provincial capital.
Bie Dongshan hurried over to report to Cheng Rushan, "Director Cheng, Bian Haitao refuses to admit it."
Although he used the gallery as a link to accept bribes to help people do things, none of them were direct contacts, and on the surface they were all buying paintings. Even if the buyers admitted that it was a bribe, they could not convict Bian Haitao.
Cheng Rushan: "Then issue an investigation order and bring Jiang Ling and Meng Yiyi in for questioning."
In Cheng Rushan's opinion, Bian Haitao's behavior was a bit beyond his level. According to Bian Haitao's ability, he should not be so cautious and not reveal his tracks.
Jiang Lin had called him to tell him that Jiang Ling and Meng Yiyi had appeared in the capital, and he immediately understood what was going on. There was something wrong with Meng Yiyi, the so-called fortune-teller.
Cheng Rushan took the file again, flipped through it, and threw it down, "Have someone bring Kuang Guomei in for questioning."
Because Bian Haitao was investigated and suspended, Kuang Guomei was also affected and has not been to work these days.
Half an hour later, Kuang Guomei was taken to a quiet small meeting room. She sat there, feeling somewhat uneasy, looking out the window from time to time.
Soon, Cheng Rushan strode in, glanced at Kuang Guomei, and threw an envelope to her.
Kuang Guomei looked at him suspiciously, lowered her head and opened the envelope, a stack of photos fell out, and she was so angry that she trembled all over. She knew that Bian Haitao didn't like her. After she lost her usefulness, he not only had no feelings for her, but even hated her.
She endured it all for the sake of her son, and because her father had been sidelined after the Cultural Revolution and had no power to protect her, it would have been difficult for her to live if she divorced.
She knew that Bian Haitao had a woman outside, but she always pretended not to know. The pain in her heart was imaginable. As time went by, she was about to collapse several times.
Now that Bian Haitao is under investigation again, she is like a frightened bird.
Now that we have seen solid evidence that Bian Haitao had extramarital affairs, he can be dismissed and investigated based on this alone.
Cheng Rushan: "Bian Haitao violated laws and disciplines, and has had a very bad impact on the Party and the government. Now it has affected your work. Do you want him to affect your child's life?"
Kuang Guomei firmly believed that the father's class background would affect his children. Even though it had been ten years since the Cultural Revolution ended, this had not changed.
After her father stepped aside, all the people who had been bullied by him united to boycott their family, speaking coldly and ostracizing them in various ways. Her parents had a hard time. As a result, her brother's work and her nephews' studies were affected. Her nephews were bullied and ostracized by other students at school. Therefore, she knew how much influence her father had on a family without anyone telling her.
Kuang Guomei gritted her teeth and said, "Director Cheng, I want to divorce Bian Haitao!"
Cheng Rushan: "Bian Haitao illegally amassed wealth. You should know where the stolen money is hidden."
Kuang Guomei hesitated for a moment, remembering the scene when Bian Haitao was leaving.
When the procuratorate bailiff went to "invite" him, he asked for a few minutes to talk to her.
That was the second time he looked at her with such sincere eyes. He held her hand, and finally said, "Meimei, I have never regretted marrying you. No matter how much I have to do for my career, in my heart, you will always be my only wife."
Because of these words, she was so moved that she wanted to stand by him forever.
Now, after listening to Cheng Rushan's words and seeing these photos, she could no longer conceal the jealousy and despair in her heart.
It is a fact that we have known for a long time, but we will not believe it unless we see it with our own eyes.
These photos are more trustworthy than Bian Haitao's words.
"Director Cheng, there's a phone call!" The office secretary came running over.
Cheng Rushan said nothing more and let Kuang Guomei make her own decision. He got up and went back to his office.
On the way, the secretary said, "Director Cheng, it's President Jiang calling." After saying this, he found that Cheng Rushan, who had been walking slowly, suddenly quickened his pace and flashed into the office. His speed was like the speed at which everyone rushed to grab fat and Dacron in the past two years.
Cheng Rushan picked up the phone, his voice unconsciously softened, "Wife, where are you?"
Jiang Lin told him this when she called him before she was going home. He had been wondering where his wife's car was, and felt that she should be home in the evening.
