Zeng Xuyang sighed, "I originally thought this case was easy to solve, but unexpectedly it hit a deadlock again. It was only after we changed the direction of the investigation that the case took a turn for the better.
The cave where Xiao Yilin died was a body dumping site, not the first crime scene. The murderer killed Xiao Yilin and dumped the body in the back mountain. When he dumped the body, perhaps someone would have found it.
We sent people to visit the nearby suburbs and finally found a witness. According to him, he had just returned from the fields that day and it was already dark when he saw a man pulling a wheelbarrow and walking hurriedly towards the back mountain.
The cart was covered with some straw and a torn quilt. When the cart passed a small ditch, it bumped and a pool of blood appeared on the cart.
He asked in confusion, "Comrade, what's in your car? It looks like it's bleeding."
The suspect said in a panic, "Two chickens at home were killed by weasels. He said he was going to the village ahead to pick up his wife and children and gave one to his mother-in-law. The blood on the ground was chicken blood."
The witness didn't pay much attention to it at the time. It was only when we went there to investigate that he thought the man was suspicious and might be the murderer.
Chu Jingqiu met the witness the next morning and quickly drew a portrait of the suspect based on the witness's description.
Soon, the Public Security Bureau caught the murderer of Xiao Yilin, who was Xiao Yilin’s half-brother Zhu Lianshun.
Zhu Lianshun was spoiled by Old Lady Zhu since he was a child. He was idle and cruel. He was detained by the police station many times for fighting.
When I was a child, the neighbors around me were harassed by him and it was unbearable.
My neighbor, Old Wu, had just bought a few ducklings, but he smacked them with a shovel and turned them into meat patties.
There was also a neighbor named Lao Wang, who stole the bacon that his family bought for the New Year and cooked and ate it. What's more outrageous is that he deliberately threw the basket of bacon to Lao Wu's house, and the two families even had a fight over this.
As soon as the children around heard that Zhu Lianshun was coming, they were so scared that they ran home crying.
Those who didn't run had their legs weakened so much that they peed their pants and couldn't run anymore.
When Zhu Lianshun grew up, he still couldn't find a proper job. He worked as a temporary worker in many factories, including sugar factories, food factories, and ice factories.
He is in his early thirties and still unmarried, and no girl is willing to marry him.
Recently, someone introduced him to a daughter-in-law from another place. The other party asked for a betrothal gift of 300 yuan. His family was extremely poor and could not afford such a large sum of money.
Just when he was worried about money, he overheard from his neighbor that his half-sister was very rich, with at least one thousand yuan.
He felt that Xiao Yilin's mother seduced his father, causing his father to be shot, and since the mother's debt should be paid by the daughter, it was only right for Xiao Yilin to give him some money.
He asked his grandmother to go and look for Xiao Yilin.
His grandmother was afraid that Xiao Yilin would not recognize her, so she lied to her and said that she had been looking for her for many years but could not find her. Her father left her a house and some money before he died, hoping that Xiao Yilin could return to her roots.
When Xiao Yilin first met Old Lady Zhu, she looked disgusted, but when she heard that there was an inheritance to be inherited, she immediately became enthusiastic.
Xiao Yilin definitely wanted to get the inheritance, but didn't want to have anything to do with the Zhu family, so she deliberately came to the Zhu family at night with some canned cakes and other things.
The grandparents and grandchildren also made dumplings for her. When she heard that Old Mrs. Zhu wanted to borrow her own money to help Zhu Lianshun get married, she suddenly became anxious.
She was halfway through her meal and was about to leave with the pastries she had brought when Zhu Lianshun stopped her and tied her up.
Old Mrs. Zhu searched her body and took out twenty yuan, as well as some food coupons, cloth coupons, etc., but this amount of money was not enough for Zhu Lianshun to marry a wife.
Zhu Lianshun took the key from Xiao Yilin's bag, ran to Xiao Yilin's residence while it was dark, and searched her residence and found about 800 yuan.
Zhu Lianshun didn't intend to kill Xiao Yilin at that time. He just wanted to extort some money from Xiao Yilin. He also sternly warned her not to call the police. The money was her compensation to the Zhu family on behalf of her mother.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Yilin was not afraid at all. She cursed at the Zhu family's grandparents and threatened Zhu Lianshun to return the money to her, otherwise she would go to the public security bureau to sue him.
Zhu Lianshun thought that Xiao Yilin was alone now, and no one would look for her even if she died outside.
He decided to go all out and directly picked up the fruit knife on the table and stabbed her. He didn't know how many times he stabbed her until Xiao Yilin fell in a pool of blood.
He was afraid that Xiao Yilin would be recognized and find out about him, so he cruelly destroyed Xiao Yilin's appearance and stripped her clothes, leaving her no clues that could be identified.
Afterwards, he and Old Lady Zhu cleaned up the scene, and while it was still dark, they used the family's trolley to throw Xiao Yilin into a cave in the back mountain.
When the police went to arrest him, he was at home repairing the house and making furniture, and he was going to welcome his new wife into the family in half a month.
Zeng Xuyang still felt that this matter was a bit strange. Outsiders knew that Xiao Yilin came from the Xiao family and might have some money.
But how could Zhu Lianshun know the exact amount of money in Xiao Yilin's hand? He interrogated the Zhu family's grandparents and grandchildren in detail, and also investigated and visited Zhu Lianshun's neighbors.
Zhu Lianshun's grandmother often played mahjong with the old lady from the opposite Lao Bai family.
Old Mrs. Zhu also heard it from Old Mrs. Bai's niece, and that niece was Jing Zhiguo's mother, Song Fenlian.
It turned out that Xiao Yilin took 700 yuan from Jing Zhiguo and took revenge on Jing Zhiguo. Jing Zhiguo failed to gain anything and had long been jealous of Xiao Yilin.
I originally wanted to cheat Xiao Yilin's money back before returning to the northwest.
However, Xiao Yilin has seen through his true colors and is no longer deceived by him, so Jing Zhiguo decides to take more extreme measures to retaliate against her.
He happened to know the grandparents of the Zhu family. When he was a child, he came to his aunt's house to play. When he was rolling a hoop on the street, Zhu Lianshun snatched a hoop from his hand and hit him.
This man is a well-known gangster who is ruthless and cruel. If he knew that Xiao Yilin has money and they still have this kind of relationship, Xiao Yilin will be skinned alive even if she doesn't die.
So he used the excuse of visiting his great aunt before returning to the northwest, and came to the Bai family with his mother Song Fenlian, and specifically told Mrs. Bai about Xiao Yilin's situation.
Mrs. Bai heard this at the time, but for some reason, perhaps because she was old and her memory was not good, she did not tell Mrs. Zhu about it.
Unwilling to give up, Jing Zhiguo came to Mrs. Bai's house again. This time, he specially chose a day when Mrs. Zhu was also there.
He even exaggerated the fact that Xiao Yilin was rich and told Mrs. Zhu her current address, encouraging Mrs. Zhu to ask her for money.
Old Mrs. Zhu was greedy by nature. After hearing what Jing Zhiguo said, she had evil thoughts and couldn't wait to tell her grandson Zhu Lianshun about it when she returned.
When Zhu Lianshun heard that there was money to be made, and the target was the sister of that adulteress, he also had evil thoughts in his mind. The grandfather and grandson hit it off and decided to join forces to ask Xiao Yilin for the money.
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