Chapter 24 Chapter 8 Residing Teachers

The door of the teaching building opened slowly with a terrible creaking sound, and I stared in horror at the hidden mirror ghost that would appear in the door.However, at this frightening moment, the hidden mirror ghost in the window said: "Huh, it's really not the right time. I'll let you off tonight, but you won't be so lucky next time." After saying that, the red light flashed , disappeared without a trace. As soon as the hidden mirror ghost disappeared, the door of the teaching building opened, and a strong light shot out from the door, which made me unable to open my eyes.An irritable male voice came from inside the door: "That troublemaker broke the window?"

I thought some monster would jump out of the door, but when my eyes adjusted to the strong light, I realized that it was a middle-aged man in his forties who came out from behind the door.It doesn't matter who the other party is, as long as it's not a monster.However, just when I breathed a sigh of relief, the other party ran over aggressively, grabbed my hand vigorously, and angrily reprimanded: "How old are you, and you are still so boring, breaking the glass of the school! " It seemed that this man should be a teacher of Wangcun Primary School, so I showed him the police ID, told him that Zhenzhen was injured, and asked him if there were any medical supplies in the school that could bandage the wound.As for the damage to the glass, I will give him an explanation after dealing with Zhen Zhen's wound.

Seeing that Zhenzhen's arm was bleeding, the anger on his face disappeared immediately, and he quickly took us to the teacher's room on the first floor of the teaching building, took out the medicine box and treated the wound for Zhenzhen.After dressing Zhenzhen's wound, he introduced himself: "My name is Lu Yongzhi, and I am the teacher of this elementary school." Then he asked us what happened just now. I told him how I was attacked by the ghost of the mirror, and asked if the ghost of the mirror often appeared nearby? He looked at us in astonishment, and it took a while before he said, "Is there really a hidden mirror ghost?"

He said that he is not a local. He only started teaching here five years ago and lived in a dormitory on the third floor of the teaching building.He had heard a little about the legend of the hidden mirror ghost, but he didn't quite believe it.And when we were attacked by the hidden mirror ghost just now, apart from hearing the sound of breaking glass, he didn't find any other abnormalities.As for Liang Caixia being attacked by the ghost of the hidden mirror more than half a month ago, he said that he would stay in the dormitory every night, but he didn't know such a thing.In fact, this is not unusual, after all, Liang Caixia did not smash the window like Zhenzhen, and it is normal that he did not find it in the dormitory on the third floor.

Anyway, we had already chatted, so I wanted to ask him about Wang Xi's affairs, but I didn't know how his relationship with Wang Xi was.In order to prevent him from getting wary, let's chat with him first.I said that it was the Spring Festival holiday some time ago, and asked him why he stayed alone in the dormitory instead of going back to his hometown to celebrate the Spring Festival with his family?I asked casually, but as soon as the words came out of my mouth, I realized that I had said something I shouldn't have said. Teacher Lu was chatting and laughing with us at first, but after hearing my question, his face darkened immediately, and he didn't say a word for a long time.Zhenzhen poked me secretly, although she didn't speak, but I could understand her meaning from her reproachful eyes with a victorious look—just now at Wu Wei's house, you blamed me for talking nonsense, don't you also speak without thinking? !

I'm not in the mood to compete with her on this kind of thing, I just think about how to break the embarrassing situation in front of me.However, before I could think of what to do, Teacher Lu said again: "There are no relatives in my hometown, and there is no point in going back." I apologized and said, "I'm sorry to remind you of something sad." "It's okay, it's all in the past..." He played with the yellow translucent lighter, lit a cigarette for himself, and sadly told us about the sad past—— I used to have a complete family: a small house, a virtuous wife, and a lovely daughter.However, all of this disappeared overnight seven years ago.