Jiang Lin's voice was a little different, with a bit of unusual excitement, "Brother Shan, we encountered some problems on the road, but it was safe. We are now at the Pingde County Public Security Bureau..."
"Did you encounter bandits?" Cheng Rushan's voice suddenly became tense like a winch.
Jiang Lin was afraid that he would worry, and originally wanted not to tell him, but she was afraid that if she didn't tell him, he would definitely have opinions. Opinions were secondary, and the main thing was that she was afraid that he would be sad. She promised him that she would not hide anything from him.
"Don't worry, don't worry, it's okay. Didn't we ask someone to develop an electric shock baton before? It just came in handy. I shocked a robber, and..."
"What's wrong?" Cheng Rushan wished he could appear beside her immediately.
"It was me... I might have broken his leg. Will I be charged with intentional injury..." She had already knocked the man unconscious and drove off in her car to escape without paying any attention to him. In the panic, she broke his leg.
If this happened in modern times, some people would definitely accuse her of excessive self-defense or intentional injury, because the robber had already lost his ability to act and should have stopped hurting people, but she still broke his leg.
Hearing her cautious and worried tone, Cheng Rushan's heart felt as if something was gripping him tightly.
A few damn robbers were trying to rob her on the road, and she managed to escape, but now she is being accused of intentionally injuring the robbers?
If anyone dares to say it, he will hold a grudge against him for life!
"Don't be afraid. If you encounter this kind of situation next time, just kill him. I will take all the responsibility."
He became more and more determined to apply for a legal gun for her. He had practiced the use and maintenance of a pistol with Jiang Lin before, but this time when they took the train to the capital, she thought it was no problem and naturally refused to bring a gun.
It was still very troublesome to carry a gun, especially to a place like the capital. If she was going on a business trip to a remote or rural area, Cheng Rushan might have asked her to carry a gun, but there was no need to do so in the capital.
At that time, there was no nationwide crackdown on homemade and private guns, and many people in the countryside had pistols, homemade guns, and even semi-automatic rifles, especially urban and rural thugs, who basically all had guns.
Jiang Lin was originally a little scared.
At that time, she just wanted to escape, or perhaps she had a ruthless intention in her heart. When she saw the man lying under the car, she didn't even think of dragging him out. Instead, she used him as a cushion for the tire to climb out of the mud pit.
After arriving in a safe environment, she thought carefully and realized that her behavior was actually illegal because the man had lost his ability to act.
Anyway, if there is someone who claims to be a messenger of justice, he will definitely blame her, so she talked to Cheng Rushan in advance so that he could be prepared to avoid being caught off guard when the time comes.
"I'm not afraid. We will cooperate with the Public Security Bureau in the investigation, and soon..."
Before she could finish, Cheng Rushan said, "Wait there, I'll pick you up."
He immediately turned around and asked his secretary to arrange a car, "I'm going to Pingde County."
He said to Jiang Lin again: "Wait for me. Have a good rest."
He didn't even ask Jiang Lin if she was injured or if she was okay, because if he asked her she would definitely say she was fine. Instead of worrying about it, he might as well go and see her himself.
He spoke a few words to Jiang Lin, then hung up the phone and put on his pistol.
The secretary was startled. The moment Director Cheng pointed the gun at him, he felt a chill in his heart.
Cheng Rushan explained the situation to him and asked two bailiffs to accompany him for record.
Bie Dongshan ran over excitedly, "Director Cheng, Kuang Guomei is willing to confess."
Cheng Rushan was not happy at all, and said indifferently: "You take people to deal with this matter, I will go to pick up Dean Jiang."
Bie Dongshan: "What happened to my sister-in-law?" He instinctively knew something had happened, otherwise Cheng Rushan would not be so anxious and would not wait even for a second.
Cheng Rushan: "They encountered robbers over there. I want to go and investigate the case myself."
This kind of case is of course the responsibility of the public security organs. There is no reason for the courts and procuratorates to interfere in the early stages. Of course, there are exceptions. As long as they suspect that the case is related to the case they are investigating, they can inquire about it openly.
Cheng Rushan drove the car himself on the road, which stunned the two bailiffs who originally thought they were good drivers. In the end, they could only shut their mouths and hold on to the handrails.
