Chapter 13 Chapter 13 Torture and the Truth
Chapter 13
When Qin Ye received the commission, he was waiting for Qin Ze at the local police station.
Late at night, she was the only one in the huge police station. While no one was around, she clicked on the commission screen. In the picture, there appears a middle-aged man with a bookish air.
"Hello, Officer Qin, I'm 'Qingfeng Mingyue', I watched the live broadcast that you took over for Aunt Gu Yun."
The man pushed up his glasses and praised with a smile, "Your efficiency in solving cases is really high. You have set a new record for our commissions."
Qin Ye subconsciously glanced at the number of viewers in the live broadcast room.
This time, there were more than a thousand people watching her live broadcast!
She made a "please" gesture and said, "Mr. Qingfeng Mingyue, if you want to entrust me with any case, you can tell me directly. As you can see, my current environment is not suitable for a long conversation with you."
If Qin Ze happened to see this scene, she would have no way to explain it clearly.
Qingfeng Mingyue nodded, showing her understanding: "I would like to ask you to clear my grandfather's name. He can't be the real murderer who poisoned the livestock in the production team."
The real culprit who poisoned the production team’s livestock.
Qin Ye's eyebrows jumped at these few words: "Excuse me, who is your grandfather...?"
"Zhang Zhongjian, the livestock breeder Zhang Zhongjian from Juexing Village!"
Qingfeng Mingyue's voice became hurried, "My grandfather was a very upright man and would never do anything bad. Back then, he was wronged and eventually chose to hang himself to prove his innocence."
Zhang Qingfeng will never forget that day when he excitedly followed his father to Juexing Village to meet his grandfather whom he had never seen since he was born.
My father said that my grandfather was an intellectual with a gentle personality, who knew everything about astronomy and geography, and was the greatest and most perfect father in his heart. He also said that a letter had come from above, saying that his grandfather had been rehabilitated and that their family could live together forever from then on.
Zhang Qingfeng took the greeting card he made for his grandfather to Juexing Village, only to find out that his grandfather had become a suspect in killing the brigade's livestock and had been arrested by the county public security bureau.
"Dad, is grandpa a bad guy?"
He asked his father this at the time.
His father shook his head seriously, took his hand, and walked towards the county public security bureau: "Your grandfather can't be a bad guy. Dad believes that the public security comrades will soon find out the truth and clear your grandfather's name."
Zhang Qingfeng believed it, but when they went to the county public security bureau and were taken into the room where his grandfather was temporarily detained, they saw his grandfather hanging from the beam, not breathing. In my grandfather's arms, there was a letter written in blood to clear his name.
Grandpa hopes that he can use death to prove his innocence.
But obviously, this approach did not succeed.
"I said, I said this stinky old man has something wrong! Otherwise, how could he commit suicide? ! ! He committed suicide out of fear of punishment!!!"
Zhang Qingfeng heard someone say this.
Later, the case of livestock deaths in the Juexing Village Production Team was closed with the suspect hanging himself, and the police officer in charge of the case was promoted to a regular officer.
In the eyes of many people who are not in the know, the real culprit of this incident is Zhang Zhongjian. Even many years later, people still bring up the livestock death case in Juexing Village. Everyone has already tacitly accepted that Zhang Zhongjian had been sent to the countryside for many years and bore a grudge against the organization and the villagers, which led him to do such a cruel thing.
Zhang Zhongjian's suicide did not clear his name.
Thinking of this, Zhang Qingfeng burst into tears. He took off his glasses, wiped his tears, and looked at Qin Ye with burning eyes: "Public Security Qin, I beg you to help him. Even if, even if you can't catch the real murderer, I hope you can stop him from committing suicide."
Qin Ye nodded and agreed.
Close the live broadcast room, and the content of the task commission column will be refreshed at the same time——
【Location: Juexing Village, Wuning County;
Commission: Please clear my grandfather's name and find out the real culprit of the livestock poisoning case;
Reward: 1 shop of 20 square meters facing the street in Wuning County]
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After hearing from Mingyue Qingfeng that Zhang Zhongjian might commit suicide, Qin Ye became a little restless.
She quickly stood up and planned to go out to find Qin Ze first. As soon as she walked out of the police station, Qin Ze appeared at the corner with a flashlight.
"Why did you come out? Didn't I ask you to wait for me in the police station? It's so dangerous for you to come out alone at night!"
