surname teacher

Chapter 44 Stone

Old bungalows, old light bulbs, and almost all the old houses with peeling walls are almost destitute except for a few broken tables and chairs.

After a stalemate at the door for a long time, Qin Gentian and Jin Heng, who were finally brought in, walked into the room with the strange hostess. There were people lying on the left and right beside the painted low table. Sitting there was a mother and daughter who lowered their heads and did not make a sound.

There were three large greasy enamel basins in the center of the table, all of which were filled with red meat lumps with white grease and leg bones with sporadic meat residues without exception.

And seeing a stranger came to the house suddenly today, the hostess who was having dinner hastily wiped her greasy mouth with the back of her hand, and then she looked back and forth with her wide-open eyeballs and stood in front of her. Gentiana Qin and Jin Heng hugged the little girl in his arms, and just ignored Gentiana Qin, who was dishonest at first glance, and Jin Heng, who knew that he must be honest regardless of whether he looked at him, smiled affectionately and excitedly.

"You two... are you lost... huh?"

"kindness."

"Where did you come from...?"

"Human Lane."

"Oh...there...I know I know...it's not far from us...but now...the time...it's getting late...it's better to sleep at our house today, tomorrow... Shall we leave at dawn?"

The woman with a weird and exaggerated smile speaks human words rather vaguely and unskillfully, and habitually sticks out her red tongue as she speaks.

But no matter how warm and thoughtful the words she said, when paired with the scene in front of her, it would always give people a weird feeling of discomfort.

Her husband, who sat beside her from the beginning to the end, did not dare to intervene casually when he heard what she said. He just hunched over and sat silently beside the small table, and continued to chew the food with half of his teeth. Meaty residue on the bone.

And it seemed that Qin Gentian, who had been exceptionally silent since he just entered the door, was left aside and no one paid attention to him. Seeing this absurd scene in front of him with his own eyes, Qin Geng just twitched the corners of his mouth in silence and did not speak.

After a while, he raised his eyes as if he had suddenly remembered something, and then, ignoring the oppressive and terrifying atmosphere in the room, he tilted his head expressionlessly and poked Jin who was standing in front of him with his finger. Balanced ears.

Jin Heng: "..."

This kind of weird behavior is so childish and boring that it almost makes people suspect that he has some mental problems. Thinking about it carefully, it seems that this is not the first time this Chongjun has done this.

Jin Heng, who was poked in the ear from behind by the neuropathy, was also taken aback for a moment, and when he turned around inexplicably, he looked at Qin Gentian who was behind him with a half-smile, guessing in his heart that he might still remember that he was there before. The young teacher at the door deliberately said that he didn't know him. He could only frown behind the mask, and then he didn't bother to pay attention to Qin Gentian. Zi took the initiative to open the mouth and said,

"Well, excuse me, it's enough to give the two of us a room to rest for a while, and we'll leave as soon as the sun shines."

"Okay...okay, then follow me...I'll come...go to bed earlier, it's dark at night...don't go out and run around..."

The hostess, who kept her eyes wide open all the time, stood up and took them to the back room. Her walking posture was the same as her husband's habitually, with both hands hanging in front of her. The legs also bend forward somewhat involuntarily.

Jin Heng and Qin Geng, who were following her, acted as if they hadn't seen anything. They just followed in the footsteps of the hostess, bypassed the small kitchen where a lot of bacon and sausages were drying, and came to a room that was originally locked from the outside.

And barely stood at the door to say a few words, then sent the hostess away and walked into the small room in front of him one after another. Jin Heng, who had no time to talk to him until now, just wanted to turn his head and ask Why did Chong Jun, who is not sure that good things happen every time he appears, come here tonight, and he is planning to do something earth-shattering and weeping ghosts and gods.

He just watched Zhun Jun of Chongjie, who was lying lazily on his side like a boa constrictor, carelessly helped his ugly female marmoset with a very cute ball head on the top of its head.

