Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 243 Teacher Xu
The little beast brother and the fat man were both worried, and asked if I would come back with my companions for revenge after I hurt it. If I get entangled with them, I'm afraid this place can no longer be stationed!

I told them that they were right to worry about it. Mountain spirits and wild monsters usually like to play tricks on people, but most of them are not malicious, and most of them are pure pranks.But these spirits hold vengeance very much. If anyone offends them, they will have revenge, and they will never forget it for many years. They will even go home to take revenge on their family members, especially children.

Little Brother Qinshou sighed, saying that he would not be able to sleep tonight, and maybe he would not be able to wake up tomorrow.The fat man said that he could take turns sleeping, and leave one with a gun handle at the door, and think about other things after tonight!
I waved my hand to tell them not to make such a fuss, they already know that we are not easy to bully, otherwise they would be besieged now, and they would hide like mice.But even so, they won't stop there, and they don't dare to make trouble for us openly, but they will definitely play tricks secretly. If we come to a dead end, they will come out to make up for the knife.So in the following days, we have to be extremely careful, we must keep our heads clear and not be confused when we see some strange things, that may be some deadly traps
The fat man and the beast little brother looked at each other, and then asked me what I could do to deal with it. Now they both have a feeling that there are pairs of sinister and vicious eyes secretly staring at themselves in a certain grass, and they feel a little panicked. .

I told them to calm down, as if nothing had happened, I have my own way to deal with it, but it is not convenient to say it, but I promise that nothing will happen.

The little brother Qinshou and the fat man both nodded, and didn't ask any questions. We talked a little more at the edge of the forest and then returned to the tent.In order to reassure them and observe the situation, I volunteered to stay outside the tent.After the little brother Qinshou and Fatty fell asleep, I called out Xiao Mengkong and asked her to hide in the pool. If there was any situation, I would be notified immediately, and I would hide and not come out unless I called.

Xiao Mengkong hummed, and then walked towards the pool. After she jumped into the pool, I also went back to sleep in the tent.There was nothing to bother me that night, and the sun rose early the next morning. I woke up the little beast and the fat man, washed my face by the stream, ate some food, and then walked towards the place I went to last night.

After about an hour, we came to the road of Xinfen last night, and along this road we came to a small village.There are about 100 households in this village, scattered on a relatively flat hillside, near the foot of the hill.

The three of us walked into the village with our bags on our backs. On the way, some villagers were watering the vegetable fields, some children were driving ducklings into the water, and some village women were bringing out some unknown herbs to dry.The three of us turned heads too often, and almost everyone looked at us with strange eyes, and an old lady who was picking melons in the vegetable field even asked us something.But we didn't quite understand, so we could only respond with smiles, until we met a middle-aged man wearing glasses who was mowing the lawn, and he could speak very substandard Mandarin.

We told this middle-aged man that we just came in from the outside, went into the mountains to look for a kind of beautiful color-changing crabs, and brought some back to Guangzhou for ornamental breeding (the above mentioned transparent crabs, it was just to fool Lao Deng , now talking about color-changing crabs, they can also fool educated middle-aged people).

This middle-aged man wears glasses, and he can tell that he is somewhat educated. After chatting with him, he guessed right. He is the only teacher in this small mountain village, and he is also a native of the village.The middle-aged man’s surname is Xu, we called him teacher Xu directly, and proposed to stay in the village for a few days, hoping that teacher Xu can help us find a house, and we will provide rent.

When we heard that we came from a big city, Mr. Xu was very enthusiastic, patted his chest and said no problem, let's live in his house!His family has just built a new house, and the old house is next to the new house, and there are plenty of rooms to live in.As he spoke, he picked up two boxes of tender grass and asked us to follow him.

We followed Mr. Xu, and after walking for a few minutes, we came to a small fish pond. Mr. Xu said that this was his fish pond, and he was considered aquaculture, and it had something to do with our crab breeding.He giggled, and while talking, sprinkled the young grass in the frame into the pond, and immediately fish surfaced to compete for food.

After spreading a basket of tender grass, Mr. Xu stood up and stretched, and suddenly asked us if there were any discolored crabs. When he was young, he traveled around tens of kilometers of mountains nearby, and he had never seen such crabs. The old man never mentioned it.

Little Brother Qinshou and Fatty laughed. I told Mr. Xu that we were not very clear about it. We heard that there was one here, so we came all the way here for a field trip. If we found it, we would be rich if we brought it back. .

I told a lie so seriously that I almost believed it myself.
Teacher Xu said that I hope we can find it!Then he dumped all the remaining baskets of young grass into the pond, picked up two empty frames and asked us to follow.After walking for less than 5 minutes, I finally stopped in front of a new wooden house. Teacher Xu said that this was his new house, and then pointed to an old wooden house less than [-] meters below, saying that it was his old house.