Qin Ze said, turning up the flashlight a little more, "Shall we go back to the village now? I'm going to return the bicycle, but Tiezhu's father said it's too late for us to walk at night. He asked us to ride the bicycle back to the village first and then come to the county to return it to him tomorrow."
Qin Ye thought about it for a moment and remembered that when Qin Ze brought his friends to the Public Security Bureau to take statements, Tie Zhu was the most eloquent one.
She was a little surprised: "Are you very close to Tiezhu?"
Bicycles in this era are considered to be valuable property no matter where they live. It is impossible for ordinary friends to be willing to lend money.
Qin Ze rubbed the back of his head, trying not to sound too proud. "Well, it's nothing serious. It was just that some scoundrels robbed Tiezhu's money every now and then, and I helped him deal with them."
Tiezhu's father is a chef in a state-owned restaurant in the county, and Tiezhu's mother is a director in a textile factory. Tiezhu is the only child in the family. With such a family configuration, the family is considered well-off in the entire county.
Tiezhu is fat and spends money lavishly. It's obvious that he was raised in luxury. After a while, he was targeted by the second-rate guys in the county town.
When Qin Ze was strolling in the county town, he happened to see some scoundrels taking Tiezhu to a corner, beating and scolding him, and asking him to pay money to show his filial piety. He couldn't bear to watch it any longer, so he took action to deal with that group of people.
From then on, Tiezhu stuck to him like a follower, and Tiezhu's parents treated him like their own son.
"The meat buns I gave you and mom that time were all given to me by Tiezhu's father. The pork ribs you ate tonight were also given to me."
As they talked, the two walked to the front of the bicycle. Qin Ze took a cloth bag from the handlebars and handed it to Qin Ye as if to ask for credit. "Look, just now when I went to return the bicycle, Tiezhu's mother packed another bag of dumplings for me."
Qin Ye looked at the large and deep iron lunch box in the cloth bag under the light of the flashlight. He thought that there must be a lot of dumplings in the box.
She was silent for a moment, then took out two one-pound white flour coupons awarded by the system and handed them to Qin Ze: "Take them. When you return the car to Tiezhu's family tomorrow, remember to give them the coupons as well."
It's ok for people to eat it for a meal or two occasionally, but if they often take it and eat it together, it's more or less a bit unacceptable.
No matter how well-off Tiezhu's family is, if Qin Ze continues like this, they may not be without opinion.
Qin Ze glanced at the food coupons in her hand, and his stubborn temper came up. He stiffened his neck and refused to take it: "What do you mean? Are you disgusted with me for eating and taking for free at Tiezhu's house?"
He has clearly been helping Tiezhu's family with work! He repaired all the broken radios in Tiezhu's house! Why do I need to live off my sister? ! !
Qin Ye would not tolerate his temper and punched him on the back: "Take it!"
Qin Ze jumped up on the spot, grimacing in pain.
"If you want to be friends with Tiezhu for a long time, just give him the food coupons. He will remember your kindness in saving Tiezhu, but you can't take advantage of him by relying on this kindness."
She broke it down and explained it to Qin Ze.
Qin Ze hung his head, and it seemed that he had taken her words to heart. He stretched out his arm to take the food coupons she handed over, and said awkwardly: "Sister, I will pay you back when I make money."
"No need to wait until later, do it now, and pay off your debt with work."
Qin Ye said bluntly, without being polite to Qin Ze at all, "Until the livestock poisoning case in our village is solved, I want you to stay with Teacher Zhang."
Qin Ze dragged out a long voice and said, "I know, sister. You suspect him and want me to follow him secretly, right? Remember everything he said, who he met, and what he ate. "
Qin Ye didn't expect that Qin Ze had so many twists and turns in his mind. She shook her head and denied it: "You think too much. I'm just worried that Teacher Zhang will commit suicide. In the next few days, you stay with him until the real murderer is caught. You go tonight."
She went back to the police station and got the enamel pot she usually used for lunch. She asked Qin Ze to open the lunch box of dumplings and took out a small portion of dumplings. "Okay, go back to the village quickly. Be careful on the road. I'll go to the bureau to see if the comrades in the inspection department need help."
Qin Ze got on the bicycle and patted the back seat: "Sister, get on. I'll take you to the Public Security Bureau and then back."
It was late at night and his sister was so beautiful, so he was really worried.
