Lin Shuyue's eyes fell on the two of them. Both of them were very beautiful. The girl with short hair was youthful and bright, as energetic as a sunflower, while the other one had long black hair with bangs, beautiful looks and a slender figure. They were two completely different types.
Bai Fuan frowned when he saw them. "Xu Simiao, Liu Shuqing, we take the issue you raised very seriously. Last time, we also retrieved the surveillance footage of the day you thought someone was following you. You were there at the time and watched it, and there was nothing unusual, right?"
"During this period, the school's security has also been increased, and the teachers have also organized patrol teams, but we really haven't seen anyone unusual."
Bai Fuan was quite troubled. Xu Simiao and Liu Shuqing were freshmen this year. They had been good friends since high school. After entering college, they studied the same major and lived in the same dormitory. They went in and out of the same dormitory together and had excellent academic performance.
Bai Fuan liked them quite a lot, but there was one thing. They had reported more than once that someone was following them. Bai Fuan certainly took this issue very seriously. He personally went to the monitoring room to check the surveillance footage of the places they passed that day, but found nothing, not even one abnormal person.
Xu Simiao is a girl with short hair. When she heard Bai Fuan say this, she was silent for a moment: "But teacher, we really feel like someone is following us. It would be fine if it was just my illusion, but Shuqing also noticed it."
"Yes, teacher, my feeling has always been accurate. There really is someone following us."
Bai Fuan rubbed his brows and said, "How about this, wait a moment, I'll go to the monitoring room to take a look, okay?"
When Xu Simiao heard Bai Fuan's perfunctory words, she was about to get angry, but Liu Shuqing immediately grabbed her. Xu Simiao glanced at Liu Shuqing and swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth.
"Thank you, teacher." Liu Shuqing knew that there was no point in talking any more. If she checked the surveillance camera, it would be the same as last time, and she would not see anything unusual. After she finished speaking, she took Xu Simiao outside.
Bai Fuan was not perfunctory to them, he really thought he should check the surveillance. After this, Bai Fuan no longer had the heart to chat with Lin Shuyue. Lin Shuyue glanced at the watch on her wrist. She had been out for quite a long time, so she was ready to leave. Bai Fuan waved at her and continued to work.
Lin Shuyue went downstairs from Bai Fuan's office. At the flower bed at the door, she saw Xu Simiao and Liu Shuqing who were having a conflict.
Lin Shuyue walked up to them and took the initiative to talk to them: "Xu, Liu, hello, I am a student of the Journalism Department from class 2000, my name is Lin Shuyue."
Xu Simiao and Liu Shuqing looked at each other, and the little conflict just now was instantly put aside. Xu Simiao became much more outgoing: "Hello, senior sister, we are Xu Simiao and Liu Shuqing from the class of 2004. We always hear teachers talk about you."
Lin Shuyue's work is really outstanding. Even in Pengcheng, the news she reports often goes viral. Many of her cases can cause a sensation across the country. Bai Fuan, as her mentor, is very proud of her. When teaching Xu Simiao and others, he would use Lin Shuyue as an example. As a result, Xu Simiao and others became very interested in Lin Shuyue's reports. Their class even specially asked someone to subscribe to the Pengcheng Metropolitan Daily.
Who among those who applied for the journalism department didn't have the ambition to become a famous reporter? Lin Shuyue had achieved such success at a young age, and she immediately became a role model for everyone to learn from. All the content she reported was the knowledge they discussed in their spare time, and Xu Simiao even wrote an article analyzing the people in Lin Shuyue's report.
When they first entered Professor Bai's office, they saw Lin Shuyue. After all, she was young and beautiful, and who wouldn't like her temperament? If it were any other time when they saw Lin Shuyue, Xu Simiao would have to be very excited to discuss her reports with Liu Shuqing, but unfortunately, now was the time when both of them were upset.
Xu Simiao glanced at Lin Shuyue and didn't expect that she was the Lin Shuyue that Professor Bai always talked about. She was so beautiful.
Lin Shuyue didn't expect Professor Bai to mention her in class, but now was not the time to talk about this. She asked the two of them, "Hello, hello. Just now I heard you say in the professor's office that you felt someone was following you, right? Can you tell me in detail?"
