Chapter 4: It’s hard to cross the mountain
Some villagers gathered outside the door, and someone said something and everyone calmed down.
The villager was barefoot, rolling his trouser legs, carrying a shovel on his shoulders. His face was solemn, staring at the owner of the small supermarket and said: I saw it when I was watering the ground, what did you throw in the river?
The police fished out a watery body in the river. After identification, the deceased was Tang Xiujuan, a villager in the third group of the village. She was 20 years old and usually worked outside. She claimed that she would go back to the village to participate in the election some time ago, but now her body was found in the river.
Bao Zhan was a little disappointed. Tang Xiujuan's body was intact and not incomplete. The frozen corpse case has not yet been solved. Now there is another corpse, and the case has become confusing.
The deceased's mother cried bitterly, pointed at the owner of the small supermarket and said: You have harmed Annie, you are a murderer.
The father of the deceased said sternly: Call someone and call all the people in our family.
The armed fight between the two families was about to break out, and the villagers gathered more and more, and some even held kitchen knives and wooden sticks. The scene was very chaotic. He drew a dragon and fired a gun to warn him. Director Dai took the suspect, the owner of the small supermarket, into a police car and took him back to the police station for interrogation. The next morning, the special case team called the college student village official from Tang Wangzhuang to assist in the investigation and quickly found out the truth.
This is a bloody death case that occurred due to running for village director.
In recent years, rural election violence has occurred frequently and has been on the rise year by year. The root cause of crime lies in the competition for interests.
There are mainly two candidates for village directors in Tangwangzhuang, one is Wang San and the other is Tangnanhe.
On the eve of the election, the voters in the village became real treasures.
Wang San gave each of the village a bag of rice and a bucket of peanut oil. As long as he promised to choose him as the village director, he would add 500 yuan. There was a bachelor in the village who picked up bottles on the streets with his bare ass all year round. Wang San bought a suit and gave it to him and tied a tie for him. Many people in Beihuan County have seen this person who was wearing a suit and ties to pick up bottles of beverages.
Tangnanhe is rich and generous, and invites every family in the village to have dinner. There is a restaurant at the entrance of the village called "Hao Zailai". Tangnanhe has been inviting guests for half a month. Every day at noon and evening, more than 1,000 villagers with the right to vote in the village do not need to cook, so they can go to Hao Zailailai Hotel to eat and drink. On the rural road, an elderly man walked with a cane. The wind blew the poplar leaves and roared. Someone asked her what she was doing. The old man replied: Go and eat a big pot of rice.
Most villagers only care about immediate interests. College students’ village officials once warned them: You should refuse bribery, you should choose the Lord.
One villager asked another: There is someone in our village called Democracy?
Another villager was rolling a cigarette. He tore off a piece of paper, sprinkled it with tobacco leaves, twisted it into a cigarette, and stuck it with saliva. After igniting it, he sprayed a puff of cigarette and asked: Who is democracy? There is no friendship with him, why do you choose him?
Bribery and canvassing votes are not a minority in rural elections, and township cadres basically turn a blind eye to this. Village cadres, town cadres, and even county-level cadres form an interest group. Whenever the term of office is changed, village cadres give gifts and money to town cadres, and town cadres quietly show goodwill to county cadres. Before the election, everyone knows who can be elected. County-level officials still hide their corruption, but village cadres are blatant.
Their purpose of being an official is not to do things for the villagers, but to make money.
Many people in many villages have said this when teaching their children to set their ideals: Grow up
, be a high-ranking official.
Tang Nanhe said with confidence: There is no benefit, who will become an official?
Wang San and the deceased Tang Xiujuan had this conversation in a small supermarket at the entrance of the village:
Wang San said: Xiujuan, you have to choose me, by seniority, you have to call me cousin.
Tang Xiujuan said: Bah, you think you are beautiful. How many watches have you worn, and even asked me to call you cousin.
Wang San said: When I become the village director, it will take less than three months before I will wear a high-end watch.
Tang Xiujuan said: You become a corrupt official.
Wang San said shamelessly: Whoever becomes a corrupt official is not a corrupt official?
Tang Xiujuan said: Whoever chooses you will be blind. I won’t choose you anyway, I will choose my second uncle Tang Nanhe.
Wang San cursed: You little girl, I won’t sell my ice cream to you if I give it to dogs.
Tang Xiujuan works in another place. In order to win votes, the second uncle Tang Nanhe asked her to return to the village to vote. When she was buying ice cream in a small supermarket at the entrance of the village, she had an argument with Wang San and his wife, which triggered a fight. Wang San and his wife accidentally beat Tang Xiujuan to death. At that time, the town government staff were driving to pick up Wang San, and they hurriedly hid the body under the bed. Before leaving, Wang San quietly reminded his wife: I will deal with it before I come back.
Due to an armed fight some time ago, Wang San was detained by the town government. Wang San’s wife was worried that the body would smell bad, so she hid it in the freezer.
The owner of this small supermarket is usually a shrew, but he has no opinion and only obeys her husband's words, so he keeps freezing the body in the freezer. She is very brave. Although she hides the freezer, she is still open and does not close the small supermarket. She just wants to wait for her husband to come back to deal with the body.
