remnants

At No. 10 Tongwu Road, Dongze District, Pingcheng City, at the gate of Dongze No. [-] Middle School, students wearing blue and white school uniforms are coming out of the campus in twos and threes, eagerly discussing the gossip in the class this morning, the embarrassing things about the teachers, There are also topics such as what to eat at home at noon today.

Nie Qing drove very slowly, avoiding the students who were rampaging on the main road as a sidewalk, and finally parked on the side of the road a little farther from the school gate, and walked over by himself.

The security guard at the gate was very wary of unfamiliar adults entering and leaving the school. When he saw him approaching, he stopped at the gate and asked blankly, "Who are you?"

"Police." Nie Qing showed him his ID. The security guard looked at it carefully for two seconds, and finally let him in politely and suspiciously.

According to the instructions given to him by Liu Jinghua, Nie Qing found the junior high school dean's office smoothly, found the door was ajar, stepped forward and knocked lightly twice.

"Is it the team leader?" Liu Jinghua's voice came from inside, and then the door was opened inward, Liu Jinghua's face was exposed, and he nodded slightly after seeing Nie Qing, "Group leader, we found it."

Nie Qing was very anxious, but she didn't want to be too impatient, so she walked in as calmly as possible, shook hands with the dean who had stood up to greet him, "Hello, my name is Nie Qing. "

"Hi Police Officer Nie, my surname is Huang, you can call me Lao Huang." The dean, who is over forty years old, smiled at Nie Qing with his thinning hair, and he seemed quite kind.

"Director Huang, you're being polite." Nie Qing bowed politely, "I'm very sorry to bother you. If it causes any inconvenience to your work, please forgive me."

"It's all right, nothing bothering me!" Director Huang waved his hand heartily, "It's my honor to be able to help, I'm afraid I won't be able to help much. I don't have what Officer Liu asked for just now. gone."

When Nie Qing heard this, she turned her head and glanced at Liu Jinghua, "What do you want?"

"Student status form, enrollment registration form." Liu Jinghua sighed, "Leader, let me introduce you first. This director Huang is the head teacher of Lin Nuan's class when he was in junior high school. There are no records here. Check, but fortunately, Director Huang remembers the students he supervised very clearly, so I asked about it."

"You are Lin Nuan's homeroom teacher?" Hope rekindled in Nie Qing's eyes, "Then you must know him very well! Could you please tell us everything you know?"

"No problem!" Director Huang pointed them to the two chairs in front of the desk, "Please sit down, both of you, and I'll talk to you slowly."

"Okay." Nie Qing and Liu Jinghua looked at each other and sat down on the chairs.

Director Huang also returned to his office chair, and after sitting down, he put his hands on the table, rubbed them lightly and said, "Let me think about it, where should I start...well, how about starting from him?" Let's talk about it."

Nie Qing and Liu Jinghua nodded at the same time, and they both took out their notebooks to take notes.

"This was all over ten years ago..."

Director Huang sighed again, with a bit of memory in his expression.

"I remember that Lin Nuan was a transfer student at the time. It was almost two months since we started the first year of junior high school before he transferred in. I was very impressed. He didn't have a primary school enrollment record, and he was brought here by a young man. At that time, the director of the Academic Affairs Office said that the child had been in poor health since he was a child, so he was self-taught at home and never went to school. I didn't want to accept him when I heard this, but Lin Nuan's family background seems to be good. , the director said that this child must be admitted to school, and the principal personally asked about this matter, so I had no choice but to agree. But after he entered the class, I found that this child is really smart and sensible. He has excellent grades and treats others well. He is modest and gets along well with all the classmates in the class. In the first half of the second year of junior high school, he was already No.1 in our class, and he was voted as the monitor by the whole class."

"Sounds like a good boy..." Nie Qing said solemnly.

Director Huang nodded, "Yes, he is a very good boy... Comrade police officer, please find him as soon as possible!"

Nie Qing was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Liu Jinghua, Liu Jinghua had already taken the conversation and said, "Well, the more information we can get about him, the more helpful it will be for us to find him. I hope he's okay."

"That's right, I hope it's okay..." Director Huang sighed, "Then I'll tell you guys, and I'll tell you everything I know."

"Excuse me." Nie Ting heard that Liu Jinghua did not tell Director Huang that Lin Nuan might have passed away long ago, so he didn't say anything more.

Director Huang has already continued what he said just now: "Actually, there was one thing I hadn't figured out at the time, and that was Lin Nuan's background. You said that if his family didn't have a backstage or something, the school leaders wouldn't be so gracious to help him enroll. Procedures. If you want to say that his family has a backstage, why did he come to our place to go to school if he has a backstage—I mean..." Director Huang smiled awkwardly at this moment, "It's not that I have a backstage for my school. What do you think? It’s just that everyone knows this kind of thing well. Dongze District is originally a suburb, and people in the city joke that we are a “slum” in Pingcheng... Tell me about a child from a rich and well-connected family, If you want to go to a private middle school in the city, you can't go? Why bother coming here? We are not a key middle school..."

"Maybe Lin Nuan's guardian has other considerations." Seeing that the topic has reached this point, Nie Qing asked, "By the way, Director Huang, what information do you know about Lin Nuan's guardian?"

"This..." Director Huang hesitated for a moment, "I'm really not sure about this, because the people who came to help Lin Nuan go through various procedures back then were not his parents, but his father's colleagues. He called the other party 'brother'. After that, every time a parent needed to come forward, it was this 'brother' who came. He even attended the parent meeting, but Lin Nuan's parents didn't even show their faces. Once, it's weird."

"So that's it... Then, do you know the name of Lin Nuan's parents and his father's colleague?" Nie Qing asked again.

