Chapter 100 Guilty
"Is it easy to check?"
Lu Dongping sighed, "It's difficult! We were all working in the fields back then. Even people of Lu Donglin and Sanya's age were working in the fields. Those left at home were either very old or very young. Who would have the guts to run into this ditch and smash someone to death? Even though Zhou Shazi's brain wasn't working well, he was still a man after all. How could he let someone hit him so easily?"
After saying that, he reached out and touched her head: "So, can you stay here for the time being? I'm worried about you being alone at the educated youth center."
"My seventh brother is here!"
"Your seventh brother is also an educated youth, and he also needs to go to work. Donglin and Chun'e are here, and you can keep them company while I'm away."
After saying that, he leaned close to her ear and said, "Don't worry, I won't ruin your reputation before we get married."
Wen Wan didn't agree directly: "I'll think about it."
Lu Dongping chuckled: "Okay, you think about it. I'll get you a flashlight, do you want to go to the bathroom? Otherwise, you can ask Chun'e to go with you when you get up at night?"
Wen Wan pushed him away: "Don't bother with it, go get the flashlight."
Really, how can I go to the toilet with him? I must go with Chun'e. If I really can't, I have to hold it in!
The room was quite cold as there was no sunlight. Wen Wan was used to sleeping alone and had a bad sleeping posture. She would pull the quilt when she felt cold and instinctively wrapped herself in it and curled up into a ball. Lu Chun'e was cold and couldn't pull the quilt. She was so sleepy that she fell asleep again.
The next morning, she sat up when she heard some noise outside. Her throat felt hairy and her nose was itchy. She held it in for a long time and sneezed repeatedly.
Wen Wan opened her eyes dazedly: "Chun'e, do you have a cold?"
Lu Chun'e shook her dizzy head and said, "A little bit." She hadn't felt any warmth all night, so she must have caught a cold.
Wen Wan sat up, rubbed her eyes and sighed: "Oh! It really is not possible for two people to sleep together. I'd better go back to the educated youth camp to sleep tonight!"
Lu Chun'e:——
After washing up, just as daylight was beginning to break outside, Lu Minghai came to Lu Dongping to ask about Zhou Shazi: "What did Minister Lin say?" The discovery was made too late yesterday, and by the time Lu Dongping called Lin Chenghai over, it was almost dark. Lu Dongping had also examined the scene, and Lin Chenghai had also scanned it repeatedly with a flashlight. There were no signs of a fall. No suspected murder weapon was seen, but it wasn't ruled out. The wound on the head could have been caused by a stone, but such a stone was difficult to find. There was a pond nearby, and anything stuck on it would have been washed away by the water.
Such a thing suddenly happened in this place that had been peaceful for so many years, and everyone was terrified.
"You're coming here today, aren't you going to pull out the seedlings in the rice paddies? Ask them one by one to see who left before leaving work yesterday."
Lu Minghai frowned, and the wrinkles on his forehead were so deep that they could kill a fly.
"Uncle, we'll probably have to ask Zhou Guicai's mother to go with us when the time comes. After all, it's much more convenient for women than for men." Zhou Guicai's mother was the first to discover where Zhou Shazi died. The old lady took her little grandson to the ditch to wash clothes, but she didn't finish washing the clothes. She saw a dead body and was very scared.
Yesterday, Lin Chenghai and Lu Dongping went there. The old lady kept saying she was dead, the Zhou family idiot was dead, and she couldn't say anything else. It wasn't that they doubted her. She was so old and walked with a cane, so it was impossible. They just wanted to ask her if she saw anyone suspicious when she left the house.
I didn't have high hopes, but I had to go through the motions.
Lu Minghai nodded: "They are all in the fields. Just shout when you want to go."
After saying that, Zhang Hongying cleaned up and poured in the chicken and pig feed. After locking the door, the family went into the field.
I was repeating yesterday's work. In the morning, I had to go to the rice field to pull out the seedlings. The water in the field was cold, and I couldn't help shivering when I stepped on it.
Because of what happened yesterday, the women who used to get together and enjoy chatting and laughing seemed a little absent-minded today.
When they had dumped several large piles of seedlings in the empty space and were about to load them onto their shoulders to carry them to other paddy fields, Lin Chenghai arrived pushing a bicycle. Zhao Ping'an, secretary of the Xihe Brigade, brought another man with him. He called out to Lu Dongping and introduced him, "This is Public Security Huang, sent by the county to assist with the investigation."
Lu Dongping shook hands with the visitor and said, "Hello, Public Security Huang!"
Huang Gongan nodded: "Secretary Lu!" Obviously, Lin Chenghai had already mentioned Lu Dongping to him on the way here.
Lu Minghai didn't care about the mud on his hands and feet. He walked over barefoot, greeted a few people, and then asked Lu Dongping: "What should we do now?"
Lu Dongping said, "Minister Lin and Public Security Huang arrived early. All the people in the team who can work are in this area right now. Let's monitor each other and see who left the fields during the afternoon workday yesterday."
