After Lao He was taken away by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, he was first skinned in Beijing, and then handed over to the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection for further skinning.
After the two judiciary agencies peeled off the skin, Lao He faced multiple charges, including corruption, malfeasance, abuse of power, acting as a protection umbrella for the underworld, and a series of other charges that were either justified or not.
For this reason, Lao He double-checked and faced public prosecution, which is the so-called criminal prosecution.
I won’t mention these nonsense, because they are meaningless. They are just the result of being on the wrong team and losing.
If you don’t say anything boring, let’s talk about something interesting.
Because Lao He committed the crime locally, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection will first transport him back to City H. After collecting the tangible evidence, the superiors will announce the results. However, this is actually just a process.
But after Lao He came back, Yin Haifeng, who had been in charge of our case, was very interested in the grievances here for more than thirty years. He was eager to know what happened in the past, so he found time to meet in a private capacity. He glanced at Lao He.
In a detention center in the Northeast, Lao He was wearing a prison uniform and was in good spirits. He was also treated well, with thick cotton shoes, a special uniform, a separate detention place, and three meals that made other criminal suspects extremely envious. , the detention center has done everything it should do.
Even if someone commits a crime, they are still members of the Party and can be punished, but not insulted.
"Do you smoke?"
The place where Yin Haifeng met Lao He was not in the interrogation room, but in the office.
"Smoke one."
Lao He hesitated for a moment, then said with a smile.
"Snapped."
Yin Haifeng bent down and lit it for him.
"Are you here for interrogation or for something else?"
Lao He took a deep drag on the cigarette, then raised his head and asked.
"The female corpse dug up next to Jinglouzi was more than thirty years old. She was listed as missing at that time. Now the litigation period has passed. This matter is of little significance to your sentencing. Therefore, I Not interested in interrogating."
Yin Haifeng sat on the sofa and said matter-of-factly.
"Then you come."
Lao He was stunned.
"I want to know what happened. I've been investigating you guys for a long time. If I don't come up with something, I always feel like something is missing."
Yin Haifeng said directly.
"kindness."
Lao He nodded in understanding.
"Wow."
Yin Haifeng poured him a glass of water
Five minutes later.
Lao He's thoughts returned to 1979. He had no expression on his face at first and narrated softly as if in an interview: "My hometown is Shandong. In 1975, I caught up with the last wave of queue jumpers and was transferred to Xinguang. At that time, the Cultural Revolution was coming to an end. My father was also a minor official who was punished. In today’s terms, he could be considered a deputy. Therefore, he was lucky enough to escape. In 1976, I was rehabilitated. At that time, I had been receiving education from poor and lower-middle peasants in Xinguang Village for a full year. At that time, there were a few people who were close to me, including Lao Xiang, Wu Honggang, Zhang Weimin, Dai Fatty, and one Zhang Weimin’s relative, everyone said he was Zhang Weimin’s cousin, but no, no one knew. Anyway, Zhang Weimin treated him well. Because we were about the same age, we often played together. This person should be gone now, so, let’s Just call him Xiaoguang."
Yin Haifeng listened to Lao He's words and drank water quietly.
"We were poor at that time, and the production team didn't have much entertainment. If we could show a black-and-white movie in the commune once a year, it would be New Year. So, I often went to the county to rent martial arts novels and read them. As I grew older, I got to know each other better. I met a girl who worked in a grain and oil store in the county at that time. Her name was Cailing. She was very beautiful, but her family background was not good. Both her parents were criticized to death, and one brother was also sent to the mining area. At that time, although my father was rehabilitated , but the possibility of getting a job again was very slim, so I thought I must stay in the countryside and settle down, and then I came up with the idea of marrying this Cailing. She loves me very much, and I love her very much. We have been dating for half a year. After that, we had our first relationship, and Lao Xiang and Fatty Dai all knew about it."
When Lao He talked about this, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Yin Haifeng felt very worried when he heard this.
"When the college entrance examination was resumed in 1977, my originally stagnant heart was ignited with hope again. I am from the city, and my family is considered a senior official, so I am very uncomfortable with the life with my face facing the loess and my back facing the sky, because it will bury me. A person's fighting spirit makes you ordinary and then becomes a slave of life. Therefore, at that time, I was thinking about taking the college entrance examination again, and then I started to prepare. I have to say that human life has a certain relationship with luck. , when I was preparing to take the college entrance examination, my father's old leader happened to be transferred back. He was re-activated and joined the national tax. In this way, I had organizational connections again, and my hope of returning to the city became stronger and stronger. My father is also a semi-intellectual, and he also agreed to let me retake the college entrance examination, but the problem is, I have to leave, what should I do with the ringing bell?"
