Chapter 154 (Two in One)
In the early morning before dawn, a woman in Hugou Village, Hongqi Township, Wuming Town, Dingzhou County in the northwest had already gotten up from the kang. The winter night was very cold, and the kang that was heated last night had cooled down overnight, but it was still a little warm.
Exposure to cold air,
The woman shuddered with cold.
Shivering, she put on her most decent clothes, combed her hair neatly in front of the mirror, took the dry food she had baked last night, filled a worn and paint-chipped military water bottle with water, and put on her already somewhat worn PLA rubber shoes.
When it was dawn outside, I carried a bag and set out on the journey to the capital to petition.
People in the countryside get up very early. When she went out, she met a lot of people. No one spoke to her, and she was unwilling to say hello to anyone. She walked through the crowd with her head held high. She was like a strong warrior, no matter how harsh their words were, it would not hurt her.
Before she had gone far, the voices of those people reached her ears.
"Hu Yuannan went to petition again? Do you think the government will send her back this time?"
"I think so. I heard the secretary tell us to keep an eye on her situation. If she wants to go to petition, we should tell him."
"Everyone knows that Hu Yuannan will petition this year. What's the point of her petitioning every year? Hu Jiangrong has been out for so many years. If the police could catch him, would they have to wait until now?"
"That's what I think. She should save the money she earned from petitioning for her son. Her son has a stepmother and doesn't recognize her anymore."
"I won't admit it even if you ask me. She's been out for so many years, her body is dirty!"
"Don't say that. If you want to blame someone, blame Hu Jiangrong. She didn't want to do that either."
"If you love her so much, why don't you marry her home? Don't you have a son and your wife just died?"
"Are you crazy? Why are you getting married if you're not yet three generations old?" The two started arguing, and someone immediately changed the subject when they saw this.
"Someone should have told the secretary. Look, isn't that the secretary? He's here pretty quickly!"
When everyone looked over, they saw a man in a black cotton jacket standing in front of Hu Yuannan. He was Xu Zhigang, the village secretary of Hujiagou, and he had been working in Hujiagou for almost ten years.
Calculating the time, Hu Jiangrong killed his father Hu Laogen. When my grandfather Old Man Hu and my grandmother Old Lady Hu were together, he had just arrived at Hujiagou to take up his post. Afterwards, he was the one who insisted on calling the police.
Because of this incident, the older generation in the village at that time had a lot of opinions about Xu Zhigang. If it weren't for Xu Zhigang who later led the villagers out of poverty and into prosperity, now every household in their village has a motorcycle, and farmers earn tens of thousands of yuan every year just from picking wolfberries.
He can help his fellow villagers make money, so they respect him so much. No matter what he says or does, there are always people supporting him.
Hu Yuannan frowned and looked at the man in front of him. Before Xu Zhigang came to the village to take up his post, Hu Yuannan and her sister Hu Yaonan were sold to the mountains in the neighboring county.
Hu Yuannan had no impression of Xu Gang. She now hated all men equally. In her mind, none of these men were good people. They were all equally disgusting.
"Hu Yuannan, this is the money the village has transferred to you from the account. Take it for travel expenses." Xu Zhigang put an envelope into Hu Yuannan's arms. He glanced at the villagers who seemed to be talking and chatting, but were always watching them out of the corner of his eyes.
"This is the money that all the men in the village agreed to give after a collective meeting. Just take it and I hope you can get redress soon."
Dingzhou County has been a place where men have a lot of say since ancient times. Here, no matter how powerful a woman is, she can't control her men.
Before this, Xu Zhigang had been vigorously promoting activities to promote gender equality and women holding up half the sky. But the results were minimal.
In the past, Xu Zhigang hated this kind of outdated idea the most. But sometimes, he had to use this old idea to achieve his goals.
Just like now, if he hadn't said that this was a decision made jointly by the men of those women, Xu Zhigang was sure that these cheerful and generous Northwestern women would definitely rush up and scratch his face one by one.
