Chapter 3 Exploring Zhang Hao's Past
Li Jing and I decided to go back to my alma mater, but the teacher who was able to host us didn't come back to work until Monday, so we decided to talk to the teacher on Monday night when Team Xiao came forward to talk to him. Because it is a suicide case that has been closed, although the information is complete, if it is not handled well, it may be regarded as a reversal of the case, and without the help of clear directional evidence, the reversal of the case will bring unnecessary trouble to the Xiao team. When he promised us to investigate Zhang Hao's suicide, Team Xiao repeatedly told us to pay more attention.
Because it was Monday, Li Jing and I both had a lot of work, and when we arrived at school, we were about to end our evening self-study. The team didn't come to school with us because of the sudden case at hand. When we found Mr. Liu, the homeroom teacher of the account at that time, we could clearly feel the faint anger of the middle-aged woman in front of us. Although this university is my alma mater, not all the teachers I am familiar with are different departments, so I did not disclose my experience as a student at this school. Maybe it was because we arrived too late, or because we moved out something from a long time ago, when Mr. Liu saw us, he asked angrily: "Why did you bring up this case again, didn't the police close the case with suicide?" ”
Because I didn't particularly like the head teacher when I was in school, the director was asked by Teacher Liu, and I didn't know what to say for a long time. Li Jing apologized to Mr. Liu very calmly: "I'm sorry, we are really late today." But because we recently received a letter from Zhang Hao, which was written to us by the child who committed suicide in your class before, we are a little worried and want to know from you about what happened back then. ”
Teacher Liu's face changed suddenly after hearing this, and he insisted that we had made the wrong person. Li Jingjing's eyes flashed, but he still said politely: "But it is impossible for the dead to be resurrected to write to us." So help us eliminate the fear in our hearts, Mr. Liu, can you tell us about Zhang Hao's suicide back then. ”
Teacher Liu obviously didn't want to talk too much about this matter, she got up and said calmly: "It's been many years since this happened, and I can't remember the specific details, if you want to know, it's better to go to the police station to see, the people who solved the case back then know more about the case than we do." What can I give you as a class teacher? Now it's almost evening self-study, I have to go to the class to see, if you have nothing else to do, let's leave, after all, it's not early. As for the letter you received, it may have been a prank by some student. ”
Li Jing didn't mean to give up, he didn't get up, but asked at Teacher Liu's back: "I don't think anyone is boring enough to make jokes about the dead, and as Zhang Hao's homeroom teacher at that time, you have more say in Zhang Hao's usual life at school, right?" Zhang Hao committed suicide at school, I don't think it's too much for the school to provide us with some information, right? There was a little more sarcasm in Li Jing's tone.
Teacher Liu's back froze, and she shook her head: "It's really been too long, and I have too many students, I really can't remember." ”
"Can you tell me what you remember?" Li Jing's tone is now angry. But Mr. Liu just shook his head and left the office. Just when we thought we would get no news and go home empty-handed, a teacher next to us suddenly came over and gossiped with us.
"You're here to talk about Zhang Hao's kid, right?" The teacher who came over suddenly walked up to us and whispered.
Taken aback, I could only nod mechanically: "You know something about him?" ”
Unlike Zhang Hao's homeroom teacher Teacher Liu, the teacher in front of her showed great enthusiasm, she looked around, there were only me, Li Jing and her in the whole office, but he still carefully asked us to wait for her in the empty classroom on the 5th floor after the evening self-study, this teaching building is an old building, the 5th floor is basically used for self-study rooms, and the building will not be closed at night, so let us wait for her there for a while, he will tell us what he knows. Although waiting for the mysterious news that we don't know in the empty classroom at night sounds a little scary, but in order to get more news about Zhang Hao, we still went to the 5th floor of the 5th teaching building according to the teacher's arrangement. We found an empty classroom and waited for the teacher to arrive.
In order to strengthen my courage and to solve the questions I had been asking just now, I began to ask Li Jing: "Li Jing, I think our school's attitude towards this matter is really strange?" Even the police gave a conclusion about suicide, and we didn't say anything else, just to learn about Zhang Hao's usual situation, but the reaction of the school teacher seemed to be very resistant to this matter. You don't think this school has done anything wrong, right? ”
"What's the matter?" Li Jing asked me, obviously a little absent-minded.
I didn't pay much attention to his attitude, but said to myself: "Could it be that the school knows the truth of the matter, for example, Zhang Hao died of murder, but the murderer was not found, so in order to relieve the tension in the school, I will say that Zhang Hao committed suicide as soon as possible." But now that we are investigating this matter again, it is possible to expose the dark evil of the school, so the teacher is very reluctant for us to investigate this case? ”
Li Jing put the back of his hand on my forehead and measured it, and said, "I don't have a fever, what nonsense are you talking about?" ”
"What nonsense? It's my own guess. I argued.
