Zhao Congji's confession showed no flaws.

Second, Yu Haotian, a native of Xie Yuan Village. Some people say that they once saw fish and dragon criminals in Xiguan, and they can't remember when they were killed. At that time, the fish took out a knife-like thing from his bosom and handed it to the dragon prisoner, and the blade of the knife flashed in the sunlight. At the time of the handover

People are still sneaky, looking around. What kind of knives? The person who reported the situation said that he was six or seven paces away from the two Arowanas. It's not very clear, it's like a folding knife with an openwork plastic sheet on the handle.

Among the items recovered from the Long family was a folding knife with a plastic sheet inlaid with dark flowers on the handle. After the person who reported the situation identified it, he said that it seemed to be this kind of knife.

According to the villagers of Xie Yuan Village, Yu Haotian looked very mysterious all day long, bending over and walking, always carrying something in his arms.

Summons Fish Good Field.

Q: Do you know why you were called?

A: No...... Know.

Q: Do you know about Long Zhimin's case?

A: You know.

Q: Have you ever seen this knife?

Answer:...... This kind of knife is very common.

Question: Did you give Long Zhimin such a knife in Xiguan?

Answer: That's no, that's no......

(Stop asking questions and read out 8 policies to Yuhaotian)

Q: You should understand that we don't say this casually.

A: Let me think about it...... I once sold a dwarf a knife like this. Is Long Zhimin short? Baldness? That's him, sold to him.

Q: Ever sold?

A: Yes, it is for sale...... What's wrong? At that time, I got a few knives from Xi'an, trying to make some money.

Q: Since it's for sale, why are you sneaky and afraid of being seen?

A: It was 1983, and the police station was not allowed to sell the kind of knives that were being "cracked down."

Q: What do you use to prove that you are trading?

A: I sold a dozen of them, all of them.

Q: Can you get a witness?

A: Oh, I don't know anyone who bought my knife, so let me find them somewhere. By the way, Zhang Wang of our village

Bought one from me.

Summoned Zhang Wang.

Q: Did you ever buy a knife from Uokoda?

Answer: No, no, what a nonsense is he!

Summons Fish Good Field.

Q: Zhang Wang didn't buy a knife from you.

A: He said he hadn't bought a knife. I remember very well that he loved to hunt hares, and he wanted to peel the skin with a knife, just on the sidelines

The knife I gave him in front of him.

Yu Haotian confronted Zhang Wang:

Yu: Zhang Wang, you have to tell the truth.

Zhang: Why didn't I tell the truth? Township party, why are you biting?

Fish: People have 8 policies (Yu said 8 policies to Zhang).

Zhang: I bought a knife from Yu Haotian.

Arraignment of dragon criminals.

Q: How did you get this knife in your house?

Answer; Bought.

Q: When, where, and from whom did you buy it?

A: I bought it in Xiguan and spent more than two yuan.

After investigation, Long Zhimin's knife was bought from Yu Haotian, but Yu Haotian had no intention of selling the murder weapon to Long. The suspicion of being involved in the same case of fish can be temporarily ruled out.

During this period, several militiamen in a certain village used a walk-behind tractor to escort a woman to the county as a suspect without first contacting the relevant departments. The militiamen said that someone in the village had seen Long Zhimin go to the woman's house (Jin Bailing, in her 40s, widow), and that the woman had a half-new embroidered pink shirt on her body.

Jin Bailing's face was like earth, she didn't dare to cry, and her eyes were full of tears. She said that she and Long met on the Nanqin Bridge in February and March last year, and that Long asked Jin to wash clothes for his family, saying that he was buying used clothes and that there were many old clothes to be washed at home. At that time, Kim still had

I didn't go to Long's house for other things, and then I forgot about it. But a month later, the address given by the dragon deposit found the Jin family. This time, the dragon did not mention the matter of washing clothes, but said that he wanted to find him another in-law. Before leaving, he gave her a shirt that was said to have been bought. What about later? She and the dragon never met again.

