When Xing Ye arrived, Zhang Feiming was being forced to take off his pants by several sports students from Class 9. They said they wanted him to see clearly so that he wouldn't use his little thing to chase girls.
These athletes have nothing to do with Xing Ye. They are simply his younger brother's younger brother's younger brother, and they are just doing things for money.
Seeing Xing Ye coming, the sports students immediately greeted him with smiles: "Brother Xing, you're here? We're helping you teach him a lesson."
The way of teaching a lesson is a bit childish. Do high school students play it like this?
"You guys go out first." Xing Ye said, "Guard the door and don't let anyone in."
"Okay!" Five tall and strong athletes walked out of the door and saw a short girl standing in front of the door. She looked quite ordinary.
"You're not here to see that kid Zhang Feiming, are you? It's useless. He dared to like our boss's girlfriend, so he's finished. The boss will probably teach him a lesson in a short while. You are not allowed to tell the teacher, otherwise..." A 1.9-meter-tall sports student clenched his fists at Cao Qian.
Cao Qian: "…"
Forget it, don't bully ordinary people.
In the men's restroom, Xing Ye cornered Zhang Feiming and asked bluntly, "Do you know Bai Xu?"
Zhang Feiming is very handsome and bookish, like a scholar who walked out of a story.
Liu Mucheng's parents both have good genes. She is beautiful and her relatives are also good-looking.
When Zhang Feiming heard Bai Xu's name, his face immediately turned red. He was fair-skinned and had no acne on his face. His blush was very obvious and could not be concealed at all.
"How did you know him?" Xing Ye was carrying someone on his back. Seeing that Zhang Feiming didn't say anything, he reached into his bag, as if he wanted to take out something to scare him.
Zhang Feiming gritted his teeth and said nothing.
"It doesn't matter. I know it even if you don't tell me." Xing Ye leaned against the wall, his expression not anxious at all, as if he was confident.
His reaction was so obvious just by mentioning Bai Xu's name. He is not very worldly-wise and cannot hide his emotions.
Xing Ye didn't need any evidence, so Zhang Feiming didn't need to say anything. He just needed to verify his guess.
Xing Ye: "You're good at drawing. Did you learn it in an extracurricular class? In the same interest class as Bai Xu?"
Zhang Feiming's eyes were full of surprise, and he seemed to not understand why Xing Ye knew this, and he was also tacitly agreeing.
The effect was very good. Xing Ye continued, "She is very beautiful, right? I saw her painting in the studio the other day. She looked like a goddess."
Zhang Feiming's expression revealed obsession at the right time.
"What do you think about me pursuing her?" Xing Ye said maliciously, "I'm rich and much better looking than you. She probably won't reject me. I heard she wants to study abroad and her family's financial situation is a bit poor. I wonder if she would be willing to sleep with me if I help her."
With every word Xing Ye said, Zhang Feiming's face turned redder. At the end, he couldn't hold it in any longer. He grabbed Xing Ye's collar and shouted, "She won't do that. She's not that kind of girl. She will only be with me!"
The boy, who had been quiet originally, suddenly began to tremble all over, like a madman, with incredible strength. Xing Ye couldn't help but tighten his grip on the electric baton at his waist.
"What's going on?" A group of sports students rushed in upon hearing the noise. Seeing Zhang Feiming actually yelling at Xing Ye, they immediately shouted, "You little brat, you're quite courageous! Do you think I'll..."
Xing Ye shouted loudly: "Cao Qian!"
Cao Qian rushed into the men's restroom, kicked the athletes out one by one, nodded to Xing Ye, and closed the door.
When he saw the sports student coming in, Zhang Feiming let go of Xing Ye, squatted on the ground and hugged his head. It seemed that he was often bullied.
This can also be indirectly proved from the attitude of sports students.
A boy with a gloomy personality, some inferiority complex, and paranoia that is almost pathological is too easy to manipulate.
A boy on a new moon night? Xing Ye had checked the date and found that the night before Liu Muqing's funeral was the first day of the lunar year, a new moon night.
"On the night of April 9th two years ago, you were keeping vigil for Liu Mucheng, right? You must have been more than one there that night. How did Bai Xu get into the mourning hall? Did you help her?" Xing Ye asked.
Zhang Feiming's pupils suddenly shrank, revealing a very frightened expression, as if what happened that night had quite a shock to him.
"Let's change the subject. Let's not talk about Bai Xu or that night. What kind of person do you think my cousin Liu Muqing is? She's very outstanding. Everyone I know praises her, saying that she has excellent academic performance. She can learn any subject quickly and is top-notch in everything. People often say, 'Look at Liu Muqing...'"
