Chapter 14:
Everyone thought this matter had settled.
The principal and the leader shook hands amicably.
Suddenly, there was a commotion outside the door - a group of reporters rushed in, constantly flashing cameras and pointing microphones at the educational bureau leader and the dean.
Reporter A: "Leader, what are your thoughts on the recent scandal of sexual misconduct in the university?" Reporter B: "Dean, what is your relationship with the counselor named Xia Tian? Why are you making such an effort to protect him?" Reporter C: "It is said that this counselor named Xia Tian was involved in a scandal of abortions with students as well.
Did you come forward to suppress the public opinion?" Reporter D: "Does the school really not protect the students' right to education and personal safety?" "...
" Several office workers in suits and ties entered one after another, and a distinguished middle-aged man walked in among the crowd.
He was wearing a well-tailored suit, with sharp eagle-like eyes, a downward-pointing mouth, and a commanding presence without anger.
At the moment he appeared, the previously noisy office instantly fell silent.
The educational bureau leader, who had just been full of himself, saw this person and hastily pushed through the crowd, inadvertently tripping over something on the ground.
He didn't have time to take a closer look and nodded and bowed like a happy dog: "Minister? Weren't you accompanying the secretary on a visit to impoverished children in the mountainous areas? Why do you have time to come here? Are these reporters invited by you...?" The man referred to as the minister did not give him any face.
He asked for the investigation records of the accompanying personnel and casually flipped through them.
As time passed, drops of sweat slowly formed on the foreheads of the leader and the dean, converging into stains that stung their eyes, but they didn't dare to wipe them away.
Holding their breath, they waited for the speech of this ministerial-level figure.
They didn't know whether this uninvited Minister of Education would bring them fortune or misfortune, especially the educational bureau leader.
The bank card given to him by the dean was now in his pocket, like carrying a time bomb, making him restless.
He couldn't help but silently curse the dean's whole family in his heart.
The dean, on the other hand, didn't think too much about it.
He concluded that a person of this stature would not specially come here for such a trivial matter.
It must be a coincidence! Everyone present had their own ulterior motives.
Only I saw - ever since this minister arrived, the shackles on Shen Qian seemed to have suddenly become much lighter, and her expression relaxed accordingly.
I was secretly astonished, does Shen Qian know the Minister of Education? The two of them had never exchanged any eye contact from start to finish, so I didn't have the opportunity to confirm my speculation.
I only heard the minister's voice like a bell: "Have you already determined the nature of the incident? But the information I have and your records are slightly different.
Therefore, I have invited two witnesses.
Come in!" Then, a scene that shocked me appeared –