DF Chapter 32

Chapter 32: Perfectly Self-Contained, Occasionally Bestowing a Glance.

Chapter 32 Perfectly Self-Contained, Occasionally Bestowing a Glance.

I saw Song Ji’an again at school.

The marathon was on Saturday, and Officer Liu and her team had temporarily suppressed the police situation.

The capture operation that day was very successful. They caught several suspects without allowing them to send out signals and directly took over their communication tools. These days, they have probably contacted Yunnan, and once they take down the fraud gang there, they can complete this series of cases.

But in these two days, they did more than just this.

The group’s targeting of Song Ji’an and Sheng Jia was not a random act.

It could even be said that this case had extreme contingency and uncertainty.

Everything needs to start with the Hua Mei case.

Originally, Officer Liu and her team thought Hua Mei was a fat sheep targeted by the fraud gang. However, after intervening in Hua Mei’s family situation, they discovered that her wealth was not enough to provoke the fraud gang to come out in full force, or even kidnap her and bury her alive.

The cause of this incident was merely a random act committed by a young male student who was lured into the fraud gang and temporarily became greedy for money.

They were foolish and ignorant, worshiping so-called brotherhoods, and easily believed the online fraud information, joining the underground organization “Tiger Society” set up in Jingjiang by Yunnan. “Brother Dao” in the society was the general person in charge, responsible for luring young students to join and inducing them to commit crimes together in order to seize their handles.

However, a problem arose in the middle of this. Several male students from Jingjiang No. 1 High School were disobedient and found that they could not immediately participate in exciting actions after joining the Tiger Society, and the promised opportunities to make money did not come immediately either.

So, a few days before the marathon, they decided to do something big that would shock Brother Dao and make him look at them with new eyes. Then, they targeted Hua Mei, who lived alone, and staked out her daily life.

The main reasons for choosing her were two: first, she was not a local and had no friends; second, she was a woman living alone and had just resigned with a considerable deposit in her card. So, they implemented the plan that morning, attacking Hua Mei, first knocking her unconscious to unlock the password, modifying her bank card password, and then cruelly burying her alive.

However, Hua Mei was rescued by Danggui and Sheng Jia. At that time, these male students did not witness the process because they had secretly entered the alley in Jingjiang No. 3 High School, contacted Brother Dao in a place without surveillance, and told him the whole thing.

This Brother Dao did not expect that his gang in Jingjiang had not yet been built, and they had already caused such a thing. But in the end, he chose to treat this as a handle, carry out the follow-up processing for them, and deceive the money in Hua Mei’s mobile phone into the “membership fees” turned in by the group.

Afterward, Officer Liu and her team found clues but deliberately suppressed them, intensifying the group’s malice. They thought the police were putting on such a grand show of commendation meetings because they could not find clues, just to save face.

So, they quickly targeted the second target.

This time, it was Song Ji’an, who disrupted their plan and rescued Hua Mei.

At first, they only targeted Song Ji’an because it was said that Song Ji’an was the richest of the ten, with a mysterious family background, but even an electric scooter was worth tens of thousands, and a driver took her to and from school every day.

However, Song Ji’an’s home was too heavily guarded. They found that the only loophole to rob Song Ji’an was Sheng Jia, who had to go out to work every day, and Song Ji’an was inseparable from her.

They kept an eye on them until before the marathon, and they decided to take advantage of this opportunity to do something big again.

So, they walked into the dragnet set up by Officer Liu in conjunction with Sheng Jia and Song Ji’an, and even Brother Dao was wiped out.

It was not difficult to examine the truth of this matter. Officer Liu and her team were all experienced veteran detectives. Facing several male high school students who had not even grown all their hair but were vicious and foolish, they easily obtained the whole process of the case.

This was originally a result that could not be announced, but Song Ningqiu was an important helper in this operation, and Song Ji’an was one of the victims. After Officer Liu got the result, she sent the message to Song Ningqiu, which was considered a preliminary briefing. After all, who knew whether Yunnan would still need the cooperation of this line in the future?

Song Ningqiu immediately forwarded the result to Song Ji’an after receiving it.

And Song Ji’an told Sheng Jia about this matter in a low voice during the physical education class on Monday.

The school was as calm as if nothing had happened. Officer Liu’s result must have also been told to Lu Jing. In fact, Lu Jing had already privately expelled these students. No matter how their parents came to plead with her, she only coldly sent them away. This was already the greatest cultivation she had as the principal. In fact, at the moment she saw the parents of those students, she wanted to call the school security to kick them out.

Perhaps the school also bears educational responsibility for this matter, but more responsibility comes from their parents and families.

