On the third day of the Lunar New Year, County Magistrate Liu and his wife Xu Jihong returned to their hometown of Dongyang. The family was celebrating the New Year lively when they suddenly received a text message: County Magistrate Liu, your family is celebrating the New Year lively? You didn’t ask Mr. Liu
How do you spend the New Year as a family?
County Magistrate Liu didn't know what happened, so he came to the study alone and replied a text message: Who are you? What happened to Liu Laomo's family?
The other party replied: You may have forgotten who Liu Lao Mei is? He is the old man from Zhangping Village who you received that day. He was forced to hang himself by Zhang Baojun’s family yesterday!
County Magistrate Liu felt a buzz in his head: Something had happened.
The other party sent another message: If you don't have the ability, don't mess with Zhang Baojun. If you want to mess with him, mess with him to the end. You wanted to get back 1,360 yuan of subsistence allowance money for the Liu family, but you made Mr. Liu lose his life. This person is actually
You killed it!
County Magistrate Liu felt very sad and replied helplessly: Who are you? Please leave your name. I will get to the bottom of this matter and give you an explanation.
The other party wrote back and said: I am a villager with conscience, but I don’t want to be the second Mr. Liu, so I won’t leave my name, but I will wait and see.
County Magistrate Liu sat in his study and smoked two cigarettes in a row. He decided to let Li Wei and Lu Xuemin go find out the situation first and verify the authenticity of this matter.
County Magistrate Liu thought for a moment, picked up Li Wei's phone, and politely wished Li Wei and his family New Year's greetings, and then said: "Someone sent me a message saying that I was visiting Zhangping Village, Baoping Township that day.
Liu Lao Mei hanged himself."
"No, it's Chinese New Year, how could this happen?"
When Li Wei received the call, he was drinking in Jinfuhao with some classmates who were going home for the New Year. When the phone rang, he saw that it was County Magistrate Liu's number, so he hurriedly went out and answered the phone. He heard someone calling County Magistrate Liu.
Chang sent a message saying that Mr. Liu had hanged himself, and he couldn't help but feel bitter in his heart. It seemed that from now on, he would have to go to work early.
He has been County Magistrate Liu's secretary for nearly a year, and he knows him quite well.
Although County Magistrate Liu has been in the officialdom for many years, what is valuable is that he does not have bureaucratic habits and still has a sincere heart to love the people. This is what Li Wei admires him very much. Now that he knows about Liu Lao Mei, he will definitely
He felt that this matter was related to himself, so he felt guilty, and he would definitely get to the bottom of this matter.
As the county magistrate, his goal in doing this is too big. In all likelihood, he will fall on himself to investigate the truth, and he will not be able to make it through the year.
"I'm really sorry. It seems like you won't be able to survive this year. It's not convenient for me to go back these days. You and Lu Xuemin go and check in private: First, did Liu Lao Mei hang himself? Second, what was the reason why he hanged himself?
?”
Sure enough, County Magistrate Liu said with some embarrassment. Then he forwarded all the messages he received to Li Wei.
Li Wei called Lu Xuemin, and Lu Xuemin said that he was on duty at the Public Security Bureau. Li Wei returned to the wine shop and told several classmates that County Magistrate Liu had something to do with him. Several classmates knew that he was a secretary, and his time was not his own.
, all express understanding.
Li Wei called the hotel manager and asked him to bring two more bottles of Wuliangye, telling him that he would entertain his friends well. This hotel was a designated hotel run by the government, and Li Wei was in charge of hospitality. There was no need for Li Wei to contact the bank, but the manager would also treat his friends well.
His classmates and friends entertained him well.
Arranging for a good friend, Li Wei drove a Beijing Hyundai to the Public Security Bureau to find Lu Xuemin.
This Beijing Hyundai belongs to Wang Mingli. At the end of the New Year, all government leaders need to use cars, and the government-run cars are not enough. Wang Mingli knows that Li Wei will have a lot of social activities during the New Year, so she wants to use her company's car.
