It is really not easy for such a young child to be left in such an environment. Bai Song negotiated with the village secretary and decided to temporarily raise the child with him. Bai Song and the other three did not go back for the time being and waited for the old couple to get up.
All drinkable liquor has been moved to the brigade. There is no one in the brigade on weekdays and no stove is lit. Fortunately, all the liquor is white wine. If it was beer, it would not be able to be stored and would freeze and explode.
The little girl was sent to the village party secretary. She did not resist and followed Bai Song and others obediently. When they got into the house, the village party secretary's wife poured her warm water and food. The little girl did not refuse and ate and drank water without any hurry.
Bai Song saw that her hands were a little frozen, and asked her distressedly: "Why did you go out to sweep the snow in the morning? Did your grandparents tell you?"
"I fell down when I went out yesterday, and my butt hurts so much." The little girl said, "So I thought, when I get up today... I'll sweep it away when I get up."
"You're quite sensible. How old are you?" Bai Song suddenly realized that the little girl was also a good witness.
"Uncle, I'm 8 years old." The little girl asked, "Uncle, are you a police officer?"
Bai Song glanced at the little girl. Even if such a young child could lie, she had no experience in it. The look in the little girl's eyes clearly showed her vigilance towards the police. Moreover, the little girl was a little afraid of the deputy director because he was wearing a police uniform.
"He is a policeman," Bai Song pointed to the deputy director in the next room, "We are not. We are not familiar with him."
Liu Shuyuan rolled his eyes at Bai Song. The little girl also lied...
"Well, my mother said that if I don't listen, I will be arrested by the police," the little girl looked at the deputy director and said in a low voice, afraid that the other side would hear it.
In fact, the deputy director could also hear the conversation here. He was not a fool, so after hearing this, he deliberately walked away.
"So what did your father say to you?" Bai Song asked.
"Dad said... Dad said he would take me to play..." The little girl suddenly felt like crying and became depressed: "But he didn't take me. Mom said he ran away with another woman."
"Did they fight before?" Liu Shuyuan handed over a beautiful hairband, "This is for you."
Bai Song stared at Liu Shuyuan with eyes wide open, and the meaning of his eyes was very clear, "Where did you get this thing from?"
Liu Shuyuan ignored Bai Song and his expression seemed to show some disdain.
Bai Song suddenly understood something. Everyone said that Liu Shuyuan and his childhood sweetheart had a hard time getting along, but no one had ever seen how hard it was! The last time Bai Song and the others played script-killing together, Liu Shuyuan's girlfriend came, which showed that their relationship was very special.
Since the childhood sweetheart can contact the boyfriend’s friends alone, they must be very close!
After all this time, it turns out that Liu Shuyuan is actually a master? Is he just a mediocre player?
So, in the team, when it comes to relationships, I'm the dumbest one?
Oh, fortunately, there is Ren Xu.
…
Bai Song was distracted for a while and found that Liu Shuyuan and the little girl were chatting well. After a brief chat, he learned that the girl's father was actually a good person to her, but the family had always been in financial difficulty. Then one day her father told her that he could take her to the amusement park at any time in the future. The little girl was very excited, but then her father disappeared.
Apart from that, it is true that the couple fights every day.
Based on this information, Bai Song learned some possible facts, that is, the man who died had the opportunity to get a windfall, but died before he got it. So the cause of death was related to the windfall.
Through previous investigations on the surrounding labor market, it was found that the deceased man was an idler on weekdays, doing odd jobs and not making much money a month. The amusement parks in Beijing usually charge two to three hundred yuan per ticket, so there must be a reason why he promised the child to "go casually" instead of "take you to play once".
They stayed at the village party secretary's place until noon. The village party secretary's wife cooked a big pot of pork stewed with vermicelli and warmly invited Bai Song and others to have dinner here. Bai Song originally refused, but the deputy director said that if he refused, the village party secretary would feel embarrassed, and he would be happy if the guests ate more.
Living conditions are much better now, and eating this in winter is quite common. Bai Song and others couldn't refuse and agreed. The little girl also ate a lot of it. She was very well-behaved and easy to feed.
