Xiu Erdai's daily essays

04480-teacher

Student: "Although I don't see my future as a ghost in a few decades, but if I have seen my future as a human in a few decades, and I am desperate for that future, then can I try What about being a ghost? Because anyway, the future of the unknown ghost is no worse than the hopeless future of the known man."

Teacher: "'Despair'? So, how do you know that what you think is hopeless now will definitely make you feel hopeless decades later? Some people, like me, feel like the world is falling apart after failing an exam once when I was young. , There is no hope in life, but looking at it now, it is of course just a trivial matter. I am quite satisfied with my life now. If I had chosen to become a ghost at the moment of despair decades ago, there would be no me Satisfied life now."

Student: "Maybe you chose to be a ghost then, and you will live a satisfying life now."

Teacher: "Sit down first, and we will talk after class. Your current thinking is quite dangerous. I think it is necessary for me to talk to your parents."

Student: "It's good to be a ghost. At least you can be alone. You don't have to be invited by parents, you don't have to think about talking to other people's parents, and you don't have to deal with annoying children. If you and I are both ghosts, now that you are annoying me , you can directly tear me apart and chat with my parents who hate me even more without thinking about the subsequent impact."

Student: "Teacher, have you heard? There were new ghosts yesterday, and some children have followed those ghosts. Maybe we can see the transformation of ghosts again soon. Oh, when children chat with ghosts , no adults went out to drag the children away. It was pitch dark outside, and adults dared not face ghosts."

Student: "If you want to become a ghost, you really have to take advantage of your childhood and lose the ability to communicate with ghosts when you become an adult."

Another student: "But there are also examples of adults becoming ghosts."

Another student: "Looks like an adult who is seriously injured and dying."

"After becoming a ghost, all serious injuries will disappear."

"But it seems that I can't live for long like that. I overdraw my vitality to heal the injury, and I will die soon after the injury recovers."

……

The teacher, who was no longer young, watched more and more students participating in the discussion on the topic of ghosts, and closed the lesson plans on the desk.

The students immediately became much quieter.

Teacher: "It's okay, you can continue. The original intention of this course is to let you understand ghosts objectively, but in my teaching experience, in the end, what you remember are often those strange stories. I will explain it for a semester. The result is not as good as the scream of a ghost."

04481 - no communication allowed

The student who quarreled with the teacher at the beginning: "Because the content of this class is completely out of touch with reality, and it is completely different from what we come into contact with every day. It is nothing more than forced brainwashing, and it has failed."

Teacher: "What are you exposed to every day? What are you exposed to? The screams that you only hear? Do you know how many of those screams are made by people to create panic for fish in troubled waters or just for fun? How many ghosts have you seen with your own eyes? Touched How many ghosts? Do you know what falls into your palms and penetrates into your body when you touch a ghost?"

Student: "It can't be the 'dust on ghosts' mentioned in the textbook, can it? Dust can also refresh your mind?"

Teacher: "Peppermint chips can refresh you."

Student: "So those things are not foreign dust contaminated by ghosts, but their dander?"

Me: "It may be an item formed after our spiritual power intersects with the power of this world. It is a small gift from the world."

Senior Lin: "Then why weren't we the ones who got the gift?"

Me: "Separated by space?"

Some students suddenly let out a short gasp, looked at us, and asked each other:

"Did you hear?"

"There seems to be a voice in that direction."

"There are still vague shadows. This vague feeling is a ghost."

The teacher followed the eyes of the students and looked at us, but his eyes only flickered around us for a while, without focusing.He smiled and said, "Are ghosts coming to listen to my lecture? It's an honor, but please don't kidnap my students."

I went to the podium and tried to pick up the chalk first, but failed, so I tried to write with the chalk dust on the blackboard.My finger pushes some of the chalk, but when I move my finger elsewhere, the chalk that was out of place changes position again, obliterating the line I've drawn.

cannot be written.

The teacher picked up a piece of chalk, landed on the place where my fingertips just pushed away the chalk dust, and said, "Try again?"

My finger moved slowly, and the teacher’s chalk moved along the track where the chalk dust was pushed away, but when my finger moved a little distance away, the chalk dust that was pushed away seemed to be pulled by some force to move again , and even disturbed the lines written by the teacher.

Still no words.

It seems that communication is not allowed.

04482-blur

Teacher: "The word 'person'?"

Me: "Yes. If you carefully simulate the trajectory of my fingers in your brain following the change of chalk dust, you should be able to guess the words, but that's too inefficient and can only communicate some simple information."

As I spoke, I wrote: what would happen if you destroy the Ghost Pillar?

Teacher: "Those who destroy the ghost pillar will be entangled by ghosts. The ghost takes away its flesh and blood, but does not feed back its power. The ghost pillar will be intact and stronger again, as if the lost flesh and blood of the destroyer reshaped the ghost pillar, and the destroyed The name of the victim will also appear on this ghost pillar."

