Chapter 009 Investigation
Qin Mengmeng walked into the funeral street, just like she was walking into a vegetable market. She put her hands behind her back and bought whatever she saw.
Qin Chuan followed behind, holding the big paper villa, his face almost turning black.
"Don't tell me you want to have a funeral for yourself."
Qin Mengmeng snorted, "Who do you think I am? I promise you, I will never use this money on myself. If I want to live in a villa in the future, it must be a real one, made of reinforced concrete or solid wood. I definitely won't be interested in a paper villa."
Then she turned around and saw a shop making memorial tablets, so she went in and asked, "Can you come out today at the earliest?"
The shop owner was a middle-aged man with an expressionless face. He was sitting behind the counter eating instant noodles. He wiped his mouth and said, "Yes, they are all engraved by machines. Just tell me what words you want engraved, and it will be ready in fifteen minutes."
Qin Mengmeng said: "Just carve three words, Qin Mengmeng, Qin as in Qin Shi Huang, and Meng as in the sprouting of all things."
Qin Chuan: "?! What on earth are you doing!"
Qin Mengmeng said to the shop owner, "Carve a smaller one, the smallest wooden tablet."
Qin Chuan said: "You want to die!"
Seeing that Qin Chuan was about to lose his temper, Qin Mengmeng quickly said, "Oh, buy this to protect the house."
The expressionless middle-aged man laughed: "This is a tablet. Can this thing protect the house?"
Qin Mengmeng remained calm: "It's a custom in southern Yunnan to place a tablet with your name engraved on it at home for worship. When the demons and ghosts see it, they will think you are dead and won't bother you. It's a way to avoid disasters. If your fortune tells you that you will have three disasters and five calamities, you have to do this."
This statement sounds reasonable.
In fact, it was pure fabrication by Qin Mengmeng.
She was mainly in dire need of incense, so she was going to try to get incense from outside the live broadcast room.
If possible, she would burn incense for herself every day.
However, the middle-aged man quickly said after hearing this: "Southern Yunnan, it seems to be true. Miss, you know a lot."
Qin Mengmeng glanced at him and knew that this boss would dare to respond to anything in order to do business, for fear that he knew less than the customers.
In fact, he knows nothing. Just from the fact that he doesn't know how to address young women and just calls them "little sister" like on the Internet, you can tell that he can't even say polite words.
I don't know how this shop is run.
The funeral industry has always had a more stable income than civil servants, and ordinary people cannot enter this industry.
But fortunately, with the boss's endorsement, Qin Chuan believed it and his face was no longer dark. He came over and showed great concern.
"To avoid disasters? Is just one enough? Do you want to buy a few more?"
“Just buy one.”
The tablet was very small, with gold ingots, sandalwood and candles placed in a plastic bag. It was not noticeable at all. Only the paper villa was so big that it was a bit eye-catching.
The two had no choice but to go back home again.
As a result of this delay, when I got to Xincheng High School from home, it was almost five o'clock.
It happened to be the time when Xincheng High School was finishing school.
Qin Mengmeng looked at the dense crowds of people in front of her, speechless: "It's not even five o'clock yet and they're already out of school? Why are they out of school so early? And aren't they under closed management?"
From her experience at school, she knew that the three high schools in Xincheng were all under fully closed management. All students lived on campus and were not allowed to go to school as day students. They had to get up at six in the morning to attend classes and finish classes at ten in the evening. The daily schedule was accurate to the minute.
Qin Chuan said: "This is a vocational high school! The teachers in this school are too lazy to care so much, and they even keep the school closed. They hope that they won't come to class."
Qin Mengmeng sighed.
This touched upon the blind spot of her knowledge.
She really didn't know these things. Although Qin Chuan and she were twins, their experiences since childhood were very different.
Qin Mengmeng found study effortless and always got first place in exams. Everyone she met in the new city was kind to her, and she finally got into the top 3.
When she was first admitted to university, not only herself, but also her parents, relatives, teachers, classmates, friends and enemies, everyone thought that she had a bright future and would achieve something in the future.
Qin Chuan's grades were not very good, and he almost went to a vocational high school.
He nodded his chin at the noisy entrance to Xincheng High School and said, "I almost came here to study in a vocational high school during the high school entrance exam. In the end, I just scored one point higher than the passing line, so I was able to go to high school."
That's how he knew which New Town High School was.
Naturally, his high school grades were not very good, and he just barely passed the college entrance examination and was admitted to a second-tier university.
Everyone said that as long as he doesn't hold Qin Mengmeng back in the future, everything will be fine.
