surname teacher

Chapter 162

Xinyou year, Xinchou month, Jiwei day, the last day of the Lunar Year of the Rooster.

On the early morning of the New Year’s Eve, immersed in the atmosphere of the most important traditional festival in China—the Spring Festival, at the foot of Dongshan Mountain, there are lights and festoons, and the streets and alleys of Dongxiang County, which still retains the special folk environment of the nation, are full of streets. The hustle and bustle of people.

As far as the eye can see, smiling, dark-skinned men and women of ethnic minorities with braided hair and blue-black turbans are walking along the streets and alleys with their own bamboo baskets and various fresh new year goods on their heads. Suddenly, a sudden loud noise sounded in front of everyone.

The sound came so suddenly that many people in the streets and alleys raised their heads to find out where the source of the sound was. Immediately afterwards, the surrounding women screamed and covered their ears because of fright and some local children were excited. Another shout of surprise.

In the crowd, the stunned people only saw a big red firecracker hung high on a bamboo pole with a bag full of salt and pepper peanuts, lotus seeds and candied dates. A picture of a big rooster crowing at the entrance of the theater exploded, and a large number of red firecracker fragments were scattered all over the head of the big guy.

"This... seems to be the previous Sichuan opera troupe...that would be haunted by evil spirits...why did it reopen all of a sudden?"

Such strange questions obviously flooded the hearts of every Dongshan person, so for a while, no one dared to go up to watch the excitement.

But before it was said that it was haunted and haunted, but there were not many people who actually saw the ghosts of the theater troupe, so curiosity finally defeated the fear and hesitation of these people, and within a few minutes, people came up one after another to see it. What is going on.

And when some local fellows who usually like to join in the fun carefully stared around and looked around, they found that it was indeed the Bazhong Sichuan Opera Troupe, which was located next to the No. [-] Food Factory and was forced to close down for rectification due to the haunted shadow puppets some time ago.

It's just that outside the troupe, whose surrounding environment was very gloomy and gloomy, it completely changed overnight.

Not only are all kinds of festive red paper lanterns hung, but also many auspicious things such as traditional New Year pictures, couplets and dragon god paintings are pasted around. On the small blackboard on the cement wall that has been repainted hastily, there is also a big and generous There was a red list with black characters and neat fonts posted, and there were five or six lines of these big brush characters with a very correct and majestic font.

[New Year's special program: Rooster Shadow Puppet show on time at [-] o'clock every night. 】

[Monday: "Old Children Make New Year's Eve"]

[Tuesday to Thursday: "Three Dozens of Leopard Girls"]

【Friday, Saturday: "Hen Doll"】

[Sunday: "Old Chicken Happy Birthday"]

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[Dongshan County Sichuan Opera Troupe has been closed for some internal reasons since the 14th, and has now reopened. Please contact the accountant and troupe leader for private performances. Please inform all the neighbors. I wish you all a happy Chinese New Year and a safe Year of the Dog. 】

【——All the Sichuan Opera Troupe of Dongshan County stayed in the Xinchou month of Xinyou Year]

The bright red Chinese New Year program sheet posted on the small blackboard on the outer wall with paste is obviously different from the previous one just by looking at the words, but everything has suddenly changed for some unknown reason.

Seeing this, the surrounding group of fellow villagers who always liked to watch the excitement pointed their fingers at the small blackboard in confusion. After finally understanding what was written on it, there were only a few people in the crowd who were confused. The local fellow began to whisper, frowning and rubbing his chin,

""Three Dozens of Leopard Girls"? "Old Chicken Celebrating Birthday"? What kind of drama is this... Why, why have I never heard of it before..."

"Yeah... I've never heard of it either? But I really want to spend a few dollars to buy a movie ticket and go in and see it..."

"...I said, you guys are so courageous that you don't want to kill yourself?! I heard that some time ago, there were ghosts in there every now and then, and many people were killed by evil spirits... Now go in, Isn't it the same as entering the gate of hell!"

A weird fellow from the Sichuan Opera Troupe who had never heard of it before said something in a low voice with disapproval on his face.

Although he had the same curiosity as the others in his heart, but because of his timidity, he immediately stopped the eagerness of the people around him with a look of horror.

And hearing what he said, Dang even had a few villagers frown in agreement and agreed.

But at this moment, there was a voice in the crowd that was obviously different from the one next to it. After everyone pricked up their ears curiously to inquire, they heard the local fellow who obviously had a different opinion shake his face. He waved his hand and said triumphantly,

"No, no, I've heard that it's not as simple as being haunted. I have an old cousin I know who works in our county police station. It turned out that the theater troupe was indeed haunted, but then the old Cha at the police station couldn't find it." After coming out, another old birthday star died. The police station decided to treat it as an ordinary civil dispute and not dare to make a big fuss. After all, no one would believe such a thing as a ghost if it was put up with the leaders..."

