Chapter 107
The brutal dismemberment of the body silenced Mu Nan and the others for a moment. You broke into the house and killed someone, and stole the supplies, so you should at least leave the person's body intact. But you killed someone, took the supplies, and didn't leave, and left the dismembered body in the house without fear of being discovered. This is simply perverted and twisted, not to mention that after dismembering the body, you put it in a pot and then burned it in the stove. Even if there is a huge hatred, you would not do such a thing without being extremely perverted.
Qin Bing said, "You guys living here should be alert. The next patrol will not be scheduled at a fixed time or location. It will be easy for people to figure out the pattern. I am in charge of this area. If there is a change of personnel, I will definitely notify you in advance. If there is a change of personnel without notification, you must remember to check the other party's officer ID first, otherwise don't open the door easily."
Mu Nan on the side suddenly asked: "Can we find the person through the car body number?"
Everyone's eyes turned to him, and Mu Nan said, "I saw a number seven sprayed on that car yesterday." The cars had no license plates. Some of the license plates fell off during the earthquake, and some were still hanging on them, but for the sake of unified arrangements, numbers were sprayed on the bodies of the cars, which also made it easier to record the handover. Although it was dark outside last night and the flashlight his brother was holding couldn't illuminate too far, but with the brightness of the light and the reflection of the snow, Mu Nan saw that there was a number seven on the car.
Qin Bing asked, "Are you sure?"
Mu Nan thought about it carefully and nodded: "I am sure I saw a seven."
Qin Bing said quickly: "We will investigate this clue, but don't tell anyone about this matter. Don't mention a word." He was not afraid of anything else, but was mainly worried that those people might have hidden accomplices, and the person who provided the clue would be in danger, so it was best not to mention a word about this matter.
I have reminded them that in the next half month, there will be no requirements to come in to take body temperature or do any other inspections. I asked them to lock the doors and windows and not to sleep too deeply at night. Although the family where the accident happened did not have a yard in front of the door, they have an extra yard here with a dog in the yard. If someone climbs over the wall, the dog may hear the noise, but they still have to be alert.
After Qin Bing left, Mu Nan couldn't help rubbing his arms: "How perverted he must be."
Jian Chu was also terrified: "This is too crazy."
Mu Nan asked, "Do you want to tell Song Jia and the others about this?" From the sound of it, Qin Bing should have quickly taken the temperature of the person next door and left without wasting any time. I guess he didn't tell the matter a second time.
Xu Ming said, "Let's not talk about it for now. We'll talk about it tomorrow when we're shoveling snow. It doesn't matter whether they know or not. Niuniu will definitely be the first to be alert if there's any noise at night. Song Jia is probably timid, and he won't run out to open the door if he sees that we haven't gone out."
Mu Nan thought so too. If it were him, he would not dare to open the door casually. The others did not stay in the garage for long. After knowing this, they went back to their rooms. Even in the garage, it was still cold and people were shivering. It was better to go back to the room and get comfortable on the kang.
Climbing onto the heated kang, Mu Nan held an electric hot water bottle to warm his hands and feet: "Brother, do you think the people who knocked on the door yesterday did this?"
Qin Huai said: "You think not?"
Mu Nan thought for a moment and said, "If it's just for the sake of money, there's no need to be so cruel. This is twisted. They have the guts to kill and dismember people as the purpose, and take away the supplies as a cover."
Qin Huai scooped out all the water from the stove and washed the pot. It was already past five o'clock and he was ready to start cooking: "We can only wait for the results of their investigation. No matter the purpose or cover-up, this kind of thing happened within the jurisdiction of the government, and there will definitely be a result." As for those places outside that the government cannot currently control, if such a murder really happened, I am afraid that all that can be left is a sigh for the loss of life.
Mu Nan lifted a corner of the curtain between the kang and the stove, so that he could see Qin Huai cooking while sitting at the head of the kang. He pulled the low table in front of him and put a small basket on it. In the basket were the corn kernels he had peeled. Although they had canned corn, the canned corn was sweet and pickled, not as delicious as fresh corn. He wanted to eat salt and pepper corn, with a little pine nuts, which was sweet and crispy. A plate of salt and pepper corn, a plate of braised spareribs, and a bowl of tomato and egg soup were their dinner today.
