Chapter 3: Death Struggle
"We will know whether you have done so after we investigate. Now keep quiet!" After the police officer warned, he turned to look at the street director and said, "Please go to the police station and find two more colleagues for me."
I thought it was just an ordinary civil dispute, but I didn't expect it to involve robbery, which is a bit tricky.
The police officer’s words made Ma Cuihua and the other three feel even more depressed.
Liu Li was, after all, just an inexperienced and unruly little girl. She had never seen such a scene before and was already getting scared. She hid behind Ma Cuihua, trembling and cursing Lin Qin in her heart.
After the police learned about Chen Wenjun's situation, they asked, "Do you know this female comrade?"
Chen Wenjun looked at Lin Qin with a strange and confused look in his eyes. He was about to shake his head when he grimaced in pain and quickly replied, "I don't know her."
"He lied!" Liu Yongguo was very emotional.
Chen Wenjun was confused and furious. "Why am I lying? I sell fish on this street. I can guarantee that I have never seen her before. At least she has never bought my fish!
I have never set up a stall in the alleys, unless someone calls me to buy fish when I am walking around the streets. Your family has never bought fish from me, so how could I know this woman! "
Everyone was a little confused by his words, but after they figured it out, they felt that he made sense.
Lin Yi cried, "My daughter has always been a soft-hearted person. She has no say in her husband's family. She has never touched the family's money. She doesn't buy vegetables or go to the market on weekdays. The clothes she wears are the ones she bought when she got married. She hasn't even had a new piece of clothing or pants in these years. How could she be related to a fishmonger? The Liu family is really bullying!"
Li Lian muttered softly, "It's because she is useless. Otherwise, why would the Liu family bully her instead of their eldest daughter-in-law?"
"Say less!" Lin Zhi glared at Li Lian warningly.
In the current situation, anyone with a discerning eye can tell which side has the bigger problem. What if Li Lian is regarded as an accomplice of the Liu family by saying this?
Li Lian curled her lips, subconsciously shook her still numb hands, and cursed Lin Qin a hundred times in her heart.
The police officer made a preliminary assessment and looked at Lin Qin with a little more sympathy.
While waiting for his colleague, he saw Liu Yaya standing by, her body dirty and her eyes swollen like a rabbit. He quickly picked her up and asked, "Little girl, tell your uncle, what happened just now?"
Liu Yaya knew the police were there to help her mother, so she started crying and pointed at Ma Cuihua and Liu Li. "My grandmother and my aunt beat my mother. They bullied my mother together. I wanted to ask my aunt to let my mother go, but she kicked me down."
The policeman narrowed his eyes and looked at Liu Li.
Liu Li was so scared that her face turned pale.
Ma Cuihua immediately protected Liu Li behind her and glared at Liu Yaya fiercely, "What nonsense are you talking about, you ungrateful bastard! I'll sell you out tomorrow!"
"Wow!" Liu Yaya cried even more sadly.
The police officer was furious. "You are trafficking in human beings in front of the police. Believe it or not, I can arrest you right now!"
"I... I just said that casually." Ma Cuihua shrank back, very unconvinced, but did not dare to continue threatening Liu Yaya.
Lin Qin quickly took Liu Yaya over and said, "Don't be afraid, Yaya. That old woman can't sell you. If she dares to sell you, I will chop her into pieces. At worst, we will all die together!"
Lin Qin fought back without giving in.
The way he looked at Ma Cuihua was as if he was an enemy.
Ma Cuihua also had a look of resentment on her face, and both sides looked like they wanted to tear each other apart.
What kind of grudge is this?
The police had been controlling the situation until their colleagues who went to look for Li San's mother came back with Chen Wenjun's basket, shoulder pole, and some scales and the like.
As soon as Chen Wenjun saw the things, he was so excited that he wanted to go to the ground. "Yes, this is my basket, shoulder pole and weighing pole. There is a bamboo board stuck under one of the baskets, and a piece of torn fishing net is also covered on it."
The police checked and found that there was indeed a bamboo board stuck under the basket. They didn't see any broken fishing nets, but there were fishing net hooks on the edge of the basket, indicating that there should have been a fishing net on it before.
"What about the stuff up there?"
"When I went over there, Li San's mother denied it. After I explained the situation, she realized it and got scared. She quickly gave me the things. It's already like this."
Both policemen were speechless and expressed deep sympathy for Chen Wenjun's situation.
When Chen Wenjun got his things, he found that the basket was damaged. His face fell and he said bitterly, "Comrade police, I can fix the broken things, but you must help me get back the fifty-three yuan and twenty-five cents! What should I do? Should I go to the police station with you to report the case?"
The police officer signaled Chen Wenjun to calm down, put his hands behind his back and walked to Liu Yongguo, "Hurry up, return what you took now, I can still handle it. If you don't admit it, we can only transfer it to the criminal police brigade for robbery. At that time, it will not only be a matter of mediation, you may go to jail or even be sentenced to death!"
Liu Yongguo was so frightened that he cried, "We really didn't rob him of his money!"
The policeman lost his patience and raised his voice, "The evidence is all here. They are innocent. You didn't steal anything from them, so how could you knock them out with a club and bring them into your house?
Don't tell me you're having an affair! I think you guys are just greedy for money and don't like Comrade Lin Qin who gave birth to a daughter, so you did this. You're killing two birds with one stone, you're really capable!"
Liu Yongguo immediately knelt down and burst into tears, "Comrade police, I admit that we didn't like Lin Qin and wanted to kick her out, so we framed her. At that time, I was about to go out to find a local thug, and halfway there I saw Chen Wenjun lying on the ground, so I thought I could save some money, so I brought him back.
But we really didn’t steal Chen Wenjun’s money. I swear, if I stole his money, I would die a miserable death!”
"Bah! Do you think I will believe your nonsense?" The policeman glared at me angrily.
Xu Manzhi hurriedly explained, "Comrade police, it must be Li San's mother. When my husband saw Chen Wenjun, he was already knocked unconscious. Li San's mother picked up Chen Wenjun's things, so she must have taken the money!"
"Bullshit!" Li San's mother rushed in angrily, "Xu Manzhi, you shameless bitch, you two are a bunch of snakes and rats who framed Lin Qin, and you dare to throw dirty water on me. I am not someone who can be bullied easily!
Please judge for yourself. Although I am a petty-minded person, am I not kindhearted and willing to help others when they are in trouble? If I saw a living person lying on the ground like this, would I touch his money? I would definitely be so scared that I would scream for help!
Besides, someone saw me picking up the things, and it was dark at that time. Was this person hit at that time?"
Chen Wenjun nodded in agreement, "It wasn't even completely dark when I was knocked unconscious."
"Listen! Listen to what others say! Police comrade, I say it was Liu Yongguo who did it! Old ladies and women dare not have any ideas about men!" Li San's mother spoke with certainty and insisted that it was the Liu family who stole the money.
Xu Manzhi was completely panicked. She knew that the current situation was very unfavorable to them. She gritted her teeth and made a final struggle, "Police comrade, you can't believe his words just because he was beaten. What if he lied to us? What if he didn't have any money on him?"
The male protagonist Chen Wenjun, his previous performance was in line with the status of the Tanka people at that time. In the 1980s, the Tanka people had always been looked down upon, and people living on land even gave them nicknames and cursed them very badly. In this situation, it was the most correct approach for him to show weakness and win sympathy. If he tried to be tough, he would easily be targeted.
(End of this chapter)
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