This house is built with planks and bark trunks, a bit like the houses of ethnic minorities in the mountains, but they don't wear the clothes of ethnic minorities.

Teacher Xu put down the empty frame and invited us into the room. In the hall there was a boy who was about my age sweeping the floor, and in the kitchen a girl who was two or three years younger than me was cooking breakfast.After we sat down, Teacher Xu immediately set up a bowl and poured tea, and then we discussed the rent.

To be honest, I don't care about the price of the rent, but when I'm out in the mountains, it's not always good to spend too much money, so I pretend to bargain.In the end, the accommodation fee for the three of us was three yuan a day, and we had to fetch and boil water for bathing, plus meals and so on, a total of five yuan a day.After I paid the rent for ten days at once, Mr. Xu took us to his old house and told us that his elder brother and old mother lived in the house, but there were still two vacant rooms.There are two empty rooms, one big and the other small. The small room has been used for stacking groceries, and there is still a bed in the big room for sleeping.

We didn’t see Mr. Xu’s elder brother, but his old mother was sitting in the lobby, watching us move in and laughing non-stop. There is no tooth in the mouth, and it’s scary to be dented when not smiling. Of course, it’s also scary when you smile. .

Not long after the things were placed, Teacher Xu asked us to come up to have breakfast. After entering the room, we saw a woman, Teacher Xu's wife, who had just returned from the field.

Not long after breakfast, Teacher Xu went to school for class.It is said to be a school, but it is actually a big house, which was probably built collectively by the villagers.There is only one class in the school. It is said that students from the first grade to the third grade sit together. After the third grade, they go to the town to study. It takes two hours to walk on the mountain road, and it takes four hours to go back and forth.This is still the case of walking fast. I have to get up at dawn in the morning, and it is almost dark when I come back at night.

In this school, students in the first, second and third grades all sit in the same classroom, but the number of students is only about 20, which is equivalent to seven or eight students in one grade.And the only teacher in this school is only a junior high school graduate, but in the small mountain village of that era, he could be considered a literate person, at least equivalent to today's junior college students.

After Teacher Xu went to class, my little brother Fatty and I wandered around the village. Even though the village only has more than a hundred households, each household is separated by a certain distance, about one kilometer from the beginning to the end of the village.In addition, it was uphill and downhill on the mountain road, and it was noon after walking around, and I went back to Teacher Xu's house for dinner.

It was night soon, and we were about to go to bed after taking a bath. Teacher Xu came down to hang mosquito nets for us, saying that the mosquitoes in the mountains are very poisonous, and we can’t do without mosquito nets.The little brother Qinshou and the fat man helped, and quickly finished the yellow, torn and mended mosquito net.

Just when they were about to hang a mosquito net on my bed, I hurriedly said no, the mosquitoes would not dare to bite me, thinking that I would carry the magic medicine insect repellent with me, so I would be afraid of your mosquitoes.Of course, I am reluctant to give this insect repellent lotion to the little beasts and the others. It is too precious and the quantity is small, unless it is for life-saving when facing deadly poisonous insects.

Teacher Xu said that it would be okay not to hang mosquito nets!You people in the city have never experienced that a mosquito in the mountains can bite a bag that is bigger than an egg, so it is better to hang it up, so I hung up the mosquito net regardless of my refusal.After finishing the two mosquito nets, we thanked Mr. Xu. After he adjusted his glasses and explained some tedious words to us, he turned and left the new house.

However, the strange thing is that Teacher Xu came back less than a minute after he left, and he hesitated to speak, which was very puzzling.Seeing this, I guessed that he had something to say, but these words were not easy to say, so I quickly pulled him outside the hall and asked Mr. Xu if he had anything to say!
Teacher Xu hesitated for a moment, adjusted his glasses and spoke again, and asked a few strange words.He told us not to come out to pee in the middle of the night. The village is not peaceful recently. If you hear any strange noises at night, just pretend to be asleep and pretend you didn’t hear them. Don’t be curious and come out to watch.

The purpose of our coming to this village is to find out what happened to those two old men who were boiled to death.I came here with this purpose in the first place, but hearing Teacher Xu's words now made me inexplicably excited.But I pretended to be calm, and asked Mr. Xu why in a low voice. I know that there are many monsters in the mountains, and I am not afraid to say it.

Teacher Xu shook his head, adjusted his glasses again, this is his habitual action, and then patted my shoulder, saying that you who come from other places should not inquire, and it is night now, let alone talk nonsense, or you will be overheard The consequences are serious.

(End of this chapter)