After Qin Huai took the peeled corn away, Mu Nan said, "Behind us, has the Qi family who ate the dead wild boar moved away? It seems that more and more people are moving away from here. After winter is over, the neighbors who have lived together for a winter will probably be replaced."
The Qi family mentioned by Mu Nan had indeed moved away. The rent of twenty points a month was no longer affordable for a father and son with injured hands and a woman who had lost her child and was betrayed by her husband. What's more, regarding the wild boar meat incident last time, although they were lucky, they were injured after all. The current situation could not be like before, where they could stay in the hospital until they recovered and were discharged. As long as there were conditions to save their lives, they would be fine. The rest would depend on themselves. Their injured arms had not yet healed, their intestines were exhausted and their vitality was damaged, and there were no nutritional supplements to replenish them. They were so weak that they gasped for breath when they went upstairs. They had only a little food and points left, and it was so cold outside that they could not go out to work. How else could they survive except to give up the house and live in the greenhouse and eat from a big pot?
Fortunately, they still have some points. The greenhouse is not provided for free, but they have lost their labor force now and can only consume their old capital. Although Qi Kangmin was injured by his sister, with Qi's father around, they only have this son and this daughter. How could Qi's father give up his daughter for his son, nor could he give up his son for his daughter? However, the expenses of three people living in the greenhouse are high. In the end, the three of them applied for two canteen meal cards, and Qi's father ate less himself so that the two siblings could eat more.
Qi Kangmin's sister is Qi Haiting. She is not old, only 29 this year, not even 30 yet. But she once had a serious illness and now she has lost her mother and the only son in her life. Her husband doesn't want her anymore. The various disasters she has suffered for such a long time are not as great a blow to her as the one in just one month. She is so confused that she is in a trance. With Qi Haiting in this state now, it is even more impossible for Qi's father to abandon his daughter. Now they are too weak to earn points, and their age does not meet the requirement for the government to distribute free food. The three of them can only eat the minimum meal a day and lie down hungry.
The greenhouse is crowded and noisy. Although there is a toilet, the physiological problem has been solved, but the problem of body odor from not taking a shower for months is difficult to solve. Moreover, the greenhouse is called a greenhouse. It is so cold outside and the space inside is large. Although the government has tightened fuel supply for heating, the temperature in the greenhouse can only be maintained around zero degrees. Compared with the outside temperature of minus fifty degrees, it is not easy to maintain the temperature above zero degrees. Some people are in better conditions, with more clothes and quilts, so they can endure it. Some people are in worse conditions. Although it is still cold and a little freezing, at least it is not freezing to death.
The Qi family used to have thick winter clothes, but they were taken away by Qi Kangmin's wife Wang Hui. In addition, they came late, so they were arranged to stay near the bathroom. Although there was a lot of snow outside and no shortage of water, in order to keep the greenhouse clean, people were arranged to clean the bathroom in three shifts a day. However, to meet the physiological needs of nearly a thousand people in a greenhouse, it was okay if they were a little further away. This was almost like sleeping next to each other, with only an insulation film blocking the way. It was still not comfortable, at least for the Qi family of three who had just moved in from a small building, and they were not used to it.
But what can they do if they can't adapt, unless they can have extra points to exchange berths with people who are willing. But the extra points have been used to buy food. The feeling of not having enough to eat every day is definitely not something that those girls who used to diet to lose weight can endure by willpower. When they are really hungry, they even feel like their stomach is going to digest themselves.
Qi Kangmin didn't know how his life became like this. Although he used to think that his whole family was a burden, at least he had a hot meal, a bed and a blanket, and didn't have to squeeze into a shed with others. Now those people who he considered a burden are gone, and he lives a worse life than before. The noise and the unpleasant smell in his ears made him hate Wang Hui and even his sister. But he couldn't give up his father and sister completely. He was indeed a selfish person, but he still had a bottom line as a human being, otherwise he wouldn't have hidden the food in the first place, and would have given it to his parents even if he didn't eat it himself.
When he was dissatisfied with his current life, Qi Kangmin glanced and saw a girl going to the bathroom outside who looked very much like his daughter Xiaobaoer. However, the child ran away quickly, and he didn't see it clearly, but his heart instantly became active. Wang Hui and the others must have left and came to the greenhouse. The greenhouses in other places were already full of people. Even if there were arrangements, they would definitely fill one greenhouse after another. He and Wang Hui were only separated by ten days or half a month, so they might really be arranged in the same greenhouse.
