The four lackeys felt wronged to the extreme. That was right, they had come to mess with Shi Tiexin, but they really had gotten beaten up too. In the past, they had seized on others' weaknesses to extort and blackmail them, living easy and carefree, never caring how stifled and miserable their victims felt. Today, they had truly suffered a loss—a huge one—yet Zheng Kaiming would not believe them. At last, they had firsthand experience of what it meant to feel utterly aggrieved.
Their chests were practically about to split apart, all right?!
"Me, me-me, falsely accuse and frame someone? Me, make trouble out of nothing?" The four could barely catch their breath. Seething with indignation, they shouted without choosing their words, "Square Head, you don't believe us!"
"Sq-square Head?!" The moment Zheng Kaiming heard that, he nearly exploded with rage. It could be called a physical flaw of his, and what he hated most was having others bring it up. Colleagues close to him could joke about it, sure—but these little brats dared call him Square Head? Were they looking to die?!
"Bullshit!" Zheng Kaiming was on the verge of flying into a fury. "You pack of turtle grandsons and bastard eggs, you dare come here and falsely accuse a fellow student? What kind of person is Shi Tiexin? A weak scholar who couldn't even truss a chicken! What kind of people are you? And what kind of person is that Teng Chaoguo? Do you think I don't know him? One against five—you really dare say it, and you really dare make it up!"
The four were completely dumbfounded.
A weak scholar who couldn't even truss a chicken?
That ferocious, iron-blooded tough guy was that sort of figure in your eyes? And you said we dared make things up—aren't you the true master of fabrication here?!
Zheng Kaiming only felt that rage had cleared his mind. He decided he had to crush these four fools with sheer intelligence and shouted, "You said Teng Chaoguo was beaten too, and beaten especially badly. Then where is Teng Chaoguo? Why didn't he come here to complain?"
"Teng Chaoguo, he..." The four did not know what to say.
Zheng Kaiming could not help sneering. "The one beaten the worst didn't come to file a complaint, while you four, who are practically fine, came running here to stir up trouble. What kind of situation is that? Could it be that Teng Chaoguo was beaten badly enough to be hospitalized?"
They were accustomed to talking nonsense at full speed. One lackey immediately blurted out a fabrication, "Yes, yes, yes, he was hospitalized! He's being resuscitated!"
Zheng Kaiming did not waste words. He called the security department. "Hello, it's me. Did any students leave campus today? No? Good." Click. He hung up and simply stared at the four, wearing a smile that was not quite a smile. "Should I call the school clinic to confirm as well, to see whether student Teng Chaoguo is being resuscitated there?"
The four had nothing left to say. They had no idea how to patch this hole.
Making things up and falsely accusing a fellow student seemed to have been nailed down as fact.
The fat boy clenched his teeth and fists. He felt so wronged that he could not help spilling the truth. "Teng Chaoguo, he... he wasn't hospitalized. He's too ashamed to face anyone!"
"Why?"
"Because he—"
"Hey, Fatty!" The other lackeys tried to stop him from speaking. But the fat boy broke free and shouted resentfully, "What are you afraid of? Who doesn't know already? I'm saying it! Teng Chaoguo doesn't dare show his face now because this time he lost face so badly! He was thrown into a urine bucket to take a bath!"
"Pfft—!" Zheng Kaiming nearly spat. Over his long career as dean of students, he had thought nothing could move him anymore. But this matter was truly horrifying, and genuine disbelief appeared on his face. "A-a urine bucket... taking a bath?"
Since it had already been said, the other lackeys threw caution to the wind as well, all talking at once. "That's right, in the Black Toilet! So many Urine Buckets were smashed over!" "It flowed all over the floor—it stank so badly it was unbearable!"
This matter... Seeing the four swear oaths and make vows, Zheng Kaiming began to half-believe, half-doubt them. The situation was simply too unusual. If it really were a fabricated accusation, people generally would not make up such a horrifying scene. Besides, once this kind of thing spread, Teng Chaoguo really would not be able to stay at this school anymore. There was no need to smear themselves to such an extent just to frame someone.
Zheng Kaiming was uncertain. "Did anyone see it?"
"Everyone saw it, they all saw it!" "Those students from Class 28 all know!" "Come take a look with us, Teacher. You'll understand as soon as you see it!"
Take a look?
Mm, taking a look would be good. Seeing was believing.
Zheng Kaiming stood up. "Let's go take a look. If you dare lie to me..."
"No, no, it's absolutely true!" Seeing that they had persuaded Zheng Kaiming to come, the four immediately felt as if clouds had parted to reveal the sun. Overjoyed, they crowded around Zheng Kaiming and headed toward the Trash Class building. For the first time, they felt that the Square-headed Fiend was so wonderful—practically the Avatar of justice and fairness. Square Head, we're counting on you to uphold justice for us!
A moment later, the five appeared in the Trash Class Black Toilet.
Zheng Kaiming looked at the floor of the Black Toilet, his expression dark. Then he suddenly pointed at the ground and shouted sternly, "This is what you called flowing all over the floor?"
The four stared, stunned, with no idea what had happened. The floor of the Trash Class Black Toilet was not merely free of an unbearable stench—it was actually rather clean, with no trace of anything at all.
Th-this, what was going on?!
"N-no, that's not right, that's not right!" The four lackeys rushed inside, utterly unable to believe their eyes. Looking left and right, they could not help gesturing wildly. "It was here, right here! These buckets were all knocked crooked, and the urine inside had spilled out everywhere, this..."
Then they looked at the Urine Buckets. They were filled to the brim, with no sign that any had ever been missing urine.
Th-this, had they run into a ghost?!
This was damned bizarre!
"No, impossible, this is impossible!" The four were horrified. They frantically surrounded Zheng Kaiming. "T-teacher, you have to believe us, believe us!"
Zheng Kaiming had already run out of patience. He gave the four a disgusted glance, but ultimately decided to handle the student matter more rigorously. "I'll give you one last chance. See if there are any other witnesses. Didn't you say the students of Class 28, First Year all knew about this? Let's go to Class 28 and see whether anyone will testify for you!"
The four exchanged glances, unease filling their hearts. Go to Class 28 for evidence? But they had offended Class 28 badly already. Who would still help testify for them?
They could only hope that the lingering might of Black Hand Hungry Tiger remained. When the time came, they would quietly threaten a few people and see if it still worked.
By the time they reached Class 28, it was nearly time for afternoon classes. About half the students had already arrived. When they saw Zheng Kaiming enter, the Trash Class students went silent as mice, like they had encountered a natural predator. But when they saw the four little bastards peeking around at the doorway, the Class 28 students immediately exchanged furtive looks and understood what was going on.
"I'll take up a little of everyone's time to ask a few questions. At noon, someone came to accuse your classmate Shi Tiexin, saying that during the break after second period this morning, he beat up Teng Chaoguo and four others." Zheng Kaiming swept his gaze around the room. "Did anyone see it?"
The boys and girls of Class 28 instantly looked upon those four guys with utter contempt. Fuck, when they bullied others before, they always had one trick after another, strutting around like they were some kind of goddamn gangsters. Now that they had been beaten, they ran to tell a teacher? They were simply the shame of delinquents! Compared with a tough, powerful man like Shi Tiexin, they were nothing but trash!
Everyone, Happy New Year! Though the characters in this novel fight and kill one another, in real life, only when everyone obeys rules and laws can everyone be happy and safe. Fair criminal law enforcement has no holidays. On the front line of prison supervision and reform, I am here for the New Year! I wish everyone a safe and worry-free New Year, and peace and happiness for a lifetime!
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