The envelope was not thick, but there should be a few hundred yuan in it. Hu Yuannan turned around and glanced at the people who were listening attentively, threw the envelope to Xu Zhigang, and turned away without saying a word.
She does live in Hujiagou now, but this does not mean that she feels a sense of belonging to Hujia Village, because there is a room in this place where she can sleep. But she was filled with disgust towards this village.
Who in Hujiagou doesn’t know what kind of temper Hu Jiangrong has? Her fourth sister fell into the toilet and died, and her second sister disappeared mysteriously and there has been no news of her since.
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When she and her elder sister were sold by Hu Jiangrong, she saw clearly that one of her uncles was squatting not far from them.
The policeman who rescued her said that someone had called the police. Hu Yuannan was not moved at all. Because in the past three years, she had lived a life worse than pigs and dogs. There was not a piece of good meat on her body, and her face was covered with scars. Sometimes when she woke up in the night and saw the mirror on the wall, she would be frightened.
Her eldest sister has the best temper among them. Hu Jiangrong is the youngest child in the family. He can be said to have grown up on her eldest sister's back. Her eldest sister was the best to Hu Jiangrong among all the sisters in the family, but even such a good eldest sister did not make Hu Jiangrong soft-hearted.
Hu Yuannan didn't say a word to the people in Hujia Village. Even if Xu Zhigang led the people of Hujiagou out of poverty and into prosperity, she did not benefit from it at all. So what if the men from Hujia Village raised money for her to petition?
She will never forget the year when there was a play in the village and they were playing in the yard. Hu Jiangrong, who was about eight years old, got angry for some reason and chased them with a stone and threw it at them. Xiao Xiang was hit so hard that he bled.
The uncles and aunts in the village did not take this matter seriously. Instead, they all praised Hu Jiangrong for being so powerful. The aunts and sisters did try to persuade him a few times, but were quickly driven away by the men in their families.
There are countless things like this. These men didn't care whether they were in pain or not, or whether Hu Jiangrong's actions were too brutal. As long as it was fun and exciting to watch, that was enough for them.
Some people even cheered on the sidelines when Hu Jiangrong was beating them.
If Hu Jiangrong had not been so cruel as to kill Old Man Hu and the other two, they might never have thought that what they had done was wrong.
After all, girls will marry into other families when they grow up and become the servants of other families. They are not as important as boys who carry on the family line. Today, these uncles and aunts were willing to share money from the village to help her with travel expenses for petitioning, which might be a way of expressing repentance for their previous actions.
Perhaps there are some people who still don’t think they are wrong and the reason they agree to this matter is probably just to follow the crowd.
Hu Yuannan didn't want their money, and she didn't accept their confessions. Maybe their mistakes were not that big, but what did it matter? She will always remember the pain and shame they felt when Hu Jiangrong beat them in public.
Hu Yuannan used to find those things unbelievable. Why didn’t they resist at the time? It was obvious that the four sisters were older than Hu Jiangrong. No matter how powerful he was, the four sisters combined could certainly give him a good beating, right?
But now, Hu Yuannan has figured it out. The reason they didn't dare to resist when they were young was because of the men watching them at that time. They are the absolute authorities.
They are an authority that cannot be challenged, so they dare not resist even if they have the right to do so. Including Hu Jiangrong, because of the extra two taels of meat, he also became a member of the authority.
In the eyes of those men at that time, Hu Jiangrong was one of them, and they, the girls, were not.
Hu Yuannan strode away. Passing by a group of obviously old men, some looked ashamed, while others didn't even have the courage to look at her.
Hu Yuannan took the wages she earned from going up the mountain to dig herbs and picking wolfberries in the fields in the previous autumn, and walked towards the capital step by step.
When she reaches the next county town, a car collecting pigs will pass by and she can take their car to the nearest train station.
The Northwest region is vast, and the distance between county towns is far. She walked from early morning to afternoon before she could vaguely see the outline of the county town.
She sat on a big rock by the roadside, quietly waiting for the pig-collecting truck to pass by. That was an appointment she had made with the pig collector last month.
