[070] Freedom of belief(1/2)
Facts have proved that I underestimated Eunuch Cao.
Since the dean only acted as a supervisor and blocked the door of the classroom, and the people he inspected were all members of the Discipline Inspection Department of the Student Union, this gave Cao Jingshen an opportunity to take advantage of it.
I know what Cao Jingshen usually carries in his schoolbag, such as handheld game consoles, video game magazines, Three Kingdoms decks, H-comics, Japanese actress photo magazines... none of them are contraband, let alone illegal items.
He probably hid the monitor’s nude photos in Photoshop.
But the disciplinary inspection committee member responsible for the inspection only stayed at Cao Jingshen's position for a while, glanced into Cao Jingshen's schoolbag, and then went to inspect the next person.
Later I learned that Cao Jingshen had been bribing the Discipline Inspection Department of the Student Union for a long time. The Discipline Inspection Department had been bribed by Cao Jingshen from the deputy director down.
Moreover, the person in charge of the inspection when the incident comes to an end will receive an extra red envelope from Cao Jingshen.
No wonder the shaved, dark-skinned disciplinary inspection committee member put one hand in his pocket after leaving Cao Jingshen's position, and looked happy, unable to hide it.
To borrow a line from Liu Cixin's "The Three-Body Problem": "Black! So damn dark!"
But should I be happy? If Comrade Xiao Hei, the Discipline Inspection Committee member, had not been corrupt and perverted the law, a large number of nude photos of the squad leader would have been exposed in the class.
Although Cao Jingshen also sold a lot while working abroad, most of the buyers would secretly take it home without sharing it with others. Compared with being exposed in such a public place, the harm is much less.
What I couldn't ignore in particular was that the dean of students, Aunt Owl, was standing at the front door with a ferocious look on her face.
If she discovers the squad leader's photoshopped nude photos, she will definitely take them all as evidence. She will never destroy these photos because she wants to consider the victim's mood. She may even question the squad leader about the original photos that Cao Jingshen used for photoshopping.
Where did the photo come from?
All possible troubles were eliminated by Cao Jingshen's dirty bribery methods.
If the monitor knew that the students would rot like this, he would probably be furious, right?
But if the student union is as upright as you, you will be greatly embarrassed because your photos are exposed in public!
Ah, sometimes life is so contradictory. I must be old now that I have begun to seriously think about this kind of problem...
Soon it was my turn to check my schoolbag, and Comrade Xiaohei was responsible for the check.
Since there was no contraband in my schoolbag, I safely threw it on the table and let him check it at will.
But Comrade Xiao Hei didn't make any move. He didn't want to let me go because I was Cao Jingshen's master, but because he was afraid of my bad reputation in the school.
Although Comrade Xiao Hei is already a third-year student, he probably still remembers that when I was still in the first grade of junior high school, I had a fight with the former boss of No. 28 Middle School.
Although I didn't win, my tenacity and perseverance left a deep impression on the previous boss, and he regarded me as his successor from then on.
Comrade Xiaohei obviously doesn't want to step on my landmine.
He was just about to make a show of passing me by, but the squad leader Shusha came over from the side.
It seemed that the dean called the monitor and said something, and when he came back, the monitor came straight to me.
Dean, you are so cunning! You know that the disciplinary inspection committee under you may not dare to offend me, so you sent Shusha to deal with me, right?
Comrade Xiaohei and the squad leader gathered around my desk. Just this way of standing made me very uncomfortable.
I feel that they are now the hawks of the school, and they want to implement state tyranny against me, a hard-working student.
Although Comrade Xiao Hei is a corrupt dog and the squad leader is a righteous and awe-inspiring eagle, they are slightly different in nature, but they still make me angry.
I pushed my schoolbag in front of them.
"Let's check it out. Let's finish school early. But let me remind you, there is a mousetrap in the schoolbag. I am not responsible for whose hand it gets caught!"
Comrade Xiao Hei looked at the squad leader on his right with a troubled expression and whispered:
"Shu Sha, how about we give Ye Lin some face? Anyway, the dean can't see him from this angle..."
The squad leader frowned, frightening Xiao Hei's next words.
"What dignity does he have? Why should he check everyone's schoolbags but not his? Is this fair to other students?"
The three rhetorical questions made Comrade Xiaohei feel ashamed.
Next, the monitor reached out to pull the zipper of my schoolbag. Were we really not afraid that there was a mousetrap inside?
I suddenly wanted to tease these two eagle dogs for a while. Anyway, I knew everything and had nothing to fear.
"Squad leader, I forgot to tell you that there is a dead mouse caught in my mousetrap!"
The squad leader had already put his hand into my schoolbag. After hearing this, he retracted his hand as if he was electrocuted. Not only did he retract his hand, his whole body made a serious retreating movement.
