Seeing that her mother was about to lose her temper, Chen Xuelan quickly grabbed her hand: "Mom! Don't argue with them..."
Chen Xuelan's mother turned her head and glanced at her, then said coldly, "Hmph."
After waiting for more than ten minutes, the staff member who went to open the warehouse to retrieve the rolls returned with a gloomy face and sat down in the original position.
The last member of the investigation team, sitting in the office waiting, looked at their empty hands and asked with some confusion, "Where are the exam papers?"
The team leader said with a grim expression, "They're gone."
"What?!" The members of the investigation team who hadn't gone looked at him in astonishment.
The group leader sat down, sighed, and looked at everyone, saying, "The exam papers are missing. Both of yours are missing."
Upon hearing this, the expressions of the people present varied.
Yuan Mengge chuckled softly. He Qingfeng and Hu Guangyao, the brother and sister, were both stunned for a moment, then looked at the head of the investigation team with disbelief.
Chen Xuelan also looked surprised, while her mother's expression was much calmer.
He even glanced at Yuan Mengge and her group with a hint of mockery.
Yuan Mengge chuckled and said, "So that means the scores were indeed tampered with, and then someone destroyed the evidence and destroyed the exam papers, right?"
As she spoke, she turned to look at Chen Xuelan's mother.
Chen Xuelan's mother shrugged and said casually, "Now that there's no evidence, what else is there for her to say?"
Seeing that she looked relaxed and waiting to make a fool of herself, Yuan Mengge withdrew her gaze expressionlessly.
She remained calm, as she had anticipated this situation.
However, He Qingfeng and the others became excited.
"Bang! It must be you, right? You're the director here, it's so easy for you to do whatever you want!" He Qingfeng immediately slammed his hand on the table, stood up, and pointed at Chen's mother, cursing.
Chen's mother wanted to see them furious, and seeing He Qingfeng's reaction, she smiled gleefully and said, "Did you see me tamper with it? Do you have any proof?"
Yuan Mengge looked at He Qingfeng and said, "Teacher, don't get agitated. Since the test papers are missing, it means that both of our scores are invalid."
As she spoke, she glanced at Chen Xuelan and her daughter.
This was a reminder to them that if the scores were invalidated, their daughter would also fail to get into high school.
Sure enough, upon hearing her words, Chen's mother's face stiffened.
Then a cold glint flashed in her eyes as she stared at Yuan Mengge.
It feels like they've given up entirely.
Even if her daughter's grades are invalidated, she can't let the other party find evidence of this.
After hearing Yuan Mengge's words, the head of the investigation team pondered for two seconds before saying, "Well, if the exam paper disappears, it's highly likely that it was forged, so it can only be invalidated."
Upon hearing that the results would be invalidated, He Qingfeng said anxiously, "How can this be? Wouldn't that mean they have to wait another year to take the exam? Wouldn't that waste a whole year? How can you do this? Can't we give them another chance and let them retake the exam now?"
The investigation team stated, "Since the time for releasing the results has passed, there is no longer a retake option."
Yuan Mengge said, "But I remember that under special circumstances, there is an opportunity to retake the exam, right? And my grades were changed, and now my exam paper has been deliberately destroyed. This is a mistake by your Education Bureau, which is why my exam paper disappeared. I am the victim, am I not allowed to protect my own rights?"
With her words, she shifted all the responsibility to the Education Bureau.
In this case, the education bureau would be at fault, and she could then demand compensation from them.
“If you don’t give me a make-up exam, I will sue your provincial education department and county education bureau in court,” Yuan Mengge said calmly to the members of the investigation team.
Upon hearing that she dared to sue the provincial education department and the county education bureau in court, the three members of the investigation team were taken aback.
Chen Xuelan's mother, standing nearby, gave a disdainful laugh.
"Huh? Sue the education bureau? I don't know what you're thinking."
In her view, it was simply wishful thinking for Yuan Mengge, a rural girl in her teens with no background or power, to want to sue a state-owned enterprise.
Little did she know that while such a thing might seem like a pipe dream in this era, it was actually quite common in the 21st century.
And although it is rare in this era, it is not impossible to do.
Upon hearing her words, the three members of the investigation team were initially stunned in disbelief, then exchanged glances.
The team leader suddenly said, "Wait a moment!"
As he spoke, he stood up and beckoned to the two people next to him.
The three of them immediately left the office and found a secluded spot outside to begin their discussion.
Although they thought Yuan Mengge's claim of suing the Education Bureau was a bit far-fetched, they couldn't shirk the responsibility she had for the mistake in storing the exam papers.
Moreover, the news agency has already received this information. If the news of students' exam papers disappearing from the exam paper archive is exposed again, then the entire Education Department will be implicated.
In short, if the investigation team doesn't handle this matter well, the consequences will definitely be severe.
In that case, their jobs would probably be in jeopardy.
While the investigation team was discussing countermeasures outside, He Qingfeng suddenly asked Yuan Mengge in the office, "Did you plan to do this all along? How did you know they would definitely destroy the exam papers?"
No wonder she was so calm; she had planned this all along.
Yuan Mengge looked at Chen Xuelan and her daughter, answering He Qingfeng's question as she spoke:
"There is a common criminal mentality called a guilty conscience. People with this mentality are afraid that their crimes will be exposed, so I used the method of reporting and releasing news to force the education department to send people down to investigate."
If superiors send people down to investigate, the criminal will definitely be afraid. The best way is to destroy the evidence so that the investigation team can't find it.
But the prisoner overlooked one crucial point: she didn't know I would shift all the blame to the education bureau so I could get a chance to retake the exam.
At this point, she looked at Chen Xuelan and her daughter and said with a smile, "The papers for this makeup exam will be graded and scored on the spot, and there will be public proctoring. With so many eyes watching, you shouldn't be able to tamper with them anymore, right?"
Upon hearing her words, Chen Xuelan's mother's face darkened, and her hands clenched into fists as she lost control of her emotions.
Hu Guangyao looked at Yuan Mengge with suspicion and asked, "But how can you be so sure they'll give you a chance to retake the exam? You're not really going to sue the Education Bureau, are you???"
Yuan Mengge nodded: "Of course, if they don't let me retake the exam, I can just repeat a year. But I have plenty of time to slowly wear them down. Anyway, I can take on their entire unit by myself. If I lose, it won't have much of an impact. But if I win, a lot of people will be in trouble. Since I can't get better by myself, I have to drag some people down with me."
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