Chapter 19 nineteenth night debt

The early winter night in this city is still very beautiful. Although it is a bit cold, it is not bad for two people to drink hot wine and eat some small dishes. After a while, some white steam could be seen on Ji Yan's head, and I guess I was too, so I took off my coat and continued to drink.Ji Yan was holding the wine glass, but suddenly put it down again. "It seems that we haven't gathered together to drink and chat like this for a long time." "Yeah, I still miss the stories you told in the summer." I drank the wine, and the tingling sensation went from my mouth to my throat and straight to my stomach, and then my blood quickly dissolved and flowed to every corner of my body.

"At first I wanted to go out for a walk, but I didn't feel in the mood after the mining accident, so I had to come back, but I heard a lot of stories along the way." Ji Yan poured another glass of wine. "Oh? I was afraid you were in a bad mood, so I didn't ask you. What's the story?" I filled a glass for myself, and suddenly realized that I was a little drunk. "The Chinese characters in our country are really amazing." Ji Yan dipped her hands in some wine with a half smile, and wrote a word on the table. I saw that it was the word "debt".

"Isn't this the word debt? What's so wonderful?" I asked puzzled. "Look, the word "debt" is the word "person" plus the word "responsibility", that is to say, debt is the responsibility of the person. Many times, people who owe debts are because they have not fulfilled their responsibilities. I was on the train. When I was sitting next to me was a teacher, the long night was boring, we told each other stories, this story was told to me by him. This teacher is in his fifties, and he just went to another place to hold a teaching and research meeting. He saw me very unhappy, so he took the initiative to talk to me. His surname is Wu, let's call him Teacher Wu.

What Mr. Wu told me was the story of debt. He said that such a thing happened in his school. It was 1991. It happened to be the Gulf War. It was a middle school. The students were all 14 or 15 years old. They were all playing bad and unruly. The war outside seemed to be their catalyst. Crowds and fights emerged endlessly, and the school leaders, especially the dean of students, were all over their heads, so in a fit of anger, they formulated a school rule. Once a fight was discovered, all the responsibility should be attributed to the party who started the fight.It sounds plausible, but something went wrong.

That day, the principal's office was still as quiet as ever. Suddenly, there was a commotion downstairs, followed by heart-piercing shouts. At that time, the principal's office was still in the old building of the 1950s. It was quite dark, even though it was hot summer outside. , When you walk in, it will be dark and the temperature will drop suddenly. There was a teacher who suggested it, but considering the financial problem, the principal rejected it, and the principal joked that it is cool here, and it is very comfortable to work in summer. But today will not be comfortable. Several middle-aged men rushed in carrying a dead body and a crying woman, the principal was shocked.Several men rushed over and wanted to beat up the principal, but fortunately they were stopped. Now the office exploded like water in a frying pan.After asking, I found out that the child died suddenly after returning home after a fight yesterday.And the dean of students knew about it.

The principal called the dean of students, and when those people saw him asking, they immediately jumped up and beat him up.The dean of training was beaten with blood all over his face, and his front teeth fell out.Being dragged away again, the weeping woman struggled to pull the smelly corpse into the middle of the crowd, then sat on the ground and pointed at the injured dean of training and cursed. It turned out that this child was often besieged by people at that time, and happened to be seen by the dean of the dean when he returned the hand. When he asked around, the people around him said that the child was the first to attack, so the dean of the dean immediately punished him, and did not leave. .As a result, after this incident, the student was bullied and beaten by his classmates every day. He suffered unspeakably. During the riot, he kicked and injured the child's internal organs, resulting in excessive blood loss and death.The child's eyes were not closed, and since it was summer, many bruises could be clearly seen on the exposed arms and legs.The dean of students stood by without saying a word, enduring the insults from the relatives of the deceased.

