My very cool daughter-in-law

It was a creepy enough picture.

The half of the face stretched upside down from the window is more chilling to the spine than facing a straight face. It is so quietly pasted on the glass, and the eyes are like two holes, using those dark eyes. A hole stared at the passing pedestrians.

The cicadas are still neighing in midsummer, today is a sunny day, the mid-day sun is shining down, with a scorching heat visible to the naked eye.

But the heat seems to be unable to patronize this secluded corner.

The noise of the neighing cicadas was loud and high-pitched, making that half of the face look even more eerie in the noise.

It was silent behind the window glass for a long time, Sheng Xun continued to look at it, it seemed to suddenly realize that the person outside could see him, so slowly, this thing began to slide down the top of the window.

As it slid down slowly, it swayed back and forth slightly.

There was a slight "dong dong" sound from the window.

Every time the upside-down thing swayed back and forth, its head hit the old glass surface, every time, as if in response to a certain rhythm.

Those black hole-like eyes were still staring at Sheng Xun, as if waiting for his reaction, maybe still looking forward to reaping the panic and fear of human beings as soon as possible.

——But whoever made it happen was Sheng Xun.

"Did you see it?" Sheng Xun calmly watched the hard-working performance of this half-face for a long time, and turned his head directly when his head hit the glass.

Behind him, Xiao Qiu replied in a more calm tone: "I saw it."

Probably because she has been the spirit behind people for too long in the past, even though Sheng Xun can already see herself, Xiaoqiu is still more used to walking behind people.

He had been staying behind Sheng Xun just now, and when he heard Sheng Xun talking to him, he lifted himself a little higher, poked his head over Sheng Xun's shoulder, and glanced at the window.

Something behind the window: "..."

Sheng Xun couldn't tell if it was his own delusion. After getting Xiao Qiu's words, he turned back to look at that face, and felt for no reason that he could see the aggrieved face from the face that had not been able to show the whole face so far. .

Half of the face did not continue to move down, nor did it sway.

It only stared silently at this extremely shameless combination of humans and ghosts from behind the window for a moment, and then began to retreat backwards when it saw that it really seemed that no one could be frightened.

Then the whole retreated to the top of the window frame, suspected to be a direct exit.

"It looks like a doll." Sheng Xun said after it was completely invisible.

The reason why he watched the other party for so long and didn't step forward immediately was because he realized that something was wrong after watching him.

It looked like a grimace at first glance, like a person hanging upside down behind the window, just high enough for the other person to show half of his face from the top of the wooden window sill.But if you look closely, you can find that the proportions of the face and facial features are obviously different from those of a real person, more like a humanoid doll that is hung upside down.

To be honest, if the doll hadn't moved a little later, as if impatient to show that "there is a ghost here", Sheng Xun might have thought it was someone's prank, and deliberately put a doll here to scare people.

"It's not really worth paying attention to." Xiao Qiu didn't give that thing a few glances from the beginning to the end. Seeing that Sheng Xun seemed to be very interested, he took a second look. He was not interested but was afraid that Sheng Xun would worry about it. Explaining, "It's just a small thing, don't worry about it."

Sheng Xun has an unreasonable trust in Xiaoqiu, and he is more aware that in this regard, the other party knows far more and is more accomplished than him.

Hearing this, he looked away from the window.

Xiaoqiu noticed that the human looked at him with a smile on his face, but he could tell that it wasn't the other person's gratified smile after getting a reliable answer.

He was puzzled and asked sincerely, "Why are you laughing?"

"Because I'm thinking about a serious issue." Sheng Xun said, regardless of whether there is a little conflict between "laughing" and "serious".

Xiaoqiu looked at him even more confused, and heard the man say: "Your 'little thing' is small compared with you, or does it also apply to other ordinary people?"

The ghost seemed to be stopped by someone, and his confusion turned into a thoughtful expression.

Before he came to a conclusion, Sheng Xun understood this reaction - he really didn't think about the problem that the "little thing" in his own eyes was too small in the eyes of others.

The sunlight fell through the luxuriant canopy above the head, and only the shadow of Sheng Xun was reflected on the ground in front of him, and because they were standing very close, it seemed that there was another shadow that had been merged into one.

There is no key pendant at hand, only a bouquet of flowers to take to the office to the teacher. Sheng Xun looked at the ghost thinking seriously for a while, then took out one from the large bunch of flowers, and lit a small flower with a fresh-cut flower branch. Autumn.

"We have to keep moving forward." Sheng Xun reminded people with a flower branch, "Otherwise the teacher sees that I haven't reached the office building for a long time, and I guess I will call to remind me later, and ask me if I have only graduated a few years ago. , I even forgot the way to the office."

The ends of the long-stalked branches are still dripping with water, and the rhizomes exude the strong fresh smell of the plant.Sheng Xun noticed when he handed the milk tea to Xiao Qiu before that the fresh items passed by his hands to the other party did not seem to rot as quickly as the other party said, and they would become rotten under the other party's touch. A group of "plant corpses" that are rapidly losing their vitality.

