"It was a murder."

The man who spoke was in his early thirties, wearing a dark police uniform, his face was dark and cold, he was expressionless from beginning to end, and his voice was unusually dull.

"Yes...... Are there any clues to the murderer? ”

Damn it! Why did you stutter all at once? Fingers subconsciously rubbed the corners of the clothes, and there were only two of us in the teacher's office on the second floor. From time to time, students passed by in the corridor outside, crowded in front of the window to watch the excitement, and they were all blown away by the dean.

Six hours ago, on the roof of the school library, I confirmed that Liu Man, a girl in the third (2) class of high school, had died, and I was her homeroom teacher and Chinese teacher.

"My name is Huang Hai, and I am the police officer in charge of this case."

"I didn't expect this to happen to the graduating class I led, and the college entrance examination will be in a month, which is really ...... The principal and I just received Liu Man's father, and although I kept apologizing, I was still slapped in the face, but I won't hold a grudge. ”

I touched my flushed cheeks and tried to pull my gaze to the ground, but Officer Huanghai's eyes were like magnets, and there was nowhere to hide.

"Teacher Shen, someone reported that after self-study last night, you and Liu Man were chatting alone in the classroom, is there such a thing?"

His voice was slow and powerful, like a multiple-ton piledriver, crushing me to pieces.

"Yes."

"Why didn't you say it sooner?"

"I-"

Sure enough, I became the target of murder.

"Don't be nervous, just explain the situation."

"Last night, I happened to pass by that classroom, and it was Liu Man who dragged me to talk. She asked me about the difficult questions in the Chinese mock exam papers, such as the allusions to the two sentences of Cao Cao's "Short Song Xing", "Qingqing Zijin, Leisurely My Heart". ”

Is this a police interrogation? I was so ugly that my legs were clamped, and I felt the urge to urinate.

"Oh, is that all?"

"It's all in classical Chinese, she asked Liu Yong's "Yulin Bell" "Dumen tent drinking clueless, nostalgia, Lan Zhou urging" Lan Zhou and Li Qingzhao's "lightly relieve Luo Shang, go on Lan Zhou alone" is the same kind of boat?"

"Anything else?"

Officer Huanghai calmly waited for the addition, and this terrible patience reminded me of Liu Man's gesture of death: "There is also Bai Juyi's "Pipa Xing", what is the specific meaning of the 'Diantou Cloud Grate' in the sentence 'Diantou Cloud Grate is broken, and the blood-colored Luo skirt turns over the wine stain'? It seems that I answered these three questions and left. ”

In fact, what comes to my mind is "blood-colored skirts and wine stains".

"Teacher Shen, what is your impression of Liu Man?"

"This student has a strange personality and likes to ask things around, and there are almost no secrets in the school that she doesn't know, so some of her classmates hate her. A beautiful girl like her can naturally arouse the interest of boys, but there is no sign of early love so far. She was more daring than many boys, and she was probably the only one who dared to run to the small attic of the library alone in the middle of the night. ”

"How do you know she's gone alone in the middle of the night?"

"Oh? And the murderer! Although I didn't kill anyone, there were flaws in every word I said in the ears of the police, "What do you mean - in addition to the murderer and the victim, there may be a third person at the scene?" ”

Officer Huang Hai shook his head calmly: "I'm sorry, I'm not here to reason with you. ”

"Liu Man looks cheerful and lively, but he is actually a withdrawn child. Probably a single-parent family, growing up with my father, and lacking maternal love. Her grades are not good, she is easily distracted by reading, and she has complicated social relations outside. Our Nanming High School is a key boarding school in the city, and has sent top students to many famous universities, but whether Liu Man can be admitted to the university is a question mark, and I have a headache as her homeroom teacher, and often help her make up classes at night. ”

"I'm so sorry, but what I wanted to ask is—"

"I know what you're asking," I slammed my fist on the glass countertop, "Damn! In the past two weeks, there have been shameless rumors circulating in the school that there is some kind of ambiguous relationship between me and Liu Man, which is the biggest insult to my personality and morality. ”

"Teacher Shen, I have talked to the principal and several teachers about this matter, this rumor has no evidence, it is only circulated among students, I believe you are innocent." Officer Huang Hai couldn't help but light a cigarette and take two puffs, "By the way, I heard that you graduated from this school?" ”

"Yes, I spent three years of high school here, and I am too familiar with every grass and tree here, but I did not expect that after graduating from the Chinese Department of Peking University, I was assigned to return to my alma mater to teach and become a glorious people's teacher, I feel very lucky."

When it comes to this kind of disgusting official cliché, I don't need to think about it.

