Siheyuan: Relieve stress and relieve worries

Chapter 356 Shi Lei is injured
When Yan Jiekuang arrived at the school, the old security guard at the gate stopped him. Yan Jiekuang explained the situation, but the security guard stubbornly stopped him and refused to let him in. Yan Jiekuang was also having a headache. He thought about it and said he wanted to find Teacher Wen, who was Shi Lei's head teacher. He had met this gentle teacher during the parent-teacher meeting.

The old security guard was still as stubborn as ever, neither looking for someone for him nor letting him in. Yan Jiekuang was a little angry, but this was a school after all, and he couldn't argue with this old man. At this moment, at the foot of the wall far outside the school gate, Shi Lei's good friend who had gone to tell him the news waved to him.

Yan Jiekuang turned and walked towards the classmate. When he got close to him, the classmate said, "Uncle, let me go and call the teacher for you. I think the security guard may have received instructions from the principal."

Yan Jiekuang was very puzzled: "Why? My son wouldn't cause the principal to make such a fuss, right?"

The classmate said: "Shi Lei is unlikely, but one of the two students he beat up was the principal's grandson."

Yan Jiekuang suddenly realized what was going on and said, "No wonder, the atmosphere in this school is not very good. By the way, what is your name?"

The classmate said, "My name is Chen Shuai, and I'm Shi Lei's best friend. I'll go help you find the teacher right away." After saying that, he climbed over the wall.

Yan Jiekuang even supported him from below and said, "I'll treat you to a meal when this is over. Thank you, Chen Shuai."

Seeing that Chen Shuai had already climbed over, Yan Jiekuang went to the gate and waited again. The old security guard looked at him strangely but ignored him. The principal had ordered not to let Shi Lei's parents in, so there was nothing he could do.

After a while, Chen Shuai and Teacher Wen arrived at the gate. Seeing the anxious Teacher Wen, Yan Jiekuang greeted him. Teacher Wen responded and began to explain to the security guard. But no matter how Teacher Wen explained, the security guard refused to let Yan Jiekuang in.

Yan Jiekuang immediately became furious. He stared at the security guard and said, "If you don't let me in, I have reason to suspect that your school is illegally detaining me. If you don't let me in, I will call the police, and you will be an accomplice. Think about your fate."

The old man at the gate was a little nervous, but suddenly remembered that the principal told him that the child's parents were unemployed and had no background, so he stiffened his neck and said, "It's class time now, I have an obligation to stop some unscrupulous people from entering."

Yan Jiekuang looked at the infuriating gatekeeper, stopped talking, and turned to leave. Teacher Wen shouted, "Shi Lei's father, calm down. Wait a minute, I'll talk to the principal."

Yan Jiekuang turned around and saw Teacher Wen's anxious expression, so he said, "I'll wait for you for five minutes. If you don't show up in five minutes, I'll be rude to you."

Teacher Wen turned around and ran towards the teaching building. The gatekeeper glanced at Yan Jiekuang with disdain and ignored him.

Yan Jiekuang lit a cigarette and stood at the gate, staring at the teaching building in the distance. Yan Jiekuang vaguely saw someone in a room on the third floor staring at the gate.

After smoking a cigarette and not seeing Teacher Wen, Yan Jiekuang turned and walked towards a grocery store on the side of the road because he saw a sign for a public telephone hanging on the door.

Yan Jiekuang called Yan Jiefang and Principal Chen respectively to explain the situation. Yan Jiefang said, "I'll be there right away." He called Principal Chen because Shi Lei had consulted Principal Chen about the middle school he attended before, and Principal Chen strongly recommended the school. Principal Chen received Yan Jiekuang's call and was a little skeptical that a middle school principal could do such a thing as favoritism and fraud, but he didn't say anything and just said, "Okay, you go and keep an eye on it first, I'll take the relevant personnel to take a look."

Yan Jiekuang didn't take it seriously, and didn't know who the relevant person Principal Chen was talking about, so he turned back to the school gate to wait for his second brother.

After a while, a shrill alarm sounded. Yan Jiekuang saw his second brother getting off the first car, followed by seven or eight people, some of whom were still wearing police uniforms. Yan Jiekuang walked to the school gate, took out his work ID and showed it to the old man guarding the gate, then said coldly, "Open the door!"