After walking for a whole morning, Hu Yuannan was very hungry, so he took out a piece of bread and started eating. She had almost finished the water she had bottled in the morning, and she just ate the biscuits dry. Her lips were dry and blistered, and the cold wind made her shiver. There were large, rough cracks on her hands, the deepest one was as thick as a toothpick. Some of the cracks were new, and a faint trace of blood was flowing out.
The wind started to get stronger again, bringing with it a few small snowflakes. Hu Yuannan took two bites of the cold, hard biscuit, went around to meet him behind a rock, and curled up behind the small rock waiting.
"Hu Yuannan, Hu Yuannan!" Before she was so tired that she was about to fall asleep, Hu Yuannan heard someone calling her. She tried hard to open her eyes, picked up the backpack beside her and walked out. She thought it was the couple who collected the pigs.
But when she walked out, she found that it was a police car calling her and Xu Zhigang was sitting in the police car. ⊕
Xu Zhigang, who was in the police car, also saw Hu Yuannan and was very excited: "Police comrade, police comrade, Hu Yuannan is there."
As soon as she finished her words, a police car stopped beside her, the window of the driver's seat rolled down, and a policeman who looked very familiar to Hu Yuannan appeared in front of her.
This policeman was the one who rescued her and also the one who provided her with travel expenses when he knew she was going to petition.
"Hu Yuannan, Hu Jiangrong was arrested in Pengcheng."
The wind blew harder and harder, and the strands of hair around his ears hit his face, causing a slight sting. Hu Yuannan felt that he must be dreaming, otherwise how could he hear such exciting news right now?
She thought that she would have to go on this petitioning journey for the rest of her life.
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It takes 24 hours to get from Guangdong Province to the capital by train. Lin Shuyue and Hang Jiabai agreed to take the train at six in the morning on the 24th, stay on the train for a whole day and a night, and when they wake up the next day, they will be in the capital.
But because of Hu Jiangrong's incident, they refunded their train tickets and decided to move their trip to the morning of the 25th.
On the afternoon of the 24th, Lin Shuyue met Hu Yuannan.
She was thin and wore thick clothes, and because of the heat, beads of sweat appeared on her face.
This was not Hu Yuannan's first time to go to a big city, and she had long lost the surprise she felt when she first entered the city. But she still looked around. In order to welcome the arrival of New Year's Day, some businesses have placed green plants with good meanings at the doorsteps of their homes, and underneath the green plants is a circle of red and pink flowers.
This was the first time in Hu Yuannan's life that he saw a tree without losing its leaves in winter. She had been shocked all the way, but she was still surprised.
Ye Xueyu walked up to her, introduced herself to her, and shook hands with her.
Hu Yuannan looked at the hand stretched out in front of him, wiped his hand on his trouser leg before taking it. It was the first time that Hu Yuannan realized that girls’ hands were so soft.
Lin Shuyue raised the camera and took a picture of them. Hu Yuannan looked over subconsciously and Lin Shuyue smiled at her.
Hu Yuannan was accompanied by four police officers from their city. The bag they carried contained all of Hu Jiangrong's criminal files.
They were extremely anxious along the way. Hu Jiangrong's case is extremely bad in the entire province, and can be said to be the most influential in recent years. In order to capture Hu Jiangrong, they searched the entire province over the years.
"We really didn't expect that he could run so fast!" Criminal policeman Zhang Zhouhai from Dingzhou County was very emotional.
Hu Jiangrong is uneducated and was unwilling to go to school before even graduating from primary school. When asked about it, he said that the teachers taught too simply and he knew it without learning.
Judging from the information collected by Zhang Zhouhai and others, Hu Jiangrong is indeed a very smart person. How smart is he? For some junior high school knowledge, he only needs to be explained three or five times, and then when he is given a question, he will not make mistakes.
But his character flaws have always existed. His cruelty seemed to be something he had from birth. He seemed to have no empathy at all. Things like killing his grandparents, parents and selling his sister were done naturally by him, as easy as drinking water and eating.
Treat his relatives the same way he treats his doormen.
Ants on the roadside are no different. Killing them was as easy as killing newly hatched chicks when he was a child.
