Huo Zhixing had a headache when he left the criminal police brigade. He walked away with He Hongtao's pack of cigarettes and stood by the roadside to smoke. Thinking of Zhou Xiaoyuan's tragic death, he felt unhappy.
In addition, what bothered him more was not whether Zou Kai would find him, but that he was afraid that that person would find Tong Qiu.
He suddenly remembered what Tong Qiu's mother said when he first met Tong Qiu's parents. She said that she was actually very reluctant to let Tong Qiu find someone to be a police officer.
At that time, Huo Zhixing said bold words and promised Tong Qiu's mother that he would take good care of Tong Qiu and would never let Tong Qiu suffer any grievances, but now, he had to worry.
Zou Kai is not a good person, although Huo Zhixing didn't know Tong Qiu when he was arrested, but it doesn't mean that his affairs won't affect him.
Huo Zhixing can do whatever he wants. He is prepared to be injured, beaten or even killed. This is the awareness of every front-line police officer from the very beginning. However, the family members of police officers are always innocent.
Thinking of this, he was in a daze for a long time, until his fingers were burned by cigarette butts before he came back to his senses and called a car to go home.
In any case, Tong Qiu must be protected, not a hair of his hair can be touched by others.
In many cases, the phrase "misfortunes never come singly" is true.
The matter of Zou Kai was enough to upset Huo Zhixing, but the next day, just after lunch at noon, Zhao Heyu heard Zhao Heyu say, "Master, something happened to Master's wife."
Huo Zhixing's first reaction was Zou Kai, and for a moment, cold sweat broke out on his back.
"what happened?"
"I saw on the Internet that a student in their school committed suicide by jumping off a building." Zhao Heyu handed the phone to Huo Zhixing, "I went to find out, and it was a child in the teacher's class."
Huo Zhixing read the news on the Internet, returned the phone to Zhao Heyu, and immediately called Tong Qiu, but no one answered the phone.
"I'm going out for a while," Huo Zhixing lifted his foot and walked out, "Call me if you need anything."
Tong Qiu was sitting in the principal's office, his ears were still ringing, and he couldn't turn his head at all.
On the way to school in the morning, he received a call from Xiao Keran's father, saying that Xiao Keran was not feeling well, and he had to ask for leave today.
Senior three students are under a lot of pressure, each class often asks for leave, Tong Qiu doesn't take it too seriously, but just tells her father, don't drag the child if he feels unwell, and go directly to the hospital.
Xiao Keran's father hung up the phone without even saying a word of politeness.
For this parent, Tong Qiu is also used to it. Every time he comes to the parent-teacher meeting, he looks reluctant and impatient. Sometimes he likes to trouble the teacher. Fortunately, Xiao Keran is a good boy, a very introverted girl , pretty and sensible, with good grades, she is Tong Qiu's Chinese class representative.
Tong Qiu was given the leave just like that, and went to class as usual after arriving at school, the first two classes were Chinese, after class, he waited in class until the math teacher for the next class came before returning to the office.
As soon as Tong Qiu went back, he saw the light blue envelope on his desk, on which was written "Teacher Tong accepts."
The Chinese teacher in the next class said: "I saw it on the ground when I came in in the morning. It should have been stuffed in through the crack under the door."
Teacher Tong thanked the teacher and opened the envelope with a smile.
He can read the handwriting of all the students in the class. Every time these little brats hand in their papers without writing their names, he will know who it is by scanning them. He can recognize the handwriting on the envelope at a glance. It is a letter from Xiao Keran who asked for leave today. .
Tong Qiu received love letters written by students in his first year as a teacher, both boys and girls, this is not new, of course, he felt that Xiao Keran would not write love letters to himself, it must be because of the pressure before the exam, some I was too embarrassed to talk to the teacher face to face, so I chose to confide in a letter, hoping that the teacher would give me some guidance and advice.
However, Tong Qiu only guessed part of it correctly.
That letter was indeed Xiao Keran pouring out her distress, but her real purpose was not to ask her teacher to help her, but to tell her teacher that she decided to commit suicide.
In this long letter, Xiao Keran wrote about the life she has experienced in the past ten years. She was abused by her father since she was a child, and her mother never cared about her, and often used cold violence against her.
At the beginning of last year, Xiao Keran's parents divorced, and no one wanted to take the child with her. As a result, her mother suddenly disappeared and lost contact with them. She was underage, and her father had to take her to live with her in the end.
A few months ago, Xiao Keran's father remarried, and her stepmother treated her well, but her father still beat her, and her stepmother couldn't stop her.
Tong Qiu knew a little bit about the situation in Xiao Keran's family, but she never knew about her father's domestic violence. At the end of the letter, Xiao Keran wrote: Teacher Tong, I always tell myself to bear it, and I can leave here in dozens of days, but I still can't hold on, and I don't want to hold on anymore.
Tong Qiu stared at Xiao Keran's signature and the sentence "I'm sorry", his eyes suddenly turned red, his fingers were cold, and his whole body was shaking.
Because Xiao Keran was about to commit suicide, she said "I'm sorry" to Tong Qiu, because apart from Tong Qiu, she couldn't find anyone to talk to before she died.
Tong Qiu shook hands and called Xiao Keran's father, who actually said that he was playing mahjong outside.
"Where's Xiao Keran?" Tong Qiu asked with a trembling voice, "Is she at home by herself?"
"No," Xiao Keran's father said, "She called me just now and asked me to pick her up from school."