Xu Simiao and Liu Shuqing looked at each other again, and they both remembered the type of news that Lin Shuyue often reported, which were all criminal investigations. Maybe she could really help them?
So Xu Simiao said, "Yes, I started having this feeling last week. Whenever we go out, we always feel like someone is following us, but when we turn around, we find nothing."
As soon as Xu Simiao finished speaking, Liu Shuqing spoke up, "The strongest feeling for us was on Sunday night, when Simiao and I came back from a alumni gathering. It was already past nine o'clock. When we came out of the KTV, we felt someone behind us. At a corner in front of the school, we saw a shadow following us. When we arrived at the school, the shadow kept following us. When we were about to reach the dormitory building, the feeling disappeared."
Every school has an alumni gathering. Lin Shuyue had this alumni gathering when she was in college in both of her lives. One of Lin Shuyue's roommates in her previous life always had dinner and parties with her classmates from the alumni gathering.
When Liu Shuqing said this, she fearfully grabbed Xu Simiao's hand, and the two little girls trembled.
Lin Shuyue recalled the conversation they had just had with Bai Fuan in the office: "The teacher checked the surveillance for you, right? Didn't you see any suspicious people?"
Xu Simiao and Liu Shuqing shook their heads at the same time: "It would be nice if there was, but no."
The sun was too strong at noon, and the three of them walked outside while talking.
Xu Simiao and Liu Shuqing were going off-campus. Liu Shuqing had asthma and she had run out of her asthma medicine, so she needed to go to the hospital to get it.
Neither of them had classes in the afternoon, but as soon as they left school, the feeling of being watched appeared again, and they immediately ran towards Bai Fuan's office.
Lin Shuyue was not very old, and when she walked with Xu Simiao and the others, she looked like a student who had not yet graduated, and there was no sense of incongruity at all. She turned on the good and evil radar, and there was nothing wrong with it.
The hotel where she stayed was on the same road as the school they were going to. Lin Shuyue got on the bus with them. After getting on the bus, the three of them chose the last row unanimously.
Apart from the three of them, there was no one else in the big seat in the last row.
Lin Shuyue asked them quietly, "Do you still have that feeling of being followed?"
Xu Simiao and Liu Shuqing felt it carefully and shook their heads: "Not this time."
Lin Shuyue nodded, took out her phone and exchanged contact information with them: "If you still have that feeling, you can tell me."
Xu Simiao nodded, and then she said: "In fact, I am not the only one who feels that I am being followed. There is a post on the school forum that talks about this matter."
Lin Shuyue asked in detail about the name of the post
She decided to take a look at the content when she get back.
Xu Simiao and the others got off the car before Lin Shuyue at the hospital they were going to. After getting off the car, the two did not leave, but stood outside the car and waved goodbye to Lin Shuyue.
When she returned to the hotel, Lin Shuxing was still sleeping. With the minimum temperature at 16 degrees, she felt particularly comfortable sleeping.
Lin Shuyue went to the bathroom to wash her face, washed off all the sweat on her face, returned to the hotel table, turned on the computer, entered the URL of the Yangcheng School Forum, and quickly logged in.
Lin Shuyue entered the keyword on the homepage and searched for the post.
The post was made by a sophomore female student in the Foreign Languages Department. According to her, she has always said that she was being stalked, and her statement was similar to Xu Simiao's.
There were also many replies under her post, and most of them were from girls. Some people, like Xu Simiao and the others, went to their own tutors to check the surveillance footage, but still found nothing.
The post had more than 50 posts, but with no follow-up from the British and American media, it gradually sank. Lin Shuyue saw the last reply was last month.
Lin Shuyue logged into Penguin. Ten minutes ago, there was a message from Hang Jiabai. He had already returned from Shancheng. His mission was very successful and he was not injured at all. It was just that he was very busy after returning, and Lin Shuyue was also busy. The two had not met, but they still chatted frequently on Penguin.
But judging from the time the two spent chatting, a chat software with instant replies turned it into a message board.
