Chapter 4 Chapter two

That year, Meide was fourteen years old, and so was Yuan Bin.Of course, there are also Li Yuan and Yu Hui. At that time, they were all first-year students in Nanxiang Junior High School - Nanxiang has now become a new district to be developed.But at that time, it was just an ordinary town close to the countryside. It would have been a carefree summer - if that hadn't happened. On the afternoon of the second day of summer vacation, a few little boys played a game of "dirt battle" on the hill near the school-they squeezed the dirt into small balls and "warned" each other, having a great time.

More than half an hour later, the boys were all out of breath and sat down together on a big rock to rest.Seeing each other's disheveled looks, they laughed heartily. After resting for a few minutes, Li Yuan said, "Hey, let's continue playing!" Dmitry shook his head: "It's boring to keep playing the same game." "Then what are we doing? Tell me how to play!" Li Yuan said. Dmitry propped his head on his hands and thought for a while, but he couldn't think of any good suggestions. At this time, Yuan Bin straightened up suddenly, his eyes lit up: "I thought of a fun idea."

"What?" the other three asked together. "Do you remember the idiom Mr. Shan taught us in Chinese class last week?" Yuan Bin said. "Which idiom?" Mead asked. "'Three people make a tiger'! Even if one person tells you that there is a tiger on the street, you don't believe it; the second person tells you that you don't believe it either..." "When the third person told me there was a tiger on the street, I believed it." Mead went on to say, "This idiom is a metaphor that if a lie repeatedly appears to a certain person, then he is likely to spread it." Treat it as true—but, what happened to this idiom?"

"Don't you want to try it? If a lie is spread by more than three people, will it really be believed?" Med got a little understanding, he also sat up straight, and said, "Sounds interesting, how should we try it? What do you think?" Yuan Bin thought for a while, and said, "This idiom was taught by Mr. Shan...then let's try it from him!" "How to try?" Li Yuan and Yu Hui also became interested. Yuan Bin looked around, and at a glance saw the water pool below the hill.He patted his leg: "I have an idea! Let's go tell Teacher Shan: There is a boy in our class who went swimming in the pool and drowned. Let's see if he will believe it!"

"Ah! Are you making such a big joke with the teacher? Has it been a while?" Yu Hui was a little worried. "But we are trying to see if the idioms he taught us are really correct!" Yuan Bin said, "Besides, Mr. Shan is always nice to us, so he won't blame us. Just explain it to him afterwards." "Okay! Let's do it like this!" Med jumped up excitedly, "It's so fun!" "Then we have to discuss it first..." Yuan Bin held the shoulders of the other three people and began to plan. Teacher Shan Wenjun is the Chinese teacher in Meide's class. He is a young man who just graduated from university. He is handsome, humorous and talkative.Usually, he and his classmates are like friends. He often plays ball and chats with everyone, which is deeply loved by his classmates.

Teacher Shan didn't go home immediately after the summer vacation, and he still lives in the single dormitory assigned to him by the school these days. "Teacher Shan...Teacher Shan! It's not good!" Li Yuan and Yu Hui ran to the door of Teacher Shan's dormitory and hammered the door violently. Ten seconds later, Teacher Shan opened the door.Because of the hot weather, he was barefoot, and when he saw the two people with frightened faces, he quickly asked, "What's the matter, what happened?" "Shan... Teacher Shan, Zhong Lin... fell into the pool!" Li Yuan rushed into the room and shouted loudly.

"What!" Teacher Shan turned pale with shock. At this time, Yuan Bin and Meide also ran into the house out of breath, shouting: "Something happened! Zhong Lin fell into the pool!" Teacher Shan glanced at the four of them, threw the pen in his hand on the table, and looked for his sandals on the ground, but only found one, and the other disappeared somewhere. "Quick! Take me there quickly!" Teacher Shan didn't care about looking for shoes, and rushed out of the house with only one shoe on, urging the four of them anxiously. "It's in the pool at the bottom of the hill!"

