Chapter 178
Li Xiaohe's case was too serious, and the Badi Police Station had no way of handling the case, so they could only call their superiors.
Lin Shuyue and the others couldn't leave either. They had to wait for people from the county to come and question them again.
It was already two or three o'clock in the afternoon. The weather in the north is cold in winter, and every household only eats two meals a day.
The second meal is always around three o'clock.
After everyone discussed it, they decided to have dinner at the restaurant at the bottom of the dam. There is a restaurant right outside the police station. It is not a big restaurant with only two private rooms.
Lin Shuyue and Hang Jiabai sat next to Yin Xin, and Hang Jiaqing sat between Yin Xin and Hang Yuhua.
Next to Hang Yuhua were Aunt Wang and Cao Manjin.
Cao Manjin had never been to a restaurant since she was a child. From the moment she entered the restaurant, she felt uncomfortable all over. She sat quietly, listening to the Hang family ordering food and chatting in a language she didn't understand. Cao Manjin suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, all the joy in my heart was finally put aside. Hang Jiabai strongly recommended the sauerkraut stewed pork to Lin Shuyue. Hang Jiaqing ordered a braised pork elbow, while Hang Yuhua and Yin Xin each ordered a dish.
Stir-fried leeks with shredded potatoes and cold-mixed cabbage.
Aunt Wang and Cao Manjin said nothing.
They were the only table of guests in the restaurant, so the food came quickly. The cold shredded cabbage was sweet and sour, with peanuts and a little bit of chopped green onions in it. It was sour, sweet and crispy, and everyone started eating it as soon as it was served.
After only two bites, the shredded potatoes came up. Hang Jiabai picked up a piece for Lin Shuyue with his chopsticks first: "This shredded potato and leeks are a perfect match. Try it."
The potato shreds are noodles, the saltiness is just right, and the special aroma of chives complements the potato shreds: "Delicious."
A sour smell came, and the sauerkraut and pork came up.
Sauerkraut in the north is made from Chinese cabbage. It is cut into shreds and fried with lard. Water is then added and pork is stewed. The acid in the sauerkraut dissolves the fat in the pork belly. The pork belly has a soft and glutinous texture and is not greasy at all. If it is dipped in the garlic sauce provided by the restaurant, the taste will be even better.
Hang Jiabai hadn't had this delicacy for many years. He ordered a bowl of rice and soaked it in sour soup. It was so delicious that he closed his eyes. Lin Shuyue followed his example and soaked the rice in sour soup, which was very appetizing.
The braised pork elbow also arrived, served on a large enamel plate. It was very big, and the red braised soup made the skin of the elbow look red and smooth.
As soon as it was placed on the table, everyone's chopsticks reached out for the braised pork elbow.
Hang Jiaqing said: "In the whole Mulan County, I think his braised pork elbow is the best. Our patrol team will pool money to have a meal here every month."
Hang Jiaqing is a forest policeman, but they do not belong to the Public Security Bureau, so generally speaking, they call themselves a patrol team.
The requirements for joining the patrol team are very strict. One must either be a retired soldier or a transferred cadre. In addition to these two categories of people, there is another category of people who are outstanding militiamen selected from various forest farms or from the dam bottom.
"Delicious, delicious." The elbow was soft and tasty, and everyone was so engrossed in the garlic sauce that they could hardly lift their heads.
The portions of food in the north are as big as the land they live in. There were some dishes left over for seven adults, so Yin Xin packed them all up.
When we came out of the hotel, it was already dark. In another hour, it would be completely dark.
Yin Xin put the packed food in the car driven by Hang Jiabai, and Hang Yuhua went to the guesthouse next door to book a few rooms for rest at night.
It is more than 20 kilometers from the dam bottom to the forest farm. The road is slippery at night. There are forests on both sides and many wild animals. Therefore, for safety reasons, people in the forest farm never travel at night.
After Hang Yuhua came back, the criminal police from the county also arrived. They only had a meal in the cafeteria of the Badi Police Station before starting to interrogate Li Xiaohe and Wei Guoyong.
Compared with Zhao Fu and others, the criminal police's interrogation was obviously more detailed.
This time, they dug out something different from Li Xiaohe's mouth.
For example, the more detailed details of her crime back then, such as where she sent Arya.
Fortunately, Erya is still alive. She lives in a ditch at the bottom of the dam. The family that raised her has a fool in their family. Erya's status in his family is a child bride.
