Xu Zhiguo saw that I thought I had too little money, so he started scolding me:
"What the hell you eat and drink from me, isn't it money? Your wife takes things from me to home all day long, isn't that my money?"
I was not convinced, but I didn't dare to scold him. I just smoked my cigarette and said nothing. He scolded me for a while, but when I didn't talk back, he said:
"Okay, I'll give you an increase, 70,000 per person, 350,000 for you."
It seemed to me that we could still negotiate with him, so I boldly said:
"There are 3 million in total. I don't want half, I want one-third. Just give me 1 million."
"Bah, you want 1 million. OK! I'll load them into the car, you drive the car away, and then you find a place to bury them. I'll give you half, 1.5 million, okay?"
When I heard this, my heart went cold. Where can I find a place to bury them? Besides, I don’t dare to touch dead people. I couldn’t sleep at night. So I said:
"That 350,000 is too little, so I won't do it!"
"Okay, stop bargaining with me. I'll give you 500,000. You can do it if you want to, or if you don't want to." Xu Zhiguo threw the cigarette butt on the ground and said angrily.
When I saw that he was really angry, I thought it would be nice to give me 500,000 yuan, so I gave in and handed Xu Zhiguo a cigarette and asked:
"What if they don't eat?"
"If they're hungry, they'll eat in a while. I'll prepare something delicious then, so I won't worry about them not eating."
"But where will they be buried then?" I asked again.
"I've thought about it, you drive them out for a spin, and after they have eaten and died, you drive the car to the construction site north of the village and bury them under the factory building."
"Ah, shall I go alone?" I felt a little scared to be alone.
"You just drive, give them food when the time comes, and then pull them back. You don't have to worry about the rest." Xu Zhiguo said in a contemptuous tone.
We discussed it until midnight that day. After I went back, I lay on the bed unable to fall asleep. I got up and drank another pound of liquor, making myself drunk before falling asleep.
On the day of departure, Xu Zhiguo first gave me a plastic bag, saying it contained five cooked chicken drumsticks. He told me to wait until seven or eight o'clock in the evening to feed them. If I gave it to them early, it would be troublesome if one of them didn't eat.
When the five old people got on the bus, I saw that they were all very happy. The village told them that they would go to a nursing home, where they would have food and drink, someone to wash their clothes, someone to see a doctor, and someone to take care of them when they get old.
Many people in the village saw them off. Some wanted to go with the car to see them off, but they were all stopped by Xu Zhiguo. He said that the procedures had been completed, the money had been paid, and someone would pick them up when they arrived, so there was no need for anyone to see them off. Someone asked where the nursing home was.
The place, Xu Zhiguo only said it was in Changtian County. I remember that Xu Yongchang had a few words with Xu Zhiguo because of the address of the nursing home. Xu Zhiguo said that he was meddling in other people's business, but he insisted on asking for the address of the nursing home.
Later, Xu Yongchang went to the village chief several times, and he had a very unpleasant quarrel with Xu Zhiguo. One night Xu Zhiguo called me, and he said angrily on the phone:
"Hurry up and find a few people and deal with that boy Xu Yongchang for me!"
I was really a little afraid of Xu Yongchang at the time, and I didn’t want to provoke this thorn in my side, so I said to Xu Zhiguo:
"That kid is too powerful. I really can't get rid of him. If I find a lot of people to cause trouble and alert the police, I'm afraid it won't end well. If the police ask about the whereabouts of the old man, it will be even more troublesome."
He thought for a while, cursed me a few words and hung up the phone. Who knew later that Xu Yongchang's chicken farm caught fire and Xu Yongchang was burned to death. This ended our case.
Worrying. Later, after everyone in the village moved away, no one asked about the old people anymore.
That day I drove the old people around Gui'an City in a car. The old people didn't know the roads and they didn't ask me. I just drove with my head down. After dark, it started to rain, and the rain became heavier and heavier. Some
The old man said he was hungry and wanted to get something to eat from his luggage, but I didn't agree. We put all the old man's luggage in the trunk beforehand to prevent them from eating what they brought. As time passed, the rain became heavier and heavier.
, I feel more and more nervous. I am very afraid that the old people will find out our plan.
When it was almost eight o'clock in the evening, I saw that the time was almost up, so I found a place to park under a highway bridge. Although it was raining heavily outside, there was no rain under the highway. I took out the prepared car.
I handed the chicken legs to the old people. The chicken legs were cooked very fragrant, and I wanted to take a bite when I smelled them. After the old people took the chicken legs, they all devoured them. I got out of the car, locked the door, squatted to the side and started smoking.
I thought there would be movement in the car, thought they would knock on the car window, thought they would jump out of the window. Because of these worries, I sat with my back to the car, smoking one cigarette after another.
Time passed by, and there were no pedestrians or vehicles on the road. The wind was blowing loudly, and the rain was coming down very hard. My body was all wet. I was so scared that I kept shivering and even stopped walking.
It was difficult to put the cigarette into my mouth. I had to hold the other hand with one hand to put the cigarette into my mouth.
After I finished smoking all the cigarettes in the cigarette box, I walked to the car door tremblingly, looked inside through the car window, and found that all five old people were slumped on the seats, motionless.