If you don’t have the ability to raise and educate, you shouldn’t have children. This has always been Lu Jing’s heartfelt thought.

She tried to suppress this matter, minimizing the impact of this matter on the students in the school, so that the atmosphere of the school could be as upward and positive as usual. Everyone’s recent discussions were on that lively and grand marathon, and there was a lively and joyful atmosphere everywhere.

Sheng Jia sat in the shade of a tree, listening to Song Ji’an babbling about these things. Not far away, Zhou Yin and Meng Yeran were playing badminton. This time in physical education class, Song Ji’an also dragged her into the team.

At least now their ordinary and ordinary campus life has returned, without those dangers that they should not have encountered in their entire lives. The most urgent thing is the midterm exam in two weeks.

Sheng Jia’s arms and neck are now wrapped in heavy gauze. This is what Song Ji’an insisted on taking her to the school infirmary to put on after seeing her today.

From Saturday to Monday, Sheng Jia had not replied to Song Ji’an’s messages. Song Ji’an wanted to go to her house to find her, but thinking about her family situation that she had always been unwilling to let herself ask more about, she did not go after all. She could not find anyone at Greenery Cafe, and in the end, she could only wait until Monday to block her at school again.

As soon as she blocked her, she found that Sheng Jia’s abrasions were all exposed, and she had not cleaned them carefully, and her face looked particularly pale, and the dark circles under her eyes were even more obvious.

Although Sheng Jia’s dark circles were very obvious before, they would not be so terrifying.

Even if Song Ji’an had a good temper, she was holding back her anger, sitting on the desk, staring straight at the other party, but the other party completely regarded her as air.

Even Meng Yeran, who was beside her, couldn’t help but look at the two strangely and asked, “Are you two fighting?”

In the end, Song Ji’an couldn’t bear it any longer and blocked Sheng Jia, who was going to fetch water, on the aisle during the big class break. She also didn’t expect that she just gently tugged Sheng Jia, and all her wounds would crack open. The most terrifying was on her neck, and blood flowed to the edge of her collarbone.

“Are you okay?” The anger in Song Ji’an’s heart disappeared immediately. She anxiously pulled Sheng Jia and ran to the school infirmary.

Sheng Jia still didn’t say anything, and even followed her obediently, until the school doctor helped Sheng Jia bandage up in the infirmary, and Song Ji’an remembered her purpose.

“Sheng Jia, did you encounter something?”

At that time, Sheng Jia was sitting on a high chair dedicated to bandaging. The sunlight outside the window shone on her face. The wind was blowing, bringing the fragrance of the osmanthus trees in the school, and Sheng Jia—

Song Ji’an lowered her head and saw her slightly trembling eyelashes. It was a fragile and weary expression, which gradually made her lose her words. She didn’t know what to say, and could only stare at her blankly in a daze.

After a long time, Sheng Jia slowly said, “I’m fine, I’ve been too tired these past two days, so I didn’t have time to look at my phone.”

“Too busy to even bandage your wounds?” Song Ji’an couldn’t help but say.

“Yes,” Sheng Jia glanced at her and actually nodded like this, and said softly, “Too busy.”

This sentence even carried a pleading tone.

Song Ji’an had never heard her speak in such a tone. Sheng Jia was a very proud person, how could she easily ask for help?

She felt that she was also feeling uncomfortable at this moment. She pursed her lips, and then tried to smile and said, “It’s okay, it’s not too late to bandage it now. Let’s go back to the classroom together? In the physical education class after the next, I can just tell you about what happened after that day.”

Song Ji’an is a very measured person, she will never go to the bottom of things to poke at other people’s possible pain points, so Sheng Jia knows that as long as she can appear particularly sad when she asks, she will probably not ask further.

Sheng Jia is very proud, but she will also give up some things in order to achieve her goals.

She really had a hard time these past two days. She was sorting out her thoughts, re-calming her emotions. She hated her collapse. She needed to get out of the shock of seeing Song Ningqiu as soon as possible and return to the original Sheng Jia.

She didn’t go anywhere, just sat by her bed, wrapped in a blanket watching the birds fly back and forth outside the window.

Sheng Huaiying’s opening and closing of the door every morning and evening was the only sound in her silent world.

Perhaps there were some others, the hawking of the breakfast shop downstairs, the crisp sound of mahjong, and the chirping of birds, but she seemed to have difficulty hearing them. It was not tinnitus, but difficulty concentrating. She was immersed in her own world and unwilling to come out, until Sheng Huaiying’s usual huge closing sound, as if there were endless anger and strength, opened the iron door with a creak and then slammed it shut fiercely, the mottled green rust made a harsh and sharp sound after friction.

