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After eating breakfast, Ji Zheng went upstairs to change his clothes, then took the car keys and took the elevator to the underground garage to drive and parked at the entrance of the hotel. After waiting for more than ten minutes, Yan Shen came out of the hotel.

Yan Shen opened the door and sat in the co-pilot, and asked casually, "Where are you going?"

Ji Zheng first drove the car up and down the mountain road, and then said: "School."

He was ready to respond to Yan Shen's further inquiries, but Yan Shen didn't ask him why he went to school, but focused on looking at the scenery on both sides of the mountain road.It seems that Yan Shen just wanted to leave the hotel and go out to relax, he didn't care about his destination or his purpose.

When we arrived at the gate of the school, the clouds in the sky became even lower, and it seemed that there would be a storm at any time.

Ji Zheng parked the car in the open-air parking lot in front of the school, and when he got off the car, he heard Yan Shen say, "It's boring."

Ji Zheng leaned on the car door and bent over to look at him and asked, "Are you waiting for me in the car?"

Yan Shen propped his forehead indifferently and thought for a while, then got out of the car: "Staying in the car is even more boring."

When he left school yesterday, he exchanged mobile numbers with the grade director. He called the grade director to make an appointment. The grade director said that she happened to have no class right now and asked him to come directly to the office.

He didn't come to school today because of Bian Xiaoqu's schooling, but to help Xia Bingyang find out the identity of the mute boy who was trafficked in Bailu Town.Ji Zheng had his own reasons for choosing to come to the school instead of the police station first; if the family members of the missing boy reported the case, the police would definitely find the report records and files, since Xia Bingyang could not find it in the public security system Valuable investigation clues mean that the family of the missing boy did not report the case, or that there is no information matching the missing boy in the report record.So looking for the police station is mostly fruitless, but the school may have some clues.Because the missing boy was eight or nine years old, he was of school age, and there was only one school in Bailu Town, and basically all school-age children in the town would go to school here.Even if the boy has disappeared, the school archives and the school's teachers and students may have memories of the missing boy.

The grade director's office is on the 4th floor. When they arrived, it was the class time, so the corridor was very quiet, and the classrooms on both sides could hear reading from time to time.

"Mr. Jiang, hello."

Ji Zheng walked into the office and shook hands with the female teacher.

The female teacher smiled and said, "Hello, hello." She looked at him and said, "Who is this?"

Yan Shen answered first: "Friend." After speaking, he went to the wall to look at the age ranking table posted on the wall.

After exchanging a few words with Teacher Jiang, Ji Zheng found a suitable opportunity to ask: "Mr. Jiang, I heard that a child here disappeared not long ago, right?"

"Are you talking about Qin Lisi from Class [-], Grade [-]?"

Ji Zheng remembered the name, Qin Lisi was the girl whom Xia Bingyang suspected and the dumb boy had disappeared one after another.He pretended not to know, and continued to ask, "Is it a girl?"

"Yes, this child has been missing for nearly half a year."

Hearing this, Ji Zheng decided to change his way of asking, and smiled at Mr. Jiang: "It's like this, I have been following an online activity to help lost and trafficked children go home. Some time ago, a volunteer from City B Found a boy wandering in the street, this kid was irritated, can't remember how he left home, but he was wearing your school uniform, so I want to ask, have you ever lost a [-] or [-] year old here boy."

Teacher Jiang was very interested: "Do you have a photo?"

Ji Zheng smiled apologetically: "There is no photo, but I know his general physical characteristics." He nodded his head and thought for a moment, and said: "About eight or nine years old, very thin, a boy, can't speak."

"Can't talk? A mute?"

Ji Zheng nodded: "Do you have any impression?"

Teacher Jiang communicated with other teachers around, and then said to Ji Zheng: "The child you are looking for is dumb. If he is a student in our school, we will definitely have an impression, but there are no dumb boys in our school who are missing or missing. drop out."

Ji Zheng tentatively asked: "Maybe, he didn't go to school?"

Teacher Jiang smiled and said: "This should not be possible. Now that the nine-year compulsory education is so tight, whoever's child does not have a household registration, as long as the household registration is registered, the police station will check the school attendance rate. Last year, there was a household name The Zeng family refused to let their daughter go to school, so our principal personally went to the door to do ideological homework for the parents. People in the community also check every day to find out who has children who do not go to school, and we cannot hide it from our school and the police station.”

Although Mr. Jiang was so sure, Ji Zheng didn't doubt Xia Bingyang's judgment. He still believed that the missing mute boy was from Bailu Town, but he hadn't been found yet.

But judging from what I have learned so far, there is not much hope of finding the missing mute boy in this school, so Ji Zheng temporarily decided to inquire about the missing Qin Lisi, because he remembered Xia Bingyang said that she was missing The dumb boy and Qin Lisi disappeared at the same time, starting from Qin Lisi, might not be an entry point.

Ji Zheng said: "I also want to know, what happened to Qin Lisi who you just said about the class of three years?"

Teacher Jiang paused for a moment, met his colleague's eyes, his face became a little unnatural, smiled at Ji Zheng awkwardly, and talked about other things.

Ji Zheng originally thought that she was quite secretive, but then he figured out why Teacher Jiang's words were ambiguous.Because the missing Qin Lisi was the daughter of Qin Ping, the school security guard, Qin Ping killed a female student of the school for the sake of the missing daughter. This murder case is definitely a scandal for the school.In any case, the death of the female student has a share of responsibility for the poor supervision of the school.

