“Teacher, it’s raining outside again.”
Su An opened his eyes and looked at the one speaking. A boy with a thick headband and acne marks on his face looked out the window worriedly, “Look, I can’t even see the road clearly.”
Su An looked out the window. The dense forest was hazy in the white rain and fog, showing a dark color. The raindrops on the window left long streaks, and the dripping rain was so thick that it made people uncomfortable.
This van was forced to stop on the road in the dense forest due to heavy rain.
In the driver’s seat, a boy with permed red hair was chewing a gum and said, “The road has turned into dirt. What a bad place this is. It has been raining since we drove to this place. There is no signal on the mobile phone, so I can’t even play a game to kill time.”
Su An looked at him, and the red-haired boy turned his head. He looked like a handsome boy, and his tone was a little impatient, “Teacher, what should we do now?”
Su An coughed and carefully took out the folded old-fashioned glasses from the pocket of his plaid shirt, “Where’s the map, bring it to teacher.”
The only female classmate sitting in the back seat handed him the map.
Su An unfolded the map and slowly found the road they were on. The rain was pattering outside, and moisture seeped in through the cracks in the windows, causing the map to become soft.
“Let me look for it…we are here,” Su An pushed up his glasses and looked out the window seriously, “There is a Xijing Village two kilometers away. Let’s stop in the village and wait for the rain to stop.”
The prescription of the original body is not high, only one or two hundred degrees. Even wearing glasses didn’t help much in seeing. Su An opened his eyes wide and could only see the nearest row of trees within three meters.
Such a huge white fog covered almost everything.
“Doesn’t everyone have a signal on their mobile phones?” Su An slowly took off his glasses and put them away carefully.
The boy with a thick headband said: “Teacher, my mobile phone has had no signal since the first rain.”
The girl in the back seat whispered: “Me too.”
Su An urged with good temper: “Look at it again, look at it again.”
The three students reluctantly turned on their phones and looked at it again.
The original’s name is Yu Su’an. He has a boring character, too particular and too serious. He was secretly nicknamed “Troublesome Mama” by the students in the university. This time, he came out with a few graduate students for research, and was trapped on the road by the continuous rainy weather.
The red-haired man’s name is Zhou Hao. He is a second-generation rich man. He usually hates the original owner’s seriousness and finds it annoying. The boy with the thick headband is called Chen Tian. He is a boy from the countryside who has been admitted to college. He has a simple personality and respects teachers and education. The only girl is named Qin Qin, a bit timid, and is the protagonist of this world.
Su An’s peripheral vision glanced over at the heroine, “System, where is the place in this world that needs to be corrected?”
The system said: “Host, in the original fate line, the heroine completed the pre-graduation research, successfully graduated, entered the society, met her true destiny, and her career and love are all smooth sailing.”
Su An: “Well, continue.”
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“Teacher,” Zhou Hao, the red-haired man, raised his voice and called Su An three times, cursing the troublemaker in his heart, “Look, all three of our mobile phones have no signal.”
“Ai,” Su An also took out his mobile phone and took a look at it. He seemed to calmly wipe away his cold sweat and sighed, “It really is. It’s not a big deal even if it rains all the time…let’s do this. If it doesn’t stop in half an hour, let’s leave the car here, hold an umbrella and walk two kilometers to the village. After the rain stops, we’ll come back and drive the car away.”
This road is sparsely traveled and is still a dirt road, so if they park their car here, they won’t block other people’s roads. Their tires were already stuck in the mud, and they would probably have to waste some effort to push the car out when the rain stopped.
The teacher and students’ group of four have been trapped in the car all day and have eaten all the food they can eat. If they stay any longer, they will be hungry at night. Yu Su’an is not afraid of starving himself, but he is afraid of starving his students.
The three students had no objection to this decision, and the four of them waited quietly for half an hour. The rain and fog outside showed no signs of stopping.
Su An asked the students to carry their belongings and get out of the car under umbrellas.
As soon as they got out of the car, the cold wind and broken rain rushed up. Su An shivered, he returned to the car and took his coat, “Everyone, please wear thick clothes to avoid catching a cold.”
Chen Tian and Qin Qin both went back to get their clothes obediently, and Zhou Hao also walked over. After getting his coat, he looked back happily and said to the two of them: “Look at this troublesome mama, this clothes look old-fashioned even for my grandpa.”