Thinking of this, Qi Kangmin instantly gained strength. Why didn't he think of this before? Now that he thought of it, he could not sit still. He wanted to go look for Wang Hui. If nothing else, he would take back those thick clothes that dared to take his things. Although they had quilts, they were still cold, so they could only wear more clothes as much as possible. Whenever his teeth chattered due to the cold, he hated Wang Hui for stealing his clothes.
The greenhouse is very large, and the living arrangements are arranged in rows. Although it is densely packed, there are also aisles for people to walk. It is easy to find people in the greenhouse with thousands of people. Unless it is their turn to work, most people are lying on their beds, either sleeping or chatting with others. When Qi Kangmin found Wang Hui, Wang Hui was eating with a lunch box. A white flour bun and a box of vegetables. These two things wished they were a meal for his father and son, but now Wang Hui could have one alone. When he thought of Wang Hui wearing his clothes to earn points, he had to starve. Every day he was so hungry that he felt dizzy, weak, and had a stomachache. He hated her even more and rushed forward and slapped her: "You bitch!!"
Wang Hui didn't expect to see Qi Kangmin. She was caught off guard and was stunned. The lunch box in her hand fell to the ground. She could still pick up the steamed buns and eat them, but she couldn't pick up the vegetables because they were no longer edible.
Qi Kangmin's action made the surroundings quiet. Not to mention now, even in the past, when a man and a woman fought on the street, most people would probably just watch the fun. Some families closer to Wang Hui even hid back for fear of getting hurt.
One slap was not enough, Qi Kangmin wanted to pull Wang Hui to slap her again, but Wang Hui, who had reacted, was no way he would be the one to passively take a beating, so he got up and kicked Qi Kangmin.
Xiao Baoer, who was playing with the little girl next door, was frightened and burst into tears. Wang Hui quickly pushed her daughter away and said, "My dear, don't be afraid. Get out of the way."
Qi Kangmin was not one to be beaten passively, but he had just recovered from an illness and was still weak. He was hungry and cold every day. Although men are naturally stronger than women, women are not easy to mess with once they are pushed into a corner. It would have been fine if he could not see Qi Kangmin, but he came to her door. Wang Hui had no reason not to vent the new and old grudges and the dissatisfaction and resentment that had accumulated in her heart for these days. After pushing her daughter away, she rushed over, grabbed Qi Kangmin's hair, and slapped him in the face several times: "Bitch? I'm a bitch, who the hell are you!"
This beating directly aroused the anger of both parties, and they wrestled with each other without any regard for anything, but Qi Kangmin was beaten more. After all, Wang Hui was in good health, and although she didn't eat much every day, she didn't go hungry either. When she thought of the grievances she and her daughter had suffered, she scratched Qi Kangmin even more fiercely. The clothes were too thick to scratch him, but the bloodstains on his face and neck looked very tragic.
Soon the noise attracted the soldiers who were maintaining order in the greenhouse. Two soldiers pulled one of them and warned them directly: "No trouble is allowed here. Anyone who makes trouble will get out!"
Qi Kangmin pointed at Wang Hui, shaking with excitement: "She is my wife, and she stole my winter clothes and ran away without caring about the lives of my family!"
The onlookers immediately began to whisper to each other. Compared to Qi Kangmin who was shaking with excitement, Wang Hui was very calm. While comforting Xiao Baoer who couldn't stop crying, she looked at Qi Kangmin and said coldly: "Am I the one who doesn't care about the life and death of your family, or is it you who doesn't care about the life and death of my family? When I married you, you didn't have this expression now!"
"When my dad arranged jobs for you and your sister, you were so grateful! Why didn't you say I didn't care about your family's life?!"
"When we got married, your family gave us a dowry of 80,000 yuan, and I gave you a house as a dowry, why didn't you say anything? When my parents paid for our daughter's schooling and tuition, why didn't you stand up? You spent your salary on eating and drinking outside, and my salary covered all the expenses at home. Have you ever controlled me?"
