Chapter VI
Yan Yan is the director of teaching at Nanming Senior High School.
Why did he frame me? Actually, I'm not completely sure. However, I think he's a bad guy, and while others are spreading rumors and chewing their tongues at best, he's the kind of guy who looks honest but can stab him in the back.
The dean of instruction at every school is a serious old stubborn, and so does the impression of sternness - just like his name. This man in his early forties, who divorced a few years ago and had his children taken away by his wife, did not become honest because of this, but his slightly grateful hair represented extraordinary desire.
Once, in the middle of the night in the office to correct homework, I opened the window to look at the stars, and accidentally caught a glimpse of a figure lying on the railing on the roof of the multipurpose building. My eyesight was good, and I was worried that it was a student, so I rushed to the roof of the opposite building and found that the person was the dean of students, holding a long-lens camera, aiming at the spring of the girls' dormitory. I was embarrassed to say anything, after all, it was my leader, and I left before he found out. From then on, I began to pay attention to the strictness, and the air windows in the school bathroom were wide open, and there was a dense oleander forest outside, so that no one could usually peep into it. But the dean was in charge of all the keys and could easily climb onto the roof and peek. One night, when I saw Liu Man and the two girls walking into the bathroom, I couldn't tolerate it anymore, so I went to the roof and dragged Yan Yan down, and I couldn't help but beat him. Instead of resisting, the kid knelt down and begged for mercy, promising never to do such a thing again, asking me not to say it, and to give me whatever I wanted. He promised to replace the air window of the women's bathroom with frosted glass, so there was no possibility of peeping. The next day, he replaced the bathroom glass, and I relented and let him go.
Zhongshan wolf.
Seeing that I was about to be transferred to the Education Bureau, I secretly resolved to investigate harshly and remove this scum from the teaching ranks. I'm afraid he also knows very well in his heart that once I leave Nanming High School, his end will come.
Three days before she was killed, she told me that one night when she came out of the bathroom, she found the dean wandering in the corridor of the girls' dormitory, which was not allowed to enter the girls' dormitory late at night as long as it was a man, even a teacher, according to the dormitory management system. And he looked nervous and hesitant, and finally threatened her as the head of teaching, not allowing her to tell anyone, otherwise she would want her to look good. In other words, ordinary girls were probably frightened, but Liu Man was by no means a fuel-efficient lamp, and Yan Yan knew this very well, so she was killed.
As the school's dean, he has the conditions to commit crimes in the library and use poison to kill people. The next day, Stern was able to sneak into my dorm room and sneak a bottle of oleander juice inside, killing two birds with one stone.
However, instead of letting me out of the Public Security Bureau, Officer Huang Hai sent me to a detention center.
I was a high school Chinese teacher, but I was locked up in a cramped, dark cell surrounded by murderers and rapists. I was beaten a few times as soon as I came in, and I tried my best to resist, but I was punched and kicked even worse by them. When Officer Huang Hai interrogated me, he found the bruises on my face, so he took care of the guards and changed my cell, and my cellmates became thieves and fraudsters, at least they didn't suffer much in the fight.
In the past few days, my fiancée has not appeared once, including my father-in-law, who is omnipotent.
Huang Hai said that he had talked to Gu Qiusha, and although he didn't tell me what he asked, and there was no clue in his silent gaze, I had a terrible premonition that I would suddenly get cold into the ice cave, even though the sweltering cell was full of people.
Is this God's retribution for what I did last summer?
On Friday, June 16, I was released by Officer Huanghai. He said that based on the investigation over the past few days, it was impossible to determine that I was directly related to the murder of Liu Man, that there were no fingerprints or hair at the scene of the killing, and that the results of Liu Man's autopsy had nothing to do with me, and that the police were inclined that I was indeed framed. I almost threw myself into his arms, and the man who sent me to prison with his own hands became my savior.
I wore the watch that Gu Qiusha's father gave me, which I kept with the police after I was arrested, as well as my wallet and keys. When I finally looked in the mirror, I felt my almost shaved head, haggard bags and scars, and gray hair on my sideburns for the first time, as if I was not twenty-five years old, but an old man who was about to lie in a coffin.
The ten days spent in the detention center were definitely the longest ten days in my life.
When I got out, I spent all the money I had on me, just enough to buy a new dress. I went to the bathhouse alone, felt countless dirt on my body and hair, and used up several bars of soap, almost rubbing my skin, so I took the bus to find my fiancée - fortunately, I didn't lose my monthly pass in my wallet.
rushed to the education publishing house where Gu Qiusha worked, and the porter said that an important meeting was being held in the club, and Gu Qiusha had taken care of him, and if I came to her, let me go home and wait for her first.
Go home?
