last night.
I told her that your sister hadn't been noticed by anyone before, and if she guessed correctly, she was probably attached to the pen you brought. Until you lose your pen and she can't find you, that's why she will follow you directly in the form of a ghost. You tell me, did you lose your pen before that girl bullied you? Luo said yes.
I also told Hu Zongren that her sister died during the thunderstorm, and she was found after death, which originally belonged to the exposure of the body, I think this is for what her ghost only appears when it is thundering and raining, it should not be just at night, but when you find her, it is at night.
I looked at the time, and it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon. I told Luo that if you don't mind, I hope you can write a letter to your sister and write as much as you want to say to her. I'll give you half a day, because since you know that your sister has not been able to leave, today, we will also send your sister to her place. Luo cried and asked me if my sister could see it after writing this letter. I said yes. She asked me again if I would never be able to feel my sister by my side from now on. I hesitated and said yes. But there will be something else to replace what you miss about your sister.
So in the following time, Mr. Huang quietly accompanied Mr. Luo in the office, and Mr. Luo began to write a long letter to his sister. And I took Hu Zongren to the back of the teaching building. Around the corner, I said to Hu Zongren, "Don't you believe it, we can find that fountain pen in this wasteland." Hu Zongren nodded, and then said to me with a smile, I know that you have this idea.
Hu Zongren and I spent more than an hour, rummaging through almost every corner of this wasteland, and also using a compass to detect the traces of ghosts, and when it was almost dark, we found a silver pen that had been buried in the dirt. We can confirm that this is the fountain pen that Luo lost, because the pen is a little smart, so it can't be wrong. As for how it was lost, I'm afraid no one knows. After picking up the pen, I wiped it with a paper towel, although it was stainless steel, but it was still a little dilapidated due to the long time of wind and sun. Then I wrapped it in a clean tissue and took it with me. We went straight out of the school gate, went outside the school to buy some food, and brought one for Mr. Huang and Mr. Luo. The rest of the time, we stayed quietly in Mr. Huang's office, waiting for Mr. Luo to finish writing the letter.
It wasn't until more than 9 o'clock in the evening that Luo finished writing. She handed me the letter, and I saw that there were many wet and dry marks on it, and I knew that she must have finished the letter crying. And Luo's red nose also proves this. I didn't read the contents of the letter, this must have been a heart-to-heart conversation between the two sisters, so I folded it and handed it to Hu Zongren. Hu Zongren took everyone back to the classroom, let Luo sit in his place, thinking quietly about his sister, and Hu Zongren joined me, in this peaceful and non-hostile atmosphere, successfully found the sister who came to see my sister at the last glance, and then we burned the letter and sent my sister away.
After that day, Hu Zongren rarely said to Luo seriously, today is Sunday, which means that from tomorrow, this week has completely passed, you have to work hard to face these things, and then hope that it will not affect your studies, you must know that your sister is counting on you to fulfill her dream for her. Luo smiled happily and agreed to Hu Zongren. I have to say that this girl who used to look dirty makes me feel warm and cute when she laughs.
Mr. Huang said that he would ask the two of us to come out separately in two days, and he would pay a lot of honorarium at that time. On the way home that day, since I had to send Hu Zongren back first, I had to continue to fight with his brain-dead thoughts along the way. When the car drove to the Egongyan Bridge, he suddenly laughed inexplicably, and he couldn't stop laughing. I asked him what was wrong, and he said it was all right, and he just thought of a question.
I solemnly warn him that if you don't tell this joke and share it with me now, I will snatch your phone and wallet and throw you on this bridge. He said to me, "Do you remember the girls' bathhouse we went to before?" I said I remember, what's wrong. He said then I'll test you a question: a man walks into a girls' bathhouse! I asked him what he guessed. He said, guess two math terms.
I guessed for a long time and didn't guess, so I asked Hu Zongren for the answer. Suddenly, he laughed very lasciviously and said to me:
"Natural number (shu), absolute value (zhàn)! Haha