At this time, Gu Chen's cell phone rang, and Gu Chen couldn't answer the phone while driving, so I took it over and checked, and found that it was Chen Bo calling. It is already early in the morning. Uncle Chen must have discovered some problem when he called, otherwise he would not have called so late.
I picked up the phone and said, "Uncle Chen, I'm Xiao Wu, what have you found?"
Uncle Chen said: "I just investigated the last fishing tackle shop in the town. There are twelve fishing tackle shops in our town. Since we separated until now, we have investigated all twelve fishing tackle shops. Yes. But every fishing tackle shop owner has no impression of a man in his thirties."
After a pause, Uncle Chen continued: "Because most of the people who come to buy fishing gear, that is, men aged 34 and 34, our town also has a branch of the East River, and there are not many or not many people fishing. But if you want to say it once There are really no people who bought a bundle of fishing line and dozens of hooks for a while, and if it is such a large purchase, the boss must have an impression."
I frowned, and said slowly: "Well, this is not beyond my expectation. After all, from the point of view that the murderer is cautious and cleans up the corpse after each murder, I think he may Dispersed purchases, or not by myself, but by others.”
Uncle Chen said: "Fishhooks are not only sold in fishing tackle shops. There are only twelve fishing tackle shops in the town, but the hardware stores also sell fishhooks. But the large and small hardware stores in the town There are too many, this needs us to investigate slowly, it is too late now, I will ask some people to investigate this matter tomorrow, but it may take a while to investigate clearly."
I said, "Okay, let's send some people to investigate this matter, it's already early morning, go to bed early, we'll be back soon."
Uncle Chen said: "Okay, you guys should go to bed early when you come back. I can't stand it any longer, so I'll go to bed first."
After talking briefly with Gu Chen, we rushed back.
In the room, I said to Gu Chen: "According to the existing information, most of the people in this town are farmers or migrant workers. This is not discrimination, but a person's vision It is positively related to his identity, and it is also closely related to a person's education."
"What do you mean?" Gu Chen was doing push-ups in the room at the moment, and he said while doing it.
I was already lying on the bed, smoking a cigarette and said to Gu Chen: "I mean, it's not something ordinary workers and farmers can do like a murderer, and this murderer has a grudge against Taishan Primary School. From my Judging from the profile, the murderer also has a child, and the child is likely to be a student of Taishan Primary School."
Gu Chen was sitting and doing push-ups with one hand at the moment, seeing him dripping with sweat, he said, "Then you mean that the reason why the murderer wants to kill people is probably because he is afraid that these children will bully his children?"
I looked at Gu Chen and said, "It's very possible, and I'm not just afraid that these people will bully his children, it's very likely that these people have already bullied his children, so he wants to do this kind of thing, so I let The principal prepared all the materials of those students for me, including those who transferred."
Gu Chen stood up and said, "Miss Mary will be here tomorrow, I wonder if I can find this person's information directly from the phone."
"Go to sleep!" I said, "You have been busy all day, and you are not tired, and you still do push-ups."
Gu Chen said: "I'm used to it, I can't sleep without sweating every night, I'll take a shower, you go to sleep first."
The next day, when I was in a daze, Gu Chen woke me up. In this regard, Gu Chen and Zhao Mingkun are really similar, they seem to have inexhaustible energy every day. After a simple wash, we decided to go to school. The first is to check on the progress of the principal, and the second is to find the stuttering classmate.
Uncle Chen is going to lead a team to investigate various hardware stores today, to investigate whether anyone has directly purchased 60 fishhooks.
Gu Chen and I went directly to the school. It is around 8:10 in the morning, and the primary school students have just started their first class. A phone call was made to the principal, who hurriedly appeared in front of us. The headmaster had dark circles under his eyes, and it looked like he didn't sleep last night.
Seeing us, he yawned and said: "I asked our teacher to sort out this information overnight, and circled all the naughty children in those classes. But ah, this is not to say that The child and Liang Zhengyu are the same kind of people, they are more mischievous, but not necessarily the ones who bully others."
I shook my head and said: "It's like Liang Zhengyu. If he hadn't died, this matter might never have been exposed. This may be the survivor bias effect. What we can see will always be all the situations that surface. Five percent of that, and the rest we can't see, is probably darker than that."
