Under the gaze of Xu Yunshu and Brother Glasses, a local old man shakily walked out of a bungalow in the courtyard. The old man stooped and walked towards the gate at an extremely slow speed.

Xu Yunshu could clearly see that the old man was too old to walk too fast.

After a few minutes of this, the old man moved to the courtyard gate.

The old man with a wrinkled face opened his mouth and slowly spoke the local dialect. He seemed to be very surprised by the two people who came to visit. He said a long list of words, but there were many monophonic repeated passages.

Xu Yunshu guessed that this might be because the old man had begun to stutter a little.

Sure enough, after the old man spoke for a long time, the glasses brother basically only said one sentence.

"Mr. Xu, he asked us who we were, and he also said that the school has stopped recruiting students for a long time."

Xu Yunshu was stunned and said to the glasses brother: "Ask him when he stopped recruiting students."

The two exchanged a few words through the door, and the glasses brother said: "He said it was three years ago."

three years ago……

The information clearly mentions that Jia Bu dropped out of school three years ago, which means that not long after Jia Bu dropped out of school, the school completely closed down.

"What's the reason?"

When they communicated again, the old man's face clearly showed an expression of impatience. He was waving his hands and repeating syllables in the dialect intermittently.

It seemed that the chat was going to stop going on.

Xu Yunshu said unexpectedly, "Give him some money."

The glasses man was stunned, and he hurriedly took out his wallet from his pocket, took out a few bills from the huge amount of banknotes neatly stacked in the wallet, and stuffed them into the old man's hand through the door.

Seeing this scene, Xu Yunshu couldn't help but sigh.

It is estimated that this glasses guy who works as a translator serves as an academic facade in the Hengxing Group. In other words, this person has studied the most in the group, so Lu Yingheng put him in contact with Xu Yunshu.

If it were someone like Brother Liangkun, he might have done something unsatisfactory and conflicted with Xu Yunshu.

However, after sitting in the office for a long time, the glasses man became a little out of touch.

After the money was put in place, a smile naturally broke out on the old man's wrinkled face, and he kept saying a series of words in dialect. Xu Yunshu noticed that there were very few repeated syllables in the old man's words. It seemed that money could not only make people go around, but also make money.

Cure stuttering.

Brother Glasses is quite good at translating. "He said it's because someone doesn't want this school to open... He doesn't know who it is specifically, because he's just a security guard."

security guard?

Xu Yunshu looked up and down at the frail old man. It was enough to find someone else to protect him.

"Ask him why he lives here."

"He said that he had no place to go. If he went back to the slums, he might not survive for a few days. It would be better to live alone here. Graduates would occasionally come back to help him."

After a few questions, Xu Yunshu roughly understood the background of the school's decline.

Three years ago seemed to be a very critical time point. After that time point, Jiabu left the school directly, and the school was soon abandoned.

This old man is just a security guard at the school. It seems that he doesn't know why this happened at the school.

Xu Yunshu instinctively felt that this trip might be in vain.

However, at this moment, the old man did not know what he said again. Brother Glasses blinked and turned to translate for Xu Yunshu.

"He said...well, although we don't know what we are here for, the only valuable things in the school are the documents and trophies in the archives. If we want to visit..."

Xu Yunshu looked at the old man and found that his cloudy eyes were staring in a special direction.

The glasses guy is really just an office worker and doesn't understand the principle of keeping wealth secret. He still holds the wallet in his hand and has not put it back in his arms. The bulging wallet is full of bills of huge denominations.

There is such a hidden plot that can be triggered by being ignorant of world affairs, which Xu Yunshu never thought about.

"How much is the monthly income of the middle class here... Forget it, let's just talk about you, how much is your monthly income?"

Brother Glasses didn't expect that Xu Yunshu would turn the topic to him. He was stunned for a moment before replying: "In terms of domestic currency, it's about more than eight thousand, right?"

"Just give it this amount. If he wants to take more, tell him that we can go in and visit without his permission - he probably can't stop anything like this."

The glasses guy was stunned for a moment, and when he was about to translate, Xu Yunshu said something to him again.

"If you reach an agreement, put your wallet back in your pocket after paying, you should be lucky that only an old man sees you, a fat sheep."

This sentence made Brother Glasses blush.

After regaining his composure, the glasses brother negotiated with the old man again. After a few words, the glasses brother took out more than thirty bills from his wallet and stuffed them into the old man's hand through the iron gate and fence.

"I gave him half a month's salary, Mr. Xu. I have a high-paying profession in Jianlan. For someone like him, half a month's salary is considered sky-high."

Xu Yunshu chuckled. It seemed that Brother Glasses really cared about being called a fat sheep by him, and even became stingy with the money he gave him.

In fact, the amount of money Lu Yingheng gave Brother Glasses to entertain Xu Yunshu was quite high.

So this move is purely to prove that he is not taken advantage of?

No matter what, the old man who received the money smiled broadly, opened the door's chain from the inside, stretched out his withered hand, and pulled open the iron door.

The iron door made a rattling sound, indicating that it had indeed not been opened for a long time.

After entering the abandoned school, the old man guided the two of them toward the stalls.

Xu Yunshu followed him, looking around as he walked.

When passing by the bungalow, he glanced around and roughly saw the situation inside the house.

Indeed, as the old man said, the tables and chairs in the classroom are old, there is dirt everywhere, and unknown words are scrawled on the simple blackboard.

This local old man seems to live in what was originally a teacher's dormitory, where there were iron beds with bunk beds, but now he is the only one living there, so the bed board on the top floor is used as a storage table for small items.

All the details showed that the old man did not lie to them.

After knowing this fact, Xu Yunshu can enter the archives room with confidence.

The stalls are in a very obvious place.

This is a separate building with two doors, front and side.

The main entrance is the principal's office, but it has been used as a storage room at this time. It is full of junk collected by the old man himself, and the side door leads to the filing room.

It was obvious that no one had entered this room for a long time. Even the old man who had always lived here could only take out a long set of keys and try them one by one. After a long time, he opened the side door.

What caught Xu Yunshu's eyes was a familiar office.

I say it is familiar because many office rooms in domestic schools are arranged like this: desks, sofas against the wall, and iron cabinets on both walls all give off a familiar feeling of intimacy.

As expected of a jointly run school, it does have domestic genes.

The doors of the tin cabinets were closed and locked by locks. After the old man brought them in, he gave the glasses brother a small key, said a few words, and left.

"What did he say?" Xu Yunshu asked.

"He said... let us browse as we like, and if we are willing to taste local specialties, he will also prepare lunch for us."
Chapter completed!