"She is she, and I am me!" Zhang Feiming suddenly shouted, "Why does everyone compare me to her? What do you mean I can't even compare to your sister? She's just a girl, and you're the eldest grandson of the Zhang family. You must be better than her. I don't want to memorize Tang poetry since I was four years old, I don't want to sign up for Olympiad classes, I don't want to learn calligraphy, I don't want to practice table tennis, and I don't want to learn painting. I don't want my life to follow Liu Muqing. I learn whatever she learns. I have my own hobbies. Why do I have to learn from her and be better than her?"
Xing Ye looked at him coldly: "Liu Muqing is dead, and your nightmare should be over. Why did you continue to harm her? She is dying with her eyes wide open, do you know that?"
"I didn't hurt her," Zhang Feiming said, holding his head as he sat on the ground. "I'm about to take the high school entrance exam, and my family asked me to take some time off to go to the funeral. They said my aunt and uncle fainted from excessive grief, and they were worried they wouldn't be able to stay up all night, so they asked me to help.
I still want to apply to the key high school she went to, which is such a difficult school to get into, why would she not let me go even if she died?"
He looked dazed, as if he could no longer feel Xing Ye, and spoke to himself.
Xing Ye guided him at the right moment: "When did Bai Xu contact you? After Liu Muqing passed away?"
Hearing Bai Xu's name, Zhang Feiming's expression became dreamy again, as if he saw his goddess: "Bai Xu, she is so beautiful and gentle. She was especially nice to me during the tutoring class. Every time, her grades would rank second and I would rank third. My family said to me that even if I couldn't compare to my cousin, I couldn't be third. No matter how I draw, I can't compare to them. At this time, Bai Xu told me that she noticed my difficulties and that she would only rank third in the future.
Since then, I really always got second place, and my family was not so harsh on me. Bai Xu is really kind. After my cousin died, she wanted to visit, but she said she was a friend of Lin Jingxue and was at the scene that day. She didn't dare to see my parents, so she asked me to help her go to see my cousin at night.
Of course I wouldn't refuse. After 2 p.m. that night, my aunt and uncle couldn't hold on any longer and were helped down the stairs. I was alone in the mourning hall, calling Bai Xu. She came in a red dress. She was so beautiful that day, her skin as white as snow. When she saw my cousin's body, she said... what did she say?
Zhang Feiming held his head, looking painful.
Xing Ye already had a general idea of what had happened, the only thing he didn't understand was what happened to the human head.
He took the head out of his bag, handed it to Zhang Feiming, and asked, "What is this? Why did you do this? And hide it in a basketball?"
When Zhang Feiming saw the head, his face changed. He snatched the head away, his eyes unable to focus. He murmured, "I want to give this head to my sister. I can't let her be without a head. Cousin, where is my cousin?"
He held the head and tried to run out, but when he saw the afterglow of the setting sun, he came back with the head in his arms and said, "No, my cousin can't see the sunlight. She can't see it. I have to find a place to hide her. Hide her. Where, where?"
Seeing Zhang Feiming about to throw the fake head into the toilet, Xing Ye quickly took out the things in his backpack and handed the bag to Zhang Feiming: "Hide it."
Zhang Feiming snatched the bag, stuffed the head into it, and hid in the toilet cubicle with the bag. No one called him and he would not come out until dark.
He is not a ghost, but he has experienced a major shock on the night of the new moon, so he becomes crazy on certain days.
Zhang Feiming fell in love with Bai Xu during the day. When he saw Bai Xu at night that night, he might have seen some exciting scene, which made him want to return the head to Liu Mucheng.
He envied and was jealous of his cousin.
Liu Mucheng is as outstanding as the sun, making it impossible for anyone to hide their shortcomings, and their shadows become darker in the sun.
This fragile little sun, which had not yet risen, died in the shadow of the wanton growth.
How sad.
Xing Ye didn't try to drag Zhang Feiming out of the toilet cubicle, so he just let him rest in there. Having been specially recruited into the school, he was under a lot of pressure, and some of the athletes bullied him, so Zhang Feiming wasn't happy.
When I walked out of the men's restroom, I saw Cao Qian picking up several athletes and beating them one by one, making them kneel on the ground and call for their grandmas.
"What's going on?" Xing Ye frowned.
Cao Qian: "They were talking dirty, so I challenged them to a fistfight to see whose fist was bigger."
Cao Qian waved her little fist, and several athletes were so scared that they huddled in the corner and screamed.
"Zhang Feiming's matter has been resolved. There's no need for you to interfere. Don't bully your classmates in the future," Xing Ye casually warned. "People who gain a sense of accomplishment by bullying those weaker than themselves on campus will have no future. Of course, if you're as rich as me, that's another story."