"..."

"I don't know what's going on. A few days ago, there was a bad omen coming from the Dragon King Lake. Later, the township government went underground inexplicably for a few days and stared at the Dragon King rain coming down from the government building in broad daylight. The county magistrate and the others were terrified when they saw it, so they naturally didn’t dare to find someone to mess around with this matter. Later, they heard that our local people didn’t know what was going on, so some kind of young and well-behaved person appeared. It was under the order of the Dragon King of Chishui that he took the initiative to take over the demons that harmed our local area..."

"Chishui Dragon King? Young master?"

As soon as I heard this, I became collectively interested. Dongshan, as a gathering place of ethnic minorities, has gradually lost the awe of ghosts and gods in the past due to the problem of the gradual Sinicization of the population in recent years.

But at this moment, when they first heard about such appalling and strange things, everyone still opened their eyes wide and listened to the nod of the fellow who had taken the initiative to gossip before, and continued to babble with a rather mysterious expression,

"That's right, about the rumor that the young master was sent by the Dragon King... I heard it from my old cousin and I, saying that the master who was named Shi Shi happened to be hunting demons near here the night before. , shocked the Dragon King and the moon in the sky together... A child from a family nearby was sitting at the window doing homework assigned by the school, and jumped up and yelled at his mother, saying what a white-haired boy he saw Young people stepped on the roof to catch flying leopards, and the moon turned red... It seems that there are dragons screaming from the clouds, do you think it's strange..."

"...Oh, this is really strange. The Dragon Lord in the Chishui River has blessed our local area with good weather for so many years. This time it turned out to be thanks to his old man. It's just that this young man with the surname Shi is really looking for the Dragon Lord. Come here, no matter how you think about it, I know that with such a big background as the Dragon King, he would not be willing to take the initiative to take care of this kind of thing... um, and what kind of monster has been hiding in the Sichuan Opera Troupe for so many years to harm people..."

"Hey, how do we mere mortals know about such things, but... well, I just heard that the ogre that was sealed in a blank piece of paper and sent to the police station anonymously seems to have only grown The female leopard with wings, who is locked in the paper and can still stare and curse at others, is really scary and terrifying...

"...Sealed in paper? And...you can still open your mouth to curse people?"

"Yes, I heard that the piece of paper cannot be burned or torn, but as long as it is kept closed, the vicious banshee will not be able to escape for the rest of her life... In addition to this culprit, the police station in our county town also released It was a strange letter that no one except the county magistrate could find a way to open. I only heard that the contents of the letter seemed to say that all of this recently was a debt owed to descendants for more than 20 years, and it was the same as the original grievance on the chicken coop rock. It is related to a dead lady hen, and later her husband's family took revenge for her everywhere, but they owed a lot of debts because of it..."

"..."

"Now the chicken demon who was originally hiding in the troupe seems to know that he was wrong under the guidance of the expert, so he is willing to stay in Dongshan to be punished from now on. I heard that in the past few nights, several families in the next county have been killed. I was given rice steamed buns and rice bran porridge in the middle of the night... Those fellow villagers were afraid in the middle of the night and did not dare to open the window. They vaguely saw a decapitated hen and a rooster mask on the red window paper. The old man with an iron chain, presumably that is Mrs. Hen and her husband's family who was punished?"

"

"That's how it is... This matter sounds weird and bizarre... I don't know if the rooster and the hen will come out to harm people in the future... Hey, why don't you think we didn't have the luck to run into each other? Let's see What a powerful teacher with the surname Dragon King..."

"Who knows? Haha, maybe even if he is standing in front of us right now, we won't be able to recognize him..."

As soon as the words fell, the fellow villagers who had just gathered together to watch the fun burst into laughter because no one took it seriously.

It just so happened that the ticket office at the entrance of the troupe opened on time, and then a middle-aged woman with a fat and fierce appearance, holding a dozen tickets in her hand, stared angrily, stuck her head out of the small window and said something loudly.

"Hey! There are those over there and those over there! If you don't buy a ticket to watch the theater, hurry up and get to the side! Don't have nothing to do here and quarrel with each other without quality! Now this is a professional theater troupe taken over by the government. It’s not called a messy rooster troupe anymore! Have you seen the stickers on the wall! Tickets! Forty! If you can afford tickets, why don’t you just sit here and watch the fun!”

