Chapter 103 Chapter 16 Li Zheng no longer remembers being a disciplinary committee member...

Li Zheng couldn't remember how many times he had memorized Wei Lele's name when he was the disciplinary committee member. In the past three years, it must have been hundreds of times.

He had written this name countless times.

And this person...

For a long time, many students in Class 12 mistakenly believed that the two of them must have a bad relationship. They thought that since Li Zheng had remembered his name so many times, with "Brother Wei"'s petty personality, he must have taught Li Zheng a lesson behind his back many times.

Including Hu Hui, he asked more than once whether the man surnamed Wei had threatened him privately, and if so, he must tell him.

Li Zheng denied it every time, and Hu Hui was a little bit unconvinced, thinking that Li Zheng had too good a temper.

"Don't even think about covering up for that kind of person!"

There were two of them. One was an excellent student with excellent academic performance, who always ranked at the top of the class and received scholarships. The other was a notorious troublemaker.

No matter how you look at it, they are from two different worlds.

On weekdays in class, they never chatted with each other or got together. Although they were in the same classroom, they were almost like strangers.

but……

In fact, they had met privately.

Wei Lele's family conditions are not particularly good. His parents gave birth to him when they were minors. He is still a child himself. What kind of responsibilities can he take on?

When they grew up, they both regarded Wei Lele as a mistake they made in their youth, and kept silent about it. They lived outside. Wei Lele became a left-behind child and was taken care of by an elder in the boy's family. His biological father became his nominal brother, and Xue Shang's mother became the sister of a distant relative.

Wei Lele once told Li Zheng in an alley that he was actually Li Zheng's elementary school and junior high school classmate, and said with certainty that Li Zheng definitely didn't remember it.

In fact, Li Zheng remembered.

After all, Qingtan City is not a big place. Their hometowns are not far away, so it is normal for them to be divided into the same area. It’s just that they don’t seem to have much in common.

The two of them even set up a stall together.

At that time, Li Zheng's family was not in a good financial situation. There were three children in the family, and his adoptive parents were not wealthy. They were just an ordinary family.

The younger siblings are younger and are their biological children, so they naturally pay more attention and focus to the two children. For example, they attend parent-teacher meetings on them first, which is very normal.

Since he was in fifth grade, Li Zheng would go to the wholesale market to buy goods during festivals and holidays. He would set up a small stall in the square, doing his homework while also earning a little money. He usually sold firecrackers, fireworks, and couplets during the Spring Festival, and children's toys on weekdays.

Wei Lele mainly sold bamboo woven goods at the time, presumably made by the old man who brought him along. Making these things was very time-consuming, so he didn't set up his stall every day, even on holidays.

At that time, Mingzhu Square was slightly smaller than it is now and was divided into two sides by a road. Wei Lele was on the side with the statue, and he was on the other side.

Occasionally Li Zheng would see him, but he never greeted him, never, just like he would any other unfamiliar passerby.

The first time Wei Lele and Li Zheng had a face-to-face conversation was in junior high school. Although they were in the same school at that time, they were not assigned to the same class.

Li Zheng is in Class 1 and Wei Lele is in Class 6.

Although the classes are all on the same floor of the same teaching building, one classroom is at the front and the other is at the back, which are very far apart, and there are also closer stairs next to the classrooms.

At that time, Wei Lele had already started doing business in school, but it was still fixed in his own class. Li Zheng didn't know about this, just like he didn't know that this person had walked up the farther stairs again and again just to pass by his classroom door.

From Li Zheng's perspective, one day in the first semester of the second year of junior high school, he came to him privately during a break and said that this thing was very profitable and hoped to do it with him.

"Li Zheng, do you remember me? We set up a stall together in the square before. You were over there, and I was across from you. Before... before..."

In Li Zheng's calm eyes, Wei Lele's tone became lower and lower.

"Anyway, this thing is very profitable. You're short of money, right? Do you want to join me?"

He said he would bring Li Zheng in and make money together with Li Zheng, and he took the initiative to promise to split the profits 50-50 with Li Zheng.

To be honest, Wei Lele does have a good business sense.

He bought bagged shampoo at the wholesale market outside, a box for dozens of yuan, and sold it in the dormitory for 50 cents a bag, which was half the price of what was sold in the school canteen.

The school dormitory manager was a relative from their hometown, and he turned a blind eye to his behavior.

In addition to shampoo, he also sells bagged instant noodles, sausages, spicy strips and other snacks, and he even helps to top up phone bills.

He kept talking about how profitable it was and invited Li Zheng again.

