Detective Files II

Chapter 154 Such Parents
"Teacher Hou, right?" After confirming the victim's identity, Tian Mi didn't have time to greet Zhou Xiaoyue's class teacher Hou Qiang politely, and asked straight to the point: "Do you have the contact information of Zhou Xiaoyue's family?"

Hou Qiang nodded, went to the side of his desk drawer and took out an address book to look it up.

The director of the Political and Education Office explained to Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong: "In order to facilitate communication with students' parents, our school will uniformly record the contact information of students' parents at the parent meeting every semester. Easy to get in touch with parents."

After saying this, seeing Tian Mi looking at him with a smile that was not a smile, the director of the Political and Education Office realized how ironic it seemed to say such a thing when Zhou Xiaoyue was killed and the school did not respond, so he simply agreed. not talking anymore.

Soon, Hou Qiang found the contact number of Zhou Xiaoyue's parents, copied it and handed it to Tian Mi: "Is it me calling them, or you?"

At this time, get out of class was over, and when it was lunch break, students poured out of the classroom one after another, passing by the window of the grade office, many of them cast curious eyes.

"Is there a relatively closed space?" Tian Mi asked the director of the political and educational department.

The director of the political and educational department thought for a while, asked for a key from the grade director who was sitting on the side listening to them, and said to Tian Mi and the others: "Let's go, there is a small reception room on this floor, let's go talk there! "

After arriving at the small reception room and closing the door, Tian Mi said to Hou Qiang, "Teacher Hou should be responsible for making this call."

While talking, he glanced at Hou Qiang's sleeves intentionally or unintentionally.

Hou Qiang had no objection to Tian Mi's request, silently took out his mobile phone, dialed the number he found just now, and then adjusted the mobile phone to the speaker mode.

The phone rang for a long time before it was answered. It sounded noisy and chaotic. Judging from the background sound, it seemed to be in a restaurant.

"Hello?" It was a man who answered the phone, probably because he was not familiar with the calling number, and when he answered the phone, his tone was slightly impatient.

"Is it Zhou Xiaoyue's father?" Hou Qiang didn't have any special reaction to the attitude on the other end of the phone, his face was still expressionless, and his tone was not obvious: "I am Hou Qiang, Zhou Xiaoyue's class teacher."

"Teacher Hou? What's the matter? What's wrong with Xiaoyue in our family?" Hearing that the caller was her daughter's class teacher, Zhou Xiaoyue's father didn't become more patient, but became more irritable.

Moreover, from the tone of his voice, the father seemed unaware that his daughter hadn't returned all night.

Hou Qiang raised his eyes to look at Tian Mi, and silently asked for her opinion. Tian Mi reached out to take the phone, and said to Zhou Xiaoyue's father over there: "Who is Zhou Xiaoyue's father? Something happened to your daughter, please go to the Public Security Bureau in the afternoon."

"What's the matter? She beat someone up in a fight? Can I be private? I'm very busy!" Zhou Xiaoyue's father didn't feel any nervous after hearing Tian Mi's words, and even automatically decided that his daughter was in trouble: "If Go and call for a fine, and I'll find someone to go for me."

"Your daughter Zhou Xiaoyue was killed in the 21st Century Middle School last night. We need the family members to go to the Public Security Bureau to make a statement." Since the other party didn't know the truth of the matter, Tian Mi didn't want to pass the bad news on the phone early, but Helpless because Zhou Xiaoyue's father refused to cooperate, she had no choice but to tell the truth cruelly.

The other side of the phone stopped talking, and then the surrounding noise also subsided. It is estimated that the other party left the environment just now and went to a clean place.

"Hey, what did you say you were doing just now? You didn't call to mess with me, did you?" After a while, Zhou Xiaoyue's father spoke again.

Tian Mi sighed. Father Zhou's questioning made her more understandable this time, and she couldn't immediately accept the sad news of her relatives. This is a normal psychological reaction.

She repeated her identity again, and in order to convince the other party, she even reported her alarm number to him.

There was no sound from the phone for a long time. If the timer on the screen was not still beating, everyone would have thought that the other party had hung up. After a long time, Zhou Xiaoyue's father said in a trembling voice: "I Go now."

"Well, you should arrive at one o'clock. Also, please inform Zhou Xiaoyue's mother to come with you." Tian Mi guessed from Zhou's father's reaction that Zhou's father absolutely did not know about Zhou Xiaoyue's failure to return all night before, so could it be Because Zhou Xiaoyue's parents have relationship problems, otherwise even if he doesn't know, he should get the news from his wife.

There was a reply, and the phone was hung up immediately.

"Is there anything else we can do to help?" The director of the Political and Education Office asked a little bit sincerely. The person died on the campus of the school, and he was also a student of the school. The connection between them made the director feel pressured.

