Act XIII

The strange feeling that had always been felt for a long time has finally been confirmed, and there is something strange about this school. Chen Xue saw my expression of discovery, and was about to ask me.

I shook my head and stopped her, saying there was something else to do now, right? Except after school. She looked a little disappointed, but she didn't continue to ask. That's the best, but I have something else I want to confirm.

Quiet school, quiet hallways, and the strange distribution of these classes, I'm not a nervous person. It's just that these situations are really hard to care about.

The people in Chu Xi's class were not closed, and Chen Xue still knocked on the door politely. He was greeted by a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses with a very pedantic temperament, and he looked a little thin, which may be the reason for the man's high cheekbones. Chen Xue told me that this man who looked a little dark was Chu Xi's homeroom teacher, who taught Chinese.

As if he had known that we were coming, he simply told the students who were still in the classroom to study well, don't make noise, and took us to his office. The school's teachers' offices are all located on the top floor, not according to the distribution of classes.

I had to follow him up three more floors, and the number of stairs here is much more than that of ordinary buildings, and there are three intermediate turns, which is as high as the five floors of ordinary buildings, right? I don't know why they set the ceiling on each floor so high

Finally climbed to the top floor, I looked at Chen Xue with a sigh of relief, but she couldn't see that she was struggling at all. It looks like I'm going to have to exercise more in the future.

The man took us to the second room on the south side, and as soon as I entered, I found that it was almost the same size as our office. The layout is very simple, a writing desk, a bookcase, and a computer on the table, which is on standby, and the case is constantly making the sound of whirring fans. This place is almost the same level as the principal's office of a general school, and it deserves to be the top school with deep pockets.

And I've heard that this school is famous for having a key high school admission rate of more than 90 percent. The amount of tuition can be imagined, and it is indeed an aristocratic school that only a family like Chu Tianxiong can afford.

I noticed that there were no sofas or chairs for guests in this office. The only thing you can sit on is the leather chair behind the desk. This school is really interesting, if you can have such good seats for teachers, why can't you set up more chairs?

"It's Captain Chen of the criminal investigation team, right? The principal has informed me that someone is coming. The man seemed to have just noticed this embarrassment, and he hurried over and pulled two chairs for the two of us from the outside for us to sit down.

"Now that Mr. Shen already knows what we are here for, things will be easy." Chen Xue sat on a temporarily moved chair and said in an orderly manner. "We're here to ask you something."

It seems that this middle-aged man's surname is Shen. The better it will be before we come, the question will be asked by Chen Xue, I just need to observe whether this Teacher Shen answers truthfully. I readily agreed, there is really no easier life than this.

"Is it Chu Xi's business?" Teacher Shen sighed deeply, as if he was very sorry.

"That's right. Do you already know about her suicide? Chen Xue asked.

Teacher Shen nodded, saying that the procedures for death notification and student status cancellation had been loosened before. I said in my heart that this is really efficient, Chu Xi should not have committed suicide for a few days, right? I remember Mrs. Chu telling us that the funeral was the day after tomorrow. They are ready to start eliminating their student status, faster than they can do it. But I can probably guess the reason, after all, this is the school.

"Do you have any thoughts about Chu Xi's death?" Chen Xue took a sip of the tea that Teacher Shen had made for us. We don't usually like to drink tea, so we simply refuse.

"Thoughts? Didn't this kid commit suicide? You're not suspicious of anyone, are you? Teacher Shen immediately became alert and looked at Chen Xue with wide eyes. I can't escape my eyes.

"Teacher Shen, you misunderstood, that's right, Chu Xi committed suicide. We're here just for a routine time, you don't have to get excited, just ask a few questions and go. Chen Xue said comfortingly. Don't you see that we didn't even make a transcript? ”

Hearing this, Mr. Shen calmed down a little, and he slowly returned to his seat and pushed his glasses. said that he was also very shocked by Chu Xi's death. He couldn't think of any reason for Chu Xi to do this

"How does she usually behave in the class?" Chen Xue asked.

"Very good, I can only say one good word if I want to describe it." Teacher Shen said firmly. "I have been teaching for more than ten years, and I really have rarely seen such students, and the grades are naturally needless to say, and there is no tendency to deviate from the subject at all. She is also very polite to people, she is the class committee member in the class, and I sometimes have to teach four or five classes, which is very busy. Chu Xi helped me deal with a lot of trivial matters, and her Chinese score was very good, good enough to help me judge the exam papers. ”

"Then how is her popularity in the class? Have you ever had a bad time with anyone? Chen Xue then asked.