My house is built in an orchard. Although the house is small, the area of ​​the orchard is quite large.At that time, I was teaching in the elementary school in the village, while my wife took care of the orchard and took care of our daughter at home. The husband and wife performed their own duties. Although the income was not much, they lived happily. Later, people from the county government came to me and asked for a land certificate, saying that they needed to register.The orchard was left by our ancestors. We country people don't know how to deal with the government, so we have never done any land certificates.The people from the county government said: "If you can't do it, hurry up and do it. We will measure the area for you first, and we will issue a land certificate for you later."

We don't know anything about these things. They said that if we want to measure it, let them measure it. We thought that after the measurement, they would issue a land certificate for us, but they didn't expect that they had no such plan at all. About a month later, the county government sent another group of people over.I thought they were sending a land certificate, but it wasn't.As soon as they arrived, they showed me a notice stating that in order to improve the lives of the people in the area, we needed to renovate the old area of ​​our village, so our land would be expropriated, and they asked me to sign a land acquisition agreement.

I carefully read the consent form, which contained the measured area of ​​my house, and calculated land acquisition compensation based on this area.However, they only calculated the area of ​​the house for me, but did not count the area of ​​the orchard. You must know that the area of ​​the orchard is more than ten times larger than the house.And if it is only calculated according to the area of ​​the house, our compensation is pitifully small, let alone buying a house, it is not enough to even buy a pigsty. Of course I can’t sign such a consent form, but the people from the county government said: “If you don’t sign it, you have to sign it. You don’t have a land certificate for this land. If you have money, you are considered lucky. If you don’t know the current affairs, We'll just bulldoze your house and you won't even get a dime."

I believe that there is justice in the world, and that this society has the law of the king, so I ignored their threats and drove them out of the house.I thought that as long as I didn't give them a consent form, they wouldn't dare to move my house.However, I never expected that I would end up with my family ruined and my family destroyed for this. About two months later, the school leader suddenly asked me to go to the county seat to learn lecture experience.Although it felt a little sudden, this kind of thing is quite common for teachers, so I didn't pay attention to it, and set off after explaining to my wife.

