Jiang Jincheng didn't say anything after hearing this explanation. He glanced at the police officer, who immediately understood: "Teacher Feng, have you ever been to the hospital for a checkup for insomnia?"

Teacher Feng was stunned for a moment and then quickly said: "Yes, yes, yes! I just couldn't sleep so I needed to take sleeping pills, but I was afraid that Western medicine would be bad for my body so I prescribed Chinese medicine. I still have the prescription and diagnosis in my phone!"

After saying that, she immediately took out her cell phone from her bag and looked through the photo album for a long time before finding a few blurry photos of the diagnosis and drug names.

"I have a bad memory and usually throw away the medicine box because I think it's troublesome. But after taking the medicine, I can't remember the name, so I have the habit of taking pictures before buying medicine."

Jiang Jincheng just glanced at it briefly, said "hmm", and returned the phone to her.

"What kind of child is Maggie usually?"

"Ma Qi is a very well-behaved girl. She is pretty and obedient. She is usually very lively and has a good relationship with her classmates. I have never seen her have a conflict with anyone."

"Um…"

Jiang Jincheng suddenly asked: "Where did the children go to class after this classroom was blocked?"

Teacher Feng was stunned for a moment and quickly responded: "I arranged it to an empty classroom on the fifth floor. That classroom had been renovated a long time ago because the wall was falling off, and it was only recently renovated... I didn't expect... it would be such a coincidence..."

She realized that she had said the wrong thing and quickly shut up and said no more.

Jiang Jincheng didn't care about these things. He pondered for a moment and took out a box of soft-pack blue and Yellow Crane Tower cigarettes from his old pocket with some annoyance. After searching for a long time, he couldn't take out a lighter from his old pocket.

Jiang Jincheng frowned slightly, biting his cigarette and looking through both pockets. The police officer next to him quickly took out the lighter from his pocket and handed it to Jiang Jincheng: "Captain Jiang, use mine!"

Jiang Jincheng glanced at him, lit the cigarette, took a deep puff, and then blew out a satisfied smoke ring. He looked at the young policeman in front of him with a half-smile: "You don't smoke, do you? Your middle finger and index finger are not yellowed or worn. You brought the lighter specially for me?"

"Ah I…"

The police officer, whose thoughts were exposed, laughed dryly and scratched his head in panic. Jiang Jincheng threw the lighter back and scolded him with a smile: "Don't learn these nonsense from those people. Follow me to investigate the case and help the victim's family to bring the suspect to justice as soon as possible. This is the most important thing."

"Ah yes!"

Jiang Jincheng took a puff of cigarette to calm his restless heart: "Go to the guard room and see how their surveillance is going. The surveillance from last night should be easy to check. Why is there no movement for so long?"

The young policeman responded and trotted down the teaching building. Jiang Jincheng leaned against the corridor smoking a cigarette and looked at the young policeman jogging downstairs who almost fell down and couldn't help but sneered.

"Since something like this happened in class, are you planning to continue with the class or have a holiday?"

Jiang Jincheng exhaled hot air mixed with the smell of cigarettes and turned his head to look at Teacher Feng: "You don't look very well mentally. It's normal for ordinary people to feel nauseous and scared for a few days when seeing a corpse. Isn't the school going to give us a holiday?"

"Ah...I'm preparing for the holiday..."

Teacher Feng nodded and stammered, "We will give our class a five-day holiday in a few days. The police will be questioning us these few days. The students live in scattered places and it will be troublesome for you to run around during the holiday. We will wait until you understand the situation one by one before giving us the holiday."

Jiang Jincheng raised his eyebrows, somewhat surprised that the school had thought of this so carefully. He stood firm, holding a cigarette in his mouth, and asked, "Where is Ma Qi's seat? Is there any particular rule for arranging seats?"

"The fourth one in the third row is arranged according to grades! The children at the front have priority in choosing their seats, which is fair and can motivate them to study."