Teacher Shan didn't have time to wait for them, so he ran out of the school gate and ran towards the hillside.Yuan Bin winked at the three people triumphantly, they knew the plan had succeeded. "Quick, follow up. Tell the teacher we're just joking around." Yu Hui said. But at this time, Teacher Shan had run away without a trace, and the four hurried to catch up. When the four of them came to the hillside, Teacher Shan had already run towards the water pool at the bottom of the hill.He has no doubts about Zhong Lin falling into the water.In order to save people, he took off his short-sleeved shirt and sandals while running, wearing only a pair of shorts, and he was about to get close to the pool.

Just when Yuan Bin was about to tell Teacher Shan to stop and tell him the truth, something unexpected happened. A few meters away from the pool, Teacher Shan accidentally tripped over a stone and rolled into the pool because he ran too fast!He thumped vigorously in the water, up and down, and after a while, he sank, leaving only a series of bubbles on the water surface. It happened so suddenly that the four of Meder could hardly react, they were stunned by everything in front of them. After about five minutes, the surface of the water stopped bubbling, and the calmness of the past was restored, and Teacher Shan did not float up.

Yuan Bin was the first to react. His face was ashen, and he sat down on the ground, trembling all over: "Oh my God! We got into trouble! Teacher Shan...he, he drowned!" Li Yuan and Yu Hui were completely dumbfounded.Med's eyes were fixed on the water. About three or four minutes later, Meide said in horror: "Teacher Shan really drowned! It is impossible for ordinary people to stay in the water for so long and still be alive." Li Yuan, who was the least courageous, burst into tears with a "wow". "Shut up!" Meide yelled, then turned his head and looked at Yuan Bin sweating profusely, "Strange, why didn't Teacher Shan's body come up?"

