side by side

"Little Xuanzi, you're awake!" Liang Jiqing poked his head out from behind Du Ruobai with a smile, and greeted Liang Jixuan, "Did you sleep well last night?"

"It's okay..." Liang Jixuan replied vaguely, "Hey brother, speaking of it, this osmanthus wine alley is really remote, and it's so quiet at night."

"There aren't many people living here," Liang Jiqing flipped through the newspaper with his head down, "It's indeed very quiet."

Looking at the newspaper on the table, Liang Jixuan suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Many things he wants to know now can obviously be found in current affairs newspapers.For such a simple matter, his brain short-circuited for a while and he forgot.

"Brother Qing, do you have any newspapers from Peking for nearly a month?" Liang Jixuan became overwhelmed. He only thought that Liang Jiqing belonged to the newspaper, but he asked directly. Instead, he secretly searched for evidence from the person being investigated. , Liang Jixuan's face turned hot, "I'm so bored with nothing to do, I want to look for something to look at." He has never lied a lot, but occasionally he is clumsy, full of loopholes, and wants to make amends. On the contrary, the descriptions are getting darker and darker. How can anyone just look through old newspapers without looking for books?Liang Jixuan shut his mouth and stopped talking.

"Should there be...Xiaobai?" Liang Jiqing rubbed his chin, but he didn't notice Liang Jixuan's embarrassment, "You didn't lose the last month's newspaper, did you? Where did you put it?"

"It's in the study." Du Ruobai looked up at Liang Jixuan, with clear eyes and an open face, "I'll take you to pick it up."

The two masters under investigation were frank and frank, but he was sneaking around like a thief, Liang Jixuan couldn't help but feel a little funny.

The study area is not big, but there are quite a lot of things piled up.An elevated mahogany long cabinet, from bottom to top, was filled with many books. From ancient times to the present, from the middle to the outside, Liang Jixuan took a closer look and found that many of them were original manuscripts, not like his brother's. Those who would be interested should be Du Ruobai's collection.

"These are the last month's publications of the three mainstream newspapers in Beiping, including Minsheng." Du Ruobai pointed to the three towering stacks of newspapers on the table. By the foot of the table."

In the corner, thick newspapers were piled up layer upon layer by category.This was supposed to be Liang Jiqing's job, but he has always been impatient, and in the end it was not as neat as Du Ruobai's.

"If you want to read the old newspapers and periodicals, you can also look for them in the corner. I have made notes on the top."

Du Ruobai was too frank, and Liang Jixuan didn't know what to say for a while. "Oops!" He suddenly remembered something bad happened, so many things happened last night, he actually forgot the appointment with Gu Huatian at noon today.

After hastily thanking Du Ruobai, Liang Jixuan rushed to Xijiaoping.

When he arrived at the tavern, it was past the appointed time.Gu Huatian was still sitting in the private room yesterday, with the same smiling expression, not a bit impatient.

"Senior, I'm sorry." Liang Jixuan trotted all the way up from downstairs, and hurriedly apologized to him, "I forgot the time by accident, and my place of residence is a little bit out of the way. It took me a while to come here."

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm alone during the holidays." Gu Huatian didn't care much, he smiled and waved his hands, "Speaking of Ji Xuan, you have always been so honest, you can't even tell a lie .”

Liang Jixuan touched his face and smiled awkwardly. He remembered what happened at Liang Jiqing's house just now.

"Here, here." Gu Huatian threw two keys to him, "Go in through the main entrance, the last three are teaching buildings, and the last one is for office use. College students don't have fixed classrooms, and he doesn't live on campus, but I heard He joined a club, and that club has a fixed activity classroom on the top floor of the third teaching building."

"As for me, since I'm on vacation, I don't really want to go back to school anymore." Gu Huatian blinked at him, "I'll just wait here for you."

From the point of view of friends alone, Gu Huatian is really a very reliable person.Seeing no one around, Liang Jixuan secretly opened the gate of St. Jordan University.His palms were soaked in sweat, and there was a thunder in the sky. This day, I am afraid that it will change again.

The once bustling campus is now empty.It was early autumn, and the phoenix tree was covered with a layer of yellow blanket, which looked like no one had stepped on it for a few days.

Liang Jixuan sneaked into the school, he was attracted by the public notice board at the entrance of the teaching building.On the public notice board, only the latest criticism announcement was posted, and the rest were scooped up.

[August 11, 31th year of the Republic of China,

Students Du Ruobai, Wan Shan, Qi Ruqiu, etc. from our school instigated a school strike and rioted, causing many students to be injured.His behavior has seriously affected the reputation of the school, and also caused bad influence on the whole school.

After research, it is now decided to remove Du Ruobai from the post of student council president and give the three of them a demerit penalty once to see the effect.

I hope that other students can learn from this and don't do it again. ]

August 31st?Du Ruobai's incident on August 31st, Liang Jiqing's water drop on September [-]st... There may be some unclear connections between them.

Liang Jixuan was thinking, and walked to the third teaching building.Before he came, he had just asked Brother Qing to ask for the newspapers of the past month. After he went back, he could get a general idea of ​​the situation from the newspapers.Seeing Liang Jiqing and Du Ruobai's frank appearances, Liang Jixuan himself began to question the meaning of his behavior of getting to the bottom of the matter. At first, he obviously came to Peiping to find his brother because Liang Jiqing's stand-in tree in the yard withered for no reason. .

Now Liang Jiqing is also looking for it, but he is still looking for some inexplicable truths.Liang Jixuan couldn't explain the reason for this, a thread was always stretched in his heart, this thread has been stretched since he looked at the stand-in tree, even if he saw Liang Jiqing, this thread still hasn't loosened However, his intuition told him that this matter was just the beginning, and it was far from over.

Liang Jixuan was standing at the bottom of the three teaching buildings, when a bolt of lightning suddenly split in the sky, shining brightly in front of his eyes, he swallowed silently.

The lock on the door of the teaching building was broken, leaving a small half shoe print on the ground.Liang Jixuan was a little taken aback. Someone had obviously visited this building after the school closed.He tentatively stretched out his foot to make a rough gesture on the shoe print, and the shoe size was obviously a circle smaller than his.

It must have belonged to a girl, or a little man.

Liang Jixuan carefully opened the door, if someone had been there before, she/he might still be inside.He walked upstairs by touching the wall, but he didn't dare to turn on the light. Outside the window, the belated thunder rumbled, making the atmosphere even more gloomy.

Amidst the roar of thunder, he suddenly heard a faint cry.

It's a girl... Liang Jixuan proved his previous guess.

tbc.