Jin Bailing's subsequent predicament proved that the village militia acted rashly. After returning to the village, the militia told the villagers that Jin was fine, and that Long wanted to deceive her but did not deceive Chengcheng. However, the villagers did not think so, and since the dragon prisoner had been to her house, she accepted it

(Bought?) Who believes) the clothes that the dragon gave her, isn't she a widow...... So Jin Bailing was stigmatized as "the good friend of the dragon criminal", and was looked at by the villagers, and she didn't even dare to go out of the door. Jin Bailing couldn't get angry, so she went to the village cadre's house to make trouble and let it be given to her

Vindicated. The village cadres were embarrassed and said: No one convicted you, what is the opposite? Kim said, "Then why am I suffering a great sin?"

pestered the village chief every day to restore her reputation, which made the village chief complain.

On June 5, another shocking piece of news came out from Wangqi Village, and the on-site investigation team found a pile of completely ossified corpses 50 centimeters below the east wall of Longjia's toilet. After sorting and identification, it was counted as 4 bodies. It is for "No. 1 pit".

This discovery has caused a stir to the business realm, which can't help but make people speculate: 48 corpses may not be the final number, and the burial place is probably not limited to the area around the Long family.

At the same time, various rumors have spread from the people: the dragon's co-defendants have now been reduced to pieces, and they are on the run, and some people have seen them with their own eyes.

There was a robbery in a certain county, and people said that it was done by Long's accomplices; There was a case of abduction in a certain county, and people said that it was Long's accomplice who did it. There was a robbery in the outer area, and it was said that it was also committed by the dragon's accomplices.

A strange little book found from the Long family was placed in front of the investigator at this time. He was bound in various cigarette cases, which were turned up and down. Judging from the messy overlapping lines at the top of the book, the binder is constantly adding new pages. Available now

More than a hundred pages. The writing is written on the back of the cigarette case, and the handwriting varies in size, sometimes neatly and sometimes scribbly, but it is written by one person, which shows that the note-taker wrote it on different occasions. The list is very complex, but it is basically a long list

, which recorded the names of 1,208 people and the circumstances of those who were recorded.

Most of the names on the list have surnames, and there are also names and surnames such as "Tian Wa" and "Shufen" and surnames such as "Lao Tian", "Zhang Shi" and so on. Judging from the address, most of the people above live in the countryside, and there are also some residents, cadres, and workers living in the towns. There are no rules for what to do after the address. In some cases, the person's gender, approximate age, family status, etc. are routinely recorded. Some of them only remember that the person has an old cousin after their name, and then record the situation of so-and-so. There is nothing after the name. In addition, the names of some famous people appear in the book.

What kind of list is this? Like folklore, are all the dragons who have killed or are about to be killed? However, the names of Du Changying, Li Yun, Jiang Sanhe and several other deceased people who have been claimed by relatives are not on the list. Same case

List of offenders? It is difficult to say, and the idea that there could not be more than a thousand co-defendants in the dragon cannot be used to negate that the names of the co-defendants would be hidden in the list. Maybe the sheer size of the list and even the names of celebrities are a trick for dragons? But then again, would the dragon criminals write down the names of their co-defendants in a notebook?

Arraignment of dragon criminals.

Question: Long Zhimin, this book is yours, right?

A: Yes.

Q: You wrote the above stuff, right?

A: Absolutely.

Q: Who are the people on it?

A: Everybody.

Q: Do you know them all?

A: How can you know everything? If you know him, you won't remember him. If I want to say that I know each other, I can only meet somewhere, and I will write them down after that. Most of them I haven't even met in person, and I've heard from others. I was walking down the street, listening to people talking about what was going on with someone, and I wrote down the person they were talking about.

Q: Why did you make a note of these people?

Answer:...... Not for anything. It's really not why, remember to play miles.

Q: Who can believe that?

Answer: It's really a trick, I dare to coax others, how dare you and I coax!

……

The names of the two cooks in the Shangxian = Bureau were actually put on the list by Long Zhimin. When questioned about them, the two cooks cursed and swore that they had never dealt with dragons. As for how their names appeared in that little booklet, "How do we know?" ”

The leading group for cracking the investigation has decided: It is necessary to find out more than 1,000 people on the list one by one!

It's a big job. The investigation and visiting team also expanded exponentially, and several hundred people were divided into more than 100 investigation groups and scattered throughout Shangluo. Later, Wang Koucheng recalled: "That little Ben could have made people miserable, and just stacked up his investigation materials, he was half a person tall!" "The results of the survey show that:

1. The origin of the list is indeed as the dragon prisoner said, and most of it is based on hearsay.

2. The purpose of this list is to go to the homes of some of them to cheat on food and drink.

3. Most of the names in the list have no practical meaning to dragons. Maybe it's really as Long said, "remember to play"?

