Act XIV

"Fighting? What does this mean? Chen Xue stopped eating her hamburger and asked with some incomprehension.

I probably could have expected her to react like this, something that most people don't really care about. It's like a person who carries a pen with him every day in class, and one day he suddenly forgets it, and he may not realize it for a long time until the teacher says that this class is an exam.

I say literally, slapstick, noisy, joking. Think about what you did during lunch break and recess when you were a junior high school student. She thought for a moment and said that she usually chats with her classmates, right?

Ah, I forgot she's a girl, so she doesn't usually make a noise in the classroom or hallway

"Well, to put it another way. What do you think recess would be like in a typical school? I asked.

"It's about sitting with each other, chatting, and playing some games, right?" Chen Xue said. "Oh! By the way, I also said why do you talk about fighting? When I was in school, boys were like that! Either running around or shouting loudly. ”

I said yes, it's this thing, don't you notice that there are almost no slogans in this school? Isn't there a lot of slow walking, keeping right, or prohibiting loud noises in the hallways of middle schools?

As soon as I came in, I felt that this school was a little strange. It's just a little too clean. There was nothing on the walls, and there were very few people on the playground. It was time for lunch break, but there was not a single student in sight in the hallway. It feels like this place doesn't look like a school at all, but something else.

"But there are people in this school, you have also seen the students in the class, and Teacher Shen." Chen Xue said. "This place is a school."

That's right, what Chen Xue said is, of course, the truth. This place is indeed a school, as I know when I look down the hallway to the passing classes. That's why I say that this place doesn't look like a school, not that it's not a school.

"It's fun for you to play this word game with me! Something has been detoured! She urged.

"Including Chu Xi's second and third junior high school classes, I just observed a lot of other classes. They were all the same, there were so many people in the classroom that they were almost full, and eighty percent of the empty seats were just eating. I continued. It's not normal. ”

"Well, I didn't even notice that." Chen Xue took a bite of the hamburger and realized that I continued.

So I'm very concerned about what these kids are doing. If you don't have a good rest, what are you doing sitting in your seat? This question was well explained when I entered the second and third classes of junior high school.

One of those students counts one, and all of them sit in their seats and study. Although everyone looks at different subjects, there is no mistake, they are all learning. It's not like you're crazy about something, but you're just reciting something in your mouth. In fact, when we went in, only Mr. Shen noticed it at the beginning, and the children in his class didn't even look at us.

It's not that they're too serious to see us there, but these kids give me the impression that they're always paying attention to everyone but themselves. It wasn't a friendly or curious attention, it was distinctly hostile, as if all the enemies in this small classroom were but myself.

As soon as we came in, I felt a lot of sudden extra glances. It was the children's, and they were studying, and they were glancing at us very quickly. Their hostility was very purposeful, and I could see from the small actions after that, they became much more relaxed when they knew that the people who came were me and Chen Xue.

"Do you mean that these kids are on the lookout for something?" Chen Xue asked.

I thought about it for a moment and said an answer that I thought was inseparable.

"They're on the lookout for something, but it's not supposed to be anything." I suddenly felt a little thirsty, so I stopped and took a sip of Coke.

"These students must be alerting to someone here." I continued.

"People? Who is it? Teacher Shen? Or Chu Xi? She looked a little taken aback.

I said that it was not yet possible to determine for sure, and although I could roughly deduce who had happened, there was still no conclusive evidence. I can only say that for the students of this school, the most important thing is to study. In fact, there will be one or two such children in every school and class, when others are playing, he is learning, and when others are studying, he is studying harder.

Parents or teachers of such children call them good students, and they are generally very popular. Their grades are very good and they are highly regarded by their teachers. But something is wrong with this school, and all of their students seem to be like that. No, it should be too much.

I can clearly feel that for these students, learning is not the most important thing. Because learning is everything to them, except for eating and sleeping, there is nothing that can be compared with learning.

