chapter 5

The accident happened to a poor student with good grades and a sensible person. He worked part-time around to reduce the burden on his parents, but suddenly he was caught as a thief.

Seika Matsumoto couldn't believe it when she received the call, and hurried to the security office of the company. The boy was sitting in the corner with his head down. When he looked up and saw her coming in, his eye circles immediately turned red, "Mr. He, I didn't steal it." Cell phone, I don't know how it got into my bag."

She nodded slightly and comforted him: "Don't worry, I'll go to them first to find out about the situation."

The matter sounds very simple. The boy was working part-time at a nearby restaurant to deliver food. When he came to deliver the food today, he took advantage of the customer's inattention and secretly put the new mobile phone in his bag. He got all the stolen goods. As soon as Seika Matsumoto finished listening, she discovered the flaw in it, "The moment you lost your phone over there, you stopped my student with sharp eyes. Isn't this a coincidence?"

The other party explained: "The owner dialed his own number immediately after finding out that the phone was lost. The boy hadn't walked out of the building at that time, and he was frantically looking for the phone from his bag. We saw that he was suspicious, so we stopped him."

Seika Matsumoto smiled, and said again: "Maybe this child offended someone, or your employees were joking with each other, and he was implicated innocently. You don't know, this child has always been good at school."

"Mr. He, the current situation is like this. There is a video to watch. We have no intention of wronging anyone. We plan to report the case and ask the police to deal with it."

He showed the video to Seika Matsumoto. When the boy came out of the office, he obviously panicked and hurried out, and the camera in the hall recorded him frantically taking out his cell phone from his bag. Regardless of whether the boy was really wronged or not, the evidence was clearly against him.

Seika Matsumoto had no choice but to soften her attitude, and said to the person in charge with a bunch of smiles: "Don't worry, let's discuss it carefully. He is still a student, even if he really made a mistake in a moment of confusion, can you give him a chance to correct himself?" , let’s settle this matter here, don’t bother the police comrades, okay?”

"Our employees have been violated, and the security department is responsible." The other party said.

Seika Matsumoto smiled shamelessly, "Didn't you find the phone? Your security department is already very responsible. Really! I haven't seen anyone who is more responsible than you. You don't know those people in our school, Not to mention a small mobile phone, you just swaggered out of our principal's desk, and they didn't even know how to block it."

The person in charge was amused by her, and when she looked at the door, she hurriedly said, "Do you think this is okay? I will lead the student to apologize to the owner, ask for forgiveness, and then I will take him back to criticize education."

The person in charge didn't want to make things too big, so he hesitated and asked her to lead the students and him to find the owner.

The elevator went up all the way and stopped when it reached the top floor. She couldn't help but ask the person in charge of the security department: "Could the phone belong to your president?"

"No, it belongs to the president's secretary." The other party replied.

Seika Matsumoto was secretly disappointed. Frankly speaking, she hoped that the mobile phone belonged to the president. People who can achieve that position generally have a certain amount of stomach and respect face. As long as she is willing to say something nice, the matter can be resolved. Characters like secretaries are more difficult to deal with.

Unfortunately, the matter was really what she expected. Miss Secretary was young and beautiful but extremely unfriendly, she came out of the president's office with a sullen face, cast a cold glance at Seika Matsumoto, and asked, "What else is there to talk about?"

Seika Matsumoto smiled at her, "He is still so young, he did something wrong in a moment of confusion, he should be given a chance to correct, don't you think so? I will lead him to apologize to you."

Miss Secretary sneered: "Who won't give him a chance to correct? Go to the police station and correct it. It's fine to be poor. If you are poor and not sensible, someone has to educate and educate him."

These words were really ugly, and the boy standing behind Seika Matsumoto couldn't help arguing excitedly: "I didn't steal your phone, you seduced me, if I don't want to, you frame me!"

As soon as Seika Matsumoto stopped speaking, she secretly yelled "Oops", regardless of whether it is true or not, this obviously exposes the scars and must not be said here! Sure enough, Miss Secretary's complexion changed, "Hmph" sneered twice, and said: "Whether I'm wronged or not, it doesn't matter if you say it, let's ask the police to tell."

