Chapter 5 Chapter Four

Some villagers gathered outside the door. Someone said a word, and everyone fell silent. The villager was barefoot, with trouser legs rolled up, and a shovel on his shoulder. He stared at the proprietress of the small supermarket with a serious face and said, "I saw it when I was watering the ground. What did you throw into the river?" The police fished out a watery corpse in the river. After identification, the deceased was Tang Xiujuan, a 20-year-old villager from the third group of the village. her body. Bao Zhan was a little disappointed. Tang Xiujuan's body was intact and not mutilated. The case of frozen and mutilated corpses had not yet been solved. Now that there was another corpse, the case became complicated and confusing.

The mother of the deceased cried bitterly, pointed to the proprietress of the small supermarket and said: You killed An Ni, you are a murderer. The father of the deceased said sharply: "Call someone, call everyone from our family." The fight between the two families was about to break out. The villagers gathered more and more, some of them were holding kitchen knives and wooden sticks. The scene was very chaotic. Dragons were drawn and guns were fired as warning shots. Director Dai put the suspect, the proprietress of the small supermarket, into the police car , Take him back to the police station for interrogation.Early the next morning, the special case team called the college student village official of Tangwangzhuang to assist in the investigation, and quickly found out the truth.

This is a case of bloody death due to running for village director. In recent years, violent incidents in rural elections have occurred frequently, showing an increasing trend year by year. The root cause of crime lies in the competition for interests. Tangwangzhuang mainly has two candidates for village director, one is Wang San and the other is Tang Nanhe. On the eve of the election, the voters in the village became real treasures. Wang San gave everyone in the village a bag of rice and a barrel of peanut oil, and he would give him an extra 500 yuan if he promised to be the village director.There was a bachelor in the village who picked up bottles on the street with his bare butt all year round. Wang San bought him a suit and tied a tie for him himself.Many people in Beihuan County have seen this man in a suit and leather shoes picking up beverage bottles.

Tang Nanhe is rich and powerful, and invites every family in the village to eat. There is a restaurant at the entrance of the village called "Hao Zai Lai". Well, come to the restaurant to eat and drink again.On a country road, an old man walked with a stick, and the wind blew the leaves of the poplar trees rattling. Someone asked her why she was there, and the old man replied: go eat a big pot of rice. Most of the villagers only care about the short-term interests. The college student village officials once warned them: You must reject election bribery and you must choose democracy.

A villager asked another villager: There is also a democracy in our village? Another villager was rolling a cigarette. He tore off a strip of paper, sprinkled tobacco leaves, twisted it into a cigarette roll, and stuck it with saliva. After lighting it, he puffed out a cigarette and asked: Who is Democracy? I have no friendship with him. Why choose him? Election bribery and canvassing are not uncommon in rural elections, and township cadres basically turn a blind eye to it.Village cadres, town cadres, and even county-level cadres formed an interest group.Every time there is a general election, the village cadres send gifts and money to the town cadres, and the town cadres quietly express their affection to the county cadres.Before the election, everyone knows who will be elected.Corruption of county-level officials is still secretive, but corruption of village cadres is blatant.

The purpose of their becoming an official is not to do things for the villagers, but for money. Many people in many villages have said such a sentence when teaching their children to set up ideals: When you grow up, you will be a high-ranking official. Tang Nanhe said straightforwardly: It's no good, who will be an 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 seniority, you have to call me cousin. Tang Xiujuan said: Bah, you think beautifully, how many watches do you wear, and let me call you cousin.

Wang San said: When I become a village director, within three months, I will wear a high-end watch. Tang Xiujuan said: You are a corrupt official. Wang San said brazenly: Whoever becomes a corrupt official is not a corrupt official. Tang Xiujuan said: Whoever chooses you will be blind.Anyway, I don't choose you, I choose my second uncle Tang Nanhe. Wang San scolded, "You little girl, I won't sell you my ice cream for dogs to eat." Tang Xiujuan was working out of town. The second uncle Tang Nanhe asked her to go back to the village election in order to win votes. When she was buying ice cream in the small supermarket at the entrance of the village, she had an argument with Wang San and his wife, which led to a fight. Wang San and his wife accidentally beat Tang Xiujuan to death. .At that time, the town government staff were driving to pick up Wang San. They hurriedly hid the body under the bed.

Wang San was detained by the town government due to the weapon fighting incident some time ago. Wang San's wife hid the corpse in the freezer because she was worried that the corpse would stink. The proprietress of this small supermarket is usually a shrew, but she has no opinions and only listens to her husband's words, so she has been freezing the corpse in the freezer. All he wanted was to wait for her husband to come back and dispose of the corpse. 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 thief Er Lan broke into the house and accidentally found the dead body in the freezer. He woke up the proprietress of the small supermarket when he jumped out of the window to escape.The proprietress found that the window was open, the moonlight was dim, and the chin of the dead body was lying on the freezer, as if it wanted to crawl out.The proprietress was startled, realizing that something had happened, she picked up the cold corpse, quietly opened the door, walked out of the village, and threw it into the river without thinking.Little did they know that this scene was witnessed by a villager who was watering the ground at night, and later the villager testified in court.