In the end, Qin Mengmeng studied top 3 civil engineering, and Qin Chuan studied top 2 computer science.
Now Qin Chuan has become the support of the whole family.
Qin Mengmeng rubbed her temples and said, "It's just right that they are out of school, so it'll be easy for us to sneak in."
"Well, but why should we blend in?"
Qin Mengmeng said: "Either you go back, or you come in with me. I want to go to the boys' dormitory of Xincheng High School to take a look."
"Boys' dormitory?" Qin Chuan looked puzzled.
But if there is any good thing about accidentally falling from the tenth floor, it is that as long as Qin Mengmeng does not try to commit suicide, her family will basically obey her.
"Are you going or not?" she urged.
Qin Chuan propped up his legs and looked for a place to park his electric bike: "Then we have to park the electric bike farther away, otherwise if it gets stolen, we can only blame ourselves for our bad luck. These are all minors."
Qin Mengmeng asked him to park the electric bike first. She stood at the door and saw all kinds of students and teachers walking out. She grabbed one and asked, "Hello, classmate. Do you know Ma Chaoji?"
The girl had blond hair and was playing with her phone with her head down, chewing bubble gum. When she was stopped by her, she rolled her eyes and said, "You're crazy, get lost."
Qin Mengmeng: “…”
The last time she was scolded like this was on the construction site, where she scrapped 30,000 yuan worth of materials and delayed the construction for a whole day.
Qin Mengmeng sighed and changed her target.
She has graduated for two years and is a mature cow and horse, with a stable mood like a dead person. If it were when she first entered college, she would not tolerate disrespect from anyone.
"Hello, classmate. Do you know the Machao class?"
After Qin Chuan parked his electric bike and came over, Qin Mengmeng asked ten people in a row and soon found someone who knew the inside story.
He was a spirited young man with dyed yellow hair and a tattoo on the inside of his forearm.
Qin Mengmeng was really confused, why do these people love dyeing their hair yellow? In Qin Mengmeng's opinion, Asians with yellow hair really don't look as good as those with black hair.
Also, can minors really get tattoos? Is there anyone who dares to take on this job?
The spirited young man with yellow hair and tattoos was quite alert: "Why are you asking about him?"
Qin Mengmeng pondered.
How to behave when dealing with different people is an art. Qin Mengmeng is still very clumsy in this area, but she is not completely without any experience.
"Don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask. Here are two hundred dollars. Do you want some?"
If you can take out two red bills from your belt at this time, it will be a sure win.
It's a pity that who still uses cash nowadays.
Qin Mengmeng could only take out her mobile phone, open the QR code, and flash it in front of the other person's eyes.
The man's eyes suddenly lit up: "Are you a reporter?"
Qin Chuan happened to hear this when he came over. He was kept in the dark for a moment and followed Qin Mengmeng silently without saying a word.
Qin Mengmeng nodded and said, "Take us to the boys' dormitory, and we'll talk while we walk. I'll give you a hundred yuan deposit first, and then another hundred yuan after we're done. That's enough for you to use the internet cafe for a week."
The spirited young man raised his hand: "Five hundred."
Qin Chuan said, "Why don't you rob a bank?"
Qin Mengmeng held Qin Chuan and said, "If the information is strong enough, let alone five hundred, one thousand is not impossible to negotiate. If you want to fool me, you have to spit out the hundred yuan again."
The spirited young man patted his chest and said, "Sister, I understand, sister. I promise it will be strong enough."
He led Qin Mengmeng and went against the current, all the way to the deepest part of the campus, and made several calls on his cell phone along the way.
"These guys were in the dormitory next door at the time."
On the way, Qin Mengmeng asked a lot of questions and slowly figured out what was going on.
Ma Chaoji - this is how his name is written, he is from Huangxin Village.
Huangxin Village is within the jurisdiction of the new city, but it is twenty kilometers away from the urban area, so he lives on campus.
Most of the people who choose to live on campus at Xincheng High School come from the surrounding villages and towns. Most of them behave themselves and dare not cause trouble in the city, unlike the students in the city who dare to make plans to fight in groups after class every day.
They can't afford to offend others, but because the boarding students and day students are separated, they are seldom bullied by others. Most of the people who dare to bully others are city people, who are day students and do not live in the dormitories.
School leaders and teachers are not too worried about boarding students causing trouble.
As a result, one day, a thin and short boy was stripped naked, thrown into the public toilet of the dormitory building, and locked up all night.
It was November, late autumn.
The next morning, 120 arrived with a police car.
Qin Mengmeng had a premonition, but she couldn't help but curse when she heard about it.
"What the hell is wrong with this school, from the school leaders to the students!"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
