Chapter 515 Old Case 3

515 Old Case 3

Tao Pandi's brother looked outside the door and saw no one, so he went forward to pry open his brother-in-law's fingers, took the money, picked up the money on the ground, stuffed it into his bag, and said to Tao Pandi: "If anyone asks, just say he fell on his own, don't say I was here."

Tao Pan'di nodded blankly and watched his elder brother leave like that.

Wang Mugen was also terrified. Seeing his father lying motionless in a pool of blood, he also stood there in a daze. When he came to his senses, he opened the door and crawled out. Tao Pandi was frightened.

"You, you, you saw it all." Tao Pandi asked fearfully.

Wang Mugen crawled to his father, crying and calling for his father, and then he was knocked unconscious by Tao Pandig. It was not known what he was fed, and he could not speak for several years.

By the time he was able to speak again, it was too long. Even if he reported it to the police, they couldn't catch the bad guys without evidence.

Besides, Tao Pandidi is his mother, and he doesn’t want to lose his father and then his mother.

Today, if it weren't for his mother harming his wife, he would have realized that some people's viciousness is engraved in their bones. If he didn't say it, his wife would be harmed again one day, just like his father.

The secretary and the team leader both turned their eyes to look at Tao Pandi lying on the ground.

Li Haoran asked incredulously: "Is what Mugen said true? Did you team up with outsiders to kill your man?"

Tao Pandi looked at his son with hatred and said angrily: "He is not an outsider, he is his uncle, my brother."

Li Haoran nodded and said, "He is indeed not an outsider, but your man is not an outsider either. Why do you treat him like that?"

Tao Pandi answered as a matter of course: "Who told him not to give the money to my eldest brother, but to steal from my eldest brother's pocket?"

Li Haoran nodded again in agreement and said, "So you and your brother killed your man together."

Tao Pandi denied it, "No, we didn't kill him. He fell down while trying to steal the money. We didn't kill him."

Li Haoran sneered, "The first time I asked you about colluding with outsiders to kill your man, you said it wasn't an outsider, but your eldest brother. What? You want to go back on your word now? Do you think that all of us in this room are deaf?"

The old man of the Wang family was so angry that he took his walking stick and beat Zhang Pandi, cursing as he beat her: "You vicious woman, your husband is so good to you, but he turned a blind eye when you were pulling things from your mother's house. He was afraid that you would get tired, and even asked the team leader to arrange easier work for you. This is how you treat him. Your conscience has been eaten by dogs."

Tao Pandi was beaten so hard that he cried out in pain, but no one in the room tried to stop him.

The secretary said, "This is too bad. I'll call the police. Lock her up and keep watch over her yourself."

The secretary arranged for the militia captain to lock up Tao Pandi, and everyone in the room went to the brigade office again. They had just heard Tao Pandi admit to the murder with their own ears, and they were witnesses, so they could not leave before the police came to investigate.

In addition to the team leader and the secretary, there were also clan elders and production team leaders in the house.

The town police received a call and drove a police three-wheeled motorcycle to Beishan Village. The police took statements from everyone present and went to the village to investigate whether anyone had seen Tao Pandi's brother and whether he had come to the village on the day Wang Mugen's father died.

On the day Wang Mugen's father died, everyone saw how he died and saw the blood on the corner of the table. At that time, everyone believed Tao Pandi's words, stepped on a small stone on the ground and slipped, and happened to hit the corner of the table.

No one in the village had heard Tao Pandi say that his elder brother had come, and no one saw him, so no one suspected that it was a homicide.

The police inquired about the situation in the village and immediately went to Tao Pandi's mother's home, arrested his eldest brother first, and then continued to visit, and finally questioned several cowherds in the neighboring village.

Those cowherds have grown up now. They recall that when they were herding cattle, they let the cattle drink water by the river. Then they saw a man washing clothes by the river. There were blood stains on the clothes. They had a quarrel with the man, telling him to go downstream to wash the bloody clothes so as not to pollute the water and let the cattle get sick if they drank the dirty water. So they have a vivid memory, but they just don’t know who that man is?

The police immediately took them to meet the man, and the cowherd boy recognized that the man was Tao Pandi's brother.

With all the witnesses present and Tao Pandi confessing at the beginning, both of them were sentenced to death.

After the matter was over, Li Haoran told the story to the three women in the room as if he was telling a story.

Zhang Yuling was the one who had the calmest reaction. She said, "There are many women who listen to their natal family in everything. Families that value sons over daughters instill this kind of thinking in girls from an early age. For example, if they don't help their natal family, or treat their brothers, sisters, or nephews well, then when they are bullied by their husband's family, they won't have their natal family to back them up. Some women completely believe it and don't consider their husband's family as their own. They move everything good to their natal family and always put their natal family first, just like Tao Pandi."

Zhong Qixin sighed and said: "It's terrible to be uneducated. You lose your humanity. It's really important to popularize cultural knowledge. Parents must send their children, whether boys or girls, to school. With education, people will think about problems and have the ability to distinguish right from wrong. There will be fewer tragedies like this."

Yi Ke solved the problem violently: "Dad, you are the team leader now. You have the power to order all the villagers to send their girls to school. If there are families who refuse to send their girls, you can simply not let them enjoy the dividends from the farm."

Li Haoran said, "This is a good idea. Tomorrow I will ask the leaders of each production team to submit a list of families that do not send their daughters to school."

Yi Ke added: "It would be best to also count the ages of girls in each family, so that in the future, if a girl in a family reaches the age to receive remittances and go to school, we can directly conduct random checks, so there is no need to count every year."

Li Haoran, Zhang Yuling and Zhong Qixin all agreed with Yi Ke's method. They couldn't interfere in the affairs of other villages, but they must take good care of the girls in their own village and prevent them from ending up like Tao Pan'di.

Li Haoran discussed with the team leaders and decided to take advantage of the Tao Pandi incident to hold a village-wide meeting to specifically educate the whole village about the harms of the idea of ​​favoring boys over girls.

Yi Ke also produced a booklet that specifically explains that whether the baby is a boy or a girl depends on whether the sex chromosome carried by the man is X or Y. Yi Ke uses text with illustrations in an easy-to-understand way to tell people that whether the baby is a boy or a girl is not determined by the woman or the man, but is random.

Every household had a copy of the booklet, and it was mandatory for all men and women in the family to study it and to recite it when recording work points every day. If the answer was correct, two points would be added to the day's work points, and if the answer was wrong, two points would be deducted.

Some people also came to the brigade headquarters to make a fuss, saying that the booklet contained pornographic content. Li Haoran asked the person to point out which one was pornographic, but the other party couldn't find a single one after searching for a long time.

The women in the village were so happy. They could finally hold their heads high and no longer thought it was their own problem because they had given birth to daughters. They thought it was because the men failed to control their x or their girl that caused them to give birth to daughters. It was because the men were incompetent and could not control their x or their girl.

When Yike learned what the village women were thinking after reading the booklet, he was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. If men can even control this and follow the idea of ​​favoring boys over girls, then there will only be men and no women in this world. Who will men find to get pregnant and have children in the future?