Chapter 3 The real culprit who stole the class funds
September 1, 2015.
At this time, the evening self-study class has just ended.
The classroom was a bit stuffy and the classmates had already left one after another.
The 17-year-old Chu Yao was still sitting in her seat, writing furiously.
Soon, she finished another homework and put it on the desk of the boy in the front row.
The boy stuffed the homework into his schoolbag without even looking at it: "Thanks."
Chu Yao smiled at him and said, "It's about collecting money, why are you being polite?"
The boy looked at her smiling face and was stunned for a moment.
Chu Yao always wears school uniform and has short hair that reaches her ears, but she looks really pretty when she smiles, with her eyes curved and shining.
All the classmates knew that she was a left-behind girl. Her parents lived with her younger sister in the neighboring city of Yuncheng.
She stayed in Fengpu City and depended on her grandmother for support.
But she is lively and outgoing and has a good relationship with her classmates.
She has several industrial chains under her control.
Writing homework for someone, running errands to buy breakfast for someone, writing love letters for someone else...
This year, Apple released the iPhone 6. Several students from well-off families in the class had phones and secretly played some popular games. Chu Yao would occasionally help them play.
For these projects, she charges a service fee ranging from one to ten yuan.
The boy stared at her for a long time, then suddenly said, "Chu Yao, do you think you look alike with the school beauty Xu Qingyun?"
Chu Yao casually responded: "Not worthy of her, not worthy of her, she is the school belle."
"Really, it really does look a bit like her." The boy smiled and stretched out his hand towards her face, "Your face looks so soft, I really want to pinch it."
Chu Yao dodged backwards and rolled her eyes at him: "My shit is soft too, do you want to squeeze it?"
The boy frowned, looking speechless.
Chu Yao is a good girl, but unfortunately she has a mouth.
The boy was silent for a few seconds, then handed her another piece of chocolate: "Here."
It was a heart-shaped chocolate wrapped in gold foil.
Just as Chu Yao was about to pick it up, a hand with slender knuckles reached out from behind and took the chocolate away.
Chu Yao looked up.
It’s Qin Jiahuai.
His profile was cold and fair, with a high nose bridge and dark eyes with shallow double eyelids. At this moment, he lowered his eyes slightly, standing behind her and looking into her eyes.
The boy was dissatisfied: "That's for Chu Yao!"
"Confiscate it." Qin Jiahuai's voice was cold and crisp, revealing a sense of nonchalant leisure.
“…” The boy didn’t dare to say anything.
Because Qin Jiahuai is the study committee member.
Last semester, because of his good grades, the head teacher asked him to run for class committee.
He had a negative attitude and said directly when he went on stage that he didn't want to run.
But unfortunately, students of this age are all rebellious. The more negative he is, the more people choose him.
Chu Yao also voted for him.
But now, Chu Yao deeply regretted it.
Every time she helps others write homework... he comes to catch her clients!
This caused her income to drop sharply!
So the boy was afraid that if he said too much, Qin Jiahuai would tell the teacher that he hired someone else to do his homework. In the end, he could only mutter "That's great" and left with his schoolbag.
Chu Yao glanced at Qin Jiahuai and stretched out her hand towards him: "Give it back to me."
Qin Jiahuai opened it and ate it himself.
After eating, he commented expressionlessly: "I tried it for you. It's very greasy and not tasty."
Chu Yao smiled slightly, picked up the mineral water on the table, unscrewed the lid and handed it to him: "Are you tired of it? Have a drink."
Qin Jiahuai looked at Chu Yao suspiciously and reached out to take it.
When he was about to touch it, Chu Yao suddenly squeezed the bottle tightly, and the water inside gushed out, splashing all over him.
Chu Yao laughed out loud.
Qin Jiahuai said nothing, just looked at her.
There was a kind of coldness between his eyebrows, and when he looked at her, there was a sense of scrutiny.
The lights above the classroom were cold, and falling on him looked like moonlight.
They stared at each other for a long time.
Chu Yao slowly restrained her smile.
Come to think of it, they are not as familiar with each other as they were when they were children, so she shouldn't make such jokes with him.
Do you want to apologize...
But before she could say anything, a soft voice suddenly came from outside: "Jia Huai, are you okay? Can you go home now?"
Chu Yao looked up.
It’s Xu Qingyun.
She is the school belle of their school and studies liberal arts.
Her parents and Qin Jiahuai's parents are both experts at the municipal hospital.
So they knew each other very early.
The evening study session in her second year of high school lasted until 9:30, and it was not safe for her to go home alone, so she would come every day to wait for Qin Jiahuai to go home together.
Qin Jiahuai looked at Chu Yao deeply, turned around and left the classroom, and went home with Xu Qingyun.
Chu Yao looked at their backs in the distance and felt that boys always have to pay attention to their image in front of pretty girls.
