Chapter 4 The Mountains Are Difficult to Cross

A few more villagers gathered outside the door, and one person said a word, and everyone fell silent.

Devouring The villager was barefoot, holding his trouser legs, carrying a shovel on his shoulder, his face was solemn, he stared at the proprietress of the small supermarket and said: I saw it when I was watering the ground, what did you throw into the river?

The police fished out a watery body in the river, and after identification, the deceased was Tang Xiujuan, a 20-year-old villager from the third group of the village, who usually works outside, and claimed to return to the village to participate in the election some time ago, but now her body was found in the river.

Bao Chu was a little disappointed, Tang Xiujuan's body was intact and not mutilated, the frozen corpse case had not yet been solved, and now there was another corpse, and the case became confusing.

The mother of the deceased cried bitterly, pointed to the proprietress of the small supermarket and said: You have killed Meni, you murderer.

The father of the deceased said sharply: Call someone to go, call everyone from our own family.

The fight between the two families was about to break out, the villagers gathered more and more, some were still holding kitchen knives and wooden sticks, the scene was very chaotic, the dragon was painted and the gun was fired to warn, and Director Dai escorted the suspect, the proprietress of the small supermarket, into the police car and took him back to the police station for interrogation. Early the next morning, the special case team called the college student village officials from Tangwangzhuang to assist in the investigation, and soon found out the truth.

This is a case of bloody death as a result of running for village chief.

In recent years, election violence in rural areas has been frequent, showing an increasing trend year by year, and the root cause of crime lies in the competition for interests.

There are mainly two candidates for village director in Tangwangzhuang, one is Wang San and the other is Tang Nanhe.

On the eve of the elections, the voters of the village became real treasures.

Wang San gave each person in the village a bag of rice and a barrel of peanut oil, and promised to elect him as the village chief, and would pay an additional 500 yuan. There was a bachelor in the village who picked up bottles on the street with his bare butt all the year round, Wang San bought a suit for him, and tied a tie for him with his own hands. Many people in Beihuan County have seen this man in a suit and leather shoes picking up drink bottles.

Tang Nanhe has a lot of wealth, invite every family in the village to eat, there is a restaurant at the entrance of the village called "good again", Tang Nanhe invites guests for half a month, every day at noon and night, more than 1,000 villagers who have the right to vote in the whole village do not need to cook, they can go to the restaurant again to eat and drink. On the country road, an old man walked with a cane, the wind blew the poplar leaves, someone asked her why she went, and the old man replied: Eat a big pot of rice.

Most of the villagers only care about their immediate interests, and the college student village officials once warned them: You must refuse to bribe the election, and you must choose the best master.

One villager asked another: Is there another one in our village called democracy?

Another villager was rolling a cigarette, he tore off a piece of paper, sprinkled tobacco leaves, twisted it into a cigarette roll, glued it with spit, lit it, he took out a puff of cigarette and asked: Who is democracy, I don't have a friendship with him with a cigarette, why choose him for?

Bribery and canvassing for votes is not a rare phenomenon in rural elections, and township and town cadres basically turn a blind eye to this. Village cadres, town cadres, and even county-level cadres formed an interest group. Whenever there is a general election, the village cadres give gifts and money to the town cadres, and the town cadres quietly show favor to the county cadres. Before the election, everyone knows who will be elected. The corruption of county-level officials is still covered, but the village cadre Fǔ Bài is blatant.

The purpose of their officials is not to do things for the villagers, but for money.

Many people in many villages have said this when teaching their children to erect ideals: grow up

, as a big official.

Tang Nanhe said confidently: It's no good, who is the official?

Wang San and the deceased Tang Xiujuan had such a conversation in the small supermarket at the entrance of the village:

Wang San said: Xiujuan, you have to choose me, according to the seniority, you have to call me cousin.

Tang Xiujuan said: Phew, you think beautifully, you wear a few watches, and let me call you cousin.

Wang San said: When I become the village director, I won't need to wear a high-end watch for a month.

Tang Xiujuan said: You are a corrupt official.

Wang San brazenly said: Whoever becomes a corrupt official is not a corrupt official.

Tang Xiujuan said: Whoever chooses you is blind. I don't choose you anyway, I choose my second uncle, Tang Nanhe.

Wang San scolded: You little deflated girl, I won't sell my ice cream to the dog anymore.

Tang Xiujuan was working in other places, and the second uncle Tang Nanhe asked her to return to the village to vote for the election, when she was buying ice cream in the small supermarket at the entrance of the village, she had a verbal altercation with Wang San and his wife, which led to a fight, and Wang San and his wife beat Tang Xiujuan to death by mistake. At that time, the town government staff was driving to pick up Wang San, they hurriedly hid the body under the bed, Wang San whispered to his wife before leaving: Wait for me to come back, and then deal with it.

Because of the fight some time ago, Wang San was detained by the town government, and Wang San's wife was worried that the corpse would stink, so she hid it in the freezer.