"School?" Tong Qiu was even more puzzled, "Didn't she ask for leave? How could she be at school?"
Tong Qiu never saw Xiao Keran at school, she didn't come to class.
"How would I know." Xiao Keran's father said with a nonchalant attitude, "I saw that little girl pretended to be sick in the film and went out to play."
Tong Qiu yelled into the phone while running outside: "Your daughter may have had an accident!"
However, the other party still laughed and said, "It's okay, teacher, we can't control such a big kid."
Tong Qiu was completely out of breath, cursed in a low voice, hung up the phone and called the police.
Now is not the time to teach that bad father a lesson, the most urgent thing is to find Xiao Keran.
However, something happened before the person was found.
Xiao Keran jumped from the top floor of the school's laboratory building.
When Huo Zhixing arrived at Tong Qiu School, there were already many people around the gate, and he was still wearing a police uniform, so he went straight through the crowd and entered the school without hindrance.
The police car parked there was very eye-catching, and Huo Zhixing continued to call Tong Qiu while walking towards the teaching building.
When Tong Qiu came out of the principal's office, he finally took out his phone. He had muted the phone before, and only now did he see Huo Zhixing's call.
"How are you?"
Before Tong Qiu could speak, Huo Zhixing's worried tone made his nose sour.
"I just came out of the principal's office," Tong Qiu tried to calm himself down, "The school will deal with it."
"How are you?" Huo Zhixing said, "I'm asking you, how are you?"
He doesn't care about anything else, he only cares about Tong Qiu.
From Huo Zhixing's point of view, Tong Qiu loves and enjoys his job, and he also really likes every student in his class. When something like this happens, Tong Qiu will definitely blame himself and suspect immediately self.
"I'm fine." Tong Qiu said, "I'm going back to class."
While the two were talking, Huo Zhixing had already entered the teaching building.
"Okay, I see."
Huo Zhixing hung up the phone, and went straight to Tong Qiu's class.
Tong Qiu saw Huo Zhixing in police uniform standing in the corridor as soon as he came upstairs, he was in a daze, thinking he had misread.
When Huo Zhixing saw Tong Qiu, he immediately walked over.
"The parents have already arrived," Tong Qiu said, "the police are also here, because the accident occurred during the student's vacation, so if there is no accident, the school does not need to bear the responsibility."
Huo Zhixing looked at him, he could tell that Tong Qiu was trying to force himself.
"Did you have lunch?" Huo Zhixing didn't continue his topic, but asked him if he had eaten.
Tong Qiu was taken aback, and said with a wry smile, "I have no appetite."
"Is there class tonight? I'll come to see you after work?"
Tong Qiu was silent for a moment, then nodded and said, "Drink with me tonight."
Tong Qiu just endured it all the time, in front of others, no matter how uncomfortable he was, no matter how much he blamed himself, his eyes never turned red, but now, when he saw Huo Zhixing, for some reason, he burst into tears.
Huo Zhixing raised his hand to wipe his tears, and said, "Don't blame yourself too much."
"But it's really my responsibility."
"When a life leaves, everyone close to her is responsible," Huo Zhixing squeezed Tong Qiu's shoulders, and said to him, "I know this is a big blow to you, so just cry for a while." , I'm done crying, let's go back tonight and have a good chat."
When Tong Qiu was in school, his teacher once said: "No matter at any time, you must remember who you are. You are teachers of the people. You must educate people while teaching. The children you come into contact with are all in the During the period of personality formation, they are both strong and fragile, as a teacher, we must find a balance point so that they can grow up well."
For a long time, Tong Qiu felt that he was quite successful as a teacher, at least no matter what the situation was, people would evaluate him with unfailing praise.
Teacher Tong works seriously and responsibly.
Teacher Tong can understand students.
Teacher Tong communicates well with parents.
Teacher Tong is handsome and loves to joke.
Tong Qiu thought that he had done a good enough job, but now he realized that he was blinded by praise, self-inflated, and he didn't do his job well at all.
He stood on the podium, but felt that he was not worthy to stand here at all.
Feng Kaiwen quietly put a pack of tissues on the desk, and then sat back at his seat. Tong Qiu stared at the pack of tissues wrapped in green, looked at the vibrant patterns, and didn't even dare to look at his students them.
Huo Zhixing stood at the door of the classroom, the thin wooden door was closed tightly, through the window he saw Tong Qiu lowered his head, like a student waiting for a review.
He frowned, looking at Tong Qiu like this, felt his heart sink a few kilograms.
After making an appointment to meet at night, Huo Zhixing didn't linger too much at the school. He watched Tong Qiu outside the door for a while, then walked out of the campus, bought a pack of cigarettes at the supermarket by the roadside, and smoked two before returning home. In the place.
In the evening, after he got off work, he originally wanted to go to school to find Tong Qiu, but the other party called and said that the school had canceled tonight's evening self-study and asked him to go home directly.
Huo Zhixing went downstairs to Tong Qiu's house, bought wine and cigarettes, and went upstairs with a heavy heart.
He is actually very good at comforting people, usually he can make Tong Qiu's ears burn and his eyes wander, but when he is serious, his mouth becomes stupid again.
He doesn't know how to comfort and doesn't know what to say, so he can only accompany the other party, drink with him, talk with him, and get through the most difficult night with him.
Before getting off work, Zhao Heyu asked Huo Zhixing worriedly: "Master, is Master okay?"
Huo Zhixing said, "Don't worry, with me by my side, nothing will happen."
The author has something to say: There must be some opportunity for them to open up to each other.