Chapter 262: Bite back, dismissal, heavenly punishment on the doorstep.
The son on the other side of the phone naturally did not know what was happening in China, and said with great joy: "Yes, you have never been abroad, you don't know. You need to prepare at least half a month in advance to go to the U.S., and the procedures for interviews and other things are quite complicated, so if you had told me earlier, I would have done it on your behalf in China. If you are convenient then come, I really miss you ......."
Zhu Shoucheng made a few perfunctory remarks to his son and hung up the phone in a state of confusion.
He looked at the phone, furrowed his brow, thought for a long time, and his demeanor gradually relaxed.
...... Zhu Shoucheng is back.
No one expected that after disappearing for a whole day, he would come to the police station, dressed up, on his own initiative, to apply for habeas corpus, claiming that bad rumors and accusations were being spread against him.
And those allegations, all of them, are nonsense.
Zi Yu took the man to the interrogation room.
Old Dai looked extremely pale and asked him, "You really didn't do any of that?"
Zhu Shoucheng said sincerely, "No."
Old Dai snapped his palm to the tabletop, "So what are you hiding from?"
Zhu Shoucheng opened his mouth: "If you have been falsely accused, it is only normal that you want to escape, right? I Zhu Shoucheng, who has lived a clean life and is about to retire, has encountered this kind of thing, and I didn't want to face it for a while. But now, I want to open up."
Old Dai narrowed his eyes, "I see you've been 'falsely accused', and you're not too angry."
Zhu Shoucheng: "I'm not a child, I know it's useless to be angry. The most important thing now is to solve the problem, isn't it?"
Old Dai didn't bullshit him anymore and cut to the chase, "Someone heard that you admitted, of your own accord, that you did all those nasty things to the students."
Zhu Shoucheng calmly said, "That was gas."
Old Dai looked into his eyes, and it was actually hard to tell whether the words of this man, who was too calm for his own good, were true or false.
Zhu Shoucheng, fearless of the other party's scrutiny, further questioned, "Is it possible to be convicted for one's words in this world nowadays?"
Zi Yu put down the ballpoint pen he was taking notes with, "While you were gone, we had applied for a house search warrant, entered your room, and found a bloody sheet. How are you going to explain that?"
"Sheets with blood?"
Zhu Shoucheng thought for a while, and then showed an enlightened expression, "Ah, you guys said that bed sheet? That was a child who came to my house to take tuition, his leg was cut, blood flowed quite a lot, dripping onto the bed sheet, can't wash it off, so I just make do with what I have. As you know, I'm a teacher with a small salary, and my family's standard of living is not such that I can just throw away a dirty sheet. If you don't believe me, you guys can go ask that kid."
When he said that, he raised his eyebrows and showed some regret and sadness, "By the way, I'm so sorry, that child seems to be gone now."
The ballpoint pen in Zi Yu's hand made a very loud "click".
Old Dai's face twisted slightly, "Are you provoking us?"
Zhu Shoucheng courteously denied, "No, you have misunderstood. I think it is imperative to find a victim who can accuse me and clear my name as soon as possible. Can't someone else casually find a paragraph from the Internet that sounds similar to me, spliced together, even if it's ironclad evidence, right?"
Zhu Shoucheng This terrifying frankness even caused Old Dai's judgment to waver for a few moments.
Zi Yu: "You mean, someone planted evidence to frame you?"
"Isn't that so?" Zhu Shoucheng spread his hands and sputtered, "Every student is a precious gem to me. There's no way I can hurt them."
Zi Yu's face grew colder, "And how do you explain your verbal harassment of the child next door to your house?"
The words "the kid next door" irritated Zhu Shoucheng, reminding him of something extremely disgusting.
His face paled meatily, "You mean Chi Xiaochi?...... to him, did I say anything I shouldn't have? Like asking him to sleep with me?"
Zi Yu was speechless, "You--"
"Yes, I do like children, you could even say I love them. So there are times when some of the expressions will be a bit over the top." Zhu Shoucheng spoke up, "But it's all within normal limits. For you guys to take it out of context like this really chills an old teacher's heart."