As if he realized that he was being out of proportion in this way, the squad leader took only half a step back and abruptly stopped his body's conditioned reflex, and stubbornly took another step forward, trying to restore his original standing posture as naturally as possible.
This series of actions probably violated human body mechanics, and she tried so hard that her face turned red.
I will never forget this scene. When she stepped away, her face turned pale and her pupils were wandering. It was a rare sight in the world.
So you are afraid of mice? Unexpectedly, you have the same weakness as ordinary girls! After learning that you are afraid of mice, the majesty of your monitor is gone forever in my heart!
Even Comrade Xiao Hei couldn't hold back his laughter and made a "puff" sound.
The monitor's face turned red and white, and he hated me so much that he bit his lower lip.
"No matter what's in the schoolbag, you can take it out for me!"
The angry tone is quite rare, I really should take a photo as a souvenir.
I put my hand into my schoolbag nonchalantly and took out a thick English-Chinese dictionary.
It was thrown on the table with a "bang" sound, and a lot of dust was shaken up, which was particularly obvious in the sunlight.
The monitor and Xiao Hei both covered their mouths and noses to prevent the anthrax virus from getting on my dictionary.
My mood at this moment is probably like that of a hawker who was raided by the urban management.
I took out another 16-volume collection of classical Chinese exercises and slammed it on the table harder.
The dust was flying high, choking the squad leader and Xiao Hei to cough.
How is it? Are there any contrabands? Are you satisfied this time?
I reached into my schoolbag again, took out a thick book and threw it on the table!
This book was so hard that I almost broke the table in half.
Huh! Look! You can look at whatever you want! Just like the ones in your schoolbags, aren’t they all teaching reference books? It’s either for this subject or that subject!
By the way, which subject did I just take out? Why is the cover so dark?
I took a closer look and saw a few gilded words written on the dark hard-shell paper cover: "Bible Old Testament".
Damn, why did I take out this book? Should this be considered a literary masterpiece or an extracurricular book? It’s very strange for a junior high school student like me to carry a Bible with me!
I made a quick decision and took out a junior high school Political People's Education Edition from my schoolbag without any hesitation, hoping to quickly get through by pressing it on the Bible.
As a result, the class monitor didn't care about the matter and copied the Bible.
She was also startled when she saw the words "Bible" on the cover, but she thought that I was so depraved that it was impossible to read the Bible. Under the sacred appearance of this book, maybe it was actually an erotic novel.
Probably because of this idea, the squad leader handed the Bible to Comrade Xiaohei, hoping that he could help check the content.
Comrade Xiaohei, a student council member who is obviously already in the third grade and is quite tall, looks like a handyman next to the monitor.
Comrade Xiao Hei held the Bible and turned it over. His expression became more and more confused as he turned over it.
"Why are these all traditional Chinese characters? They are still arranged vertically! I can't understand them!"
The monitor said "tsk" and took the book back from his hand. If he hadn't seen that he was a third grader or a member of the disciplinary inspection committee, he would have scolded him as "really useless", right?
When I opened the book and looked through it myself, the monitor also had a confused expression on his face.
"Why are there words like 'God' and 'Devil' written all over it? Is this the real Bible?"
Seeing the squad leader asking himself, Xiao Hei shook his head like a rattle.
"I haven't read the Bible either. I don't know. Shusha, don't ask me..."
The monitor returned his gaze to me.
"Ye Lin, you carry this kind of book with you, do you want to spread a cult in the school?"
After being reminded by the squad leader, Xiao Hei made an expression of sudden realization:
"Yes, I heard that the cult organizations 'Almighty God' and 'Eastern Lightning' have been rampant recently! Could it be that Ye Lin is following them..."
I was very angry. These two court hawks were ignorant and had not even read the Bible carefully. They even suspected that I was the leader of a cult.
Although Cao Jingshen calls me the leader and respects Edison Chen as the ancestor of our sect, there are only two people in our sect, and we don’t cheat on food, drink, money, or sex, so how can we call it a cult?
So I argued with them:
"Don't look down on people, okay? This is the real Bible! The Old Testament of the Bible tells who will die if they don't listen to God's words. It is a beautiful and moving fairy tale! Moreover, our country's constitution stipulates freedom of belief.
Ah! Are you going to persecute me? If you are persecuting me, I will go to the U.S. Embassy to seek political asylum!"
In fact, there is no US embassy in our city at all. The best I can do is go to Amy to find freedom of belief.
But my impassioned speech obviously shocked them.
Xiao Hei felt that it was quite embarrassing to stop here for a long time, so he discussed with the class monitor whether he could just let it go. Anyway, the Bible was not explicitly listed as contraband by the school.
The class monitor was reluctant, but felt that there was really no reason to confiscate the book, so he finally had to put the Bible back on my desk.
I held the Bible to my chest in an exaggerated manner, pretending to be a devout believer, and said that no one could take away my firm faith.
To be continued...