Lin Shuyue drove to Wangsan Village in the western suburbs. This village is below Suishan Village. Compared with Suishan Village, this village is more remote. There are almost no factories here. There are only tall dense forests and farmland around.
When Lin Shuyue arrived at the place, there were already many cars parked there, most of which were from various newspaper offices. There were also many people watching the fun, most of whom were villagers from nearby villages.
Lin Shuyue found Huang Qiang. Huang Qiang had been here for quite a while. It was still drizzling, and his hair was wet and stuck to his scalp. The camera in his hand was tightly protected by his canvas vest, and it was not touched by any rain.
Huang Qiang took Lin Shuyue to the front cordon to look inside. The crime scene was not far from the road nearby and it took less than five minutes to walk there.
Under the tall trees, there was an irregular firebreak. In the center of the firebreak was a pile of ashes. In the center of the firebreak was a wheelchair that had been burned to ashes. Around the wheelchair were many bones that had been burned to carbon.
"This was discovered by an uncle who came out to check on the rice this morning. He also came to the field yesterday. At that time, there was no wheelchair or bonfire. After he saw the bones, he called the police." Huang Qiang told Lin Shuyue, "Many cars passed by on the road behind us. Some people saw this and called the newspaper."
The newspaper's network of relationships is basically shared, so if one person knows about this criminal case, basically everyone knows about it.
After Huang Qiang arrived, he received another call from home. His daughter's school was going to hold a parent-teacher meeting, and as a father, it would be unreasonable for him not to attend, so he called Lin Shuyue.
"It rained so heavily last night, and these things were burned so thoroughly. This case may be difficult to investigate." Lin Shuyue said.
Huang Qiang nodded: "That's true."
Huang Qiang couldn't help but say: "You can only imagine how deep the hatred is, burning a person to this state. There is nothing left."
Lin Shuyue didn't say anything. Huang Qiang's phone rang again. It was his wife calling. After answering the phone and talking for a few words, Huang Qiang hung up the phone and said to Lin Shuyue, "Ah Yue, I'm leaving first. Ah Meng's school will hold a parent-teacher meeting this morning."
"Master, take care."
Huang Qiang waved to Lin Shuyue and left.
Lin Shuyue looked at the police coming and going and did not disturb them. Instead, she chose to ask the villagers who were watching nearby. The villagers had never been interviewed by reporters before, and even though they had been interviewed several times, they were still very enthusiastic.
She turned on the good and evil radar and found that among the crowd of people watching, not only was there no murderer, but the highest good and evil value was only 10%. In other words, the murderer was not among these people watching.
And up to now, the good and evil distinction system has not popped up any prompts about this case.
After Lin Shuyue interviewed the uncle who first discovered the incident, the police also finished investigating the scene. All the useful items left at the scene had been taken away, leaving only a pile of ashes.
Wu Dongyan saw Lin Shuyue early on. She nodded to Lin Shuyue, got into the police car, and drove away.
Less than two minutes later, Lin Shuyue's cell phone rang. Lin Shuyue looked at it while walking towards the car next to her.
As soon as she got in the car, it started raining again.
Wu Dongyan revealed some details to Lin Shuyue in a text message, but just as Lin Shuyue said, the scene was burned too thoroughly and the only remaining wheelchair could not be used as the key to solving the case. It would be very difficult to solve the case.
Lin Shuyue replied to Wu Dongyan's text message and drove back to the city.
On the way, she was really hungry, so she bought two buns and a cup of soy milk, and ate in the car while taking out the newspaper from the future from her system backpack.
This newspaper appeared in Lin Shuyue's hands, confirming one of Lin Shuyue's ideas.
This is a newspaper from the future, and if she doesn't read it, then the newspaper will not disappear.
Lin Shuyue opened the newspaper and the article on the front page was the same as the one Lin Shuyue wrote, both were "Deadly Water Delivery Worker".
It's just that the article was published much later than Lin Shuyue's report. It is now 2004, but this article was published in 2011.
