Pictures of pomegranates

Chapter 26 Old Ancestral Hall

"Okay, I get it, you're doing well! Let's do this, don't tell anyone about Zhu Rui. You two go back and rest first. I'll go over there and take a look and find a way to bring them back!"

"Teacher Zhang, don't go. Zhu Rui will definitely not listen to you. You'd better leave him alone!" said the female student.

Zhang Zhaodi glanced at the dark place where the ancestral hall was, and sighed longly: "I am a teacher. I cannot ignore my students. You go back and rest first. Nothing will happen. I have a way to bring them back!"

"Do you really have any idea? Zhu Rui will not listen to you anymore. He will not come back with you! The ancestral hall is a forbidden place in the village. You must not go there. He will deserve it if something happens to him!" the male student insisted.

"Don't worry, Zhu Rui's support teacher identification form still needs my signature. He will follow me back, you go back first!"

"Then, okay, you must be careful and call us anytime if you need anything!"

"Well, go back quickly, I'm sure everything will be fine!" Zhang Zhaodi said calmly.

In fact, her heart had long been in chaos. Looking at the two students leaving, she thought of what Zhang Mei's mother had said, and an ominous premonition arose spontaneously in her mind.

The old ancestral hall in the supporting education village is the most mysterious place in the village. It is also a forbidden place that the village chief Qian Dingzhuwan has ordered that no one should enter.Zhang Zhaodi remembered that a student asked about the reason at that time. The old village chief blinked his eyes that were stained with eye droppings, took a few puffs of local smoke and said: "The old ancestral hall is not clean, and harmful things have escaped from it. Just don’t let things in!”

Then, the old village chief refused to say anything. The good guy also asked other villagers about the reason, but unfortunately everyone was tight-lipped about the matter.There are some villagers who are as outspoken as Zhang Mei's mother. The most they can say is that the village has bad feng shui and is unclean, and then never mention another word.

The people in the support education team never figured out whether the reason why the villagers were reluctant to say more was because the old village chief was highly respected in the village, or because there was a shady secret behind it.But everyone knows that when one goes to the countryside, do as the Romans do. Who would have thought that late at night, the lawless Zhu Rui would unscrupulously take his classmates to the ancestral hall and blatantly provoke the teacher.

The tall, pimple-covered Zhu Rui, who loves to use foul language, has an extremely irritable and perverse personality, and is the most troublesome student in this volunteer teaching activity.After getting along with each other for a few days, Zhang Zhaodi gradually learned from some students that Zhu Rui had a very powerful father, so when he was in school, he never looked down on others, including many teachers at Xin'an University.

The classmates said that in normal times, Zhu Rui would beat people who didn't follow his will directly, while the women would just give money to subdue them.Other people who could not afford to offend or tolerate him chose to avoid him as much as possible and would never conflict with him head-on.However, Zhang Zhaodi is a teacher who leads the team. She cannot avoid this thorny student who has temporarily joined the team, and it is urgent to solve the problem.

It was very late at night, and the whole village seemed to be immersed in an ink tank, with no light coming out.The frightened Zhang Zhaodi ran towards the ancestral hall in a panic. The figure that looked like Lao Xie and the instructions of the forbidden area gave her goosebumps one after another.

In the dark, ghosts are scary, but humans are scarier creatures than ghosts.Zhang Zhaodi recalled that before leaving Xin'an University, Director Fu Zhipeng repeatedly emphasized to her that only the successful conclusion of the teaching support activities could determine her direct employment result.At the same time, the old village chief's numerous instructions to the ancestral hall also made her understand more clearly how difficult it was to deal with tonight's matter.

Perhaps running promoted the secretion of dopamine. On the way, she finally thought of a countermeasure. The results on the volunteer teacher appraisal form could make Zhu Rui, who wanted to evaluate outstanding college students, obedient.As long as everyone comes back safely and smoothly and doesn't let the villagers know about it, everything will be calm.

Maybe she was so focused on thinking of a solution that she didn't notice anything unusual around her.At this time, on the mountain road outside the village, the dark surroundings were very quiet, or it could be said that it was a bit scary.Whether it was the chirping of insects, the barking of dogs, or the sound of water and wind, there was no sound at all.It was as if she was in a soundless barrier. The dark surroundings swallowed up everything, leaving only the silence of the mountains.

Not far away, the old ancestral hall was like a closed coffin, waiting for her arrival.

Seeing the ancestral hall getting closer and closer, fear swept through her body, her heart was beating harder and harder, and her palms holding the bright flashlight were all sweaty.Standing at the door, Zhang Zhaodi really didn't have the courage to open the door. In order to embolden herself, she whispered inspiring words.Finally, she pushed open the door with trembling hands, and a faint light came out of the deep inner courtyard of the ancestral hall.After Zhang Zhaodi saw that ray of light, she breathed a sigh of relief, and her heart, which had been hanging in her throat, finally dropped.

"Zhu Rui, Zhang Yang! Zhu Rui, Zhang Yang! Come out quickly. The school is conducting a video inspection. If you don't come out, you will be in big trouble!" Zhang Zhaodi stood at the gate of the ancestral hall, waving a bright flashlight inside and shouted.

However, no one responded to her, and even the glimmer of light inside disappeared.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Zhaodi guessed that the two students deliberately hid deep in the ancestral hall in order to scare her.So, she swallowed hard, gritted her teeth and walked into the ancestral hall.Just as she was groping her way inside, Zhang Zhaodi felt a gust of wind blowing in her face, and the door of the ancestral hall, which was originally wide open, closed with a bang.

"Ah!" Zhang Zhaodi shouted involuntarily.

The sound of the door closing made all the hairs on her body stand up, her hands were shaking uncontrollably, and she almost couldn't hold the bright flashlight.The excessive silence and darkness reminded her of the village chief's private description that the old ancestral hall was very dark and not a place for living people to go.Not to scare you kids, but there are really no living creatures in the ancestral hall. Whether it is birds, fish, insects, chickens, ducks, cats or dogs, no living creature can survive as long as it enters, without exception!

"My man just took the wrong road and broke into the front yard of the old ancestral hall. Before he entered the main room of the ancestral hall, he went crazy when he came back!" The words of Zhang Mei's mother also rang in her ears.

Inside the ancestral hall, there was a suffocating darkness everywhere, and Zhang Zhaodi's remaining courage was lost due to the sudden flash of the bright flashlight in his hand.She shivered even more violently. Zhang Zhaodi wanted to run away and didn't want to go any further. However, her sense of responsibility as a teacher prevented her from leaving her students behind.

(End of this chapter)