The proprietress of this small supermarket is usually a shrew, but she has no opinions, she only obeys her husband's words, so she has been freezing the body in the freezer, she is very bold, although she hides the body freezer, but it is still open, and she does not close the small supermarket, she just wants to wait for her husband to come back to dispose of 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 second thief stumbled upon a dead body in the freezer, and he jumped out of the window to escape and woke up the proprietress of the small supermarket. The proprietress found the window open, the moonlight was dim, and the dead body's jaw was lying on the freezer, as if trying to climb out. The proprietress was shocked, and when she realized that something had happened, she picked up the cold corpse, quietly opened the door, went out of the village, and threw it into the river without thinking. Unbeknownst to him, this scene was seen by a villager who was watering the ground at night, and the villager later testified in court.

The murder case of Wang San and his wife has nothing to do with the frozen and shredded corpse case, and the case should have been clear, but it was once again deadlocked and difficult to break through.

The mood of the special case team and the local police is a little depressed, and there are thousands of clues at present, but there is no light in sight. 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, but the forensic doctor Qin Ming could not understand the degree of freezing of the corpse, and naturally could not figure out the time required to thaw, it was difficult to make an accurate judgment, and he could only roughly infer that the time of the two throwing of the body was between 4 o'clock and 5 o'clock in the morning.

Prof. Leung: Can it be accurate to the minute?

Forensic doctor Qin Ming said: I have done several experiments on the temperature change of frozen corpses, and I can only analyze them in this way.

Su Mei said: Don't be embarrassed 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 are guarding the market every night, can we remove our monitoring point, or just arrange for the joint defense team to guard there, do we have to monitor it ourselves?

Su Mei said: Alas, painting dragons and small bags is hard enough, the two of them are about to be eaten by mosquitoes, and their faces and arms are full of red bumps.

Hualong said: I'm swollen, and the bun brothers are whiter than before

Did you find out, he lost a lot of blood and was sucked by mosquitoes!

Professor Liang said categorically: The monitoring point cannot be revoked, you continue to insist, and you are not allowed to complain.

Bao Chu said: I am not afraid of hard work, and every night I wonder where the breakthrough point of this case is, and whether there is a negligence in our work. Between 4 and 5 a.m., I observed many times at the surveillance point, and at this time there was no one in the market, and the murderer would not be seen when he threw his body, and there were no witnesses.

Professor Liang said: I remember, there is a person.

Director Dai asked: Who?

Professor Liang said: The owner of the steamed bun shop gets up at four or five o'clock every day, he is the first person to appear in the market, after the incident, he stopped selling steamed buns, and our monitoring point was also set up after the incident.

Director Dai said: We have asked the two people who sell steamed buns several times, but they have not reflected any situation.

Professor Liang flipped through the interrogation records again, the owner of the steamed bun shop and his wife made stoves and noodles at about half past four in the morning every day, and they were the only witnesses who could see the murderer dumping the body, and Professor Liang also noticed that the owner of the steamed bun shop would rather be detained than fined by the police, which shows that the couple lived a frugal life and were very important to money.

Professor Liang thought for a moment and said, "I have a solution, I don't know if it can be done."

Director Dai said: As long as you can crack this case, you can just say it, and the director also confessed so.

Professor Liang said: You go and buy a bag of rice, a barrel of cooking oil, and send it to the owner of the steamed bun shop to send home.

Director Dai said: Bribe him?

Professor Liang said: What is bribery, this is called the government to send warmth to the countryside!

The three of them, Hualong, Bao Chop, and Su Mei, changed into civilian clothes, and under the leadership of the township government cadres, drove to the home of the owner of the steamed bun shop. The owner of the steamed bun shop was very surprised, his face was shocked, and when he saw the rice and oil, his expression turned to moved, and the township cadres held his hand, shh The township cadres patted the owner of the steamed bun shop on the shoulder and instructed him that he must vigorously support the work of the police, contribute to the maintenance of social order, and if he thinks of any bad people and bad things, he must have the courage to expose them, and he should not be afraid of retaliation, and he should not worry if he has the support of the government.

The owner of the bun shop understood what he meant, and replied repeatedly: Okay, okay, I'll tell you what I think.

When the group returned, they happened to pass by Tangwangzhuang, and they saw that the voting election of the villagers of Tangwangzhuang had officially begun. The village committee is bustling, with many cars parked at the door. There were also young men who were shirtless, wearing gold chains and tattoos, and they were all sitting in the car.

Bao asked the college student village official: What are these young people doing, they don't look like they are from the village.

The college student village official whispered: You hurry up, get out of here quickly, there may be a fight in a while, and you are not wearing a police uniform, don't watch the excitement here.

Drawing the dragon said: Fuck, I can't beat these ruffians, and I'm still pretending to be the underworld.

The college student village official said: I also mean well, for your good.

Su Mei said: Thank you, little brother, by the way, I remembered one thing, did your blind date become a blind date, why do you want to find a rural daughter-in-law?

The village official of the college student said: I used to talk about a partner at school, and a few days ago it was blown, and someone arranged a blind date for me to meet.

Su Mei said: The voting for the village head election has begun, let's take a look.

Tulong nodded and said: I have seen UFOs, but I have not seen ballots.