The Book of Death by Heart Poison

Chuanming City.

In response to the call of the Education Bureau a few years ago, No. [-] Middle School built a new campus in the "Learning City" in the north.Last school year, the first and second grades moved there, and in the second half of last year, the second grade also moved there.

No. [-] Middle School is a key middle school in the city, and every student in the experimental class can get a heavy education, and the top group can even compete for the provincial champion.Underneath the enviable achievements is a heavy burden and pressure.

The school leaders decided to let the second year of senior high school move there, precisely because the second year of senior high school is a crucial year, and students need to concentrate on their homework in a place away from the temptation of entertainment.

The old campus of No. [-] Middle School is located in the bustling section of the city center, surrounded by many shopping malls, restaurants, and movie theaters.Whether the students are willing to move to the "desolate" new campus also said that the teachers are mostly not happy.Almost all of them have houses near the old campus, but they were suddenly transferred to the fringe area of ​​the city and the countryside, so their lives were quite inconvenient.

Moreover, the schoolwork in No. 7 Middle School is intense. I start my morning reading at 20:9 in the morning, and do my evening self-study at 40:11 in the evening.After moving to the new campus, the teachers had to get up before dawn to take the school bus. If they needed to watch for late self-study, it was often after [-] o'clock when they returned home at night.

When the new campus was first built, the school considered the commuting of the teachers, so not only did the faculty and staff dormitories be built on the campus, but also a community was built outside the campus with the standard of commercial housing, named Shifeng Xiaoyuan, and sold at the internal price. to the teachers.

The teachers in No. [-] Middle School are all elites, and they basically have no shortage of money to buy a house.But many people buy houses not for living, but for investment. After all, although the "Learning City" is desolate now, it will definitely become prosperous in ten years. By then, the house in Shifeng Xiaoyuan will be sold. , I don’t know how many times the price can be doubled.

But there are also a small number of teachers who buy houses for the real purpose of living.

Teachers in No. [-] Middle School are divided into two factions when it comes to buying a house. One group is young single teachers, most of whom are willing to live in Shifeng Xiaoyuan, and the other group is married teachers with families. Although they know that they live in Shifeng Xiaoyuan It is convenient, but there are children and partners in the family, and some have elderly people, so they have to go back to take care of them.

Jia Bing, a mathematics teacher in Class 20 of the second year of high school, belongs to the former.

He is 24 years old this year, a handsome guy, graduated from the best normal college in the province, and has won national scholarships for years.No. [-] Middle School rarely recruits undergraduate graduates, and Jia Bing is the only undergraduate who stayed after the internship period.The leader of the math group said at the time that No. [-] Middle School could not let such an excellent teacher go because of his qualifications.

Class 20 is one of the six science experimental classes in the second year of high school. Jia Bing was under a lot of pressure when he first took over. He lost his hair for several months, but he finally got used to it recently.

The students in the experimental class are easier to manage than the ordinary class. They are usually very self-conscious. Even if the teacher is not there in the evening self-study, everyone is still immersed in the questions.

At 9:40, the bell rang for the end of get out of class, and the classroom became lively.

This evening self-study is held by Jia Bing. He finished grading the in-class test papers collected in the afternoon, and was about to leave when he was suddenly stopped by a boy.

"Bingge, Bingge! Hold your feet!" The boy rushed forward quickly, and put the exercise book full of sticky notes on the podium, "Please help me to see, I have been thinking about this problem all night and I can't solve it .My head is scratched and bald!"

Jia Bing has long been used to being "dragged" by students, so he said "Why are you bald at such a young age", opened the closed pen, and began to speak seriously.

It was a troublesome competition question, and it couldn't be solved with pure high school knowledge.After Jia Bing finished speaking patiently, he didn't forget to ask the boy to draw inferences. It was already past 10 o'clock when the other party thoroughly understood the question.

"Thank you, Brother Bing! Brother Bing, you are my great benefactor!" The boy with his schoolbag on his back slanted his hands, and walked away from the classroom while waving.

At this time, there were no students in the classroom, and the corridor was very quiet.Jia Bing sat for a while, holding his forehead when he stood up.

The temperature has fluctuated greatly in recent days. Taking advantage of his youth and good health, he only wore a short-sleeved T-shirt on a windy day, but he caught a cold at night.But in order not to delay the progress of the course, he did not ask for leave and relied on a few pills every day.

After a while, Jia Bing packed up his things and walked towards the mathematics office on the same floor.

