Chapter 38. The corner at the end of the classroom
The next day, according to the time that Hu Zongren and I made an appointment in advance, we met at Yangjiaping Pedestrian Street from Jiangbei District and Nan'an District respectively. Hu Zongren said that he had made an appointment with his client, the grade director. He said that his home was nearby.
I live near the Yangjiaping business district. Let's make an appointment to get to know the situation first, and then we can go to school together.
When I met this teacher, I always felt that he looked very familiar. Maybe it was because every teacher looked similar to me. This teacher’s surname was Huang. Teacher Huang told me that he taught mathematics and had been teaching for more than 30 years.
He has been teaching in that school. Although there have been rumors of hauntings in the school for decades, and they were once widely spread, even some teachers were afraid, but no one has ever witnessed it with their own eyes. Huang
The teacher told us that the rumors in the past seemed quite new to me at first, but then they started to feel boring. They were just the same old stories that were passed around. Until I saw it with my own eyes a while ago.
Teacher Huang said that as a teacher like him, many people would not think that a person like him would believe in these ghost stories. Teacher Huang explained that in fact, it is not that he himself does not believe in these.
People are more traditional. The old mother is over 80 years old and a Buddhist, so her attitude towards the other world has always been that she would rather believe it exists or not, but she has never encountered it before that day, so
I never had a reason to convince myself. I interrupted and asked Teacher Huang, weren't you scared after you met him that day?
Because I thought to myself, even a male teacher with rich life experience would not be afraid when he suddenly witnessed a supernatural scene, right? Hu Zongren and I had been exposed to many things about campus hauntings before, but those teachers were just
He is relatively fragile, either so frightened that he cannot afford to fall ill, or he will be beaten to death without saying a word. But although the teacher Huang in front of me feels a little unbelievable, he does not feel much fear. Teacher Huang answered me:
, I will be a little scared, but that’s useless. Besides, I have been honest all my life and have never done anything bad. Even if there is a ghost, it shouldn’t come to me. Even if it comes to me,
Then I won't be afraid of it.
Hu Zongren asked Teacher Huang, how long had this rumor been circulating in the school before that night when you locked the door? Teacher Huang said, it didn’t take long, just more than a week. After the exam, the students decided to repeat their studies.
, but I still took about a month of vacation. I didn’t have much time to return to school. Hu Zongren then asked Teacher Huang, when you locked the door, did you inadvertently notice it, or did Huang see it subconsciously?
The teacher said that he couldn't say he was inadvertent, because the incident was spread so fiercely among the students, so when I turned off the light and locked the door, I still looked at the corner where they said the figure appeared. Hu Zongren said again, you
Do you still remember what the figure you saw looked like? For example, what kind of clothes he was wearing, whether he was a man or a woman, etc.
Teacher Huang pushed up his glasses with his fingers, thought for a moment, and then said to us, the time I saw the shadow was very short, just a blink of an eye. At that time, there was lightning. You know how short the light of lightning is.
Right? I saw a person who was not very tall, about 1.6 meters tall, standing there. I couldn’t tell whether he was a man or a woman because it was too fast. I asked Teacher Huang, what about you?
How many characteristics of this figure can you remember? Teacher Huang said, I only remember that it seemed to be standing at attention, and its face was not facing where I locked the door, but towards the blackboard. Its neck was stretched forward.
, but his face was not lowered due to stretching his neck, but he was looking at the blackboard. So his movements looked a bit weird, like a hunchback, but it was his neck that was crooked.
Is that so? Hu Zongren suddenly stretched out his neck in front of everyone, as if he was dancing an Indian song and dance. Teacher Huang said, yes, it’s almost like you. Hu Zongren retracted his neck, rubbed it with his hands and said
, this action is quite tiring. Teacher Huang said that because the only light in the classroom at that time was the lightning flash for a few tenths of a second, he could not see clearly what the figure was wearing or what color it was.
Clothes. When the lightning flashed, Teacher Huang was frightened for a while, but when he wanted to see if he was dazzled, he found that the figure disappeared with the lightning.
I asked Teacher Huang, what makes you sure that you are not dazzling, but really seeing it? Teacher Huang said that he doesn’t know why, but he believes it in his heart. Because in that flash, the impression is real
It's so profound.
After chatting for a while, Teacher Huang drove us towards the school at noon. We had hoof soup near the school. This should be the sharpest hoof soup I have ever tasted. The skin of the pig's trotters is chewy.
, but the meat almost melted in the mouth, and it was paired with soybeans and lotus roots. It already made my mouth water as soon as it was served on the table. So we had a hearty meal first, and then went to school.