Qin Ye curled her lips when she heard Qin Ze calling her "sister" again and again - this weird child was bought off with two food coupons, it was quite worth it!
She didn't hesitate, holding the enamel pot of dumplings in both hands, jumped on the back of the bicycle, and quickly arrived at the Public Security Bureau.
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When Qin Ye walked in carrying the dumplings, he was still a little reluctant to see Niu Gongan.
From the first time she met Public Security Niu and heard his remarks about torture and forced confession, she had not had a good impression of him. The conversation tonight made her realize more clearly what it meant to talk nonsense when there was no agreement.
When I entered the hall, I found that Public Security Niu's seat was empty and the tea on the table was cold. It seemed that he had left for quite some time.
Qin Ye breathed a sigh of relief, walked briskly to the door of the laboratory and knocked.
Hu Xuan's voice soon rang out from inside: "Come in. Hey? Qin Gongan, is that you? It's so late, why haven't you gone home yet?"
"I thought it would be troublesome to test the fodder I sent, so I wanted to see if there was anything I could do to help you."
Qin Ye walked in, put the still steaming dumplings on the table at the door, and said, "My brother left some dumplings for me. If you don't mind, let's eat some together."
After all, the work in the laboratory is really tiring, and she felt a little embarrassed that she had found so many things to do for Hu Xuan, but Hu Xuan didn't complain at all.
Hu Xuan naturally saw what she was thinking and waved his hand: "Oh, Qin Gongan, you are too polite. This is my job. What's the trouble?"
He stood up, washed his hands, and walked to the table at the door: "But I'm really a little hungry, so I won't be polite and eat a few."
Hu Xuan went to the cupboard to get his own cutlery and only picked up four or five dumplings.
Qin Ye walked to the testing table inside and found that Hu Xuan had finished testing one-third of the fodder.
"That is, in the beginning, it took a lot of effort to test what the poison in the feed was."
Seeing that she really wanted to help, Hu Xuan simply explained the test method, "We already know that the ingredient in the feed that killed the livestock is paraquat, and you suspect that someone poisoned the hay directly. We only need to compare the ingredients of the hay with the ingredients of the feed. If the ingredients are the same, it means that the hay is poisonous."
At most we can work on it all night tonight and the results will come out soon.
Hu Xuan finished his dumplings and returned to his work position, praising Qin Ye: "Public Security Qin, let me say this, I have been working here for more than half a year and have dealt with all the police. You are the most meticulous in sampling work."
Some police officers, such as Police Officer Niu, always perfunctorily take a tiny sample and send it to him for testing.
Many times, he spent most of the day testing, only to find that the samples he tested were invalid. Public Security Niu even turned around and blamed him, saying that he had gone to college in vain and could not even do such a small job.
Qin Ye smiled modestly: "Criminal investigation work must be done as carefully as possible, and no clues can be left behind."
Hu Xuan raised his eyebrows when he heard her remarks, and felt that her work attitude was really good: "Qin Gongan, come and sit down. This is the forage test result I have done so far. You just need to be responsible for comparing it. If you have any questions, you can ask me."
Qin Ye nodded slightly, indicating that he understood.
She pulled out the stool next to Hu Xuan and sat down, starting to compare the forage test results with the feed results one by one.
The laboratory soon fell silent, with only the sound of the testing instruments turning slightly and papers flipping.
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The sky outside the window was turning pale, and a faint light shone through the window lattice onto the table in the laboratory.
The two finally compared all the results and found that paraquat was indeed sprinkled on the hay. The hay containing paraquat was the sample Qin Ye collected from the lower right side of the hay pile.
Every time Zhang Zhongjian picked up hay, he started from the right side of the pile.
"Qin Gongan, your guess is correct. The murderer sprinkled paraquat directly into the haystack from the beginning."
Hu Xuan turned off the testing equipment on the table, bent his knuckles and pressed his temples, "It's no wonder that we stayed up all night. I can't hold on any longer. I'm going to take a rest. By the way, there's no one in the public lounge next to me. You can go in and take a nap."
He got up and went to the hall, found the key to the public lounge in the drawer, and handed it to Qin Ye: "Niu Gongan is really something, when you came here last night, he slipped away, right?"
Hu Xuan curled his lips, obviously dissatisfied with Niu Gongan's attitude of neglecting his duties: "When the provincial inspection team comes, I will file a complaint to the inspection team. Oh, no more, Qin Gongan, go to bed. I forgot that you still have to check paraquat when the supply and marketing cooperative opens."