There are many math teachers who serve as head teachers in the second grade of high school. There are several head teachers in this office alone.Class teachers are busier than single-subject teachers, so more people live in Shifeng Xiaoyuan.At this time, there was only one female teacher in the office. Although the female teacher had married, she sometimes had to live in Shifeng Xiaoyuan and passed by Jia Bing several times.

But today is Friday, and the female teacher is going back to the city.

"Ms. Jia going back?" The female teacher warmly invited, "The school bus has already left. My husband is here to pick me up and give you a ride."

Jia Bing politely declined, "Thank you, but I have to teach the competition class tomorrow afternoon, so I won't be going back."

The female teacher smiled and sighed, "You, don't push yourself too much. Okay, then I'll go first, see you next week."

"Okay, see you next week."

The lights in the teaching building went out one by one, Jia Bing took two pills with warm water, and when he came out of the office, all the lights on this floor went out.

In the past, he was often the last one to leave, but this time, perhaps because of his illness, he looked back several times, and his vision was the empty corridor.

He pressed his temple and walked to the first floor.

Spring is the season of revival of all things. The old campus is already lush and lush, but the greening of the new campus has not kept up. The trees planted are all small and thin, and the buds are pitifully clustered on the branches. At night, they look like horrors. slender monster.

There was no one along the way, only sparse street lights illuminating the road ahead. Jia Bing quickened his pace, as if he wanted to hurry home.

Fortunately, the campus is safe, but outside the campus, Jia Bing looked back many times, but there was still no one around.

It’s okay in the middle of the week, there will always be teachers who don’t have the energy to drive or take the school bus and will go back to Shifeng Xiaoyuan.By Friday, there were only a handful of teachers who hadn't returned to the city.

Shifeng Xiaoyuan is outside the west gate of No. [-] Middle School. The main entrance of the community is two kilometers away from the school gate, and there is a spacious road in the middle.

Jia Bing usually doesn't like to take this road, because it is far away. If you take a small road and enter from the side gate of the community, the distance can be reduced by almost half.

Standing at the intersection, Jia Bing stopped, and finally chose to take a side road.

At 2:3 p.m. on Saturday, the students of Competition Class [-] had arrived, but Jia Bing, who always arrived earlier than the students, did not show up for a long time.

"Where's Brother Bing? Brother Bing is late for the first time."

"Bingge has been single for so long, isn't it to solve personal problems?"

"Don't be poor, class 20 will give you Brother Bing a call."

The students in Class 20 immediately called Jia Bing, but they couldn't get through.Near 3 o'clock, the competition director temporarily transferred a teacher to substitute for the class.

That night, the school still failed to contact Jia Bing.

Rumors are most likely to ferment on campus, and the news of "Jia Bing's disappearance" spread throughout No. [-] Middle School almost instantly.

It's no wonder the students are so sensitive. Missing teachers may be nothing in other cities, maybe it's just a temporary failure to contact them, but in Chuanming City, it's no small matter.

Since last autumn, three teachers in Chuanming City have disappeared one after another.Live to see people, die to see corpses, but these three teachers seem to have evaporated suddenly, and the Chuanming police have not found their whereabouts so far.

Many people said that the three teachers had already been killed.

"Is it Bingge's turn this time?" The students in Class 20 were worried, "But Bingge is a good teacher! Who will harm Bingge?"

·

Special Operations Team, Criminal Investigation Group.

"A case is coming!" Haizi walked through the corridor, and slapped the office door with a "slap", "Come on, the local police force needs us!"

It was less than ten days before the Shi Limiao case was solved, but ten days was enough time for the elites of the special operations team to adjust their status.

Haizi has a new hairstyle, with brown curly hair. She thinks she is younger, like a student who just graduated from university, but her rival Pei Qing commented that she looks like Teddy.

When encountering a case, Hai Teddy is more active than anyone else, and he can't wait to pack up his equipment and set off immediately to save his brother unit in dire straits.

Hua Chong made an appointment for today's physical examination, and he will come back in the afternoon. There are not many people in the office, and it looks a bit deserted, which makes Hai Zi's voice very loud.

"You want to be on duty like this?" Pei Qing seized every opportunity to tease Haizi, "Look at you, do you have the majesty of the people's police? Shouting, impulsive, narcissistic, if I were a flower team, I wouldn't bring it this time." you."

"Hey! Are you qualified to say that I'm narcissistic?" Haizi couldn't say no, so he started, picked up a file and greeted Pei Qing, "On narcissism, is there anyone in our group who is more narcissistic than you? Lost money, you Do you want to look in the mirror, your broken eyebrows have grown, and you are so ugly! Brother, I can give you a knife."

Pei Qing told Haizi with her eyes: Get lost!

