Chapter 14: A Shocking Case
The little dragon that grandma said about disappearing for many years and coming back, Yu Fang and Cheng Yu both knew. Xiaolong is also surnamed Yu, is a member of Yu Ji Village, and is called a little mute by the villagers because he is a mute. But Yu Xiaolong was not dumb before he was 3 years old, and the reason why he became mute later was related to a shocking bloody case.
If you want to talk about this shocking bloody case, you have to say the mountain behind Yu Ji Village.
This big mountain is called Duojin Mountain, which is not only majestic, but also has a unique orientation. Climb to the top of the mountain and look at the northeast direction, there are several hilly mountain bags at the foot, these hills and mountain bags, although not high, but the pine and cypress all the year round, there is a lot of weather, over the mountain bag, it is a seaside plain, Yingzhou City is located on this plain. Between the Jinshan Mountain and the hills and mountains in front of it is a winding Jinlong River, which crosses the mountains and winds around the mountains to enter the urban area of Yingzhou and then enters the sea. There are beaches on both sides of the Jinlong River, among which the beach on the side of Yujizhai is relatively wide, which is the foundation of Yujizhai people for generations.
Turning around, looking to the southwest of the mountain, there are reckless and vast mountains, and from a distance, one mountain is higher than the other, gradually forming the roof of the peninsula.
Before liberation, the road to the outside world of Yujizhai was only the single-plank bridge on the Jinlong River, because there were vast mountains behind him, leading to the southwest mountains, there was only a sheep intestine trail, except for hunters, the general inaccessibility. After the liberation, the state set up a state-run forest farm in these mountains, and gradually built a winding mountain road, which can reach the mountains.
Yu Ji Village is located at the foot of the eastern slope of the Duojin Mountain. Due to the unique small environment, although it is located in the north, it is surrounded by green pines all the year round, green water flows for a long time, warm in winter and cool in summer, and it is very livable.
And the gold mountain behind it is a veritable gold mountain. In the early years of the Republic of China, after the gold mine was discovered here, the government of the Republic of China mined gold here, and after the liberation until the fifties and sixties of the last century, there was still a certain scale of mining here, and in the late seventies, the mining came to an end, and the state-owned mine was transferred to a new mining area, but it became a black mine that was secretly mined by private individuals. Groups of gold diggers sneaked into the mountains with the dream of making a fortune, stole ore and used backward methods to carry out local alchemy, which greatly polluted the water of the Jinlong River, which was full of dead fish, and the livestock in the village were also poisoned to death, and the Jinlong River was originally the water source of Yingzhou City, which seriously threatened the drinking water safety of the citizens. A struggle to crack down on illegal and indiscriminate mining was launched, and the momentum of frenzied illegal mining was quickly curbed.
But there are still those who have the audacity to sneak into the pit to steal after the limelight has passed. For this reason, the government department negotiated with Yu Jizhai and arranged for the villagers to go up the mountain to protect the mine, and it happened that Yu Xiaolong's father, Yu Haoliang, contracted an orchard on the southern slope of the mountain and lived on the mountain all year round. The village handed over the task of protecting the mine to Yu Haoliang.
Yu Haoliang is a serious person, and after taking over the task in the village, he patrolled all over the mountain. Several clues were found and reported to the police station, which were quickly dealt with. Yu Haoliang was also commended by the city.
A group of gangsters who gathered at the junction of urban and rural areas in Yingzhou City to make a living from illegal activities heard the news of the gold mine in Duojin Mountain out of nowhere, thinking that this was a good opportunity to make a fortune, so they inquired everywhere and finally found a soil expert who knew how to mine gold and alchemy, so they brought tools and secretly went into the mountain to prepare for a big profit.
This soil expert really had two strokes, and led the gangsters to dig up ore with extremely high gold content in the waste pit, including a large piece of dog's head gold. The gangsters were so surprised that they drank wine on the mountain, and the sound of shouting and punching alarmed Yu Haoliang, who followed the sound and found the poacher, and immediately reported to the police station. The police station was dispatched quickly to arrest all the poachers and confiscate the gold.
