Stepping out of the train, I breathed in the slightly dry northern air on the platform and let out a long breath.
Beining, I have returned to the city where I was born and raised.
The surroundings are still familiar with the air, familiar scenery, even the road from the train station is familiar. A trace of complicated emotions surged in my heart, and returning to my hometown made me feel both at ease and uneasy.
Out of the corner of my eye, I secretly took a look at Wen Jiubai who was walking aside. This guy's expression was still very calm, neither nostalgia nor boredom could be seen. But between his brows, there seemed to be a faint sense of loss.
Is it my illusion
"What's wrong?" Wen Jiubai noticed my gaze and turned his head.
"No, it's just..." I thought about it and couldn't help asking, "No, I'm still curious."
"What are you curious about?"
"How did you and my second aunt meet?" I asked curiously.
Wen Jiubai laughed as soon as he heard it, and asked, "Do you really want to know?"
"Want to know!"
No matter how you look at it, my second aunt and Wen Jiubai are two people who can't fight together.
"It starts when you were not born." Wen Jiubai said with a smile, "Twenty years ago, I lived in Beining for a short time. Same as now, except for the demon master, I There is also a 'normal' job that is used as a cover-up, as a teacher in a secondary school."
"You actually used to be a teacher." I was surprised.
"Of course, don't you think I don't look like a teacher?" Wen Jiubai smiled with narrowed eyes.
"It's your blessing that the school didn't kick out your dishonest teacher." I rolled my eyes and said.
Wen Jiubai smiled, and continued, "However, that's when this unscrupulous teacher met your second aunt Zhang Shanqiu."
Yes, speaking of it, my second aunt is also a middle school teacher. So Wen Jiubai taught in the same middle school as her
"At that time, she and I were colleagues, and we taught the same class. Although we were not in the same office, we often met each other. But at the end of that semester, I found that there was something wrong with her. "
"Not quite right?"
"Yes. Shanqiu is usually a very cheerful person, but during that time he was always depressed. Once he even forgot his textbooks. After ringing the class bell, he rushed back to the office to get them. What about me? , with a willingness to help others, I went to ask her what was going on. In the end, she told me that her house was haunted."
"Haunted?" I listened with gusto, "Isn't that just—"
"That's to say, it happens to be my domain." Wen Jiubai smiled, "After asking, I found out that every midnight in her house, there would be strange noises coming from the toilet. It was a kind of nail scratching on the wall. There was a strange sound that couldn’t come out. And every time she mustered up the courage to turn on the light in the toilet, there was nothing in it. After going through this for a week, she still couldn’t get rid of the entanglement of this strange sound.”
"Then what happened next?" I couldn't help asking.
"Later, I promised her that I would go to her house to find out what happened that night. The two of us squatted in the room and played poker until midnight. Just when I was about to win, there was a kind of noise coming from the direction of the toilet. Weird, like fingernails scratching the wall." Wen Jiubai said seriously, "But, I have already set a trap in the toilet, if something happens, I will definitely fall into my trap. Sure enough, at this time we I heard a strange scream coming from the toilet, followed by a violent struggle."
"Then you..." I swallowed, and couldn't help being attracted by Wen Jiubai's story.
"Of course, Shanqiu and I rushed over immediately, kicked open the door, and turned on the light. At this time—" Wen Jiubai deliberately kept a secret, "Guess what we saw at this time?"
"How do I know?" I urged, "Tell me!"
"We rushed in and saw that it was a skunk that was trapped by my talisman paper and rope." Wen Jiubai said slowly.
I burst out laughing, "Skunk?"
"That's right, you heard that right, it's a skunk." Wen Jiubai smiled, tucking his arms into his sleeves, and said as he walked, "It seems that a lot of skunks in the suburbs of Beining ran into the city sewer by mistake, and Zhang Shanqiu found them in the toilet. It should be one of the lost ones. It must have been trapped here for several days. This kind of animal is timid by nature, and dare not come out during the day, only dare to come out in the middle of the night, looking for a way to escape. You two The sound of nails scratching the wall that my aunt heard was actually the sound of the skunk's claws. In the end, the furious skunk let out a stinky fart and escaped from the window. Only me and Your second aunt stood there with a stench all over her body. I really remember that smell, and it won't go away after a week."
Wen Jiubai fanned helplessly in front of his nose with his palm, as if he could still smell the stench. I couldn't straighten my back from laughing, and it took me a long time to catch my breath.
"But wait." At this moment, I suddenly remembered something and asked, "You said you were a teacher in Beining twenty years ago?"
"That's right."
I looked him up and down, and said in disbelief, "Then how old are you now..."
Wen Jiubai smiled slightly, as if he was about to answer, but at this moment, he was interrupted by a sharp voice.
"Gu Yu!"
The penetrating power of this sound is not so strong, and it can be clearly transmitted to my ears through the crowded crowd. I trembled almost subconsciously, I was too familiar with this voice.
It's my mother.
As long as you raise your head slightly, you can see a beautifully dressed woman who is over forty years old standing at the front of the exit, wearing bright lipstick, holding a shiny patent leather bag and looking around the world.
"Gu Yu!" She yelled again, although this yell was quickly drowned out by the noise of the bustling crowd, but it remained deeply in my ears.
I stopped involuntarily, not daring to go any further.
"What's wrong?" Wen Jiubai's voice sounded in my ears, "Is it your mother who called you?"
"Well..." I swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
"Why don't you go over?" Wen Jiubai gently pushed me.
Yeah...why not go there. Anyway, even if she stands here, she will soon find out.
It's a public place, and she won't really eat me up, it's okay.
I secretly cheered myself up in my heart, lowered my head and took a step.