Xu Xiaozhou quietly joined the battle, "Although Teacher Pei is narcissistic, I think Brother Liu is also quite narcissistic. Brother Liu is even more narcissistic than Teacher Pei."

Hai Zi's words were not surprising, and he kept dying, "Brother Liu is narcissistic, he has a partner. If you lose money and are single for thousands of years, who will you show your narcissism to? Do you want to show yourself as a narcissus?"

Pei Qing glared at him, "Of course it's for you to see, to let you know what a human being should look like, a humanoid Teddy like you should feel ashamed."

Haizi choked, blushing inexplicably, "But I don't want to see you, and I'm not your date."

Liu Zhiqin has long been used to the happy couple in the group, and looked at the case report sent by Shen Xun as if no one else was there. His eyes had obviously moved down, but as if he had suddenly discovered something, he shifted to the first line of text again. .

Chuanming City.

He raised his right hand, supported his chin, rubbed his fingers gently on his lips, and frowned slightly.

Chuanming City is Huachong's hometown, and its economic development level is average. Compared with the whole country, it is just a fourth- and fifth-tier inland city with no characteristics.

Liu Zhiqin knew everything about Hua Chong very well.

Hua Chong's parents divorced when he was in middle school, and each reorganized their families.Hua Chong nominally lived with his father, but he lived in the school dormitory almost throughout his middle school years.Later, when he was admitted to the police academy, he officially left home. Although he occasionally called his family on the phone these years, his relationship with his family has become very weak.

From a certain point of view, the relationship between Hua Chong and his family is somewhat similar to that of Shi Limiao.But the estrangement between Shi Limiao and his father is due to the hatred between each other, and the estrangement between Hua Chong and his father is gradually drifting away over time.

On New Year's Eve last year, Hua Chong called his family and hung up after less than 3 minutes. His tone was very polite, as if the person on the other side of the phone was just a strange uncle.

After making the phone call, Hua Chong returned to the dinner table and continued cooking hot pot with Liu Zhiqin.

Their small home is very festive - although there are only two people, the table is full of dishes. After all, Hua Chong has a good appetite, and one person can eat enough for three people.

Liu Zhiqin opened a bottle of low-alcohol wine, and Hua Chong took a few sips, half drunk and half awake.

Probably because he had just talked with his father on the phone, Hua Chong took the initiative to mention his childhood for the first time.

He said, and Liu Zhiqin listened quietly.

"Children actually don't want their parents to divorce, because once they divorce, you will lose both your mother and your father. I remember that since the second year of junior high school, no one has held parent-teacher meetings for me. My classmates are quite envious of me. , You won’t get beaten if you don’t have a parent-teacher meeting, and I thought it was good at the beginning, but as time went on, a little shadow fell in my heart.”

The topic of the parent meeting brought back memories of Liu Zhiqin.He was brought up by his elder brother An Ze, and he has no impression of his parents, let alone feelings for them.Every time he held a parent-teacher meeting, An Ze seemed to be obsessed with his parents and never asked for leave.

Although Hua Chong has parents, no one attends parent-teacher meetings.

Hua Chong drank a little too much that day and talked a lot intermittently.

Liu Zhiqin could tell that Hua Chong didn't resent his father who married his stepmother and ignored him, and Hua Chong had long forgotten the past. For a true lover, the original family is no longer important.

But the experience of adolescence is like an invisible thorn, which is always inserted there. If you don’t think about it, it’s nothing. Occasionally, when you think about it, you still feel a little unwilling.

Hua Chong has not been back to Chuanming City for many years. It is like a dilapidated football, which was left by Hua Chong when he was a boy who lacked love.

In fact, Liu Zhiqin really wanted to pick up the football and pull out the invisible thorn, but Hua Chong didn't want to mention it, so he didn't take the initiative to speak.

The case reported by Chuanming City to the Special Operations Team this time is a series of disappearance cases.

On October 10 last year, the police received a report saying that Wang Yuxia, a third-year language teacher at No. 29 Middle School, was missing;

On December 12 last year, Zhang Xu, a teacher in the fitter group of Jianshan Vocational High School, disappeared;

On February 2 this year, Xu Yufan, a second-year chemistry teacher at No. 15 Middle School in the city, disappeared;

On May 5 this year, Jia Bing, a second-year mathematics teacher in the city's No. 3 Middle School, disappeared.

For more than half a year, four teachers went missing in a small city. There was no progress in the investigation. People in the campus were panicked, especially in several schools involved. Many students and teachers believed that the missing person might have been killed.

