Sludge to the Mountain Ghost

Walking back to the podium, there were bursts of laughter from time to time in the classroom.

Lin Pai watched this scene from the side, and his ears blushed unconsciously. He put his arms on his forehead, thinking that he was really ashamed.

"Okay, wake up now!" Li Chanjuan knocked on the podium, "Open the book, this lesson we will talk about in the next lesson..."

After 45 minutes of a class, as soon as Li Chanjuan said "get out of class is over", several heads fell down from the podium.

After packing up her things, she went to Lin Pai's side and touched his forehead. The temperature was normal and he didn't have a fever. She asked with concern, "I'm not feeling well today. Do you feel any discomfort? Do you want to go to the infirmary to see him?" one time?"

Lin Pai shook his head, "Thank you, Mr. Li, I just didn't sleep well yesterday. I have nothing to do, so I don't need to go to the infirmary."

"Well, the teacher knows that you study hard, so you don't need to put too much pressure on yourself, just calm down and perform normally. If you want to go home and rest in the afternoon, I will give you a leave of absence."

"Oh no, I don't need to ask for leave, thank you teacher." Lin Pai thanked again.

Li Chanjuan nodded, gently covered the cap of a pen for Lin Pai, turned around and knocked hard on Xu Rui's desk.

"I don't need to ask for leave..." Xu Rui waved her hand, "Thank you, Teacher Li."

"Do you still want to ask for leave?" Li Chanjuan picked up a book and knocked on Xu Rui's head, but it was just a gesture, and she didn't really knock on it. "From now on, play less games at night and go to bed early. Sleepy, can't wake up doing anything in broad daylight! Do you understand!"

"Got it, got it..." Xu Rui nodded repeatedly.

As soon as Li Chanjuan left, Zhou Ning broke out into a burst of laughter. He covered his stomach, as if he really hurt his stomach from laughing. Lin Pai was still holding his forehead, but this time he lowered his head and snickered.

Xu Rui picked up an eraser casually, and saw the back of Lin Pai's head turn sharply and hit Zhou Ning on the head, "What are you laughing at?"

Zhou Ning smiled instead of anger. He turned around and imitated Xu Rui's tone and said, "I don't need to ask for leave either! Thank you Teacher Li! Hahaha..."

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The Heshan Town Police Station hasn’t been this lively for a long time. The police officers in the station visited for a few days, and finally found the people who surrounded Xu Rui’s house that night at a card table at the street corner. All six people were present at the time, and there was no act of resistance. , they looked as if they were taken away in a daze.

Officer Chen walked into the meeting room, holding a book of interview records in his hand, which summarized the results of the interviews of the six people.

"At around nine o'clock in the evening on January 1, all six people admitted that they were at the door of the reporter's house at that time, but they all said that they were just passing by and just found a place on the side of the road to smoke.

As for the knife...it was a very common fruit knife, and many people had it in their homes. They didn't use the knife to hurt anyone, and the boy also said that it hadn't developed to the point of using a knife. "

Beside the conference table, apart from Police Officer Chen, there was also a young policeman who had just arrived on duty, flipping through the copied interview records word by word, while another old policeman was frowning.

"If they were really passing by, why would they chase after that boy? Besides, they don't smoke in other places, and they only pick He Hui's house. Didn't the reporter say that he heard them mention the word "He Hui"? "The little policeman drank his saliva after speaking.

"They didn't deny that they knew He Hui. They said that they owed money to two of them for gambling before, and the copy of the IOU was at the end..."

Officer Chen turned the interview record to the end, pointed to the copy, "It's nothing special, it's just a normal IOU."

The old policeman sighed, "Five of these six people have criminal records and have been petty thefts. One-sided words, call them to the mediation room for education and warning, let them go..."

"Then... what about He Hui?" the little policeman asked.

Police Officer Chen combined the interview records and shook his head, "Keep looking. She is in debt and missing, and there is an underage son at home. How can there be such a mother..."

"Every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite. What we can do now is to find He Hui as soon as possible." The old policeman patted the young policeman on the shoulder and said to him, "Go and inform the reporter of the result." , if he wants to see these people, let him come over today and mediate in person."

The little policeman turned around to dial the work phone. Officer Chen took the receiver from his hand and said to him, "Let me tell him, you can't handle this kind of trouble."

33. Chapter 33

That afternoon Xu Rui received a call from Police Officer Chen. To the surprise of the other party, Xu Rui refused to meet with those six people.

"According to the procedure, we have to conduct face-to-face mediation for both parties in conflict. Are you really sure you can't come?" Officer Chen confirmed to him again.