There were not many people in the school on Saturday, only some male students were playing basketball on the court. Teacher Huang told us that because it is a cram school, the teaching building is generally open during the day, and the door is only locked at night.
Some students felt that they could not calm down while studying in the dormitory, so they still came to the classroom. Hu Zongren asked Teacher Huang, what if there are students when we go to the classroom later? Teacher Huang said, if
If there are, I will just find a way to send them away.
The haunted classroom was on the second floor. As expected, several students were quietly reading in the classroom. So Hu Zongren and I consciously stood on one side of the corridor. Teacher Huang walked into the classroom and said something unknown.
Anyway, after a few minutes, the students walked out holding their books, chatting and laughing. Then Teacher Huang stood at the door of the classroom, leaning out half of his body and waving to us.
Hu Zongren and I walked into the classroom and saw the whole classroom clearly for the first time. It was similar to most high school classrooms you can think of. The table was filled with a thick pile of books, some of which were large enough to
It is half the height of an arm. Although I am a person who gets headaches when reading books, I still envy the students today for having such equipment. Although I only studied in high school for such a short time, I think if
If I had such a thick book on the table when I was studying, I would not have been caught by the teacher for dozing off. There is another difference from the high school classroom I imagined, that is, the tables and chairs in this class look like
It's a bit too much. At a rough glance, there are about sixty or seventy seats. When I was studying, there were only more than forty students in a class, which was still a lot. It seemed that I was not satisfied with my test results.
There are quite a few students who are going to take the exam for another year. Behind the classroom is a large blackboard. Originally, in my mind, these blackboards were used to enrich the extracurricular life of the students in the class, such as running blackboard newspapers, posting newspaper clippings, etc.
. But on this blackboard, there is a table drawn. There are numbers on the table, and the numbers correspond to a student's name and scores.
I asked Teacher Huang, is this the result of the students who failed the college entrance examination? Teacher Huang said no, this is a test given to the students when the cram school started to check their performance. He said, these rankings
There are changes, because there are so many exams in the review class. Although learning is for yourself rather than competing with others, without competition, there is no motivation. Without motivation, it will be difficult to get high scores. Teacher Huang pointed to the blackboard.
The names of several students said that if you see there are traces of erasing on the blackboard, this means that the rankings of the scores in the next exam have changed.
Hu Zongren said with a smile, "Studying is really boring. It's okay to learn some cultural knowledge. I still have to let you teachers grade people, who is first and who is second. It's like a qualifying competition, F1?"
?Teacher Huang choked at his words, so he laughed awkwardly. At the place where Hu Zongren and Teacher Huang were standing at that time, Teacher Huang said that the figure he saw that night was right here, which was opposite the main entrance of the classroom.
, that is, the corner by the window in the last row. There is a water dispenser in the corner, and there are some unopened drinking water piled on the ground. It can be seen that the school really wants to save the time of buying water for the students.
You must be considerate. I just don’t know if the students will be charged for installing the water dispenser. Since it is on the second floor, you can directly see the trees outside the window. Although in the summer there is shade from the trees, students on this side of the classroom are protected from the sun.
Baking, but the deafening cry of cicadas on the branches makes it difficult to calm down.
Hu Zongren stood a step away and said to me, come and test the agility here to see if there is any. So he took out the compass and started to look around carefully. There was agility, but judging from the reaction of the agility, it seemed that
It is not consistent with the rumors of classmates and Teacher Huang’s witnessing. Because whether it is the rumor or Teacher Huang’s claim that he saw it with his own eyes, their description is that the figure was standing in this position. But I was surrounded by a group of people around where I was standing.
In the square meter, there was no trace of the soul at all. Instead, there was a lot of movement on the wall near the window, on the seat in the corner of the last row, and in the drawer.
It seems that there is a ghost who has stayed in this position for a long time. But there is a problem that Hu Zongren and I don't know why. Several rumors and sightings claim that this ghost only appears during thunderstorms.
It will only be seen when it happens, but for Hu Zongren and I, just because it is invisible does not mean that it does not exist. Maybe it just happens that no one can see it at that moment. In our industry, it is really necessary to believe in coincidences.
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So I told Hu Zongren and Teacher Huang my results. Teacher Huang's reaction was a little bigger, because he might think I didn't believe him. I repeatedly emphasized to him that there were indeed traces of ghosts here.
, I also made a personal compass to prove it to him, but the message returned by the ghost on my compass was not just standing.
Teacher Huang asked me and Hu Zongren what we should do now. Hu Zongren didn't answer him, but deliberately picked up his new mobile phone and asked me as if he didn't understand science. Hey, can you check the weather for me tonight?
What kind of weather is it? It's too high-end and I can't play.