Lu Minghai nodded, stood on the edge of the field and shouted at the top of his lungs, waving to the people in the field: "Stop, everyone, stop first, come up, and gather on the road!"
Don't bother, everyone knows what's going on. Something's happened on the team, and someone from higher up is investigating. You have to actively cooperate. This is a matter of life and death, so you absolutely must cooperate. If you don't, there's a problem.
In a short while, the field ridges were crowded with men and women.
Lu Dongping waved his hand and said, "Begin. Prove yourself. Even if you just go to poop or pee, you must explain clearly how long it took, where you went, and who saw you."
The quiet crowd suddenly became noisy.
There is no such thing as pooping and peeing. These things are all fertilizers and are very precious. Everyone is waiting to go back to their own toilet after work.
If you have to eat several bowls of rice all day long but can't even poop, you might as well feed a pig.
After talking for a while, they all said that they didn't leave the place yesterday afternoon. Wen Wan pursed her lips and stood with Lu Chun'e and Lu Donglin, glancing at the educated youth from time to time.
She knew that someone had left the place yesterday. Deng Hongjuan and Zhang Yun had fallen into the mud in the fields and then returned. Deng Hongjuan came to work after lunch, and Zhang Yun had not shown up all day yesterday.
What she thought of, Lu Donglin also thought of. Just as he was about to speak, Wen Wan quickly covered his mouth: "Be quiet, don't make a sound."
They were not the only ones who saw it at the time. The woman who was with them even tried to separate them. Regardless of whether there was a problem between the two men or not, she didn't want Lu Donglin to tell anyone about it.
"Woo woo, sister—" Lu Donglin blinked and looked at her, being so well-behaved.
Before Wen Wan could explain to him, she heard a very discordant voice: "If you say someone went home early yesterday, then it really did happen. Yesterday, two female comrades from the educated youth site went to the fields for the first time. I heard that they fell in the mud and then went back to change clothes. One was gone all morning, and the other was gone all day."
The person who spoke was not any of the people who were present to pull out the seedlings yesterday, but Zhu Feng who was picking the seedlings.
It's no wonder he spoke up. He's now the son-in-law of the Zhou family. According to seniority, he has to call Zhou Shazi "Yao Da". Stupid or not, that stroke can't even write two Zhou characters.
As soon as he said this, a woman immediately agreed: "Yes! Deng Hongjuan and Zhang Yun went back yesterday, and they stayed back for a long time."
Deng Hongjuan started to make a scene before she could finish. "What do you mean? I fell down and got covered in mud, and I can't go back and change my clothes? I'm a stranger, I've never heard of that Zhou Shazi or Li Shazi, and I've never seen him before. I'm going crazy and I'm going to kill him? He's a man and I'm a woman. How can I kill him? You think too highly of me."
As she spoke, she held her hands together in front of her body, her face full of anger. No one knew how panicked she was. Her nails dug into her flesh, but she couldn't suppress the panic in her heart.
She didn't expect that the stone she threw would kill the man, but she just hit him. The man shouted to stop the disgusting action, and she took the opportunity to push the man over and ran away. She didn't expect that would kill the man.
Although there was a small voice in my heart saying that such a disgusting bad guy who bullied her should die.
But she really didn't want to kill anyone and didn't dare to kill anyone.
If people knew that the idiot named Zhou was killed by her, her life would be over.
Being destroyed by a fool is no different from not resisting yesterday.
Zhang Yun, who was not far away, had tears welling up in her eyes before she could even speak. "I, I'm not that strong enough to kill someone. I fell in the fields yesterday and washed myself in the ditch below. I was freezing so I covered myself up for a while, then got dizzy and had a fever that afternoon, so I couldn't come to work. What Deng Hongjuan said is absolutely right. You can't put this blame on us and bully us because we're outsiders."
Zhou Mingqing's wife felt a headache when she saw her weak appearance. She snorted coldly and said, "Who else could it be besides you? No one else has left the fields, but you two have been back for such a long time. Don't even think about bullying you outsiders. Just because you are outsiders, we only know the outsiders. Who knows what you are up to? You are pretending to be able to fly at the slightest breeze, but who knows what kind of person you are inside. If it's not you, could it be that he encountered a ghost in broad daylight?"
Deng Hongjuan took advantage of this gap to breathe a sigh of relief, trying not to panic so much. She watched coldly as Zhou Mingqing's wife tried to implicate Zhang Yun. She even thought that if Zhang Yun could be implicated, nothing would happen anymore.
At this moment, someone suddenly called her: "Lady, come here!"
Deng Hongjuan was feeling guilty and nervous. When she heard someone shout, she looked up suddenly. She couldn't hide the panic in her eyes when she heard Lin Chenghai standing not far away say, "Yes, it's you. Come here. Huang the Public Security Bureau and I have something to ask you."
When Lin Chenghai said this, he, the police officer surnamed Huang, and Lu Dongping were keeping an eye on her.
Looking at her hands, which she had nowhere to put, rising and falling just a few steps away, with her hands tightly clenched together, I had some idea in my mind.
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