Chapter 30: Teenager's Lament 08: Poisoning
Chapter 8
“Youth school violence has always existed, and schools have always taken this issue very seriously.”
Lu Changfeng signaled to Jing Jue that he could start. Jing Jue put down the recorder and began to take notes.
The principal poured them some tea, "Two officers, please have some water."
"Thank you." Lu Changfeng thanked him politely, looked around, and asked, "How long has Principal Li worked in this school?"
The principal replied, "One year. I wonder what the police officers want to know?"
Lu Changfeng asked: "How many teachers are there in this school?"
"Eighteen."
“Are there any of these teachers who have worked here for three to five years?”
The principal has only been here for a year, so he may not be clear about what happened a few years ago.
Principal Li shook his head. "The teachers and leaders in the school are all new."
"All?" Lu Changfeng and Jing Jue looked at each other, somewhat surprised.
Principal Li didn't understand why they reacted so strongly, "Yes, they are all new here."
"Where is the previous teacher?" Lu Changfeng asked.
Principal Li was confused about the situation, but he still answered Lu Changfeng's question seriously, "Generally speaking, according to the regulations of our teaching industry, teachers are either transferred to other towns or moved to the county or city. This is normal. Teachers also have families. Nowadays, very few young teachers can take root in villages and towns."
"It's not necessary to transfer all the teachers in the school. No one is familiar with the situation in this school. Everything has to start from scratch. It will be very difficult to manage the students in the school." By analogy, it is equivalent to all the teachers in the police station in the whole town being transferred. This is obviously not the normal logic of transfer.
Even if everyone needs to be transferred, they should be transferred in batches.
Principal Li pushed his glasses again and said to Lu Changfeng, "I don't know about this. I was transferred here. If you have any questions about the staff changes in the school, you may go to the County Education Bureau to ask."
He is just a worker who obeys the arrangements of his superiors. If you ask him this, he doesn't know the answer.
Lu Changfeng felt more and more that this was abnormal.
And if all the teachers have been transferred, then the classes they are teaching at the time must have students who are going to enter the third year of junior high school. In principle, these teachers should not be transferred in large numbers, as this will affect the children's condition, and the new teachers may not necessarily adapt to the teaching rhythm of the original teachers.
No matter how you look at it, this kind of large-scale transfer is abnormal.
Lu Changfeng: "Can you show us some of the school's meeting records, student disciplinary records, teacher work reports, etc.?"
"Okay." The principal said to them, "Please sit down for a moment. I will go to the archives room to get it for you."
After Principal Li left, Lu Changfeng took out his cell phone and sent a message to Yue Fanglin.
[All the teachers and school leaders in Bailong Town have been replaced. They were replaced last year, which was after the five deceased graduated. You should ask Wang Qi and others to find out the reasons why all these teachers were replaced. You should also find out their whereabouts and contact information. ]
Not long after, Yue Fanglin replied: [Received. The autopsy report will be out this afternoon. I will let you know when it comes out. Are you coming back today? ]
Lu Changfeng: [No, I plan to stay in the town tonight and ask the surrounding residents about the situation. ]
Yue Fanglin's ex-wife worked at the Education Bureau. She was keenly aware that the matter might be more serious than they thought, and reminded Lu Changfeng: [Be sure to pay attention to safety during the visit and investigation. Ask your local police station colleagues to go with you. Do not act alone. If you find something wrong, leave immediately and keep in touch at all times. ]
Lu Changfeng actually already had a guess in his mind, and replied: [I will be careful. ]
He turned off his cell phone just as Principal Li came back.
Principal Li gave them a stack of information.
Lu Changfeng and Jing Jue reviewed the materials together. The contents were relatively normal and the school had not reprimanded or punished any students.
There was no mention of the five deaths in the campus criticism bulletin.
When I finished the film and walked out of the school, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.
The comrades who brought them here asked them if they wanted to go back.
Lu Changfeng said: "I won't go back tonight, I will go back tomorrow. I still have some things to check, so I want to visit and investigate around."
Director Yuan immediately offered to help them arrange accommodation for tonight.
Lu Changfeng walked side by side with Director Yuan and asked him, "Director Yuan should have been in this town for many years."
"Of course." Yuan answered truthfully: "It's been more than ten years. I started as a police officer and rose to the position of director step by step."
Lu Changfeng complimented: "Director Yuan's spirit of being able to take root in the countryside is worth learning."
“No, no.”
Lu Changfeng changed the subject and said, "Yuan Suo should know everything about the town."
"You've come to the right person to ask me about the town." Yuan Suo said confidently, "I know everyone in this town. I can accurately tell their names, where they live, how many people are in their family, and what they do."
"Great." Lu Changfeng said with great admiration: "Does Yuan Suo know why all the teachers at Bailong Middle School were replaced in 23 years?"
Yuan shook his head and said he didn't know. "I really don't know about this. You should ask the Education Bureau. I am just a small director in a town. The transfer of teachers is not my responsibility."