It's a bit scary, even if it's a key school, it's too much. It's still possible to just be an elite class, but I've observed that the students on that entire floor are like that! This can only be described as weird

And the obvious hostility with a strong purpose is even more unusual. This is not at all something that a child who has just come out of elementary school and has not been a few years old, and I don't feel the slightest bit of the active, noisy and playful personality that is unique to children of their age. It's not an easy place

"Can you really feel that much?" At this time, Chen Xue had already finished eating the hamburger and casually threw the garbage into the trash can on the side. "How do I think they're no different from the average middle school student?"

I said that you are not a psychiatrist, these children seem to be very tolerant, and each of them seems to have a very big desire, but it is well suppressed. I can't guess what it is, but it must have something to do with their crazy study. It seems to me that they are like a balloon that is obviously full, but they don't know it yet, and they are still trying to cheer themselves up.

It won't be long before they explode

"It seems that I'm really looking for you to find the right one, Chu Xi's death is really not so simple." She sighed.

"Didn't you just come to me because you knew things weren't easy?" I said. "Okay, I've said that, but I still have some things that I can't decide, and you have to take me again when you have time."

Chen Xue nodded and said no problem.

"Just as you're done eating. Let's go! She waved the key in her hand.

"Where are you going?"

"Go to Chu Xi's original head teacher, I found the address." Chen Xue said.

After that, we drove to Chu Xi's original homeroom teacher's house, which was an ordinary rental house. There was no one when we went, and Chen Xue managed to contact the landlord, who told us that the person was there and never returned.

When Chen Xue asked what it was, the answer she got was a month ago. Isn't that when he asks for leave from school? Could it have been so coincidental?

We had no choice but to ask for the person's mobile phone number from the landlord, but it didn't work, and it seemed to be down. Chen Xue told me that this person's name is Lu Minghui, born in the 80s, his hometown is from the north, and I don't know why he finally came here to be a teacher. When she found the dean, she happily told her his address.

Chen Xue listened to the teaching director's evaluation of this Lu Minghui seems to be very high, since he came here to teach three years ago, his teaching performance has been very good, and he is a very good teacher.

"But the excellent teacher in this mouth is gone." I said with some sarcasm. "It's suspicious to be missing at this juncture."

"It's true that there is something wrong with this guy named Lu Minghui." Chen Xuete agreed. "The landlord told me on the phone just now that this person has been a bit sneaky since he moved out, and he forgot to pay last month's rent. If the landlord hadn't come to urge him, he wouldn't have remembered it at all. ”

Anyway, this time it was in vain, and I sighed and let myself lean casually against the wall of the hallway. I heard that the teachers in that school have very high incomes, why did this guy surnamed Lu find such a place to rent a house?

I looked around, and the environment of this place had nothing to do with cleanliness. If it weren't for the fact that I had been running in a hurry for almost a day, I would never have allowed myself to lean against this wall that was about to fall off!

I don't know how to get the stains of various colors on the floor, there are two elevators in total, one is broken and no one has repaired it, the other is full of small advertisements, and there is still a piece of chewing gum that has not been cleaned for an unknown amount of time on the handrail of this staircase. Chen Xue, who was really bad, walked in without frowning at all.

The garbage downstairs that no one had picked up for days was a big deal for me, so I was dragged up by him. I've always wondered if he's in the wrong place, is this a place for people to live? It's a pity that she didn't find the wrong place in terms of structure, and Lu Minghui really lived here.

And this place is not very familiar to me, because it is further away from the city center than the apartment I rented, and the urban-rural junction is several times better than this place. I really want to talk to him face-to-face, and I really want to study this person's psychological state and thinking circuit.

"What now?" I patted the ash on my shoulder and asked. "Go find this person?"

Of course I know it's not practical, how can we find it so easily in such a big city. Although Chen Xue is a police officer, she is now investigating this matter in her personal capacity, and the police's investigation network and intelligence network are unusable, and the upper echelons no longer let her meddle in this matter.

So now things are getting a little troublesome, it's obvious that this Lu Minghui is a clue, his disappearance may have something to do with Chu Xi's suicide, but it was simply broken.

The two of us returned to the car disappointed, and it was already seven o'clock in the evening. I finally remembered the dictionary in my bag, this is also a small doubt, I briefly explained, and handed it to Chen Xue. Because she was still driving, she casually put the dictionary in the storage compartment next to the driver's seat.