Lin Shuyue looked down and saw that Li Tiangong's failure was also due to a medical accident. The sick person was a man in his forties who also had cancer. At that time, Li Tiangong was still engaged in the career of a water delivery worker, but he only opened one store.
His modus operandi was the same as when he treated Ma Yanmin. He would first deliver water to get close to the victim, and after getting close to the victim, he would increase the dosage of the drug in the water. Just when he was about to succeed, two relatives who had visited the middle-aged man came to his house, discovered the secret of the heavy water, and immediately called the police. The police followed the clues and traced back to Li Tiangong.
At that time, Li Tiangong was obsessed with other people's properties. He started committing crimes crazily in 2003. By 2011, he had bought more than 20 houses and shops. The number of victims who died started from the year he started delivering water, including his parents' lives, so he was responsible for a total of 20 lives. The number of people who became disabled after drinking his water reached as many as 35.
After being arrested, Li Tiangong confessed to his crimes, mocked the police, and finally revealed his crazy plan. He was tired of this kind of life with so many houses and so much money. Over the years, he invested a lot of money in his laboratory next to the reservoir and extracted a lot of heavy water. He planned to randomly release heavy water throughout the city.
Because he was arrested early, the plan was forced to abort. Later, the police found as much as ten tons of heavy water in the reservoir.
Finally, Li Tiangong was sentenced to death for illegally seizing other people's property.
After Lin Shuyue finished reading the newspaper, it disappeared.
Lin Shuyue took a deep breath.
Li Tiangong is a man who is completely crazy. Later on, just as he said, he was tired of living such a rich life. For him, seizing other people's houses is as easy as eating and drinking.
As time went by, he felt that there was no challenge and he was bored, so he wanted to expand the scope of poisoning to add some excitement to his peaceful life.
After killing so many people, he has become a pervert.
As soon as Lin Shuyue arrived at the newspaper office, Li Mingfang sent her a message saying that she was going on a blind date today and she was afraid, so she asked Lin Shuyue to go with her.
Lin Shuyue glanced in her direction, and she clasped her hands together and made a please gesture to Lin Shuyue. Lin Shuyue thought that there was nothing to do today, so she made an OK gesture to her, and Li Mingfang immediately blew her a kiss in response.
The blind date dinner was after getting off from work in the afternoon. Lin Shuyue did not go out that afternoon. She added the Women's Federation's Penguin that Wang Mingzheng gave her, and started chatting with He Xuefen, the secretary of the Women's Federation, on Penguin. During the chat, He Xuefen sent Lin Shuyue several information packages.
Lin Shuyue opened it and saw that the information contained information about female serious criminals serving sentences in Pengcheng Prison.
As for female crimes, except for a few extremely cruel ones, most of the others are just unfortunate because of their own misfortunes.
The ones that Lin Shuyue saw were the most representative.
Some women were abused by their husbands to the point where they could no longer take care of themselves, and eventually became so violent that they killed their husbands.
Some have been bullied by their husband's family all their lives, and finally don't want to endure it anymore, so they act impulsively.
There are also people who tried to protect their children from harm, but ended up going to jail for excessive self-defense.
After Lin Shuyue finished reading the information, she couldn't catch her breath for a long time.
After seeing so many of these cases and thinking about those wife-murder cases, she really felt that for women, the best way to stay safe is not to get married, have children, or fall in love.
After get off work in the afternoon, Lin Shuyue went to the parking lot with Li Mingfang to drive. It can be seen that she dressed up specially today and put on a lighter makeup.
After getting in the car, Li Mingfang told Lin Shuyue about her blind date.
"He is a high school teacher like my third aunt, and he graduated from college two years ago. My third aunt said she had been watching him for a year and felt that he was a very responsible person, kind to students, and had good teaching skills. So she introduced him to me." Li Mingfang is 21 years old. She attends a junior college, majoring in fine arts.
After graduation, she went to work at Pengcheng Metropolitan Daily. Her current monthly salary, including various benefits, is 1,500 yuan. At home, she can be said to be much better than all the children of the same age.