I opened the car door, took out a bottle of wine that I had prepared in advance from under the seat, and drank half of the bottle. After finishing half the bottle, I became bolder and sat on the driver's seat without daring to turn my head back.
Look, turn the rearview mirror to one side, start the car and drive forward crazily.
I drove the car to the construction site in the north of the village in one breath. I called Xu Zhiguo halfway, and he came to the pit waiting for me early. I stopped the car, breathing heavily, and my whole body was soaked with sweat.
. He asked me to get out of the car to help, but I didn’t move. He kicked the car door angrily. Seeing that he couldn’t help me, he carried the person himself.
I stared at his movements with wide eyes. It was raining heavily outside. He was wearing a military raincoat, and the raindrops were pattering on the raincoat. His movements were unhurried, and there was no trace of nervousness at all.
He got into the car with a bow, pulled the old man's body from the seat to the car door, and then put the body on his shoulders. He walked on the muddy ground to the edge of the pit, turned around, tilted his shoulders, and the old man's body fell into the pit.
In the pit, I heard a thud from the car. It must be that a lot of water accumulated in the pit. After he threw the five old people into the pit, he also threw all the luggage in the car into the pit.
After doing all this, he waved to the excavator parked nearby to start. Because it was raining heavily and the soil was full of rainwater, the excavator was working very hard. Xu Zhiguo stood by the pit and watched the excavation.
The machine was working, motionless. I sat in the car, looking at everything in front of me, as if I was stupid, not daring to move.
After the excavator finally filled the hole, they got into my van together and sat where the old people were sitting. I sent them home, and they asked me to live there too, but I didn't agree. I drove home.
, I took a shower first, and then started drinking again until I was drunk.
"Did Xu Zhiguo give you the money he promised?" Hu Jianzhong asked.
"Give it."
"How is the other money divided?"
"I have no idea."
“Who drives the excavator?”
"Xu Zhiguo's eldest son Xu Wenliang."
"Xu Yongchang's chicken farm caught fire, was it you who did it?"
"No, I don't know about this."
"Nonsense, it must have been Xu Yongchang who chased you and asked where the old man went, so you silenced Xu Yongchang."
"I'm not talking nonsense. I really don't know about the fire in the chicken farm. I just said that Xu Zhiguo asked me to go get Xu Yongchang, but I didn't agree to it."
"Later, Xu Zhiguo and Xu Wenliang never talked about the chicken farm?"
"As I said, the three of us were drinking together one time and we talked about the fire in the chicken farm. Everyone was very happy and said that this kid deserved it."
"They didn't say how the chicken farm caught fire?"
"I asked, and they all said that fires in chicken farms are common. It's this boy's bad luck that he didn't escape."
After the interrogation of Guo Encheng ended, Hu Jianzhong immediately issued an order:
"Arrest Xu Wenliang immediately."
When the criminal police rushed to Xu Wenliang's house, they received shocking news: Xu Wenliang was missing.
Xu Wenliang's wife is a thin woman who was frightened when the police came to their home. When asked about Xu Wenliang's whereabouts, she hesitated and said:
"Xu Wenliang, he hasn't been home for many days."
The police asked her when she last saw Xu Wenliang, and she thought for a moment and replied that it had been half a month. When asked if she had called Xu Wenliang, she said she had and that her phone was turned off.
Asked again why she didn't call the police when her husband disappeared? She said that Xu Wenliang often didn't come home for ten and a half days, and he had long been used to it.
The police came to Xu Wenliang's company again, and there was only one old man left in the company who was guarding the door. The old man told the police that no one from the company had come to work for half a month. He called people in the company and they all said that the boss was busy.
He was on a business trip, and the company was temporarily on holiday, so he was asked to keep an eye on the gate. He also went to the company's construction site to see the only gatekeepers left on the construction site, and the workers had stopped going to work long ago.
"It seems that our actions are still slow. Xu Wenliang probably ran away after hearing that Guo Encheng was arrested." Su Le and the others gathered in Hu Jianzhong's office to discuss the next step.
"He couldn't go anywhere, so we immediately applied for a wanted warrant. We believe he will be arrested and brought to justice soon," Hu Jianzhong said.
"Judging from Guo Encheng's explanation, he may not necessarily know anything about Xu Yongchang," Zhang Pengfei said.
"Xu Zhiguo did have the motive to kill Xu Yongchang. Guo Encheng confessed that Xu Yongchang and Xu Zhiguo had a quarrel because of the whereabouts of the old man. If Xu Yongchang keeps focusing on this matter later, Xu Zhiguo will definitely not be able to explain." Su Le.
explain.
"Then how did He Duo get involved in this matter? He probably wouldn't have participated in the killing of five old people. This would be of no benefit to He Duo." Dr. Qiao asked.
"But it is certain that He Duo paid Xu Yongchang to be killed. Meng Yuanming's report letter and He Duo's QQ chat records can prove it." Su Le said.
"It seems that there are many things that Guo Encheng doesn't know about," Zhang Pengfei said.
"I think as Xu Zhiguo's son, Xu Wenliang should know more, so our main task now is to arrest Xu Wenliang and try to pry the truth out of him." Hu Jianzhong said.