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Grandma Qi San comforted her, saying, "We haven't done anything wrong, so we have nothing to fear. The deaths of Hu Erlai and Hu Gou Dan have nothing to do with us. They damaged things in our village, and we didn't go after them; that's already a great act of kindness. Anyone who gossips is up to no good."
“Yes, Mom, those two people’s deaths have nothing to do with our family,” He Tiantian reassured her. Even if they were related, they were accomplices to evil, and now that their crimes have been exposed, the authorities are killing them to silence them.
Wang Shuping nodded and said, "Anyway, we are innocent, and no one can wrong us."
"Hu Erlai was killed by falling into a trap, but how did Hu Ergou die?" He Tiantian asked. The death of Hu Gou Dan might suddenly make the case, which had been at a loss, clear up.
Killing Hu Gou Dan, especially with the police in Hujia Village, already shows signs of desperation.
The more you do, the more clues you leave behind.
"He was pushed off the cliff and fell to his death," Grandma Qi replied. "Who would go up the mountain for no reason? He probably wasn't up to anything good..."
He Tiantian kept it in mind.
At the same time, He Tiantian also regretted not letting the Snake King read Hu Ergou's memories as well!
Sigh, she was too clever for her own good. She thought Erlaizi was the mastermind and Hu Gou Dan was just a lackey. She didn't know who the mastermind was, so she didn't bother with anything else!
But they forgot that Hu Erlai had no wife or children, and the person who understood Hu Erlai best was his little follower Hu Gou Dan!
But it's too late to regret it now; Hu Gou Dan is already dead.
Qi Ling is located in Hujia Village, with one head and two big ones, and the case is shrouded in mystery.
Just when Qi Ling was at his wit's end, he heard Old Wu bring an old man over and say, "Captain Qi, Hu Gou Dan's father has arrived and says he has something to report."
Qi Ling stood up and personally greeted Hu Gou Dan's father.
This is an elderly man in his fifties with gray hair and a face full of wrinkles.
"Grandpa, please accept my condolences. We are currently conducting an urgent investigation to find the real culprit as soon as possible and bring justice to your son," Qi Ling said, first saying a few words to calm the old man's grief. "If you have any clues, please think carefully and tell us."
The old man wiped his eyes and choked out, “Police, I only have one son. Although he’s a bit mischievous sometimes, he hasn’t done anything seriously wrong. After Erlaizi died a while ago, he started acting strangely. He’s been locking himself in the house, sometimes laughing, sometimes looking terrified and restless. I thought he was scared out of his wits and wanted to take him to see a doctor, but he said he was fine. After I pressed him repeatedly, he said he was going to get rich.”
"Get rich?" Qi Ling frowned. There was no such thing as getting rich overnight in this era!
"Yes, he said someone would bring him money in a few days," the old man said. "I asked him who would bring him the money, but he wouldn't tell me. He only told me that we'd be living the high life from now on, and no one in Hujia Village would bully us anymore. I didn't take it seriously at the time. The day before yesterday, I asked him to come and do some work, but he wouldn't go, saying he was going for a walk in the back mountain. I couldn't get him to come, so I went to do the work myself. By evening, Gou Dan still hadn't come back. He often didn't come home before, and I didn't think much of it. But yesterday afternoon he still hadn't come, so I sent people to look for him, and I never expected my son..."
The rest, as everyone knows, is history.
Hu Gou Dan fell off a cliff and died!
Qi Ling pondered the old man's words carefully!
Someone gave him money?
Who would give him money for no reason?
They lived a life of luxury, and no one in Hujia Village dared to bully them anymore.
This statement is crucial. Qi Ling can deduce that Hu Gou Dan must have received a benefit from someone, and that person must be from Hu Family Village. Hu Gou Dan and his father have always been looked down upon, so the only person who could elevate their status in Hu Family Village would likely be the village officials.
As for why the village officials were willing to help Hu Gou Dan, it was definitely not out of sympathy for him, but because Hu Gou Dan had some leverage over him and had no choice but to do so.
Similarly, perhaps Hu Erlai was killed because he knew this secret and was silenced.
"Grandpa, think again. Is there anything else you've overlooked? You can say anything related to your son, as long as you don't miss a single thing," Qi Ling said. From the old man's words, he already had a basic idea of what to say.
There are only a few village officials in a village; we'll investigate them one by one later.
The old man thought about it carefully. Since his son was already dead, he didn't care about his reputation anymore. He said, "Although my son was a scoundrel, he rarely swore. But recently I've occasionally heard him swearing, calling women sluts, bitches, whores... I scolded him a few times and asked him who he was swearing at, but he told me not to ask."
Qi Ling was overjoyed, having obtained another piece of evidence: the mastermind might be a woman.
However, there is another possibility: this woman may be one of the masterminds.
After all, Hu Erlai and Hu Gou Dan were both young men with great strength.
If there was only one woman, after killing Hu Erlai, and while Hu Gou Dan was on guard, she could still push Hu Gou Dan off a cliff. This could not have been done by a woman alone. Based on this, it can be inferred that there may have been accomplices!
"Thank you so much, sir. If you have any other questions, please let us know," Qi Ling said, having received very useful information from Hu Gou Dan's father.
The old man rubbed his eyes and said, "Then I'll leave it to the police. I'll definitely come and tell you as soon as I remember."
After the old man left, Qi Ling, Lao Wu, and Xiao Chen held a meeting and set their sights on several village cadres.
"Old Wu, what do you think?" Qi Ling asked. "We're clueless right now, but we can boldly imagine all sorts of scenarios based on what Hu Gou Dan's father said."
Old Wu smiled and said, "I think the people who killed Hu Gou Dan and Hu Er Lai should be the same group of people."
"You also think they're not a group?" Qi Ling countered, his thoughts coinciding with Qi Ling's.
"Yes, the murderers were probably a man and a woman who were caught in an affair by Hu Erlai and then blackmailed by him. Hu Erlai died in that secluded grove, and it was a trap he had deliberately dug, which shows that it was premeditated. It is very likely that the couple couldn't bear the blackmail and killed him." Old Wu said slowly, taking a puff of his cigarette to clear his mind.
“I think so too. They thought that killing Hu Erlai meant they were done for, but they never expected that Hu Gou Dan also knew about their affair. Moreover, Hu Gou Dan knew about their affair, and it wasn't just about having an affair; it also involved a murder. So, they went all the way and killed Hu Gou Dan as well,” Qi Ling added. Before they had any more concrete clues, this was the only way they could speculate.
Making reasonable deductions is also one of the methods for solving cases. (To be continued.)
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