"...Hey! Forty! It turns out that this man's singing is more expensive than ghost singing! I really look down upon it! We poor ghosts should find a way to go to ghost singing someday haha! Let's go home for the holidays, go home for the holidays, Everyone walk slowly haha ​​Happy New Year Happy New Year..."

The jokes were being said, and the fellow villagers who were carrying bamboo baskets on their backs and were about to go home for the New Year’s Eve dinner just turned their heads and made tongue-tied jokes with each other for a while, then scattered around and turned around to go home lively It's the holidays.

After these lively and noisy local villagers completely dispersed, the dim yellow and bright sky above the county town gradually sank to the west with the change of time.

But what no one knows is that in a secluded alley behind those fellow villagers who left each other in the distance, there was really a man standing silently from the beginning to the end, carrying a simple backpack like the rumors, and holding a stick with one hand. A white-haired young man with a cane.

Seeing the dissipating people not far away, the white-haired young man who decided to stop and take a look because he was passing by here at first, just looked away without saying a word, and thought for a while, Only then did he feel relieved, turned around completely, and walked out of the alley of the Sichuan Opera Troupe that had returned to normal.

There still seems to be some problems with the left leg, and it is obvious at a glance who the young man with a very thin and handsome figure is.

And even at this moment his face is still covered with ugly white gauze to make it easier to go down the mountain and go out, but the facial deformities and other symptoms caused by the curse of the human-faced bird have actually long since disappeared at the time when Jilang's resentment towards his mother has completely disappeared. It was lifted from his face in an instant.

This made Fan Xi's mother-in-law, Fan Abao's family, who had taken good care of him during this time, and Yang Hua, who had a better cough after that night and was finally able to run to the wall to greet him happily, were all very happy for him.

Yang Hua, the little girl who had just recovered from her illness and slipped out to mess around without authorization, even borrowed a ladder to climb up the wall excitedly and excitedly, specifically to see what the big brother of the neighbor who had always given him a mysterious feeling looked like. Sample.

For some reason, Jin Suoyang was visited as a rare animal. On the one hand, he had some headaches and had nothing to do with this lively little girl. On the other hand, he patiently told her curious about How he himself and her direct guardian, Qin Geng, caught the rooster man and the leopard girl that night.

"So...so that night...it was actually my dad who went with you to catch those very bad monsters, Brother Suoyang!!"

"Well, what happened?"

As if he didn't understand why the little girl looked at him so aggrievedly, he happened to be sitting on the small bench next to the well in Fan Xi's house, and was using the pencil in his hand to concentrate on helping another ant in the village, Grandpa Fan Shu, to repair the tape Jin Suoyang and the old-fashioned radio also looked up at her inexplicably.

"...Ahhh!! Why!! Why!! Why did I have to be sick and lie at home that day, otherwise I could go there with you to see what the monster looks like... The most important thing is I still I don't remember why I got sick... I just remember that I seemed to be lying in a jar, it smelled so bad, and it smelled of a particularly disgusting salted fish..."

"Salted fish? But didn't Gentiana Qin say that you have been recuperating at home?"

"Yeah, I've been recuperating at home... But I don't know why after waking up, my body smells so bad... That scoundrel Qin Gentiana must have deliberately done something while I was sick. It's like this every time... When I was a child, he laughed at me all day long for my buck teeth, small eyes, and ugly mouth. I won’t go home during the Chinese New Year...Brother, do you think my father has other women outside besides me! This philandering carrot!! Super villain! I really hate him woo Woo!"

Jin Suoyang: "..."

At that time, the little girl who was beating her chest and gnashing her teeth angrily complained about her unscrupulous adoptive father's blood and tears. As Yang Huahua's most loyal listener, the teacher surnamed Jin was inexplicably speechless after listening to it for a while.

But obviously, he has never been very experienced in coaxing women and children because he is only 24 after the end of the new year. He is still young and lacks the opportunity to practice. ’, in the end, the teacher surnamed Jin who was in a complicated mood just slowed down his voice solemnly, and patiently comforted the depressed little lady Yang Hua in his own way as much as possible.

And in view of the fact that after that night, Qin Gentian, who had really helped him a lot in various aspects during this period, disappeared for two days because of the inexplicable reason Yang Hua said, and even left in a hurry. He told his daughter and him that he had something to go out, but he disappeared without explaining to anyone else.

"I'll be back before New Year's Eve. Something happened to my old friend's son."

"What happened to the kid?"

"In the year of birth, offend Tai Sui."

The words of the man in the voice transmission ghost were vague and unclear, so even though he was greeted in advance, Jin Suoyang, who didn't know where the other person went these two days, could not target this cock Lang's incident ended smoothly, and Haohao thanked the man who was almost inseparable from him a few days ago, who he couldn't see up and down.

