Looking at Chu Tianqi in the distance, the onlookers began to discuss again:

"I have long seen that this deputy township chief is not simple. ”

"Don't mess around, who said that people are soft eggs just now?"

"I also said that maybe they were pretending to be just now. ”

"I didn't hear it, who did?"

"Now that you said that, why didn't you two say it earlier? If you want me to say, what you see now may not be the truth. Maybe Lu Sanlai took the initiative to surrender in order to make the deputy township chief meritorious. ”

"you, you're just, always guessing. ”

"Didn't you guess at first? And said that people lack calcium, and they earn public wages for nothing. ”

Just when these people were arguing, someone suddenly said loudly: "Oh, I remember, this deputy township chief is called Chu Tianqi." Last year, because of the arrest of * criminals and the courage to fight gangsters, he was rated as an advanced individual, and he was also on TV. ”

"Yes", someone chimed in, "there is such a thing, I remember." I went to my second aunt's house in the city at that time, and I happened to see the news at her house, and he was rated as an 'advanced individual for righteousness and courage' in the city, and the city leaders personally presented him with an award, and the TV station also interviewed him. ”

"Oh, no wonder. Everyone suddenly realized.

Suddenly, one person was puzzled: "Since he is so powerful, why don't you just catch Lu Sanlai and pretend to be a soft egg?"

People who have seen the news of the awards said: "You don't understand this, or you don't have culture." The head of the Chu Township is here to protect the hostages, and he is doing that to paralyze the other party. ”

Someone next to him added: "Yes, not only to protect Director Hu, but also to protect all of us." Of course, we must also protect Lu Sanlai, after all, Lu Sanlai is a villager, and he is not a vicious outlaw. You think, Lu Sanlai had a lighter in his hand, poured gasoline on him and the director, and put a knife on the director's neck. If it weren't for the scheme, the director might have been wounded by a knife. may also have angered Lu Sanlai, and set fire to himself and the director. If there were any other flammable and explosive materials on Lu Sanlai's body or in the house, then we would all be blown to pieces. ”

"Oh, my mother. The crowd exclaimed, and they were all very afraid.

Then the discussion began:

"I have to thank Township Chief Chu. ”

"yes, if it weren't for him, we would all be finished. ”

"It's really scary to think about it, I can't watch some excitement in the future. ”

……

Chu Tianqi had no way of knowing about the villagers' discussions, and he didn't think to know that he was now sitting in a police car and was about to leave the village.

There were five people sitting in the police car, Zhao Gang was still driving, Chu Tianqi was sitting in the co-pilot's seat, and assistant policemen, Hu Xiaogang, and Lu Sanlai were sitting in the back seat of the car.

Lu Sanlai sat between the assistant police officer and Hu Xiaogang, the handcuff of his left hand had been removed, the removed end was locked to a special ring on the roof of the car, and the other end was still handcuffed to Lu Sanlai's right hand, and his right hand was held like that all the time.

"Township Chief Chu, it's that well. Hu Xiaogang pointed to the well shed at the entrance of the village.

"Oh", Chu Tianqi responded. Then he said to Zhao Gang, "Stop the car." ”

Zhao Gang didn't ask why, he stepped on the brakes and stopped.

Chu Tianqi found two empty mineral water bottles from the place where the sundries were placed next to the car door, and got out of the car with them. He walked straight to the well shed and came to the well, which was still frozen.

What made Chu Tianqi strange was that there was an iron sheet on the edge of the well, and there were two holes in the iron sheet, and the two iron rings passed through the small * holes respectively. There are two bulging bolts on the edge of the cement well, and two iron rings are welded to the bolts. There is a semicircular ring on the other side of the sheet, and there is also an iron ring on the other side of the well. Chu Tianqi understood that this wellhead had once been covered with iron sheets.

Above the wellhead is a reel used to draw water, on which a well rope is wound, and the other end of the well rope hangs down into the well. There was ice on the well platform, and Chu Tianqi didn't dare to be careless. He stepped forward and grabbed the handle, turned it carefully, and soon the black rubber bucket filled with well water rose up. He pressed the handle with his right hand, grabbed the bucket with his left hand, pulled it over, and put it on the ground of the platform.

Chu Tianqi tried to fill the bottle with a bucket, but tried twice without success, because the mouth of the bottle was too small, either it couldn't be poured in, or the water rushed down the bottle. Later, he simply reached into the bucket and filled two bottles of water. Putting the bucket back into the well, he grabbed two bottles of water and ran to the police car.

Just as Chu Tianqi opened the passenger door and was about to get into the car, he heard a noise of people.

"Township Chief Chu, get in the car quickly. Zhao Gang shouted hurriedly and started the car at the same time.

didn't have time to think about it, Chu Tianqi sat in the car and closed the door.

Everyone was shaken, and the police car rushed out.

From the rearview mirror, you can see that behind the dust raised by the police car, a group of people are rushing towards here with shovels and pickaxes in their hands.

Chu Tianqi hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?"

Zhao Gang glanced at Lu Sanlai and said, "This is for him." ”

"I, I don't know. Lu Sanlai hurriedly defended, and at this time, he regretted it in his heart.

Chu Tianqi understood from the conversation that someone wanted to stop the car and not let Lu Sanlai be taken away.