"Name...what's their name..." Director Huang thought hard for a while, but finally shook his head helplessly, "Sorry, it's been so long, I really can't remember what their names are. But there is one thing I remember , Lin Nuan's parents should not be named Lin."

Nie Qing nodded silently, and after waiting for a few seconds, he suddenly pulled out a photo from the last few pages of the notepad. Judging from the color on it, it must have been old, and some places have faded.

There are two families in the photo, a family of six.

They are Nie Qing's family and Yu Sheng's family respectively. The background is at the entrance of an amusement park, surrounded by small vendors holding balloons and selling gouache.

Nie Qing remembered that this should be the summer vacation before he and Yu Sheng went to elementary school, the two adults made an appointment to take them to the amusement park together.

Because Yu Youwen, Liang He, and Nie Shenxing are usually very busy with the work of the police, there are very few opportunities to travel together like this, so the two children were very excited that day, and they have never liked taking pictures. In this photo, there is a wanton and ostentatious smiling face.

There are also Yu Youwen and Nie Shenxing, these two dignified policemen who can be called door gods with a straight face on weekdays, they also laughed very happily on this day.Yu Youwen lifted Yu Sheng up and rode on his neck, while Nie Shenxing helped Nie Qing to sit on his shoulders. The two mothers nestled sweetly in the arms of their husbands, and the two children held their hands together. Holding each other tightly, the picture freezes at this moment, as if all the happy times in the past are firmly sealed in this photo, leaving an indelible mark...

Unfortunately, it is not faded now.

Nie Qing gently curled her fingers, trying her best to suppress the emotions that were about to churn in her heart, on the surface she pushed the photo in front of Director Huang calmly, and asked, "Director Huang, take a closer look, the one who came to help Lin Nuan is the one who went through the enrollment procedures?" Nie Qing pointed at Yu Youwen.

Director Huang pushed up his glasses, leaned closer to the photo and looked at it intently, then pushed his glasses again after a while, straightened up and shook his head, "No, it's not this person."

Nie Qing calmed down a bit, and asked again: "Then do you have any impression that Lin Nuan's father was named Yu? Yu Sheng's 'Yu'..." Nie Qing didn't expect to blurt out this explanation.

But Director Huang didn't feel that there was anything wrong, he still shook his head and said, "It's not Yu, it should be a relatively common surname, so I don't have a deep impression...I'm sorry, officer, I really can't remember..."

"It's okay, I got it." Nie Qing felt relieved in his heart, and found a photo of Fu Mingjie from his mobile phone that he took during the dinner before, and handed it to Director Huang, "Look at this person again, Do you have any impression?"

"Hmm..." Director Huang took Nie Qing's phone, looking at his expression, he didn't have any hope of recognition.

But when he looked at it for two seconds, his eyes suddenly changed, and he pushed up his glasses and raised the phone to his eyes to stare very seriously.

"Director Huang??" Seeing his reaction, Nie Qing almost couldn't sit still, so she couldn't hold back her buttocks and asked in a controlled manner, "What did you see?"

"This person...isn't this person—" Director Huang slapped the table violently, "He is the person who came to help Lin Nuan with the admission procedures!"

"what?!"

"Are you sure??"

Nie Qing and Liu Jinghua jumped up from their chairs at the same time.

"I'm sure!" Director Huang nodded vigorously, pointing to Fu Mingjie's photo and said, "That's him! I've seen him more than once, and every time Lin Nuan had any problems at school, he was there to deal with them! Officer, Have you found this person?"

"It's not just about finding out..." Nie Qing clenched his fists, and suddenly turned to Liu Jinghua and said, "You should contact Luo Qi immediately. He has been monitoring the captain's whereabouts for the past two days, and asked him where the captain is and what he is doing. Let him keep an eye on him no matter what, and we will meet him in a while."

"Yes!" Liu Jinghua got up and went out to make a phone call.

Nie Qing took a deep breath, and then asked Director Huang: "By the way, about the fact that I couldn't find any student records related to Lin Nuan, do you know the reason? And, do you know who did it? "

"I really don't know about this matter. To be honest, if Officer Liu didn't come to ask about Lin Nuan's situation today, I wouldn't even know that his file has disappeared..." Director Huang scratched his head and sighed, "I didn't know until I was still the head teacher two years ago, and the file of graduates is out of my control, and I have never asked specifically, so I really don’t know. If you want to know, you’d better go to the former principal and academic affairs Director, this matter is mostly handled by them. However, there have been a lot of personnel changes in the school in recent years. If you are not sure in which year the file was taken away, it may be difficult to find the corresponding person in charge. ..."

Nie Qing frowned slightly, "I understand, I'm afraid I have to investigate one by one—"

"Team leader! It's not good!" Liu Jinghua suddenly rushed in from the door with a nervous expression, "I can't get in touch with Luo Qi!"

"Can't get in touch?? How could it be!" Nie Qing's complexion changed instantly, and he walked up to Liu Jinghua, stared at him closely and asked, "Please be clear, is it because he can't get through the phone? Could it be that the battery is out?" ? Or is it inconvenient for him to turn off the phone?"

"I don't know...the reminder said 'not in the service area', I called the bureau and asked them, and they said that I haven't seen Luo Qi all day, but the captain is in the office..." Liu Jinghua's voice became dryer as he spoke, until the end After a pause for a few seconds, he finally couldn't help but whispered, "Leader, what should I do...I feel really bad right now..."

"Don't scare yourself, it's just that you can't get through the phone, so something may happen to him." Nie Qing said to Liu Jinghua in a deep voice.

But in fact, he also felt inexplicably flustered at this time.

"Anyway, let's go back to the city bureau right now and go to the captain first." Nie Qing patted Liu Jinghua on the back hard after speaking, as if cheering him up and himself at the same time.

"Luo Qi will be fine." He said again.

Absolutely not.