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Counting ladders

Zhang Xiaotu went to study again, and walked all the way to Building 1 with me, and then said, “Hey, let’s go to Building 1. It’s so hard to get there!” Actually, we can’t blame Zhang Xiaotu. Although our school is not big, the library is in the middle of the school, and Building 1 is less than two minutes in front of our boys’ dormitory . When Zhang Xiaotu and I arrived at the classroom of Building 1, Zhang Xiaotu shouted, “You go first, I’ll go to the toilet first.”

I said, “Go to hell, don’t even mention going to the toilet, you must be fooling around with one of your sweethearts again, hahahaha”. But Zhang Xiaotu looked at me innocently and said, “I’m not lying to you this time. Maybe the food in the cafeteria made me sick. Now my stomach hurts really bad. You better go first, I’ll be back later.” I said, “boy, hurry up, don’t wait until the classroom closes before coming back,” Before leaving, Zhang Xiaotu asked me for toilet paper.

I didn’t care at the time and thought it was okay. I just let him do what he wanted. I found a seat and started reviewing. After about an hour, I stretched my neck which was sore from reading and planned to go out for a walk and smoke a cigarette.

I touched my pocket and remembered that when I gave Zhang Xiaotu toilet paper, he also took my cigarette. He said that the toilet was smelly and it was better to smoke. At that time, I thought he had too many things to do. I actually forgot about it after reviewing for a while. So I went to the toilet to find Zhang Xiaotu to return the cigarette.

When I just walked to the toilet, I seemed to hear a sound in the toilet. I thought it was Zhang Xiaotu, so I called out at the door of the toilet, “Zhang Xiaotu, why don’t you come out? Give me the cigarette, don’t smoke alone.” Unexpectedly, he didn’t answer at all. At that time, I felt very angry, so I started to curse, “Zhang Xiaotu, come out, is there gold in here? Why don’t you come out? Come out quickly, I want to smoke.” Unexpectedly, there was still no response.

I was about to go into the toilet to invite him out in person. At this time, Zhang Xiaotu in the toilet responded. Maybe he heard me scolding him and cursed back, “Tell me, are you stingy? I almost got scolded by you for smoking a few cigarettes.” I said, “You still know how to come out. Is the toilet full? Why did you take so long to come out?” Zhang Xiaotu replied, “You know, it was really strange just now. As soon as I entered the toilet, I felt that there was someone, and that person was very noisy.

But when I went in, it seemed that a shadow floated out, but it seemed that there was nothing.” He paused, and I curiously asked, “Then what?” He laughed and said, “Then, then I started to pull it, hahahahahahaha.” It was then that I realized, “You scared me again.”

Zhang Xiaotu knew that I was most afraid of those senseless ghosts and gods , so this happened. This guy had scared me a lot in the past, but I didn’t take it seriously. But suddenly Zhang Xiaotu changed the subject and said, “To be honest, today was a bit strange. I just squatted for a while and then I seemed to fall asleep. If you hadn’t called me, I might still be sleeping.” “Hahaha, I think you are lazy and sleepy. You can really fall asleep just by going to the toilet, hahaha.”

I said mockingly, as if to report that I had just been teased, but Zhang Xiaotu said seriously, “I’m serious. Just now after I fell asleep, I saw a man asking for toilet paper. Guess what happened,” I didn’t ask him, so he continued, “In the end, I didn’t give it to him, and I scolded him. Hahaha.” I said, “Aren’t you afraid of retribution for playing tricks on people like this?” Zhang Xiaotu didn’t answer me immediately. He took a puff of cigarette and whispered, “You know what, it’s really a bit evil.

After I didn’t give him the paper, I knew I was dreaming, but I couldn’t wake up. ” Hearing his words, I felt my scalp tingling, and I wanted to beat him back to the dormitory. “Zhang, let’s go back to the dormitory first. It’s so late now, we should go back.” Zhang Xiaotu immediately reacted and smiled at me, “Why, are you scared ? Hahaha, okay, let’s go, let’s go back.”

When we first reached the staircase, I don’t know if Zhang Xiaotu was bored or just having fun, he just counted the stairs casually, and when he just counted to 4, the light in the staircase went out as if on purpose. I was thinking about the book I read today, and suddenly it went out like this, which scared me so much that the light in my heart went out, and I felt like something was missing.

At this time, I could still hear Zhang Xiaotu counting the stairs “One, two, three,… ten, eleven… How come there are twelve steps on the previous staircase, but only eleven steps on this one, oh, no, let’s count again.” Zhang Xiaotu seemed to be addicted to counting, and he had to count again. I said impatiently, “Zhang, let’s go, it’s late.” Zhang Xiaotu seemed not to hear me, but seemed to be answering me, “No, count again, one, two, three… eleven, oh” “Zhang, let’s go back, it’s late, come back tomorrow and count again,” I said again.

But Zhang Xiaotu still didn’t seem to hear “one, two…” This time, before he could count to eleven, he heard “bang, boom …

It was not until daytime that I had the courage to look at the ladder. There were clearly twelve steps, but where was Zhang Xiaotu? I went back alone that night. I have graduated from college and have been working for so many years, but I still haven’t heard of Zhang Xiaotu. “Hey, have you seen Zhang Xiaotu?”…