With that said, I took over this thick book from the principal.
Randomly flipping through a few pages, I saw that this material is arranged from the first grade to the fifth grade. From the data, you can see that the child's name, home address, parents' work, etc. are recorded in this material , which looks very detailed. Fortunately, there are not many students in Taishan Primary School, there are only about 500 students in the sixth grade.
I said to the principal: "Did the head teacher of Liang Zhengyu come yesterday?"
The principal nodded and said: "After the school's decision, this teacher will definitely be fired, but I have to come to hand over it today. I also know that you may have something to ask her, so I will wait until you are done."
I nodded and said: "Well, you circle the parents of the students in this information, but all the parents who have a high school education or above, or are not farmers or workers, let me go to the stuttering classmate and ask some information. .”
"Okay, I'll let that teacher take you there." The principal said.
At this time, Gu Chen's phone rang. It was from Sister Mary. Sister Mary had already got off the plane and came to Dongxing City, and she would come to this town in a short while.
After a while, a female teacher in her fifties came to the office. We knew that this person was Liang Zhengyu's class teacher, Teacher Zhao. Teacher Zhao told us that the stuttering child's name is Wang Mai. But Wang Mai's parents still don't know about it.
We nodded, and we could see that the teacher was very depressed. We didn't know whether he was depressed that his education career was over, or he was sad for Wang Mai.
At this time, the children are in class, and Mr. Zhao is standing by the window of the back door, pointing out Wang Mai to us. We saw that Wang Mai was sitting alone in the corner without looking up. This section is a Chinese class, but he was drawing back and forth in his notebook, and he didn't know what he was drawing.
This Wang Mai is thin and weak, and it looks like he is easy to bully.
At this time, a girl was answering the teacher's question.
Teacher Zhao said, "That girl also participated in it before."
But from the face of this young girl full of youth, I can't tell that this girl is such a person at all. There are so many things that we can't tell from the outside. At the moment she was finishing answering a question, the teacher praised her, and she sat happily in her seat.
What a good boy who loves to learn.
Teacher Zhao said, "Well, I'll call Wang Mai out."
I looked at my watch, and it was not long before the end of the first period, so I said: "If you call him out at this time, if you want to criticize the other children in the future, they must know that Wang Mai is telling the truth." Now, when the time comes, maybe more people will bully him, and the ones children hate the most are Teacher Gao's classmates."
Teacher Zhao nodded and said, "This kid is too introverted. Even if you call him out, I'm afraid he won't say anything."
I shook my head helplessly.
"Wait a while." I said, "He has endured it for such a long time, and he has endured it for several years. We are not in a hurry to wait for these ten minutes."
Looking from the window of the back door, Wang Mai was still writing and drawing alone, which formed a strong contrast with the joyful atmosphere in the classroom, as if he was the only one in the world.
After more than ten minutes, the class was finally over. When Wang Mai came out to go to the bathroom, Teacher Zhao brought Wang Mai into the office. After Wang Mai left, I finally saw clearly what Wang Mai was painting. It was a series of abstract paintings drawn in pencil, which seemed fragmented, and no picture was complete.
From a psychological point of view, the paintings drawn by a person can actually represent a person's heart. What I see from Wang Mai's paintings is the combination and separation of reality and illusion in Wang Mai's heart. This shows that in Wang Mai's heart, there is a self-cognition that is not recognized by others.
The world he sees is different from ours.
Teacher Zhao brought Wang Mai into the office and walked out.
Gu Chen and I didn't go in in a hurry, but stood outside and observed Wang Mai. Wang Mai was alone in the office at the moment. Don't twist it, for a child, this is too deep.
His eyes slantedly stared at the ceiling, as if he could find his own pleasure in a ceiling.
I looked at Gu Chen next to me and said, "Let's go."
Gu Chen nodded.
I opened the door and walked in. I pulled a chair and sat beside Wang Mai, and asked, "Student Wang Mai?"
Wang Mai nodded.
"This time, I want to ask you about Liang Zhengyu bullying you. Don't be afraid, we will make decisions for you. So, did Liang Zhengyu bully you?"
I looked at Wang Mai.
But for five full minutes, Wang Mai just looked at me without saying a word.