"I didn't argue with you about the things in the past. My family is well-off, so we can afford to give you more. At least you were still a man and a father before. Now that the hard times have come, it's our turn to ask you for help. What do you do? I work so hard to wash, dry, cook, and clean for your family, and you give my parents some rice soup and give your parents some bread?"
"You spoil your nephew to the sky, give him the delicious food first, and give him thick clothes first. My precious daughter is no longer your daughter, right?"
"I don't work outside because there are a lot of things to do at home, not because I don't have the ability to work! I took your clothes? You earn points when you work outside, and I serve your family at home, so I eat and drink for free, right?"
"If there was any chance to survive, would I take my child away? What kind of world is this now? Everyone knows that having a man by your side is better than having no man at all. But have you ever given me a chance to survive? If I don't leave, I'll just wait to die!"
Wang Hui's accusations one by one made the people around her look different again. This matter of husband and wife was a big problem that was difficult to solve before. How can the husband who works outside the home and the wife who stays at home have equal status? It couldn't be solved before, let alone now.
Qi Kangmin just felt that Wang Hui was not a human being at all. For whom did he work so hard? For whom did he work before? For whom did he suffer now? Why couldn't this woman be a little considerate? It was indeed a bit partial for him to give his parents bread, but people are all made of flesh and blood. If he doesn't do it for his own parents, is he still a human being? Is it necessary to drag on about one thing until now!
However, he couldn't think of any words to refute what Wang Hui said. His eyes were red with anger, and he wanted to rush up and tear the other person apart. But his strength was no match for the soldier, so he could only be suppressed. His mouth was trembling and he couldn't speak. Finally, he was so angry that he uttered: "Give me back my clothes!"
Wang Hui sneered, "What do you mean by return it to you? This dress is yours? You want to say that you earned the work points outside to buy it? Then did you give me the work points I worked so hard for at home? You're asking me for the dress now, but by then you'll have enough to eat and drink, and the life and death of us mother and daughter will have nothing to do with you, right? It's fine if you don't care about me, but you don't care about my daughter either?"
Qi Kangmin said quickly: "Who said I don't care about my daughter? Just give me back the clothes and I will take care of my daughter!"
The girl hiding behind Wang Hui directly protested, "I don't want you to raise me. I have a mother, I don't want you. You only see my cousin. I know you want a son, but you despise me because I'm a girl. You feed them meat and only give me watery soup, and you say it's okay for me to eat less because I'm a little girl. You don't care about me at all!"
Even his own child said this, and the others looked at Qi Kangmin with even more disgust.
"Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, tut tut tut."
"This is a gigolo. It's ok to be a gigolo, but it's not ok to need others to rely on him."
"Giving food and meat to other people's sons, but starving your own daughter, what kind of person is this?"
"Don't give me the clothes. If I give them to you, I won't care whether you live or die. I look like I want to tear you apart. I'm afraid I wish you and your daughter would starve to death or freeze to death so that I can find another woman to give birth to a son."
"If this was my son-in-law, I would chop him to death!"
Hearing the gossips around him, Qi Kangmin shouted, "What does it have to do with you?"
Someone immediately laughed rudely: "Why, you're making a scene in public, why don't we just watch the fun?"
"That's right, you are shameless and you don't want others to say anything. Really."
"What kind of man is a man who can only be mean to his woman? He's not good-looking, so how can he be a gigolo and still be so mean and confident?"
"You are still suffering like this even though your wife and children are here. You don't know how to appreciate your great fortune."
Everyone was talking nonsense, almost trampling Qi Kangmin into the ground. Qi Kangmin was so angry that he rushed towards Wang Hui again as if he had lost his mind.
Wang Hui's parents are not here at the moment. There are indeed opportunities to work and earn points in the greenhouse, but because there are so many people, many things are scheduled in shifts, and try to ensure that everyone can earn enough to maintain food and clothing. Today is her parents' turn. Her father went outside to sweep the snow with others, and her mother was cleaning the greenhouse. No one knows where she is cleaning at the moment. She should not be nearby, otherwise she would not have come to help.
Despite the soldiers pulling her, Wang Hui was grabbed twice by Qi Kangmin because she wanted to protect her daughter. Little Baoer was so scared that she burst into tears. Just when the soldiers were about to use batons, Qi Kangmin was suddenly lifted up and thrown out.