Although Mr. Jiang's words were ambiguous and evasive, Ji Zheng didn't intend to give up. He was about to ask again when he was interrupted by the ringing of the phone on the table.

"Excuse me, I'll take a call."

Teacher Jiang said so, then picked up the microphone, turned around slightly to avoid Ji Zheng.

"Police? The police from the police station?" Teacher Jiang suddenly whispered: "Interpol? Where is it? All right, all right, I'm in the office."

Teacher Jiang hung up the phone, and said to Ji Zheng with a slightly flustered expression: "Come here today, Mr. Ji, I still have classes."

Ji Zheng heard that there seemed to be a criminal policeman looking for her, and he didn't want to collide with a legitimate law enforcement agency, so he immediately got up and left.

He and Yan Shen had just walked out of the office, just as get out of class was over, a boy in school uniform ran past him, followed by two boys of the same age.

"Liu Changran, return the basketball to me!"

A chubby boy shouted at the boy running ahead.

The young man turned his head, showing a face with a flying smile, made a face and said: "I won't pay you back, I'll call your brother!"

Then he kicked open the door of a classroom and threw the basketball in his arms towards him: "Ai Lu, Bing Jie, hide it for me!"

Yan Shen thought the corridor was noisy, and urged Ji Zheng to leave here quickly.

Ji Zheng closed the door and was about to go downstairs when he saw two men coming up the stairs, one of them was Min Chengzhou in plain clothes.

Min Chengzhou also saw Ji Zheng at a glance, and said unexpectedly: "Ji Zheng? Why are you here?"

Ji Zheng immediately understood that Min Chengzhou was the criminal policeman Mr. Jiang was going to meet later, and said with a smile, "On vacation. How about you? Why are you here?"

Min Chengzhou raised the kraft paper bag in his hand: "Handle the case." He saw Yan Shen standing next to Ji Zheng, and thought Yan Shen looked familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was for a moment, and glanced between Ji Zheng and Yan Shen. circle, and asked: "Together?"

Ji Zheng nodded and introduced: "This is Qitai Group——"

He introduced Yan Shen to Min Chengzhou according to Yan Shen's usual pattern, but was interrupted by Yan Shen before he finished speaking, Yan Shen stretched out his hand to Min Chengzhou, and said directly: "Yan Shen, I am his friend."

Min Chengzhou looked at him, then at Ji Zheng, and said with a smile, "Min Chengzhou, I'm his buddy."

Yan Shen nodded, unwilling to deal with him too much.

Ji Zheng saw that he was getting impatient, so he handed him the car keys and said, "You go to the car and wait for me first."

Yan Shen took the car keys and left without saying a word.

When he disappeared down the stairs, Min Chengzhou thumped Ji Zheng's shoulder, winked and said, "New one? Yes, quite handsome, not worse than Su Xingye, but he doesn't seem easy to get along with."

Ji Zheng just smiled, without answering, and asked him: "Are you for Wang Yao's case?"

Min Chengzhou looked at him: "Wang Yao?"

Ji Zheng intuitively felt something in his eyes, but he didn't delve into it, and said: "A female student died in this school in April."

Min Chengzhou said: "How do you know?" He suddenly said: "Oh, have you read the news?"

Ji Zheng calmly borrowed the donkey from the slope: "Yes, I am very concerned about this case."

Min Chengzhou waved his hand and said, "Don't mention it, the case is considered solved, but the suspect ran away and hasn't been caught until now. I didn't come here today because of this case."

"What's that for?"

Min Chengzhou clicked his tongue: "You are a psychiatrist, what are you doing asking about these things?"

Ji Zheng said with a smile: "Caring about social news."

Min Chengzhou looked at his watch and said, "Then you come in and listen, anyway, it will be news tomorrow."

Ji Zheng followed him back to the office. Teacher Jiang faced the criminal police for the first time. He had no time to care about his going and returning, and let Min Chengzhou sit on the only chair opposite the desk.

"You are the head teacher of Class [-], Grade [-], Teacher Jiang?"

Min Chengzhou asked.

Teacher Jiang nodded and said, "It's me, what's the matter?"

The expression on Min Chengzhou's face straightened instantly, and he took out his police officer's card and put it in front of her: "We are from the Criminal Investigation Squadron of the Second Branch Bureau, is Zhai Xiaofeng a student in your class?"

Teacher Jiang was so nervous that he didn't even see his police officer ID clearly, so he hurriedly said, "Yeah, what's wrong with Xiaofeng? What do you want him for?"

Min Chengzhou and his accompanying colleagues looked at each other and said, "At seven o'clock this morning, the body of Zhai Xiaofeng's father, Zhai Wengang, was found in the dense forest halfway up the hillside of Shengqi Mountain."

At this time, Ji Zheng noticed that a boy who was not tall and thin came into the classroom through the open door with a stack of homework. When he saw that there were many people in the office, he shyly lowered his head and revealed a section of white hair. neck, hugged his homework book and walked towards the vacant desk near the back door without saying a word.

Ji Zheng looked at his handsome profile, and had a vague premonition of something, and was about to interrupt the conversation between Teacher Jiang and Min Chengzhou, when Teacher Jiang exclaimed: "Xiaofeng's father is dead?!"

Ji Zheng stared closely at the handsome and shy boy, seeing him struggling to put a thick stack of homework on the desk, hearing Teacher Jiang's words, his thin back trembled slightly, and he turned his head slowly with a confused look on his face , looked at Teacher Jiang and asked: "Teacher, what did you say?"