surname teacher

At first, when he heard the rampant Jieshi say that someone sneaked out of the village with a little clay figurine early in the morning, the first thought that flashed in Qin Geng's mind was that the other party chose without saying anything. Goodbye without saying goodbye.

This thought came suddenly, but it aroused strong anger in his heart, and Qin Gentian, whose face sank instantly, almost wanted to go directly to Fan Xi's house to verify what was going on.

But before he could move his body, he couldn't help but think about it after he paused. If the young man with the leg injury really wanted to leave Fan Village alone today, he would definitely have to get along with Fan Xi, who had gotten along well these days. The family said in advance.

It's impossible to sneak away without saying anything like this. This is not in line with that person's usual behavior pattern, and it seems unreasonable in itself.

In addition, it takes a certain amount of time and sufficient food whether it is going up or down the mountain in this cold weather, but anyone with a brain should understand this simple and easy-to-understand truth.

So I forcibly suppressed my doubts on the face, and I was also a little curious in my heart how someone succeeded in the round with the little clay figurine of the Fan Family Temple. said in a long tone,

"When you saw that young man and that little clay figurine, they didn't bring anything else with them, did they?"

"Ah? It seems, it seems not. Both hands are empty. I didn't take anything else, so I carried a basket... But I vaguely saw the young man with his face covered with a strange-looking bamboo tube. Buried under the snow at the entrance of the village, and then pulled out a long rope and hid with the little clay doll..."

"Bamboo tube?"

Hearing this, his expression paused for a moment, because Qin Gentian suddenly remembered that there was actually a bamboo tube made by someone beside him.

And seeing his own Dragon Lord showing such a clear expression, he thought it was something he had seen in the Demon World or somewhere before, so the rampant Jieshi just nodded and continued to describe what he said down the road,

"Yes, it's just a bamboo tube. That kid seems to have brought several of them on his body on purpose, each of which is connected with a hemp rope, and it seems that the sound of people talking can be heard from the ground... Later, this thing started to be strange. Ah, the 'old children' around the entrance of the village all ran after the bamboo tube as soon as they heard the voices coming from under the wall. I went through the dog hole...Because there was a distance, I quietly followed, and then I heard the two of them whispering something quietly, going around here and looking for some herbs..."

"Looking for herbs? What kind of herbs?"

Hearing this, he already roughly understands how a certain person slipped out of the village safely. Thinking of how he spent so much time and effort in tinkering with Fan Xi's house a few days ago, it turns out that there is such a use for such a strange thing, Qin Gentian was not surprised.

But obviously he hadn't heard that Fan Xi's family needed any herbal medicine these days, and Qin Gentiana, who looked uncertain for a second, listened to Hengxing Jieshi and continued,

"Um, I don't know what kind of medicine, but I just listened to what the clay doll said... I'm really sleepy after not sleeping well all night. Also, where are we going to play now, don't catch cocks?" Well... the young man said, you can't just look for a rooster if you catch a rooster. We can only die if we go like this. Today, we will use this voice ghost to experiment a little around here. What else... We are going to the neighborhood now. Looking for herbs, I'll be right back later..."

"..."

"Then the clay doll said, why are we looking for herbs now? Are you sick, or is the ant grandma and the kid at home sick? The boy said that I am not sick, and neither are they. The purpose of looking for herbs is to bring them back. For others...the mud doll asks who the others are..."

"..."

"The young man didn't say a word at first when he heard this, but later he said that he was a very kind person and saved himself. The clay doll said that he had done something good. You two have a good relationship. The young man replied helplessly, No, we just met by chance, and even before we met formally, the clay doll was surprised, why did you spend so much time picking herbs for that person..."

"..."

"The young man explained again when he heard this, because he fell into the river once in the winter, and his younger brother and sister stood on the bank and looked at him at that time, but no one wanted to call someone to save him. Since he was a child, he didn't like to talk, he was very withdrawn, and he didn't know how to please the elders, so everyone around him didn't like him..."

"..."

