"I heard it from others, it seems to be because Tong, a educated youth, said bad things about Dr. Lin."
The two villagers started gossiping, and a villager nearby said anxiously, "What should we do? A death in the village is no small matter. We need to report it to the brigade leader and let him decide how to handle it."
Zhao Hehua replied, "Yes, yes, I'm still very scared. Come with me to find the captain."
"Go, go, go tell the captain right away."
The group went to the brigade leader's house together, but almost everyone they met knew about Lin Qingyan's murder. Such a sensational event spread like wildfire, and soon most of the village knew about it.
At this time, the brigade leader and several other squad leaders were discussing spring plowing at the brigade headquarters when a group of villagers rushed in.
"Captain, something terrible has happened! Someone in our brigade has been killed! Dr. Lin has murdered someone in the back hills!"
"Wh-what?" Upon hearing that someone had died, the captain almost dropped his pipe. He was utterly shocked and bewildered as he looked at the man who had spoken earlier: "What, what exactly happened? You, you tell me quickly."
Before the other person could speak, he reached out and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
Murder!
A murder has occurred within their unit!
The person who had just spoken quickly pushed Zhao Hehua, who was still trembling from being frightened by the murder scene, in front of the captain.
"Captain, Zhao Hehua from our team just witnessed Dr. Lin kill someone on the mountain. It seems the person he killed was Tong Jiaojiao from the educated youth settlement. Captain, this is a matter of life and death, this is no small matter."
"Huh? Huh?" The captain was speechless when he heard that Lin Qingyan was involved in the matter; he simply couldn't believe it.
In this brigade, he felt that Lin Qingyan was the least likely to do such a thing. Could it be that he misheard?
He tried to calm himself for a moment and asked Zhao Hehua, "You, tell me, who killed him?"
"Dr. Lin, that's the same Lin who was a sent-down youth. Now she's a doctor in Yiwu. You all say she's a miracle doctor, but she's the one who killed someone."
The captain's head was buzzing, and he asked Zhao Hehua again, "Tell me clearly, where did you see Dr. Lin kill someone?"
"It's right there in the back mountain."
"You really saw it with your own eyes?"
"Yes, yes, I saw it with my own eyes, there's no doubt about it. I went to the back hill to collect firewood, and suddenly I heard someone shouting, so I went to check, and what I saw was Dr. Lin killing someone. Oh my god, when Tong Zhiqing died, there was a huge pool of blood on the ground, it was so horrible, so horrible!"
Her face was filled with terror, and she covered her cheeks with her hands.
The captain still had doubts about Zhao Hehua's words and couldn't believe that Lin Qingyan would kill someone.
But the most important thing now is to go up the mountain in person to check and get a general idea of the situation before investigating who killed the person.
He called over a few squad leaders: "You all come with me to the back mountain to take a look."
They couldn't even discuss spring plowing anymore; they had to solve the murder case first.
Before leaving, the captain reminded the others present: "Only people in our team know about this. If you do, don't spread it around."
"I know, I know."
This was the first time such a thing had happened in their brigade, although other brigades had experienced cases of educated youth being harmed.
At first, the brigade kept it a secret, saying that the educated youth had gone missing on his own while going up the mountain. But secrets don't stay hidden forever, and gradually the surrounding brigades found out the truth.
By this time, the police had already filed a case, and no one was pursuing it anymore; the matter was considered closed.
In some cases, if a murder occurs in a brigade and the brigade leaders cannot resolve the issue, only those cases involving particularly serious conflicts will be handed over to the police.
Otherwise, if a case of intentional homicide occurs in the brigade, it will have a very bad impact on the brigade. Not only will they not be able to be recognized as advanced, but they will also be punished.
For the benefit of the brigade, and also for their own benefit, the commune members would naturally help to cover it up.
Especially when this kind of thing happens to educated youth, the possibility of it being treated as a disappearance is even greater.
He also learned how the captain handled the matter: the captain would suppress it first, resolve it privately, and then report it to the public security authorities as a missing person or accidental death.
The captain only sent a few squad leaders and eyewitness Zhao Hehua to the mountain. Zhao Hehua was traumatized by the crime scene and dared not go, but the captain needed her to lead the way, so she had to hide behind a few people and go to the mountain again.
Along the way, Zhao Hehua told the captain about the argument she saw between Lin Qingyan and Tong Jiaojiao at the clinic yesterday. Some people also mentioned that Tong Jiaojiao and Lin Qingyan had argued on the road today, and some even brought up the argument that Lin Qingyan and Tong Jiaojiao had when they first arrived.
They all transformed into Sherlock Holmes, deducing Lin Qingyan's purpose and motive for killing Tong Jiaojiao.
The brigade leader listened to their chatter, his brow furrowed so deeply it could trap flies. He didn't respond to the villagers, only sighing repeatedly.
On the mountain
Lin Qingyan searched for about half an hour before finally finding Granny Lin in a cave. Granny Lin was sleeping on a rock, holding something in her arms.
Lin Qingyan felt a weight lifted from her heart, but another one remained hanging in the air.
She woke up Grandma Lin: "Grandma."
When Grandma Lin heard the call, she opened her eyes and saw that it was Lin Qingyan. She quickly sat up.
"Girl, what brings you here?"
"Grandma, I haven't been able to see you, so I came to find you."
She tried her best to remain calm, not wanting to show any panic in front of Grandma Lin. Grandma Lin knew nothing, so she shouldn't worry her.
Grandma Lin handed her a large Ganoderma lucidum from her arms: "Girl, look at this, isn't it a good thing? I went through a lot of trouble to find it, and then I was so tired that I fell asleep. Hey, take it."
Lin Qingyan accepted the Ganoderma lucidum: "Thank you, Grandma."
"Grandma, we should go back now."
"Alright, alright, let's go back."
Granny Lin stood up, took Lin Qingyan's hand, and they went out of the cave together.
As Lin Qingyan walked, she was still thinking about Tong Jiaojiao's death.
Tong Jiaojiao suffered a miscarriage and then suffocated to death, so the person who killed Tong Jiaojiao must have had two purposes.
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