Neverland

Compared with the photo found by the Academic Affairs Office, the one Xu Muzhou is holding now may be too peaceful.

The background of the photo was a small courtyard of an old-fashioned bungalow. Sun Qian's hair was pulled into a loose bun, holding a fair and lovely child in her arms.The child looked very young, he seemed less than one year old, his arms were fat like lotus root joints, he smiled with his eyes bent, and was clapping his hands excitedly.

This photo is probably a snapshot. In the picture, Sun Qian is turning her head to look at the child's face. She looks at the child's face softly, and the corners of her lips are slightly curved.

The photo was already a little yellowed and old, and the white edges on the edges were also curling inwards. Xu Muzhou followed the arc and compared it with his thumb, and found that it was the trace left by the unconscious curling when he rubbed the photo.

This photo should have been seen many times by Sun Qian.

Xu Muzhou looked at the child in the photo and felt it was unbelievable.

He guessed that Wang Zhigang coerced Sun Qian to satisfy his selfish desires, and even guessed that the two of them had a child.But Xu Muzhou originally thought that the leave note that Yan Cen saw from the principal's office was left by Sun Qian when she had an abortion.Unexpectedly, she actually gave birth to this child.

Yan Cen said before that the time for the leave request is the autumn of the second year. If Wang Zhigang had followed Sun Qian shortly after she first came to this elementary school, it would indeed make sense to calculate the time carefully.

Xu Muzhou turned the photo over and found a line of small characters written with a pen on the back.

"Although I don't expect it, but since I have no choice, I can only deal with it calmly. You are not at fault, nor am I. Innocent people should not hurt each other. Mutual comfort and mutual dependence."

The title is "To Sun Xixi", and the signature is your mother.

Xu Muzhou: "..."

Xu Muzhou looked at the line of words in silence, and suddenly felt a little hot in his eyes.He quickly raised his head to look at the ceiling and blinked, swallowing back the untimely tears.

——This is a very gentle woman.She has good looks, independent and tenacious mind.This child named "Sun Xixi" is obviously a product of her misfortune, an indelible mark on her humiliating fate, but Sun Qian did not anger him at all. Full of hope and confidence for the future.

Sun Qian even shared the last name, taking the unexpected child under her wing.

Xu Muzhou now probably understands what happened to the punishment notice that Yan Cen saw. A single teacher who had a child out of wedlock was considered explosive news at that time.In addition to the note that the child in the second class of the fourth year passed in class, I also knew that the outside reputation would not be much better.

"Not worthy of being a teacher." Such words as "teaching children badly" should be indispensable.

The word-of-mouth from the outside world cannot be guaranteed. Such a "superfluous subject" teacher who came over by air does not have much trust from the parents. It is normal for such a scandal to not be accepted by the parents.

Gossip is the sharpest knife. Those people may not have accused Sun Qian face to face, or they may not have put pressure on the school at all.But those pointing and hesitant eyes hidden in the dark all the time are enough to make people crazy.

Xu Muzhou could imagine that when the school faced pressure from public opinion and parents, it gave up on her again and blocked everyone's mouths with a punishment notice.

This disciplinary notice confirmed Sun Qian's charge of "deficiency in teacher's morality". As for whether Wang Zhigang escaped from this farce or was punished, Xu Muzhou has no way of knowing.All of this has passed too long ago. In such a completely closed campus, it is impossible for Xu Muzhou to piece together the whole picture and the cause and effect of the incident.

He can only start from Sun Qian's perspective as much as possible, trying to find the point that makes Sun Qian finally collapse.

Before seeing this photo, Xu Muzhou thought about whether Sun Qian had collapsed because of Wang Zhigang's long-term insults, or because of the public opinion exposed by the scandal, but now it is obvious that it is not the case.

According to the information given by Yongwuxiang, Sun Qian committed suicide three years after she came to this elementary school.In addition, the toddler in the photo is no longer a baby, and all these prove that after the child was born, Sun Qian had enough time to get used to life and calm down.

Until the time when this photo was taken, Sun Qian's mentality had calmed down very well.

So something must have happened later, which caused Sun Qian to completely lose her confidence in living, and she had a mental breakdown to the point of committing suicide at school.

Xu Muzhou searched all over the front and back of the desk without giving up, but still found nothing.

What Sun Qian could find here was too little, perhaps because of the excessive mental pressure for many years, which caused her to be too cautious, and nervously erased all personal traces.

Sun Qian is like a cocoon wrapped in a cocoon. In addition to humiliation, Wang Zhigang brought her endless insecurities, so that she was like a frightened bird, wishing to pull out all the threads that could spy on her. She sealed up all her private life in her heart, only the photo in Xu Muzhou's hand survived, and it became the only evidence of her experience.

Perhaps as Sun Qian wrote in the photo, "comfort each other and depend on each other", that's why she put this photo in a hidden corner at hand to serve as a source of her courage.

