Chapter 35 Bamboo Flowers Wither
Chapter 35 Bamboo Flowers Wither
From Wang Le’s perspective, the three members of the task force saw the chaos that night.
Liu Zhuhua walked into the room and said she wanted to borrow money. After being ridiculed by Li Cheng, she threatened him with the shameful things she had done with Li Cheng in the past.
When Li Cheng came to Baxia Village a few years ago, he was there as a village official and the principal of a nearby school, and he came to the countryside to teach.
Liu Zhuhua was once a student of that school.
When she was young, she was far from being as miserable and shameful as she is now. Although her parents died early, at least she still had a grandfather to rely on. Like all little girls, she was innocent and carefree.
However, the elderly grandfather had trouble taking care of himself, so he could only provide Liu Zhuhua with the most basic living security so that she would not starve to death.
As for the education of children, we can only leave it to fate.
Unfortunately, education in Baxia Village has always been a problem. The village-run school provides both primary and secondary education, just to popularize compulsory education. It is just a school in name only, but in reality it is just a nursery for problem children.
There is a lack of teaching staff, no teaching materials or teaching aids, and there is not even a decent blackboard in the room, let alone tables, chairs and benches.
They definitely don't come to school to study, because there are people of the same age here, and they make noise in the room. The teachers don't teach, and the school becomes a gathering place for these students. When everyone is together, they call their friends and leave to have fun elsewhere.
During that period, going to the city to work was very popular. Adults were looking for work in Jiangcheng, and the village was full of left-behind children.
Liu Zhuhua hung out with them and was soon led astray.
One day, the teenage Liu Zhuhua was taken by a group of kids to the town’s game hall, where she met many older ruffians.
This group of bad guys took her to play arcade games, hang out in bars, and watch pirated DVDs in the cinema.
No one would think that these ruffians were willing to take a strange girl out to play out of kindness...only Liu Zhuhua herself didn't know.
It was also on that day that Liu Zhuhua came into contact with pornographic films for the first time.
That same night, she lost her virginity to a combination of alcohol and sweet talk.
Because of the tragedy of her education, Liu Zhuhua did not think there was anything wrong with it and continued to hang out with this group of ruffians.
If she had told her grandfather about this in time, perhaps her life could have been saved.
But the tragedy in the countryside goes far beyond this.
Because Liu Zhuhua yearned for city life, she actually had feelings for Li Cheng, the young principal of the school.
Li Cheng was not much older than Liu Zhuhua at that time. He was in his twenties and Liu Zhuhua was in her teens.
He was a handsome man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, which was in line with the aesthetic standards of the time. The Mandarin he spoke was incompatible with the local dialect in the village, making those who spoke the dialect look inferior in Liu Zhuhua's eyes.
Because she was quite pretty and Li Cheng was not a good person, they soon did things that were not tolerated by social laws and morals.
Liu Zhuhua fantasized that she had found true love, but it took her a long time to understand the truth.
Li Cheng did have a "lover". At that time, he was still undergoing the test of Wang Xiaocui's family and wanted to marry into the Baxia Village.
Liu Zhuhua had not received much education, so she didn't know what a third party was. However, her biological instinct made her feel extremely jealous. She wanted to drive away her love rival, so she ran to the school to make a scene.
This really scared Li Cheng. He warned and threatened Liu Zhuhua, fearing that his future wealth and glory would be ruined by this little bitch without parents.
He confessed to Liu Zhuhua that he just wanted to vent his feelings on someone and that he was just having fun with her. No one would want a piece of trash like her.
At that time, her grandfather who loved her so much also died of illness. No one cared about Liu Zhuhua, and the true love she dreamed of turned into a dirty relationship.
Under the double blow, Liu Zhuhua couldn't bear the truth.
So she ran away, to the city she longed for.
In the city, she knows nothing, has no skills, has no correct values, is too kind and easily deceived. So Liu Zhuhua can only make money by selling her body while learning about the cruelty of the world.
After so many years, she rarely returned to the village, and even if she did, she would avoid Li Cheng.
Li Cheng was also avoiding her.