Hu Jiangrong has been thoroughly studied by them over the years. They all knew that Hu Jiangrong was an antisocial guy.
Such people are very dangerous in society. This is also the reason why the public security system in the northwest has sent Hu Jiangrong’s personal information to the public security systems of provinces across the country every year over the years. This is also the reason why the criminal police of Dingzhou Public Security Bureau have been looking for Hu Jiangrong every year.
"He is indeed a good runner. He is also very cruel, but he just had bad luck this time." Hang Jiabai said here and glanced at Lin Shuyue.
Zhang Zhouhai also knew how Hu Jiangrong was arrested, and he looked at Lin Shuyue with curiosity.
Lin Shuyue didn't feel embarrassed at all. But many people already know that she used pepper spray to subdue a gangster yesterday. Lin Shuyue received many calls today, all asking for the recipe of her home chili water.
Hu Yuannan didn't say a word. Zhang Zhouhai knew that he was curious, so he didn't waste any words and asked Xing Jiabai to take them to see Hu Jiangrong.
Hu Jiangrong is still in the detention room of the Public Security Bureau. In order to avoid accidents, there are armed police officers on duty outside his detention room 24 hours a day.
When Lin Shuyue and the others saw Hu Jiangrong, most of the bruises on his face had already disappeared.
Hu Yuannan, who had been very quiet all the time, took out a rectangular stone from her bag when she saw Hu Jiangrong. Before anyone could react, she ran over and smashed the stone directly on Hu Jiangrong's face.
Hu Jiangrong's face was immediately covered in blood, but he was still very arrogant. He touched the painful spot and said, "Where did you come from, you crazy woman?"
Ever since Hu Jiangrong followed Zhong Jiasheng, he has never trained a woman like Hu Yuannan again. Now that such a woman who was like a mad woman appeared in front of him, Hu Jiangrong frowned in disgust.
But in his mind he was thinking, could this very familiar looking woman be the fool he had trained before he met Zhong Jiasheng?
But wasn’t that fool killed by him? ghost? Hu Jiangrong sneered, showing no fear at all.
Hu Yuannan held the stone in his hand and said angrily, "Hu Jiangrong, don't you remember me?"
The familiar accent made Hu Jiangrong sit up straight all of a sudden. He squinted his eyes and looked at Hu Yuannan carefully for a while before he asked in disbelief, "Hu Yuannan?"
Hu Jiangrong was very shocked: "You are still alive. Mr. Zhu didn't beat you to death?"
After Hu Jiangrong ate the profits from selling his sister once, he carefully selected the people he wanted to sell again. Those who loved to beat or abuse others were his first choice. Even when he was selling people, the buyers would ask him what he would do if he beat someone to death.
Hu Jiangrong’s answer was that if he was killed, it would be fine, but if he wanted to eat meat, he would be given a bowl.
And that old man Zhu can be said to be the most brutal among them. At that time, he was betting that Hu Yuannan would not survive more than half a year in the hands of Zhu Laolai.
Hu Jiangrong was very curious about how he could survive until now, and his eyes lit up with interest: "Hu Yuannan, you have a really good body, resistant to beatings and toughness. How about you be my nu? We will definitely be able to be famous in the circle in the future."
Hu Jiangrong knew that as long as he didn't give Zhong Jiasheng away, he would find a way to get him out once Zhong Jiasheng got out. After all, he knows so many of his secrets!
Besides, there were no witnesses to the murders he did do in his hometown, and people like Zhong Jiali had signed an agreement when he last interrogated them. With the agreement, he felt that the police had no right to interfere in whether he lived or died.
It seemed normal to Hu Jiangrong to let his elder sister Hu Yuannan be his nun. Before Zhong Jiali recognized him as her master, wasn't Zhong Jiasheng her master?
He really never changes his bad habits. Everyone present frowned.
Hu Yuannan even took out a stone from his bag and hit Hu Jiangrong on the forehead.
"This is the stone I brought from my fourth sister and eldest sister's grave. We are happy to see that you were arrested today and sentenced to death after a while."
