Chapter 456 I can’t wait to think about it
The story of "Hunting" is not complicated. A new teacher named Gao Xulin comes to the middle school in the county town. He is tall and handsome, has high teaching quality, is amiable and versatile, and is deeply loved by his colleagues and students.
Mr. Gao, who is tall, handsome and kind, is a bachelor in his thirties. Everyone is curious why he is still single at this age. After asking around, they found out that he is divorced. No more details can be asked. Mr. Gao always remains silent when talking about this.
When enthusiastic colleagues at school tried to introduce him to someone, Mr. Gao would habitually decline. Everyone thought that his negative attitude might be caused by the unhappiness of his previous marriage.
Until one day, a female student named Hu Tao in Teacher Gao’s class came to the school accompanied by her parents and said that Teacher Gao had committed a crime against her.
The school leaders were furious and immediately called the police to arrest Teacher Gao.
During the interrogation, it was discovered that at the time of the crime stated in the confession of the female student Hu Tao, Teacher Gao was buying books in a bookstore. The police found the bookstore staff and based on a vague impression, the bookstore staff member Zhang Qiang testified for Teacher Gao.
Teacher Gao had a witness, while Hu Tao had no physical or witness evidence except for his own confession. After comprehensive consideration, the police released Teacher Gao.
After the false alarm, Teacher Gao returned to school, thinking that everything was over, but he didn't expect that everything was just beginning.
The news of Teacher Gao's crime against a female student had spread throughout the small county during the two days he was at the Public Security Bureau, and the people were outraged when they heard about it.
When they heard that Teacher Gao had returned to school, the students' parents were the first to jump out and demand that the school expel Teacher Gao.
This request was not agreed to by the school. Since the public security department released Teacher Gao, it proves that he is innocent. The school has no reason to do this.
The school director, who was usually jealous of Teacher Gao, proposed to temporarily suspend Teacher Gao's work. This proposal was adopted by the school leaders, and the reason given by the school leaders to Teacher Gao was: to protect him, and warned Teacher Gao to keep a low profile during this period and not to cause trouble.
Teacher Gao, who was "protected", had no job and could only stay in the teachers' dormitory at school and read books.
One day he was lying on the bed reading a book when the glass of the dormitory was smashed and the laughter of a group of students came from the distance.
When I went to the cafeteria to eat at noon, the lady who usually served the food to Teacher Gao, who was smiling happily, now looked at me with a cold brow. In the end, she shook off a full spoonful of vegetables, leaving only two leaves.
After dinner, Teacher Gao took a walk in the school. The students pointing and laughing at him made him feel more and more depressed.
He tried to find Kurumi, hoping to get her to tell the truth and that he had not done anything to her.
But Hu Tao was so pitiful that she was very scared when facing his questioning. His actions were seen by the teachers and students in Hu Tao's class. The angry teachers and students beat Teacher Gao out of the classroom.
The matter was brought to the attention of the school leaders, who blamed Teacher Gao for being reckless. In view of the current situation, they decided not to allow him to continue living on campus to avoid causing more trouble.
Teacher Gao, who was kicked out of the school, had no choice but to stay at his cousin's house. The impact of the incident gradually fermented, and his cousin's family also knew about Teacher Gao's situation, but they still let him stay because of the relationship between relatives.
After finding a place to live, Teacher Gao thought about how to restore his reputation and job. He found Hu Tao's house and planned to explain the whole story to Hu Tao's parents.
But as soon as they met, he was beaten by Hu Tao's angry father. Relatives who rushed over after hearing the news also beat and kicked Teacher Gao, and Teacher Gao almost lost half his life.
After a week of recuperation in the hospital, Mr. Gao had to be discharged early because he could not stand the pointing and bad attitude of the medical staff.
Feeling grief-stricken, he went to the Education Bureau, hoping that they would give him justice.
However, faced with Teacher Gao’s situation, the Education Bureau said that they were also helpless and the school’s handling of the matter was reasonable. They asked Teacher Gao to go back and have a good rest and wait until things calmed down before dealing with the matter.
Teacher Gao, who had nowhere to complain, felt discouraged and went back to her cousin's house. She learned that her cousin's son had been thrown into a stinking ditch by his playmates because Teacher Gao, a rapist, lived in their home.
My cousin's husband angrily blamed the incident on Teacher Gao, and chased him away while cursing at him. Feeling guilty, Teacher Gao left my cousin's house.
With nowhere else to go, he went to the Public Security Bureau, hoping they could issue him a certificate to prove his innocence.
Teacher Gao begged desperately, even kneeling on the ground, and finally won the sympathy of an officer in charge of the case.
An announcement proving Teacher Gao's innocence would definitely not be issued, but the case handler agreed to go to the school with Teacher Gao.
The investigator Lao Yu knew that the female student Hu Tao was lying as soon as he met her, and the two of them came to the school.
With the help of the case handlers, the school finally agreed to reinstate Teacher Gao's job.
However, due to the influence of public opinion, Teacher Gao was not assigned any classes and was only assigned to do odd jobs.
Although he was still not treated fairly, Teacher Gao was very happy.
One day after he resumed work, he went out to buy something and met Zhang Qiang, a bookstore employee who testified for him.
Teacher Gao warmly invited Zhang Qiang to dinner to express his gratitude, but Zhang Qiang declined his invitation.
However, the conversation between the two was seen by someone, and the rumor spread quickly throughout the county.