I can only hold back my heart for the time being because the other person is not there suddenly, so some weird and strange emotions are brought up, and I can't figure out why I am a little irritable, so I concentrate on taking advantage of the new year. I dealt with the troubles left over from certain things some time ago alone.

The most important of these, of course, is the follow-up to Leopard Girl and Gong Jilang's successive murders in Dongshan and the debt owed to their children and grandchildren 24 years ago.

In fact, Jin Suoyang's treatment of the leopard girl and the rooster man was indeed similar to the various mysterious sayings circulating in the local population today.

The only difference from the rumors is that he not only did the above-mentioned things in the legend, but also made up for some mistakes caused by the arrival of his own mother to Mrs. Hen who lost her beloved son back then. The method is to put the seven souls that have been unable to escape, including the soul of Mr. Shen who is kind to his mother, on the dead eggs in the hen's original nest.

These unhatched eggs were completely dead, but because the Mrs. Hen carefully hid them under the stove for many years, the chicks inside died, and the shells were still intact, and these seven souls will live here in the future. They reincarnated in a new way of life in the eggshell, so as to repay the mistakes they made in the past, and escape from the predicament that they were imprisoned by the rooster for a long time so that they could not be reincarnated.

As far as Gong Jilang is concerned, he not only has to bear the big mistake of abducting so many old children to extract oil, but also the big mistake of being bewitched by others for many years, losing his mind and venting his anger and killing people.

It's just that later Jin Suoyang didn't choose to put the rooster man to death hastily, and it wasn't entirely because of the begging of Mrs. Hen and the pleading of those people's shadow puppets that he didn't kill the rooster man and the leopard. The female one was imprisoned in the surname book to accept a more severe punishment.

It's because the old and gray-haired rooster, after washing off the human face on his face and recognizing the shadows of those years of suffering from past mistakes, only looks tired and trembling at him dumbfounded. He coughed and said such a sentence.

"The human-faced bird on your face has disappeared... But I... I can't send you back with the previous method... If you want to go back to your original time and leave this place completely, We have to find a way... to find out the source of Dongshan's time error and confusion..."

"Where is that source now?"

"...in Haishi...that is, the legendary...land in the clouds...in the hands of the new sea lord who instigated Leopard Girl to come to the world to look for 'Yang Asha's Shadow' in person, maybe... there will be What you want most... the Portkey to return to another time."

"...'Portkey'?"

"Yes... find the 'port key', and you can open the invisible 'door' of Dongshan and go back to your original world. There is no other way... As for ordinary people going to the cloud The country's method... If I remember correctly...the one who entered the Chishui River to save you that night...that green dragon should know something..."

It's the time in front of us, and Ji Lang, who is determined to let go of all hatred and resentment, will obviously not lie to Jin Suoyang, who kindly spared him.

After all, he now clearly knows that he and his wife were harmed by the leopard girl and the Raksha people, and he will definitely not choose to help the tyrant again under the guilt.

It’s just that for Jin Suoyang, after spending so much time going around, he finally found out that if he wanted to go back to the original normal time, to return to the world he originally lived in, he still had to do it himself. A trip to Naluocha Haishi even personally contacted the mysterious sea lord.

This inevitably made him slowly recall in his mind that Yang Ji used that dream to ask him for help before, and at the same time, his thoughts that had always been difficult to figure out also became deep and complicated.

"Master Jin... Please save my little daughter... Please come to Haishi to save me... Only you can save our descendants, the Yu family..."

Yang Ji's sad and helpless cry seems to be still in my ears when I think about it now. When I think of what Gong Jilang said, mortals must find the Chishui Dragon King who is very arrogant and conceited, and has a vague reputation. , Jin Suoyang, whose impression of this Dragon King was still before the mud doll and various gossips about him, began to think in a complicated mood.

And with all kinds of messy and scattered clues emerging in his mind one by one, Jin Suoyang walked forward slowly, frowning, but for some reason, Jin Suoyang always felt that there seemed to be something missing in his ears. He actually habitually raised his eyes to look at his side which had been completely empty for several days.

And when he clearly realized that there was no one on his left who always looked at him lazily, and occasionally smiled at him, with fingers, skin and earlobes that were pale and monotonous to sickly, and they always gave him many wonders. Inspired and unique insights after the figure.

At this moment, the white-haired young man who was walking alone in Dongshan County with a basket full of herbs on his back and walking on crutches also stopped slowly, and looked at the crowded crowd in front of him with a complicated expression. They were in pairs, but the only one who was alone frowned strangely.