Seeing Xiaoqiu looking at the flower, Sheng Xun handed it over, motioning for the other person to accept it.

"Come on, accept it." He said half-jokingly, "I'll bribe you with this flower, and you can come here with me later, let's pay attention to the 'little thing' just now, shall we?"

The long-stemmed flower was picked up by the ghost, and his thin, almost transparent fingers pinched the flower branch, probably as a sign of accepting a bribe.

Sheng Xun glanced at the empty window again. He led the other party to continue walking towards the office building. When he was stepping up the stairs of the old office building, he suddenly heard Xiao Qiu say behind him: "No bribe."

Xiaoqiu's cold voice came from behind, and said seriously: "As long as you want, I will accompany you."

The ghost seemed to be thinking very slowly, and it wasn't until they had gone a long way that they sorted out their previous thoughts.

But even though he said he didn't need to bribe, he didn't seem to want to return the flower he got.

Sheng Xun looked back at him, and for some reason, felt that there was something in Xiao Qiu's words.

There is no need to bribe, which means that the flower cannot be regarded as a "bribe money" in a joke, it is a flower specially given to the other party-is there such a meaning?

Sheng Xun was a little distracted by this thought that suddenly popped into his mind, and he didn't notice that he had stepped on the last step and was walking straight forward.

The door of an office right in front just happened to open, and a figure walked out of it. As soon as he looked up and saw Sheng Xun, he said quickly, "I was talking about going to the window in the corridor to see if you are only a few years old. Before I came back, I forgot how to get to the office, why did it take me so long to walk from the school gate?"

The person who came out happened to be Mr. Sheng Xun, who had brought his class teacher for three years. The words that the other party shook off as soon as they met were very different from what Sheng Xun had guessed before, with a "gun and stick style" from a familiar teacher "'s joke.

Sheng Xun quickly recovered, smiled apologetically, and after talking about the teacher for a long time, he quickly handed over the flowers, trying to make up for his delay in time with flowers.

"Just remember to come back and take a look, and bring any flowers." The female teacher who is over forty years old said so, but in fact, this teacher and Xiao Qiu who said "don't bribe" just now have the same effect. Wonderful, they hugged Sheng Xun's flowers again, and then a comfortable smile appeared on his face, and led Hua and her long-awaited Sheng Xun to the office.

At present, it is holiday time on the surface, but everyone who has experienced the college entrance examination knows that supplementary classes are always indispensable during the winter and summer vacations.

There will always be a group of teachers and students on the middle school campus during the holidays, and there will be no shortage of people.

When Sheng Xun was led into the office by the head teacher back then, he found that at least one-third of the desks in the office were full.

There were two girls standing in front of a desk in the corner, one of them bowed her head deeply, and the other hugged her back. The girl with her head bowed seemed to be crying, while the teacher in front of her looked sad, He kept rubbing his brows.

"Otherwise, let's contact the parents and let you go home and rest for two days, shall we?"

"Really, don't put too much pressure on yourself. You are too nervous. Let's take a short vacation for ourselves. The classmates and teachers will help you make up for the course later. You should go back to relieve the pressure first, you said Ok?"

Sheng Xun's head teacher's desk was still some distance away from the teacher, and the teacher's voice could be called soft-spoken, as if he was afraid of further irritating the depressed girl in front of him.

But the office will be very quiet here, and Sheng Xun's ears are still quite sensitive. He inadvertently listened to the entire conversation over there. The smile narrowed a little, and he gestured to Sheng Xun to tell him not to look, then shook his head slightly at him, and sighed.

"The little girl over there is only a freshman in high school." The head teacher pouted slightly, "Maybe she is too demanding of herself, and the family is also very strict and tight, but her condition has become worse and worse recently, and she has suffered a lot mentally. The pressure, even hearing hallucinations.”

Sheng Xun paused: "Hearing hallucinations?"

"Correct."

Older women are strict in teaching, but they also have very strong empathy and empathy when it comes to the details of students' lives.

She glanced over there by herself, her expression became unbearable, and she lowered her voice: "She came to the office once half a month ago crying, and heard from their teacher that she had auditory hallucinations in the dormitory, and heard Someone was singing a nursery rhyme, and she couldn't sleep well all night, and then she looked haggard day by day."

Opposite the class teacher's desk was the workstation of another young teacher. She accidentally overheard the conversation here, and interjected in a low voice: "I heard that the nursery rhyme is about clay dolls. After singing a few lines, oops, I have goosebumps, I have never thought this song is so scary before."

Sheng Xun quickly went through the information given by several teachers, and he found that he had also heard that nursery rhyme.

Clay dolls, clay dolls.

A clay doll.

There are also those eyebrows, and there are also those eyes that don't blink.

——The nursery rhyme "Clay Doll"

The author has something to say: "Clay Doll" is indeed a nursery rhyme, and those who are interested can listen to it