After visiting all the educated youth in the settlement, Li Shi finally breathed a sigh of relief, because he had obtained the statements of several educated youth. The handkerchief that appeared at the crime scene belonged to the educated youth named Yang Xiaohong.
Once you have a preliminary suspect, the case becomes much easier; all that's left is to find evidence.
In the following days, police officers frequently went around conducting investigations, casting a shadow over the festive atmosphere that was just around the corner for the New Year.
During this period, the Shen family felt as if the sky had fallen, and Li Li sat at the door of her house every day, seemingly in a daze.
Shen Dazhu also aged more than ten years in an instant. After all, losing a son in middle age is a pain that is hard to accept for anyone.
Shen Wenge's funeral arrangements were handled by his three older sisters and two brothers-in-law. Even his second son-in-law, who was not well-liked by the elderly couple, dutifully helped with the arrangements.
The third son-in-law, who was serving in the military, was unable to return because he was on a mission.
Perhaps because of Li Shi's influence, Shen Wenge's autopsy results came out in just seven days.
As the police deduced, the final result was exactly as they predicted: Shen Wenge's blood contained a large amount of alcohol, meaning he froze to death while intoxicated.
With a direction in mind, the police went to the cabin again to carefully examine the scene, and sure enough, they found many signs that the cabin had been carefully cleaned.
However, they finally had a direction, and the police began to visit places where alcohol was sold.
Because we are still in the planned economy era, and people's living standards are just enough to make ends meet, we should start by examining the origin of the wine.
The police actually found a clue: a female educated youth had bought two jin of liquor at the supply and marketing cooperative a little over ten days ago.
Because most of the customers who come to buy wine on ordinary days are men or married women, the fact that a young and beautiful educated youth came to buy so much wine at once left a deep impression on the sales clerk.
The police showed Yang Xiaohong's photo to the sales clerk, who immediately recognized that the person who bought the wine was Yang Xiaohong.
The handkerchief found at the scene was confirmed by the police through interviews with several former educated youth to belong to Yang Xiaohong.
As a result, Yang Xiaohong was identified as the prime suspect in the Shen Wenge case and was taken to the police station for questioning.
Although Yang Xiaohong denied it to the death, she was ultimately unable to deny it in the face of the evidence.
In the end, it's unclear whether it was pressure from Li Shi or Yang Xiaohong's own realization.
Eight days after being taken to the police station, Yang Xiaohong admitted that her mistake may have led to Shen Wenge's accidental death, and recounted the events that caused it.
According to Yang Xiaohong, after Shen Wenge and Yang Wanqiu separated, Shen Wenge started pursuing her.
She also thought Shen Wenge was good-looking and came from a good family, so she agreed.
However, because the affair between Shen Wenge and Yang Wanqiu had caused quite a stir in the village, the two decided to secretly date first, and then go public with their relationship once things had calmed down and their feelings had stabilized.
The day the incident occurred was the day the two secretly went out on a date.
Knowing that Shen Wenge liked to drink, she went to town a day in advance to buy two jin of liquor, as well as a lot of snacks to go with it.
Shen Wenge took her to the cabin in the mountains. After drinking, Shen Wenge tried to take advantage of her, but she pushed him away and ran away.
She was still worried about Shen Wenge afterward, so she went to the cabin again the next day. To her surprise, Shen Wenge was already dead. Out of fear, she cleaned up the food and wine in the cabin and all traces of her presence.
The handkerchief was lost after that day, so when the police first showed it to her, she was scared and didn't confess.
Although Yang Xiaohong's account still has many loopholes and unclear points.
But as long as Yang Xiaohong admits that she went to the cabin with Shen Wenge before he died, that's fine.
It's unclear what the final decision was, but Yang Xiaohong was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Although the Shen family was not satisfied with the result, it was the highest sentence Li Shi could get.
After all, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that Shen Wenge's death was an accident, so the Shen family had no choice but to accept the outcome and take Shen Wenge's body back from the police station for burial.
There was a little incident in between, which was that the Shen family felt that Shen Wenge had died without ever getting married, and they were afraid that he would be lonely on the other side.
So, no one knows where they bought a recently deceased female corpse to hold a ghost marriage for Shen Wenge.
The Shen family found a sorceress from somewhere, and in the middle of the night, dressed in brightly colored clothes, they secretly held a ceremony to arrange a ghost marriage.
However, no one knows who reported them, but all five members of the Shen family, along with the sorceress and her husband, were taken away by the Revolutionary Committee on charges of promoting feudal superstition.
This was a period when these kinds of people were strictly investigated, so even though Li Shi and He Weian had people behind their backs, they were unable to rescue the five members of the Shen family.
The last family of five was sent to a labor camp called Erdaohuzi.
Fortunately, the Shen family knew that the fewer people who knew about this, the safer it would be. So the three sons-in-law were unaware of the matter beforehand, and the five members of the Shen family secretly arranged it themselves.
Therefore, the current incident has not implicated the sons-in-law of the Shen family, but the marriages of the three Shen sisters are doomed.
Although the three sons-in-law were very reluctant to part with the three sisters, they had no choice but to divorce and sever ties with the Shen family in the newspaper for the sake of their respective children.
And just like that, a family that was once happy was torn apart and its members killed in less than a month.
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