Zhu Shoucheng has complete confidence, knowing that he will not be sentenced, and dares to gamble that those who have been victims are well aware of what they are pinching in their hands, and therefore simply do not have the guts to come forward and admit that they have been violated in the past.
Even in such an atmosphere of public opinion, where a thousand people are criticizing him, he is not afraid.
After all, those victims who blew the whistle on things would only be cool for a while, after that. He will be unlucky in this little place for a lifetime, and be poked and prodded for a lifetime.
Back up a thousand steps to say, there really is a brainwashed child jumped out to testify, according to his understanding, the current level of domestic law, the sentence for the crime of rape and molestation of children, is still only in the concept of "young girls".
The only pity is that the books can't be taught and the family can't go back home.
The law can't punish him, so I guess the parents will try to drown him in spit.
But he can go abroad to join his son and the police station will still have to dutifully issue a certificate of no crime for him.
Sure enough, Zhu Shoucheng was expelled from the school in order to quell public anger.
For the next half a month, except for the parents who intermittently came to the silo to cause trouble, things really slowly calmed down.
The unvictimized children are bewildered, and most of the victimized children, frightened by their parents' sky-is-falling attitude, simply keep quiet.
And the hot-headed parents who went to look up the relevant legal information gradually calmed down and stopped talking about it.
Only the mother of the child, who is suspected to have committed suicide because of Zhu Shoucheng, went to court to sue Zhu Shoucheng, wanting to ask him to pay for his murder, but failed to file a case due to lack of evidence.
She was so mentally damaged that she hung around the silo day after day.
According to the source, she carried a fruit knife in her arms and claimed that she would take Zhu Shoucheng's life if she saw him.
Even though the police intervened later, in order to avoid more trouble, Zhu Shoucheng still brought all the information, went to the provinces, found a reliable agency, stayed in a hotel for almost a month, burned a lot of money, and finally managed to get a U.S. visa for a 10-year round trip.
Only in the dead of night, the injustice and depression will come to his heart, making Zhu Shoucheng toss and turn, so depressed that he hit his head against the pillow.
His wonderful garden was exposed, branches, leaves and flowers, all pulled down, trampled underfoot by the unappreciative, and wantonly insulted.
Luckily, the visa he had applied for was quickly issued, slightly offsetting the unbearable sadness in his heart.
When he stepped onto the plane with his simple luggage, Zhu Shoucheng looked out of the window at the white clouds and thought sadly that he was going to start his days of displacement.
...... But, looking on the bright side, he has a home he can go back to anyway.
The son is apparently planning to settle abroad for a long time. He has purchased a second-hand house with all the infrastructure, and it is only a twenty-minute drive from where he works, which is convenient except for the fact that it is not very convenient to buy things.
He entertained his old father solicitously, "Dad, what brings you to my place all of a sudden?"
Zhu Shoucheng's hand holding the teacup trembled slightly, then he smiled and asked back, "What, dislike your dad?"
The son was just about to speak when his daughter-in-law brought the melon seeds and laughed, "Dad, he's stupid, he doesn't mean that. We are a hundred times welcome for you to come, but if we had known that you were coming, we should have leveled the yard earlier to make it easier for you to sunbathe in the yard."
Zhu Shoucheng's eyes lit up, and he got up and rolled up his sleeves to go to the backyard: "Leveling the sod? I've done it in school, let me help you."
Daughter-in-law panicked "hey", "Dad, you came all the way here, you rest ......"
However, while talking, Zhu Shoucheng has already walked to the back door.
The son touched his daughter-in-law's elbow, "See, you're the one with the stupid mouth."
The daughter-in-law gasped, "Go and drag your father with you. Your father is here on a trip, and he's just here to make people work, is that a good idea?"
Instead, the son looked adoringly at his father's back and said, "I'm going to teach my dad how to drive a weed whacker."
"Ugh!"
"Don't worry about it. My dad is a laborer, he can't stay idle, and he brings his kids home to tutor them during the summer and winter vacations. If you don't let him do something, you're killing him."
Turning his back on his son and daughter-in-law, Zhu Shoucheng breathed a small sigh of relief.
The school only knows the cell phone his son used to use, and now that he's changed his number, naturally he can't be contacted, which also gives Zhu Shoucheng a little peace of mind.