Xu Rui was silent for a moment, then replied, "Thank you, Uncle, but I don't think the conflict has been resolved... Is it possible that they can only be arrested if I get physically hurt?"

"Don't worry about this, we have implemented comprehensive criticism and education, and they won't come to you to pick quarrels and make trouble..." Officer Chen reassured, "Except for them, people have reported He Hui's debts one after another in the past half month. Intensify the search and find her as soon as possible."

"thank you, I know now."

The conversation ended here, and the scene of police officer Chen's imagining that the reporter was in a state of desperation did not happen.

He sighed silently, hung up the phone, communicated the case report with the new little policeman, and turned around to worry about the next dispute in the neighborhood.

That night Xu Rui moved the nest from the school equipment room back home. He changed the lock on the downstairs door overnight and asked a locksmith to install anti-theft windows for his room. Finally, before going to bed, he pushed a chair to the door. later.

A night without dreams.

On the day of the end of the final exam, Xu Rui and Zhou Ning stood together in the corridor on the second floor of the teaching building and waited for Lin Pai. Perhaps the handing bell had just rang, and there were so many people going up and down the stairs. Lin Pai on the fourth floor and Lin Pai on the third floor Li Cheng didn't come down for a long time.

There was a roar in the sky outside. Like many students who joined in the fun, they leaned on the railing and looked out, only to find that it was just a low-altitude plane passing by.

The plane left a long string of white exhaust on the blue background, like the tail of a comet. The last exhaust was gradually disappearing, and the sky returned to blue again.

Xu Rui thought of He Hui who had been missing for more than half a month. She was like this string of exhaust fumes, gradually fading out of his life, and leaving traces on another land he didn't know, including the six vicious people that night, and the flash. The flash of the sword passed by, as if it had never happened.

Officer Chen learned about the divorce between He Hui and Xu Ping, so he called Xu Rui in his busy schedule and suggested that he contact Xu Ping because "minors need guardians."

"He will pay child support every year, just wait until the end of this school year to contact him." Xu Rui used this reason to reject Officer Chen again.

"Zhou Ning! I haven't seen you for two hours and you're fat again!" Li Cheng squeezed out from the crowd in the corridor, interrupting Xu Rui's recollection.

Zhou Ning raised his leg and made a gesture to kick him, "Get lost! All the meat you ate must have grown on me!"

Xu Rui went around them and walked to the stairs. When everyone was almost gone, he saw Lin Pai coming down the stairs. He carried his schoolbag on one shoulder and walked in a leisurely manner.

"Wow! Look at him..." Zhou Ning dragged Li Cheng to Xu Rui's side, pointed at Lin Pai and said, "How elegant, calm and calm he walked!"

Xu Rui smiled silently, reached out to take Lin Pai's schoolbag, threw the pen and draft paper from the examination room into his bag, and carried it on his shoulder, "Did Wenwen finish the exam?"

"He said he doesn't know everyone well, so he won't come." Lin Pai said and walked downstairs with them.

"What's unfamiliar, don't you know it after playing around!"

Zhou Ning swiped his mobile phone while walking, and almost stepped over two steps in one step. Fortunately, Li Cheng helped him, so he didn't fall.

"He's relatively reserved, and he feels uncomfortable when he comes." Lin Pai explained, "If you want to get to know him, why not do your homework with us in the future."

"Ah?" Li Cheng forced a smile, "If that's the case... I'm the one who feels uncomfortable..."

Zhou Ning seemed to automatically block their conversation. He raised his head from the phone screen and said excitedly, "Let's hurry up! The neighborhood committee made purchases this morning. My mother bought all the food for us and is already waiting in the guard room." Already!"

"Is your mother misappropriating public funds?" Li Cheng said abruptly.

"Bah, bah, bah!" Zhou Ning pushed Li Cheng, "She bought our share extra, but the neighborhood committee also goes to the vegetable market, so she can drop by!"

In the reception room, they met Zhou Ning's mother. She was a well-proportioned middle-aged woman, with her permed shawl and short hair neatly coiled behind her head. Today she wore a decent plain woolen coat and a pair of boots.

As soon as she saw Zhou Ning, she stretched out her hands and rubbed his frozen red face, and said distressedly and angrily, "I asked you to wear two more underneath. If you don't wear them, the snot bubbles will freeze out!"

"Mom! How can you be so exaggerated! You rubbed my ears red!"

Zhou Ning pulled her hand away, turned around to look at several large plastic bags behind her, which were full of hot pot ingredients.

She didn't care about Zhou Ning anymore, looked up at Xu Rui, and then said enthusiastically, "Xiao Rui, it seems to have grown up again!"

"Hello, Auntie!" Xu Rui greeted her.

After watching Xu Rui, she looked at Li Cheng again,