“Why is my luck so bad today? Too unlucky.” She cursed and entered the door, and then began to call Sheng Jia’s name.

Sheng Jia’s door was suddenly pushed open, and Sheng Huaiying’s full of anger turned into doubt.

“Are you at home huddling up? All day today? Then did you eat? If you didn’t eat, wouldn’t you call me?”

Normally, Sheng Jia would go out half an hour earlier than Sheng Huaiying to work part-time or go to the library. She also didn’t expect Sheng Jia to be at home today.

It was just such a tone that was not very good but revealed concern, dragging Sheng Jia out of her world.

That world was full of resentment, anger, and grievance. These emotions made her always feel that everything in the world was so false. She couldn’t find an anchor to stand on. She seemed to be still on that beach, letting the waves erode without ever walking out.

But the real world has the imperfect Sheng Huaiying. She is most like a real person, laughing and scolding, like a tenacious grass in the cracks, and like a self-pitying flower in the cliffs, perfectly self-contained, occasionally bestowing a glance.

This glance seemed to become Sheng Jia’s definite anchor.

Sheng Huaiying should order her out as usual, to help, while preparing a terrible meal and complaining to her about how difficult Xiyanghong downstairs was.

Sure enough, in the next second, Sheng Huaiying said to her, “What’s it like lying on the bed all day? Get up and help me cook.”

Sheng Jia got up from the bed. She stepped barefoot on the ground. The electric fan in the living room blew with a whimper. Sheng Huaiying tied an apron in the kitchen, humming a little tune that she didn’t know where she heard it from. There wasn’t a single sentence on the tune, and ordered, “Wash the vegetables, I’ll just have a midnight snack.”

It’s hard to describe this feeling. Sheng Jia felt as if she had suddenly come alive from the sea that was about to drown her. Even if she was doing this for Sheng Huaiying with muscle memory, she could still feel her thinking becoming clear step by step, and the order in her heart was being rebuilt one by one.

Just in this small and cramped kitchen.

It’s unbelievable.

“Sheng Jia? Sheng Jia?” Song Ji’an’s voice came from her ear. Sheng Jia came back to her senses. The shade of the trees above their heads had shifted with the movement of the sun. The scorching sun was roasting her. Song Ji’an cleverly moved to the side, and the whole person was still perfectly covered by the shade of the trees. She smiled at Sheng Jia, “Come over here, look at you, your face is all red.”

Sheng Jia heard the words and moved towards her expressionlessly.

Song Ji’an occasionally scanned her face, and realized that she seemed to have returned to normal, and her heart was relieved.

Meng Yeran and Zhou Yin were probably tired of playing too, and walked over with their rackets, two figures blocking them.

Meng Yeran: “What’s going on? We’re playing exciting badminton, and you two are shirking here?”

Zhou Yin nodded, “Just now when it was time to rotate, Ji’an and I made eye contact, and you deliberately avoided it again, don’t think I didn’t see it.”

Song Ji’an lowered her head a little guilty, and then raised her arm righteously again, shaking the gauze on it to the two of them, “We are both injured, it is not convenient to play ball.”

When Zhou Yin saw this, she couldn’t help but ask, “How did you two get it? The injuries are almost the same?”

“I was speeding on the Binhai Highway on a small electric scooter and unfortunately crashed into a trash can.”

Before Song Ji’an could open her mouth, Sheng Jia had already spoken and said another outrageous but believable answer for her expressionlessly.

She looked at Sheng Jia in surprise. At this moment, the other party’s voice was still hoarse, and she didn’t even raise her eyes, but she had already started to cooperate with her as usual.

Meng Yeran and Zhou Yin were silent for a moment, and then burst into laughter.

“You two? Crashed into a trash can together?” Zhou Yin was shocked by this bizarre reason, “How can you two look like you would crash into a trash can?”

Song Ji’an quickly said painfully: “Yes, we can’t believe it either, so I hope you keep it a secret for us.”

Meng Yeran and Zhou Yin also nodded solemnly, but without thinking, they would tell the classmates in the class very loudly, and in less than one class, this matter might spread to the ears of the second class.

Song Ji’an and Sheng Jia looked at each other, but so what? It was because they were too lazy to deal with the questioning of other classmates that they would tell Meng Yeran and Zhou Yin here.

The familiar tacit understanding between the two made Song Ji’an’s eyebrows bend and the worry about Sheng Jia in her heart was completely suppressed.

Sheng Jia’s eyes flashed lightly, pressing down the brim of the baseball cap on her head.

She thought, she knew what to do next.

Not known at this moment.

But in that small kitchen, when her hands were soaked in the vegetables, cleaning them one by one, she had already understood what she should do next.