Wang Mingli gave him a Mercedes-Benz to use. Li Wei thought the Mercedes-Benz was too ostentatious, so Wang Mingli lent Li Wei the Beijing Hyundai she drove in the past.
Li Wei found Lu Xuemin, told him what County Magistrate Liu had said, and showed him the text messages. Lu Xuemin called Xiao Wang from the technology stock and asked him to check the situation of the person who sent the text messages. A few minutes later,
Xiao Wang came in and told them that the card was applied for in Shenzhen, and the person who registered the information was Yue Ming, who was from Luoyang, Henan.
Lu Xuemin analyzed that the person who sent the text message was definitely not Yue Ming himself. This was a Netcom card. In order to compete with China Mobile for customers, Netcom almost did not check the customer's information when applying for the card. It seems that they wanted to use the mobile phone card
It's very difficult to find the person who sent the text message.
Li Wei said: "We'd better go to Zhangping Village immediately to have a look. If it's too late, something else might happen."
"Of course I have to go. It will be beneficial to the investigation to have a clear understanding of the situation of Liu Lao Mei's family before going."
Lu Xuemin asked the household registration administrator Xiao Cui to retrieve the information about the members of Liu Lao Mei's family.
There are seven people in Liu Lao Mei’s family: Liu Lao Mei is 67 years old, his wife is 64 years old, three sons, 39 years old, 32 years old, and 28 years old are all unmarried, a daughter is 24 years old, and an old father.
Already 89 years old.
Judging from the photos, the Liu family, except for the daughter named Liu Xiaoyue who looks more elfin, everyone else looks very dull.
Lu Xuemin entrusted the duty duties to deputy captain Luo Gang, changed into casual clothes, and drove to Zhangping Village with Li Wei.
As soon as the car entered the village, I heard the plaintive sound of suona in the distance.
At this time, snow was falling chaotically in the sky, and the desolate trees, low houses, and muddy paths in front of us formed a very sad scene. The weeping and lamenting songs were tugging at people's hearts.
Heart.
Li Wei and Lu Xuemin parked their cars on the wheat field at the entrance of the village, and followed the guidance of Aile and walked towards the village.
Li Wei saw an old man with gray hair on the winding road. He was wearing a blue short coat, his head was hunched, his back was hunched, and he was walking slowly with a stack of yellow paper under his arm. Li Wei was walking slowly.
The person quickly took a few steps to catch up.
"Uncle, who passed away during the Chinese New Year?" Li Wei offered a cigarette to the old man and asked.
"Mr. Liu? Alas, I have been a good person all my life, but I didn't expect to end up like this. How miserable." The old man took the cigarette, raised his collar to block the wind, lit the cigarette and took a puff and sighed.
"Liu Laomo? Speaking of which, I still want to call him my cousin. He seems to be only sixty-six or seventeen years old. He is not very old. What disease did he suffer from that made him old?"
Li Wei's hometown is not far from here. People in this area are taboo about talking about death when a person dies. When a person dies, it is said that the person is old.
"Why did he die of illness? He hanged himself. Oh, how miserable!"
"Hang yourself? Why do you hang yourself during the Chinese New Year? I don't think life in rural areas is getting better and better now." Li Wei guided step by step.
"Why did you hang yourself? How could a person take this road unless he was forced to die? He was forced to die all his life." The old man said angrily.
"Forced to death? Forced to death by whom?" Lu Xuemin couldn't help but ask.
"No more, no more, there is no room for reasoning in this world." The old man glanced at Lu Xuemin and said, "I'm afraid you two are not locals. You are here to celebrate the New Year and come to our remote country...?"
"Oh, we are here to see an old comrade, but we feel that it is cumbersome to carry things with us. There is a small shopping mall in your village so we can buy some cigarettes and alcohol."
Li Wei knew that the old man had doubts about their identities. They were also celebrating the New Year. They were not locals in their clothes. They didn't carry anything in their hands and they didn't look like visiting relatives. It was really suspicious.
The old man pointed the way to them carefully, bowed his waist, held his hands, and walked forward slowly. His thin body was soon swallowed up by the swirling wind and snow.