After saying that, he took Cao Qian out of the teaching building, carried a bunch of things and went to the supermarket to buy a bag.
Cao Qian: "…"
It sounds pretty cool, but wrapping a bunch of things in a school uniform shirt kind of ruins the image.
When Xing Ye took off his clothes to put the miscellaneous items and money in his backpack, he carefully placed a small mirror in his trouser pocket for fear that it would accidentally fall out.
After buying a new backpack and getting dressed, Xing Ye asked him, "What did you find out? What are you going to do next?"
After Xing Ye recounted the incident, he said, "Go find the principal."
Starting from the theft incident, there was one person involved in every incident, but his background seemed transparent. He was the principal.
When Liu Mucheng was falsely accused of theft, he did not expel her immediately, but let her drop out of school temporarily. This was actually a kind of protection for Liu Mucheng. After the incident was over and the rumors during the most difficult period were over, she could come back to school. When Liu Mucheng died accidentally, it was also him who deleted the surveillance video under the order of Lin's father, but this was also a protection for Lin Jingxue. After all, if a high school girl was really branded as a murderer, her life would be ruined. Concealing the matter of the male teacher in the Political Education Department was still protection. Hiring Aunt Zhang as a dormitory manager was to protect the girls in the dormitory building. After Xing Ye smashed the piano, the principal hinted to him to find a male teacher because he was afraid that Lin Jingxue would get entangled with Xing Ye, so he was still protecting her.
From beginning to end, the principal tried his best to protect the students and teachers of the school, but he was unable to prevent the tragedy from happening.
"He must know something." Xing Ye said.
It's so easy to find the principal. Didn't he smash the sports equipment and beat the teacher again?
Xing Ye went straight to the principal's office to surrender himself. The principal was almost bald, but a few hairs on his forehead stubbornly refused to become bald.
"Xing Ye, what exactly are you going to do?" The principal touched his forehead, feeling extremely worried. "Are you in your rebellious phase? What are you dissatisfied with? Let's talk about it. There's nothing we can't discuss."
Xing Ye gestured to Cao Qian to guard outside the door, then pulled over a chair and sat down opposite the principal with a more leadership air than he did.
"Let's talk about Bai Xu. We went to the girls' dormitory last night. Luckily, Aunt Zhang helped us escape. Otherwise, you would have seen another crazy student today." Xing Ye said, "You were the one who reminded me to go find the teacher from the Political Education Department. Why did you do that?"
The principal was originally furious, but after hearing Xing Ye's words, he collapsed on the chair like a balloon that had been punctured, and said weakly, "You know everything?"
"The only thing I don't know is how strong Bai Xu is now, and how much do you know about him, and what role does he play in it?" Xing Ye asked.
"I..." The principal opened his mouth, but still found it difficult to speak, so he closed it again.
"Lin Jingxue was liberated. I gave her the piano and let her meet Liu Mucheng. They are doing well together." Xing Ye said.
He was hinting to the principal not to try to hide it.
"Hey..." The principal finally gave up resisting. "You know everything. You should understand that Bai Xu is not easy to deal with. After the incident, I wanted to expel her, but she...she was like a madman, biting her fingers constantly, eating the flesh on her hands, and the flesh would grow back immediately. She told me that she would never leave this school, not until she defeated Liu Muqing and Lin Jingxue and became the number one.
I thought, "The person is dead, what are you still fighting for?" But she was so terrifying, so incredibly strong, that I realized she was no longer human. There was nothing I could do but let her stay at the school. Over the past two years, I've sought out many masters to exorcise the demon, but they were frightened away by the sight of the girls' dormitory and the white fluff during the day. Only one master once told me that the only person who can untie the bell is the one who tied it. The only one who can defeat the brain-eating demon is the person she once feared as a human.
The principal's words can be said to have brought everything together, explained the doubts, and provided clues on how to defeat Bai Xu.
The "Requiem" left behind by Lin Jingxue after her salvation, and Liu Mucheng who got her own scroll, are the only ones who can get rid of the white fluff.
"Why did you tell me about the Political Education Department? Didn't you want to help that teacher keep it secret?" Xing Ye finally asked.
"Hey, with him like this now, do you think he's still human?" The principal shook his head. "I wanted to protect everyone, but I didn't expect to protect anyone. Instead, I hurt everyone. Teacher Qi... he's the male teacher in the Political Education Department. It's good to put that matter to rest."
"Okay," Xing Ye nodded, "If nothing unexpected happens, the matter will be resolved tonight."
He walked out of the principal's office and said to Cao Qian, "There are still two hours left. During this time, try to find as many QR codes as possible to increase your combat power."
As he spoke, he took out the small mirror from his pocket again and fixed his hair in front of it.
Cao Qian: "…"