Jin Heng: "..."

Obviously, because of the warning of the snake yin girl, she was very mysterious about this position and identity, and even suspected that she was more vigilant about the evil spirit who had spied on her home several times.

But because of the scene in front of him that seemed like a silly father braiding his little daughter, Jin Heng inexplicably had a feeling that was very familiar and easily reminded him of someone close to him, and he was so puzzled in his heart. Thinking about it, before Jin Heng frowned, he heard the person on the opposite side say something to him.

"The surname teacher is here to catch the dog mother this time?"

"...Well, so is Chong-jun?"

He didn't intentionally conceal his intentions for coming tonight, but rather made his attitude relatively frank. After all, Jin Heng still remembered that he owed him two favors before, so he would never lose face. What he did was too ugly, and upon hearing what he said, Qin Geng just nodded noncommittally.

"Well, that's it."

Speaking like this, he helped the mother tamarin tie up her messy hair and then touched her head. Qin Gentiana, who had roughly guessed that his intentions were roughly the same as his own, answered Jin Heng, but he didn't look from the blanket under his body. He abruptly lay down on the strange bed and sat up a little, then leaned directly on the head of the bed and chatted with the young man in front of him wearing a mask of impermanence who was bowing his head and thinking about something.

"I see that the surname teacher still has some doubts in his heart?"

"Mr. Sui thinks...the three dogs outside just now really didn't see that we are actually different from them?"

"A dog's brain is nothing more than that. Do you think they can really see something? And didn't the surname teacher notice their eyes just now? In fact, these dogs can't see anything clearly at night, even if they open their eyes." No matter how big they are, they can't tell whether we are humans or ghosts, but their noses are quite good, and they can roughly smell the difference between me and you, oh, and those eavesdropping ears, maybe Now there are really some dogs who are not afraid of death, squatting outside and eavesdropping on others..."

When he said the last sentence, Qin Gentian, who had kept his voice down before, intentionally raised his own voice a little bit, but as expected, there was really a short, stooped figure vomited in fright by the window with a vague shadow outside. The tongue quickly ran away again.

Seeing this, they knocked their fingers on the edge of the bed and stared out of the window for a while. Qin Gentian and Jin Heng, who were carefully watching the movement outside, looked back after making sure that the eavesdropping dog had really run away. Only then began to speak slowly with a normal volume.

But as they talked, the two people who didn't have much in common started to get cold, but it was at least an hour before the thing they were waiting for was fully revealed.

Lying on the side of the bed was so boring that he could only stare at the moonlight by the window to relieve boredom and pass the time. After a while, Qin Gentiana, who was leaning against the head of the bed with his gray eyes squinted and motionless, suddenly looked at the man who was sitting not far from him at the moment. Jin Heng, who kept his head down and said nothing, glanced at it, and then said on a whim,

"The surname is teacher."

"?"

"Actually, you are a bit like the person I originally pretended to be. If I hadn't confirmed that you and him should not be the same person, sometimes I even think you are him."

Jin Heng: "..."

Because of his completely unclear sentence, the air in the room seemed to stagnate in an instant, and Jin Heng was almost choking on his words when he was drinking water.

But he frowned and covered his lips and coughed, not knowing exactly what rules this person followed when he spoke and acted. The master surnamed Jin heard the next second that he was looking for someone to talk about his feelings. The guy spoke softly in a monotonous and slow voice,

"But now I can't keep him in my heart anymore."

"……why?"

Jin Heng, who asked him a question subconsciously, couldn't help asking him while wondering why he should care about such things.

And it seemed that he didn't intend to explain this question in detail. After a while, Qin Gentian, who was looking for someone to talk to out of boredom, slowly licked the thing under his tongue, and raised the corners of his mouth nervously Just talking nonsense,

"Because I've got him in my stomach."

Jin Heng: "..."

