Chapter 67: Scapegoat
After hearing Lin Yilan's official reply, everyone hung their heads in displeasure.
Originally, during lunch, Lin Yilan was thinking about how to tell Huo Juncheng when she met him in the afternoon about everything that happened in the school today.
However, before she could call Huo Juncheng to say that they wanted to go to the circus together, Principal Zhang came to find Lin Yilan.
"Teacher Lin, the thing is, Zhang Mengmeng's incident happened at our school. I think our school should step in and take a look. What do you think?" Principal Zhang pretended to be strolling outside the restaurant and ran into Lin Yilan. In fact, he had heard that Lin Yilan was having dinner here, and he had been waiting here for a long time.
Lin Yilan was shaking the bowl in her hand as she walked. She had just washed it and there were still some water stains in the bowl that had not dried up.
Naturally, it was all over Principal Zhang beside him.
"I think what Principal Zhang said makes a lot of sense in this matter, but why is Principal Zhang telling me this? I'm just a teacher. Principal Zhang, you can make your own decision." After saying this, Lin Yilan smiled at Principal Zhang and prepared to leave.
"No, no, no, weren't you, Teacher Lin, present at this incident today? I think it would be better for you to go over there. After all, you were the caretaker of the students in the class at that time. How did you discover the problem? What was Zhang Mengmeng doing at the time? I think it is necessary for you, Teacher Lin, to go over and explain it clearly." Principal Zhang looked at Lin Yilan with a smile on his face, but in fact, the hand behind his back had begun to tremble slightly.
The school must send out a scapegoat like this. Students nowadays are so pampered. If something goes wrong in school, whether it is their own problem or something really happened in school, the school will definitely send out a scapegoat like this.
Parents will definitely hold the school accountable first.
So, now Principal Zhang wants to send Lin Yilan out to appease people.
Lin Yilan didn't understand Principal Zhang's other intention, but she knew that she really didn't want to go. She just wanted to go out to see the circus with Huo Juncheng in the afternoon.
However, under Principal Zhang's repeated requests, she had no choice but to nod in agreement.
Outside the hospital, Lin Yilan also bought some flowers and fruit baskets.
Before she went there, Principal Zhang had already given her the address, even down to the ward number.
Lin Yilan was still muttering in her heart that everything had been prepared so thoroughly, and it wouldn't hurt Principal Zhang to come out on his own.
However, although she thought so in her heart, she still knocked on the door.
"Hello, I'm Zhang Mengmeng's teacher, my name is Lin Yilan. I'm here to see Zhang Mengmeng on behalf of Ocean University." Lin Yilan said outside the door after knocking on the door with difficulty, holding something.
Suddenly the door opened, and among the two plainclothes officers who came forward, one was someone Lin Yilan knew.
That person was one of the people who recorded Lin Yilan's statement when Chu Xi asked her to go over and make a confession after she jumped into the river.
Lin Yilan had a premonition that this matter was becoming more and more complicated.
"Teacher Lin, right? It's you again? Come in first and let us understand the situation first." The JC seemed very hostile to Lin Yilan.
Lin Yilan didn't know why he had been glancing at her the moment he saw her. Wasn't the last incident with Chu Xi investigated clearly? It had nothing to do with her, right?
"Do you know that classmate Zhang Mengmeng is taking drugs?" The plainclothes officer asked Lin Yilan, taking out a piece of paper from his body and taking notes while asking.
Lin Yilan quickly shook her head and asked, "Impossible! Zhang Mengmeng is such a good girl, how could she possibly be taking drugs? You must have made a mistake."
She smiled awkwardly, but JC beside her had a blank expression on his face.
"Positive. Do you think this is fake? Zhang Mengmeng has been taking drugs for a long time, which caused her to hallucinate at school today, which is why she behaved like that. Who is she close to?"
Positive?
This is impossible?
Lin Yilan came to her senses and quickly responded to JC's question: "I'm not their main teacher, so I can't give you an accurate answer on this matter, but whenever she attends my class, she's always on her own. I haven't seen her get along well with anyone. I've always thought she was a rather solitary student."
After JC got to know the situation, he left first.
Instead, Zhang Mengmeng's parents were lying on her and crying loudly. At this moment, Zhang Mengmeng was tied up and trapped in the bed.
There was an IV bottle hanging on her body.
"She must have been framed. Who could have such a vicious heart? My daughter is so kind, yet he wants to murder her! Mengmeng is either doing homework or practicing exercises every day as soon as she comes home from school. It's impossible to say that she is taking drugs!" Zhang Mengmeng's father was very emotional.
Lin Yilan saw it all and felt pain in her heart. She didn't know how to comfort him.
There were some things she didn't know how to say when she got to the end.
After a while, waiting for Zhang Mengmeng's father to come back to his senses, he pulled Lin Yilan's arm and said, "Teacher Lin, tell me, is Mengmeng usually very well-behaved? Is it possible that such a good girl would take drugs?"
Lin Yilan didn't know how to respond to what her family said.
"Yes, she is indeed a good girl. I also believe that there must be a misunderstanding in this matter. She would never do such a thing. We must fully cooperate with the JC to investigate this matter thoroughly." Lin Yilan looked at Zhang Mengmeng's parents and said with a resolute attitude.
"Who is this? Who wants to harm her? This silly girl just studies silently all the time and doesn't even know when she offended others!" Zhang Mengmeng's mother looked at Lin Yilan with a look of grievance in her eyes.
Lin Yilan really couldn't stand such a scene and she couldn't stay there for even a minute.
Lin Yilan just wanted to slip away from here quickly.
After exchanging a few words with Zhang Mengmeng's parents, she put down the things she brought and a red envelope and left.
When leaving the hospital, Lin Yilan felt very uncomfortable.
When she thought that the student she had taught was about to be sent to a drug rehabilitation center, she wondered how she could bear it.
Just when Lin Yilan was feeling upset, she suddenly received a call from Huo Juncheng.
"The circus has started. I sent a car to your school to pick you up. Why haven't you answered the phone?" Huo Juncheng's tone was a little angry, but he said again.
"I have chips and popcorn. What do you want?"
After a moment of hesitation, Lin Yilan quickly came to her senses and responded, "I'm not at school right now. Something happened to a student in our class, so I went to the hospital. I turned on silent mode just now because it was inconvenient to answer the phone in the hospital."
Lin Yilan herself was not confident when she spoke. If she had known it would be like this, she should have called Huo Juncheng before leaving.
Thinking about it carefully, she was indeed wrong.
Lin Yilan quickly apologized to Huo Juncheng on the phone, "I didn't think this through. I should have called you to tell you when I got out. I'm sorry."
"It's okay. I have a meeting at the company this afternoon, so I'll go back first. We'll talk when I get home in the evening." After saying this, Huo Juncheng hung up the phone.
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