Chapter 74 - The car at the school gate
Chapter 74 - The car at the school gate
After returning home that night, Lin Shengjia couldn't fall asleep for a long time. Ning Fei fell asleep after taking a bath and slept until dawn.
It was Lin's father who knocked on the door in the morning that Ning Fei woke up slowly.
He had just slammed the alarm clock on his bedside table.
Ning Fei rakes his hair and casually touches the wound on his face. The cut last night was not very deep, so the doctor gave Ning Fei five stitches. While doing so, he said confidently, "It will be smooth, and the scar should be easy to remove in the future." Ning Fei didn't care whether there would be scars on his body. After taking a shower last night, he didn't even re-bandage the wound. At first glance, it looks quite ferocious.
Ning Fei walked to the door and opened it. When Father Lin outside the door saw the wound on his face for the first time, he was stunned for a moment, then he came to his senses and said, "Teacher Ning, Mr. Duan is looking for you... Oh no, he is looking for you on the phone."
Since Ning Fei got a mobile phone, the landline at home has been disconnected. Once his cell phone "died heroically", Duan Yunhong, who was far away in Shenzhen, wanted to find him, and calling the Lin family opposite was indeed the fastest way.
“So early in the morning…” Ning Fei swallowed the curse words and followed them to the Lin family opposite, without changing out of his oversized pajama T-shirt and baggy shorts. As soon as I entered the door, I found Luo Chenghong sitting on the sofa. Ning Fei reacted immediately and thought, could Duan Yunhong’s call be related to this guy?
Although he thought about it, Ning Fei was too lazy to ask Luo Chenghong, and didn't even say hello to him. While Ning Fei was running straight towards the phone, Luo Chenghong's eyes were wandering unscrupulously on his face, body, and legs.
Ning Fei picked up the receiver on the table and said in a hoarse voice: "Hello?"
"Hello." Duan Yunhong was looking for someone early in the morning, but his voice was quite cold at this moment. "I heard that you were beaten?"
"If you must say, let's just fight each other. Oh no, I have to say it's a heroic act." Ning Fei subconsciously touched the wound on his face and replied casually, "You called me to the opposite door early in the morning just to ask this?"
"You didn't reply to my text messages, and my phone calls were disconnected." Duan Yunhong said coldly, "If Xie Baolin hadn't been so nosy, when would you have told me? When I go home on the weekend and remember to ask you 'where is your phone?'"
"I got home last night, no, in the early morning, and it was already past one in the morning. I don't have a landline at home, so how can I report to you?" Ning Fei replied lazily, "I was planning to tell you after I bought a new phone today. Oh, and I also need to buy a new pair of glasses. I don't know where I dropped them when I was doing the heroic thing last night."
In fact, he had other things to say, but this was at the Lin family, and Luo Chenghong was still staring, so Ning Fei was too lazy to say them.
Duan Yunhong asked again: "What's going on?"
Ning Fei responded: "How would I know? The police didn't give us any results."
Duan Yunhong questioned: "You can't even remember the part you experienced?"
Ning Fei replied calmly: "You don't want me to tell you a story over the phone, do you?"
"Why are you so angry?" Duan Yunhong's tone almost made Ning Fei "see" him frowning. "Isn't it time for you to get up?"
"I don't want to waste time talking to you now. I have to go back and get ready to go to school." Ning Fei glanced at the unscrupulous Luo Chenghong and said goodbye decisively, "Hang up. We can talk about other things later."
“Wait, you…!”
Before Duan Yunhong could finish his words, Ning Fei decisively hung up the phone. Turning around, Ning Fei stared at Luo Chenghong and said, "Look at the fee again."
Luo Chenghong replied with interest: "Oh, how much does it cost?"
Ning Fei did not answer. He raised his hand and pointed at his eyes with his index and middle fingers, then poked in the direction of Luo Chenghong with two fingers - meaning "I'll dig out your eyeballs to offset the deduction."