In the end the headmaster couldn't stand it anymore. "What are you going to do? The matter has already happened, and it must be resolved. The director also wants to improve the school's learning environment. Although the responsibility is not in place, but the matter has reached this point, it must be resolved." The principal's words calmed the relatives down temporarily. He got down, and after a while, one of the tallest, the most vicious man who hit him just now stood up, with a pair of triangular eyes and a big red nose with rosacea. "My nephew wouldn't have been beaten to death if it weren't for your bullshit school rules. You have to punish the murderer severely, and you have to publicly apologize to my nephew's spiritual seat, and you have to help him to mourn for three months and pay compensation." Director Yi Listen, get angry too.

"I can accept other things, and I will try my best to make up for your losses, but it is absolutely impossible to help the spirit and keep the filial piety, and I will never agree to it." Suo Wan closed his eyes, ready to meet the fist. The two started to argue again, and finally even the police came, and later it went to the court. The result was that the deceased's request was rejected. On the day of the sentencing, the relatives of the deceased looked at the director viciously, making him terrified. After returning to the school after the sentence was pronounced, the director had just returned to the office. Suddenly those people came again. They were blocked by other teachers in the office. Wrapped, the dean of students didn't know what it was, and just caught it in his arms.

The cloth was opened, and the dean of training will never forget the scene he saw at that time in his life. Inside was a bloody head, which belonged to that child. The head was in the arms of the dean of students, with wide-open eyes, a bluish-white rotten face, and a hollow mouth with white teeth exposed. The dean of training threw the head with a wow, and then spat it out.The uncle of the deceased in the distance shouted loudly, "You can hide from the law, but you can't hide from your conscience! Have you seen it? You owe him your whole life, and you still don't know it!" After pushing and pushing, there was only the dean of students who almost vomited and the head rolling on the ground in the empty office.

The dean of students sat on the ground after vomiting, and the human head stopped rolling, and it stopped just opposite him, facing each other. The old-fashioned ceiling fan above his head was creaking, and the dean of training was panting on the floor. There was a cool breeze. Although it was noon, the office was still very dark. The dean suddenly felt a chill when he looked at the human head, because he was so tired. Like seeing the head and smiling. He did indeed smile, the dean of training wiped his eyes and looked carefully, the expression on the head was indeed different from the previous expression, the corners of the mouth were raised slightly, and the eyes were also narrowed.But that smile was more like a mocking laugh, a contemptuous laugh.The dean couldn't take it anymore, and rushed out of the office with a strange scream, only to bump into a person head-on.

