Three kerosene lamps were placed in a corner of a room, their dim, yellow glow flickering. This was a closed, small room.
"Li Wei, tell me honestly, who moved first?"
A teacher with a horse-face was staring at Casio intently.
"They did."
"Okay, then you tell us in detail what happened." The male teacher glanced at Lixia, another instructor, then turned his head to say.
"Okay." Casio nodded: "I was planning to go to the bathroom after chatting in the dormitory, but as I was passing by dorm number seven, suddenly two or three people rushed out from the door and pulled me in. Finn was giving orders to these men, he ordered them to beat me up and try to control me so that I would not make a sound."
"Then I struggled desperately, fighting back..." Casio recounted the "facts", with his emotions genuine and slightly nervous.
The smoother the talk, the more it didn't seem plausible.
He also displayed the bruises and wounds on his body.
Meanwhile, in a similarly set up room on the other side.
Teacher Marne, Teacher Dandong and another bald male teacher were questioning a boy from dorm number seven. The three-on-one situation was a bit intense, and the boy was visibly nervous.
"You said, Li Wei suddenly rushed into your dormitory like a madman, then rode on Finn and beat him up crazily."
The bald teacher asked.
"Yes." The boy nodded.
"Why did he rush in to hit Finn?"
"Er…" The boy was suddenly at a loss, subconsciously thinking that it might be because Finn had been sharply scolding, and Li Wei outside had heard. But he can't tell people about this sinister plan, can he?
Saying that Li Wei was holding a grudge? However, Li Wei was the one who first gave Finn a beating, and Finn had been punished. Moreover, Li Wei's performance during these seven days of double training was very good, the punishment was almost over, why would he create trouble at this point?
Thinking over and over again, the reasons that the boy's intelligence could come up with all seemed somewhat far-fetched and unreasonable. Moreover, sometimes he had to consider his and Finn's side.
After a moment of silence, the boy could only say he didn't know.
"Well, you go out." The bald teacher let the person leave.
Then one by one they questioned the five boys from dorm number seven, their responses were different. Some said they didn't know, others said that Li Wei was crazy, others said that Finn had a big mouth...
Moments later, the three teachers began to question the boys who had first come to watch the excitement at the first sign of the fight. The answers they received this time were quite consistent, all saying that Li Wei had been besieged and his face was covered in blood.
He had been shouting for help before.
The face of Teacher Marne was getting darker and darker.
Half an hour later, the teachers on both sides exchanged their inquiry results.
Marne's face was black as a pot lid, according to the existing evidence, it seemed true as Li Wei had said. Finn had made a rash and extremely foolish move in impulse.
At eleven o'clock at night, even though the teachers hadn't questioned Finn, who was lying in a hospital bed, the basic tone had already been set. After all, the Wind Elephant Gate Youth Training Camp was not a detective agency at the police station.
Soon, the punishment for dorm number seven came down. The boys were first punished to handle ingredients in the cafeteria for a week, then they were assigned double training for ten days, and Finn, who was lying in his hospital bed, was treated in the same way. Among them, the worst-off were Finn's two lackey. Their current punishment plus the original one doubled perfectly.
They had already processed ingredients in the cafeteria for a week, and now they will have an entire week again. Then they have twenty consecutive days of double training.
The boys in dorm number seven were discontented, but their protest was of no use. A severe protest would result in expulsion. Moreover, they could no longer take any form of revenge against Li Wei.
If anything happened, they would be sent home on the spot.
Of course, as the other party involved in the fight, Casio would be subjected to seven days of double training as a punishment. Teacher Lixia told him privately that she could express this situation to the person in charge of the Youth Training Camp.
Owe a favor to gesture special treatment of the rules.
But Casio refused. He was gradually getting used to the days of double training, another seven days to establish a routine was pretty good.
In addition, Casio didn't want to make Teacher Lixia owe him a favor because of him. How to punish was how to punish.
A noisy night passed, and the sky gradually brightened.
Youth Training Camp, hospital, third floor, the ward on the leftmost side.
Finn was lying in a familiar bed, looking at the familiar ceiling, with a familiar white bandage wrapped around his face.
Leaning back to sit up, Finn picked up a teacup to drink water. The swelling and pain in his lips caused him to tremble. He pours the water on the bed. At this moment, the wooden door of the ward creaked open.
Marne, dressed in a beige uniform, walked in with a cold face.
Finn lit up and then he said some urgently.
"Uncle, how is it going? Was that bastard expelled?"
"Who are you talking about?" Marne walked over to his bedside at a leisurely pace.
"Who else? That bastard, Li Wei!"
"..." Marne shook his head in silence: "The person who was almost expelled was not him, but you! If it weren't for my relationship with the person in charge of the Youth Training Camp, you would have been dismissed last night..."
"No, what does this mean?"
Finn's face was full of confusion, but as his face was tightly bandaged it was actually hard to make out any expression, he seemed to be covered entirely by the white bandages.
"What do you mean? What's the point of pretending in front of me? I'm your uncle, I know what you're like..."
Marne took a sip from the cup at the side: "Tell me everything about what happened last night, and don't try to hide anything from me, you can't hide."
Five minutes later, Finn recounted all the events.
"What am I supposed to say about you?" Marne looked down at Finn. Finn's eyes were a little evasive, his lower eyelids twitching constantly.
"Even if what you say is true, it's no use. All the testimony from last night, the witnesses, and the evidence are in place, the case is pretty much closed. Just go and train for twenty days honestly, or else go home."
Marne saw Finn's eyes still looking a bit defiant, he immediately said: "I advise you, you had better not provoke Li Wei again. If what you said is false and what Li Wei said is true. Then you should swallow this anger honestly and stop causing trouble. If you mess with him again and get discovered, that's an immediate expulsion."
"If what you said is true, and what Li Wei said is false, then you better not provoke him anymore! This man's scheming and intelligence is much higher than yours, don't embarrass yourself being made a fool by others."
His tone paused for a moment, and finally he said in a quiet voice.
"Stop humiliating yourself and stop humiliating me..."
After saying these words, Marne turned and left the ward, on the hospital bed, only Finn was left with a somewhat dazed look.