Yang Xiaowei and Principal Yang left the school. They thought that Lingling might have gone home, so they hurried to Liu Qiaozhen's house.
When we arrived at Liu Qiaozhen's house, the door was closed and locked from the inside.
"It's already 9:00 in the morning, are these two still sleeping?" Principal Yang said, patting the door hard.
"Liu Qiaozhen, Xu Benshan, open the door quickly!" Principal Yang shouted a few more times.
Xu Benshan and Liu Qiaozhen were busy too late last night. Liu Qiaozhen felt sore all over her body and fell asleep without getting up. Xu Benshan had just promised Liu Qiaozhen to live a good life yesterday. When he woke up and saw Liu Qiaozhen sleeping next to him, he fell asleep peacefully again.
At this time, Xu Benshan suddenly heard Principal Yang's voice and was so frightened that he stood up.
When he was a child, Xun Benshan did not study well and was very naughty. He was often scolded by Principal Yang. Until he grew up, he still had a shadow when he saw Principal Yang.
"Qiaozhen, get up quickly, it seems to be Principal Yang's voice!" Xu Benshan pushed Liu Qiaozhen.
"What is Principal Yang, what is he doing here?" Liu Qiaozhen pulled the quilt over her head.
"Did Lingling not go to school? He came to find Lingling!" Xu Benshan said.
"How is that possible? Zhang Shuisheng and his wife will definitely send her there!" Liu Qiaozhen said angrily.
Seeing that Liu Qiaozhen was not moving, Xu Benshan had to get up and go to open the door cautiously.
"Yang...Principal Yang, are you okay?" Xu Benshan looked at Principal Yang with a smile.
"What time is it? Still sleeping!" Principal Yang glanced at Xu Benshan and said angrily.
"Haha, I got up a little late this morning!" Xu Benshan said humbly.
"Where is Liu Qiaozhen? Has Xu Ling come back?" Principal Yang asked.
"Lingling? No!" Xu Benshan looked around and said.
"Isn't Liu Qiaozhen here?" Yang Xiaowei asked hurriedly.
"Here...here...I'll call her!" Xu Benshan said, walking inside.
Liu Qiaozhen continued to cover her head with the quilt. Xu Benshan lifted the quilt and said, "Get up quickly. Principal Yang and Teacher Yang are here. Ask Lingling if Zhang Shuisheng didn't send his children to school!"
Liu Qiaozhen sat up and muttered: "Wang Cuizhi kept saying thank you to me and that she would take good care of the children, but I didn't expect it to be so unreliable!"
When Liu Qiaozhen got dressed slowly and went out, she saw Yang Xiaowei and Principal Yang standing in the yard with serious faces.
Seeing Liu Qiaozhen coming out, Yang Xiaowei hurried over and said anxiously: "Isn't Xu Ling back? Why didn't you answer my phone call?"
"What do you mean? Lingling didn't go to school today?" Liu Qiaozhen asked.
"He went and disappeared again!" Yang Xiaowei whispered.
"What do you mean by going and disappearing? Teacher Yang, can you please explain clearly!" Liu Qiaozhen took Yang Xiaowei's hand and said.
Principal Yang stepped forward and said, "It means Xu Ling left the school. Let's ask her if she has come home?"
"No, the child hasn't come back!" Liu Qiaozhen was anxious.
"Then think about it, where can the child go? Such a young child shouldn't be able to go far!" Principal Yang said.
"Yes, it must be your relative who sent the child this morning. She said you had something to do, and she has been sending it to you these past few days. Lingling told her classmates that she missed her mother!" Yang Xiaowei recalled.
"Yes...it's the child's aunt!" Liu Qiaozhen said guiltily.
"Then where do you think the child will go? Let's go find him quickly!" Principal Yang said hurriedly.
Xu Benshan handed Principal Yang a cigarette unhurriedly and said, "It's okay. I'll be back in a while. The village is so big, where can she go?"
"Nonsense, Xu Benshan, let's go to the east end of the village to look for him. Yang Xiaowei, you and Liu Qiaozhen go to the clinic to look for her. She may have gone to the clinic to look for you!" Principal Yang said and walked out. Xu Benshan did not dare to neglect. , also busy walking out.
The clinic is in the west of the village, next to a river. People in the village have to cross a bridge to get to the clinic. This river is the main river for irrigation of the entire village, and the water is fast.
Before Yang Xiaowei and Liu Qiaozhen reached the river, they heard someone shouting: "Someone fell into the water, someone fell into the water!"
When Yang Xiaowei and Liu Qiaozhen ran to the river, they saw some people gathered on the river bank, and Lingling was lying on the ground wet.
"Lingling, Lingling!" Liu Qiaozhen knelt on the ground with a pale face, pressing Lingling's chest hard.