"There are aquatic plants in this pool, have you forgotten? My dad told me when I was a child that I must never swim in this pool. Teacher Shan must be entangled in aquatic plants!" "My God! What should we do now?" Sunset panicked. Panting heavily, Meide looked around, then quickly picked up the clothes and sandals that Teacher Shan had just taken off, and said in a low voice, "Let's get out of here quickly!" The four ran up the hillside desperately, and then ran deep into the woods on the other side of the hill.Very few people come here. Meide carefully observed the surroundings. After making sure that there was no one there, he put down Teacher Shan's clothes and sandals, covered them with a handful of dead leaves, and whispered, "Which one of you has matches?" "What do you want to do?" Yuan Bin asked. "Burning these things, of course! Be quick! I'm not sure if anyone will come to this place soon." "You...you want to hide this matter?" Yuan Bin stepped back a few steps. Meide took a step forward, staring closely at Yuan Bin's eyes: "Do you think we have any other options?" "I...I don't know." Yuan Bin shook his head vigorously, his eyes were full of panic. "Listen," Meade turned around and said to Li Yuan and Yu Hui, "We must calm down now, things have already happened and cannot be changed." Li Yuan and Yu Hui didn't dare to speak, panting desperately. "There is no doubt that Teacher Shan is dead. Although it was an accident, it was caused by our stupid idea! Have you ever thought that if this incident is known to others, not only will we be expelled from the school? , and we will be held criminally responsible—our lives will be over!” Mead said with his head down. Yuan Bin's face was pale, and beads of sweat dripped from his forehead: "But, a living person disappeared just like that, wouldn't anyone know?" Med made a gesture with his hand to signal him to shut up. "Let's think back from the beginning. When the four of us rushed to Teacher Shan's dormitory—the small house with less than ten square meters, we all saw that Teacher Shan was the only one at home." "Then, we told him the lie about Zhong Lin falling into the water. Teacher Shan rushed to the hillside immediately. We followed behind. Have you noticed that when this process happened, was anyone watching?" Yu Hui thought for a while, and said with certainty: "No one should have seen it. I looked around on purpose. It's the hottest time now, and most people are staying at home." "Okay, next, Teacher Shan accidentally fell into the water—until we left the pool. I also observed it intentionally, but no one saw it." Mead stopped, and the other three looked at him. "Do you understand? As long as the four of us don't say anything, no one will know that Teacher Shan's death has anything to do with us." "But, as I said just now, it will be a matter of time before Teacher Shan is found missing." Yuan Bin said. "There is a detail. In order to save people, Mr. Shan took off his clothes before entering the water-in this way, when someone finds Mr. Shan drowned, they may think that he drowned while swimming in the pool, instead of I think it has something to do with the few of us," Meade said. "Then why do we still burn Teacher Shan's clothes? Isn't it enough to put them by the water for people to find out?" Yu Hui whispered. "Fool! We burned the clothes to prevent people from discovering that Teacher Shan had drowned in the pool in a short time! The later this matter is discovered, the better for us." Meade said. "...Teacher Shan was so kind to us before, but now that we have killed him, we still have to do this. I really feel..." Li Yuan was about to cry again. Before he could finish speaking, Meide grabbed his collar and said fiercely: "Then you tell this matter, we will go to jail together!" Li Yuan was so frightened that he kept shaking. After being silent for a few minutes, Yuan Bin said: "Just do as Meide said, we will dispose of Teacher Shan's clothes, and then we can't mention this matter to anyone!" The other three looked at each other and nodded respectively. "Who has matches?" Mead asked again. Several people touched their trouser bags, but no one had matches on them. Meide lowered his head and thought for a while, then suddenly raised his head and said, "Li Yuan, weren't you playing with a fragment of a magnifying glass just now? Give it to me." Li Yuan was stunned for a moment, but he immediately understood that it was the time when the sun was at its strongest, and he could use a magnifying glass to focus the light and light dead leaves to start the fire. Five minutes later, a flame ignited deep in the grove.In order to prevent the fire from spreading, several people cleaned up the dead leaves around.After a while, Teacher Shan's clothes and sandals were reduced to ashes. The four dug a pit and buried the burnt residue in it, and then scattered some twigs and dead leaves on top.After everything was arranged, they were slightly relieved. "Now, remember. Let's pretend that nothing happened. After returning home, do what you should do, and don't show any flaws." Mead ordered the other three people, and he had become the leader among them without knowing it. Yuan Bin, Yu Hui and Li Yuan nodded respectively.Afterwards, they each went home. After returning home, Mead pretended nothing happened.But he deliberately glanced at the big clock in the living room - if he didn't make a mistake in his guess, the time of Teacher Shan's death should be around 3:20 pm on July 13th. During dinner, the parents didn't notice anything unusual about Med, they were still chatting and laughing at the dinner table. After dinner, Med went back to his room early and lay on the bed. He finally started to shiver—what happened this afternoon was really terrible. It's all Yuan Bin's fault for coming up with that damned "experimental game"!It's really not worth it for Teacher Shan to ruin his life just because of such a silly joke!However, Meide suddenly thought that he was the first to support Yuan Bin's plan at that time—now, who can be blamed? Thinking about it, Med's eyes were blurred with tears, he turned around, trying to get the tissue on the desk. Suddenly, he found a person standing by the bed at some point.Meide raised his head and saw that it was Teacher Shan!He was looking at himself with wide eyes! Med was so frightened that he almost rolled out of bed with a cry.At this time, he opened his eyes and woke up. It turned out that after entering the room, he lay on the bed and fell asleep without knowing it.Med was panting heavily—it was just a nightmare. However, what happened in the afternoon was completely true.Med sighed, he thought, it would be great if the whole thing was just a dream. He sat on the bed in a daze. After a few minutes, he felt a little dry, so he got out of bed to look for slippers.Ready to get a glass of water to drink. Suddenly, Med's heart beat wildly, and his face suddenly turned pale—he thought of one thing, a thing that he completely ignored!