Chapter 49 Chapter 49 Three Million Hush Money
Children value face and dignity more than anything else, so He Yuanjuan avoided the question, but later went to ask the teacher.
The head teacher replied, "Fang Dengdeng? She was beaten by her parents and brother, and she didn't dare to fight back. At first I thought she had a balance problem, so I went to talk to her parents, but they said she was disobedient at home, so they gave her a lesson, it's not serious."
All these years of family planning could not avoid these messy things. Liu's father was an only child, and his other brothers and sisters did not survive and died young. So they could have one more child, but some families, which clearly were not family-friendly, still gave birth to many children.
Fang Dengdeng’s name is even more bizarre. Her original name was Fang Dengdi. Later, when she was registering her household registration, she was laughed at by the staff. Her parents wanted to save face, so they changed her name to Fang Dengdeng.
Considering her background, He Yuanjuan felt sorry for Fang Dengdeng and didn't want to interfere with her relationship with Liu Yueyun. But who would have thought that Fang Dengdeng had some very strange habits. She would habitually lie, cheat money, and steal things.
During the most serious period, the wounds on Fang Dengdeng's body never went away, and Liu Yueyun's things kept being lost. Although they were all small things and valuable items like jewelry had never been lost, which parent could remain calm when encountering such a thing?
He Yuanjuan sighed for a long time when she said this: "You may not know that children have these problems because they lack love and are controlled since childhood. It is a very common psychological problem. Only children who are born stronger can resist this temptation."
But being able to resist does not mean that the possibility does not exist. Many children are just more restrained. When opportunities to steal or cheat arise, they will still fantasize about it in their minds. This is a psychological problem among children and cannot be avoided.
Although she knew the situation, He Yuanjuan, as an adult, found it hard to accept that her precious daughter would play with children from such a family.
Just as He Yuanjuan was struggling with how to tell Liu Yuejun without hurting her, she suddenly became distant from Fang Dengdeng. The next person to appear at the family dinner table was another girl named Gan Xinlu.
Actually, Gan Xinlu's family is much worse than Fang Dengdeng's. She has an older brother. But in terms of upbringing and interpersonal relationships, she is much better than Fang Dengdeng. He Yuanjuan gradually felt relieved. It seems that Liu Yuejun still knows how to choose friends and will not be deceived all the time.
"That's probably it. Since Yueyue and Lulu get along pretty well, I actually haven't paid attention to Fang Dengdeng for a long time. To be honest, I didn't expect that he would end up like this." He Yuanjuan felt pity for him, but also a little disgusted with Fang Dengdeng's family.
What kind of family would allow their child to get pregnant before marriage and then jump off a building at school?
Not only that, after the child jumped from the building, the parents did nothing but cover up the incident. If Liu Yueyun had not suddenly fainted, Fang Dengdeng could even be said to have died quietly.
Su Yun felt horrified when he heard this. Although he had seen many families that did not love their daughters, his understanding was always refreshed by the actions of those families. It turned out that evil has no bottom line.
"I think Fang Dengdeng's death was not simple. Aunt He, did classmate Gan tell you about the suicide note?" Su Yun asked tentatively.
He Yuanjuan paused, then nodded slightly: "Yes...but she is not my daughter, what does it have to do with my daughter?"
Even if Fang Dengdeng felt that he was harmed and wanted revenge, he should have gone to find lonely ghosts instead of Liu Yuejun. Liu Yuejun couldn't control her body at the time. Isn't it bullying the weak and cowardly to seek revenge from her?
Su Yun hurriedly comforted her, "Aunt He, don't get excited. I didn't say it was Yueyue's fault, but demons and ghosts are unreasonable. If the last person Fang Dengdeng saw was Yueyue, there's no guarantee that she wouldn't drag Yueyue down with her."
Death is a very painful thing. Not everyone can distinguish between past and present lives and the boundary between life and death like Su Yun.