Before dark, Cheng Rushan and his team rushed to the Pingde County Public Security Bureau.
After Jiang Lin finished recording his statement, he sat in the corridor of the Public Security Bureau to enjoy the cool air and talked to Su Xingyun. He and Xiao Chen were fine, and they just needed to rest for a few more days.
As they were talking, they saw a familiar jeep rushing in. It was Cheng Rushan and his colleagues' office car.
Su Xingyun opened his mouth wide, "Director Cheng is too fast!"
Jiang Lin quickly got up and ran over, and saw Cheng Rushan jumping down from the cab. His expression was unprecedentedly stern, which made her a little nervous.
Cheng Rushan only took a quick glance to confirm that she was intact, not injured or overly frightened, and he felt relieved. He strode forward, pulled her into his arms, and hugged her tightly.
Su Xingyun and his friends were used to it, but the police officers from the Pingde County Public Security Bureau were seeing it for the first time and they were all shocked.
This is too open! If it was a few years ago, if they hugged and kissed each other in public, they might have been charged with hooliganism.
Jiang Lin gently stroked Cheng Rushan's back a few times, signaling him not to be nervous and that everything would be fine.
Cheng Rushan then let her go, lowered his eyes and stared at her, with great pity, "Did the Public Security Bureau go to arrest the person?"
Jiang Lin smiled and said, "Deputy Director Zhang personally asked about it, and the Criminal Police Captain arranged for someone to investigate. They acted very quickly."
Jiang Lin told the story, and Su Xingyun and Xiao Chen also came over to add to their stories.
Afterwards, Jiang Lin analyzed that the men chose that location to ambush, which showed that they were very familiar with the area. For some reason, they were not masked. Jiang Lin and Su Xingyun both had a deep foundation in sketching. They could just draw their faces and go to the nearby villages to identify them. Knowing their names and appearances, they could arrest them directly. One of the men had his leg broken by her, so he definitely couldn't escape. Even if he didn't go to the hospital, he had to buy medicine, otherwise he would lose his legs.
The police had a clear idea and were more targeted, so Captain Liu led people directly to the area to arrest people.
Hearing that those people seemed to have deliberately robbed them and did not care about their government identity at all, Cheng Rushan's dark eyes suddenly narrowed, and Su Xingyun, who was standing opposite him, subconsciously took a step back.
Cheng Rushan: "I'm afraid this matter is related to them."
He was talking about Jiang Ling, Meng Yiyi and Bian Haitao.
Jiang Lin had previously told Cheng Rushan about her encounter with Jiang Ling and Meng Yiyi at Quanjude. In order not to make him angry, she did not mention Hu Kun's deliberate misidentification of the wrong person, but only told him about Jiang Ling and the others. Cheng Rushan immediately guessed that the two of them were going to help Bian Haitao, so he immediately stepped up his investigation of Bian Haitao and asked his connections in the capital to check Jiang Ling and Meng Yiyi's social life there. To a certain extent, this also promoted the progress of the case in the provincial capital.
At this moment, he keenly felt that those robbers might have been hired by someone to deal with Jiang Lin, or they might want to use this to attack him.
That must be related to Bian Haitao!
Cheng Rushan clenched his fists and said, "I'll go talk to Deputy Director Zhang."
After Cheng Rushan communicated with Deputy Director Zhang, he asked Jiang Lin and the other two to wait at the Public Security Bureau while he went to arrest the person himself.
Those guys were quite capable and hid very well, so the police couldn't catch them for a while.
Cheng Rushan was not afraid of him hiding. When it came to tracking, he was much better than these police officers.
At 10:30 at night, Cheng Rushan and his men found the man with a broken leg at the home of a barefoot doctor in the countryside.
The barefoot doctor used to be a bone-setting doctor, then he became the barefoot doctor of the village, and now he is the village doctor. He is good at setting bones, so these people came to him. The men may be afraid of being implicated, after all, the accomplice with a broken leg can't run, so they left him with the doctor.
nbsAs a result, the man was arrested.
Cheng Rushan took a quick look and saw that the man’s leg was already splinted because there was no plaster.
"Name." He asked coldly.
