There were further developments in the extortion case. Officers from the Public Security Bureau and police stations visited all the schools to investigate and gathered evidence from quite a few students.
Most members of the little gang were ethnic minorities, though some Han Chinese students were involved on the fringes, along with students inside the schools who passed them information.
Back then, there was none of that nonsense about saying nothing to protect the students' privacy.
The schools directly disciplined the students who had gathered intelligence for the gang and publicly announced their punishments. Unable to transfer schools, those students would have to keep their tails between their legs and their heads down for a good long while.
They had done it, so they could take the consequences.
Children back then were not so psychologically fragile. If they were wrong, they could admit it.
This counted as an early lesson in dealing with society.
Li Long took the opportunity to accompany Guo Tiebing and the others around the schools, mainly to learn about the situation and compile statistics.
He had been able to flesh out his previous proposals using his experience from two lifetimes, but that would not necessarily work now. This was an entirely new subject for him, so his data had to be very thorough.
Somewhat to his surprise, he heard a little story while investigating at No. 2 High School. An arrogant thug from outside the school had once come looking for a student to extort money from him.
As it happened, the student was well liked in his class, and the class monitor had been there too-a girl, at that. She had stepped forward and berated the thug. Unable to take the humiliation, he had shoved her, only for the whole class to chase him down