He Yuanjuan panicked instantly: "Then, what should we do?"
Su Yun thought about this and said, "I want to go to the school to take a look. Aunt He, is there any way for me to go to the school and meet Yueyue's homeroom teacher and Fang Dengdeng's homeroom teacher? It would be best if I could also meet their subject teachers."
"Why do you want to meet them? If you want to find Fang Dengdeng, wouldn't it be faster to find her parents?" He Yuanjuan didn't understand.
"Because only teachers can make students tell the truth. Aunt He, don't underestimate today's children. They are different from you in the past." Su Yun said softly.
He Yuanjuan understood that Su Yun wanted to find out more details from the students. Although most children in a school seemed to only care about studying, there were always a few people who were extremely well-informed. They were harmless, kind and enthusiastic, so no matter what kind of person they were, they were willing to share secrets with them.
This is the kind of child Su Yun is looking for. Such children are usually tight-lipped, and the only ones who can make them speak are probably teachers with whom they have a particularly good relationship.
After thinking about it, He Yuanjuan directly called the head teacher of the grade at No. 5 Middle School and said that Yueyue had not woken up yet and the hospital suspected it was a psychological problem, but she couldn't leave, so she asked Yueyue's sister to go over and take a look.
It is very serious if the news of school bullying gets out. Moreover, the death of Fang Dengdeng is still spreading on the Internet. The school dared to contact the parents of this real rich girl and immediately said yes and the school would cooperate with all investigations.
In other words, the Liu family has made a fortune now, otherwise the school would have definitely refused to cooperate and would have said that it was the students' own problem.
With the endorsement of He Yuanjuan and Liu's father, Su Yun took Lin Lang and set off for school.
No. 5 Middle School was relatively close, so it didn’t take long to get there. There were some small stalls on the way home, and Su Yun also bought some food.
Lin Lang saw Su Yun taking a bunch of children's breakfast and asked, "Director, do you eat these too?"
Su Yun sipped his instant noodles and nodded, "Of course, I go to a city school. Although many people say it's like a semi-aristocratic school, there are some students with poor family backgrounds but good grades. As long as they are there, there will definitely be a lot of these stalls."
Of course, at the beginning Su Yun would not eat these things at all. She didn't even realize that there were such edible things in the world. It was just that her identity as a fake rich girl was slowly revealed, and she realized that she might lose her life as a rich girl one day, so she began to observe how others survived in school.
After trying something a little cheaper, Su Yun felt it was acceptable. Besides, he had always followed the rules in the Su family, so after he became free, he didn't care about whether the food was high-end or not. The most important thing was that he enjoyed the food.
It was this idea that turned the meals at the funeral home into a mess. Before Su Yun came back, the chef had a lot of cooking skills but nowhere to display them. This was because Ji Weitong and Su Yiling had been practicing for many years and had long since become pure-hearted and indifferent. They had practiced slowly and normally, unlike Su Yun, who was an outlier.
Lin Lang was also young, but his cultivation level increased too quickly. He took away half of Su Yun's food. When the two arrived at No. 5 Middle School, they had not finished eating, so they went to the milk tea shop at the school gate, bought milk tea and snacks, and continued eating in the empty seat.
The boss was a pretty lady. When she served them milk tea and fried fish tofu, she asked, "Don't your two children have to go to school?"
Su Yun smiled and said, "Boss, we are not students. We have already graduated from college. I am going to school to visit my sister who is in her senior year. I am here early. Let's have a meal first."
"Oh, that's as you should. Things have been a bit uneasy at No. 5 Middle School recently, so you should pay more attention to your children." The boss looked as if he had suddenly realized something.
After hearing her say this, Su Yun suddenly thought that the news outside the school might not overlap much with the news inside the school. Just like when he was in college, many of the big gossips on the confession wall and the circle of friends were not actually spread from within the campus, but from outside the campus.
