Chapter 171 In My Name 07 Death and Debt Cleared

Chapter 7

With Lu Changfeng's assurance, Ni Zitong became bolder.

"There must be an improper relationship between Wen Ting and the teacher."

"Should?" Lu Changfeng said, "Yes, yes. No, no. We can't use this as evidence."

Ni Zitong explained: "Actually, I'm not sure. I was dating my friend in Jinshi at the time. When we were shopping in the mall, I saw Wen Ting and the teacher. Wen Ting walked past me with the teacher's arm around him, and I didn't know how to say hello to him. Besides, it was not appropriate for me to say hello when I saw this scene."

Besides, people may not want to be seen.

If one of her legs was really broken, she might be in trouble when she returns.

"What year did it happen?" Lu Changfeng asked.

Ni Zitong recalled, “In the summer of 20, Wen Ting graduated from graduate school.”

At that time, Wen Ting should have been 25 years old, and Shi Minjie was already 48 years old.

Jing Jue was very surprised: "Shi Minjie should be older than Wen Ting's father, why would she, who is young and beautiful, look at Shi Minjie?"

"Wen Ting is more of a strong admirer." Ni Zitong kept kneading her fingers: "I can't say whether it's an extramarital affair or not, after all, I didn't see them doing anything more intimate, but I think there's such a big difference between the two of them, and they're a man and a woman, and they went to Jinshi for vacation, and they were holding hands, it shouldn't be like this between a professor and a student."

Although there is no more intimate evidence, it can be proved that the relationship between the two is very good and can even be described as intimate.

"Do you think they have an improper relationship?"

"If you must ask me, I think there is. The relationship between them goes beyond the scope of what a teacher and student should have."

"What kind of person is Shi Minjie? Has he ever exploited his students or stolen their work?"

Ni Zitong was a little nervous and picked up the mineral water on the table and took a sip.

Thinking of Lu Changfeng's words, she hesitated and nodded again and again: "Yes."

At this moment, everyone in the serious crime squad looked at Ni Zitong.

Ni Zitong felt several gazes and the pressure in her heart increased invisibly.

In this world, it is always the case that big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat shrimps. The police are members of the legal system and are law enforcers. When facing law enforcers, few people can be completely free of psychological pressure.

Lu Changfeng noticed that she was very nervous and comforted her: "Don't be afraid, the content of our conversation with you will not be leaked to others, and no one will know that it was you who told us these things."

Ni Zitong glanced at Lu Changfeng, made up her mind, and said, "He will ask us to give him the first authorship when we publish in academic journals. Those who can join his team are already outstanding students in this industry. The default rule is to contribute an academic journal with him as the first author."

"According to the information we found, he holds a lot of patents. Are all these patents developed by him personally?"

"As far as I know, he didn't even participate in the development of two of them. One was developed by Wen Ting, and the other was developed by my senior. The teacher didn't contribute to them. He just took these two patents for nothing."

Lu Changfeng was very surprised: "After all this time, has none of you ever thought of resisting? Are you willing to let your hard work be taken away by him?"

"He is on the altar and has resources in his hands. As long as we are obedient, we can enjoy his resources. Once we do something like betraying our master, it will be difficult for us to continue to have a place in this circle." Ni Zitong was helpless about this. Who could willingly hand over his hard work, but what would happen if he didn't hand it over? She has no background, and all her more than ten years of hard study may end up in vain. Not many people have the courage to do that.

Besides, it is not certain that the other party can be exposed.

A top boss in an industry, his students are also well-known in the industry. Everyone supports him and makes him a new god. With the identity of being a disciple of god, he is able to defeat many people without fighting.

The level of your teacher determines how others treat you when you socialize with them. Compared with a student taught by a star professor from a top university, a doctoral graduate from an ordinary university will be willing to give the latter more opportunities.

The teacher's level and the level of his other students in the industry are their invisible halos. This is why everyone is scrambling to become a famous teacher's apprentice.

The halo of fame is a double-edged sword. Once something goes wrong with one of the people, the whole school behind them will also be affected.

What's more, the problem lies with the head of the school. As the old saying goes, if the top beam is crooked, the bottom beams will be crooked. If the teacher is involved in a scandal, his students will naturally be affected.

From the moment you become a teacher's student, you are in the same boat.

This is also the reason why everyone knows that the underlying rules are unreasonable, is unwilling to give their hard work to the teacher, and does not want to be exploited, but has to obey and have their value exploited.

The serious crime team could understand what Ni Zitong said.

Lu Changfeng asked for the name of the student who gave the patent to Shi Minjie, and found this student from the list of past students.

This person graduated the year Wen Ting enrolled, and is now a professor at a 211 university in his hometown.