Teacher Feng added: "Ma Qi chose that place because she is a little farsighted. She has good grades and always gives priority to choosing that place. The children around her, in front of her, and around her are also top students with good grades."

"Ah."

Jiang Jincheng felt that there was nothing interesting to see, so he asked casually: "How many students are there in your class? What is Ma Qi's student number?"

"There are 42 students in the class, Ma Qi...student number is 01."

Jiang Jincheng suddenly stopped and looked at Teacher Feng with some surprise: "01?"

"Yes... I have the student number next to the roster in my bag. I'll find it for you!"

Jiang Jincheng remained silent. In fact, it was not uncommon for the student number to be "01". It just meant that the number was 1. It was just...

The number 1 is the first number other than zero that represents quantity... It represents the beginning of everything...

There are 42 students in the class, and her student number can be "02", "38" or "27".

How come it just happened to be the unit of quantity “1” that represents the beginning of everything?

Does Maggie's death suggest that this is just the beginning?

No...it shouldn't be possible...

Who would have the time to kill a few children to take revenge on society...

There are indeed such lunatics, but they are a minority after all. Plus, the bizarre method of suicide... doesn't seem like something an antisocial personality suspect who's out to take revenge on society would do.

It's very simple, because they kill people in passion, they are brutal and cruel, and usually they insult the corpse and toss it into pieces. However, Ma Qi's body is intact, with no marks other than the rope marks on her neck.

We can also completely rule out the possibility that someone strangled her with a rope from behind, because it is impossible to strangle a person instantly. When a person's life is in danger, the body will instinctively struggle and resist. Even if they are willing to die, they will instinctively struggle and resist the pain and suffocation.

There were no traces or fingerprints or hair left by others on Ma Qi's body. It was so clean that Jiang Jincheng even suspected that Ma Qi had some mental problem or split personality or something that would cause her to commit suicide in the middle of the night. Otherwise, everything would be too unbelievable.

Now it all depends on what the surveillance camera in the guard room says. If they can capture someone forcing or luring Ma Qi into the school, then it can be explained, but if there is nothing, then Ma Qi went into the school and hanged herself...

Tsk…

Even if the facts were laid out before their eyes, Ma Qi's parents would definitely not buy it.

and…

Where did the hanging rope come from?

The body in the morning was tied to the highest nail of the classroom door with a thick hemp rope, tied into a knot, and then pierced through the neck to suffocate to death. In fact, Jiang Jincheng also found a suspicious point...

Why didn't he step on a stool when hanging himself???

Since ancient times, people would hang themselves by standing on a stool so that they could adjust the height and then kick the stool away to strangle themselves to death. But why is there no stool kicked away around Ma Qi? Isn't this very unreasonable? ? ?

Ma Qi is not short. The height of this girl in the second grade of junior high school is 165cm. If she doesn’t use a stool, she can still reach the rope by just raising her feet.

That's not right! How did you tie the rope to the nail without using a stool to stand on it?

Jiang Jincheng's scalp suddenly went numb. He realized that this case was definitely not as simple as it seemed. The scene was too clean and there was nothing suspicious, but it was full of irrationality and weirdness...

There are too many things that cannot be explained and too many clues that cannot be found...

"Hello? What???"

Jiang Jincheng was interrupted by the phone call and put out the cigarette in his mouth. He raised his voice and stared: "Ma Qi walked in from the school gate at twelve o'clock in the evening?"

"What's that guard doing? He can't even see such a big guy... didn't he see anyone??? Are you kidding me?"

The police officer's slightly shocked voice came from the phone: "It's true, Captain Jiang! Ma Qi walked in through the main gate at five minutes past twelve last night! And the guard insisted that he hadn't slept and had been patrolling and watching the surveillance!"

"When we first came in to check the surveillance, he was very confident and said that there was no way Ma Qi could have come in through the main door last night!"

"Because he was hanging around the gate last night. He reviewed the surveillance video before leaving get off work and there was no Ma Qi on the screen. He said he didn't know why Ma Qi, who shouldn't have been on the surveillance video, suddenly appeared!!"

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