Can We Say No to Divorce?-Chapter 782 - 533 Side Story: Up to No Good (2)

Su Tianqing walked with him, "I’ve said it, you don’t understand the national condition. We have The Art of War by Sun Tzu, we have the Thirty-Six Stratagems, not just for siege and battle, but also applicable to relationships between men and women..."

"I really don’t understand, it’s all too profound..." David said, continuing, "We’ve reached the school, since we’re not working at the Quarry, I might as well teach them English..."

"Sure!" Su Tianqing nodded, "You teach!"

"What about you?" David looked at him.

Su Tianqing shook his head: "I have no interest in teaching."

"Not even for Ziyu’s sake?" David gave him a look.

At the mention of this, Su Tianqing did show some emotion, looking at the children wearing tattered clothes, but with innocent and hopeful eyes, "What can I teach? Business?"

Probably no one would understand!

David was speechless and went off to play with the children who had finished their classes.

Just as Su Tianqing was about to leave, he saw the school headmistress approaching.

The headmistress had a slight sweat on her face, probably from walking too hastily, and she was a bit out of breath.

"Mr. Su..." Upon seeing him, the headmistress smiled kindly, "Here to see the kids? I haven’t had the chance to thank you personally, thank you for building the school for the children."

Su Tianqing had already agreed to fund the construction of another school. For the headmistress, of course, she was very happy and moved.

"You’re too polite, headmistress!" Su Tianqing looked at her, she was very thin, when the wind blew, it seemed as if she could be blown away.

Her hair had also turned quite white, already of retirement age, but still busy for the kids!

Unlike his mother, who liked to spend lots of money on her health and skin care, often going to get beautiful and fashionable hairdos, never worrying about anything.

The headmistress seemed to see through his thoughts, "I’ve not married in my life, nor have I any children. Ziyu is here, I treat her as my own daughter, she has built our town so well! Mr. Su, your arrival, is certainly the icing on the cake! In my twilight years, there’s not much I look forward to, just hoping that the children can receive a good education..."

"Everything will get better, and by then, headmistress, it will be time for you to enjoy your blessings." Su Tianqing was a man not naturally skilled at comforting others, so saying these few words was already quite remarkable for him.

The children saw the headmistress return and surrounded her happily.

"Hello, headmistress..."

"The headmistress is back..."

The children chattered around the headmistress and Su Tianqing, looking at him with curious eyes.

"Mr. Su, I just went to a villager’s home and pulled up some carrots, I’ll make carrot and pork bone soup for lunch, would you join us?" the headmistress warmly invited him.

"Thank you, but no need! I have other things to do, I must be going!" Su Tianqing felt he couldn’t eat, seeing how the children’s eyes lit up at the mention of the carrot and pork bone soup, it didn’t feel right to eat the children’s benefits.

Su Tianqing left the crowd of children, who surrounded the headmistress, eager to have the meat soup as soon as possible.

When Su Tianqing returned from the school, Song Ziyu was pressing her temples with her hands.

He walked behind her and started massaging her head: "Do you want to take a break? Since it’s lunchtime already, let’s go eat together."

"You go eat!" Song Ziyu shook her head, "I can’t eat..."

"Alright! Then go to the headmistress’ place to have carrot and pork bone soup!" Su Tianqing humphed.

Song Ziyu looked up at him, "Did you go to the school?"

Su Tianqing sat down on the chair opposite her, "Yeah, David said he had nothing to do, so he went to the school to teach the kids English!"

Song Ziyu finally showed a hint of a smile, but it quickly faded, "I hope the impact of this matter passes quickly! Otherwise, it really will have an effect."

"It’s a good thing that the murder case in the small village has been closed," Su Tianqing leaned back in his chair, "Dealing with these affairs is indeed annoying!"

"But you and I both know that this case is essentially...," Song Ziyu sighed.

"You sigh too?" Su Tianqing glanced at her, "However, I think that this decade-old female corpse case probably has nothing to do with Chen Chen."

Song Ziyu frowned: "Ten years ago, Chen Chen was only twelve. It’s not impossible for him to have killed a girl several years older than him, but to attribute another murder to him now seems to be too much!"

"Yeah, if there’s no connection, why force it?" Su Tianqing wholeheartedly agreed.

While they were discussing the matter, Qiao Xiaoyan came back.

As soon as she returned, she immediately asked: "Where is Professor Gan?"

"Did you discover anything?" Song Ziyu asked right away.

"A major discovery!" Qiao Xiaoyan declared, "Professor Gan gave me a painting, and the restoration of the woman in it bears an extremely high resemblance to the portrait he provided."

"That means he recognizes the victim!" Su Tianqing’s interest was piqued, "How does he know her? Could the woman be his ex-girlfriend? Let’s see, ten years ago he was thirty, and the victim wasn’t even eighteen yet, damn, that’s molestation of a minor..."

Song Ziyu couldn’t listen any further: "You’re talking nonsense!"

"Am I?" Su Tianqing said proudly: "I’ve always said, those scholarly and seemingly upright types are nothing but hypocrites! Don’t be fooled by their polite and modest facades; inside they’re full of wickedness, daring to prey on an underage girl and even killing her, with such vile behavior, how can he be a university professor?"

"Su Tianqing!" Song Ziyu reprimanded sharply, "Can’t you talk like a normal person?"

"It’s just a bold hypothesis followed by careful verification, aren’t you going to let me hypothesize?" Su Tianqing saw she was angry and quickly added, "Don’t you find it suspicious? How could he recognize a woman who has been reduced to bones? Ziyu, I know you’re interested in him, but we need to be impartial and just in an investigation, you can’t bring personal emotions into this!"

"I don’t need you to teach me!" Song Ziyu glared at him, "I just believe that Professor Gan is not that kind of person, and your hypothesis is simply slandering his reputation without any basis! Don’t say I have personal emotions, I think you are the one who is truly biased with personal emotions!"

Watching them argue non-stop, Qiao Xiaoyan said, "Let’s not argue about this. We should just go directly to Professor Gan and ask him, won’t that do?"

"Right!" Song Ziyu put down the work in her hands, "We will confront him face to face!"

Su Tianqing stopped them, "You’re being too impulsive, going there so openly, won’t you tip him off and give him the chance to escape! What about the unsolved case? What about the wronged deceased girl? What about the impact on the town?" 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

"Professor Gan..." Qiao Xiaoyan, with sharp eyes, noticed that Gan Zi had arrived at the office door without them knowing when.

Song Ziyu, seeing that Su Tianqing was still blocking the two of them, her face turned stern: "Move aside!"

Seeing that Gan Zi had come over, Su Tianqing immediately turned and said, "Given that you are a person of interest, you cannot participate in the investigation of this case."

Gan Zi was still wearing his iron-grey suit, paired with a sky-blue shirt with two buttons undone, looking a bit casual yet still distinguished.

Gan Zi completely ignored the suspicions Su Tianqing had mentioned, and directly said to Qiao Xiaoyan, "Go to the village chief’s house and collect a few items that his daughter left behind before she went out to work, bring them back for testing to see if they are from the same person?"

"What?" Qiao Xiaoyan was very familiar with the village chief, "His daughter?"

Song Ziyu also looked anxiously at Gan Zi, "Professor Gan, what’s going on?"

"On the day of the celebration feast, the village chief thought I would return to City A. He mentioned that his sixteen-year-old daughter went out to work and then there was no news from her for ten years. He said, if I saw his daughter, remember to pass on a message." Gan Zi said with a bit of solemnity, "At present, it’s still uncertain whether it’s the same person..."