Ni Zitong's plane was about to board, and Yue Fanglin wrote down his contact information and gave it to her: "If you think of anything else, you can contact me at any time."

"good."

On the way back, Lu Changfeng called the student whose patent was snatched away by Shi Minjie.

After confirming the other party's identity, Lu Changfeng explained his purpose.

The other party flatly denied the incident: "I don't know where you heard these rumors from. This kind of thing has never happened."

Lu Changfeng asked him: "Your teacher has passed away. Did you know about this?"

The person on the other end of the phone hesitated for a moment, obviously unaware of the matter.

As a student of the teacher, why does he know nothing about this?

Neither the school nor the police announced Shi Minjie's death to the public. Most of Shi Minjie's students already knew about it, needless to say, it was Shi Minjie's wife who informed his students.

For students who have not yet graduated or are about to graduate, if their supervisor dies suddenly, they will most likely have to find a new supervisor or even change their own research topic, which is a major change for them.

Ni Zitong in Yancheng already knew about this, but Ju Heng, who was thousands of kilometers away, knew nothing about it and no one told him about it. It can be understood that he was not in Yancheng and could not help for the time being. But as a person whose research results were taken away by his supervisor, he was at least not an ordinary person. There should be at least someone familiar with him among his classmates to inform him. The fact is that there was no one, which is enough to make people puzzled.

Ju Heng asked: "When did it happen?"

"yesterday."

Ju Heng was silent for a long time, then asked, "How did he die?"

Then he thought something was wrong. If it was a normal death, what would the police be investigating? It could only be an abnormal death, or there were doubts. "I don't know anything about this matter, and I've been busy at school. I haven't been to Yancheng recently. I'm not the murderer, and his death has nothing to do with me."

Lu Changfeng asked him a suspicious question: "I have visited many of your teacher's students. Everyone calls him teacher or mentor, but you are the only one who calls him that. You are even unwilling to use the honorific title for Master Minjie. Is there really no dispute between you two?"

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a long time.

Ju Heng's dull voice came: "When a person dies, the debt is settled. The matter has passed. There is no point in digging it up now."

This also indirectly confirmed the authenticity of what Ni Zitong said.

Lu Changfeng: "If you were really willing to hand over your patent to your teacher, you wouldn't have been holding a grudge for so many years, and you wouldn't even be unwilling to call him teacher."

"He's already dead, why should I bother with a dead person? Now my life is stable and my work is going well. I don't want to get involved in those messy things and ruin my own future."

"A mess?" Lu Changfeng asked, "Anything else?"

Ju Heng did not answer Lu Changfeng's question, but said: "Since the person is dead, the matter ends here. I am indeed angry with him, but I don't want to be dragged down by the past. He stole my achievements, but he can't take away my knowledge."

Lu Changfeng asked: "Do you still remember Wen Ting?"

There was another long silence on the other end of the phone.

"Remember." Ju Heng's voice became more dull, and one could sense that he was not in a very good mood.

"How is Wen Ting?" he asked.

Lu Changfeng said: "After dropping out of school in 2021, he committed suicide at home at the end of the year."

"Did he commit suicide?" He suddenly realized, "No wonder he never contacted me again."

"Did she also contact you?" Lu Changfeng had a hunch that there must be something going on. Wen Ting's dropping out of school was definitely not simple.

Ju Heng hummed, and was a little saddened to learn about Wen Ting's death. "I had already graduated when she enrolled. I didn't know her well. She came to me in 2020 or 2021 and asked me if my supervisor had taken my experimental results away. I denied it, and she hoped that I could stand up and report Shi Minjie with him, but I refused her."

"I remember it was raining heavily that day. She was standing downstairs of my house in the rain, crying and begging me to help her. I didn't want to get involved in their disputes, so I returned to my hometown to teach at a not-so-outstanding 211 university. I didn't use the power of my master, and I had already cut off contact with all of them. It was a surprise to me that she would come to me. After she fainted in the rain, I sent her to the hospital, and she was found to be more than two months pregnant."

"She's pregnant?" Lu Changfeng immediately remembered that Ni Zitong had said she saw Wen Ting and Shi Minjie when they were traveling in Jinshi, and asked hurriedly, "Did she say whose child it was?"

"She herself seemed to be unaware of the situation. She was very surprised to learn that she was pregnant. I didn't know what to do. After rejecting her request, I offered to help her contact her family to take her home to recuperate. She said at the time that she had no family and was now alone. I asked him who the father of the child was and if he could help her contact the father. She said she didn't know who he was. I was also quite surprised at the time. I could only pay for her hospitalization and let her have a good rest. The next day, I went to the hospital to visit her again. She had been discharged and I didn't know where she was. She left a thank-you letter and the hospitalization fee for me at the front desk and then left."

"The child couldn't be Shi Minjie's," Jing Jue guessed.