"Lingling, Lingling, wake up!" Yang Xiaowei also shouted.
On their way to find their children, Principal Yang and Xu Benshan heard someone say that someone had fallen into the water by the river, and they hurriedly ran to follow them. All along the riverside, they could only hear Liu Qiaozhen's heartbreaking cry.
Principal Yang quickly took out his mobile phone and called 120. He had been the principal for decades and had never had any accidents. He was retiring next year and had never had any safety accidents. He prayed silently in his heart that nothing would happen!
When 120 arrived, Lingling was no longer breathing, her heartbeat had stopped, and everything was too late.
Yang Xiaowei fell to the ground. An hour ago, she taught Lingling not to be too squeamish. Unexpectedly, Lingling was now a cold corpse.
Liu Qiaozhen hugged Lingling tightly and cried: "Lingling, Lingling, you can't abandon your mother!"
Xu Benshan came to pull her, but she pushed him away, pointed at Xu Benshan and said: "Xu Benshan, are you happy and satisfied this time?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? Lingling is also my daughter, and I am very sad that she died!" Xu Benshan whispered.
Liu Qiaozhen got up from the ground and looked at Yang Xiaowei and Principal Yang fiercely. Suddenly, she grabbed Yang Xiaowei by the collar, beat her, and said: "Yang Xiaowei, you pay for my daughter, you pay for my daughter, I will hand over the child properly." How could she fall into the river in your hands!"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Yang Xiaowei stood stunned and let Liu Qiaozhen beat her.
Xu Guoqing and Duan Yu were at the village committee. When they heard that someone fell into the river and drowned, they also ran over. They happened to see Liu Qiaozhen beating Yang Xiaowei. Duan Yu hurriedly stepped forward, pushed Liu Qiaozhen away and said, "What are you doing?" ?”
Liu Qiaozhen didn't stand still and cried loudly: "My poor child, why did you die like this? Mom will not let you die in vain!"
Everyone present shed tears and pointed at Yang Xiaowei and Principal Yang.
"Parents send their children to school, but the school can't even guarantee safety. It's so hot!"
"The new teacher is young and can't even look after a child, so what else can he do!"
Everyone was talking about it. Xu Guoqing looked at Xu Benzhan. He didn't know what happened, but Lingling's death was a great thing for Xu Benzhan.
When Xu Benshan saw Xu Guoqing looking at him, he hurriedly pulled up Liu Qiaozhen and started crying: "My poor child, how do you want your parents to live?"
Seeing that the scene was a bit out of control, Xu Guoqing hurriedly walked over and said loudly: "Fellow folks, the police will investigate what happened today. Please don't make any comments until the matter is cleared up."
Now that the village chief had spoken, everyone said nothing more and quietly watched the police survey the scene.
People who accidentally drowned cannot be carried back to the village, and children like Lingling cannot even be buried in the ancestral graves of the Xu family. They can only find a small mound for burial.
The village organized people to build a small shed by the river, and Lingling's body was temporarily placed there.
Liu Qiaozhen's whole body collapsed. She couldn't figure out why Lingling turned into a cold corpse today even though she sent the child to Zhang Shuisheng's house yesterday. Lingling was still fine.
She had a hundred questions in her mind. Did Zhang Shuisheng say something to Lingling? Or did Zhang Shuisheng beat and scold Lingling? The more she thought about it, the more confused her mind became. It seemed that there was no room for a little person like Lingling.
"Why? Why? Lingling, mom, I'm sorry for you!" Liu Qiaozhen thought about it, then threw herself next to Lingling's body. Her small body was only wrapped in a small straw mat.
"Dr. Liu, don't be like this. Lingling is dead. You have to take care of yourself!" Yang Xiaowei knelt beside Lingling's body and cried.
"Retirement community, tell me how Lingling got out of school!" Liu Qiaozhen grabbed her and asked.
"We have finished military training today..." Yang Xiaowei was interrupted by Principal Yang before she could finish her sentence.
"Yang Xiaowei, it's cold at night, you should go back to the dormitory and sleep!" Principal Yang was followed by Zhang Qinli.
"Xiaowei, let's go, I'll go back with you!" Zhang Qinli came over and helped Yang Xiaowei up.
"Dr. Liu, people cannot be resurrected, please forgive me!" Zhang Qinli said, pulling Yang Xiaowei to leave.
"You can't leave!" Liu Qiaozhen grabbed Yang Xiaowei, "How could you leave like this? It was you who killed Lingling!"
Yang Xiaowei trembled all over and said, "It wasn't me, it wasn't me who killed Lingling!"
"Liu Qiaozhen, don't talk nonsense. Yang Xiaowei, you go back and rest first. I will handle the things here!" Principal Yang waved his hand and asked Zhang Qinli to help Yang Xiaowei leave first.
