Chapter 4 Chapter 2 Weird Town

I remember that sixty-three-year-old customer Dale Falbo was very dissatisfied when a Wal-Mart store in the United States canceled the "singles shopping" event that made it easier for customers to find their ideals a few years ago. "I'm disappointed," he said. "Where is a guy over 40 going to find someone to date when he doesn't smoke, drink, or hang out in bars?" It's funny that when I stared blankly at Zhou You in women's clothing dying under the wheels of the bus I was riding on, I actually thought of this story.Some didn't understand what I was feeling at that time. To be honest, I didn't have any intersection with him, and I even got to know him through his letters.

He was just a stranger to me who only knew his name, and I don't feel sad about his death. But one thing I'm sure of, I was surprised and shocked.The traffic policeman standing next to the corpse was also very surprised. While calling to urge the criminal police team to come quickly, he pulled up the cordon.I stood motionless, my thoughts spinning rapidly.Why are you wearing women's clothing on this tour?Why is he so panicked?Could it be that someone is chasing him? He raised his head and looked at his surroundings.This section of the road is very straight with no bends. The grass on both sides of the road was overgrown, and the depth of the grass in some places reached more than 1.8 meters. This is why when Zhou You suddenly rushed out, the bus driver had no time to react.

The grassland not far from the left side of the road obviously has traces of being crushed, which should be the place where Zhou You sprang out. He looked down at the body again.At this time, the traffic police had already covered him with a white cloth, even if they wanted to find some clues from above, they had no choice but to follow the way he ran over to have a look. Without saying hello to anyone, I quietly walked into the grass. There are many kinds of weeds around, but the most common one is elderberry. This kind of perennial tall subshrub is as high as three meters in the deepest place, which really makes me feel a little bit emotional.There is such a large vacant land here, and it can be turned into a fertile farmland if it is reclaimed casually, but no one pays attention to it.It would be unreasonable to lose it in my hometown.

Walking for a while in the direction that Zhou You ran towards, in the distance, some old buildings appeared vaguely in sight.I hurriedly took out the map I bought at the train station and looked for it. After searching for a long time, I couldn't find the location of those buildings on the map.Depressed, this is still the latest version of the map, the land planning department of this place is really too lazy!Forget it, go and have a look. After walking forward for about 20 minutes, I finally came to those building complexes.It looked like a very old town, I got out of the grass and stood on a path paved with stone slabs.

This road has been in disrepair for a long time, and many weeds have emerged from the cracks in the stones, making it indescribably desolate and desolate. The road stretched straight forward, entering the small town from an archway not far away. I raised my head and looked at the archway.The so-called archway is basically a kind of building with pillars like a gate, which is generally taller.In the old days, it was mostly seen at intersections or main roads, playing a decorative role. This archway is no exception.It is about ten meters high and five meters wide, but its shape surprised me a bit.

Generally, the archway can be divided into two types: the column protruding archway and the column not protruding archway. The classification method mainly depends on whether the column protrudes at the ridge of the house.But the archway in this small town not only has no leader, but even the roof is not a well-regulated trapezoid. It presents a zigzag shape with upward jagged teeth, and the three building heads are like the sharp teeth of three evil beasts, ferocious and terrifying, making people shudder.In particular, most of the red paint on the surface has been peeled off due to weathering, revealing the dark inside, the main body of unknown material.What the hell are these things?Puzzled, I stepped forward a few steps and touched the archway with my hands.It is cold at the beginning, a bit like a stone, but it has a wooden texture.

I looked up at the sky. The sun was very strong. Although it was already autumn, the temperature here was still around 30 degrees on average.Strange!The sun has been in the sun for so long, and there is no shelter nearby. No matter whether the plaque is made of wood or stone, it should be very hot. How could it be so cold, and even the cold is a bit stinging. Weird, really weird.Hey, this small town is really interesting. I looked around, the town was surrounded by low earthen walls, and I couldn't see inside. Through the archway, you can only see the stone road extending straight forward under your feet.I took out a knife and scratched it on the archway. It was so hard that the Swiss Army knife only scratched a small white mark.

As soon as I gritted my teeth, I simply stabbed down hard with the blade, only to hear a harsh sound of gold and jade colliding, and the blade pierced a shallow point with difficulty.I shook the knife from side to side, and it took me a while to pry a small piece from the foot of the archway. This thing is still cold and biting in the hand, and the material that looks like wood is not wood, and jade is not jade, reminds me of Shuhuayu, but it feels very different.I carefully wrapped it in paper and put it in the middle of the luggage. No matter what it is, send it to a friend after returning home to test it and it will be clear.Now, let's go and find out if Zhou You left some clues inside.