While eating, someone knocked on the door. The village party secretary put on his fur coat and got off the kang. He went out and opened the door to the yard and saw that it was the girl's grandfather. Bai Song saw from the window that it was the girl's grandfather, so he also got off the kang and stood at the door.
"Secretary, I heard from my neighbors that you moved all my wine to the brigade. What's going on? If you want to drink, you have to come to my place. How... why did you move it away?" The old man was still a little hesitant.
"Did you drink alcohol this morning?" The village party secretary was not a good-tempered person either. He scolded directly, "I just found out that your granddaughter was sent here! Your granddaughter is only eight years old, and you two drank like this? What if the child starves to death if you drink like this so early in the morning? There is still coal burning at home, what if she gets gas poisoning! I even helped you clean out the ashes when I went to your house!"
"Oh, my granddaughter..." The old man only then remembered that not only the wine was lost, but also his granddaughter.
“You fucking know you have a granddaughter?” The village party secretary kicked him, and Bai Song, who was not far away, was stunned. Is he so fierce?
"I was wrong, Secretary. I was wrong..." The old man sobered up and said, "I'll send you a box of good wine later."
"Where did you get the money?" asked the branch secretary.
“Not much money…no…not much…” The old man avoided the topic.
Bai Song looked at the old man's expression and felt that there was something wrong. It was obvious that the old man was avoiding the question.
The village party secretary couldn't tell the change in his expression, but he knew the old man's family background and personality. "Tell me, have you been stealing from other villages again recently? I'm telling you, don't let other villages find you. If they do, I will definitely arrest you."
"No! What are you talking about, Secretary? Our family... I'm so old now, and I haven't taken other people's things for many years!" The old man hurriedly explained.
"I see that you have about forty or fifty-one bottles of wine at home. Okay, now you have money. You drink better wine than mine even during the New Year and other festivals. Just wait, I will withdraw your minimum living allowance tomorrow!" The village party secretary has a bad temper.
"Secretary, Secretary, I was wrong… I just lost my second son recently, and I was in a bad mood…" The old man gave a reasonable explanation.
"You're talking nonsense!" The village party secretary kicked him again, "First, you can't afford good wine without your son! Second, you've been drinking for just one or two days! I've seen the wine bottles in your house, and there are more than a dozen empty bottles of Fenjiu alone! Given your family's situation, I'm exaggerating if you can afford 500 yuan!"
There is a very special crime in the criminal law, called the crime of huge amounts of property of unknown origin. This is a crime of "omission", which means that no action is required, and just having huge amounts of property of unknown origin can constitute a crime. Of course, the subject of this crime is a state official, and the old man certainly does not count.
Legally, the old man cannot be charged with any crime, but the village party secretary can.
The branch secretary can just accuse him of something with just one word and his minimum living allowance can be cancelled. It's so awesome.
Bai Song was watching from a distance and was somewhat impressed. The village party secretary asked all the questions he wanted to ask, and the effect was very good. If he had asked these questions himself, there would have been no hope.
"I...I..." The old man was a little dizzy, and finally said: "My daughter-in-law gave me some money..."
"Which daughter-in-law is yours?"
"It's my second daughter-in-law..." The old man had three sons in total, and the second son was the one who died.
"How much!" the village party secretary asked without thinking.
"10...100,000."
"Hiss," the village party secretary was so angry: "Well, you still don't tell me the truth. As for your daughter-in-law, can you sell her for 100,000 yuan?"
"Really...really..." The old man knew he couldn't say this, but he was a little drunk and was panicked by the village party secretary. After he said this, he realized that he was wrong and slapped himself several times.
"Where did your daughter-in-law get the money?" The village party secretary asked, "Explain it clearly."
"Then I don't know," the old man didn't want to say more. He realized that he had said too much.
"Okay, then go away and go back to have some sleep. When you sober up in the afternoon, come to see me with your wife. I will call the village chief and town cadres to talk to you." The village party secretary no longer threatened the old man with the issue of the minimum living allowance.
The old man left the branch secretary in a daze, and no one knew what he was thinking.
The branch secretary turned around and went back to the house. When he saw Bai Song, he didn't say anything else and just invited him to eat.
After dinner, the secretary's wife took the little girl to another room, and the four men sat in the room with the stove to discuss the matter.