The man glanced at him, trying to show off his strength by not saying anything, with an expression that said, "Catch me if you want, just catch me, don't even think about getting me to cooperate and confess."
Cheng Rushan sneered, raised his long leg and pressed down, and the heel of his leather shoe hit the man's broken leg hard, breaking the splint that had just been tied. The pain was so severe that he rolled off the examination bed.
Cheng Rushan moved so fast that the other police officers didn't have time to react. A junior police officer subconsciously spoke up to stop him, "He has surrendered. We can't beat him anymore. We can't abuse lynching."
Cheng Rushan glanced at him with a cold look, "Abuse? Lynching? I was just saying hello to him." He looked at the man on the ground again and said coldly, "Name."
The man couldn't bear it anymore and trembled, "Wang... Zhaolong."
Cheng Rushan squatted in front of him, staring at his face coldly, "Tell me, who told you to rob three government officials on the road?"
"No, we didn't do it on purpose. Seeing them driving, we thought they were rich...ah——"
Before he could finish, Cheng Rushan punched his other broken leg again, causing him to break out in a cold sweat from the pain and almost faint.
Everyone else went to ask the doctor to take a statement, and they all tacitly pretended not to see anything. It didn't matter what Cheng Rushan did, as long as he didn't kill the man.
"The last chance." Cheng Rushan raised his eyebrows slightly, his eyes becoming colder and fiercer.
Wang Zhaolong boasted that he was fierce and powerful, and was a well-known figure. He had robbed hundreds of people, injured countless people, and naturally killed people. But when he faced Cheng Rushan, he was actually terrified from the bottom of his heart. This man was too scary.
"Yes, it was Lao Si. He gave us money and told us to just rob and...get rid of that woman..." He could hardly speak, because when he said this, he felt that the temperature of the man next to him dropped a lot, making people shiver in the hot weather.
Cheng Rushan did not attack him again, but said contemptuously: "How can you be so powerful if you can only attack ordinary people? It would be really powerful if you can win the fight in prison."
Even if the death penalty is imposed, it will not be carried out immediately. They will definitely be sent to prison to experience the warmth and coldness of the dark hell before dying.
Once Wang Zhaolong spoke, things became easier. He interrogated Lao Si and his accomplices on the spot and got them to confess everything.
Cheng Rushan took the confession and looked at it. He did not go back to rest, but directly led people to arrest the fourth brother and asked others to arrest the other accomplices.
As for Wang Zhaolong, just send a policeman to keep an eye on him, and then take him back to the police station.
Supported by Cheng Rushan's anger, the Public Security Bureau handled the case efficiently for the first time. In just three days, all the people involved in the case were arrested, and even three other gangs of robbers and thieves were arrested.
Through Wang Zhaolong, Lao Si was caught, and through Lao Si, we found a man in the capital nicknamed Lao Wai, who specialized in taking odd jobs.
If you use normal channels to contact the public security organs there to arrest someone, it will be very troublesome. You have to make various reports, apply, communicate, and finally hand over the materials. The normal procedures will take at least ten days or half a month, and the person will have already run away and hidden himself.
So Cheng Rushan directly used his connections in the capital to have Lao Wai under control as quickly as possible.
With the help of interrogation, they would naturally find out the truth about Jiang Ling hiring someone to kill someone.
Jiang Ling wanted to wait for news, so she didn't hide well and was soon caught. Meng Yiyi disappeared and her whereabouts could not be found for the time being.
A few days later, Cheng Rushan, Jiang Lin and others returned to the provincial capital. At the same time, Jiang Ling and Lao Wai were also escorted there.
Jiang Ling's murder case was exposed, and in order to save his life, he started talking nonstop without waiting for the police to interrogate him.
Finally, she pinned the idea of hiring a killer on Bian Haitao and Meng Yiyi in an attempt to evade responsibility.
Originally, because of the issues confessed by Kuang Guomei, Bian Haitao was already in danger, but now with Jiang Ling's backup, he was completely finished.
The relevant persons involved in the case were also arrested one by one.
