After Wen Li woke up, she learned from Xu Chun that the teacher Luo she was looking for had been killed.
In a short period of time, her eyes were dull and she almost lost her ability to think. After a long time, tears welled up in her eyes, and she repeated mechanically: "How is it possible? Who would harm Teacher Luo? He is so kind..."
After the video conference with Xu Chun, Ming Shu hurried to Xiao Yu'an's office.
"I guessed part of the reason why Luo Xiangfu sent photos to Shetu Town." Mingshu put his hands on the edge of the table, "but I thought Shetu Town and Li Hongmei's Xiaben Village were similar. I didn't expect the status of women there to be so low. degree."
"Before Luo Xiangfu traveled to Shetu Town, Wen Li had been working there for a year and a half. According to her words, there was no improvement at all." Xiao Yu'an said: "From the first time Luo Xiangfu developed photos, until now, In about a year and a half, Maoyi Village has changed whether it is an adult woman or a minor girl. Luo Xiangfu touched the interests of some people and shook their status. "
When Mingshu is logical, he likes to walk in large strides, the office is full of his footsteps, "These people are the local men, when they find that the women who were born inferior start to have other thoughts and start not listening to themselves. When they say it, they must panic and then look for the reason. It is not difficult to find the reason. They can easily find that someone keeps sending photos of modern women from Dongye City. A border town like Shetu Town has a sturdy and eccentric people. Many times the government can’t manage, can’t intervene, and can only protect those who ask for help—such as the girl who escaped. The villagers and townspeople have their own rules, and Luo Xiangfu broke their rules.”
"So they are going to take revenge on Luo Xiangfu..." Xiao Yuan frowned slightly, and his voice seemed to be unbroken.
Mingshu said: "They have a sufficient motive for committing the crime."
After half a minute of silence in the office, Xiao Yuan shook his head, "But why wasn't Wen Li retaliated against?"
Mingshu stopped, "Huh?"
"Wen Li was neither hurt nor restricted, and she was even able to leave Shetu Town alone. If it wasn't for the sudden heavy rain, she would be able to reach Dongye City in a few days." Xiao Yu'an said: "It is changing the local area. In terms of women, Wen Li is more like a pioneer than Luo Xiangfu. She has lived in Maoyi Village for three years and has been in constant contact with local women. Don't their husbands and fathers know what she is doing? She has not been retaliated against, And Luo Xiangfu was retaliated, which makes no sense. Furthermore, the photos sent by Luo Xiangfu were passed on to the women and children through Wen Li. Without Luo Xiangfu, Wen Li could still find other street photography enthusiasts for help, but if there is no Wen Li Li, things are completely different."
Mingshu said: "It's not Luo Xiangfu that the local people should 'solve' the most, but Wen Li..."
"Yes." Xiao Yuan clasped his hands together, "Let's not say whether the locals hate Luo Xiangfu more or Wenli more, 'solving' Wenli is actually very easy for them, they have no reason to leave the near and far, and come all the way to Dongye City to commit crimes ."
Mingshu thought for a while, "What about hiring someone?"
Xiao Yuan asked back: "How to hire?"
Mingshu walked to the wall and pressed his forehead against the wall.
He was in a hurry just now and fell into a misunderstanding, which he also reminded Yi Fei - when the cost and risk of crime are too great, potential criminals may give up the crime.
For any person from Shetu Town, whether they come to Dongye City to commit a crime in person or hire someone to commit a crime in Dongye City, the difficulty is similar to abducting and selling a girl from Dongye City to Shetu Town.
They don't have to.
However, Wen Li was not hurt in any way, which shows that the hatred of the local people is not as deep as he imagined.
But in this way, is there no meaning to track the line in Shetu Town
A few minutes later, Mingshu turned around and said, "Even Xu Chun doesn't know what's going on in Shetu Town. I want to go and see for myself."
Xiao Yu'an's computer page is showing that Shetu Town was hit by flash floods.
"Xiao Bureau, don't stop me." Mingshu said, "We are discussing so much now, but we are just taking it for granted. If you don't go to the scene, you may miss the most important clues."
