Chapter Twenty-Three: A Trip of Good Deeds A Strange Thing in a Hotel

Liao Hongmei and Xiao Zhang followed behind these people. Slowly climb up the mountain with this stone step, and look up at the Tzu Yun Temple on the mountain, there is still a long way to go. Who knew that this mountain road was difficult? Liao Hongmei climbed to the mountainside and began to gasp for breath, sitting on the rocks on the side of the road to rest for a while. Xiao Zhang stood next to Liao Hongmei and looked around. The wind was in turmoil in the mountains, and the wind blew and ruffled her long hair. Liao Hongmei stretched out a hand to comb her long hair that was blown by the wind, stood up, and said, "Okay, let's go." Liao Hongmei and Xiao Zhang continued to climb the mountain, standing in front of the mountain gate of Ciyun Temple, leaning on Xiao Zhang's shoulder with one arm, and panting: "We have finally arrived." ”

"Mr. Liao, let's enter the temple gate together."

They strode up the stone steps together, walked into the temple gate, stood under the Buddha, folded their hands in front of them and closed their eyes, remembering that when she and Bai Yanzi came to Tsz Yun Temple, they were standing here, kneeling under the statue of the Buddha and praying sincerely. Now she is here again, standing under the statue of the Buddha, accompanied by not Bai Yanzi but her personal chauffeur Xiao Zhang. They circled around the big Buddha statue, admired the murals on the wall, walked to the Buddha statue, donated some incense money, went down the mountain with Xiao Zhang, and left here in a small car.

There is a Hope Primary School in the middle of these two mountain passes, and on the playground in the middle of the campus, the five-star red flag flutters in the wind. Children sit in the middle of the classroom and are in class. As soon as you walk into the school, you can hear the sound of children reciting texts. The academic building and student dormitories have been newly built into four-storey bungalows. A black car slowly entered from outside the school gate and stopped at the side of the playground. Liao Hongmei and Xiao Zhang got out of the car. Liao Hongmei is also a child who came out of the mountains, and she also has deep feelings for this place, especially in the poor mountainous areas. When I returned to the campus, I felt like I was reminiscing about how I studied when I was a child. At that time, she was sitting in a dilapidated classroom reading, outside the classroom was a constant cold wind, her little hands were red from the cold, and there were frostbittens on the backs of her hands, and her fingers were red and swollen like carrots. At that time, the conditions for them to study were very difficult, as the so-called ten years of hard study, in order to achieve fame today and return to their hometown. Now she is a successful person, and she should give back to this society and this country. Education is the foundation of the great cause of the country. The principal received a call from Liao Hongmei's personal driver, Xiao Zhang, yesterday. When their car stopped in the middle of the campus, the principal, the director and some after-school teachers came out to welcome the students home. After Liao Hongmei got off the bus, she stood in front of them and said, "Hello teachers, how can I, Liao Hongmei, need such a big welcome from you." ”

"You also came out of this school, and it should be okay for us to welcome our students back to campus."

"Teacher Liu, I want to go see those children."

"Yes," Teacher Liu brought Liao Hongmei into her classroom, looking for a seat in the back row and sitting down with the children. Look at these children, these children secretly looked at Liao Hongmei who was sitting behind them, their eyes were full of questions, and they just looked at Liao Hongmei blankly. Liao Hongmei looked at them and just smiled slightly until the end of the class. Teacher Liu walked in and stood on the podium, facing these children, and said: "Children, there is a celebrity from our school, she was born in a family in the poor mountainous area of Guizhou, because she was very hard working when she was studying, she received donations from the state, and was sent to our school to study, and was admitted to the Beijing Theater Academy with the best results in the school, majoring in Peking Opera and culture, and worshipping the famous teacher Bai Yanzi for further study, after Bai Yanzi died, she was the head of the opera family, do you want to know who she is?" ”

After Teacher Liu's explanation, these children became even more curious and shouted, "Yes." ”

Teacher Liu set his eyes on Liao Hongmei, who was sitting in the back row. Liao Hongmei then got up and faced these children, and said: "Ladies and sisters, I am Liao Hongmei, I used to live in the mountains like you, and now you have to study hard to learn cultural knowledge, and take the entrance examination to a good university to win glory for your parents, you are his hope." After that, Liao Hongmei called in Xiao Zhang and said, "Xiao Zhang, go and bring up these children's extracurricular books." Xiao Zhang walked out of the classroom and went downstairs, stood behind the trolley, opened the trunk, and took out a bundle of books. Carry these books upstairs into the classroom and place them on the podium, in front of them.