If Xu Qingyun hadn't appeared in time, he might have been beaten by Qin Jiahuai!
Chu Yao withdrew her gaze and flexed her wrists. It was time to help someone write a love letter.
I do those industries in my spare time.
So she would wait until the lights in the classroom were turned off at ten o'clock before leaving.
Since last semester, she has been the last one to leave almost every night.
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Outside the classroom.
Qin Jiahuai's pace was particularly slow today.
He walked with his head down, thinking about the "future message" in his diary.
The class fees were handed over to the class monitor, but the class monitor was careless and didn't even take the money home. He just locked it in a drawer. Many classmates knew about this.
Who would go back and steal it?
Xu Qingyun walked beside him and couldn't help but look up and glance at him quietly.
Qin Jiahuai is very tall, probably about 1.8 meters, with a well-proportioned body. The ugly blue school uniform looks good on him.
When he was silent, he looked cold and noble, completely different from a teenager of his age.
It was her parents who asked him to take her home.
But he and she seemed to have nothing to say and remained silent all the way.
She thought of Qin Jiahuai and Chu Yao again...
He kept a distance from everyone and ignored everyone, but he liked to take the initiative to talk to Chu Yao.
Xu Qingyun couldn't help but tighten the strap of her schoolbag.
"Chu Yao has a really good personality. There are girls in my class who live with their grandparents, but they are all very introverted and usually don't dare to talk to boys. Unlike Chu Yao, she is very popular with boys."
Qin Jiahuai didn't seem to notice anything was wrong and said "hmm" lightly: "She does have a good personality."
Xu Qingyun lowered his head and remained silent.
After a long while, she spoke softly, "I just can't do that. My mother is very strict with me and doesn't allow me to have contact with other boys except you."
Qin Jiahuai responded to every word: "Your mother is so mean."
Xu Qingyun choked.
She could see that Qin Jiahuai's mind was not here at all, and he answered every question so perfunctorily.
She was silent for a few seconds, then asked calmly, "Do you want to go back to your class?"
Qin Jiahuai nodded: "Yeah."
Xu Qingyun smiled slightly: "Then you go, I can go home by myself."
"Yeah." After Qin Jiahuai said that, he really turned around and went back.
Xu Qingyun's eyes darkened and he walked out of the school with a stern face.
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When Qin Jiahuai came back, Chu Yao was still working on her career here.
He estimated that the person who stole the class funds would only appear after she left.
Qin Jiahuai walked into the utility room at the back of the classroom.
After a while, Chu Yao finished her work and left the classroom.
When I passed the utility room, I saw that the door was not closed.
She wanted to turn it off, but someone pulled her into the storage room.
Just as Chu Yao was about to scream, a hand covered her mouth.
In the dim light, she could see clearly that the person in front of her was Qin Jiahuai.
He held up his finger and made a "hush" gesture.
His hands were long and beautiful, with faint blue veins on the back of his hands.
Chu Yao's gaze paused on his hand for a moment, then moved away, gently took his hand away, and asked softly, "What's the matter?"
Before Qin Jiahuai could explain, another figure flashed past the door.
Qin Jiahuai followed immediately.
Chu Yao also went out to watch the fun.
I actually saw a boy prying open the class monitor's drawer!
It’s Zou Jie!
He was a very inconspicuous boy in their class. He seldom spoke and seldom participated in group activities. Even in physical education class, he would just hide aside alone. He was the kind of person who would be forgotten immediately after graduation.
Qin Jiahuai took out his mobile phone and took a video.
Chu Yao remembered that Zou Jie was in a very similar situation to hers, also living with his grandparents. He also applied for the qualification of being the only poor student in the class.
Because of this, she felt some sympathy for him and whispered, "Let's not make this public. Send the video to Lao Chen and have him talk to Zou Jie privately."
Qin Jiahuai nodded: "Okay."
They were all classmates, and he didn't want to deny him a chance to reform.
…
March 2, 2025.
27-year-old Chu Yao woke up from her dream.
Her mind was swollen, as if she suddenly had some new memories.
The class funds were indeed lost that year, but they were found the next day. The class monitor said that he had forgotten about it.
The incident was soon forgotten by everyone.
It's not like before, when she took the blame for ten years.
Other than that, it doesn't seem to have brought about much change.
It turns out that really changing the past does not lead to very serious consequences as shown in the movie "The Butterfly Effect".
Suddenly, the cell phone rang.
Chu Yao picked up the phone and it was Yuan Nan.
"Yaoyao, I successfully recommended you internally. Are you free this afternoon? Come for the interview. By the way, there's a colleague in our company who was your high school classmate, his name is Zou Jie..."
Chu Yao was in shock and a little confused.
Her life really got a little better because of this diary!
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