Chapter 15: Jean, have you been fooled?
Today's St. Jones Middle School is not peaceful.
The new transfer students have brought many topics to the students. Whether it is the transfer students' grades, personality, or appearance, they are speculated and discussed. This is a normal situation - every time a new student comes, he will always receive more attention.
However, in this school, even the popularity of transfer students will not exceed one day. The heavy learning content and ever-present pressure enveloped every young person's heads. They quickly restrained the freshness and prepared to study in the dormitory or meet the challenge of evening self-study every day.
But strangely, another rumor appeared quietly.
I heard that the library on the other side of the back mountain is a bit lively today. The librarian who didn't know how to use a method to call the senior high school director and got angry in the library. It seemed that a student took the book away because he didn't register.
According to rumors, the old woman who had no one knew the name of the librarian even cut the clothes of the grade director Gene in anger. Gene was also angry, so he blocked the teaching building before evening self-study, as if waiting for the students who made a mistake to come to him.
"It seems like a transfer student..."
"Why did I hear it was from Class 2, Grade 3?"
"Anyway, there will be no one again today."
"I'm curious about what book makes the librarian care so much, and I'm calling Director Gene to arrest people."
"Will you be caught? Although I don't know the reason, I have to support the first-hand classmate... I hope it's okay."
"How can it be fine if it's all like this!"
In the classroom with lights on the teaching building, the students whispered to each other and shared the newly obtained gossip, all of which were excited, curiosity and worries. The night sky outside the window was dark and Director Gene's fat body was shaking in the corridor.
The most confused ones are Class 2 and Class 4. The former knows that there are no transfer students in his class, while the latter guesses who will be so bold and makes trouble on the first day.
When Yu Xing walked into the teaching building, he encountered such a strange atmosphere. He started eavesdropping from the first floor. When he arrived at his classroom, he had basically heard about the matter.
Director Gene was wandering around the corridor of Class 3 and 4 of Senior High School, like a patrol NPC with a set of established routes. The other deducers who came over couldn't help but turn their attention to Yu Xing.
Qu Yanqing smiled: "You did it?"
Zhao Mou endured: "What crazy thing did you do on your back?"
Zhao Yijiu: “…”
Wen Qinghuai: "Ah, are you just making trouble like Zeng Lai?"
Yu Xing felt very innocent about this. Although it was indeed his cause, he was still a little sad about his teammates' behavior that pointed the finger at him with a disagreement.
Why, is he not well-behaved enough in normal times?
"Don't show that expression. We left separately at noon. Your direction is the library, so don't make a quibble." Zhao Mou remembered very clearly, and mercilessly exposed his attempt to start the show, and then became curious, "What book is so important that it actually caused a conflict between the administrator and Director Gene. When we gathered at noon, we didn't see you bringing the book back."
Yu Xing raised his eyebrows and did not answer the question, but shrugged, "Who knows? It wasn't what I did."
Zhao Mou knew what he answered. Yu Xing must have been worried that Director Gene is coming to seek punishment now, so he cannot admit his crime in front of anyone.
They walked towards the classroom of Class 4 in Grade 3. Seeing them, the people in Class 4 suddenly became quiet. Class 3 and Class 5 on both sides were also joining in the fun and paying attention to the movements here. The students all responded this way. Director Gene certainly noticed the abnormality. When he turned around, he saw the five people who were transferred this time.
"I'm here just right, I'll ask you if I have something to do."
Director Gene stepped forward to them, stopped them from entering the class, then paused and said to Qu Xianqing: "You can go to the classroom first, study hard for evening self-study."
Qu Yanqing nodded gentlely: "Okay teacher."
After saying that, he had no spirit of sharing joys and sorrows. He turned into the classroom without any nostalgia and left the boys outside the door.
"So many people are discussing this, have you heard it?" The girl left, and the remaining four boys were all suspects. Director Gene's fat face no longer had the morning smile, but looked very strict.