"Children, what do you think I have brought you?"

"It's a book," the children hugged the podium and shouted, "Teacher Liao, Teacher Liao." ”

"Children, don't crowd up, stand in line." Liao Hongmei took out a list, called out the name of a student, and said, "Cheng Yingzi." "Cheng Yingzi is the best student in this class. Cheng Yingzi walked up to the podium and stood in front of Liao Hongmei, and said, "Teacher Liao." ”

"Cheng Yingzi, you come and distribute books to them, okay?"

"Okay," Cheng Yingzi took the list in Liao Hongmei's hand, and came forward to receive the book after chanting the name of a student. After that, Liao Hongmei and Ms. Liu walked out of the classroom and toured the school with the principal and the school's teachers. Liao Hongmei faced the principal walking next to her and said: "Teacher Ma, when the child is growing knowledge now, in addition to the main class books, the child should also read more extracurricular books, so that they can understand more knowledge, so I have an idea to build a library on the side of the playground, that is, next to the teaching building, to facilitate the children's extracurricular reading." ”

"It's a good idea, but the school doesn't have enough money."

"I have more than a million here, donate this money to build a library, you can see if it is enough." Liao Hongmei called Xiao Zhang, who took out a bank card from his briefcase and handed it to the principal. The principal held the bank card in his hand and said, "Thank you, for your contribution to this school, I will immediately arrange for someone to start the construction project, and complete it within half a year as soon as possible." ”

"Well, okay, I'll leave this matter to you."

After that, Liao Hongmei and Xiao Zhang got in the car and left. Within half a year, the library was completed on time and named Hongmei Library.

At sunset, Zhao Deqing watched the car enter Yunnan. The jeep is parked outside the main gate of the Red River Lodge. Yuan Qi and Zhao Deqing walked out of the car and stood outside the gate of the Red River Hotel, looking up.

"Master, Bai Yanzi is a celebrity, how could she live in such an ordinary hostel?" Zhao Deqing, who was standing next to him, teased a few words.

Yuan Qi looked at Zhao Deqing, who was standing next to him, laughed a few times casually, and said, "Then what kind of hotel do you think Bai Yanzi will live in?" ”

"It's supposed to be a five-star luxury hotel."

"Maybe it's because people are low-key, and they don't want to be too public."

After listening to his words, Zhao Deqing thought that what he said was very reasonable, and nodded continuously. At this time, Yuan Qi said: "Okay, let's not talk about it anymore, first settle down here and find out some things here, and then we will go to Ciyun Temple together." ”

Yuan Qi and Zhao Deqing walked into the hall. Zhao Deqing stepped forward to face the service staff sitting behind the counter, and said, "Hello, I'm a policeman," and showed his identity, and said, "Let me ask, on August 2, there was a man named Bai Yanzi who lived in this hostel, followed by a beautiful woman." ”

"I wasn't on duty that day, I'll check it out for you," the service staff behind the counter looked at the list of guests on the computer, and then looked up the list on August 2, and said: "Yes, yes, he checked in at five o'clock in the afternoon, and he didn't check out of the room until the morning of August 4, and there was indeed a beautiful girl next to him, her name was Liao Hongmei." ”

"Is there any surveillance video from the night of August 3," asked Yuan Qi, who was standing behind Mr. Zhao.

"Yes, it's still in the manager's office."

"Take us to check it out."

The waiter behind the counter took Yuan Qi and Zhao Deqing to the door of the manager's office and knocked on the office door. Someone inside the door answered, "Is there something wrong?" ”

"Manager, there are two people looking outside."

"Please all come in."