"Okay, I'm going to bed first."
Qin Ye yawned, took the key, and just opened the door of the public lounge.
There was a sound of hurried footsteps in the hall.
She leaned out and saw Qin Ze standing in the hall with his back bent, his hands on his knees, panting from exhaustion: "Xiao Ze, why are you here again?"
"Sister, sister, I searched the village all night, but I couldn't find Old Zhang."
Qin Ze's eyes were red, and he didn't know whether it was because he was tired from staying up late to look for someone, or because he felt that he had not done what Qin Ye asked him to do and blamed himself for it.
Just then, Public Security Officer Niu walked in slowly from the door.
He faced the gazes of Qin Ye and Qin Ze, picked up the thermos, brewed himself a cup of fresh tea, blew away the foam in the cup slowly, and then said leisurely: "Qin Gongan, are you looking for Zhang Zhongjian?"
Qin Ye heard his tone and had a bad feeling in his heart: "Niu Gongan, do you know the whereabouts of Teacher Zhang?"
"Pooh!"
Public Security Officer Niu spat out the tea leaves in his mouth, stretched out his fingers, and clicked his teeth. "What Mr. Zhang? He's just a stinky old man! I arrested him and brought him to our police station last night. I interrogated him all night. I was exhausted."
This stinky old man is really stubborn. He has used all the tricks he can think of, but he didn't say a word.
Qin Ye got anxious on the spot. She snatched the cup from Public Security Officer Niu's hand, poured out the water in the cup, and slammed the cup on the table: "Public Security Officer Niu! Who allowed you to arrest people without evidence? ! ! Do you know that you are violating discipline? ! ! "
Public Security Officer Niu couldn't stand a little policewoman talking to him like that, so he rolled up his sleeves and wanted to attack Qin Ye: "Qin Ye, what the hell is this attitude of yours?"
"Fuck you, fuck you! How dare you, old man, talk to my sister like that?!"
Qin Ze rushed forward and stood in front of Qin Ye, pushing Niu Gongan away with all his strength, "Your grandpa is still here! Dare you touch my sister?"
Public Security Officer Niu is used to taking advantage of his seniority in the Public Security Bureau, and young people like Hu Xuan and Li Quan are unwilling to argue with him.
Now that he met Qin Ze who dared to confront him head-on, he was half defeated in momentum. He didn't dare to take action but he couldn't curse at anyone either. He was so angry that he was panting heavily.
Qin Ye was too lazy to argue with Public Security Niu, so he turned and walked out the door, wanting to go to the police station in Public Security Niu's jurisdiction to find Zhang Zhongjian immediately.
Public Security Niu wanted to chase him, but was stopped by Qin Ze. He could only shout at Qin Ye: "Qin Ye, I have solved this case! Don't even think about stealing the credit from me! I asked someone to find out last night that the only bottle of Paraquat T in the county was sold to Zhang Zhongjian. He is the murderer!!!"
Qin Ye stopped in his tracks: "Then ask him what he bought the paraquat for, where he poisoned it, and where the remaining paraquat or the empty paraquat bottles are now?"
Public Security Niu was stunned by the question, and naturally he didn't ask anything.
He determined that the real culprit who poisoned Juexing Village was Zhang Zhongjian, who bought paraquat. He interrogated him for a whole night in order to make him admit that he was the murderer.
Seeing the reaction of Niu Gongan, Qin Ye understood everything. She laughed out of anger: "When the police investigate a case, they are supposed to find out the suspect's crime based on the clues, not to use the suspect to get clues! How can you be a police officer?"
The sound of their argument woke up Hu Xuan, who also stood on Qin Ye's side: "Niu Gongan, you didn't ask anything, so how did you investigate the case? Did you torture me?"
Public Security Officer Niu couldn't argue with Qin Ye and Hu Xuan, nor could he beat Qin Ze, so he simply sat down on the recliner at the front desk and acted like a rogue: "Anyway, the suspect is now detained in our police station. When our colleagues in the station go to work, we will naturally go to interrogate him. Qin Ye, you and Lao He, don't try to steal my credit!"
Qin Ye's cognitive bottom line was refreshed again.
She didn't expect that someone would really solve a case just for the "credit" instead of for the truth, the victims and social peace.
"Whatever you think!"