The outcome of the investigation was disappointing, and the case became more complicated.

Many cadres suspected that there was a political element to the case, and this perception initially affected the specific personnel handling the case. At the same time, Long Zhimin only admitted to the murder and was vague on the question of the motive for the killing, and the amount of 573 yuan in stolen money and 48 corpses was two figures

It is also difficult for people to come to the conclusion that they murdered for money, so various folk legends about the motive for this case (except for the common view of murder for money) have attracted their attention.

People say that in the fifties and sixties, didn't there be a counterrevolutionary organization called the "Qinling Column" in the southwest township of Shangxian County? The ringleader is called Wu Zijun, and it is rumored to be the old department of the big bandit Gu Shizhen. There are many people involved, one of whom is a man named Long Zhihong. Long Zhihong

In the same village as Long Zhimin. Will Long Zhimin have an affair with this organization?

Long Zhimin's original hometown has become the reservoir area of the Nanqin Reservoir, and the villagers have been relocated to the surrounding townships. The scouts visited many places and learned that Long Zhihong had died 10 years ago. The person questioned said: I heard that Long Zhihong had participated in an organization, and he had never seen anything he had done. I haven't heard of Long Zhimin having anything to do with this organization. Long Zhimin was twenty years old at the time.

Long Zhimin's original hometown, Longnianzi Village, has a mountain named Tianzi Mountain, and folklore says that Tianzi Mountain will produce a Son of Heaven. When did this legend originate? When did the legendary "Son of Heaven" appear? Accounts vary. Does Long Zhimin's criminal activities have anything to do with this legend?

This legend aroused the attention of the investigators, and before the liberation, bandits gathered in crowds to rise up, often using the feudal superstitious theory similar to that of "the son of heaven" to find a demagogic excuse for their activities. In the old days, when bandit teams were opened in gangs, they often killed a few people first, firstly to intimidate the township, and secondly, to make the recruits have no way to retreat, which was called "sacrificial knife". Could the 48 corpses be the sacrificial swords of the reactionary organization established under the false name of "the birth of the Son of Heaven"?

During the interrogation, when asked: Do you know the legend that the Son of Heaven is going to produce the Son of Heaven in Tianzi Mountain? Long Zhimin said: "I've heard it said. What's wrong? "He didn't react unusually.

The scouts gave up on the investigation of the matter for the time being.

Legend has it that a fortune teller gave a hexagram to the dragon rulers, saying that the dragon will encounter a great disaster when he is about 40 years old, and if he wants to avoid this difficulty, he needs to use the blood of 7749 creatures to rush it.

The scouts investigated the witches and gods in the territory and the Mr. Xiangmian who had wandered around the territory and could find as much as possible, but to no avail. And the dragon prisoner said in a vigorous manner (and quite serious) during the interrogation: "We are people who have studied, how can we believe those things!" ”

Subsequently, the work of identifying corpses and their relics was gradually launched, which gave a powerful impetus to the investigation work, enabled the investigators to clear away the fog and gradually come out of some misunderstandings that can also be said to be biblio.

Let's take a step back and look at the story that took place in the process of identifying bodies and relics.

As early as the evening of May 31, Governor Li Qingwei listened to the report of Duan Xuebin, director of the regional = division, on the excavation of Wang Yi site, and said: "...... I estimate that the family of the deceased will be very dissatisfied with us, and if they are not allowed to identify the body, the situation will be even more serious. ”

This is about what happened during the day.

During the day on 31 May, when the excavation and inquest work was in full swing, the families of the missing people let out loud cries of grief in the crowd of onlookers. Under the good-faith encouragement of the onlookers, they tried to cross the cordon several times to identify the body, but they were intercepted by the armed police, which caused them and the onlookers to be dissatisfied, crying, and accusing them, and even some good deeds shouted and coaxed, causing a riot in the crowd. In the afternoon, about 100 people gathered in front of the gate of Shangxian = Bureau and asked the leaders to come out

Speak, ask for the body. One of them, in view of the fact that 48 people were killed and the = bureau was not aware of this in advance, scolded: "Raised a group of people who eat for nothing? ”