Tian Mi spread out the notebook and said to the two people sitting opposite her, "Then let's talk about Zhou Xiaoyue's situation."

Zhou Xiaoyue's natural situation has just been read by Tian Mi from her school file. The little girl is only a few months away from turning 16. It's no wonder that her personal information was not found before. Not only does she have no criminal record, she even has an ID card. None yet.

The head teacher Hou Qiang didn't say anything, and looked at the director of the political and educational department. The director cleared his throat in embarrassment and said, "Accordingly, the dead are the most important thing. I shouldn't say that, but since you want to understand the objective situation, I have no choice but to tell the truth." To be honest, Zhou Xiaoyue has always been a problem student in our school. Since the second year of junior high school, she has made up, dyed her hair, smoked, and skipped classes. Anyway, if she is arrested, she will definitely not be able to escape. She also made friends with a few socialites. The young man in the school was criticized by the school for blocking the way with those social elements and asking for property from the lower grades, and he made a serious mistake."

It seems that Zhou Xiaoyue is really a bad girl, Tian Mi turned her attention to the silent Hou Qiang: "Did Zhou Xiaoyue attend school normally yesterday?"

"No," Hou Qiang shook his head: "She didn't come to class all morning, and she didn't come until the afternoon. At least when I went to the class to check the situation when I first started class in the afternoon, she wasn't there anymore. .”

"I saw her when I went to inspect the classes at around three o'clock yesterday afternoon," said the director of the Political and Educational Office while pouting at Hou Qiang: "Hey, didn't I catch her not paying attention to class and sitting down?" What about putting on nail polish at the back of the classroom! At that time, it should be almost four o'clock, class will be over soon, right? Didn't I send her to your office?"

Tian Mi's eyes immediately returned to Hou Qiang. Hou Qiang covered his mouth and coughed a little uncomfortably, then nodded: "That's right. After the director sent her to the office, I criticized her a few words." , and urge her to study hard and not hang around outside all day long."

"and then?"

"And then I let her go."

"What time was it?"

"It's just after four o'clock. Because it's school time, I can't keep her too late, so I let her go."

"Then what time did you leave school?" Tian Mi asked again.

Hou Qiang frowned slightly, but didn't show much emotion, he just said, "I left around 04:30."

While talking, Hou Qiang's cell phone rang, he took it out to look at the number, nodded slightly to Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong, said "Excuse me, answer the call" and got up to go outside the door.

"We really can't do anything about Zhou Xiaoyue." Taking advantage of Hou Qiang's time to go out to answer the phone, the director of the political education department said bitterly to Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong: "You also talked to her father on the phone just now. The parents really don't care about their child's study and life. The child hangs out with people outside the school all day long, and seems to have a boyfriend with a yellow hair dyed head. This is a junior high school, and the nine-year compulsory Education, what can be saved must be saved, and what can be saved should not be given up, otherwise, based on her performance, it is actually enough to be fired!"

While Tian Mi listened to the director of the Political and Educational Office confessing her due diligence and scolding Zhou Xiaoyue for all kinds of wrongdoings, she listened to the voice of Hou Qiang talking on the phone outside the door.

Because there was a door panel, I couldn't hear him very clearly. I could only vaguely hear him talking about the car model, displacement and maintenance status, etc. with others.

After a while, Hou Qiang finished talking on the phone and opened the door again to return to the reception room. The long speech by the director of the political and educational department had just ended.

"Are you going to sell the car?" Lu Xiangdong asked Hou Qiang who was sitting down.

Tian Mi glanced at him, and thought that this man's ears were really not ordinary thieves, she sat a little closer to the door than him, but she didn't hear the reason, but he already figured it out.

Sure enough, Hou Qiang nodded in the affirmative to Lu Xiangdong's question.

"What model? What color?" Lu Xiangdong asked nonchalantly.

Hou Qiang looked at him suspiciously, and said, "Champagne Chevrolet. Does my car have anything to do with the case you want to investigate?"

"It's okay, I just happen to be planning to buy a second-hand car. I would like to ask in my personal name, what is the license plate? Do you mind if I take a look at the condition of the car when I leave later?" Lu Xiangdong said, looking at Tian Mi beside him, as if Suddenly realized: "Sorry, let's talk about business first, let's talk about buying a car later!"

Hou Qiang hesitated for a while, and told Lu Xiangdong the license plate number: "You can take a look at it later, and we can talk about other things when we have a chance."

"Then after four o'clock yesterday, you haven't seen Zhou Xiaoyue again?" Tian Mi asked, seeing that the two people on the opposite side shook their heads, and then asked, "Does she have any classmates who are close to each other in class or school? "

"No," Hou Qiang replied firmly: "She usually has fewer classes than when she doesn't. Most of her friends are from outside the school, and she rarely even talks to other students in class."

(End of this chapter)