Director Yuan smiled awkwardly.
Lu Changfeng felt that there was nothing wrong with what he said, "Won't the child's parents make a fuss? What if the teacher is changed temporarily in the third year of junior high school and it affects the child's entrance exam to high school?"
Yuan Suo waved his hand and said, "All children here receive compulsory education. We don't care about changing teachers. As long as the school is there and there are books to read, that's fine."
"..." Lu Changfeng fell silent.
“Don’t parents care about this issue at all?”
Yuan said: "Those who really care will find ways to send their children to the county or city to study. Most of those who stay here to study are just trying to get a diploma so that they won't be illiterate in the future. If they can pass the high school entrance exam, they will go to school. If they can't pass the exam, they will go out to work."
Ultimately, it's their personal choice.
"Tang Wenxuan and Ma Shanping often play together. Have they really never caused any trouble in the town?" Lu Changfeng and Yuan Suo briefly analyzed the pros and cons of the matter. "Yuan Suo, this matter is much more serious than you can imagine. There are more than five students in our town. If I remember correctly, there are more than a hundred students who have gone to high school. These children may be the hope of the town in the future. Now five of them have been killed. If you know about it but don't report it, the murderer will kill more people. That will have a bad impact, don't you think?"
Lu Changfeng lowered his voice, walked closer to Yuan Suo, and whispered to him. "Five students died in such a remote place. We came directly from Yancheng to investigate the case. I think it goes without saying how much attention the superiors pay to this case. What you have to do is to provide all suspicious information, assist us in solving the case as soon as possible, and publicize the results of the investigation. Otherwise, if such a big case is left here, the leaders will think of this murder case every time they think of your town, and they will associate your town with being unsafe, which will affect the reputation of the town. If there are any good development opportunities in the future, other towns may be given priority. We can only pick what others have left, and our development will stagnate. Without the support from above, investors will not dare to increase their investment here. Then all the investment you have worked so hard to attract in the early stage and all the preparations you have made will be wasted."
After Lu Changfeng finished speaking, Yuan Suo was silent for a long time and sighed heavily. "Alas, I understand what you said, but I really don't know who Tang Wenxuan and the other four offended and were killed. Maybe their family offended someone. How about this, I will take you with me and ask around in the town. As far as I know, there is no one. If everyone says no, then there is no one."
"That's exactly what I meant."
Lu Changfeng was not in a position to reveal the case to Yuan as to whether the murderer was targeting the deceased or because the deceased's family had done something wrong.
The judge believes that every wrong has its perpetrator and every debt has its creditor. He will definitely not retaliate against the children because their parents did something bad. It can only be that these children have done evil and their parents are at most accomplices.
After just a round of investigation in the town, Lu Changfeng and his team found nothing. Whether adults or children, they all said the same thing: they didn't know, had never heard of it, and had never seen it.
Seeing that he couldn't get to the bottom of the matter, Lu Changfeng stopped visiting and went back to the police station with Yuan Suo.
Lu Changfeng also got the shopping invoice issued by Lao Ji. He kept it carefully and had dinner with the people in the institute.
The small town deep in the mountains was very quiet at night, with almost no sound of cars and only the occasional barking of dogs.
Lu Changfeng and Jing Jue lived in the same room. Yuan Suo brought them a pot of hot water and two cups, fearing that they would not be able to find anyone to drink hot water in the evening.
The autopsy report came out, and all five people died suddenly from arrhythmia caused by scopolamine poisoning.
And there are datura flowers on the mountains here.
It continued the judge's usual style - poisoning.
The poisons used are also adapted to local conditions.
Pengcheng grows oleander as an ornamental flower, while Lang County has a rich variety of plants and a large number of datura on the mountains.
In addition, the autopsy revealed that several of the deceased had eaten chocolate before death. The juice squeezed from the fruit of the datura plant is bitter, which can just cover up the bitter taste.
After ending the call with Yue Fanglin, Lu Changfeng synchronized the information he knew to Jing Jue.
Lu Changfeng walked to the bed and looked at the small town which was already silent at only 9:30 in the evening. There was no light in the sky, only the lights of the houses in the town in front of him.
He said to Jing Jue, "It's so dark outside."
Jing Jue came to him and closed the window. "The sun has set, so of course it's dark. It won't be dark when the sun rises tomorrow."
"You haven't relaxed your brows for the past two days." Jing Jue pulled Lu Changfeng to the bedside, "Lie down and I'll give you a massage. Your waist must be hurting again today."
Lu Changfeng climbed onto the bed, Jing Jue sat beside him, helped him massage his waist, took out a towel and filled it with hot water, soaked the towel in hot water, wrung out most of the hot water while it was still hot, and covered Lu Changfeng's waist, "Although I still don't know what the people in the town are hiding, if we follow up on the collective replacement of teachers, we will definitely find something."
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