Luo Chenghong was not afraid but laughed: "Hahahaha! You are so funny, no wonder..."
Ning Fei didn't want to be the companion of another man so early in the morning, so she turned around and left. Although Lin's father witnessed everything, he just thought it was a sign of the two people's "good relationship" and didn't think much about it. It was not until Ning Fei was about to leave that Father Lin hurriedly said, "Teacher Ning, come over for breakfast later!"
If Luo Chenghong wasn't here, Ning Fei would really like to stay and have a bite. But Luo Chenghong was here, and Ning Fei didn't want to be bothered by him, so she waved her hand and refused: "No, I'll handle it myself."
Father Lin asked again: "Does the teacher have a medical kit at home? Can you bandage it at our house?"
Ning Fei didn't reply, but continued to refuse indifferently: "No need."
Luo Chenghong interrupted from behind: "Then how are you going to school? Has your bicycle been taken to the police station by a police car and not returned to you yet? Can I take you there?"
"Thank you for the invitation, but it's not necessary." Ning Fei unlocked the Lin family's door, turned his head and glanced at him, pointing at the hideous wound on his face, "I can't stand the strong wind now, so I can't ride on your cavalry. I'd better take a taxi."
After saying that, Ning Fei decisively opened the door and went back. Father Lin looked at the door slamming shut and said in surprise, "Teacher Ning is so badly injured? He can't even handle the wind, so he still goes to school, right?"
"Don't worry, he's fine." Luo Chenghong leaned back on the sofa, lowered his eyes, and didn't know what he was laughing at. "He's fine... He was just joking with me."
***
Ning Fei at least put on a bandage before going to school to work.
Although he himself didn't care, leaving the wound exposed would probably cause a lot of trouble, so Ning Fei bandaged it neatly. But even so, the "no glasses + battle-damaged" version of Ning Fei still attracted a lot of attention. The teachers and students asked him all kinds of questions, but Ning Fei didn't want to waste time telling them stories, so he just said briefly that he had encountered some accidents.
With Ning Fei "attracting fire", Lin Shengjia, who only had a Band-Aid on the corner of his mouth, was ignored by many people. Of course, some people asked him curiously, but Lin Shengjia just said that he accidentally fell off his bike and didn't say anything more.
Ning Fei went to work for a whole day with the injury. The slight pain from the wound while he was speaking made Ning Fei say not a word less. He even had enough time to secretly observe the movements of Ji Xingzhe's childhood friends, or more precisely, to see if any of them behaved strangely towards Lin Shengjia. However, it was impossible for Ning Fei to stay with Lin Shengjia all day, so he quietly told Lin Shengjia to pay attention to any strange movements around him.
However, Lin Shengjia was useless and didn't observe anything. He was even worse than Ning Fei. At least Ning Fei could see that Zhu Yueting had nothing to do with this matter. Her reaction to Lin Shengjia was no different from that of other students in the class.
——Assuming that Ji Xingzhe is really behind this, and Zhu Yueting, the best instigator around him, cannot be used this time, who will he turn to...
Ning Fei pondered this question and did not draw a conclusion easily.
After school in the afternoon, he walked out of the campus. He is not needed for evening study tonight, so he can go have a meal first and then catch up on his phone. It’s quite inconvenient not having a mobile phone and no landline at home.
Then, Ning Fei saw a familiar-looking person not far outside the school gate.
——The young policeman from yesterday was standing on the roadside in plain clothes, with an old gray car parked next to him.
Ning Fei walked over, and the policeman saw him and immediately waved his hand. Ning Fei smiled and walked over while taking out a cigarette from his pocket: "It's okay, I understand. Want one?"
"No, I'm still working." Seeing Ning Fei's calm expression, the young policeman relaxed, "Off duty?"
