Chapter 63
After returning from the team building, the kindergarten began to prepare for the end of term. In addition to writing personal summaries and educational experiences, they also had to do winter vacation homework.
The teachers assigned them tasks such as drawing talismans and practicing spells. They also asked them to copy certain scriptures and write down their thoughts on each scripture. Finally, they gave them a notebook and asked them to write a diary every day.
The children were very happy to receive the notebooks, because the covers were in cute cartoon style and each one was different. So they exchanged and admired the notebooks with the students sitting in front, behind and next to them with sparkling eyes.
A pink floral notebook was placed on Li Yang's desk.
Li Yang:?
Wu Qian was holding the cardboard box and seeing his expression, she said, "Don't you like this? I'll give you another one." She took out a dark blue book with an astronaut's travels in the universe from the cardboard box and gave it to him.
Seeing that Li Yang still didn't move, she said, "This is the only one left, that's all."
Li Yang took a breath slowly.
Wu Qian suddenly had an idea, "You didn't think you didn't have to do your winter vacation homework?"
It's not a discussion of "Don't you want to do your winter vacation homework?", but "You don't think you don't have to do it." It means that the winter vacation homework is done.
Li Yang was silent for a moment, and put away the astronaut notebook. Putting it away was one thing, but whether to write in it was his business. Anyway, he had never handed in homework since he was a child.
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With only the last week left in the semester, the children have finished learning the content in the textbooks and basically play in the kindergarten. The teachers are supervising them and as long as nothing happens, they will be taught some extracurricular magic. Sometimes they will also teach some extracurricular magic.
Generally speaking, children's minds would become wild, for example, Li Yang simply stopped going to the teaching building, but the teachers and Zhou Du ignored him.
On Friday morning, I picked up the kids and took a winter vacation safety class. I told them what to pay attention to during the holidays, and then I started distributing New Year gifts and a small red envelope to each child. After lunch, I asked Li Yang to take them back.
When they returned to the garden, Liang Tang prepared a table full of delicious dishes. After the meal, several teachers went back to their rooms to pack up. They bought flight tickets for tonight and returned to the temples where they practiced to celebrate the New Year. Some were from the north and some were from the south.
Other teachers were chatting.
"Teacher Liang and I are leaving tomorrow, Lu Xiaoguo, what about you guys?"
Lu Xiaoguo said, "Wu Qian and I will wash the bedsheets and quilts in the bedroom later. We will put them away after they are dried the day after tomorrow and then go back."
"Yes, your home is in Nanjiang. Where's Wu Qian?"
Wu Qian: "I plan to go back to Lu Xiaoguo's house with her to play with her brother, and then go back to Xiyou on the 27th day of the lunar calendar."
In other words, at the latest the day after tomorrow, the teachers will leave the kindergarten, leaving only one person to look after it.
They turned to look at Li Yang and said, "Are you really not going home for the New Year? If you go back, we can arrange for other teachers to be on duty, so you don't have to work so hard..."
A few days ago they were discussing which teacher would stay on duty, and Li Yang said no, he would be in the garden.
Li Yang was sipping his iced cola, he put down the cup and said, "I can do it."
The teachers stopped trying to persuade him, and Liang Tang said, "I have prepared food for the winter, and it's all in the refrigerator and storage cabinet."
Lu Xiaoguo raised his hand: "I bought some New Year goods online. They will arrive in two days. Remember to go to the post station to pick them up. There are food and daily necessities, as well as spring couplets and stickers. You can decorate it yourself when the time comes. Don't make it too deserted. If it doesn't work, I will come back... No, you will go home with me to celebrate the New Year? Or, boss, leave your car to Xiao Li. It will be convenient for him to go wherever he wants or go out to buy something!"
Lu Xiaoguo's thoughts were very quick and she immediately spoke out all the solutions she could think of.
They were all very worried that Li Yang would not be able to take care of himself, just like when parents have to leave their children at home when they go on a long trip, they are always worried that the children will not be able to take care of themselves.
Zhou Du, whose name was called, said, "Can't I come back often to give him some food and other things?"
Lu Xiaoguo, Wu Qian, Liang Tang: "Ah..." Yes, is it their turn to worry? How could Zhang Fei let Guan Yu spend the New Year alone?
Another Tai Chi teacher: What are you suddenly realizing?
"Then you must come back more often." The three of them emphasized their words.
Three teachers carrying suitcases came down, and Zhou Du stood up, "I'll take you to the airport."
The teachers refused: “Forget it, you’ve been drinking.”
Except for Li Yang and Li Dongqiang, everyone else at the table drank a little, with Zhou Du and Liang Tang drinking the most.
Zhou Du tilted his head and looked at Li Yang, "He's driving."
Li Yang did not refuse and went to get the car keys. Liang Tang, Lu Xiaoguo and others also left their chairs and started to clean up the table.
After leaving the house with the three teachers, Li Yang turned around and looked at the man behind him, "What are you doing here?"
"Go for a sobering ride."
OK.
At the domestic departure entrance of the airport, Zhou Du took the luggage of the three teachers out of the trunk and handed them three red envelopes, "Have a safe journey and a happy new year."
The three teachers didn't hesitate to thank them and accepted the gifts. After saying goodbye to Li Yang and Zhou Du, they entered the airport together.
On the way back, the co-pilot lowered the car window by one-fifth, and the wind from the overpass leading from the airport to the highway blew in, which made Li Yang feel refreshed.
He quickly glanced to the side and saw the man leaning his forehead against the car window with his eyes closed.
Three minutes later, Zhou Du sobered up a little, sat up straighter, and asked him, "Are you cold?"
"I don't think so." The snow stopped today and the sun came out.
Zhou Du still closed the car window and began to adjust the radio on the operating screen.
