Chapter 169 In My Name 05 You Can’t Insult People
Chapter 5
After breakfast, the serious crime team rushed to Yancheng University.
The school archives revealed a list of students that Shi Minjie had taught over the past decade.
When he first entered the school in his early years, Shi Minjie also needed to teach undergraduate students. Later, as his professional title rose, he gradually focused on supervising master's and doctoral students.
In addition to the undergraduate classes he taught before, he now teaches a total of 37 master's and doctoral students.
Sixteen students have graduated, and among the remaining twenty-one, fourteen have masters and seven have doctorates.
Lu Changfeng took the list and went to the office of the department where these students were studying. The staff helped contact these students to come to the office to be questioned.
Shi Minjie's colleague's workstation is also in the department building. Before the students arrived, the serious crime team first visited and investigated Shi Minjie's colleagues.
Shi Minjie is very capable and is considered a good person in the department.
Lu Changfeng asked them: "What impression does Shi Minjie give you?"
“The teacher is nice, very professional and friendly.”
Everyone present echoed and approved of this statement.
"During the years he has worked at the school, has he done anything bad?"
"What exactly do you mean?" one of them asked in confusion.
"Anything is possible, such as sexually assaulting students, harassing students, and exploiting students," Lu Changfeng said in detail.
"That's impossible."
"Absolutely not."
"The teacher is not that kind of person."
"He is famous for being kind to his students. Many people are vying to be his students."
Everyone present expressed their opinions, and from their remarks, it was not difficult to see that Shi Minjie's image in their hearts was close to perfect.
Lu Changfeng asked: "During the nearly 20 years he has been in the industry, have there been any major incidents?"
Lu Changfeng reminded everyone: "This is very important to us. I hope you can seriously help us think about whether there have been any abnormalities in the past few years."
Everyone thought about it for a long time and shook their heads.
"Please think about this carefully."
After a while, someone said, "I remember something."
Everyone looked at him.
The professor said: "That was several years ago. I remember that one of my female students dropped out of school."
"Drop out of school?"
This aroused the vigilance of the serious crime team.
Yue Fanglin asked: "Do you know why you dropped out of school?"
"I don't know the specific reason, but I remember that girl was quite outstanding. I think it's a pity that she dropped out of school. What was her name?"
Another person said, "You are talking about Wen Ting, right?"
The professor immediately said, "Yes, that's right, it's Wen Ting."
"I have some impression of that girl. She was the teacher's assistant. At that time, the teacher had two assistants, but she was closer to the teacher and they often appeared together. But at that time, the teacher was not as famous as he is now, and I had a lot of things to do, so I didn't pay much attention to their affairs."
Although dropping out of doctoral school is not very common, it is not a particularly rare thing either. Doctoral students are under great pressure to balance their studies and experiments. Some of them cannot bear it and will naturally drop out, delay graduation, or take a year off.
These professors all have their own fields. Although they are in the same department, they also have their own students. They are not like junior high school and high school teachers who can get together outside of class on weekdays. It is normal for everyone to be familiar with each other but not know each other very well. It is not easy to remember each other's assistants.
In other schools, there may be some people who are particularly outstanding and easy to remember, but here, everyone is a genius. Unless they are a genius among geniuses, it is difficult to remember them.
Lu Changfeng flipped through the list he got from the archives. Wen Ting was a master's student in 2017 and a doctoral student in 2020. She had the same supervisor for both her master's and doctoral studies, Shi Minjie.
Wen Ting’s file states that she dropped out in 2021.
It's already 2025, and it's been 4 years since I dropped out of school. It's normal that everyone can't remember it.
But fortunately, her fellow master's students and the master's and doctoral students who enrolled later are still in school. Students under the same tutor should always have a certain understanding of each other.
The first person to report to the office happened to be the one who enrolled a year earlier than Wen Ting. Nominally, he was Wen Ting's senior, but now he stayed at the school to teach and also served as Shi Minjie's assistant.
This man's name is Wang Hongyu and he looks gentle.
"What do you want from me?"
Lu Changfeng said: "Your teacher passed away, did you know?"
Wang Hongyu nodded: "I already know. My master's wife contacted me last night."
"You should be the person who knows your teacher best besides his wife."
“Yes.” Wang Hongyu said with some sorrow: “I studied for my master’s and doctoral degrees with my teacher. He taught me wholeheartedly, wrote recommendation letters for me during internships, and recommended me for a teaching assistant position at the school. He also helped me a lot in life. I can say that I regard him as half a father.”
Lu Changfeng's eyes lit up, "Then do you remember Wen Ting?"
"Of course, Wen Ting is my junior sister. She entered school a year later than me. She is very talented and the teacher has always liked her. If she hadn't dropped out, I wouldn't have become the teacher's assistant. This was originally her position."
"Do you know why she dropped out of school?"