Will the situation expand further? Prefectural and county party and government leaders are very worried. Linked to the relative backwardness and poverty in the Shangluo area, and linked to the tense or indifferent cadre-group relationship in some local departments in recent years, will the people gathered in the county=bureau take to the streets, thus influencing more people who rush to Wangqi to see the excitement and join their ranks? The people of Shangzhou are loyal and simple, but who can predict what will happen? To this end, Li Qingwei pointed out: "...... It is conceivable that the masses have grievances, so we should warmly receive them, work patiently, meet their demands as much as possible, and calm their grievances. ”

As an important part of the investigation, especially in this case, the identification of corpses and relics is essential. The question is when and where to recognize. In the past, the bodies were all in the corpse bank, and the 48 bodies in this case could not be transferred to the body bank -- there is no such capacity in this county. Identification on the spot, in front of thousands of onlookers? What kind of situation does that create? The relatives of the deceased are crying and shouting, onlookers will take the opportunity to rush to the front, and possible co-perpetrators will take advantage of the chaos......

In a compromise approach, the authorities set up a reception desk for families with missing relatives, asking them to explain their situation, registering them, issuing them documents and telling them to wait for their bodies to be identified.

The remains of the two pits on the east side of the lung house were not identifiable, but 7 bodies were identified in the west of the pit, and a total of 10 bodies were identified in the house, plus 3 bodies in the house. Most of the bodies were only identified by relics.

Due to various considerations, the location of the identification of the relics was placed in Yangyuhe Township=, which is only one mile away from Wang Yuan in the west.

Township = A few wires were pulled up in the courtyard, which were covered with clothes found from the dragon prisoner's home, some of which could be seen to have been washed, but the blood was still there. None of these garments were decent, or of low material, or tattered, and the dust was shaken off, and it can be seen that the mouth, elbows, and knees of many of the garments have long been worn out, and it is clear at a glance that the owner is a man who has been engaged in manual labor all year round. The same goes for shoes, which are almost non-leather, mostly step-footers and imitation military-soled shoes that are outdated but loved by farmers...... These relics seem poignant. One viewer exclaimed, "It seems that none of them are blessed people!" The reason why the "three no-killing" principles, which were falsely said later, can be circulated among the people and believed by many people is also related to the impression left by the scene on the wire in Yangyuhe Township = the courtyard.

The man who identified the relic came.

The noisy yard quieted down.

Some people let out a cry of grief as soon as they entered the door. Some people walk in silently, until he (she) suddenly cries in front of a certain relic, and people know that he (she) is a sufferer and not a spectator. But the nervousness they felt when they walked in was the same, would the things of their missing loved ones be found here? Again and again, everyone prayed to the gods in their hearts that they would not see anything familiar here...... More than 100 families were registered at the reception desk, and the number of dead was 48, which means that more than half of them were not in the disaster. However, when more than 100 families who had registered as lost rushed to Yangyuhe Township, they were 100 percent lucky and hopeful...... So I didn't cry much when I entered the door, and most of the people who came to identify the relics didn't want to let people know that they were here to identify the relics. When they entered the courtyard, they looked at the things that looked like they were hanging in the thrift market, and they did not dare to step forward. When they recognized something as belonging to their missing relatives, they still refused to give up hope, thinking, how many people wear such clothes and shoes. Or, after so much time, who remembers the quasi-him (

What does she wear when she leaves? Until the facts are ironclad, they are still looking for reasons to comfort themselves. Thinking about it, he screamed in pain, or fainted without saying a word. The man who did not recognize anything crouched far away from the wire, his face pale, his heart still trembling; Is it too coarse to look at? But I didn't want to check it a second time, and I had to check it again. "It's really no, it's really not, our baby is not in it......" I reported to my family who stayed at home and didn't dare to come. At the same time, it seems to hear the question of the family members who are happy and cautious: Are all the relics of the deceased in that courtyard? Wasn't it disposed of by the dragon criminal? At the end, he (she) covered his face and whimpered: Where have you been!

More than 30 victims have been identified, and the rest have become ownerless souls.

And the people who told them about their tragic experiences can be said to be those who are called "escaping from the dragon's claws" by the people.

