When Xiaoyang was in third grade, something happened that made Xiaoyang very ashamed and embarrassed.

It was in a Chinese class. Teacher Chen, the Chinese teacher and head teacher, taught Xiaoyang and the others an article titled "Dayu's Control of Floods".

At the beginning of class, Teacher Chen usually reads the article aloud to give students an impression.

Next, the original text is explained in sections, and scriptures are quoted to explain the entire article thoroughly.

If there is still enough time, Teacher Chen will call on a certain student to read an article aloud. Xiaoyang was most afraid of this stage because he was introverted and his Mandarin was not standard. He quickly lowered his head to avoid Teacher Chen's gaze. Unfortunately, "Murphy's Law" comes into play at this time: the more afraid you are of something, the more likely it is that you will encounter it.

Xiaoyang was really called by Teacher Chen and asked him to read a paragraph.

After Xiao Yang, who was extremely nervous, stood up, he was shaking a little, his forehead felt cold, and he felt like he was about to break out in cold sweat.

In line with the mentality of "taking care of things as they come", Xiaoyang read a certain paragraph of "Dayu's Control of Floods" aloud. His Mandarin is very non-standard, his tongue is not completely flat and his tongue is raised, and he cannot differentiate between front nasal sounds and back nasal sounds. Teacher Chen frowned a little after hearing this.

Fortunately, these small mistakes were made. Teacher Chen did not interrupt Xiaoyang’s reading. But when he read the word "witch", the word "demon" popped out of Xiaoyang's mouth.

Teacher Chen naturally would not let such a big mistake go, and immediately stopped Xiaoyang, pointing out the mistake, "This should be pronounced 'wu', not 'yao', remember it!" Let Xiaoyang read this sentence again. Unexpectedly, Xiaoyang read it wrong again. He was probably so nervous that he couldn't control his mouth.

Teacher Chen thought Xiao Yang was doing it on purpose, so his tone became a little harsh. He stared at Xiao Yang and asked him to read the word "witch" aloud five times. Xiaoyang followed the teacher's instructions and read "Witch" five times loudly and quickly. When the teacher asked Xiaoyang to read the sentence with the word "witch" again, Xiaoyang felt dizzy again, and his mouth couldn't control it and read it as "demon". Suddenly, the entire class looked at Xiao Yang, thinking that Xiao Yang was deliberately causing trouble. In fact, only Xiaoyang himself knew that he really didn't do it on purpose, it was because his mouth didn't obey his command. Cold sweat has begun to drip down.

Xiaoxue, who was at the same table, couldn't stand it anymore. She turned her face towards Xiaoyang and said softly: "It's a witch, not a demon!"

Teacher Chen was also very angry. There was a tendency to go berserk, and he roared loudly, "Nianwu, a witch from Wushan. A monster that is not a monster."

Xiaoyang found that he had become the target of public criticism, and his mind suddenly became clearer, and he couldn't help but think about it. In my mind, I quickly re-read the sentence with the word "witch" just now. When I read "witch", I quickly skipped the word "witch" and then read on quickly without giving the teacher any time to react.

Of course Teacher Chen heard it. Maybe he was angry enough and didn’t want to be angry with Xiaoyang anymore, so he let Xiaoyang go.

When Xiaoyang finished reading and the teacher asked him to sit down, Xiaoyang fell down and sat on the stool as if he was exhausted, breathing heavily.

Xiaoxue, who was at the same table, blinked her beautiful big eyes and asked: "Xiaoyang, did you do it on purpose? You want to be limelight?"

Xiaoyang felt so wronged. He said: "No, I really can't recognize that word. At that time, this word "witchcraft" felt so strange."

People will feel uncomfortable after staring at a word for dozens of seconds. The feeling of knowing this word is technically called "semantic saturation".

What a magical word "witch".