"From the standpoint of the criminal police, I will not stop you, nor can I stop you. Detecting murders is your mission and mine." Xiao Yuan smiled calmly, "But from the perspective of family members, I will worry about you, And I ask you to keep in touch with me at all times and report safety at any time."
Ming Shu's ears warmed and he took a deep breath, "I understand!"
Getting to Qiantan Town is not as easy as going to Los Angeles. It took Mingshu and Yi Fei 14 hours to arrive at the police station in Qiantan Town.
Wen Li was not seriously injured, but felt a little unwell before departure. He encountered a small-scale flash flood on the road and nearly saved his life. Later, he was really exhausted and fainted in a pothole. After being sent to the hospital, he underwent emergency treatment. Now he has come to the police station with Xu Chun.
She still couldn't accept the news that Luo Xiangfu had passed away, her eyes were red and her reaction was a little slower than normal.
Mingshu looked at the stack of envelopes she took out from her backpack, as well as a few printed photos. The envelopes were all wet with rain and cement water, and some of them could not be read clearly, but the recipient and mailing addresses could still be identified in the middle.
Luo Xiangfu's handwriting is good and powerful. Mingshu has seen it in the Municipal Painting and Calligraphy Association and Luo's family, and is deeply impressed. At a glance, he knows that it is indeed written by Luo Xiangfu.
Wen Li looked at Mingshu and asked softly, "Is Teacher Luo really gone?"
Mingshu returned a serious look, "Yes, we found that Luo Xiangfu has sent letters to Shetu Town many times in the past year and a half. This time, we came here to find out the truth of his murder."
Wen Li cried, "Mr. Luo is a good person!"
Mingshu observed for a while and said, "I have some questions to ask you, which are related to the clues of the case. I hope you can answer honestly."
Wen Li quickly wiped away his tears, took a few breaths, nodded and said, "As long as I can help you, I will say anything!"
"How many people in Shetu Town know that you are carrying out activities to change women's minds?" Mingshu asked.
Wen Li opened his mouth for a while, "Many people know it. Since I want to do it, I can't hide it from everyone."
Mingshu asked again, "Have you been hindered or hurt by this?"
"There are a lot of obstructions. Sometimes they don't let me into the house, and sometimes they call me disrespectful to the local culture." Wen Li said: "The police also mentioned it to me and told me to pay attention to safety."
Mingshu said, "Who are 'they'? Men from Maoyi Village and Maoer Village?"
"Yeah." Wen Li nodded, "but it's more than that. At first, they dismissed me, thinking that a woman like me who is far from home and has no husband in her twenties is 'unclean'. In fact, a man We didn't block me too much, they looked down on women at all, and the ones who hated me the most were older women. These people... how to say... "
Wen Li lowered his head and seemed a little hard to say.
"They are the 'accomplices' of local men," Mingshu said.
"Yes!" Wen Li's eyes filled with regret, "they have been 'tamed'. It is their elders who torture the younger generation of women. They want to drive me out and call me a 'goblin', but I I'm a volunteer for poverty alleviation, the police will protect me, and if I want to stay, they can't drive me away."
Mingshu asked, "Have you suffered substantial harm in the past three years?"
"I've been teased." Wen Li smiled bitterly, "There are many poisonous insects in the countryside. Several times, poisonous insects have appeared in my bag, pot, and bed. If I get bitten, I won't die. And facing those bugs up close is really not an easy task for me, a girl who grew up in a city."
"But you still insist on staying there." Mingshu showed some respect in his eyes, and his voice was gentle.
Wen Li sighed, "One has to do something meaningful in one's life, right? Isn't there a saying 'everyone has come'? I've already arrived at Shetu Town, so why don't you hold on for a while."
Mingshu's eyes were very calm, but there were some hidden ups and downs in this calmness, "Do you know which people are malicious to you and take action?"
Wen Li said, "Yes."
"Okay." Mingshu brought a pen and paper, "Write their names down."
Wen Li was surprised, "Now?"
Mingshu said, "Now."
In the past three years, Wenli has dealt with the police at the police station quite a few times, but he has never seen a policeman like Mingshu.
Mingshu made her feel a little arrogant, not as down-to-earth as the police at the police station, but this arrogance did not make her feel uncomfortable, but gave her a sense of peace of mind.
She thought, this is a powerful, trustworthy and dependable police officer.
