Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Tongue

The confetti was only a quarter the size of the palm, with a few lines of densely written words on one side, and a black and white photo of a woman on the other.I stared at it for a while, and felt that the woman looked very familiar, and after looking closely for a while, I recognized that it was Zhao Xiyue's photo.Almost all the content of the newspaper next to the photo was scraped off, and the reason why Zhao Xixi was published in the newspaper is unknown, but there are two words "wanted" on her photo, but that is the content of the above report, and there is another A thick black line separates it.

The same kind of content in newspapers is usually concentrated in one page, not a bit east or west.The first thing I thought about was whether Zhao Xiyue was also wanted, but she was the target of abduction. Maybe the column under the wanted article was a missing person notice.These wanted and missing people revelations are sometimes mixed together and classified as government documents.Although this explanation makes sense, I always feel that it is too coincidental to use this newspaper to write threats in blood, especially when the newspaper is stolen back. I turned over the scraps of paper, and here is a brief social news, the original text is "March 18, 2005 Rongshui County Agricultural Bureau Yirong Agriculture Development [2005] No. Rodent Control Notice'." After this, the rest of the content is invisible.

Machang Village is in Rongshui County, and 2005 was three years ago, which means this is a newspaper published three years ago.Generally, large newspapers will not publish the content of small county towns, only county newspapers will publish.I thought to myself, not to mention county newspapers, even People's Daily would be sold as waste paper in rural areas.After three years, it is difficult for the villagers to find the old county newspaper from three years ago. Did the person who wrote the blood write this newspaper on purpose to show me?Where did he find it, and why did he steal it back?What does that person want me to read in the newspaper?

I was lost in thought, and I didn't realize it for a while. When I heard Wu Lingchun urging me to help in front of the Wafang dormitory, I woke up.The opening ceremony in the morning lasted for two full hours. I didn't listen carefully to what Principal Zhang was saying. I just sat behind the students and occasionally heard the students whispering about the exhumation of the dead body last night.The parents of the students also sat at the back. They would stand up and applaud when they saw their children go up to receive the award. Looking at the group of parents, I thought suspiciously that the person who stole the newspaper just now must have sneaked into the group of parents, because when I ran over, a group of parents happened to come in from the school gate.That person must be a certain parent, otherwise, if they get mixed in, it will only appear out of tune.I really couldn't figure it out, and my head hurt more and more. When I heard that everyone stood up and wanted to disperse, I laughed at myself for thinking too much. Agatha is not for everyone.

After the opening ceremony, the students returned to the classroom and waited for the teachers to put homework.Those homework books were all bought by the school, each with 7 math books and 3 Chinese texts.Students like to take the new homework very much. In their eyes, this is their wealth, even students who don't like to study think so.I take the Chinese class in the third and fourth grades. These two ages are the most difficult to manage. The students always fight, which often gives me headaches. There are about 20 students in a grade, and each grade has only one class, which is incomparable with elementary schools in cities.Even so, when I moved my homework to the classroom on the second floor, I was choked up.The homework was distributed very quickly, and it was almost finished. When I distributed it to the students of Wang Xiaolong, I found that the homework was not enough, so I had to go back and get it.

The homework is placed in the first warehouse on the first floor. It is said to be a warehouse, but it is actually only as big as a bedroom.Machang Village is very poor, except for Boss Mo’s family who built a small western-style building, only the primary school has a two-story teaching building, and the houses of other people are either bungalows or mud huts.I heard from Principal Zhang that the school was not opened here, but in the open air.This two-storey teaching building used to be a health center. Later, a plague broke out and many patients died. The building was abandoned for more than 20 years. This is why the houses in Machang Village are far away from the primary school.With the gradual emphasis on education, with the support of the government, Machang Village converted the building of the health center into a classroom 5 years ago, ending the open-air school model.

When I returned to the warehouse, I opened the door and held the missing homework in my hands. I was about to go out when I remembered something.No one would buy the county newspaper, and it was usually delivered to various units. Machang Village Primary School also had a county newspaper.Because no one read it, Principal Zhang kept stacking the county newspaper neatly in the corner of the warehouse.As long as I find the few newspapers around March 18, 2005, can't I know why Zhao Xixi was published in the newspaper? I closed the warehouse excitedly, and hurried to finish the homework, wanting to come back quickly and dig out the newspapers from three years ago.However, after I dismissed the students, Principal Zhang found me and told me to lead a new female teacher to settle in my room.That girl looks pink and juicy, and she doesn't fit in with a rural elementary school at first glance. She might have run away crying "the country lied to me" that night.

