Chapter 8 Unjust Case
The corpse seemed to have been left for a long time and had begun to rot, nourishing the soil beneath the corpse. That was why the carnations around the corpse were blooming so gorgeously. The fiery red flowers seemed to have been watered with human blood, so red that they were eye-catching, red like blood, red and charming, emitting an enchanting and seductive light...
Xiao Mengyan looked at the corpse and the gorgeous crimson carnations in front of her. Her soul seemed to have left her body. Her eyes became empty and lifeless from fear. There was no trace of the former brilliance. Her stiff body fell straight down...
Xiao Mengyan had a high fever and sometimes she shouted, sometimes she cried, and sometimes she fell asleep. She spent several days in a daze.
The deceased was investigated by the public security organs and was a native of Liaoning. He died in winter. The suspect chiseled the frozen river surface and stuffed the body into the ice hole. In order to prevent the body from floating up, he also pressed the body with a raft of earth and stones. When the Great Northern Wilderness began to thaw in spring, the ice and snow also began to melt, and the frozen river water flowed, washing away the raft of earth and stones on the body, and the body floated up. It was discovered by a fisherman who came to Hetao and reported the case. The body was salvaged by the public security bureau and placed on the meadow on the river bank, waiting for the family of the deceased to claim it. When midsummer arrived, the body began to rot, and then it met Xiao Mengyan who was picking flowers.
One day, Yunqing took Xiao Mengyan out of the house to relieve her sleepiness. Yunqing wanted her to bask in the sun and stroll in the village. Suddenly, they heard the sound of police sirens. People in the village ran to watch the excitement. Yunqing also took Xiao Mengyan. When they rushed to the police car, they saw the police handcuffed Zhang Jingfang, the second son of Aunt Zhang, and pushed him into the police car. Aunt Zhang said to the police: "You must have made a mistake. You wronged my son. He couldn't kill anyone..." Zhang Jingfang's mute wife Yuqin cried and gestured with her hands, and then tried her best to pull her husband Zhang Jingfang out of the police car. Finally, the police took Yuqin and Zhang Jingfang into the police car on the grounds of obstructing public security law enforcement and took them away...
Aunt Zhang and her family ran after the police car. The police car sped away amid Aunt Zhang's cries...
After a few days of grief, Aunt Zhang discussed with the production team leader and convened a general meeting of all members of the Aobao Fourth Team. At the meeting, the members discussed and talked a lot. They all firmly believed that Zhang Jingfang could not be the murderer because Zhang Jingfang was born with disabilities in both hands, and it was difficult for him to grasp things. He was weak and thin, so he married Yuqin, who was also disabled. Moreover, Zhang Jingfang was kind and timid since he was a child. He didn't dare to kill a chicken during the New Year, and Yuqin had to kill the chicken herself. The chief of the Criminal Investigation Section of the Public Security Bureau said: The victim was first hit on the back of the head with a wooden stick, and then stabbed several times before the victim was killed. The victim was tall and strong...
Finally, all members of the Aobao Fourth Production Team unanimously agreed: every household wrote a "joint petition", selected several representatives, and took the "joint petition" to the county town to petition for justice for Zhang Jingfang...
Zhang Jingfang was detained as a criminal suspect because, after investigation by the criminal police of the Criminal Investigation Section of the Public Security Bureau, it was found that the time when the deceased was killed coincided with the time when Zhang Jingfang went to Hetao to break the ice and fish, so he was the most likely suspect.
The members of Aobao Team 4 redressed Zhang Jingfang for the first time, but they failed to rescue him. However, the Public Security Bureau released Yuqin because she had hit her head against the wall in the detention room, leaving a bloody hole in her head and she fainted. After the doctor's rescue, she was out of danger. After a forensic examination, it was found that Yuqin was pregnant...
Aunt Zhang took her second daughter-in-law Yuqin back home, feeling both sad and happy. She was sad because her daughter-in-law was injured and her second son could not be rescued, but she was happy because she was going to be a grandmother...
One night, Xiao Mengyan woke up from her dream and pushed Yunqing awake: "Mom, mom, I dreamed that Aunt Zhang's second brother was released..."
Can Xiao Mengyan’s dream come true?