At the same time, the central government reiterated the document from previous years, "On Severe Cracking Down on Criminal Offences." In the past, it focused on crimes such as hooliganism, but this time it focused on urban and rural bullies, gangsters, etc., and required quick, strict and severe punishment, and the most effective crackdown in the shortest time.
The Provincial Public Security Department and the Municipal Public Security Bureau also sent strong and capable cadres to the countryside to serve as county public security bureau chiefs, township police station chiefs, etc., requiring them to closely cooperate with the crackdown operations and eliminate rural bullies, bandits, robbers, etc. in the shortest possible time.
At the same time, the government has also launched a new wave of anti-corruption, requiring the majority of cadres to be strict with themselves, fight against corruption and promote integrity, and severely punish illegal acts such as embezzlement, bribery, dereliction of duty, and abuse of power for personal gain.
Under such circumstances, the case of Bian Haitao and his associates requires severe and strict punishment.
After investigation by the provincial and municipal public security organs in cooperation with the procuratorate, it was found that Bian Haitao illegally amassed 480,000 yuan through galleries, fortune-telling and other means, and was involved in several murders. Although he was not the direct murderer, he abused his power for personal gain, interfered with judicial justice, destroyed evidence, etc.
After trial by the High Court, ten people involved in the case in Gu County were sentenced to death and more than a dozen were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment.
Bian Haitao was sentenced to death.
Because the amount involved in the case was huge, Jiang Ling was severely punished and sentenced to life imprisonment in order to serve as a warning to others.
Meng Yiyi was a feudal superstitious person who deliberately made things mysterious. She participated in Bian Haitao's money-making and power-selling cases and was sentenced to life imprisonment (she is still at large).
Several robbers were also sentenced to death.
In the end, a total of 28 people were sentenced to death, making it a major case that shocked the whole country. The way the case was solved, tried, and the verdicts also became a benchmark for related cases in various provinces to refer to.
The execution date was set for one month later, when the crops had been harvested, the grass had dried up, the leaves had fallen, and everything was dead, just like the opera "Beheading in Autumn" that the common people were used to hearing.
During the crackdown period, if there were any death row prisoners, they would be taken together in large trucks in groups of several or a dozen to a fixed location.
There were so many people watching the execution that it was almost as crowded as those attending a temple fair.
In a blink of an eye, it was the eve of the execution. The prison guards specially served the death row prisoners a last dinner, each person had a large bowl of rice, a bowl of stir-fried vegetables with meat, and a plate of scrambled eggs with green onions.
After eating, we will set off early tomorrow morning.
Bian Haitao hasn't had a good night's sleep since he was imprisoned. Every time he closes his eyes, he hears the horrifying sound of a gun bolt being pulled, which is enough to torture him to death.
After having a meal on the road that night, he actually fell asleep and had a very magical dream.
In the dream, he and Jiang Lin were married but not living together. She was still beautiful, but more strong-willed, capable, and aggressive. He was a top student at a prestigious university and had completed his doctorate, while she was not serious about her studies and only got into a technical school. Later, she actually went into decoration and worked on construction sites like a man.
Although she is not well educated, she is very hardworking, works diligently and seriously, and is quite beautiful.
He admitted that he was very infatuated with her, but deep down he looked down on her and thought she was an inferior person, uneducated and domineering, which was simply fatal.
He likes women who are gentle as water and obedient to him in everything, which can give him enough vanity.
He is obviously a PhD from a prestigious university, but Jiang Lin does not admire him. Instead, because of her own low academic qualifications, she is even more stubborn and has an extremely strong personality and is unwilling to compromise, which makes him very dissatisfied.
When a gentle junior school girl with the same experience as him appeared, his heart was moved.
She admired him very much, obeyed him in everything, and regarded him as her god, which made him feel that this junior schoolmate was much better than Jiang Lin.
She is educated, well-educated, gentle and virtuous, making her the most suitable candidate for marriage.
So they secretly got together without Jiang Lin's knowledge.
He originally wanted to have the best of both worlds: Jiang Lin could make money, was pretty, and was presentable, which would help his career in the future. However, the school girl was gentle and considerate, which gave him the most genuine satisfaction and made him feel very manly.
Unfortunately, his schoolmate became pregnant and her personality changed drastically, forcing him to make a choice: either her or Jiang Lin.