"He grew up so old that he didn't have any friends. As a misfit outsider, he lived in Grandpa's house for so many years. Every day, he just thought about studying hard to be more promising and not to be bullied. So for a person like him, even if one day he will die in this world No one would care if he disappeared without a sound like this, but now everyone in the village is very kind, which made him very grateful and unaccustomed to a person who came from the outside world. He has never known how to get along with others , worried about what I did not do well, so now I can work hard to repay a little bit, after all, everyone in the village is the first time to sincerely treat him as a friend and family member..."

The rampant Jieshi with a strange expression probably didn't know that the injured Jin Suoyang was staying at Fan Xi's house for the time being because he was related to Gentiana Qin, so he looked thoughtfully at the girl who had just arrived before dawn. At that time, the scene I accidentally heard and saw at the entrance of the village was accurately recounted to my Dragon Lord.

But I didn't think too much about this kind of place in my heart. When I first heard what Hengxing Jieshi said, Qin Gentian, who was defined by the other party as a kind person who lived next door, didn't bother to think about other things. There was a long-lost strange and subtle taste welling up.

Because he suddenly found that he didn't know much about the life of this reincarnated young man. Apart from his many years of unilateral paranoia and possessiveness towards that special name, these days, he didn't even understand the most basic things. Some active understandings have not been done for the other party.

And when I think of a dead rabbit who must have been so stupid and tempered since he was a child, he may have been bullied for so many years like a doormat. His life.

After contacting that he was injured and came to Fancun, he did not take the initiative to look for his family. Qin Gentian, who squinted his eyes, couldn't describe this kind of feeling when he heard that the other party had lived in an unhappy family for more than 20 years. The mood of suffering is just that I suddenly feel very unhappy or even very angry.

Angry at those people who have treated him badly since he was a child, angry at those people who have no vision at all, and have a pair of white eyes, and angry at them again for making this rabbit who is kind and gentle to everyone in his bones so lonely and cold as he is now He also repelled others, which made it difficult for him to do everything like he is doing now.

It wasn't until Hengxing Jieshi who was standing beside him realized that the expression on his face seemed a little weird, and couldn't help but call him twice, Qin Gentiana with a stinky face looked very uncomfortably aside, and said again After clicking his tongue irritably in his heart, he pretended nothing happened and replied dryly,

"Well, I see."

"Huh? You... what do you know?"

Once again, Hengxing Jieshi, who was a great hero in spreading the word, looked like he didn't understand anything, and Qin Gentiana, who didn't want to reveal too much to others for the time being, didn't know what to say, but after pursing his lips, The man with a cold expression and reptile-like indifference squinted his gray pupils and said slowly, still looking impatient,

"I know it's none of your business. Next time, don't meddle in your own business. If you encounter this kind of thing again, just pretend that you didn't see anything."

"Ah? Huh??"

"...Since that person and that little clay figurine have a way to go out today, they will definitely have a way to come back, so don't worry about where they go for the time being, they will always come back when the time comes, and since you said before That little clay figurine looks like a little clay figurine from the Fan Family Temple, so he doesn't have any ill intentions towards the Fan family in the village, since there is no ill will, then what do they want to do with us?"

"...Uh, what you said...is also..."

"Anyway, remember, if the two of them sneak in and out of the village again in the future, you can tell me from the well, so as not to cause any trouble, and for the rest, wait until you find the whereabouts of the rooster man and then face it Let's talk later."

"Oh, okay, okay, just do as you said..."

What my own Dragon Lord said made the rampant Jieshi who thought he would intervene in these two boys who casually drilled dog holes in their Chishui Dragon King's eyelids a little surprised, and what was even more weird was that the real The thing that scared his eyeballs out is still to come.

Because yesterday he still looked moody, and Qin Longjun, who couldn't tolerate He Bo and himself babbling in front of him, immediately stared at him coldly with a very terrifying tone, and folded his hands in a very dangerous manner. open the mouth,

"Oh, and one more thing."

"You, you said..."

"Send a letter to He Bo asking him to help me check with the ghost messenger in the underworld right now, just say it's my order, and let the ghost messenger give me an answer as soon as possible."

"what's up?"

"Go and find out if there are really so many good brothers and sisters who can do nothing to save their relatives in another time of this 'gate' in Dongshan, and then help me to find out, these people What are you doing now, where are you, your name, your life, and your luck in this life? It’s best to ask. Once you find any clues, please come and tell me. I will naturally tell you what you should do next. Do you understand?"