The old man at the gate was also a little panicked, and hurried to open the door. Yan Jiefang turned around and said to the few people he brought with him: "Send two people to watch him and take his statement." After hearing this, the gatekeeper was completely panicked and kept shouting: "It's none of my business. It's the principal's request not to let Shi Lei's family members in. I, I can only listen to him."

The two plainclothes officers said, "Don't worry, let's talk slowly inside the room. You don't need us to use the handcuffs, right?"

The old man lost his previous arrogance and quickly shook his head and said, "No, no, I will cooperate."

The rest of the people followed the Yan brothers and went straight to the principal's office. Yan Jiefang asked, "Do you know where the principal's office is?"

Yan Jiekuang said, "It's the northernmost room on the third floor."

Yan Jiefang asked: "How did you know?"

"When I was waiting at the school gate, there was someone in that room staring at the gate." Yan Jiekuang said.

The group went directly to the principal's office and knocked on the door. A trembling voice came from inside, saying, "Come in."

Several people pushed the door open and went in. They saw a bald fat man sitting behind a desk. When he saw that they were police officers, he stood up and said with a smile, "What do you want to talk to me about? Come, please sit down, please sit down."

After saying that, he went to get the thermos from the cabinet next to him, apparently to pour water for several people. Yan Jiefang stopped him and said, "Don't be busy. I have something to ask you."

"Just ask me anything you want, I will tell you everything I know." said the bald fat man.

"What's your name? What's your position?" Yan Jiefang asked. A policeman sat down next to him and wrote it down in a notebook.

The fat man said, "My last name is Zhang, Zhang Benling, Ben means ability, Ling means leader. I'm the principal here." Seeing that several policemen had sat down, the fat man also sat down. But Yan Jiefang could see that Principal Zhang was a little nervous, with sweat on his forehead, which he kept wiping with a handkerchief.

Yan Jiekuang stood at the door of the office from beginning to end, and many teachers and students were already gathered outside the door.

Yan Jiefang asked: "Do you know Shi Lei? Where is he now?"

Principal Zhang kept wiping his sweat and said, "I, I know him. Where is he? Maybe he is in the classroom."

Yan Jiefang said to his two subordinates, "Go to Class 2 of Junior High School and ask some questions." Yan Jiekuang followed the two men and went to the classroom. He went straight to Chen Shuai and told him, "This is the police comrade I found. They will ask you a few questions. Just answer them truthfully. Don't be nervous."

Chen Shuai nodded, and one of them asked, "When did Shi Lei leave, and how did he leave?"

Chen Shuai stated the matter truthfully, and Yan Jiekuang listened carefully. He had only heard the general outline before. One of the policemen was taking notes.

It all started at lunch time. Shi Lei's lunch was prepared by Tian Guixiang. Every time, Tian Guixiang would find different ways to make delicious food for the children. The lunch box contained one box of rice and one box of vegetables. There were at least four kinds of dishes, two of which were meat and two were vegetarian. Shi Lei was also a generous person and always shared his food with a few good classmates at noon.

At noon today, Shi Lei invited Chen Shuai to have lunch together as usual. Chen Shuai was also very happy. He knew that the food in Shi Lei's house was delicious. He wanted to eat it again after the first time. The two of them took the lunch boxes from the boiler room and ran to the classroom. Along the way, Chen Shuai kept praising Shi Lei for his delicious dishes. Just when they were about to reach the teaching building, two students stopped them.

Chen Shuai knew one of them, who was the principal's grandson and a junior high student. The two pointed at Shi Lei and asked him to hand over his lunch box. Shi Lei didn't know them, so he said, "Why? Are you trying to rob us?"

The grandson of Principal Zhang said, "We respect you by eating your food. What's wrong with stealing your food? Hand it over quickly, or we will take action."

Shi Lei ignored him and wanted to go around them and go straight into the building, but he didn't expect that two people grabbed Shi Lei at once and started to snatch him. Chen Shuai was stunned. Just when he was about to go over to help, he saw the two people fall to the ground at once. He didn't even see how Shi Lei did it. Shi Lei said, "I tell you, eight or ten of you are not even a good enough person." After that, he walked towards the classroom. Chen Shuai was impressed by Shi Lei's handsomeness and ran up to him.