The murder case of Wang San and his wife had nothing to do with the case of freezing and mutilating corpses. The case should have been clear, but it was once again deadlocked and difficult to break through. Both the special case team and the local police are a little depressed. There are so many clues at present, but there is no glimmer of light in sight.Professor Liang had to adjust the detection direction. He asked the forensic doctor Qin Ming to make an accurate time for throwing the body. However, the forensic doctor Qin Ming could not understand the degree of freezing of the body parts, and naturally he could not figure out the time required for thawing, so it was difficult to make an accurate judgment. , it can only be roughly inferred that the time of the two corpse dumps was between 4:00 and 5:00 in the morning.

Professor Liang: Can it be accurate to the minute? Forensic doctor Qin Ming said: I have done several experiments on the temperature changes of frozen corpses, so I can only make a rough analysis. Su Mei said: Don't make things difficult 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 cancel our monitoring point, or arrange for the defense team to guard there, do we have to monitor it ourselves? Su Mei said: Alas, drawing the dragon and Xiao Bao is hard enough, the two of them were almost eaten by mosquitoes, and their faces and arms were covered with red bumps.

Hualong said: "I'm swollen. Brother Baozi is whiter than before. Have you noticed that he lost a lot of blood and was sucked by mosquitoes!" Professor Liang said categorically: The monitoring point cannot be undone, you continue to insist, and you are not allowed to complain. Bao Zhan said: I am not afraid of hard work. Every night I think about where the breakthrough point of this case is, and whether there are omissions in our work.From 4:00 to 5:00 in the morning, I observed many times at the monitoring point. At this time, there was no one in the market, and the murderer would not be seen throwing the body, and there were no witnesses. Professor Liang said: I remembered that there was one person. Director Dai asked: Who? Professor Liang said: The steamed stuffed bun shop owner got up at four or five o'clock every day. He was the first person to appear in the market. After the incident, he stopped selling steamed buns. Our monitoring points were also set up after the incident. Director Dai said: We have asked the couple selling buns several times, but they didn't report anything. Professor Liang looked through the interrogation records again. The owner of the bun shop and his wife light the stove and make noodles at around 4:30 every morning. They are the only witnesses who may see the murderer throwing the body. Professor Liang also noticed that the owner of the bun shop would rather be detained. I also don't want to be fined by the police, which shows that the couple live a frugal life and value money very much. Professor Liang thought for a while and said: I have an idea, but I don't know if it will work. Director Dai said: As long as the case can be solved, you can go ahead and speak up, and the director also explained so. Professor Liang said: Go and buy a bag of rice and a barrel of cooking oil, and send them home to the owner of the bun shop. Director Dai said: Bribe him? Professor Liang said: What is bribery? This is called the government going to the countryside to send warmth! Hualong, Bao Zhan, and Su Mei changed into casual clothes and drove to the home of the owner of the bun shop under the leadership of the township government cadres.The owner of the steamed stuffed bun shop was very surprised, with a look of astonishment on his face. When he saw the rice and oil, his expression turned into emotion. The township cadres held his hand and asked him about his health. Before leaving, he gave him a condolence package.The township cadre patted the Baozipu owner on the shoulder and told him that he must strongly support the work of the police and contribute to the maintenance of social order. If he thinks of a bad person or something bad, he must have the courage to expose it. Don't be afraid of retaliation. Don't worry if you have the support of the government. The owner of the steamed stuffed bun shop understood the purpose of his visit, and replied repeatedly: "Okay, okay, I will tell you what I think of." The special case team happened to pass by Tangwangzhuang when they returned, and they saw the villagers of Tangwangzhuang officially started voting.The village committee is very lively, and there are many cars parked at the door.There were also young men, shirtless, wearing gold chains and tattooed, all sitting in the car. Bao Zhan asked the college student village official: What do these young people do? They don't look like they are from the village. The college student village official said in a low voice: Hurry up, get out of here, a fight might start in a while, and you are not wearing police uniforms, don't watch the excitement here. Hualong said: Damn it, I can't beat these ruffians to death, and they are pretending to be gangsters. The college student village official said: I also have good intentions, for your own good. Su Mei said: Thank you, little brother, by the way, I remembered one thing, did your blind date succeed? Why do you want to find a rural wife? The college student village official said: I used to talk to someone in school, and it was blown up a few days ago. If someone arranges a blind date, I will meet him. Su Mei said: Voting for the village director election has started, let's take a look. Hualong nodded and said: I have seen UFOs, but I have not seen ballots.