……

300 meters away from the chicken coop rock, on the mountainside outside Fancun, the sunset sky shone with warm orange light.

At the end of the road, Jin Suoyang was walking on the snow field back to Fan Village with one foot deep and one foot shallow, leaning on a simple handmade crutch, and carrying a basket of herbs by the way.

There was a little clay doll looking around on his shoulder, who seemed to be whispering something to him at the moment, and when the young man looked down at the growth of the surrounding trees, his white hair and eyebrows seemed to be in harmony with the white snow under his feet. It's all in one.

They left behind a series of vague one-sided footprints belonging to the white-haired youth in front of them, but it was amazing that those old children who had been blocking the entrance of the village all day long really did not keep up like in the morning.

Seeing this, the curious clay doll just turned her head and looked behind her, then turned around and excitedly hugged her teacher's neck and shouted happily,

[The surname is... the surname is a teacher!Today we actually... actually left the village safely and came back all the way back from the mountain. This is... the first time mud dolls have drilled a dog hole with you today!But it's strange, those old boys...why didn't keep up-uuuuuuuuuuuuu!Teacher surnamed woo woo, are you so dry covering my mouth! ! 】

"...If you shout again, they will soon follow, so please be quiet for me."

He lowered his voice and taught the noisy little guy a lesson, the white-haired young man sternly taught him with a slumped face, which made the clay doll a little aggrieved.

After a long time, the little guy who was shaking his head looked at the teacher surnamed who was holding something that looked like a map in his hand, while he was limping along with it and continued to walk forward, he was breathing white steam slowly and frowning helplessly. explained,

"Didn't I tell you in the morning? I buried the voice ghost under the snow in the other direction. If we make a voice here, the 'old boy' will be led to the other side, but the time It won't be too long, so we have to leave quickly and go back, otherwise even if I deliberately left a note in the morning, Fan Xi, who stayed in the village but didn't know anything about the situation, would be worried if he saw that I didn't go back all day , and at night, the uncertain factors in the woods will become bigger and bigger, even if we have the tiger's power on us, it may not be effective..."

【Oh...so...that's it...then why did you purposely circle around the Chicken Coop Rock today and draw this strange map? 】

He nodded along with Jin Suoyang half-understood, the little stutterer of the clay doll is still young, apart from being responsible for popularizing the knowledge inherent in its mind, naturally it doesn't know much about these people's sophistication , I just thought that I would listen to whatever the teacher said and agreed.

But Jin Suoyang, who saw this little idiot showing such a teachable look, and still had the golden tiger prestige hanging around his neck for self-protection, didn't take the initiative to say anything, and when he picked up the little guy, he would It was thrown into the back basket full of herbs that were going to go back to Yang Hua's father behind him, and he used a somewhat tangled and complicated look to inspect the snow field in front of him before he frowned and said every word. opened his mouth and answered,

"Actually... I'm going to cheat."

【Cheating? ? ? 】

Hearing the answer from the white-haired young man almost fell off his shoulders, Jin Suoyang, who had a calm expression, noticed the clay doll's reaction, but he himself was not too surprised, and restrained himself thoughtfully. After recalling the original expression on his face, the white-haired young man who had been silent for a while, frowned and explained slowly in a serious and serious tone,

"The rooster man seems to have always hoped to punish me through the rules mentioned in the song Catch the Rooster, so these days he never took the initiative to let the old boy come into the village to catch me, and he just brought me to the mountain on purpose at the beginning , but temporarily chose to spare my life, for him, I am the last survivor of his curse game, so I must die in his hands in this way in the end, so that the curse can be considered complete."

【…】

"But in fact, I am not a local, and I am not familiar with the geographical environment of Chicken Coop Rock at all, so I lost out of nowhere that night and was almost thrown to death by the old children from the rock, so I think since he To catch me according to the rules of that game, at least it should be done under fair conditions for both parties, so I decided to cheat a little first, and when he and those old boys want to catch me next time, at least we are not unprepared , and this is the only solution I can think of at the moment.”

