Sheriff Uncle, open the door quickly! I've come to solve a case!

It was Xu Shan who spoke; her voice came from the temple of her glasses.

These are camera glasses, with a camera on the frame. Everything Qin Qingzhou sees will be simultaneously transmitted to the police station. The temples also have bone conduction intercoms, enabling real-time conversations.

Zhu Meimu walked ahead: "I'm sure you've learned about our school before you came."

"It's less of a school and more of an educational welfare institution. The children here either have physical disabilities or are orphans. My original intention in founding this school was to take in these children who cannot integrate into society."

As Zhu Meimu approached the office door, she pushed it open. Inside, an elderly female teacher was blocking a boy, and judging from her actions, it seemed as if she was pinching him.

"Teacher Chen," Zhu Meimu coughed.

The man named Teacher Chen immediately withdrew his hand. When he saw Qin Qingzhou and the others following behind Zhu Meimu, a hint of wariness flashed in his eyes.

"Don't be nervous, this is a new teacher."

Teacher Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Oh, so you're new teachers. Hello, I'm the academic director in charge of the elementary school district. My surname is Chen, you can just call me Teacher Chen."

Qin Qingzhou noticed that the little boy was standing in the corner with his head down. He looked to be in fourth or fifth grade. His hands were covered in bruises, and he seemed to be very thin due to malnutrition.

Zhao Tai wanted to ask about everything he saw: "What's wrong with this child?"

Teacher Chen turned around and glared at the child: "Sigh, this child is very naughty. He always leads his classmates to skip class. This has happened three times this week, so I scolded him a few times."

"Oh……"

Zhu Meimu immediately smoothed things over: "That's how it is here. Special cases are treated specially. It's just a few words of reprimand, nothing serious."

"Enough of that, Teacher Chen. You take them for a tour of the school. I have an appointment to meet someone, so I'll be going now."

After Zhu Meimu finished speaking, she left. Teacher Chen smiled at the two of them and said, "Let's go."

Teacher Chen took the little boy out of the office. As they left, Qin Qingzhou noticed a little girl looking over from a distance.

Her gaze fell upon the little boy, her eyes filled with worry.

Since it was their first day at the school and they weren't familiar with it yet, Teacher Chen didn't assign them to classes or students. She just let them wander around on their own and said she would take them to the teachers' dormitory later after her class.

Qin Qingzhou and Zhao Tai split up and acted separately.

Qin Qingzhou had a feeling that something was off about the girl, so he went for a walk around the elementary school area and found the girl having a PE class on the playground.

The girl is in third grade. Because no one plays beanbag toss with her, she can only squat on the side and play with the sand.

Qin Qingzhou walked over and squatted down next to her.

"Why are you playing alone?"

The girl shuddered, moved a little to the side warily, and didn't say a word.

"You know that guy from earlier, right? What happened to him?"

The girl remained silent. Upon hearing the boy's voice, she paused slightly before continuing to silently play with the sand.

Qin Qingzhou: "Are you afraid of me? Or... afraid of the teacher?"

Xu Shan's voice came through: "Qingzhou, this girl seems to have a scar on her wrist."

Qin Qingzhou then noticed that, despite it being summer, most of the children here were wearing long sleeves. The girls' long sleeves covered their wrists, revealing small bruises when they reached out to play in the sand.

"Let me see your hands." Qin Qingzhou reached out to pull her, but the girl gasped softly, sat down on the ground with a look of terror on her face, then scrambled to her feet and ran away.

After a while, Qin Qingzhou met with Zhao Tai. The situation on his side was exactly the same. The students were inexplicably resistant to him. Not to mention talking to him, some of them couldn't even get close to him.

The more this is the case, the more problematic this welfare home is.

"The initial assessment is that this welfare home is suspected of child abuse, but there is no evidence."

Because they were afraid of being overheard, Xu Shan from the command center did most of the talking, and the two people on site kept quiet as much as possible.

"The best thing now is to find evidence of their child abuse. Once it is confirmed that they have committed a crime, we can turn the entire welfare home upside down under the guise of an investigation. No matter what kind of accounting records they keep, it won't be a problem."

"But... is there any way to get close to the children?"

Zhao Tai sighed: "They're afraid of any teacher these days, and it's impossible for them to get close to anyone."

"What if it's not a teacher?" Qin Qingzhou, who had been leaning against the wall in silence, suddenly asked.

"What do you mean?"

……

In the afternoon, Bai Zhizhi arrived at the registration desk with a small schoolbag on her back, looking curious.

Wow! This place is even bigger than Zhizhi's kindergarten!

So many children! What a huge playground!

Li Ku, with tears streaming down his face, shoved the prepared documents into Zhu Meimu's hands: "Yes, this child has been without parents since he was little, it's so pitiful. It's just a pity that my girlfriend won't let me raise the child, so I can only send him here to you... Waaah."

Qin Qingzhou and Zhao Tai pretended to stroll around nearby, secretly observing the situation at the entrance.

Zhu Meimu eyed Bai Zhizhi warily: "Where did you pick up this child?"

"In the mountains! I don't know which parents are so heartless as to lose such a lovely child. When I found her, she was almost kidnapped!" Li Ku cried earnestly.

That's not wrong, is it? Bai Zhizhi was originally picked up by them in the mountains and then taken back to the police station by them.

Zhu Meimu understood. It was in the mountains... and since it was a girl, he could guess why she was thrown away.

Zhu Meimu took Bai Zhizhi's small bag with a kind expression: "Don't worry, sir, our Chunnuanhuakai School will definitely take good care of her, you don't need to worry."

"I'm not worried, I'm leaving~" Li Ku teased before leaving, "Your school's teachers are so handsome~"

Zhu Meimu led Bai Zhizhi to the preschool department and handed her over to a male teacher.

The preschool department is very lax in its management; they basically just play with the children and let them wander off on their own when they get tired of it.

Bai Zhizhi remembered the photos that Aunt Xu Shan had shown her before she came here.

"Hey girl~ Pretty girl~"

Bai Zhizhi used a bit of her perception to find the girl in the photo in a corner of the playground.

There was a boy of similar age with her.

By this time, the boy had nimbly climbed the wall, which was covered in glass. He skillfully dodged the glass, revealing skin covered in scars.

The boy leaned against the wall and stretched out his hand to the girl: "Give me your hand."

The girl hesitated: "If we get caught, you'll get beaten up again, and I don't want you to get beaten up."

"Stop talking about that, hurry up! The teachers will be here again soon!"

"What are you doing?"