Chapter 0853 – Can you bear to leave us behind?
”Just like the person I remember, you made me look so hard!”
Chen Ge remembered very clearly, it was a night with heavy rain, the time on his cell phone was a little after two in the morning, and he was running wildly through the corridors of the abandoned school.
As he passed the last classroom, he met the old principal for the first time.
The short, fat and kind old man stood on the podium, and he and Chen Ge crossed each other’s gazes; the zero seconds of looking at each other at the beginning had planted the cause, and now the encounter in the Psychic Ghost School was the fruit.
I guess the old principal didn’t expect that his careless glance back then would become an “encounter” that would change his fate.
His scalp tingled and his back felt a chill, the figure standing in front of the cherry red desk slowly turned around, and when he saw Chen Ge carrying two large backpacks, his expression became unnatural.
”You are …….”
”Chen Ge.”
Chen Ge walked towards the old man in large strides, “We had met once at Mureyang Middle School, if you can’t recall, I can show you the video from that time, I happened to be on the air that day.”
”I have an impression, but I have other things to do right now, so let’s catch up when I’m done.” The old principal seemed to know the secret on Chen Ge, he knew very well that he was different from those students who only had obsessions left, once he got involved with Chen Ge, he would have countless troubles in the future. Therefore, he was very decisive and reached out to grab Sakura Hong’s arm and prepared to leave.
”I wonder what’s more important than those kids at Twilight Middle School?” Chen Ge took out the comic book from his backpack, “Headmaster, everyone misses you so much, all these times you’ve been away, the smiles on the children’s faces have lost their luster, you’re the backbone of Twilight Sun Middle School, and without you, this family wouldn’t be complete.”
Whether it was from the expression, or the voice, or the content and tone of the speech, Chen Ge perfectly interpreted the four words of love and sincerity.
With his own students on Chen Ge, the old principal’s eyes changed slightly, and he opened his mouth, but did not speak immediately.
Even after living most of his life, the old master still didn’t seem to have learned how to reject people.
”Headmaster, I know that you have difficulties, and I also know that you have your own considerations for doing this, but have you ever thought about it? You gave your students what you thought was comfort, and entered such a dangerous place as the Ghost School alone, are those children who were once rescued by you really willing to accept this comfort?”
”If they knew that their current lives were exchanged for everything you had, do you think they would continue to enjoy it? Your children, you know them best, if you don’t want them to live in self-blame, it’s best to tell them everything, and we can figure it out together.”
Every word Chen Ge said was in the old principal’s heart, he didn’t care about his own safety, but he cared about those students of his.
Those students were the old principal’s weakness, and of course, they were also the old principal’s best helpers.
Without giving the old principal more time to think, Chen Ge took out a ballpoint pen wrapped in tape, he handed the pen to the old man and then rummaged through Sakura Red’s school bag to find a piece of white paper, “I’m not going to lie to you, I just hope that you’ll listen to what they have to say.”
The tape-wrapped ballpoint pen was held in the old principal’s palm, the barrel of the pen trembled slightly and moved on its own as the tip touched the white paper.
”Regardless of what others think, I am willing to help you.”
Looking at the words on the white paper, Chen Ge was also quite emotional, when Pen Fairy learned that he was preparing to enter the Ghost School, he put up a show that he would rather kill himself than come in, but now he directly changed his mind after meeting the old principal.
The old principal shook his head, he gently held the pen for fear of breaking it, it felt like stroking his granddaughter’s head.
”It’s not just her, there are others.” Chen Ge flipped through the comic book and released all of the obsessions of those students from Mureyang Middle School, “They were originally orphans, you gave them a home, and their obsessions still returned to Mureyang Middle School after they died. Because for them, no matter how big this world is, only there is their home.”
Looking at a familiar figure, the old principal fell silent.
After a dozen seconds, he looked at Chen Ge: “I’m going to do something very dangerous, you shouldn’t have come, and even more so, you shouldn’t have brought them along.”
”You’ve met my parents and know something about them. Since you’re relieved to leave your children with me, that means you know exactly who I am.” Chen Ge stood in front of the old principal: “That haunted house is my home, and them living there is my family, so how could I possibly let my own family feel sad and blame themselves every day.”
Regardless of whether it was those obsessions from Mureyang Middle School or Bai Qiulin who was carrying the mirror, they were all a bit moved after hearing these words from Chen Ge, and they already had a sense of belonging to Chen Ge’s haunted house.
This feeling was not something that Chen Ge had imposed on them, nor had it been deliberately instilled into them, but rather, it was something that Chen Ge had accumulated through one small thing after another in his life.
”What I’m going to do is dangerous, it will harm you, and even more so, it will involve them.” The old principal’s hair was white, and he stood in this abandoned classroom that had been burned by the fire, looking at those familiar figures that he had thought he would never see those children again.
”I’ve gone through a lot of trouble and thought of all sorts of ways to enter this ghost school, and one of the reasons was to help you.” Chen Ge took back the obsessions of those students from Mureyang Middle School into the comic book, they were just obsessions, very fragile, and once an accident occurred, they would probably just dissipate, completely losing the last trace of them in this world.
The old principal watched those students’ obsessions disappear into thin air with a very complicated expression on his face, and finally sighed softly, “You are very similar to your father’s character, you love to meddle, love to get into trouble, love to mess around, and don’t think about the consequences, but then you hold on to your own bottom line, and possess a rare and precious kindness.”
Chen Ge was the first time he heard someone else go and evaluate his own father, the father he remembered was completely different from what the old man said, he was afraid of destroying the atmosphere, that’s why he forced himself not to open his mouth to interject.
”It seems like you know them well.” Chen Ge asked carelessly.
”En, it was your father who told me that Snow Cherry was imprisoned in the Psychic Ghost School, and it was also him who helped me find a way in and out of this place without asking for anything in return. He helped me so much, and now you personally entered the ghost school to find me, I …… really owe you guys too much.” The image of Chen Ge’s father in the old principal’s words was very tall, but Chen Ge felt very wrong when he listened to it, he was very clear that his entry into the haunted house was an accident, and meeting the old principal was the kind of thing that he hadn’t even thought about before.
He was still puzzled before and felt that it was a bit too coincidental, but now that he was told by the old principal himself, Chen Ge suddenly realized that this old principal seemed to have been punked.
”It’s also because I was too selfish, only thinking about myself and not considering others.” The old principal was reflecting on himself, and Chen Ge didn’t know how to answer for a moment.