Chapter Eighty-Seven: That Winter
Han Yu continued,
"Jiang Yun is just an ordinary high school girl, dependent on her mother, she is a bit introverted, and she has no other friends except Ji Han. So her interpersonal relationship is very simple, when I was looking up the student information of the year, I suddenly thought that if the person who locked Jiang Yun in the basement was not an adult, but her classmates, or rather, someone else her age. So I asked Xiaobai to ask Principal Wei and Teacher Wu, and they both said that there were indeed some disobedient students in the school back then, who often bullied their classmates, led by Gao Rui and them. But every time the teacher asked the students who were bullied, they always said that everything was a misunderstanding and that they were not being bullied, so the teacher had no choice. ”
"So, you guys just followed the vine and found out that Gao Rui and these people also bullied Jiang Yun?" Cheng Jiaxuan asked.
"Principal Wei and Teacher Wu told us about a few students who had been bullied back then, and we called to ask, but those students didn't seem to want to mention it, but they were sure that Gao Rui and these people had bullied Jiang Yun, and they bullied the most times." After Bai Yifan gave them the information, he returned to her computer.
"Okay, Xiao Xiao will be in charge of Xu Runping, Lao Cheng will be in charge of Lei Xiaowei, Li Chang will be in charge of Ding Qianqian, and Xiaobai will follow me to be in charge of Gao Rui." After this arrangement, everyone worked quickly, and in the afternoon, several people were almost in their respective rooms for questioning, the first to end was Cheng Jiaxuan and Li Chang, followed by Han Yu and Bai Yifan, and Ye Xiaoxiao ended last.
The mood of several people was a little heavy, although the question was not the same person, but the final result was the same, those memories all belonged to the winter eight years ago.
Eight years ago, it would still snow in the winter in Linhua City, it was still very cold inside and outside, and the children wore thick clothes to school, even in the classroom, they would not easily take off their clothes.
Jiang Yun is a senior student in Moral Education Middle School, she has a quiet personality, she doesn't like to talk much, and her academic performance is not particularly good, but it is not particularly bad.
She always sat in the last row, or the penultimate row, so even if she wasn't in the classroom, no one noticed.
She has a good friend named Ji Han, in front of Ji Han, she smiles a lot, the two have been classmates since junior high school, and they are in the same class in high school, Jiang Yun feels that Ji Han is her best sister.
There is a group of little bully in the school, it is a few girls, the leader is called Gao Rui, she is tall, and at that time she would always take a few little girls to block other girls at the intersection to collect protection money.
Many students have been bullied, but everyone dares to be angry, because Gao Rui's uncle is the director of the school's teaching office, and her uncle is very strict, but also very protective of shortcomings.
Once a student complained that Gao Rui collected protection money, her uncle was very angry, dragged Gao Rui out and beat him, and when everyone thought Gao Rui would change, the student who complained never came to school again.
The teacher said that the student had changed schools, and the fact was that Gao Rui beat up the student with a group of people who were in the middle of the society on the student's way home.
Jiang Yun is also one of the people who are bullied, she is actually very smart, she knows that she can't beat or scold, so every time Gao Rui bullies her, she endures it silently and never resists.
She thought that it would be good to endure it, so as not to make trouble. When Jiang Yun thought about it was too simple, or rather, she underestimated the evil of human nature.
Although Gao Rui took the lead, she only relied on her tall figure to beat people at most, and every time she collected some protection money, if she met someone who was disobedient, she would give a few slaps.
However, Xu Runping is a very scheming girl. She has a bad family background since she was a child, and after she went to high school, she followed Gao Rui to show off her martial arts, and she likes to tease others, as if she is happy when she sees others having a bad time.
After school that day, Gao Rui went to Jiang Yun as usual, and Xu Runping told her that there was a basement next to the wall of the school's table tennis table, and few people went there, and they could take people to the basement so as not to be discovered by the teacher.
At that time, the basement was almost deserted, and in the early years, sundries were placed in it, but few people went back because it was useless.
took Jiang Yun to the basement that time, as well as Ding Qianqian and Lei Xiaowei. These two girls are different from Xu Runping, Ding Qianqian has good grades, but her personality is too arrogant, so she has not been liked by her classmates, so she and Gao Rui are mixed together, and Lei Xiaowei was once the target of bullying, so she was willing to listen to Gao Rui in order not to be bullied.
Neither of them is a bad person, but they are not good people either. Jiang Yun thought it was another experience as usual, but she didn't expect that in the basement, she was beaten by Gao Rui and Xu Runping, Xu Runping opened the cabin inside, threw her in, and then locked the door.
The basement was very cold, and Lei Xiaowei was shivering beside her,
"Are you going to lock her inside?" Xu Runping raised her eyebrows,
"What, do you have an opinion?" Ding Qianqian said,
"Just have fun, don't make a big deal, she'll freeze to death on such a cold day." Xu Runping looked at Gao Rui, the decision here is her, Gao Rui thought about it,
"Let's get her out." Xu Runping pouted,
"The basement is much warmer than the outside, and besides, we'll lock her up for the night and let her out tomorrow morning."
