"Oh, this definitely doesn't exist. This is too ridiculous."
"This has never happened in our school!"
"..."
After a survey of teachers of all grades, it was determined that there were no pregnant girls going to school that year and in the past few years.
In other words, if the woman they were investigating was once a student of this school like the deceased, she could only be a student who had dropped out.
So between five and four years ago, girls who dropped out of this school became the main targets of their investigation.
The investigation team found the principal of the school, retrieved the students' files, and obtained a list of students who dropped out of school that year.
There are not many people who drop out of school. This is a prefecture-level city after all, and it is rare for parents to let their children drop out of school.
On the dropout list, there are eight people from the junior high school and two from the high school.
Based on the retained registration information, they found the phone numbers and home addresses of these students' parents, and conducted interviews one by one.
But it didn't go well.
Many of the mobile phone numbers that can be checked in the school are from five years ago, and only half of the people still use them.
As for the original registered home address, only three families are still there, and the others have followed their parents to other cities.
After investigating those who had moved, the bureau sent police officers on separate missions to investigate.
There was another family who couldn't find out where they lived. This family seemed to be deliberately concealing their address. Neighbors said they left in a hurry, and it was suspected that the girl in that family dropped out of school because she was pregnant.
It was a high school dropout girl named Chen Yusha. She undoubtedly attracted the attention of Shi Ran and others.
She is the only student whose home address has not yet been found.
Five years ago, she had just turned sixteen and was in the first year of high school. Why did she suddenly drop out of school and hear nothing from her?
According to neighbors, she was suspected to be pregnant, but they were not sure because the family lived in seclusion that year and their whereabouts were secretive.
Less than a year after the girl dropped out of school, the family moved away without saying goodbye to anyone, and the house was sold at a low price.
However, he didn't know where the family had moved for a while and needed time to search. Shi Ran focused on the girl named Chen Yusha.
Five years have passed, and she should be twenty-one years old now.
Everyone in the team was sent out, while Shi Ran and Ling Qian were responsible for investigating the families staying in J City.
The situation of the two families in front is relatively simple. They don’t have that much money anymore and they don’t want the girls to continue to go to school. They feel that if the girls study too much, it will be of no use to them. In the future, they will belong to other people’s families, so they will go to school. The opportunity is left to the son and the daughter to drop out of school.
Girls who dropped out of school were sent to work in the factory here. Like Tang Hanliang, they worked two shifts, working twelve hours a day and taking two days off a month.
And all the money they earned was stolen by their parents.
Shi Ran originally thought that this was a scene that only happened in rural areas, but she didn't expect that it would also happen in cities. She and Ling Qian looked at each other and sighed.
They went to the factory where their parents said the two girls had worked. After revealing their identities as police officers, they easily obtained their time clock records.
According to the memory of the factory leaders, they were not pregnant at that time and went to the factory as soon as they dropped out of school.
And those two girls are now married. They each gave birth to a fat boy a few years ago. They are a family of three, husband and wife, and only they themselves know whether they will be happy or not.
Everything has been checked out, and Shi Ran and Ling Qian are not going to bother them.
They stared outside the residential building where one of the girls lived for a while, and saw the girl carrying her child on her back, buying vegetables from the market and going home, preparing to cook, and waiting for the child's father to return after a tiring day at the factory. Eat at home.
It was obviously a normal life. Many people in this world, including Blue Star, lived like this, but Shi Ran suddenly felt very uncomfortable.
She looked at the smiling face of the girl who turned around to coax the child on her back, but she only felt sore in her heart.
Why, they seem to be bound by an invisible force that wants her to drop out of school, want her to be controlled by her parents, want her to marry, want her to have children, want her to cook, want her to wash clothes, want her to wander, want her to be like Leaves fall in the wind and stick wherever they are blown.
When she takes root and sprouts, and finally grows into a towering tree, a storm always comes, uprooting her and blowing her to an unknown place.
This is a feeling of being unable to control themselves. They have no way to control their lives and are bound by those invisible forces.
When she wants to talk about her suffering, she will see that everyone is the same.
When she opened her mouth to talk about her hardships, someone would say, "Who hasn't been through this before?" Everyone told her that life is like this.
So suffering became their daily life.
"Let's go, stop looking."
The car started and Shi Ran also looked away.
She no longer knew what she was looking at, nor how long she had been looking at it. It was already dark, a pitch black sky covered by thick clouds, without a trace of starlight or moonlight.
The windows of residential buildings on both sides of the street were dimly lit, and the light was not as bright as the street lights.
Shi Ran looked at the bright street lights. She liked these street lights. She would rather walk under these street lights forever than walk into those boxy boxes that did not belong to her.
Wherever she wanted to be born, she would take root and grow into a towering tree. If she was born in the east today, married in the west tomorrow, and died in the north the day after tomorrow, that would be impossible.
Even though she is as weak as a floating creature, she does not want to be controlled by any power. Just like in this strange world, the strange power can make her die, but Shi Ran will never give in, never admit defeat, and never compromise.
come! The weird power of pretending to be a ghost, you can kill me if you can!
Shi Ran screamed in his heart, and accidentally got too deep into the drama and yelled out, startling Ling Qian who was driving, and she quickly braked.
"Squeak!!!!"
The car stopped, Ling Qian held the steering wheel, turned her head and looked at Shi Ran like a fool, and said: "Are you suffering from the second grade disease? What are you yelling at? You scared me!"
Only then did Shi Ran come back to her senses. She brushed her hair twice and held her non-existent eyes, hiding her embarrassment through a series of actions.
"Sorry, I got too into the drama, haha, haha..." Shi Ran showed a very pious smile and apologized sincerely.
Ling Qian looked at her suspiciously again before stepping on the accelerator again.
Looking at the receding street scene, Shi Ran thought back to the three years when he was a failure at Blue Star.
Regret!