"After Luo Xiangfu started sending you photos, has anyone asked you about the source of the photos?" Ming Shu asked Xu Chun for two bottles of orange juice, unscrewed one and handed it to Wen Li, and drank the other by himself.
Wen Li put down his pen, his thinking was much clearer than when he first met Mingshu, "Do you think that Teacher Luo and I have changed this place and touched the interests of men, so they want to take revenge on us?"
Mingshu said, "You're very smart. But they didn't do anything to you. Instead, they went to Dongye City to kill Luo Xiangfu. It's not very likely. But there's a 1 in 10,000 chance, and I can't let it go."
Hearing this, Wen Li frowned more and more tightly.
Mingshu and Yi Fei both stared at her and found that her expression was more guilt than fear.
"I think of a person." Wen Li said suddenly.
Mingshu's eyes were like electricity, "Who?"
Wen Li trembled: "The one who almost took Zhan Xixi as a concubine."
Zhan Xixi, a well-known person in Maoyi Village and even Shetu Town, is a girl, a beautiful girl.
At the beginning of the year, she was supposed to marry another Zhan family and be the fifth concubine of villager Zhan Huanxiong. At that time, she was only 13 years old and was a minor girl protected by law.
However, in Maoyi Village, folk customs and village regulations are above everything else. If Zhan Huanxiong wants to marry, Zhan Xixi must marry.
But Zhan Xixi is not only beautiful, but also has a very flexible mind. Under the guidance of Wen Li, he has already developed self-awareness and understands that this matter is wrong, and the rules that have been in the village for hundreds of years are wrong.
Every time she saw the young woman in the photo, her eyes filled with envy, and her mother was more enlightened than most women in Maoyi Village.
Before the wedding, Zhan Xixi and her mother escaped from Maoyi Village and went to the police station in Shetu Town to "report the crime".
Everyone in the village was shocked, and they reported the crime because they were forced to marry. This was the first local case in decades.
The Zhan family surrounded the police station and asked the police to hand over Zhan Xixi. There was even the well-respected mayor of Maoyi Village in the crowd.
But the police usually don't care about the village's affairs. If someone really reports the case, it is impossible to ignore it.
Zhan Xixi was finally sent to Liuqicheng, with a new hukou, and started a new life with his mother.
This incident greatly stimulated Mao Yicun, and more and more women began to resist.
"Zhan Huanxiong approached me." Wen Li said, "He forced me to tell him who sent the photo. Of course I wouldn't tell him, but then one day, he found me again and said he knew the photo was from Dong Dong. Ye City."
Mingshu asked, "This Zhan Huanxiong is still in Shetu Town."
Wen Li suddenly covered his face with his hands, shook his head and choked up: "He was no longer in the village in May this year. I heard that he went to the other side of the mountain. Now that I think about it, he may have... gone to Dongye City."
Mingshu stood up, held the orange juice bottle, walked to the window, and walked back.
Or the logic analyzed with Xiao Yuan, Zhan Huanxiong had the motive to kill Luo Xiangfu, but what about the ability
The murderer is a calm and careful person, leaving very few clues. Zhan Huanxiong - a villager in a backward village - has such ability
And judging from the murder weapon and the scar on Luo Xiangfu's neck, the murderer is more likely to be a woman.
Mingshu asked: "You said you thought Zhan Huanxiong went to the other side of the mountain, which is the neighboring country? What did he do there?"
"He came from a neighboring country, and he is not from our country." Wen Li said, "You may not know this. Half of the permanent residents of Maoyi Village are from neighboring countries, and intermarriage is free, as long as you go to Shetu Town to register Just remember. I heard that Zhan Huanxiong was born here, but his parents are from neighboring countries. He fought in the mountains a few years ago. Whether he was a mercenary or a scout, I don't know. Anyway... "
Mingshu's eyes were fixed, "Have you ever fought a war? A scout?"