Teacher Shen said that he was only the part-time head teacher of their class, and the original head teacher kept asking for leave because he didn't know what was going on. He didn't know much about Chu Xi's specific interpersonal relationships, and he had the impression that Chu Xi didn't get along well with any classmates.

"When did their original homeroom teacher take a leave of absence?" Chen Xue asked curiously.

"It seems like a month ago, and that's when I started to get busy." There was a little more complaint in Mr. Shen's words. "He's also a Chinese teacher, and when I ask for leave, I have to work part-time in all his classes, which is really busy."

"Do you know the address of their original homeroom teacher?" Chen Xue nodded.

Teacher Shen said that it was impossible for him to know this kind of thing, he had nothing to do with that person, and each classroom had its own separate office, not only did he not know, but other teachers didn't know either. The only one who knows is the dean of provost or the principal.

In the end, Chen Xue asked Chu Xi if he had shown some abnormalities recently, but what he got was that there was no abnormality. I thought to myself that this is a matter of course, even if there is this Teacher Shen, I can't take care of it. He may not have lost much weight in the first place, but he should be tired like this, with hundreds of students in five classes, but homework correction is terrible. Moreover, he is also a Chinese teacher, and for this kind of subject with no fixed standard answers, grading is definitely the most time-consuming.

It was already one o'clock in the afternoon after all the questions, and Mr. Shen had other classes after him, so he hurriedly said goodbye to us, and disappeared at the end of the corridor in a short time.

"Okay, what's next?" Window lace, I exhaled. "Are you going to find the Dean of Students or the Headmaster?"

"Of course I want to go!" Chen Xue said immediately. "But I'll go alone, I don't need you here, just ask for an address and phone number. You have other tasks! ”

"What?" I'm a little confused so.

She handed me her own wallet and said to me in a big way, "Your job now is to go to the Burger King next door and buy lunch for your lovely girlfriend!" I bought my own, let's find a place to talk.

"Didn't you just find a lot of things?" Chen Xue said with a smile. "I'm waiting for me at the school gate after I bought it."

After saying that, she left me alone on the top floor and walked away by herself. What a person who can do whatever he wants

Who is inheriting this? I shook my head helplessly.

With Chen Xue's purse in hand, I walked down the long staircase to the bottom. Actually, I still have something I want to ask Chu Xi's classmates alone, but it's already time for class, and it's not good to disturb Bacheng at this time.

Especially for this school, I might be resentful of doing this. Besides, I'm just a co-operative, not a police officer, and I don't have the right to do that. Let's obediently buy lunch for Chen Xue here, I'm also a little hungry.

As for other suspicions, let's ask Chen Xue to bring me with me next time. This school is here, it won't run or disappear, and it's good to investigate little by little in the future.

As I reached the first floor, I suddenly shivered, and a cold breath poured into my neck through my loosely tied neckline. It seems to be windy outside, it's obviously an electronic door, how can it put cold air in? I tightened the zipper of my coat and walked to the electronic door, wanting to see what was going on.

The late autumn in the southern city is really the most unbearable, the cold wind that will appear at every turn, coupled with the moist and humid air, feels like it is stuck together from top to bottom, and it is really stuffy in the cold.

When I got to the door, I found that the electronic door seemed to be stuck in something, and it was constantly opening and closing. I picked it up and found that it was a thick student dictionary that had fallen like a brick in the middle of the electronic door.

Could it be that some student or teacher accidentally lost it here? The dictionary cover looks a little old, it belongs to the kind of old thread-bound dictionary, there are many places where the line is open, you can see a lot of tape treatment places, it seems that its owner always uses it, and he is reluctant to throw it away.

I opened the title page but didn't see the name that should exist.,It stands to reason that if it's a dictionary used by junior high school students, there should be a name? I curiously flipped through the dictionary, but I couldn't find any names written on it, but I found a line in the afterword on the last page that was in the handwriting of the second and third classes of junior high school.

Chu Xi's class? Is it a coincidence? In this way, this dictionary is the property of a certain classmate of Chu Xi. Just as I was about to close the dictionary, I noticed a small detail. I have the impression that this kind of dictionary should have a page before the preface, and it is usually printed with the name of the dictionary and the publisher and so on.

