As a young social man with a gangster's aura all over his body, Li Ang and another male passenger were assigned to the home of Shi Chengpeng, a villager in Dusheng Village.

Shi Chengpeng is an honest and dull and strong man. However, his son Shi Miao, who just started elementary school, is very active. He pestered Li Ang in the guest room, trying to get him a smartphone from him to play two games of King of Glory.

"If you don't have any signal, play with a hammer."

Li Ang said angrily: "What mobile games do children play? Do their homework obediently."

"I have no homework."

Shi Miao buckled her nose, "Our school has only four students and one teacher. Now Teacher Meng is gone, we have to go to other villages to attend classes, where the classrooms are larger and the teacher assigned less homework..."

As he spoke, Shi Miao became depressed.

Dusheng Village is located in a remote area and has backward conditions. Some villagers go to towns and counties to work. After having a certain amount of financial ability, they moved out one after another, and many of them left behind are elderly people.

More than ten or twenty years ago, school-age children from surrounding villages would go to Dusheng Village to attend primary school. At most, there were more than a thousand students.

With the continuous advancement of the township process, villages near towns have merged one after another, and the teaching locations are placed in the township.

The remote Dusheng Village Primary School is also gradually declining. Two double-story teaching buildings, with more than 20 classrooms in total, but only four students are left. Among the four students, two came to school from more remote villages.

Meng Qixi was originally just a young man in teaching, but by chance he worked in Dusheng Village Primary School for ten years. He changed from a substitute teacher to a private teacher, and then to the only in-service teacher in the entire school.

Perseverance and dedication became his synonym.

Half a year ago, he died of a strange disease, but the villagers found that they didn't even know where his ancestral home was, so they had to bury him on the back mountain.

Li Ang silently listened to Shi Miao's jumping thoughts and messy narratives, and pieced together the life of the middle-aged man Meng Qixi in his mind.

"Teacher Meng is very nice to us, but he doesn't like to talk much. He has been living alone in the school building and cooking by himself."

Shi Miao ate the candy that Li Ang gave him and said vaguely, "The villagers don't call him if they play cards."

"Play cards?" Li Ang raised his eyebrows, "Where to play cards?"

"The village chief's house."

Shi Miao chewed candy, "In the past, the adults in the village often went to the village chief's house to play cards together, and they played for the whole night, but they never let women and children go with them.

My mom said my dad had been there once before and ran back in the middle of the night."

"That's how it is."

Li Ang nodded without comment, and was even more curious about the seemingly kind and kind old village chief Lu Gui.

The blocked cat's eyes, the death of seven months ago, the rural teacher who died of illness, the task name below six feet...

The water in this village is very deep.

Villager Shi Chengpeng and his wife returned from repairing the backyard fence. They stood outside the door and called their son out, asking him not to disturb the guests.

Shi Miao ran out of the house, Shi Chengpeng stood outside the door, looked at Li Ang dressed in a young society, hesitated for a moment, and said dullly: "Let's go to bed first, you can go to bed early too.

At night, there may be a noise outside, just don’t worry.

I nailed wooden boards to the doors and windows, and the wild boars outside could not enter, and the security door inside could not be opened.

If the toilet is downstairs.”

"Thank you, Tiezi." Li Ang nodded and watched Shi Chengpeng and his family go to the master bedroom.

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Shi Yuande, Yu Kui, and Niu Jian were three male college students. Because their school was released early, they went to Shi Yuande's hometown to visit together.

Before I could reach the destination, I hit a landslide and was trapped in the miserable situation in the village.

The three of them stayed at the same villager's home. In the middle of the night, Shi Yuande, who was tossing and turning, sat up and shaking his good friend who was sleeping next to him.

"Kuizi, Kuizi, wake up."

Yu Kui reached out impatiently and patted Shi Yuande's arm open, his eyes not even opened, "What are you doing?"

Shi Yuande continued to shake his good friend, "Accompany me to the bathroom."

"Can't you find a bottle to solve it?"

"It's not a small trumpet, it's a large trumpet."

Shi Yuande pulled Yu Kui, who was cursing and Niu Jian who was awakened, "It will be fine in a while."

The three of them turned on the bedroom lights, Shi Yuande hurried to the toilet and burst into pieces. Yu Kui and Niu Jian played with their cell phones bored outside the door.

Listening to the crackling sound inside, Yu Kui gently kicked the toilet door with his heel, "Okay, are you going to pull it to death in the toilet?"

"You can't have diarrhea." Shi Yuande said weakly: "Wait a minute, it'll be fine soon."

Yu Kui and Niu Jian looked at each other and shook their head helplessly.

Tick.

The slight sound of water drops falling to the ground came from the door of the master bedroom at the end of the corridor.

Yu Kui looked up and saw that the master bedroom was not on. There was a vague figure standing in the shadow at the door, as if it was Shi Derong, a villager who stayed overnight.

"I haven't fallen asleep yet?"

Shi Derong's voice sounded in the darkness.

"Well, we accompany our classmates to the bathroom." Yu Kui straightened up and said embarrassedly: "He has a little uncomfortable stomach."

The figure didn't say anything, just looked at them quietly.

Tick, tick.

Shi Derong was like he had just been fished out of the pool, and water was dripping from the whole body, forming a small stream on the corridor floor.

Yu Kui took a step back in surprise, avoided the water flow, and raised his head, "Uncle, you..."

"Hmm? What's wrong?"

In the shadow, Shi Derong's figure tilted his head, and his neck leaning against his shoulder twisted to nearly 90 degrees.

Yu Kui shut his mouth suddenly, reached out and twisted Niu Jian who wanted to scream. His face was pale and he forced a smile, "It's okay, we'll go to bed soon."

"Well. Go to bed early, call me if you have any questions."

Shi Derong's neck kept tilting down, and his whole head drooped on his chest, like a soft slug.

However, as if he had not noticed anything unusual, he turned around and entered the room normally and closed the bedroom door casually.

Yu Kui and Niu Jian looked at each other, quickly poked the toilet door, and urged Shi Yuande to come out quickly.

The latter carried his pants and opened the door impatiently. Just as he was about to speak, Yu Kui covered his mouth and pulled him to hide in his side.

The three of them pressed against the gate, and a moment later, dull steps sounded in the corridor outside the gate.

The footsteps were like rice bags soaked in water hitting the ground. They were heavy and sticky. Every time they stepped on them, they would make a "click-click" sound of water.

The three of them held their breath and heard footsteps wandering in the corridor for a while, slowly approaching their bedroom.

The knock on the door was not crisp, but it seemed like someone was hitting the door with his head.

"Student, open the door."

Shi Derong was vague outside the door, as if his mouth was filled with water, "My neck hurts a little, can you come out and help me?"

I think it's about to break..."
Chapter completed!