Some villagers gathered outside the door. Someone said something and everyone became quiet.
This villager was barefoot, with his trouser legs rolled up, and a shovel on his shoulder. His face was solemn, he stared at the small supermarket proprietress and said: I saw it when I was watering the ground. What did you throw into the river?
The police fished out a water-soaked body from the river. After identification, the deceased was Tang Xiujuan, a 20-year-old villager from the third group of the village. She usually worked outside. Some time ago, she claimed to return to the village to participate in the election, but now she was found in the river.
Her body.
Bao Zhan was a little disappointed. Tang Xiujuan's body was intact and not mutilated. The frozen corpse case had not yet been solved, and now there was another corpse, making the case more complicated and confusing.
The mother of the deceased cried bitterly, pointed at the proprietress of the small supermarket and said: You killed me, you are a murderer.
The father of the deceased said sternly: Go and call everyone in our family.
A fight between the two families was about to break out. More and more villagers gathered, some armed with kitchen knives and wooden sticks. The scene was very chaotic. Hualong fired a warning shot. Director Dai escorted the suspect, the small supermarket owner's wife, into a police car.
, and took him back to the police station for interrogation. Early the next morning, the special case team called the college student village official from Tangwangzhuang to assist in the investigation, and quickly found out the truth.
This is a bloody death case that occurred while running for village director.
In recent years, rural election violence has occurred frequently and has been increasing year by year. The root cause of crime lies in the competition for interests.
There are two main candidates for village director in Tangwangzhuang, 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. As long as he promised to elect him as the village director, he would receive an additional 500 yuan. There was a bachelor in the village who picked up bottles on the street with his butt naked all year round. Wang San bought
He gave him a suit and tied a tie for him with his own hands. Many people in Beihuan County had seen this man in suits and ties picking up drink bottles.
Tang Nanhe was so wealthy that he invited every household in the village to have dinner. There was a restaurant called "Hao Zai Lai" at the entrance of the village. Tang Nanhe entertained guests for half a month. Every day at noon and evening, more than a thousand villagers with the right to vote in the village did not have to cook and could go there.
Then go to the restaurant to eat and drink. On the country road, an octogenarian old man was walking with a stick. The wind made the poplar leaves rustle. Someone asked her why she was going, and the old man replied: to eat a big pot of rice.
Most villagers only care about immediate interests. A college student village official once warned them: You must refuse vote bribery and you must choose democracy.
One villager asked another villager: Is there anyone called Democracy in our village?
Another villager was rolling a cigarette. He tore off a piece of paper, sprinkled tobacco leaves, twisted it into a cigarette, stuck it with saliva, and lit it. He blew out a puff of smoke and asked: Who is Democracy? I have no friendship with him at all.
Why choose him?
Bribery and canvassing are not a rare phenomenon in rural elections, and township cadres basically turn a blind eye to it. Village cadres, town cadres, and even county-level cadres form an interest group. Every time there is a general election, village cadres ask town cadres
They gave gifts and money, and the town cadres quietly showed their goodwill to the county cadres. Before the election, everyone knew who would be elected. The corruption of county-level officials was still secretive, but the corruption of village cadres was blatant.
Their purpose in becoming officials is not to do things for the villagers, but to make money.
Many people in many villages have said this when teaching their children to establish their ideals: When they grow up,
, be a high official.
Tang Nanhe said confidently: If there is no benefit, who will be an official?
Wang San and the deceased Tang Xiujuan had this 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 so well. How many watches did you wear, and you asked me to call you cousin.
Wang San said: When I become the village head, it won’t take more than three months, so I will wear a high-end watch.
Tang Xiujuan said: You are a corrupt official.
Wang San said shamelessly: Whoever becomes an official is not a corrupt official.
Tang Xiujuan said: Whoever chooses you will be blind. I won’t choose you anyway, I will choose my second uncle Tang Nanhe.
Wang San scolded: You little naughty girl, I won’t sell you my ice cream even if it’s for dogs to eat.
Tang Xiujuan was working out of town, and her second uncle Tang Nanhe wanted to win votes for her to return to the village for election. 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, town government staff were driving to pick up Wang San. They hurriedly hid the body under the bed. Before leaving, Wang San quietly told his wife: Wait until I come back to deal with it.
Wang San was detained by the town government due to an armed fight incident some time ago. Wang San's wife was worried that the body would stink, so she hid it in the freezer.
This small supermarket proprietress is usually a shrew, but she has no independent opinions and only obeys her husband's words, so she keeps the body frozen in the freezer. She is very courageous. Although the body is hidden in the freezer, she is still open and does not close the small supermarket.
All she wanted to do was wait for her husband to come back and dispose of the body.
Those who buy ice cream don't know that there is a dead person frozen under the ice cream and cold drinks.