Clay doll: "..."

It sounds like a person with a different brain circuit than ordinary people would come up with a method that stunned the clay doll squatting on his shoulders, but when you think about it carefully... this is really a reliable and wonderful idea. Method.

After all, the previous few times, the purpose that Rooster Lang expressed to them was to catch Jin Suoyang in that way of catching a rooster. If Jin Suoyang really wins Rooster Lang in this life-threatening game, Doesn't that mean that this horrible game is completely over, and the curse on Jin Suoyang can also be ended.

Thinking about it this way, the clay dolls who thought they might die before suddenly felt that this was a feasible solution, and when Jin Suoyang saw this stupid clay doll, he understood what he meant when he heard this. He lowered his head thoughtfully and continued to speak in a calm tone,

"However, there are still many loopholes in this method, because Dongshan is actually very big, and we can't check the surrounding terrain in one day, so we have to find a way to come out quietly at night in the past few days, and there is no place near the chicken cage rock itself. It is not suitable for Tibetans, so it is even more difficult, and...we still have a more important thing to do right now."

[Ah, we still have... what else to do? 】

"When you first met me in Jilong Rock, you were entrusted by the ancestors of the Fan family to tell me how the curse on me came from in the first place. What happened to those eight people?"

【Oh, yes, yes...】

"I want to find a way to find the bones of the other seven people who were left in the mountain. I think those bones left in Dongshan may give us some new clues. The identities of the eight people correspond to the rooster song. Maybe the rooster song that the children are singing is the biggest secret that Dongshan is hiding now... Moreover, I think there are still some things that I can't figure out about the life experience of that "Shi Musheng". When he was in front of me, it was very strange why he had to pretend to be his cousin and live in Dongshan, and what we found out from the surname book about Shi Musheng's past..."

Looking at the distance like this, Jin Suoyang opened his mouth slowly, and the clay doll lying on his shoulders also remembered the things about Shi Mu's life written in the surname book, and he seemed a little puzzled at the moment , and the clay doll who also thought about it with him scratched his head in distress and whispered,

[Well, that's right... well, but speaking of it this way, although the aggressive rooster guy really doesn't look like a good person from the current situation, the hen lady... is really completely innocent, if not Those eight bad guys who broke into the woods did bad things first, and the hen died again. Maybe the rooster man will not become as bad as he is now, killing and eating people at the same time... Hmph, sometimes ...I really think that some living people living outside are actually the most terrifying and annoying things in the world, and they are much more dangerous than many scary-looking monsters and ghosts...]

"..."

The mud doll said so casually, with a thick bandage on its deformed and ugly face, Jin Suoyang, who was walking forward with his head down, was stunned for a moment, because this stupid little guy killed the hen in his mouth One of the bad guys happened to include his own mother.

But at the moment, he was in a complicated mood and looked at the snow-covered Dongshan in front of him, realizing that the white-haired young man had pursed his lips for a long time and remained silent for a long time. The mud doll who suddenly realized that he seemed to have said the wrong thing froze in a panic. Baba explained,

[Uh, uh, the surname is Teacher, I don’t mean that... You don’t hate it at all, it’s those who always like to make troubles who hate it... And I think you are so kind, and your mother surnamed Shi must not Will be a bad guy! !Maybe, maybe there was really some misunderstanding in the incident back then... maybe... you say, right? 】

Seeing how the clay doll tried so hard to encourage him, Jin Suoyang didn't know what to say, so he replied with a calm expression after a while.

"...Whether the rooster man is a good person or not is another matter, but the hen that died back then was indeed innocent. If my mother really did it unintentionally or intentionally, as a son, I really must We have to be responsible for this matter to the end, we cannot escape, this is a matter of principle.”

【Well... well, you, you are right...】

Afterwards, he continued to speak a few words with this little guy, and then Jin Suoyang continued to walk step by step in the direction of Fan Village not far away.

But they had only walked a few steps forward, and Jin Suoyang, who had become more vigilant due to the events of the past few days, somehow felt an unattractive gaze watching him behind him.

And when he turned his eyes cold to protect the clay doll on his shoulders and turned around quickly, he found that there was nothing behind him except for the dead trees in the forest with heavy snow cover, the emptiness was terrifying.