Li Jing shrugged his shoulders mockingly: "You are really thinking too much, today I asked you to investigate this case, it is indeed a suicide, the evidence is clear and unambiguous, and there is no suspicion." So what I'm curious about now is only the reason for Zhang Hao's suicide, and these teachers are also curious about this. ”
"Are you sure it's Zhang Hao himself?" I still asked him a little reluctantly.
"Hmm." Li Jing nodded, "Knocking over my inference yesterday, the deceased is indeed Zhang Hao himself, when Zhang Hao's mother claimed the body, the police collected her mother's DNA at the scene, and the DNA of the deceased is 50%, so it is determined that it is Zhang Hao himself." The autopsy also indicated that it was a suicide. ”
"Then the letter received by Guo Duyu and her sister Guo Hazy was not written by Zhang Hao himself? After all, resurrection after death can't happen, right? I thought about it and asked Li Jing.
"That's really hard to say, maybe it's time in time to now." Li Jing looked at the night outside the window. As soon as I was saying something, the teacher who had leaked the news to us just now had already pushed the door in.
We were a little far from the podium, and the teacher moved a chair from the door and sat across from us, but his smile was not as kind as before. I subconsciously grabbed Li Jing's hand, and the teacher opposite glanced at my hand, smiled weirdly and said, "You are Zhu Xiaozhi, right?" ”
My eyes widened in surprise, and I was overwhelmed as I circled my gaze back and forth between him and Li Jing. Li Jing shook my hand back comfortingly and said to me: "Your school should have someone to help you publicize your business, otherwise those classmates of yours would suddenly come to you to investigate the case, so people who pay a little attention to the school gossip should know you." I imagine that a teacher like a teacher who 'cares' about students very much, it is not strange to know you. ”
Teacher Ke was choked by Li Jing speechless, glared at him, and suddenly changed his tone when he saw Li Jing take out a voice recorder: "I said this comrade, don't just record me casually, I told you the news behind all the teachers' backs, if you have this attitude, I won't say anything." ”
Li Jing put the recorder in his arms, and I knew that he was just taking it out to scare the teacher opposite, hoping that she would stop pretending to be a ghost and get to the point quickly. When the teacher saw Li Jing put away the recorder, he breathed a sigh of relief and introduced himself: "My surname is Ke, you can call me Teacher Ke, I am a teacher in charge of logistics, so I don't have as much pressure as those class teachers, and I can tell you some things, but these things are all said by us in private, and we can't tell outsiders that I said it." "Mr. Ke reminded us.
"But aren't you worried about being seen?" I asked her with some concern.
"Hi. Whether you see it or not is a trivial matter, the key is that if you don't say it, I sued you, and I can explain it when I am seen. And yes. Teacher Ke shook the pu fan in his hand, "Actually, everyone wants to hear different ideas, the reason why Teacher Liu reacted so much just now was also under pressure, the school had already told us not to let us talk about this matter, but we are still strange, how can a good child not want to jump off the building, and I have never heard of anything wrong with this child." And it's strange to say, you say that if the child dies in the average family, especially if there is only one child in the family, then it must not be crazy. But Zhang Hao's child's family is also very strange, knowing that the child died, his mother didn't cry or make trouble, but came to the school to go through the formalities for the child, went to the police station to get the child's body and left. Quietly, it doesn't look like the child is gone. At the time, we wondered if it was his real mother. We checked the child's information and were convinced that the one who came to claim the body was Zhang Hao's own mother. But judging by his own mother's approach at the time, I still think it's strange now. Before we could get to know the child's family, the school forbade us to talk about it between teachers and students. And two U-shaped people were punished by the school as a rumor because they talked about it on the school forum. We haven't talked about the case since. The school spoke, and if we talked about it again, we would be expelled. Teacher Ke shook his head as he spoke, as if he was very dissatisfied with the school's decision.
"But why are you talking to us about it now? Are you not afraid of school? Li Jing didn't ask the second half of the sentence.
But Teacher Ke took the initiative to continue: "Do you think I'm afraid of being expelled from the school?" Of course you're afraid? But I'm more afraid that Zhang Hao will come to me as a ghost. ”
When I heard this, I shuddered, "Hell, what the hell? ”
Teacher Ke probably thought that I didn't understand her words and explained to me, and put on a mysterious expression on her face just now: "We received a letter from that child. ”
Letter? I was shocked, and it was faith? I glanced at Li Jing with my spare eyes, there was no expression on his face, and he repeated Mr. Ke's words: "Letter? What kind of letter are you talking about? ”
Teacher Ke slapped the fan again, looking puzzled: "Didn't you just tell Teacher Liu that you also received the letter?" It should be the same as what you received, in fact, the reason why Zhang Hao, the head teacher was not polite to you just now, was also for the school to see, if it wasn't for the eyes he handed over, I wouldn't dare to talk nonsense with you about this casually. ”
"Teacher Liu asked you to come?" I asked her.