Thinking of this, Su Yun stood up and followed the boss to the counter. While looking at the menu as if he wanted to order something else, he asked, "Boss, I just came back from college. My aunt asked me to come and see my sister. Why is the Fifth Middle School not peaceful?"
Seeing that she was also a girl and that there were not many people in the store, the boss lowered his voice and said to her, "Didn't you watch the news? A while ago, a girl from No. 5 Middle School jumped off a building because she was pregnant before marriage. Yesterday, another girl was called for an ambulance. I don't know what happened."
Su Yun pretended to be shocked: "Ah? High school student? Pregnant? The parents don't care?"
"How can we do that? Beat her up again? It's better to just leave her alone." The boss smiled sarcastically.
Both He Yuanjuan and the boss mentioned that Fang Dengdeng was beaten by her family. As a girl in the family, she should be the punching bag for her parents and brother.
Su Yun showed an even more puzzled expression: "Why? Did her parents beat her before?"
The boss nodded vigorously, then took out his mobile phone and showed a video to Su Yun.
In the video, a girl was being beaten in a relatively hidden part of the school wall. Next to her was a woman and a very young boy. The woman was punching and kicking the girl, and the boy would occasionally pick up stones on the ground and throw them at the girl.
The video ended after a while. The boss said that she was attracted by the noise at that time. Many people would have filmed such a lively event and posted it online to gain traffic, but seeing the pitiful look of the girl, they finally didn't post it.
The boss wasn't too clear about what happened with Fang Dengdeng, but later she saw the girl with some scars accompanying a wealthy boy to buy milk tea and snacks. The boy even ran errands to the fast food restaurant next door to buy food for the girl, and the girl often ate voraciously.
"As for me, I came back and opened a milk tea shop here after graduation. My shop has been open for more than ten years. It is very easy to find the pattern of those kids. The boys will always pay the girls they like or their girlfriends. I guarantee that the girl and the boy must be a couple, and they have a good relationship." The boss said confidently.
Su Yun thought of what He Yuanjuan had mentioned about Fang Dengdeng stealing money. It was obvious that her family didn't give her food and she was too hungry.
Looking at it this way, it's actually more like a boy using money to buy the buyer's body. How can that be a good relationship?
So Su Yun questioned: "How can you think that they have a good relationship? He has been spending money on girls. Isn't it because... he is too hungry and has no choice?"
The boss sighed: "If we only look at it from the perspective of marriage and responsibility, it is indeed an exchange of interests, but for young people, it is a love unique to youth."
Teenagers think differently from adults. Their world is too narrow. Even if they see the world outside on the Internet, it will not be expanded too much in reality.
The loss of rights caused by the word "underage" makes it difficult for them to consider the impact and consequences of all their actions.
With his boss's explanation, Su Yun became even more curious about what Fang Dengdeng had done before her death that made the evil spirit that occupied Liu Yuejun's body kill her?
Besides, would Fang Dengdeng not know that she was pregnant?
Did she go to Liu Yuejun because she was pregnant? Because Liu Yuejun was her last friend?
Thanks to the proprietress for sharing the gossip, Su Yunduo bought a portion of grilled mushrooms, went back and quickly finished all the snacks with Lin Lang. He couldn't drink the milk tea that quickly, so he asked the boss for a bag and asked Lin Lang to carry it into school and take a sip when he was thirsty.
After giving advance notice and registering with the security guard, Su Yun was able to enter the campus without any obstruction.
However, he felt a little lost once he entered, so Su Yun stood in front of the map not far from the school gate and looked through it carefully.
Lin Lang held up the cup of milk tea with the straw right next to Su Yun's mouth. When she got tired of watching, she tilted her head and took a sip.
After standing there for ten minutes, Su Yun had not yet figured out where to go first, and was caught by the head teacher.
"Hey, you two, who allowed you to wear strange clothes to enter the school for class? Go back and change your school uniforms. Also, your class's red flag is gone!" The director, with his Mediterranean hair that looked like a panda head, said in a very annoyed manner.