Everyone looked at the person who did it. He was strong and tall, and his eyebrows were furrowed, making him look like someone who is not someone to be trifled with.
The one who started the fight was Da Niu, who happened to be right next to Wang Hui and the others' bed. At this moment, Da Niu looked at Qi Kangmin impatiently, "A grown man would die without clothes, right? Can't you earn points to buy more? Just because she carried your baby for ten months, you have no right to yell at her! And you're still fighting? Can't you hear your girl crying? What a jerk!"
The soldier quickly put his baton against Qi Kangmin's body and said, "If you make trouble again, leave the greenhouse! Go back to your own bed. If we know you make trouble again, we will kick you out!"
Qi Kangmin was unwilling to accept this: "She, she took away all my thick clothes. At least give me one so that I can wear it to work. Otherwise, isn't this going to kill me?"
The soldier pointed at the clothes on his body and said: "These are not clothes. If you really want to work, the higher-ups won't let people without thick clothes go out to sweep the snow. Don't make a fuss about clothes."
Qi Kangmin couldn't help but said, "I, I just got well after being sick, and I haven't recovered yet..."
Before he finished speaking, someone else said rudely, "You hit your wife with quite a lot of force just now."
"This guy is as strong as an ox, I really don't see how he needs to be trained."
"You are truly shameless to be able to say shameless words so bluntly."
In the end, it was Qi's father who came and took Qi Kangmin away. If they continued to make trouble, they might really be kicked out. As for Wang Hui, Qi's father also felt a little resentful, but he also knew that his son had gone too far in some things. Now the whole family was broken up like this. Qi's father was already exhausted and had no energy to struggle, so he left without saying anything.
After the fun, everyone dispersed. Qi Kangmin received a warning. If he did it again, he would be expelled. Wang Hui was not afraid of him because there were so many people here. Even if she shouted for help, there would be soldiers to help. But she felt sorry for her daughter, who was so scared that she couldn't stop crying.
Da Niu felt in his pocket and took out a candy that Mu Nan had given him the last time they met, and then handed it to the little girl.
Wang Hui quickly said: "Thank you, brother. Thank you so much for what you did just now. We can't have this candy, please take it back immediately." Not only is a piece of candy expensive now, but the key is that it is hard to buy. Last year it was hot all year long and all the sugar melted. Now we don't even have food to eat, so who would want to make candy?
Da Niu said, "This is for the child. I don't like sweet food, and this is given to me by others. Eat it. Children also suffer in this world." He didn't have any children. If he did, he couldn't imagine his own child crying so aggrievedly. Would he not be able to control himself and want to kill someone? Having a child around him was so precious to him that he would never let the child suffer such an injustice.
Xiao Baoer thanked Da Niu but was still sobbing. She divided a White Rabbit candy into four portions. She ate the smallest portion herself, stuffed one portion into her mother's mouth, and had to wait for her grandparents to come back to eat the remaining two portions.
The farce was over, but some people still couldn't resist gossiping, so they started talking to Wang Hui one after another. Originally, it was not good to tell outsiders about such a family scandal, but now they were sleeping next to each other, and Wang Hui was afraid that if something happened one day, Bao'er would be left here and Qi Kangmin would take advantage of it, so she told everyone about the bad things Qi Kangmin had done, hoping that if Qi Kangmin came to make trouble again in the future, others would be able to help.
When talking about the house they used to live in, Daniu was surprised. Thinking that the building numbers were close to each other, he asked, "So you used to be neighbors with Mu Nan and the others."
Wang Hui was a little confused: "Who?"
Daniu said, "Mu Nan and Jian Chu, you live very close to each other, don't you know each other? There's a doctor among them."
Speaking of doctors, Wang Hui knew: "Oh, them, I know them, but I don't know them, after all, there is a building between us."
A person whom Mu Nan and Qin Huai had not thought of for a long time, heard the name mentioned by Daniu not far away, and immediately looked over, even his heartbeat quickened instinctively.
Mu Nan is here, so is Qin Huai here too? Even though things got so bad last time and he was beaten up by Qin Huai, Jiang Xuan couldn't help but be moved by the fact that he could still get news about this person whom he had been obsessed with for so many years in such a doomsday.
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