The first suspect was Pan Jixian, who had bought 100 jin (50 kg) of loose instant noodles from Baiyanghe Food Factory on the day of the incident.
The reason Li Xiangdong listed him as a key suspect was not for any other reason than that this guy had done such a despicable thing in his past life.
The second suspect is Zhang Erzhu, who also came to Baiyanghe Food Factory to wholesale goods and then resell them.
When Zhang Erzhu was mentioned, Li Xiangdong felt that the name sounded familiar, but for a moment he didn't know where he had met this person.
Li Jin coughed twice and quietly reminded him, "That guy who was talking about...you know... with your Aunt Chunhua last time..."
Li Xiangdong suddenly realized that this was the man who had previously pursued Chunhua unsuccessfully and was later bribed by Li Song and Shi Fengfeng.
He once swore to heaven that the twins Chunhua gave birth to were his children.
The third person is Liu Yubin from Lijiapo Village.
Why doubt him?
It is said that someone saw him that night coming out of the grove of trees opposite the food factory, disheveled.
The man was quite curious and asked Liu Yubin why he had taken off his cotton-padded coat in such cold weather. Liu Yubin stammered and said that the coat had been accidentally torn.
It is said that Liu Yubin also has two scratches on his face and neck.
At this time, Zhou Hongsong and Qiao Xiaohuan had already taken the Zhao family to the county to report the incident to the police.
Chen Yigan was transferred to the city last year, which can be considered a promotion.
The current director of the Huichuan County Public Security Bureau is Bai Ningchuan, who was transferred from a neighboring county.
Li Xiangdong had eaten with Bai Ningchuan once, so they weren't very familiar with each other, but he remembered Bai Ningchuan as a man who was taciturn and had an ordinary appearance.
However, appearances can be deceiving. How could someone who can become the head of a county public security bureau be an ordinary person without any ability?
As it turned out, Li Xiangdong was absolutely right; Bai Ningchuan solved the case in just three days.
Because the incident occurred in Lijiapo, Li Jin handed over all the evidence he could collect to the police, including their speculations about the three suspects.
This is a rape case, a criminal case, and it's the first major case Bai Ningchuan has encountered since taking office.
He took direct command, first sending people to thoroughly investigate the Zhao family and Zhao Xiaopei, and then secretly sending people to investigate Pan Jixian, Zhang Erzhu, and Liu Yubin.
As soon as the police arrived at Zhang Erzhu's village, they saw someone sneaking around and peeking at them.
It's no exaggeration to say that people who have been in the police force for a long time can tell whether you've committed a crime just by glancing at you.
The two police officers didn't even ask who he was before arresting him. This guy was obviously up to no good!
Arrest him and interrogate him slowly!
Who knew that this trial would turn out to be about Zhang Erzhu!
He was wearing snow-white handcuffs, and with snot and tears streaming down his face, he confessed everything.
It turned out that after he finished wholesaling instant noodles that day, he suddenly felt a urge to go to Chunhua's house.
Of course, he didn't dare go inside.
The fact that Chunhua has an older brother named Chunshuwei, who is a high-ranking official, is no secret in the surrounding villages.
He didn't dare go inside, so he hid nearby and watched.
The Chun family's gate was locked. After a while, Chunhua led two little children, Chun Jinlong and Chun Yufeng, over. Each child held a candied hawthorn stick and chattered away with Chunhua.
Zhang Erzhu stared longingly at Chunhua, who had a graceful figure, plump and fair skin, and whose beauty was even more stunning than before, and his heart was filled with envy!
If only I could have gotten my hands on this girl back then!
Thinking of his wife at home, who was as thin as a stick, he spat angrily on the ground.
That's what you call a woman!
However, he didn't consider that, given his family's circumstances, this skinny woman whom he looked down upon was only married because he received a large sum of money from Li Song.
He was just about to go out and talk to Chunhua when he saw a couple walking towards him.
Chunhua called the two men "Second Brother" and "Second Sister-in-law".
Zhang Erzhu knew Li Yuan.
He didn't dare to step forward rashly. Li Yuan was there when he went to Li Qingshan's house to falsely accuse Chunhua!
Zhang Erzhu thought he would go find Chunhua after Li Yuan and his wife left.
Who knew that once the two people went inside, they wouldn't come out no matter what.
This infuriated Zhang Erzhu, who cursed under his breath and couldn't help but suspect that Chunhua was having an affair with his former second uncle, Li Yuan.
In early winter, a howling northwest wind made Zhang Erzhu's stomach ache. He stretched his legs, which had gone numb from squatting, and seeing that the moon was just rising, he had no choice but to leave.
He grumbled and cursed all the way, but when he thought of Chunhua's exposed fair neck, he couldn't help but feel a surge of heat in his heart.
While he was retrieving his car from the public parking shed next to the food factory, he ran into Zhao Xiaopei, who was hiding in the woods.
Driven by lust, he became audacious and daring.
And so the tragedy unfolded.
When Zhang Erzhu committed the crime, he first knocked Zhao Xiaopei unconscious from behind with a wooden stick.
Zhao Xiaopei remained unconscious throughout the entire crime, so there is no possibility of him being implicated in the crime.
But after Zhang Erzhu did such a thing, he lived in constant fear, feeling that someone was coming to arrest him at the slightest sound.
He would loiter around the village entrance whenever he had free time, and would keep a close eye on any strangers who came into the village, fearing that they were there to arrest him.
By the time the police came to their village to arrest people, Zhang Erzhu was already on the verge of a mental breakdown.
This is why he confessed so quickly.
This coincided with a period when Huichuan County was carrying out a county-wide crackdown on criminal activities, with rapists being the main targets of the crackdown.
Zhang Erzhu was sentenced to death.
Originally, Zhang Erzhu thought he would at most serve more than ten years in prison. When the judge pronounced the sentence and heard the words "execution by firing squad," he was first incredulous, and then roared in fear and anger.
When the bailiffs dragged him away, his pants were completely soaked.
The Zhao family parents were quite relieved. This beast who had harmed their daughter was going to be executed. The government was truly a just and upright official!
Zhao Xiaopei's brother was still not satisfied, so he led a group of villagers straight to Zhang Erzhu's house.
Zhang Erzhu's wife had packed up and left the day he was arrested, taking everything of value with her before she left.
Zhao Xiaopei's brother led a group of people to smash everything that was left in Zhang Erzhu's house to pieces, and almost set the whole house on fire.
Zhang Erzhu's relatives did not step forward to stop him. Their family had produced a rapist who was executed, and their ancestors for eighteen generations had lost all face.
Even they themselves are afraid of being pointed at and gossiped about when they go out.
Putting everything else aside, if someone were to say that this person and the rapist are brothers, they would be too ashamed to walk past them!
Upon learning that Zhang Erzhu had been sentenced to death and the circumstances surrounding his crime, Chunhua sighed deeply.
If her second brother and sister-in-law hadn't come to her house that day, she probably would have been the one raped!
Looking at my two children, if they were to encounter something like this, I'm afraid they wouldn't have a good ending either.
Thinking of this, Chunhua broke out in a cold sweat.
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