The counter attendant then pushed open the door to the manager's office and leaned sideways to invite them in. Yuan Qi and Zhao Deqing walked into the manager's office. The manager sat in front of the computer and looked up at the two of them, and said, "I wonder what the two of you are looking for me?" ”

Zhao Deqing stepped forward to reveal his identity and said, "Please call up the surveillance video of the white swallow on the night of August 3." ”

The manager then got up and walked out of the surveillance video looking ahead, picked up the remote control placed on the desk, and called up the video of the night on August 3. Yuan Qi took the remote control in the manager's hand and said, "You go get busy first, and I'll ask you if there's anything." ”

"Okay."

Yuan Qi moved a chair and sat down, and Zhao Deqing stood next to Yuan Qi and watched the surveillance video in front of him together. Yuan Qi took the remote control in his hand and kept fast-forwarding. Seeing the white swallow in the surveillance video, she returned to the hostel at 6 o'clock in the afternoon, and Liao Hongmei followed. The two of them entered the elevator and everything seemed normal. Yuan Qi looked at Zhao Deqing, who was standing next to him, and said, "White Swallow returned to the hostel at about 6:14 p.m. on August 3, everything is normal, nothing unusual. Zhao Deqing, who was standing next to him, just nodded, didn't say anything, and Yuanqi continued to watch the surveillance video, holding the remote control in my hand and continuing to fast-forward, until about twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, Bai Yanzi entered the elevator again and went downstairs, and Bai Yanzi standing in the elevator looked very decadent, and he didn't even have the energy to walk. Standing in the elevator and staggering, it gives people the feeling of sleepwalking. After the two doors of the elevator opened, the white swallow walked out very slowly. Yuan Qi transferred the surveillance video to the hall again, zoomed it in, and saw that the white swallow walked out of the hall very slowly. An hour later, at one o'clock, the White Swallow walked into the hall from the outside, standing in front of the two doors of the elevator, his head hitting the two doors of the elevator, and the two doors opened. After Bai Yanzi entered, he stood in the elevator, swaying from side to side, his head shaking up and down, because he was sleepy. At this time, the two doors of the elevator suddenly opened, and Bai Yanzi raised his head and paused for a while, looking behind or to the side, and kept pressing the button next to the elevator with his hand, as if he was very frightened. When the elevator door opens, run out. Half an hour later, Bai Yanzi entered the elevator in a panic, and the elevator rose to the third floor and rushed out. Seeing that Bai Yanzi was very panicked, Yuan Qi rewinded the surveillance video again, paused, looked at the surveillance video, and said, "Look at the numbers next to the elevator." Then he enlarged the video and said, "The elevator stopped once on the second floor, the two doors of the elevator opened, and no one entered, so you can take a look at Bai Yanzi's facial expression." ”

"Master, the white swallow is on the third floor, why is the elevator open on the second floor? He ran out of the elevator in fright, what did Bai Yanzi see in the elevator? It made him so frightened. The white swallow who ran out stayed on the second floor for more than half an hour, what did the white swallow do in this half an hour? At this time, Zhao Deqing had too many questions, and he wanted to ask them clearly.

"This is really incomprehensible," Yuan Qi played the surveillance video twice in a row, which is also a mystery that is difficult to solve. After that, he put the remote control on his desk, faced the manager in front of him, and said, "We want to live here for two days, and this is the price for two days." Excuse me, which room does the white swallow live in? ”

"I don't know about this, I'll check it first," the manager walked out of the office, followed by Yuan Qi and Zhao Deqing. The manager stood in front of the counter and faced the service staff sitting behind the counter, and said, "Help me check, which room does Bai Yanzi live in?" ”

The service staff sat in front of the computer, looking for Bai Yanzi, then raised his head to face the manager standing in front of the counter, and said, "Room 28 on the third floor." ”

The manager turned to face Yuan Qi and Zhao Deqing, who were standing in front of him, and said, "Room 28 on the third floor," and then paused for a while, and said, "Bai Yanzi lived in room 28 on the third floor. ”

"Okay, I'll live in room 28 on the third floor," Yuan Qi said at this time, looking at the manager in front of him.