Chapter 34 Blackmail
Wang Xiaocui's youngest son is called Li Le, who is 27 years old this year. After graduating from college, he followed his uncle in engineering outside.
After running for a few years, he felt that staying at the construction site was not interesting at all.
No peers, no women, no fun.
At this time, a large multinational pharmaceutical company planned to open a factory in Jiangcheng, and a large area of land near Basia Village became the first choice.
Instead of eating dust all year round at construction sites in other places, it would be better to go back to the village to see if there are any development opportunities.
After all, Wang Xiaocui's natal family has some influence in the local area, and no matter how much Li Cheng hates his marriage, he still has feelings for his son. This relationship alone makes him stronger than many of his peers.
As long as that multinational company's factory opens, there will be a steady stream of opportunities in the future.
Factories, office areas, investments in Jiangcheng, etc. will bring a series of jobs and connections. Li Cheng was an intellectual and had a far-sighted vision, so he called his son back to his hometown to develop.
But a very thorny problem lies before us——
The land belongs to the village, and not everyone thinks it is a good thing to transfer the land.
So the village chief Li Cheng, together with his tyrant drinking friends, began a long-term bullying of the villagers in order to get them to sign the consent form.
Li Cheng was somewhat restrained in dealing with the villagers who looked up and looked down, and used both soft and hard tactics.
But Liu Zhuhua was away all year round, and Li Cheng had a grudge against her, so she didn't care about that much. Her son in the village became the key target of Li Cheng's persecution.
It was also Li Cheng's idea to move the garbage dump from the other end of the village to near Liu Zhuhua's old house. In his original words, "Don't those fools always like to dig through garbage? This saves walking, and he has to thank me." .”
The house was not as shabby as Xu Yiqing and the others saw at first. The village bullies asked their children to work together to bully the fool, and gradually the whole village didn't want to see him. Under the attack of stones and rumors, the house lost its glass, and the hearts and walls were riddled with holes.
Du Yu stood outside the ICU ward and looked into the room. A group of people used a pager to talk to the nurse in the room through the glass.
"Comrade police, you can't come in. This is a sterile ward." The nurse said, "If you have anything to ask, tell me and I will convey it to you."
Du Yu asked: "Li Le, what happened to you that night?"
The nurse lay in front of the hospital bed and sent a message to Li Le, who was already awake. He was wrapped in bandages, with almost no exposed skin...
Xu Yiqing could completely imagine the scene under the bandage. If Li Le hadn't still been breathing, they would have been no different from the corpses in the morgue of the Forensic Medicine Department. They were horrifying and ugly.
Li Le struggled to speak, and every word he spoke would affect his burned face.
The flames took away his skin and lips and limited his ability to speak.
The nurse regretfully told Du Yu: "Comrade policeman, he doesn't want to say anything. He keeps asking how his father and uncles are doing."
Du Yu was about to answer truthfully, but Zhou Shi stopped him first: "Put it another way."
She quietly said something to Du Yu. Du Yu frowned and felt that it was a bit cliche, but there was no other good way at the moment.
Du Yu said: "Li Le, I know you can hear me. Your house caught fire. Unfortunately, of all the people present, only you are still alive, and everyone else is dead."
Through the glass, the three of them saw Li Le lying on the bed in a state of excitement, struggling with his hands and feet, making noises from the medical instruments and infusion tubes around him.
The nurse quickly calmed him down.
Du Yu continued: "I know you are sad. I'm sorry Li Le, but I am a policeman and I have the obligation to tell you the truth. So I would like to ask you to tell me the truth and tell me everything that happened that night." Tell us.”
Seeing that Li Le still had no intention of confessing, everyone understood that Liu Zhuhua had gone to Li Cheng's house to blackmail him that night. As a relative, Li Le would definitely not let out any harmful information about his father.
After all, the point of blackmail is not to let others know these secrets.
So Du Yu could only sigh lightly and do as Zhou Shi said: "We haven't found out the cause of the fire yet, but it is very likely that it was arson. Your brother, father and uncles are already dead, so You can tell the truth boldly and it will help us solve the case. You don’t want your family members to die in an unknown way, right?”
After a long time, Li Le finally spoke.
He motioned to the nurse to bring over the pager and he wanted to speak to the police himself.
Even moving a millimeter of his current body would cause pain.
"The fire in my house...has anything to do with that woman...?"
Du Yu understood that the woman Li Le was referring to was Liu Zhuhua, and he nodded: "There is a possibility."
After hearing the positive reply, Li Le slowly closed his eyes. After a long psychological struggle, he decided to tell the truth about Liu Zhuhua's visit that night.
"My mother just left that night." Li Le gasped and said, "My dad's friends came one after another. My brother got along well with them. I was a little afraid of strangers. My dad said these uncles and uncles helped him on weekdays. Quite a few, let me learn from my brother.”
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"Then the door rang outside...I went out to open the door and saw the woman!"
Li Le looked excited, "I don't know her. She said she wanted to see my dad if she had something to do... I saw her carrying something and thought she was here to give a gift, so I didn't want her to come in."
Du Yu heard this and interrupted: "What did Liu Zhuhua bring?"
Li Le said: "Some milk, oranges... and some briquettes. They said they were all good coal. My family doesn't burn the stove, so I let her put it in the yard. When I have time, I will send it to relatives in the village."
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Speaking of this, he felt annoyed and had a painful expression on his face. He didn't know whether it was physical pain or regret: "If I had known, I would have driven her away!"
Du Yu continued to ask: "What happens next?"
Li Le said: "Then she entered the door. I walked forward and told my dad that someone was coming to give gifts. But my dad's face changed the moment he saw her and asked her what she was doing."
"Liu Zhuhua said she came to give my dad a gift. My dad didn't believe it, and neither did the uncles in the house. They all told her to get out."
"I was a little confused at this time, and my brother pulled me aside. My dad asked her what she was doing, and she said she wanted to borrow money from my dad."
"Then those uncles and uncles laughed when they heard it. They said they didn't lend it to her even if they had money to feed the dogs. They didn't sell the land at first, but now they come to borrow money. They think they are fools."
Du Yu and Xu Yiqing looked at each other and realized that Liu Zhuhua was really after money.
Borrowing is nothing more than a euphemism, but it is actually blackmail.
And from what Li Le said, it was possible that she was determined to die.
The family's land was forcibly taken away by the village bully, and his son was bullied in the village. Now he came to borrow money, maybe not to borrow his life.
Du Yu asked: "What did Liu Zhuhua say next?"
Li Le's eyes were horrified: "She said that if she didn't lend her money, she would tell my mother about my dad's bad things... I have never seen my dad with such a terrifying expression!"
(End of chapter)