After quickly scanning the report, Liu Zhiqin suddenly remembered something - Hua Chong's father was also a teacher, and if I remember correctly, the school he taught was Chuanming No. [-] Middle School.

"Someone committed a crime against the teacher?" Pei Qing and Haizi had a quarrel for a while, and then came to the seat behind Liu Zhiqin, her eyes fixed on the screen, "Wang Yuxia is both a Chinese teacher and a class teacher, and has been rated as the most popular student for many years. Welcome to the head teacher, treat the students like your own children... who would attack such a good teacher?"

"Your words arouse my strong desire to argue." Haizi said, "Don't tell me she shouldn't be targeted by villains if she hasn't been voted the most popular class teacher for years in a row?"

Pei Qing frowned, "Student, I think you should be severely beaten by the captain."

Haizi snorted coldly, "The captain isn't here, ask Brother Liu if he wants to beat me up?"

Liu Zhiqin turned his head, looked at the two people who were at war, and said: "The apes on both sides of the bank can't stop crying."

Pei Qing: "..."

Haizi: "..."

After Liu Zhiqin turned back, Haizi immediately whispered to Pei Qing, "Why don't we unite first and beat Brother Liu?"

At this time, Shen Xun called and asked if the case team would answer.

Liu Zhiqin asked: "Do we still have a choice?"

"Of course you can choose." Shen Xun said: "There are four cases reported to me now. Isn't the flower team just here? You can make a special one. Your group will choose first, and the rest will be handed over to the other groups. to solve."

Liu Zhiqin laughed, "Which case is the most difficult?"

Shen Xun sighed, "Will it be difficult to report to the special operations team?"

"Send me the other ones too."

"You really choose?"

"Didn't you say that flower teams can be special?"

"Okay, I'll send it to you later. But let me explain in advance that the case in Chuanming City is currently a disappearance case, but after investigation, it is likely to be a serial murder case." Shen Xun's tone became serious, "Once a serial murder is involved, it is the top priority." The most important thing is that the social impact of this kind of case is too bad. In addition, the missing people are all teachers, and the impact is even worse. Now the case is complicated and confusing, and the reports from the local area basically do not have any important information. I personally hope that the flower team will go scouting."

Liu Zhiqin said: "I know you have high hopes for our flower team."

Shen Xun said: "Otherwise, why did I put so much effort to transfer him from Los Angeles?"

After hanging up the phone, Liu Zhiqin Mo stayed for a while and began to look at several other cases.

Sure enough, as Shen Xun said, the case in Chuanming City has the fewest clues and the worst impact.Normally, he would continue without saying a word, but now he hesitates.

Is Hua Chong willing to go to Chuanming City?

Hua Chong has always been ruthless and selfless in his work. If Hua Chong is presented with a case, he will definitely choose Chuanming City, because that is where he should go.

But regardless of his identity as a criminal police officer, Chuanming City is not the place Hua Chong wants to look back.

Liu Zhiqin stood up from his seat and walked towards the door.

The physical examination of the key criminal police is very cumbersome, in addition to the routine physical examination, there is also a psychological examination.Hua Chong put the psychological examination at the end, and saw a familiar figure as soon as he came out of the psychological consultation room.

"Brother Xiaoliu." He smiled at others and walked quickly, "Why are you here? Didn't you agree that I would go back alone?"

"There's a case." Liu Zhiqin said, "I'll take you back to work. How about the physical examination?"

"Physical and mental health." Hua Chong handed over the report and asked, "Where is the case?"

After Liu Zhiqin finished the report, he turned his eyes to Hua Chong, but didn't speak immediately.

Hua Chong saw the clue, and said seriously: "The case is difficult?"

"It's difficult on the one hand. On the other hand..." Liu Zhiqin pursed his lower lip and decided not to hide it, "It happened in Chuanming City. From the second half of last year to this month, four teachers in Chuanming City disappeared. The local police have almost zero clues."

Hua Chong's eyes suddenly opened, and his pupils shrank slightly.

Liu Zhiqin frowned, "Shen Xun said there are other cases, our team can choose other cases."

Hua Chong paused, "Are you worried that I will feel unwell when I return to Chuanming City?"

Liu Zhiqin didn't speak.

"But this case should be handled by our team, right?" Hua Chong said calmly, "Otherwise, when Shen Xun asked you to choose, you wouldn't have asked me at all, and you would have chosen another case."

Liu Zhiqin lowered his eyes, his eyes were full of tenderness.

"Since that's the case, I should go there both emotionally and logically." Hua Chong stretched out his hand and grabbed Liu Zhiqin's chin, "I already have you, and everything in the past is no obstacle to me."