Chen Tian and Qin Qin looked back and saw that Teacher Yu Su’an was buttoning up his dark blue coat solemnly. The coat was flat and straight, just like the style of clothes worn by men in their fifties and sixties. The two couldn’t help but laugh, then stopped awkwardly, “Teacher is quite young, but his dressing style is so, uh, retro.”
Zhou Hao: “Come on, if this is called retro, the fashion world doesn’t need to reincarnate. People don’t call him uncle when they see him because he is young and pretty good-looking. Plaid shirt, dark blue jacket, black and gray pants, my God, why did I sign up for his subject at that time.”
Their topic is to explore folk customs. The school will provide research fees, which is equivalent to a publicly funded trip. Registration is very popular.
“I feel that this subject is very good, and Teacher Yu is also very responsible,” Qin Qin said weakly, “The teacher is very knowledgeable. I have learned a lot from the teacher along the way.”
Chen Tian nodded, “Zhou Hao, stop talking, the teacher is already dressed.”
A group of people hurried to the village under umbrellas and braved the wind and rain. The further they walked, the thicker the mud on the road became, and as soon as they took off their shoes, they would pick up a trail of mud.
The two-kilometer road usually only takes thirty minutes at most, but because of the rain, fog and mud, the four of them had to walk for an hour before they saw the shadow of the village in the misty white mist.
There is a river in front of the village with fast currents. An old wooden bridge stretched over the river. When Su An stepped on it, his soles almost slipped. He quickly held onto the handrail and looked down. It turned out that there was some sparse moss growing on the bridge.
“Students, be careful,” He raised his voice, “It’s easy to slip here.”
Chen Tian said loudly: “Teacher, we know!”
The wood at the handrail was soaked soft by the rain. When you pinch it with your hands, it seems that you can pinch a fingerprint with a little force. Su An guessed that there must have been no rain in this place in recent months, otherwise the wood would not have been soaked to the point of rotting.
He carefully walked off the bridge. His shoes were already soaked through at this time. Not only the shoes, but also his pants and back, which were not covered by the umbrella, were stuck to his body.
The three students were as embarrassed as him. Su An looked at the entrance of the village. Not far from the bridge, there was a stone standing tall, looking like an old man on crutches. On it were engraved three rough characters: Xijing Village .
Qin Qin exclaimed: “Look, is this stone formed naturally?”
They regarded the rain as a relaxing game, and when they heard this, they all ran to the edge of the stone. Zhou Hao was well-informed. He circled the stone twice and said, “It looks like it was formed naturally. I saw no traces of artificial carving.”
Su An walked over slowly, smiled and said: “In “Notes of Youdai Xianguan”, there is a stone like this that looks like an old man. He is called the “Qiaotou Land God” by the villagers and enjoys offerings of incense. But afterward, six women, determined not to marry, met together and threw themselves into the river to die, and the villagers felt that the “Qiaotou Land God” did not protect the lives of the women, so they no longer worshiped the stone.”
The three of them listened carefully, and Qin Qin whispered: “How can you let a stone come to save people?”
Zhou Hao said casually: “It’s just a story, just listen to it.”
They walked slowly towards the village. It was unknown if it was an illusion, after passing the old man stone, the white fog seemed to be less, although the rain was still falling, the visibility was much better than before.
The entrance to the village was quiet, and no one was seen.
Su An took out his glasses and put them on. Chen Tian pulled his sleeves and said, “Teacher, there seems to be someone on the road turning left.”
Su An: “Let’s go take a look.”
A small village is usually arranged neatly, with a road running in all directions, so that one can incorporate it at a glance. But this village called Xijing Village is not like that. The road turning left is winding and uneven, and houses of large and small are gathered together in twos and threes. It doesn’t look like a village, but more like a maze.
Turning left and reaching the end, the noise gradually grew louder. The sounds of men’s conversations and women’s cries were mixed together, as if there were dozens or hundreds of people gathered around here. Everyone was talking, but no words could be heard clearly.
Su An took the students out to take a look. Not far away, villagers were standing next to each other, each with a sad face and whispering to the people around them. Many of the villagers were wearing white turbans and white linen. A coffin was placed in the middle of the crowd, and two groups of people were arguing around the coffin.
Chen Tian whispered: “Teacher, they seem to be in the middle of a burial.”
A villager outside the crowd whispered: “Hurry up and burn it, why are you crying? Aren’t you scared…”
“Shh,” Another person yelled quickly, “Shut up.”
As soon as they turned around, they saw Su An and four people standing at the entrance of the alley, and they were stunned.
