Chapter 61
The mist had not yet dissipated, and the leaves of the sycamore trees rustled in the morning breeze.
Mu Qingxuan walked into Capital University along the blue brick road and saw from afar that the newsstand was packed with people.
The students stood on tiptoe, stretched their necks, and their chattering exploded like boiling water.
Several girls with pigtails were clutching the edges of newspapers, their knuckles turning white.
The boys in blue shirts gathered together, clenching their fists.
Mu Qingxuan frowned. She suffered a loss last time because she didn't pay attention to the newspaper and was caught off guard by Zhou Liyue. Now she paid special attention to the information in the newspaper.
As soon as I saw the students' expressions and reactions, I knew something big had happened again.
She was startled and strode forward to buy a newspaper.
The moment the newspaper with the ink still wet was unfolded, the eye-catching headline caught my eye.
——"Shocking secrets! Zhou Group secretly buys and sells underage girls."
In the accompanying picture, a slender figure curled up can be vaguely seen behind the rusty iron railings in the dim warehouse.
Even in black and white photos, you can clearly see the bulging bellies of many people.
And deep red bloodstains on the dark tiles.
"Damn Zhou family!"
A girl wearing glasses stomped her feet in anger, her eyes red.
She spat on the ground and cursed fiercely: "On weekdays, he is dressed in a suit and looks like a decent person, but behind the scenes, he is actually a man-eating wolf! How is he different from the human traffickers in the old society?"
Another girl next to her threw the newspaper to the ground and ran over it with her leather shoes, her Adam's apple rolling up and down as she roared, "It would be too easy for them to be shot! Those Zhou family beasts should be thrown into a pig cage and let them have a taste of what it's like to be imprisoned!"
"When I think about the Zhou family hypocritically coming to the school to donate money some time ago, I feel sick. Who knows where the money came from?"
A loud voice suddenly emerged from the crowd. It was a boy with a buzz cut. He was so angry that veins popped out on his neck.
"You are using dirty money to flatter yourself! Ugh!"
As soon as he finished speaking, there were sounds of contempt all around.
"It suddenly occurred to me that the female doctor who framed Teacher Mu last time seemed to be named Zhou Liyue. Is she the daughter of the Zhou family?"
"She is the only daughter of the Zhou family. I heard that she studied abroad. I was impressed by how rich the Zhou family is, but I didn't expect that this is how all the money came from."
"Don't the Zhou family feel guilty about using the money earned from the life of an innocent girl?"
"The entire Zhou family should be taken out and shot! They are the scum of society!"
Everyone gnashed their teeth, and suddenly, a weak question came from the crowd:
"Then Professor Zhou Su'an..."
The students suddenly came to their senses and realized that Zhou Su'an also had the surname Zhou and had a close relationship with the Zhou family.
Maybe Zhou Su'an was also secretly involved in this unscrupulous act.
Many students who had listened to Zhou Su'an's lectures looked at each other and were immediately horrified.
"I've always felt that Professor Zhou sometimes looked at me in a strange way. This is the reason."
"When I first enrolled last year, Professor Zhou often asked me to go to his office alone after class. Fortunately, I didn't go..."
"This is too scary. Can you please call the police and have him arrested? I get goose bumps when I think about the fact that I once attended his class."
Amid the discussions, Mu Qingxuan's fingers were tightly clenched around the newspaper, her nails almost piercing the paper.
Every word in the newspaper was like a hammer, hitting her heart.
Chang Yingying's pale face appeared in front of her eyes.
It turns out that Chang Yingying had experienced such darkness before.
No wonder even after being brought back to the Huo family for so long, Chang Yingying still always locked herself in the room and almost never contacted outsiders except Mu Qingxuan.
Sometimes, even when Mu Qingxuan inevitably touched her skin while giving her acupuncture treatment, Chang Yingying's body trembled uncontrollably.
When Mu Qingxuan thought of this, a nameless anger burned in her heart.
She returned to the office with a heavy heart and picked up the receiver of the pay phone, her fingers were cold.
She could hear her own heartbeat as the dial clicked.
"Hello?"
Huo Changfeng's steady voice came from the receiver.
Mu Qingxuan took a deep breath and asked, "Did you do what was reported in the newspaper?"
After a brief silence on the other end of the phone, a chuckle came, with a hint of danger: "I can't hide it from you."
On the day Chang Yingying was brought home, he and Huo Jianye reached a consensus to find out the truth behind the scenes.
To Huo Changfeng's surprise, it was the Zhou family who was so bold as to commit a crime right under the capital's feet.
He hadn't originally planned to reveal the truth so soon, but...
"Zhou Liyue needs to pay the price for her actions."
Huo Changfeng's voice was low and firm.
Mu Qingxuan leaned against the mottled wall, the receiver pressing against her cheek, feeling hot.
The phone line tangled around her fingers, and her breathing quickened.
"This kind of thing should be very dangerous. Next time you can discuss it with me in advance."
She whispered, with a hint of coquettishness in her voice that she wasn't even aware of.
There was a rustling sound of clothes rubbing against each other on the other end of the phone. Huo Changfeng leaned lazily against the back of his chair and replied softly, "Okay, I won't hide anything from you from now on."
Mu Qingxuan pursed her lips, her pupils gleaming with a moist luster.
The sunlight shone through the window onto Mu Qingxuan's shoulders, stretching her shadow very long.
She listened quietly to Huo Changfeng's steady breathing, her ears turned red, and she hung up the phone abruptly: "I have to go to class soon, let's talk when I get home."
"Um."
Even after the phone call was hung up for a long time, Mu Qingxuan seemed to still hear Huo Changfeng's smiling voice in her ears.
The voice was low and pleasant to the ear.
Mu Qingxuan stood at the window, took several deep breaths, patted her face, and tried to calm herself down.
*
The autumn sun shines obliquely through the glass windows of the teaching building, cutting out light and dark grids on the terrazzo floor of the corridor.
Mu Qingxuan had just stepped out of the classroom with the lesson plan in her arms when she heard the "tapping" sound of high heels behind her.
Turning around, I saw Teacher Li from the next class, holding an enamel cup with a sunflower pattern on it, and quickly catching up with me.
"Mr. Xiao Mu!"
Teacher Li wiped the sweat from his forehead, and the school badge on his chest swayed slightly with his movements: "Have you heard? Professor Zhou Su'an didn't come to school today!"
She deliberately lowered her voice, her eyes gleaming with gossip, and she came closer, breathing in cold air.
"Could it be that he was implicated by the Zhou family's affairs?"
Mu Qingxuan's fingers unconsciously stroked the edge of the teaching plan, thinking of the shocking report in the newspaper, and gently shook her head: "I don't know."
She caught a glimpse of the curve in Teacher Li's mouth and knew that the other party didn't need to answer at all.
As expected, Teacher Li has already started talking nonstop.
"Tsk tsk, the Zhou family is really in ruins!"
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