Lao He spread his hands and said something, then frowned and painfully recalled the situation at that time: "I had been preparing for two years, and I was already confident. It was 1979, and a large number of educated youths who went to the countryside began to return to their hometowns, and I It was time to prepare for operation. During this period, I never mentioned to Cailing once that I was leaving, but she must have understood what was going on. On August 15th, the Mid-Autumn Festival, I had a showdown with her. I said, I want to leave. Leave and ask her to wait for me for two years. In fact, I don’t believe it even if I say it myself, because I can’t come back, so she doesn’t believe it either. She said she is pregnant and won’t let me leave. We had a fight. When I got up, she got angry and told me that she wanted to report the inappropriate relationship between me and her."
"Then what."
Yin Haifeng asked with a frown.
"You may not understand the situation at that time. If she wanted to report our affairs, then the possibility of me returning to the city would basically be non-existent. The commune was very strict about this matter at that time. People at that time were all decent. , I look down on this kind of thing very much, so I still have the possibility of facing severe punishment, such as canceling the college entrance examination. I have no choice but to beg her, kowtow to her on my knees, and say all the good things in the world. And she promised that I would definitely marry her and come back. She didn’t want me to leave because she loved me, so after my many pleas, she agreed, agreed to abort the child, and then wait for me.”
Lao He's cloudy eyes filled with tears, his brows furrowed, and he covered his eyes with his handcuffed right hand. He was silent for three or four minutes, and then continued: "To abort the child, you definitely can't go to the hospital at that time, let alone I needed to find a professional, so I used food stamps to exchange for a pack of abortion pills with a homeless man from another village. At her residence, I watched her take the pills, but because the potency was too strong, I Which doctor deceived her? She was bleeding profusely and lying on the ground. I was very scared and at a loss. I went to the hospital and everything was missed. Not to mention the college entrance examination was cancelled. I might even be sentenced, but if I didn’t go, what would I do? , she bled so much and was in so much pain."
"You killed her."
Yin Haifeng bit his lip and asked.
"Well, kill me with a knife."
When Lao He said this, he burst into tears.
"You are such a fucking beast."
Yin Haifeng was speechless and said blankly.
"Kill,, um, kill."
Lao He had snot and tears streaming down his face, biting his lip, and continued: "After the killing, I was even more scared, and I even regretted it. I looked at Cai Ling lying on the ground, and the more I looked at it, the more terrified I felt. I locked myself in the kitchen. Inside, I smoked one cigarette after another. The cigarettes at that time were all dry cigarettes rolled in newspapers. I had no money to buy cigarettes, so I smoked and vomited. At this time, Lao Xiang and Zhang Weimin’s cousin Brother, because I didn’t go back to the dormitory at night, they came to look for me. They saw Cailing’s body. Lao Xiang was the boldest and was like an animal. He beat me up and then he could only help me, but Zhang Weimin’s cousin Xiao Guang was more scared than me. He was so frightened that after Lao Xiang collected the body, he took Xiao Guang to bury it. Xiao Guang didn’t dare to go. Lao Xiang turned around and slapped me twice. But I was already confused at that time. There was a blank inside, so I ran to the commune."
"Just Lao Xiang and Xiao Guang."
Yin Haifeng asked with a frown.
"right."
Lao He nodded.
"You keep talking."
"What are you talking about? There is nothing to say. Lao Xiang came back in the middle of the night, but he was alone."
Lao He replied calmly.
"Just me, where's Xiaoguang?"
Yin Haifeng was shocked.
"I don't know. Lao Xiang said that he was so frightened that when he was burying someone, he suddenly ran away and was never found again. The person should still be missing to this day."
Lao He replied lightly.
"Do you believe what Lao Xiang said?"
Yin Haifeng asked with his eyebrows twisted.
"I believe it. Because of Xiaoguang's disappearance, the police station and the Public Security Bureau contacted Lao Xiang many times because he was the only one who returned to the dormitory later that night. But at that time, criminal investigation conditions were limited and the population was not mobile. It’s a big difference. Even after several years, we still haven’t figured out why.”
Lao He replied without hesitation.
"After Cailing dies, what about you?"
Yin Haifeng asked.
"I took the college entrance examination, studied at the University of Political Science and Law, and then worked in Shandong. Through my father's relationship, I started to accumulate experience. In 1998, I was transferred to H City in Northeast China."