There is no student who is not afraid of such a voice. Even Su Yun, who had graduated many years ago, was frightened. Only Lin Lang, who did not finish high school and college normally, turned around slowly and did not react.
Su Yun was stunned for a moment before she remembered that she was not a student. She quickly stretched out her hand and said, "Hello, we are not students. I am Liu Yueyun's sister. Her mother should have communicated with the school and asked me to find out the situation."
The head teacher looked at Su Yun and Lin Lang suspiciously: "You guys? Have you graduated from college?"
"I'm graduated, I'm graduated. This is my ID card. I really graduated." Su Yun took out a small ID card from his Qiankun bag and handed it over.
The dean held it a little further away and looked at it, his presbyopic eyes narrowed together: "Oh, oh, oh, sorry, you all look too young, I thought you were students, Miss Su, I'm the head of the grade for the second year of high school, the third year students are all in the Qinxue Building."
The map didn't explain the grade distribution, but the teaching building was easy to spot. Su Yun took back his ID card and asked in confusion, "Separated? Isn't this inappropriate?"
The head teacher said, "It's appropriate. How can it not be appropriate? In our No. 5 Middle School, many children choose to study arts and take international exams. Therefore, we separated the students who need to take the college entrance examination to avoid affecting them. You don't understand. It's really noisy."
Su Yun laughed twice: "Ahaha, so that's how it is. I used to study at Bincheng City Middle School and we were not separated."
When he heard that it was from the city middle school, the head teacher was in awe: "Oh, so you are from the city middle school. Well, there is no comparison. If the worst class of children in the city middle school were assigned to the fifth middle school, they would be top students. People who don't teach don't know that the watershed between top students and ordinary students is actually concentration."
Concentration is a purely innate talent and is difficult to cultivate. It will only get worse due to external factors, and it will be difficult to compare with people who are born with strong concentration.
Su Yun had a relatively stable life since he was a child, and he attended the best school. Naturally, he didn't know how those ordinary children could not sit still for a whole class. In order to separate those who were willing to study, they naturally had to do so.
"But my sister is also in the third year of high school. There are also art students and international students in the third year of high school, right? They are in the same building, so won't it still affect them?" Su Yun was not arguing, he was simply curious.
The head teacher smiled and said, "Miss Su must be from the top class in senior year. At this time, there will be no art students, sports students, or international students in the senior year class. They will not be back until March next year. By then, we will study hard together and it will be just as quiet."
Su Yun understood what was said. She had indeed not had much contact with other types of candidates and didn't know much about them. She thought everyone was the same. She also asked the second-grade director whether he knew about recent events.
The director shook his head and said he was not sure. This matter was very strange and not widely circulated. According to common sense, if someone died and the news was not widely circulated, it could only be because the parents did not take it seriously.
If you parents don’t speak up for your children and we are all workers, how can we seek the truth?
Unable to get any information from the second grade, Su Yun took Lin Lang to the Qinxue Building, where the head of the grade had been waiting for a long time. Unexpectedly, the head of the grade for the third year of high school was a girl who looked only slightly older than Su Yun.
Seeing the shock in Su Yun's eyes that could not be concealed, the director smiled and poured her a glass of water: "It's strange, isn't it? I'm not very old, but I'm the director."
Su Yun nodded in shock. She saw that the director was wearing a work badge and his surname was Yang.
Director Yang took out some documents, sighed and said, "The senior teachers and students are under a lot of pressure. I was able to take the position because the two previous directors were sick. Other middle-aged teachers refused to take the position because they had already taught too many classes. I was chosen because I had fewer classes."
"But the director of each grade is usually decided in the first year of high school, so Director Yang, you only took office in the semester of the third year of high school?" Su Yun asked tentatively.
"Yes," Director Yang did not deny it, "But don't worry, Miss Su. I have heard about the children's affairs from the previous two directors. I will tell you everything I know."