Just like now, Lin Shuyue sent a reply message, ten minutes have passed, and Hang Jiabai didn't move. Lin Shuyue didn't care, she lay down on the bed, and fell asleep in the soft bed in a moment.
When she got up, Lin Shuxing was gone. Lin Shuyue got up and washed her face, and then Lin Shuxing came back.
"I was just about to wake you up. Come on, hurry up. It's time to go there." Zeng Xiaoyi and others have to register at 2:30 this afternoon. After registering, it was time for them to show their talents. After the show, the judges would give scores on the spot. If successful, there would be a formal competition the day after tomorrow.
This is similar to Mango TV's Super Girls talent show, but also a little different. This singing program is open to men, women, young and old. The auditions started a month ago, using a video audition model. Those who succeed in the auditions will be interviewed and selected starting today, and the selection will last until tomorrow night.
When Lin Shuyue and her family arrived at the entrance of the provincial TV station, they saw a huge sunshade had been erected on the open space outside the station. There was a stage, seats for judges, and the lights on the stage were also very bright. Many people with dreams of music came.
Some of them were sitting on seats under the awning, some were outside, some were holding guitars and other musical instruments, some were very nervous and were still singing quietly.
Lin Shuyue and the others found a seat and sat down, while Zeng Xiaoyi was taken to the registration office in front by her music teacher Wang Xiaowan.
After Lin Shuyue and the others arrived, more people came one after another.
It was not until five o'clock that the organizer drew up a performance program based on the order of registration. Lin Shuyue and the others arrived early and were the tenth.
Zeng Xiaoyi was very nervous and kept taking deep breaths, while Lin Shuyue and the others kept comforting her. During this time, a camera was filming them, and Lin Shuxing even made a "yeah" gesture towards the camera.
Each person had one minute to perform without accompaniment. The judges scored very quickly, basically stopping the performance after singing two sentences and replacing it with the next person. Therefore, it was soon Zeng Xiaoyi's turn. Among the nine people before Zeng Xiaoyi, three were left and six were eliminated.
Except for the Mid-Autumn Festival party, it was Zeng Xiaoyi's first time to sing in front of so many people. She was a little scared. After going on stage, holding the microphone, she subconsciously looked for the position of Lin Shuyue and the others.
Lin Shuyue and the others waved at her. Zeng Xiaoyi smiled, then began to introduce herself and talked about the song she was going to sing. This time she sang an English song with a high pitch and many vibratos.
After the judges called the start, Zeng Xiaoyi closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and then opened her eyes and the singing came out. Her voice seemed to have its own accompaniment. Her pronunciation was exceptionally clear, and the transitions and high notes were also handled perfectly.
One of the judges stopped spinning his pen, and the noisy audience quieted down for a moment. After Zeng Xiaoyi finished singing the chorus, she stopped, and Lin Shuyue and the others started to applaud, followed by the three judges. After a brief discussion, they gave Zeng Xiaoyi a good score of 9 points, which meant that she had advanced and would be able to participate in the official competition the day after tomorrow.
Zeng Xiaoyi advanced and everyone was very happy. They didn't plan to wait for the next interviewees and decided to go eat something first.
There is no winter in Guangdong Province. Today, the temperature is still over 30 degrees. They went to the edge of the Pearl River and found an open-air barbecue restaurant. They ordered some food and some wine. Wang Xiaowan, as Zeng Xiaoyi's teacher, has been providing free training to Zeng Xiaoyi during this period. Lou Fengqin is very grateful to her. It is not easy for a teacher to achieve this. She took the initiative to toast her with several glasses.
Wang Xiaowan drank it all. After spending a long time with Zeng Xiaoyi, she also knew about Zeng Xiaoyi's affairs. Her parents didn't care. Because she said a few words casually, she was thrown into an Internet addiction school by her parents. After she graduated from the school, she was almost married off by her parents. If she hadn't found a godmother, she wouldn't have been able to finish her studies.
Wang Xiaowan had always felt that Zeng Xiaoyi's godmother was particularly good to her. This time, the feeling was even more obvious. Lou Fengqin treated Zeng Xiaoyi no differently from her biological parents.