Qin Ye was too lazy to talk nonsense with Public Security Niu anymore. He threw down these words coldly and ran towards the local police station where Public Security Niu was.
Qin Ze didn't even think about it and chased after him.
Hu Xuan looked at the brother and sister who were running away, then looked at Niu Gongan who seemed to want to catch up with them, and he took a step ahead of them and ran to chase Qin Ye and Qin Ze.
Suddenly, only Public Security Niu was left in the County Public Security Bureau. He was afraid that Qin Ye would forcibly take Zhang Zhongjian to her police station and solve the case before him. He slapped his thigh in annoyance and followed after him.
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Qin Ye quickly broke into the police station in the Niu Public Security District.
Without even taking a breath, she looked around quickly, looking for the police station's detention room while shouting Zhang Zhongjian's name: "Teacher Zhang! Zhang Zhongjian! Where are you?!"
There was no response in the quiet police station.
Until, suddenly, there was a dull thud of a stool hitting the ground somewhere.
Qin Ye's heart skipped a beat and he ran towards the place where the sound came from. Soon, she found herself in the far corner of the police station yard, where there was a small room with no sign or windows, and the door was locked.
"Teacher Zhang, are you in there?"
She knocked hard on the door, and from inside, there was another sound, like a dying person moaning in pain.
Qin Ye remembered Zhang Qingfeng's commission, and after realizing what Zhang Zhongjian was doing, he quickly used his body to hit the door.
At the same time, Qin Ze and Hu Xuan arrived one after another, and the three of them took turns slamming the door with their bodies.
Finally, the door was completely opened, and the faint morning light shone through the narrow door, illuminating the scene inside the house. Zhang Zhongjian's entire body was hanging in the air on the beam of the house, and his body was still shaking violently due to his survival instinct.
Qin Ze and Hu Xuan were both stunned by the scene before them, until Qin Ye's scolding exploded in their ears: "Hurry up! What are you two still doing? ! ! Save him together!"
The two men finally reacted and quickly followed Qin Ye's example, holding Zhang Zhongjian's legs and lifting him up.
It took a lot of effort for the three people to finally rescue Zhang Zhongjian from the beam.
"Qin Ye! The provincial inspection team will be coming today, I'm going to report you to them!"
Policeman Niu walked up to the hut, panting and cursing, "In order to solve the case and gain merit, you insulted old comrades, broke into the police station, and destroyed public property..."
After taking in the scene in the room, the second half of his sentence got stuck in his throat.
Did Zhang Zhongjian commit suicide?
He panicked at first, his eyes rolled around, and he quickly found an excuse to exonerate himself. He pointed at Zhang Zhongjian and said in a broken voice: "You stinky old man Zhang Zhongjian, I knew you must be the murderer of the animal poisoning case, and you even wanted to commit suicide out of fear of punishment! You..."
“That’s enough!”
Qin Ye couldn't stand it anymore and interrupted Niu Gongan's accusations.
She stood up from the ground and raised her hand to hit Public Security Officer Niu, but was stopped by Hu Xuan: "Public Security Officer Qin, this is not okay. It violates discipline. There is no need to sacrifice your future for such a person. The provincial inspection team will come to Wuning County today. We can report him then."
Qin Ye finally withdrew his hand and followed Hu Xuan and Qin Ze to send Zhang Zhongjian to the hospital.
Zhang Zhongjian's injuries were very serious, even a rib was broken. One can imagine how much abuse he suffered from Niu Gongan last night.
All the experienced police officers from the county public security bureau came to the hospital.
Everyone stood in the corridor, looking through the glass at Zhang Zhongjian, whose face was bruised and swollen, lying on the bed in the ward, with embarrassed expressions on their faces.
"Oh, this old man, I shouldn't have let him be on duty last night. He almost caused a big mess for me all night."
Director Wu took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his forehead, feeling a wave of fear.
The provincial inspection team will be here today. If someone is killed, he might not be able to continue his position as director anymore.
Thinking of this, he looked at Qin Ye again, wishing he could say a bunch of nice things to her: "Comrade Qin Ye, this time it's all thanks to you, otherwise our Public Security Bureau would have to bear a heavy punishment! Don't worry, when the comrades from the inspection team come down, I will definitely praise you and try to transfer you to a formal public security officer immediately."
"Director Wu, this is not what I want."