"A grass and a tree?" Huang Hai frowned.

I was confused: "Is there something wrong?" ”

"No, Teacher Shen, you are only twenty-five years old, and your consciousness is so high, it is really admirable." His face was covered with blue smoke, making it difficult to see, "I heard that you are leaving Nanming High School soon?" ”

"I can't bear it! I have only been a high school teacher for three years, and this is the first and last graduating class I have led, and I will be transferred to the Youth League Committee of the Municipal Education Bureau in July after the college entrance examination. ”

"Then congratulations."

"I still like to be a teacher, but it's probably hard to adapt to the work of the agency office."

He nodded expressionlessly, and quickly snuffed out the half-smoked cigarette butt: "I'll go first!" You're not going to go far these days, are you? ”

"Yes, I have been living in the dormitory of the school, and I will take the college entrance examination next month, how can I leave the students?"

"Stay in touch at any time, goodbye!"

Officer Huang Hai walked out of the room in a windy manner, and I saw the face of the dean in the corridor outside the window, but he avoided my gaze and left after the policeman.

I lied to the police.

Although Liu Man likes hazy poetry, he knows very little about classical poetry, so how can he ask "the head of the cloud grate is broken"?

Last night, she said to me in the study hall, "Teacher Shen, I already know her secret. ”

Could it be related to the Dead Poets Society?

My heart was pounding, I wanted to get out of here as soon as possible, lest I be seen and cause more trouble, this girl was bad enough for me, and I wish she had disappeared from the world tonight.

Five minutes later, she said something that most dead people knew, and I don't think it's an exaggeration to say "witch."

"What does it have to do with you?"

The fluorescent tubes overhead swayed, casting two figures on the ground, even though there was not a hint of wind in the classroom.

Leaning against the blackboard, she said, "Right here in this school, I know everyone's secrets. ”

This was the real conversation last night.

However, I didn't kill anyone.

June 5, 1995, 12 p.m. Everyone went to the cafeteria, but I was the only one sitting in the office, having just touched the corpse in the morning, how could I have the appetite to eat?

In the afternoon, I took a Chinese class to correct the test papers that I had received a few days ago. There was an empty seat in the middle of the classroom, and someone put an oleander on the desk. From time to time, the students looked up at me and exchanged heads. My tone was weak, and I never dared to mention Liu Man, as if the girl who died today had never come to our class.

In the last class, I hurriedly walked out of the classroom with my head down, and the corridor was crowded with onlookers, just like the word "murderer" on my face.

At the bottom of the multipurpose building, a few boys in our class were talking together, and when they saw me, they immediately dispersed. Only Ma Li remained, he was the best student in the class and my favorite student.

"You're talking about Liuman?"

"Teacher Shen, don't you know?"

Ma Li is slender and looks like Wu Qilong, but he has Aaron Kwok's hairstyle and looks melancholy all day long.

"What?"

"Liu Man was poisoned!"

"I guess so, when I examined her body in the morning, I didn't find any external injuries."

"It was all over the school, and in the morning the police investigated the scene and determined that Liu Man had climbed to the roof through the attic window of the library. The attic door was locked from the outside, and the victim could not open it inside, and could not escape after being poisoned. Some liquid residues were found on the floor, and after the police collected the evidence and left, our chemistry teacher went in and did a test, and you know he was a big mouth. ”

"Tell me the results."

"A large amount of oleandrin was found in the water trails."

"Oleandrin?"

Actually, I understood it all, but I pretended to be confused in front of the horsepower.

"The chemistry teacher said in class that oleandrin can be extracted from oleander, and if there is 0.5 mg of pure oleandrin in the organism, it is enough to be fatal! Therefore, he told us not to go near those oleanders. ”

The school playground is lined with oleanders, which bloom bright red every year during the final exams, and red oleanders are one of the most toxic.

"Don't spread these words casually, before the police autopsy report comes out, no one knows what the real cause of Liu Man's death is!" I patted him on the shoulder, put it in his ear and said, "Words are terrible!" You know what I mean. ”

"Teacher, I don't think Liu Man will go to the haunted library attic for no reason, someone must have asked her to go there, who did you say was the person who asked her to go?"

He stared at a pair of eyes that were so clear that it made people palpitate, and I took two steps back: "Even you don't believe me anymore? ”

"I'm sorry, but my classmates are talking ......"

"Shut up!"

I quickly ran away from the horsepower, looking at the lush oleanders, the countless fiery red flowers among the green branches, which made people feel inexplicably disgusting.

Suddenly, I understood why Officer Huanghai repeated what I had said, "one grass and one tree."