When I took the female classroom downstairs, she said behind me, "My name is Liu Qin, what about you?" I couldn't help thinking about the newspaper, and when someone asked me, I answered casually, "Tang Jiuyue." "Principal Zhang asked me to take the fifth grade Chinese class. What grade are you in?" Liu Qin asked softly. As soon as I heard it, I was puzzled. Generally speaking, the higher grades can only be taught after a long teaching time. Ouyang Xin and another old teacher are in charge of the fifth and sixth grades.And every time there are new teachers, Principal Zhang will assign them to the first and second grades. Since Liu Qin is assigned to the upper grades, the principal must be very sure that she will not run away that night.

When Liu Qin and I went downstairs, we happened to meet Ouyang Xin going upstairs with his homework. When she saw it, she leaned into my ear and said that there is such a handsome male teacher in the school.I hummed, looking at Liu Qin's extravagance, I couldn't figure out why she came to be a teacher in a rural primary school.Based on her appearance, she should be qualified to go to a school in the city. Now as long as she looks good, it is equivalent to having a trump card. Then, I took Liu Qin to the dormitory, explained some things, and then I wanted to go to the warehouse to look through newspapers.But Liu Qin dragged me and refused to let me go, as if she was afraid of staying alone in the dilapidated tile-roofed house.When I saw Liu Qin's appearance, I remembered that I was like this before, so I stayed in my heart for a while.After Wu Lingchun finished her work, she ran to my room to watch the news. She was happy to live alone and didn't like to be crowded in the same room with others.When Liu Qin saw Wu Lingchun, he said hello, then made the bed and sprayed some toilet water.

"Come out." Wu Lingchun saw Liu Qin turned around, so she called me. I went out strangely, muttering what I couldn't say in the room, why should I avoid Liu Qin.When I came out, Wu Lingchun told me in a low voice that Liu Qin probably wouldn't leave, and I would no longer be able to live alone in the happy life.In the conversation, Wu Lingchun was a little gloating.Before I could speak, Wu Lingchun told me that Liu Qin’s parents were both petty officials, and they were arrested for corruption. She had no choice but to come to a rural elementary school to make a living. No one from other relatives and friends would help her find a job. However, only Principal Zhang Nian helped accommodate Liu Qin's parents for the sake of getting to know Liu Qin's parents.