Su An hurriedly stepped forward, “Hello, brother,” He recounted what happened when they were stuck on the road due to the rain, “Where is the Village Chief? We would like to borrow a place to rest for the night.”
The two villagers were still looking at them, from Su An to Qin Qin who was last. Qin Qin was a little scared and hid behind the teacher.
The two villagers finished looking at them and said: “The Village Chief is right in front. I will take you to find the Village Chief.”
One of them pulled Su An forward and said enthusiastically: “Where is the car parked? Alas, it has rained a lot in our place in the past two months, and the fields have been flooded into rivers. Don’t worry, there are a lot of empty houses in our place, so there will definitely be a place for you to live. The villagers in Xijing Village are all hospitable.”
The three students followed the teacher closely, and the villager who was leading the way shouted loudly: “Everyone, give way, give way, there are outsiders coming, and they want to see the Village Chief!”
Along the way, people wearing mourning clothes and people not wearing mourning clothes made way for them after hearing the shouts. Dozens of pairs of eyes were staring at the four of them. Zhou Hao couldn’t help but feel angry. He turned his head and complained to Chen Tian: “This is too damn enthusiastic.”
No matter who he looked at, the villagers grinned at him.
Smiling at other times was just fine, but this time the coffin was placed inside, and some of them were draped in white linen and still smiling at him, which made Zhou Hao feel uncomfortable.
Chen Tian had a flat look on his face, “Rural people are indeed hospitable, everyone in a village is acquainted with each other, and they know everything about the stale sesame seeds, if an outsider comes, everyone is curious.”
Zhou Hao thought for a while, “Alright.”
The villager brother took them directly to the coffin and said to a one-armed old man who was leaning on a cane and had a straight face: “Village Chief, there are outsiders who want to stay in our village.”
The two parties who were arguing just now were a few decrepit old people headed by the Village Chief, and the other party were three family members in white mourning clothes. The three of them were kneeling on the ground and crying out of breath. In the natural-colored rain, there is no distinction between tears and rain.
One of the middle-aged women murmured and repeated: “My son cannot be burned.”
Su An was really embarrassed when they broke in this scene, but before he said anything, the Village Chief suppressed his anger, he looked at Su An and the others kindly and said: “Are you here to stay overnight?”
Yu Su’an said in embarrassment: “We are dealing with a small matter, so we are not in a hurry. Do your business first and don’t worry about us.”
The village chief sighed, “What business is not…several guests, how did you come to our village?”
“I’m a university teacher, and I took my students out to do research, and I happened to pass by here,” Yu Su’an said hurriedly, “Village chief, just do your business first.”
The village chief perked up and said, “University teacher? Cultured man! Come and take a look and see if this dead man should be burned or not!”
Before Su An could refuse, the villagers on the side had already pushed the coffin open.
The corpse of a young man with a pale face was exposed in front of everyone.
The body was collected very neatly, which showed the love and care his family had for him. His face was young, he seemed to be in his early twenties, and his appearance was ordinary, but he died at a young age.
Yu Su’an couldn’t bear it and was about to look away when he suddenly realized something was wrong. He looked back hesitantly and glanced up and down for a while, “Has this body been left there for a long time?”
The village chief said quietly: “He just died yesterday.”
But the body was very stiff. It was so stiff that it was clear that it had been dead for five or six days.
Su An suddenly felt a chill.
The original owner’s erudition instantly transmitted the relevant knowledge to him. He clearly remembered that in netherworld culture, there was a kind of zombie that looked like this.
The body of a newly deceased person who has not been restrained will become stiff, and evil things will take the opportunity to invade the body and suddenly jump up to attack people.
After such a corpse transformation, the person who opens his eyes again is not the original owner of the corpse, but the evil thing occupying the corpse.
Su An shuddered and suddenly woke up again. He chuckled, zombie? Evil corpse? How can this be.
He was about to ask someone to push the coffin up, but suddenly he saw the corpse suddenly open its eyes. A pair of dark and terrifying eyes instantly met Su An. These eyes had no whites, and the ordinary face suddenly became spooky and full of evil spirits because of these eyes.
The corpse looked directly at Su An, and Su An suddenly had goosebumps all over his body.
He screamed “ah” and staggered back two steps, being supported by Zhou Hao and Chen Tian. When he pointed at the coffin again with trembling hands, the body in the coffin was calm, as if nothing had changed.
Disturbing villagers, check!
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