The good-for-nothing unrequited love story suddenly turned into a cannibalistic ghost story with a sudden change of style. For a moment, Jin Heng, who had an ugly face, really thought that the psychopath in front of him would eat his lover alive if he was unhappy.

But then when he saw Gentiana Qin holding back his laughter and his female marmoset with a ball head and laughed viciously together, Jin Heng also froze as if he had realized something, and then realized Mr. Jin, who had been tricked by him again, could only look away with blushing and irritated. Fortunately, he ignored the evil spirit who didn't have a word of truth in his mouth.

"I'm sorry, I don't know that you will really believe it, um, what I said just now is so bizarre... Of course the person I like is still alive... It's just that he is straightforward and kind-hearted, and I really hope that I can live a normal life from now on. People with a family life, so sometimes I feel that I approached him with the idea of ​​repaying gratitude at the beginning, maybe it is not very unfair to him, or even an unnecessary burden..."

"...to repay the favor?"

"En? Didn't you already guess what I am before? Haven't you heard the story that a young jiao who has not transformed into a dragon must repay his former benefactor, otherwise he will be struck by lightning?"

Without shy away from it, he casually talked about his past history in front of Jin Heng. Qin Gentian, who knew his identity would definitely not be able to hide it since the incident with Sanzhushu last time, rolled his gray eyes as he said this. Then he looked at the young man covered by the white impermanence mask, and recalled something purely in a tone of killing time, narrowed his eyes and smiled and said,

"Most of the dragons that haven't grown horns are ugly, and I have been looking different for a long time in the past... The person I like now is the one who helped me in the thunderstorm back then My benefactor, he was still very young at that time, and I didn't grow up at all. I just remember that it was raining heavily that day, and many people walked past me, but no one was willing to take a second look at me. Only he stopped He came down and gave me an umbrella in the heavy rain, and asked me a word..."

……

"It looks so pitiful...you come out to beg for food at such a young age..."

"Oh, whose child is this, it's so dirty, go away... go away..."

"Oh, don't look at it, don't look at it, there are blue and black birthmarks on the face like a ghost... I will have nightmares at night after watching it... Hurry up, hurry up..."

There are horrified comments from passers-by, sitting alone in the heavy rain at the gate of the second city, looking at the children carrying schoolbags coming in and out, the boy is hugging his shoulders and curling up in the trash can expressionlessly. side.

Because he was born with an ugly birthmark on his face, he was abandoned by his biological parents on the side of the road when he was born, and since then he has been in various orphanages and foster families.

But because of his weird personality and unpleasant appearance, he was quickly abandoned by the family who adopted him again, and returned to this miserable life of being homeless and sleeping on the street.

"Hey, idiot, I said, why are you always so stubborn? Didn't I persuade you to go to the world with me? No matter how bad it is there, it is much better than this world. Don't think about it all day long. I went to school to find your parents, they made you wait there, they lied to you, they never came back to look for you, they just wanted to throw you away, so you just let me go and make trouble, When I become the lord above ten thousand people in the future, I will make you a lord, and when the time comes, everyone will kneel down for us brothers and never dare to bully us, okay..."

From time to time, the guy surnamed Zhang would sneak out from the other side of the wall to see him with some delicious and interesting things, and every time he saw him, he would try his best to persuade him so earnestly.

But until now, the young man named Gentiana Qin still stubbornly and alone stays in this world where no one is willing to treat him kindly or accept him, continuing to wait for what he is destined to never wait for in his lifetime.

Although sometimes even he himself may not understand why he still has to stay, what's the point of continuing to wait here.

But until many years later, when he recalled the rainy day sitting at the gate of the second primary school in the city again, he could still vaguely think of the white-haired child who held the little rabbit umbrella on top of his head like a small mushroom. The picture of squatting on the edge of the trash can looking at him nervously and suspiciously, and the joy in my heart that seems to have waited for the arrival of spring after a long and desperate winter...from the bottom of my heart.

"...What are you doing here? Why don't you go home? Where is your home?"

—— "How about you and I go home first?"