Chapter 158: Temporary Ending
This case in Sanpo Village has achieved a huge breakthrough through the continuous efforts of the Third Brigade and Yong'an Township Police Station.
But this case involves too many people in an ancient time, and some of the investigations will take time, so we can't just waste time on it.
For example, Yang Xiujuan's identity. In the era when the Internet was not popular, such an investigation could only rely on faxes and phone calls to check and inquire, which was not a matter of one day or one night.
For example, the women sold to Sanpo Village, based on current information, were not abducted by the same trafficker, but by multiple traffickers. The identities of these traffickers need to be verified and arrested one by one. Whether they are acting independently or as a gang, and how many people will be implicated by the behind-the-scenes activities of these people, remains unknown.
The only line of investigation left in this case that urgently needs to be investigated is the human trafficker named Cai Jinhua.
This person has a name and a surname, and is the focus of investigation and the key to finding Jiang Yue.
Police officers from the police station had previously visited and investigated all people named Cai Jinhua in the township, and four of them were not found in the first round of visits.
In the second round of investigation, one person who returned to her mother's home and two people who worked in the city were eliminated one after another. After the police carefully understood the living conditions, work situation and daily relationships of these three people, they believed that they did not meet the characteristics of human traffickers.
The characteristics of human traffickers are that they often have no formal jobs, travel around everywhere, but always bring back a lot of money and live a comfortable life.
Therefore, Cai Jinhua, whose whereabouts were unknown, became the key suspect.
This woman, 45 years old, from Lutou Village, Yong'an Township, worked on a local chicken farm. After more than a decade, she became envious of her boss's earnings and, believing she had mastered the art of chicken farming, decided to borrow money from her husband and start her own chicken farm.
However, due to poor management and a lack of sales channels, they suffered heavy losses and were left with a lot of debt. In a fit of rage, Cai Jinhua's husband jumped into the river and committed suicide, leaving behind an orphan and a widow with a mountain of debts.
At this point, Cai Jinhua is also a pitiful person. But according to villagers, not long after her husband committed suicide, Cai Jinhua left her two children to be raised by her parents-in-law, saying that she was going out to work.
When Cai Jinhua came back more than half a year later, she was in high spirits, dressed in gold and silver, and gave a lot of money to her parents-in-law.
When someone asked her what she did, she said she was doing business, but no one knew what she did specifically, not even her parents-in-law.
Anyway, Cai Jinhua came back every now and then, bringing money and things. She also bought home appliances such as a color TV, refrigerator, washing machine, and renovated the old house. She became the richest person in the village.
The police asked Cai Jinhua's parents-in-law, and they also didn't know her whereabouts. They only knew that she last came back more than a month ago, which happened to be the same time when Jiang Aqing sold Jiang Yue.
The villagers suspected that she might have hooked up with a rich man in the city and became his mistress, which was why she was able to make so much money.
But after hearing the police's report, Director Wang grinned at the photo in the household registration file and asked Jiang Biao beside him, "Are all the big bosses in the city like this now?"
In fact, after retrieving the files of the seven Cai Jinhuas in the township, Jiang Biao gave the household registration file photos of these seven people to Jiang Aqing for identification, but Jiang Aqing couldn't recognize them after a long time, saying that they were not as pretty as that person.
Based on the investigation, the reason why Jiang Aqing couldn't recognize her was probably because Cai Jinhua was dressed up and wearing makeup.
It is normal for a rural disabled person like Jiang Aqing, who has never seen the world, to be unable to make clear distinctions.
The police found a photo of Cai Jinhua and her child from Lutou Village during the Spring Festival and brought it back to Jiang Aqing for identification. Jiang Aqing recognized it immediately: this was the man who gave him 2,000 yuan to buy his daughter.
The police immediately issued a wanted order and offered a reward for Cai Jinhua.
Zhou Yi only hoped that Cai Jinhua would not flee to another place and hide for more than ten years like Peng Hongju, which would be troublesome.
Because if you can't find the trafficked people by catching the traffickers, it would be extremely difficult to find them yourself, and many human tragedies have occurred because of this.
In a blink of an eye, it was already Saturday night, and Director Wang suddenly called everyone to go to the duty room.
Everyone thought there was some clue, but when they went in, they saw a small table with a circle of benches around it. On the table was a kerosene stove with a pot on the stove that was steaming and smoking.
As soon as everyone came in, they smelled a strong fragrance.
Director Wang was busy chopping cabbage on a folding table nearby. Seeing them, he quickly called out, "Captain Wu, young comrades, come quickly."
Jiang Biao raised his nose and sniffed: "Oh, mutton."
"Everyone, please sit down. I'll cut some more vegetables and put them in the pot." Director Wang said with a smile.
Wu Yongcheng said, "Director Wang, you don't have to be so polite."
"Hey, this isn't the meal I was talking about last time. My wife's relative raised a sheep and slaughtered it, and sent me a leg of lamb. I figured I couldn't finish it all by myself, so since everyone was here, I decided to treat everyone to a whole lamb hotpot. You've all been working hard these past few days."
Regardless of whether this was a gift from his relatives or he bought it with his own money, now that things had come to this, Wu Yongcheng sat down with everyone.
