Chapter 148 Chains
Jiang Aqing stiffened his neck and said, "She...went out to play."
Zhou Yi immediately looked at the three children in the room. From their expressions, he could be sure that Jiang Aqing was lying.
"I... my own daughter, I can do whatever I want, what's it to you?" Jiang Aqing yelled.
Chen Yan immediately realized the seriousness of the situation and pulled out his handcuffs, threatening him. "Jiang Aqing, if you don't tell us now, then come back to the Public Security Bureau and tell us."
"What are you doing? What are you doing? Jiang Aqing is a five-guarantee household. You can't arrest him." The old man immediately came forward to stop them.
Zhou Yi sneered, "What do you want to do? You are a village official after all. Are you trying to obstruct the police from investigating the case?"
Zhou Yi's words had a deterrent effect on the old man, making him afraid to move for a while.
He immediately seized the opportunity and pointed at Jiang Aqing, demanding, "What's wrong with him? Tell me!"
At this time, the little girl in the house said, "My sister was sold by my father."
"What?" Zhou Yi and Chen Yan were instantly shocked when they heard it.
Zhou Yi immediately took action and controlled Jiang Aqing, who started cursing.
"I gave birth to my own daughter. What does it have to do with you? Why are you arresting me? Help! The police are beating people!"
"Shengzi, go and call for help, the police are beating people!" Jiang Aqing, who was pressed against the door, shouted at the boy squatting on the ground.
The boy looked at his father and then at Zhou Yi at a loss.
"Brother Yan, please contact the local police station quickly." Zhou Yi shouted.
"Okay." The mobile phone donated by Qian Hongxing yesterday came in handy.
"Shengzi, go quickly, or I will beat you to death!" Jiang Aqing yelled.
A trace of fear clearly flashed in the boy's eyes, and he turned and ran towards the back door.
As soon as they opened the door, they disappeared. Neither Zhou Yi nor Chen Yan reacted in time because the light in the room was dim and they didn't even notice there was a back door.
"Jiang Aqing, you are now suspected of child trafficking. We will arrest you according to the law!" Zhou Yi took out handcuffs and handcuffed Jiang Aqing, who had already been controlled.
At this time, the boy who had been lying on the bed crawled down. Zhou Yi saw that one of the boy's legs was lame.
It seems that this should be Hu Zi’s third brother, Jiang Daniu, who had his leg broken.
"You bad guy, let my father go!" Jiang Daniu tried to pick up the hoe in the corner, but because he was too anxious, he stumbled and fell to the ground.
"Oh, what is this for?" The old man stamped his feet anxiously.
Zhou Yi pointed at the old man and said angrily, "You, as the village party secretary, knew about this but didn't report it. You leaked the information and shielded the criminal. You have also violated the law!"
The old guy obviously knew what had happened, and when he learned that they were looking for Jiang Aqing, he hurried over to inform them.
For a moment, the scene was in chaos.
After Chen Yan called the local police station, he and Zhou Yi quickly took control of the situation, especially Jiang Daniu, who got up from the ground and raised a hoe to attack the two of them.
The little girl who had just spoken was completely frightened and stared at them blankly, not daring to move.
Just as the situation was under control, Zhou Yi suddenly heard a woman shouting outside.
"Brother Yan, please control Jiang Aqing. I'll go take a look."
Zhou Yi handed the person to Chen Yan and walked out.
Next to this dilapidated house, there is another house, but it is not a normal house structure. It looks more like something like a pigsty.
The woman's screaming voice came from next door. Zhou Yi couldn't understand what she was shouting. It was definitely not the local dialect of Hongcheng.
The room was dark, surrounded on three sides by boards and straw, and the front was made of a few boards nailed together sparsely like a fence.
There was a woman shouting inside, and I could seem to hear the sound of iron chains rubbing against each other.
As soon as he got close, Zhou Yi smelled an indescribable stench that was nauseating.
His heart sank because he had never seen Hu Zi's mother in the room from beginning to end, the "woman with mild mental retardation" mentioned in the archival records.
Zhou Yi suppressed his nausea and moved closer to the wooden fence to look inside.
My scalp went numb instantly. There was a woman locked in the pigpen. She was half-naked, disheveled, and was screaming and struggling.
Her hands and feet were chained.
When she struggled, the metallic friction sound of the chains was chilling.
The old man stumbled over and said in a panic, "Comrade police, Xiujuan has a mental problem. She has to be locked up. If she's not locked up, she'll just use a kitchen knife to attack people. There's no other way."
Zhou Yi's eyes seemed to be spitting fire. He pointed at the old man's nose and said coldly: "What the truth is, it's not up to you to decide. Today we will get to the bottom of everything!"
Zhou Yi's eyes frightened the old man.
At this time, a group of villagers came towards this side aggressively, holding various weapons in their hands, such as hoes, sticks, and kitchen knives.
In front of the crowd was the son who had just escaped from the back door.
When Shengzi saw Zhou Yi, he pointed his finger and several big men walking in front immediately rushed over.
Zhou Yi pointed at them and shouted, "Stop! Are you planning to attack the police?"
Several people who were about to rush over suddenly stopped, and one of them said, "You...what right do you police have to arrest people from our village?"
Someone spoke, and the group of villagers behind him immediately became bolder and started talking at once, saying all sorts of things.
"That's right, the police are so great that they can just arrest people at will?"
"Who... who knows if they are real police officers? Maybe they are fake."
"Yes, they are not wearing police uniforms, they must be fake police officers."
"Are they human traffickers who come to our village to steal children?"
Someone said this, which immediately ignited the anger of these ignorant villagers, and they rushed over in high arrogance to fight.
The old man, who was the village party secretary, was not stupid. He knew that the matter had gotten out of hand, so he stepped forward to stop it. However, his voice was drowned out by the villagers' shouting and cursing.
"Bang--"
Zhou Yi fired a warning shot into the air without hesitation, and everyone fell silent in an instant.
Zhou Yi, holding a gun in his right hand and his ID in his left, shouted, "We are from the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Municipal Public Security Bureau. We suspect Jiang Aqing of child trafficking, illegal detention, and other crimes. We are arresting him according to the law. If anyone obstructs our enforcement, we will detain and punish them according to the law."
"I'm warning you now! In a society ruled by law, put down your weapons and don't take advantage of your ignorance to do whatever you want and break the law!"
Zhou Yi's words were powerful, but the key point was that he had a gun in his hand. All the villagers looked at each other, not knowing what to do.
At this time, the old man, who was so scared that sweat was all over his forehead, spoke, and his previous arrogant attitude was completely gone.
"Police...Comrade Police, please talk nicely. Let's talk nicely. Things are really not what you think."
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