When he took a closer look, he saw a little fox with gray fur shivering and looking at him timidly from behind the bushes in the setting sun.

【Hey, it seems to be a very ordinary fox with no humanity at all. What is it doing quietly following us...】

The muttering of the clay doll also represented the question in Jin Suoyang's mind at the moment, but when he was about to step forward to take a closer look at where the little fox came from, the dusty little fox was suddenly frightened He turned his head and ran away.

Seeing this, he involuntarily followed a few steps forward, frowned again, raised his crutches, and stroked away the thorns growing in front of him. The next second, Jin Suoyang, who was stunned for a second, only heard a voice that was so familiar to him. Unbelievably vague voices sounded intermittently behind the thorns, as if separated by a special glass barrier.

【Master Sun...you...don't say that...】

【Young Master... this way... you will never come back...he...really...will die in the mountains...】

【You...are his relatives...the government will not agree...you will kill him alive...】

If he hadn't clearly known that he was in a place different from the original Dongshan, Jin Suoyang might have thought that the secretary and the others were on the phone behind the bushes with someone he must know.

But when he took the clay doll into the bushes step by step with a somewhat cold face, Jin Suoyang, whose center of gravity was unstable the moment he lifted his foot, felt his feet slip, and then he and the mud doll on his back screamed. The dolls slid down the mud pit behind the thorns together.

【Ahhh! ! !Surname teacher!Help! ! ! 】

"Grab my hand!! Don't be afraid!!"

With such a deep pit, they should have fallen from above to the bottom all at once.

But maybe it was because the previous experience of being thrown into the pit was too painful. This time, Jin Suoyang, who obviously had an injury on his leg, reacted inexplicably but became much faster, but still plunged into the landslide with a cane In the snow on the ground, he gritted his teeth and grabbed the shivering clay doll, turned over with it and climbed up the terrifying landslide.

And the moment he climbed up the landslide with all his strength, he noticed that the place where the gray fox was standing just now was a natural vertical slope structure, and below it was a bottomless abyss with no support at all. Where the fox was standing.

Jin Suoyang, with a strange and unbelievable complexion, only tried his best to recall the strange scene he saw before. After a long time, he rubbed his eyebrows irritably and stared at the transparent space in front of him, where no one could stand, unless someone could leap across the air. The air barrier frowned.

"... Clay Doll, did you just hear someone talking behind the bushes?"

【ah?No, no... The clay doll didn't hear anything, no... just a little fox ran over suddenly... Teacher... Did you accidentally hear something...]

"..."

The mud doll, still in shock, started to stumble a little even when speaking, but it still realized that something was wrong with its pale-faced teacher surnamed just now.

And Jin Suoyang, whose face was ugly because of the previous conversation that made people feel cold behind his back, didn't say a word, and the white-haired young man whose palms were trembling because of the excessive force just now lifted up the pale color that had sunk again He glanced at Dongshan in the distance and the direction where the fox disappeared, then lowered his head as much as possible, closed his eyes and shook his head in a tone that suppressed the discomfort in his heart, and replied,

"No...I may have misheard, they can't be here now...Today we...let's go back and talk about it."

Said there was nothing wrong, but even the clay doll could tell that the teacher surnamed that everything was fine seemed to suddenly turn into a bad mood.

Even though they returned to Fan Village together smoothly after that, Fan Xi, who had been waiting for them at the door for a whole day, taught them a few words helplessly and worriedly, but Jin Suoyang, who lowered his head silently, still looked displeased. Too much to speak.

Until night fell as usual on this day, the heartless clay doll finally fell asleep beside the white-haired young man who was staring at the wall in a daze.

And after taking a shower at night and returning to the room, the white-haired young man who had been alone all this time turned his head expressionlessly to look above the beam, and looked at the window with a strange feeling that he could not describe at all. The moon frowned inwardly.

He didn't know what he was upset about, but at the moment in front of the bushes on the mountain, he did hear the faint voice of the secretary talking to someone intermittently from the world on the other side.

The vague voice seemed to be far away from him, but Jin Suoyang still clearly heard the most crucial words in it.