Shao Genzheng (male, 59 years old, from Zhao Village):

It was last year, I remember it was autumn, it was autumn, and the bread in the field was so big. I went to watch a movie at Wangdun. After watching the movie, I walked back, and when I walked to the entrance of the village, a person suddenly stood up under a low wall, which scared me! I thought I was a big dog, and a big dog stood tall. Who is not the dragon ruling the people? That's him. He asked me which village I was from, and I said Zhao Village. He said it's dark, and you'll go back. What if I don't go back? No matter how dark it is, it has to come back. He asked me to sleep in his house, saying he had a job to do. I thought: What's going on tonight? If you're lucky, you can still earn money after watching the movie. I said I didn't tell my family. He said what were you afraid of? Isn't a man in this place in our place who doesn't come home all night like a dog who doesn't come home? It's not a big deal. That's the same, either I found a job, or I let my friends stop gossiping, what else can I think at home? Then stay there. As soon as I enter his house, oh my God! I said my house is dirty, and his house is ten times dirtier! I don't know what it smells like, it's more choking than a maozi. I didn't take off my clothes, I slept with him on the kang all night, and left as soon as it was dawn. When I left, I scolded: "What kind of work!" "Why didn't he dare to hurt me that night? Didn't I think it smelled bad in the house? I got up several times during the night and smoked several cigarettes. He didn't have a chance to do anything because he didn't sleep well......

Du XX (male, from Wangqi Village, employee of the county chemical plant):

He also eats the grass next to the nest! Does this sound like a fabrication, and he doesn't know anyone from the same village? I really don't know. Long Zhimin is a lonely man, and he doesn't have much contact with the people in the village, of course everyone knows him, but he doesn't necessarily know all the people in the village, especially people like me who work outside. It was a Saturday, and my family sent me a letter asking me to go back and hoe the potatoes. I came back, riding a bicycle, and it was dusk when I arrived at Wang. Wang Yuan is on the slope, as soon as I arrived at the edge of the village, I pushed the cart and walked, isn't the thatched pond of the agricultural machinery station on the east side of the Longjia? I was there to relieve myself. At this time, Long Zhimin came out of the house and asked me who I was looking for. I didn't bother to talk to him, so I said I wouldn't look for anyone. He said, "Go to the house and rest before you go." "Jumping on the road to push the cart for me. I said in my heart: What a still pimpled! Ignoring him, the cart was gone. The next day, my brother and I went to hoe potatoes, and when we passed by the entrance of the village, Long Zhimin saw it, and he shook it for a moment and said, "Who should I be, it's you." ”

Liu Maizhen, female, 31 years old, from Wangsi Village. She sat by the fire, rubbing her tear-stained eyes with her greasy sleeves from time to time. Because she had gone to Long Zhimin's house and brought back a few clothes, she was now in the same situation as Jin Bailing. It was only under the repeated guidance of the investigators and village cadres that she spoke:

I saw it in August of the previous year, and my mother-in-law came to me and said that the pears had fallen - there were several pear trees in my mother's yard - and asked me to go back and help my father pull the pears to P.O. 10 to sell. The workers in Box 10 have a lot of money and can sell for a good price. When I returned to my parents' house, my anxious father had already pulled the pear and left first. I just chased it, and I didn't see my father until I got to mailbox 10. Later I found out that my dad had asked someone from the paper mill to call him off on the way. I went to the city to look for it, and on the way to the city, I met Long Zhimin. He said "Are you looking for someone?" I thought: How did he know I was looking for someone? Did my dad ask this man if he had seen me before he guessed me? I said I'm looking for my father. Tell me about it. He said that he had seen my father, and as soon as the pears were pulled to the No. 10 mailbox, the workers rushed to buy them all. I said, "Why didn't I see my dad on the road?"

Long Zhimin said that maybe your father sent the car to someone, and went to the city for a walk this time. I believed his words, and my heart was not in a hurry. I want to go back, I don't have money or buns on me, what should I do if I can't find my father in the city? Besides, I have work in the house. I turned my head and walked back, and Long Zhimin followed me all the way. He asked me where my home was, I said where it was, and asked me how I was, and I said that there was enough food to eat, but the money was tight, and the family relied on his father to earn a few dollars from the delivery work in the winter. He said that he was buying used clothes, and asked me if I wanted to go to his house to wash clothes, and just pick up a few clothes when I left. I said that it would be okay to give money, and he said that it was okay to give money, wash three yuan a day, add a few cents, and then you can buy a foreign schoolbag with two roots for your son.