Those who buy ice cream don’t know that there is a dead person frozen under the ice cream and cold drinks.
That night, the thief Erlan entered the house to burglary and accidentally found a dead body in the freezer. He jumped into the window and fled. The boss's wife woke up the owner of the small supermarket. The owner's wife found that the window was open and the moonlight was bleak. The corpse's chin was lying on the freezer, as if she wanted to crawl out. The owner's wife was shocked and realized that the incident had happened. She picked up the cold corpse, opened the door quietly, and left the entrance of the village, and threw it into the river without thinking. However, she didn't know that this scene was just seen by a villager who was gushing the ground at night, and later the villagers also gave evidence in court.
The murder case of Wang San and his wife has nothing to do with the frozen corpse dismemberment case. The case should have been clear and bright, but it was stalemate again and it was difficult to break through.
The special case team and the local police were both a little depressed. The clues at present were full of clues, but there was no light at all. Professor Liang had to adjust the direction of the investigation. He asked the forensic doctor Qin Ming to make an accurate time to throw the body. However, the forensic doctor Qin Ming could not understand the degree of freezing of the corpse, and naturally could not figure out the time required for thawing. It was difficult to make an accurate judgment. He could only infer that the time of throwing the body was between 4:00 and 5:00 in the morning.
Professor Liang: Can it be accurate to the minutes?
Forensic Qin Ming said: I have conducted several experiments on the temperature changes of frozen cadaver, and I can only analyze it in this way.
Su Mei said: Don’t make things difficult for them. We don’t know how long this corpse has been frozen, and we haven’t even figured out the source of the corpse.
Hualong said: Xiaobao and I stayed in the market every night. Can we cancel our surveillance point or arrange joint defense team members to guard there? Do we have to monitor it in person?
Su Mei said: Oh, painting dragons and small bags is hard enough. The two of them were almost eaten by mosquitoes, and their faces and arms were covered with red bumps.
Hualong said: I'm all swollen, brother Baozi is whiter than before
, Have you noticed that he lost too much blood and was sucked by mosquitoes!
Professor Liang said firmly: The surveillance point cannot be cancelled, you can continue to persist and not complain.
Bao Zhan said: I am not afraid of hard work. Every night I think about where the breakthrough point of this case is and whether there are any omissions in our work. From 4:00 to 5:00 in the morning, I have observed it at the surveillance point many times. At this time, there was no one in the market, and the murderer would not be seen even if he threw the body, and there were no witnesses.
Professor Liang said: I remember that there was a person.
Director Dai asked: Who?
Professor Liang said: The owner of the bun shop got up at four or five o'clock every day. He was the earliest person to appear in the market. After the incident, he stopped selling buns. Our surveillance point was also set up after the incident.
Director Dai said: We have asked the couple who sell buns several times, but they have not reported any of them.
Professor Liang looked through the inquiry record again. The owner of the bun shop was cooked with a stove and dough at around 4:30 in the morning every day. They were the only witnesses who might see the murderer throwing the body. Professor Liang also noticed that the owner of the bun shop would rather be detained than be fined by the police. This shows that the couple lived frugality and was very important to money.
Professor Liang thought for a while and said: I have a solution, I don’t know if it can be done.
Director Dai said: As long as this case can be solved, just say it. [31    ] The director also explained it.
Professor Liang said: Go buy a bag of rice and a bucket of cooking oil, and send it to the owner of the bun shop at home.
Director Dai said: Bribery him?
Professor Liang said: What is bribery? This is called the government going to the countryside to bring warmth!
Hualong, Baozhan, and Su Mei changed into casual clothes. Under the leadership of the township government cadres, they drove to the house of the Baozi Shop owner. The Baozi Shop owner was very surprised and looked shocked. When he saw the rice and oil, his expression turned to touch. The township cadres held his hand and asked him about his well-being. Before leaving, they sent him a gift package of condolences. The township cadres patted the boss of the bun shop on the shoulder and told him to strongly support the police's work and contribute to maintaining social security. If you think of any bad people and bad things, you must be brave enough to expose them. Don't be afraid of revenge. Don't worry if you have the support of the government.
The owner of the bun shop understood the purpose of the trip and replied repeatedly: OK OK OK OK OK OK OK Let me tell you what I think of.
When the special case team returned, they happened to pass by Tangwangzhuang. They saw that the voting election of the villagers in Tangwangzhuang officially began. The village committee was very lively, with many cars parked at the door. Some young people were shirtless, wearing gold chains, and tattoos on their bodies. They were all sitting in the car.
Bao Zhan asked the college student village official: What do these young people do? They don’t look like the village.
The college student village official whispered: You can leave quickly and leave here quickly. You may start fighting in a while. You are not wearing police uniforms, so don’t watch the fun here.
Hualong said: Fuck, I can't beat these gangsters to death, and I'm pretending to be a gangster.
The college student village official said: I am kind, too, for your own good.
Su Mei said: Thank you little brother, by the way, I remember one thing, have you become a blind date? Why do you want to find a rural wife?
The college student village official said: I had a partner at school before. I yelled a few days ago. I will meet someone who arranged a blind date.
Su Mei said: The voting for village director election has begun, let’s take a look.
Chapter completed!