Wen Li nodded cautiously: "There are many chaotic armed forces in the neighboring countries, and small-scale conflicts break out every few months. Zhan Huanxiong is still a small leader, often bragging about how many people he has killed before in the village. Snake Tu Zhen Shangwu, although Zhan Huanxiong is very small and only 1.6 meters tall, he can fight. He has a box of merit medals from neighboring countries at home, so he has a very high status in Maoyi Village. By the way, I actually come to Shetu After the town, Zhan Huanxiong never fought again, because Liu Qicheng issued a policy not to allow scouts from neighboring countries to enter and settle. Let him become a 'rich family' in Maoyi Village, and he has successively married a wife and four concubines. Many people are eager to marry their daughters to him, because he is rich, can fight, and has a face with him."
Xu Chun was stunned, "Isn't this too absurd?"
Mingshu immediately said: "Let's go to Shetu Town immediately!"
The rain gradually decreased, and the troops repaired the dirt road from Qiantan Town to Shetu Town.
"I'm the first to come back from such a remote place." Xu Chun poured a bottle of mineral water on top of his head when he got out of the car. In the car just now, he was really sweating because of the roads that could no longer be called roads. Mingshu has the best driving skills among the crowd - after all, he has received militarized training in the special operations team. If it were another person, several "death curves" would probably fall directly into the ravine.
"It seems that the sentence is true - if you want to be rich, you must build roads first." Xu Chun sighed again, "If it wasn't for investigating the case, I would never come here!"
Wen Li showed helplessness and said in a low voice, "The less outsiders are willing to come, the more blocked this place will be, and the more impossible it will be to change."
Mingshu walked quickly to the Shetu Town Police Station.
Before Wen Li revealed Zhan Huanxiong's identity and experience, he originally thought that Zhan Huanxiong was unlikely to be the murderer of Luo Xiangfu. But Zhan Huanxiong is a scout, has fought in wars, and even has a lot of meritorious medals, which at least shows that Zhan Huanxiong is very skilled.
And Zhan Huanxiong grew up in a war-torn environment, and killing people is already commonplace.
In the borderlands of neighboring countries, people will draw guns at each other over trivial matters.
For Zhan Huanxiong, the woman he liked ran away because of the "instigation" of others, which was tantamount to a great humiliation.
Who does Zhan Huanxiong hate
Zhan Xixi? Wen Li? Luo Xiangfu
In normal logic, it is Wen Li that Zhan Huanxiong should take revenge on most, not Luo Xiangfu in a faraway city.
But why hasn't Wen Li been seriously injured in Shetu Town for three years
What he didn't understand in Dongye City, after coming to Shetu Town, Mingshu finally figured out—
Because the men here don't see women as human at all, and in their eyes, it is "a loss" to care about women.
Will people take revenge on the pigs, sheep, cattle and dogs they raise
of course not!
They despised Wen Li from the bottom of their hearts, and it was all the female elders in the village who threatened Wen Li with petty troubles. After Zhan Xixi fled, Zhan Huanxiong must have resented Wen Li, but he hated the person who sent the photo to Shetu Town more than Wen Li.
Because that person is a man!
For Zhan Huanxiong, only men are worthy to be his revenge targets.
Mingshu is glad that he did not give up the line of Shetu Town because of the logical analysis of normal people.
This kind of deformed thinking and distorted logic, if he hadn't personally stood on the land of Shetu Town, he probably wouldn't be able to sort it out at all.
The Shetu Town Police Station was quite puzzled about the arrival of Mingshu and his party. Although everyone was a police officer, their functions were vastly different. It was Wen Li who was dealing with it, and the other party found out Zhan Huanxiong's registration record.
The man in the photo has a yellow face and thin muscles, his eyes are fierce, and there is a hideous scar on his cheek.
"Can you find out Zhan Huanxiong's whereabouts after May?" Mingshu asked.
"This..." The policemen looked embarrassed.
Wen Li explained that there is no monitoring equipment in the town. If the villagers want to leave, they can take any means of transportation. People from neighboring countries like Zhan Huanxiong who have a registration certificate can move freely within the jurisdiction of Liuqi City. Only when they leave Liuqi City is it possible. will be deported for being caught.
"However, this implementation is relatively lax." A policeman said: "If Zhan Huanxiong slipped away, he could easily escape the inspection."
Mingshu asked Yi Fei to rush to Liuqicheng immediately, and found out that night—on May 29, Zhan Huanxiong was in a hurry and left from the northeast entrance of Liuqicheng.