Director Wang was busy and cheerful. When Qiao Jiali and Chen Yan wanted to help him, he refused and quickly prepared cabbage, white radish, mushrooms and other side dishes.
"And the noodles. Add them when you're almost done. Otherwise, they'll get mushy if you cook them for too long."
"Director Wang, that's enough, please sit down." Wu Yongcheng said with a smile, "How can we eat without you?"
"Okay, okay." Director Wang just sat down and stood up again. "Wait a moment, there's something else."
After a while, Director Wang brought over a few bottles of Jianlibao. "This case isn't solved yet, so drinking alcohol isn't appropriate. Let's drink this instead."
Wu Yongcheng picked up a can of Jianlibao and placed it in front of Zhou Yi, saying with a smile, "Oh, this is our Zhou Yi's favorite."
Chief Wang was confused and looked at Zhou Yi and said, "Really? Come on, Officer Zhou, get another can."
Everyone laughed secretly, and Zhou Yi waved his hands and said that one can was enough.
After we sat down, the mutton in the pot was boiling, and the small duty room was warm.
Director Wang picked up a Jianlibao and said, "I'm going to offer a drink here instead of wine to all the comrades in the Third Brigade. Without you, this case might never have been discovered. Without you, the victims would never have had their injustices redressed. Come, I'll toast you all."
Wu Yongcheng was the first to raise his drink can, and the others followed suit.
"And for this second cup, I'd like to toast to Captain Wu. I'm not trying to flatter you. Captain Wu is a man I, Wang Changle, truly admire. The county magistrate has been sorely bothered by his rhetoric, but Captain Wu still refuses to budge. He's truly courageous!"
Wu Yongcheng waved his hand, smiled faintly, and clinked his drink can with Director Wang.
"Captain Wang, our Captain Wu has a tattoo on his back." Jiang Biao laughed.
"Ah? Tattoo?" Chief Wang was stunned. How could a policeman have a tattoo, especially a deputy captain of the Municipal Bureau?
The others were also a little surprised, but they knew that Jiang Biao must be joking again.
Jiang Biao said: "Didn't Yue Fei have the words 'Serve the Country with Loyalty' tattooed on his back? Our Captain Wu also has four words tattooed on his back: 'Upright!'"
"Oh, oh, oh." Director Wang suddenly understood and nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, yes, Captain Wu deserves these four words, he is upright!"
Wu Yongcheng smiled and said, "Captain Wang, please stop teasing me. We don't have that kind of thing going on here. Since we're talking behind closed doors today, I won't say anything empty. Simply put, everyone here is a good police officer who has served the country and the people well, including all of you colleagues in Yong'an Township."
Director Wang was very excited. "Well, Captain Wu, your words are worth it. Come on, let's eat it while it's hot. If the mutton gets cold, it will have a strong smell and won't taste good."
Everyone started eating and chatting. The whole room was filled with heat. Although they didn't drink any alcohol, their faces were all red.
"Well..." Wu Yongcheng put down his chopsticks and said, "Today is Saturday. We've investigated everything we can in the Sanpo Village case, and the rest won't be revealed for a while. Director Wang, we'll be leaving tomorrow. This case has a huge impact, so we need to carefully organize the case files and report to the leadership. If there are any new clues later, Director Wang will have to keep us updated."
"Are you leaving now?" Director Wang felt a little disappointed.
Wu Yongcheng nodded, pointed at Zhou Yi and the others and said, "These guys should go back and rest up, take a shower, they're all smelly. Last night, Biaozi took off his shoes, and wow, his feet stunk so badly, they even smelled like salted fish."
"Is there?" Jiang Biao lowered his head and was about to take off his shoes to smell them, but was held down by Wu Yongcheng.
"Oh, I didn't expect that this meal would become a farewell meal for you." Director Wang said with emotion.
"That's right. We're all Hongcheng police officers, and we're all in the same system. We're bound to have dealings with each other in the future."
Director Wang nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, yes."
Zhou Yi raised his drink bottle and said, "Let's toast to Director Wang together."
…
The next morning, everyone drove two cars back to the city.
Because it was Sunday, Wu Yongcheng drove back to the bureau alone and left the case materials he brought back there.
Chen Yan drove another car and took Zhou Yi and the other two home.
Because the case in Sanpo Village was discovered too suddenly, Zhou Yi called home and said he would be on a business trip for a while.
Zhang Qiuxia also reminded him that he must come back at least on Sunday after the move, and then he must burn incense and worship the Zhou family's ancestors.
Zhou Yi replied, "We'll talk about it later," and then hung up.
Zhou Yi got out of the car first, said goodbye to the three people and walked towards the Ergang dormitory.
As soon as I came out of the stairs, I heard the voice of my mother ordering my father to work.
"Put this here."
"You can't put it like that, it will spill."
"Zhou Jianguo, why do you bring rice? We can buy it ourselves. What? Your son doesn't need to eat alone."
Zhang Qiuxia's voice could be heard across three floors. Zhou Yi smiled helplessly and opened the door to go into the house.
Unexpectedly, I bumped into someone head-on.
"Xiaoshuang?" Zhou Yi asked in surprise.
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