I took out a bottle of water from my bag, gulped it down into my stomach, and then walked slowly into this strange town.When I just passed the archway and stepped on the stone road of the town, I shivered involuntarily.For some reason, with only a few steps away, it seemed as if he had entered another world. Turning around and looking outside the archway, the sun is still shining brightly, the temperature is above 30 degrees, and the sun is bright, but in this small town, I don't feel the heat at all, and even feel a little chilly.Perhaps the layout of the town can play a role in ventilation and heat reduction.I shook my head, shook off the discomfort in my mind, and walked forward step by step.

It didn't take long to find that the town had long since been abandoned.Walls and houses that have collapsed due to years of disrepair are scattered on both sides of the road, and the broken-arm tank attached to white limestone blocks. The predecessor of the broken-arm tank is not a concrete structure house, but wood and blue bricks.It looks like it's at least a few hundred years old. The town is full of weeds and cobwebs.The strange thing is that there is no grass growing on this straight stone road in the town, and not even a bit of tenacious moss grows in the gaps between the stone boards, as if someone has sprayed a strong herbicide on this road.

I walked straight along this clean path that was completely incompatible with the dilapidated and depressed town, and I reached about the center of the town.Right here, not far away, there is another road that is almost identical to the path under my feet. This road is also straight, perpendicular to the path under my feet, as if cutting the path under my feet with a knife. The road is generally cut off. This feeling is very weird, and an effect even appeared in my mind, a huge knife slashed fiercely on the ground twice, drawing a sharp cross shape. This huge intersection should be the center point of this abandoned town.It divides the whole town into four parts, the southeast, the north and the west, which are very evenly divided.But it's this uniformity that makes me very uncomfortable. And in the middle of this intersection, there is another archway that is exactly the same as the entrance of the town. Walking forward slowly, I stood in the center of the intersection, directly under the archway. Suddenly, I was shocked, and the corners of my eyes stayed in the east corner.It was a pile of laundry, men's clothing.From shirts to underwear, just enough to make a whole set. There was no dust on the clothes, it should have been taken off not long ago. I walked over a few steps, squatted down and lifted my pants upside down. Suddenly, a wallet slipped from my trouser pocket to the ground.I picked it up and flipped through it casually, and suddenly found that there was a student card for traveling around inside.Sure enough, Zhou You should have changed into women's clothes here.But why did he come here?Why did he change into women's clothes?Also, who is chasing him? In any case, this matter should have one or more people present. I frowned, and suddenly felt something rushing past me from behind.He looked back quickly, but saw nothing, behind him was empty, only the dilapidated bookstore, and nothing. For some reason, this abandoned town always gives me a very depressing feeling.From the time I walked in to the present, I was always out of breath, as if the oxygen in the town was seriously lacking.What a weird place.I searched again, but didn't find much.I stood up and rubbed my shoulders lightly.It seems that we still have to go to Zhoushui University to have a look. As mentioned earlier, Zhoushui University is located in the southwest of Zhoushui Town, on the left side of the old town, near the lake, with beautiful scenery.But when I returned to the town and rented a car to find it by myself, I realized how remote the so-called eastern suburb on the left side of the old city was.The small town of Zhoushui was already very underdeveloped, but when I visited the vicinity of Zhoushui University, I felt an indescribable feeling in my heart. The entire university is located in the middle of the valley. A winding road leads to the university. This highway is the only exit connecting the university with the outside world. It can even be said that it is the only passage connecting civilization.This feeling is very strange. In theory, universities are originally a symbol of civilization, but why do I have the illusion of being far away from civilization? Apart from the mountains and the school, there are no residents living nearby.This is also what confuses me. Wherever there are universities, there are usually some economically prosperous streets nearby, even in remote rural areas. This is the economic benefits of universities that are common all over the world.However, this law is obviously not in line with this rule. The walls of the university are very high, more than two meters long.Outside the fence is wilderness, overgrown with weeds, which is very uncomfortable.I even wondered for a while whether there was no water or electricity inside.Fortunately, this idea was wrong. In the guard room, I handed in the letter of introduction that the trustee had obtained from the local education committee.The guard was an old man in his seventies. He squinted at me, his hands were shaking constantly, and his face was also shaking. It was a typical phenomenon of Parkinson's disease. The letter of introduction in his hand was shaking constantly with his hands. Put on reading glasses, but I still doubt he can read the letter clearly. Sure enough, he said: "I can't read. What do you think you do?" I smiled: "I am the counselor introduced by the Education Committee." "Counselor? Which counselor?" "Psychological counselor." The guard's mouth twitched, his expression froze, "Psychological counselor?" "Well, yes. The district said you were short of one here, so he introduced me." The old guard looked up at me, without blinking his dim eyeballs. After a long time, he folded the letter of introduction with his trembling hands and quickly stuffed it back into the envelope: "Go in. The principal's office is in front. The fifth floor of the building, room 507." I smiled and took the