Xue Ying and I glanced at each other. I scratched my head and asked hesitantly, "Is the one you are talking about, the young female teacher who hanged herself in this office more than ten years ago?" ”

"Not bad. You can't believe that I would fall in love with my teacher! Zhong Dao laughed, laughed, and tears of laughter flowed out, "I'm the principal's son, I don't have to work hard to get any good grades I want." However, none of those grades were real, and every one of my subject teachers wanted to slap my father, so no matter how I took the test, or even handed in the blank papers, all I got full marks.

"Only Teacher Gao Xiu is good to me. She was strict with me, and she didn't care what I was doing or how special my identity was in school...... She said one is one, said two is two, gradually, I found that my eyes could no longer be separated from her, I actually fell in love with her, in love with my own teacher! Hey, you say, isn't that a ridiculous thing to do? ”

"What was the relationship between Li Ping and you at that time?" I thought, looked at him and asked.

Zhong Dao recalled: "Ping'er was my girlfriend. Every time I wanted to break up with her, she would beg me, kneel on the ground and hold my legs. Even if I told her I didn't love her anymore, she wouldn't listen. She even cut my wrists and threatened me not to leave her. ”

He wiped away the old tears from his face with his hands, "Even one day, she came nervously and told me that she was pregnant with my child in her belly." I was surprised because I was pretty sure I hadn't done anything wrong with her. But Ping'er swore that the child was mine, and she said that I could not admit it, and even beat the child out of my belly for the sake of my future. I left her noncommittally and walked away.

"But after a while, she invited me to the ancient pavilion again. Ping'er mysteriously handed me a bag, and when I opened it, I almost threw it up. It was a baby, a dead baby! The baby's face was covered in blood, and it seemed that he had just been born in the womb, and there was even a long umbilical cord on his navel......"

Zhong Dao closed his eyes, his face was pale and frightened, and he seemed to have a great fear of that memory, "Ping'er smiled at me, and the laughter made people shudder. She said she had killed our children and that I would never have to worry about other people's gossip anymore. I just felt incredulous, and I left her without looking back.

But I didn't expect that when I left, it turned out to be goodbye. Ping'er had been missing since then, and I thought she must have been completely disappointed in me, so she went alone to a place where no one would ever know her again......"

"Do you believe him?" Xue Ying asked softly as she put her mouth to my ear.

I sighed, "His story is logical, and while it's completely different from what we know from school lore, it should have some credibility. ”

Xue Ying looked at Zhong Dao and asked loudly, "Since you are not a murderer, why did you come to this office in the middle of the night to find your ******** book?" ”

"My ******** book?" Zhong Dao looked up in surprise, "I never thought to look for something like that. ”

"And what are you looking for here?" I asked curiously.

"It's something I've forgotten about for more than a decade." A hint of sweetness appeared on Zhong Dao's decadent face, "It's a scarf, that's my birthday present to her." Although the teacher said that I was too young to accept me, she accepted the pink silk scarf despite my pleading. I know that the scarf was taken off and left here after she committed suicide. But it wasn't until today that I had the courage to make up my mind to find out!

"By the way, I'm going to have to find it!" Zhong Dao staggered to his feet, and crouched down in front of the pile of data to rummage through it.

"What you're looking for, well, isn't this it?" Xue Ying was a little embarrassed and handed him a scarf.

Zhong Dao suddenly gasped, his whole body began to tremble violently, and the hands that took the scarf trembled even more, "It's this, it's this." He muttered, and old tears continued to flow from his dull eyes.

"How did that thing end up in your hands?" I asked strangely.

Xue Ying stuck out her tongue at me, "Just now when you were concentrating on rummaging for information, people accidentally found the silk scarf, because they thought it was very incongruous, so they took it off the wall and studied it, and finally you pulled it and stuffed it into the backpack in a hurry." ”

I narrowed my eyes and stared at her suspiciously, "Lie, I think you obviously want to fill your pocket." ”

"People won't be like you." Xue Ying's face suddenly rose with a blush that had been broken, and she snorted and turned her head sideways to avoid my gaze.