"She is so miserable?" When I heard this situation, I immediately sympathized with Liu Qin. "In the future, she will suffer." Wu Lingchun relied on his seniority, and when he spoke, he had a feeling that she was a senior and we were juniors. In fact, everyone was about the same age. When Wu Lingchun finished nagging, he turned around and went about his own business, leaving me in a daze under the tile house.Seeing that I hadn't come back for a long time, Liu Qin came out to look for me. Seeing me outside the door, she asked me for my mobile phone number.Liu Qin also said that if there is anything she doesn't understand in the future, and she can't find me again, she can call me and ask me.When a person goes to a strange place, the person who receives him first will become the person he relies on most.I know this very well, because when I first came to Dao, Ouyang Xin received me, and I have always had an indescribable affection for him since then. One noon, I spent all my time on Liu Qin, took her around the school, and told her where the toilet and bathing place were.These two places are not in the Wafang dormitory, but on the edge of the school wall, about a hundred meters away from the dormitory.This kind of design is very unscientific, but in rural areas, such designs are very common.Moreover, there is no water heater, and there is no hot water supply. In summer, you can directly wash with cold water, but in winter, you have to start your own fire to heat hot water. After much difficulty, I settled Liu Qin down, and only then did I have time to go to the warehouse of the teaching building to look through newspapers.This matter weighs on my heart. If I don't solve it, I won't be able to eat well.The strange thing is that I went through the backlog of newspapers in the corner, but I couldn't find the backlog of county newspapers from 2005, but the 2004 and 2006, 2007, and 2008 are still there.Only the teacher has the key to the warehouse. The doors and windows are locked now, why are they all gone?If someone slipped a newspaper under my door and wanted me to notice its contents, why would they steal it back!Now even the newspapers in the warehouse are gone. Is this man sick? In the afternoon of the opening ceremony, each class will have a class meeting. As the head teacher of the fourth grade, I must be present.Seeing that the time was approaching, I walked out of the warehouse and prepared to go upstairs for a class meeting.At this time, Principal Zhang was about to come out of the office on the first floor. When I saw him, I asked anxiously, "Principal Zhang, why is the county newspaper in the warehouse missing for a year? Is it the newspaper from 2005?" "Boss Mo asked me to take it. His family is building a new house and needs to use newspapers to paste the walls, so... why do you ask this? Isn't it true that no one reads newspapers?" Principal Zhang asked confusedly. I hurriedly said: "Nothing. Then you will be busy first." Principal Zhang thought that I was motivated and wanted to read the county newspaper, so he said: "If you want to read it, you can take the newspaper in the warehouse. If you want to read the newspaper in 2005, go to Aunt Liu. I took the newspaper to Boss Mo, you should have time to look for it in the evening." It is the habit of Machang Village to paste the walls with newspapers. Every time a new house is built, newspapers will be pasted before plastering.Many party newspapers and county newspapers are used for this instead of being sold as waste paper.However, Boss Mo didn't come to pick up the newspaper himself, but Aunt Liu and the others did it for him.Last night, it was Aunt Liu who told Wu Lingchun that a dead person had been dug out of Lin Huhu's house.Speaking of Aunt Liu, she was amazing. Not only was she a tigress, she managed her husband to such a degree that she was also detained for stealing in the city. Aunt Liu has a 10-year-old son who is in my class. She also attended the opening ceremony today.When I walked around behind the brick-roofed house, Aunt Liu was among the crowd. Now that she picked the 2005 county newspaper alone, I really have to suspect that she was the one who stole the scarlet newspaper.Of course, there were several women who took away the county newspaper together, but I was obsessed, and I always felt that it was Aunt Liu who was scaring me. In the afternoon, in order to hold a class meeting, I didn't go to Boss Mo's place where he built a new house right away. I only held a class meeting for the students seriously.But when I finished the class meeting and rushed to Boss Mo's house, most of the newspapers had been pasted on the walls of the new house next to his house.There were still many newspapers piled up at the door. I went over and looked through them. Except for the March county newspaper, the other newspapers were still there. Aunt Liu saw me rummaging around, and hurriedly scolded me to go away, so as not to cause trouble to them.I knew that my behavior was indeed excessive, so I left without making a sound, not to cause trouble for the people who built the new house.I wandered around the new house, deliberated, and finally had an idea.Because in the middle of the night, no one will guard the unbuilt new house, and anyone can come in and out.When the time comes, I will quietly tear off the newspaper with Zhao Xiyue's photo on it, only tearing up one piece, it won't cause any loss to Boss Mo, and I will also be able to figure out the meaning of the newspaper in blood. After making up my mind, I left immediately and waited until night, when Liu Qin fell asleep, and then I got the courage to sneak out of the school alone with a flashlight.Normally, I would not dare to do this at all, not afraid of Lin Huhu, but also of evil spirits.However, I really want to know whether my good sister Zhao Xixi is dead or alive, and the reason for her disappearance.In addition, I called the police late before, missed the best opportunity, and lost any evidence, and I have always felt guilty. These emotions urged me to walk quickly at night. When I got outside Boss Mo’s house, I saw no one around, so I boldly walked into the new house with a strong smell of cement.Those county papers are posted on the walls of the house, and when they dry up tomorrow, they'll spray lime, and then I won't have a chance to see the March county papers again.It is even more difficult to find a county newspaper from three years ago in other places. Besides, I don't know the staff of the county newspaper. It is impossible to ask them for a newspaper than for a meal. When I suppressed my heartbeat, stepped gently into the new house, and looked at the newspapers on the wall with a flashlight, I stepped on a slippery thing and almost fell.Strangely, I lowered the voltage of my hand, and looked at the ground, but I broke out in a cold sweat—what I stepped on just now turned out to be a tongue, no, not one, but many, so many that the whole room was paved. full.