That night, Erlai, a thief, broke into the house and accidentally discovered a dead body in the freezer. When he jumped out of the window and fled, he woke up the proprietress of the small supermarket. The proprietress found that the window was open, the moonlight was dim, and the corpse's chin was lying on the freezer, as if it wanted to crawl out.
The landlady was shocked and realized what had happened. She picked up the cold body, quietly opened the door, walked out of the village, and threw it into the river without thinking. Little did she know that this scene was witnessed by a villager who was watering the ground at night.
, later the villager also testified in court.
The murder case of Wang San and his wife has nothing to do with the case of frozen corpses. The case should have become clearer, but it has once again become a stalemate and it is difficult to break through.
The special case team and the local police are feeling a bit depressed. There are currently countless clues, but there is no light at all. Professor Liang had to adjust the direction of the investigation. He asked the forensic doctor Qin Ming to make an accurate time for dumping the body. However, the forensic doctor
Qin Ming could not understand the degree of freezing of the corpses, and naturally could not figure out the time required for thawing. It was difficult to make an accurate judgment. He could only roughly infer that the two corpses were dumped between 4 and 5 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, and I can only make a rough analysis.
Su Mei said: Don't make it difficult for them. We don't know how long the body has been frozen, and we haven't even figured out the source of the body.
Hualong said: Xiaobao and I are guarding the market every night. Can we cancel our monitoring point, or arrange for joint defense team members to guard there? Do we have to monitor it ourselves?
Su Mei said: Alas, painting Long and Xiaobao is hard enough. They were almost eaten by mosquitoes, and their faces and arms were covered with red pimples.
Hualong said: I am swollen, Brother Baozi is whiter than before
, have you noticed that he lost too much blood and was sucked by mosquitoes!
Professor Liang said categorically: The monitoring points cannot be withdrawn. You continue to persist and are not allowed to complain.
Bao Zhan said: I am not afraid of hard work. Every night I wonder where the breakthrough point of this case is and whether there are any omissions in our work. From 4 to 5 in the morning, I observed many times at the monitoring point.
There was no one in the market at that time, and the murderer would not be seen dumping the body, and there were no witnesses.
Professor Liang said: I remembered that there was a person.
Director Dai asked: Who?
Professor Liang said: The 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 buns. Our monitoring points were also set up after the incident.
Director Dai said: We have asked the couple selling steamed buns several times, but they have not reported anything.
Professor Liang looked through the interrogation record again. The owner and his wife of the steamed bun shop made the stove and kneaded noodles every day around 4:30 in the morning. They were the only witnesses who might have seen the murderer dumping the body. Professor Liang also noticed that the owner of the steamed bun shop would rather be detained.
They also don’t want to be fined by the police, which shows that the couple lives a frugal life and takes money very seriously.
Professor Liang thought for a moment 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 just say it. The director also told me the same thing.
Professor Liang said: Go buy a bag of rice and a barrel of cooking oil and give it to the bun shop owner to take to his home.
Director Dai said: Bribe him?
Professor Liang said: What is bribery? This is the government going to the countryside to send warmth!
Hua Long, Bao Zhan, and Su Mei put on their casual clothes and, under the leadership of the township government cadres, drove to the bun shop owner's home. The bun shop owner was very surprised and looked shocked. When he saw the rice and oil, his expression changed.
Moved by emotion, the township cadre held his hand and asked him about his well-being. Before leaving, he gave him a condolence gift package. The township cadre patted the bun shop owner on the shoulder and told him that he must strongly support the work of the police and safeguard the society.
To contribute to public security, if you think of bad people or bad things, you must be brave enough to expose them. Don’t be afraid of retaliation. Don’t worry if the government supports you.
The bun shop owner understood the purpose of his visit and replied repeatedly: "Okay, okay, I will tell you what comes to my mind."
When the special case team returned, they happened to pass by Tangwangzhuang. They saw that the villagers' voting in Tangwangzhuang had officially begun. The village committee was very lively, and there were many cars parked at the door. There were also some young people shirtless and wearing gold coins.
Chains, tattoos on their bodies, they were all sitting in the car.
Bao Zhan asked the village official, a college student: What do these young people do? They don’t look like people from the village.
The village official, a college student, said in a low voice: Go away quickly, get out of here quickly, there may be a fight soon, and you are not wearing police uniforms, so don’t watch the fun here.
Hua Long said: Damn it, I can’t beat these gangsters to death, they are still pretending to be a gangster.
The college student village official said: I also have good intentions and am doing it for your own good.
Su Mei said: Thank you, little brother. By the way, I remembered one thing. Have you ever been on a blind date? Why do you want to find a rural wife?
The college student village official said: I used to have a relationship with someone in school, but it was revealed a few days ago. If someone arranges a blind date, I will meet him.
Su Mei said: The voting for the village director election has begun, let’s take a look.
Hualong nodded and said: I have seen UFOs, but I have not seen ballots.