This person is his daughter, who is a senior in high school in this school, with excellent grades and a youthful appearance. The dean of instruction is always proud of her, and friends everywhere praise his daughter to him. "Dad, what's the matter? I heard from my classmates that something happened to you, so I came to see you." The daughter gently supported him, and the dean of students calmed down a little, but still pointed inside and said, "Head, head, that head Laughing." The daughter strangely helped him in, and saw the head on the ground, she couldn't say anything frightened, and the dean didn't even dare to look at it. "Father, what's going on here? And that head isn't smiling?" The dean slowly turned his head when he heard his daughter's stammering words. It was strange that the head who was clearly smiling just now stopped smiling.Maybe it's just an illusion.Now the dean's daughter was scared instead. The dean comforted her and asked her to go back to class.The matter gradually calmed down. Although the parents still came to the school to make trouble, they never came again. Four years later, the director thought that the incident was also a shadow, so he resigned from his position and became an ordinary teacher.But for the sake of convenience, let's call him Director. His daughter was admitted to a famous university as expected by others, and her grades were excellent. However, when he was about to graduate, he received a call from his daughter's teacher, who said anxiously that his daughter seemed to be in trouble all of a sudden. Become crazy…… The dean of training almost went crazy when he received the news.He immediately asked for leave, and took the train with his wife overnight to the city where his daughter's university is located. Due to the distance, although he was very tired and anxious, he still fell asleep in the car.In the dream, he saw the head again, it was very clear, although it had been four years, it seemed to be right in front of his eyes.The human head opened its mouth and spit out a word, "debt".With a sudden shock, the dean of training woke up. It turned out that he had already arrived at the station. The couple rushed to the hospital regardless of the fatigue of the journey. After exchanging pleasantries with my daughter’s classmate and teacher, I realized that she was going to class well, but she suddenly shouted like “debts and money, murder and death,” and her voice was very dry, which was not the usual feeling at all. The classmates and teachers had to push her away. But she was so strong that she broke free and rushed to the teacher's door to jump off the building. Fortunately, she was stopped by her classmates and teacher and sent to the hospital. That's why the teacher called the director's family and asked him to come over overnight.However, the doctor said that he had just been sedated and would wait until he went in for a visit. The director's face immediately darkened after hearing this. He immediately thought of what happened four years ago, but he immediately dismissed the idea. He doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, let alone believe that there will be revenge in a few years.He thought that her daughter was under too much pressure from studying, which caused her frequent mental disturbances. After all her classmates and teachers had dispersed, the couple walked into the ward. The daughter lay quietly on the hospital bed, and the bright moonlight outside leaked into the room and shone on her sharp-edged face.The dean of students felt sad for a while, that his beloved daughter had come to this point.The wife was crying, and the director told her to go out and calm down because he wanted to be alone with his daughter. Closing the door, there were only father and daughter left in the room. The medicine was probably not over yet, so the director decided to stay by her side, wait for her daughter to wake up, have a good talk, and enlighten her.Just as the director turned around and wanted to sit down, he saw his daughter standing behind him.He was quite surprised. Normally, the sedative would not wear off so quickly, but looking closely at his daughter, she seemed to be much better, with soft eyes. "Father, I'm so scared." The daughter burst into tears and got into her father's arms. The director had no choice but to stroke her daughter's long hair to comfort her. At this time, the mother outside also heard the sound, and the whole family hugged each other and cried. After a while, the director's daughter calmed down. "What happened?" asked the director.The daughter said intermittently that in the past few years, she has been having nightmares. She dreamed that a person whose face could not be clearly seen asked her to ask her for something, but she couldn't hear clearly.Then there are always many grievances, intentionally or unintentionally, including studies, life feelings and so on.During class that day, my boyfriend also called suddenly. The two had a little misunderstanding in the past few days, but this time the man suddenly said to break up, and without any reason, he hung up after speaking.The daughter suddenly felt a mental breakdown, and the grievances that had been suppressed for many years burst out. Suddenly, someone said in her ear, "pay the debt, pay the murder", and then she couldn't remember anything, and then she woke up. hospital bed. After listening to the director, he comforted his daughter and said that the family would go home as soon as the daughter recovered from illness, and the daughter would lie down and rest obediently.Seeing that her daughter was fine, the director asked his wife to buy some food and pay the hospitalization expenses at the hospital finance department.He himself sat down beside his daughter's bed, watching her slowly fall asleep, the director himself was confused for a moment.I don't know how long it took, the director felt something splashed on his face, it seemed to be water, the director's eyes were so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes, he wondered if the window was open and rain was flying in?Then he heard his wife's screams, or howls. He took a quick look and saw his daughter sitting on the bed