Chapter 769: Back then?
Qi Hongwei put down his chopsticks and let out a long sigh.
After a moment of silence, he finally spoke: "Yes, Cheng Lin is a senior brother who is one year older than me. We often helped Teacher Zhou together and had a pretty good relationship."
"Then why do you think Cheng Lin committed suicide?" Wu Qiuyun asked.
Back then, Cheng Lin’s death was not as sensational as Duan Wenguang’s.
Duan Wenguang jumped off the roof in front of so many students.
And Cheng Lin quietly jumped into the lake in the dark night.
So back then, not many people knew about Cheng Lin’s death.
The school didn't even give an explanation, it just contacted Cheng Lin's parents and quietly buried the matter.
Qi Hongwei looked serious, opened his lips but didn't say a word.
"Besides stealing Cheng Lin's thesis, did Zhou Hua do anything else excessive back then?" Upon seeing this, Wu Qiuyun sighed helplessly and asked.
Qi Hongwei was a little surprised when he heard this: "Teacher Wu, do you know about this?"
Wu Qiuyun looked a little embarrassed, but she still nodded calmly and said, "I know, but that's all."
Qi Hongwei looked at Wu Qiuyun without saying anything, but his expression became increasingly ugly.
"Brother, Teacher Wu and I have no other intentions. We just want to know what happened back then. Don't worry, we will never tell anyone else about our conversation today without your permission." Ji Yuanyuan asked quickly when she saw Qi Hongwei's ugly expression.
Qi Hongwei thought about it again and again, and finally spoke: "Back then, Senior Brother Cheng Lin's death was indeed related to Zhou Hua, but I only had a vague understanding at the time, and I was still under Zhou Hua's command, so I dared not say anything. Over the years, this matter has always made me feel very guilty. Senior Brother Cheng Lin was very good to me at that time..."
Ji Yuanyuan and Wu Qiuyun looked at each other, and both of them looked a little excited.
It seems that Qi Hongwei really knows something.
Moreover, he had no respect for Zhou Hua at all.
At the beginning, I still knew to address him as Teacher Zhou, but now I have started to call Zhou Hua by his name.
"Zhou Hua seems to have a good temper, but in fact he doesn't treat students as human beings at all. When we were under him, it was common for us to stay up late to work on projects. Almost all projects were completed by his students, and he basically didn't participate in the process. He would only come over when the results were out, understand the process, and then take the results for himself."
Qi Hongwei smiled bitterly, "That's fine, after all, he's the instructor and we're the students. But he often asks students to do things other than studying for him, such as cleaning his house, washing his clothes and socks. When his parents came to City B, it was the students who picked him up and dropped him off, and accompanied him to play in City B. Not only does it cost time, but it also costs money."
Wu Qiuyun frowned as she listened.
She had known Zhou Hua for such a long time and had been together for more than three years. But she didn't know that Zhou Hua was such a person.
"Zhou Hua is very good at psychological control. He always smiles when talking to you, but he always makes you feel scared. For example, I would resist occasionally, but Zhou Hua dare not go too far. But Brother Cheng Lin is honest and dare not resist, so he can only be exploited by Zhou Hua day after day."
Qi Hongwei, a grown man, actually had tears in his eyes as he spoke.
It can be seen that those days still seem like a nightmare to him today.
"Brother Cheng Lin wrote the paper by himself. Zhou Hua had no involvement from beginning to end. In fact, the paper was inconsistent with Zhou Hua's research direction at the time. Zhou Hua did not give Brother Cheng Lin any guidance from beginning to end, but I don't know what happened, and in the end this paper became Zhou Hua's masterpiece."
"Did Senior Brother Cheng Lin do anything abnormal at that time? Did he say anything to you?" Ji Yuanyuan asked anxiously.
Qi Hongwei pursed his lips, hesitated for a moment, and then nodded: "I actually saw Senior Brother Cheng Lin the night before he committed suicide. He looked so lost that he didn't even notice me when he passed by me. I called him several times before he came to his senses. He was also absent-minded when he talked to me. After he left, I stayed there and looked at him for a long time. I never thought that a few hours later, he would..."
Ji Yuanyuan frowned. So, what happened to Cheng Lin that night, and Qi Hongwei didn't know?
Qi Hongwei finished speaking and let out a long breath: "I often think that if I had been more careful that night and noticed that something was wrong with Senior Brother Cheng Lin, maybe he would not have died."
Ji Yuanyuan comforted him: "Brother Qi, don't think like that. Brother Cheng Lin's death was caused by Zhou Hua, and it has nothing to do with you. As long as we bring Zhou Hua to justice, Brother Cheng Lin's spirit in heaven will definitely feel relieved."
Ji Yuanyuan's words were full of double entendres and were full of temptations.
Qi Hongwei smiled bitterly and said, "How can we bring Zhou Hua to justice? It's been so long since the incident happened. Even if there was any evidence, it would have been destroyed long ago. What's more, I don't have any evidence at all."
After saying that, he raised his head and looked at Wu Qiuyun with a serious expression: "Teacher Wu, I know why you came to see me today, but unfortunately, I really know nothing about what happened back then. Everything is just speculation and cannot be used as evidence."
Wu Qiuyun rubbed his forehead and did not respond to Qi Hongwei's question. Instead, he asked something else: "I remember that you were also very outstanding back then. Are there no works of yours among those papers published by Zhou Hua?"
Wu Qiuyun's pointed words made Qi Hongwei stunned for a moment: "You mean..."
"Yes or no?" Wu Qiuyun asked again.
Qi Hongwei answered very quickly this time: "Yes."
Wu Qiuyun and Ji Yuanyuan looked at each other, and both of them began to get excited.
"Then do you have any evidence?" Wu Qiuyun spoke a little faster than before, showing her excitement.
Qi Hongwei nodded: "Yes, I have evidence. I have kept the evidence that he plagiarized me. Although I didn't have the courage to stand up, I was looking forward to the day when I could bring Zhou Hua to ruin."
Wu Qiuyun laughed: "That's fine."
Qi Hongwei was a little surprised: "What do you mean?"
"As long as you agree to come forward, the police will have solid evidence and can start an investigation into Zhou Hua. Cheng Lin's case may have happened a long time ago, so there is no way to find out. But Duan Wenguang's case happened only a few days ago, so there may be some clues."
(End of this chapter)
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