The reason why Li Xiaohe said Erya was dead before was that she felt that she was arrested entirely because of Cao Manjin.
If the child dies, it’s dead. Just give birth to another one. Why make such a fuss? This incident ruined the rest of her life. Li Xiaohe felt that she was going to die anyway, and Cao Manjin could not let her feel at ease.
Let her live her life with that kind of despair!
Her vicious heart was so vicious that Lin Shuyue and the others were amazed. When Cao Manjin heard that her Erya was still alive, she cried so hard that she was out of breath. There was an unspeakable hope in her despair, which made people feel heartbroken.
As for Wei Guoyong, he was also detained. The crime he committed was harboring a criminal. What Li Xiaohe did could not be hidden from him, whether it was poisoning his grandparents, damaging his father's health, or later killing Da Ya and San Ya and selling Er Ya, Wei Guoyong knew it all.
Wei Guoyong knew when his grandparents and father were killed, and he was happy to see it happen. After all, they were very strict with him and wanted him to become something successful. Wei Guoyong was unwilling to work hard, so he just wanted to do nothing and have fun. He didn't want to care about reading, writing, or working to earn money.
At that time, Wei Guoyong thought it would be better if they died, since no one would care about him anymore. But only after they really died did Wei Guoyong realize what hardship was.
When they were there, there was no shortage of food and drink at home, and everything was given to him. After their death, everything fell on the shoulders of the mother and daughter. Li Xiaohe was not someone who could endure hardship, so if Wei Guoyong wanted to live a better life, he could only fight for himself.
But he was not a diligent man. The mother and daughter had a very miserable life in the beginning. Later, Li Xiaohe couldn't stand it anymore and started looking for men outside.
Everyone was poor in those days, and there were many bachelors living in the mountains outside the forest farm. Apart from other things, Li Xiaohe was really pretty. She could get many men willing to give her food and drink by just chatting with them. She was not stupid. Whenever she was with others, she was always quiet and didn't let the people in the forest farm notice at all.
Over the years, many of her lovers have died and no one knew about it. Wei Guoyong watched the men she had been with die one after another. When he thought of his grandparents, he didn't dare to say a word.
Anyway, he is Li Xiaohe's only son, and Li Xiaohe is waiting for him to take care of her in her old age, so she treats him very well. Wei Guoyong enjoyed Li Xiaohe's kindness and was also under her control. After he married Cao Manjin, he was not nice to Cao Manjin.
In Wei Guoyong's heart, all women in the world are the same as his mother, and there is no need to be nice to them. It was even more difficult for his three daughters. He had to raise them for decades and invest countless financial and material resources. When they grew up, he had to marry them off. In the future, unless he grew old, got sick or died, he would hardly be able to come back to live with them.
Wei Guoyong doesn't care whether this useless investment ends up in his death or given away.
Yin Xin was stunned: "This Li Xiaohe is too scary. It's really God's blessing that our forest farm has not had any accidents for so many years."
Hang Yuhua was also thankful. Fortunately, Hang Jiaqing said, "That's because most of the people in our forest farm are veterans with a high sense of morality. Li Xiaohe didn't have the opportunity to do it."
Hang Yuhua and his colleagues were all officers and soldiers in the vicinity. After their collective demobilization, they were assigned to different forestry farms.
Yin Xin listened to Hang Jiaqing's words, thought about it carefully, and nodded: "Now that you put it, it's true. Not long after Old Wei left, Li Xiaohe always sought help from neighbors, and they all looked for men."
Hang Yuhua was approached many times before, and he quickly clarified, "We helped out for Old Wei's sake, and it had nothing to do with Li Xiaohe."
Cao Manjin was called in for questioning by the criminal police. Aunt Wang had already been questioned and came out. She heard all the words carefully and rolled her eyes: "You are the only one who is naive and doesn't know anything. We have long seen that Li Xiaohe is not a good woman."
"She was more restrained in front of you. You are the director of women's affairs. She was not like that in front of us. As for Deng Dong, she kept walking in front of people's doors and asking them to do everything. Deng Dong had to avoid her during that period."
Yin Xin pondered for a moment and said, "Xiaochun hadn't come yet at that time."
The conditions in the forest farm are terrible. Some soldiers have elderly parents, while others have young children, so the time when their families come over is different.