It turned out that Teacher Gao had been having an affair with Zhang Qiang from the bookstore. Everyone finally understood why Zhang Qiang came out to testify for Teacher Gao.
The rumors spread more and more fiercely, and Zhang Qiang's reputation became infamous, and even the person she was about to marry broke up with her.
When Mr. Gao learned about this, he felt both guilty and angry. He wrote a letter to the radio station to complain about the injustice he had suffered and the injustice suffered by his relatives and friends. The radio station broadcast Mr. Gao's letter.
But within two days, the announcer who broadcast the letter was suspended by his superiors, reportedly because of too many reports from the public.
Teacher Gao, who had once again implicated others because of his own affairs, remained silent. He came to his senses and realized that perhaps it was right for him to remain silent.
He no longer gave lectures, no longer communicated with others, and no longer spoke out about his grievances.
At this time, a rumor began to spread that Teacher Gao was transferred from Lin County, and the reason for his transfer was because his wife reported that he had an affair with a female teacher.
The explosive news once again irritated the nerves of the county residents. It turned out that Teacher Gao had a criminal record.
The school gate was once again blocked by an angry crowd, led by Hu Tao's father.
It turned out that Hu Tao lied and slandered Teacher Gao for committing a crime against her, and everyone believed it. Hu Tao's family was also subjected to a lot of gossip because of this. Hu Tao suffered the backlash of her own lies, and was under great psychological pressure. She was depressed all day long and wanted to commit suicide.
When Hu Tao's father heard that Teacher Gao had a criminal record, he directed all his anger at Teacher Gao and brought his relatives to demand that the school fire Teacher Gao.
The school leaders could not withstand the overwhelming public opinion and held a meeting to discuss how to deal with Teacher Gao.
Upon hearing the news, the grief-stricken Teacher Gao rushed to the school gate to confront Hu Tao's father and relatives.
In order to prove his innocence, he did not hesitate to tear open the wounds in his heart.
It turned out that the reason he and his wife divorced was that his wife had an affair with a cadre in her unit, but she slandered him for having an affair with a female student. After great efforts, Teacher Gao finally proved his innocence and proved the filthiness of his wife and the adulterer.
However, the impact of this incident was too bad. The school where Mr. Gao used to work talked to him and said that they could help him transfer to another job. So Mr. Gao came to his current school.
After listening to Teacher Gao's statement, everyone was silent.
At this time, a voice came from the crowd, "But how do you prove it?"
Teacher Gao wept bitterly: "I didn't do it, what do you want me to prove?"
The people who were causing trouble realized they were in the wrong and finally dispersed.
All the noise seemed to be over after Teacher Gao revealed his scars, but then came the news that Zhang Qiang had committed suicide.
The grief-stricken teacher Gao asked for the address of Zhang Qiang's home and wanted to go to pay her respects. When she was walking through an alley, she saw a few hooligans beating someone up. The person being beaten was a student of the school who had smashed Teacher Gao's glass.
Teacher Gao stepped forward to stop them, but was beaten to the ground by the hooligans.
While he was in a trance, he heard the discussion of the gangsters.
"Hey, this guy is the one who raped the woman, right?"
“I don’t know!”
"Hey, come here, identify her, is this the rapist from your school?"
"It's him."
"Okay, get out of here!"
"You're really raping a woman. Beating her to death won't do much. Give her a few more kicks!"
Consciousness fell into endless darkness.
The next morning, someone found Teacher Gao's body in the alley.
The sun is scorching and the dogs are barking madly.
The police came and people gathered around and talked about it.
"Fortunately, the person who died was a rapist."
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Yu Hua finished reading "The Hunt" with red eyes, feeling as if he was about to explode. He raised his head and saw Mo Yan next to him still reading the novel with his head down.
Mo Yan has always read very carefully, much slower than him.
He was eager to find someone to discuss the novel he had just finished reading, so he looked around.
The library was quiet; everyone was either reading or writing.
Yu Hua closed the magazine, then stood up and left the library.
The corridor in front of the library is open-air and can only shelter from rain but not even wind. There is a garden in front of it.
Yu Hua stood in the corridor, looking at the flowers in full bloom before him, but all that flashed through his mind were scenes from "The Hunt".
It has been a long time since he started writing and he has been so absorbed in reading a book.
Yu Hua's mind suddenly flashed back to the time when Teacher Lin called him for the first time.
He said the ending of the novel was a bit gloomy and needed to be changed.
Yu Hua’s answer at the time was: As long as it can be published, it can be revised from beginning to end.
But now...
Teacher Lin, this is not gloomy at all, it's dark from beginning to end!
What happened to Teacher Gao was so tragic, and so was poor Zhang Qiang.
Why don’t good people get good rewards?
When Yu Hua read "Farewell My Concubine" before, he always felt that he had understood the essence of Teacher Lin's novel writing, but now it seems that he still didn't understand it thoroughly enough!
He thought about the novel he was writing. It seemed that it was still a little lacking in quality, but he had already written more than half of it.
Forget it, let me finish writing it first.
When I write another book, I will follow Teacher Lin’s style and logic next time, and I will make the protagonist feel extremely tortured.
Isn't this film about Mr. Lin torturing the protagonist? Then I'll change the direction and torture the people around the protagonist. Everyone around him will die, and he will be the only one alive.
This setting is so fucking cool!
Just thinking about it makes me can’t wait!
(End of this chapter)
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