THEY ALL SAY I'VE MET A GHOST

Chapter 36

A Fan Translation

CHAPTER 36 - Principal Zhang (Part 2)

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"I... I don't know..." Teacher Liu's face looked suffocated. "These hundred years and more, I've never been out of the country!"

Unable to leave the country for a hundred years — he really was shut in. As poor a student as I was, I’d still gone abroad once with my teacher to attend an academic conference.

I felt an odd sense of superiority and said to Duan Youlian, "Xiao Duan, did you hear? There's no future in being a ghost, even a superior ghost like Teacher Liu. What does it amount to? You're still subject to so many constraints, like physics, chemistry, geography, sunlight, and so on. When you think about it, being a human means you'll have more freedom than being a ghost. At least you can move around during the day. You'd better graduate and be reborn as soon as possible."

Xiao Duan's face was thoughtful. She seemed very moved.

On the other hand, Teacher Liu was grieved. After repeating my words to himself for a long time time, he wiped the tears at the corners of his eyes and said to Xiao Ning, "Ning-tianshi, can you transcend me as soon as possible? Listening to Teacher Shen, I've only now realized that during these hundred years I haven't accomplished anything. Humans can go to the moon, but I've always been trapped in H City. When I was alive I imparted knowledge, once led my students out to protest in the streets, and now I've sunk to this!"

Xiao Ning didn't answer Teacher Liu. Instead he looked at me and smiled, smiled in a way that made him especially good-looking, smiled so that I couldn't help remembering the kiss by the river to put off the security guard. My heart beat faster.

He came up to me and with a quiet laugh. “Before, I concealed matters concerning ghosts from you because I was worried that once you understood the truth it would shake your determination, that you would lose your firm belief and be unable to suppress the ghosts. I was narrow-minded. Teacher Shen will always be Teacher Shen. You won't change because of anything."

"No, no, no, I’ll change." His praise was too much. I quickly waved my hand. "Before I thought the students just had special needs and aimed to help them integrate into society. I can't teach them like that in the future."

Listening to me, Duan Youlian looked happy.

I went on, "In the future I'll learn from the Maoshan Sect's experience, find ways to help my students transcend, strive to get them to memorize scriptures for transcending themselves, gives tests using ghost laws as their standards. I'll strive to achieve transcendence for the entire class as soon as possible."

Duan Youlian's smile had yet to fully manifest when it became a tearful expression again. She covered her face and said to Teacher Liu, "Why is my life so bitter!”

While we were talking, the school bus arrived at the school gates, and the four of us got on the bus.

"You're really busy tonight. I've had to make several rounds," the driver Qi-dage said, displeased.

Now that I knew the driver wasn't human, I could dimly understand why had hadn't let me sit on the seats before. I could tell that he was a good person. So I sat down in the little seat beside him and said, "Qi-dage, what's the farthest place this bus can go?"

"The human world above, Difu below." Qi-dage's voice was as cool as ever, his speech curt and forceful, but now I didn't think he was cold. He just wasn’t very skilled at communicating with others.

"So if I wanted to go to Beijing, I could also take your bus? That could save a lot of money!" If the driver didn't hurt people and was willing to keep driving, I should be able to get on well with him, as well as being thrifty.