After two years in prison, these gangsters came out, and with nowhere to vent their evil anger, they discussed going to Yu Ji Village for revenge.
At this time, Yu Xiaolong was already more than three years old and lived with his parents in a stone house on the mountain. Yu Xiaolong was extremely smart, and he was able to recite more than a dozen Tang poems at that time, and everyone in the village was amazed when he saw it.
Because of providing clues to the public security and offending the gold thieves, there are often lawbreakers who come to retaliate, sometimes taking advantage of Yu Haoliang's unpreparedness, throwing a few stones into the stone house, sometimes climbing over the wall in the middle of the night to try to enter the house, but they are all beaten away by Yu Haoliang. Yu Haoliang and his wife also raised their vigilance and raised a big wolf dog.
In the middle of the night, Yu Haoliang heard the wolf dog whimper a few times, and knew that it was not good. When I got up, I saw that the wolfdog had eaten the bones thrown in by others and had been poisoned and died. He faintly heard voices outside the courtyard wall, so he hurried back to the house to wake his wife. Then he called Yu Xiaolong up, dressed Yu Xiaolong, and then hid Yu Xiaolong in a grain hoard full of firewood and grass in the hall. This large grain hoard is used to hold apples during the apple picking season, and usually loads some firewood and grass for cooking in rainy and snowy days. Yu Haoliang quietly told Yu Xiaolong that no matter what happened, don't make a sound, and be sure to hide it. Then he and his wife picked up a wooden stick and stood behind the door.
At this time, the moon was already in mid-air, shining from the glass windows of the stone house to the futon scattered on the clay kang, and there was a particularly terrifying atmosphere. Several thugs found that Yu Haoliang had taken precautions, so they didn't stop doing anything, lifted a thick log in the yard, and slammed into the door with a shout. The door was slammed open, and Yu Haoliang could only rush out and fight with the gangsters.
Yu Xiaolong was in the grain hoard, through the gap, he could see that his father was fighting with the bad guys, at the beginning Yu Haoliang could still resist, but after a long time, he couldn't stand the other party's large number of people, Yu Haoliang was stabbed a few times, and the wife saw that her husband had suffered a loss, shouted and rushed out, went down with a stick, hit a gangster's head, the gangster shook a few times, and fell. As soon as the gangsters saw that this woman was good, one of the gangsters entangled Yu Haoliang, and the other two frantically slashed at Yu's sister-in-law, who couldn't resist it and fell to the ground covered in blood. Yu Haoliang was angry, and ran towards Yu's sister-in-law with a roar, and the gangsters slashed Yu Haoliang to the ground with another messy knife. Seeing that both husband and wife fell to the ground, the thugs picked up their injured accomplices and fled in a hurry.
In an instant, his parents died tragically, Yu Xiaolong was terrified, and wanted to shout, but he couldn't shout anymore, and became mute from then on.
The Jinshan bloody case shocked Yingzhou City, and the city leaders asked the public security organs to solve the case within a time limit. The Public Security Bureau dispatched elite soldiers and strong generals to quickly find out that this was a revenge murder case, and the four suspects had already absconded.
The Public Security Bureau issued a wanted warrant.
At this time, the entire Yu Ji Village fell into grief. People found the surviving Yu Xiaolong from the grain hoard, and found that the clever and clever Xiaolong had become mute. What a family, ruined like this.
Yu Haoliang has a best friend in this village, although in terms of blood relationship, he has come out of five suits, but the two have grown up together since childhood, like brothers, this person is Yu Haodong, Yu Haodong is Yu Fang's cousin, that is, Cheng Yu's cousin.
Yu Haodong has been farming for generations, making a few drawers of tofu to the neighboring villages to sell in the spare time, because the tofu is delicious, people call Tofu Yu.
Yu Haodong and the villagers completed the funeral of Yu Haoliang and his wife together, and explained Yu Xiaolong to Yu Haoliang's single brother Yu Haoming, asking him to take Xiaolong well. He tore off the wanted notice on the stone wall and left the village.
Yu Haodong first took a car to Yingzhou City, and then took a long-distance bus to Rizhao from Yingzhou City.