She had always been reluctant to go on blind dates, but her third aunt lobbied her at her house for three months before she agreed under pressure from her parents.
It was her first blind date, so Li Mingfang was a little nervous, and she also had some expectations for her blind date.
"Have you seen the photos in advance?" Lin Shuyue asked Li Mingfang while reversing the car.
"I've seen it. It's an ID photo. He looks OK."
As a player who has been surfing the Internet for many years, Lin Shuyue felt something was wrong when she heard this. Normal men would never show their ID photos to their blind dates. You know, ID photos have always been known for being ugly.
This teacher took out his ID photo for a blind date. Is it possible that his ID photo is the only thing he can show off?
Lin Shuyue had a lot of things she wanted to complain about, but when the words came to her lips, she swallowed them all.
Her grandmother in her previous life taught her since she was a child that when it comes to other people's emotional affairs, she should not meddle in other people's affairs, because it would be wrong to meddle in other people's affairs.
Lin Shuyue just followed her words and continued the conversation.
While the two were chatting, they arrived at the restaurant where they were going to have dinner today.
This restaurant is a Sichuan restaurant. It is nicely decorated with an antique style. Several strings of red peppers and yellow corns are hung on the walls.
Li Mingfang and her blind date had agreed that each of them would bring a book. Li Mingfang brought a collection of Rabindranath Tagore's poems. After looking around, they saw a book called "How the Steel Was Tempered" on a young man's table in a corner.
Lin Shuyue and Li Mingfang looked at each other silently, and both of them remained silent.
Because there were already two or three dishes on the table in front of the young man, and he was eating with a pair of chopsticks.
Li Mingfang's nervousness suddenly dissipated. Just when the two decided to leave, the young man who was eating looked up and saw the book in Li Mingfang's hand.
He put down his chopsticks and wiped his mouth with a tissue: "Are you Li Mingfang who went on a blind date with me?"
Without waiting for Li Mingfang to speak, he said, "I'm really sorry. Something happened at school this morning and I haven't eaten for the whole day. When I got to the restaurant and smelled this delicious food, I couldn't help it. Come on, sit down."
His name had been called out, and in such public place, Li Mingfang couldn't leave, so she had to pull Lin Shuyue to sit opposite him.
The young man glanced at Lin Shuyue and introduced himself: "Teacher Sun should have told you, right? My name is Zhou Xiang, I'm from Wancheng, and I went to university in Shu Province. Now I'm a high school math teacher."
Teacher Sun is Li Mingfang's third aunt. Li Mingfang looked at the man opposite her, who looked exactly like his ID photo, and her heart was calm. Putting aside the compliments from her third aunt, Li Mingfang had a bad impression of this man when they first met.
Her family taught her since she was a child that no matter how hungry she was, she had to wait for the guests to arrive before eating together. If she was really hungry, she should eat something else first. It was very rude to eat half of the meal before the guests arrived.
Zhou Xiang is a high school teacher, so it's understandable that he's busy, but it's really hard for him to not have a meal all day. Li Mingfang and Zhou Xiang added each other on Penguin. They've been chatting since they added each other, and they haven't stopped contacting today.
If Zhou Xiang was really hungry, he could just tell her directly and she wouldn't mind so much.
Now that this happened suddenly, she felt really uncomfortable.
This is not her blind date, so Lin Shuyue doesn't have any opinion about it.
After Li Mingfang smiled at Zhou Xiang, Zhou Xiang took the initiative to unpack the tableware for Li Mingfang and Lin Shuyue, and even scalded them with hot water: "Mingfang, right? We have been chatting on Penguin for three days, and we are familiar with each other. I won't be polite with you."
"I've already ordered the dishes, and there are still a few more that will be served one after another. Let me tell you, I went to school in Shu Province for four years, and I've eaten at least 80 if not 100 restaurants in Shu Province. I know which dishes are delicious and which are not. Mingfang, you've never been out of the province, so you definitely don't know."