Young people are easy to talk to, and the key is to speak standard Mandarin.
Su Yun then asked about the situation of the student below.
Director Yang was stunned: "Fang Dengdeng? Aren't you Liu Yueyun's sister? Why are you asking about Fang Dengdeng?"
"Ah? Don't you know? Fang Dengdeng was Yueyue's best friend before." Su Yun looked puzzled. Even He Yuanjuan acknowledged him as her friend, so why did Director Yang look so confused?
After listening to Su Yun, Director Yang scratched her head and asked Su Yun to wait for a moment while she called the old director.
When I called, I heard a weak voice on the other end, and it sounded like he was on a hospital bed.
Director Yang repeated Su Yun's question, and the other party said, "Oh, I forgot to tell you this. Yes, Ms. He also came to ask about this. Fang Dengdeng was indeed a good friend of Liu Yueyun. I think Ms. He wanted to separate them after she found out, but she didn't have time."
Then the old director talked about the real reason why Liu Yueyun and Fang Dengdeng broke up.
According to Gan Xinlu, it was after she and Liu Yuejun got to know each other that she knew how to tell who was a liar, so she mentioned it to Liu Yuejun a few times, and gradually Liu Yuejun stopped being a sucker.
But the teachers obviously had more information. What really made Liu Yuejun feel that Fang Dengdeng was not suitable for dating was because Fang Dengdeng already had a boyfriend.
It’s not that Liu Yuejun can’t accept her friend having a boyfriend, but she can’t accept that Fang Dengdeng is with another boy because of money. However, Liu Yuejun obviously has money herself, and she can give more than that boy.
But for some reason, Fang Dengdeng still insisted on being with that boy, so Liu Yuejun was so angry that she stopped playing with her. What's even more strange is that Fang Dengdeng obviously needed money, but since that time, she never got close to Liu Yuejun again.
From Gan Xinlu's perspective, Fang Dengdeng was so angry and embarrassed after being exposed that she didn't want to play with them. However, Gan Xinlu didn't know Fang Dengdeng's family situation. In other words, based on common sense, if Fang Dengdeng wanted to, she and Liu Yuejun would not have broken up so completely.
Su Yun couldn't help but interrupt: "Who is Fang Dengdeng with? Everyone says she has a boyfriend, but how come no one knows who her boyfriend is?"
The sudden voice scared the old director opposite, and Director Yang hurriedly explained to prevent the old director from fainting.
Hearing that she was Liu Yuejun's sister, the old director explained in more detail: "She is the monitor of Class 2 of Senior 3. Her family is quite wealthy and she is also good-looking. Now that it is the new college entrance examination, the class division rules are different from before, so he is not in the same class as Liu Yuejun, Fang, etc."
"So, the child is his? What's his family's attitude?" Su Yun kept asking, not giving the old director a chance to think.
The old director did not answer immediately, but sighed: "There is no attitude. The boy only said from beginning to end that he respected Fang Dengdeng's choice. His family saw the boy's attitude and did not make things difficult for the school, but..."
Su Yun's eyes lit up: "But what?"
Director Yang helped to pick up the conversation: "The monitor gave Fang Dengdeng's parents 3 million yuan in mental damages."
"Three million?" Su Yun exclaimed.
The old director said on the phone: "Yes, three million. To be honest, I can guarantee that it was this three million that made Fang Dengdeng's parents shut up. Otherwise, with her parents' attitude, the school would never have gotten away with it."
Because of the three million, even if Fang Dengdeng’s affairs were dug up again, Fang Dengdeng’s parents still dared not say a word. The school simply handled the matter coldly, and soon, the matter would be forgotten.
Su Yun couldn't understand: "How did Fang Deng's family... treat her?"
The old director was not clear enough and asked Su Yun to ask another director. The old director was in charge of the second year of high school. The first person to discover the problem was a retired female teacher. She was a famous special teacher in the school and was very good to students. Originally, Liu Yuejun's class was the last one she would teach, but she didn't finish it.