Because there was a small black beard named Wang Changjie on that wanted post, plus there was a pinch of hair on the left side of his face, which left a deep impression on Yu Haodong. Many years ago, when Yu Haodong was selling tofu at the entrance of the village, this little black Hu plus a handful of hair had come to buy his tofu, because the people in the village knew each other, and even their relatives knew that the sudden appearance of the living person made Yu Haodong suspicious, this may be the lawless who came to steal gold. Seeing that Yu Haodong was suspicious, the little black beard bought tofu and hurriedly slipped away. Yu Haodong wanted to follow him, but a few old ladies came to buy tofu, so he gave up. A few years have passed, but Yu Haodong has never forgotten the special face of the mustache and the thick accent of Rizhao. Now seeing the person on the wanted notice, Yu Haodong can completely conclude that it was the little blackbeard gang who was discovered by Yu Haoliang and reported to the Public Security Bureau when they were stealing gold, and these villains killed Yu Haoliang and his wife after they were released from prison.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the long-distance bus arrived at the boundary of Jiaonan, which was less than 100 kilometers away from Rizhao. At that time, long-distance buses would be arranged to eat halfway, so some roadside shops came into being, and these roadside shopkeepers had to connect with long-distance bus drivers and give various benefits, such as free meals for drivers, to attract drivers to drive their cars into their roadside shops. Generally, after the driver drives the car into the compound of the roadside store, the gate of the compound is closed immediately. According to the regular long-distance bus, it will stop at the roadside shop for half an hour, during which passengers have to spend money in the store, even if they don't eat, they will always buy a bottle of water to drink, and the phenomenon of forced buying and selling also occurs from time to time.
Yu Haodong's long-distance bus always has lunch at this roadside shop in Jiaonan. Entered the compound and closed the gate as usual. Yu Haodong found that five long-distance buses had been parked in the courtyard, and some passengers were eating in the store, some were buying fruit at the fruit stalls in the courtyard, some were smoking in the courtyard, and a few people squatted on the ground to set up a gambling game to attract passengers. Yu Haodong felt really hungry, so he ate a bowl of noodles in the store. After eating, he sat down for a while and then got up and went to the toilet in the yard.
Yu Haodong lowered his head and walked into the toilet, accidentally touched a person's shoulder, at this time this person was walking out of the toilet, Yu Haodong said sorry, the man turned around and glared at Yu Haodong fiercely. Yu Haodong was stunned for a moment, isn't this the little black beard? The characteristics of a pinch of hair on the left side of his face are too obvious!
Blackbeard didn't expect anyone here to recognize him, so he walked straight out. Yu Haodong stared at him at the door of the toilet, watching him walk into a private seat in the wings of the roadside shopkeeper. Yu Haodong didn't care about going to the toilet, pretended to be walking in the yard, and slowly approached the private room. Just listen to the sound of playing mahjong inside. Yu Haodong looked around, and felt that the personnel were complicated and difficult to do, so he slowly retreated to the edge of the west wing, and hid in a firewood room, which was facing the private room where Little Blackbeard was.
One by one, the long-distance bus left the roadside shop, and finally, the car that Yu Haodong was riding also left, and the driver did not notice that there was one less passenger in the car.
The waiters at the roadside shop are off work one after another, because their shop is only open at noon when there is a car passing by, and there are usually no other customers.
Yu Haodong observed the movement on the opposite side and found that the people inside were still playing mahjong, and occasionally they came out to go to the toilet, and after going to the toilet, they went back to continue playing mahjong.
The sky gradually darkened, and in addition to the people who played mahjong in the private room, there was only one chef and the owner left. After the chef fried a few dishes, he also went home from work. The shopkeeper knocked on the door of the private room with a plate of dishes, and the little black beard poked his head out and called, "Cousin, the meal is ready." The shopkeeper said, "No, it's dark." Stop fighting, let's eat, what kind of wine do you have tonight?"
Little Blackbeard took the plate and said, "Let's drink Erguotou." turned around and shouted again: "Brothers, it's time to eat, put the wine glass on the table." Yu Haodong heard a commotion inside.