Here, at least, he was able to get away from the chaos and enjoy a little bit of happiness in his later years.
Zhu Shoucheng stayed with his son.
His son and daughter-in-law both have jobs here, and at first, his son was not too comfortable leaving him home alone, but he soon relented.
Zhu Shoucheng learned English and quickly integrated into the language environment, so he could watch the news, read the newspaper, and had no great problems communicating with people, and one day he even skipped off on his own to go sightseeing and take pictures at a nearby church.
So much for a seemingly free and happy month.
Zhu Shoucheng is so active in his studies for no other reason than he is afraid, not daring to show a little bit of discomfort so that his son will have an excuse to send himself back to his home country.
Just like when he first came here, he couldn't stand the foreign diet and was constipated for a long time, and he didn't dare to tell his son, he only dared to be a thief and get up in the middle of the night and bite his teeth to solve the problem.
The good thing is, time is the cure for people.
Things at home, in Zhu Shoucheng's mind has faded into a pale bit in the shadow, although the heart still aches when I think about it, but the good thing is that it's not so hard to get through.
He found that the United States is a good place, the Internet is not as closed as in China, and it does not move 404, and any website can be entered. Zhu Shoucheng used the computer he brought with him to connect to the Internet, clicked around, and surprisingly, through a small unknown pop-up window, entered a website that was very much to his liking.
Zhu Shoucheng was afraid that this website would suddenly disappear and saved several pictures with great excitement.
A week later, two children from the neighborhood were playing soccer at home, and the ball flew over the yard wall, and Zhu Shoucheng picked it up for them.
When the nanny rang the doorbell with two little blonde boys to ask for their soccer ball back, Zhu Shoucheng held the ball in his arms and took a look at their cute white faces, tickled slightly.
...... Maybe a nice garden could be planted here too.
The fat nanny seemed to be aware of his expression odd, deliberately looked at him, Zhu Shoucheng did not think too much about it.
He turned back to his son's home and continued to vacuum for them.
Half an hour later, the doorbell was rung again.
This time, however, the sound was cold and icy, one after the other, ringing with such urgency that it was like a death wish.
Zhu Shoucheng leaned over to the door and asked, "Who?"
Outside is a man, in English, introduced himself, probably he belongs to what what department, but the other party spoke too fast, and with a little accent, so Zhu Shoucheng only understand the key information.
...... American police?
Zhu Shoucheng introspection, he did not do anything wrong, and the Americans have always been a small problem, a little big things love to call the police, perhaps just because they do not know him, as he took him as a thief who breaks the door and locks.
So he casually pulled the door open.
Zhu Shoucheng took his passport and asked politely, "What is your business?"
In came two police officers, a man and a woman, with a routine, "There's been a report that you've been acting inappropriately voyeuristic toward the child next door to you."
Zhu Shoucheng was stunned, and the appearance of that fat nanny came to mind, followed by a burst of tears and laughter.
Are Americans that sensitive?
He replied with panache, "It was a misunderstanding. I think the lady was a little jumpy."
The policewoman said, "But with us, you have a record."
Zhu Shoucheng Bewildered: "What record?"
"Sir, may I ask, was it you who, a week ago, used the internet to log onto a child pornography site and download some images with inappropriate content?" The male cop asked, "Or was it someone else in this household?"
Zhu Shoucheng s mouth stiffened, "What makes you ...... say that? What evidence is there?"
The male police officer said, "That site, one of the main sites that officials have been monitoring since the takeover, is designed to spot potential pedophiles."
Zhu Shoucheng's heart burned with fire, and his eyes widened: "You are fishing for law enforcement! What right do you have to monitor other people's computers? Besides, I clicked into that website, it was just a misunderstanding, a hand mistake! Downloading the pictures was just out of curiosity!"
It's just a few pictures, he thought, and the other side wouldn't put himself under key observation.
Sure enough, the policewoman said, "Yes, it's true that we can't rule out the possibility of misadventure, but we're still here to do some routine questioning because of a report."
Before Zhu Shoucheng could relax, the male police officer took over, "...... So, we need to immediately clear the contents of your computer, please cooperate."
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Published at: 02/01/2025 14:00