When the village party secretary heard about this case, he frowned and said to everyone, "His second son is indeed unfilial, but there are too many such people in the village, and it's nothing special. His second daughter-in-law is not a good person either. I heard that she has someone else outside."
"But looking at the way these two people spend money, I would believe it if they really said they gave 100,000 yuan," Bai Song said, "but we checked his daughter-in-law's remittance records and there is no such transfer record."
"I feel like he didn't lie to me just now," the village party secretary said, "You are all police officers, so you must be more accurate than me, but I have known him for forty years, so I basically can't be wrong. In the past month, there is indeed something wrong with this old man."
"That's cash," Bai Song frowned, "How did this woman send the cash back?"
"Hey, if you put it that way, it really is true. Last month, I was talking about his second daughter-in-law. Didn't I say she had someone else outside? That man came to this house last month. I don't know why he came. So he came to give money." The village party secretary knew everything about the village: "Well, wait a moment, I'll call a few people over."
As he said this, the village party secretary took out his phone and made two calls. In less than 15 minutes, seven or eight rural women came over and told the story vividly. From the man's birth to his marriage, to the recent gossip, they talked for an hour straight, which really opened Bai Song's eyes. He really didn't know how these aunts knew so many things.
Bai Song learned from these people's words that the woman's lover came to the village last month and visited this family. Since then, the old man started buying wine for him and also bought an LCD TV for his family.
At that time, some people speculated that the mistress had some conflict with the second son of the family outside and came here. Others said that the mistress had beaten someone and came here to pay compensation. In short, there were all kinds of versions.
In addition, Bai Song also learned an important clue, that is, during the Chinese New Year two years ago, the second son brought his wife home to celebrate the New Year. They had a conflict on New Year’s Eve, and the second son threw his daughter-in-law out.
In this place, it was minus 20 degrees Celsius outside during the New Year. No one could stand it, but later I don’t know how, the old man and the old woman asked us to go back.
After seeing off the people from the "Village Intelligence Center", Bai Song had some guesses.
According to the description of the villagers, the second son is not filial and has a bad relationship with his wife. Both his parents dislike him. However, these parents have a good impression of their daughter-in-law.
If that's the case, it makes sense that the daughter-in-law sent someone to give the couple 100,000 yuan after their son went missing for a month so that they would stop pursuing the matter.
If the man's parents had not cared after he disappeared, the case might have been covered up and eventually remained an unsolved case many years later.
Logically, the situation here makes sense, so the next thing to investigate is the woman's side, such as where the money came from, why she wanted to kill her husband, how much money she has now, the gun, etc.
While we were chatting, the old man and the old woman came over. The old couple came to pick up their granddaughter.
After sobering up, the old couple thought about it for a long time and found that it was difficult to cover up the lie in the village, especially since the village chief was so concerned. Moreover, they asked their neighbors and they were told that even people from the town police station had come, so it must be no small matter.
It is really difficult to have any secrets in the countryside. Although no one knows the deputy director of the town, everyone knows the police uniform. Moreover, the one who can always accompany the village party secretary must be a formal policeman, and he may even be an official.
The old couple actually had a fluke mentality. When they took the money, they may have known that the second son had an accident, but they didn't know that it was their daughter-in-law who killed him. They thought it was a death compensation for a construction site accident or something like that. Anyway, they didn't want to ask. One hundred thousand was really enough for them.
The granddaughter was sent back in the past two days. They heard from the police that their son was killed by his daughter-in-law. In fact, they were mentally prepared, but they didn't plan to continue talking about it. What's past is past. The second child cannot be resurrected after death, so they just wanted to drown their sorrows in alcohol.
But now that the police have caught up with them and are asking questions, the couple no longer intends to hide the matter and so they came over to talk about it.
Logically speaking, this money is not the proceeds of a cover-up. More than a month ago, the old couple thought their son died in an accident and the money they took was given by their daughter-in-law. Now they know that their son was killed by his daughter-in-law. When they heard that the police had arrived today, they took the initiative to confess, which is not considered a cover-up.
Now the key source is the origin of the money. Bai Song doesn't plan to touch this side before finding out.
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