Chapter 15 Chapter Thirteen

In his vague consciousness, Mead vaguely heard someone calling his name.He opened his eyes with difficulty, and found that his hands and feet were tightly bound to a wooden chair in the living room.In front of him, sat a person. "So it's you! You're responsible for everything!" Med looked at the person in front of him and gritted his teeth. Zheng Jie smiled with gentle eyes: "To be honest, I'm a little curious, why did you immediately guess it was me when you saw that photo?" "Because I remembered it in an instant! Yu Hui told me ten years ago that after that incident, he didn't dare to see Teacher Shan's face again. He tore up that photo in front of me. It fell!"

"It turned out to be like this, no wonder!" Zheng Jie said, "As soon as you see this photo, you immediately think that if this photo is not Yu Hui's, then it can only be mine - and I own this photo, so It proved that I was actually your classmate back then. The reaction was quick, Med." "who are you?" Zheng Jie approached Meide, bent down, and was very close to his face.She whispered, "I'm Xu Wenting, you probably forgot about me a long time ago, right?" Meide thought for a while, shook his head and said, "You are Xu Wenting? The oldest girl in our class, Xu Wenting?"

"Remember, it's that older girl who didn't start her first year of junior high school until she was sixteen due to family reasons." "But, it's impossible, she..." "You want to say that Xu Wenting, who is not outstanding, can't have such a beautiful face, right?" Zheng Jie said with a sneer, "This is the result of modern technology. Before the plastic surgery, I didn't expect my face to be so beautiful. become so beautiful." "You... are you really Xu Wenting?" Zheng Jie shrugged: "You can believe it or not. I don't think it matters. You're going to die anyway."

As she spoke, she took out a gleaming sharp knife from behind her like a magic trick, and pointed it at Meide's body. "Wait...you! Why are you doing this! Why are you killing us!" Med shouted, feeling the fear of death approaching him. Zheng Jie stopped and stared at him. "Okay, I'll tell you," she said, "You're the last one anyway, so I'll let you know." She sat on a chair opposite Meade and said, "I will grant your wish before you die. If you have anything you don't understand about the whole incident, feel free to ask me. I promise to answer truthfully."

After she finished speaking, she laughed nervously. Med stared at her: "Why are you doing these things? Why are you killing us?" "Isn't this obvious? I am avenging Teacher Shan." "Revenge? Who are you?" Zheng Jie's expression became serious, and she said: "We are lovers. Of course, strictly speaking, I like him more. But Mr. Shan also has me in his heart, I know. He likes to be with me, and he often treats me I said, 'I'm so happy when I'm with you.' And he said, 'I'll take you to great places and see more things, and that will make you feel like you're not living in vain.' Of course, he Sometimes I will say with some melancholy, 'We are teachers and students, maybe we shouldn't meet so frequently.' But he always cares about my feelings and doesn't make me sad. So, I believe he loves me, what do you think ? Dmitry."

Med stared at the chattering woman in front of her in astonishment, suddenly felt that she was so strange, but also had a feeling of déjà vu. "So, how did you know about this?" "Which thing?" "Teacher Shan... because of the four of us, Teacher Shan fell into the pool." "Med, I always thought you were the smartest of the four of them, why didn't you think of it?" Zheng Jie showed a disappointed expression, "Think about it, the four of you broke into Teacher Shan's dormitory and started a fight with him. During that silly joke, are you really so sure that Teacher Shan is the only one in that room?"

"You mean..." "Yes, I was also in his room at that time. I hid under his bed and heard everything you said. The first sentence I heard was Li Yuan, then Yu Hui, and then Yuan Bin and you. Now you know, the numbers I gave you are based on the order in which you speak." She went on to say: "At the time, I didn't know that you were telling lies. But after Mr. Shan ran out with you for a few hours, I realized that something had happened, and he couldn't have come back for so long. So, I left Shan The teacher's dormitory and Zhong Lin's house, at this time, I realized that you have lied to Teacher Shan, because Zhong Lin didn't leave the house that afternoon, let alone fell into the pool."

"I was terrified at the time. I couldn't imagine—could it be that Mr. Shan really fell into the pool and drowned because of your little joke? Or why didn't he come home after so long? In order to prove this, I Take our family's fishing net and my big hunting dog, and rush to the pool to salvage late at night..." When she said this, she paused: "Can you imagine? A girl in her teens and a big wolf dog were salvaging corpses in a pool late at night. I dragged a corner of the net, and the dog bit a corner, and it didn't take long , It was really salvaged! When I saw Teacher Shan’s body, I felt that the sky had collapsed and the world didn’t exist anymore. I forgot what fear is, all I know is that there is only one reason for me to live—”

Zheng Jie stood up and walked in front of Meide again: "That is to seek revenge from you." Mede gasped and said, "Where's Teacher Shan's body? How did you deal with it?" "After I salvaged him, I dragged him to a deserted dry well nearby. I buried Teacher Shan there, and I found a lot of soil and stones to throw in it... So, from the outside, there was no one at all. would have thought there was a body hidden there." "Why... why did you do this? Why didn't you tell the police that it was the four of us who did it?" "Stop talking silly, Meide!" Zheng Jie said, "Actually, you know better than me, don't you? You were only thirteen or fourteen years old at the time, and you didn't kill people on purpose, so what if the police knew about it? At most, I will be punished by the school, and I will be condemned by people. Do you think this kind of result will satisfy me?"

"Also, if I tell the police, there is another problem involved - the police will ask me 'how do you know this?' I can only say 'I was hiding under Teacher Shan's bed.' Think about it, in What would people think in that closed mountain village? They would think that Teacher Shan and I must have been doing something ulterior before that. But in fact, we were just chatting! Teacher Shan heard the knock on the door , afraid of being misunderstood by others, so he asked me to temporarily hide under his bed. But in the end, when Teacher Shan died, people might not believe my words. Therefore, I can’t leave Teacher Shan with an innocence after his death. Of course, this matter cannot be disclosed.”

"And you chose yourself as the lynching executor, killing the four of us one by one!" Mead said fiercely. Zheng Jie raised her eyebrows, showing an unquestionable demeanor. "Of course, I now understand that the curse in that notebook was also written by you imitating Teacher Shan's handwriting. But I don't understand, why did you do this?" Meade asked. "I guessed that you might come to Teacher Shan's dormitory again to dispose of his sandal. So after disposing of Teacher Shan's body, I rushed to his dormitory and imitated his handwriting to write the curse." What you said—is to torture you mentally! Because I know that with my ability at that time, I couldn’t kill you, so I have been waiting, waiting for the opportunity to avenge you! Until today.” She looked at Med with some complacency, as if admiring her masterpiece.