reply letter and stuffed it into my backpack. When I was about to leave, I suddenly heard him mutter intentionally or unintentionally: "The psychological counselors who came before have gone crazy for several times. They changed again and again. I don't know what it is." .” My smile froze for a moment, and I turned around and asked, "Master, do you mean that several counselors were crazy before?" The guard didn't even look at me, and didn't answer, he just went about his own business. I shook my head depressedly, and walked straight to the Academic Affairs Building without asking any further questions. The first five-story building that enters the school gate is the Academic Affairs Building. It looks a bit imposing, but when you look at it again, it looks like some kind of animal.I didn't look too much, I registered my ID card downstairs and then arrived at the principal's office. He took out the materials he had prepared earlier from his backpack, and then knocked on the door of Zhichang's room. "Come in." A young woman's voice came out. I opened the door and walked in, and saw a woman with a delicate face and a ladylike appearance sitting behind the desk facing me. She was about twenty-two or three years old, and she was buried in the documents without looking at me. Said: "What's the matter?" "Hello, I am the psychological counselor recommended by the district." I coughed.Halo, the principal of this school can't be so young, right?You must know that although Zhoushui University is poor, it is definitely not a private school.The principal of a Yin public school has to spend 20 to 30 years in the lower ranks, and at least 40 to 50 years old to climb to this position.Although surprised, I still concealed the past very well. Gently hand over the recommendation letter and academic qualifications.I don't have a degree in psychology, and I certainly don't have a real identity to prove it.It can be said that except that the recommendation letter is obtained from a friend, the rest are fake. However, it is too easy to get fake degree certificates and identity certificates in this materially developed money society, and the gold content required this time does not need to be too high.So I picked a utility pole at random, made a phone call, and got it done for two thousand dollars. She read the letter of introduction, then raised her head to look at me, and asked suddenly: "Mr. Ye, how did you come to this poor school to be a teacher? You are from a big city, there should be better students there." The future of development is right?" I almost choked on her words.What's wrong with this woman, she has a talent here, and she seems to have a troublesome expression that she doesn't want. I smiled casually, and I shrugged my shoulders, "The principal is too self-deprecating. In fact, Zhoushui University is very good, with beautiful scenery, fresh air, and low consumption costs. It is easy to save money here. Moreover, there is another Excellent young and beautiful principal!" The principal laughed lightly at my words, and the whole room lit up.I almost petrified. I didn't expect that although she was not a top-notch beauty, she was so pretty when she smiled. "Since Mr. Ye is determined to join the big family of Zhoushui University, and the district officials are raving about Mr.'s character and talent, I can't make it difficult for him." She pointed at the recommendation letter on the table with her slender Bai Zhe finger, and said politely: "Sir, you can think about it again, if you really don't mind the poor conditions here..." "It doesn't matter, I made my decision when I came here. To be honest, Zhoushui University is much better than I imagined. From the moment I entered the door to the present, I found myself liking it more and more." I interrupted her with a grin. The female principal didn't seem to be the slightest angry because of my interruption, she stood up, walked around the table and extended her right hand to me, "Then, I will hire you as the psychological counselor of Zhoushui University on behalf of the principal. Yes Alright, let me introduce first, my name is Wang Yuyin, the acting principal here." "Ha, hello, my name is Ye Buyu, please promote me in the future." I smiled and held her hand together.Wang Yuyin's hand is very soft and delicate, it is very comfortable to hold in it, and it makes people reluctant to part when they let go. She chuckled again: "Then, we will be colleagues from now on. Recently, the principal and several vice principals have gone on a business trip. If you don't understand anything or have any requests, you can come to me at any time." "Thank you, thank you." At first, I was still wondering why the acting principal could climb to such a high position at such a young age. After a long time, it turned out that the principals had all traveled far away.This girl can't be the principal's biological daughter, can she?Well, very likely.I thanked thoughtfully. A trace of curiosity flashed across Wang Yuyin's eyes, "Speaking of which, have you ever heard of a writer? His name is exactly the same as yours, and he is called Yebuyu." I was almost choked by her words again, but fortunately I reacted quickly: "What? Sorry, I don't like reading novels very much." She smiled sweetly and said: "That's right, he is not well-known, he is a small writer, and he writes horror, weird, and mysterious things, but his novels are quite good." I was very depressed.How do you little woman know that I am not well-known but still a small writer!I'm not very famous, how did your little acting principal in a small and remote place know my name?cut!Seriously despised.But I really am, since everything has been faked, why not just change the name, so that people still gossip about it. "By the way, a contract, a labor contract." The acting headmaster looked in the drawer with his head tilted, and handed it to me. "Almost forgot, originally you were supposed to go to the HR department to sign the labor contract, but everyone has been very busy recently, so busy. Just sign it with me, and I'll get it for you later." "it is good." I lowered my head and signed the labor contract, and asked, "Is there any activity in school recently? Why are you so busy?" Wang Yuyin's original smile suddenly darkened.