But this dictionary does not have such a page, and I soon found out that this page was deliberately torn off, and traces of it can still be seen at the root. In other words, it is not that the name is not written in this dictionary, but that the page where the name was originally written was torn out by someone.

But why is that? Dictionary owners don't usually do this kind of thing, do they? It doesn't make sense, has someone stolen it and wants to take it for themselves? That's interesting, why don't you steal such an old dictionary?

But it's not a big problem, just let Chen Xue take it and ask Teacher Shen to know, now I don't want to go to the third class as high as the fifth floor for this thing.

Thinking of this, I naturally stuffed this dictionary into my backpack and left the school quickly. It's located in the heart of the city, just a few blocks away from the psychotherapy center where I work. These streets are very prosperous commercial streets, and even at night, they are full of traffic.

Rather, at night it becomes more prosperous, and when the commercial centers and other formal entertainment establishments are closed, it becomes a paradise of depravity and corruption. Nightclubs, bars, private casinos, and all kinds of underground places will compete to come out and have a good time, although Chen Xue and they have rectified it many times, but these things are like weeds that can't be burned by wildfires, and no matter how you get them, they will not be completely eradicated.

Otherwise, Chen Xue would not have worked so hard to carry out a mission similar to an undercover agent before, and she has been carrying out the so-called "justice against crime" in those streets for a long time. "These are all things she talks to me about in her spare time, but I don't really care about it myself.

To be precise, I didn't want to know any of these things at all, and for some reason, she was very open to me, even telling me about some of the excesses in their mission

That's why I'm so close to this school, but I don't know about it at all. I like to schedule all my guests for the day so that I can have a lot of time to do what I want to do. So I either don't come, and every time I do, I work late.

This school has nothing to do with me, and I don't have any reason to walk through these damn places after work to visit this school, no matter how famous it is.

However, it is still noon, and those streets are still very ordinary commercial streets at this time, and I may still find the Burger King that Chen Xue wants to eat very calmly. It took me about half an hour to find that place. I thought about it for a while, but in the end, I didn't use Chen Xue's money, and after buying two simple packages at my own expense, I quickly had to go back.

By the time I went back, Chen Xue seemed to have finished her own affairs a long time ago, and was sitting bored on the stone steps next to the school gate. I subconsciously felt like something was going to happen

"Slow death! What are you doing, I've been waiting here for a full ten minutes. Sure enough, she grumbled angrily.

In other words, it's just a ten-minute wait, and what can you do with a student's recess. Of course, I just thought so in my heart, I know Chen Xue's character very well, and it would be troublesome if I said this.

"Okay, okay, it's me who is bad. I'm not very familiar with this place, so it's good to find it. I comforted me. Lunch for you. ”

Only then will she talk like a normal girl, complaining that this guy is simply a machine when she is working. I handed her share.

"Ah, I don't really like the Huangbao package. Can you go back and swap it out? "What does this guy say casually! It's fast food, can I go back and tell someone to change it!

"Okay, okay, it's just to tease you, look at your face is green." She looked at my expression and burst out laughing. "I didn't expect you to know about a treat?"

Chen Xue counted the front of her wallet and said.

I said you don't have to pretend, and your tone and actions at that time were almost the same as saying hurry up and return the lunch I invited you last time. How could I still use your money, my job is okay, even if I ask you every day.

"It seems that I really didn't find the wrong boyfriend, and it was seen so easily?" Chen Xue said while eating a hamburger. "Don't eat this every day, I'll get fat. I'll treat you to something else next time you visit. ”

I sighed softly and said that I almost didn't read it, and I should get to the point, right? Didn't you keep asking me to tell you what I found before?

"Yes, yes! If you don't say it, I'll forget! What do you find suspicious? Chen Xue immediately opened her eyes wide and looked up at me.

I don't think any man can withstand this kind of attack, and if I didn't know who she was, I would probably be completely captivated by such a simple action. But she is Chen Xue, the captain of the criminal police team, even if she doesn't do it on purpose, she will naturally bring out some acting skills, I can't be mistaken.

She hadn't forgotten about it at all, she simply enjoyed my offer. Of course, I already knew, and I didn't want to talk to her at such a time.

"Quite simply, there is a very important element missing from this school." I looked directly into Chen Xue's eyes. "That's slapstick."