The villagers stared at him coldly, but a young woman in the crowd said she had one.
It turned out she was the schoolteacher.
He followed her back to the school. It was Friday, so class was in session, and quite a few students had already arrived.
She wheeled out an electric scooter, then hesitated for a moment before saying, "Officer, actually, around one in the morning last night, I got up to use the restroom. From the school gate, I saw Li Xingping run by in a total panic."
"Oh?"
'A little past one in the morning? Was that the time of the murder?'
This made Li Xingping an even more of a suspect.
He asked for the teacher's name and learned it was Liu Shasha.
"Teacher Liu, I'll come back to question you again later," Shen Xin said. He got on the electric scooter and rode off to catch up with Tian Kui.
Finding the man was the priority right now.
The school had been built on the mountain to make it easier for children from the village on the other side to attend.