Who doesn't like a good person? Wang Xiaowan was the same. In just a short while, Wang Xiaowan had already called Lou Fengqin "sister", and Bai Wenhua naturally became her brother-in-law.
It was hot all day, and even the wind was hot elsewhere, but it was different by the river. The wind carrying the heat wave became cool when it reached the river.
The sky gradually darkened, the neon lights on the riverside lit up, and the ferry sailed across the Pearl River with a roar.
In such family outings, Lin Shuyue always played the role of taking photos. She took a lot of photos for everyone. When Bai Wenhua and Lou Fengqin were taking individual photos, a ship was passing by behind them. A wedding was being held on the ship. The entire ship was covered with white and pink balloons. On the deck, a newlywed couple pledged their lives to each other in front of an arch made of white and pink roses.
Because of the appearance of this ferry, more and more people came to hold the railings on the river bank to watch the excitement.
Wang Xiaowan looked at the ship sailing away with envy: "How romantic."
There is no woman who doesn't like romance. Lin Shuyue turned around and saw that except Bai Pingping, everyone else, from Zeng Xiaoyi to Lou Fengqin, had longing in their eyes.
Lin Shuyue sighed and patted Bai Pingping's hand. Bai Pingping smiled at Lin Shuyue.
After eating and drinking, Bai Wenhua paid for the boat tickets and took everyone on a ferry for a trip on the river. After returning, Bai Wenhua drove them back to the hotel. During this time, everyone kept talking.
Lin Shuyue returned to the hotel, and Lin Shuxing went to wash up first. She turned on the computer and sorted out today's photos. Before she finished, Xu Simiao's message came.
They stayed outside this afternoon and had a hot pot meal after dark before returning. They were in a good mood because they did not feel the sense of being watched, but all this changed after they returned from the library, and the sense of being watched became inseparable again.
But as usual, they looked back and didn't see anyone suspicious.
Xu Simiao also sent the post on the forum about the feeling of being spied on. In the afternoon, someone replied to the post, saying that they were also being spied on.
Lin Shuyue frowned, replied to Xu Simiao, and then opened the dialog box with Bai Fuan.
Bai Fuan had just come out of the monitoring room. This was his second time to check the surveillance footage, but just like last time, he found nothing.
In the dormitory, after seeing the message sent by Lin Shuyue, his brows were tightly furrowed, and he simply called Lin Shuyue directly.
"We have seen this post a long time ago, and someone has reported it to the school leaders. We have already strengthened security in various parts of the school. I also checked the surveillance today, and there really is nothing unusual." If there is always someone talking about being spied on, there is a possibility that this person is lying.
But this matter is being discussed by several people, and these people have no connection with each other, and they don't even know each other. There are also men and women, so it's a big problem.
In recent years, schools across the country have attached great importance to student safety. At every school staff meeting, school leaders have emphasized this issue. Now that this inexplicable sense of prying has emerged, all the leaders and teachers in the school have taken it seriously, and even many professors and counselors have started patrolling day and night. But there is nothing unusual at all.
This made Bai Fuan and others very worried.
Lin Shuyue chatted with Bai Fuan for a long time. Lin Shuxing came out of the shower without disturbing her. She picked up her phone and went to the room next door of Bai Pingping and Zeng Xiaoyi.
Lin Shuyue had just hung up the phone with Bai Fuan when Hang Jiabai called.
"I just called you several times and your line were always busy. It's so late, why are you still so busy?" There was a tension in Hang Jiabai's voice that he was not aware of.
Lin Shuyue suddenly smiled: "I'm calling my teacher, are you not busy?"
Hang Jiabai knew who Lin Shuyue's teacher was. In fact, he had met Bai Fuan several times. Professor Bai Fuan was a classmate of his grandmother. After his grandfather passed away, he had been very close to his grandmother, Ms. Liu Wushuang, over the years, and seemed to be planning a twilight romance with her.
Hang Jiabai had no objection to his grandmother and Bai Fuan's relationship. After all, he was too busy at work, and his cousins, uncles, and aunts all had their own jobs, so it was difficult for them to have time to accompany his grandmother all the time. It was not impossible for her to find a companion.