The old teacher still lives in the dormitory of No. 5 Middle School, and Director Yang takes Su Yun to visit him.
Hearing that Su Yun was Liu Yuejun's sister, the old teacher also asked about Liu Yuejun's health.
However, when the old teacher heard that Su Yun was asking about the relationship between Liu Yuejun and Fang Dengdeng, she sighed. Her words were similar to He Yuanjuan's. Fang Dengdeng was a good child, but his family was not good.
As a special-grade teacher, the old teacher knew very well that only the family can determine a student's future, so when the first year of high school started, she used various methods to investigate the families of the students in her class. Whether or not the students were rich was secondary, because now the state education subsidies are sufficient.
It depends more on whether the parents are normal.
Unfortunately, Fang Dengdeng's family has abnormal parents and abnormal brothers and sisters.
I didn't know this before I went there, but I found out after I went there that Fang Dengdeng had two older sisters and she was actually the fifth child. She had three daughters, one of whom died, one was given away, and one was miscarried. Fang Dengdeng actually had a younger sister, but she starved to death when she was born, and others told others that she didn't survive because she was too weak.
So, the son in their family is the seventh.
A family gave birth to almost ten children just to have a son. The eldest and second sisters are very old. One can imagine what kind of life Fang Dengdeng lives at home.
The old teacher kept telling Fang Dengdeng that if he gritted his teeth, rushed out, left Bincheng, went to college, and escaped from his original family, he would be able to survive.
Every time Fang Dengdeng listened to something, he would be beaten when he got home, and he would lose all his courage.
Although there are four children in the family, the eldest sister is married and the second sister goes out to work to support the family. The only slave who can be ordered around in the family is Fang Dengdeng. Not only does she not have food to eat at home, she also has to do housework all the time.
But in fact, their family was not poor. They had a house and a car. It was normal to give Fang Dengdeng clothes and schoolbags on the surface, so she could pretend to be a normal person and go to Liu Yueyun to eat and drink.
Fang Dengdeng's parents thought they could fool the old teacher with their acting, but in fact, as soon as the old teacher visited their home, he understood what kind of life Fang Dengdeng was living.
At the end of the first year of high school, the old teacher suddenly suffered a heart attack and had to retire. In fact, her heart attack was caused by anger because she heard that Fang Dengdeng was friends with a boy. How was this different from giving up on herself?
But after leaving the hospital, the old teacher suddenly understood Fang Dengdeng's despair. She had no future in her life now, and all she could make was the best decision at her age.
After retirement, the old teacher asked other teachers to take better care of the children, but unexpectedly something bad still happened.
Su Yun listened quietly to the old teacher's story and found that everyone had a similar impression of each other, but coincidentally, they were all missing two pieces - before and after the relationship and before death.
The teachers relied on various students' information and their own experience to guess most of Fang Dengdeng's life in the past three years, but they had no idea about the specific process of their relationship and the time before his death.
Thinking about this question, Su Yun asked the old teacher: "Teacher, why did Fang Dengdeng date a boy and break up with Liu Yueyun because of this? It seems that you don't know the relevant details."
The fact that he gave three million yuan but it was not a hush money means that the relationship between the boy and Fang Dengdeng is definitely not simple.
The old teacher thought for a long time and shook his head. "To be honest, we all thought there was only one answer at the time, that Fang Dengdeng had passed away. The reaction of the monitor of Class 2 was beyond our expectations. We thought that maybe we were wrong at the time, but the monitor didn't say anything, and Fang Dengdeng... This will probably become a secret forever."
After hearing this, Su Yun secretly complained in his heart: It can't be a secret. Liu Yuejun is still half dead. The only hope now is that Fang Dengdeng really has a special connection with Liu Yuejun, which will lead to her first death. If that's not right, then we're really finished.
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