Qin Ye glanced at Director Wu calmly, then turned his gaze to Zhang Zhongjian on the bed, "I want to report to the inspection team that Public Security Niu tortured people into confessing."
Director Wu was choked by her, but he still smiled and advised with good temper: "Comrade Qin Ye, you are still young and don't understand. Public Security Officer Niu did make a mistake this time, but after all, he is our county's public security officer. The public security officers of Wuning County share the same fate. If we leave a bad impression of our torture and forced confession to the comrades of the inspection team, it will be difficult for our county public security bureau to be awarded an honor in the future!"
Qin Ye finally understood why Public Security Officer Niu dared to torture and extract confessions in order to solve the case. It turned out that there was a leader above him who was willing to keep it secret for the sake of his reputation.
"If we keep people like this in the team, we will never be able to achieve honors."
She said coldly.
Her stubborn attitude annoyed Director Wu, who snorted coldly, "Qin Ye, don't forget that you are just a temporary worker in the police station! If you don't obey, I can ask you to leave at any time."
Qin Ye turned around and stared at Director Wu intently: "Don't threaten me, just leave. Could it be that the provincial inspection team does not allow the public to report the police?"
"Director Wu, if you're like this, I can't do this job anymore."
Public Security He, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke, took off the "big hat" on his head and stuffed it into Director Wu's hand.
Hu Xuan also stared at Director Wu, without even looking at him, and pulled off the police armband on his arm: "If the police who torture and extract confessions are kept in the team, what are we doing with the people in the inspection department? Just ask the powerful police to extract confessions~"
The police officers in the Criminal Investigation Division followed suit and also tore off their armbands: "The police are great, and our Criminal Investigation Division is not very useful. We resign."
Director Wu was so angry that he almost couldn't breathe. He pointed and criticized for a long time with his fingers trembling.
Finally, he threw the hat in his hand into He Gongan's arms, put his hands behind his back, turned around and walked away angrily: "You are all rebellious. You can report whoever you want. I don't care! At worst, you can report me as the director as well. I'll just retire!"
Qin Ye felt a warm feeling in her heart as she looked at her colleagues who expressed their support for her.
She blinked and held back the tears that were about to flow out: "He Gongan, you..."
"Haha, little girl, I really was right about you. You have the demeanor of me when I was young!"
Old He patted Qin Ye's shoulder with a smile and said, "I heard from Hu Xuan that you stayed up all night and found paraquat in the haystack. You've taken the trouble to investigate this case, and you'll have to keep following it."
The colleague from the Criminal Investigation Department nodded in agreement: "Yes, Public Security Qin, when you interrogated Li Daniu last time, I thought you were amazing. We'll need your help in future interrogations!"
Hu Xuan didn't say anything else, but gave her a thumbs up.
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Due to Zhang Zhongjian's health condition, his interrogation was conducted entirely in the ward.
In addition to Qin Ye and Li Quan, there were two colleagues from the Criminal Investigation Department who were present to conduct the inquiries.
"Zhang Zhongjian, we sent someone to the supply and marketing cooperative this morning and retrieved the records from their sales account book. The only bottle of paraquat in the county was sold to you. Why did you buy it at that time?"
Qin Ye kept a calm mind and tried her best not to let her relationship with Zhang Zhongjian affect the fairness of the interrogation.
Zhang Zhongjian naturally understood this principle.
Last night he was taken away by Public Security Officer Niu. He tried to explain the situation countless times, but was rudely interrupted every time. The other party kept asking him why he poisoned the village and whether he hated the villagers of Juexing Village because of his experience of being sent down to the countryside.
Whenever he shook his head to deny, he would be beaten and kicked. He endured this torture for a whole night.
He himself felt guilty for not taking good care of the team's livestock and had thought about committing suicide to atone for his sins. The slander and abuse suffered by Public Security Niu made him want to use death to prove his innocence.
He thought he had the courage to die. When he was nearly dying of suffocation, he vaguely saw his son and grandson coming to see him. At that moment, he suddenly regretted it.
If Qin Ye hadn't rescued him, he would definitely be dead now.
Zhang Zhongjian shook his head, drove away the messy thoughts from his mind, and concentrated on answering the questions raised by Qin Ye: "That day, I went to the county to tell the party secretaries and production team leaders of other villages how to prevent and treat chicken plague. The party secretary of our village knew that I was coming to the county, and said that they would reclaim land soon, so he asked me to buy some pesticides for weed control."