Zhou Xiang kept talking, and before Li Mingfang could answer him, he turned to Lin Shuyue and said, "My lady, do you think I am right?"
A waiter brought the dishes up. Lin Shuyue took a look and saw that this was already the fourth spicy dish, including the two dishes on the table. She ignored Zhou Xiang, and Zhou Xiang didn't need her answer. He started talking again.
The table was full of red dishes. It is undeniable that boiled pork slices, spicy chicken, pickled fish, and mapo tofu were all good dishes. The dishes in this Sichuan restaurant looked and smelled quite good, but that was for people who liked spicy food. For those who don't like spicy food, those pots of red dishes were really terrible.
What's even more unfortunate is that Li Mingfang is a native of Guangdong and she can't eat spicy food. When Lin Shuyue goes out to eat with her, she always orders slightly spicy chili peppers. If the peppers are a little bit spicier, Li Mingfang can't stand it. Not only will her mouth swell up from the spiciness, but her stomach can't stand it either.
In other words, there was not a single dish on the table that Li Mingfang could eat. The smile on Li Mingfang's face was already very forced.
The waiter served the dishes one after another, and the last dish was Kung Pao Chicken, which made Lin Shuyue and Li Mingfang breathe a sigh of relief.
It can be seen that Zhou Xiang is a very outgoing person. Even though Lin Shuyue and Li Mingfang have not said a few words to each other since they sat down, he does not feel awkward at all.
He pointed at the Kung Pao Chicken on the table and said with a smile: "Let me tell you, my friends in Sichuan Province said that this Kung Pao Chicken and the Fish-flavored Shredded Pork are really nothing like Sichuan cuisine. They are neither sour nor sweet, and are really different. I think so too. If you ask me, this dish should be spicy to be enjoyable. You should try it. This restaurant's Sichuan cuisine is very authentic. I have eaten it once last year and I have been thinking about it all the time."
Because of Zhou Xiang's words, Li Mingfang's chopsticks that were stretched out to pick up the Kung Pao Chicken froze in mid-air. Lin Shuyue saw this and simply took a spoon and scooped several spoonfuls of Kung Pao Chicken into Li Mingfang's bowl. Then she said to Zhou Xiang, "Teacher Zhou, we are not as knowledgeable as you. For us, whether it is boiled pork slices or fish-flavored shredded pork or Kung Pao Chicken, it must exist for a reason. Just like not everyone in Shu Province likes spicy food, and not everyone in Guangdong and Guangdong can eat spicy food like you."
Lin Shuyue's rebuttal froze the smile on Zhou Xiang's face. He originally thought that Lin Shuyue was pretty and Li Mingfang was a beautiful girl, and he was very satisfied with them. Because of this satisfaction, he couldn't help but show off his knowledge.
Teacher Sun has already told Zhou Xiang that Li Mingfang has never been to college, which Zhou Xiang thinks makes her a little unworthy of him.
Lin Shuyue refuted him, which made him very unhappy, but Lin Shuyue was not his blind date, so even if he was refuted, he couldn't say much. If he said more, he would only feel cheap.
Li Mingfang had obviously lost interest in this blind date party because of Zhou Xiang's previous actions.
Zhou Xiang didn't think so, nor did he think there was anything wrong with him. He always felt that his blind date with Li Mingfang was going smoothly, except for the little episode just now, but that was not important.
After eating a lot of food and drinking a bottle of mineral water, Zhou Xiang finally got to the point.
"Mingfang, I heard from Teacher Sun that you are working at a newspaper now, right?"
"Yes." After completely discarding Zhou Xiang from the identity of a blind date partner, Li Mingfang has regained her original calm and composed self. After replying to Zhou Xiang, she even waved to the waiter and ordered a serving of steamed egg with lotus seeds.
Zhou Xiang frowned as he looked at the meat dishes on the table that had hardly been touched.
"So what do you think are your plans for the future?" Zhou Xiang asked.
"What plan?" Li Mingfang was a little confused.
