"We're sorry, we really want to help, but... we really don't remember. It was only the second semester of first grade, and the child had only been in school for less than a year. We would keep an eye on things, but... most children have conflicts, they argue today and are fine tomorrow. We really don't know."
Principal Liu said with difficulty, "I've only been here for a year, and I don't know the specifics."
The key point is that he has only been working for a year and this has happened. If he doesn't handle it well, won't it leave a mark on his file?
It's fine to make a note in the file, but this is truly a case of being wronged.
Principal Liu asked in a low voice, "I know this group of teachers quite well. Some of them came after Li Xiao disappeared, so they definitely have nothing to do with him. However, when I came, I went through the files and found that some teachers had left before I came, or had been transferred to other schools. We can check those as well."
The police officer said, "We've already looked for those, but are you sure you haven't missed any?"
Those people didn't seem like suspects at all.
Su Si'an's mind raced. "Um... Teacher Ma has retired. She retired from the first grade. She was also Li Xiao's teacher. Have you asked her about it?"
Professor Ma?
Principal Liu actually saw this file record.
"No, the retired teacher's file hasn't been retrieved yet."
The police officers quickly asked, "Do you know where Teacher Ma lives? We'll go there right now."
“Teacher Ma has moved away, but we know her phone number. We call her every year. We like her very much.”
Su Si'an immediately recited a series of phone numbers.
This phone call gave the police a clue.
Teacher Ma: "You mean Li Xiao? I remember him. That was my last year teaching. He hadn't even graduated yet when he went missing. I inquired about him afterward, and it seems he hasn't been found. What happened? Did they find him?"
"We found it, but we found the child's body."
After the police explained the situation, Teacher Ma sighed.
"How could this happen? And it's right here at school. But that doesn't make sense. A corpse would smell, and that can't be covered up."
"The body was buried next to the cesspool."
In the past, toilets were all dry toilets, which were inherently smelly. People would go in and come out immediately, not staying for long, and the smell was hard to detect when mixed in with the rest of the toilet.
The flavor will eventually dissipate after a while.
"What a tragedy," Teacher Ma lamented.
"Teacher Ma, we would like to ask if you remember what happened to Li Xiao during that period? Did Li Xiao have any arguments with anyone?"
Because Zhang Chunfang was too domineering, Li Xiao was actually the kind of quiet, introverted, and honest kid who usually stayed quietly by himself and really didn't like to cause trouble.
Because he was too introverted, he received too much of her attention.
But when it comes to arguments—
“I remember that before she disappeared, she had an argument with a boy named Lei who was older than her. At school, Li Xiao was pinned to the ground and beaten by that boy. I was the one who pulled the boy up and resolved the situation.”
Thinking about this, Teacher Ma felt it was unlikely.
"Probably not, that child is only in elementary school."
"That's also a clue, Teacher Ma. Do you remember anything else?"
"No, it's been too long. I only have a very strong impression of this, so I still remember it."
Teacher Ma didn't go into details, but mainly because Lei's eyes were really scary at the time, which is why she remembered it for a long time.
If it's true—
This Lei student is quite frightening.
Teacher Ma provided a clue, but he didn't remember the Lei child's exact name. He only remembered that her parents had died and she was taken in by her grandmother. She went from being a chubby child to becoming extremely thin.
If it weren't mentioned, people probably wouldn't have remembered it.
This brings back long-forgotten memories.
That was the first year that Lin Wei and her brother had come to Lin Xiaomeng's house, and it was also the first time they had spent the Lunar New Year at the Lin family home.
There was a family surnamed Lei, the man named Lei Wenjun and the woman named Xiao Hongyan. In their attempt to avoid receiving a one-yuan New Year's red envelope, they made quite a few laughs.
Later, because Xiao Hongyan gave the money to her younger brother from her maternal family, or something like that, the family fell apart.
They initially wanted to leave the two kids in her care, so it's hard for her not to remember them.
But those two children—
If one experiences significant changes, it is not impossible for such changes to affect one's temperament.
It's probably impossible to target an innocent and honest child.
Unless there's some other hidden story behind this.
Sure enough, when the Lei family's children were mentioned, Zhang Chunfang seemed to have touched a nerve, looking in their direction with disbelief.
"Aunt Chun, what's wrong? Did you remember something?"
"You just said that he is a child of the Lei family?" Zhang Chunfang asked in a trembling voice.
"Teacher Ma provided a clue. The two had a dispute at school at that time. But the other person was so young, so let's check first. Maybe it's a mistake."
Zhang Chunfang shook her head frantically, "No, no, it must be him. It's all my fault, it's all my fault."
The police officers, sensing something amiss, immediately pressed for answers.
Only then did Zhang Chunfang reveal the truth: when Lei Wenjun's parents had just passed away, she wanted to take over the house and said some rather unpleasant things.
After the factory took back the house, she saw the Lei family's child on the street and even chased after him and cursed at him.
Then came the incident of Lei's child hitting her child.
It caused quite a stir at the time, and she even went to school.
However, as soon as they arrived at school, the child's parents slapped him without asking why.
That kind of attitude was clearly aimed at killing the child.
At that time, the Lei family children didn't do anything to them.
Even after her child went missing, she never suspected the Lei family's child.
But now that I think about it more carefully, I realize that his grandmother was after his life.
If pushed too far, what might they do?
It's not that it's impossible to make.
Zhang Chunfang's legs went weak, and she collapsed to the ground.
“It’s all my fault, it’s all my fault. I just wanted to move to a different house and get him to agree. I didn’t mean it this way. I didn’t know she was living that kind of life. I’m the one who ruined Xiao Xiao. It’s all my fault, it’s all my fault.”
Zhang Chunfang became more and more agitated as she spoke, raising her hand and slapping herself repeatedly across the face.
Zhang Min and Lin Xiaomeng genuinely tried to stop it.
"We haven't caught this person yet. Let's wait until the police catch him before we talk about it. What if they've made a mistake?"
Unfortunately—
There was no mistake.
When the police found Lei Wenjun's son, Lei Wenting, he confessed without hesitation.
Not only Li Xiao, but even the disappearance of his own cousin was his doing.
Even the remains were buried in another corner of the school.
That is, the area that has been planned for a while, but hasn't been excavated yet.
Of course, it's also near the toilet.
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