I also reminded her not to forget to ask the owner of this thing, I always care a little inexplicably about this thing. There shouldn't be such a thing in that empty hall on the first floor.

If someone takes a careful step, they will definitely notice. It's a thick dictionary that's about the size of a turn. Who can ignore the sound of falling to the ground? And not deaf. Even if you really don't hear it, you can always notice that the schoolbag is so much lighter all of a sudden, right? At noon, I was in a hurry to buy lunch for Chen Xue, so I didn't think about it so much. In retrospect, this thing is still too suspicious, as if someone deliberately put it there. It's a little weird like that, and it doesn't make sense to do anything like that.

"Are you all psychiatrists like that?" Chen Xue looked a little helpless. "Isn't it a dictionary with such a lot of suspicion? It's old like this, and it might be this dictionary that breaks first by smashing people's heads. Those students take their studies so seriously that they probably don't notice when they drop a dictionary. When I have time, I'll ask Mr. Shen to ask those students. ”

Is this really it? Am I overthinking? Thinking about it carefully, what Chen Xue said still makes some sense, after all, they are middle school students who are beyond common sense, and it has nothing to do with Chu Xi's suicide. When I thought of this, I naturally forgot about the dictionary in the back of my mind.

"Lu Minghui, I won't give up. It's possible that I won't be here all day tomorrow, and it's going to be a problem if I don't deal with things at the police station. Chen Xue, who had temporarily stopped at an intersection, turned to me and said. At that time, I will use my right to let Wang Keqiang secretly check it. ”

I said, is it really good for you to do this? The consequences of abusing private power can be very serious, especially if you are still a well-known criminal policeman, something happens not necessarily as simple as suspension. Or give up for it, okay? Things can be investigated little by little

Chen Xue didn't say anything after hearing this, but instead stepped on the accelerator fiercely, and this old black Hyundai was like a bull with stimulants, and it rushed out. My whole body was pressed on the chair by inertia all of a sudden, and the acceleration was really completely unprepared, and I felt that my heart was going to be compressed into a point, and the worst thing was that it was still beating rapidly, and the blood flow was rushing to my brain all of a sudden.

"What are you doing all of a sudden! Murder? She didn't slow down until the next red light, and she drove like a drag racing driver. I immediately rolled open the window next to the passenger seat, retching as I breathed in the cold night air.

"You'd better wear your seatbelts, right?" Chen Xue said casually. "Otherwise, next time I brake, I won't be so gentle, and you'll fly straight out through the windshield."

I immediately hurriedly fastened my seatbelt, and at the same time asked her if I had said the wrong thing in a more tactful tone. She said no, but she didn't like others dictating her work, so she naturally had her own set of practices.

It was only then that I remembered that after she moved in, Wang Dazui had quietly called me and told me some of Chen Xuede's deeds. It's true that this woman is very unreasonable at work, and as I deduced, this guy may have a slight split personality

In short, she never allows others to dictate her work, sometimes even if the other party is the director. If it weren't for Chen Xue's character, she would not have been a simple criminal police captain with her eighty percent grades. I said in my heart that I finally know why you don't have a boyfriend, who can stand it all of a sudden!

After that, no matter how much I tried to persuade her, she didn't lose her breath, and I was on a rollercoaster ride until I got home

For dinner, she made something very easily out of some leftover ingredients, and honestly I could clearly feel that she was fooling around. But I don't have any complaints, after all, even fooling is much better than what I can do on my own.

Her mood improved just before she went to bed, and she went to sleep contentedly after a series of physical and mental harassment on me as she had done yesterday. What a troublesome woman.

The next two days were lackluster, Chen Xue has been busy in the police station, and only dragged her tired body back in the middle of the night after the first day, and she slept so drowsy without taking a shower. I blushed and took a lot of effort to help her change her clothes, and the next day we went to Chu Xi's funeral together, and then she hurried back to the police station and didn't come back all night.

It was only after this suicide that almost completely drove me crazy that it really entered the main drama, and it completely made me understand what it means to be crazy