Speaking of which, if what happened to Ji Lang and the series of incidents that happened in Fan Village did not happen to him this time, it stands to reason that at this time in previous years, he should still stay in Chenzhou with peace of mind like many times in the past. In the huge old house of his family, he can be his lofty and ascetic grandson with peace of mind, and spend another Spring Festival that makes him feel bad for a whole year.

After all, that is the family environment and daily life that he has been used to and assimilated for a long time, although everyone around him seems hypocritical and indifferent, just like Jin Suoyang himself used to show his grandfather, secretary and Chen Jiaxiang all the time. The same cold and heartless face that appeared.

But that was the family he had to get used to and faced since he was born. Although since he was born, everything has been well-fed, even luckier than many ordinary people, but regarding his life, ideals include what should be He has never been able to choose at will according to his true preferences.

Because I know very well that the things I like are destined to not belong to me in the future, so gradually, my heart, which is always used to being numb and dull to hide my true emotions, has nothing to particularly like.

Even as time goes by, he seems to have gradually forgotten what he might really like in the future, or just beating his heart for something on impulse and recklessly... what kind of feeling it would be.

"...Hey, look over there, this New Year's Eve, that white-haired boy over there doesn't go home, why is he standing there alone touching his heart..."

"I don't know... But his face is so strange... His eyes are still so erratic... And he stood there like a stick in a daze for a long time... Did he miss his sweetheart who hasn't come back yet..."

Jin Suoyang: "..."

The weird and terrifying conversation behind him made the hairs on the back stand on end, and the teacher surnamed Jin, who was standing there frowning and feeling dazed when he suddenly became confused just now, was also taken aback for a moment and returned quickly. Come on.

After realizing that his completely unconscious behavior of touching his heart to measure his heartbeat was not only seen by others, but also caused some strange misunderstandings, the white-haired young man who forcibly turned cold and put down his hands hastily had no time to rush to these irrelevant explanations wearing something.

With such an ugly expression on the floor, he walked forward a few steps, and with a cold face, he put aside the strange thing that his heartbeat was not caused by someone just now, then looked down at the time on his watch, and planned to rush After finishing the work before dark, find the old pagoda waiting for him to go back to the mountain outside the market, and return to Fan Village to catch up with Fan Xiqian and Wan Wan to tell him to go home for the New Year's Eve dinner.

But just as he was walking around Dongshan County in the evening with the loose money he got from going down the mountain to exchange herbs a few days ago, he was going to help Fan Xi's family buy some for the New Year. When there are things like candies and New Year's dishes.

Quite suddenly, Jin Suoyang, who has been in a bit of a bad state since he came out of the front market, just inadvertently raised his head and glanced outside the lively market, and coincidentally noticed a small shop at the door. It is very inconspicuous, but it is a silversmith's shop with many finely crafted Miao silver jewelry.

And at a glance, one of the jewelry was seen very clearly and accurately, the surface was shining, which was obviously a Miao silver bracelet placed in a pile of exquisite women's jewelry.

Knowing that it must be strange to give another big man such a thing, but thinking that the hand is especially beautiful, it will definitely look good with this thing, but his heart is still inexplicably moved. The white-haired young man first stood there with a strange expression He thought for a moment in silence, walked forward with a slightly awkward footsteps and talked with the silversmith's wife who was smiling and gentle in the shop, then politely thanked him, and handed it to the old lady. Wrapped in a cloth handkerchief, he picked up the exquisite Miao silver bracelet and frowned and glanced at it.

"Hey, I want to buy it back and give it to my sweetheart..."

"...No, ordinary friends."

"I know, I know, the two of you are still just friends now, after sending them off, you can happily be each other's sweetheart..."

Jin Suoyang: "..."

After saying this, the silversmith's wife, who could see through the truth, looked at Jin Suoyang's red ears with a smile and the cold eyes staring at him with suppressed anger, covering her mouth and snickering.

Afterwards, the white-haired young man with a cold face and forced to be calm didn't want to say anything at all, so he simply paid the money and took the things and wanted to leave.

Fortunately, the precious herbs he and the clay dolls traded at the foot of the mountain a few days ago left some savings for him, so Jin Suoyang, who was basically penniless when he came to Dongshan, would not be particularly hard-pressed at this time.

But just as he quickly bought the very special Miao silver jewelry and was about to leave, the white-haired old woman suddenly stopped him and told him something with a smile on her face.

But when he heard it, he stopped in his tracks, and Jin Suoyang, who didn't react for a moment, only asked again with a strange expression on his face, and got an answer from the silversmith's wife that made him stunned. .

"You just said... what's the name of this thing?"

"Call... Long, turn back, head."