Compared with Jiang Lin, who had obtained a marriage certificate but still refused to live with him, his heart naturally leaned towards the junior schoolmate who was pregnant with his child, so when he had to make a decision, he gritted his teeth and confronted Jiang Lin.
Little did he know that Jiang Lin would agree to divorce him immediately without any reluctance, which made him very dissatisfied and disappointed. He felt that Jiang Lin did not love him and even cheated on him. Otherwise, with his outstanding academic qualifications, why didn't she admire him at all?
When her friends and employees heard that he had a PhD from a prestigious university, they were all extremely envious of him.
He started talking about houses. He really wanted a house. It would be impossible for him to buy a house in the city within five years. But the schoolmate said that if there was no house, the children would not be able to settle down and could not go to school.
So, he asked Jiang Lin, even if it was just to borrow money!
Unexpectedly, she responded with a brick. He pushed her in anger, and her head hit the corner of the table and the wall hard.
Jiang Lin is dead.
He was so frightened that his mind went blank, and his head was broken and bleeding. Then a light bulb went off in his head, and he realized that he was acting in self-defense!
Jiang Lin hit him with a brick, but he still refused to give up and wanted to kill him, so he had no choice but to fight back.
Then, she got into an accident, and he didn't mean to do it!
At most, this can be considered as excessive self-defense, and he will be given a two-year suspended sentence. He won't have to go to jail at all.
He knew that Jiang Lin's father would never intervene in such matters. Jiang Lin's mother remarried, had a baby son, and was tightly controlled by her husband and her in-laws, so she would never intervene in such matters. If Jiang Lin's mother had taken care of her, she would not have fallen to the point of only being admitted to a vocational high school.
Everything went as he wished. The quarrel between the couple led to the accident. Naturally, he would not expose his cheating. He pushed all the responsibility to Jiang Lin. She didn't get along with her biological parents, so she didn't want to invite them to the wedding. But he felt that marriage was only once, so he should invite both parents to be witnesses. Only with the blessing of parents can the marriage be happy.
The two started arguing over this, and Jiang Lin, who always had a bad temper, hit him with a brick. He pushed her in a hurry, purely unintentionally.
Who knew that she would be so powerful that she would be knocked to death.
Originally everything went according to his wishes. He was not even guilty of manslaughter, but of self-defense. However, Jiang Lin's employees colluded to persuade Jiang Lin's mother to hire a lawyer to sue him, accusing him of murder for the house.
So his cheating, borrowing money, quarrels, etc. were all discovered, and even the insurance that he asked Jiang Lin to buy for the two of them was used as evidence of his murder for money.
The beneficiaries of his insurance policy were his parents, but the beneficiary of Jiang Lin's insurance policy was Bian Haitao.
He instructed his schoolmates and others to create public opinion online to discredit Jiang Lin. He also accused Jiang Lin's stepfather and stepmother of not caring about Jiang Lin but snatching the house after her death, causing a huge uproar.
Later, a friend of Jiang Lin took out her suicide note, which was written by a few friends half-jokingly.
They felt that if something unexpected happened, it would be infuriating to leave their property to someone who didn't love them. Jiang Lin's suicide note had certain conditions: if she and Bian Haitao were in love, she would leave it to him, but if there were any problems, she would donate it to the Hope Project.
Half a year later, the dust settled and Bian Haitao was convicted of intentional homicide and sentenced to death.
When the sound of the bolt was pulled, the fear in his heart reached its peak. He wanted to escape but there was nowhere to escape. The bullet whistled and pierced the back of his head. At that moment, he felt the most severe pain he had ever felt in his life.
"ah--"
He woke up from the nightmare with a roar, and it was already dawn.
The prison guards appeared outside the cell, counting the number of people and letting the prisoners who were to be executed today line up to get on the bus.
Bian Haitao had not yet recovered from the nightmare. When he heard the word death penalty, he was frightened.
He doesn't want to be beaten to death again! ! It's too scary!
The prison guards did not give him a chance to escape and directly put him on the truck.
"No, no... I don't want to die, I don't want to die..." Bian Haitao, who had been trying to remain calm, almost collapsed because of the nightmare of being executed.
No one likes to die twice!
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