Meng Xiaozhi Sugar Core

"Well, no. There is no cemetery near our house, so why would there be a ghost fire? And what does a ghost fire look like?" Qiu Yin said after thinking for a while.

"No cemetery?" asked Teacher Chen.

"Yes, that is Zhou Junnan's land. You can find out by asking him."

"Okay. Go back, the teacher is fine."

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After a night of tears and runny nose, my physical condition improved significantly the next day. Although my throat still hurts even when I drink water, at least I feel much more energetic.

"Ah, it's great to be young. I recover quickly from a cold!" I said with some emotion when I recalled the experience of catching a cold when I was a boy. But when I thought about it carefully, it didn't make sense. I was also quite young when I was a boy, so I didn't reach this stage of old age, right?

Sister Chen was a little surprised to see me rosy-faced and my fever gone when I woke up in the morning: "I didn't expect you to look so weak, but you are in good physical condition. Did you recover from a cold so quickly?"

"That's it!" I stretched out my hand and showed off my non-existent biceps, like Popeye eating spinach.

"Are you going to class today? Do you need me to supervise your class?" Sister Chen still looked a little worried.

"It's okay, I can hold on." I shook my head. "How can a little cold defeat me?"

"Are you sure?" she asked doubtfully.

"I'm sure and for sure!" I jumped off the bed, raised my hands flat, held my head high and chest out, and made a gymnast's landing posture, and did not forget to thank the non-existent judges, "Thank you very much~"

"Pfft, you're so proud of yourself just because you've recovered a little." Sister Chen was amused by me, "Okay, if you feel uncomfortable, call me immediately. If you hold on, I'll send you back tomorrow."

"Oh! Okay." Looking at her tough look, I knew she was not joking, so I nodded weakly and agreed.

But everything was going in a good direction. At noon, after teaching the students, I still felt energetic. This seemed to be the fastest cold I recovered from. But at this time, Teacher Yu suddenly found me and said that he wanted to talk to me during lunch.

"What's wrong, Teacher Yu?" After dinner, Teacher Yu called me to his office.

"Teacher Li, I heard that you were sick?" Teacher Yu seemed very worried.

"Ah, this. It's almost done, no problem." I smiled and didn't care too much.

"Really? So fast?" He was a little surprised, "You had a fever yesterday and you recovered today?"

"Yes." I nodded.

"That's good." He lowered his eyes, as if thinking about something. "I also heard that you encountered something dirty after the home visit that day?"

I was shocked and thought, could it be that Sister Chen and Teacher Yu had said this?

"Oh, yes. Maybe it's just my eyes." I scratched my head, feeling a little embarrassed.

"Well, don't go on home visits so late at night. If something happens when you come back, I won't be able to explain it." He continued, "That piece of land used to be a cemetery, and there were rumors of ghost lights and the like, so it's best not to go there."

I was even more confused. Didn't Qiu Yin tell me before that there was no grave there? It was Zhou Junnan's land.

"But..." I wanted to refute something, but I couldn't find any reason. Am I going to argue with them that it was really a ghost? That would be too stupid, right?

"Besides, I suspect your fever may be caused by some dirty thing." Teacher Yu continued, "But it seems that it can't defeat you. Be careful that it comes to you again."

"Ah? No way?" I was about to say that this was impossible, but I realized that if I refuted him that there were no ghosts, wouldn't that be the same as refuting that I didn't see the ghost fire?

Hiss~This is strange.

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PS: My legs hurt.

Chapter 135: Terror

Before I knew it, half of the time had passed. In the past ten days, the children have become more and more familiar with me. It seems that because I am too close to them, I have almost lost the dignity that a teacher should have. Especially Qiu Yin, she almost treats me as a sister. Although the children are very naughty, at least they have not disappointed me in terms of their seriousness in learning. However, in order to test the children's academic performance, I plan to give them a midterm exam to put a little pressure on them. Otherwise, the children will be too relaxed and have no motivation to make progress in their studies.

For exams, test papers are needed, but the backward school facilities do not have printers or computers, so how to make test papers has become a problem. But there are always more ways than difficulties. I chose the most difficult and stupid way, which is to hand-copy the questions and write out ten test papers. It just so happens that there are several students in different grades, and I can accurately match their learning content.

"Li Xiaomeng, aren't you going back to the dormitory at night? Why are you walking towards the teaching building?" After Sister Chen and I finished our meal, she saw me turn around and walk to the other side, so she asked me curiously.

"Ah, I have to go to the classroom to finish the children's test papers. I plan to give them the test tomorrow," I explained.

Sister Chen seemed a little worried and opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something but stopped.

"Don't worry, I won't be leaving the school, there will be no danger." I knew what she was worried about and comforted her.

Sister Chen nodded: "But you must return to the dormitory before 10 o'clock, otherwise I will drag you back to the classroom."

After calculating the time, it didn't seem to take that long to write 10 test papers, so I readily agreed: "No problem!"

By 6:30 in the evening, it was already dark, but fortunately the fluorescent lights in the classroom were still usable. Under the flickering light, I could still see the handwriting I wrote on the white manuscript paper. The temperature did not drop much as night fell, but became even hotter. The cicadas and crickets outside the house chirped to each other, hysterically as if they were fighting to the death.

"It's so hot!" I grabbed the T-shirt on my chest and fanned it to let the temperature out. Although this action was not very elegant, there was no one around, so I was quite relaxed. After all, it was very hard to act well-mannered all the time.

