Chapter 15: Isolation from the World
Xu Tian and Vanilla came to the village committee, and Officer Zhang sat alone on the steps outside the village committee, a large coffin lying horizontally at the door of the village committee, looking quite awkward. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Officer Zhang, there is a new development in the case from twenty years ago, can you go and ask the old village chief to come over?"
Officer Zhang didn't say a word, and hurriedly went to find the old village chief.
"Hey...... Really, running so fast. ”
"This person is very infatuated with my aunt, and he has helped my aunt's family before."
After a while, Officer Zhang led the old village chief into the village committee in a hurry, plus Xu Tian and Vanilla, and the four of them sat around a square table.
"That's the way it is, can you remember who didn't go up the mountain back then?" Xu Tian asked.
"I'll do it." The old village chief snapped his fingers and said word by word: "I went up the mountain later, after taking away Hongmei's son, I sent him home, and my old woman who has been walking for ten years did not go up the mountain, your grandmother did not go, Xu Laosan did not go, your parents were also in the village at the time, they did not go, needless to say the children in the village, and then there is Miss Xu at the head of the village, even Xiao Ai and her mother did not go, and the old people with inconvenient legs and feet in the village did not go." ”
"The only men are my dad and the old village chief, and Xu Sanye, you and Xu Sanye were also around fifty years old back then, right? The only one who is the same age as Xu Fugui is my dad, and Hongmei's daughter can see the person who has been staying in the house as Xu Fugui, and my dad is very suspicious! ”
"No, your dad and Hongmei don't know each other at all, the two of them have nothing to do with each other, and your dad can't be a murderer."
"I guess not." Xu Tian sighed and said.
"And this Officer Zhang isn't there, right? None of them can be ruled out. Vanilla said bitterly.
"I was working in town at the time, and someone can attest to that." Officer Zhang argued.
"You investigate the case and investigate the case, don't be suspicious, don't keep staring at 20 years ago, the case of Xu Fugui and Xu Laosan was quickly solved, this year our village will still attract investment, how can we do if there is a murder case that has not been solved?"
The old village chief flicked his sleeves and walked out with his hands behind his back.
"Officer Zhang, please tell me more about Hongmei's interpersonal relationship."
"The old village chief lied just now, your parents are actually good friends with Hongmei, and the village head Xiao Ai and her mother, the four of them are high school classmates, when Hongmei and her husband came to the village, it was your father who helped settle down."
"And this kind of thing? Why did the old village chief lie? ”
"Because your father can help the village to bring investment, don't look at the old village chief who ignores the matter of the village getting rich, he is more anxious than anyone else, I often see the old village chief looking for the secretary in the town, who doesn't know the town cadres, the old village chief has been running for more than 20 years for the village to get rich."
"No, I need to call my dad."
Xu Tian came to the small store at the entrance of the village, Xiao Ai was looking at the store, and when he saw Xu Tian coming in, Xiao Ai was very enthusiastic, and the tension when he said goodbye before was gone.
"Brother Xu Tian, do you want to buy anything?"
"No, I'll call."
At this time, Huang Quan ran in from outside, covered in dust, panting and said:
"Oh no...... Mountain...... The landslide and the road into the village were blocked! ”
Xu Tian had just dialed out the phone, and the sound of 'doodoo' disconnection made Xu Tian suddenly feel loveless.
The sky is getting darker, the fiery red clouds are reflected in the setting sun, and the small mountain village is noisy, and people are all sitting around the small shop at the entrance of the village waiting for rescue.
The villagers are only worried about communication problems and their small businesses, and the self-reliant mountain village will not starve to death.
Xu Tian came to the old village chief who had broken away from the crowd and handed the old village chief a bottle of mineral water.
"It's too extravagant, I don't drink it." The old village chief reprimanded Xu Tian and said.
"You don't have to worry, the rescue work is very fast, and the mountain road should be opened in less than a week."
"It's useless to get through, there was a landslide twenty-eight years ago, and seventeen lives were lost! It was buried in the dirt, and since then no one has dared to invest, and it is not safe to even enter the village, who can come? The old village chief shook his head vigorously, tears already rolling in his eyes.
"Why do landslides happen during the dry season? I can't say it! ”
"It's all retribution, I've already negotiated, I'm afraid I'm going to be in the soup again, I can't see our village rich before I die!"
"Even now, don't you tell me the truth about twenty-eight years ago? When there is no rain, the probability of a landslide is too small, and the old village chief will not prevaricate me with the rhetoric of bad luck, right? ”
"Come here." The old village chief took Xu Tian to a place a little farther away from the crowd.
"Are you going to tell the truth?"
"Let me ask you first, do you have eyebrows about the death of Xu Fugui and Xu Laosan?"
"I don't know who had a motive to kill, and it would be much easier to find out who had the motive to kill them."
"Okay, then I'll tell you everything that happened twenty-eight years ago, and I'm ashamed! It's all my incompetence as the village head. Originally, the geological expert introduced by your father 28 years ago, that is, Hongmei's husband, has brought investors with your father, and even the province attaches great importance to this development, but those short-sighted and selfish villagers believe that rare earth resources belong to our village, and it is better for us to make money ourselves than to let outsiders develop them. ”
Xu Tian handed the mineral water to the old village chief, took the mineral water, and the old village chief looked at it, but still didn't drink it.
"A few of their old people drove away other investors, but the project was approved by the province, and it was useless to drive people out, and in the end there was no way, Huang Wupo took everyone to make trouble, and pushed all the charges on the Hongmei family, originally your father should also be implicated at that time, probably because your grandmother's prestige in the village is still quite big, so no one is angry with your family, Hongmei's family is miserable, every day someone walks up to the door to curse, and sometimes they do it, but Hongmei's family always tolerates and never gets angry. Later, when the construction started, suddenly there was a landslide one day, it was also the dry season, I didn't believe that there would be such a little bit of a bad thing, and when the seventeen dead lives were dug up, I understood the performance of those radicals, it was all the ghosts of their old people, originally they wanted to kill geological experts and investors, but they didn't expect that day to transport rare earths and their children, since then, no one wants to mention the accident, a few old people are even more disgusted with the Hongmei family, obviously they killed their own children, Later, there was a flu in the village, and that time was actually fighting the flu all over the country, what does it have to do with Hongmei? In this way, they wronged Hongmei again, went to Hongmei's house every day to make trouble, and finally forced Hongmei, who was pregnant, away. ”