Zhang Qinli still wanted to drag Yang Xiaowei, but Principal Yang stopped her, "Liu Qiaozhen, the child's body is still here, do you have to make a scene here?"
Liu Qiaozhen looked at Principal Yang, then knelt down in front of Lingling's body. Principal Yang waved his hand again, telling Zhang Qinli and Yang Xiaowei to leave quickly.
After Yang Xiaowei and Zhang Qinli left, Principal Yang sat down in front of the shed, looked at the long river, and said, "Liu Qiaozhen, I also asked some villagers today why Lingling came here. You also know that she came to find you. No." Be careful of falling into the river!"
"Principal Yang, are you saying this to shirk responsibility? Did Lingling leave your school?" Liu Qiaozhen said angrily.
"Liu Qiaozhen, why did Lingling leave the school? Do you dare to answer?" Principal Yang also knew a lot about Liu Qiaozhen and Zhang Shuisheng. He felt something was wrong when Wang Cuizhi sent Lingling to study this morning.
"The child left school, you ask me why? How did I know?" Liu Qiaozhen's eyes were in a daze.
Principal Yang stood up, pointed at Liu Qiaozhen, and said: "Liu Qiaozhen, there is no need for you to hold on to Yang Xiaowei. You can't answer. I'll answer it for you. It's just because you want to send Lingling away and don't want her anymore that Lingling ran away." Come out to find you!"
"You're talking nonsense, you're talking nonsense!" Liu Qiaozhen shouted.
"You know in your heart whether what I said is the truth or not. If you don't give in, then I have no choice but to tell everyone the truth of some things!" After Principal Yang finished speaking, he stood up and left.
Although he has been a principal for decades and has never encountered the situation that he will retire next year, he does not want to ruin his reputation for the rest of his life because of this incident. Besides, today's incident has nothing to do with Xu Jiahang. If his name hadn't been Xu Jiahang, Xu Jiahang wouldn't have locked the door, and Lingling wouldn't have had the chance to leave school.
Xu Jiahang has not yet changed his career, and his future cannot be affected by this incident, so he must first explore Liu Qiaozhen's background.
Zhang Qinli and Yang Xiaowei returned to the dormitory. Yang Xiaowei was still shivering. Zhang Qinli worked longer hours, but she had never encountered such a thing before. Whether this matter is big or small depends on the attitude of the family members.
"Xiaowei, have a good sleep and don't think about anything. The sky won't fall!" Zhang Qinli comforted her.
"Teacher Zhang, it was me who harmed Lingling, because I didn't take good care of her!" Yang Xiaowei cried.
"Nonsense, Xiaowei, don't blame yourself for everything. What does it have to do with you that Lingling ran away on her own?" Zhang Qinli said seriously.
"No, Teacher Zhang, I have a responsibility, I have a responsibility!" Yang Xiaowei's body was shaking violently. She thought of Lingling's little body again, so small. How scared she must have been at that time!
"Yang Xiaowei, let me tell you again, Lingling ran out on her own and it has nothing to do with you. From now on, don't meet Xu Ling's family alone and talk less!" This is what Principal Yang told Zhang Qinli to tell Yang Xiaowei.
Xu Benshan went home to prepare for his funeral. Xu Guoqing also came to Xu Benshan's house. He knew the ins and outs of the incident. This incident not only involved Principal Yang, Yang Xiaowei, but also his son Xu Jiahang. He could not sit idly by and ignore it.
"Benshan, what do you think?" Xu Guoqing asked.
"I don't care. The child was originally going to be sent away. This is not a good idea. It saves trouble!" Xu Benshan lit a cigarette and said.
"Yes, this is of no harm to you. You should comfort Liu Qiaozhen now and tell her not to make trouble again. If she makes trouble and exposes Lingling's life experience, it will be of no benefit to anyone!" Xu Guoqing whispered.
"But if such a big living person dies, there has to be an explanation, right? The school?" Xu Benshan is not stupid. If this matter is investigated, the school will be blamed.
"There must be some theory. Haven't all students bought insurance now? The insurance company will be able to pay a sum of money, and the knot in your heart will be solved. From now on, you and Liu Qiaozhen will live a good life and build a small building. Beautiful!" Xu Guoqing analyzed.
"But if you insist on making trouble and refuse to let me go, you will have to file a lawsuit. Think about it. If you file a lawsuit with the school, you and Liu Qiaozhen will have to have children in the future. How will your children face the school teachers in the future? What if If a commotion breaks out, the police will definitely investigate. Why was Wang Cuizhi the one who sent the child off in the morning? Can you explain it clearly?" Xu Guoqing continued.
Xu Benshan felt that what Xu Guoqing said was very reasonable. This was related to his own face. If Lingling died, he would die, and he would still have to live in this village!