"We heard it, teacher." They responded in a sparse voice.
"So, who is it? Who went to the library to steal something at noon?" Gene stood outside the door and asked the students in their classrooms who pricked up their ears and eavesdropped. They also wanted to know who the protagonist of this night gossip was?
"I don't know." The four boys' responses were still the same. In Director Gene's eyes, it was obvious that they were covering each other.
Gene sneered: "Very good, children of this age are loyal, right? I'll give you ten seconds. If no one comes forward to admit this, I'll let you all accept the punishment together!"
"Wait, teacher, it's not good to do this. Even if one of us violates the rules, the others are unaware of it and have to accept punishment?" Yu Xing looked puzzled, "Then, if I have not made any mistakes, I have no reason to punish me? Didn't it mean that St. Jones Middle School is a very fair school, and only those who make mistakes will be punished? Why did I just turn around for a day and feel that this is different from the news reports..."
Zhao Yijiu: “…”
I have seen a thief shouting to catch a thief, but I have never seen such a righteous person.
Moreover, such doubts were spoken out by Yu Xing in public, and Director Gene was speechless for a moment.
"Indeed, teacher, the punishment should be done on the basis of certain that they know each other and deliberately cover up, but we don't know anything. It seems a bit unruly to punish us like this?" Zhao Mou continued to speak with Yu Xing's rebuttal and pushed his glasses.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! "And maybe we are?" Yu Xing muttered, "What did the administrator say? What did you lose? Did he see the person who stole things in the past?"
Wen Qinghuai patted Yu Xing's shoulder and reminded: "When I walked over, I heard them say that the administrator was a lady, not a gentleman."
"Oh, then this question is still true. What did he say? What did he lose?" Yu Xing's expression became not very good. He seemed to have thought of something bad. "If I were punished for this, would it hurt? Will I be beaten to death directly?"
Director Gene heard their conversation and became more and more confused. He had seen students lie, but based on his experience, he could easily expose those lies, but the ignorance in these people's eyes did not seem to be fake, especially for the transfer student named Roy, who didn't even know whether the administrator was a man or a woman.
"Ms. Administrator said that this student went to the library at noon today. He was a face he had never seen before. He wrote about Class 2 of Grade 3 by himself on the information." Gene's expression showed no sign of relief. "I have already confirmed that Class 2 of Grade 3 is not called Class 2, and there are no transfer students. There are only five of you who transfer students in this wave, so the bad kids who steal things are among you."
"That means that when the thief entered the library, he used a fake identity?" Zhao Mou lowered his head and looked at Director Gene, who was short of him, with disagreement in his tone. "I don't understand very much. Since he used a fake identity, why can we doubt our transfer students? Could it be that everyone in this school has been to the library? They just need to take off their identity cards when they arrive at the library."
It is true that St. Jones Middle School is under great pressure to study, but not all students are very motivated to learn, and there are many people who have lost their motivation in despair. They only want to live one more day.
Such people will not go to the library.
In other words, the administrator's face is not necessarily the one who just came to school today.
"This makes sense." Gene found that the children were not willing to leave any effort to get rid of the blame, but they were very sincere, "but you are the most suspicious."
"Teacher, just ask the administrator to come out and recognize us." Yu Xing said, "Isn't this the easiest way? She has seen thieves, so she won't be able to recognize them."
His confidence was too obvious, making it impossible to extract a slight suspicion from it.
"And there should be only books in the library. What the thief secretly is the book?" Wen Qinghuai showed curiosity, "Is there any book that cannot be read directly, and it still needs to be stolen? Is there any banned books in our school? Why are banned books placed in the library?"
"How could a banned book appear in our St. Jones Middle School? But the library has always been in charge of the administrator. I don't know which book the thief stole, but the administrator said that this book is very important." Gene's thoughts were deviated. As he listened, he suddenly felt that what the children said made sense. "Ms. Librarian is unwilling to leave the library, so he can't come to identify it, um..."