Hu Jiangrong had a look of disdain on his face and was not worried at all.
After recognizing the person inside and confirming it was Hu Jiangrong, Hu Yuannan was asked to leave. The stones she brought were also picked up. She carefully put the two stones back into the army green canvas bag with a patch.
At the door of the detention room, Lin Shuyue told Hu Yuannan her identity and wanted to interview her, and Hu Yuannan agreed.
Her story has been reported many times, and every time she goes to petition, there will be reporters coming to interview her.
Hu Yuannan was illiterate, but when the newspaper that interviewed her was distributed, she bought it and had someone read it to her. She paid ten cents each time, and the people who read the newspaper to her were all elementary school students.
Some newspapers wrote things in an outrageous way, even portraying her as a completely filial daughter. When Hu Yuannan heard this, she felt so disgusted that she wanted to vomit.
"I am not a filial daughter. If you want to portray me as a filial daughter, then don't interview me. I don't fit your imagination." This was Hu Yuannan's first sentence.
Lin Shuyue already knew Hu Jiangrong's entire personal resume from the system, so how could she ask Hu Yuannan to be a filial person?
"I always write reports truthfully. I write exactly what the interviewee says. I never mix in any falsehood."
Hu Yuannan already knew that Lin Shuyue was the one who arrested Hu Jiangrong. She nodded and said, "Then ask."
Lin Shuyue turned on the recorder and the interview began.
When asked why she insisted on petitioning, Hu Yuannan said, "I did it for my sisters. In my family, as girls, we are not liked by anyone. There are four of us sisters."
"That's why the four of us sisters have always had a good relationship. The reason why my youngest sister died was so ridiculous. My second sister just talked back to Hu Jiangrong and then disappeared mysteriously. She has not been seen alive or dead until now."
"My eldest sister worked too hard for the family. After she got married and had children, she didn't take good care of her health. She died the second year after she was sold by Hu Jiangrong. I found the place where she was dumped after her death last year."
"After she died, there was no coffin or straw mat. She was thrown into a valley. When I found her, there were only bones. Her thigh bone, this place." Hu Yuannan pointed to the inside of his thigh: "There is a knife wound here, which cut the bone."
Hu Yuannan's eyes were filled with tears, and his lips were trembling: "My elder sister, such a good person, such a gentle person, why did she not get rewarded for her kindness? How painful must she have been at the beginning?"
Seeing that she refused to mention herself, Lin Shuyue asked, "What about you?"
Hu Yuannan touched the scar on his face and said, "You saw it, didn't you? My face is ruined, and my body is ruined too. If the police had gone a month later last year, I wouldn't be alive."
Hu Yuannan has held on for so many years, relying on the thought of seeking justice for her sisters after she is released and watching Hu Jiangrong die.
Because her thoughts were too strong, her belief too firm, and because she had given birth to a son for Zhu Laolai, she has survived to this day.
Hu Yuannan is not afraid of being disfigured. She even feels that it doesn't matter, because as long as she is alive, she will see Hu Jiangrong die with her own eyes. These scars are all testimonies and are all worth it.
There was a determined light in Hu Yuannan's eyes, and this light moved Lin Shuyue.
"What about your parents, grandparents, won't you seek justice for them?"
Hu Yuannan sneered, "I'm not afraid to tell you, nor am I afraid that you will write these words out. My journalist friends, when I found out that they were killed by Hu Jiangrong, I only hated that I didn't have any money in my pocket. If I had money in my pocket, I would have set off two strings of firecrackers."
"They were killed by Hu Jiangrong because they deserved it. It was their retribution. It was what they deserved. It was a good death for them. If they had died of old age or illness, I would have felt that God had no eyes and could not see our injustice."
Hu Yuannan’s hatred was too strong. Lin Shuyue thought of Zhou Tiehua, the woman who started Hu Jiangrong’s killing journey and Hu Yuannan’s mother.
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"Is your mother like this too?"
Hu Yuannan was silent for a moment, then said, "She's not that bad, but compared to Hu Laogen and the others, how much better is she?"
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