Lu Mengyao was locked up.
Fearing to tip off the enemy, Grandpa Shen pretended to be ill for the time being and didn't even step out of his courtyard.
Afraid that some villains might still have evil intentions and try to harm the old man, Niannian left a lot of talismans for Grandpa Shen before she left.
Daoist Qingyun and the senior apprentice brother also stayed in the Shen family to confuse others. Only Xiaotuanzi and Shen Weixun went to the address of the educational institution.
They deliberately chose the evening. Only at this time could they best spot the problems.
Before setting off, Shen Weixun even sent a message to those two guys from the relevant department. It was always good to have helpers.
The old campus of the institution was filled with a gloomy atmosphere. The abandoned building still vaguely showed its former grandeur. No wonder this institution could still survive after so many incidents. The boss must have received a lot of sponsorship.
The campus was overgrown with weeds. Two rows of willow trees were planted on both sides of the road. The willow branches fluttered in the wind, and their shadows under the moonlight were also swaying. At first glance, it looked a bit like a scene of demons dancing wildly. Although they didn't see any ghosts here, they still felt cold all over in such an atmosphere.
Qiu Dongmei used to live in the staff dormitory when she worked in the institution.
Shen Weixun held the materials and looked at them carefully. The information provided in it was very detailed. All things that might be related to Qiu Dongmei had been dug out, including many photo materials and the overall floor plan of the institution.
The materials stated that the new boss was in a hurry to get out of the current predicament and quickly transferred all the staff. Many materials and facilities in the institution didn't have time to be transferred.
Later, even when there was time, the new boss was a bit scared because this place was too evil, so he simply abandoned all the things here.
The archives should still safely store the information of past children and employees. The two decided to go to the archive room first to see if there was any relevant information about Qiu Dongmei.
Soon, they found the archive room, which was located in a corner of a building. When they pushed open the door of the archive room, dust flew everywhere. It was also a bit cold inside. Due to the humidity and the lack of windows around, there was also a musty smell in the air.
The dust choked Niannian's nose and mouth. She quickly squinted her eyes and waved her hand to disperse the dust.
The materials in the archive room were still neatly placed on the shelves. There were also labels next to the shelves indicating the storage year and the type of stored events.
The orderly arrangement saved them a lot of trouble. Shen Weixun directly started looking for the period when Qiu Dongmei worked. After looking back and forth many times, there was no information about Qiu Dongmei on the shelves at all.
All the employee employment records were still there, except for Qiu Dongmei's, which had disappeared.
This strengthened Shen Weixun's idea.
Qiu Dongmei must have had other motives during her tenure here, and she had come to the institution later and stolen her own materials.
If she wasn't guilty, she wouldn't have bothered to do this.
Since they couldn't find information about Qiu Dongmei, they decided to start with Xiaofang. They quickly found Xiaofang's information in the children's archives.
Her information was placed on a special shelf. All the children's materials around were marked in red and sealed. It was estimated that this shelf was specially used to store the information of these dead children.
They opened the seal and read carefully. The things recorded on it were ordinary. Besides the academic performance, there were only class records. Xiaofang had a lot of absence records. Almost every day, she didn't attend a full - day course.
Normally, such frequent absences should have attracted the attention and concern of the staff, but the materials were all filled with approved leave applications, and the approver was uniformly Qiu Dongmei's name.
"Niannian, go and check the leave records of the other four parties involved."
Seeing Xiaotuanzi wandering around idly beside her, Shen Weixun said with a smile.
Finally, there was something she could do. Xiaotuanzi nodded repeatedly. She found the archives of the four children who had bullied Xiaofang and began to look through them.
After looking for a long time, Niannian finally gave up on the locked - up materials.
Well, these things were simply beyond her understanding.
Finally, the materials were handed over to Shen Weixun.
The leave reasons and time recorded in it basically matched Xiaofang's archive materials. The approver was also Qiu Dongmei.
Needless to say, Qiu Dongmei couldn't have been unaware of Xiaofang's situation. Approving leave for these naughty kids at the same time was undoubtedly pushing Xiaofang off a higher cliff.
The column of Xiaofang's family situation stated that she was extremely poor and lived in dormitory 310. When she first entered the institution, a child in the same dormitory had been her friend for a while.
Later, that child broke off with her when Xiaofang was being bullied. Moreover, that child even added insult to injury. This child's archive was also in the red - marked area. She died in that food - poisoning incident.
Shen Weixun put away Xiaofang's materials and quickly flipped through the remaining red - marked materials. From their frequent leave records, it could be guessed that these were the teenagers who had colluded with the four main culprits who had killed Xiaofang.
After checking the archives, they didn't get any particularly useful information. Niannian and Shen Weixun moved to the dormitory building.
They didn't go directly to Xiaofang's dormitory. Even if there was anything valuable in it, it might have been destroyed by Qiu Dongmei long ago.
Although most children nowadays don't have the habit of keeping diaries, it was impossible that there wasn't a single one in the whole institution.
The two searched room by room. Whenever they saw a written book, they took it away. They really found more than a dozen notebooks left behind in one dormitory building.
Almost all of these more than a dozen notebooks were the children's unwanted study notes. Only one could be regarded as a diary, but it seemed that the owner of this diary wasn't very persistent. She only wrote the diary intermittently.
The diary recorded some fragmented things about Xiaofang, mostly in passing. It could be seen that the owner of this diary was also one of the many children who disliked Xiaofang. As long as Xiaofang was mentioned, there would be a string of curses following.
The words written by the child in this diary were basically the same as the written materials they had found before, but there were still some differences.
For example, the materials stated that the starting cause of this violence was Xiaofang's timidity and being out of the group, but the diary recorded that Xiaofang refused the pursuit of one of the teenagers. The teenager threatened that if she didn't be with him, he would make her suffer.
Of course, Xiaofang didn't agree. Then she suffered endless torture and abuse. Even so, the stubborn her didn't beg for mercy from the teenager. Instead, she kept fighting during this period.
The diary indirectly reflected that Xiaofang was by no means a timid person who would commit suicide. On the contrary, she was a stubborn child who didn't fear power. It could be seen that the information obtained from the written materials might be the result of the unified statement of the whole institution.