Chen Shuai thought that the matter was over, but unexpectedly, when he was halfway through the meal, Principal Zhang rushed into the classroom with the physical education teacher and a dean of studies. Principal Zhang asked as soon as he came up, "Who is Shi Lei?"

Shi Lei stood up and said, "Principal Zhang, this is me. What can I do for you?"

"What's the matter? You still have the nerve to ask what's the matter? You injured a student. Come on, follow me to the office." After Principal Zhang said this, he asked the physical education teacher and the dean of studies to go and pull Shi Lei.

Shi Lei said, "Don't pull me, I can walk by myself." After that, he followed the three people and never came back. Teacher Wen once went to look for him, but later Teacher Wen was gone too.

Yan Jiekuang knew the truth of the matter, but he was a little worried about Shi Lei. He hoped that those people would not do anything out of line.

The two policemen verified the situation with several students who were present, and then the three of them returned to the principal's office. The investigators stated the incident in front of Principal Zhang, but in order to protect those students, they concealed their names.

Yan Jiefang turned around and said, "What do you mean? Do you want to talk about it somewhere else?"

Principal Zhang stood up at this time and said, "I, I didn't know his name was Shi Lei. He was in the warehouse of the school-run factory."

Upon hearing this, Yan Jiekuang rushed out, and then Yan Jiefang dragged Principal Zhang out. As soon as Yan Jiekuang walked out of the teaching building, he met Principal Chen and several people from the Education Bureau. Yan Jiekuang was now extremely anxious, so he asked the students and ran towards the warehouse. Then, the people from the Education Bureau saw several policemen and took Principal Zhang to the warehouse as well.

When Principal Chen saw that something had happened, he called a few people and quickly ran towards the warehouse.

Yan Jiekuang arrived at the gate and kicked it open. When he went in and took a look, he was shocked.

Yan Jiekuang was furious and was about to rush forward, but Yan Jiefang grabbed him and said in a low voice: "If you start a fight, even if you are right, you will become wrong."

When the group of students saw the police coming, they knew that today's incident was serious, so they wanted to rush out and run away. But before they reached the door, Yan Jiefang pulled out a gun and shouted, "I will shoot if you run again."

The students were stunned. "All of you, squat against the wall, put your hands on your heads, and don't talk to each other. Xiao Zhang, handcuff those two people."

When several policemen approached the two teachers, they finally recovered from their sudden change and quickly said, "It's none of our business. Principal Zhang asked us to do it."

At this time, Principal Zhang shouted hysterically: "You are talking nonsense. I just asked you to teach him a lesson. I didn't ask you to hit anyone."

Yan Jiekuang walked up to Shi Lei. When Shi Lei saw that it was his father, he grinned and said, "Dad, I'm fine. I'm not hurt."

Yan Jiekuang's heart was bleeding. Looking at those children, he wanted to kill them all, as well as the two teachers and Principal Zhang.

Yan Jiefang came over and said, "I'll send two people. You take Shi Lei to get his injuries checked first and get a report."

Yan Jiekuang carried Shi Lei on his back and walked out. When he arrived in front of Principal Chen, he said with a sullen face, "Teacher Chen, this is the good school you recommended to me. It's great."

Principal Chen was also extremely embarrassed at this time, not knowing how to explain, but the facts at the scene had already explained everything. Principal Chen held it in for a long time, but didn't say a word. After Yan Jiekuang left, he said to the staff of the Education Bureau behind him: "You have also seen that the ice is three feet thick and it is not formed in a day. Investigate, thoroughly investigate, and give an explanation to the injured."

At this time, Yan Jiefang came over and said, "You can investigate your case, I have to take the people away. They are involved in illegal detention and lynching, and two of them are involved in robbery."

After that, they took the three teachers and Principal Zhang into the car, and tied up the other students with ropes and took them directly to the police station across the street. The people in the police station knew Yan Jiefang, a well-known workaholic in the Municipal Bureau. They were still surprised that Yan brought so many students with him, and then when they saw Principal Zhang, they knew that something had happened at the middle school across the street.

Yan Jiefang didn't waste any words and told the whole story from beginning to end, and asked the people in the police station to cooperate and take statements one by one.

Yan Jiekuang took Shi Lei to the hospital, bandaged Shi Lei's wounds, did a full check-up, and made an injury report. Principal Zhang was really lawless, and this matter was definitely not over.

(End of this chapter)