At that time, Li Zheng still felt strange and didn't understand why he was looking for him. After all, he already had quite a few younger brothers around him, and they all called him Brother Wei.

Why did you come to find me?

Li Zheng was still stubborn at the time. He believed that students should study hard. How could they do these things in school?

He thinks these things shouldn't be done.

He refused.

Strangely, Wei Lele did not look for a partner later, but continued to do it on his own. He became more and more skilled in three years. After entering high school, his customer base expanded to their grade and even other grades.

At that time, Li Zheng and Wei Lele would occasionally cross paths a few times, almost always during physical exercises or after evening self-study. He would wait silently behind the flower bed on the path Li Zheng had to pass, and would call out to him when Li Zheng passed by.

Most of the time he was the one doing the talking while Li Zheng was listening.

Only once, Li Zheng was so curious that he asked him why he hadn't been reprimanded by the school director for making such a big fuss.

Wei Lele said that they definitely knew it, but he had given many gifts to each director and even the principal in advance, and even gave them a portion of the commission.

He felt a bit heartbroken when he said this, and said with gritted teeth that those old foxes asked for quite a lot, but because of the expansion of scale, he earned more than before.

"Li Zheng, I don't plan to study anymore."

He had said this to Li Zheng before he dropped out of school.

"After all, the purpose of studying is to get into a good university, and getting into a good university is to find a good job, and finding a good job is to make more money. Ultimately, isn't studying for more money?"

“…………”

"I'm going to make a lot of money in the future and shut up all those who look down on me." He added, "Of course, you're different."

“…………”

Even though Li Zheng seldom spoke and listened like a mute person, Wei Lele could talk a lot to himself. He said that if there was an afterlife, he hoped that he could also have a pair of very kind and gentle parents. Of course, it would be even better if they were rich.

"I'll give you a lot of money then."

"Why give it to me?"

Li Zheng was very puzzled.

But the person who was speaking didn't pay attention to his question and continued to describe the blueprint of his dream: "Buy you a big house so that you don't have to just sleep in the living room... and buy you a car..."

“…”

"Why don't you say anything? Don't you believe it?" He excitedly gestured to Li Zheng and said, "Do you know how much money I have now? I will have even more in the future!"

Later, he really dropped out of school and disappeared from the class. This name only existed in word of mouth among his classmates and was gradually forgotten.

The last time they interacted was two months before the college entrance exams in his senior year of high school. That was when Li Zheng's family suffered its first tragedy. His adoptive father passed away, leaving only his elementary school-age siblings and his adoptive mother, who had nearly fainted from crying.

At one point he wanted to stop studying.

One day, he received a strange phone call from a different location. The caller said to him, "Li Zheng, don't drop out of school. You have such good grades. You must study hard."

“…”

The person on the other end of the strange phone never told Li Zheng who he was, but he took Li Zheng's bank card number and transferred 50,000 yuan into it shortly afterwards.

He didn't say who he was, but Li Zheng recognized from his voice that this person was Wei Lele, who had disappeared for almost a year.

I don't know what he is doing away from home.

Fifty thousand yuan was not a small sum of money at that time.

As for the origin of this money, Li Zheng later told his adoptive parents that he had borrowed it. With this "borrowed money", Li Zheng held a funeral for his adoptive father, paid for his younger siblings' tuition, and paid for his own tuition.

Later, when he was in college, Li Zheng would continue to receive some transfers. The name of the sender was different each time, including the remittance location, from all over the world, but he knew it was the same person every time.

He didn't spend the money. Instead, he applied for a student loan and worked part-time to complete college.

After completing the internship, he used his first internship salary to repay his student loan and send money home, and he also saved a portion of it bit by bit.

It took him three years to pay off the 50,000 yuan.

In the same year, he received an extremely important task, which, if completed well, would be of great help to his career. However, he was not so lucky and he was injured.

It was also that year that he received news that his sister had an accident and chose to return to Cheongdam.

Another three years of peace and tranquility.

During a mission, he met his former high school class monitor. Hu Hui talked to him a lot with emotion, but Li Zheng didn't say much and just listened silently.

As they were talking, Hu Hui mentioned the troublemaker in the class. He said that Li Zheng had a bad relationship with him before and asked if there was any conflict between them. He said that he had been asking about him some time ago and asked Li Zheng if he knew about it.

"have no idea."

Hu Hui immediately continued in an "I knew it" tone, "I guess you two aren't familiar with each other either!"

Later, this reunion was interrupted by a sudden phone call. He had to postpone the dinner with his old classmates and quickly went to the scene.