I attended the class all day in the county seat, and it was very late when I came back.After getting off at the station, I ran into several brothers from the village, all of whom had just returned from outside.We are usually people who seldom go out, and it is naturally strange to meet at the station together.After chatting, I realized that everyone was suddenly sent by the leader to work outside, and it was all innocuous things.We felt something was wrong, so we ran home together. When we returned to the village, we were all stunned. When we went out in the morning, everything in the village was still as usual, but now there are ruins everywhere, and weeping and screaming in our ears.Many houses in the village have collapsed, and the old and weak, women and children are crying loudly in the ruins.My first reaction to the sight in front of me was—the devil has entered the village!However, are there still devils these days? I asked a sister-in-law who was crying in the ruins, what happened?She said that this morning, the county government sent hundreds of people, including police, urban management, and security officers, and also drove a few bulldozers and excavators into the village.Before explaining clearly what was going on, they began to demolish the house.They were numerous and powerful, and most of the men in the village were out on errands, so they had no ability to resist, so they could only watch them demolish the house. Hearing what she said, my heart immediately became cold, and I subconsciously ran home. When I ran to the orchard, I found that my home was no longer there. All I saw was a pile of rubble and broken trees everywhere.I knelt in front of the rubble and cried with my head on my head, cursing those bandits who demolished my house to die. Suddenly, I felt something was wrong - why aren't my wife and daughter here? I immediately ran to ask people in the village if they knew where my wife and daughter were?The moment I got the answer was like a bolt from the blue—both my wife and daughter died! The wife was powerless to resist the atrocities committed by Xian Zhengfu, but she was unwilling to watch her home being destroyed. She couldn't think about it for a while, and even committed suicide by drinking pesticide with her daughter. My family collapsed overnight, my wife died, my daughter died, and my house was demolished.Can you imagine how I felt at that time?I collapsed in an instant. I didn't know where to find a kitchen knife, and I rushed blindly into the empty village committee, and then rushed towards the security team. Of course, I was severely beaten by the security team. Later, I appealed together with other villagers whose houses had been demolished.In the past two years, except for the capital, we have been to almost every department that we could go to, but this matter has not been resolved in the end. Although I really wanted to seek justice for my wife and daughter, I was very tired from the successive setbacks, and most of the villagers who petitioned with me at the beginning had given up, so I didn't want to persist anymore.After all, people have to eat to live, and I must find a new job before my accumulation is exhausted.Because under the pressure of the county government, the primary school I teach has already dismissed me. In the past two years, I have been fighting against the township government. It is not easy to stay in my hometown to make a living.Anyway, the wife and daughter are already dead, and the house is gone, so staying will only add to the sadness.So, I went far away and came here to be a teacher, so I should avoid the gang of plague gods in my hometown... Regarding Teacher Lu's misfortune, Zhen Zhen felt aggrieved and scolded the local officials in Teacher Lu's hometown for their inaction.Seeing her righteous indignation, she seemed to want to cover her face immediately, and be a black heroine Mulanhua, to teach those local officials a lesson.But I can only keep silent about this. After all, with our limited ability, it is not enough to seek justice for Mr. Lu. In order to get rid of the unpleasant atmosphere, I immediately changed the subject and said to Teacher Lu: "You have been teaching here for five years. You should be familiar with every faculty member in the school, right?" He nodded, and smiled bitterly: "I seldom go out, and I have stayed in school almost every day for the past five years. Not to mention the teachers here, I am very familiar with every flower and plant in the flower garden." .This can be said to be my other home.” When he mentioned the word "home", I was worried that I would return to the topic just now, so I immediately asked, "Then are you familiar with Wang Xi?" "He..." He frowned suddenly, hesitated for a moment before answering: "In school, I know everyone well, but I haven't spoken a few words to him." "Why? Is he a bad person?" Zhen Zhen asked. He shook his head and said, "I can't say it's bad, it's just that I don't want to communicate with us." "Why did you say that?" I asked. "Maybe because he used to be a teacher in a middle school in the county, so he doesn't want to stay with us teachers in the countryside. To put it bluntly, he looks down on us. After he arrives at school every day, he will be in the reference room next door. Practice calligraphy, leave immediately after school, and will not stay in school for an extra minute. Sometimes when we meet in the corridor, he just nods to us at best. He has been in school for more than two years, I told him No more than ten words." "I heard that he participated in a calligraphy competition and won a prize. He should like calligraphy very much, right?" I asked again. "Although he practiced calligraphy as soon as he arrived at school, he didn't necessarily like it. In fact, it was the principal who taught him calligraphy when he saw that he was bored in school all day long, so that he could enjoy himself and cultivate his character. He used it to pass the time. .I think you should have heard that he has caused a lot of trouble before! I think he didn’t cause much trouble after he came to the school, and the principal is part of the credit.” He paused and said: “As for the certificate, In fact, he bought it with his own money in order to make his father happy. His calligraphy is not very good, and can only be regarded as a beginner’s level. If he wrote Hunchun for others, I think no one would be willing to post it on his door. .” Wu Wei had told me about these things before, and it was not very helpful for the investigation, so I asked some more in-depth questions, such as whether he knew Wang Xi's itinerary when the seven children in Wangliang Village went missing and drowned , Did Wang Xi stay in school practicing calligraphy as usual in those few days? "The school was still on spring break at that time, and he definitely wouldn't come to school." He answered without any hesitation. This is of course, Wang Xi has always considered going to work as a jail sentence, so why would he come back during the holidays? Although he works in the same elementary school, Mr. Lu knows very little about Wang Xi, and it seems that he will not get more information if he continues to talk.So I decided to leave. After all, it is already late at night, and he has to go to class tomorrow, so it is inconvenient to disturb his rest. However, when we were about to leave, he sighed softly: "Oh, it's a pity that these children died so suddenly! Before they had an accident, they came to me to borrow footballs. I didn't expect to see them again. When they arrived, Yin and Yang were separated."