"It's a common occurrence in the village, where they stand in front of the car. You can't go, and you can't leave people, it's very difficult to do, so the best way is not to let them intercept them. Once they leave the village, they will lose their temper, and they will not dare to chase them to the village. Zhao Gang said as he hit the steering wheel and rushed out at the fastest speed he was currently running.

The entrance of the village is not far from the road, and it took less than five minutes to get on the main road. The crowd chasing behind had stopped and stood far away. As soon as the police car hit the road, they couldn't catch up, and their remaining option was to return to the village.

Sure enough, I couldn't see the crowd chasing behind.

The police car quickly returned to the township, Zhao Gang and the assistant police took Hu Xiaogang and Lu Sanlai back to the police station, and Chu Tianqi took the well water filled with a bottle and returned directly to his office.

……

As soon as Chu Tianqi returned to the office after lunch, Zhao Gang came over.

Zhao Gang handed over the wad of paper he was holding in his hand and said, "Township Chief Chu, take a look." ”

These are two transcripts, one is the interrogation transcript of Lu Sanlai and the other is the interrogation transcript of Hu Xiaogang. Chu Tianqi looked at it carefully, and through the two records, he knew a lot of things.

……

There are two theories about the origin of the name of Hulugou Village. One theory says that the whole shape of the village resembles a big gourd, so it is named Hulugou. Another theory is that the origin of the village name is due to the surname, and the two largest surnames in the village are Hu and Lu, and the population of the two surnames Hu and Lu together account for more than 90% of the population of the village, so the homonym is "gourd".

The two families of Hu and Lu, after a hundred years of changes in the times, have always had a very harmonious relationship. Until one day, this relationship changed dramatically, and the two families even turned against each other.

The cause of the incident was more than 40 years ago. At that time, the people of the entire Hulugou Village lived a long life, and the people from all walks of life said that it was because of the drinking water in the village. When people drink water, they can always smell a faint taste, which is not good or bad. In a few years, when food was scarce, people lived by eating wild vegetables and drinking water. Many people died in the nearby villages, either from malnutrition or from stomach pain. Only Hulugou Village did not have a single death, although they were all starving, but the villagers were in good health.

People became interested in the water of Hulugou, and some people even tried every possible way to buy water or wells in the village, but the Hu and Lu families were unmoved. For this reason, some people took advantage of the night to steal water, but most of them were discovered by the village and stopped in time. Later, the village came up with a way, and the whole village left two wells, and the rest were filled, and houses were built next to the two wells and people were sent to take care of them. For this reason, someone released a word to give Hulugou Village a good look.

One night, while sleeping, people suddenly heard a loud noise. Everyone got up and ran to the place where the voice was made. When people arrived at the place, they found that the house next to the well in the west of the village was ruined. Picking up the bricks and tiles, he found that there was a dead person below, to be precise, a dead person, and the deceased was one of the people in charge of the care that day, surnamed Hu. Another caretaker surnamed Lu was missing. Explosives were also found at the scene. After many investigations and evidence collection, the relevant departments did not figure out the reason, and the case became a headless case, and it has not been solved until now.

And the grievances between the surnames Hu and Lu have come to an end. The person surnamed Hu said that the deceased was killed by the person surnamed Lu, and then the person surnamed Lu ran away. The person surnamed Lu said that their own people have not seen anyone alive or dead, and they must have been killed by the caretaker surnamed Hu, and as for why the caretaker surnamed Hu died, it was because he blew himself up when he was about to destroy the well.

For this reason, there were many large-scale armed fights between the surnames Hu and Lu.

After the explosion, it was discovered that the well in the west had turned sour, and it did not attract people's attention at first. About another year later, it was discovered that the people who drank the water well in the west were obviously not as healthy as those in the east.

As a result, the Hu and Lu families, who were already resentful, began to fight again in order to grab the right to use the Dongtou well. Later, with the coordination of all parties concerned, the number of fights between the two families gradually decreased. As decades passed, the participants of the year gradually passed away, and the grievances between the two families were slowly resolved. The superstition of the wells to the east is no longer as strong as it used to be.

The previous director of the village committee rented the east well to Lu Sanlai on the pretext of generating income for the village. Lu Sanlai directly locked the well for his own use in making tofu, and everyone in the rest of the village used the well in the west. There are also people who have approached the village and Lu Sanlai, but in the end there is no result.

Lu Sanlai's tofu is obviously better than other houses, he knows that it is all the effect of water, and when the contract expired a year ago, he wanted to continue to contract the well. Hu Xiaogang did not agree, and sent someone to tear down the fence by the well and open the lock on the manhole cover. For this reason, Lu Sanlai asked Hu Xiaogang for theory many times, but Hu Xiaogang did not agree to his contract. That's why this incident of pouring oil and taking hostages happened.

……

Hu Xiaogang and Lu Sanlai's descriptions are basically the same, but there are slight discrepancies in individual specific details, and the discrepancies have little to do with this case.

After reading the transcript, Chu Tianqi knew the ins and outs of the matter.

Regarding this oil threat and hostage-taking, Zhao Gang talked about some of his thoughts, Chu Tianqi made a little addition, and the two formed a consensus.