Zhong Dao, who was finally slowly returning to normal, glanced at us and begged, "Can you let me stay here and be alone for a while?" ”

Xue Ying and I looked at each other, and then nodded in agreement. But unexpectedly, as soon as we walked out of the office, Zhong Dao forced the door shut and locked it.

"What are you doing?" I froze, then banged the closed door.

"You don't have to worry about me, I miss Teacher Gao Xiu so much, I really miss her." Through the glass window beside him, I saw Zhong Dao slowly climb onto the desk and hang the scarf in his hand from the ceiling.

He grabbed the hanging part with both hands, turned his head to look at me and Xue Ying, who broke the glass window without hesitation, and was desperately trying to pry open the iron fence welded to the inner layer of the window, sighed long, smiled and said: "Do you know, in fact, people can be together when they die, as long as you and the person you like die in the same place and in the same way, then two people can be together for the rest of their lives, and they will never have to be separated." ”

A chill crept up my back, and I shivered and yelled at him, "You idiot! When a person dies, there is nothing, and what is there to talk about life and life will never be separated, you are simply cowardly and dare not face the reality! ”

"Yes, I am cowardly and cowardly, otherwise it would not have taken me thirteen years to make up my mind." Zhong Dao looked at the scarf with empty eyes, and suddenly his whole body shook, he stared at the air in front of him, and laughed happily.

"Teacher, it's you, you're here to pick me up?" He laughed, cried, shed tears, and choked up: "I'm thirty-one years old, and I'm no longer the hairy boy I used to be, the teacher should be able to accept me, right?" I'm so happy, really happy. ”

Zhong Dao slowly put his head into the knot made by his scarf, and was about to kick the chair away with his feet, when a pair of invisible hands suddenly grabbed his neck.

"Ping'er, why you! It's you again! Zhong Dao coughed hard, he covered his neck, and said word by word in pain: "Let go of me, I want to be with the teacher." Why do you always have to stop me? said that the rumor that Teacher Gao Xiu was in love with teachers and students, and that he was also made a big belly by his own students, was spread by you, right, your jealousy is so strong! Why don't you want to let me go until you die and let me be with the teacher? ”

Zhong Dao straightened his neck deformously, desperately trying to put his head into the knot again, but there were invisible hands behind him, desperately pinching him and pulling him back.

The outer skin of his neck suddenly began to take on a spiral shape under the action of two forces, and finally the epidermis even peeled off as a result, and the bloody trachea and major cervical artery flowed out.

Zhong Dao struggled hard, and finally broke free from the hand and put his head in. Quickly kicking away the chair, he was hanging from the ceiling with a scarf, his body still spinning. Zhong Dao smiled as his face turned in the direction of me and Xueying.

It is a smile of happiness and satisfaction......

I stood stiff, my rational brain completely afraid to accept what was in front of me.

"What's going on? What the hell is going on?! Xue Ying was also stunned, and kept repeating that sentence in her mouth.

Suddenly, the office door was slammed open from the inside, hitting the wall with a loud "bang". A chill ran through my body for no apparent reason, and all my hairs stood on end with fear almost at the same time.

"At the water's edge...... And one more ...... And a ......"

There was a cold, dark, dull voice that passed through the eardrums, entered the mind, and kept echoing and repeating in the head.

I resisted my fear and looked around. But there was nothing to be seen, only the eerie night that was as silent as a nightmare.

"And one more ...... Is it? Xue Ying muttered, she took my hand and rested her head on my shoulder, her whole body trembling. Sayo, you say...... Will the last one be you, or me? She looked into my eyes, and when she saw that I was still staring blankly at the darkness in the distance, she actually laughed out loud and shed tears with laughter.

"Xiaoye, I guess the last one won't be your ......"