Wang Hongyu's eyes dodged for a moment, then he quickly returned to normal and said, "I dropped out because of too much pressure."
This subtle look still caught the attention of several people in the serious crime squad.
"Is it just because of the pressure?" Yue Fanglin questioned.
Wang Hongyu said: "The main reason is stress. Secondly, my junior sister is a bit depressed. Her condition is no longer suitable for continuing to study with the teacher. At that time, the teacher wanted her to take a year off to adjust her condition and then continue her studies. But my junior sister was determined to leave, and it was useless for me and the teacher to keep her."
After learning that Wen Ting had dropped out of school, Zhou Yu had already begun investigating Wen Ting's current situation, and what he found out now surprised him.
He sent the results of the investigation to the group.
Wen Ting committed suicide at home at the end of December 2021.
Lu Changfeng immediately asked Wang Hongyu: "Did you know that Wen Ting committed suicide?"
"What?" Wang Hongyu was very shocked. "Why would he commit suicide?"
Then he said with a sad face: "The teacher is gone, and the junior sister is gone too..."
"After Wen Ting dropped out of school, did you guys still keep in touch?"
Wang Hongyu nodded: "I did contact her, but we didn't keep in touch much afterwards. I went to see her during the National Day holiday when she just dropped out of school."
"What do you want to do with her?"
Wang Hongyu said: "It can't be said that I went to look for her on purpose. There happened to be a university exchange activity at that time, and I went to participate in the school's exchange activity. The university was in the city next to her home. I happened to be free, and she was at home, so I went to look for her."
"How was she doing?"
Wang Hongyu sighed, "Not very well. She and her grandmother depended on each other for survival. Her parents died very early, and her grandmother also died when she was a graduate student, leaving behind an old house. I feel that her depression is also related to her grandmother's death. After all, they were close relatives who depended on each other for survival."
This speculation is not without reason.
Lu Changfeng asked: "What did you talk about?"
"It's nothing. I treated her to a meal. She was feeling a little down, so we went for a walk on the beach together. I told her to contact me and the teacher if she needed anything. We, the brothers and sisters, are willing to help her and will definitely help her through this difficult time."
"Why didn't you even know about her death?" If you care so much about someone, you shouldn't be completely ignorant of her.
"She changed her contact information and didn't reply to our WeChat messages. It's not that we didn't want to contact her, but she took the initiative to cut off our contact. However, she suffers from depression, so it's reasonable for her to do so. We are also very busy with our studies and work, so we gradually put her aside and focused on improving ourselves."
Lu Changfeng felt that his explanation was reasonable.
But from their conversation, it is not difficult to judge that there is something secretive about it.
Lu Changfeng: "What kind of person is your mentor in your eyes?"
Wang Hongyu pondered for a moment and said, "He is a very powerful scientific research leader and academic master. He is very dedicated to his students. Many of his students are very talented and have made significant breakthroughs in their respective fields. Some of them have even been promoted to professors. Some have joined top scientific research teams and achieved significant results in their research."
"You have been with your teacher for eight years."
Wang Hongyu calculated and said, "It's almost nine years. It will be nine years in September this year."
"Then you should know your master very well." Lu Changfeng asked without waiting for Wang Hongyu to answer, "Has your teacher ever done anything bad during his career?"
"I don't understand what bad things you mean?"
Lu Changfeng said: "All the things you think are bad, especially things related to academics, and things that affect teacher ethics."
Wang Hongyu thought about it carefully and shook his head and said no.
"Are you sure you don't?"
Lu Changfeng reminded him: "Think carefully before you answer. We have a record of everything you say now. If we find out something in the future and discover that you deliberately concealed it, you will be held legally responsible."
"I am willing to take responsibility for what I said. My teacher has good conduct and would never do anything that violates teacher ethics. He treats each of our studies very seriously, carefully and fairly. He is even more rigorous in his own research and does not allow any mistakes."
Wang Hongyu paused and said, "Of course, everyone has bad habits, but bad habits don't necessarily mean they are bad things."
Lu Changfeng asked again: "Did Wen Ting have any abnormalities before she dropped out of school?"
Wang Hongyu said: "Yes, her mood swings and her concentration is poor, but she has depression, so it is normal for her to have this kind of situation."
"Is there something going on between her and Shi Minjie?"
"Your unfounded speculation is an insult to the people's teachers." Wang Hongyu was angered by Lu Changfeng's question. "Does a male teacher and a female student have to have an improper relationship? The teacher and his wife are very loving. You are too disrespectful. My teacher just left, and you come to the school to ask questions. I can cooperate with your investigation, but you can't insult people."
Lu Changfeng immediately explained: "I have no ill intentions, it's just a routine inquiry, I hope you can understand. Of course, I can also understand that you are in a bad mood at this juncture and will be more sensitive. We do all this to find out the doubts in the case. We have no intention of insulting your teacher or ruining his reputation."
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