She put down the fan and nodded: "Not really." Unlike them, I am neither a homeroom teacher nor a teacher, the school doesn't pay much attention to me, and I didn't do logistics in this department back then, so the school probably thinks I don't know much news. Yesterday, I heard that the police were going to investigate this case again, and the senior leaders approached Teacher Liu several times and told her not to tell you anything. I don't know if she told the school, but she told me in private that she was afraid of this kind of thing, and she always felt panicked, so he actually had a lot of things to talk to you about. Under pressure from the school, we privately agreed that I would talk to you and you would help us solve the letter. ”
"You say us? You won't get a letter too, will you? Didn't you work in the department at the time of the case? Li Jing seemed to have discovered something.
Teacher Ke pouted and said helplessly, "Isn't it?" So this matter is very strange, you say that I, an old woman who has nothing to do with this matter, can I not mutter in such confidence? Who am I messing with? Within a few days, I received this inexplicable threat. As he spoke, he shook the fan in his hand vigorously.
"Threat?" I was curious about Mr. Ke on the other side of the text, "You received a threatening letter written by Zhang Hao?" ”
Mr. Ke took out the letter from the shopping bag he was carrying and showed it to us: "Isn't it? If you look at these letters, the daily schedules of our teachers are clearly written on them, as if they follow us to and from work every day. At first, we thought it was a prank by some students, but because the school had warned us not to talk about Zhang Hao's suicide, we didn't report it to the school leaders, so we privately paid attention to whether the student was naughty. However, after observing for a month, we didn't find any student who was wrong, but we received the same letter again, which made us feel that the matter was not a simple troublemaker by the student. And even what happened when we took the bus to and from work every day and reversed it clearly, and tracking the whereabouts of the six teachers in the office at once was not something that humans could do. I'm not afraid of your jokes, we thought at the time if there was something about Zhang Hao's death and asked the school to hide it from us, so that Zhang Hao's resentment increased, and the ghost came to us for revenge. As he said this, Mr. Ke scanned his surroundings vigorously, as if there were not just the three of us in this classroom now.
Normally, Li Jing usually scoffs at this kind of idealistic thing, but perhaps in order to shorten the distance between him and Teacher Ke, Li Jing nodded uncharacteristically, as if agreeing with Teacher Ke's thoughts. Seeing that Li Jing didn't refute him, Teacher Ke pulled the chair closer to us, and said in a low voice: "So when I saw that it was Zhu Xiaozhi and you coming over, I felt that this matter was not so simple. Then just now in the office, you said that you also received the letter, and I felt that it was indeed Zhang Hao's ghost who had appeared, and there was a grievance to appeal to you. ”
"Why do you want to appeal to us?" What I admire about Mr. Ke's brain hole is the five-body throw.
Teacher Ke patted me with a pu fan: "Of course I have to find you, Xiaozhi, you are his senior sister, you have such a good relationship with the net birth comradeship, of course I want to find you to settle my grievances." ”
I rolled my eyes widely, thinking that even the police said that she had committed suicide, and the evidence was conclusive, and we couldn't go against the sky. Of course, this is just a complaint in my heart, and on the surface, I am still very cooperative while saying that this is the case, while making an expression of sudden realization. Teacher Ke seemed to be very helpful, and then shook her pu fan.
"But you didn't work in this department at the time, how can you know Zhang Hao's situation at that time?" Li Jing asked.
"Hey." Teacher Ke patted Li Jing's knee with a fan, "You said that the school won't let us talk about this matter again, but it can't stop us from discussing it in private, as long as some things don't cause a negative impact, the school will turn a blind eye, or why don't you ban those strange talks in the school." But we can't put Zhang Hao's matter on the table, but we can also have a general understanding of this child's situation in private, anyway, I know more than you. ”
Li Jing nodded and continued to ask, "Did Zhang Hao do anything abnormal before committing suicide?" ”
Teacher Ke leaned forward and said in a low voice: "This is gossip, that child joined an experience club before he died, this club was not officially registered in the school, it was just a few children who were messing around on their own, and usually went to do some extreme sports." I haven't seen anything happen before, but this club was disbanded after Zhang Hao's accident, and the school and the police seem to have talked to the founder of the club, and they didn't find anything abnormal. However, a teacher later said that after that incident, the school seemed to have privately agreed with several people in the club not to tell the police about what the police asked, and not to admit that there was such a club, so as not to cause a bad impact on the school. I guess it's true, because at that time, a child in the club would never be able to complete his school grades, but not long after Zhang Hao committed suicide, this child still got his graduation certificate smoothly, and we knew that the school must have made an agreement with these children in private. There are too many of these things in schools. (To be continued.) )