"Yeah. I don't have to go to work tonight, I'll go straight home." Ning Fei himself didn't want to smoke in front of the students, so he put away the cigarette, "By the way, comrade, my bicycle..."
"At the police station. I forgot to bring it to you when I came out." The young policeman replied, "It's just across the street from your home. Go directly to the police station to get it when you have time."
"Okay." Ning Fei nodded, glanced at the dark car window next to him, and asked in a low voice, "What are you doing...?"
"Let's take the one who received the money to the school gate and try our luck." The young policeman raised his chin and gestured, "Just like what you said, they admitted that someone paid them to beat up that little classmate. But they didn't know the man's name or what grade or class he was in, they just said he should be from this school. So let him sit in the car and watch the students coming out of the school gate to see if he can recognize him."
"Did the students really instigate it? Lin Shengjia is just an ordinary student who did nothing wrong, so why is he still being bullied like this? This is too much! Before, he was falsely accused of cheating, and now it has escalated to being beaten..." Ning Fei frowned and said something that was very suitable for a teacher. "The end of the semester is coming soon. If I hadn't happened to pass by, wouldn't Lin Shengjia have been beaten and injured, causing him to miss the exam?"
The young policeman seemed to have heard something behind the words and asked, "Student Lin has been falsely accused? Who did it?"
Ning Fei knew who it was, but theoretically he shouldn't have known it, and it was most likely not Zhu Yueting who did it this time. So Ning Fei’s answer was: “I’m not sure, the school kept it a secret from me. You can ask the school.”
The young policeman nodded and asked, "Then do you know that Lin has conflicts with those classmates?"
Ning Fei could indeed give a list of suspicious persons, but he couldn't say why he was suspicious. He could only say: "I talked to your colleague yesterday. I'm not sure who Lin Shengjia has a conflict with. He doesn't interact much with his classmates and is quite quiet."
The young policeman sighed, "He himself said he couldn't think of who it could be... Never mind, let's check it out. There's always a way."
Ning Fei nodded: "Then I won't interfere with your work. Have you had dinner? How about I pack some lunch boxes for you?"
"No, we'll handle it ourselves later." The young policeman declined, then remembered something, "By the way, the injuries have been assessed, and you and classmate Lin are both fine. There was one person in the group who was slightly injured. You stabbed him hard in the stomach, and he was in so much pain that he almost couldn't get out of bed. He even threatened to sue you!"
The "minor injuries" in the injury assessment are not just some broken skin and bleeding as most people imagine. Sometimes a person gets a big, deep cut on his body and bleeds a lot, but after medical examination it is still considered a “minor injury”. Although Ning Fei was ruthless when he fought, he actually knew what was going on.
"Sue me if you have the guts. Why would I be afraid of such a scoundrel? I'm trying to protect my students. I haven't even asked them to compensate for my cell phone, my glasses, or my medical expenses." Ning Fei chuckled. "I was hoping that after you guys get to the bottom of it, I'd apply for a 'hero award.'"
"We will investigate as soon as possible and tell you the result. I don't think they will necessarily sue you, but they may retaliate. You should be more careful when going to and from get off work in the future." The young policeman said, "You can go to eat. By the way, remember to keep the medical bills. If you really want to sue in the future, you will need them."
"Got it. Thank you." Ning Fei smiled, and as he turned to leave, he casually said, "Ah, students who can pay for help must have wealthy families. Why don't you take a look at those students who get on the bus right after leaving school?"
"Well, we'll keep an eye on it."
After the young policeman agreed, Ning Fei said nothing more and walked away. To buy a mobile phone, one has to go to the city center. Ning Fei plans to walk to a street with more taxis, hail a taxi, buy the phone, and have dinner at the same time.
However, before he took a few steps, he heard a short and loud whistle, as if deliberately attracting people's attention. Ning Fei looked in the direction of the sound and saw a black car parked quietly on the side of the road not far away across the street.
The license plate number was the one Ning Fei was most familiar with.
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