Chapter 4 3. School

The teaching building was silent.The empty corridors seemed to be part of some other building. I rushed into the corridor on the first floor and pushed open the door of the teacher's office. "What's up?" The one who turned around and asked me was Mr. Nishigaki, the head teacher of the sixth grade.Mr. Nishigaki has thin cheeks and wears a pair of square-rimmed glasses.He stood up, frowned, and walked over to me. "Are you crying? What's wrong? You... the one from the fourth grade—" "Is Iwamura-sensei there?" My voice is shaking.After speaking, I felt my lungs twitching involuntarily.

"Oh, Iwamura-sensei isn't here. But, do I have to go to Iwamura-sensei? What happened? Tell me. Okay, okay, don't cry!" As Nishigaki-sensei said, he patted my arm lightly. "Master Dao, did you have a fight?" Mr. Tomizawa, who teaches music, also came to me with a worried expression on his face. "Ms. Iwamura is not coming back today. It seems that something is wrong." When I came back to my senses, I realized that all the teachers in the teacher's office were looking at me.I was at a loss for a while.What should I say about everything I have seen!

"Eh? Dolph, what are you doing here?" A voice came from behind.I turned around and saw that it was Teacher Iwamura. "Ah, Iwamura-sensei! Are you done?" "No, I originally made an appointment with someone, and he seemed to be unable to come because of something, so I came back. And, in fact, I really have work to do. Don't tell me about it. " "Did you drive here today?" "That's right. I planned to drive out with the person I had an appointment with. What a miscalculation! If I had known this earlier, I would have taken the tram to work as usual!"

After speaking, Iwamura-sensei turned to me. "By the way, Dove, didn't I meet you on campus just now? Aren't you going to S's house? What's the matter? Why are you crying?" "Teacher, that..." When I opened my mouth, I stuttered and couldn't speak.If you tell the story of Mr. S here, it will definitely cause a great commotion.I felt my lungs convulse again.Mr. Iwamura looked around, touched my shoulder and said, "If you think it's hard to say here... well, let's go there, come, come here!" Mr. Iwamura led me into the teacher's office and opened a door. The door plate says "Reception Room", go in with me.He made me sit on the leather couch and sat down beside me.

"What the hell happened?" I took a deep breath.Then he told Mr. Iwamura everything he saw at Mr. S's house just now.As he spoke, tears flowed again. "This, is this all true?" Halfway through hearing this, Iwamura-sensei started to get up, and when I finished speaking, he had already stood up, looking down at me with a serious expression.I swallowed a mouthful of saliva mixed with tears, and nodded. "My God! This is so serious... this, this is so serious..." Iwamura-sensei just kept looking at me and wiped his forehead with his hand. "The teacher is going to S's house now. You go home now. Ah, no—wait a minute. I have to find a teacher to take you home. Yes, it's better this way."

Mr. Iwamura walked out of the reception room and whispered a few words to someone.At this time, many voices that were extremely restrained were mixed together and passed into my ears.The noise rose from time to time, but then fell down again, and lasted for a while. Soon, the sound of footsteps faded away. Then there was a knock on the door. It was the principal's voice.The knock on the door just now is opposite this reception room, it should be the principal's office. Iwamura-sensei leaned halfway in the doorway and waved to me.I stood up, and as soon as I walked out of the reception room, I saw the serious face of the principal.This was the first time I saw the principal's expression since a student was involved in a traffic accident last year.The other teachers gathered around the principal.All eyes fell on me.

Mr. Iwamura carried his purse between his hands. "Dofu, the teacher is going to S's house right now. Mr. Tomize will take you home. Are your parents at home?" I shook my head.At this time, only Meixiang was at home. "After three o'clock, Mom should be back." "It's not even one o'clock—there's still time. Is your mother at work?" "Working. At the pasta restaurant in front of the nearby K station." "Do you know the phone number?" I shook my head again. "What's the name of the restaurant?" I said the name of the pasta restaurant, and Iwamura-sensei immediately went to look up the phone number.Mr. Iwamura wrote down the phone number in the memo while holding the receiver between his hands.As soon as the phone hung up, he immediately called the restaurant.

"—well, yes—oh, no, he's with us himself—yes. That's right, yes—" After a few words with my mother, Iwamura-sensei put down the phone and said to me, "Your mother said she would be home soon. Well, let Tomizawa-sensei take you home. Before your mother comes home, a thousand Don't go out." Mr. Iwamura nodded slightly to the principal, and ran downstairs in a short trot.But he stopped immediately, turned around and returned to the room, and picked up the phone on the table next to him again. "Principal, let me contact the police. Then meet up on the road and go to the scene together?"

The principal nodded slightly.Iwamura-sensei turned his back to us and started talking on the phone as if lying on the table. "Hello, hello! I am Iwamura from N Elementary School..." Iwamura-sensei covered his mouth with his palm, lowered his voice, and told the whole story as if whispering.As for what exactly he said, it was hard to hear clearly.Afterwards, Mr. Iwamura hung up the phone, saluted the principal, and ran out of the teacher's office.