However, he was a little confused about his grandmother's attitude. She often chatted with Professor Bai, and Professor Bai introduce his students to her. She obviously no longer accepted apprentices or instructed people, but she still made an exception for him. Even when she said she wanted to accept him, but she still didn't do that.
Sometimes when a group of cousins chat, Hang Jiabai and the others always talk about this issue.
Now, hearing Lin Shuyue talking about her teacher, Hang Jiabai followed up with the question: "How is Professor Bai's health?"
"The old man is fine and looks in good health." Speaking of this, Lin Shuyue suddenly remembered that she had not visited Liu Wushuang for a long time since she learned dubbing. She suddenly felt a little guilty and asked about her health.
With the two old men as the beginning, the two of them had more content to talk about. Lin Shuyue was on the balcony and took the opportunity to talk about what she had discovered today.
After listening to Lin Shuyue's words, Hang Jiabai said, "Generally speaking, in this case, the stalker must be someone in the school. The reason why your teacher didn't see anything unusual after checking the surveillance several times means that this person is very trusted by the school staff. In other words, he is inconspicuous."
Hang Jiabai took a sip of water and continued to analyze: "If it happened in school, then the person could be a teacher, a student, or a staff member of the school, such as a gardener, a cleaner, a dormitory manager, a cafeteria aunt, etc."
Hang Jiabai's analysis coincided with Lin Shuyue's idea. After she finished talking on the phone with Bai Fuan, she already had a vague idea, but her experience in this area was still not as high as Hang Jiabai's.
Lin Shuyue returned to the computer and told Xu Simiao about her and Hang Jiabai's speculations.
Xu Simiao replied quickly: "If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have noticed it. Now that I think about it, there were several times when we looked back and saw a cleaner cleaning from a distance. When we checked the surveillance, there were also cleaners. But the cleaners were all about the same age and dressed in the same uniform. I'm not sure if these cleaners were the same person."
After Xu Simiao sent this message, he quickly sent another one: "But sometimes when we are outside the school, we also feel that someone is following us. It can't be them, right?"
After Lin Shuyue read her message to Hang Jiabai, Hang Jiabai said, "Why not? Their students often go out, and faculty and staff can go too."
After Hang Jiabai finished speaking, he said, "It's like this. I went to have dinner with my grandma this afternoon. She said she was going to Yangcheng to attend an event tomorrow. I happened to be on vacation, so I should go with her. We can meet in Yangcheng then."
Hang Jiabai hasn't had a rest for three or four months. After finishing the follow-up matters of the funeral home, he can finally rest for two days. Originally, he planned to sleep at home during these two days, but now he thinks that it's still possible to go to Yangcheng for a walk. It happened that a classmate who worked in Yangcheng had his baby celebrated its one-month anniversary last month, so he had to go and see it.
The matter was settled. Once Hang Jiabai gave his second reason, Lin Shuyue couldn't refute it. Could she stop Hang Jiabai from being filial to his grandmother, or stop him from meeting his old classmates?
"See you tomorrow then?" Hang Jiabai said.
"See you tomorrow."
After hanging up the phone with a smile, Lin Shuyue chatted with Xu Simiao for a while. Xu Simiao was still very receptive to advice. The more she talked with Lin Shuyue, the more she felt that what Lin Shuyue said made sense.
After finishing a conversation with Xu Simiao, Lin Shuyue went to wash up.
It was almost eleven o'clock when she came out. Lin Shuxing had already returned and was sleeping soundly on the bed.
She turned off the lights, leaving only a night light on for Lin Shuxing to get up at night. She had been urinating a lot since she became pregnant with this child. She had seen a doctor and taken Chinese medicine, but it didn't help. According to the doctor, the pregnancy was compressing the bladder nerves, and this frequent urination would last until the baby was born.
It was a dreamless night. Lin Shuxing got up to go to the bathroom and Lin Shuyue didn't even know.
The next day, the family decided to visit various scenic spots in Guangzhou. Halfway through the tour, she received a call from Liu Shuqing in a tearful voice: "Senior, senior, Si Miao is missing. The phone call is not working. We searched every corner of the school but couldn't find her. When we called the police, they said that if the missing person had not been missing for more than 48 hours, they would not file a case."