"Your plan for the future. You don't want to be a painter in a newspaper for the rest of your life, do you?" Zhou Xiang sounded as if he had heard some big joke. Both his tone and smile were very exaggerated.
When Li Mingfang heard this, she was very unhappy: "What's wrong with being a painter in a newspaper for a lifetime?"
Zhou Xiang spoke freely: "That's not the case, but I think that if the newspaper you work for is a state-owned enterprise, it would be fine, but it is a private enterprise, and there is no security at all. I think you are wasting your life working there. The salary is high now, but if the newspaper goes bankrupt one day, you will be unemployed."
Li Mingfang was even more unhappy. She put down her chopsticks and leaned back in her chair. The smile on her face was not even perfunctory: "Then what kind of work do you think is not a waste of life?"
Zhou Xiang didn't care about Li Mingfang's thoughts. He just thought that since Li Mingfang was willing to go on a blind date with him, she was basically his marriage partner. He spoke more and more casually: "I think the best job for a woman is to stay at home to take care of her husband and children. Just like my mother, she took good care of my father and us at home. I hope my future wife will be like my mother, a gentle, virtuous and family-oriented person."
The smiles on Li Mingfang and Lin Shuyue's faces have completely disappeared.
Li Mingfang looked at Zhou Xiang's ordinary face which could not be called handsome but was not ugly, and couldn't understand how he had the nerve to say such a thing. Didn't he feel ashamed?
Li Mingfang even annoyed her third aunt: "Teacher Zhou, you may have found the wrong person. I am a career woman. I will not quit my job to stay at home and take care of my husband and children."
Li Mingfang felt that she had worked hard to pick up a paintbrush since junior high school, and she studied painting in college. Her family had invested a lot of money in her hobby. When she was young, her parents let her take private painting lessons at 30 yuan an hour without blinking an eye. No matter how expensive her paintbrushes and paints were, they never said they would not buy them.
They have put so much effort into training her until now, not for her to quit her job and stay at home to cook for a man.
Lin Shuyue gave Li Mingfang a thumbs up.
Zhou Xiang was really unhappy: "I said Mingfang, you are wrong to think like this. Since ancient times, men are yang and women are yin. Working and making money is a man's responsibility, and raising children is a woman's duty. You said you are a professional woman and you can't do things like taking care of your husband and children. Isn't this just like a hen crowing at dawn, which is against the will of heaven?"
"Mingfang, and Lin Shuyue, right? Let me tell you, your idea is totally wrong. Listen to my advice, women, it's better not to be so strong-willed. No man will want a woman who is too strong-willed."
The waiter brought the steamed egg with lotus roots that Li Mingfang ordered, and Zhou Xiang stopped talking.
Li Mingfang took the opportunity to ask the waiter about the prices of Kung Pao Chicken and Steamed Egg with Lotus Root, and then divided the plate of Steamed Egg with Lotus Root into two portions, one for Lin Shuyue and the other into her own bowl.
Zhou Xiang was even more unhappy when he saw this scene. From childhood to adulthood, whenever there was something delicious in his family, his father would eat it first. After his father had tasted the first bite, the rest would be eaten by him and his mother.
In his opinion, Li Mingfang was very selfish because she only cared about herself and not him. He felt that he had to think carefully about Li Mingfang.
Looking at the two good-looking but rebellious women across from him, Zhou Xiang asked Li Mingfang, "Mingfang, I heard from Teacher Sun that your home was demolished a few years ago and you were allocated a two-bedroom apartment, right?"
Li Mingfang didn't understand what the house she was given after the demolition had to do with Zhou Xiang. She wasn't in a hurry to leave now, so she just wanted to hear what nonsense Zhou Xiang had to say: "Yes, what's wrong?"
Zhou Xiang sat up straighter: "It's like this, Teacher Sun said that was your dowry. But I think that we are already in this kind of relationship now, and my current job is also in Pengcheng. Unless something unexpected happens, I will not go back to my hometown."