After writing for half an hour, my right hand was already a little sore, and I had already written half of the gel pen. I looked at it and found that I had already written three papers. Overall, the progress was acceptable. I started to be lazy and took out my phone to call Tang Xin.

"Tang Xin~" As soon as I picked up the phone, I couldn't wait to call out her name.

"Tsk, sister, you're so corny." Xiaoling's voice came from the other end of the phone, and my face immediately turned red. How could this girl answer the phone?

"Ahem, where is your sister Tang Xin?" I hurriedly tried to ease the awkwardness.

"You are talking about my brother-in-law. He just went out shopping with my aunt and Teacher Song in the evening. He just came back not long ago, and he is taking a shower now, probably because he is sweating all over." Xiaoling's voice was a little lazy, and I guessed that she was lying on the sofa, watching TV boredly.

"What brother-in-law?" My face turned even redder. "I asked you to call me that before, but you took it seriously. How about this, when she comes out of the shower, ask her to call me."

"Hey~ Sister, don't you miss me? Don't you want to chat with me for a while?" Xiaoling was jealous.

"Pfft, my sister is giving the kids test papers. There aren't many. You can chat if you want~"

"Is it hard over there, sister? Have you lost weight?" Xiaoling's voice changed from its previous lazy tone to a serious one, which caught me off guard.

"..." I choked up for a moment. If I said it wasn't hard, I would be lying. The cold and fever I had a few days ago were not fake. "It's hard, but when I see the children's smiles, I feel that everything is worth it."

"Sister, Xiaoling is a little worried about you~"

"What are you worried about?" It turned out that my love for Xiaoling was not in vain.

"I'm worried that my sister has lost weight again."

"It's better to be thinner, so you can have a better figure, right?"

"Sister, you should gain some weight. If you lose any more weight, your breasts will disappear."

"Go away, go away. Where did you learn that? You learned bad things from Tang Xin, didn't you?" Without a few words of praise, the child became unserious.

"Hey~" Then Tang Xin's voice came from the other end of the phone: "I'm here? Hey, Xiaoling, who are you on the phone with? Xiaomeng? Really?"

"Hello~Xiao Meng?" Tang Xin's voice gradually grew louder and finally she shouted in my ear.

"Ouch, you're so loud, my ears hurt!" I complained.

"Ha, I want you to feel my deep longing for me even across thousands of mountains and rivers." Tang Xin didn't mind Xiao Ling being beside her and saying those cheesy love words.

"What did you do all day?" Listening to Tang Xin's sweet voice, I couldn't help but miss her a little and wanted to know how she spent her day.

"Today~ I slept until 10 this morning. Hehe."

"Lazy pig!"

"That can't be helped. I went back to typing after talking to you last night. I wrote until very late. I couldn't get up in the morning."

"Did you have a good breakfast?"

"No, I just ate an apple, and then my aunt made lunch for me."

"Then in the afternoon... well, in the afternoon... I prepared some things in the afternoon, and in the evening I went to the supermarket to buy some things... nothing special."

"I see. I've been in class all day, and I don't have anything interesting to tell you."

"Xiao Meng, I miss you..."

"Yeah, I know. I missed you, too."

"Kiss me~"

"what!"

"Forget it, it's not fun, it's like this every night. I'd better wait for you to come back... Well, I'll deal with you properly when we meet."

"No one is serious."

While Tang Xin and I were chatting, there was a knock on the classroom door.

"Ah, I won't chat with you for now~ Sister Chen may come to see me, let's chat tomorrow~" I thought that only she would come to see me at this time.

"Okay, bye~" Tang Xin hung up the phone without thinking too much.

"Sister Chen?" I walked to the edge of the classroom and called out vigilantly a second before pressing the doorknob.

But there was silence outside the door, no memories.

"Who?"

Still no one answered! Suddenly, I was furious and got goosebumps all over my body.

Who's outside? Countless scenes that my friends and family had warned me about flashed through my mind, and before I could do anything, my legs went limp with fear.

Li Xiaomeng! You were Li Xiao in your previous life! Cheer up! I tried to comfort myself, no matter what is outside, you must face it bravely, the best way to eliminate fear is to face it!

Here we go, brothers!

I gritted my teeth, pushed the door open, and looked outside with a ruler in hand. But to my surprise, there was no one outside.

Chapter 136: Clues

What? No one? Seeing the empty corridor in front of me, I immediately closed the classroom door and locked it out of fear.

No matter who it is or what it is, it's coming for me. I quickly called Sister Chen to come and take me away! I took out my phone from my pocket in a panic and called Sister Chen.

But after several call waiting tones, Sister Chen did not answer my call.

"Damn, is she taking a shower?" I looked at the time and it was almost time for Sister Chen to take her daily shower.

I sent a WeChat message to Sister Chen with trembling hands, asking her to come to me immediately after seeing the message.

As soon as I put my phone in my pocket, there was another knock on the door behind me, which scared me again.

If I catch who it is, I will teach you a lesson. Looking at the triangle ruler in my hand, my courage suddenly rose. Even if it is a ghost, it is still a student in front of the teacher! As long as you are a student, you should be afraid of the teacher! When the time comes, I will catch him and spank his palm! Thinking of this, I stood up instantly and opened the door of the classroom.

Similarly, there was no one outside the door, only a pitch-black background and a corridor that was somewhat dimmed by the lights in the house.

"Who is this? You are so boring! If I find out, you will suffer the consequences!" I was irritated and shouted to the outside. But there was no response except the empty echo.