Someone, or someone he knew, or even a direct blood relationship, wanted to never go back.

Regardless of life or death, never...never go back to the home that doesn't belong to him.

This extremely clear cognition in his mind made Jin Suoyang, who was lying on the small bed with the sleeping mud doll at the moment, pursed his lips palely, and the white-haired young man who had thought for a long time that he didn't care about these things was a little irritable He rolled over sideways, accidentally touching his injured leg in the process.

But at this moment when he himself felt that he was really in a bad mood, the white-haired young man with a cold face who couldn't find any way to vent his anger suddenly saw the one he had placed in the corner of the room before. Basket of fresh herbs that hadn't been delivered yet because of what happened later.

And it was also this inadvertent glance, Jin Suoyang who happened to see the half branch of winter red flower that was almost withered exposed under the basket of herbs was also taken aback for a moment, and then for some reason remembered someone's white-haired young man. Only then looked thoughtfully at the moon outside the window, then frowned and shook his head for a while, then said to himself solemnly,

"No, it's so late, I must have already slept..."

As he said this, the "family" he mentioned was naturally referring to Yang Hua's father.

After all, the red holly flower he accidentally saw on the mountain, as well as these fresh herbs, was what he thought of sending to Yang Hua's father as soon as he came back.

It's a pity, because the accident that happened on the road disturbed his mood, and now the flowers and herbs are almost withered and still put here, but at this moment, the white-haired young man suddenly heard a burst of noise coming from above his head. The familiar sound of bells.

And when Jin Suoyang, who was stunned, raised his head and looked above the beams in the darkness, he was surprised to notice that the voice ghost that sounded at about this time last night actually sounded again.

[...surname teacher... so noisy... woo woo... turn off the chicken... woo woo...]

The clay doll, who was still immersed in her dreamland, covered her ears and complained to Jin Suoyang aggrievedly. The white-haired young man who was speechless for a moment didn't know what to say when he heard this, and frowned. The little guy pushed a little into the bed.

And when he took off the shaking bamboo tube above his head with a bit of weird and complicated mood, Jin Suoyang, who had brought the voice ghost to his ear for a moment, only heard a familiar voice coming from the other end tacitly. And regular breathing.

In the next second, the voice of 'Yanghua's father', who was somewhat hoarse and sickly last night, but felt much better today, rang out in the cool night.

"Sleep?"

Obviously, this question was asked knowingly. After all, even if Jin Suoyang had really fallen asleep before, he would probably be woken up by the other party's actions.

And in normal times, there will be a little unpleasant feeling of being suddenly disturbed by the unfamiliarity. At this moment, the strange white-haired young man's heart is unexpectedly calm. There is only one kind that although he didn't expect it before, I don't hate the strange mood of the other party's sudden call.

"...No, I haven't slept yet."

After answering in this way, Jin Suoyang, who had a dry tone, heard the other party say grace, and then the two people, who were inexplicably strange and awkward, also fell silent for a while.

While one party was eagerly waiting for the other party to speak, the other party seemed to be distracted by something. After a while, Jin Suoyang with a complicated expression heard the other party with a very special innate voice. In an indescribable tone, he said coldly,

"Yang Hua heard from Fan Xi during the day that you went out in the morning, so she wants me to help her see if you have come back. She is very worried about you."

"..."

"As long as you come back safely, I'm dead. Thank you for your solution yesterday. My cold is much better today."

These words brought some indifference visible to the naked eye. Jin Suoyang, who was frowning, didn't feel much at first, but at this moment, the other party seemed to be a little angry with him for no reason.

But for a while, I was a little grateful for the help and care that the father and daughter had given me all the time. Seeing that the other party was really about to die, the white-haired young man who always followed the many politeness and details when getting along with others thought about it, but it was still rare. Impulsively and recklessly, he said wait a minute, and then frowned after feeling the strange pause of the man over there, and said word by word,

"……Do you have time right now?"

"..."

"...I have something to give you."

"..."

"It's some herbal medicine. It may not be usable tomorrow. I can just go to the low wall where Yang Hua came to find me before and I will pass it to you... Can you come out for a while, Gentiana Qin?"