After Mr. Guo relaxed his tone, Xiao Cunyu felt much more relieved.
After reciting the simple version of the Heart Purification Mantra, she calmly asked, "Would you mind telling me about what happened back then? I only know that after Senior Kong Li's death, Xu Bin was wrongly ostracized. I don't know why Senior Huang reacted so strongly upon hearing Xu Bin's name..."
"That's because... the two of us... were Kong Li's best friends back then." After Mr. Guo finished speaking, the flesh on his face seemed to sag a little.
"I'd like to hear the details." Xiao Cunyu said politely.
Mr. Guo looked at her twice and opened his mouth. He didn't want to say anything, but maybe it was because he had been silent for too long. After thinking for a moment, he actually cooperated.
"Back then, our academy was at its peak. Students from all over the country who came to Beijing to study were proud to attend Wanjun Academy. Brother Huang, Brother Kong, and I are all from Lingzhou. We came here together to study and have a close relationship. Although we are not brothers, we have long been close friends and have a very good relationship..." "But one morning, Brother Kong didn't show up for class. We went to his courtyard and found him burned to death in the corner. His death was tragic!"
"We were both heartbroken and vowed to find the real murderer and avenge him. Everyone knew at the time that Brother Kong had argued with Xu Bin the day before his death, and that they had parted ways unpleasantly. Even after school, Xu Bin was the last person to visit Brother Kong's yard... Apart from him, no one else had a motive for murder!"
"Unfortunately, there are no witnesses, and Xu Bin has been denying everything. We can't do anything to him..."
When Mr. Guo thought of the past, his expression was vague and he was filled with emotion.
"We were young and hot-headed, and we only thought of Xu Bin as a sinister and ruthless villain! We couldn't wait to get rid of him! Since we couldn't bring him to justice, we joined forces with all our classmates... to bully him, hoping he would quit the academy on his own..."
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As Xiao Cunyu listened, he became more and more emotional.
From a certain perspective, Guo and Huang can be said to be very loyal and righteous. In order to avenge Kong Li, they have become a bit paranoid.
He won over his classmates and made sure Xu Bin had no place in the academy.
Did a lot of things.
In their words, the articles written by Xu Bin would be deliberately burned by them, and outside the courtyard where Xu Bin lived, people would often pass by and spit on him, saying sarcastic and targeted words and articles, and scolding Xu Bin every day.
Almost the entire academy believed that Xu Bin was guilty.
Since Kong Li's death, Xu Bin has not had a normal meal or a good night's sleep.
The few people who trusted Xu Bin were no longer able to defend him and could only persuade him to leave the academy and live a stable life.
But Xu Bin didn't want to.
He was like a rat in a gutter, struggling to survive in every corner of the academy.
Perhaps he felt that such cruel days would eventually end, so he kept enduring. However, the fact was that the situation was getting worse and worse, and some even felt that Xu Bin's mentor was selfishly protecting the prisoners...
"The two of us just want to force him away. We even feel that even if Brother Kong loses his life, he won't suffer even a fraction of what Brother Kong has! Even if he lives an uneasy life, the two of us are still not satisfied..."
"One day, Xu Bin's wife and children came to visit the academy. They witnessed Xu Bin being humiliated. Unable to bear it, they begged him to confess his guilt..."
"That day, he invited the two of us to the forest outside the academy."
"He said he was wronged."
"He knew we didn't believe him, so he was willing to die to prove his innocence... But before he died, he said something..."
Mr. Guo seemed to find it difficult to talk about these past events, while Mr. Huang was trembling, and his hands covered with age spots swayed like fallen leaves in the wind.
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