Time will make people forget everything. When Li Cheng's son was as old as he was back then, he thought that these things had long become a thing of the past and he would take them into the grave.
But Liu Zhuhua suddenly appeared on a snowy night and threatened him in front of him that she would tell his wife about these things. Li Cheng was scared and even considered whether to spend the money.
Who knew that Liu Zhuhua came prepared. She wanted more money, so she made full preparations and even brought some scandals of Li Cheng's friends to the table as bargaining chips.
She cursed Li Cheng and others at the top of her lungs, so loudly that the neighbors could vaguely hear it.
Everyone was becoming more and more frightened, fearing that what they had done would be exposed and heard by passers-by.
So they stepped forward to stop Liu Zhuhua from cursing, and the pushing and shoving soon turned into beating.
The room was filled with foul language and the beatings and kicks frightened Li Le, but he instinctively believed his father and did not choose to call the police.
Just then, the cell phone that Wang Xiaocui left at home suddenly rang.
The sudden noise startled everyone and stopped the beating.
Everyone then realized that Liu Zhuhua had fainted, and Li Cheng also had a premonition that his wife might come back.
The great fear made his back wet in the middle of winter. His family status, lower than that of a dog, made him realize that if Wang Xiaocui knew about his past with Liu Zhuhua, what would await him would be beatings and revenge a thousand times more severe from Wang Xiaocui's family.
He abandoned the first half of his life and ran to Baxia Village. He finally had a wealthy second half of his life, but it was almost ruined by Liu Zhuhua.
So he wanted to hide Liu Zhuhua, anywhere, as long as he could get through tonight.
As for the others, Liu Zhuhua collected a lot of evidence of them and Li Cheng abusing their power, and threatened to call the police if they didn't give her money, or tell their wives and children about them finding prostitutes outside, making them unable to hold their heads up in the village.
It is hard to imagine that Liu Zhuhua, a rural woman whose education level is not even as good as that of primary school students in the city, has developed her own intelligence network in Jiangcheng over the past few decades.
After asking this one and talking to that one, I even knew exactly when these village bullies went to Jiangcheng and which massage parlor they visited.
So everyone, who felt guilty, rushed to help. After brainstorming, they decided to lock Liu Zhuhua in Liu Zhu's cold chain truck.
Sure enough, just as Li Cheng put Liu Zhuhua in jail, Wang Xiaocui came back.
She thought her husband was acting sneaky and was trying to have an affair, so she turned the house upside down, but found nothing.
During this period, everyone seemed calm, drinking and playing cards lazily, but in fact everyone's heart was in their throat.
They finally breathed a sigh of relief after Wang Xiaocui left. They asked Li Cheng to release Liu Zhuhua and prepared to have a good talk with her. If the money was not enough, they would give it to her.
The word "murder" sounds easy to say, but when it is really in front of you, no one dares to do it.
Then he could only compromise and allow Liu Zhuhua to blackmail him.
But who knew that Li Cheng went out for a while, and when he came back, he was carrying Liu Zhuhua's body in horror.
Li Le's face was filled with pain: "We killed her!"
Du Yu really wanted to tell him that Liu Zhuhua’s death was actually your father’s responsibility, but since he already knew the truth, he stopped provoking him.
"How did you originally plan to deal with Liu Zhuhua's body?"
"After daybreak, they would bury it in the ground, or in a mass grave... before we could even finalize the plan, it caught fire the next day."
Du Yu nodded, indicating that he understood.
He turned to Xu Yiqing and Zhou Shi and said, "Liu Zhuhua's death is basically consistent with our reasoning. Well done, two experts."
Xu Yiqing said: "Now the only two suspicious points in the whole case are Liu Zhuhua's son and the cause of the fire."
Zhou Shi added: "I am now certain that the fire is 99% related to Liu Zhuhua... Do you remember what the firefighters said about the cause of the fire?"
Xu Yiqing said: "Something like firecrackers ignited the coal placed in the yard."
According to Li Le's confession just now, his family does not have a stove.
The coal was brought by Liu Zhuhua and piled in the yard.
(End of this chapter)