expressionless, frantically tearing at his beautiful long hair, and tearing the scalp and bloody hair Handfuls were stuffed into the mouth, as if tasting something delicious.It wasn't rainwater that splashed on his face just now, but his daughter's blood! The director was stunned, but his first reaction was to rush over to stop his daughter. He grabbed her hands, but he didn't expect her to be so strong that she almost broke free. Fortunately, the doctor and nurse rushed over, and they were surrounded by several people. Under the control, the director's daughter was pressed on the bed, but her eyes were fixed on her father, and her hair was still growing in her mouth, but she still yelled vaguely: "You have to pay back the debt you owe!" The director heard clearly up. Doctors bandaged her, re-sedated her, and tied her hands and feet with belts.The director and his wife hurriedly asked the doctor about the child's condition. "Not optimistic. She has great mental fluctuations and is aggressive. Patients like this are rare. She has a tendency to self-harm. You'd better send her to a mental hospital for further treatment." After speaking, the doctor went out, the director After hearing this, his wife was so sad that she fainted.The director bit his lip tightly, hugged his wife, and tried not to let himself cry out. In the long days that followed, the director and his wife tried their best to treat their daughter's illness. Although they still suffered from frequent attacks, they gradually got better under the encouragement of their family members. Finally, the hospital notified the director that the daughter was completely cured.When I was discharged from the hospital, nearly three years had passed since the day of the onset of illness. Now that his daughter's illness has recovered, the director has returned to the teaching position again. He has often asked for leave to take care of his daughter in the past three years. He has aged a lot in an instant, but everyone knows his difficulties but doesn't care about them. The students like him very much. class, so he began to pay attention to class again when he came. Things are always getting better slowly, the director thinks so, and there are times when difficult hurdles can be overcome.But he forgot that not everyone can make it through. The school has decided to renovate the office these days, but it is not available at work, so I have to hurry up to change the glass or paint off the outside during the lunch break. These days, the director has made a lot of noise and often forgets to bring things.As usual, it was another afternoon in summer. The director did not go home for dinner. His wife went to visit relatives in his hometown. There were only two fathers and daughters at home. The daughter had fully recovered. At least the director saw it this way. He even wanted to introduce someone to his daughter. up.This time he looked at his briefcase and found that he hadn't brought an important handout, so he had to call his daughter and ask her to bring it, and she agreed. The director's house is very close to the school, so he stood directly in front of the office window and watched, waiting for his daughter.Sure enough, the familiar figure of his daughter appeared in front of him, holding something in his hand, which should be his handouts, and he happily went downstairs to meet his daughter. When he got downstairs, just about to go out, he suddenly staggered, as if he was caught by something, and his body tilted over. At this time, his daughter was more than ten meters away from him. Seeing that he was about to fall, she hurriedly Come here.He also saw his daughter, and the distance between the two was so close. Meanwhile just upstairs, a glazing fitter was about to put a piece of glass in, and he still had a piece of glass in the other half.Suddenly, I felt my eyes go dark, and the glass in my hand flew straight towards the downstairs door. With a bang, the glass fell between the director and the daughter, almost hitting the director's daughter on the head, and both of them were startled.The director fell to the ground at this time, and the daughter hurried over and bent over and lowered her head to help her father up. The director also stretched out her hand, and at this time the second glass fell down again, just like Louis XVI who was executed by the guillotine. The director His daughter was beheaded by falling glass right in front of the director. The speed was so fast that the concerned expression on the daughter's face did not disappear, and the blood rushed to the director's face like a fountain that opened the gate. He was completely numb, and his whole body was covered with the daughter's blood. The head fell off like it was seven years ago. in his arms.With a smile like seven years ago. The director vaguely heard the words in his ear: "The debt you owe, you will have to pay it back sooner or later." After Teacher Wu finished speaking, I couldn't help feeling chills. I don't know if it was the reason for the death of the student, or it was just a coincidence, but the director's family is too pitiful. "Ji Yan said, drank another glass, and shivered all over. "Is it true?" I couldn't help asking. "Of course, I asked the same question immediately after listening to it. I even suspected that this teacher Wu was the dean of students, but he immediately cracked his lips and smiled: "So what is true, what is false, anyway, whatever happened is over, which one?" The only idea of ​​the dean of students is to spend the rest of his life doing his own education well and fulfilling his responsibilities. " I looked at his mouth, the teeth are very complete.I didn't think much about it, and then I was confused for a while, and suddenly I started eating. I saw Teacher Wu carefully remove the false front teeth in front of his mouth, and began to eat slowly.He looked at me in surprise, and then slowly said: "Things will pass, and even difficult hurdles will pass." I also looked at Ji Yan in surprise, the alcohol seemed to have passed.Ji Yan raised her head again and sighed: "If the responsibility is a debt, then the person with the greater responsibility will live a very tired life." "En." I nodded in agreement.