"Why are you targeting her so much this time?" Ding Qianqian was puzzled.
"The last time I asked her for money, she didn't give it." Xu Runping casually found a reason, but the actual situation was that she saw that the boy she had a crush on talked to Jiang Yun very gently.
Gao Rui thought for a moment,
"Then come and let her out tomorrow morning, the key is yours, don't forget." Xu Runping nodded, and several people left, Ding Qianqian walked last, she was wearing a red down jacket, and she didn't notice that the hem of the down jacket was torn off.
The next morning, Xu Runping did not appear, and Jiang Yun, who was locked in the house, was completely unable to move at the moment.
She had been kicking the door all night, scratching it with her hands, touching it with her arms, she had never known a door was so hard to open.
At this moment, the blood on her fingers has been frozen, her lips are purple, the whole person is shaking and can't stop, she can feel that her blood is gradually stopping flowing, this room is very small, very quiet, she opened her right hand, the palm of her hand was torn from Ding Qianqian's clothes when she was beaten yesterday, she put the cloth into the table drawer in front of her, and then slowly closed her eyes.
In her last glance with the world, there was only darkness in her eyes. By the time Xu Runping appeared, it was already the afternoon of the next day, she opened the door and saw the picture that shocked her, Jiang Yun was already dead.
Frightened, she told the other three about the news, and the other three were surprised to see the situation.
In the end, Xu Runping proposed that now is the time for the school to move, and they will not find out that there is a problem here, as long as they don't tell anyone, there will be no problem, otherwise their lives will be ruined.
So they locked the door and brought the gymnastics mat over to cover the door, so that if you didn't look closely from the outside, you wouldn't have known that there was another door.
If Jiang Yun's bones hadn't been found this time, they would probably have continued on their current trajectory, with the guilt that they didn't feel the slightest apology.
There was silence in the office, and Li Chang suddenly said,
Ding Qianqian said, that yellow dress, she saw Ji Han wearing a similar one.
"Ji Han?" Ye Xiaoxiao and Cheng Jiaxuan were surprised at the same time, they had only asked Ji Han during the day, but she categorically said that she didn't know the dress.
Ye Xiaoxiao and Cheng Jiaxuan glanced at each other,
"She lied." The two got up instantly, ready to go to find Ji Han, but before they reached the door, they found that someone came in from outside, it was Ji Han.
She walked straight up to a few people, her face was tired, and there was a strong smell of smoke on her body.
"I heard that you arrested someone, and I thought it was time to come and explain it to you. You should have found out too, the yellow dress is mine. ”
"Why are you lying?" Cheng Jiaxuan asked directly.
"I have children at home, and I don't want to make a bad impression on my children." Ji Han sat down naturally,
"I've been to that basement, because when Xiao Yun was taken to the basement by them, I saw it, but, but I didn't stop it, because I didn't dare." Ji Han's voice trembled and remorseful.
"When I went to the basement, I didn't find Xiao Yun, I called inside for a long time, but no one responded, so I always thought she had come out a long time ago." Ji Han recalled that when she went to the basement, it was actually the second night after Jiang Yun was brought in, Jiang Yun had disappeared at that time, there was no one in the basement at all, and she didn't know that there would be a room behind the gymnastics mat.
Gao Rui, Xu Runping, Ding Qianqian, and Lei Xiaowei were brought out, they were all surprised when they saw each other, and Ji Han was very angry when she saw them, but she endured it, and none of them spoke and remained silent.
When they passed by Ji Han, Ji Han suddenly shouted,
"Do you have a conscience? How have you been able to live all these years? No one responded to her, Ye Xiaoxiao and Cheng Jiaxuan stepped forward and grabbed her.
Only Ji Han knows how much she regrets it, if she could have been a little braver, would Jiang Yun still be alive and well, would she have a good life?
In that basement, no one knew what was going on except the dead girl and the group of abusers.
Eight years have passed in the outside world, and everyone has a new life of their own, and even the abusers can live well as if nothing had happened.
But the girl in the basement, she was buried forever that winter. Do you remember images from distant years?
What happened a long time ago, even if it is dried by time, will never dissipate, but will be remembered even more.
Maybe you have the most beautiful violets blooming on your table, it looks beautiful, but it has a tendency to decay, maybe everything is in the best time, it is about to dissipate the moment of decadence.
When it finally disappears, in fact, it is also remembered. There are four kinds of people in this world, one is the abuser, one is the victim, the other is the bystander, and the last one is the rescuer.
The scariest thing about those bystanders is that they have also become perpetrators in some way, but they still think that they are victims and want to live their lives alone.
After the case was over, Jiang Yun's mother cremated the bones and brought them home. She did not prepare a funeral for Jiang Yun, nor did she prepare a cemetery, she said, so that she would feel that her daughter was still by her side, so that she could live.