"Since it is a very important book, we have just arrived on the first day, how could we know where this kind of book is in the library? Isn't this something that old students can only know?" Zhao Yijiu, the silent person among the few people, also raised a very powerful logical question at this time, as if the last straw that overwhelmed the camel, causing Gene to be completely fooled.
"There is a limit to wrongful accusation," Zhao Yijiu said coldly, "This afternoon, someone bullied Roy as a transfer student and kicked him on the table. Now someone steals things, and it is the first to blame us. If this school does not welcome transfer students, why not just say it."
He and Yu Xing learned that if they were not determined to encounter problems, they would make the other party feel guilty if they made the problem serious.
"You misunderstood." Gene touched the sweat that did not exist on his forehead. The students were always afraid of him because he could always find excuses to punish the students. This was the first time a student dared to go against him. The problem was that he really couldn't find the loopholes in these students, and he didn't have the chance to take the opportunity to punish them.
And after hearing what they said, he found that he was indeed a bit hasty. There were many doubts about this matter, and even the administrator's behavior was very strange. He was puzzled by the administrator's unwillingness to leave the library. He had never cared about it before, but now when he mentioned it, he suddenly realized that the administrator had not walked out of the library for a long time.
Banned books? She won’t really have any illegal operations in the library.
Sam, a transfer student, was right. These transfer students did not have the ability to know in advance where the books were placed. On the contrary, only old students who have been staying in school can do it. Could it be that this is really a stealing opportunity for the transfer student to have no identity cards and then blame the transfer student?
Director Gene's eyes swept across the faces of the four transfer students. Sam's indifference made him look like a difficult problem student, but he was very confident in this matter.
Winter and Derek had a calmness that was unrelated to their own affairs.
Roy looked very afraid of pain, and the fear hidden on his face Gene had seen many cowardly students, but with such a timidity, how could he steal a book and escape under the administrator's nose?
Well, it's not like it.
Just then, the bell that represents evening self-study rang, and the eavesdropping students all turned pale and bowed their heads silently to flip through the books. The whole school seemed to be much darker.
Gene eased his tone: "Evening study is about to begin. You can go in first. I will continue to investigate this matter. Because you are the only ones who don't have an identity card at noon, you must come and ask, don't take it to heart."
The four of them were finally able to enter the classroom.
Unlike when I first came, evening self-study has begun, and no one pays attention to them anymore. Even though they were a little confused when they came in, no one moved his eyes away from the book.
It’s like once they don’t pay attention to reading, they will be captured by the legendary ghost.
The class monitor of Class 4, Grade 3, Class 4, sat on the podium, replacing the teacher's teaching position. Evening self-study has always been like this, and the class monitor needs to sit on the podium.
Yu Xing walked to the last row and sat down beside Oliver. He noticed that Oliver's head was buried very low, and the distance between his eyes and the book was a little short, which was too close, making it difficult to believe that he could see the words in the book clearly.
Some of the other students were doing homework, and Yu Xing also took out the homework assigned by his physics teacher. He had not much left. There was nearly three hours of vacancies between the afternoon get out of class and the evening self-study in the evening, which was enough for him to finish all the homework in mathematics and physics. The reason why he left no writing was just to cover up during evening self-study.
After a while, Oliver slowly took out his homework. He put his curly hair backwards, revealing half of his sleep-deprived face. At this time, Oliver looked quite like a normal student, with his thin arms on the table, his pen tip moving, and he wrote very seriously.
Yu Xing looked at him with his light for a while, then looked at the white-haired girl in front of him. The white-haired girl finally stopped sleeping during evening self-study. When he came over just now, he took a special look at the white-haired girl's appearance. Like Ji Jingyi, who had a meeting with him at noon, she was actually an Eastern Host.
At this moment, Yu Xing could only integrate into the atmosphere of evening self-study first. He didn't believe it. The copy was turned on. Will the ghosts existing in this copy be well grasped by such a good attack opportunity in evening self-study?
Chapter completed!