Seika Matsumoto had no choice but to hurry to say good things, the scene was chaotic, but the elevator door opened, and someone asked indifferently: "What's going on?"

His voice was not high, but he suppressed everyone's voices. Seika Matsumoto seemed to have been pricked by a needle. When she turned her head suddenly, she saw Hikaru Ogata with cold eyes.

The secretary immediately restrained her arrogance and called out aggrievedly, "Mr. Fu."

Hikaru Ogata glanced at her, then looked at Seika Matsumoto, and finally fell on the person in charge of the security department. The person in charge hurriedly described the incident to him. After hearing the reason, he looked at Seika Matsumoto again and asked her, "Mr. He, is this your student?"

She held the student's arm tightly with her hand, not allowing him to be impulsive again, and replied to Hikaru Ogata: "Yes, he is a student under my supervision, and he is a classmate with Wulan. Wulan should also know what kind of character he is, he is not Someone who can steal."

When the secretary heard this, she was in a hurry, but was suppressed by Hikaru Ogata eyes.

He looked at Seika Matsumoto again, and said lightly, "Since he is a student of Teacher He, let Teacher He take her back."

Seika Matsumoto didn't expect him to be so eloquent, she was a little stunned for a moment, and saw him raise her eyebrows slightly, and then hurriedly pulled the students to thank him: "Thank you, thank you, thank you so much!"

Afraid of accidents, she hastily bid farewell to him and left with her students. When she was about to enter the elevator, she was suddenly stopped by him.

"Teacher He,"Hikaru Ogata slightly hooked the corners of his lips, and asked her, "Do you have time tonight? How about having a light meal together?"

She was slightly startled, and then responded vaguely: "Okay, we invite you."

But he refused to be fooled, and asked her with a smile that was not a smile: "Mr. He, do I have no morals in your eyes? It's just a meal, can I still eat you?"

He made his words so clear that she couldn't continue to pretend to be confused, so she simply smiled and said openly: "Mr. He would be jealous if he goes out to have a meal with friends, I really can't do anything about him."

There was a sneer on the corner of his lips, and he said: "Mr. He, you also misunderstood. I didn't mean to pursue you. I wanted to talk to you about Wulan. It's not convenient to have other people present."

At this point, she had no choice but to respond, but insisted: "But today I have to invite you to express my gratitude."

He smiled slightly, "OK."

"Then wait for my call." She said.

She drove the student back to school first, and the boy remained silent until the car entered the school gate, and then he said stubbornly: "Mr. He, I really didn't steal the phone. It was the woman who framed me, she, she..." He seemed to be a little speechless for the following words, and his face turned red.

Seika Matsumoto glanced at him, and said lightly: "Anyway, she successfully framed you, which shows that you have not done well enough."

The boy didn't refute. He lowered his head and remained silent for a while, then suddenly asked, "Where are you going to eat tonight?"

She raised her eyebrows, "Huh?"

"I'll pick you up!" Although he was simple, he was not stupid, and he clearly saw that Seika Matsumoto had to agree to the man's entanglement because of him. "You tell me the location, and I'll watch over you outside. Call me if you need anything."

Seika Matsumoto laughed, but felt warm in her heart. "You little brat, what can you do? Go back to school early for self-study! The part-time job will also be reduced in the future. I will try my best to help you get a scholarship this semester. If it is not enough, you can get some from me first, and work after graduation. Pay me back, anyway, I don't have any interest on my money in the bank. But, you have to write an IOU! Let's be a villain first and then a gentleman."

"Teacher He..." The boy's eye circles couldn't help but turn a little red again.

"Hey! Hey! Hey!" She stopped the car by the side of the road, pointed at the boy, and joked: "Anyway, you are a big man, don't say sensational words! Your teacher and I are good people, everyone knows that, You don't need to tell me. Also, I have a husband, so don't have a crush on me!"