Half an hour later, I arrived at the door of my new house full of paint, located in the middle of the busy city center, with a small elevator on the twelfth floor. For the first two months, I would come every weekend to supervise the renovation. I took out the key and stuffed it into the lock hole, but I couldn't open it, and I didn't respond when I knocked on the door. The old lady next door came out and said that someone came to change the lock cylinder yesterday.
Angrily kicked the door, and squatted down and touched it in distress, still leaving a deep dent - this is my own home, what is wrong with me? My toes hurt so hard that I limped off the elevator.
In summer, the temperature exceeds 30 degrees Celsius, and the bus smells of sweat. I leaned drowsy against the railing, and outside the car window I went from dense buildings to sparse buildings, to vast expanses of wilderness, and steel mills with chimneys spewing white smoke.
The bus stopped at Nanming Road, and between the two long walls, there was a school gate with a bronze plaque of "Nanming Senior High School".
On Friday, when the boarders returned home, everyone watched in amazement as I walked through the school gate, and no one dared to talk to me, whether it was the teacher or the students I led. I saw Mali and his roommates, and even they were avoiding me, and the classmates were spreading out like a tidal wave, turning me into a dry island.
"Teacher Shen, please come to the principal's office."
A gloomy voice sounded behind him, and he looked back to see the stern face of the dean - why is he still here? Shouldn't he be in prison?
I followed him without saying a word, and when I reached the corner of the stairs, he whispered, "A few days ago, that police officer named Huang Hai came to me, and you really told me all about it. ”
I don't want to say half a word, I can guess what he is going to say - do you have proof? Did you take the picture? I've already reported this to the principal, who would believe the words of a murder suspect?
Coming to the office in silence, the old principal's face was pale, and he kept wiping the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief. Seven years ago, it was he who personally awarded me a certificate of merit for righteousness and bravery, and it was he who decided to send me to Peking University to study. Three years ago, it was he who warmly welcomed me back at the school gate and made room for me to stay. Just last month, he said he was coming to visit my future father-in-law.
"Teacher Shen, I'm glad you're back. Today, I have conveyed an important decision to all the teachers and students of the school - in view of the misconduct of the teacher in our school, which violated the basic morality of the people's teachers, in order to maintain the reputation of our school, I would like to give the punishment of expulsion from public office, and I hereby notify you! ”
I froze like a sculpture for a long time before I understood what he meant, and calmly spit out two words: "Thank you!" ”
The principal was a little surprised by this reaction, glanced at the dean, shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, there is also a notice - for the same reason, it has been approved by the above, and you will be expelled from the party." ”
"Well, I just want to tell you - I'm innocent, I didn't kill anyone, even the police believe me, why are you doing this?"
"Shen Lao-" The principal realized that I was no longer a teacher, "Xiao Shen, you are only twenty-five years old, and you still have a long way to go, don't be discouraged, who hasn't encountered ups and downs?" If you graduate from a prestigious university, you can always find a suitable job, and maybe you can develop better outside. ”
"Expulsion from public office and membership in the party – who means?"
"Don't get me wrong, this is all the instructions of the leaders of the Municipal Education Bureau, and no one in the school raised any objections, and the party branch unanimously passed it."
"Leaders of the Municipal Education Bureau? Last month, the director of the bureau also talked to me, saying that I was the target of key training. ”
The headmaster turned his back and sighed: "This time, that time." ”
He's chasing me away, and I don't want to get down on my knees like a dog and beg him.
The dean sent me downstairs and whispered behind my head, "Oh, Mr. Shen, there is one more thing, your dormitory, the school will keep it for you until Monday night, please pack your luggage for these two days, and it will be converted into a table tennis room early Tuesday morning." If there's anything you need me to help with, please don't hesitate to let me know. ”
My shoulders twitched, I shuddered for half a minute, and I turned around angrily and punched him, this guy was long gone.
The evening breeze blew with the smell of oleanders, and I stood like a dead man for a long time.
The cafeteria was closed, but I wasn't hungry.
When I returned to the dormitory, the room had been turned into a mess, the floor was full of my books, the students' exam papers were gone, and I was no longer a Chinese teacher anyway, and the only thing that mattered to me was to lie on the ground in a panic, with my face against the floor and searching everywhere......
I rummaged through the boxes and cabinets, and finally found the dull bead chain in the garbage heap in the corner, I held it tightly in the palm of my hand, carefully washed it, put it to my mouth and kissed it twice.
Tonight, I patiently cleaned up my room and returned to the way it was before my arrest. I dismissed the idea of hanging up the phone with my fiancée, I can imagine what the result of the call would be, so let Gu Qiusha and her father sleep well.
Turn off the lights, go to bed, and in three days, this single bed will no longer belong to me.
And the Simmons bed in my new room, who will it belong to in the future?