a zombie haunts me

Chapter 10 Don't Eat
Every child has a strange cinnabar mark on the back of the neck. About this, I later asked Director Wu for advice. She told me that there is a custom in Guitou Village. Order a cinnabar seal to ward off evil spirits.

I have been busy all day, and the children are out of school after four o'clock in the afternoon, and I suddenly realized that I hadn't eaten all day.

"Mr. Liu, our school doesn't have a cafeteria. The principal and I bring meals from home. If you're hungry, there's a corn field behind the school. You can go pick corn."

Director Wu is actually about the same age as me, but he is married and lives at the foot of the mountain.

I listened to what she said, and made some boiled corn to eat.

The faculty dormitory is really rudimentary, and it took me a lot of effort to cook the corn.

As I sat down, ready to fill my stomach, I heard a voice.

"My lady, don't eat, don't eat."

I turned around suddenly, but there was no one in the empty room.

Am I hallucinating?
I grabbed a corn, and before I could put it to my lips, a cool wind suddenly blew from behind, and the voice seemed to be right next to my ear: "My lady, don't eat it!"

Fear struck again, I felt ants coming out of the cracks in my bones, and my whole body was numb.

I hurriedly turned around, picked up a pair of scissors, and waved them wildly at the air, "Don't come here, I'm not easy to mess with!"

The surroundings were so quiet that you could almost hear a needle drop. He seemed to be scared and didn't show up again.

I grabbed a corn and gnawed it, "Didn't you tell me not to eat it, I just ate it for you!"

But the strange thing is that the corn is harder than a stone, and it tastes like a burnt smell, but I obviously boiled it with water?

I suddenly felt a churning in my stomach, and I spit out everything in my mouth.

After washing my face in the bathroom, I vaguely felt a person standing behind me.

"Who?"

I have become a frightened bird, and any slightest disturbance can arouse infinite fear in my heart.

Turning around in panic, what I saw was my student Zuo Xiaowei, holding a basketball in his hand and a big schoolbag on his back.

Seeing my surprise, he lowered his head slightly: "Teacher Liu."

"Why haven't you come home yet?"

It was already pitch black outside the window. I took out my mobile phone from my pocket and checked the time. It was already past eight o'clock in the evening.

"I dare not go home. I failed two subjects in this mock exam. My father knew he would beat me to death."

I thought about it, maybe I can call his parents and intercede for him, but my mobile phone has no signal at all.

I looked at him, not knowing what to do for a while.

He suddenly raised his head, smiled innocently at me, and asked, "Mr. Liu, can you take me home?"

I hesitated, who made me timid.

But if I don't send him back, his parents will be worried to death.

I hesitated for a moment, then nodded helplessly, "Okay."

In this way, Zuo Xiaowei and I set off from school together.

It was very dark, and I used my mobile phone as a flashlight. However, the mountain road was difficult to walk, so I carefully held Xiaowei's hand.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but I always feel that his hands are hard and cold, and I can't even feel the temperature.

From time to time, gusts of wind blew in my ears, and there was a pungent burnt smell in the air.

My spirit is highly concentrated, and my sensitive nerves are like tense strings.

"Xiaowei, is your home far from here?"

As I walked, I asked him with a guilty conscience.

He just hummed and didn't say much.

But in the blink of an eye, we saw a thatched hut not far ahead.

"Teacher, that's my home."

I looked towards the thatched hut, and it was clearly pitch black all around, but the area around the hut seemed to be coated with a layer of silver moonlight, it was gray, and there was a puff of blue smoke around it.

There are actually people living in this wilderness?
(End of this chapter)