What he said made the boy burst into tears, "Mr. He, you... are so narcissistic. I don't like women who are older than me."

"Go, go!" She acted annoyed, and drove the boy out of the car, "Hurry up and go to self-study! No big or small guy!"

The boy got out of the car, but still refused to let go of the car door. He just bent down and asked her, "Mr. He, where are you going to have dinner with that person?"

She understood his kindness. Looking into those clear eyes, she smiled and said, "Teacher, I'm not a local rich man. I can't go to any expensive places, so I should find one near the school. Uh...do you think the school How about the ' See the Sky' to the west?"

"See the Sky" is just outside the west gate of the school. It is small in scale and of medium grade. It can't be called simple, but it can't be called high-end either. Seika Matsumoto had a psychological shadow of Hikaru Ogata's appearance, and also disliked his dominance, so naturally she refused to be alone in the room with him, and specially reserved a seat on the booth.

She was always punctual, but Hikaru Ogata arrived earlier than her, "I'm in room 502, Mr. He, have you arrived yet?"

Since he had taken the lead, Seika Matsumoto couldn't ask him to sit in the booth again, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and go upstairs.

When he opened the door and went in, he was standing in front of the window. When he heard the door knocking, he glanced back and looked out of the window again, and said slowly: "I always feel that this city is like a monster, lying down during the day. If you don’t move, you will wake up at night, tempt you with all kinds of lights, and then swallow you up, leaving you in darkness forever.”

Seika Matsumoto couldn't understand his inexplicable emotion, she raised her eyebrows lightly, and responded: "Maybe it's because people have a natural fear of the dark, after all, people are not night-vision animals."

Hikaru Ogata let her sit at the table, and said, "I've already ordered, is it okay?"

Facing his face, she was always uncontrollably nervous, and subconsciously used humor to relieve this emotion, "It's okay, as long as the dishes are not too expensive."

He smiled lightly, "It should be fine."

The two of them really had nothing to say, if he didn't open his mouth, she just lowered her head and concentrated on eating, but didn't take the initiative to speak. When the meal was almost halfway through, he suddenly asked her: "Mr. He, can you tell me why you are so afraid of me?"

She froze for a moment, and raised her eyes to look at him.

"Please don't say that I misunderstood or something like that. You don't act like playing hard to get, but you are afraid of me from the bottom of your heart. This makes me very curious." He said.

She looked at him silently for a while, put down her chopsticks, and said frankly: "I met a robber a few years ago. You look a bit like him, so..." She smiled apologetically, "So I said yes A misunderstanding is not a lie to you."

He gently pulled the corner of his lower lip, "Just a bit like it?"

She shrugged helplessly, "Well, it's not a bit like it, it's a lot like it. That encounter cast a huge shadow on me, that's why I lost my composure when I first met you. I hope you can understand."

Hikaru Ogata smiled, "I should be the one saying sorry, after all, I scared you."

After talking, Seika Matsumoto felt a little more at ease, and smiled again: "So don't get me wrong, I really don't want to play hard to get you, I'm already married, and my husband and I have a very good relationship."

Hikaru Ogata nodded slowly, motioned for her to drink again, and said with a light smile, "I'm sorry, I haven't said why I invited you here. It's to express my gratitude for the past and give you a gift." He said, turning sideways He took out a gift box from under the table and handed it to her across the table.

She was a little surprised, and thought he was talking about Wulan's studies, so she hurriedly said, "You're too polite, I can't accept this thing."

But he stretched out his hand and refused to take it back, "Take it, it's not something valuable, open it and see if you like it."

Seika Matsumoto had no choice but to take the book-sized gift box and open it in front of him. The moment the lid was lifted, her complexion changed drastically, and she threw the box out as if it was burning her hands. The photos in the box were scattered all over the place. There was a dinner plate that was falling in front of her. The man in the photo looked at her with empty eyes. He was clearly covered in blood, but his neck was covered with white and broken bones.

He was the gangster called "Monkey," she remembered, and she would always remember.