Xu Muzhou put the photo back on the table with complicated emotions, and before he could look for other clues, a terrifying thought suddenly popped up in his mind, and he froze all of a sudden.

——Where did the child go, Xu Muzhou thought.

Sun Qian has become an existence that is neither human nor ghost, but why did she choose to commit suicide at the school, and why did she linger in this school in a state of confusion and refused to leave.Where is this child named Sun Xixi, whom Sun Qian regards as her future dependent child?

These questions mingled in Xu Muzhou's mind like a mess, forming a disorderly ball of thread.But Xu Muzhou knew very well that by finding the answers to these questions, Sun Qian's obsession would be revealed.

Now he urgently needs a lead to intersperse all the existing clues to form a complete context.He stared at the photo like a trapped animal, but still couldn't find a clue.

There is something missing in between.

Yan Cen's footsteps stopped and went back and forth in the corridor twice, the steps sounded a bit heavier than before, especially in the quiet environment.

After Yan Cen was injured, Xu Muzhou suddenly realized that he is also a mortal body with flesh and blood, and his blind trust in his skills has weakened a lot, and he has become objective and equal.

Xu Muzhou didn't know how many minutes had passed since he entered the room, and Yan Cen hadn't given him a signal. He didn't know if it was because the time was not up, or because Yan Cen felt that he could still handle it.

Xu Muzhou gritted his teeth, patted himself on the cheek lightly, turned his eyes away from Sun Qian's desk, and began to rummage through the desks of other teachers, trying to find some auxiliary clues.

Since Xu Muzhou entered the office, exactly four minutes and 20 seconds had passed.

Contrary to expectations, Yan Cen somewhat underestimated the extent of Sun Qian's madness. With the disappearance of Sun Qian's body, she became manic and restless.The dark eye sockets were continuously rolled out with black bloodstains, and when the movements were large, the eye sockets were washed out with minced meat.

If Sun Qian was more like a boss wandering around this school before, who would attack everyone who entered her territory indiscriminately, now Sun Qian actually looks more like a vengeful ghost, with hatred and desperate ferocity. Her whole person looked terrible.

Sun Qian didn't know who she regarded Yan Cen, and she wanted to put him to death.Yan Cen's dodging speed slowed down significantly. He had just managed to avoid Sun Qian's fierce claws at him, and the leather jacket was torn from the shoulder to the back of the waist.

Yan Cen's sprained ankle was under too much overload, and the cloth strips made of thin shirts could only play a very limited role in fixing it.

The injury affected his agility and speed, and running against Sun Qian would only lead to a dead end. The safe house in the tea room can be avoided for a short time, but after losing Yan Cen, Sun Qian will definitely go find him. Xu Muzhou's trouble.

Yan Cen had promised Xu Muzhou 7 minutes earlier, and he was surprisingly stubborn about the "promise". Even if the situation exceeded expectations, he would not urge Xu Muzhou to hurry up.

Five minutes and three seconds, he counted silently in his heart.

Five minutes and eight seconds.

Sun Qian found Yan Cen again in a brief daze, she opened her teeth and claws, but Yan Cen did not escape this time.He didn't use any weapons, but stepped on the window sill and leaped into the air with his strength, and pressed hard on Sun Qian's body with the weight of his whole body.

Yan Cen and Sun Qian threw themselves on the ground together, making a dull crashing sound.Yan Cen used his knees as a buffer, but at least he didn't fall to the ground, and Sun Qian's whole body was crushed to the ground by him.Yan Cen gritted his teeth and pressed Sun Qian's arm with his knee, and his arm was tightly clamped on Sun Qian's neck bone.

He used great strength, if a living person was here, he might have died by this time.But Sun Qian was still persistently struggling under his hands, her only free left arm was spasmodically digging at the floor, trying her best to get out of Yan Cen's hands.

Five minutes and 32 seconds.

Sun Qian's strength was too great, Yan Cen only suppressed her for a short while, and he obviously felt that the muscles on his thighs and arms had begun to turn sore.

Five minutes and 57 seconds.

Yan Cen wasn't sure if he could restrain her when the time was over, his arms began to tremble slightly, Sun Qian kept thumping her body against the floor, and the originally tight shackles seemed to be loosening.

"...I...well...listen..."

Sun Qian stared blankly at Yan Cen with empty eye sockets, her rotten lips murmured up and down, and she spoke human words intermittently.

Yan Cen frowned and called out sharply, "Sun Qian!"

Sun Qian was subconsciously terrified by his yelling, and her movements seemed to freeze for a moment, but then she was engulfed by that overwhelming madness.

"...and..." Sun Qian opened her mouth wide in vain, her throat was so badly rotten that her speech was slurred, it sounded as if hers was pouring wind into her trachea.

"Also...I..."