Lao He said slowly.
"Zhang Weimin's cousin disappeared. How did he react to Lao Xiang?"
Yin Haifeng asked again.
"He should have secretly visited Lao Xiang many times, but I don't know what they talked about. Later, it was said that Cailing's brother blocked them all when he came back from the mining area, but by then, I had already left And it had been many years since the crime happened. He didn't catch me, and he didn't dare to catch me, because I was already in the civil service at that time. Later, Lao Xiang had Brother Cailing lose one of his legs, and he himself went to jail. I heard he died inside."
Lao He finished telling the end of the story.
When Yin Haifeng heard this, he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
In fact, there are two other versions of this story, which are very scary.
The first one is the version dictated by Lao Xiang.
Lao Xiang said that when he went to find Lao He, not only himself and Xiao Guang, but Fatty Dai also went there, and the three of them worked together to transport Cailing's body away.
1199b
.
But on the way to the burial, Cailing was not stabbed to death by Lao He. Instead, she came back to life and begged the three people to let her live.
The three of them were silent. Lao Xiang and Xiaoguang agreed to play the ringing bell, but asked that the ringing ringer not bite Lao He out.
However, Fatty Dai picked up the knife and stabbed Cailing in the neck, killing her on the spot.
Lao Xiang was furious and asked Fatty Dai why.
Fatty Dai said: "Lao He has a backer in his family, and sooner or later he will rise up. It's a matter of life and death. If you don't sell his favor now, you will sell it when. What's more, if we play the ringtone now, she will definitely report it, so let's What is it, an accomplice."
After Fatty Dai finished speaking, the timid Xiaoguang collapsed completely and ran away. Fatty Dai called him three times, but Xiaoguang didn't come back. Then he chased after him and stabbed Xiaoguang to death with three knives. .
Lao Xiang was confused and buried the body like a zombie. From then on, he buried the matter in his stomach. In order to protect himself, he secretly returned to the burial ground and moved Cailing's body, along with the evidence. One piece was buried in the third production team.
From then on, Lao Xiang stayed away from Fatty Dai and others, and began to mix in society alone, and he did well. Ju Lao told himself that when he was at his peak, Fatty Dai didn't get up at all, but then Brother Cailing came back. One of his legs was broken, and he was unable to recover from the fall, so he quit working. In the same year, my mother also left home because Lao Xiang was not doing his job properly.
The second version, dictated by Fatty Dai, is also very scary.
He said the same as Lao Xiang said before, claiming that when the three of them were transporting the body, Cailing was indeed not dead and began to beg them.
At this time, Lao Xiang took action and killed her.
The timid Xiaoguang tried to run away, but was killed by Lao Xiang. His dialogue was exactly the same as the one he used to talk about Dai Fatty.
After this incident happened, Fatty Dai stayed away from Lao Xiang, and he believed that he was jealous of Zhang Weimin.
Later, Lao He's career became smoother and smoother, and with his help, Lao Xiang took the lead.
At its peak, Cailing's brother came back for revenge and blocked Wu Honggang and Lao Xiang. In the end, he broke one of Lao Xiang's legs, but he was shot to death by Wu Honggang three times. Wu Honggang was then imprisoned, and Lao Xiang never I was so depressed that I finally gave up.
There are three versions of an old story, and everyone tells it differently.
It is about human nature. No one wants to admit the secret and hidden things they have done.
What exactly happened, we have no way of knowing if the person involved doesn’t speak.
The past is scattered with smoke, and the light is like dust. When it is over, it is over. As for the truth, future generations will have their own comments.
Lao He was imprisoned, and after the final trial, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Some people say it's too light, and some say it's too serious, but we can't get in on the specific basis of the court's consideration.
However, from an objective point of view, during Lao He's reign, the economic growth level of H City has increased rapidly every year. He cared about the lives of the elderly, paid attention to the education of the next generation, supported local enterprises, restructured state-owned assets, and pragmatically proposed the old The idea of consolidating factories, a pillar industry of the modern economy, has found a new way for tens of thousands of employees in old factories.
Lao He is corrupt, that's right.
But if you serve as an official and do nothing practical and bring no benefits to the people, is that also a kind of dereliction of duty and a kind of corruption?
Lao He's final dismissal from get out of class, in my opinion, has nothing to do with his corruption, nor does it have anything to do with the Xinguang Village case. These are just triggers and last-minute straws.
But the only thing he did wrong was that he did not choose to be a businessman, but chose to be a politician.