He went to the county supply and marketing cooperative and listened to the recommendation of Mr. Bai from the cooperative, who said that the newly introduced paraquat was effective and he could buy some to try.
A few years ago, he read in foreign literature that many foreign farms used it to remove weeds.
He thought the effect should be good, so he listened to Lao Bai's recommendation, bought paraquat and gave it to the village party secretary.
"Was it a whole bottle, delivered intact to the Party Secretary?"
Qin Ye asked again.
Zhang Zhongjian nodded heavily: "Yes, this pesticide is high-grade, wrapped in a layer of plastic paper, and the whole bottle is sealed."
Qin Ye had an idea in mind: "Teacher Zhang, you should take a rest first. I will go back to the village to find the secretary to find out the situation."
If Zhang Zhongjian was not lying, they might have to expand the scope and investigate the purchase of paraquat in other surrounding counties.
Paraquat has just arrived in China. Apart from people like Zhang Zhongjian who understand its effects, there are certainly not many people willing to buy it.
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Qin Ye and Li Quan quickly returned to Juexing Village.
With the cows borrowed from Waping Village, the villagers began to go to the fields to reclaim wasteland. They tried to use manpower as much as possible for farm work that could be done by manpower, and would use cows to help with work that could not be completed.
As soon as they saw Qin Ye, the villagers who were busy in the fields immediately greeted her: "Ye Ye, are you back from the county? Have the bad guys who poisoned you been caught?"
"Why can't I see Old Zhang today? I went out to pee last night, and I seemed to hear someone claiming to be a police officer, calling Old Zhang to investigate!"
The person who spoke was Shuanzi, a famous lazy man in the village. He had been beaten up by Qin Ze before for saying bad things about Qin Ye at the entrance of the village. "Qin Ye, could it be that Old Zhang was the one who poisoned him?"
Li Quan couldn't stand Shuanzi's playful appearance, so he said sternly, "Are you the police officer, or am I the police officer? Or should you investigate the case yourself?"
Shuanzi waved his hands repeatedly: "Oh, no, I won't ask anymore. You, the police comrade, are so hot-tempered!"
The village party secretary was hoeing the ground not far away. He looked up and saw Qin Ye and Li Quan. He hurried over with his hoe and said, "Ye Ye, Li Gongan, did you find anything?"
Qin Ye nodded and told the truth about the current progress: "The livestock ate hay mixed with paraquat and were poisoned to death. The only person who bought paraquat in the supply and marketing cooperative was Zhang Zhongjian from our village."
"That, that's not right! Ye Ye."
The village party secretary waved his hands anxiously, "When Old Zhang gave me the paraquat, it was well packaged. He couldn't have conjured the pesticide out of thin air and then poisoned the animals, right? You must have wronged him!"
Qin Ye took the hoe from the village party secretary and signaled him not to worry: "Don't worry, we are still investigating. No one said that the murderer is Teacher Zhang."
"Come on, Wang Meihua, come quickly."
The village party secretary didn't listen to Qin Ye's explanation at all. He thought she was trying to fool him, and hurriedly called a new witness for Zhang Zhongjian, "Wang Meihua, tell me, when I gave you paraquat that day and asked you to mix it with water to kill weeds, was the bottle full?"
Wang Meihua walked over and nodded when she heard the village party secretary's words, but soon an embarrassed expression appeared on her face.
Qin Ye saw that she was hesitant and said directly: "Comrade Wang Meihua, if you have any questions, you can just ask directly. Our police are here."
Wang Meihua scratched her right hand with her left hand, hesitating for a while, and finally said, "Before I opened it, it was indeed full. But, but Shuanzi suddenly jumped out from nowhere, snatched the pesticide from my hand and wanted to drink it, which scared me. I said it was pesticide, but he said I lied to him. How can pesticide have such a beautiful bottle?"
When Shuanzi heard Wang Meihua calling his name, he came over with a frivolous smile and said, "Widow Wang, what's wrong? Are you missing me in broad daylight?"
Wang Meihua didn't care about Shuanzi at the moment and continued, "When I took the pesticide back from him, I found that it was missing a little. It seemed that he spilled it when he took it away."
Qin Ye's heart was beating fast: "Where were you guys fighting at that time?"
Wang Meihua turned around, slowly raised her finger and pointed to the ridge where hay was piled not far away.
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