Starting from this seemingly ordinary case, which turned out to be full of strangeness and bizarreness upon closer inspection, Li Zheng's originally peaceful life began to become extremely strange.

Another strange young man suddenly broke into his life. This man called himself Wei Sheng, Wei for defending and Sheng for blooming.

From the first moment they met, the other party stuck to him, their eyes stuck to him, their body stuck to him, like a sticky candy, doing everything they could to stay by his side.

He follows him to the scene, he follows him to eat, he follows him when he works overtime, and he even follows him home.

That was the first day they met.

On the way back to the rental house, Li Zheng, who had been busy for a long time, was exhausted both mentally and physically. He sat in the passenger seat with his eyes closed to rest.

Wei Sheng asked about his plans for the next day. After Li Zheng gave a concise answer, he asked, "What about you?"

"What?"

"Are you going to stay with me like this forever?" He wanted to say 'depend on me', but changed the word before he said it.

"I have to work all day tomorrow. Do you have to stay with me the whole time? You can go sightseeing in the surrounding area. Don't young people nowadays like to go to bars and dance? There's a street in Cheongdam that's quite lively..."

"don't want!"

“………”

Wei Sheng held the steering wheel, driving the car slowly and steadily, looking straight ahead, and said in a very firm tone: "I will stay by your side to protect you!"

So the next morning, after checking the information about the Sunshine Community case with Pan Song, Li Zheng decided to go to the scene and turned back halfway to Mingzhu Plaza.

This accident made him touch...

...Wei Lele.

I haven't seen Wei Lele for many years. Wei Lele seems to be no different from the last time we met, but when we meet again, he becomes a suspect in an accident.

Among the many suspects he has interrogated, Wei Lele must be the easiest one to interrogate.

Most of the other suspects required him to use various interrogation techniques and find a few words of truth among their lies.

But interrogating Wei Lele does not require any skills.

If he asked, he would answer.

Not only did he answer questions related to the case, he would also take the initiative to bring up some of their past experiences.

According to his voluntary confession, the incident with Liu Yingying was indeed caused by his being possessed by evil spirits at the time. He said that he was very regretful, but the previous case had nothing to do with him.

He also revealed how he saw those strange names and drew what he saw on paper, including the name above the interrogation reporter's head.

At that moment, the recorder, who had been indifferent and thought Wei Lele was talking nonsense, finally sat up a little straighter. You know, even Li Zheng couldn't remember the name of this new police officer.

Wei Lele said that he had almost died three times since he was able to see that thing.

He said that there was obviously another person who might have seen those strange things earlier than him and was chasing him, and he speculated that he was the one who killed the others.

Li Zheng carefully recorded this clue.

But out of professional acumen, Li Zheng did not completely believe that everything Wei Lele said was true, so he still conducted a series of repeated tests.

But no matter how he asked, Wei Lele's answer remained the same. He only hesitated for a long time on one question.

When Li Zheng asked the young man next to him about the real name above his head, he hesitated, as if he even doubted whether he had seen it wrongly.

He said the name above Wei Sheng’s head was Wei Lele.

Wei of Wei Lele, Lele of Wei Lele.

What does this mean?

Is it just the same name?

Wei Lele himself couldn't explain why. He just felt inexplicably repulsed when he saw the "young man" next to Li Zheng. He could also hear another strange sound coming from his body, and he could even see the words "rescue mission target" above Li Zheng's head.

So he maliciously speculated, "He must have approached you for no purpose. Don't trust him!"

"This," Li Zheng said, "He told me, from the first time we met..."

At the very end, after several hours of interrogation, Wei Lele looked at Li Zheng and said with a hint of regret: "You didn't wear your uniform today. What a pity. I can't see it."

Li Zheng stood up and collected the documents on the table:

"There will be a chance later..."

He laughed at himself, his voice very low, almost as if it was stuck in his throat: "No, I know myself too well. If he finds out, he won't let me live..."

"What did you say?"

"Nothing, nothing." Wei Lele looked at him, "I'm just jealous. But if the positions were reversed, I would definitely do the same."

"do what?"

Li Zheng was about to take out his notebook to record it again.

Wei Lele stopped talking: "Forget it, let's just leave it at that for today. I'm too tired, and you should go out for dinner. He should have...prepared it for you."

“…………”

In fact, Li Zheng wanted to continue, because he always felt that Wei Lele had not explained some things to him clearly, but the recorder beside him was already very hungry.

Ask again next time.

That's what he thought at the time.