"You are Li Huan. Please come with us. There is a case that requires your cooperation in the investigation. Oh, and your wife Cheng Qiao also needs to be investigated together."
Li Huan's heart moved. It seemed that the two people who were bitten to death by snakes had been discovered, but there was no one around at the time. Who would report it
"Comrade Public Security, are you mistaken? My son and his wife just came back from Huizhou. How could they have committed a crime? Also, my wife is pregnant. The doctor said her fetus is unstable. She can't go with you."
When Li's mother heard the noise, she ran out and saw someone trying to arrest Li Huan and Cheng Qiao. She started crying anxiously. Several police officers looked at each other and agreed to take Li Huan away. They could not bear the responsibility if their daughter-in-law had a miscarriage.
Cheng Qiao was also anxious to catch up, but Li Huan quickly stopped her and kept winking at her. Cheng Qiao knew that there were too many things to do today, so she could only nod and take a step back.
"Sister-in-law Li, Cheng Zhiqing, don't worry, it may turn out to be a good thing."
Seeing how worried Li's mother, Li Le and Cheng Qiao were, Chen Weidang couldn't help but whisper to comfort them. Li Le rolled his eyes at Chen Weidang and asked, "Why don't you go when there's such a good thing?"
"What the hell happened?"
When Li's mother saw Chen Weidang running after the police, she quickly grabbed Cheng Qiao and asked anxiously.
Cheng Qiao thought about it and decided to tell Li's mother part of the story. They encountered robbers on the way back that day. Li Huan had a fight with them, and they left after knocking the robbers down. She didn't know what happened afterwards.
It turned out to be a fight. Mother Li was relieved. Li Huan had been fighting since he was a child. She didn't know how much money he had lost. It seemed that she had to prepare rice, flour, money and tickets again. This kid would have to be beaten up when he came back.
"Mom, I'll follow behind and buy some things to send to my dad in the county town."
"Hey, can you go alone? Do you want Lele to accompany you? Lele, go borrow Uncle Niu's car."
"No, I can ride my bike faster by myself. Don't worry, the child is fine."
Mother Li trusted Cheng Qiao very much, so she took off the green headscarf from her head and wrapped it around Cheng Qiao's head, at least to block the wind. Cheng Qiao glanced at the green headscarf, shrank her neck, and didn't dare to complain.
Cheng Qiao pushed the bicycle and walked slowly forward. Mainly because this section of the road was close to the back mountain and was quite rugged, Cheng Qiao did not dare to ride. But just when he walked not far from the village entrance, he saw many people whispering to each other.
"Cheng Qiao is here."
Miao Qing suddenly shouted loudly.
The villagers immediately gathered around and started asking questions:
"Cheng Zhiqing, your second-rate guy has killed someone."
"Cheng Zhiqing, your scoundrel was arrested by the police. Did he really kill someone?"
"Cheng Zhiqing, your second-rate son..."
"Shut up… "
Aunt Wang rushed out and blocked Cheng Qiao's way. She looked at Miao Qing fiercely with her slanted eyes and pointed at Miao Qing and said to Cheng Qiao:
"Cheng Qiao, it was this Miao Qing who said your man had killed someone."
Miao Qing puffed out her chest. It was she who made the anonymous report. Although she did not see the second-rate guy killing anyone, she saw the second-rate guy and Cheng Qiao driving a ox cart to the county town that day, and two people died on the road that day.
The Public Security Bureau had posted a missing person notice in the county town, saying that someone had died on that road, and anyone who saw it should come to the Public Security Bureau and report it. She wrote an anonymous letter of complaint, and finally they came to arrest the person.
Cheng Qiao narrowed his eyes and walked towards Miao Qing step by step. The villagers saw Cheng Qiao's face that looked like he wanted to kill someone, and quickly made way for him.
"What's the matter? Are you scared and want to hit someone? Come on, hit me here and see how long you can last."
Miao Qing was a little scared, but when she thought that the second-rate guy had already been arrested, there was nothing for a delicate female educated youth to be afraid of.
Cheng Qiao grabbed Miao Qing by the collar and was about to hit her twice, but Miao Qing quickly grabbed Cheng Qiao's hands with both hands and pried them apart.
Cheng Qiao wanted to push harder, but she felt a slight pain in her stomach. She let go and sat down on the ground. Aunt Wang saw this and shouted, "Miao Qing is hitting someone."
Miao Qing was so angry that he started to curse: "Aunt Wang, you are blind. It was obviously Cheng Qiao who hit someone first. How can you say that I hit someone?"
Qian Longkun appeared out of nowhere, pointed at Miao Qing and said loudly: "You were the one who beat someone up. You even knocked Cheng Zhiqing to the ground. I saw it with my own eyes."
Except for Chai Jianmin, all the other educated youth at the educated youth point stood up. The two sisters Zhang Yuefang, Xiaofang and Xiaoqin, and the four of them even grabbed Miao Qing's arms and wanted to send her to the public security bureau.
Zhao Xiaobao pulled Jiang Guangrong and stood steadily in front of Cheng Qiao, for fear that someone would take the opportunity to bully Cheng Qiao. In the panic, there was a "moo..." sound from a cow, and Uncle Niu came over carrying the old cow.
"Aunt Wang, quickly carry the little scoundrel's wife onto the bullock cart and take her to the hospital to make sure she doesn't get beaten up."
Aunt Wang and Han Chunmei quickly helped Cheng Qiao onto the ox cart, and Zhao Xiaobao also moved the bicycle on.
"I'll go with you."
Han Chunmei climbed up quickly and spoke loudly.
Miao Qing struggled to break free from Zhang Yuefang and the others' grip and ran towards her home without looking back. She suddenly remembered that when Chen Chunhua smashed Cheng Qiao's head, she was also sent to the hospital.
In the Public Security Bureau, a male police officer looked at Li Huan with a friendly expression, pointed at a dead person in a black and white photo and asked:
"Comrade Li Huan, do you know this person?"
Li Huan recognized at a glance that the dead man was the man with the knife, but he was a little frightened when he saw the dead man's appearance again. His face was completely black, which shows how poisonous the red-headed pit viper is.
"I saw it once. I was going home with my wife and he and another man stopped us and tried to rob us of our money. We ordinary people only have so little money in our pockets. How could we bear to let them rob us of it? So I had a fight with him."
The public security comrade nodded, pointed at the scar on the man's arm and asked:
"Comrade Li Huan, this injury was caused by you, right?"
Li Huan took a closer look at the wound. He thought that this spot should have been caused by being whipped with a bull whip. He didn't expect that the wound was still there even after the person died.
"I remember whipping him with a bull whip because he had such a long sword in his hand that I couldn't stand up to him."
The public security comrade nodded again and asked Li Huan if he was injured at the time and how the two people died in the end.
Li Huan shook his head and said that he only remembered that after he whipped that person, the other person suddenly ran away for some reason, and then this person also ran away, so he drove the ox cart back.
"We have investigated and found that the deceased died of snake venom. There are obvious snake bite scars on his body. You two are lucky not to have been bitten by a snake."
"So that's how it is. No wonder you ran so fast. Public Security Comrade, can you tell me how you knew that was the road I took that day?"