Me: How did the first ghost pillar appear?

Teacher: "It is impossible to test. Some people say that ghost pillars appeared earlier than ghosts. It is ghost pillars that brought ghosts to this world. Each ghost pillar corresponds to a ghost who has acquired ultimate power, and such a ghost can freely travel through the world of humans and ghosts without being restricted by light."

Teacher: "No matter which way you say it, the Ghost Pillar implies 'connection'. The Ghost Pillar is the meeting point of the two worlds. No matter whether it is a human or a ghost, don't touch it lightly. Otherwise, you may be trapped in the two worlds. in the cracks."

Me: What would happen if I took the initiative to engrave my name on the ghost pillar?

This time, the teacher's eyes were blank for a while, then he rubbed the center of his brows and said, "Sorry, it's too hard to read like this, and the dust you touch is also blurry to me."

I wrote thank you and walked back to my teammates.

Senior Lin: "This teacher may have had close contact with ghosts when he was young. I mean, the close distance between Xiaozhu and us, or a closer distance. His understanding of ghosts is not only It comes from a book, and he can keep up with your writing trajectory in a blur, and it is not only explained by concentration and familiarity with the strokes of the text."

Me: "Although I can't see clearly, when I was writing and he was guessing, there seemed to be a little power in his body. It may not be spiritual power, but it may have something to do with spiritual power."

Senior Lin: "It's similar to the power that Xiaozhu gained when he touched you. This teacher may have stored some of that power and has learned to control it. Guess what his name is?"

Me: "What about nicknames, Xiaozhu?"

Senior Lin: "I'm afraid the daimyo also has a 'pillar'. Maybe, relying on this name, he escaped becoming a ghost. He may have regretted it when he escaped. The ghost did not cause him much spiritual harm. So after many years, when he came into close contact with ghosts again, he was not afraid, but kind. However, he probably didn’t want to be a ghost anymore. He should have overturned his childhood wish, and now he really thinks that being a human is more important. better, so there is no hypocrisy when persuading students."

04483 - experience

Me: "But based on his previous experience, he probably knows that no matter how much he tells the students, those children who want to become ghosts will not listen, just like he used to. He knows he can't persuade, So I didn't try to persuade him very hard, but just performed my duties verbally."

Before leaving the school, we saw the name on the teacher's ID card: Ni Zhu.

When night fell again, we went to pick up the sticklets, and the accompanying slime.

Me: "Your family members should have heard about the fact that we approached you, right? They won't stop you?"

Xiao Zhu: "I have no family."

Xiaoni: "My family is very open-minded."

Me: "Open-minded? Open-minded or not caring? Sometimes the performance of the two is similar, but the mentality is opposite."

Xiaozhu: "Ghosts still study this? Don't ghosts want family and social relationships?"

Me: "Are you looking forward to being a ghost with nothing to worry about?"

Xiaozhu: "It's good, I don't dislike it, but what I'm looking forward to is power."

We brought Xiaozhu and Xiaoni near the ghost pillar, and as expected, there were many instruments staring at them.

Qin Jiangqian, who met us, said: "Many of these instruments were newly added during the day."

Uncle Long: "Some people have made a lot of troubles. It's strange that the aborigines don't pay special attention to this place."

Qin Jiangqian: "It's not a bad thing for us to be on guard. Excessive nervousness is more likely to cause accidents."

Uncle Long: "I don't think they are 'excessively' nervous, because it's not the first time they have encountered such a thing. Some older people even scolded the juniors and said, 'Why panic? It's just this scene, as I said. It's okay to keep it. It was fine last time, and it won't happen this time."

Uncle Long: "They have rich experience in dealing with ghosts, more than our experience in being ghosts."

Me: "The ghosts here are not the same kind of creatures as the ghosts in the main world, so if we use the concept of the main world, what should we call the ghosts here?"

Senior Lin: "Anyway, it's not a ghost."

Uncle Long: "I think it might be a spirit, or a 'human', or a demon?"

Senior Lin: "It still can't prove that the ghosts here are useless? At least it is said that they can connect the two worlds?"

Uncle Long: "It's better not to stay here for too long. We ordinary monks in the main world have a vague understanding of the ghosts in the main world. Just like understanding ghosts, we rely on our feelings. If we stay here for a long time, we will get used to it." The fuzzy definition of ghost here disturbs our vague feeling of the concept of "ghost" in the main world, and it will be a big trouble to get along with ghost cultivators in the future."

Senior Lin: "It's not too big, just grasp the central idea: get along less. That's fine."

Uncle Long: "More or less, you can't control it if you want to. Ghost cultivators are like death, they don't meet frequently, but when they meet, they can't avoid them."