Deng Dong’s family arrived the latest. When Wei Guoyong's father died, Deng Dong's wife Xiaochun had not come yet.
"No wonder Deng Dong always stayed at our house during that period. Once, it was already ten o'clock and he didn't come back yet. He didn't say anything when asked." Like Hang Jiaqing, Yin Xin was not very sensitive about matters between men and women. When she was in the army, if Hang Yuhua hadn't taken the initiative, she would have thought that Hang Yuhua was her good brother.
Although things have improved a little in recent years, they are still limited.
Aunt Wang glanced at Lin Shuyue, leaned close to her ear, and whispered to her, "One time that year, I got up to go to the toilet and saw Li Xiaohe going to Deng Dong's room."
"I thought there was something going on between the two of them, but right as Li Xiaohe went in, Deng Dong ran out with his shoes on the wrong way around. He ran towards Wu Xianping's house as if he was being chased by a ghost. As soon as he left, Li Xiaohe also came out dejectedly." When Aunt Wang got up to go to the toilet and saw that scene, she was so excited, but before she could finish her excitement, Deng Dong came out. She felt as uncomfortable as if she had taken off her pants and farted.
"Why didn't you say it then?" Everyone loves gossip, and Yin Xin is no exception. She thought that if this matter got out, the whole courtyard would be in turmoil for three to five months.
"What are you talking about? Xiaochun took care of two paralyzed elderly people at home for Deng Dong, and raised three children, all of whom are successful. It would be fine if the two of them really had something, but they didn't. It took Li Xiaohe less than two minutes from the time she entered Deng Dong's house to the time she left."
"If a grown man doesn't even have two minutes, he's really screwed." Aunt Wang said this and looked at Yin Xin. It was unknown what she was thinking about, with a look of disgust on her face.
Lin Shuyue was watching from the side, very curious.
Cao Manjin came out at this time, with tears and a smile on her face. As soon as she came out, she rushed over and hugged Yin Xin: "Aunt, Erya is still alive."
"For Arya, you should live well too."
Cao Manjin nodded with tears in her eyes.
The group walked outside. The wind tonight was colder than during the day, and snowflakes were floating in the air.
It falls on people's faces and feels icy cold.
"This snow is not heavy. It melts as soon as it hits the ground."
"Don't get off the boat. If you get off the boat, you can't go back." Yin Xin and Aunt Wang said in unison.
The guesthouse has sufficient heating, but there is no toilet in the house. The toilet is outside. There is a water room on each floor where you can wash and get water.
There is a kettle in each room.
Lin Shuyue washed her face and feet and went to bed. She and Aunt Wang shared a room. Yin Xin was worried that Cao Manjin would do something stupid, so they slept in the next room.
The room was very small, and there was a set of iron radiators against the wall. Lin Shuyue touched it with her hand and found it was a little hot.
There were two small windows about one meter in the room, covered with a thick mattress and a very thick cup. Lin Shuyue shook out the quilt and lay down in it. The cold quilt made Lin Shuyue shiver.
Aunt Wang looked on and laughed, "You'll be warm after lying down for a while."
Lin Shuyue nodded at her, smiled, chatted with her for a while, and fell asleep unknowingly. In the second half of the night, Lin Shuyue was awakened by the cold, and Aunt Wang beside her was snoring deafeningly.
Lin Shuyue stayed awake for a long time before she fell asleep. It felt like she had not slept for long when she heard some faint noises in the house. She opened her eyes and found that Aunt Wang had already gotten up. There were also noises coming from outside the house. When Lin Shuyue saw this, she also got up.
They wrapped themselves in quilts and walked towards the forest farm.
The higher we went, the brighter the sky became. When we arrived at the forest farm, the sun was hanging in the sky, shining brightly, illuminating everything.
Hang Qingjia's tractor was in the front, and he was stopped by a young man in his twenties.
Hang Jiabai stopped the car and rolled down the window. The young man's voice came in.
"Captain Hangzhou, traces of poachers have been found around Chuzigou."
Following his words came a warning from the Good and Evil System: [Ding~Ding~Ding~A criminal with a sin value of 86% has been detected. Please
Lord, move carefully. 】
[Ding~Ding~Ding~A criminal with a sin value as high as 86% has been detected. Please act with caution. 】
[Ding~Ding~Ding~A criminal with a sin value as high as 86% has been detected. Please act with caution. 】
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