Li Yang could only see the long jade-like hands waving before his eyes.
After forcing myself to focus on the road, the voice of a female singer with a smoky voice rang out.
The two were listening to the song, and when they got to the chorus of the fourth song, Zhou Du's cell phone rang.
When Zhou Du picked up the phone, Li Yang turned the volume knob and the singing became very soft.
Li Yang heard him address the person on the other side: "Captain Ma."
Then the other party said something, Zhou Du turned on the speakerphone, put the phone on the car holder, and motioned Li Yang to listen together.
"...Uncle Ying is a criminal police officer, so our unit should handle the case. But it's the end of the year, and we're busy. Plus, if we're contacted, it'll be recorded. He doesn't want his colleagues and leaders to know about it, so he hopes to handle it privately. You..."
Zhou Du understood and said, "Okay."
The horse team over there was happy and quickly said, "Then let me tell you what happened to him. You can go to his house someday when you are free, preferably in the next few days."
Ma Dui briefly explained the whole thing in chronological order.
Probably Cheng Ying, a veteran criminal police officer who has been in the profession for 27 years, has woken up to find his study in a mess every morning since last week.
No matter how clean you tidy it up the day before, it will be a mess the next day.
This means that something happened while you were sleeping at night.
Li Yang asked: "Couldn't it be his family who did it?"
Ma Dui was not surprised that Li Yang was next to Zhou Du. He said in a serious tone, "It's just that there's no one at home. That's why it's strange. Uncle Ying's wife passed away three years ago, and his only son got married and moved into the bridal chamber. Uncle Ying even called his son to ask if he was the one who came back to cause trouble at night, but his son, his wife, and his mother-in-law are in Sanya."
It seems that the relationship between father and son is not very good.
Li Yang didn't ask any more questions, and Team Ma continued, "So Uncle Ying suspected that a thief had broken into the house, and he might have even made a copy of the house's key. Although nothing was stolen, it was scary enough that someone had broken into the house without anyone noticing. So he hid in the study at night and waited to catch the suspect."
"I hid for three days, and every time at midnight, I fell asleep as if I had been drugged."
"I always have the same dream. I am in a mountain and a male ghost whose whole body, including his head, is torn into pieces is pointing at the ground and looking at him."
"When I woke up again, the study was a mess again."
"The messed-up study contained some case ideas and materials that he had compiled over the years. Oh, and there was also a computer that was inexplicably turned on, logging into the internal website of the police station, but he didn't log in."
Li Yang: "This ghost seems to want to investigate the case."
"Yes, he also realized it, so he came to our department. At the same time, he is also looking into some cold cases over the years, but there are no clues yet. That's about it. If you have any other questions, you can ask them."
Li Yang looked at Zhou Du and locked eyes with him.
Zhou Du: "Let's go directly to Officer Cheng's house."
Li Yang had just opened his mouth when Ma Dui said happily, "It would be great if Xiao Li went too. I'll leave this matter to you. I have something else to do so I'll hang up first. I'll send you the address on WeChat later—"
Without hesitation, a beep sounded and the phone returned to the desktop.
Li Yang: "This is not my case." It's none of his business.
"But I'm in your car."
Okay.
Li Yang drove to the address sent by the horse team, Chengyang Garden. This is an old residential area built 20 years ago, the floors are not high, about seven or eight floors, and there are stairs.
After parking the car in the roadside parking area outside the community, the two walked into the community and came to Unit 3. They went directly to the 5th floor without using the access control.
There was no doorbell in front of 501. Zhou Du knocked on the iron door with peeling green paint.
A square-faced, tall and strong middle-aged man came to open the door.
Li Yang thought this was Officer Cheng, who looked younger than his actual age.
But Zhou Du politely curved his lips and said, "Hello, we are here to see Officer Cheng."
The man looked at Li Yang and Zhou Du suspiciously, and after confirming that he didn't know them, he turned around and shouted inside: "Master, do you have guests today?"
Cheng Ying was about to say no, but suddenly remembered that Captain Ma said he would help him find someone to solve the problem, so he quickly said, "It should be, let them in."
"If it is, it is. If it is not, it is not. What do you mean by should be?" the man muttered.
When we met, he turned out to be a skinny old man who looked only 165cm tall, but he should have been over 170cm tall when he was young. Now his back is a little bent by the years, but he is still very strong.
After a brief self-introduction, Cheng Ying knew that Zhou Du and Li Yang were introduced by the horse team. She smiled shyly, and the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes on her upright face were somewhat kind: "I didn't expect you to come so soon. I'm really sorry for the trouble... "
"Ma Dui has a good relationship with us. You are his senior, so naturally you are also our senior. It's not a big deal to help an elder." Zhou Du said in a slow pace.
Cheng Ying didn't know what to do after hearing this. Having been an upright person for most of her life, she had no choice but to ask them to sit down and make some tea.
Two cups of tea fell on the coffee table in front of Li Yang and Zhou Du. Cheng Ying glanced at the apprentice who was still there: "Do you have anything else to do?"
The apprentice glared angrily: "I shouldn't be here? Who worked so hard to dig out the information of more than a dozen unsolved cases in the past 27 years in the archives and copy them to bring to you?"
How can you turn your back on me?
"Okay, okay, thank you for your hard work. If you have nothing else to do, go back to the bureau." Cheng Ying drove him away.
The burly man was still unwilling to leave, so he came up to him and asked, "Master, do you have any new clues that might match these old cases? Did you run into a previous suspect? A wanted criminal?"
"Stop asking questions and go back!"
"Okay, then you should take it easy. You're about to retire. Although it would be an honor and a sense of accomplishment if you could solve a cold case before retirement, can't you just wait for retirement peacefully? Don't do anything else." The burly man gave these instructions before leaving.
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