More than half an hour before Shitou led the police to Shen's house, Shen Chunshu and Shen Qiushu hurried back home.
Both of them were covered in dirt, and their clothes were damp with sweat.
After arriving home, Shen Qiushu gulped down a large teacup of cold water before he breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Xiaoqin stood beside him, wanting to say something but hesitant. She wanted to ask about the situation but didn't dare to.
At this moment, Old Man Shen was unusually calm.
He looked at his eldest son: "Is he buried?"
Shen Chunshu nodded, and just as he was about to speak, he was stopped by Old Man Shen: "Don't say anything yet, don't tell anyone now, wait until the storm is over."
In this way, the whole afternoon, no one in the Shen family went to work, but stayed at home anxiously waiting for the arrival of the police.
When Shitou led the police past the land outside the village, many villagers stopped what they were doing and looked to the roadside.
Such a big thing, of course, has spread all over the village.
People say all kinds of things.
Some said that Old Mrs. Wang had been paralyzed and had been ill for several months, so it was normal for her to die now.
But some people suspected that because Old Lady Wang was paralyzed and unable to work, did the Shen family kill her?
Because this way you can save food for one mouth.
In fact, there are quite a few people who guess this way.
After all, the Shen family has been extremely unlucky recently. Everyone in the village knows that the Shen family is extremely poor and can barely make ends meet.
Liu Changshan stood in the field and thought about it, and decided to take the initiative to visit Shen's house.
Even if he doesn't go, the police will definitely come looking for him.
In this case, it is better for you to take the initiative.
There were two police officers who came with Shitou. They were Wang Shicai and Zhao Changqing, who had come to Shen's house when Zhao Changgui was beaten last time.
The two of them had a deep impression of the Shen family, especially Zhao Changqing.
He and Zhao Changgui are from the same clan. It was Zhao Changgui who found him last time and frightened the entire Shen family into paying a sum of money.
This time, the two of them were familiar with the route.
On the way, Shitou told the two of them what had happened.
But he just glossed over the relationship between him, Shen Siyue and the Shen family, saying only that Shen Siyue was originally the granddaughter of the Shen family and they don't have much contact now.
Wang Shicai and Zhao Changqing didn't think much about it.
When the three of them entered the Shen family's house, Shi Tou frowned as he looked at the empty outer room.
Sure enough, the body was gone.
It seems that there is something fishy about Mrs. Wang’s death.
Otherwise, the Shen family wouldn't be so busy destroying the body.
When Old Man Shen saw that they were the two police officers from last time, he was not so nervous anymore.
Because he couldn't move his legs, he could only be interrogated lying on the kang.
Wang Shicai first asked: "We received a report that someone in your family died abnormally. Where is the body?"
The last three words were asked to Old Man Shen and also to Shitou.
Shitou quickly replied: "Before I went to report the case, I was on a door panel built outside the house. Several villagers were there at the time, and everyone can testify."
Wang Shicai turned around and asked Old Man Shen: "Where is the body now?"
Old man Shen did not answer directly, but forced out a few tears and choked up, "My old wife became paralyzed last winter, and half of her body could not move. It was because of his wife who made her angry."
"We finally made it through the winter, but we didn't expect that we wouldn't have enough food to eat recently, so we have to support our children who are working."
"So maybe she was very hungry, so she crawled to open the cupboard and ate the remaining cornmeal raw. She ate it too hastily and... choked to death."
"Comrade Public Security, don't listen to his nonsense. The marks on the old woman's mouth were left by my son when he tried to save her. She was not suffocated to death at all."
When Old Man Shen said this, he pointed at Shi Tou and said angrily, "How long do you and your wife want to harm the Shen family?"
"If it weren't for your wife, would her grandmother be paralyzed? If it weren't for her, would her father be lying on the kang unable to get off the floor? I didn't even go to you two to seek justice, but you guys are taking revenge on us first!"
"Comrade Public Security, you are here just in time to tell me about his wife, my granddaughter. She is disobedient and unfilial. She beat her own parents and even me. You must arrest her."
Wang Shicai and Zhao Changqing looked at each other.
The two looked at the stone. They didn't expect that the relationship between the reporter and the Shen family was so tense!
Shitou said slowly, "Everyone in the village knows about what happened between you and my wife. You can't fool people by just talking."
"Besides, the police are here today to investigate the cause of your wife's death. As for the grudge between you and my wife, it won't be too late to talk about it later."
"But where did you hide Old Lady Wang's body? You must explain clearly to the police."
Shi Tou knew that Old Man Shen just wanted to divert the attention of the police from investigating the cause of Old Lady Wang's death to the feud between the two families.
But how could he do what Old Man Shen wanted?
Then he said to the two police officers: "My wife did have some grievances with their family, but she moved out a long time ago."
"When Old Lady Wang died, my wife was not at the Shen family. I hope the public security comrades will not be misled by him."
Wang Shicai was too lazy to care about the trivial matters between the two families. He just wanted to know where Old Lady Wang's body was as soon as possible, take a look at it, and then decide whether to report it and file a case.
He began to ask Old Man Shen where the body was hidden.
Old man Shen was still pretending to be pitiful: "How can you say hidden?"
"My family is poor and can't even afford a coffin. We can only wrap him in mats and bury him hastily. Otherwise, we will be late for work tomorrow and the remaining people will starve to death."
In this way, Old Man Shen has always refused to explain where Old Lady Wang was buried.
The reason is that the person has been buried. If the police want to dig her out again, wouldn't that make their family infamous in the village forever?
Seeing that the Shen family refused to reveal the whereabouts of the body, Wang Shicai actually saw that there was something fishy at a glance.
He asked in detail about the situation at that time and then prepared to take the person away for further interrogation.
When Chen Xiashu heard that he was going to be taken to the police station, he immediately panicked.
It was only after Old Man Shen coughed that he managed to calm down.
But his eyes were always staring at Old Man Shen in panic.
Old man Shen cursed in his heart, what a naive man! He had told the second son again and again in advance, but when the time came, he was still panic-stricken.
Because the things spoken by the Shen family only involved Shen Xiashu, the two planned to take him to the police station.
But the problem was that Shen Xiashu couldn't walk. When Wang Shicai learned that one of his legs and one of his arms were broken, he cursed inwardly for the trouble.
When Wang Shicai was about to take Chen Xiashu to the bureau alone, Shi Tou suddenly spoke.
"He can't move his legs and feet. He definitely didn't hide the body. It must be someone else in the Shen family. We can't just arrest him."
Hearing this, Shen Chunshu and Shen Qiushu beside them took a breath of cold air.
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