"I am a grown man, and it is a bit inappropriate for me to live in my wife's house after marriage. It will damage my reputation as a teacher. How about this? You sell your house, and I will add another 10,000 or 20,000 yuan, and we will buy a new house. When the time comes, we will put my name and yours in the house. What do you think?"
Lin Shuyue had heard about people talking about weird blind dates online before, and those blind dates were so weird that they looked fake. But she had never encountered such a thing in real life, today she was enlightened.
Lin Shuyue turned on the good and evil radar and found that Zhou Xiang's good and evil value was only 19%, not enough to commit a crime. She was amazed that a man who wanted to plot against the woman's pre-marital property just after the blind date could not even be considered a crime.
But the sin value of 19% is not low. It can be said that Zhou Xiang is testing the edge of crime. Lin Shuyue decided to check Zhou Xiang when she has time. He is a high school teacher, and his high school students are already in their teens. She is not afraid of anything else, but she is afraid that this bastard will harm the children.
Zhou Xiang was still talking, talking in exaggerated terms about how he wanted Li Mingfang's house. Lin Shuyue was amazed by his beautiful words.
It turns out that those 818 posts on the Internet in the previous life were not false. How could Zhou Xiang, who showed disrespect and contempt for women from the beginning to the end, have such a shameless face and say such shameless words? To be able to live off a gigolo to such an extent, he must be a talent.
Li Mingfang's eyes widened even more. She may be considered as an adult but she still had little experience. How could she meet such a talent? "Teacher Zhou, I think you got something wrong. This is the first time you and I have met. Before this, we only chatted for a few minutes on Penguin. There is no connection between us except that we are blind dates introduced by our elders."
"As for your talk of getting married, that's nonsense. You don't have to worry about my house. It was given to me by my parents. It had nothing to do with you before, and it will have even less to do with you in the future."
"Ah Yue, let's go." Li Mingfang called Lin Shuyue. Lin Shuyue stood up from her seat. Li Mingfang called the waiter who had been watching the fun from the side: "My friend and I only had Kung Pao Chicken and Steamed Egg with Lotus Root for dinner tonight. We didn't even touch a bite of rice. This is our meal fee."
After Li Mingfang counted out ten yuan, she took Lin Shuyue away. Lin Shuyue's car was parked outside the store. The two got in the car and drove away.
Zhou Xiang was left sitting there, facing the stares of the people in the restaurant, he became angry and embarrassed. Finally, he angrily paid for the meal and packed up the remaining dishes to take back.
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In Lin Shuyue's car, Li Mingfang took out her cell phone and deleted all of Zhou Xiang's contact information, then secretly cursed.
"When my third aunt told me about this, I really didn't expect him to be this kind of person. Ah Yue, did you hear what he said? It's really disgusting. No, I have to call my third aunt. How could she hurt me like this?"
Without waiting for Lin Shuyue's answer, Li Mingfang called her third aunt and complained to her on the phone. Her third aunt was very surprised. When she introduced this guy to her niece, she really didn't expect Zhou Xiang to be this kind of person. She apologized to Li Mingfang on the phone.
Li Mingfang was finally happy. She complained about Zhou Xiang to Lin Shuyue. The two of them were arguing with each other. Lin Shuyue sent Li Mingfang home, and it started raining again.
It was only eight o'clock in the evening when Lin Shuyue returned home.
At Pengcheng No. 3 High School, Zhou Xiang also walked to the dormitory. He had just put down the leftovers when his cell phone rang. He picked up the phone and immediately showed a smug smile.
"Hey, Zhuzhu, you called me because you've thought it through... Are you willing to sell the house... That's right, that's what a good woman should be like... Don't worry, I will definitely treat you well in the future... Want to meet? Where are you now... Oh, then I'll go out, you wait for me outside."
Zhou Xiang went out humming a song. Just as he walked out of the school gate and turned a corner, he felt a pain on the back of his head. Before he could react, he lost consciousness...
The next morning, Lin Shuyue received another call from Huang Qiang: "What, another burned body was found?"